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OPINION Published February 18, 2022 7:00am EST By Juan Williams | Fox News

My sin against the music was calling out rap artists for their constant use of the "N-word," casually insulting women as "bitches," and denigrated gays by using the word "f*****s."

I said the language was damaging to Black culture, especially young people.

I even went on Oprah Winfrey’s show to call out rappers for their racially profane, violent songs. Also appearing on the show was the rapper Ice-T, who rose to hip hop fame with explicit lyrics. He dismissed my criticism of rap lyrics, even when it depicted outright s*x abuse, such as shoving a flashlight into a woman, by saying it was not r*pe and "the girl might have liked it."

Ice-T must have won the argument because rap music has continued to grow. It is now the number one music genre in America.

It sells to young people globally, Black, White, Latinx and Asian. But the bulk of the audience is mostly young, White males attracted by adrenaline pumping fantasy domination of women and fearless embrace of ‘gangsta’ rap,’ with violent young men boasting about gunning down rivals.

After a spate of shootings in New York, Mayor Eric Adams made the connection between ‘drill’ music and young Black men murdering each other. He said it is "alarming," to see the popularity of the genre.

"We pulled Trump off Twitter," he said, "Yet we are allowing music, displaying of guns, violence. We’re allowing it to stay on these sites." Adams said he plans to convene social media firms and "tell them that you have a civic and corporate responsibility." The mayor met with some drill rappers on Tuesday.

Stuart’s ethnography is an in-depth look at "drill" music’s impact on one violent Chicago neighborhood. He finds Black boys with limited job prospects dreaming of a record contract as they play to the white appetite for Drill music by offering the voyeurs a thrilling view into life among ‘authentic,’ Black people which means Black people as savagely violent.

Black men who brag about killing other Black men, who denigrate Black women, are excused as engaging in a money-making exercise that produces ‘Crazy Bank,’ profits. Critics are dismissed as stuck-up white people or bourgeois Black people, both out of touch with the beat on the streets.

Harry Belafonte, the late singer, once described the rappers as "caught in a trick bag because it’s a way to make unconscionable sums of money and a way to absent yourself from any sense of moral responsibility."

Today, rap is so successful – dominating a wide spectrum of popular culture from fashion to sports, and music -- that such critics are in hiding. The genre and its excesses are accepted as a fact of contemporary life.

Most people seem to turn a blind eye to its failings and offer a pile of excuses for its negative impact on Black people and the ugly stereotypes it perpetuates in white minds.

WHY WHY WHY is this in the GIFs

Weird libertarian mannequin shit NOPE NOPE NOPE

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This is so bizarre. The guy tries to give bullshit excuses and lies, but then he realizes he's caught and just gives up entirely.

Basically what had happened is this: Kotaku ran an article yesterday about a japanese girl g*mer getting fired for posting a tweet that short kings deserve no human rights and should get bone breaking surgery. Which turned out to be too much for white knights at Kotaku, because it’s only bad when you insult fat women or something. Then one champ copypasted and translated like 20+ other tweets by same girlg*mers which include: homophobia, racism, misoginy against other women, antisemitism and etc. And then Kotaku editors were asked ' are u sure that these are not the tweets she got clipped for and you just ran a fake news gender wars bait article for clicks. Article is still unedited but comments exposing true story are also not removed.

https://kotaku.com/tekken-esports-pro-g*mer-japan-osaka-stream-red-bull-al-1848553238

Fricking pigs taking food from the mouths of children.

Stealing food IS NOT STEALING and frick any bootlicking Cossack who says otherwise.

Everyone knows robin hood stole baby food to sell it at a higher price. It's heroic!!!

Woke: Justin is Pierre Trudeau's son but Margaret and Fidel still fricked

Bespoke: Justin is Pierre Trudeau & Fidel Castro’s lovechild

I mean look at that pic: You just know Pierre was clapping those latinx cheeks not 10 minutes earlier. And disagreeing with this is literal bi erasure and will be not tolerated!