Apparently USAID, United States Agency for International Development, enlisted Creative Associates International, a consulting firm, to invest American tax dollars in an "amateurish and profoundly unsuccessful" attempt to build a network of young people seeking "social change" in Cuba. If they wanted to get young people to overthrow the Cuban government, Americans they could have just sent all the materialistic, nihilistic, me-me-me rappers of mainstream hip hop to co-opt the real Cuban hip-hop scene and flip it into public demand for whips, chains, and molls. Well maybe that money is already spent paying those same mainstream rappers to keep young Americans out of the business of social change by promoting messages of tribal warfare (gang life), pleasure at all costs (sex and drug life) and money-by-any-means (especially those means that will promptly get you locked up and not voting).
On a serious note, I was recently reminded by a friend of Third Eye Movement, a Bay Area hip-hop activism movement. Now what if the American government had invested in promoting "social change" in Americas hip hop movement? If they find hip hop so powerful as to be key in ending a 60 year cold war, why can't they see the value of hip hop in uplifting communities suffering in the 60 years since Jim Crow? To quote dough boy... "either they don't know, don't show, or don't care..." or maybe that money is already spent making sure Hip Hop promotes social apathy?
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