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Gangsta rap and our African crime wave

2 January 2018

10:29 AM

2 January 2018

10:29 AM

In 2007, the then minister for immigration, Kevin Andrews, banned from entry into Australia famous gangsta rapper Snoop Dogg on the basis of failing the character test. At the time, the action provoked some bemusement. But the minister had properly observed a causal relationship between gangsta rap and the tendency for antisocial behaviour in a particular cohort of recently arrived refugees in Australia, namely all too many young males of South Sudanese descent.

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