I was told once that coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous, and sometimes events conspire to almost make me a believer. It's hard not to see the hand of Providence in the release this week of "Straight Outta Compton," the NWA biopic, a movie that, I think, will resonate powerfully around the nation this weekend.
Like any white kid growing up in the 80s/90s in the suburbs, I was drawn to rap, and in my opinion (now, not then), the rap of that era is not only great music, but great social commentary in the tradition of the muckrakers and Roman satirists, exposing to white America the dark underbelly of the cities from which they took flight.
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[not sure how much disclosure is needed to avoid a pie fight, but I'm a bernie supporter, against the conflagration of BLMSeattle and the larger fight for Black Lives, and my favorite color is yellow.]