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Star may or may not be aware that his thesis about nihilism destroying the African-American community through negativity, such as hard-core rap, is consistent with a body of literature in social theory (See the work of Professor Cornel West '74). I contend that Star's myopic perspective prevents him from realizing that all groups in American society exhibit nihilistic tendencies. To single out the African-American condition as somehow different and irrational ignores volumes of comparable data on mainstream society...
...like "You Want More Sex Than I Do," "I Want to Be an Escort" and "My Girlfriend Is a Guy." To some viewers that's entertainment. To others it's idiocy. To former Education Secretary William Bennett, it's cause for alarm. Bennett and C. DeLores Tucker, noted gangsta-rap haters, have joined with Senators Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut and Sam Nunn of Georgia in a campaign to wean Americans off what they call "cultural...
This post-creativity view dominates nearly everything: film; music (from rap, with its "samples," to modern "serious" music--now lacking melody, harmony and any recognizable patterns, each composer racing to "create" a new sound before everything possible was exhausted); poetry (stripped of all structure now for the same reason); literature (deconstructed and politicized until no aesthetic life of any value remains); and so on. Our age is truly impotent; such a weak state of affairs cannot hold...
...make the call for justice, Johnnie Cochran will come," Reeves said, referring to Cochran's role in Reginald Denny's trial and his assistance to Michael Jackson and rap artist Snoop Doggy...
Having embarrassed Time Warner into dropping its share of a rap label, Bill Bennett is now turning his formidable authority to daytime TV talk shows, urging them to clean up their programming or get off the air. "He certainly picked a juicy topic," says TIME's Richard Zoglin. "There is definitely a lot to get upset about. The fact is that these shows are very, very popular. What Bennett is essentially trying to do is get people to vote them off the air by turning off their television sets. And, to me, it seems that is a legitimate tactic." Bennett...