Mother Jones
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In a promotional segment for his Christian conservative radio program, Right Side Radio, Mississippi Republican Senate candidate Chris McDaniel blamed rising gun violence on a “hip-hop” culture that “values rap and destruction of community values more than it does poetry.”
The comments were featured in a teaser for the program, which McDaniel hosted from 2004 to 2007, and recently flagged by the politics blog Darkhorse Mississippi. McDaniel, a state senator who has the backing of prominent tea party and conservative groups, is challenging Sen. Thad Cochran in June’s Republican primary.
“The reason Canada is breaking out with brand new gun violence has nothing to do with the United States and guns,” McDaniel said in this promotional sampler for his syndicated radio show. “It has everything to do with a culture that is morally bankrupt. What kind of culture is that? It’s called hip-hop.”
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Mississippi GOP Senate Candidate Blames Hip-Hop for Gun Violence (AUDIO)
