Jeff Johnson Keynotes Black Youth Vote Event

This is the keynote from Black Youth Vote's SpeakOut event at South Carolina State University earlier this month:

I think Johnson sets up a false dichotomy between online and offline activism, but his points about Citizen Change/Vote or Die! not creating a real movement around electoral politics rings true to me. And I've heard his comments about the cooption of the civil rights generation by the political establishment echoed in a lot of articles about Hip Hop Activism.

Very interesting. I'm trying to talk to some folks at the Hip Hop Caucus so I can dig in a little deeper on what groups like the Hip Hop Summit Action Network and others actually accomplish. I'll be writing more about this in the near future.