Cenk Uygur
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White People Are Thug Gangsters, Just Look At Their Hands!
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August 19, 2014
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4:38Now Playing"Michael Brown, the unarmed black teenager who was shot on Aug. 9 by a Ferguson, Mo., police officer, was an aspiring hip-hop artist. The Los Angeles Times reported Sunday on Brown's SoundCloud page, a collection of amateur rap songs that Brown had posted before his death.
They contained much of the imagery and language common to so-called gangster rap. Pictures of Brown flashing alleged gang signs have also circulated in the conservative blogosphere.
FrontPage magazine, the online home of David Horowitz, whose self-described mission is to battle the radical left, labeled Brown "a criminal and a thug" in its summary of his character, which featured the rap lyrics."* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
*Read more here from Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
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