Setanta wrote:Cycloptichorn wrote:I don't think the racial element is anything to get upset about, seeing as these same girls will go right on buying CDs full of the same statements for the rest of their lives.
That was an exquisitely stupid remark. How, exactly, do you assert that you have a reasonable basis to claim that all of the women in question are consumers of "gansta rap," and upon what reasonable basis do you assert that they will be for the rest of their lives?
Who said anything about 'gangsta rap?' Racial slurs such as the one used, and sexist slurs, are riddled throughout all sorts of music favored by the African-American culture and have been for some time, whether it be soul, hip-hip, or R&B. I have extensive experience with this having grown up in a rough part of Houston.
I know that you are a demon to argue against when it comes to statements such as this, Set, and I don't want to go down that road; let us just say that members of their community, if not they personally, will go on buying music which demeans their sex and race in perpetuity. I see no reason to believe that a currently existing trend will change. I am not a supporter of Imus in the slightest and I really have no dog in this fight whatsover; just think that Sharpton and Jackson should examine the beam in their own eye, before knocking others for saying the same things the members of their own community, the ones held up as the highest achievers, say continually.
Cycloptichorn