all i have to say is f**k al sharpton

 

Its all a matter of who said what.....If a white guy says it, it racist, a black guy says it, it's just a thing.
Like the famous "N" word, that gets deleted in posts, if a white person says it, they're a racist, but blacks use it in conversations, and songs....and the kicker is...they say its like white people calling each other "honkys and krackers".... I cant recall the last time I called my buddy a "honky or kracker"....
Im not racist.....I hate everybody equally.
Its just words. You can either ignore them, or deal with them, you cant censor them...thats life....to short to worry 'bout who called me a name.
Besides...Karma is a bi-yotch, she catches up with everybody.

 

calling Karma names like that… she might get offended


It’s not really the word(s) themselves that make a statement racist. It’s the meaning behind them that make them racist.

You hear an old white guy (Imus for example) say “nappy headed-ho” and “jiggaboo” in making fun of a few girls. He didn’t say it to be nice, he said it to crack a joke about them. Was his joke racist? We’ve all heard what he said, and we all understand the meaning behind those words. But do any of us really know why he said it? For all we know, maybe he listens to way too much hip-hop, and those were the first words that came to his mind.

So was that racist of him? Possibly. But let’s say that instead of Imus saying it, it was a black man. Throw Dave Chappelle in there. He says those same words, with the intent of making fun of them. Not only would people not be offended by it (with the exception of a few), but he would’ve actually gotten somebody to laugh by saying it.

On the topic of lyrics in music… So you slap a “warning” label on it, and then it’s ok? It’s alright for a black man to use racial slurs in derogatory terms? I don’t believe in “censorship”, but the question still remains. If Garth Brooks sang about the same crap that a few rappers do, then every single civil-rights group would be getting in line. NOW for the $$$Million question…. Why do they turn the blind eye???... My answer “because they are still looking at the color of the skin”.

 

The difference is all about who is signing the checks. If the record label is signing your check, you only have to worry about selling records. If the the broadcaster is signing your checks, then you have to worry about selling ads. People who buy ads are hyper sensitive to these kinds of things because of association, negative attention, and of course the boycotts. Those kinds of things have a detrimental affect on the bottom line and stock price.

He didn't get fired for what he said. He got fired for how what he said affected the people that keep the lights on and the salaries stacked at CBS. If he wouldn't have been fired, they would have lost all of their sponsors. It's no different than a commision salesperson not selling the product they are paid to sell.