Neutral

Man this old people need to sit there a-- down.In the early 90's the rappers was telling the older folk how bad it was in the hood.Instead of the older folks cleaning the hood up they went after the rappers.Now 17years later the rappers are STILL RAPPING and the hood is 5 times worst.And you mean to tell me their no HO's out here please!!!!!!Two words Maury Show.

Reply to this Comment | Report This

Neutral

Artist:Esham Song:Headhunters CD:KKKill the fetus read lyrics

Reply to this Comment | Report This

Neutral

Kudos to those who realize that once again we as a people have been purposely redirected from the real problem of white supremacy. Lets put to rest the debate about calling ourselves niggas in public. I grew up with this term being used in the Black community to express love, anger, and a whole lot of other emmotions. How could we use the term in the manner that white supermacist intended. Nigger was a term that had two different meanings, just like there have always been two Americas. Dick Gregory had a book entitled "Nigger". He dedicated it to his mother, so that when she heard the term being used she would think of his book and not the hatred and inferiority that white supremacy intended the word to mean. Richard Pryor had a movie or album entitled "That Nigger Must Be Crazy". The Last Poets used the word throughout their works as did many other poets. In my community the only taboo about using nigga was you didn't say it around white folks. Now the younger generation has taken the term to another level. Around the world the term "nigga" now is used with pride and love for a tribe of people who had to be warriors of a sense to handle the situation they found themselves in, not by choice. White supremacists never have cared about a nigga(Katrina), so why are they upset about what we call each other. The public use of "nigga" has taken the power and sting from their term "nigger". See how far off track we are with this Imus thing. I am just now getting to what caused us to have this debate in the first place. Imus said out loud what he felt in his heart. What he said was too nasty to let it go unchallenged and he should have lost his job. More telling was the silence of White people in power. Just like Katrina this nation once again has shown what they feel about "African Americans". I hope this will help us to move from this just marking time status we find ourselves in today. We as a people must unite and find the Black Love that sustained us during the worse of times. Dubois questioned whether it was wise to use integration as a tool to lift us out of Jim Crow. He was afraid that we would become the monster we were trying to defeat. We were wrong to think that once whites let themselves know us, that we would be welcomed into the family. After all we are just people like them. We all had the same dreams and wants. We were wrong to think that the children of the slaveowners, would easily accept us as equals. We have torn down all the stereotypes about our inferiority as a people. So why still the unwritten policy to start jailing our males once they hit 16 yrs old. It is a fact that young Black males are no called "untouchables" just like the caste system in India. Our young men are not lazy shiftless jiggers. All this energy spent about the ills of hip hop should have been used, reclaiming our neighborhood schools to stop the uneducation of our youth. Why is the Pelt Grant denied to people who have drug convictions. on Energy needs to be spent stopping racial profiling and the injustice of our penal system to lock up as many brothers as possible to continue to fuel the private prison industry. We need to really be looking at Children Protection Services all over the country. Our children at an alarming rate are being taken from their families and placed in foster care. They fall victim to yet again another industry. Their network is destroyed when they are taken from the family. They are placed from foster home, to emergency shelters, to residential treatment centers and etc. They fail in school because they change schools every time they are moved. The children are subject to more possible abuse in the foster care system. With the destruction of family ties and the low self esteem fostered by this type of care these children are put on the streets once they turn 18. Now most are only fit for prison and a great deal of the homeless children come out of foster care. Right now we are allowing our children to become food to the clinical doctors who diagnosis rediculous things such as Math Disorder. The drug company takes a bite with prescribed drugs for the disorder. The child placing agency gets their share by placing in to homes that don't allow the child to grow up normally due to after all it is just a business. The foster family for alot of kids don't establish a love/parent relationship and estrange the child from their biological family. We as a people. don't have time to waste debating trivial stuff. We got some big issues coming up. I believe that we must join The Covenant with Black America. We have to some how get back to the village, where we did love each other, and cared for the children as if they were our own. We understand that there is strength in unity. Any power that we possess comes when we act as one. We come from shared experiences and know how to put differences aside when it comes to the common good of our society. I embrace the Rap/Hip Hop generation for they are the future. In the 60s and 70s, it drove my father nuts, that boys wore braids and had that gangster lean. It was time of change and now it is time for another change. I must put my trust in this new generation with their new way of doing things. I hope to be a guiding influence but a change is coming. I will end with our need to return to the faith that brought us this far. Our sermons were not about God giving us financial prosperity. It was about our love and praise of God and the love we had for each other as black people and how this love was to be for all mankind. We use to ask for the prosperity of love. In the end love for each other is the only thing we got and worth having.

Reply to this Comment | Report This

Neutral

Kudos to those who realize that once again we as a people have been purposely redirected from the real problem of white supremacy. Lets put to rest the debate about calling ourselves niggas in public. I grew up with this term being used in the Black community to express love, anger, and a whole lot of other emmotions. How could we use the term in the manner that white supermacist intended. Nigger was a term that had two different meanings, just like there have always been two Americas. Dick Gregory had a book entitled "Nigger". He dedicated it to his mother, so that when she heard the term being used she would think of his book and not the hatred and inferiority that white supremacy intended the word to mean. Richard Pryor had a movie or album entitled "That Nigger Must Be Crazy". The Last Poets used the word throughout their works as did many other poets. In my community the only taboo about using nigga was you didn't say it around white folks. Now the younger generation has taken the term to another level. Around the world the term "nigga" now is used with pride and love for a tribe of people who had to be warriors of a sense to handle the situation they found themselves in, not by choice. White supremacists never have cared about a nigga(Katrina), so why are they upset about what we call each other. The public use of "nigga" has taken the power and sting from their term "nigger". See how far off track we are with this Imus thing. I am just now getting to what caused us to have this debate in the first place. Imus said out loud what he felt in his heart. What he said was too nasty to let it go unchallenged and he should have lost his job. More telling was the silence of White people in power. Just like Katrina this nation once again has shown what they feel about "African Americans". I hope this will help us to move from this just marking time status we find ourselves in today. We as a people must unite and find the Black Love that sustained us during the worse of times. Dubois questioned whether it was wise to use integration as a tool to lift us out of Jim Crow. He was afraid that we would become the monster we were trying to defeat. We were wrong to think that once whites let themselves know us, that we would be welcomed into the family. After all we are just people like them. We all had the same dreams and wants. We were wrong to think that the children of the slaveowners, would easily accept us as equals. We have torn down all the stereotypes about our inferiority as a people. So why still the unwritten policy to start jailing our males once they hit 16 yrs old. It is a fact that young Black males are no called "untouchables" just like the caste system in India. Our young men are not lazy shiftless jiggers. All this energy spent about the ills of hip hop should have been used, reclaiming our neighborhood schools to stop the uneducation of our youth. Why is the Pelt Grant denied to people who have drug convictions. on Energy needs to be spent stopping racial profiling and the injustice of our penal system to lock up as many brothers as possible to continue to fuel the private prison industry. We need to really be looking at Children Protection Services all over the country. Our children at an alarming rate are being taken from their families and placed in foster care. They fall victim to yet again another industry. Their network is destroyed when they are taken from the family. They are placed from foster home, to emergency shelters, to residential treatment centers and etc. They fail in school because they change schools every time they are moved. The children are subject to more possible abuse in the foster care system. With the destruction of family ties and the low self esteem fostered by this type of care these children are put on the streets once they turn 18. Now most are only fit for prison and a great deal of the homeless children come out of foster care. Right now we are allowing our children to become food to the clinical doctors who diagnosis rediculous things such as Math Disorder. The drug company takes a bite with prescribed drugs for the disorder. The child placing agency gets their share by placing in to homes that don't allow the child to grow up normally due to after all it is just a business. The foster family for alot of kids don't establish a love/parent relationship and estrange the child from their biological family. We as a people. don't have time to waste debating trivial stuff. We got some big issues coming up. I believe that we must join The Covenant with Black America. We have to some how get back to the village, where we did love each other, and cared for the children as if they were our own. We understand that there is strength in unity. Any power that we possess comes when we act as one. We come from shared experiences and know how to put differences aside when it comes to the common good of our society. I embrace the Rap/Hip Hop generation for they are the future. In the 60s and 70s, it drove my father nuts, that boys wore braids and had that gangster lean. It was time of change and now it is time for another change. I must put my trust in this new generation with their new way of doing things. I hope to be a guiding influence but a change is coming. I will end with our need to return to the faith that brought us this far. Our sermons were not about God giving us financial prosperity. It was about our love and praise of God and the love we had for each other as black people and how this love was to be for all mankind. We use to ask for the prosperity of love. In the end love for each other is the only thing we got and worth having.

Reply to this Comment | Report This

Neutral

There is a lot of decriminatory comments still being made by caucasions. I personnally need to be contacted because I know that I have a strong case of not only descrimination but trumped up complaints which may result in a wrongful employment termination. The company has made lots of money marketing to the black community in the South. It would be interested to find out what their hiring ratio's look like. More specifically, I have been told that I am not the right fit for the office in which I work from which is a primarily white environment. I was also told all the sudden that the discussion was not based on productivity, in which I have performed well, but based on customer service comments. It was also said that there has been co-worker complaints in which the environment is all white people. Please have a representative contact me. I reside in Columbus, Ohio and the job is in Chillicothe, OHio. There's is a lot to discuss and I feel that I have a very strong case.

Reply to this Comment | Report This

Neutral

I find it ironic that Al Sharpton can't find it in his "christian" heart to forgive Don Imus of the remarks he made when Al Sharpton is constantly making derogatory remarks in the same hateful manner (christian?). His remarks about Mitt Romney and his being Mormon were uncalled for and shows his ignorance about Mormons. Al Sharpton is the biggest of hypocrites and his remarks should be dismissed for the joke that they are.

Reply to this Comment | Report This

Neutral

Any one person that will follow the lead of Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson and applaud them for what they do and their racist actions. Those people are no better then the KKK, Bin Laden, and Hitler.

Reply to this Comment | Report This

Neutral

I don't understand how it's possible that one racist such as Imus can be brought down by another such as Al Sharpton, Al's comments on the mormon religon are just as nasty and ugly as Imus's comments, I guess the only difference is Al Sharpton is more entertaining, I've heard his show and I find it amazing that one man can be so uneducated and still get on the air, Al Sharpton is an opportunist he leads crusades not to help but to draw attention to himself, he likes the flashy clothes, the expensive jewelry, what kind of Reverend is he, I go to church and the Clergy I see are wearing nothing but their crucifix, So I think it's time that we stop showing the childish fool attention in hopes that he'll go away.

Reply to this Comment | Report This

Neutral

al and jessie are pimps and will always be pimps

Reply to this Comment | Report This