Labels:text | font | screenshot | black and white OCR: One listen to the witty wordplay and carefully constructed metaphors of his songs, and you know Michael is a sharp, politically aware dude. But music isn't his only medium. Here's an excerpt from an editorial he wrote for Billboard in 1995: "[Bob] Dole's stand against gun control has a much more direct and damaging effect on the quality of life in America than all the gangsta rap lyrics ever written .... The African-American community is besieged by institutional racism, the governor of my home state, California, is trying to eliminate affirmative action, drug dealing is one of the few viable career opportunities for our men, AIDS is the new black plague-and Tucker's worried about rap lyrics ?! "These politicians ought to pick on someone their own size. Let Dole go after the American busin ...
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