Word: raptivist
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Dates: during 1992-1992
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What kind of talk is that for a self-styled "raptivist" who claims she wants to tear down the white system? Well, not all that unusual. The not-so- little secret of the recording industry is that hip-hop music is a source of enormous profits. For all the 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...
Sister Souljah, a self-described "raptivist" who is a member of the group Public Enemy, spoke last night at the Law School on the need for Blacks to rediscover their African heritage and empower themselves...
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