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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: goldworldnet who wrote (99076)	3/21/2005 3:54:18 PM
From: redfish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

People who formally were clowns can turn themselves around and do good things: The Rev. Al Sharpton is taking the battle against rap violence to Wall Street. The activist minister said he plans to buy stock in record companies that put out hip-hop music - and then show up as a shareholder to have his say. "I don't think too many CEOs want to see me come into his stockholders' meeting to say they're not doing enough to stop the violence," he told the Daily News, adding he also plans to press the Federal Communications Commission for action. Sharpton declined to say exactly which companies he was targeting, how much stock he planned to buy or when. His latest attack on hip-hop mayhem comes after the feud between Queens-bred bullet magnet 50 Cent and former protégé The Game erupted last month in gunfire - and days after Lil' Kim was convicted of perjury for lying about a 2001 gunfight. Both shoot-'em-ups occurred outside the SoHo studios of radio station Hot 97, which Sharpton accused of stoking the violence by having rappers taunt each other over the air. "At what point does it go from programming to inciting?" he asked. Sharpton said he is set to meet Thursday with new FCC Chairman Kevin Martin to push for stricter oversight of hip-hop radio stations. "I do not understand how the FCC can make a lot of noise around Janet Jackson and that case with Howard Stern," he said, "but [the FCC] has not said anything about a pattern of shooting and other violence at radio stations." But a spokesman for Hot 97 insisted the radio station shouldn't be a government target. "All radio stations and television stations are required to meet community standards by the FCC," the spokesman said in a statement. "We work hard to meet and exceed those standards." The Feb. 28 shootout between members of rival rap posses for 50 Cent and The Game led to tightened security at the city's hip-hop hot spots. It also spurred Sharpton to call on radio stations to enforce 90-day bans of music by rappers involved in violence. A few days after The Game slammed 50 Cent at a California concert, the two rappers called a truce and awkwardly hugged at a Manhattan photo op. "I'm not giving up on rap music," Sharpton said. "I'm trying to make sure it's rap music and not attack music." Sharpton is teaming with The Source magazine to put the squeeze on record companies and radio stations that promote rappers prone to gunplay. 50 Cent, for one, boasts about surviving nine gunshot wounds. But several other rappers have been gunned down in beefs that turned deadly. "It's the record companies and the radio stations that allow these artists to go on the airwaves and spew hatred and spew threats," said David Mays, co-founder of The Source. "You create an environment where violent conflict is going to take place." Enough is enough, said Sharpton, who said he remains a fan of hip hop. "We're going from 'Fight the Power' to fighting each other," Sharpton said, referring to the classic 1989 rap song by Public Enemy. nydailynews.com story/291992p-250001c.html

To: goldworldnet who wrote (99076)	3/21/2005 3:56:39 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I think that kind of indignation comes with education and a feeling of self worth. You can say that you want indignation, but imo you really need to educate people to feel they have some worth to society so that they can feel indignation. Many of the kids who are doing so badly have parents that are ignorant, and hopeless at parenting- how exactly are these people going to do what you, a middle class person, expect, if they have not had the kind of role models you have had? If you teach people what you want them to do, and give them incentives to do what you want them to do, often they will do it. At the moment we aren't doing either of those things. IMO