Black artists projecting images of Black ideal selves is no more racist than Asian artists projecting images of the Asian ideal selves. Certainly, no one ever sees racism when Euro-Americans project images of the Euro-American ideal selves.
Dr. Molefi Kete Asante, Chair of the Department of African American Studies at Temple University places the killing of Michael Brown and subsequent police violence in and around St. Louis, MO within the context of the United States’ sordid history of anti-African violence.
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Hip-Hop Perspective, Global Scope.
