U.S.Agent: American Zealot

[superboyprime]

"Gangsta rap, launched most notably with Cypress Hill and N.W.A., exploited the artistic acceptance of militant themes and imagery that made Chuck D.’s political protest acceptable to argue for the artistic merit of sophomoric, homophobic and misogynistic content directed not toward an oppressor class but toward each other. [...] Calling anybody, even [BET founder Robert Johnson], Hitler would be unfair. Hitler, after all, didn’t teach Germans to hate themselves. Mr. Johnson is certainly no Hitler, though he might have been the guy passing out the Nazi arm bands. Black America has been wearing its own version of Nazi arm bands—Ebonics, the idiotic sagging pants, a distinct cultural lexicon regardless of what region of the nation you visit—for more than a generation, now." - Christopher Priest

From U.S.Agent: American Zealout #1-5...

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[cyberghostface]

In case anyone was wondering the quote is almost a decade old, Priest wasn’t using it to describe the miniseries.