Critique # 4:Hip Hop Is Destroying America's Values

The major point in this chapter was; what are American values? People who hold conservative values will most likely be against Hip Hop. The problem with this is people with conservative values are attempting to shape all of America’s values around their values. These people will look at any change in the American culture as the scapegoat for economic, political, and social changes that are taking place. 
           The major problem with this scapegoat is not all changes happening in American culture are bad. A country sound mold and keep shaping itself to keep up with the times and current events. When people of the older generation, who are more likely to hold conservative values to heart, speak of the “good ole days” they forget to add in the Jim Crow laws and sexism, which ran rampant and unchecked throughout America. 
           People find it easy to target Hip Hop music as the reason why American values are being destroyed. It is a new art form, which does not go along with mainstream America. It also is something easy to target, rather than looking into why Hip Hop was created. Critics complain about the context of Hip Hop, but they will not look into where the context comes from. People do this, because the voice of Hip Hop is rooted in a real problem, and it’s a problem that will take a lot of time and money to fix. Rather than spend the money and time in fixing the problem, people just blame Hip Hop for almost all the wrongs in America.