Rap Documentary

The Rap/Hip-hop music documentary we watched in English today was really interesting and actually made me kind of upset. It was very eye-opening and weird i guess to hear from people who weren't afraid to say how they really felt and explain just how bad things for them were. I was astonished to hear how much black/people and minorities hated Ronald Regan. I had always thought he was a really decent president just from what i heard from my parents and from what we are taught in school. I had no idea how oblivious he was to poverty in our country and how poorly treated blacks/minorities were. I was also kind of shocked because i am taking criminology and we are just now discussing the war on drugs and the drug problem in general. A lot of the statistics about prison sentences for crack and cocaine possession i had already read but what the people in the video made me realize is how much white people distort the truth. Seriously, blacks make up the majority of people busted for possession of crack but now that makes more sense because a lot of them are living below the poverty line and crack is a lot cheaper. So many upper class and white people are getting away with possessing cocaine because there is not as much patrol assigned to upper class neighborhoods and that throws statistics way off, making black people look like huge drug users in comparison to whites when its probably pretty equal. I was just amazed at how different history is portrayed by two opposite sides of society. I loved when President Bush senior was like "we live in a time of peace and prosperity" and blacks were like ummm HELLO were like dying from drugs and poverty and being mistreated and life basically sucks and the government was just either totally oblivious or didn't care. I was just really blown away by this video and now I'm really excited to analyze some rap music and i kinda just want to listen to some "old school" rap. I don't like rap music, especially modern rap because i do think its very degrading to women and just not necessary (as was hinted at in the video) but i would like to listen to some original 80's rap because i think it had a lot more meaning and had some very valid ideas in it and really gets the problems of that time out there, instead of sugar coating them like the government did. So I'm reallllly anxious to see the last bit of that movie!!