That’s exactly what America is on the path of doing…digesting the cold, hard truth. That foul language is grotesque and does not belong on the airwaves.
As a country, we’ve been in the gutter so long that many of us think it’s a right for anyone to publicly bash a person with foul language on the basis of free speech. Civility a bygone trait it seems like. But there was a ray of hope when Don Imus paid for his remarks about the Rutgers ladies basketball team.
The media is abuzz about the “fallout” after Don Imus was booted from CBS and MSNBC. There is no need for a “falling out” over this incident. It is being blown out of proportion, as the media wonders, “what’s next for him?” I could care less. Imus made his bed, now he has to lie in it.
Others are making this incident out to be a racial one. It is not racial to call someone to account for what comes out of his/her mouth that is clearly offensive. We must start somewhere, and now, America can clearly look at part of what is dragging down our society. Don Imus was only parroting what our society has produced…those in the entertainment business who think it’s fine to put down others with foul language.
The Don Imus incident has caused many to want to put a stop to degrading comments in the media and to confront it. That is what is occurring, and thank goodness!
Black conservative blogger Akindele Akinyemi is one of many people who lament the troubles of the black community. The following are his thoughts, meant to acknowledge the problems of the black community and to hopefully urge others to step up and correct what is sadly wrong in our communities:
“…I feel it’s a d-mn shame that Black liberals are always protesting and demanding White people be fired for saying something stupid yet we give Blacks who consistently call or sisters bit-h-s and h-es on a regular basis a free pass. We degrade our race by trying to live like Good Times or live out our lives in poverty. We enjoy sagging our pants in public, even in church where it is supposed to be a House of God.
Imus was right about something. Those sisters on the Rutgers Basketball team were sporting tattoos. I have been saying all along that why would you risk getting Hepatitis with those needles? How can you get a decent paying job with 20 tattoos on your body? I mean both arms, legs, neck and for sisters a tat on your a–?
We call Black women freaks, hizzoes, h-es (yes even nappy head h-es), tramps, pigeons, dy-es, jiggas and skanks. We call each other ni–ers (oh I forgot we graduated, now we call each other ni–as), fa-s, and other dreadful names. We never demand Wendy Williams from being fired or other Black personalities who call other races disrespectful names. I have heard Black personalities and Black liberal leadership call Whites “cra-ke-s” and “redneck hillbillies” but if a White person call us “h-es” we demand the removal of that person from the station.
What about Black radio promoting sex, soft porn and violence on the air? I did not see anyone protesting Black radio but you are protesting someone who gave a stupid comment. The images that are shown on Black TV can be compared to a minstrel show. We show brothers and sisters straight screw-ng on TV (not making love), calling each other bit-hes on popular Black situation comedies, and showing the most un-Christian images on TV. Will you ever see Al Sharpton demanding positive images on TV? H-ll no unless it has a liberal twist….”
View the entire blog segment here:
http://onedetroitnetwork.blogspot.com/2007/04/black-liberals-need-to-stop-double.html
As Mr. Akinyemi mentions the liberalization of the black community, he is accenting and is showing his concern of the way the “anything goes” mentality has been pervasive among blacks. Because conservative blacks would not allow or condone such vile behavior.
As one can see, this sort of behavior is manifested everywhere. And not only in the black community either, we have a problem with our overall culture as Americans. Don Imus was but a blip on the radar screen in all of this. But truly, the only way that the black community and America as a whole can recover is to take on the filth on the airwaves and hopefully, in the music videos and in the rap and hip-hop music.
Will the black community hold itself to account? We can’t point the finger and say one person should be fired for demeaning comments about blacks and females when our own behavior is just as vile.
Looking at the music in today’s society…how can those who see vile behavior and negative music lyrics appropriate, elevate themselves in society when they are too busy “rump-shaking” it such offensive music? If you look around, you will notice just how music has an affect on the morals and behavior of our society. Why are there so many deadbeat-dads and such a surge in irresponsibility when it comes to sex and a lack of accountability for one’s actions? Music seems to glorify the negative these days. Tell me how that is helping our young people achieve their dreams?!
Allow me to time travel for a little bit. I remember in the 1980’s when the music was over-the-top silly, it was about having fun and mixing good beats and experimenting with sounds. There were successful love ballads that were not degrading that made it big on the charts as well. The music surely had an affect over the overall mood of the country, and it was a fairly good decade. How have we gone from such a good era in music to now pushing filth on the airwaves?
Yes it’s time to digest the fact that we have allowed the filth to go on for too long. And something needs to change. And it is not political correctness to want action taken against someone in the public eye who consistently uses degrading comments to express themselves.
It’s time to digest that yes, Imus was fired and should have been.
America needs to pull herself from the gutter, shake Herself off, be the society that exemplifies respect towards all, and be a society that inspires.
*Felicia (Fee) Benamon is a political columnist who writes for various conservative sites including RenewAmerica.us, Michnews.com, Daley-Times Post, Renaissance Women ( http://www.rwnetwork.net/ ) , Capitolhillcoffeehouse.com, TheConservativeVoice.com, Mensnewsdaily.com, ConservativeCrusader.com, and other news sites like AmericanChronicle.com. She is a columnist and a reporter for the Mid-South Patriot ( www.freewebs.com/midsouth-patriot ) in Memphis, TN. Felicia hails from a military background, and has been politically active since the 2000 elections. She has been a guest speaker on various conservative internet talk radio shows including KFNX News talk radio with Clancy Jaynce (www. insidepoliticswithclancyjayne.com).
You may email Felicia: Feereports@aol.com.
10 Responses
Who gets to decide what constitutes filth?
Posted on April 16th, 2007 at 4:33 pm
“How have we gone from such a good era in music to now pushing filth on the airwaves?”
It would be a long story that she wouldnt want to hear…
the push to fire Imus has a larger picture to it. preceding it NY passed a non law law, on the word ‘ni**er”. of course its a non law because, unlike the author above, commentary speech cant be controlled by force of law
except now if they suspend the constitution temporarily (as during crisis), all those non laws suddenly become laws that are valid and cant be opposed since habeus corpus is where?
If she can write well enough to convince his three million to stop listening to him, then she may have something going here. as long as they want him, and you can turn a channel, we are going to have such
there is also a revisionist and suppression bent to it as libraries will try to comply… of course we know that libraries are hotbeds for the distribution of black music… right?
no.. of course not.. but with that word goes the works of mark twain, and beecher stow… there would go the comedy of richard pryor… red foxx… tons of works by black slaves, historical pieces, movies, and on and on - not all negative for having the word in them…
and even odder is the forgetfulness of people when it comes to “blcak music”.. they look to the black community to do something… but the truth is that the rappers are celebrating black history!!!
yeah.. i am crazy.. right? not at all… martin luthers words didnt go with music as well… and martin seemed weak compared to some others near him (after all, he ended up dead, and the others didnt, is the unfortunate way its viewed by some)… we forget real quickly even when the answer is in front of us..
there was a person who talked well… who was with the movement, as well as others too… the whole music genre is named after him, and yet they dont see it. H “Rap” Brown…. remember him now? “i see shootin, i see lootin…”… author of “die ni**er die”… read his poetry… look at him in film clips. Put a fubu jacket on him.. (and check out who the parents of some of the people that really put “rap” forward) and dont forget that in the begining, they went around outside big corporate distribution… (so their money came from?)
ah well… there is a lot to be said for history… anyone know any?
Posted on April 16th, 2007 at 5:32 pm
I also forgot to mention that the major wave of why we find such acceptable was that the feminists in their haste decided to destroy the whole limits concept to get their ‘program’ in place faster than what natural time would make of it. kind of like opening a flood gate to get a drink of water.
the author forgets that when the system was not matriarchal, we had manners, families, holidays, merit, and lots of other things…
the whole way that feminism sold itself was that it pushed limits till there werent any, especially for women…
now.. there is no way to make half the population polite only. and since women raise the kids in record single parent households, and the head of household has been raised that there are no limits to her behavior, etc,
you get people that think imus is fun…
(you also get a huge prison population too!! but i dont know if they listen to imus at all)
Posted on April 16th, 2007 at 5:38 pm
“Why are there so many deadbeat-dads”
Whoa there, Felicia!
Maybe when divorce requires proof of fault if there is to be any deprivation of property, if the father is the respondent in the divorce then he should be afforded the option of keeping custody of the children, if every father out of wedlock was offered the mother’s hand in marriage and such mother was a tolerable person, or in the alternative offered custody of the child when the mother is unable to support said child and admits same by signing up for welfare, if the support orders were reasonable, if the Constitution was respected in family law . . .
Then I could see your point.
As it is, most fathers abandon their families the way a pirate forced to walk the plank abandons his ship.
If you are worried about black fathers not accepting responsibility for their families, then please ask yourself:
What opportunity do they have to do so?
How are they treated when they try?
Wasn’t allowing all of our blue collar jobs be shipped overseas for cheap labor such a really good idea?! And letting in half of Mexico to compete for what jobs are left? And letting the ladies run off to the welfare office and the courthouse so they would not have to depend on men dependent on such jobs?
Charles Barkley has said that all liberals have done for black people is to give them a serious inferiority complex. I would add that they have also rendered it impossible for a black man to be a husband and father for his family.
Perhaps the problem is the morals and behavior of the decision makers. Most of them don’t listen to rap music!
Posted on April 16th, 2007 at 6:27 pm
“Why are there so many deadbeat-dads and such a surge in irresponsibility when it comes to sex and a lack of accountability for one’s actions?”, Asks Felicia.
The deadbeat issue is a huge governmental rackateering conspiracy as many have pointed out over the past year or many but the second part of the question beggars belief. Felicia, are you seeeeeerious?
Lack of accountability for sex is written into the law. ONLY women are not held to account for sex and most other personal action. To even imply that men aren’t held to account is to close your eyes to the prison population, the pizza boxes, the Amber alerts, the newspapers, the TV, every word almost that comes from a woman or a politician’s mouth. Get a grip.
Blaming the victim doesn’t help. Blaming the victim is forbidden if its a woman. Please don’t join the throng in the open season on blaming men.
Posted on April 16th, 2007 at 8:09 pm
Kudos on the point of Civility being returned to Public Life!
So America started by discarding the White Trash.
It has been a week now, and I do not see anything else going to the curb for pickup.
If something is not out there by Friday, this was then a HandJob by the ModRuler Masturbators, as there is something on the air right now that needs to be deposed.
So get on with the Purge Rev. Al! (yeah…right!)
As for the allegation fo deadbeats…I think it is because the Black Man was the first victim of Feminism.
Having no voice, Black Male culture is made up of the Nano-Pimping Playas, the Gangstas, and the Stealth-Bisexuals, generally. But I have shared this thesis with Felicia.
Oh yes, any man who does not subscribe to that culture is an Uncle Tom.
Ask Bob Parks, he will tell you all about it.
Being an Uncle Tom means following White Culture, which now makes you a target for the Materialistic Feminist Socio-Marxist system.
For me a white man, and I believe for all Men, there has got to be another way to avoid being a victim than subscribing to the Black Male Culture and going Ghetto.
My Girl already dumped a white guy that went that way.
I am a Biblical Rights of Man-ist.
Maybe that is what really turns her on…how she just sits and listens.
Hey! The Chick diggs natural Rights!
Imagine that!
Posted on April 16th, 2007 at 11:54 pm
Just an observation: by now probably tens of millions of people have repeated the phrase which started all this — at least a thousand of them on the public airwaves — but only Imus has suffered any repercussion. So it’s not the words themselves.
I think it’s all a big ploy by The Committee That Really Runs America to take race off the table as an item of discussion, in spite of all the claims that this is some huge opportunity to do the contrary. No one knows where the landmines are, and it’s difficult to have an open discussion when everyone’s being self-conscious.
Posted on April 17th, 2007 at 8:15 am
Black america will hold itself accountable the same time that monkeys fly out of my butt. THAT is the cold truth. If the author believes that this is about cleaning up the airwaves then I have some oceanfront property in Nebraska for sale.
I am in agreement that “shock” radio sucks and the local “morning zoos” that emulate these shows also blow. Frankly, I don’t need to hear discussions of anal sex, crotches, and faux lesbianism when I get up in the morning. I prefer to ease into the day in another manner.
So I have decided to engage two absolutely fantastic tools. First, the ability to think for myself, a dying skill here in the divided states of america. Secondly, I use the (eghads, here it comes!!) RADIO DIAL TO CHANGE MY STATION.
Now, if do gooders like the author are so interested in protecting me from things that I might find distasteful, maybe she could help me out. She can start by going to work for me while I continue to collect a check. I find that whole work thing distasteful. And when it’s time for me to take my dirt nap, would she mind stepping in? Again, that whole “death” thing is well, distasteful.
I hope by now people can see this idea of censorship for the bullshit that it is.
On to my next target.
Hey White America, when the hell are we gonna wake up? You do understand that those two asshats sharpton and jackson have NO INTENTIONS WHATSOEVER OF CLEANING UP THE RAP INDUSTRY.
These guys are race baiters, pure and simple. Rap has been rife with degrading and profane lyrics since the early 90’s. I guess 15+ years just isn’t enough time to clean it up, huh fellas?
If we don’t stand up now, when will we? Or are we going to wait for the Muslims and Hispanics to do our work for us after they take over the cuntry?
Posted on April 17th, 2007 at 7:12 pm
Felicia. I respect your conservative Postion, But it is almost midnight Tuesday Night and I do not hear anyone trying to take out the trash.
If someonelse, and this time a member of the HipHop community, is not fed to the Mob by Friday, then I will believe that you have been sold a bill of goods about someone being legitimate and going to cleanup society.
Posted on April 17th, 2007 at 9:26 pm
I observe that the diversity (read: feminist and black) movement is hypocritical. For example, the desire tolerance but to not tolerate people different from them. This is seen in Dr. Mike Adams employment at a state University. He is conservative. His employer is liberal. He has been denied promotions.
Posted on April 18th, 2007 at 12:47 pm
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