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Article: Why rush? (Letters).
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- Black Enterprise
- Article date:
- September 1, 2002
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I'M SORRY TO SEE THAT YOU NAMED RUSH Communications BE [INDUSTRIAL/SERVICE] Company of the Year (see "Phat Profits." June 2002). Rush Communications and BET have probably done more damage to black people, and especially young black people, than the KKK, the Aryan Nation, the Mafia, and black criminals combined.
I am a 72-year-old black man whose four children were raised before the advent of logo clothing and hip-hop nonsense. If you look at what Rush Communications offers us, [you'll see] logo clothing, something called comedy, and music.
We must teach our young ...