>From: Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>Subject: Re: Eminem, gangsta capitalist, or capitalist gangsta
>Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 15:00:56 -0500
>
>At 12:11 PM 2/22/01 -0500, you wrote:
> >http://www.counterpunch.org
> >
>
>
>Good point.
>
>BTW, a nauseating defence of that piece of Nazi shit has been published in
>the last issue of The Nation - it argues that he is a product of his
>enviornment and a "satire" on social relations (just as the counterpucj
>says). What a tripe! Why does The Nation have to sink so low and swallow
>raw the standard line of entertainment industry claiming that they only
>produce what the public supposedly wants. It seems that nowadays "free
>speech" and "free market" espouse the same idea: freedom of commodity
>producers from any accountablity for their products.
>
>Another point - this whole (c)rap music business is a perfect example of
>white establishment using Blacks to do the dirty work - just like in the
>Old South. Only this time it is not picking up cotton but promoting
>Amerikun "family values" - violence, hate, and bigotry - something that is
>"beneath" white musicians. Eminem transgress that "ethnic role," hence he
>draws the wrath of the establishment critics.
>
>wojtek
>
>
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