The RealClearPolitics blog at Time Magazine posted up a couple of YouTube clips from Monday's Oprah episode.
The discussion has officially switched from powerful white guys closing ranks around a known offender to making those bad, bad negroes behave.
Just as I expected.
Okay, you want the negroes to behave, let me tell you how to do that.
See, you have to keep in mind where we are (the USofA), how we operate (caviat emptor is official recognition that corporations are free to go wilding) and what that does to your average human.
Eighty-one percent of 18- to 25-year-olds surveyed in a Pew Research Center poll released today said getting rich is their generation's most important or second-most-important life goal; 51% said the same about being famous.
"We're seeing the common person become famous for being themselves," says David Morrison of the Philadelphia-based research firm Twentysomething Inc. MTV and reality TV are in large part fueling these youthful desires, he says.
"Look at Big Brother and other shows. People being themselves can be incredibly famous and get sponsorship deals, and they can become celebrities," he says. "It's a completely new development in entertainment, and it's having a crossover effect on attitudes and behavior."
The results of the Pew telephone survey of 579 young people describe the "millennial" generation (also known as Gen Y), who were born since the early 1980s and were raised in the glow and glare of their parents' omnipresent cameras. While experts say it's natural for humans to seek attention, these young people revel in it. They're accustomed to being noticed, having been showered with awards and accolades.
This is what we're working with.
Now, if every Black person in the country just lost interest in hip-hop, that would still leave 80% of the market intact...more than enough for the entertainment industry to get rich(er) on, and for knotheads to get famous for.
This being the case, there's a really simple way...really, the only way...to clean up the gangsta aspect of the cullture: stop paying kids to act that way.
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maybe where a time-warner financed organ took it...,
but what you prescribe above is precisely where the big O, Dr. Robin Smith, women of spelman, aided and abetted by precision sniping from Stanley Crouch took it. Overall, I suspect you woulda been pleased with how Oprah handled binnis..,
Oprah's Show
So the niggerati is now claiming that Don Imus called eight black female teenagers "nappy headed ho's" because some rappers use terms that denigrate black women? When did Don Imus start listening to rap music?
Imus was influenced by
Imus was influenced by minstelsy before it took the form of gansta rap. Some of his bits were throwbacks of Amos and Andy routines and old Stepin-Fetchit movies. Â
Amos and Andy
Some of his bits were throwbacks of Amos and Andy routines and old Stepin-Fetchit movies.
Well, it was the niggerati and their obsession with racial integration that succeeded in getting Amos and Andy removed from television but Tim Moore and the rest of the cast never, never acted like minstrels or chicken-eatin', head scratching, shuffling buffoons. I still think that the episodes in which Kingfish sold Andy bullet proof invisible glass and a house that was only a movie facade are among the funniest things I have ever seen on television period. In addition, Amos worked every day and had a beautiful family and a nice, well decorated apartment. The show also featured black actors playing the role of judges, doctors, attorneys, school teachers, store owners, hotel owners, Pullman porters, bellhops, cops, carpenters, plumbers etc. In other words, the high and low of the black community.
Fast forward to 1973 and we get Esther Rolle and John Amos living in the projects and their oldest child played by Jimmy J.J. Walker running around saying "Dynomite" every ten minutes. Talk about a minstrel act.
Stepin' Fetchit was entirely another matter. I still don't get his act at all but he was convinced that he was a pioneer for other black comedians. Maybe he was, but not in the same way that you would say that Louis Armstrong influenced Dizzy Gillespie or Miles Davis. In any case, Moms Mabley, Red Foxx and Pigmeat Markham were his superiors in every respect.
Whitlock flippin up on 'em
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I thought that was cool
I thought that was cool enough to broadcast.
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