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To: praha4 who wrote (4909)	4/12/2007 6:29:52 AM
From: paul ross	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50498

"... the observation that too many white teenagers are adopting the same "gangsta-rap" black culture, behaviour, appearance, language, and attitudes..." This may be true but it's birthmother was rock n' roll born in late 40's and early 50's. That the hook of R&R is so deeply embedded in the psyche of the Boomer generation is maybe why many of us tolerate it's 21st century offspring. And today's great guilt generation may have begun in the early 30's with Woodie Guthrie and his ilk on the campuses of NYC, who hated the US for causing the hardships of the Great Depression and who worshipped Josef Stalin. Not to be outdone and coincidental with the genisys of R&R was the Rosenbergs and friends of the early 50's who gave the bomb to the USSR. People are basically people, really all created equal, regardless of color, but culture is the great corruptor.....