Harry Allen

Harry Allen is a columnist with the periodical City Sun in New York City and the director of “enemy relations” for the rap group Public Enemy. In the following viewpoint, Allen contends that rap music is not responsible for violence in the black community. Rather than causing violence, Allen maintains, rap music gives blacks a method of expressing and criticizing the violence and racism they experience in their lives every day.

As you read, consider the following questions:

1. What evidence does the author present to support his contention that alcohol is responsible for violence against Blacks?
2. What is the number one problem for Blacks, according to Allen?
3. In the author’s opinion, what is necessary to eliminate Blacks’ problems"

If the Black people who manage Inner City Broadcasting (owners of radio station...