Kossacks,
I've gone to the other side. Now that the media is "balancing" out the reporting of hate speech by one white man by attacking black music as a whole -- though it sells primarily to white people...
I'm going to get a faith-based research grant to prove that just the way RAP MUSIC is primarily responsible for crime -- even though, oddly, Republicans take credit for driving crime down??? -- MOTOWN and DISCO were the primary driving forces behind the much higher crime rates of the Sixties and Seventies.
The argument is the same on its face: the most popular black music of the time drives crime.
So the crime rates of the Seventies and Eighties were obviously the fault of James Brown, Barry White and Diana Ross.
Where's Scaife and Murdoch to fund my research? I already have my conclusion, which is the way the right-wing works.
Let's not say anything about the whole cesspool of right-wing hate, now that JUST ONE has been called out. Let's all attack the kids who make records, and make rap disappear...and the next day, continue defunding public schools and wasting money on abstinence education and incarcerating young minorities.
It's the new war on Christmas.