Nappy-headed Ho?... "a drop in the ocean of barbaric filth and anti-female hatred"

[Mr. Kotter]

http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs...119/COLUMNISTS

Imus' language not unusual

Published: April 13, 2007
The following column contains strong language that may be offensive to some readers.

By Michelle Malkin
McClatchy Times

Let's stipulate: I have no love for Don Imus, Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson. A pox on all their race-baiting houses.

Let's also stipulate: The Rutgers women's basketball team didn't deserve to be disrespected as "nappy-headed hos." No woman deserves that. I agree with the athletes that Imus's misogynist mockery was "deplorable, despicable and unconscionable." And as I noted on Fox News "O'Reilly Factor" this week, I believe top public officials and journalists who have appeared on Imus' show should take responsibility for enabling Imus - and should disavow his longstanding invective.

But let'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 No. 1 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, ***** gimme what you got . . .

. . . We into big spinners

See my pimping never dragged

Find me wit' different women that you *****s 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 ***** dis is what I mean

Let's move down the Billboard list, shall we? The No. 2 rap track in the nation this week is by rappers Bow Wow and R. Kelly. The "song" is called "I'm a Flirt," and it's been on the charts for 12 weeks:

Ima b pimpin

I don't be slippin

When it come down to these hos

I don't love em

We don't cuff em

Man that's just the way it goes

I pull up in the Phantom

All the ladies think handsome

Jewelry shining, I stay stuntin'

That's why these *****s can't stand em

Ima chick mag-a-net

And anything fine I'm bag-gin it

And if she got a man, I don't care

10 toes and I wanna be, cause I gotta have it

Now the moral of the story is cuff yo chick, 'cause hey,

I'm black, fresh, and I rap, plus I'm rich, and I'm a flirt.

Al Sharpton, I am sure, is ready to call a press conference with the National Organization for Women to jointly protest this garbage and the radio stations and big pimpin' music companies behind it.

Or perhaps the New Civility Squad is not convinced yet that the Billboard chart toppers I've highlighted are representative? Let's proceed to No. 3 on the Billboard rap charts this week (and on the charts for the past 13 weeks): "Go Getta" by a rapper named "Young Jeezy" with a special appearance by R. Kelly (again!). Here's the "chorus":

You know we trap all day

Play all night

Dis Is Da Life Of A Go Getta (Ey) Go Getta (Ey) Go Getta (Yea)

U In Da Club

U C A Bad Bitch

Point Her Out (Oh)

Yea U Damn Right Ima (Ey)

You Damn Right Ima Go Getta (Ey) Go Getta (Ey) Go Getta (Yea)

One dumb radio/television shock jock's insult is a drop in the ocean of barbaric filth and anti-female hatred on the radio.

Imus gets a two-week suspension and then fired. What kind of relief do we get from these rappers and their music industry enablers who have helped turn America into Tourette's Nation?

Michelle Malkin is author of "Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild." Her e-mail address is [email protected].

[NewChief]

"This is Why I'm Hot" is a good jam. Expect to hear it a lot at Arrowhead this year, though it may be considered played out by then.

[Mr. Kotter]

Originally Posted by NewChief

"This is Why I'm Hot" is a good jam. Expect to hear it a lot at Arrowhead this year, though it may be considered played out by then.

You mean, the artist and record executive aren't going to be fired?

I thought this sort of stuff is insulting and unacceptable....

oh, my bad; that's only when it comes from an old white dude. Got it.

[stevieray]

I know that any song with ****** in it gets my vote...hopefully the young kids will sing along... that would rule.

[NewChief]

BTW, I'm not sure I would call it "barbaric." Barbarians would never ride on spinners. That's a sign of culture, baby.

[Saulbadguy]

I just tend not to use words that may potentially upset someone.

[Mr. Kotter]

Originally Posted by Saulbadguy

I just tend not to use words that may potentially upset someone.

I thought that was the standard--even if I, personally, didn't always live by it.

But, apparently, you CAN say offensive things, as long as you are the right race, gender, or other appropriate "group."

[Saulbadguy]

Originally Posted by Mr. Kotter

I thought that was the standard--even if I, personally, didn't always live by it.

But, apparently, you CAN say offensive things, as long as you are the right race, gender, or other appropriate "group."

No - just depends on if you are a celebrity or not.

[NewChief]

Originally Posted by stevieray

I know that any song with ****** in it gets my vote...hopefully the young kids will sing along... that would rule.

Heh. Check out the full lyrics to some of the songs they already play, such as "We Ready." Just because parts of the song are filthy doesn't mean that they won't be playing it at Arrowhead. I can definitely see a big completion or a sack being followed up with the chorus of "This is why I'm hot."

[Simplex3]

Originally Posted by Mr. Kotter

You mean, the artist and record executive aren't going to be fired?

I thought this sort of stuff is insulting and unacceptable....

oh, my bad; that's only when it comes from an old white dude. Got it.

$10 says the record exec. is white.

[Simplex3]

Originally Posted by Saulbadguy

No - just depends on if you are a celebrity or not.

The two miscreants walking down the sidewalk yesterday calling eachother "my ni**er" didn't look like celebrities to me.

[jidar]

Originally Posted by Saulbadguy

No - just depends on if you are a celebrity or not.

Me too. You never know when someone is going to start acting like a bundle of sticks.

[chagrin]

I tried this argument once, and I got piled on by several sympathizers to these poor black kids' plight. As it turns out we are supposed to repek them because they got out of the hood by singing such trash.

True story, even though I tried to explain my own sorrowful tale of loss, cancer and drug seelling/addiction/homelessness, they didn't care - I am nto black and it didn't matter to them that I made it through all that to "rsie up-aah".

It simple, it's a one way street and we should all pay for the sins of Slavery, even though slavery was and still is active on other parts of the world. By the way, I wonder how the African slave traders are treated, even the ones that moved here as well?

I suppose that also doesn't matter

[PunkinDrublic]

I hate Michelle Malkin she's a self hating Asian who actually wrote a book defending internment camps in WWII.

[Mr. Kotter]

Originally Posted by PunkinDrublic

I hate Michelle Malkin she's a self hating Asian who actually wrote a book defending internment camps in WWII.

A slanty-eyed ho, eh?