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Many folks once entrenched in a position or belief will only seek our sources of information to justify it. Someone who is truly interested in learning about something will ask questions in order to seek understanding. But, if someone has already decided they don't like something for whatever reason, trying to enlighten them is an exercise in futility. Music is a great example of it. I wouldn't waste time trying to convince someone to like Black music which includes Jazz, R&B, Blues, Gospel and Hip-Hop. Every style of music has its good and bad songs. But, there's a reason other genres/styles copy the flavor of Black music though. So, even when Hip-Hop h8ters are listening to Rock, Country, Pop or whatever....they're still listening to Black music adjacently.😎

IMO, from an individual perspective, AfroAmericans have made a significant amount of progress since the March on Washington 60 years ago. I believe that as a group, AfroAmericans have been in a holding pattern for about 50 years. Partly because it seems the folks who marched on Washington gave up the fight in the 1970s after our leadership was assassinated in the late 1960s. Black folks were not exempt from the free love movement of the 1960s. Black folks have been kicking it with other races over the same period of time. No shortage of war babies all grown up now. The rise in Black on Black crime grew in proportion to the drug epidemic starting in the 1970s with heroin through to the 1980s and crack cocaine. Hip-Hop is multifaceted. The "garbage booty shaking" music in only one flavor of Hip-Hop. However, like junk food, the most negative aspects of Hip-Hop are promoted by design. McDonald's isn't the most nutritious food one could eat but it sells. The question one must ask is why would record companies promote the most negative aspects of the music over the airwaves instead of the positively conscience. Well known rapper Jay-Z on his song Moment of Clarity says, "Truth be told, if skills sold, lyrically I'd be Talib Kweli, truthfully I wanna rhyme like Common Sense but I did 5 mill-I ain't been rhyming like Common since..." Pause the genius of his wordplay for a moment. The point Jay-Z is making is that there is no money in positive messages. Again, IMO, "the spiritual and moral destruction of the Black 'person'" is the self-hating and self-defeating construct of Black folks who have given up the fight against racism white supremacy. If ever there was a point that Black people were spiritually and morally grounded, we would have never been enslaved in the 1st place and Jim Crow'd and the rest. The best thing for most old negroes to do is go have several seats somewhere. Especially those who failed to make significant progress for AfroAmericans in their prime. They have zero right to sit back and criticize where Black folks are today. Most of the old Black talking heads and political figures nowadays are race hustlers. They talk a good game primarily to line their own pockets being gatekeepers for the system of racism white supremacy.😎