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SF TV anchor apologizes over comments about Sean Combs
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | December 18, 2017 | Annie Ma

Posted on 12/19/2017 7:12:08 AM PST by artichokegrower

An anchor at a Bay Area television station issued a public apology after his comments about rapper and producer Sean “Diddy” Combs and his co-anchor’s reaction were widely criticized on social media as racially insensitive.

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Racially insensitive?

Sean "Diddy" Combs musical homage to blacks in America

Puff Daddy – I Need A Girl (To Bella) Lyrics

Do twenty-five for me, nigga steal a pound for me Shorty probably blow a nigga to the sky for me And go and sit in a chair that’ll fry for me And lord know if I die she gon cry for me

The type smoke all a nigga’s weed And still move at a nigga’s speed Never a victim of a nigga’s greed Especially if she runnin’ round with a nigga’s seed

“Finna Get Loose” Lyrics

Sean Combs

A nigga finna get loose, huh A nigga finna get loose, huh A nigga finna get loose, huh A nigga finna get loose, huh

1 posted on 12/19/2017 7:12:08 AM PST by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

Combs as a songwriter, are right up there with Lennon/McCartney, Jagger/Richards, Dylan, etc.


2 posted on 12/19/2017 7:14:06 AM PST by mothball
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To: artichokegrower

Invited to the White Hut many times


3 posted on 12/19/2017 7:14:21 AM PST by Uversabound (Might does not make right, but it does enforce the commonly recognized rights of each succeeding gen)
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To: artichokegrower
“Proudly expressing stereotypes, during a live broadcast, is hardly a good idea,” another wrote.

A stereotype is when you say, "All black people are high all the time."

Making an observation about an individual is different: "Did you see Sean Combs last night? I swear that guy was high." That's not a stereotype.

4 posted on 12/19/2017 7:16:25 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Benedict McCain is the worst traitor ever to wear the uniform of the US military.)
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To: artichokegrower

KRON-TV sports anchor Henry Wofford is himself African-American.

5 posted on 12/19/2017 7:19:42 AM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: mothball
Combs as a songwriter, are right up there with Lennon/McCartney, Jagger/Richards, Dylan, etc.

I was thinking Schubert, but your examples will do as well.

6 posted on 12/19/2017 7:24:35 AM PST by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Rap “music” does nothing but enforce stereotypes. What is the rest of society supposed to think when their popular music is nothing but violence, misogyny, drugs, and crime? They can either be respected or they can be ghetto. You can’t be both.


7 posted on 12/19/2017 7:25:13 AM PST by Pining_4_TX (For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. ~ Hosea 8:7)
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Rap music- another oxymoron


8 posted on 12/19/2017 7:27:24 AM PST by gibsonguy
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To: artichokegrower

The truth is always racially insensitive.


9 posted on 12/19/2017 7:35:41 AM PST by Tarasaramozart
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To: artichokegrower

Dare speak the truth in a liberal mecca like SF, especially if you’re black criticizing another black. Uncle Tom.


10 posted on 12/19/2017 7:37:26 AM PST by chiller (If liberals didn't have double standards, they'd have none at all.)
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To: artichokegrower

So is “Diddy” not going to come to the guys defense?


11 posted on 12/19/2017 7:44:29 AM PST by pnz1 (#IMNOTWITHHER)
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To: Pining_4_TX

It enforces only what races do to themselves. Stereotyping merely enforces simple observations.


12 posted on 12/19/2017 8:01:33 AM PST by Neoliberalnot (MSM is our greatest threat. Disney, Comcast, Hollywood, NYTimes, WaPo, CNN, NBC, CBS...)
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To: artichokegrower

Rap “music” is the most visible evidence of the soft bigotry of lowered expectations; any non-black spouting that filth would be pilloried for it. Eminem took flak for it years ago, while I hear no complaints about his black peers.


13 posted on 12/19/2017 8:20:46 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: mothball
"Combs as a songwriter, are right up there with Lennon/McCartney, Jagger/Richards, Dylan, etc."

Put down the crack pipe and walk away....

14 posted on 12/19/2017 8:28:25 AM PST by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" @HOROWITZ39, DAVID HOROWITZ)
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To: artichokegrower

Actually, that’s a pretty good rhyme for a rapper


15 posted on 12/19/2017 8:32:23 AM PST by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: artichokegrower

People were upset on social media? Shocking.


16 posted on 12/19/2017 8:33:38 AM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: artichokegrower
Do twenty-five for me, nigga steal a pound for me Shorty probably blow a nigga to the sky for me And go and sit in a chair that’ll fry for me And lord know if I die she gon cry for me

The type smoke all a nigga’s weed And still move at a nigga’s speed Never a victim of a nigga’s greed Especially if she runnin’ round with a nigga’s seed

What language is this? Can someone translate?

17 posted on 12/19/2017 9:14:04 AM PST by bkopto
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“What language is this? Can someone translate?”

Language: 7th Grade Dropout. Translation: crime doesn’t pay except in the hood, take my girl I’m gonna hurt you good

That’s about all I can get out of it.


18 posted on 12/19/2017 9:36:56 AM PST by bluejean (The lunatics are running the asylum)
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To: gibsonguy

A friend of mine once said that if a septic tank could make a noise it would sound like rap ‘’ music ‘’.


19 posted on 12/19/2017 9:47:42 AM PST by democratsaremyenemy (Streepisacreep)
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To: gibsonguy

A friend of mine once said that if a septic tank could make a noise it would sound like rap ‘’ music ‘’.


20 posted on 12/19/2017 9:47:51 AM PST by democratsaremyenemy (Streepisacreep)
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