If you want to be offended by a flag…look at all these a holes that want to be in the US with a flag from the crappy country they moved here from. That should piss everyone off to the tenth power.
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Growing up I loved “The Duke’s of Hazzard”, today not so much. And it has nothing to do with the General Lee, it’s the fact that they glamorized running from LE. It’s really hard to tell African Americans that there is no White Privilege when dealing with LE when there was a T.V. Show dedicated to White Privilege when dealing with LE. And to be perfectly honest I never, ever thought about it, till a black friend of mine pointed it out. He just said if you change the color of the Duke brothers to black, it would completely change the dynamics of the entire show, and he is absolutely right.
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And if on “threes company”if the white dude was a black dude, it would’ve changed the whole dynamic of the show.
Or on the “golden girls” if one of them was really a trans male.
What if Dirty Harry didn’t use a gun?
A Fictional show, for entertainment, taken literally…
But I think you get it.
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It’s still encouraging bad behavior, yes it’s a fictional show but rap music is also fictional. And people regularly criticize the behavior depicted in rap music because some of it glorifies bad behavior.
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Based on the fact that those singing those praises are criminals and have performed those crimes in reality - not fiction.
You must be taking some heavy drugs to correlate the Dukes of Hazard with anything in the real world.
I like Reggae and SoCa, but when they sing about a pound a day or trying to find a woman with a tight pum-pum, I have to laugh whole-heartiedly at their lyrics. I gather the ganja makes their d*cks shrink, as I have never found a woman with a loose pum-pum. Same goes for TV shows.
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When O’Shea Jackson Sr. aka Ice-Cube began writing songs for N.W.A. he had never held a firearm in his hands but he wrote a lot of songs about holding a firearm. His lyrics encouraged a lot of black youth to carry firearms.
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And you just proved my point.
[Edit] Now, for “HOW gangsta” they were?
It should be noted that these guys ran in very tough circles. They may have been making up everything about killing people, but the pictures of Ice Cube with an AK-47 or Eazy with his guns should represent that these guys were not average Americans. They were very connected to the street scene of Compton and South-Central L.A. in the 80’s and 90’s that would come to define an era of culture. While Eazy-E was the only person that truly pursued and succeeded in a criminal life, all 5 members came from hardened backgrounds.
Ice Cube does not have a criminal record. He has been involved in some controversial incidents in his past, but he has not been convicted of any serious crimes.
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Except you said they are singing songs about criminal behavior they performed, which Ice-Cube did not perform, it was complete fiction for his music.
You only pointed to one example. What of the rest that actually served time? Vybez Cartel, was/is a gang member and was incarcerated for second degree murder. Granted, he is a Reggae artist, but still not an upstanding citizen, though that is of Jamaica. I don’t follow Rap/hip hop artists, not into that music. I love SoCa and Reggae, and many other styles of music.
The Rude Boys of Dancehall are thugs and criminals, just like many of the “gangsta” rappers. Just like you are a pretend 2A advocate, their are pretend gangstas.
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For me I grew up very white living in the suburbs of America so Rap made zero sense to me, a lot of my white friends were way into it in the 80’s and 90’s which I could not comprehend because the lyrics had zero to do with the lives we were living.
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My very large family is mixed. One summer day, we got together, and in our living room, was filled with mostly young black men that particular day, when one of the oldest, himself a father, church musician, and an in law of mine, shared to them — hey, “if you want to carry a firearm, do it legally, never illegally, not to mention the legal penalties for carrying illegally”, the room fell silent, their listening to him so intently.
I said, hey man, “you’d make a great member of the USCCA”.
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I liked Rap and Hip Hop in the 80s, it was fun and at times quite funny. One had to laugh at LL Cool J, Rock the Bells, and Mama Said Knock You Out, and may others, not just him. I stopped liking it when it no longer had those qualities.
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The roadrunner &coyote also promoted bad behavior.
Childhood books, promote bad behavior.
I guess you don’t know much about parenting.
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