49. "jesse jackson and the rainbow coalition were leading boycotts" In response to In response to 48
of advertisers telling them to pull their money from radio stations that played rap. they had tremendous pull back then.
in fact...the bill clinton 'sista soulja' moment (comparing her to david duke) was in a speech to the rainbow coalition.
c delores tucker was a well respected civil rights activist. the successor to shirley chisolm in the ncbw. she led a grassroots effort to raise funds and buy shares in time warner just to attend shareholder meetings and protest their promotion of rap music. it eventually forced them to drop interscope(+ death row).
these werent some hoity toity republican black folks speaking on black issues with little personal rapport with black people. these were iconic luminaries within our communities who garnered substantial social and political power.
there will always be exceptions but this shit was profoundly generational in the black community. there was widespread condemnation/demonization of rap culture among older black folks.
we cant ignore the part *we* played in cultivating mainstream perception of our younger generation of men and the danger/menace they supposedly presented.