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To: John Vosilla who wrote (136522)	8/30/2013 2:06:11 AM
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Don Lemon hits it out of the park youtube.com Really? I disagree. Don Lemon is coming from a very middle class perspective. IMO his concerns are more superficial........the words they use in hip hop, picking up litter, sagging pants, etc. I thought Simmons brought up two important issues: education and breaking the prison cycle. Both topics have considerably more substance and could have much greater impact. All that Lemon kept doing was attacking hip hop.............like bad words and music can turn people bad. If that were true, a lot of white and minority kids are going to turn out very bad after watching the very white Miley and very white Robin Thicke twerking on stage at the VMA awards with Miley's big ass tongue filling in for a penis [earlier Miley was twerking with a big ole toy bear]: And after watching Thicke's Blurred Lines video [to date 155 million hits on youtube], even more kids will end up objectifying women, believing its okay to call them bitches and that they are nothing more than sexual objects who are begging to be raped: Education helps kids discern between reality and fantasy; grants them choices. It will encourage them to trade in their sagging pants for a shirt and tie, or a job in programming. They will learn that the n word is just another word....neither cool nor uncool. All too many poor kids have to hold onto right now is to be a 'badass' or a gangsta. And we need to break the prison cycle. It has been proven in numerous studies that young black males end up in prison more frequently than their white counterparts after committing the same or similar crimes. The court system is biased against young black males. And once they get into the prison system it is far more difficult to reverse the damage a prison 'education' does to young black males. I believe we need to develop a first class education in our inner city schools and indoctrinate the poor kids by giving them a good education. Then and only then do I believe we will start to break the poverty cycle.

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