Many Hip Hop artists knowingly sell out the Black Communities to make a fast buck. They have become cheerleaders for everything negative. Imagine JayZ, Emimem and the Kanye with a cheerleaders outfit and Pom Poms cheering on adult gang leaders and drug dealers on the sidelines (Chicago Streets) as these creeps influence our youth to destroy each other. Its not a far reach.

The recent cell video shot by the passerby in the murder of a Chicago Student last week should have had background music from the artists mentioned above.

As a father and a businessman in Chicago, who grew up on the South Side, I can understand why young men would be attracted to the images in most Hip Hop videos and messages on the CD’s. Young men want to feel powerful and attractive to the opposite sex. Ok I get it, but when you cant find young men to employ because of fashion hangups or expressed attitudes and postures that they imitate from the Videos or when you have to drive your teen to and from school to avoid beat downs then the marketing (videos) have become pornagraphic.

These cheerleader artists are strangely silent when the side effects of their messages are caught on video.

The game is over please stop.

when white people try to get on the topic of black things like slavery and civil rights in regular american history class, they often dont really put much into it. they touch the surface and rarely go further.

while no one is alive from slavery, many are alive from civil rights, and many blacks have probably dealt with some form of racism in their lifetime. young and old. some of it blatant and some of it closeted and hidden well.

a black teacher should teach black history, simply because they will probably have more heart and soul in the subject. and will go deeper than just the surface. it means more to them because it literally is their history. white people honestly are not capable of handling black issues. white can not and will never understand what its like to be black in america. there is more to black history than just slavery and civil rights.

im biracial and i like history and its painful enough for me to like things knowing that my black side was never accepted. and i never really got to learn much about black history growing up and i really want to know more about it.

if its one thing i noticed was that when i had black teachers in school (although not for history) i always felt different around them than i did around white teachers.

there were some white teachers i liked and got along with…but the black teachers were more strict and kind of more challenging and i always felt more safe around them….like either they understood me deep down or they knew what it was like growing up a minority in america.

the problem with some white teachers is they want to treat everyone the same way, without paying attention the individual needs each person.

white and black are not the same, pretending we all are, is detrimental to the child. as the core issues will always remain unattended.

good afternoon,

here at melting sound we think our own music is just great, and since no has every heard of us it seems fitting to do our own review.

1) We are a pretty big thing, in fact we have many leather bound books.
2) every song writing session starts with beer and jokes.
3) every song writing session ends with screaming at each other about politics or religion.
4)Melting Sound plays in a basement.
5)One guitarist is a White farm boy
6)One guitarist is a refugee from Burma
7)The drummer is East Indian
8)The bass player is really just the same Burmese guy that plays guitar, but through the magic of editing it can be down.
9)we try really hard.
10) we are very good at list making.

all in all you should now be convinced to go have a listen. www.myspace.com/meltingsound