When 9/11 Got Hip-Hop, It Killed Dissent
A few years back, I wrote a piece reflecting on how I experienced 9/11 as a junior enlisted airman studying Korean at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, CA. Originally published both at Inkstick Media and the Duck of Minerva, I’m re-sharing it here in its entirety, below.
The thing it captures that keeps gnawing at me is how the declaration of a…