Imus And The 'Nappy Headed Hoes'!

If rappers can go around calling females hoes , slut and Nappy headed in their songs, i see no problem in someone else saying the same thing.

I don't see nothing wrong in what the guy said.

Everything a white person says something, this black people cry around begging for judgment.

I don't think the guy should be fired

lol the man was just trying to get some "street cred" 4Play

Make una all go sit down, Russians call themselves ''PIANISA'' [drunks], call a Russian ''PIANISA'' one day , and see if they would not cut off your head, you people always feel that deffending every shyt white people do with excuses makes you intelligent, but I would disappoint you, that is not the case, Imus was not under any obligation to use those words period.

no one's defending imus. i said he got what he deserves (even thought the suspension would have made more sense)
but I hope you don't go around calling black females "bitches" and "hoes." Since it's okay for blacks to do that to ourselves thinking others won't get a message from it.

and I thought you hated the Russians (you were ranting against them in some other thread)  and since when did they become an example for blacks to follow?


funny how the women see the double standard in this while the men didn't.
Sisimose doesn't count.  (the feminist thread proves that  ) j/k

lmao

my bad. i went on the first page and saw that amobi & rikkygen were guys too.
so i guess it's not a guy v girl thing. 'cause i thought it was and you weren't on our side 

White people too uses the word ''red necks'' on themselves, particularly on those ones from the south, but would that give you the audacity to call them red necks , hell no, cause that would be the last time you ever say that, they said Britney Spears is a red neck, even in a documentary.  Arguing about the stopage of the derogative words and the profanity black People peddle among themselves is a different ball  game from what Imus did, now smarten up cause you do this all the time, love yourself. Am an African for Gods sake, I don't use the word Nigga or ho, my making mention of Russia here is pretty much in context with this discussion.

I somewhat agree w/ you but in the case of rap its messages relate to youth in low-income communities where there are fewer options. The lyrics typically describe an artist's rise to fame and fortune through criminal activities which is an all-to-tragic reality in certain areas. The success these ghetto kids see rappers having coming from similar situations and the glorification of that success makes their actions more appealing.

Kids in the suburbs and affluent communities are obviously less likely to take the messages of the lyrics to heart because those messages don't really apply to them, they are more interested in the beats and catchy wording of the songs. Where a teenager from a wealthy community hears about a rapper "slinging rock" its just a phrase that rhymes with "loading my glock".  However, there are people where those phrases are a reality in their neighborhood.

what does living in the ghetto have to do with calling women of your race different nasty names though, LivingGuy.

Talib and co all rap about the same stuff but they arent derogatory about it.

Would it make any sense if any of you ladies where called a "nappy headed ho" by a middle aged white man,and his response was "black rappers say it too" ?

Degrading woman is part of gangsta rap, which is disseminated throughout the "hood", by the influence of mainsteam.


How many MC's or rappers like Talib Kweli (sp?) are put out on the mainstreams as opposed to the underground nowadays? The ghetto is solely exposed to the rap that's patronized by the mainsteam, like MTV (i.e gangsta rap). This isn't '93 anymore. Good, clean rap has become extinct. Todays Hip Hop era is like the baseball's version of the dead-ball era. . . .DEAD    

Homer.

I don't doubt that. lol
the tone in my post came out different than I intended.
just that a lot of whites in my area call her white trash. they call jessica simpson red neck.

still can't believe britney got a documentary all to herself.

Thanks,I  have seen it 

Check out this article -

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007
Why does hip-hop hate black women?


The comedian Greg Giraldo has a great bit about that guy Brian Nichols who went ape shit in a court room down in Atlanta. He managed to steal a gun from a court officer, pistol whipped a buncha people, murdered a couple more people, then held a woman hostage for about seven hours. But then the woman made him breakfast and he let her go.

The message there, according to Greg Giraldo: “It wouldn’t kill you girls to learn your way around the kitchen.”

Similarly, I wonder if it wouldn’t kill black women to make themselves more likable both in terms of their appearance and their attitudes. And I only say this because important members of the black community such as Oprah and Russell Simmons have been calling for dialogue between black women and the hip-hop community, and I think dialogue has to be a two-way street.

You ‘bags know I live to disagree with Oprah Winfrey, but in this case I have to agree with her about a lot of things. For example, I’ve been complaining for years that hip-hop is turning into the modern day equivalent of a minstrel show. Not to turn this into a regional thing, but is it any wonder that all this is taking place during a time in which hip-hop radio is overrun with god-awful southern rap?

But, then (and this is the part where the whole two-way street comes in), would this even be nearly as much of an issue if there wasn’t such a state of romantic disfunction in the black community? As the incident with the crazed chinaman down in Virginia proved, not having anyone to make love to during the even can cause a person to lash out, and I wonder if that isn’t the case here as well.

The thing about stereotypes that makes them particularly hurtful is that there’s usually an element of truth to them; and the truth of the matter is that black women aren’t exactly the most lovable group of people. I mean, we can go back and forth with the name calling and what have you, but it’s not like they became the least married group of people in this country by choice.

Men lie, and nappy headed hoes lie, but the numbers don’t, people.

Like I said, I tend to agree with Oprah, Rush, et al. that something needs to be done about cleaning up the airwaves, but I wonder if the airwaves wouldn’t have gotten so filthy in the first place if black men had a better overall opinion of black women. If that’s the case, and I think it is, then we all might need to take a look in the mirror.

Boo-hoo, boo-hoo, F-ing hoo. Cry a river and float on down it.  Get over it crybabies. The deed is done, and will continue to be done in the future. Folks need to learn their place, along with the legendary lesson of that if you mess with FIRE you might get burnt. I'm more than satisfied with the Imus outcome. Another one bites the dust. Bring on the next contestant who wants to challenge. We're becoming masters at this ish.  

He was a slippery one for us, but we finally managed to get his can canned. This is a joyous moment. We've been attempting for years to get his show cancelled. This was not the first time he's made blatantly racist remarks on the radio toward blacks. He on air stated that he specifically hired his sidekick because he was good at telling jokes about black folks in which he ((Imus)) loved to get a good laugh at.

A couple of years later another fire storm was raised when he stated that sisters Serena and Venus Williams, the famous WTA tennis stars,  looked as if they were more fit to be in a Zoo than on the tennis court. That is just two of the many verbal attacks on black he's gotten away with over the years, there's many, many more along with many other racial attacks he's targeted toward Asians, Hispanics, gays and other groups.

You'all should be ashamed of yourself for supporting that filthy bastard RACIST. You should look up the stuff he's said about Africa and Africans in general over the years,  and I bet you then won't be so fast to support him, Toms.