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Angelou: Hip-Hoppers Would Lose Microphone If They Slurred Laura Bush
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 04/13/2007 8:52:36 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

In the wake of the Imus affair, MSNBC is airing an all-day discussion on the theme "What's OK to say?" Poet Maya Angelou appeared at 11:05 AM EDT, and in the course of her interview with MSNBC's Peter Alexander, had this exchange:

ALEXANDER: Dr. Angelou, you're an author and an artist. I guess the question is, is there a need for more censorship of our media and of our arts, are you comfortable with that? And if that happens, when does it end? What is OK to say?

ANGELOU: Exactly. I agree with that. I think the society decides upon the censorship. Each person censors himself or herself. Do you think, if any of these hip-hoppers, if they said about Mrs. Bush what they say about black women, do you think they would be given a microphone? Do you really think so? So we have to censor ourselves. And then, the society makes that decision.

View video here.

Leave it to Angelou, she who read a poem [YouTube here] at Bill Clinton's first inauguration, to drag partisan politics into it. What we do know is that Don Imus lost his microphone for saying those kind of things about the Rutgers basketball players. Could hip-hoppers say them about Laura Bush? I don't know, but just looking at Michelle Malkin's recent cataloging of rap lyrics, I see that George Bush is fair game [see lyrics from Unk].I'll venture the name of one woman who would almost certainly be off limits: Ms. Angelou herself. What do you think: could rappers rap Mrs. Bush and keep their gigs?

Contact Mark at mark@gunhill.net


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: laurabush; mayaangelou; msnbc; rappers
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1 posted on 04/13/2007 8:52:40 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; netmilsmom; Diogenesis; YaYa123; MEG33; ...

Angelou-Laura Bush-Imus ping to Today show list.


2 posted on 04/13/2007 8:53:13 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Watching the Today Show since 2002 so you don't have to.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Oh, what a ditz.


3 posted on 04/13/2007 8:55:05 AM PDT by goodnesswins (We need to cure Academentia)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
So.... not a lot of detail here.

Is Angelou saying it's okay to call black women ho's, but not Laura Bush?

4 posted on 04/13/2007 8:55:34 AM PDT by JohnnyZ ("I respect and will protect a woman's right to choose" -- Mitt Romney, April 2002)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
I daresay plenty of bad things have been said about the FIrst Lady and no one lost their microphone over it. Heck, they probably got a microphone because of it.
5 posted on 04/13/2007 8:56:01 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (Prevent Glo-Ball Warming ... turn out the sun when not in use)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

They’d suffer a worse fate if they slurred Hillary.


6 posted on 04/13/2007 8:56:17 AM PDT by popdonnelly (Our first responsibility is to keep the power of the Presidency out of the hands of the Clintons.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Do you think, if any of these hip-hoppers, if they said about Mrs. Bush what they say about black women, do you think they would be given a microphone? Do you really think so?

They would probably be given the seat of honor next to Jimmy Carter at the next DNC convention.

7 posted on 04/13/2007 8:56:24 AM PDT by Malone LaVeigh
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Terrible poetry and lame thoughts are why I don't understand why Angelou has any credibility.

Does she not remember the rappers lyrics about raping or killing Gore’s daughters or wife?

8 posted on 04/13/2007 8:56:24 AM PDT by Vision ("Delight yourself with the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart." Psalm37:4)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

What if you said bad things about Clarence Thomas, including wishing an early death on him like Julianne Malveaux did? What if you called him an Uncle Tom and made jokes about him being HNIC?


9 posted on 04/13/2007 8:57:12 AM PDT by ikka
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I know this is slightly off topic, but all this discussion of rap music has me thinking. If bad things were said about Laura Bush in a rap song, would anyone know? I can’t understand a word they’re saying.


10 posted on 04/13/2007 8:57:15 AM PDT by Neverforget01
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To: JohnnyZ

Yes she is.


11 posted on 04/13/2007 8:57:44 AM PDT by justshutupandtakeit (Defeat Hillary's V'assed Left Wing Conspiracy)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Too bad. She was an above average poet. Now she is just a bitter old woman. That’s a Kwame West style slander of the Bush administration.


12 posted on 04/13/2007 8:58:18 AM PDT by jimfree (Freep and ye shall find.)
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To: popdonnelly

-well, I believe Imus slurred hillary on a regular basis.


13 posted on 04/13/2007 8:58:24 AM PDT by tioga
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Of course, we all recognize this as a call to slur the First Lady. I’ll bet money on it...


14 posted on 04/13/2007 8:59:46 AM PDT by TomServo ("Jim Henson's Flying Leatherneck Babies!")
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Maya Angelou is a coddled, self-indulgent, pretentious, untalented pseudo “writer”, hack and phony.

If she were white, nobody would give her the time of day.


15 posted on 04/13/2007 8:59:53 AM PDT by garyhope (It's World War IV, right here, right now courtesy of Islam.)
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Looks like those colon cleansers don't really work after all.
16 posted on 04/13/2007 9:00:48 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (I have a big carbon footprint and I'm not afraid to use it.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

And now, Maya Angelou for Butterfingers:

“The wind. The rain. The fire.

The Butterfinger.

Did the Caveman know your delicious goodness?
Did the Mayan Priest exhalt in your buttery crunchiness?
Did the slothful Mastodon, upon his extinction, declare,
“Don’t lay a finger on my Butterfinger?”

Oh, you finger of butter!
You proud confection!
Sugar brown roasted peanuts,
fructose, glucose, sucrose, lactose,
partially hydrogenated palm kernel oil.
Crispity, crunchity, peanut buttery—

I... give... myself... to... you.

Butterfinger.

Glad mantle of golden chocolaty hope upon my breast.”


17 posted on 04/13/2007 9:01:01 AM PDT by Trailerpark Badass
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

If any Rapper said bad things about Hillary, they would find themselves Arkancided.


18 posted on 04/13/2007 9:01:55 AM PDT by Suzy Quzy (Hillary '08...Her Phoniness is Genuine!!!)
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To: garyhope

Too bad Bernard McGuirk’s can’t parody of Maya Angelou again.


19 posted on 04/13/2007 9:02:20 AM PDT by AU72
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