DISCLAIMER: If you are quick to judge an opinion and accuse somebody as being racist for their thoughts on a society that thrives on conflict then you may want to click your browser and view a different webpage because this week has been very frustrating. If you keep up with current events a little bit then you know what I am about to talk about.
IMUS/RUTGERS/HO’S/NAPPY HAIR!!!!
First off let me ask the question…. When did having nappy hair become a race thing? Some of my friends accuse me of having nappy hair when I grow it out and I am far from being African American. Notice I did not say black because I don’t think that color describes a person!!! HMM maybe BET should change the name of their company, oh I forgot it is ok in society for minorities to have industries built just to support one specific race. Yes I have completely been driven to bring out all the mysteries in society that I cannot figure out. Why is it ok for Al Sharpton to come to the aid of any African American person who feels they are discriminated against? When has he ever helped out a person of Italian, Irish, German, Asian, or any other nationality not associated with the African American race? Is that racist to seclude every race but your own? But back to the first question why is having nappy hair a racial thing? As far as I know there are Caucasian women on that basketball team, is it a possibility that they have very thick wavy hair? And why is nappy considered derogatory? I know many people that like nappy hair. Here is a definition of nappy with its resource….
nap·py3 –adjective, -pi·er, -pi·est.
1. covered with nap; downy.
2. (of hair) kinky.
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.
I remember pictures of the original Woodstock, there were many different nationalities that attended and many had long dreaded nappy hair. Ok enough about what nappy really means because I think we all get the point by now.
The one thing I don’t agree with is calling the female players Ho’s. But once again why is it a racial thing? It is a female thing and their should be women’s rights activist protesting, not Al Sharpton. Can anybody tell me why he thinks only African American women can be called HO’S? Oh I forgot it is a word that rappers made up and use on the norm….just like another word that God forbid anybody use but the African American community. Everybody knows what word I am talking about so I won’t go there. In both cases the words are used in a ignorant matter. But we are talking about the word HO. This can be any women, it’s slang for whore. This is not a racial slur, it is a sexual slur. It slows down the progress that women have made over the years. Please for the love of GOD, somebody explain to me how this can be turned around to make it a racial slur?
Ok, we covered Ho’s and Nappy Hair, so what is left? Oh yeah lets talk about a Donkey’s ASS that is slowing down the process and hard work that Martin Luther king accomplished. Al Sharpton may be doing more to slow down the progress of African American people more then any body else. He is quick to make things into a racial war. I think Martin Luther king had a dream to look at African American, Caucasian American, Asian American, and other minorities as one. He did not want labels that secluded other nationalities. I don’t think his dream envisioned industries and associations like the NAACP and BET that only cater to the needs of African Americans. As much as I want to see equality and racism gone, it will never go away as long as African American leaders push to be recognized by their ethnicity and not their character. Whenever you see anything happen that spotlights an African American and a Caucasian conflict, Al Sharpton is there to referee. WHY? WHY? WHY? Can somebody tell me why?
I do know this. The next time a African American person refers to me as a “White Boy” I will be making a complaint. I think that is as derogatory as any thing a Caucasian can say to an African American. I don’t know who I have to make a complaint to, but I will do it. Oh I think I will contact the rainbow coalition and see if they will help me out. Would Al Sharpton help me out if I am called a “white boy”? I think we all know the answer to that, but I guess racism is only occurring when it is convenient for him. There are certain words which should not be used by anybody. Ignorance is ignorance! I have not located that special dictionary that puts an asterisk by a word and states it can only be used by an African American or a Caucasian. Has anybody scene that dictionary because I would love to see it. Well that is enough for today; I’m sure I will get the usual ignorant comments accusing me of being racist so I have to brace myself for it. Until next time “Have a Nice Day” and keep it Nappy (yes my hair is nappy in the morning when I wake up).
Me
Me and My Boy
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Even an "African American" man agrees with you.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/13/martin.imus/index.html
I agree with you as well. It is time the African American people took responsibility for their individual actions and stopped blaming society for all their woes. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are great examples of trying to make small issues into slavery issues. I am not prejudiced but too many people are confusing real race issues with individual issues. It seems racisim has become a scapegoat for all African American problems. Here is an article written by Jason Whitlock who happens to be an African American.
Imus isn’t the real bad guy
Instead of wasting time on irrelevant shock jock, black leaders need to be fighting a growing gangster culture.
By JASON WHITLOCK - Columnist
Thank you, Don Imus. You’ve given us (black people) an excuse to avoid our real problem.
You’ve given Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson another opportunity to pretend that the old fight, which is now the safe and lucrative fight, is still the most important fight in our push for true economic and social equality.
You’ve given Vivian Stringer and Rutgers the chance to hold a nationally televised recruiting celebration expertly disguised as a news conference to respond to your poor attempt at humor.
Thank you, Don Imus. You extended Black History Month to April, and we can once again wallow in victimhood, protest like it’s 1965 and delude ourselves into believing that fixing your hatred is more necessary than eradicating our self-hatred.
The bigots win again.
While we’re fixated on a bad joke cracked by an irrelevant, bad shock jock, I’m sure at least one of the marvelous young women on the Rutgers basketball team is somewhere snapping her fingers to the beat of 50 Cent’s or Snoop Dogg’s or Young Jeezy’s latest ode glorifying nappy-headed pimps and hos.
I ain’t saying Jesse, Al and Vivian are gold-diggas, but they don’t have the heart to mount a legitimate campaign against the real black-folk killas.
It is us. At this time, we are our own worst enemies. We have allowed our youths to buy into a culture (hip hop) that has been perverted, corrupted and overtaken by prison culture. The music, attitude and behavior expressed in this culture is anti-black, anti-education, demeaning, self-destructive, pro-drug dealing and violent.
Rather than confront this heinous enemy from within, we sit back and wait for someone like Imus to have a slip of the tongue and make the mistake of repeating the things we say about ourselves.
It’s embarrassing. Dave Chappelle was offered $50 million to make racially insensitive jokes about black and white people on TV. He was hailed as a genius. Black comedians routinely crack jokes about white and black people, and we all laugh out loud.
I’m no Don Imus apologist. He and his tiny companion Mike Lupica blasted me after I fell out with ESPN. Imus is a hack.
But, in my view, he didn’t do anything outside the norm for shock jocks and comedians. He also offered an apology. That should’ve been the end of this whole affair. Instead, it’s only the beginning. It’s an opportunity for Stringer, Jackson and Sharpton to step on victim platforms and elevate themselves and their agenda$.
I watched the Rutgers news conference and was ashamed.
Martin Luther King Jr. spoke for eight minutes in 1963 at the March on Washington. At the time, black people could be lynched and denied fundamental rights with little thought. With the comments of a talk-show host most of her players had never heard of before last week serving as her excuse, Vivian Stringer rambled on for 30 minutes about the amazing season her team had.
Somehow, we’re supposed to believe that the comments of a man with virtually no connection to the sports world ruined Rutgers’ wonderful season. Had a broadcaster with credibility and a platform in the sports world uttered the words Imus did, I could understand a level of outrage.
But an hourlong press conference over a man who has already apologized, already been suspended and is already insignificant is just plain intellectually dishonest. This is opportunism. This is a distraction.
In the grand scheme, Don Imus is no threat to us in general and no threat to black women in particular. If his words are so powerful and so destructive and must be rebuked so forcefully, then what should we do about the idiot rappers on BET, MTV and every black-owned radio station in the country who use words much more powerful and much more destructive?
I don’t listen or watch Imus’ show regularly. Has he at any point glorified selling crack cocaine to black women? Has he celebrated black men shooting each other randomly? Has he suggested in any way that it’s cool to be a baby-daddy rather than a husband and a parent? Does he tell his listeners that they’re suckers for pursuing education and that they’re selling out their race if they do?
When Imus does any of that, call me and I’ll get upset. Until then, he is what he is — a washed-up shock jock who is very easy to ignore when you’re not looking to be made a victim.
No. We all know where the real battleground is. We know that the gangsta rappers and their followers in the athletic world have far bigger platforms to negatively define us than some old white man with a bad radio show. There’s no money and lots of danger in that battle, so Jesse and Al are going to sit it out.
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