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Homeland and Hip Hop..To think about the origins of Hip Hop in this culture and also about Homeland Security is to see that there are at the very least 2 worlds in America. One of the well-to-do, and one of the struggling. For if there was ever the absense of Homeland Security, it is seen in the gritty roots of Hip Hop. For the music arises from a generation that feels, with some justice, that they have been betrayed by those who came before them. That they are at best, tolerated in schools, feared on the streets and almost inevitably destined for the Hellholes of prison. They grew up hungry, hated and unloved. And this is the pyschic fuel that seems to generate the anger that seems endemic in much of the music and poetry. One senses very little hope above the personal goals of wealth and the climb above the pit of poverty. In a broader society, the opposite is true. For here, more than any other country, wealth is so widespread. What passes for the middle class here, could pass for the upper class in most of the rest of the world. Their very opulance and relative wealth makes them insecure. And " homeland security " is a governmental phrase that is as oxymoronic as say, " military intelligence ", or the " U.S. Department of Justice ". They're just words, that have very little relationship to reality. And do you feel safer now ? Do you think you will anytime soon ? Do you think ducttape, Kleenex and color codes will make you feel safer ?....Think about it.Screen Name : PenzOne66, hit me up