NAMES IN THE NEWS : Rapper Challenges Racist Label
ck D., lead singer of the rap group Public Enemy, says white critics who complain about the militant tone of his new album, “Fear of a Black Planet,” are just the people who should be listening to it.
“Whites aren’t educated about racism because they’ve benefited from it,” he said in an interview with the Chicago Tribune before an appearance here this week.
“ ‘Fear of a Black Planet’ is like feeding baby food to babies--whites are babies when it comes to racism and they won’t study it unless it hits them in the face daily,” he said.
The album has sold nearly 1.5 million copies.
Public Enemy performs Thursday at the University of Illinois-Chicago.
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