{"id":120,"date":"2016-04-28T12:14:39","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T19:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jkipper\/?p=120"},"modified":"2016-04-28T12:14:39","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T19:14:39","slug":"chicagos-chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jkipper\/2016\/04\/28\/chicagos-chance\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago’s Chance"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Help me with this; I\u2019m lost.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Thats how\u00a0New York Post\u00a0<\/em>columnist Phil Mushnick begins his\u00a0opinion piece<\/a>\u00a0challenging the decision by the Chicago White Sox, a professional baseball team, to make Chancelor Bennett, known better by his stage name, Chance the Rapper, the team’s ambassador. \u00a0Mushnick disagrees with the White Sox’s recent decision to make Chance their “team ambassador,” a\u00a0position that combines the fans of hip-hop and those of baseball.<\/p>\n

Mushnick says he “spun the Google wheel” and it “landed” on Chance’s song\u00a0Smoke Again<\/i>, which he claims to be “dehumanizing gangsta rap.” However, by “randomly” selecting a single song, Mushnick avoids fulfilling his obligation to fully understand who Chance is as an artist. \u00a0Not all of Chance’s beliefs are represented through one single song, and if they were, I guarantee Chance wouldn’t pick Smoke Again\u00a0<\/em>as the one that does.\u00a0If Mushnick were to pick a couple more songs, he might land on Sunday Candy, Nostalgia\u00a0<\/em>or\u00a0Wanna Be Cool<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>a song that advocates for individuality and uniqueness in a time where everyone is too focused on being the same and fitting in to be “cool.” \u00a0\u00a0In fact, when googling “Chance the Rapper songs,”\u00a0Smoke Again<\/i>\u00a0doesn’t come up in the first 10 articles. \u00a0This seems to argue that in order to make his insular opinion, Mushnick searched “Chance the Rapper Smoking Weed Song”- an activity\u00a0that Chance no longer participates in.<\/p>\n

It’s sad that Mushnick fails to recognize what thousands of people, including the White Sox organization, Chicago’s mayor\u00a0Rahm Emanuel do: that\u00a0Chance is striving to improve the lives of millions. \u00a0Sadly, readers of this opinion piece may come to an\u00a0\u00a0unfortunate conclusion: that Chance is hurting Chicago when the truth is in fact the complete opposite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Help me with this; I\u2019m lost.” Thats how\u00a0New York Post\u00a0columnist Phil Mushnick begins his\u00a0opinion piece\u00a0challenging the decision by the Chicago White Sox, a professional baseball team, to make Chancelor Bennett, known better by his stage name, Chance the Rapper, the team’s ambassador. \u00a0Mushnick disagrees with the White Sox’s recent decision to make Chance their “team … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1566,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"qubely_global_settings":"","qubely_interactions":"","kk_blocks_editor_width":"","_kiokenblocks_attr":"","_kiokenblocks_dimensions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"gutentor_comment":11,"qubely_featured_image_url":null,"qubely_author":{"display_name":"jkipper","author_link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jkipper\/author\/jkipper\/"},"qubely_comment":11,"qubely_category":"Uncategorized<\/a>","qubely_excerpt":"“Help me with this; I\u2019m lost.” Thats how\u00a0New York Post\u00a0columnist Phil Mushnick begins his\u00a0opinion piece\u00a0challenging the decision by the Chicago White Sox, a professional baseball team, to make Chancelor Bennett, known better by his stage name, Chance the Rapper, the team’s ambassador. \u00a0Mushnick disagrees with the White Sox’s recent decision to make Chance their “team…","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jkipper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jkipper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jkipper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jkipper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jkipper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jkipper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jkipper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions\/122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jkipper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jkipper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jkipper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}