I saw this banner on Davey D's website. Supposedly he is a big hip-hop blogger or something.
This banner is provocative and seems witty enough but if you examine it with any honesty you realize that this is pure coonery.
Look at each of these images. Who do these men protect by not snitching?
- Dick Cheney: Other crooked rich white Republicans who are fucking you in the ass.
- Generic Police Officer: Other crooked cops who are fucking you in the ass. Sometimes literally.
- Karl Rove: Other crooked rich white Republicans such as Dick Cheney, who as I mentioned before, are fucking you in the ass.
- Lyor Cohen: Rick Rubin and other Jewish music executives? I really don't get that one to be honest.
Now let's look at snitching in the inner city.
Who does the generic crime witness in the hood protect by not snitching?
- A rapper, who would call the local precinct he has on speed dial if he saw you sauntering into his gated community?
- A drug dealer, that decimates your neighborhood while dropping innocents with stray gunfire?
Criminals have gotten gen. pop. to embrace prison values and help their business. Rap is the best thing to happen to the drug game in a minute.
The argument that white people don't snitch argument is weak and intellectually dishonest.
Don't defend the indefensible.
Anyway, this post-Imus/60 Minutes climate has got rappers running scared.
Apparently Cam'ron apologized for his coonery on 60 Minutes. Is this real?
T.I. believes we should take our moral example from George Bush.
- "I honestly feel it's a lot more important things [to worry about]," T.I. said last week in his Grand Hustle Studio in Atlanta. "If you want to fix America, you have to start at George Bush and work your way down — you can't start at hip-hop and work your way up."
Obama holla at me!
Didn't TI get his friend murdered because he was making it rain?
Seriously, has anyone seen a rapper intelligently discuss this issue?
Pass a link on if you did.
P.S. - I found one. Underground rapper Paris handled the issue well.
Peep more spineless evasion from Hu$tle $immon$ on CNN,
Why does it sound like Anderson Cooper knows and cares more about black people than Hu$tle?
Run DMC would NOT get signed today.
That is a fact.
And peep Hu$tle Simmon$ cleaning Bill O'Reilly's shoes.
Iza sowwee Massa O'Reilly,
Does Hu$tle really think O'Reilly gives a fuck about poor black people? Or is his entire media frenzy an attempt to get people to purchase his new bullshit self-help book called "Do You" that is currently #34 on Amazon?
I see your game Hu$tle. Nice try though.
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You and Davey D are actually on the same side. The point in his blog entry was that all the attention is given to "stop snitchin" in the black community while the same "code" applies to rich and powerful white men but gets no play.
ReplyDeleteDavey D actually speaks out on many of the same issues that get touched on here.
I agree he seems to have missed the irony.
ReplyDeleteOn a happier note, it looks like Cam'ron hired some angry Spelman grads for his PR staff. That apology sounded almost intelligent, and clearly did not come from his own brain.
I was evaluating the image that went with his blog post.
ReplyDeleteI get the point of his post and I agree with it completely.
I said in a previous post that the police have created some of the hostility that makes people not trust them.
However that image doesn't quite match his intent.
In my eyes.
That code helps white people.
Realistically, it does not help black people.
It's always been a special brand of awful to watch a black social activist being given a momentary platform in the mainstream media, during which they're given one of two real options. They can either defend some morally dubious target of outrage (ie. mainstream rap music or the unconditional refusal to cooperate with police investigations) from attacks, or criticize it and appear to have joined the lynch mob.
ReplyDeleteOkay! That's all the time we have for today! I'd like to thank our guests ...
But hey -- maybe you can join our panel again when white people feel up for another purposely ineffectual blame game concerning race in America! Right now, I think we're all tuckered out. I'll call in a year or so. Keep in touch! Ciao.
Forgot about this gem from the Russell Simmons on O'Reilly video:
ReplyDeleteO'Reilly: "So the Imus thing is actually doing some good. It focused America ..."
See how shit came back? We control the media and will ruthlessly exercise our influence in order to reframe your issues and boomerang them back at you. Rich white people don't play, son.
i love how hu$tle shows up and in every segment on every channel they say, 'btw hu$tle is author of this new book 12 steps to help your life blah blah blah' its all a publicity stunt to get that 5 seconds of his book's cover on the air. what a con man.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you alt_orange, but Russell is not the bastion of intelligent black thought. He embarrassed himself on 2 completely different types of shows.
ReplyDeleteThis is so old -- I'm sorry, I'm neurotic -- but it bothered me that I hadn't clarified myself. When I said "black social activist", I wasn't talking about Russell Simmons at all, but rather making a general point about the position that black culture critics are put in when they make appearances on these show. It spoke to the difficult situation someone like, say, Michael Eric Dyson might find himself in if he appeared on a similar program.
ReplyDeleteIt's completely my fault for not making myself clear, although, to be honest, I didn't expect anyone to think I was referring to Russell Simmons as a "black social activist". It's clear his only interest in appearing was to promote his stupid book. The cultural controversy was coincidental.