On Thu, 25 Jan 1996, KEVIN D. ENGLAND wrote:
>
> Another .02. We should recognize that the DP's, while engaged in the
> same discussions as the average "gangta rapper", absolutely do NOT come
> from the same class of people (and I do mean CLASS). The DPs are part of a
> "Blacademic" tradition that stretches back through the black middle
> classes for 150 years or so. The same schools of thought that produced
> Ralph Ellison, Franz Fanon, Edward Bratwaite, Richard Wright, and the like.
> They are not self-educated, pull yourself up by hook or by crook children
> of America's ghettoes (a la KRS-1). These kids are from families that
> have mixed "radical" politics with their graduate degrees for 2 or 3
> generations..............Er.....more clearly stated.....the DPs and the
> Eazy Es may drink together but they are not drawing from the same well.
>
> k
>
comparing DP to Ralph Ellison and Richard Wright is like comparing Eddie
Vedder to Faulkner, it's not there... the DPs flaunt faux substance but
it's just posing. Easy E pretended to be a gangster and the Dps pretend
to be revolutionary intellectuals. It's hard to buy the schtick from
either of them but at least I can listen to Easy E and laugh at his
offensive rhymes. All the Dps are are hot air.
later,
Tim From Buffalo