Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Monday, February 9, 2015
REAGAN PRODUCED RAP MUSIC
REAGAN PRODUCED 'RAP'
President Ronald Reagan and his successors' destructive and racist policies and slashes of federal funds for cities, where blacks have disproportionately lived since World War II, created the conditions that spawned rap-music culture, as a reaction to right-winger, Ronald Reagan's "Revolution." Wickedly evil, Republican repressions, during his two terms, 1980-1988, erased the gains of Lyndon Johnson's 'Great Society', especially its "War on Poverty."
"Crack-cocaine" the black ghetto-cocaine-based drug was produced by impoverished economic conditions under and during Reagan. It was the fruit and the fall-out from his and successors' failed "War on Drugs." His hyper-subversion of the already-unjust legal system led to black mass-incarceration. His goal was to destroy cities and the fiber of black families, and he almost did! Reagan's and the Bushes' repressive policies (in which Democrat Bill Clinton was covertly complicit) produced rap and hip-hop. They were young black males' reaction to sordid repression. No more love songs, ballads, or pretty music. Now it was 'F-you, sucker!' Drive-by's & gangs!