In return creating new racial politics that help confront race as a National reality and move forward to bring youth together to communicate without race restricting people's views of one another. The Civil Rights movement brought different races together and opened up whites and blacks views on one another and created a space for acceptance. This space for acceptance made politicians and parents from the post-baby boom generation uncomfortable because they view Hip-Hop as an infection that is oisoning American morality and is making white kids want to be black.
They also blamed hip-hop for declining American values because it promotes violence and drug use. Kitwana is aware that the negative messages heard in hip-hop damage all the possibilities to enable individuals to do the right thing. The author views explains that white kids are not necessarily trying to act black and copy the black culture because they only think it is cool but if you look at it on a deeper level white kids are embracing black culture because they actually know black people and study the culture or they sympathize ith the struggle and want to identify with something outside Americans mainstream society.Kitwana states that the growing sense of alienation from mainstream America drew the first wave of white kids to Hip-Hop in 1980. Life in 1980s became hard for young whites, blacks, and Latino Americans in the working class and middle class to obtain a Job, due to economic and social hardships of declining wages and decling Job options due to a need for skilled workers.
The upper -middle-class lifestyle remained unattainable due to the raise in educational cost making it almost impossible for middle class to afford an education. Parents were now spending more time at work so they could make ends meet and less quality time with their children.The alienated generation with less privileged white Americans opened the door for different races facing the same struggles to take refuge in hip-hops response to hard times and allowed them to go against the status quo. The government form of assistance to troubled youth was offered in medication or incarceration. In chapter three "Erasing Blackness" a controversial issue introduced by David Samuels says, although rap is more popular among blacks its primary audience is he credit for starting Hip-Hop by saying blacks were neither the force behind the business nor the primary consumer audience.
The author makes a point that hip-hop artist Just make the music but the big corporations package and sell Hip-Hop. The original expression of hip-hop to an audience has turned into a commercialized expression that is becoming more focused on the buyers. The new generations of hip-hop do not understand what hip-hop was once about for black people because commercialization has taken out the real and made hip-hop about what sells. The assumption that White is the primary audience of hip-hop is Just a Judgment based n population and wealth.Kitwana goes on to make a very good point when he says if there are two million white kids buying rap records, unless it legitimized by the black kids community, the kids are not buying a damn thing. Kitwanas main point draws us to the fact that hip-hop is helping race move forward in this generation and generations to come by throwing out old racial politics that keep us from fully coming together as a community.
Since racism is a learned behavior introduced by your parents or friends, it is still inhibiting us to move forward as equals.
