Leave it to the mainstream media to be a bit behind the curve when it comes to news events. Always lagging real events, always reporting yesterday's news while todays is passing right by them.
Anyway, in an Associated Press article that can be found via IWon.com (or potentially on other sites), there's the following linked article: With Imus Gone, Critics Turning to Rap
The article does point out what many others -- myself included -- have been saying, that Imus is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to detestable speech and derogatory comments about Black women. Again, it seems Captain Obvious must have smacked the author of that AP piece upside the head enough to wake them up to what was going to be next.
I have to say I don't buy a few of the comments that defenders of rap and hip hop are putting forth though, as found in the linked article in these passages:
"Comparing Don Imus' language with hip-hop artists' poetic expression is misguided and inaccurate and feeds into a mindset that can be a catalyst for unwarranted, rampant censorship," (pioneering mogul Russell) Simmons said in a statement Friday.
The superstar rapper Snoop Dogg also denied any connection to Imus. "(Rappers) are not talking about no collegiate basketball girls who have made it to the next level in education and sports," he told MTV.com. "We're talking about hos that's in the 'hood that ain't doing ---- that's trying to get a n---- for his money."
Check those Snoop Dogg comments again if you have to. Do you really buy his claims? Does anyone -- White or Black, male or female -- really have the authority and rightfullness to be able to use the words and language that rap artists have been using for some time now?
Does Russell Simmons have a point that we're about to see rampant censorship? Maybe, or perhaps, just like what has happened with Don Imus what we are really about to see is a group of educated consumers putting pressure on the corporations that profit from the crap that is spewed from some artists mouths in the name of free speech (see Snoop Dogg comments above for a prime example).
