. >> my name is mar ketoa bird.lty member here. >> i am in the department of language development here at san jose state. >> larry. i'm an attorney and lecturer in first amendment issues at san jose state. >> i'm a local hip hop artist here. >> we were talking about rap music and its impact on political correctness. are we going nuts about this concept? are we getting too crazy about political correctness? >> i think that political correctness is something that is necessary for a civil society. but we can take anything to a point of absurdityu and then it becomeathize opposite of what it should have been. i think we still have enough people who are not conscious of the way they talk to people. >> so many people get this feeling that i better not say a word because i don't want to offend anyone. >> i think some people have that and a lot of people don't think about it at all and that is the reason that we have political correctness because people don't have sensitivity. it is important to educate and instruct. it is