I posted about hip-hop, the Jena 6, Darfur, and other pressing political issuess…

Check out my post about hip-hop and the other key issues at Compassion in Politics. I also have some posts about Andrew Meyer and Chris Crocker as well as a post about a new Free Hugs Campaign in Santa Monica.

“Don’t Taze Me Bro” The political ramifications of the Andrew Meyer incident on college campuses like UCLA

I ran across this YouTube video of a rather huge student protest at UCLA about the police brutality issue. It troubles me that one of the speakers decides to use the word “neo-nazies” to describe hate groups. I’m afraid it says more about American society’s numbness to phrases like “hate speech” than it does about his individual choices. Very passionate and compelling rhetoric. What do you think of the second speaker’s rhetoric? What do you think of the original Andew Meyer event which took place at the University of Florida? What does the event say about our culture?
Thoughts?

(sorry this site doesn’t allow you to link to individual posts, so just scroll down to post with UCLA in the title)