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Topic subjectSince birth I've limited my son's exposure to hip-hop
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13213449, Since birth I've limited my son's exposure to hip-hop
Posted by micMajestic, Fri Nov-17-17 09:56 AM
Sure there's a lot of great music that I can play for him, sure it can be used as a tool to teach, etc etc etc.

I do not want him to develop the type of attachment that I have to this music. For at least half my life I've accepted that certain levels of misogyny, nihilism, drug abuse, homophobia etc were relatively normal.
My son isn't growing up under the same conditions that I did, it's a different time, hip-hop won't help him grow up. And I don't want him to feel like he's supposed to have a special connection just because he's a young Black male.

This isn't the only thing I'm doing, but I didn't want to add anything that has been said already.