If you've never heard of Tom MacDonald before, don't feel too bad. A little over a week ago, I'd never heard of him, either. A week ago, if you'd asked me whether or not I liked rap music, my answer would have been an emphatic "No!" Today if you asked if I've listened to anything except rap music for the last week, same answer. Not just any rap music, though. I've been stuck on the messages coming this one artist, Tom MacDonald. Yesterday I found myself submitting this article about Tom to American Thinker lauding his talents as a young rap artist and my perception of his music as having the ability to bridge the racial divide by infusing positive messages with rap music. Multiple editors thanked me for the submission and queued it for publication. That has never happened before. Either this is the best article I've ever written for American Thinker, or the editors already knew who Tom is, and knows his audience is ubiquitous. Each time I have discovered a "new" song in his catalog that I like, I tend to listen to it over and over to catch all of the sometimes subtle and often brash lyrics blasting at my ears as if fired from a machine gun (I believe in rap lingo, the term for this is "spitting bars.") More accurately, I tend to watch the video version of the song over and over because in addition to the blistering frequency of raw, thought-provoking rhetoric effortlessly flowing from this young man's mouth, the images that accompany the words are equally powerful and compelling to watch. His politically incorrect, anti-cancel culture messaging prevalent in … [Read more...]