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

[Mr. Kotter]

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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].

[Uncle_Ted]

Originally Posted by CHIEF4EVER

Actually, YES. If you are offended by the term, you are offended by the term and that is understandable and to be respected......BY EVERYONE REGARDLESS OF PIGMENTATION AT BIRTH. Being of the same birth pigmentation as someone using a racial slur doesn't give them the right to use a term so "offensive" if people of other birth pigmentations can't say the same without causing offense. This concept is called APPLICATION OF A SINGLE STANDARD.

Ridiculous. There's not a single person in the entire world that applies the standard you profess. If there is, I'd like to see the bubble they live in.

The point I'm trying to make is that you are viewing the issue from your perspective ... as the speaker. ("What am I allowed to say? If I can't say it they can't say it.") You are not viewing it from the perspective of the person who truly matters, the recipient of the comment.

What you are saying is that if I call you some curse word, that is the exact same thing as if your significant other or your best friend from work, school, wherever had said it, even if they say it in jest? That you will be offended equally all the way around?

Ask yourself why anyone is offended when someone else makes a racial slur towards them? It's not just because someone used some particular forbidden string of syllables. It's the hatred, the disrespect, the mean-spiritedness that the word conveys. That's why I don't get offended when one of my buddies greets me on the phone with "what's up asshole?" -- because I know that he's not conveying a message of disrepect toward me by calling me that. But if a "stranger" calls me that, I have no way to know that. Context.

[HolmeZz]

Originally Posted by Mr. Kotter

rights without regard to personal responsibility is becoming an epidemic in this country.

Says the guy defending Imus?

[CHIEF4EVER]

Originally Posted by Uncle_Ted

Ridiculous. There's not a single person in the entire world that applies the standard you profess. If there is, I'd like to see the bubble they live in.

The point I'm trying to make is that you are viewing the issue from your perspective ... as the speaker. ("What am I allowed to say? If I can't say it they can't say it.") You are not viewing it from the perspective of the person who truly matters, the recipient of the comment.

What you are saying is that if I call you some curse word, that is the exact same thing as if your significant other or your best friend from work, school, wherever had said it, even if they say it in jest? That you will be offended equally all the way around?

Ask yourself why anyone is offended when someone else makes a racial slur towards them? It's not just because someone used some particular forbidden string of syllables. It's the hatred, the disrespect, the mean-spiritedness that the word conveys. That's why I don't get offended when one of my buddies greets me on the phone with "what's up asshole?" -- because I know that he's not conveying a message of disrepect toward me by calling me that. But if a "stranger" calls me that, I have no way to know that. Context.

What you just posted is a pitiful attempt to substantiate a double standard regards how people express themselves to others. It is known in other circles as HYPOCRISY. I am sure you are intelligent enough to know that your friend calling you "asshole" in jest is nothing like him using a universally recognized racial slur. Those who are offended by the term (the racial slur) are right for being offended by it - but that doesn't give them leave to be SELECTIVELY indignant if the same slur is used by a certain ethnic group over another. Either the term is RIGHT to use or it is WRONG to use.

[Mr. Kotter]

Originally Posted by HolmeZz

Says the guy defending Imus?

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.

[PunkinDrublic]

Originally Posted by Mr. Kotter

A slanty-eyed ho, eh?

No it's just hard for me to stay objective about anything she says because she's such a dumb ignorant bitch who I can't stand.

[Uncle_Ted]

Originally Posted by CHIEF4EVER

What you just posted is a pitiful attempt to substantiate a double standard regards how people express themselves to others. It is known in other circles as HYPOCRISY. I am sure you are intelligent enough to know that your friend calling you "asshole" in jest is nothing like him using a universally recognized racial slur. Those who are offended by the term (the racial slur) are right for being offended by it - but that doesn't give them leave to be SELECTIVELY indignant if the same slur is used by a certain ethnic group over another. Either the term is RIGHT to use or it is WRONG to use.

You seem to think that language can only be considered objectively, black and white so to speak, and that's just not the way anyone operates. My hypothetical does make sense because even two hypothetical strangers calling me an "asshole" might be doing so in completely different contexts, and that context is going to govern my reaction. You don't just have some automatic reaction that your brain calls up and automatically uses 100% of the time every time someone calles you an "asshole".

To equate Chappelle using the n-word with some skinhead using the n-word, and to say that you either have to be equally offended by both or offended by neither, is reeruned. Once again, you are refusing to look at it from the perspective of WHY the racial ephitet is offensive to the target of the ephitet in the first place.

[Halfcan]

Wow and some people call rappers uneducated thugs??

[ChiefaRoo]

Originally Posted by PunkinDrublic

No it's just hard for me to stay objective about anything she says because she's such a dumb ignorant bitch who I can't stand.

She's neither dumb nor ignorant.

[Halfcan]

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.

Unless you have an ebonics dictionary- you can't tell what the hell they are saying anyway.

[Halfcan]

Dis is da life go getta ey go getta ey go getta ey

Has there ever been better lyrics than that?

[Logical]

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."

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

Kotter sometimes you are so full of shit.

[FAX]

Nappy, Nappy bo Bappy bonana fanna fo Fappy fee fy mo Mappy ... Nappy!

FAX

[KcMizzou]

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.

Well... (not that I really want to get involved in this) Eminem rarely if ever said things that were racially charged. Nearly everything he did was about drugs, and a poor white up-bringing. Yes, he said terrible things about individuals, but it didn't have anything to do with race.

(I use the past tense, because I haven't heard anything new from him in a couple of years)

[FAX]

Ho, Ho bo Bo bonana fanna fo Fo fee fy mo Mo ... Ho!

FAX

[FAX]

I be rappin'.

Bitch, Bitch bo Bitch bonana fanna fo Fitch fee fy mo Mitch ... Bitch!

FAX