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Friday, March 11, 2005
Hip Hop Against Racist war
Recently, John Isenhour, Contributing Writer for Up & Coming Weekly had a chance to speak with Brian Proffitt, co-founder of Hip-Hop Against Racist War (HHARW), a Triangle-based organization that will be hosting a concert March 18th as part of the peace rally.
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U&C: What is Hip-Hop Against Racist War?
Proffitt: Hip Hop Against Racist War is a network of young activists that have been together for the past few years. It's folks who are organizers, performers, teachers, students, people from a lot of different areas of society. Our goal is to bring hip-hop to politics and politics to hip-hop in a real explicit way.
U&C: What is HHARW's primary mission?
Proffitt: We're mostly a network of organizers these days that try to get together to put on community events to raise awareness about things that are going on. Usually they are connected with one of these big events.
U&C: Why use hip-hop to achieve those goals?
Proffitt: We believe hip-hop can be a tool in movements that challenge racism, sexism, homophobia, oppression of people-all the nasty stuff we see in the world today. Hip-hop has been resistant from its start. It was started by poor, working class black people and Puerto Ricans in New York as a way to both fight back and to celebrate what people were going through in the Bronx, especially. Hip-hop has always been a place where lots of different people can come together; it's a place where people can use their creativity to challenge the status-quo.
U&C: What has been HHARW's biggest success so far?
Proffitt: I would give a couple. One would be bringing a certain character and flavor to these larger demonstrations and mobilizations that we've participated in. I think we've gotten some young people involved in activism in ways they might not have previously been. We've begun to carve out a space in movements and challenge the lack of presence of young people, particularly young people of color.
U&C: How did HHARW become involved in the March rally?
Proffitt: We've been involved in the anti-war movement in North Carolina since September 11th. We started organizing against incidents of racism at North Carolina State and using this model of hip-hop as a tool, and when the anti-war movement started, we were able to mobilize our vision easily into that as well.
U&C: What do you expect from the March 18th show?
Proffitt: Our hope is that it might involve more people from the Fayetteville community that might not have come to the rally otherwise, and we want to have fun.
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U&C: What is Hip-Hop Against Racist War?
Proffitt: Hip Hop Against Racist War is a network of young activists that have been together for the past few years. It's folks who are organizers, performers, teachers, students, people from a lot of different areas of society. Our goal is to bring hip-hop to politics and politics to hip-hop in a real explicit way.
U&C: What is HHARW's primary mission?
Proffitt: We're mostly a network of organizers these days that try to get together to put on community events to raise awareness about things that are going on. Usually they are connected with one of these big events.
U&C: Why use hip-hop to achieve those goals?
Proffitt: We believe hip-hop can be a tool in movements that challenge racism, sexism, homophobia, oppression of people-all the nasty stuff we see in the world today. Hip-hop has been resistant from its start. It was started by poor, working class black people and Puerto Ricans in New York as a way to both fight back and to celebrate what people were going through in the Bronx, especially. Hip-hop has always been a place where lots of different people can come together; it's a place where people can use their creativity to challenge the status-quo.
U&C: What has been HHARW's biggest success so far?
Proffitt: I would give a couple. One would be bringing a certain character and flavor to these larger demonstrations and mobilizations that we've participated in. I think we've gotten some young people involved in activism in ways they might not have previously been. We've begun to carve out a space in movements and challenge the lack of presence of young people, particularly young people of color.
U&C: How did HHARW become involved in the March rally?
Proffitt: We've been involved in the anti-war movement in North Carolina since September 11th. We started organizing against incidents of racism at North Carolina State and using this model of hip-hop as a tool, and when the anti-war movement started, we were able to mobilize our vision easily into that as well.
U&C: What do you expect from the March 18th show?
Proffitt: Our hope is that it might involve more people from the Fayetteville community that might not have come to the rally otherwise, and we want to have fun.