Can't "gangsta culture" be both an effect and a cause?
--- Dwayne Monroe <idoru345 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> History has shown that when it comes to carefully
> paying
> attention to a debating opponent's actual arguments,
> Wojtek is as
> disciplined as a frat boy managing a brewery.
>
>
> 'Gangsta culture', as Jordan crisply points out, is
> an effect,
> not a cause.
>
> In the past, it didn't exist; now it does and is,
> I'll concede,
> having a bad impact on how some kids (and biological
> adults with
> kid-like minds) see themselves.
>
> But where did this thing - the focus of so much
> attention - come
> from? Did some group of black villains decide, at
> some arbitrary
> moment in the 1980s, that today is the dawning of
> the age of
> gangsta-quarius? Finding answers to these
> questions is the sort
> of thing people like Mike Davis do best.
>
> If, however, we use Wojtek's "serious analysis" as
> our starting
> point, we might be led astray by Sokolowski
> Maneuvers into
> discounting the Mike Davis's of the world in favor
> of a strongly
> asserted, but entirely empty set of curmudgeonly
> beliefs.
>
> ...
>
>
>
> So there we were, we blackamoors, recently liberated
> from the
> yoke of overt racism by the civil rights struggle.
> The future
> looked bright. Suddenly, 'gangsta culture' arose,
> apparently
> from nowhere and from nothing.
>
> Our prospects were ruined, our hopes dashed. Were
> it not for
> this indulgence, we'd have reached the stars by now.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> .d.
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