I was listening to Master P and Michelle Martin on Michelle Martin's program on NPR this morning discussing the problems of mysogyny and other horrid things in the world of hip hop. They at one point began discussing the gangster image. Something that should be pointed out and made crystal clear is that the image of the thug and the image of the gangster is nothing but an inverted cowboy, nothing but black males trying to emulate their great white fathers. The gangster is literally Ronald Reagan on his horse.....