Word: ghetto
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Hume, a former journalist for several national newspapers including The Wall Street Journal, recalled her years at Radcliffe when "it was a female ghetto in the midst of the most privileged white male institution in America...
Crusaders constantly emphasize that there is no justice in the United States, that our country is declining. They ask for recrimination and retribution. We have created a subculture of guilty white liberals who watch "Yo! MTV Raps" and believe they understand the ghetto. Most people are really only capable of understanding, whether they want to or not, "Beverly Hills 90210." The result is a highly educated, tolerant and ultimately uninvolved caste of people who sympathize for the "less socially mobile...
...crusader; neither a liberal nor a conservative. But I do think America needs preventative medicine. America has lived for decades without caring about the ghetto--why should it start? Because now the inner city has begun to grow at a phenomenal rate. It will soon erupt. More of your friends and families bloat the problem each day as they lose their jobs, use drugs and are sexually careless...
...driving around in a stolen 1987 Honda Prelude, a 9-mm TEC-9 under the seat. "I'm thinking, ohhh, man, this sain't for me. I'm just tired of this gang banging, and I'm, like, real scared." A semiliterate high school dropout, Jimmy grapples with the ghetto's version of a mid-life crisis. He drives around for 40 minutes, carefully obeying every traffic signal as he furiously works through his options. Definitely don't want to be stopped by the police, really don't want to fire this gun and sure as hell don't want...
Anyway, it's absurd to discuss Cop Killer as part of the "confrontation of ideas" -- or even as an authentic anguished cry of rage from the ghetto. Cop Killer is a cynical commercial concoction, designed to titillate its audience with imagery of violence. It merely exploits the authentic anguish of the inner city for further titillation. Tracy Marrow is in business for a buck, just like Time Warner. Cop Killer is an excellent joke on the white establishment, of which the company's anguished apologia ("Why can't we hear what rap is trying to tell us?") is the punch...