The Poor White Persons version of RAP, in the sense that it a specific kind of spoken or written format, blending artistic expression, personal experience and politic protest and is usually written for an audience of peers in mind. Like RAP, it is an angry but non-violent form of political expression. Punk Music is to Ranting as Rap Music is to Rapping. Today, poor whites, perform Rants in pubs, pod-casts and on the Internet.
Anger is usually the fuel that oppressed people use to organize and fight for social and political change. Since Rich Whites don't want change, they have re-defined the tradition of Ranting into something that is done by crazy, unstable people, used to incite violence the same way they have positioned, re-defineded and/or reacted to RAP and Rap Music.
Historically, in Old Europe, Rich Whites encouraged Poor Whites to physically fight each other, Boxing, and outlawed Ranting in many cities and countries. Ranting like Rapping, is considered more dangerous then Boxing to the White Power Structure, because it encourages poor people to become personally and actively politically engaged and to collectively direct their anger outwards in organized political action rather then inwards, towards each other.
Speakers Corner in Hyde Park, London England is the oldest Public Ranting Space and has had such people as George Orwell and Karl Marx Rant there. It is still the place in England where The Poor gather to protest. A recent anti-war protest at Speakers Corner was banned for "safety," reasons.
Anger is usually the fuel that oppressed people use to organize and fight for social and political change. Since Rich Whites don't want change, they have re-defined the tradition of Ranting into something that is done by crazy, unstable people, used to incite violence the same way they have positioned, re-defineded and/or reacted to RAP and Rap Music.
Historically, in Old Europe, Rich Whites encouraged Poor Whites to physically fight each other, Boxing, and outlawed Ranting in many cities and countries. Ranting like Rapping, is considered more dangerous then Boxing to the White Power Structure, because it encourages poor people to become personally and actively politically engaged and to collectively direct their anger outwards in organized political action rather then inwards, towards each other.
Speakers Corner in Hyde Park, London England is the oldest Public Ranting Space and has had such people as George Orwell and Karl Marx Rant there. It is still the place in England where The Poor gather to protest. A recent anti-war protest at Speakers Corner was banned for "safety," reasons.
Let's go over to Speaker's Corner in Hyde Park and listen to the Rants.
Rick Mercier became famous in Canada for his ranting on This Hour Has Twenty Two Minutes.
Did you hear her brilliant rant against Rich Whites at the pub last night?
Rick Mercier became famous in Canada for his ranting on This Hour Has Twenty Two Minutes.
Did you hear her brilliant rant against Rich Whites at the pub last night?
by punkgirl November 14, 2006
by Lxrdkd April 29, 2015
A nerd way of succinctly ending a rant typically on an internet blog or message board. By invoking a semblance of programming code, the nerd hopes to appease fellow nerds with a chuckle, while also disarming readers with a framing device to lesson the impact of their prior inflammatory words.
..so that's why george lucas having kids ruined the entire star wars franchise for the rest of us. /rant.
by JambaJews January 11, 2009
The act of letting the other bloggers know you're finished with your rant. Derived from HTML code in which the rant block would have begun with <rant> and finished with </rant>.
Dougman25: Hey, Bill. How was your day?
Billosaurus17: Well I got totally cut off in traffic and then some asshole spit in my Big Kahuna Burger, my cat has rabies, I pretty much hate everyone in the world. Sorry. </rant>
Billosaurus17: Well I got totally cut off in traffic and then some asshole spit in my Big Kahuna Burger, my cat has rabies, I pretty much hate everyone in the world. Sorry. </rant>
by Mr. Crazybones August 29, 2007
To speak agressivly about somthing. or to take your own tangent about a subject and talk for a long time in a passionate manner. also see Aitkenism.
by rodrikbodrik May 23, 2004
To vent your frustration; either loudly or through the Internet. Most people prefer the Internet, like going to VentNation.com or related sites, or going bat s--t crazy and ranting in someone's face. Sports fans and TV personalities enjoy ranting the most, and so do girls amongst their friends.
Person 1: Why are you ranting?
Person 2: Because I'm unemployed. I don't have a girl. I hate my life! FML!
Person 1: I HATE THE PATRIOTS. TOM BRADY IS A NO GOOD PRETTY BOY AND BELICHICK IS A BELICHEAT.
Person 2: Stop ranting and calm down!
Person 2: Because I'm unemployed. I don't have a girl. I hate my life! FML!
Person 1: I HATE THE PATRIOTS. TOM BRADY IS A NO GOOD PRETTY BOY AND BELICHICK IS A BELICHEAT.
Person 2: Stop ranting and calm down!
by ventnationdotcom February 10, 2010
I shall now tell you how awful rants are, they are the bain of humans. If rants were plentiful humans would become extinct! Extinct I say!! Humans also need to pick cherries with automated cherry pickers as this results in more plentiful harvests resulting in more people whos brains have been nourished by cherries and intelligent cherry nourished people are less likely to rant than those raised on blueberry farms, because they are subjected to blueberry fumes, and they are toxic, like non-toxic glue. Made of horse hooves. Horses can also help prevent rants as you cannot rant while riding a horse and you can't ride a horse if there aren't horses because they have all been made into non-toxic glue. Do you understand rants now?
by Caitlin April 01, 2005