Oprah show on Hip Hop!

Those Negroes are confused, Russell Simmons, he keeps harping on the devastating conditions that the rappers come from. That video they showed on Oprah was a clear disrespect of Black women; no poverty and Oprah let them off the hook. Hip hop summit" Get your money right! Please! How about apologizing to the kids for being poor role models. Those men have no intention of admitting wrong or doing anything else where Hip Hop is concerned, that's their bread and butter. Anyway they don't respect Black women, themselves or anyone else. Their Hip Hop summit will quiet the critics and that's all you get! What do they get? Mo money! Just like the Imus's flipped it back on Black folks and the Hip Hoppers, Her panel is flipping the problem to poverty. Oh Crappola! And Stanley Crouch was right! You can live in a Million dollar house and be a low life. While you explain there’s other ways to rap you produce and release the nasty low life version. Chavers, Simmons and Liles are full of it. They want us to wait until the nasty rappers mature and tolerate their behavior until whenever? So the show amounted to whole lot of talk and no real commitment to do anything. As a family we keep our kids on the academic road, they are involved in youth church, listen to Christian rap and we talk to them constantly about being able and ok with making sound independent decisions. Our children can't watch those videos because we don't want self-degrading images running rampant in their minds. It is enough being Black than to have to deal with that nonsense. In the March Issue of Ebony there was an article "Sex Violence and Disrespect: What Hip Hop Has Done To Our Women" During the same month the same publisher had an article in the Jet magazine with 2 video vixens, graduated from college but were "smart" enough to get that money while they still "look" good. Confusion or what? I wanted to say “Sorry Oprah you're beating a dead horse.” I wanted to say “Oprah look at this tape over and over until you see the truth, “ but a few days later she had her pal Simmons on her show to help him promote his book. Mo Money! Mo Money!

Don't put this one off on Black Women!

There are problems with women leading the charge against “Sexist Hip Hop as Roland S. Martin suggest. http://www.rolandsmartin.com/blog/?p=57#comments First the organizations of Black women that he mentions, for whatever reason, don’t think the rappers are talking about them so they don’t care. The most influential men of the past and the present have been silent. Nothing from Bond, Young, West, Smiley, Dyson, Obama, C. Powell or his son (the ex-head of the FCC who lead the charge to denigrate Janet Jackson for an error that was not her fault) I can‘t even type his name, Poitier, Joyner and I could go on and on. He suggest that Black women should lead the fight and what I am saying is this, again, this time by choice and not circumstances Black women are left to fend for themselves. Subsequently, some Black women have tried to ignore the problem by saying “they aren’t talking about me” because they have no “Backup”! Look at other ethnic groups, they hold their women up, and do not allow them to be torn down. White men don’t see anything wrong as long as it’s not their women. Remember what happened for whistling? I bet you think the end of Emmitt Tills’ life was horrible. Just think what would have happened to him if he had said something derogatory, they would still be looking for the pieces. Just an FYI Black people don’t get the respect they want because they don’t stick together and they don’t respect each other so other ethnic groups don’t respect Black people. That is the legacy unless Black people stop putting each other down and separating themselves from the problems that don’t directly hit them. What doesn’t hit Black people from the front will come around the back and pull the rug from under them. Our society is so sick I saw an Oriental man interviewed on “Dancing with the Stars” and he described his favorite white male contestant as “my schizal minigal” now what was he saying in Snoop Dog language? Do you think he knew? Or knows? If you really look at it like it is… if Black women get up and start raising a ruckus, they will be labeled, look at them Black B’s and H’s, cranky B’s and H’s, man hating B’s and H’s and on and on and it will come from all men and women all races and some Black women will be extra critical because that is what they know, because Black men don’t back Black women up and Black people don’t like each other. People go to church and won’t speak to people who sit around us every service unless the Reverend says, “look at your neighbor and say… The psychological damage that has been done to Black people has been precise, direct, swift and sure, long lasting and it appears binding. One more FYI, in the month of March, Ebony published an article about Hip Hop disrespecting Black women, in the same month Jet published an article about how smart some Black women graduates were for getting educated and then becoming “Video Vixens” while they still have their “looks”. Isn’t Ebony and Jet published by the same “Black” company? Black people are so confused. And Martin suggest Black women lead the way, again! HA!