We were assigned the assignment that asked us to find an argument in hip-hop culture. I thought to myself I wanted to find an argument that wasn’t too prevalent in the hip hop community. I looked on google.com and found the usual results and then I checked on youtube.com. I found a video by the YOUNG TURKS. It showed a statement made by a radio talk show host named John Gibson. This man said some supremely racist things about African Americans in this school named Success Tech. It’s a school that is pre-dominantly black. There was a shooting at this school and he insinuated that the shooter was a black youth. When the report revealed that the kid was a white youth he began to try and explain why and how it wasn’t a black youth. He started saying some racist comments once again. He blamed the shooting on “Hip-hoppers”. He was surprised to hear that it wasn’t a black youth. Gibson tried to play it off saying that,”Hip-hoppers do not shoot others than kill themselves. Only White youth do this.” I felt very offended that he tried to cover his racism towards African-Americans by calling them “hip-hoppers”. Because of the views that society has towards to African-Americans, when people such as John Gibson make racist remarks, it confirms stereotypes between black communities which are considered not necessarily true. In conclusion, I think that because hip-hop has now been commercialized and is now forced to be reckoned with in mainstream media, many of the opposers feel that the lyrical content is still influencing the youth of today. John Gibson tried to blame the shooting on Rap music and the content of African-American music. There are so many things in society that can influence people to do the wrong thing besides hip hop. John Gibson was just exposed as a pure racist against African- Americans and his information became irrelevant.