Writing for NBC, veteran Chicago political journalist and author, Edward McClelland, described “Don’t Like” rapper Chief Keef‘s debut album on Interscope Records, Finally Rich, as a “minstrel show.”
According to McClelland, author of the books “Young Mr. Obama: Chicago and the Making of a Black President” and “Nothin’ But Blue Skies: The Heyday, Hard Times and Hopes of America’s Industrial Heartland,” the 17-year-old rapper is nothing but a “real live South Side thug” whom he hasn’t “the stomach for” in the wake of the horrifying massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conecticut, when 20-year-old Adam Lanza brutally murdered 20 children and 6 adults with a semi-automatic rifle, after killing his mother in her bed.

McClelland wrote that Keef’s, real name Keith Cozart, violent past and gang affiliation should have stopped him from listening, but his curiosity was “piqued”:

It should’ve been enough to put me off his music, which, from what I’ve heard of it, is pretty lunkheaded: simplistic rhymes, primitive beats. But it’s also a window into the world that has made Chicago the murder capital of America, and that piqued my curiosity.
Since last week’s murders at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, though, I haven’t had the stomach for any violent entertainment. While I was watching this Sunday’s Bears game, ads for the movies Gangster Squad and Django Unchained came on TV. Both ads packed two or three shootings into 30 seconds. I don’t want to see either. A culture that glorifies the sexiness of the man with the gun is one reason we have 300,000,000 guns in America. I also don’t want to pay $14 for the minstrel show of listening to a real live South Side thug. I don’t want to support a scene that makes gangbanging a resume builder for music success.

As previously reported by NewsOne, retaliation for the unsolved September 4 murder of Lil JoJo, 18, real name Joseph Coleman, has possibly led to multiple deaths that Chicago police are currently investigating. JoJo’s distraught mother, Robin Russell, said she doesn’t believe Chief Keef pulled the trigger, but she does believe that he hired a hitman and she also fears for her life.
JoJo taunted Keef, and associates Lil Durk and Lil Reese, in a diss track posted on YouTube. In a separate video, JoJo can be heard antagonizing an alleged Keef associate, who clearly responds, “I’ma kill you!” The tension escalated and threats were exchanged on Twitter, culminating with JoJo’s death mere hours later after he tweeted his location.
Chief Keef has continuously denied involvement, even after mocking the murder on Twitter.
Here’s the thing: I completely agree with McClelland. Chief Keef’s glorification of ignorance and gun violence should have never been given a platform. And Kanye West, who ushered in an era of vulnerability and consciousness in Hip-Hop on the commercial stage, before losing his damn mind in Maybachs and Kim Kardashian, has taken the coward’s way out by purposely giving Keef a platform to say things that he wouldn’t dare say in his own music.
But the entrenched racism at play in this “review” is evident.
It is absolutely amazing that it took the shooting at Sandy Hook for McClleland to “lose his stomach” for violence. As I previously wrote in a piece for Clutch Magazine, the violence in Chicago has been ignored by citizen and politician alike. As long as it remains quarantined in the hood, the murders of 6-year-old Aliyah Shell and 7-year-old Heaven Sutton, and the scores of other children mowed down before their lives truly began, will continue to fade away into footnotes in Chicago’s expanding history of violence.
Secondly, how dare he try to re-purpose the Sandy Hook shooting into an indictment on gun culture in urban communities?
Say it with me: Adam Lanza was a 20-year-old, White, “genius” from the suburbs who killed his mother in her bed and murdered babies. And, surprise, surprise, he doesn’t look — at all — like Chief Keef.
I agree with McClelland’s aversion to gun culture 100 percent; but it can not be remedied in a bubble. We can’t just “lose our stomach” only when it happens in Suburbia, because the biggest thugs are not on Chicago’s South Side. They’re in Washington, sharing cocktails with the NRA, watching things fall apart while their pockets get fatter.
And those gang-bangers can not be ignored.

Night_Gaunt wrote:
I'm really, really both scared and skeptical of psychiatric drugs...

But i've seen people have schizophrenic attacks that need them so i can't say for sure...

.......... wrote: They aren't completely useless, i know they can help with depression at first. But to me it just seems like psychiatrists don't understand their own products enough..mine is trying to make me take 3 different pills a day...f*ck no. All she says is 'not working? Increase dose!' I just don't take them anymore..besides effexor, keeps me from killing people..

DNA of Sandy Hook killer Adam Lanza to be examined for 'evil' gene in first study of its kind ever conducted on a mass murderer

Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2253797...r.html#ixzz2GNRzkugg

"The study of the killer's DNA has been ordered by Connecticut Medical Examiner H. Wayne Carver who carried out the post mortems on all the victims."

*Sigh*

If it's the first study of its kind, what will they use to substantiate their deductions?

If they identified said 'evil gene', how would they then use that knowledge? Compulsory gene test on all newborns? Then what?

Smoke, mirrors & BS spring to mind.

However, if it'll help them pin the crime on the patsy, I bet they'll find it. And I bet Lee Harvey Oswald was afflicted with it too.

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Yes, but I think you selected it for posting yesterday because it fits in with your way of thinking. Remind me - where did you post that article yesterday, RA?

Gilly wrote:
I don't have a set way of thinking, i'm always open to learn Gilly...

No need to shift Humanspirit thread off topic with this dailymail story about the "Evil Gene"

I'll be pleased to see evidence of that, in the form of your refraining from certain oft repeated nonsense about our adoration of you know who.

No need to shift Humanspirit thread off topic with this dailymail story about the "Evil Gene"

Er - fine. But it was yourself who raised it in that thread.

noseymutegirl wrote:
But I interpret that as we all have the potential/blueprint/capability to do what any other human has done already, be that good or bad/evil, you seem to suggest otherwise.

Gilly wrote:
Please tell me your not one of the "Royals bring in tourism money to the UK" type people Gilly...

Gilly wrote:
Please tell me your not one of the "Royals bring in tourism money to the UK" type people Gilly...

No need to shift Humanspirit thread off topic with this dailymail story about the "Evil Gene"

Er - fine. But it was yourself who raised it in that thread.

The story was just posted in response to this post by noseymutegirl & oioioi...

But good demo of your open willingness to learn.

Personally I think all this assburgers stuff is complete and utter shite. It doesn't exist.
Its a medical term created out of thin air to treat with pills for profit.

Gilly wrote:
There was no reason for you to bring the up then...

I know whats going on over there because i watched the Olympics this year..

They Jubilee highlights were on US TV so that's fact and it has nothing to do with my willingness to learn.

Back on topic Gilly...

It's was connected to your open willingness to learn - remember? I suspect you didn't see any SZ members when you watched the Olympics or the Jubilee highlights btw.

Now, back on topic

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It's was connected to your open willingness to learn - remember? Oh, and there's very often no good reason to bring the queen up, come to think of it.I suspect you didn't see any SZ members when you watched the Olympics or the Jubilee highlights btw.

Now, back on topic - what do you think of Andy's assertion?

It's something I have suspicions about myself, but couldn't state it as a definite fact.

*Edit* I see you've answered Andy - what else is it treated with?

Now, back on topic - what do you think of Andy's assertion?

It's something I have suspicions about myself, but couldn't state it as a definite fact.

*Edit* I see you've answered Andy - what else is it treated with?