Posted on 04/10/2013 3:54:36 PM PDT by drewh
MSNBC host Touré tore into both artists LL Cool J and Brad Paisley over the release of their lighthearted duet “Accidental Racist,” which tackled persistent racial tensions through song. Touré, an experienced music critic as well as an outspoken expert on race relations, found no redeeming value in their song.
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Co-host S.E. Cupp said that she could “appreciate” the effort made by both artists in the effort to cool racial tensions though verse. “I like the effort… maybe,” Cupp said waveringly.
“Okay,” Touré interjected. “No, I’m not giving out any good grades for the effort.”
“I hate it,” he continued. He said Paisley could not tell his audience to ignore the “dominant meaning” behind the Confederate flag. “No, you can’t just re-appropriate the symbol as you wish,” Touré added. “If you wear that out in public, as LL says in his verse, you’re going to make me uncomfortable.”
“It’d be very easy for me to spend the rest of my time beating up on Brad Paisley’s show of white guilt,” Touré pivoted, “but I don’t want to do that straw man – I want to talk to LL who I am extraordinarily disappointed in.”
Touré slammed Cool J over the lyric in his song, “If you forget the gold chains, I’ll forget the iron chains.”
“Completely false choice,” Touré said. “If you don’t judge me because I’m wearing a chain, I’ll forget about slaver? Which continues to have an impact on this country – the racial disparity, the income inequality, the incarceration trends. No, I’m not going to forget.”
“My God, LL Cool J talking about ‘forget the slavery mentality?’” Touré exclaimed. “Mama should knock you out!”
Especially the lighter-skinned blacks.
“Toure’ is a young black man who has lived a privileged life, so he now has to prove he is “blacker” than anybody.”
It’s hard to admit that your ancestors were better men than yourself.
You’re is a punk. Go ahead and try to knock LL Cool J out. Dude is made of steel. No. I take that back. Dude made himself into steel.
Ugghh. Damn auto correct. You’re = Toure
It was the Democrats that controlled slavery in the South and attacked the North to keep slavery. Then when they lost they came up with this segregation then this “separate but equal” nonsense. And of course let’s not forget the formation of the KKK which initially was to threaten and scare Republicans then drifted off into persecuting Catholics and Jews. Next came the lynchings. The Democrats have been evil since day one.
You’re is mentally disabled. He should be pitied.
LL Cool J is really a pretty decent guy(despite being a rapper). I remember where he was supporting George Pataki for governor - a Republican. And he led the Grammys with a prayer when Whitney Houston died.
At least he is open minded as far as politics - unlike communist supporter Jay-Z>
Is SE Cupp the fake conservative?
The first 5 letters of “tourette’s”
Who are these Accidental Artists?
What’s important is that a Grammy is grammanteed, and that Hollywood is planning an “Accidental Racist” motion picture entertainment vehicle product, with the American Teacher Association promising to lead all schoolchildren to see it.
The modern ahte taught black racist hates America and white people so much that they are sacrificing their children to the abortionists and poverty pimping and gang violence and drug culture with inevitable death therefrom. But they ared so steeped in magic thinking that they can slaughter their own children and blame whitey for it.
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