I am astonished at the attention that is being heaped upon Don Imus head in reaction to his statement regarding the women players on the Rutger's University basketball team.

"Man, they got tattoos and some hard-core hos," he said. "That's some nappy-headed hos there, I'm going to tell you that now."

Oh my! How awful! What could this man be thinking to utter such a horrid litany of insulting and demeaning remarks directed at these accomplished young women?

News conferences are held, Mr. Imus is subjected to personal attacks from every direction. The Rutger's coach stood at the podium and ripped him for over 20 minutes. He appeared with Rev. Al Sharpton for a 2 hour "beat down". The man has practically crawled on his belly apologizing, but to no avail. Talk about a lynch mob!!

The video I posted with this story is the number one rap track by a new sensation who goes by the name of "Mims." The "song" is "This Is Why I'm Hot." It has topped the charts for the last 15 weeks. Did you pick up on the basic message he is sending here?...........

First of all, let's explore Don's statement? Where did he come up with words like "Nappy and Ho" in the first place? Oh yes, I remember. Ebonics.

Ebonics is greatly misunderstood, largely because of how it gained global attention during a racially charged education controversy in Oakland, California. On Dec. 18, 1996, the Oakland School Board passed a resolution declaring Ebonics to be the language of 28,000 African-American students within that school district. Few people had ever heard of the term Ebonics prior to the passage of that resolution, to say nothing of how it was created or originally defined.

Following this ruling, the school board adopted resolutions directed at modifying the method that African-American students were taught and tested and stated that it was necessary to implement ways to teach these 28,000+ students in their own language.

It was now official - the "ebonics" language now belonged specifically to African-American men and women to be used and promoted at all levels, from education on up.

Say what? So, African-Americans have their own language......and apparently those of us from other races are not to use or implement this language into our own daily speech. Unless, I guess, we are part of the rapper crowd like Eminem?! Is that it?

Here is a translation of a popular Notorious Big rap tune from Ebonics to English - (the white man's language?)


Lyrics:

First things first, I poppa, freaks all the honeys

Dummies - playboy bunnies, those wantin’ money

Those the ones I like ‘cause they don’t get nathan’

But penetration, unless it smells like sanitation

Garbage, I turn like doorknobs

Heart throb, never, black and ugly as ever

However, I stay coochied down to the socks

Rings and watch filled with rocks

TRANSLATION:
As a general rule, I perform deviant sexual acts with women of all kinds, including but not limited to those with limited intellect, nude magazine models, and prostitutes. I particularly enjoy sexual encounters with the latter group as they are generally disappointed in the fact that they only receive penile intercourse and nothing more, unless of course, they douche on a consistent basis. Although I am extremely unattractive, I am able to engage in these types of sexual acts with some regularity. Perhaps my sexuality is somehow related to my fancy and expensive jewelry.

Ok, is it just me, or is there a bit more going on here than merely a "language" difference? Does there not seem to be a quite obvious underlying message being relayed in the lyrics of this song? And all of those like it?

This particular song continues through some additional crude bars.......then

Lyrics:

Where you at? Flippin’ jobs, playin’ car notes?

While I’m swimmin’ in ya women like the breast stroke

Right stroke, left stroke what’s the best stroke

Death stroke - tongue all down her throat

Nuthin’ left to do but send her home to you

I’m through - can ya sing the song for me, boo?

TRANSLATION:
You, on the other hand, jump from job to job, barely able to maintain payments on the Mercedes Benz you purchased for your woman. Meanwhile, I continue to engage in sexual intercourse and commit lewd osculatory acts with your women. My only remaining option is to request that she leave my home and return to you because I have reached orgasm and no longer have a need for her presence.

And finishes with:

Lyrics:

High fashion - flyin’ into all states.

Sexin’ me while your man masturbates.

Isn’t this great? Your flight leaves at eight.

Her flight lands at nine, my game just rewinds.

Lyrically I’m supposed to represent.

I’m not only the client, I’m the player president

TRANSLATION:
You will be dressed in finest clothes on the runways of Paris. I will fly you to every state to shop for fine clothes and jewelry. You will enjoy sexual intercourse with me and your man will be forced to pleasure himself through manual stimulation. What a life! I’ll return you to LaGuardia in time to catch your 8 o’clock flight. The timing is perfect because I have scheduled a date with a second woman who arrives at the same gate at 9 o’clock. I’ll seduce her in the same way that I seduced you. I rap well and I am a positive reflection of my home town. Not only am I a sexually deviant, misogynistic, immoral, wealthy, male prostitute, but I also sit on the board of directors of the organization that governs others of my kind.

So, what have we just heard here? That the rich, black men that sing hip hop and rap are loaded with cash. Since they have so much money they are able to seduce any woman they want, and do so over and over. They enjoy belittling any man that doesn't have the money, which translates to power, that they have and also enjoy degrading all women and using them as their sexual toys and, when finished, toss them aside like yesterday's trash.

Hey, great message 'eh?

But wait a minute......Who does this Don Imus think he is to refer to black women as "nappy headed ho's"?? What an outrage!

I think the Reverend Sharpton and the head coach of the Rutger's basketball team, as well as the female players, the media and the masses have formed a lynch mob in search of the wrong culprit.

Where are the black voices speaking out against the absolute degradation of black women in rap music? Why is there no outrage against the perpetrators of this mind set against their own race?

If they don't want to be looked at in the light they themselves cast upon their own race, then why don't they stop singing about such awful things? A team member says she understands that Rap Music "has desensitized America to such phrases and words - but that is no excuse". How is it not? I don't get it. How can you run down your own people and then get mad when others start to think the same way?

Why doesn't the honorable Reverand Sharpton take a stand against the mind set being promoted by his own people against his own people? Isn't that really the core issue here? Why work so hard to create this racial divide - which is essentially what this whole Don Imus thing is doing - without first acknowledging that you, the blacks, are creating it?!

The lyrics I used here were mild compared to what is out there. You can visit this site and pull up the words to most of the top rappers on the Billboard Charts today. I am certain you will be as shocked as I was to see just what these people are singing about and promoting. It is, to put it mildly, horrifically frightening.

Can someone tell me, why is it that rappers can sing hateful ugly songs and use words like "N"'r, slut, ho, bitch, pimp, on and on and on with not a peep out of society as a whole? Fear? Ignorance?

Perhaps........but my guess is Money. Big Business.

Record studios are reaping huge profits from these "artists" - and I use the term lightly. "They" don't really care what the message is. "They" don't care if the youth of this country are growing up listening day in and day out to lyrics that perpetuate hatred, sexual deviancy, anger and violence.

Just keep the paychecks coming...........What a sad and sorry commentary on America.