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Are African Americans Ruining The Entertainment Industry

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Submitted By:
Brittany Walker
Junior major in Social Work bgwalker09@gmail.com (630)492-3035

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Reverenced Doctor Homer D. Garcia
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Sociology 158.3: Contemporary Social Problems
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Are African-Americans ruining the entertainment industry? In recent news many propose that African Americans exploitation in their music has crippled the music Industry. The industry is worth billions of dollars and they will do anything to keep that profit flowing. In the article, “The Criminalization of Black People – A Billion Dollar Industry” Sebastien Elko by argues both sides of the agenda. Elko by not only believes that African-Americans are making a poor representation of themselves, …show more content…

I’ve gone after clueless bloggers and hipsters for praising the very worst that rap has to offer. I’ve watched an industry blossom from the exploitation of the most vile and obscene racial stereotypes imaginable and openly accused it of promoting a covert white supremacist agenda.”
Many artist who discuss crime, sex and drugs in their lyrics typically have nothing else to rap about. When people come from violent or neglectful backgrounds and that is all that surrounds them, they typically do not see the positive outlook on things. Their lifestyle reflect in their music. The audience who listens to this type of music have usually experienced some of the same situations so they can relate to what the artist is rapping or singing about. For others, who can listen to that music and it not affect my everyday actions because of how I was raised and the community i grew up …show more content…

These artist music can be ignorant but is it killing our youth or dumbing it down? To some degree yes these blunt lyrics like a new song out called “CoCo” is very popular in the black community. The man who raps the song is referring to cocaine as he says “I’m in love with the coco”. Does it make youth want to go try cocaine? Probably so, but artist can say anything and throw a nice beat on it and people rap and sing along because they like the beat of the song. In relation to the article criminalization of black people in the industry both artist and industry Moguls do take responsibility for some but not all acts of violence in the community, but will it ever change? The industry will always want to make profit of “A Black Act” so if ignorance gives them money then they’re not complaining. The artist out here doing what they are told by record labels are being blamed for everything, because there has to be someone behind the scenes to agree to publish this music and nonsense right? If the community was so concerned with blacks in the entertainment industry creating belligerent music they could have done something about it a long time

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