Critique 3: Hip Hop Huts Black People

I believe the hip hop and gangster lifestyles portrayed in rap music hurt black people. I think there is still a lot of underlying "ground" blacks feel they need to make up for from when blacks were enslaved and this hip hop culture isn't working. I feel like blacks want to prove to white that they're just as good if not better. As time goes by I think blacks are succeeding at their goal however I think hip hop and rap are destroying the progress made to clean up their stereotypes and prove that they can be a superior race. Hip hop does not value education, a healthy lifestyle, a career, monogamy and many other social institutions valued in our society. Crime, prostitution, drugs, violence and being incarcerated are all apart of the gangster lifestyle that potentially represents black people. This makes black people look bad, as if they will never amount to anything but a rapper or drug dealer. The raper is not the image the black people want to have when they are trying to come up from under the white oppression in the past, and some might even say today. Today there is still a lot of racism and the hip hop culture just gives racist whites more to argue against. If I black I would not be happy with the way the hip hop culture reflects the black population, even though it is not fair, people do generalize. If I were a successful black lawyer, doctor, professor, ect. I would be angry that I worked so had to get where I was just to have some dumb rappers undermine my work and value to society by bringing down the value on black people in society. There is a lot of great black culture to be proud of that is left out in the hip hop community so it displays an unequal face for the black community.