What Is Wrong With Black People?
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The firestorm over the vile and racist comments recently made over the MSNBC and WFAN (CBS) airwaves by shock jock/ comedian Don Imus, is proper and deserved, but it raises a much larger question. What is wrong with Black people? Are they lazy, crazy or just plain stupid? To be clear, it was wrong for Imus to call the hardworking players of New Jersey's Rutgers University Women's Basketball team, "nappy-headed hos," but as he would later point out, he didn't invent the term ho, Black people did. While this does not excuse Mr. Imus, it does point to the complicity Black's have in their degradation. One need only to review the lyrical content of today's top selling rap songs to discover the veracity of what is being said.

You'd be hard pressed to find more than one or two positions articulated by conservative columnist Michelle Malkin with which I agree, but I have to give her credit for getting to the crux of the Imus matter. In a recent column entitled, "The Civility Squad Skits The Rap Rats." Ms. Malkin, duly chastises Mr. Imus, while wondering aloud whether the Reverends Sharpton and Jackson who brought light to Mr. Imus' statements, will be as vigilant in going after the primary offenders in the rap world, who routinely dehumanized Black women. She sites a rapper named Mims whose chart topper, This Is Why I'm Hot has been number one for 15 weeks. The following is a small sample of Mr. Mims' lyrics: This is why I'm hot/catch me on the block/Every other day/ another bitch another drop/16 bars, 24 pop/44 songs, nigga gimme what you got. Ms. Malkin furthers her case by quoting the number two Bow Wow/R. Kelly song, I'm A Flirt: Ima be pimpin/I don't be slippin/When it comes down to these hos/I don't love em/ We don't cuff em/ Man that's the way it goes Where is the outrage over these misogynistic degrading lyrics? Why is no one suggesting a boycott against the record labels that produce and promote this smut? It is true that both Rev. Sharpton and Rev. Jackson have spoken out against the artists and labels that have been most complicit. There hasn't been enough outrage in the Black community over this issue.

Don Imus is a convenient whipping boy. His present plight has served to bring attention to the underlying racism that exists in American society. This racism is often just below the surface. Ironically, he has also brought to the fore, the issue of Black self-hatred.

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