This entry was posted on Monday, April 16th, 2007 at 5:44 AM and filed under , , , . Follow comments here with the feed. Luke and crew were irate all last week over Imus, typical McCoy rant:
if THEY can say the n-word, then why can t we?
He can t seem to get over the fact that it isn t 1928 anymore and this isn t Dixieville, Alabama. The old boy McCoy really does not understand why Imus got canned, it s really over his head.
He fell back time and again to the same tired argument that if African-Americans can say something, then by dawggies he should be able to say it, too.
And of course he blamed the urban culture for inventing rap and hip-hop, so I guess what he concluded was, it was the fault of the Rutgers players for being born African American. Tsk, they shoulda known better! I know I m going to catch a ton of you-know-what for saying this but I almost see where McCoy is coming from (here we go .
). I ve heard a lot of people weigh in on the Imus thing and, one thing that people keep coming back to is the fact that Imus only got in the amount of trouble he did because he s white. I kind of have to agree.
I can just about guarantee that it was t a white person that coined the term nappy headed ho s .
I read or heard (not sure which)a good interview with someone who lives in California and who listened to Imus every morning and who happens to be a black woman. She made a statement that sort of made me look at the whole thing from a different angle she said that for a long time white people using terms like nappy headed and ho and similar phrases was completely out of the question yet, because of the blending of the hip-hop culture into mainstream entertainment, most people are desensitized to the racial implications surrounding those terms.
I kind of have to agree. When people of every color, creed, etc can hear ho this and ho that on MTV or radio it s not a stretch to think that those terms are going to work themselves into other areas of entertainment.
So it s not really blaming hip-hop so much as saying hey, this is probably why he thought it may be OK to say .
It s not OK that he said what he said. Please don t think that I m excusing it I m not. I just think that the issues between the races are deeper and will require more effort than firing Imus.
Somone asked what the WCOA crowd would make of the VT shootings, here s a play by play of yesterday s Hate Ranch Roundup with Cowboy Luke:
First 20 minutes, mostly sedate. Then the hate started. First up, pro-gun nuts.
A flurry of callers wanted guns in every classroom. Called liberals who oppose NRA every name in the book and said they were responsible for all the dead kids.
By the end of the first hour, the religion nuts started to call in, they said it was god s punishment for kicking HIM out of the classroom, and for allowing homosexuals on campus.
After the 5:00 news, the anti-video game and rock music crowd started in, all those kids are zombie s due to Grand Theft Auto and Marilyn Manson.
By the end of the show, it was business as ususal with liberals, democrats, Clintons, gays and the ACLU being villified and railed against.
This country is so politically divided that we can t stay away from character assasination for one day while we mourned this tragedy.
For those of you who still doubt McCoy is a hate monger, you are very, very wrong. Off the whole Imus subject here but .Whitlock was on Jim Rome last week and, though I unfortunately only caught the end of the interview, I really, really like that guy.
After the interview there were a few email along the lines of he s an Uncle Tom or he s a sellout and Rome did a pretty good job of picking those opinions apart.
It s a sad by-product of the Gangsta rap/Thug life culture when a black man or woman can be put down for being smart or well spoken.
There s a book called White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era that deals with this very subject (among others).
From the title you would think it s an indictment of white people but believe me, it s not. funny how the words senseless killing and hand gun are, more often than not, found in the same news clipping.
Until there s a way to be 99.
99% positive that the person buying a gun isn t a complete lunatic or isn t going to become a complete lunatic, I don t think hand guns should be available at all.
I d love to hear one of the NRA members explain to the parents of a VT student that, had they been packing heat in English class, they may still be alive.
This isn t the wild west we don t need armed citizens to keep law and order.
We need less damn guns in the hands of crazy people. And if that means it s tougher for you or me or anyone to get a gun then so be it. Is the word the lightning rod, words like the N word or is it the person who says the word?
Black, grammy award winning rappers (and local high school basketball coaches) use/have used the N word, and are lauded as cultural iconic heroes, and get a free pass to say what they want.
White man uses the same disgusting N word, and he is run out of a job, and called every terrible name in the book. (Imus did not even use that word)
Continued acceptance of these disparaging words and phrases among African Americans and their community will only lend creedence to the perception that there is a huge double standard in America and white men can no longer speak freely and must self censor their every thought/word.
Radical hate mongers like Farrakhan, sharpton, and rapper Kanye West on the other hand, can still dole out their messages of hate and disgust and divisiveness, and they are lauded as cultural heroes.
Something is wrong in America today, and there seems to be a racial anger and frustration that looms just under the surface What is wrong with us?
Something needs to change in the Hip Hop community perhaps they ought to listen to real, respectable men of color like Alan Keyes, Rod Paige, Michael Steele,Bill
Cosby and even Dinesh D souza.
Or they can just maintain the status quo in perpetuity and blame others for everything that has ever happened to their race forever.
I for one am sick of hearing about it.
RC West,
I absolutely agree with you that only when the African American community cleans up its own act, will they gain the full respect they deserve.
I had the honor of hearing (author and music critic) Stanley Crouch speak at a music convention five years ago. He angered the crowd of record execs and dj s to the point where most of the audience walked out, booing him loudly as they went.
Crouch, who is African American, absolutely denounced the gangsta, rap and hip-hop culture and said it has done more to set back race relations in this country than anything since slavery.
The few remaining audience members, including myself and a handful of mostly black academics, gave him a standing ovation.
Crouch asked how any race could be taken seriously when the overwhelming depiction of them in the popular media is of thugs, rapists and murderers, especially when that race s own young people adopt that culture as their own.
when the African American community cleans up its own act, will they gain the full respect they deserve
Therefore, we brand a race because of its musicians and recording artists.
Have we whites cleaned up our act? There are white performers that degrade women - therefore Imus should call Barbara Bush a silver-haired ho - if I follow your logic.
This is ridiculous.
The Rutgers players deserved to be treated with respect end of story.
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