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Noah Oppenheim's "Execute the Cop Killer" (Column, Feb. 5) represents everything that is wrong with the death penalty. The editorial illustrates the savage, barbaric nature of the death penalty and the totally unacceptable justifications used to defend...
Readers of Noah D. Oppenheim's frightening editorial "The Cop Killer Should Fry" (Opinion, Feb. 5) should know that the facts of the case are in wide dispute. It is a little suspect that the award-winning president of the Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists, long an outspoken critic of the Philadelphia police and government, just happened to drive by a cop beating his brother. The Philadelphia police at the time were so corrupt and brutal that the U.S. Justice Department eventually filed a suit against them based on numerous accounts of police misconduct, including the framing of innocent citizens...
...economy brings doom to its border; then Uruguay's hormonal teenagers keep PAMELA ANDERSON from crossing it. The remarkably cantilevered V.I.P. star was set to visit Argentina after filming a commercial in Uruguay but cut her tour short after being swarmed by hundreds of randy Uruguayan boys eager to cop a feel. Following a press conference, the teens shouted vulgarities at poor Pam, then attempted to grope her. Unnerved, Anderson fled back to the relative safety of the States, where teenage boys are happy just to download her naked image from the Internet...
...rocking the house, and the Beastie Boys hollering, "You gotta fight for your right--to party!" and Public Enemy saying, "Don't believe the hype," and Hammer's harem-style balloon pants. Then gangsta rap: N.W.A. rapping "F____ tha police"; Snoop drawling "187 on an undercover cop"; and Tupac crying, "Even as a crack fiend, mama/ You always was a black queen, mama." Then Mary J. Blige singing hip-hop soul; Guru and Digable Planets mixing rap with bebop; the Fugees "Killing me softly with his song"; Puffy mourning Biggie...
Corporate America's infatuation with rap has increased as the genre's political content has withered. Ice Cube's early songs attacked white racism; Ice-T sang about a Cop Killer; Public Enemy challenged listeners to "fight the power." But many newer acts such as DMX and Master P are focused almost entirely on pathologies within the black community. They rap about shooting other blacks but almost never about challenging governmental authority or encouraging social activism. "The stuff today is not revolutionary," says Bob Law, vice president of programming at WWRL, a black talk-radio station in New York City...