Race in Hip-Hop

This article was pretty interesting-- I tend to like (what I think of as) conscious hip-hop and that was cited in the article as that "positive Black Sh**" that still used the word Black and discussed race. What I mean to say is that I really didn't notice that race *wasn't* being discussed in Hip-Hop, I had thought it was always one of the underlying ideas / socio-political views like we had talked about in class-- how African American communities were treated by and related with other communities.
Minister Farakhan's quote was really informative about the evolution of the usage of 'negro' (I could have used more info there), 'black', and 'African American'... that being said, as much as his words strengthen the article, and for all the great work Farakhan has done with branching out to more communities and being more inclusive of women of recent years (Re: Millions More March) I was a bit surprised and turned off that as recently as 2005 (when he was quoted) he was using the language of "the enemy" which, if I read that right, he means White people... that seems myopic to me. I think what isn't getting communicated here is that political-corporate regimes which have close ties with the media are the agents of power in our society. Absolutely, these regimes are in the power of white anglo saxon men in Western European countries and America, but as much as this is a "White" power, it's also a patriarchal, heteronormative power. It operates as the ruling class and the economic elites in nations all over the world. Social power and specifically social power that puts others into oppression can not be essentialized to be called "white", and that term "white" cannot then be given the epithet of "the enemy." Minister Farakhan seems to be burning bridges where he might have allies and I know there's a lot more history to Farakhan and the Nation of Islam than I am aware of, but I can't help but assert that this is simply not how I view the world and race dynamics. But maybe that's because at the end of the day, I can't take off my white skin and maybe I am handicapped by my racial lens. But why, I plead, is there no one who can help me understand positions like Farakhan's Black Nationalism when I'm doing all I can to understand?