Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...taboo he shattered was exposing the secret, closeted discourse among black Americans about their own," says cultural critic Michael Eric Dyson. "Rock signifies an unwillingness among the younger black generation to abide by the dirty-laundry theory. That theory suggests you don't say anything self-critical or negative about black people where white people can hear it. But the hip-hop generation believes in making money off the publication of private pain and agony...
...making is not at the disposal of all, in general there are but a few persons to whom one can point and say they are witty. --Ibid...
...torch. And she would welcome them all to Manhattan--the huddled, sign-hoisting, body-painted masses yearning to be filmed. At the crack of dawn, they're at Rockefeller Plaza, peering into the NBC Today show's glass-walled studios, pestering Al Roker for a chance to say hi to Aunt Connie in Flat Rock. By afternoon, they're choking Times Square sidewalks outside MTV's fishbowl studio in hopes of getting into a crowd shot on Total Request Live. At various other times, they might hit either site for an open-air concert. Since Today's set went transparent...
...incidents on campus over the previous weekend in which students they were with overdosed and were treated by paramedics. The students also told me that while they take complete responsibility for their actions, however stupid, the atmosphere on campuses is very beer-friendly. Anyone can get a keg, they say, or find someone of legal age who will. The local bars card them, "but that's a joke." They drink, they say, because they want to. They overdrink because they don't know any better...
...they said, is for parents to try to have an ongoing discussion with them, to listen rather than lecture and to provide a good example. They also thought the "Binge Beer" ad was lame. Why? "Because," they said, "by the time we're in college, no matter what you say to our parents, it's already too late...