High-profile slurs get reframed as Black self-abnegation through hip hop culture

Evidence

The outrage did not just reflect on Richards and Imus. “It is us,” Fox Sports journalist Jason Whitlock wrote in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on April 16, 2007. “At this time, we are our own worst enemies. We have allowed our youth to buy into a culture”—by which he meant Hip Hop—that “is anti-black, anti-education, pro-drug dealing and violent.” — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 1209