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!