CNN plays the wrong music and apologizes

Thoughts_Arrive

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MrSLna8 ... ture=share

:shock:

PureandEasy

the fact that songs like that even exist is just an indication of how far we haven't come in this country.

Why do black people think that it is ok for them to talk like that?

I will never understand that.

peacocoa

hahaha. that was no accident. that was some disgruntled a/v dude saying fuck this job.

Evil Merlin Part Deux

Impeccable timing.

g under p

PureandEasy wrote:

the fact that songs like that even exist is just an indication of how far we haven't come in this country.

Why do black people think that it is ok for them to talk like that?

I will never understand that.

NOT ALL black people talk like that and besides if such speech resides within a rap song what exactly is the problem? It's RAP which I believe is a free form style of speaking!

Peace

BinauralJam

mysticweed

hilarious

he.who.forgets

wow, that's funny. Yea, I cant imagine how that music would be anywhere near the control room of a CNN news studio. If that in fact did air, then I'd agree, that was somebody who was very sick of their job!

Jason P

I didn't know that Michael Richards became a rapper. Seinfeld money must be running out ....

PureandEasy

g under p wrote:

PureandEasy wrote:

the fact that songs like that even exist is just an indication of how far we haven't come in this country.

Why do black people think that it is ok for them to talk like that?

I will never understand that.

NOT ALL black people talk like that and besides if such speech resides within a rap song what exactly is the problem? It's RAP which I believe is a free form style of speaking!

Peace

I know not all black people speak like that, but some of the stuff in those rap songs are ridiculous and as a woman, I find quite offensive.

g under p

PureandEasy wrote:

g under p wrote:

PureandEasy wrote:

the fact that songs like that even exist is just an indication of how far we haven't come in this country.

Why do black people think that it is ok for them to talk like that?

I will never understand that.

NOT ALL black people talk like that and besides if such speech resides within a rap song what exactly is the problem? It's RAP which I believe is a free form style of speaking!

Peace

I know not all black people speak like that, but some of the stuff in those rap songs are ridiculous and as a woman, I find quite offensive.

.....And as a woman or a man I understand the offense taken however, it is in a rap song which has it's own select genre of music listeners.

Peace

Go Beavers

PureandEasy wrote:

the fact that songs like that even exist is just an indication of how far we haven't come in this country.

Why do black people think that it is ok for them to talk like that?

I will never understand that.

Have you suspended your judgement and tried to understand it?

PureandEasy

Go Beavers wrote:

PureandEasy wrote:

the fact that songs like that even exist is just an indication of how far we haven't come in this country.

Why do black people think that it is ok for them to talk like that?

I will never understand that.

Have you suspended your judgement and tried to understand it?

No I haven't, I see absolutely no need for it.

BinauralJam

Go Beavers wrote:

PureandEasy wrote:

the fact that songs like that even exist is just an indication of how far we haven't come in this country.

Why do black people think that it is ok for them to talk like that?

I will never understand that.

Have you suspended your judgement and tried to understand it?

Let's examine, "Nigga nigga nigga nigga nigga nigga nigga nigga, i'm a hundred percent nigga"
yup, that puts it in a whole new light.

Go Beavers

PureandEasy wrote:

Go Beavers wrote:

PureandEasy wrote:

the fact that songs like that even exist is just an indication of how far we haven't come in this country.

Why do black people think that it is ok for them to talk like that?

I will never understand that.

Have you suspended your judgement and tried to understand it?

No I haven't, I see absolutely no need for it.

You should try it when you don't understand something, it makes life much more interesting and enjoyable with less negativity and judgement.

Go Beavers

BinauralJam wrote:

Go Beavers wrote:

PureandEasy wrote:

the fact that songs like that even exist is just an indication of how far we haven't come in this country.

Why do black people think that it is ok for them to talk like that?

I will never understand that.

Have you suspended your judgement and tried to understand it?

Let's examine, "Nigga nigga nigga nigga nigga nigga nigga nigga, i'm a hundred percent nigga"
yup, that puts it in a whole new light.

The question wasn't about understanding the lyrics, it was about understanding why the person thinks its okay to write those lyrics.

pjhawks

g under p wrote:

.....And as a woman or a man I understand the offense taken however, it is in a rap song which has it's own select genre of music listeners.

Peace

rap music using those lyrics is highly hypocritical and counter-intuitive to race relations and racial equality gains made to this point in history in my opinion. the audience for rap is not just one select type of person as you speak of. offensive words should be offensive no matter who says them.

musicismylife78

pjhawks wrote:

g under p wrote:

.....And as a woman or a man I understand the offense taken however, it is in a rap song which has it's own select genre of music listeners.

Peace

rap music using those lyrics is highly hypocritical and counter-intuitive to race relations and racial equality gains made to this point in history in my opinion. the audience for rap is not just one select type of person as you speak of. offensive words should be offensive no matter who says them.

brings me back to my days as an activist. I think various communities who have been persecuted and abused over the years, like gays for an example, or women have all used similarly abusive and damaging language in their own communities, to try and take the power back from a word that caused harm and shame and pain and to use it in a way that is familial and friendly. The use of the N Word in the black communities is the same thing.

I also think hip hop music as a whole has been very instrumental in race relations in our generation. yes racism is very much alive and well in the world. And in our generation. But i also think being exposed to the powerful portrayal of urban decay and poverty in the art of Tupac, Biggie, etc... had a huge impact on the shaping of self in alot of people. Myself included and im sure im not the only person. The fact that hip hop shows and music sell primarily to white kids in the suburbs deserves a wider discussion on this board and elsewhere. What does the effect of listening to Ready to Die or similar such works have on kids who live in privelege and dont deal with the issues expressed in the art? Further, what effect does it have on those kids to be exposed to more positive or conscious artists, like Dead Prez, or Public Enemy, who confront their largely white audience with the brutal truths of the inner city and racist brutality at the hands of authority figures?

this really has nothing to do with the video, or the music on cnn. certainly i would hope whoever is responsible for it is fired.

but i think to focus in on hip hop as the problem is a straw man and an insane take on the issue. The issue isnt an art form. the issue is racism, structural, institutionalized racism. racism that makes it ok in someones mind to do something like this. to think that this is funny or okay to do.

hip hop isnt the problem.

musicismylife78

i also think whoever didnt understand the lyrics or why it was okay, i would suggest you personally should do research on the word. their are entire books written about the words history.

i do think its not just a coincidence that the word as historically used ends in ER, and the word used in this context is just a A at the end.

I suggest you look into why their exists that difference in spelling. certainly african americans arent calling each other that name in hatred. in fact its often used as a familial friendly term, almost to signify a brother, sibling.

Its pure ignorance to talk about the word and not to understand or dig deep into its history, and its modern use and meaning in hip hop and the larger society as a whole

as i alluded to above, women and gays, have also taken words used against them and turned them into words of empowerment.

BinauralJam

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ns-kXeQCMk

iluvcats

I don't understand. I replayed it and I heard a different song. The first was racist with the N word and the next one was dirty.