Hop on pop racist

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In the 1950s, LAPD Chief William Parker actively recruited white males from the South to patrol predominantly Black neighborhoods in Los Angeles. When Chuck D of Public Enemy pointed out in 1990’s “Fight the Power” that John Wayne was a racist, the rapper was the one who took the criticism from America even though Wayne said in a Playboy interview in 1971, “I believe in white supremacy.” Thirty years later, the 1619 Project is being banned in schools, and “critical race theory” has become public enemy No. It was so in Nazi Germany it is so in many places today where those in power are afraid of the consequences of an informed and educated people.” During a congressional hearing during that whole saga, folk singer John Denver testified: “The suppression of the people of a society begins in my mind with the censorship of the written or spoken word.

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