Byron Hurt: Issues And Stereotypes

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Byron Hurt created this documentary because he was watching the BET music videos realizing they were all identical and discovered how stereotypical the hip hop and rap music videos and lyrics all where. As Byron being a gender violence prevention educator Byron is trying to teach America that in these newer edition hip hop and rap music videos and lyrics there are a lot of issues and stereotypes . This lesson is important to Byron because there should be no “forced environment” to be a certain person or for a person to have to fit certain “roles”. In today's culture all the colored men (black culture) they aren’t seen for all the good in there culture. It’s all about them having money,gold teeth,eye candy, and whatever they want because they're

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