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They were arresting the Blacks and Latinos for Doing it , while the Whites were allowed to do Drugs Which was not Fair to the Blacks and Latinos

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What Is The 1994 Crime Bill? | NBC News Now

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However, Dr. King famously said, “A riot is the language of the unheard.” 

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However, Dr. King famously said, “A riot is the language of the unheard.” 

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-How do you feel about the rioting?

-Does Dr. King’s quote sway your opinion?

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What is the Drug War? With Jay-Z & Molly Crabapple

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Queen Latifah - Ladies First (feat. Monie Love)

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the 1994 crime Bill was a bill that made the use of drugs illegal but it also made funding to protect women from domestic violence. Even though that was a good thing the Bill also contributed to mass incarceration and increased the amount of people in prisons for little crimes.

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What stereotype did the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act continue to project onto the black community?

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What stereotype did the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act continue to project onto the black community?

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Dr King: Riot is the Voice of the Unheard

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Dr King: Riot is the Voice of the Unheard

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A Riot is the Language of the Unheard - Martin Luther King Jr.

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Looking Back on the 1992 LA Riots  | From the Archives | NBCLA

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Hip-hop has been standing up for Black lives for decades

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Hip-hop has been standing up for Black lives for decades

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2014: Riots, bullets, tear gas in Ferguson

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2014: Riots, bullets, tear gas in Ferguson

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-Who was the first ever person to make a hip hop song?

-How do you feel about hip hop music?

-When did hip hop gotten popular?

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Why was there a riot instead of a protest?

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Why was there a riot instead of a protest?

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-How is a protest going to turn into a riot that has fire happening, that's suppose to be peaceful?

-How do you feel about the riot?

-Why is there a riot?

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Hip hop was first created in the 1970's and the first ever hip hop song was made by DJ Kool Herc I think that hip hop music is a way to show anti-racism. Hip hop got popular in the 1980's

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The government found that there is more drugs in poor black streets than white rich one's which then they started targeting theme to "end" the drug was

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To add on to Sofiya and Joshua i do agree but i do think it wasn't only targeting but also the belief of black people being "Dangerous" to the Nixon southern strategy.
Niko

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The reason why The war on drugs targeted black people doing drugs is because they were very racist and though that ¨colored¨"people were not aloud to have the same rights as White people and thats also the reason why that the police didnt care that white people did drugs,they only cared if Black people did them.

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The Nixon's Southern Strategy made police target black's for low level crime as well that white people have also took marijuana the same amount or even more but had not went to jail for it.
Niko

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the war on drugs unfairly targeted black people by passing harsh laws against drugs that were cheaper, and so used by black and latino people, but less laws on drugs mostly used by rich white people, even though both drugs are selled at the same rate. this created a very big increase in the U.S. prison population

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The War on Drugs unfairly targeted people from the black community by making more policies for small amounts of drugs in black neighborhoods, then in white ones.

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How the War on Drugs unfairly targeted people from the Black community is just taking blacks to jail for drugs, no whites. White people use more drugs than Blacks do yet they still go to jail.

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The War on Drugs unfairly targeted people from the black community by targeting the poor black people and giving them tickets for trees meanwhile in Columbia there would kids with drugs and they wouldn't stop and ticket them since they were white and rich .
- Mia

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Tickets for trees? What does that mean? And when did they mention Columbia?-Markus

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Why did the president just ban drugs from New York drugs.

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The war on drugs unfairly targets people from the Black community by carrying small amounts of drugs.

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They targeted black people by making drugs that were used in black communities illegal, while making drugs that were used in white communities legal.

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I think the black people and Latino gate targeted from the police trow drugs  and that is why the black and Latino people increas by 900% in jail because of drugs.

-mohammad

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The "War on Drugs" unfairly targeted people from Black communities in many ways. The biggest one being the fact that having even the slightist amount of a drug would get a Black person in jail, while White people seemed to be exempt from this and had to have a lot more drugs to be arrested.

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The War on Drugs unfairly targeted people from the Black community by putting more Black people in jail than White people for possessing drugs. Even having a smaller amount of a drug in a Black neighborhood is more of a crime than having more of the same drug in a White neighborhood. This is because they aren't going to punish White people because they're White, but of course punishing Black people for the same "crime" is totally okay, according to them.

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The war on drugs didn't affect white people that much but did affect black people a lot. Through racism, white people caught with drugs didn't go to jail and black people who got caught with drugs go to jail-Minh

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The War on Drug unfairly targeted people from the Black community by purposely catching black people with drugs because they think that black people were not allow to have drug and it would be considered unlawful if they do. However, if white people have drugs with them, the police department won´t even do anything.

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Black people were arrested for carrying minor drugs while when white people had major drugs they were ignored and made it illegal to be caught holding drugs that were more common in colored neighborhoods

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The War on Drugs unfairly targeted Black communities by arresting black people for carrying a small bag of marijuana, but if White people did that, the police/government wouldn't do anything.
-Debashi

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War on Drugs was a time where politics added more racist law for drug users. One example is if a policeman caught a black american man with low level drugs and a white man with high levels of drugs the black american man would have a higher penalty of 20 years and the white man could walk free.

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I agree with gabriel because being found with substances like marijuana even a small amount can get a black person 20-live in prison-ayden

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The war on drug unfairly target people from the black community by having them be arrested for carrying small amounts of drugs like marijuana while white people have been being let go with theses drugs for being given a lighter sentence -ayden

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The way they targeted the black community unfairly by putting them in prison for having marijuana on them. Also not putting white people in prison and they were sell marijuana to.
-Dana

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Good:
It deals with some of the violent crime in America.
Eliminated 19 types of semi-automatic assault weapons.
Provided lots of funding to cops.
Provided funding to protect women and victims of domestic violence.
Bad:
It contributed to mass incarceration.
Increased the amount of prisons.
Government paid states to incarcerate more people.

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The war on drugs was a time when white people were discriminating people for having drugs near them. In black and Latino neighborhoods, police would always check those people to see if they had a specific drug (crack cocaine). And in neighborhoods of white people, police would ignore the fact that they possessed those drugs. The politicians during this time were unfairly targeting Black and Latino people of possessing these drugs, because of their skin tone and stereotypes (Part of Miella's idea).

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The war on drugs targeted black people unfairly, because black people carried small amounts or no drugs,and they still were arrested, while the white people carried a lot more and didn't go to jail.

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My feelings towards this is that there is no need to beat somebody for holding marijuana, also the fact the police was getting video taped and was found innocent by court, witch led to a riot.
Niko

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I agree with niko because police brutally to white people at that time was high and police can get away with beating someone to death sometimes and get away with no prison time or a light sentence -ayden

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I agree with this post because it is also my opinion. It does not make sense why a person would be found innocent when there is way more than enough evidence to show that the person is guilty.

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The god thing about Bill was that he wanet to end a use of drugs but the bud was he did it by thinking or making others think that only people associate  to drugs are Black and Latinos which was really racist and people think of that still to this day

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I think the riot is justified. Because if a person is caught beating another person on video they should automatically get sent to prison. But because they were white and they beat up a black person they did not. This action would anger many people.

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Hip Hop empowered the black community because it gave them hope and black people would have used this to make songs about "The War Of Drugs".
Niko

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The good thing about Crime Bill is that drug users were being caught making drug deals decrease. The Bad thing about Crime Bill is that the rate of people in prison increased by 900% and it mostly focused on Black and Latinos.

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I would say that a protest gets almost nothing done except for violence by police. A riot would be a more direct way of telling people what they think about a certain event. So, I guess this riot is justified.
-Debashi

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Although long believed to be popular primarily with urban African American males, hip-hop became the best-selling genre of popular music in the United States in the late 1990s (at least partly by feeding the appetite of some white suburbanites for vicarious thrills).

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The war on drugs unfairly targeted and treated black's of the community by, Only ticketing black drug dealers that were trying to make a make a living, and creating laws to have them face consequences. Of ~20 years in prison. While white people also contributed in in the act, of selling drugs but were not arrested. Miella 

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The war on drugs unfairly targeted and treated black's of the community by, Only ticketing black drug dealers that were trying to make a make a living, and creating laws to have them face consequences. Of ~20 years in prison. While white people also contributed in in the act, of selling drugs but were not arrested. Miella 

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Naim what are your personal thoughts about Hip Hop in the 1990's?
Niko

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Hip hop showed to racist people that black people can and are capable of creating/making smth they love even when they go throgh hard times

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I agree with Sofiya. I would like to add on that it showed them that they don't have to fit in with White people to make something good.

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the good was they founded more than 14 million dollars in police and they also took away many assault rifles. The bad was black people were being unfairly targeted

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Hip hop empowered the black community by giving them a voice to speak about their "unapologetic truth" and giving others who didn't have a voice a chance to speak their truths too. the article also said something about hip hop continuing the civil rights movement.

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Hip-Hop was created by black people and gave them hope and voice, a voice that is very hard for the goverment to shut down.

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Hip hop empowered the black community by showing white people that they can make good or even better music than them. It showed that black culture is also very unique. It showed to white people that black people could be themselves and that they did not need to fit in with them.

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Why do you think they were accused unfairly just because they holded a small bug of drugs?

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The good thing about the crime bill was that many people stopped doing drugs at that time because they knew they would get arrested and also they stopped selling drugs aswell because of that too so there was less drugs at that time.The bad thing was that the police only focused on finding the colored people who were doing drugs they didnt really care that white people were doing the exact same thing.

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The bad part was that thousands of people were arrested for having drugs and 23 states have an extremely high incarceration rate. The good part was that weapons were stopped, more police funding and spent 12 Billion dollars to create more prisons due to the amount of people being sent to jail.

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Hip Hop music empowered the black community by giving them a feeling of power and pride. - Mia

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The good was that it eliminated 19 times of semiautomatic assault weapons.And the bad was that the 12 billion dollars for the prison beds and to build more prisons.-Minh

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GOOD - The bill gave funding to police and protected women from violence.
BAD - Mostly Black and Latino people were arrested. It also paid states to make more people go to jail and to make more jails in general.
-Debashi

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Hip hop got popular in 1980s and 90s and was specially used as a way to confront racism.

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Hip Hop music empowered the black community by showing how hard it is to be a woman and showing the point of view of black victims of racism

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How do we know exacly that all the 900% were on;y Latino and Black mabye there were white too)

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1 good of the crime bill is that it is eliminated assault weapons. Then one bad of the crime bill is that it exploded the prisons by 900%.

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The crime bill Pros:
it contributed money to pay for more cops. They focused on prohibiting violence towards woman and protecting them
Cons:
it targeted Black and Latino's and payed money for more jails.
-Miella

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Good
eliminated 19 semi automatic weapons
gave cops more funding
protected women from domestic violence

Bad
incarcerated more people
got more people in prison
imprisoned more people of color

the stereotype that the act put on black people was that they were all drug addicts and werent as "good" or "pure" as white people were

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And I think there only black people and Latino and 1 % white people in jail and black people and Latino 900% in jail.

-mohammad

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I tend to agree with dr. King that riots, and violence, only causes more violence. It causes police brutality and more racism, it doesnt really help, it is "the language of the unheard".

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The incarceration increased by 900% but it wasn't all Latinos and Black people but it mostly focused on them.

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Hiphop music empowered the black community by showing that black people are as equal as white people  or they want to show White people that they are good at creating meaningful songs and that they also have as much power as the white people too.Also they wanted White people to know that they are as good as white people.

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Because when hip-hop was born in the Bronx, New York, poverty and brutality plagued Black communities. And Black people said  "Hip-hop is gonna continue that movement and it's never gonna stop because that's what we are, that's what we stand for.". So, hip hop music empowers the Black community.

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Hip Hop music empowered the Black community by giving them the freedom to express themselves and, as stated in the article, no one is gonna take that away from them. It's something that shows who they truly are. It's something they created, that they came up with, and they can use it to be themselves freely, without having to worry about approval from the White community.

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I do think that police policies had been trying to arrest just Latinos and Black people but every once in a while arrest a White person so it does not seem bias.
Niko

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The good about the Crime bill is that it protect women away from violent and that it bans the free uses of drugs in our country and possibly other.
However, there are some bad thing about this crime. Population of the U.S. prison were blowing up.

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I agree with Minh that most of the people arrested were Black and Latino but White people were arrested for having drugs as well (just not as much as Blacks and Latinos

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Hip-Hop was an extremely empowering by showing protests in songs, with meaningful words. For example, Queen Latifah's song "Ladies First" empowered black women. Some lyrics like: " a woman can bear you break you take you" shows that women can be strong during tough times.

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Question: Wouldn't a riot create more violence and maybe even start a war, and even more reasons for more racist ideas?

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after the assault of Rodney king members of the black community when to express their frustrations by coming into the city of LA then staying there doing things such as burning stuff and rioting

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I agree with Sofiya that the Crimes Bill had many positives and negatives, but it also had controversial ideas such as the 12 Billion dollars to create prisons.

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not only was it not fair, the colored people were further stereotyped because of the increase of colored people going to jail

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Hip-Hop helped to empower the black community by singing anti-racist words and meanings that would empower the black community.-Minh

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The good side of the Crime Bill is that it helped women to be protected from domestic violence. It also helped prevent a lot of crimes, including making drugs illegal, which is something that had been on the government's mind for a long time. The bad side of it is that it also caused a great increase in incarceration. This overflowed jail cells, but they didn't care because they were being paid to arrest people. This was a huge deal, as it meant arresting a bunch of people for meaningless crimes, which wasn't a very good thing.

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A song that would fit this description would be, "say it loud, I'm Black And I'm Proud!"

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I think that the rioting is  kind of bad because it is causing a lot of trouble to people who protest along with martain luther king.such as violence.

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That kind of sounds assimilationist when you say "they want to show White people that they are good at creating meaningful songs and that they also have as much power as the white people too." Black people are not trying to prove that they are as good, they say that White people shouldn't hate them.

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Good of Crimes Bill:
What people remember about the political environment of the early 1990s.

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I don't really have an opinion on the riot but
I don't really believe it would be a negative or positive thing.

But yes Dr. Kings quote does sway my opinion because I do agree with his quote.

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I agree with Dr.king with violence and riots make more violence . Which is made into more stereotypes and about black people being wild and violent

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I agree, and I think the riot is justified, but I think that reacting to violence with violence will only cause more violence and won't really help.

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I think most of black people like hip hop music because it is from black crater.

-moha

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wouldn't it be assimilationist for them to be creating music to prove to white people that they're equal and not to express themselves free of worrying about others thoughts?

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examples of these anti-racist words?-markus

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Hip hop empowered the Black community by expressing how the black react to rasicm through the music. The article mentioned how hip hop have been standing up for black lives through the year.

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I feel like hip hop is good it gotten a little better since back then but overall it good

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Hip Hop empowered the Black community by showing their own culture and their uniqueness compared to the White music at that time.

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I actually agree with what Dana said because  it is unfair that they targeted only the black community.