XXL December Issue-
On Sept. 25th, 2007…David Banner (DB) is in Washington, D.C., in a suit and tie to testify in front of the United States House of Representatives. The occasion will be a special congressional hearing titled “From Imus to Industry: The Business of Stereotypes and Degrading Images,” convened by Representative Bobby L. Rush, Democrat of Illinois…
Key points from DB speech:
-the word “nigger” appears approximately 215 times in Mark Twain’s literary masterpiece THE ADVENTURES of HUCKLEBERRY FINN, required reading in many schools.
-he makes references to the 1971 case of Cohen v. California, wherein the judge pronounced that “one man’s vulgarity is another man’s lyric.”
-then David Banner hits on the crux of the issue: that censorship is merely a cosmetic cover-up to a much deeper problem.
-”If, by some stroke of the pen, hip-hop was silenced,” he says, “the issues [our music] would still be present in our communities.
-Drugs, violence, sexism and the criminal element were around long before hip-hop existed…[Hip-Hop] is only a reflection of what is taking place in our society.
-Hip-hop is sick because America is sick.”
Interview by: Peter Relic
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April 11th, 2010
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