SNOOP DOGG speaks about Don Imus
@redyellowblackdog (10629)
United States
April 12, 2007 9:12am CST
The famous black rapper, SNOOP DOGG, has responded to criticism that people like himself talk about black women in a much more demeaning manner than did the shock jock, Don Imus.
SNOOP DOGG is actually offended and thinks people who compare his comments to Imus' are stupid.
The gist of his reasoning is that he and other rappers are talking in general about those women who really are wh0res and bi*ches whereas Don Imus was specifically refering to women of high achievement in both athletics and in scholarship as students in an university.
SNOOP DOGG's point is that he demeans actual ho's while Imus "bad mouthed" some fine upstanding citizens.
Here's the url. You can read it in SNOOP DOGG's own words.
http://newsbusters.org/node/11981
What's your opinion?
Is what Imus had to say worse than what black rappers like SNOOP DOGG have to say?
Do either have any socially redeeming value?
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6 responses
@shogunly (1397)
• Libya
12 Apr 07
Rappers are not exactly the most respectable people , in fact most of them are or have been criminals at some point . Because Snoop is so stupid he did not know what to say to the attempt at justifying what the man said by comparison with rappers' songs . The attitude towards females in rap is frequently in the form of macho and bravados because it is SHOWBUSINESS . The Imus guy was also on a show but it was of a different kind . Imus and Snoop do not have the same audiences , people who listen to Imus might get offended because his is a respectable show and also the epithets were directed AT A SPECIFIC group of girls . People who listen to Snoop know it is just music and it's not necessarily directed at any girls .
On the other hand maybe the girls were oversensitive and took Imus remarks out of context .
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@redyellowblackdog (10629)
• United States
12 Apr 07
In regards to the girls of the Rutger's team, I think they pretty much ignored the remarks of Don Imus until the media started coming around asking questions and giving them publicity.
Another case of the media making a mountain out of a mole hill, perhaps?
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@momoffour (93)
• United States
12 Apr 07
I guess in snoops opinion if you are white then you cannot have an ignorant demeaning opinion of black women. That right is strictly resereved for black rappers who use the unfortunate situations that some of these women are born into to rap about and make millions of dollars on. I think free speech is everyone's right. I think that what snoop says in the article about how the black women he talks about in his lyrics are "h0s in the hood that aren't doing anything with their lives" is just as wrong because he is perpetuating the stereotypes with his lyrics just like the ignorant comments from Imus. An ignorant comment is an ignorant comment no matter who it comes from or what their color is. That is just my two cents.
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@redyellowblackdog (10629)
• United States
12 Apr 07
"Just as wrong because he is perpetuating the stereotypes with his lyrics."
This quote from your response helps me to make sense of it. I understand this to mean both Imus and Snoop Dogg are wrong, just in different ways.
Thank-you, I was having trouble with Snoop Doggs defense of what I knew to be wrong.
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@The_Eagle_1 (1121)
• Australia
16 Apr 07
Both these jerks are as irresponsible as each other as their views, joking or otherwise DO get aired and that type of racial derogatory sexist propaganda, shouldn't be
given the time of day!
@TheGreatWhiteBuffalo (4822)
• United States
14 Apr 07
Snoop might be exposing the truth about some women in general, I know plenty of women that have lied and tried to make me into some sort of slave. It is bad enough that I've made my self a slave to own a piece of this Earth. But to become the slave of a woman master that intends to control my every minute, I agree that needs to be exposed.
Love is not slavery,
Don Imus was just plain wrong in demeaning those women as he did.
I also know plenty of good women that respect people, children and lovers and make life very enjoyable. Those are the women that I want to surround me in my life. Women and Men of that caliber are easy to find.
Look around and see...
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@tsgirl01 (900)
• United States
14 Apr 07
All I have to say is that NO ONE has the right to talk about anyone in the manner that Imus did and the rappers do. I think it is disgusting and disturbing the way Imus and rappers put people down. They need to realize who their audiences are, who buy their records... And for Snoop to say that he is speaking of people who are not doing anything with their lives? He has the means to uplift some lives instead of putting them down. Shame on Imus and the rest of the "entertainers" who make a living by hurting others...
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@redyellowblackdog (10629)
• United States
14 Apr 07
And shame on their customers for buying what's being peddled to make Imus, Snoop, and the other rappers all rich!
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@wachit14 (3595)
• United States
14 Apr 07
I hate to say this, but I have to agree with him. Those basketball players could not be compared to the women portrayed in those rap videos. Let's face it; no one should be demeaned that way, but Imus went out of bounds with a joke that wasn't even a bit funny.
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