From r. kidwell Sent Tue, Jul 27th 1999, 18:19
> oh yeah, i guess poverty and drug use are just stupid problems and no one > wants to talk about these. Kent was right, people are scared to admit to > that these things are a product of our society. how often do you talk to > people who say 'oh yeah my mom's a pothead'? you think they think it's > stupid that their mom is a pothead? no. they're scared to admit it. but they're not going to be any less scared when the subject is trivialized by some goofy rapper. 'Cheers' didn't make it any easier to say 'oh yeah my mom's an alcoholic,' did it? if anything, this kind of pop-culture co-opting of serious, painful topics makes it more difficult to say these things because people shrug them off as 'the way things are.' Eminem isn't trying to enlighten anybody. ,rj../ ___,">www.gl.umbc.edu/~nworth1