The Hip Hop Generation 1st and 2nd Chunk

The hip hop generation has faced a plethora of problems, economical and social, in the wake of the new emerging rap culture. Although rap has given these generators a lifestyle and culture of thier own that differs greatly from that of the baby boomers before them, it has also given them many a crisis as stated above. According to Kitwana, the hip hop generation has had harder times getting jobs and have faced problems such as class warefare and animosity within thier own race.

The race war, policing, incarceration and the containment of black youth. The hip hop generators, a group of African Americans that was born within the years of 1964 and 1984 all face an ever growing series of crisis in their culture. One that is common even in today’s youth is the prison crisis. According to Kitwana, the prison crisis affects black Americans the most with an outstanding 62 percent of black men is state prisons. This factor along with the “mandatory minimums”, corruption within the justice system, and the decline of black power sets a rather grim outlook for black Americans. But, this is not the only crisis Kitwana touches upon. Within the hip hop generation, there seems to be a divide of the sexes; conflict that can be clearly seen in rap music that depicts women as “bitches, gold diggers, hos, hoodrats, chickenheads, pigeons, and so on.”(pg85)

Clarification: What does Kitwana mean by saying that "Tupac and Tyson are irredeemable misogynist"?

Application: Do you think that most, if not all, of the problems stated so far by Kitwana are still affecting black youth in this day and age?