“I Wasn’t Listening”: How Protests And Hip Hop Are Sparking A New Race Dialogue Across Generations

MSNBC anchor Ari Melber quotes MSNBC viewers of all ages to explore how views and conversations are shifting about race, civil rights and hip hop. Melber quotes one mother who wrote into The Beat to relay how after watching the show's special report about Black artists and rappers confronting police brutality, she said, “Now I get it, I wasn’t listening to those rappers back then, but I understand now.” (This interview is from MSNBC’s “The Beat with Ari Melber, a news show covering politics, law and culture airing nightly at 6pm ET on MSNBC. ).Aired on 7/07/2020.
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"I Wasn't Listening": How Protests And Hip Hop Are Sparking A New Race Dialogue Across Generations

41 comments

    1. NONVISI: “When the power of love is stronger than the love of power, there will be peace”. Jimi Hendrix

    2. @YouRuse is A leftist org: Not in America. Gospel has fetishised itself, using electronic instruments and putting out product. Evangelical rock has standardized itself with recording values and non-psychedelic electric guitars.

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  1. As an old Hippy from the ‘60’s=====ive been listening for a long long long time. Detroiter myself and i remember the Algeria’s Motel and the carnage and the soldiers in my backyard. Im not of color but i understand oppression, suppression, repression, and depression ==== Lived it

    1. oilpntr: I spent a day in Detroit, 1992. Seeing was believing. I sing some old Detroit.
      “I was made to love her in a world lost without her, hey hey hey.”

    1. Not so much the message, but the popularity made him dangerous. Same as Lennon organizing the next Woodstock-like event and putting Peace billboards up across the country.

  2. There were so many hip hop songs made about police brutality in the 90’s, u don’t really get that from hip hop nowadays anymore and the problem is still just as serious.

    1. Not nearly as prevalent actually but say what you will. FBI crime statistics may disagree with you

    2. Yeah, you are dead wrong Demetrius. Also it is always been more a drug war problem than race problem the last 40 years

    3. Use write Demetrius – y aren’t black hip hop saviors shining light on are plight? . We needs to replace the national anthem with something more reflective of the current times – like NWAs F the Police. Remember – if use black, it mannatory you vote Biden. And if use white – remember you either support Eminem and Biden or you a racist homophobic Nazi! #BLM!

  3. Good Show,, it is true…there some known as THE GOON SQUAD,,THEY WERE, ARE THE POLICE,, BEATING CONFESSIONS OUT OF U WAS THE
    NORM.!!!!, THE SYSTEMIC BS THEY WILL
    NOT ADDRESS AND CHANGE.!!!!

  4. You are exactly right, however it’s like that with poor people in general. Trust me on that one….

  5. I’m from Houston Texas and I’m a 55 year old black man, I’ve had the police strike me on a traffic stop for nothing, been put in jail for asking what did I do, been stopped in my own neighborhood over 100 times because they were just checking, so no it’s not just a rap song it’s the life we live daily, it’s sad but it’s also true, my mother couldn’t sleep until I came home at night, she always said you don’t always have to be in the wrong, some people just get joy out of your pain, Thank GOD for JESUS and moms and dads

  6. Whenever I see a reference to Hip Hop on MSNBC I know when I click it will be Ari Melber.

  7. hey Ari to quote the fabulous james of brown “I know you got soul cause if you didn’t you wouldn’t speak like that”

  8. A woman once complained to me that the schools her children were going to were giving too much detail on the civil rites movement.(this was about 2 years ago). She said that they should learn that bad things were done to black people but they didn’t need to teach the children WHAT was done exactly. When I expressed my disgust with her opinions she went on to explain that it was (and I quote) “unfair” to her “as a white woman”, because when she goes out in public little black kids are going to look at her and judge her as being a bad person.

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