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Tuesday Apr 17, 2007 – By Clutch

This afternoon Clutch tuned in with the rest of America to watch part two of Oprah’s Town Hall about Don Imus and the next steps for Black America. We found that many of the record label insiders made excuses for artists that consistently degrade us in their video and lyrics. Yes, many of the artist are from poverty, but I am sure that their mothers raised them not to disrespect women! African American men regardless of age should stand up and protect us, not degrade us.

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  1. Opinonated Lady Opinonated Lady says:

    Well, you know what?The girls say they go to the club and what not and the club is where you get down, especially in Atlanta.The club is the club.What do they actually expect?But I find more and more women calling themselves to other women “bitches” and “hoes” more than the men and rappers.So is it really hip-hop to blame?Its not hip-hop to blame.It so easy to point the blame to somebody.Why does it take for something so big to happen to get so much attention when its been around for years?I’m not getting this.And right now I’m kind of over it now.Right now I think those men were brave for going up there because when Ludacris went on her show she didn’t treat him as if he was an actor, but just a dirty ol’ guy.I love Oprah I do but I think she a little two-sided.

  2. tanya tanya says:

    Black people will never get their stuff together because we are so prideful, and argumentative. We never want to admit that we got a problem. They talked a good game on that show…but, show and prove. How hard is it to prevent BET from playing videos that continue to promote drug dealing and big-booty strippers, and why is it so difficult for Russell Simmons and Kevin Liles to simply admit that they have made millions exploiting the poor, uneducated young black urban culture. We need real leadership…not inarticulate clowns like Al Sharpton, and Jesse Jackson. I wish Dr. King was still around…life would be so different!! Black Americans have got to be one of the most ignorant cultures ever…we were fighting for basic civil rights 30 years ago, and now we are so misguided that it is pathetic. What is it going to take for us to wake up?? Other culture disrespect us because we constantly disrespect ourselves. We have the most potential…get some many of us are entrapped by the slave mentality. Where and what will become of of in 50 years..we are the masters of our own destiny and look at us…UNFORTUNATE!!

  3. Alisha Alisha says:

    I agree with both comments. I’m thinking rap songs call us b’s and h’s all day long. We call ourselves that (generally speaking). Such a shame. It’s wrong and always has been, but somehow we manage to make view things that are degrading as if they are compliments. It’s crazy!

  4. PPP PPP says:

    I saw that show and was disgusted by both Russell Simmons and Kevin Liles. I would have respected them more had they admitted they don’t care about women being disrespected if it makes them rich. There is no excuse for black women to be called vile and filthy names. If the rappers don’t know any better then the record labels should. They tired they come from bad neighborhoods excuse doesn’t fly with me either. I bet you those same girls they’re calling h*es and b#tches come from the same neighborhoods and have the same sob story only they are relying on their bodies to get by. Someone needs to be hard on these “brothas” because what they’re doing is wrong and damaging to our people.

  5. Vamply Vamply says:

    Okay, why in the hell did Simmons keep calling these so called artists “poets”. Because you can rhyme Bitch with Witch over a beat doesn’t make it poetry. There is no way in hell that I could compare Langston Hughes or Nikki Giovanni in the same sentence as the Ying Yang Twins, Three 6 Mafia or D4L as poets.

    In the early nineties this same issue came up when Snoop first came onto the scene (BTW, I’ve been a HUGE fan of Snoop) and was chastised by C. Delores Tucker and others for calling women Bitches and Ho’s. Their response was that they were only speaking on their environment and all women weren’t bitches and hos…only the ones they knew! Okay, so we bought that and actually accepted their reason because we all knew somebody who was a bitch or ho. But back then, they also talked about a community infiltrated with police brutality, drug-addicted mothers, gangs, the death of their homeboys and so on. They expressed their pain, anger, narcisism, sometime ignorance and downright rage through the music. THEY WERE EXPRESSING SOME SORT OF HUMAN EMOTION THAT WE ALL COULD RELATE TO OR HAVE EXPERIENCED. It’s sad to say but now that these same artists have “made it”, they are no longer angry. They now flaunt their success and basically say I’m better than you because I can have whatever I want when I want it and you can’t! They actually tell us to “Bend over and back that ass up” or “Shake it like a salt shaker”. And we accept that too because we’re so hesitant to stand up and knock our brothers down. We’ve been told for so long that Black men have it so hard and we,as black women, aren’t supportive enough that we’ve become accustomed to accepting whatever wrong doing is happening for fear of being unsupportive and tearing our brothers down.

    We’ll I’ve personally had enough! WRONG IS WRONG! I’ve put up with these so-called artists for too long! It’s like the abusive husband that beats up his wife because he loves her so much. We act like abusive wives who are afraid to leave them because we still love them but at our own detriment. If we allow them to, they will beat us with their words until we have absolutely no self-esteem, self-confidence or even the ability to look at ourselves in the mirror (and you wonder why so many of us have body image issues!). I’ve made a commitment to myself and my fellow sistahs that if these so-called “black men” take it upon themselves to disrespect my loved ones then I will no longer associate myself with them. I will not sing along with their songs, attend their concerts, buy/download their songs (not even the 99 cent songs!), turn the radio dial whenever their music is played. Maybe we all need to take a page out of Spelman’s book and express not only our disapproval but disgust by these “artists” by not just talking about it but affecting the only thing they seem to care about besides themselves…their pocketbooks.

  6. Clear Clear says:

    We as women need to stand as ONE weather we are married to the top hip hop artis. A lot of times it’s about not having the proper upbring to understand your self worth. WE are important for moe than cleaning, cokking and bearing childern. Once that’s understand maybe there will be lest women having these issues. War, Drugs, Teenage pegantnce are the thing WE ALL need to be fighting about.

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