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A day after an MSNBC panel on Morning Joe attempted to blame hip-hop music for a racist fraternity chant about lynching black men, the co-host of the show, Mika Brzezinski, made a valiant attempt to clean it all up, but fell short. In her interview, seen in full below the fold, she has no sincere explanation for the following statement that was made yesterday after she introduced hip-hop into the conversation with Joe Scarborough and Bill Kristol:
Popular culture becomes a cesspool, a lot corporations profit off of it, and then people are surprised that some drunk 19-year-old kids repeat what theyve been hearing, said Bill Kristol. He added that Tipper Gore tried to raise this issue, and was widely ridiculed, referring to the parental advisory labels the future V-FLOTUS enacted after her daughter purchased Purple Rain thirty years ago.
The kids that are buying hip hop or gangster rap, its a white audience, and they hear this over and over again, Joe Scarborough said. So do they hear this at home? Well, chances are good, no, they heard a lot of this from guys like this who are now acting shocked.
Instead of saying they just got it dead wrong, she denied that was ever how they felt, and then again pivoted back to hip-hop and how a discussion on why hip-hop artists use the "N word" was still very timely and appropriate.
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MADem
(135,425 posts)That horrible song sounds, in cadence and style, like the taunting songs that school children would make up to mock teachers and other school officials well over a half century ago. The sort of thing kids would sing on the school bus when they were feeling their oats.
Of course, the school children would make fun of "Old Lady" so-and-so, or "Old Man" such-and-such, and they wouldn't use racist invective...but to suggest that the song came from "hip hop" is absurd and asinine. It comes from a grammar school mentality of unawareness and insensitivity, at a minimum, with a patina of outright racism.
frylock
(34,825 posts)never once have I been influenced to use that word.
spanone
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(63,914 posts)Last edited Fri Mar 13, 2015, 04:18 PM - Edit history (1)
the rapper saying he wouldn't play because of the racism at OU. She then passed around copies of the rapper's lyrics while pointing out the rapper's "hypocrisy." Joe picked it up right away and made his disgusting remark and then Kristol just carried her point further. It was ugly. Now she wants to make it a conversation about "art." Oh, please.