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March 3, 2004
"US
Army Uses Hip Hop to Recruit 'Urban' Youth"
Rosa
Clemente, a Hip Hop organizer and Brooklyn resident, says she
encountered the recruiters during a "Take it to the
Streets" stop in Brooklyn.
"Over
the summer in Flatbush near Prospect Park, my roommate and I
were walking when we heard [Hip-Hop music]," reports
Clemente. "We then see this Hummer with a Source logo on
it as well as a U.S. Army Recruiting thing on the side. I was
like, this is crazy. So I approach the guy behind the wheel.
He says 'This is our new thing. We're trying to enlist
brothers and sisters from the hood.' So, I told him you're
recruiting our kids to go kill kids that look like us. He got
upset and said I didn't know what I was talking about and that
our people need jobs. After arguing back and forth a small
crowd formed. The 'soldier' then drove off."
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