This Is Why We Don't Let Conservatives Into the Academy (Just Kidding, David)

Via Lawyers, Guns, and Money:

Conservative commentator/gadfly/scholar wannabe Myron Magnet has an explanation for why African Americans are finding themselves in jail and in poverty all these years after racism was ended in the United States. Can you guess what it is? It's the same reason Michael Vick raised dogs to kill each other. That's right, hip hop.

For those of you without the time to read it, let me summarize.

We know that racism isn't the problem because blacks flourished in the US during Reconstruction and in the north where there was no Jim Crow. Because we have Clarance Thomas, Condi Rice, Barack Obama, and three (three!) CEOs of Fortune 500 companies who are all black, we can say for sure that racism is over! Nope, the roots of the sufferings of the black community can be traced to that cocksucker Lyndon Baines Johnson and his Great Society. Welfare made blacks lazy. Oh, and the Civil Rights movement, led by "elites." Here you have all these happy-go-lucky Negroes and then these liberals come along and tell them there oppressed and that they don't have to respect massah no more and then you've got discontent.

You can tell "elites" have run our education system into the ground by the fact that they believed the Duke rape story and Tawana Brawley. We've lost our reasoning skills. Because the elites believe that everything, including social order, is "man-made" (that's socially constructed to you and me, Russ), they can't handle the thought that maybe not all whites are racists and then they fire Larry Summers. That the Duke lacrosse players, apparently, didn't rape anyone that night, all liberal "hyperventilating" about race issues has been proved false. Or, "Emmett Till outrages are long over in America," as Myron tells us. Then the elites go and drive a good man like Don Imus off the air, but ignore the cause of all that ails the black community and Don Imus...hip hop.

(Yes, the article is this rambling, but not this smart-ass)

It all started with the Black Panthers. They posed at being liberators, but were really just criminals (not unlike your hip-hoppers today). Then came Ice T and his cop killer song and the elites told us he was just reflecting what was being said in the streets, but you and I know that until then no black man had ever thought about killing a cop, but now that's all they think about. Then you've got all these rappers raping about how racist society is and how the cops are profiling them (my man Chamillionaire gets an extensive mention for his song "Ridin'"). Except that you and I know that racism was ended in 1864 (North) and 1964 (South), so these rappers cannot be reflecting black experience in America. Instead, they are creating it. This is why blacks are poor, because Ice T, Chamillionaire, Jay Z, and Came'ron told them that being a gangsta was cool. So they deal drugs and don't get jobs, resulting in high rates of incarceration and low employment. It's really all pretty easy to understand. If you're not an elite.

Oh yeah, and hip hop speaks of sex in terms of porn, not love. Music and literature is supposed to be about love and marriage (ah, Frank), but this hip hop stuff is just about "fucking" and this breaks down the bonds of marriage, which is the foundation of civilization. And Wynton Marsalis and Bill Cosby agree, so there you have it.