Kat, I apply the same rules to blacks as I do to anybody else. If any group of people do something I regard as tasteless and basically dumb, I do not excuse them for it on the basis of their skin color. I would regard so doing as a form of...racial prejudice. (Or is it a form of fear?)

The black musicians who are doing rap are responding to a corporate marketing scheme that has manipulated them, in my opinion, for a quick buck. It's that mass marketing scheme I mainly object to. The kids who go along with it are simply the aftereffect of the marketing.

The kids in my town who like rap and play it in their boom cars are virtually ALL white. It's the rap music itself I can't stand...not this or that racial group. I love good music played by blacks, and always have, and always will.

Obviously I am prejudiced...against RAP music. I'm sure there are some black people who can't stand it too...but where would the media show you such people? It would interfere with SALES if they did!

- LH