However the media saw a direct link with the music the boys listened to and knew it would cause a media debate, even in Eric Harris's suicide note he states, don't blame the music or the clothes that I wear.... This is stated in Tricia Ross' book Black Noise in which she states, The way rap and rap-related violence are discussed in the popular media is fundamentally linked to a larger social discourse on the spacial control of black people' (Ross, 1994, p125) Ross believes that although the media wants to believe that they are equal opportunists they are actually spreadin...

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