[libertyman]

FANTASTIC...good for them! I wonder if Bill Cosby's criticisms over the last several months could be bearing fruit.

[Gay State Conservative]

During the campaign.The Ketchup King expressed a strong
admiration for "hip-hop"...so it must be good.</sarcasm>

[tkathy]

About time.

[livius]

Great news!

[David Isaac]

I seriously doubt that all of the damage done by rap music to America's young will ever be undone. Though it would be nice if it could be halted soon.

I have substitute taught for the last several years and have seen the effects of this garbage, as low as the elementary level, in small-town America. It has been both immensely frightening and immensely saddening.

[OldFriend]

Looks like the world has truly turned on it's axis.

Mel Watt, a black congressman wrote to Harry Reid, suggesting his criticism of Clarence Thomas was racist and ought to have been based on issues not personal attacks.

[Cindy]

All types of music can and does affect our culture.

FOX NEWS.com: London - "MUSLIM EXTREMISTS PREACH VIOLENCE IN EUROPE" by Steve Harrigan (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "He's called Sheik Terra. With a Koran in one hand and pistol in the other, the British rapper calls for the murder of non-Muslims, including several world leaders, on a videotape.") (November 29, 2004) (Read More...)

JIHAD WATCH.org: "JIHAD RAP FROM BRITAIN" (February 03, 2004) (Read More...)

A Discussion on FREEREPUBLIC.com: "PRINCE'S NEW MUSIC VIDEO SHOWS ARAB AMERICAN GIRL BLOWING UP CROWDED AIRPORT TERMINAL" (October 8, 2004) (Read More...)

[Maigrey]

They just now realized this.... after an A&F ad? Where was their minds for the last 10 years?

[Maigrey]

And, when do minority women care what their men do? I thought most supported Liberal policies, including not including the men in domestic decisions.

Maybe I'm wrong.....

[Rebelbase]

I see nothing redeeming in hip-hop culture. What I do see is greed, contempt for authority, selfishness, low education and as the article states--degredation of women.

Not to mention the fashion crimes.

[L98Fiero]

"Essence has a year-long strategy that includes a town meeting at Spelman College in February."

So, Essense magazine thinks it is going to take on the violent, greedy, entrenched, huge money-making hip-hop industry by having a town meeting? LOL

[Bon mots]

Maybe it's a payback from the ingrained 'male-bashing' that our society takes for granted.

AmericanWomenSuck.com

HEY! No flames. It's not my site!
:-)
For men only.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

At a listening session that Weathers and the other staffers had with entertainment editor Cori Murray, "We found the rap lyrics astonishing, brutal, misogynistic. ... So we said we were going to pull no punches, especially since women were constantly being assaulted."

They're just figuring this out now, in 2005? Better late than never, I guess, but jeez, what a bunch of Johnny-come-latelies.

[randog]

If you take the "shock factor" out of pop music what have you got left? Very little, I say--you wouldn't be able to sell that crap.

[cyborg]

Hypocrisy from the pages of Essence Magazine! Anyone who has read it knows what I'm talking about.

[mhking]

It only took Essence nine months to figure it out...there was a protest against these sorts of images last spring on Spelman's campus (which I both blogged about as well as wrote on for Project 21).

While I have no problem with the editors of Essence finally getting off of their collective haunches to do something about it, I get the impression that they "discovered" this all on their own, and that they feel that this is a new thing. Where were they months ago when word of this first started to show up?

Oh. I know. Busy advising women on how to bash and alienate their men in yet another article that aped Cosmo and all the other women's magazines out there.

Feh.

[the invisib1e hand]

yeah, let me guess who they're lashing out at *didn't read past the title*: the Jews in the entertainment business for making so much money by promoting this medium, right?

[kAcknor]

BTTT for interesting links to view later...

[JoeSixPack1]

"We realized that, my God, we were right on point! What we were feeling and what we were finding out in our research was all correct. It was time. Women were no longer going to sit still."

I'm happy to see rap getting the bad rap it deserves.

BUT:

This black woman's magazine finally taking the high horse of being gender offended after years of praise and promotion, is highly suspect as to their true motivation.

[Major Matt Mason]

The fact that a two-bit thug like Snoop Doggy Doo is now considered acceptable enough to be a pitchman for various products shows how far our popular culture has gone in the tank.