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Why is an apology enough? PART TWO This entry was posted on Monday, April 09, 2007 3:30 PM and is filed under Current Events,Wtf. BougieNegro.com: haha Imus! The above is a snippet of a conversation I just had with my fellow bougie brotha. If you can get past the crassness (lol), you will see that he made a great point. I’m upset that I didn’t speak from both sides of this argument earlier. I let my emotions get the best of me. Why is it that we get so mad when someone from another race makes racist remarks or portrays us in a negative light, but when we do it to ourselves, it is okay? Turn on any hip-hop/”urban” radio station, BET and MTV. “Bitch” and “ho” are synonymous with woman, lady or female. Surprisingly, it is a rarity to come across a woman in a music video with more than 50% of her body covered up. This is okay right? Oh it’s not? Then why aren’t we doing anything about it? You know what is really sad? We listen to rappers, singers, actors and actresses, our family and friends drop the N-word and make racial slurs on a regular basis—but it doesn’t phase us; we have become complacent and okay with this type of language amongst ourselves. Yet when someone who doesn’t look like us does the same thing, we raise hell. When are we going to hold ourselves accountable? We are all to blame for society’s ignorance and intolerance, because we don’t challenge it. But sooner or later we have to stop stating the facts and put some action behind our words and statements. So yeah, I still feel like Imus needs to be fired but he’s not the problem—he’s just perpetuating the ignorance he sees around him (granted he should exercise some type of thought before he opens his mouth and let’s garbage spew out). Until we start respecting ourselves, how can we expect anyone else to do so? I’m off of my soapbox now. CommentsDisplay comments as (Linear | Threaded)
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