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Un-cool Ice Cube
Web posted June 22, 1998
How nauseating!
Shane Smith, a Los Angeles-based free lance writer, aptly notes in Heterodoxy magazine that such drivel is akin ``to praising a white country-western singer whose lyrics obsess on torturing and killing blacks for `having a bittersweet take on race relations.'''
If you are browsing in a music store, check out the so-called music of Ice Cube. You'll find his songs glorify anti-white racism, anti-Semitism, drug dealing and the murder of law enforcement officers and women.
Ice Cube has even gotten worse in recent years -- no doubt due to his conversion to the militant Nation of Islam religion. Louis Farrakhan, the group's racist leader, boasts that rap -- and Ice Cube in particular -- have more influence ``than preachers'' among young blacks. And many in our black churches fear Farrakhan may be right!
Free lancer Smith reports that all the major music companies continue to spread Ice Cube's venom. And MTV, the largest video TV channel in the world, spotlights this bigot in videos as a ``role model'' to youngsters. (Smith has obtained the lyrics of Ice Cube's 1994 Trapped and other CDs. Of course, this newspaper cannot reprint the repeated profanity and violence that's featured.)
What does all this say about our evolving pop culture? And what does President Clinton have to say about it -- especially when he condemns racism? Does he have the guts to condemn this type of minority bigotry -- which is just as crude and vile as anything the Ku Klux Klan ever spewed?
Augusta Chronicle Editorial Staff
Newsweek recently fawned over rap music performer Ice Cube as someone ``becoming a force in Hollywood; an ``artist'' who's addressing ``brutal social commentaries.''
