What's My Favorite Word?

MSNBC is dropping Imus in the Morning...about time something more significant than a "slap on the wrist" was made against Imus for calling the Rutgers ladies "nappy headed hos." Some argue that if in Hip Hop artist call women nappy headed hos then there should be no reason for a very grown White on-air personality to do the same. I googled "nappy headed ho," lyrics and no songs appeared...i.e. this term is not in "every rap song" as some critics claim. I will not even go into how nappy headed mocks the natural features of a large majority of Blacks around the world. As if that is something to be changed or ashamed of. I must say I was impressed with Snoop's comments. While I still do not agree with why he chooses to use the terms "bitch" and "ho" in his lyrics, he does have quite the point.

"It's a completely different scenario," said Snoop, barking over the phone from a hotel room in L.A. "[Rappers] are not talking about no collegiate basketball girls who have made it to the next level in education and sports. We're talking about ho's that's in the 'hood that ain't doing sh--, that's trying to get a n---a for his money. These are two separate things. First of all, we ain't no old-ass white men that sit up on MSNBC [which announced Wednesday it would drop its simulcast of Imus' radio show] going hard on black girls. We are rappers that have these songs coming from our minds and our souls that are relevant to what we feel. I will not let them mutha----as say we in the same league as him."

"Kick him off the air forever," he said. "Ban him like they did [Adam] 'Pacman' Jones. They kicked him out the [National Football] League for the whole season [for numerous violations of the NFL's personal-conduct policy, including multiple arrests], but this punk gets to get on the air and call black women 'nappy-headed ho's.' "

I don't find the hypocrisy of the media and critics the least bit surprising. These kind of situations continue due to the lack of back lash by employers and those outside the Black community. Apparently if an offender simply apologizes or goes on "vacation" it makes it all okay. Those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it. This is one of a million instances, obviously the slaps on the wrists are ineffective. With freedom of speech comes responsibility and I guess even at his age, sense is not so common.