4/11/2007
Don Imus’ situation seems to have gone from bad to worse. I can’t say that I’m sad as I’ve always thought the guy was an old crank who spent most of his time on the air mumbling one complaint after another.
At the same time, all that Imus did was repeat almost verbatim the kind of talk used every day on radios across the country. Rather than go into detail myself, I will give you a bit of a quote from a recent column by the very talented Ms. Michelle Malkin and direct you to her site for the full article.
Here is what Michelle has had to say on the topic:
[L]et’s take a breath now and look around. Is the Sharpton & Jackson Circus truly committed to cleaning up cultural pollution that demeans women and perpetuates racial epithets? Have you seen the Billboard Hot Rap Tracks chart this week?
The number one rap track is by a new sensation who goes by the name of “Mims.”
The “song” is “This Is Why I’m Hot.” It has topped the charts for the last 15 weeks. Here’s a taste of the lyrics that young men and women are cranking up in their cars:
This is why I’m hot
Catch me on the block
Every other day
Another bitch another drop
16 bars, 24 pop
44 songs, nigga gimme what you got…… We into big spinners
See my pimping never dragged
Find me wit’ different women that you niggas never had
For those who say they know me know I’m focused on ma cream
Player you come between you’d better focus on the beam
I keep it so mean the way you see me lean
And when I say I’m hot my nigga dis is what I mean
For the full article, go here. Enjoy!
UPDATE:
Newsbusters.org reports the details of an MTV interview with Snoop Dog regarding the Imus controversy and the comparison that some like Michelle Malkin are making between Imus and rap stars like him. Here is Snoop Dog’s revealing (and shocking) statement:
“It’s a completely different scenario,” said Snoop, barking over the phone from a hotel room in L.A. “[Rappers] are not talking about no collegiate basketball girls who have made it to the next level in education and sports. We’re talking about ho’s that’s in the ‘hood that ain’t doing sh–, that’s trying to get a n—a for his money. These are two separate things. First of all, we ain’t no old-ass white men that sit up on MSNBC [the cable network home to Imus] going hard on black girls. We are rappers that have these songs coming from our minds and our souls that are relevant to what we feel. I will not let them mutha—–as say we in the same league as him.”
In other words, if you don’t go to college and you are a black woman, it’s okay to call you the most derogatory of names, to classify you in the worse possible way, and to, basically, classify you as a piece of meat. I thought we were supposed to be an enlightened society?
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