3/5 an MC: The Manufacturing of a Dumbed Down Rapper

Where racist caricatures of African Americans once justified evils including slavery, lynching, Jim Crow, redlining and eugenics - stereotypes reinforced by mainstream Hip Hop are used to justify apartheid schooling, segregation, unequal application of the law under a failed War on Drugs, police terrorism, and an out-of-control predatory prison industrial complex. In minds sickened by the cultural implements of white supremacy, we become less than human and therefore unworthy of the respect...