lyrics include. Their music videos premiered on MTV and were soon banned due to the violence and gang situations in which these black men were associated with. With popular songs such as “f*ck the police” it is not surprising that many white americans thought that this would be a very bad influence on their children. When people listen to this kind of music they do not receive the same message that blacks get when they listen to it and these people are quick to judge on what they have heard from a commercialized song. As long as people keep looking down on blacks as dangerous, poor, worthless, dirty, useless, shameful, socially irresponsible, and acknowledging their skin color a different tone and regarding its difference as something of importance the black community will never be able to prosper nor reach the American dream. Many will never be able to get the nice little house with the white picket fence, a good job, or an honest living. Much of this is caused and even encouraged by the pop-culture of this era. On the one side there is the negrophobia motivated by the white culture and encouraged by many people in schools, at home, and on the streets. This is very detrimental for the African Americans’ chance at the American dream because of the racial hatred that is built up by this negrophobia. On the other side there is the negrophiliac MTV culture that promotes the stereotypical urban criminal nigger attitude instead of the middle class black American. This is the class that is often deprived of they deserve, what all Americans are entitled to, and is even guaranteed to the people, the pursuit of happiness. Even though there have been many stumbling stones in the path of the African Americans’ quest for the American dream, there is no one to blame but the blacks themselves. There is no surprise that it can only be blamed, not on the supremacist white man that holds the African Americans down in the ghettos,...
