by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
My one encounter with USAID did not go well. I misquoted or somesuch something someone said in my student newspaper article on them and…it pretty much ruined my career at the paper.
But despite that, I still have a twinge of fondness for the now-gutted organization. And so the idea that rap music is no longer popular…because USAID is no longer there to fund it….just makes my jaw drop.
I get why Joe Rogan is popular. But that man really needs to bone up on the central thing I learned in college: correlation is not causation.
Just because there seems to be some correlation between the demise of USAID and rap music’s popularity…doesn’t mean the two are connected!
Anyway, absolutely no one listens to me. Sigh.
