April 15, 2007
It seems every time Al and Jesse weigh in on something, we spend two time dissecting why and when and a whole lot of non-sense about Al and Jesse. We NEED to look at ourselves. It’s not all the fault of the rappers and young people. Old azz folks like the NAACP contributed to this non-sense. You as a parent, a uncle, aunt, cousin a friend contributes by doling out cash to kids, friends kids, cousins and don’t have the slightest idea what they are buy with the cash we give. Ask you white friends to stop giving their kids money to buy the trashy lyrics,(since they buy 70% of rap records). In about a month, some smart punk will have a CD by the name of “Nappy Head Ho’s” and a Video on BET, and it will sell because folks will buy it. I had to read my kids the riot act a long time about Tupac. He made a song cursing C. Delores Tucker out by calling her all kinds of Mothers#$%#$% , then made a CD called “All Eyes On Me” and it sold damn near 10 million copies, but then the NAACP comes along and nominates this joker for a NAACP Image Award. But, folks like Tupac and his mama, so he gets a free ride.
Yall ever wonder why when something happens, the media runs to Al and Jesse like they are our leaders, well, they will have something to say, regardless. What we must understand is, some people
follow Al, some folks follow Jesse, some folks follow TD Jakes, some follow Farrakhan, some follow Bush, some follow Clinton, so we need to stop spending so much time worrying about others and give them credit and then worry about what we are doing to better our race. All the white racists know they can get an audience with those guys.
Let’s be for real and understand that Al has been bitching (no pun intended) and screaming for over two years about Black rappers denigrating Black women. He has also gone after the record companies that makes most of the money. I had a friend called me last night about the Duke case and started gloating about egg on Jesse’s face after offering the accuser a scholarship. I had to cut the fool off in mid-sentence and explain what Jesse actually said about giving her a scholarship. He said “if she wanted an education that bad to dance naked for men, he would give her a scholarship”, which my pastor echoed. That damn Eminem has called Black women some terrible things in the name of art, but he gets a pass because people likes his music. You need to ask your preacher to speak about the evils of self hatred and what name calling does to harm folks instead of blaming the damn devil for everything. I’m hoping the Imus situation is the beginning of the end of this non-sense, it will be if you step up to the plate and take a stand, not just verbally, but financially, because in America, the final call is always about money. When the corporations started to withdraw their ads from CBS and MSNBC, added to other voices, Imus was gone, so you see how you can help change things, but changes is not for the weak. Will you commit? Click On I’ll Commit. http://www.blackpagestoday.com/commit.html
” IT IS US”
One last word on IMUS. How can anyone who looks like him say anything about how another person looks.
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April 15, 2007 at 9:19 am
Thank God, where have this Blog gone? I’m first and I’m happy Imus is gone, but we have alot of work to do.
April 15, 2007 at 9:26 am
I found this on Eurweb. What Idiots!!!
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*Two folks whom many consider among the root causes of the word “ho” being somewhat tolerated in popular culture – until last Wednesday – have come forward to explain how the term’s use by Don Imus is different than its use in hip hop.
Fresh from his plea of no contest to gun charges, Snoop Dogg has added his two cents to the Imus debate, stating that the broadcasting legend should indeed have his job yanked for calling the Rutgers University basketball team “nappy headed hoes.”
The rapper has referred to women as “b**ches” and “hoes” in his music since his first album, “Doggystyle,” in 1993. But the Long Beach MC says there’s a difference between the sexist terms used in hip hop and the way Imus said it last Wednesday during his broadcast.
“It’s a completely different scenario. (Rappers) are not talking about no collegiate basketball girls who have made it to the next level in education and sports,” said Snoop, according to the Web site Female First. “We’re talking about hoes that’s in the ‘hood that ain’t doing s**t, that’s trying to get a n**ga for his money. These are two separate things.”
“First of all, we ain’t no old-ass white men that sit up on MSNBC going hard on black girls,” he continued. “We are rappers that have these songs coming from our minds and our souls that are relevant to what we feel. I will not let them muthaf**kas say we are in the same league as him. Kick him off the air forever.”
Meanwhile, BET has been accused of perpetuating the use of “ho” by airing rap videos that contain lyrics and images that are brutally misogynistic. The network’s founder, Robert Johnson, was a guest on MSNBC Thursday in the space that had been occupied by “Imus in the Morning” just 24 hours earlier - before the cable channel canceled the radio simulcast late Wednesday.
Johnson was asked via phone: “You are the founder of Black Entertainment Television, which over the years, has been a platform for hip hop artists and videos – particularly late at night, which are graphic, which feature this kind of language – the word ho, the b-word, the n-word – that sexualize women, black women, white women. You provided that platform. Do you think there’s something different about that in this case?
Johnson responded: “I absolutely do. As I said, when you look at artistic expression, you look at creative freedom, it’s coming from artists who are expressing their particular content. …And for the record, I think if you call anybody in the record industry, they will tell you that as the founder of BET and the person responsible for putting on music videos, I absolutely encouraged every artist and every record label to tone down the sexuality, tone down the misogynistic lyrics, to provide content that was appealing to everybody. But as I said earlier, in this kind of debate, if it’s going to have any traction in all, we’ve got to recognize artistic freedom. We’ve got to recognize creative expression. …I make a clear distinction between a comedian saying something n a comedy platform, an artist saying something in an artistic platform, versus a political commentator talking to the power elite of this nation and feeling because he engages with the power elite, he can say things against a disadvantaged class with impunity.”
April 15, 2007 at 9:32 am
Bob Johnson should be ashame. He was the main Pimp who made Ho a household word.
April 15, 2007 at 9:57 am
Imus is a fruitcake like most of the shock jocks, and I can’t wait for The peroxide Blond Bomshell to defend his right to say those horrible things about those players. Imus is afreakin Democrat Liberal, so you have one of your own attacking you.
April 15, 2007 at 10:57 am
Mr. GOP, you are a funny, intelligent, sometimes brilliant, sometimes stupid person.
I know you have much animosity towards me but that’s okay. We could argue all day, but I know it would be fruitless. I know you get up early just wondering what the Blonde one is doing..lol..Well today, I’m going to a Hillary rally…
What about this as an original concept, with regards Imus.. Being rude, obnoxious and, let’s face it, a mostly incompressible azzhole to everyone, isn’t a sign of equity, it’s just a sign of a rude, obnoxious, mostly incomprehensible bore. I could never understand his mumble jumble, so it was with utter amazement that his speech was clear enough for me to become dismayed with him calling an entire Rutgers women’s college basketball team “nappy headed ho’s”.
I always thought the guy was a nut-ball, so it has come to pass that he is gone and how was your Saturday nite.
April 15, 2007 at 9:34 pm
(As if you might be interested) :-> my personal musings follow:
I had not heard about the Imus remarks until about a week later, when Rutgers was beginning its Press Conference Tuesday morning. I became quite depressed that day, so it was good that I had not learned about it five days earlier. Personally, I’ve no problem identifying with my tightly curled hair. Hence I do not find the term “nappy head” to be offensive. Needless to say, however, using the derivative of whore or prostitute as a descriptive of student-athletes in particular, or women in general is/was un-acceptable. I watched the Rutgers’ Press Conference in its entirety, and I was very proud of the Coach’s verbalization of the hurt, the young women as they spoke of their accomplishments as students & athletes, and the manner in which the Rutgers’ Administration supported its own.
Hopefully, the term “nappy head” was not a factor in the hurt experienced. Nevertheless, one could not miss the fact that nine of the ten black women all had long, (chemically) straightened hair. Only one of the nine sisters wore, a style akin to the natural(i.e., braids). Seems a significant number of black women (especially Celebrities) nowadays choose hairstyles that are mo’ straight, mo’ long, and sometimes mo’ blond than ever before. Of course, just as India Arie sings I am not my hair . . . neither are these young sisters. However, it does appear that the desire to identify with the “acceptable” norm relative to the Eurocentric definition of beauty still has mighty strong hold on some.
I deem myself truly fortunate to have experienced the “Black is Beautiful” movement of the 1960’s . . . nappy headed Afro and all. Racism has deep psychological consequences for Humankind in general, but black folk in particular. Perhaps the saddest example of such is Michael Jackson. Now, it is also sad that stupidity & insensitivity facilitated an individual’s job lost (if only temporarily). Nevertheless, given the choice made by the Sponsors, MSNBC, and CBS, I’m feeling better about the evolution of Humankind albeit via tiny, tiny steps.
Harriet
April 15, 2007 at 9:35 pm
interesting Harriett