Twitter Explodes With 'Rap Albums That Caused Slavery' After MSNBC Segment

[DonViejo]

Twitter blew up with the satirical hashtag #RapAlbumsThatCausedSlavery on Wednesday morning after a panel on MSNBC managed to blame rap music for a recent outburst of racism at the University of Oklahoma.

The tweets, some of which were reposted by hip hop artist Talib Kweli, who has nearly a million followers, pushed the hashtag to become a national trending topic on Twitter.

The mocking began after Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol took part in a panel discussion on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" and blamed the "cesspool" of popular culture for the racist chant sung by white fraternity members in Oklahoma over the weekend.

Here are some of the best tweets:

MUGGA MANZIEL ✔ @GrandeMarshall

Get North Or Die Trying #RapAlbumsThatCausedSlavery

10:36 AM - 11 Mar 2015

more:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/rap-albums-that-caused-slavery

[salin]

1. thanks for the heads up. Twitter spankings can be quite amusing.

[GeorgeGist]

2. Kick

[octoberlib]

3. Guess who's show this was on.

‘Morning Joe’ panelists blame Oklahoma fraternity racism on black culture and rap music


Wednesday’s Morning Joe, co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski discussed the controversy caused by the now-expelled SAE fraternity members who led their brothers in a racist chant — and determined that rap music was to blame for it, Mediaite’s Evan McMurry reports.

Responding to a CNN interview with rapper Waka Flocka Flame — who had performed at the Oklahoma SAE chapter the previous summer — in which he said he was “disgusted” by the video in which Parker Rice led his brothers in a chant that included both racist language and a reference to lynching, Brzezinski said that some of the blame for the behavior belongs on artists like him.

“I look at his lyrics, and you have to ask yourself why he would go on that campus. If you look at every single song [by Waka Flocka Flame], it’s a bunch of garbage,” she said. “It’s full of n-words, it’s full of f-words. It’s wrong. And he shouldn’t be disgusted with them — he should be disgusted with himself.”

The Weekly Standard‘s Bill Kristol jumped in, opining that “popular culture becomes a cesspool, a lot corporations profit off of it, and then people are surprised that some drunk 19-year-old kids repeat what they’ve been hearing.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/morning-joe-panelists-blame-oklahoma-fraternity-racism-on-black-culture-and-rap-music/

[BrainMann1]

4. I've said it before and I'll say it again

Morning Joe should be replaced to a progressive morning show on MSNBC. Mark my words MSNBC will be changing their format to a more conservative Demarcate format if that is possible.

[Wella]

5. While that's amusing, there is some truth to the fact that rap puts the n-word in circulation among

the young. Most young people don't hear it anywhere else, especially if they are college educated.