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...empty-headed, suggestible black kids, crouching by their boom boxes, waiting for the word. But what Ice- T's fans know and his detractors obviously don't is that Cop Killer is just one more entry in pop music's long history of macho hyperbole and violent boast. Flip to the classic-rock station, and you might catch the Rolling Stones announcing "the time is right for violent revo-loo-shun!" from their 1968 hit Street Fighting Man. And where were the defenders of our law- ( enforcement officers when a white British group, the Clash, taunted its fans with...
...want to get away from urban problems -- and amenities. Richard Atkinson, a professor at the law school, says his faculty has trouble convincing potential members that a move to Fayetteville will not drop them off the edge of the world. What do you tell them? I ask. "Well, we boast that we get National Public Radio here...
People now adult in Arkansas were taught in school that theirs is the only state in America that, surrounded by a wall, could survive on nothing but its own products. The old boast was never true, but it was important to believe it, to find some blessing in the state's isolation. The most persistent vein of folklore in the state tells how a traveler so befuddled as to end up in Arkansas can be gulled with impunity by natives who are amused at this man from Mars...
Before I got to Harvard, my older brotherwarned me about all the students who would bragthat they never cracked open a book in high schooland that at Harvard, they only cracked open beers.They would boast of their proficiency at speedquarters and their ability to write papers twominutes before they are due. Don't believe a wordof it, he instructed...
...claims that revolutionary rap speaks for oppressed inner-city youth, its main consumers are affluent white suburban teenagers seeking to cloak their adolescent rebellion in a veneer of ghetto toughness. Some formerly impecunious ghetto youths have turned into millionaires by becoming rap artists. Not for nothing does Ice-T boast on his recent release Original Gangster that "William Morris is my agency. I'll never go broke, got property...