Chunk 1 "The Hip Hop Generation"

Hip Hop Generation by Bakari Kitwana was written to raise new questions about the ways the hip-hop generation and the millennium generation, both who have lived their lives in post-segregation America, are processing race in radically different ways than any other generation of Americans. I think they have a lot to tell people as a country about ways of addressing racial matters. People see hip-hop and race as nothing new. I think that after 30 years of hip-hop as a nation we should have the sophistication to accept that there are distinctions between the corporate manifestation of hip-hop, which is sold as a commodity and package with sensational race, sex and violent imagery, and the hip-hop culture that kids are living everyday at a local level doesn't always fall in that environment. The locally lived hip-hop culture is what is giving many of America's young people the tool they need in order to survive and thrive in America, through facing the public policy that has written too many of today's youth off. For example, "The hip-hop generation, those Blacks born between 1965 and 1984, entered the job force during the 1980s and 1990s, a period marked by falling wages, worsening conditions for unskilled workers, and growing disparities in income and wealth between America's minority rich and majority poor (pg. 27)." There are few places in American culture that have made an effective case for entrepreneurship than hip-hop. Hip-hop tells the youth that our society is offering limited options for young people, while the white society points to a radical decline in living wage jobs for youth as well as meaningful and affordable education, but hip-hop is also offering an alternative legitimate economy that is giving young people hope for a better future.
In chapter 1 of the novel "The Hip-Hop Generation" the new black youth generation has been stereotyped to differ from their parents' for the obsession with materialistic and consumer trapping of financial success. However, the hip-hop generation, individually still comes first, but, however the worldviews are different from the hip-hop culture and lifestyle. I believe this is what created the hip-hop culture and is the reason for rap music appearance.
There are many problems within the "hip-hop generation" such as, the public culture and the visiblility of black youth within it, for example, just because a person sees a rapper in a nike or jordan sneakers advertisement doesn't mean anything, but Americans' believe this is why black youth around the world dress in the same style of clothing and speak the same style of language. Lasting Segregation in America, which discusses the end of racism and an equal society, but inequalities still exist. Young blacks are stuck between America's double standard of an unfair, unequal and unrealistic society that does not care at all. The negative representation of young blacks in America is what makes us look bad in other peoples eyes, but these are just three of the many problems the hip-hop generation faces in America.

Clarification: What makes past hip-hop generations so better than today's present hip-hop generation? What has the present hip-hop generation done that the past hip-hop generation has not?

Application: Have people in the world ever considered why white teens love hip-hop? If so why is that?