“I agree that all kids of all colors love hip-hop. My point in writing the book was to raise questions about the ways the hip-hop generation and the millennium generation, both who have lived their entire lives in post-segregation America, are processing race in radically different ways than any generation of Americans. I think they have a lot to tell us as a country about ways of addressing race matters.” ThinkingWayWritingBookDifferentCountryMatterKidsAmericaRaceGenerationsColorRaisesAgreeHip HopHipsPostsDifferent WaysHopsSegregationProcessingMillenniumRaises Questions Author:Bakari Kitwana
“The question 'Why white kids love hip-hop?' forces us immediately to deal with the historical weight of race in America. On the surface people see hip-hop and race as nothing new. I think the ways young white Americans are engaging hip-hop suggest something more.” PeopleThinkingWayKidsAmericaYoungForceWhiteDealsRaceWeightHistoricalHip HopSurfaceHipsHopsEngagingNothing NewRace In AmericaKids Love Author:Bakari Kitwana
“We live in a society that refuses to set a standard for what we will allow American entertainment to expose to our children. I think we need to set a standard that is entertainment industry wide, not just limited to hip-hop.” ThinkingNeedsChildrenIndustryStandardsOur ChildrenHip HopEntertainmentRefuseWideHipsHopsEntertainment Industry Author:Bakari Kitwana
“I'm not a poster boy for misogyny and I don't think hip-hop should be either.” ThinkingShouldBoysHip HopHipsHopsMisogynyPosters Author:Bakari Kitwana
“My hope is to get young people to think about ways that they can translate hip-hop's great cultural movement into political power that can change the conditions for America's young, so that young people upon graduating from high school who don't have economic means to go to college can realize other options beyond joining the military and fighting in wars that enrich corporations like Halliburton which should feel guilty about profiteering off of a war that is being fought on the backs of those locked out of America's mainstream economy.” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsShouldMeanWarSchoolAmericaYoungPoliticalFightingRealizingEconomyEconomicConditionsMilitaryMovementCollegeHigh SchoolHip HopGuiltyHipsCorporationsHopsGraduatesMainstreamLockedTranslateJoiningPolitical PowerGraduating High SchoolJoining The Military Author:Bakari Kitwana
