Stanley Crouch, “Blues for Black America”

Columnist, novelist, essayist, and critic Stanley Crouch visits Zócalo to discuss what he says is the “trouble with black popular culture.” Calling it a crisis we can no longer ignore, Crouch traces the rise of hoodlums and pimps as role models and the “supposed sanitization” of the “n-word.” Calling the phenomenon an “irresponsible rebellion,” the ever brilliant, irascible, and controversial Crouch takes the entertainment industry to task and deplores what he sees as the debilitating social effects of low intellectual aspirations and “crass materialist fantasies.”

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