Hip-hop against illegal immigration

This morning, while searching for ways to further ingratiate myself with the southern rap community, I think I may have stumbled upon an actual purpose for hip-hop activists. As I state in today's column at XXL, if hip-hop activists want to be taken seriously, they should make illegal immigration their signature issue.

Checkit:

• Rap against fence jumpers

Where as previous efforts at this sort of thing have focused on swinging the vote for the Democratic party, which isn't going to help anyone, this movement has real potential to have a positive effect in the black community.

I imagine there will be some resistance from the hispanic community, who will attempt to cry racism, but I wonder who are the real racists. When illegal immigrants drive down wages, it effects not just black people, but also hispanic American citizens. But they may be willing to tolerate this in order to build an hispanic majority, for political purposes.

In that sense, an hispanic crying racism is hardly different from the ADL attempting to paint anyone and everyone an anti-semite. Just like their claim to ownership of America's Southwest, their cries of racism have no validity and should no longer be considered or otherwise acknowledged.

I didn't mention this in the column, but the fight to ban reggaeton could also easily be folded into this campaign. A reggaeton station has already surpassed New York's Hot 97 in the ratings. In other markets, it's already driven rock music from the airwaves. Rock music. More so than anything else (except D4L), reggaeton could be the death of hip-hop.