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Midweek Madness: Bill vs. Luda Again
Posted on February 22, 2007 8:00 AM
It's my day off, so I thought I'd leave you with something to gnaw on.
Bill O'Reilly still comin' at us hard. As per usual setup, he has a reputable white source that agrees with him and a random house negro hand puppet he can ejaculate via prostate stimulation.
You don't understand the artistry in our language and music?
Let me help you out... "Y'all some ho ass bitch ass niggas."
How's that, Bill?
Discuss.
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Oh, please. Luda(or any other rapper or hiphop head) should have no bones w/ Bill O'Reilly at this point since the Ludameister likes hanging out w/ Paris' racist ass.
Well, after seeing what I saw on Paula Zahn last night; Hip Hop shouldn't be surprised with O'Whitey's POV. He dosen't understand the artistry of our music, because he dosen't understand the history of Black storytelling. It's his ignorance that he's displaying, he's just an old Anglo-Saxton, conservative Niggaphobe hating on young African-American men making money off the stories of hardship that goes on in the urban environment today. As for the Paula Zahn issue, when Hip Hop came out, it was something that was considered "faddish". When NWA and Public Enemy's form of Hip Hop came out, White America saw Hip Hop as something dangerously pushing the bounderies of First Amendment rights in the US. Now Hip Hop is seen as a mockery of art, and something to be laughed at by White America on a level never before seen. If anyone noticed Paula Zahn, she was laughing throughout the entire segment... Thoughts anyone? By the way, Fuck Conservative White America, and anyone who believes in it!! Peace...
luda is the man. bill is giving him free promo.Everytime he talk about luda
luda is getting more money out of it.
The sad part is that he didn't even bother mentioning Runaway Girls...which is why luda got the grammy, and that house nigga should be hung... "i grew up in the era of hip-hop, i first started reading because of chuck d..." lol
I have to cosign with the first post. Luda has got skills, I am a fan but, I am finding it hard to defend him, and his little beef with Oprah when he is performing for prejudice Paris bitch ass Hilton for her little parties. Is he her own personal minstrel show? That was wack. I don't care how much money she paid him, he shouldn't have done it. How about you give us a blog about how hip hop can beef with Oprah but kiss ass with Paris Hilton? (i.e. 50 cent, Ludacris and a few others)
I'm not an old white man, but I am hip hop's other enemy; a black woman. Music overall has changed for the worse over the years. Hip hop in particular is a short-cut genre. Not only do artists not record with live instruments of any kind, but hip hop "producers" rarely even come up with original beats. They generally add a little something on top of music created by gifted musicians from another more creative era. On top of that most rap artists lyrical content is nearly identical. They all keep writing about the same subject matter, which is all negative for the most part. I just don't have a taste for it anymore. They claim they are talking about what is going on in the hood, but that would lead people to believe the hood is full of savages who only think about jewelry, fighting/killing and screwing as many low down hoes as possible. There is more going on in the hood than that. There is much more to life in the hood, but they don't talk about that
I don't give a damn about Bill O'Reilly. He doesn't know anything about our struggle, but these rappers do. I hold them accountable for allowing white music execs to put them on the ho stroll. There is no honor in the music or so called lifestyle. Luda is an intelligent man and even he has allowed himself to be brainwashed by the hype. What effect do you think it has on undereducated and under-parented, underpriviledged ghetto children?
Fuck hip hop man.
why cant you see that oreilly has a point. you fools only stand behind luda because you like him not taking into account that shit like what he rappin aint helpin his race at all. he and other rappers that have the spotlight should give a fuck about the image black people get from their stupidity. You cant take him serious for his goodwill efforts when his lyrics contradict it.
I agree with Bird and bigc. Luda and most of these cats in hip hop ain't about shit. They definitely aren't artist in any sense of the word. Their primary concern is money. If you're doing this for a check, then call it something else, hip hop. Hip hop is free and focuses on creativity not materialism.
Shit, we all want to be fly, but if all you can talk about is how much money you put into your outfit, I'm not really interested.
Hip hop has become a recruiting system for a negative lifestyle. It was all good when their was "gangsta" had a small part in hip hop, but now it is hip hop. If your album is positive it will get no play.
I can go on and on, but if we can't see it for what it is, we to quote Dough Boy "don't know, don't show or don't care about" our music.
Too many typos to count up there. My bad.
^^^^^^^ I agree with the cat that said Bill dont know the struggles of blacks. If u dont know or have never experienced hardship then u cant talk or attack amongst others. This beef stuff is wayout of control. Grown folks need to b GROWN about this stuff. Id wish they let this stuff go. BEEF is the cancer of hip hop!
nas said it best' "hip hop been dead, we the reason it died." we sold our soul for riches and instead of nas, common and lupe, we get these southern clones. But, lets be real, we all are to blame. Luda NEVER should have been put on a pedestal, period, he earned nothing and was given everything. He is not true to the craft.
Look we don't tell stephen king how to write or george lucas how to direct..why should we tell artist where to perform or what type of music to make. Rock and roll went through the same phase hip hop is going through now. Why is it we all criticise ourselves and don't pay attention to things that really matter. Like new orleans, iraq, and our big gap in quality of life in this country. As an artist that's pro street and pro conscious rap i can tell you, when i walk out of the booth the music is just a business like johnson and johnson with their product. You aren't feeding me so what you say about it really is irrelevant.
Bill O'Rielly is a perfect example of ignorance in white america.
"i don't think the dixie chicks won due to polotics. they deserved 5 grammys. THIER ALBUM WAS GREAT!"
EVEN THE OTHER WHITE GUY KNEW THE DIXIE BITCHES ONLY WON BECAUSE OF POLOTICS.
AS FOR LUDA...
so he hates on oprah and performs for paris hilton.
TRY THIS ON FOR SIZE ASSHOLES.
suppose luda was signed to a contract to play at that party before paris' "nigger" incident happened. now, he heres about it and wants to cancel, but rich bitch paris says she'll sic daddy's lawyers on him for breach of contract if he doesn't play.
so instead of getting sued by the richest slut in america he does the damn show.
NOW GET THE FUCK OFF LUDA'S NUTS ABOUT THAT SHIT.
LUDA GOT A GRAMMY BECAUSE HE WROTE A SONG THAT INFLUENCED PEOPLE. AND HE'LL PROBABLY GET MORE ONCE THIS STUPID PARIS SHIT BLOWS OVER.
^^^^^^^^I agree with Kayser Soze....Nobody says anything about Jerry Bruckheimer,Michael Bay,Larry Flint and Hugh Hef...These dudes have set the precedent for entertainment...as soon as a black man gets some sucess with the craft/blueprint they laid out itz a problem....
CSI,Cold Case,Without a Trace all have major homicide issues and those are the best shows on TV...but rappers rap about it and it's considered poison....naw,I ain't with that....we not even gone talk about Playboy and Penthouse.....like Chris Rock said,as soon as you begin to make money itz a problem......
^^^^^ suppose you STFU with that theory??? lol
Somebody tell Luda to get some tracks from me!!
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@ southern hospitality
Calm down. Bill does not hate black people...I am so tire dof niggaz making Gangsta the rap the MOUTH OF ALL AFRICAN AMERICANS. I like gangsta rap too but i do no alot of it is bullshit. Bill hates black people that contradic their views JUST LIKE OLDER BLACKS.
If you read Culture Warrior, Bill's book. Look in the Rap section and you can see that he is saying nothing you haven't heard in any of this Blogs reguarding the unmoralism of gangsta rap. Its all the same shit, we really need new black leaders because black america has fell off. When you got Black Americas most ignorant jumping on the soap box and speaking on the behalf of every black man woman and child, its a disgrace.
You think theese rappers are smart and pro-black because they have a Grammy? WTF? Who cares about a grammy their not based on Talent their based off records sales. You can be a wack-ass rapper but if u got a good production team you gonna win something, even tho you can barely get lines to flow how you want. Yes, Hip-hop is dead along with alot of other music because its not about the craft or Art, its about money, Hip-hop died when it became commericalized and rappers making lil'popsongs and getting white-folks to say nigga. Back in the day it was just pure fun, hoping on a stage and saying "your mama....."
We have too many rappers in the game that killing music, 106 and park need to have freestyle battles for all the rappers out their , no gimmicks....alot of careers will be ended, all those SOUTHERN rappers are not gonna stand a chance in a real-live lyrical battle with a eastcoast artist because southern rappers reily heavily on their production team to make hit records. Look at young bucks new video....He is not lyrical at all AND his team didn't even make a dope beat for his sound. If your beats suck then you need to be as lyrical as possible to make up fo rit, don't be hopping on a mic saying some shit that i can easily come up with.
Just like when niggaz is on the news about a crime and the media finds the most ignorant looking and sounds black man to interview.
^^^^^ suppose you STFU with that theory??? lol
Posted by: Joe Cleezy at February 22, 2007 1:10 PM
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Suppose I slap the taste out ya mouth....LOL...!! Now laugh at that...!! Pussy.....
The Dixie Chicks won Grammies because they put out a good album, produced by Rick Ruben and sold 3 times more than they've ever sold before. The Grammies really don't reflect artistry as much as they reflect album sales and popularity. And that's taking nothing away from the Dixie Chicks, they are a good group and at least they say something that challenges the status quo.
How about Luda? That fool puts out the same crap reheated every album. I've never heard of him standing up to the government.
TO: southern hospitality
man she cant sue luda if he did that shit all she can do is basically sue him and get the money she GAVE HIM TO PERFORM and thats not the case he knew she was throwing aroungd the word AFTER the case
Billy O' can suck off a dead dog for all i care, and b4 Luda bitches about anything else in un-urban America, he needs to rethink his own actions and words, i mean we all contradictory by nature, but come on man!!!!
this dude pulled da equivalent of me being the distributor of modern day slave maintenece equiptment and having Kramer and Billy-O as the posterboys
Thrash Awayyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!
bill oriely has a point.if we as man stand up to the challenge and tell our children that we are the most important people in thier life, then all this nonsense bull crap would not be going on. It doesn't matter of race, it is bout the legacy we are leaving our youth. They idolize thier parencts wheter good or bad. Bad influences tend to pollute are youth thinking process. So in short Fuck Luda, for going against the grain for being with Paris Hilton. Seem that he has enough money that he does not need to be around any racist people. Luda just showed his ingorance. Fuck all his songs to inspriation, he just showed us that he is two face. Damn and I was really feeling his music. But when you have someone like Oprah telling you her view, he acted like a bitch. Should had a discussion and listen to the women. Probably could had made a change then. Too late now. Good luck with FUBU nigga.
nas said it best' "hip hop been dead, we the reason it died." we sold our soul for riches and instead of nas, common and lupe, we get these southern clones. But, lets be real, we all are to blame. Luda NEVER should have been put on a pedestal, period, he earned nothing and was given everything. He is not true to the craft.
Posted by: the answer at February 22, 2007 12:19 PM
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^^^Goddamn CO-SIGN 100%
Yeah, Mr. Luda is a GREAT Actor- has been for his entire career- He's Great at ACTIN like a true-to-form dope MC- but he's NOT- and I'm not just sayin that because of this P. Hilton situation either. This dude is, and, always has been a WACK ASS BUSTA- and he KNOWS it. And he damn sho don't want no parts of no street-shit and he aint bout to take a stand against any legitimate oppressiveness. Dude is bitch-made.
ludacris sucks ass. so does bill o reilly. end of story.
....alot of careers will be ended, all those SOUTHERN rappers are not gonna stand a chance in a real-live lyrical battle with a eastcoast artist because southern rappers reily heavily on their production team to make hit records...
Posted by: Dark Tunic at February 22, 2007 1:37 PM
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Dude...DO NOT START that lame ass arguement! There ARE southern rappers who are lyrical (Outkast, Bun B, Scarface, Lil Wayne, Lil Brother, Dead Prez...) just like there ARE wack rappers from up there (all of Dipset, Memphis Bleek, Yung Gunnerz, Freeway! + all of SP except Beans)
The southern artists that are sucessful right now just happened to make some catchy songs with a nice beat...unlike some of your "favorite" lyrical rappers. There are some rappers from up there who did the same thing this year (Jim Jones, Fat Joe). Maybe the rest of your "favorites" from up there should just STFU with the crying and follow suit already.
The East is no better than the West or the South!
DO NOT START!
LUDA'S ON THE SLAVE BLOCK AGAIN!
He went to the highest bidder last weekend - - Paris Hilton. She's done using him and has decided to put him back on the block again.
Quick someone call Michael KKKramer, David Duke, Tom Delay, most white republicans and white boys from the suburbs. This Coon's ready for your entertainment!
LUDA IS A BIG OLE BITCH!!!
WHY LUDACRUSTY SHOULD BE BANNED FROM HIP/HOP
1) Showed up at a major award show wearing a confederate flag outfit. WTF? Would you see a Jew wearing a natzi sign? Luda's a white man's bitch!
2) Cries like a bitch ass girl because Oprah doesnt' like Hip/Hop. She's the same age as my Grandma. My Grandma hates hip/hop and only likes gospel. Stop bitching about Oprah and make 'real ' music. Niggas need to put his ass on blast.
3) Attacks Bill O'Reilly and calls him a racist. But peforms like a lil monkey at Paris Hitler's birthday party. (Fools he got money.) He could have skipped this shit!
4) Can't rap. Gone soft. He won those grammies cuz white middle age men voted for his azz. No way in hell real niggas would have voted this shit! .
5) Rumors of Eddie Murphy lifestyle (wink, wink) Hip/Hop 'Samwell' What, What, In the Butt
6) Stop going after Oprah and Bill O'Reilly - House MOnkey. Hypocrite! Nigga get real and make good music. Not this shit you make for white boys ... and Paris 'Herpes' Hilton. Step your game up. Take the bat out of your ass. Go back to the streets and get at us.
Why did Luda cut them braids? Was it to apeal to the white audience? Shit is ridculous.
Feather
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Go body yourself
You southern rap fans are just like homosexual community: trying to change reality to fit your own sick twisted views.
Everycoast has good and bad rappers, but if you have to classify worst talent it would be in the south. I live in the south now....I been in the south for 7 years. I know these people are not all that creative...You know what! go hop on youtube.com go look at all your southern artist freestyle then go look at the eastcoast freestyles, in comparison, the south as a WHOLE has nothing on the east....you wanna talk Bun B, T.I? what is that? Go on youtube.com type in MURDA MOOK, CASSIDY, JAE MILLZ, etc. Stop playing aroun don the computer man! Get outta here with that "The souf will rise again"-hillbilly talk. From "Money in the bank" to "shawty wanna ride" pound fo rpound the south don't stand a chance. EVERY TIME.....EVERYTIME....I turn on rapcity to hear a freestyle or video from a southern artist they shit is wack.
If the south was soooooooo lyrical their wouldn't be a debate! PLAIN AND SIMPLE...If the south was lyrical nobody would have ever said they were not.
Period. end of dicussion, don't even bother to respond to my blog. If u do i won't entertain it.
Kanye West was under contract to perform with Paris but cancelled.
Luda aka Coon azz Monkey took this gig. He didn't have too.
Fuck Luda
am i the only one who saw the look of shock on luda's face at the grammies when ye called him out as the winner...dude knows that his past 2 albums are the worst of his career...i choose what hip hop i listen to and that is why i don't fuck wit the radio..
we have the right to choose what we listen to...go listen to staright outta compton track number 8.
PAMOJA!!
BULLSHIT!!!! NONE OF YOU WHO DEFEND BILL O'REILY HAS THE RIGHT TO SAY ANYTHING ABOUT HIS MUSIC. I HEAR THE POINT MADE ABOUT RAPPERS GLORIFING THE WRONG TYPES OF LIFE. HIP-HOP BEING A SHORT-CUT GENRE WAS WAY OUT OF LINE! REALLY IF YOU GO BACK WITH YOU HISTORY OF MUSIC, ALOT MORE THAN OUR GENERATION HAS RECYCLED OLDER MUSIC, DON'T KID YOURSELF. BUT O'REILY REALLY DOES PICK HIS TOPICS TO POINT OUT NEGATIVITY IN CERTAIN AREAS OF THE BLACK COMMUNITY. WE NEED TO OPEN OUR EYES TO THE BIGGER PICTURE. O'REILY CAN'T EVEN HIDE THE FACT THAT HE IS A BIGOT. LIKE IT OR NOT, REALLY DON'T CARE. BUT I DON'T AGREE WITH EVERYTHING LUDA SAYS, BUT EVERY RAP SONG IS NOT SUPPOSE TO BE A MESSAGE FOR BLACK PEOPLE. IT IS NOT SUPPOSE TO REPRESENT WHAT ALL OF OUR VIEWS ARE. IT'S JUST ENTERTAINMENT, AND THATS WHAT PEOPLE ARE ENTERTAINED BY NOWADAYS. WE ALL HAVE COMMON SENSE, O'REILY DOES TO. HE WANTS RAP MUSIC TO STOP APPEALING TO YOUNG WHITE SUBURBAN KIDS. WHITE PEOPLE MAKE UP 70% OF RAP SALES. I GUESS THIS JUST HAPPEND BY ACCIDENT. ONE MORE THING, BAD MOVE LUDA. EMINEM, PARIS, MICHEAL RICHARDS, ETC. IF THEY SAID IT IN PUBLIC, THINK ABOUT HOW THEY BERATE YOU AT HOME. MINDS AND EYES OPEN, ALL THE TIME!
This shit with Bill O'reily is making me sick. How dare he rips hip-hop when Hollywood movies has more violence, sex, and drugs? Arnold Scharwztsinager (I can't spell his lst name)Had killed over 100 people, raped 6 females, and kicked thousands of people's ass in his movies, but he still was voted to be a freakin govenor. Last time I remeber, those kids that shot up the school in colobine copied a scene straight out of Matrix. Music represents what is really happening. Grant it, hip-hop over does it with the negativity, but that shit is still out, there, until the crack problem is solved, blacks will be held back by the negativity assoiated with it.
Why do certain white people feel the need to validate our culture. Certain white people act as if black people are to stupid to know the difference between right and wrong, reality and fantasy. As is rap music was the root to all of our problems. The other day I saw a movie where Clint Eastwood rides into town, kills three people and then rapes a women (High Plains Drifter). There are many examples of violence in music, film and literature, but when was the last time this group of white folks so presumptously asked if some of these media were art or poison?White people have hated every single form of black music throughout the history of this country. So in the end what has change? Nothing. To the oh so proper and disporportionately wealthy class of O'Reallyz and Zahns, the mainstream white media (/world for that matter) are not the parents of our culture and art. You cannot take it away. It is not yours.
As far a the problems that my community face, I kinda' still think the root of most of our problems stem from the effects of slavery, continued economic disparity,and white supremacy. Forget it, us black folks should just go back to singing negro spirituals.
The most evil and offensive thing that I have heard never was not in a rap song. It was when Bill O said that America should be afraid of the rising numbers of immigrants, because pretty soon whites will know longer be the majority.
Hey dont get me wrong uncle tom or luda is a hoe for chilling with herpe girl but in his defense Bill o'lielly is a rascist. When ask "if the ceo's of these companies should bare some of the responsibilty for the way rap is and the state of hip hop"his response "NO I will blame the artist" I mean of course blame all these sell outs but alot of the blame goes to the people who are making the most profit off it.
I have to disagree with comment that the root of most of our problems stem from slavery. Its 2007, we've been free for a while. The root of our problems TODAY has nothing to do with white folks. It has everything to do with us. "Niggas" are the ones that sit around, complaining about the man keeping them down. Black folks get up, work hard and get theirs.
I could care less what Bill O'Reilly has to say about the hip hop generation, or about the black race in general. Like, what does he know about either?? Exactly. So lets move on.
Ludacris...I was extremely disappointed that TI lost the grammy to this funny faced moron to get up on stage dissing Oprah. OPRAH??? Oprah is to our generation, what Coretta Scott King, Rosa Parks was to our parents generation. And to speak her name in the same breath as Bill O'Reilly?? Like they are one in the same?? Hes a dumb NIGGER. Yes I said it. And peep the spelling. Such an ignorant ass, shucking and jiving for that coke whore.
Time to Stop Looking Past Black KKK
Denial Only Empowers Negative Forces in Community
By JASON WHITLOCK
AOL
Sports Commentary
Could you imagine the level of denial had my column not been written?
We would still be running around pretending that NBA All-Star Weekend was some sort of glorious black holiday, and anyone who dared mention the nasty elements of what transpired in Vegas would be shouted down as a racist.
Denial is a problem's No. 1 enabler.
We have a problem in the black community, and it didn't make its debut at All-Star Weekend Vegas. What was impossible to ignore in Vegas was on display in Houston, Atlanta and previous All-Star locations.
With the exception of Louis Farrakhan's 1995 Million Man March, it's been on display nearly every time we've gathered in large groups to socialize in the past 15 or so years.
The Black Ku Klux Klan shows up in full force and does its best to ruin our good time. Instead of wearing white robes and white hoods, the new KKK has now taken to wearing white Ts and calling themselves gangsta rappers, gangbangers and posse members.
Just like the White KKK of the 1940s and '50s, we fear them, keep our eyes lowered, shut our mouths and pray they don't bother us.
Our fear makes them stronger. Our silence empowers them. Our lack of courage lets them define who we are. Our excuse-making for their behavior increases their influence and enables them to recruit more freely.
We sing their racist songs, gleefully call ourselves the N-word, hype their celebrity and get upset when white people whisper concerns about our sanity.
And whenever someone publicly states that the Black KKK is terrorizing black people, black neighborhoods, black social events and glorifying a negative, self-destructive lifestyle, we deny and blame the Man.
I don't want to do it anymore.
This must be the way Rosa Parks felt on that bus. She was just tired of eating white racist (spit). I'm tired of eating black racist (spit).
I'd like to kick it with my friends without worrying about the Black KKK opening fire in the parking lot. I'm tired of reading the about the drive-bys (modern-day lynchings). It gets old waking up and hearing about the Darrent Williamses, the Tupac Shakurs getting cut down in a hail of gunfire.
I'm tired of the lack of respect, the random violence, the celebration of drug dealers and the insinuation that education is anti-black.
Wednesday I received a troubling e-mail from a fan, someone who writes me frequently. She was upset by my All-Star Weekend column.
"Why are you hating so much these days and why do you sound so bitter," she wrote. "As I always say to you, you are my favorite. I am always looking for your articles, but lately you are just hating. I still love you though!"
The whole All-Star Weekend just put me on edge; it left me in a sour mood. I can't deny what I saw.
When I arrived at the Vegas airport Tuesday afternoon, All-Star Weekend gave me one final kick in the stomach, and I'm not talking about the long lines at the Southwest baggage check-in.
I stood in line for 75 minutes in the Southwest A boarding group. I was fourth in line behind three elderly white people (ages 60 to 75). They beat me in line by three or four minutes. The A, B and C groups were all filled an hour before the flight's scheduled departure.
Twenty feet away from where we all waited in line, a middle-aged black woman (45 to 55), what appeared to be her two sons (22 to 30) and an elderly black man (60s) all sat together and randomly slept, ate and talked.
When it was time to board the flight, the group of four stood, approached the elderly white woman standing in front of me and told her, "We're second in line. That's my bag on the floor."
The elderly white people were obviously intimidated. I wasn't and told the group they were crazy, and they needed to head to the back of the A boarding group and get in line behind all the people who stood for an hour.
Of course, they disagreed. I walked over and told the Southwest boarding agent to fix the problem. He witnessed the whole thing and came over and told the group they needed to move to the back of the A group. Words were exchanged between the agent and the group.
Eventually, and I'm not making this up, one of the young men told the agent that this was racism and they were being to asked to move because they were black. The other young man said that people like me were the reason black people couldn't get ahead.
The rest of the story is boring. I bring the story up to illustrate the mindset that has infected some of us in the black community.
Rosa Parks is a hero because she got tired of white people feeling a sense of entitlement to a seat on a bus wherever they wanted it. They didn't have to respect us. It didn't matter if we were there first and were just as tired. They took what they wanted from us and dared us to do anything about it.
Forty years after Parks' bravery, why would any of us think to heap this kind of disrespect on anyone else?
Why would we fight the white KKK and forty years later embrace the black KKK?
if you'd like to schedule a radio or television interview with Jason, please email him at ballstate68@aol.
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Time to Stop Looking Past Black KKK
Denial Only Empowers Negative Forces in Community
By JASON WHITLOCK
AOL
Sports Commentary
Could you imagine the level of denial had my column not been written?
We would still be running around pretending that NBA All-Star Weekend was some sort of glorious black holiday, and anyone who dared mention the nasty elements of what transpired in Vegas would be shouted down as a racist.
Denial is a problem's No. 1 enabler.
We have a problem in the black community, and it didn't make its debut at All-Star Weekend Vegas. What was impossible to ignore in Vegas was on display in Houston, Atlanta and previous All-Star locations.
With the exception of Louis Farrakhan's 1995 Million Man March, it's been on display nearly every time we've gathered in large groups to socialize in the past 15 or so years.
The Black Ku Klux Klan shows up in full force and does its best to ruin our good time. Instead of wearing white robes and white hoods, the new KKK has now taken to wearing white Ts and calling themselves gangsta rappers, gangbangers and posse members.
Just like the White KKK of the 1940s and '50s, we fear them, keep our eyes lowered, shut our mouths and pray they don't bother us.
Our fear makes them stronger. Our silence empowers them. Our lack of courage lets them define who we are. Our excuse-making for their behavior increases their influence and enables them to recruit more freely.
We sing their racist songs, gleefully call ourselves the N-word, hype their celebrity and get upset when white people whisper concerns about our sanity.
And whenever someone publicly states that the Black KKK is terrorizing black people, black neighborhoods, black social events and glorifying a negative, self-destructive lifestyle, we deny and blame the Man.
I don't want to do it anymore.
This must be the way Rosa Parks felt on that bus. She was just tired of eating white racist (spit). I'm tired of eating black racist (spit).
I'd like to kick it with my friends without worrying about the Black KKK opening fire in the parking lot. I'm tired of reading the about the drive-bys (modern-day lynchings). It gets old waking up and hearing about the Darrent Williamses, the Tupac Shakurs getting cut down in a hail of gunfire.
I'm tired of the lack of respect, the random violence, the celebration of drug dealers and the insinuation that education is anti-black.
Wednesday I received a troubling e-mail from a fan, someone who writes me frequently. She was upset by my All-Star Weekend column.
"Why are you hating so much these days and why do you sound so bitter," she wrote. "As I always say to you, you are my favorite. I am always looking for your articles, but lately you are just hating. I still love you though!"
The whole All-Star Weekend just put me on edge; it left me in a sour mood. I can't deny what I saw.
When I arrived at the Vegas airport Tuesday afternoon, All-Star Weekend gave me one final kick in the stomach, and I'm not talking about the long lines at the Southwest baggage check-in.
I stood in line for 75 minutes in the Southwest A boarding group. I was fourth in line behind three elderly white people (ages 60 to 75). They beat me in line by three or four minutes. The A, B and C groups were all filled an hour before the flight's scheduled departure.
Twenty feet away from where we all waited in line, a middle-aged black woman (45 to 55), what appeared to be her two sons (22 to 30) and an elderly black man (60s) all sat together and randomly slept, ate and talked.
When it was time to board the flight, the group of four stood, approached the elderly white woman standing in front of me and told her, "We're second in line. That's my bag on the floor."
The elderly white people were obviously intimidated. I wasn't and told the group they were crazy, and they needed to head to the back of the A boarding group and get in line behind all the people who stood for an hour.
Of course, they disagreed. I walked over and told the Southwest boarding agent to fix the problem. He witnessed the whole thing and came over and told the group they needed to move to the back of the A group. Words were exchanged between the agent and the group.
Eventually, and I'm not making this up, one of the young men told the agent that this was racism and they were being to asked to move because they were black. The other young man said that people like me were the reason black people couldn't get ahead.
The rest of the story is boring. I bring the story up to illustrate the mindset that has infected some of us in the black community.
Rosa Parks is a hero because she got tired of white people feeling a sense of entitlement to a seat on a bus wherever they wanted it. They didn't have to respect us. It didn't matter if we were there first and were just as tired. They took what they wanted from us and dared us to do anything about it.
Forty years after Parks' bravery, why would any of us think to heap this kind of disrespect on anyone else?
Why would we fight the white KKK and forty years later embrace the black KKK?
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The Black Ku Klux Klan shows up in full force and does its best to ruin our good time. Instead of wearing white robes and white hoods, the new KKK has now taken to wearing white Ts and calling themselves gangsta rappers, gangbangers and posse members.
Just like the White KKK of the 1940s and '50s, we fear them, keep our eyes lowered, shut our mouths and pray they don't bother us.
Our fear makes them stronger. Our silence empowers them. Our lack of courage lets them define who we are. Our excuse-making for their behavior increases their influence and enables them to recruit more freely.
We sing their racist songs, gleefully call ourselves the N-word, hype their celebrity and get upset when white people whisper concerns about our sanity.
And whenever someone publicly states that the Black KKK is terrorizing black people, black neighborhoods, black social events and glorifying a negative, self-destructive lifestyle, we deny and blame the Man.
I don't want to do it anymore.
This must be the way Rosa Parks felt on that bus. She was just tired of eating white racist (spit). I'm tired of eating black racist (spit).
I'd like to kick it with my friends without worrying about the Black KKK opening fire in the parking lot. I'm tired of reading the about the drive-bys (modern-day lynchings). It gets old waking up and hearing about the Darrent Williamses, the Tupac Shakurs getting cut down in a hail of gunfire.
I'm tired of the lack of respect, the random violence, the celebration of drug dealers and the insinuation that education is anti-black.
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Whoa! that whole statement is deep my brother.
We as a people need to look deep within ourselves. Ask ourselves is there a grassroot rumbling of people asking us to explain our behaviour. Once mainsteam start to ask such questions, it won't be long before laws are inacted to quelch what seems to be a problem/menace to society.
I say to all that don't like what your seeing from our community to do your part & say something to the people that aren't acting right. It use to be that at one point we could just say to a person, "I know your mother raised you better than that". This is no longer true since we are now dealing with the crack baby generation. These same kids of parents that chose drugs over raising there young, are now right here staring us/our people right square in the face. The sad part is that our people as a whole are scared to confront them and to tell them to go sit down.
So we end up rallying against the people that say "Hey why are they acting like that" because those people are less threating then these grown up crack babies.
I ask that we start to hold our own accountable...... No more excuses!!!
The Black Ku Klux Klan shows up in full force and does its best to ruin our good time. Instead of wearing white robes and white hoods, the new KKK has now taken to wearing white Ts and calling themselves gangsta rappers, gangbangers and posse members.
Just like the White KKK of the 1940s and '50s, we fear them, keep our eyes lowered, shut our mouths and pray they don't bother us.
Our fear makes them stronger. Our silence empowers them. Our lack of courage lets them define who we are. Our excuse-making for their behavior increases their influence and enables them to recruit more freely.
We sing their racist songs, gleefully call ourselves the N-word, hype their celebrity and get upset when white people whisper concerns about our sanity.
And whenever someone publicly states that the Black KKK is terrorizing black people, black neighborhoods, black social events and glorifying a negative, self-destructive lifestyle, we deny and blame the Man.
I don't want to do it anymore.
This must be the way Rosa Parks felt on that bus. She was just tired of eating white racist (spit). I'm tired of eating black racist (spit).
I'd like to kick it with my friends without worrying about the Black KKK opening fire in the parking lot. I'm tired of reading the about the drive-bys (modern-day lynchings). It gets old waking up and hearing about the Darrent Williamses, the Tupac Shakurs getting cut down in a hail of gunfire.
I'm tired of the lack of respect, the random violence, the celebration of drug dealers and the insinuation that education is anti-black.
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Whoa! that whole statement is deep my brother.
We as a people need to look deep within ourselves. Ask ourselves is there a grassroot rumbling of people asking us to explain our behaviour. Once mainsteam start to ask such questions, it won't be long before laws are inacted to quelch what seems to be a problem/menace to society.
I say to all that don't like what your seeing from our community to do your part & say something to the people that aren't acting right. It use to be that at one point we could just say to a person, "I know your mother raised you better than that". This is no longer true since we are now dealing with the crack baby generation. These same kids of parents that chose drugs over raising there young, are now right here staring us/our people right square in the face. The sad part is that our people as a whole are scared to confront them and to tell them to go sit down.
So we end up rallying against the people that say "Hey why are they acting like that" because those people are less threating then these grown up crack babies.
I ask that we start to hold our own accountable...... No more excuses!!!
We are not use to being free. Free means free. Free to make an ass out of yourself. Free to say what you feel. free to do what you feel. What is art if if is not free expression? We are all on this planet. We will all die. We are all born equal. Nothing and nobody is perfect. The more free we are the more free we are to express ourselves. So it follows the more free we are to do,make, say, and create things that may be offensive and provocative. This is part of the territory. We are free, although some of us will enslave themselvse with religous, political and social domga for the sake of comfort. They are free to do that, and that is what is great about freedom.Get use to it. The truth is there are know simple answers. Hip-hop is art. To call art or question whether or not it is poison is to diminsh all those human intellects that enjoy its irony and contradiction. It is to say these people (or we) are not evovled enough to discern. If a person feels that a certain art is poisonous, then so be it, that is their opinion, but to frame it as such on a mainstrem media outlet is profound, profane, arrogant, ignorant and suspicous. Why so much hate for the black man in America? Why do at least half of us hate ourselves so much that we would hate our own art and expression, which are the by-products of freedom. Why? Because we hate what we fear? We meaning all humans. We hate our freedom.
Yall fucken niggers think that Ludacris and Young Jeezy and whoever else out there ARE ADVANCING BLACK PEOPLE? YALL ARE BRAINWASHING AN ENTIRE GENERATION OF NIGGERS TO BE NIGGERS! Real black people have jobs and families not stacks of money and diamond bracelets that niggers in Africa slave over in the mines. Black people will see the downfall to promoting this drug dealing, tall tee wearing, gun toting, diamond flashing culture. Its unfortunate that yall niggers stand behind LUDACRIS!!! Its hilarious. You think that Ludacris gives a shit about you. He along with every other nigger rapper is corrupting an already vulnerable generation of poor black teenagers. Bill O'Reily's Question is why do people find that talking about guns and money over a beat and selling it kids worth a grammy? Fucking worthless niggers. It's all good I will be a judge one day and all of my friends and family will be prosecutors and lawyers and all of yall niggers will hang from the gallows. If they are hanging then they will be rotting in prison because of that stack of money and gun that Ludacris promotes.
LMFAOOO!!!!! WTF? the black kkk....u on drugs or sumthin man?! I think you need ta go see a therapist....shit is mad funny!...how come soo many ppl take shit up the ass in america? SO who GIVES A FUCK if luda did all that shit or o' reiley said that shit...get over it! ya'll act like its the end of the world...ya'll need ta stop trynna change ppl and look at ur own goddamn selves...buncha faggots....i havnt seen soo many fuckd up ppl who care soooooo much about what a person does....ya'll need ta stop actin like God!
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