by Morgan Johnson

Created on: October 06, 2008

Rap music or Hip Hop has proven itself to be a social poison of the most virulent kind. It puts bars in places where there were none before. It puts artificial limits on unlimited potential.

It succeeded where five generations of Ku Klux Klansmen failed; it killed the Dream of racial freedom and social equality that King preached about.

Hip hop came into American culture as most toxins do; inert, innocuous and seemingly harmless. It was supposed to be a new evolution of R&B. It drew heavily on past hits they called it "sampling."

Early rap hits took familiar parts of classic hit music from the previous generations and altered the words (usually with profanity and violence). Or they might just take a bite of the musical score, pump up the bass or scratch it up on the turn table.

Rap began in controversy but eventually became mainstream. It influences many faucets of culture from fashion to speech. There are very few places on television where you don't hear rap-derived words peppering speechWhite people in suits using words like "bling!" and "Dawg!"

Kids of every culture around the world are wearing FUBU Fashions without the slightest knowledge of what it means. Young men who barely speak English will call out to random Black men, "What's up my n-[word]!"

These innocents have no idea what could happen to them if they say that to the wrong man in the wrong place. It's not their fault, though. They received their education in "Black" culture from the pervasive videos and lyrics of the global hip hop industry.

Hip hop as it exists today is an even more degenerate version of the original. It has taken its cues from "the Street", from "Thug life", from every dark and disrespectful corner of the Ghetto.

It's like the Ghetto has been elevated to some mythical status; a wonderful Shangri La to be desired. Every person I knew living in the ghetto back in the day wanted one thing to GET OUT of the GHETTO!

Have you noticed that the first thing these "Street Warrior" rappers do when they make it rich is to move out of the HOOD? The very life they praise in their songs is one they KNOW is wrong for their own family!

Hip hop has led a migration back into slavery. It promotes the opposite of the things our ancestors strove to achieve. Many thousands of Blacks died because they defied the law to get an education. Thugs today won't sit in a classroom for a day, won't read a book or listen to a teacher.

Our parents and grandparents suffered abuse and danger to give us a chance to get

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