Posted on 12/23/2014 10:34:29 AM PST by sgtyork
A few years back I heard about a rapper named Ice-T who was selling a CD called “Cop Killer” celebrating ambushing and murdering police officers. It was being marketed by none other than Time/Warner, the biggest entertainment conglomerate in the world.
-Police across the country were outraged. Rightfully so — at least one had been murdered. But Time/Warner was stonewalling because the CD was a cash cow for them, and the media were tiptoeing around it because the rapper was black. I heard Time/Warner had a stockholders meeting scheduled in Beverly Hills. I owned some shares at the time, so I decided to attend.
What I did there was against the advice of my family and colleagues. I asked for the floor. To a hushed room of a thousand average American stockholders, I simply read the full lyrics of “Cop Killer”- every vicious, vulgar, instructional word.
“I GOT MY 12 GAUGE SAWED OFF I GOT MY HEADLIGHTS TURNED OFF I’M ABOUT TO BUST SOME SHOTS OFF I’M ABOUT TO DUST SOME COPS OFF…” It got worse, a lot worse. I won’t read the rest of it to you. But trust me, the room was a sea of shocked, frozen, blanched faces. The Time/Warner executives squirmed in their chairs and stared at their shoes. They hated me for that.
Then I delivered another volley of sick lyric brimming with racist filth, where Ice-T fantasizes about sodomizing two 12-year old nieces of Al and Tipper Gore.
“SHE PUSHED HER BUTT AGAINST MY ….”
Well, I won’t do to you here what I did to them. Let’s just say I left the room in echoing silence. When I read the lyrics to the waiting press corps, one of them said “We can’t print that.” “I know,” I replied, “but Time/Warner’s selling it.”
Two months later, Time/Warner terminated Ice-T’s contract. I’ll never be offered another film by Warners, or get a good review from Time magazine. But disobedience means you must be willing to act, not just talk.
When a mugger sues his elderly victim for defending herself … jam the switchboard of the district attorney’s office.
When your university is pressured to lower standards until 80% of the students graduate with honors … choke the halls of the board of regents. When an 8-year-old boy pecks a girl’s cheek on the playground and gets hauled into court for sexual harassment … march on that school and block its doorways.
When someone you elected is seduced by political power and betrays you…petition them, oust them, banish them.
When Time magazine’s cover portrays millennium nuts as deranged, crazy Christians holding a cross as it did last month … boycott their magazine and the products it advertises.
So that this nation may long endure, I urge you to follow in the hallowed footsteps of the great disobediences of history that freed exiles, founded religions, defeated tyrants, and yes, in the hands of an aroused rabble in arms and a few great men, by God’s grace, built this country. If Dr. King were here, I think he would agree.
Thank you.
Charlton Heston “Winning the Cultural War” Speech to the Harvard Law School Forum
Bob Marley “I shot the sheriff.”
Covered by Eric Clapton and others.
A great American.
obie’s handlers knew very well indeed the grip that that trash has on american Yout...including those of VOTING AGE
Do you know the lyrics to that song?
This is why I say some of the most sickest, evil, hate-filled, racist biogts are white men (and women) found in the boardrooms and paneled offices in high rise towers across America.
They peddle and profit from hate speech set to a jungle beat and spewed out like vomit from “rap artists”. With lyrics so disgusting, vile and perverted that it makes one sick to even read them.
and now Ice-T, aka Tracy Morrow, is now a TV and media mogul himself, starring in “Law and Order” - as ironically, a NY Police Detective.
What does it all mean? Rank hypocrisy? A crony system divided against itself?
the courage of true love, like that evidenced by the man in the article, is all it takes to restore the republic, but such courage is in short supply these days.
BUMP
Blacks singing about shooting cops goes way back —
“I’m gonna do like a China-man, go and get some hop
Get myself a gun and shoot myself a cop.”
“Crazy Blues” by Mamie Smith, 1920
Do you know the lyrics to that song?
starring in “Law and Order” - as ironically, a NY Police Detective.
No but I swear it was in self-defense.
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