Bad Rap II

This article posted on CNN caught my attention, and continues the critique of the Rap industry begun oddly enough by racial slurs from an old white man:

"We all know where the real battleground is," wrote Kansas City
Star columnist Jason Whitlock. "We know that the gangsta rappers and their
followers in the athletic world have far bigger platforms to negatively define
us than some old white man with a bad radio show."
"We have to begin working
on a response to the larger problem," said the Rev. DeForest B. Soaries Jr., who
as pastor of the Rutgers coach helped mediate the Imus imbroglio. Soaries
announced Friday that he is organizing a nationwide initiative to address the
culture that "has produced language that has denigrated women"...
Pointing
out that the rapper Mims uses "ho" and worse epithets in his chart-topping song
"This Is Why I'm Hot," columnist Michelle Malkin asked: "What kind of relief do
we get from this deadening, coarsening, dehumanizing barrage?"
The Rev. Al

Michelle Malkin quoted by CNN? The world is turned upside down! Some may think it hypocrisy to advocate free speech and call for an end to racial and vulgar lyrics in music. I say that hate speech, and rap is filled with anger and hate, is not protected by the Bill of Rights.