Geraldo: Young Minorities Will ‘Never Make It’ in America Following Rap Culture

Geraldo Rivera tonight stood by his comments this week about how destructive hip-hop and rap culture has been to minorities, and told Bill O’Reilly that young minorities will “never make it in mainstream America” if they keep following rap culture.

Rivera admitted it was a mistake to bring up the subject “gratuitously,” but he still stands by all of it. He said the culture is “self-segregating,” and it doesn’t help advance anyone to have their pants “around their ass.”

Rivera is also troubled by the idea that “you have to be a bad guy” who’s survived a near-death experience to make it in the hip-hop works, as many artists, he said, “give the ethos that you have to be a marginal character and risk everything in a street confrontation.”

Watch the video below, via Fox News:

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