Jason Whitlock column on Taylor

[djnemo65]

I love Hiphop - in fact I wrote my senior thesis in college on it's early development in New York - so I tend to get defensive when people attempt to blame it for social problems which exist independent of it. The problem is this: Hiphop wasn't foisted on the black community, it grew organically in response to worsening economic conditions and declining urban standards of living.

While Hiphop may have provided a style and discourse for articulating the everyday struggle, it didn't create the struggle. The problems in black communities are, were, and will continue to be economic first.