Rap Music

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• I get the music videos played on Orchid off YouTube.
• YouTube recently got rid of its "Trending Category" and replaced it with "Explore."
• What was TRENDING  on YouTube were a lot of Black Rap Songs and they weren't all KENDRICK LAMAR MASTERPIECES ---- although in one way or another they were problematic reflections of the Society.

 

• The new "EXPLORE" Category has Rap Music --- but it is also now highlighting other music including Country and R&B.

 

• The thing is --- Rap Music was OVERWHELMING the TRENDING Category --- Day after Day, Month after Month, Year after Year.

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We're just now trying to address the complexities of "UNCONSCIOUS BIAS."

            "UNCONSCIOUS BIAS" seems to be the tip of an ICEBERG of BEHAVIORS that are often below our "CONSCIOUS AWARENESS."

             We are SOCIAL ANIMALS and the ECONOMIC and SOCIAL STRUCTURES of our SOCIETIES are not somehow BLISSFULLY IRRELEVANT to Human Behavior.

                   RELIGION is important because it is often CHALLENGING the SOCIETY to HIGHER VALUES than what are currently operating.

                    That is important to the health of the society and to individuals within the society.

                    It can be CATASTROPHIC if Religion makes itself irrelevant out of FEAR of MODERN SCIENCE.

                     Our Societies aren't perfect and the people within them aren't perfect either ------- author Johann Hari observes we're the first people to try to live ALONE, without TRIBES.

                      Many of us also live without RELIGION.

                      If it is time to RE-IMAGINE POLICING, it may be time to RE-IMAGINE RELIGION.           ​

Some of the most popular music in this Country is Rap Music made by Black artists.

There are obscenities and promiscuity and sometimes misogyny and an IN YOUR FACE REJECTION of this Society.

We need to be asking some DIFFERENT QUESTIONS.

The level of PAIN in AMERICAN RAP MUSIC is far beyond stubbing your toe.