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African Americans are still concerned about the violence taking place in the world. The article discusses the murder of Freddie Grey, who was allegedly possessing a switchblade. Shootings of unarmed black people by law enforcement have occurred on many occasions. Also, the violence taking place in Baltimore was also addressed because of the violence that occurred.
Barbara Ehrenreich in the article “Ice T: The Issue is Creative Freedom”, claims that suggests that people are over reacting to song lyrics referring to killing cops. Ehrenreich brings in different song lyrics from different songs and points out how many of them are referring to violence, but that they are protected under freedom of speech. Barbara as a writer herself wants people to stop saying that current words and lyrics should not be sang because they are offensive and will suggest to kids that it is okay to do those things. She wants to inform everyone that listens that even if the lyrics are saying something bad it will not cause people to think that it is
Jan Sorenson’s political cartoon about the Trayvon Martin shooting throws readers into the harsh reality of a young man getting killed because of his choice in clothing. This leaves room for the question, “Was he genuinely shot because of what he had decided to wear that day?”. It can be perceived that Jan Sorenson may be using the hoodie as an analogy for his skin tone. This creates an even scarier reality because people are getting shot due to the color of their
I'm a student, an honor student, with a bright future ahead of me! Just because I'm black doesn't mean I'm a criminal!" Secondly there is conflict between Justyce and gun violence. Justyce has personal first hand experience of gun violence. While Justyce and his bestfriend Manny are playing their music loudly a man repeatedly asks them to stop.
I strongly believe the fast pace rap song by J-Jon named C.O.P short for Criminals of Permission is a great example of a song to describe significant stories of the 21st century. It is really unfortunate to hear all these horrifying stories of police brutally all over the United states. For example Mike brown’s or Sandra Bland’s. I believe these stories should not just be skimmed ,but deeply looked at so incidents like these don’t happen again. In the song J-Jon describes how even though cops wear uniforms and badges they are still equal and they should protect citizens instead of seriously injuring them or killing them describes how people should feel protected not in fear.
Firstly, McBride claims that rappers use violent lyrics as a vehicle to bring about awareness and thus promote social change through use of violence. In a section of the essay, he talks about how rappers have made hip-hop go from something you would hear at a party to something you would hear in a local news report because rappers use violent lyrics in order to talk about the issue in their society and how these issues must be acted upon now so that it can
In the first verse Lil Baby says, “It’s too many mothers that’s grieving, They killing us for no reason, Been going on for too long to get even”. This graphic set of lyrics allows the viewer to dive deeper into why police brutality needs to be fixed. According to Genius, a website that allows different contributors to decipher what song lyrics mean and symbolize, Lil Baby was referring to various instances of police brutality where a black man who was victim to police brutality was so young, that his mother had to succeed him and grieve his loss. One popular instance of this was the senseless killing of Trayvon Martin. Around 4 seconds after Lil Baby says this line, a lady holding a sign appears on the screen.
Though within recent times, some media has begun to counter these negative portrayals of African Americans such as the hit T.V show “Empire” that effectively captures the success of the people within the black community. The first piece to be examined is a song written and sung by the N.W.A. “Straight Outta Compton” in 1988 details the struggles of being an African American on the streets within downtown Los Angeles. (Sample song plays). The song is an exaggerated and loose representation of the reality of living in everyday Compton and seeing African Americans commit crimes and kill others.
These perceived astounding numbers coupled with the click bait headline from a local news source stating that, “For ten minutes, it seemed like a shooting was everywhere in the South Chicago neighborhood (CBS News)” led to Chiraq being used to describe the violence problem in Chicago. Despite the clear subjective nature of the statement, this type of languaging with very little to no context allowed irresponsible journalists and pundits outside of Chicago to widely use it also as a form of indirect place branding, which ultimately led to the unfair labeling of Chicago as the murder capital of the United States. This also contributed to an amplified examination and judgment of the Southside, the black residents who lived there and rappers like King Louie, Chief Keef and other emerging artists in the drill music scene whose music and lifestyles were blamed for the assumed increase in violence coupled with pejorative racial and class based ideologies that placed blame over historical analysis and
Moreover, Eminem’s intention of writing this anarchist rap song is to show his hate for George W.Bush and wanting him to step down from the position of U.S. president. Eminem wants everyone to be united and revolt against George W.Bush, no matter which social class and communities they belong. He believes the union of black and white communities has the greatest power that Bush hasn’t provided. Besides, overturning George W.Bush and his establishments of limiting the justice and the liberty the citizens had fought for. Eminem emphasize the hidden problems in the American society caused by George W.Bush and portraying for the sake of saving their own country, all of us should put our cultures behind and gather all the people to rebel against Bush.
In “The Trouble with Poetry”, and “Introduction to Poetry” Billy Collins focuses on the issue of forced inspiration, and the lack of appreciation readers, and aspiring poets have for the feel of poetry. In “Introduction to Poetry”, Collins mentions that some poetry enthusiasts try too hard to find the meaning of a poem; to try and decipher it like some ancient hieroglyphics, that they forget that poetry is not an essay and does not necessarily have to have a distinct message. In stanza’s seven and eight, the speaker states that poetry should be felt, and that what one poem means to a group of people could have a completely different effect on another group. In stanza eight “Feel the walls” is the speaker’s ways of saying that one should feel a poem and let the poem speak to them, instead of searching for what they believe to be its true meaning.
A Black life taken is a Black life taken no matter who pulls the trigger. Tupac also called attention to this violence in his song that was released, ironically, after he was gunned down. The song posits that there is a system at play within America that puts Black men at a disadvantage economically, socially, and
“F*** the Police” is a powerful song produced in the late 90’s. The main issue that this song portrays is that African Americans growing up in urban communities are not treated equally by the law enforcement. The members of N.W.A. lived through the harsh life of the ghetto and experienced the struggles that young black males have growing up in the inner city of Compton, California. In the song, N.W.A. sends a deep message out about police brutality and says a lot about the society from where they came from in terms of race, class, norms, values, culture, and social influences. N.W.A was a group that had five members, Ice Cube, Eazy E, Dr.Dre, Mc Ren and Dj Yella.
Today, the news bombards society with the idea that all police officers are racist. Media such as movies, television, video games, and music puts this concept in the heads of many individuals. A perfect example of a rebellious rap song that conveys this message about police officers is “Fuck the Police” by N.W.A. While the beat of the song might enthuse listeners, the words of the song attack police officers. “Fuck the Police” promotes violence and highly offends police officers through N.W.A.’s word choice and influence on the younger generation.
In this free verse poem, I wrote about my experience with an incident that occur where I thought I was going to die. I started this poem off by telling the readers that this incident occur when I was in my youth. I used the word youth instead child because when you think of a child, you think of a five year old kid with no life experiences. With this in mine, when the readers reads the word youth. Youth could have either a good or bad connotative meaning to it depending on the experiences the reader has or had with that word, leading to me choosing the word youth instead child.
