bell hooks Pt 8 cultural criticism (rap music)

The kids listen to the rap music. THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT THE JAZZ IS ALL ABOUT

- Bill Cosby

what a load of rap crap!

Good thing I listen to good ol fashion Heavy Metal XD \m/

does anyone know where part 7 is? if u do, can u let me know. peace

as usual, she's on point.

Bell Hooks is here to speak on feminist matters, racism, and capitalism as they pertain to black people not Asians, whites, Natives, or any other group. She is fully capable of speaking on the issues of white women but that's not what this segment is about. It is not a conspiracy to leave out white women. This is a cultural examination of African-Americans experiences and semiotic representation in media.

My only problem with her logic is that she acts like Hip-hop is the only musical genre this has happened to, and that the genre is somehow special because it's a 'black' genre.

It irritates me a bit that the VERY SAME THING has happened to almost every popular genre in history, yet it apparently only really matters when it happens to a BLACK genre.

Is it so hard to instead be bothered when ANY women are treated this way? Why are black women somehow special?

i don't see how you can be all into bell hooks and not have the slightest inkling that cress welsing is about as toxic to gay people of color as it's possible to be.

a little consistency is nice.

And one last thing... you could look at Heavy Metal. It went from groups like Sabbath and Iron Maiden in the 70's to shit groups like Poison and Whitesnake in the 80's. Hair Metal bands had white women dressed the same way and acting almost the same in their videos as the rappers did. Where are the cries of white women being objectified? Apparently people only give a crap when black women are being objectified.

Bottom line: Hooks' entire argument is biased and full of holes. The end.