Farrakhan to Hip-Hoppers: Know Your Roles, Educate.

February 15, 2002 8:27 AM

Farrakhan to Hip-Hoppers: Know Your Roles, Educate. From the West Coast Hip Hop Summit.
posted by Ty Webb (13 comments total)

Doesn't Farrakhan know that a majority of CD sales of hip-hop and rap are to young white middle-class males?
posted by fleener at 8:32 AM on February 15, 2002

"On hand were ... former Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry, Death Row Records founder Marion "Suge" Knight and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, among others."

Hey, didja hear the one about the crack-smoking disgraced politician, the convicted felon, and the racist talking about the need to act as role models?
posted by pardonyou? at 8:41 AM on February 15, 2002

Pardonyou, yes, I was also amused by that tragic irony. Who died and left these people to be the leaders responsible for educating black youths?

I figure this is some silly declaration of self-importance which won't actually change anything, except for their inflated perceptions of themselves.
posted by insomnyuk at 8:57 AM on February 15, 2002

Farrakhan is an old school hip-hopper, himself!
posted by Hankins at 9:18 AM on February 15, 2002

Oh dear, good old Mr. Farrakhan again.

For the last time folks, what Sister Aimee Semple was to Christianity, Farrakhan is to Islam.
posted by jonmc at 10:06 AM on February 15, 2002

insomnyuk said: Pardonyou, yes, I was also amused by that tragic irony. Who died and left these people to be the leaders responsible for educating black youths?


Some guy named Martin Luther King.
posted by srboisvert at 10:21 AM on February 15, 2002

srboisvert, do you really think MLK would have wanted "Suge" Knight and Louis Farrakhan responsible for educating black youths? From where I sit, the hatred and violence they espouse is totally antithetical to everything MLK believed and preached.
posted by pardonyou? at 10:44 AM on February 15, 2002

What Typhoid Mary was to the casual hugging of strangers, Farrakhan is to Islam.
posted by dong_resin at 11:30 AM on February 15, 2002

Farrakhan is a racist and the nation of islam is not recognized by the billion or so Moslems. A FATWA against the Nation of Islam was issued March 7, 1998 due to the heresy involved in calling themselves muslims.
posted by Mack Twain at 11:32 AM on February 15, 2002

yeah. what a terrible thing to be asking people to practice some reponsibility and take a community based part in educating youth. don't matta who's saying it so much as that it's being said at all.
posted by whoshotwho at 11:34 AM on February 15, 2002

yeah. what a terrible thing to be asking people to practice some reponsibility and take a community based part in educating youth. don't matta who's saying it so much as that it's being said at all.
posted by whoshotwho at 11:39 AM on February 15, 2002

whoshotwho, nobody said it was terrible. It is, however, ironic.
posted by pardonyou? at 11:42 AM on February 15, 2002

If Farrakhan is continuing the legacy of MLK, I'm Jimmy Hoffa. The guy is a racist pig who I wish the media would ignore.
posted by owillis at 12:35 PM on February 15, 2002