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Pickin Cotton:Why Black Artists Still Aint Free

9 June 2010 One Comment

Young black girls need less Nicki Minaj and more Nikki Giovanni.

Pickin’ Cotton: Why Black Artists Still Aint Free

By: Edward M. Garnes, Jr.

With mega churches more concerned with tax returns than spiritual bankruptcy, absentee parents content on living second childhoods instead of raising competent adults, and ego driven leaders jockeying for a seat at Master’s table, it’s easy to understand why shallow billboard hits are all pretense and no power.

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  • 8-Rock said:

    “Young black girls need less Nicki Minaj and more Nikki Giovanni.”

    How true is this?!!? If every Black girl could just read and memorize Nikki Giovanni’s “Ego Tripping” and “Revolutionary Dreams,” it would be a better world.

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