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.
Middle aged white guys aren’t the intended audience of this satire. If Barry Manilow had delivered this message in a tasteful manner, the intended audience would never see it.
I guarantee this message will reach the intended viewers/listeners. Although vulgar and stereotypical, it is effective, catchy and delivers a clear message. BET shouldn’t have played it. Youtube would have done the job.
That's neither what the post was about nor what I was addressing.
That's a whole different subject.
My answer to that silly argument:
We all have power. If you hate, then you choose to feed a power that eats away at your soul. And the souls around you that catch the disease.
If you use your power with love for yourself and others, it is very hard for people to set limits on you.
We all have the choice.
Did anyone notice that the only two white guys involved were the referee who signalled that the field goal was good and the deaf guy that wrote the music.
Seriously folks...it’s a joke...or rather it’s a [expletive deleted] joke, it’s a [expletive deleted] joke, it’s a [expletive deleted] joke.
FIFY.
Black people will be condemned to being a despised underclass forever unless and until the race hustlers, pimps, rappers etc. etc. are driven out, and I mean way out. as in completely shunned.
Where is the outrage? Crickets....
I guess this is the kind of stuff that works in that community.
Whew.
Read the director’s comments.
Yes, this is probably something that will get the attention of those people. Whatever works.
It isn't vile, it's funny.
I’m speechless. The lyrics can’t even be printed here.
And I suspect W.E.B. Dubois and the others whose books are depicted are spinning in his grave at the thought of this.
It’s hard to believe it’s real.
It had better be.
You'd be surprised what Africans in the United States think of some African-americans (and vice-versa). I have several friends (originally from Africa, like myself) who would take great offense to what you wrote ....the comparison part of it (as in, you saying 'Africans in this country' would have made some Africans in the US, that is people who were born in Africa but moved to the US, take some offense to being compared to African-Americans). One guy I know calls himself an American-African just so as to distinguish himself from African-Americans. Just two weeks ago someone else, this one female, went into all sorts of statistics showing the economic performance of Africans who came into the US (one of the highest in terms of immigrant groups to the US, and just below that of Indian immigrants), and said some things about African-American culture that could just as well have come from the Grand Dragon. Another one, this time a guy who used to work in a Nursing Home before coming up with a business plan (and with the help of his other African friends both in and outside the US) bought the nursing home, has actually said far worse. Things that would make David Duke blush.
I could say more, but that wouldn't be very prudent. Let's just say ....there is a BIG difference.
Fully clothed animated characters? Porno?
I don't think that word means what you think it means.
Off hand I’d say Freepers were not the intended audience..
I don’t think its a matter of intelligence-— rather, people see what they expect to see-— that’s all I can guess based on the fact that some look at a crude Southpark (which is always crude and sometimes pornographic) style video portends a racewar.
The maker of the video is doing what Rush often does-— using absurdity to highlight absurdity. Of course, many of his callers miss his point during such moments as well-—”Rush, don’t tell me you’re voting Democrat till the GOP stops kidding on the border!”
Understatement of the day. lol
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