Originally posted by juandiablo
Quote: | Originally posted by DaveMoral
Quote: | Originally posted by ENDERA.x
KRS ONE!
Haha.
The problem is thats not really going to happen, or at least, I don't see it happening any time soon.
No one cares not even alot of the people in the ghettos. You have numerous real conscious hiphop artists for example writing about what needs to be
done and trying to get their listeners to wise up but fact of the matter is knowing just isn't enough either. Plus, many don't listen, they just want
a song with a good beat to dance to or, do dirt to. Whichever works. There needs to be some motivational speakers out there who aren't doing it by way
of music. And its not only blacks! so... at least where I am. It's not just black and white here. I know in the US thats a big theme... but hey.
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I agree dude. Fully. I'm not talking just about black people... though the hood I live in is mostly black. I live in North Philly... the shit's fucked
up. I know straight edgers here that sell coke, that's fucked up beyond my comprehension. I know Muslims that sell dope, that's even more fucked up
than straight edgers selling the shit given that in Muslim countries dealers do get executed. But dudes here are wrapped up in the day to day and
struggling to survive. Shit needs to change, from the dude on the street corner trying to feed his kids slinging crack to the cartels, to the
government and social systems that make it almost necessary for poor people have to do dirt to make it because legal options aren't fucking livable.
I think the whole Hardline Movement thing, had it not gotten wrapped up in being a reactionary punk/hardcore thing, could have done some real positive
shit for the disadvantaged. But it got trapped by the scene it came up in, by the disenfranchised leftist white kids that came from suburban homes
with pools in our back yards. It's crazy because there's still small movements and organizations like HL, or the old style NOI for that matter that
are around. The Ausar Auset society has at least got poeple eating right, and there's Hebrew Israelites doing pretty much the same thing. NOI's pretty
much dead, and their doing fucking security for the likes of 50 Cent... so they've sunken pretty low if you ask me from the days when they had a
program from uplifting their people. And there's literally no equivalent in white ghettos from what I know. There's church, but what the fuck has
church ever really done?
There's conscious hip hop, hardcore, punk rock, oi, reggae and everything out there... but no body's listening in any of those music scenes. There's a
few speakers rolling around here and there, but most of them are tending to be nationalistic and divisive with other "racial" groupings. The shit's a
fucking wreck and what do you do to wake people from their daze? What do you do? And at that same time, how can anyone turn a blind eye? I've tried,
believe me I've tried. This is one of those things that eats away at me all the time. |
Dave, I must ask you, why do you choose to live in North Philadelphia? It's without a doubt one of the most dangerous places on the East Coast. I
think I heard you mention having moved there from Indiana on here at one point. It had to be quite a culture shock. My mother grew up in parts of the
North side which are now considered the Badlands / Shooting Galleries etc. They were one of the last white families to leave the area back in the mid
70s after my grandparents were assaulted and robbed in their homes for $6 by a bunch of Ricans. They were targeted for the fact that they were white,
and I know this because the assailants made it clear as they were beating my Grandmothers head in with a pipe. Having said that, you have a family and
all, and I just wouldn't feel safe raising a kid in that part of town. |