SCALP IMUS
Why do white people think they have the right to call black women "nappy-headed ho's?" Can you please explain this to me please? There is a radio "personality" named Don Imus, who is a very, very old white man, who called the Rutgers women’s basketball team "nappy-headed ho's."
Excuse me please?
This is not right. But luckily we got two of the brightest and the best on the case: Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. They want this white HO removed from his position as talking white man. I say let's go a step further.
Scalp him.
Yes. I said it. We need to scalp this man. The Native American Indian people had it right a long time ago. Let's honor their history by allowing some of them off the reservation and having them scalp Don Imus. Who's in this with me?
SCALP IMUS!
Labels: don imus, new york times, scalp
5 Comments:
Lady, I do not know who this old ho is. But I'm in. Any enemy of yours is an enemy of mine. :) Scalp away.
4:53 PM
I'm not sure that mop on his head is actually human hair, but let's find out. Scalp him!
11:36 AM
I call dibs on his white supremisist cowboy hat! Scalp Imus!
8:10 PM
When you have a sub-culture such as the American black community that counts as its cultural front runners those that flaunt names like “Snappy Nappy” sand “Nappy Roots” that seem themselves to suffer no ill effects by using such names. And rappers who use the very words in question as commonly as one might order coffee or tea at a diner.
When mainstream books for black children that celebrate their own color- option to title the book “happy to be nappy” as opposed to “happy to be me”. When there is not outcry from the moral front-runners such as Jackson and Sharpton that this is no way to refer to ourselves.
When on-line rap reference sources plainly state that ho = girlfriend as follows:
1. Alternative to "bitch" as in, one's girlfriend. "She's ma ho'"
Note: No caveat that this type of usage is derogatory.
Get it? Two weeks ago this language was “inside” black stuff - That these same critics must have either used or ignored. I say must have because the words have been part of mainstream language for quite some time. And certainly not brought into the mainstream by the white man.
If they didn’t ignore it, their social outrage was not elevated to the point it made the six o’clock news.
I believe a strong case could be made for black leaders to state that we started it and we are wrong. After all it was Richard Prior who said that the N word was the white man’s word, that meant all sorts of terrible things and that he was going to stop using it.
Richard Prior was pro-active.
We have in Jackson and Sharpton reactionary leaders. To be a true leader, this fight should have been pro-actively started years ago against the rappers that made these terms popular. That made these terms so everyday in usage that one man (not black) thought it was acceptable to utter them.
Though he used the words in the very spirit of their common usage. He must repent as a white man who knows that these terms are not good. For if he were a black man no repentance would be needed.
Given the common usage of such terms, is this truly any worse that a 1950’s New York Yankee fan calling the Brooklyn Dodgers “dem bums?”
The real question is why did these terms make it into the mainstream of American popular culture? Where are true leaders that actually lead? Why would one community blame their own social bankruptcy on another community? What happened to Black and proud?
10:29 AM
Wow, that response above me was really, really long.
Oh, right.
Scalp, okaaaaay?
6:45 PM
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