Yimhotep

>Your common question is how hip-hop
>unites blacks and whites.


Actually my question is how it is "breaking barriers." there's no doubt it brings ppl together, we're here aren't we? but have any "barriers" been "broken" is the question.

>Since you seem to ask
>this so much, maybe then
>you are well versed in
>how it doesnt. Maybe
>you didnt understand that when
>I asked HOW DOES HIP-HOP
>KEEP BLACKS AND WHITES FROM
>LEARNING ABOUT EACH OTHER AND
>MAKE THINGS BETTER?

Uh, that's not quite right. just b/c i ask _how_ it does something, doesn't mean i'm saying it's _preventing_ it from doing something. i would like to know how. but i explained what i thought "breaking barriers" meant. "breaking barriers" means for me anyway, a long-term effect, more far-reaching than painting pictures together and hanging out together. what do u do when u hang out? how will this affect our relations on a large scale? or is it for the moment? u said no. Sunday brought up some ppl in an Asian country of different classes who don't necessarily get along being able to dance together @ a hip-hop club. while this is all well and good, if after they leave the club they still don't get along (on a larger scale) then have any "barriers" really been "broken?"

and what makes hip-hop any different (in this respect) from any other black-started popular music of a particular time?

>And
>the separatist crap was when
>you were responding to hotthyng
>and you said something about
>who'd you be killing, you
>then you told me it
>was a joke or something.
> I thought you could
>have been talking about separatism
>or whatever, but I guess
>you werent serious with the
>whole killing thing.


Shemhotep
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"Be not arrogant because of your knowledge. Take counsel with the ignorant as well as with the wise. For the limits of knowledge in any field have never been set and no one has ever reached them. Wisdom is rarer than emeralds, and yet it is found among the women who gather at the grindstones."
-The Book of Ptahhotep(excerpt)