Seeded from msn.foxsports.com by Alex on 10/18/07
African-American football players caught up in the rebellion and buffoonery of hip hop culture have given NFL owners and coaches a justifiable reason to whiten their rosters. That will be the legacy left by Chad, Larry and Tank Johnson, Pacman Jones, Terrell Owens, Michael Vick and all the other football bojanglers…
Read the entire article, HERE.
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This is complete garbage for multiple reasons, but the problems start with the main premise…
“HIP HOP CULTURE” HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH WHY ATHLETES LIKE TO BRING ATTENTION UPON THEMSELVES!!!!
I’m so sick of hip hip getting blamed for everything, and associated with the actions of african-american. There are just as many (even more) white people (and asian, and latino, etc.) that listen to and create rap music and are involved in hip hop culture all around the world… how it becomes the scapegoat for the deep-seeded socio-economical issues within the US is ridiculous.
People ignore the real issues of poverty, racism, and poor educational systems in this country, and instead just criticize the symptoms - like when poor, immature athletes who don’t know how to handle their new found success act like idiots. I’m not giving these athletes a pass - it is their own responsibility of to represent themselves in a proper manner - but its repulsive how the huge elephant in the room continues to be ignored and people try and talk about hip hop being the problem.
I am also mad at how ‘hip hop’ is never acknowledged as a wide range of things, and its always implied - by those who don’t know any better and shouldn’t be writing about it - that the entire culture is only a single image. The bottom line is that SOME hip hop is the way it is BECAUSE of the way this country works. Negative images in SOME hip hop are a symptom of the problems, not the cause.