His argument is essentially that hip hop pushes people out of the "mainstream", and that rests on both the assumption that hip hop isn't mainstream and that the mainstream itself is not just a better alternative for black and brown people, but that the mainstream in and of itself is good.

I reject both of those notions.

Hip hop is mainstream (why aren't all those white kids seeing those ill effects when they listen to hip hop too) and further more the "mainstream" culture is the problem. Stop singling out hip hop as if it is the only weak link in American culture, because I can point to example after example of American culture that promotes what conservative Americans would call anti-social values, but because they aren't dominated by AF-Am's and Latino's we'll just brush that shit aside.

Fuck Geraldo, and fuck anyone who is buying this bullshit.