Clarence Page: "Making A Loud Noise About Rap's Bad-Boy Culture"

As the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday approaches, the moderate-liberal columnist ponders what the slain civil rights leader would think of hip hop culture. He likes the increased black criticism: "Cultural change begins with conversations, freely expressed and from the heart. We African-Americans too often silence ourselves with politically correct 'ghettocentric' notions that black-on-black criticism of any sort is a form of racial betrayal. Quite the opposite, it is our salvation. We betray each other if we fail to warn each other when we appear, quite obviously, to be destroying ourselves."

Cultural change begins by rejecting the liberal values that promote thug rap.