Geraldo Rivera Says Hip-Hop Has Damaged Black People More Than Racism (VIDEO)
- Sarah Bellisimo
- Feb 18, 2015
- 2 min read
Talk show host Geraldo Rivera made media buzz with his talk show decades ago with crazy KKK incidents and other scenarios.The Monmouth resident’s tabloid misadventures have set ratings records and spawned thousands of punch lines. When he plied open Al Capone’s vault on a syndicated 1986 special, he didn’t find gangster relics, just dust and concrete.
Still, the program drew an estimated 28 million viewers. Another notorious moment was an incident involving a flying chair and scuffling skinheads on Rivera’s talk show in 1988. He recently spoke about racism again, but this time it was targeted to hip hop culture's alledged destruction of black people.
Here is excerpts from an interview with Huffington Post.
"Hip-hop has done more damage to black and brown people than racism in the last 10 years,” Rivera began. The Fox News contributor then challenged anyone to find “a youngster — a Puerto Rican from the South Bronx or a black kid from Harlem who has succeeded in life other than being the one-tenth of one-tenth of one percent that make it in the music business — that’s been a success in life walking around with his pants around his ass and with visible tattoos…”
“And I love Russell Simmons,” Rivera continued. “He’s a dear friend of mine. I admire his business acumen. At some point, those guys have to cop to the fact that by encouraging this distinctive culture that is removed from the mainstream, they have encouraged people to be so different from the mainstream that they can’t participate other than, you know, the racks in the garment center and those entry-level jobs, and I lament it. I really do. I think that it has been very destructive culturally.”
Well, I guess Riveradidn't feel the need to speak about recent events concerning innercity youth in America and police relations that is doing harm to communities.
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