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Hip Hop Arts Programs

Posted on Monday, May 19, 2008 at 01:14PM by Registered CommenterThe Mad Editor | Comments2 Comments
I won't spread hate, but I like to let the truth shine. You may or may not be familiar with Jason Lewis. He's a radio personality on KTLK-FM. Conservative isn't really the word, but I'll use it for lack of a better one. He slammed the recent efforts of local Hmong hip hop artist Tou Saiko Lee - a poetry program with the sixth-graders at Lake Junior High.

“We are a Western nation,” Lewis says. “We are not a nation of other cultures, we are a nation of our culture… Culture, by definition, enforces. If we all have common agreement on a culture, on a language, on a history, then that…convinces people, moves them in the right direction.”


Culture Bully goes into detail, check out the article at www.culturebully.com.

Spread the word.

Reader Comments (2)

Thanks for the heads up on this kind of ignorance. We need to keep this shit exposed and keep supporting people like Tou Saiko Lee, who is a super dope artist and person doing work towards what really makes us strong - our diversity and understanding. To all the people in the community teaching the youth...keep doing your thing!
May 19, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterAutumn Compton
I totally agree. The truth will always be ridiculed, then radically opposed, then finally accepted as self-evident. Keep pushing along despite the naysayers!

Expression is a beautiful thing - in any form. Enlighten the children, Lee!

And Lewis, please open your history book to the chapter on the Spartans. Militantly enforcing sameness will never move a society in the right direction. It will kill it.
May 19, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterThe Mad Editor

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