911: PERIL, NORM, OR GAMBLE?
In its heyday, the still popular Rap group, Public Enemy, released several popular hits, most notably among them one titled 911 Is a Joke. As nice and apropos as the music and literary ingredients were, 911 wasn’t a song to hit the dance floor and release… it was music to listen to, speaking to reflecting their reality in the hardscrabble lives of many. We see images of that circumstance regularly on TV, in newspapers and magazines, etc. More importantly we see the people who are victims and impacted by hardscrabble the images… sometimes including death. Public Enemy has made an …