Abstract

WHILE VISITING RELATIVES IN MICHIGAN, I ran across a newspaper article by Leonard Pitts (2002), a syndicated columnist for the Miami Herald. Mr. Pitts described taking his two teenaged sons on an automobile trip, hoping to spend time, listen, and talk with them—a chance to communicate without all the distractions of home, TV, computers, friends, etc. He set a rule for equal time for music, his and theirs. In his article he focused on the devastating violence and empty materialism of rap culture, oppression to rival even the most racist ravings of the Klan.

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