Beer in the Headlights

Despite being a raging moonbat, Cynthia Tucker gets this one correct:

American popular culture has always had a tendency to romanticize hoodlums, whether Al Capone, Bonnie and Clyde or Tony Soprano. But the hip-hop world's celebration of savage violence, educational failure and misogyny has been one of the worst influences on American youth, especially black youth, in decades. If you want to ruin a nation, a society or an ethnic group, persuade its members that the highest form of achievement is committing crimes.

And for some reason today's youth just consume that poison with reckless abandon.

I really don't understand just why we as humans have such a strong predisposition to self-destructive behavior.

Hip-hop is multi-faceted in its influences to corrupt and destroy. It celebrates violence, ignorance, crime, selfishness, avarice, materialism, lust, envy, misogyny, promiscuity, laziness and substance abuse.

I wonder from time to time if hip-hop will ever wane in popularity. I hope for the good of all American society that it does. Nothing good comes from hip-hop.