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...permit its use within their community as a synonym for "soul brother." They bristle when whites use it, even in jest. But, as Kennedy observes, these long-established rules are changing because record and TV companies have discovered that there's gold in racial slurs. Thanks to gangsta rap and the vulgar comic routines of a generation of Richard Pryor wannabes, the N word is blasted onto the airwaves with such mind-numbing frequency that even white people believe they have permission to mimic the way blacks...
...will ever know what exactly was said at the fateful October meeting between our new president, Lawrence Summers, and the Fletcher University Professor. Did Summers question West’s scholarship? His political activism? His recent decision to record a rap CD while taking a year-long medical leave? Whatever the substance of their discussion, it left West feeling flummoxed and disrespected and led him to consider taking the drastic step of abandoning Harvard for Princeton...
That final track, “Trying People,” is one of the album’s highlights. It is a hugely personal song, in which quiet, meaningful and heartfelt verses give the song more the feeling of a poem than a rap. In the chorus Jolicoeur asks, “Are you willing to lose hate for Love?” to which a chorus of small children answers, “Yes, we’re willing.” In a genre that can be intensely cynical and self-absorbed, it is a relief...
Summers enraged members of the Afro-American Studies department by meeting with West and reportedly criticizing the professor for his outside activities, including working with the Rev. Al Sharpton’s presidential campaign and recording a rap album during a medical leave of absence...
...with West in which Summers is reported to have abrasively discussed such issues as the prevalence of grade inflation and West’s use of his time away from Harvard last year. Last year, West was on a medical leave of absence during which he also recorded a rap album. In addition, he is heading up an exploratory committee for prospective presidential candidate the Rev. Al Sharpton...