{"id":882,"date":"2009-02-06T16:09:13","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T16:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=318"},"modified":"2009-02-06T16:09:13","modified_gmt":"2009-02-06T16:09:13","slug":"2409","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=882","title":{"rendered":"2\/4\/09"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just finished an article about “Hip Hop” music. \u00a0 It ran in National Geographic<\/em>. \u00a0 Writer James McBride categorizes some of Hip Hop as “social commentary.” \u00a0 And he went to Dakar, Senegal, to search for the African roots of this music. \u00a0 Upon arriving in Dakar, he notes: \u00a0 “The stench of poverty in my nostrils was so strong it pulled me to earth like a hundred-pound ring in my nose.” \u00a0 Just like the slaves in the South invented “the Blues” out of their pain, true Hip Hop eminates from the “quiet rage and desperate fury” of the Senegalese, McBride continues. \u00a0 And he adds that desperation has indeed gone global: \u00a0 “Today, two percent of the Earth’s adult population owns more than 50 percent of it’s household wealth, and indegenous cultures are swallowed with the rapidity of a teenager gobbling a bag of potato chips…” \u00a0 And to spin off from this metaphore, therein lies the problem. \u00a0 In the market at Senegal, McBride met a teenage beggar whose body was malformed by polio. \u00a0 He crawled on his hands and knees like a spider, begging for scraps of food. \u00a0 And meanwhile, people in our culture will think nothing of buying ‘bag after bag’ of non-nutritional junk food like potato chips — while this youth in Senegal (Biafra, Uganda, Burundi…) is in such tremendous pain and desperation. \u00a0 Note: \u00a0 As president, I would do everything possible to try to mobilize more people in America (and throughout the First World) to help that kid in Senegal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just finished an article about “Hip Hop” music. \u00a0 It ran in National Geographic. \u00a0 Writer James McBride categorizes some of Hip Hop as “social commentary.” \u00a0 And he went to Dakar, Senegal, to search for the African roots of …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}