You know, I think the end of Hip Hop is fast approaching. Every time I see that dreamy Beyonce with a former drug pusher/rapper like JayZ, it makes me sick. I wonder if she might reconsider her choices? Beyonce could make me reconsider my position on relationships for at least 6 hours.
I just heard a black woman caller to John Gibson’s radio show say that yes, Imus should be fired, because he used his job to be negative about black women.
But, when John asked her about Snoop Dogg and other rappers making MILLIONS of dollars calling women “hos”...
She said that is okay..because they are just singing.
You may be right. This may be a "tipping point". I noticed the "ho" question asked a lot this evening to a few rappers. Most of them had a deer-in-the-headlights look.
I'm not a big Jason Whitlock fan, but this is pretty close to right-on:
Instead of wasting time on irrelevant shock jock, black leaders need to be fighting a growing gangster culture.
By JASON WHITLOCK - Columnist
Thank you, Don Imus. You’ve given us (black people) an excuse to avoid our real problem.
You’ve given Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson another opportunity to pretend that the old fight, which is now the safe and lucrative fight, is still the most important fight in our push for true economic and social equality.
You’ve given Vivian Stringer and Rutgers the chance to hold a nationally televised recruiting celebration expertly disguised as a news conference to respond to your poor attempt at humor.
Thank you, Don Imus. You extended Black History Month to April, and we can once again wallow in victimhood, protest like it’s 1965 and delude ourselves into believing that fixing your hatred is more necessary than eradicating our self-hatred.
The bigots win again.
While we’re fixated on a bad joke cracked by an irrelevant, bad shock jock, I’m sure at least one of the marvelous young women on the Rutgers basketball team is somewhere snapping her fingers to the beat of 50 Cent’s or Snoop Dogg’s or Young Jeezy’s latest ode glorifying nappy-headed pimps and hos.
I ain’t saying Jesse, Al and Vivian are gold-diggas, but they don’t have the heart to mount a legitimate campaign against the real black-folk killas.
It is us. At this time, we are our own worst enemies. We have allowed our youths to buy into a culture (hip hop) that has been perverted, corrupted and overtaken by prison culture. The music, attitude and behavior expressed in this culture is anti-black, anti-education, demeaning, self-destructive, pro-drug dealing and violent.
Rather than confront this heinous enemy from within, we sit back and wait for someone like Imus to have a slip of the tongue and make the mistake of repeating the things we say about ourselves.