Christian Defense Coalition Criticize Jackson And Sharpton Over Imus Controversy
Get ready for another “Rappers Make Ignorant Remarks So Don Imus Should Be An Asshole, Too” Defense.
The Christian Defense Coalition is questioning why Sharpton and Jackson crusaded against Imus and not against rap record labels and rap radio stations that promote sexism and racism as well as degrading and demeaning statements against women.
“The comments of Don Imus regarding the Rutgers women’s basketball team are repugnant, hateful and demeaning, not only to women, but to all of society,” said Christian Defense Coalition director Rev. Patrick J. Mahoney. “The outpouring of criticism and condemnation against his vile words are both warranted and justified. However, one wonders why Rev. Jesse Jackson and Rev. Al Sharpton are showing selective moral outrage in the matter.”
“Why aren’t they leading protests outside of rap record labels or radio stations where rap performers portray women in the most vile of terms every day?,” Rev. Mahoney asked.
“I simply ask Rev. Jackson and Rev. Sharpton, where have you been when women are being violated like this every day by rap and hip-hop artists?”
“My hope and prayer is that both clergymen are not basing their selective response on the fact that Don Imus is white and most rap artists are African-American,” Mahoney continued. “The demeaning and degrading of women must be condemned continually on every level. It shouldn’t matter if those hateful comments are being made by ignorant, thoughtless white talk show hosts or by ignorant, thoughtless black rap performers.”
This is such bullshit.
White people don’t do anything else that they feel goes against their moral compass just because “rappers do it,” so why should hate speech be any different? Get a backbone, people.
Futhermore, it isn’t the responsibility of Jesse and Al to curtail the supposed “negative” speech in rap. It’s the responsibility of the people who finance rap music, and guess who that is, everybody- WHITE PEOPLE!
The majority of people going to FYE, Sam Goody, and Target to pick up rap albums are not Black kids from the hood anymore-it’s White kids from surburbia.
With the exception of Jay-Z, L.A Reid, Jermaine Dupri, and some others, what’s the race of most record executives? White, Jewish.
So, since it’s White dollars and manpower that finances and keeps hip-hop going, why don’t the whining “Whiteys” force change in the industry from the inside? Stop your spoiled ass kids from buying hip-hop albums. And if hip-hop needs such a big change, then why don’t the record execs (the majority of whom are White) stop signing “talent” who need to purchase a dictionary?
Finally, people need to cut the Pollyanna crap, about “no woman should be called that, no woman is a ho.) Some women are bitches and hoes-it’s just a fact of life. The difference is, Don Imus doesn’t know anything about the young women on the Rutgers team to be making that assumption.
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On April 12th 2007, incognegro wrote:
Right on! I wholly agree
On April 12th 2007, TanGyal wrote:
finally, some REAL talk.
On April 16th 2007, Michael Lange wrote:
If firing Imus only means that to have kept him would imply that what he said is acceptable, then firing him was the right thing to do; after all, this is supposedly done in the spirit of fairness and equality; right? With that being said, then what must also happen, even if only being indirectly fair to Imus himself…Is that all rappers & hip-hoppers who’ve been guilty of the same improprieties,(in lyrics and videos,) be now held accountable for their roles in the denigration of women; the word “denigration” and the act thereof, is what after all, seemed to be what spurned the whole controversy to begin with; or at least used as an excuse for it. This would seem to be the next step, for failure to do so would not only allow it to continue, thus confirming the existence of a suspected double standard, but also make it appear as though the aforementioned groups shared no culpability in what has made it so commonplace to begin with. If all these things are true, than the same truths apply to to Sharpton and Jackson; both of which, as others have illustrated here, have been guilty of the same infractions and for which neither has ever publicly apologized. I would also like to add at this time (in anticipation that rappers and hip-hop artist may only slightly now clean up their acts,) that the image they convey be also called to task; for while wearing ones pants to reveal the underwear(for one example,)
may only denigrate themselves, our youth emulates them; emulating them in every aspect from sex to the acquisition of “bling-bling” that finds the future of tomorrow placing more emphasis on sneakers, gold teeth, flashy jewelry and spinners for the cars than picking up a book or becoming a dignified adult.
What I think needs to happen here is a unified effort; one that hits with the same veracity that the black community has hit Imus with. Using rappers and the so called hip-hop culture as an example. Firstly, if you listen to that trash, Stop! If you are buying it, Stop! If you watch Flava TV.(or anything like it) Stop! If your children have CDs’ of it, destroy them. If your children wear the baggy pants, cut holes in them.(this put a halt to it when my best friend did it with his boys.) Cash in the gold chains and rings embodying hip-hop. Cease to purchase anything that advertisers use rap or hip-hop to sell. I for one wrote Heineken (maker of beer) when they did it, and they not only responded, telling me that the commercial would be pulled…but actually did it. Good luck with others though; for I’ve tried to no avail. Even stop buying Koolaid if you like drinking red sugar. The advertisers threats were the last straw that broke Imus. Let’s see what happens when we pull out from the advertisers.