The educated and articulate young women at Rutgers did themselves proud this week. They no more needed Reverend Al Sharpton or Reverend Jesse Jackson to come to their defense then Batman needed Robin as his annoying sidekick. Since the fearsome duo, Reverends Jackson and Sharpton, have now done their best to trip over each other to gain as much media attention for themselves as possible and extract their usual pound of white flesh, we'd like you to ponder the following.
With Imus being canned, keep an eye out for just how much real energy, effort, and public pressure these two will be willing to place on punishing black hate rappers and their music industry executives for spreading similar vile phrases on the airwaves and in the pop subculture media. Will they crucify the "gangsta rap" movement as actively and with the same forceful energy in order to retain any semblance of credibility and integrity within their black communities? How can it be business as usual for them without looking like a pair of hypocrites with massive double standards to both the black and white community alike?
Is Imus a racist? Maybe or maybe not. One must wonder how much of the pain that found it's way from his microphone to those awesome athletes at Rutgers, black and white alike, has in its roots a perverse moral subculture that has only recently been questioned by high profile black leaders. Kudos to Bill Cosby, who was one of the first actor/comedians to speak out publicly against it. We expect that Barack Obama will be looking at the polls on this subject very carefully, lest a misstep occur.
Everyday the gangsta rap subculture of hateful rap lyrics and self-debasing black comedy creeps further into mainstream music, podcasts, and stand up comedy. It seems as long as it is sung or spoken by a black performer it's perfectly acceptable. Ironically, if you listen closely you will find both young white and black friends together socially singing these lyrics in the same company almost oblivious to the images these lyrics convey. They play them at parties together and listen to them in cars together.
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