<p>Hmmmmm…my experience is that I never idolized rappers. I much more found role models in men like Colin Powell.
There is certainly a perceptional issue at hand, I truly believe that the only reason that black people (and black males in particular) fail to achieve a high level of academic merit, is because they fail to SEE the images of successful black males outside a mere monetary capacity.
I put emphasis on the “SEE” becuase there are numerous successful black males in our society, but often times I think that those individuals are marginalized within a percetual complex to acting white or some equivalent moniker.</p>