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The Secret Meeting that Changed Rap Music and Destroyed a Generation

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Reef:
Wanted to throw a quote or two in here but there were too many. All points about the privatised prisons and profit making I agree with and you can see that its not just music, not just rap, but all forms of media, newspapers, TV, Films, CNN, BBC, they all in some way perpetuate similar messages. But back to the point in hand, and the point I wanted to make. You guys I would assume are mostly looking at American citizens or residents. In the UK the exact same thing has been happening and is happening right now but I would argue that, at least in the UK, the system is colour blind and it plays on more of a deep rooted societal class system (in an apparently classless society, but dont get me started) where the messages opress the working and lower classes regardless of skin colour. I'm not for a minute saying it equal between say blacks and whites because I'm speaking anecdotally not from statistics. Would my friends from the States say if you looked beyond race that you'd see a class division here rather than a race one?

Chamillitary Click:
Doesn't surprise me one bit lol.

Furor Teutonicus:
Good article.

I have to admit, these devilish sociopaths are pretty clever.
It's ridiculous how many 'documentations' about US prisons are in German TV. Literally every prison gets its own documentation. Yet none of them questions the system behind these mass incarcerations.

Fraxxx:

--- Quote from: Furor Teutonicus on March 26, 2013, 01:53:11 AM ---Good article.

I have to admit, these devilish sociopaths are pretty clever.
It's ridiculous how many 'documentations' about US prisons are in German TV. Literally every prison gets its own documentation. Yet none of them questions the system behind these mass incarcerations.

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The necessary next step is transforming Cyprus into a prison island.

M Dogg™:
It's more than just the music. In the United States, it's damn near modern sla.... opps can't say that.



Once I get my old spot at DubCNN back, you'll see some more provocative stuff posted and I think the Hip Hop community now needs to take this on. Obviously the mainstream artist might not even touch it, but there are artist out there who have following that need to spread this message outside of just Immortal Technique.

Read Michelle Alexander's "The New Jim Crow." She gets into this topic and really takes apart the war on drugs and private prisons. Meeting her last year is actually when I started to look into this, and I have learned so much. As far as movement goes, I think prison reform will be the last movement I'll ever see in my life, so I figure I should do my part in trying to put the word out.

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