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].

[PunkinDrublic]

Originally Posted by ChiefaRoo

She's neither dumb nor ignorant.

You may be right because she says plenty of things that might qualify her as a RW nutjob.

[Mr. Kotter]

Originally Posted by Logical

Like Eminem does not get away with any lyrics he wants to use?

Kotter sometimes you are so full of shit.

Dude, Eminem IS black.

And FTR, Jim often you are absolutely full of shit.

[FAX]

Eminem layed the wood to gummy bears in that one song.

FAX

[KcMizzou]

Just a side note here... I considered myself a hip-hop fan, and I don't know any of these songs. I'm stuck in the 90's, I guess.

Getting old fast...

[Halfcan]

shoot dat ***** and dat ho
buy my cd and gimme sum do

[Chiefs Pantalones]

Is anybody else wondering why this Imus thing is getting a lot of attention? It must be a slow news month.

[FAX]

Well, he talks to three million people every morning, generates millions in profits and charitable donations, and just got bitch slapped like a little girl by two of the biggest blowhards in American history.

I think that's newsworthy, Mr. Vanilla Thunder.

FAX

[Chiefs Pantalones]

Originally Posted by FAX

Well, he talks to three million people every morning, generates millions in profits and charitable donations, and just got bitch slapped like a little girl by two of the biggest blowhards in American history.

I think that's newsworthy, Mr. Vanilla Thunder.

FAX

I don't think it's newsworthy. Big deal that he said those things, and big deal that he got canned. People get fired every day for doing stupid things, so what if it happened to some radio guy.

[FAX]

Originally Posted by Vanilla Thunder

I don't think it's newsworthy. Big deal that he said those things, and big deal that he got canned. People get fired every day for doing stupid things, so what if it happened to some radio guy.

I see your point, Mr. Vanilla Thunder. And, far be it from me to attempt to counter any opinion held by a venerable and honored poster such as yourself.

Still, he's one of the top radio personalities in the country and has been for, lo these many years. It's certainly more newsworthy than which gold-digging rentboy knocked up Anna Nicole.

FAX

[Ultra Peanut]

Preschool race war!

FIGHT! FIGHT!

Preschool race war!

BLACK! WHITE!

[Ultra Peanut]

Hell I went and saw Carlos Mencia, he made so much fun of white people it was crazy (funny too though).

Die in a ****ing fire.

[HolmeZz]

Originally Posted by Mr. Kotter

You have obvious reading comprehension problems, so I'll spell out what I've said probably a dozen times in various threads on the topic:

Imus deserved what he got; the problem is, there are a WHOLE lot of other talking heads and "entertainers" who deserve precisely the same.

THAT is what I'm railing against; the blatant double-standard and hypocrisy. THIS is no longer about Imus; it's about the rest of the trash that needs taken out of the public square.

I've only seen you come down on hip-hop. I haven't seen you focus in on The Sopranos or violent video games. It only seems like you're exploiting this incident so that you can zero-in on rap, similarly to the way Sharpton has exploited it to get his face out there more and to plug his radio show.

[KcMizzou]

Originally Posted by Ultra Peanut

Die in a ****ing fire.

Pfft, you're Ned's biggest fan.

[Chiefs Pantalones]

Originally Posted by FAX

I see your point, Mr. Vanilla Thunder. And, far be it from me to attempt to counter any opinion held by a venerable and honored poster such as yourself.

Still, he's one of the top radio personalities in the country and has been for, lo these many years. It's certainly more newsworthy than which gold-digging rentboy knocked up Anna Nicole.

FAX

I didn't even know who he was until this.

And I really don't know which is less newsworthy between Smith and this.

[Ultra Peanut]

Originally Posted by KcMizzou

Pfft, you're Ned's biggest fan.

Only I can appreciate his unique blend of topical German-Honduran humor! He's so original!