{"id":1878,"date":"2007-09-06T10:01:31","date_gmt":"2007-09-06T17:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=1878"},"modified":"2007-09-06T10:10:05","modified_gmt":"2007-09-06T17:10:05","slug":"read-a-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2007\/09\/06\/read-a-book\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Read a Book&#8221;: Satire?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest090607\/2007_09_06_aldrige.mp3\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest090607\/2007_09_06_uprising.MP3\">  the entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"http:\/\/www.vibe.com\/news\/news_headlines\/2007\/08\/readabook.jpg\"\/><em>GUEST: Leah Aldridge, Director of Policy and Program Development at Peace Over Violence, Graduate Student of Critical Studies in the Cinematic Arts at USC <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sampling Beethoven\u2019s Fifth Symphony, \u201cRead a Book,\u201d is a new animated music video that has sparked controversy since airing on Black Entertainment Television. In the style of rapper\/producer Lil\u2019 John, \u201cRead a Book,\u201d tries to present itself as an edgy critique of commercial hip hop while posing as a Public Service Announcement. However, critics have problems with the lyrics of the song and the images in the video. Repetitive choruses encourage black people to \u201cread a book,\u201d \u201craise their children,\u201d and \u201cbrush their teeth,\u201d while black women jiggle their behinds with the word \u2018book\u2019 printed on their pants. The video, which debuted on BET on July 20th, has sparked new debates after an unedited version surfaced on YouTube and gained considerable views. The senior vice president of animation for BET defended the video as he characterized the song as a \u201cpositive message.\u201d The video has been condemned by Jesse Jackson\u2019s Rainbow Coalition, among others. While some agree that \u201cRead a Book,\u201d is witty satire, others decry the negative stereotypes employed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program GUEST: Leah Aldridge, Director of Policy and Program Development at Peace Over Violence, Graduate Student of Critical Studies in the Cinematic Arts at USC Sampling Beethoven\u2019s Fifth Symphony, \u201cRead a Book,\u201d is a new animated music video that has sparked controversy since airing on Black Entertainment Television. In the style of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}