Rap Artists and Racism

Professor Byran O. Jackson (“Scapegoating?” Platform, Commentary, July 3) wonders why Gov. Bill Clinton would take issue with Sister Souljah, a rap artist who happens to advocate violence against whites in her music and in her larger role as a social activist. Is it because we whites can’t accept our own racism and are thus eager to find scapegoats, as Dr. Jackson maintains? I don’t think so. More likely, we abhor racial violence and are dismayed that Sister Souljah would be granted a sympathetic forum by the Rev. Jesse Jackson and then defended by the likes of Dr. Jackson, a professional educator at a public university. Don’t Sister Souljah’s supporters see the contradiction, moral, logical or otherwise, in fighting white racism by advocating black racism? For Bill Clinton and society at large to ignore this hypocrisy would be condescending at best and dangerous at worst.

KURT KING

Costa Mesa