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cheapbag214s · Posted: Mon 3:10, 02 Sep 2013 Post subject: MC Hammer's arrest

MC Hammer's arrest,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
MC Hammer was hip hop first artist to cross over to mainstream superstardom. He sold more than 50 million albums and became an advertisers darling for megabrands like Pepsi,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Taco Bell and KFC. Bill Clinton was carrying the on crime baton of Ronald Reagan on drugs like a champ. When he wasn playing sax on Arsenio Hall Show, Clinton was implementing three-strikes laws,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], gutting welfare and making it impossible for anyone convicted of even using drugs to live in public housing. riots. All this while Tipper Gore was leading a national campaign against Rap. The Hood was taking a beating,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but you never have known it by flipping channels and seeing Hammer Colgate smile selling sneakers or popcorn chicken.
I bring this up now because a middle-aged Hammer was arrested last week in an Oakland suburb. He reports being approached by an officer while driving an elegant car through a mall parking lot. Instead of the standard afternoon, sir. License and registration, please,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the conversation began with you on parole or probation? Having paused in a moment of offense and mild amusement, Hammer says the officer reached in to grab the keys from the ignition. Hammer understandably visceral response led to his arrest for impeding the work of an officer.
Twenty years later, there hardly a sliver of pop culture that doesn bear the influence the black expression. Beyonc is the biggest singer in the country; Oprah Winfrey is one of the most powerful figures in television,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and Jay-Z is part-owner (1/15th of 1 percent) of the Brooklyn Nets. Most notably,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], America president and Kennedyesque first family are black.
These pop-culture mascots would seem to indicate a shift in the racial equity of America. The dominant narrative in the age of Obama is that we evolved into postracial color-blindness. Obama (and, to a lesser but still imperative degree, entertainment figures) are invoked as evidence that America has outgrown its legacy of institutional racism.
The actual numbers tell another tale entirely. Even as Obama sits in the Oval Office and as Beyonc owns the stage at the Super Bowl,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], racial disparities in education, health care,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], employment,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], incarceration and every other quality-of-life yardstick continue to widen.
New research from the University of Pennsylvania indicates that our first president has done less to address these race-specific inequalities than has any other Democratic president in the last 50 years. This hasn stopped those on the right from hurling racially coded language like president at him,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], literally waving their fingers in his face,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], questioning his citizenship and heckling him at a State of the Union address.
How is it that Americans can seem so in love with the Obamas,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Bill Cosby, Oprah and,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], yes,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], MC Hammer and still allow the communities that produced them to go underserved and invisible? The truth is that we developed a new status that we grant to certain individuals of color.
If certain individuals prove themselves to be nonconfrontational, safe and culturally acceptable enough in mainstream,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], white society,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], we deem them to be of the good ones. We talk about black athletes,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], entertainers and politicians who have transcended their race and have in our collective mind become bigger and worthier than their community. Would a white person ever need to transcend their race to achieve mainstream greatness?
No matter what Hollywood seduces us to believe, our entertainment doesn necessarily mirror reality. Entertainment is an imaginary projection of what we believe ourselves to be. Black genius being more widely recognized in entertainment (or politics,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], for that matter) doesn mean we transformed the racially unjust systems that criminalize, undereducate and underemploy people of color in America.
MC Hammer was one of the most talented and successful entertainers of his time, but a white cop still has the power to profile,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], harass and arrest him whenever the cop decides a black man in a nice car is suspicious.
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