http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFSVG7jRp_g
The Hip-Hop Generation Needs A Leader Like Barack Obama...
The "Hip-Hop Generation" as we have been dubbed, spans from the suburbs to the inner-cities of the United States and around the world. Despite the differences in backgrounds, races, religious preferences and experiences- we all share many common struggles.
Poverty- I live in Louisiana where poverty extends across the state, creating wide-spread problems and feeding into other issues such as education and healthcare. Poverty leads to higher rates of violence, drug abuse, and illiteracy, while also continuing to divide the greater community (often based on racial lines resulting from over a century of inadequate government responses to the end of slavery and their failure to complete the reconstruction process in a fair and just manner). We have seen the rise and fall of public housing and the "black ghetto"- and the continued segregation of different communities based on income. Hip-Hop arose out of these conditions, first in New York, and later in nearly every major American city.
Trickle down economics, as the Republican candidates continue to argue for, and as we have seen implemented by the Bush administration, simply does not work. McCain falsely portrays Obama's tax policies as wanting to raise the tax burden for the majority of everyday Americans. Perhaps this criticism could be true... but only if McCain considers everyday Americans to be wealthy elites. Perhaps McCain has, like so many Republican candidates before him, forgotten about the "underside" of American (as some call it), the vast majority of low-income and middle class families who struggle day to day just to have a chance at the American Dream.
Obama's policies and values reflect a nation in which no matter what color you are, or what area you live in, you will have equal access to things like education and healthcare. We must elect Obama if we want to remain a united, viable union in years to come.
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