R&B Riot? A Couple Things....

dmuhammad | 2/20/2007 10:46 am | 608 to 414

First off, Happy Black History Month! We're almost done, so make sure you rent Rosewood, listen to some James Brown, Bad Brains, Stevie Wonder, Roy Ayers, and Public Enemy albums, and Do attend the upcoming series of "Academic Hip Hop" events at the UW----None of which, I'm sure will end in pool balls being thrown.

That being said, I've never seen an article site a fight at (Johnny O's, Bullfeathers, Amazon) listed as a Top 40 music night brawl even the murder of that poor girl after she left the Dry Bean Saloon reference the type of music played.

It is now, more than ever, clear that Madison has sanctioned certain forms of Black expression (academic hip hop and mlk celebration, I'm talking about you), and by identifying the type of music played at Sunday night's brawl at the High Noon Saloon, it's without a doubt obvious who they were referring to in the fight.

Let me get this straight, last year's Halloween ends without a mass riot and property damage and the papers and citizens lament how the city spent less on prior years Halloween "bedlam".� Madisonians love to wax nostalgic about Mifflin St., Halloween, Jump Around nonsense, but the city loathes the Rap and R&B boogeymen and women (read black folks).

Multi-Culti Madison has a lot of soul searching to do to come to grips with the changing demographics of its city, and the reality is that Madison is a city in denial about crime, poverty, and culture.� WAAAAAKE UP! (to quote school daze)

DMuhammad

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