Todd Boyd, The New H.N.I.C.: The Death of Civil Rights and the Reign of Hip Hop

Todd Boyd comments in Hubbard Interview

The Relevance of the Civil Rights Struggle

Boyd: Things are just different and the civil rights mind-set is outdated. . . .

Civil Rights is very old school. It is valuable as something historic to learn from, but it is not something that can be applied today.

The New Ruling Class

Boyd: I looked at the Fortune Magazine’s list of 40 richest people under 40 and Master P, Michael Jordan, Will Smith, and P Diddy were on the list. Most of these African Americans are connected to hip hop, and this is very significant. You have a number of people with that much money and power connected to hip hop. This is a new black ruling class.

Lee Hubbard is a hip hop writer and cultural critiic --. e-mail address superle@hotmail.com.

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Sharif Responds to Todd Boyd's  Hip Hop Comments

What a bunch of crap! It is this kind of thinking that is running young black men into the ground. Up until the hip hop generation the issue was black progress and black power. The hip hop generation has no concept of power outside of their own individual quest for money. If it is old school to want to contribute to the collective progress of black people, then count me as first among the old school. We have only to ask has the black life of the underclass gotten any better since the birth of hip hop? I think not. What will the hip hop generation do when this fad is over. Make no mistake any thing as commercial as hip hop is nothing but a fad!!

When these hoppers grow up what will their role be in society? Will they take their fifty-year-old ass out to stand on corners waiting for a dope hook up? Will they stand on the sidewalks and beg dimes for forties? Maybe, they will do drive-by shootings from wheel chairs terrorizing nursing homes? The fact is the hip hop generation will be even less independent than the civil rights generation.

The hip hop generation is an anti-skills generation. As I often hear them say, "I ain't working for no white man." But without skills to survive in the future, all those who don't make millions as rappers will be out in the cold--unless they want to stand in front of P. Diddy's house and beg for hand outs. 

Please post this up on the site along with the that bull shit interview!!!

sharif