Reply #8: Um...well. [View All]

[Spider Jerusalem]

There are a lot of redneck bars that don't play anything but shitkicking country music that have problems with fights and shootings. It's got nothing to do with the music, and everything to do with armed, drunk and/or coked-up yahoos. Anyplace with a sizable population of people who could be considered poor/underclass is going ot have problems with that sort of violence; it may or may not be gang-related, but that's got more to do with socioeconomics than race.

And hip-hop has become quite popular among the white kids, in the past 10-15 years, you know; the bar/club owners are catering to what they see as their market. (show me someone in that business who doesn't.)

And Greensboro is, I'm sure you'll agree, hardly a cosmopolitan sort of place; it doesn't have any major colleges/universities (the closest would be the UNC campus, but it hardly compares to Chapel Hill); it's not a major business city, lacks a major transportation hub...in short, it's not the sort of place that one would expect to be culturally diverse.