1) Even if your claim were true, would that make more harmful images of black people from whites a good thing?
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2) You fundamentally misunderstand how art works, imo. Art shows us possibilities, people we could be, helps us think about our lives.
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How might I act in that situation? What is the normative way to act? What is the wisest way to act? How should I think about this situation?
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those are the questions that art answers. And, tragically, there were and are a lot of people in the circumstances described by gangsta rap.
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And those people too deserve to have their lives held up to the mirror of art, deserve to have cultural models...
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deserve to have art as an aid to cognition, to thinking about themselves. And it helps white people too. To see this image of a "thug"
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that their nightly news tells them is an inhuman blight on society, something to be locked up for forgotten about, well...
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to see that same stereotype deploying verbal dexterity to rival any modern writer makes it harder to deny that humanity to "thugs" generally
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