A Conversation about Ending White Supremacy with Hip Hip for Change Executive Director Khafre Jay

How do you end White Supremacy? Well, for Khafre Jay canvassing affluent neighborhoods with an "End White Supremacy" shirt and a mission to raise money to educate youth of all backgrounds through Hip Hop is a start. The founder & Executive Director of Hip Hop for Change sat down with host Sam Jack for a real, uncut conversation about race, the current political climate, the recent protests & outrage towards injustice at the hands of the police across the country. Most importantly he talks about Hip Hop for Change is working positively in the community to dispel the negative stereotypes of hip hop and act as a catalyst for change in the community. For people concerned with the lack of positive art in our communities, Hip Hop For Change Inc. is the nonprofit that educates all people about the power of Hip Hop Culture and empowers them with a platform to express themselves through the arts. The corporate media presents Hip Hop music and culture as a grotesque array of negative stereotypes, embracing criminality, sexism, homophobia, materialism, and domination culture. These corporate representations are part of a historical legacy of oppression of black and brown people; propaganda that demonizes and objectifies people of color is the ideological basis for the legitimization of oppression and prejudice. Corporate stereotypes of Hip Hop culture--and by extension, the creators and participants of that culture--dehumanize us and affect the way we are perceived. There is a direct relationship between this dehumanization and the criminalization of people of color, police brutality, and public acceptance of those phenomena. Most people learn about cultures they are unfamiliar with through the media, internalizing narratives that place us as second-class citizens. In addition, the corporate co-optation of Hip Hop culture has created a situation where our community’s platform of self-expression has been eclipsed and replaced with a limited, insulting narrative that affects our understanding of what our Hip Hop is, and what Hip Hop can be. Our culture has been stolen, repackaged, and sold back to us; this limits our cultural efficacy, as well as our ability, freedom, and initiative to talk about and organize around issues that affect our community. Our children have grown to become consumers of a bastardized version of Hip Hop that is devoid of its roots, rather than creators of their own self-expression. HipHopForChange seeks to address these injustices of representation through education, community building, and the creation of a platform for people who identify with Hip Hop culture to express their true voices, selves, and culture. We create a space that emphasizes and encourages the root values of Hip Hop culture: peace, love, unity, and having fun. Don't forget to like, share,

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A Conversation about Ending White Supremacy with Hip Hip for Change Executive Director Khafre Jay is an episode from The Sam Jack Podcast: I'm Not A Professional But Wait, I AM! by The Sam Jack Podcast.

This episode is 01:41:00 long.

This episode was published on Jul 3, 2020.

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