A: When a “New Black Panther” calls a conservative woman of Filipino descent a “political prostitute”.
Then, it’s just speaking Truth to Power.
MAGALAGAPINGPONG!
Watch the entire video, if you have the time. I would add some pithy commentary on the argument made by Mr Shabazz—strikingly similar to the strained argument made by Oliver Willis the other day, incidentally—that record sales, particularly sales to suburban whites, is what necessitates and reinforces the inflammatory language of rap, but B Moe has already put things in precisely the proper perspective:
Malik Shabazz rationalizes offensive language in rap by alleging it is all made possible by white people buying the music. While this may be true, isn’t a black man who sells out his own people to pander to whitey the text book definition of an Uncle Tom?
Good question. Let me ask: WHY DO YOU HATE “AUTHENTIC” BLACK FOLK, OLIVER?
Follow up question: Is there any social ill for which George Washington and his legacy of American Whiteyness is not responsible?
Should that be ‘any social ill‘ or something? I’m just askin’.
Well that’s racist, for a start.
A trick question. There is no social ill for which dead white men are not responsible.
The best part is that, being dead, they can hardly complain or defend themselves.
It’s just a continuation of the ‘80s mantra: there wouldn’t be any black drug dealers if whitey would just stop buying the shit.
So if the inflammitory launguage in rap was necessicary in order to sell records to the white suburbanites then is the associated black on black violence tied to rappers (tupac and biggie, for example) actually an extension of white racism being carried out by unwittingly duped black men validating the “white modeling” of black culture, so that while they believe that they are living out their own unique blackness they are actually clandestinely living down to the white mans definition of their races role, and destroying any authentic black culture, in order to get a buck or two out of some spoiled white kids?
or
Is that just a really big “run on” sentence designed to once again let everyone be the victim to us maniacal crackers?
TW: Don’t ask me thought, my musical tastes never made it outside37 the lyrical musings of Celine Dion because she’s a “canadian national treasure.”
I would like someone to explain to me how slavery is directly responsible for the word ‘ho. Because I feel rather confident that back in the slavery days, references to that word were definitely limited to the gardening implement.
This whole argument (that white men are ultimately responsible for the awful words BLACK men use in their music) just makes my head explode.
I mean, either black men are stupid, and allow whitey to easily use them as tools …
Or they are responsible for their music- the words they write, sing, and the music they buy.
Or, and her is my other perspective; it doesn’t mean ANYTHING. It’s just words you can listen to or ignore. But then the same must be said of the racism of Don Imus and Al Sharpton.
Is “Jabba the Hut” Willis still working under David Brock at the liberal activist group known as Media Matters?
George Washington, et al., are hereby declared not responsible for the following social ills (and thanks for the opportunity to make these very clear).
1. Wrinkled shirts. My wife and I leave the clothes in the drier longer than we should and the shirts end up wrinkled. Our bad.
2. Plastic wrapped tools that are impossible to get open without, say, a tool. George had nothing to do with this theft deterrent packaging.
3. Corndogs. (self explanatory).
4. Rap Music. Some debate on this apparently, but not by any well-informed and rational individuals.
Thank you.
Indeed, Carin.
If we actually controlled what Black men said, and sang, I’d want them to sing “Camptown Lady.”
It was one of Lyle’s favorites.
You’d think that a guy that calls himself a “Black Panther” wouldn’t see all Black Rappers as victims to Whitey. Seems I dunno…kinda wimpy to me. I’m old enough to remember the original Black Panthers, those guys were a bit tougher apparently.
Of course this is all bunk anyway, everybody knows there’s only ONE Black Panther, and he’s too busy running Wakanda and bedding Storm to talk to Michelle Malkin.
I used to love maniacal crackers and milk at snack time. I liked the way that the box looked like a circus wagon, too.
Being alive doesn’t exempt one from responsibility, it seems. I think the phrase you’re looking for is: There is no social ill for which white men are not responsible.
I think I would have remembered raping those 1.6 million black women, but I can’t seem to recall it.
OUCH! That cuts deep, Bmoe
The snarky, edgy timbre of this current race-debate makes me very grateful for Imus’ loose tongue. I think it has brought the race-industry and urban hip-hop culture into sharp relief. If there was an award for accidental genius, Imus’d be my nominee.
Now, with CBS piling on, the topic of crass pop-etiquette will endure in our media for at least another week. The longer this goes one, the more disgusted with it, not Imus, America will become.
And, Earth to the Dems, “Get a new slate in “o-eight.” Because Snoop Doggy Dog and Al Sharpton ain’t emblematic of American values. Just sayin’s all.
hat record sales, particularly sales to suburban whites, is what necessitates and reinforces the inflammatory language of rap, but B Moe has already put things in precisely the proper perspective:
Not to hog the thread, but this arguments gets to me. Here in Detroit, it isn’t suburban white kids I hear with this crap. They may make up a bulk of the sales, only because they are a larger part of the population, BUT there are an awful lot of black kids (dare I say “most”? yes I dare) that listen to this crap. Are they just slaves buying what their master says?
Around me, even in the city, all the crackers listen to country. Rap music may TODAY be supported strongly by white suburban kids – they were NOT the ones who “invented” it, or built it up to what it is today. That rest squarely on the shoulders of the scary brown men.
Which is a great point, especially when weighed against the notion that alcoholism and violence wouldn’t be a problem in urban neighborhoods if, for example, Koreans would stop opening liquor stores in the ‘hood.
I’ve said for years that today’s rappers are going to be looked back on as this era’s Amos ‘n’ Andy, Stepin Fetchit, you name it.
Of course, by that time, the airbrushes will have done their work and the African-American (or whatever moniker it has picked by then) community will have managed to disavow any connection to the likes of Snoop Dogg, Notorious B.I.G., etc., making this another ofay-driven putdown of the Noble Black Man. What good is a moral panic if the Usual Suspects can’t be dragged out for a good thwacking?
On one of those videos, the claim was made that Don Imus makes more than Snoop Dog. What do you think the chances of that being true are?
Michelle could not have handled this better. She had him stumbling all over the place.
I just love it when that happens.
George Washington didn’t compel any of the great popular black musicians of the first nine decades of the twentieth century to make records about N-words pimp-slappin’ up their H-words. (Half the blues is about being done wrong by some woman, but by a woman you care for, not one you rent for an hour.)
Crafty bastard, that George Washington, skipping Louis Armstrong and Robert Johnson and Chuck Berry and Big Mama Thornton and the Temptations and the Marsalis family and the Jackson Five and Aretha Franklin and Etta James and Billie Holliday and Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five and Lionel Richie and the Sugar Hill Gang and LL Cool J and going straight to Snoop Dogg, Lil Kim, and that “My Humps” broad whose name I can’t be bothered to learn because that song’s not even in the same ZIP code as actual music.
Love the beret-wearing honor guard. “Black Powah!”
It’s so 70’s, y’know?
Powah to da peepuls! Right on, y’all….
Wasn’t George Washington the real first black president?
I just thing that Malik Shabazz is being too modest.
Same with the record execs. How much is Tommy Mottola et al taking home from the sale of rap vs. Snoop or 50 Cent? The former makes a fraction of their income from misogynistic music, the latter make all of their income from it, and they write it.
But then, those record execs are white boys, so, you know…
Except for when they’re not.
I like how Shabazz makes the leap that rap is what it is because white kids buy it and white men produce it. What I’d like to ask him is, if we could magically stop white kids from buying it, and we could make white music executives “people of color”, would the music change? Would we stop hearing about “bitches & hos” and hear some actual respect for black women from these rappers? More importantly, would the money dry up?
People who insult George Washinton are putting their lives at risk.
Reading from today’s paper:
“We cannot afford a precedent established that the airways can commercialize and mainstream sexism and racism” – Rev. Al “Crown Heights” Sharpton
The room began to spin, careening off its axis, and then, further along in the story
“No one should use the public airwaves to transmit racial or sexual degradation” – Rev. Jesse “But religious hatred is okay” Jackson
I was getting nauseas, my head began to hurt, blood starting pouring from my eyes and ears, I felt a stabbing pain in my chest…
I turned to PW for some comfort in this time of distress, only to learn that
“Over 1 million-600-thousand black women have been sexually assaulted and raped by white men … None of them have been prosecuted.”
Is it too early in the day to have a drink?
See, that’s what we miss when JG takes a break.
I will, in my more pedantic way, point out (as I will every time the opportunity presents itself) that Donut Boy Willis was attacking her using her maiden name to highlight her ethnic background at the same time she was receiving all sorts of racist hate mail. Indeed, his attack was that she was prostituting her work for rich white guys.
His co-workers in the Sorosphere did the same.
So the similarity of O-Dub’s blubberings to Mr Shabazz’s more obvious hate speech has a long pedigree… though Willis wiped his from Google (but not the web archive).
Meh. Rap’s like metal. Some good, most crap.
I used to like really old Curtis Blow or Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. But that was 23 years ago…
Now I’d rather sit quietly with some Bach or maybe something Irish and instrumental. You know….dead white male music.
I’ve now read Thomas Sowell’s “Black Rednecks and White Liberals” twice and think that Shabazz and his ilk should be encouraged to read it at least once.
Kudos to Michelle Malkin for putting up a reasonable argument in the face of dishonest people.
Be reasonable. It’s bad enough being raped without being prosecuted for it too.
Michelle was awsome and held herself well.
shabazz came off like a racist ass.
period. dot.
Austin Mike:
It is clear that corndogs are a symbol, in the minds of some, of Sourthern White Middle-Class life, and thus oppression, and thus institutionalized racism, and thus can be laid at the feed of George Washington Carver. I mean George Washington.
On the other hand, that might be satire. Or sarcasm, really.
2) and secondly, Michelle Malkin outrages the nutroots even more than Ann Coulter does, because as she is genetically Asian and not a Honkey, she is SUPPOSED to be on their side!
The fact that the grotesque racist and sexist slurs thrown against her (and Dr. Rice, and others) result in neither mass condemnation from the left nor mass exodus from the left shows me that racism and sexism are, in fact, the norm and accepted on the left.
Leftists are, on average, bigots. Push them a little, and they engage in a variety of prejudices and ad hominems based on class and gender, push them a little more and their supremacist bigotry becomes apparent.
I cannot even BEGIN to count all the times I’ve conversed with liberals where they let slip some racial or sexual slur and then excused it because THEY’RE LIBERALS.
Don’t accept the excuse, call a bigot a bigot.