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BET's Disturbing "Read a Book" video
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Posted on 08/12/2007 6:24:14 AM PDT by quesney

This video, which I've heard is running on BET, is a sad testament to what much of the black community has become. The message is supposed to be a positive one, but it's anything but. One of the most disturbing things I've seen recently.


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To: quesney

Sent it to Drudge, LGFB, and Michelle Malkin.


41 posted on 08/12/2007 7:16:25 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum)
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To: Sir Gawain; LanPB01
I think I'm more surprised that so few Freepers understand the satire. I thought the people who frequented FR were smarter than that.

I do agree, satire nor not, it's appallingly crude and borders on the pornographic.

42 posted on 08/12/2007 7:16:31 AM PDT by MSSC6644 (Defeat Satan. Pray the Rosary)
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To: quesney
Maybe ya'll need to get out more. Quite a few John Loftons on this thread.

"I think if you use the so-called strong words you get your point across faster.. Why are people afraid of words?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ISil7IHzxc

43 posted on 08/12/2007 7:16:47 AM PDT by clyde asbury (One more quirky, clichéd phrase)
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To: elhombrelibre

You pretty well beat me to what I was going to say. How in the world do they ever expect a civilized society to have any respect for people like that?


44 posted on 08/12/2007 7:16:56 AM PDT by U S Army EOD (Say Cheese.)
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To: UltraKonservativen

If they play this on BET, it must be one big BLEEP. How on earth can they get a message across w/ all that bleeping going on??


45 posted on 08/12/2007 7:17:20 AM PDT by NoGrayZone (Thompson/Hunter 08)
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To: quesney

This video is so Bill Clinton.


46 posted on 08/12/2007 7:18:06 AM PDT by Vision Thing (Don't be a liberal surrendercrat!)
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To: 2ndClassCitizen

“These types of openly expressed thoughts usually precede a guerilla warfare type of situation, much like the Catholics and Protestants in Ireland.

I am not advocating that this occur, just predicting it.”

EXACTLY!.....ever since I read Thomas Chittum’s “Civil War II” I’ve had little doubt that the country will fracture along racial lines....race based wars of secession/partition are a global reality....why wouldn’t they happen here too?


47 posted on 08/12/2007 7:18:46 AM PDT by STONEWALLS
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To: LonePalm

“I wonder what another 45 years of liberalism will accomplish in the black community.”

It will wipe them out. Perhaps that is the lib goal.


48 posted on 08/12/2007 7:20:30 AM PDT by NoGrayZone (Thompson/Hunter 08)
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To: MSSC6644
"I do agree, satire nor not, it's appallingly crude and borders on the pornographic"

So is encouraging the Irish to eat their own children. If this is the satire they want it to be, I'd like to see some follow up to it. Wow em with the flashy stuff to get their attention, now they need to do something with it.
49 posted on 08/12/2007 7:21:04 AM PDT by tfecw (It's for the children)
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To: 2ndClassCitizen

I hate my MTV!


50 posted on 08/12/2007 7:21:07 AM PDT by NoGrayZone (Thompson/Hunter 08)
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To: quesney
Un-be-lieve-able!!!!!!!! That’s it??!! That’s the best they could come up with. How could anybody defend that trash. We’ve gone way down hill since RIF.
51 posted on 08/12/2007 7:23:10 AM PDT by 4yearlurker (All comments now being monitored by BOR. He's looking out for you!)
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To: Sir Gawain
It’s satire.

Yes it is, and pretty good satire at that. The person who posted this on YouTube included these comments:

This was shot on BET Animation and 106 and Park. IT IS A SATIRICAL OBSERVATION ON THE CURRENT RIDICULOUS, OFFENSIVE, AND EMBARRASSING STATE OF THE ONCE NOBLE ART OF HIP HOP. THE RAPPER WHO MADE THE SONG IS ALSO SATIRING THE CURRENT POPULAR RAP MUSIC WHICH IS AN EMBARRASSMENT TO EVERYTHING RAP WAS. WHILE MAKING THIS SOCIAL SATIRE, HE ALSO PROVIDE A POSITIVE MESSAGE AND A SOCIAL COMMENTARY.

African Americans, open your mind. This man is not offending us. He's smaking us in the face and saying Wake Up. This is what they think of us...and the reality is...most of it is true.

It's sad that so few FReepers seem to have the critical thinking skills to recognize this for what it it, or to even read the note posted with the clip.

52 posted on 08/12/2007 7:26:46 AM PDT by SC Swamp Fox (Join our Folding@Home team (Team# 36120) keyword: folding)
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To: quesney

ick
destruction of civilization
destruction of the black community


53 posted on 08/12/2007 7:26:58 AM PDT by television is just wrong (deport all illegal aliens NOW. Put all AMERICANS TO WORK FIRST. END WELFARE.)
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To: MSSC6644

You say “I do agree, satire nor not, it’s appallingly crude and borders on the pornographic.”

But you’re suprised “so few” Freepers understand the satire? As stated above, by you, SATIRE OR NOT. I don’t care if it’s satire or not, it is disgusting. Blacks do more of a disservice to themselves than any “racist” could ever imagine.


54 posted on 08/12/2007 7:28:01 AM PDT by NoGrayZone (Thompson/Hunter 08)
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To: Rose in RoseBear
You have *got* to see this...!
55 posted on 08/12/2007 7:28:12 AM PDT by Bear_in_RoseBear (Loot it while it lasts)
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To: rintense

To be fair, the video is described as satire on today’s rap music. If you can stomach it, watch the whole thing; he also advises blacks to drink water, wear deodorant, brush their teeth, and other very obvious things.


56 posted on 08/12/2007 7:28:35 AM PDT by Melpomene
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To: quesney

oh my.


57 posted on 08/12/2007 7:30:42 AM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: quesney

This is actually pretty well-crafted and witty satire:

Music is roughly based on Beethoven. And it includes a reference to “A Clockwork Orange”, and what exactly is being advocated?

1) Read a book.
2) Raise your kids.
3) Your body needs water (not just liquor), so drink it.
4) Buy some land, not spinning wheels for your car.
5) Brush your teeth.
6) Wear deodorant.

To have moral outrage over the foul language ignores that such language is typical of the low-rent rap music cranked out today, which the black community has finally agreed is gross, violent and tacky. In the last couple of years, it has dried up as a fad, and so is open to parody.

Years ago, on MTV, a prominent rapper did a different satire more in the style of rap videos of the time, in which the theme was his complaining about his small penis. It was both hilarious and no doubt personally very difficult to make, for obvious reasons.

But to assume that this was exploiting crudeness, rather than sneering at it, underestimates the ability of the artists involved and their personal revulsion at the low quality of rap music.


58 posted on 08/12/2007 7:33:34 AM PDT by Popocatapetl
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To: Sir Gawain
Especially the part about the "noble art of hip hop." Yikes!

Don't forget your deodorant.

59 posted on 08/12/2007 7:34:20 AM PDT by Melpomene
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To: squibs

what did I miss from post 7?


60 posted on 08/12/2007 7:35:00 AM PDT by expatguy (Support Capitalism and Democracy - Support "An American Expat in Southeast Asia")
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