Another school shooting occurred recently at a high school in Ohio. Asa Coon went on a shooting spree which left four injured, he then took his own life. I think everyone can agree that incidents such as this are tragic. I was outraged when I heard Fox's radio host, John Gibson, make a comment regarding this incident that was both ignorant and racist. Gibson had the audacity to go on the radio and blame "violent" Hip-Hop for influencing Coon. Gibson went on to say, "this is another example of Hip Hop culture bringing murder and mayhem into the rest of our society”. After Gibson discovered that the shooter was white he said, “I know the shooter was white, I knew it as soon as he shot himself," Gibson remarked during his Oct. 10 broadcast. "Hip-hoppers don't do that..They shoot and move on to shoot again.” First off, I think its ridiculous to assume that music, specifically rap, influences people to shoot other people. These racist anchors need to stop blaming hip-hop for every shooting that occurs. In NO WAY do hip-hop artists or lyrics provoke anyone to do anything that is violent. If anything, parents are partially to blame for not BEING parents. We live in a country with a lot of irresponsible parents. If my kid started acting strange, I notice shit like that.
Bill O' Reily made it abundantly clear that he knows nothing about Hip-Hop when he went on air to bash Virginia Tech for letting Nas perform at their campus. Not only did he fail to pronounce Nas wrong (it's one syllable, it's not that hard to pronounce), but he went on to say that Nas is a gangster rapper and only talks about shooting and violence. Bill, being the biased racist he is, decided to highlight ONLY the songs where Nas talk about violence. What he failed to show was that Nas doesn't always talk about guns. He's a socially conscious rapper that makes song about various things. Socially conscience songs such as What Goes Around and I Can and songs with lyrical substance (It Ain't Hard to Tell, Nas is Like). It amazes me that O' Reily gets away with saying such outrageous things. He has no right to give his opinion on Hip-Hop because he knows absolutely nothing about it. He made that abundantly clear.
Heres the article about Gibson in case you want to read it on your own :
http://www.hiphopdx.com/in
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