To mainstream whites it’s a tight cohesion that can’t but look, from outside the cultural window, like occlusion, clannishness [sic], and inbreeding, a kind of reverse snobbery about what’s ‘def’ and ‘fresh’ and in-the-Scene that eerily recalls the exclusionary codes of college Societies and WASP-only country clubs. Serious rap’s a musical movement that seems to revile whites as a group or Establishment and simply to ignore their possibility as distinct individuals—the Great White Male is rap’s Grand Inquisitor, its idiot questioner, its Alien Other no less than Reds were for McCarthy. The
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