Posted on 04/13/2012 8:39:38 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Two young ladies who are leaders in youth groups for Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network (NAN) grilled a radio executive about his lucrative hip hop music programming, asking whether it was any different than drug dealers making money and why would the executive promote material that “degrades us and dumbs our African American people down just to make money?”
At the NAN convention in Washington, D.C., a panel discussion was held entitled “Media Race” that was led by MSNBC’s Rev. Al Sharpton, who founded NAN, and included Alfred C. Liggins III, the CEO of Radio One, the seventh largest radio network in the United States. …
After all the panelists spoke, the floor was opened for questions and the two young ladies approached the microphone: Victoria Pannell, 12, of New York City, who is the Northeast regional director of NAN’s Youth Movement, and Nialah Edari, 17, of Milwaukee, Wisc., who is the Midwest youth director for NAN.
Edari said, “Our question is directed toward Mr. Alfred [Liggins]. You said that your radio station plays rap music because it makes money, but drug dealers sell drugs. Does that necessarily make it right?”
Applause and hollering broke out in the audience, and then Pannell said, “And rap music creates negative stereotypes in our communities, so we just want to know would you rather play music that degrades us and dumbs our African American people down just to make money?”
That question also sparked loud cheering and applause. …
Liggins said if his company did not broadcast the baser hip hop music, “If we don’t highlight that artistry, somebody else will do it, and the audience wants it. People want to listen to it.” …
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... because “it feels good to be a gangster” sing Obama and Holder...
... and because Trayvon spoiled rich boy of Zero felt good acting like a gangster whose misdeeds get repaired by Sharpton, Holder and Zero.
You must not be up on Ebonics. That’s ‘’gangsta’.
Liggins said if his company did not broadcast the baser hip hop music, “If we don’t highlight that artistry, somebody else will do it, and the audience wants it. People want to listen to it.” …
This is the same argument filmmakers made in the 1980s and 90s about all the blood, nudity and sex in films. And then they discovered they could get a bigger audience, especially in foreign markets, by toning those very things down.
I doubt if Sharpton was very pleased with these two young ladies. He probably didn’t think they actually used their brians. Victoria Pannell, 12, of New York City, who is the (SOON TO BE FORMER) Northeast regional director of NAN’s Youth Movement, and Nialah Edari, 17, of Milwaukee, Wisc., who is the (SOON TO BE FORMER) Midwest youth director for NAN.
A lady on a call in show here in Houston the other day said Sheila Jackson-Lee suffers from ebonic plague.
LOL!
Oh, that’s right, it’s difficult to match “the Eloquency of the Great One” . We’re not worthy, we’re not worthy. (sarc off)
In the world of liberal PC, they will be seen as incapable of putting two music notes together... but not like putting notes together on a string is a genius of its own, but it is the heart behind it, and not like I ever liked what a liberal turd ever called great music, or the usurped and imposturation of music on horrible lyrics of death.
I can't hear that without immediately thinking about this.
“degrades us and dumbs our African American people down just to make money?”
I hate to break up a good hip-hop bashing, but most of their money is made off stupid white kids. Also, it doesn’t degrade black people, only certain black people. And anyone who extrapolates the hip-hop image to cover all black people—like you—is racist.
Always makes me think about cleaning a fish in my cubicle.
“degrades us and dumbs our African American people down just to make money?”
Were they talking about Sharpton?
These girls lead a group of Sharpton fans and they think the disc jockey is degrading blacks but not Al? While they have a point about the black rap(I don’t recognize hip hop)degrading blacks and women in particular, Sharpton degrades blacks every day in every way.
One more thing, if blacks didn’t buy this disgusting music people couldn’t make money off of it. Can’t blame the people who play it, they wouldn’t play it if people weren’t buying it.
Could be that they were inside a Trojan horse. If so, good for them for actually bringing some character into the fray.
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