Barack Hussein Obama speaks out against rap

[Nic Brookes]

Obama hits out at black rappers who degrade women
By Tim Shipman, Sunday Telegraph
Last Updated: 11:54pm BST 14/04/2007



The man who hopes to become America's first black president has launched an outspoken attack on rap singers who use derogatory language about women.

   
Rapper Snoop Dogg, who has been sentenced to five years' probation for gun and drug charges

 
Barack Obama told a crowd at a campaign rally in South Carolina that rap artists were "degrading their sisters", and added: "That doesn't inspire me".

The Democratic hopeful for the White House also compared the references to "[censored]" and "hos" in rap music to the racist outburst last week which cost the country's most famous "shock jock" his job.

Radio talk show host Don Imus, who is white, was sacked after branding a female college basketball team "nappy-headed hos" - a term for black prostitutes with unkempt hair.

Sen Obama's comments are part of a growing backlash at the double standards in American public life that mean Mr Imus was fired, but black rappers like Snoop Dogg and Ludacris continue to cash in by using similar imagery.

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They are also further evidence of Sen Obama's determination to align himself with the concerns of middle America. Last week, however, he came under fire for that very strategy, from black activists who said he was too slow to respond to the Imus affair.

While civil rights activist Al Sharpton toured the studios condemning Mr Imus, the senator from Illinois waited five days before making any public statement, and then pointedly refused to make it a racial issue.

It was only following a wave of public criticism of his caution, that he later joined the calls for Mr Imus to lose his job.

A California Democrat activist, who worked on the previous presidential campaigns of both Rev Mr Sharpton and Rev Jesse Jackson, told The Sunday Telegraph: "A lot of people of colour are uncomfortable with Barack Obama. He wants the kudos of being the first African American who could win the presidency, but he does not want to get there by becoming a leader who speaks to African-Americans."

   
Ludacris has had four
US number one hits

 
Melissa Harris Lacewell, a professor of African-American studies at Princeton University, said: "Black people want to love Barack, but they will turn on him."

As the son of a recent African immigrant, Sen Obama cannot claim any link to slavery or the civil rights movement and is, therefore, not seen as "authentic" by many in the traditional black leadership.

The latest poll shows Democrat front-runner Hillary Clinton leading him by 50 per cent to 41 per cent among black voters.

Sen Obama's calculation, however, is that he has a greater chance of winning the presidency if he remains a candidate who happens to be black, rather than "the black candidate".

One European diplomat compared Sen Obama to Tony Blair: "Most Americans have moved on from the civil rights battles, in the same way that people in Britain have moved on from the union politics of the 1970s.

"Obama is a post-civil rights politician just as Blair was post-socialism. The problem he has is that many in the black hierarchy are still fighting the old battles."
 
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[dawntreader]

While I don't support Barack Obama by any means...it is still encouraging that a Black leader in America would speak out against hideous rap lyrics made popular by such unsavory "artists" as Ludacris and Snoop Dog.

Now he needs to take on Eminem, Jay-Z, 50 Cent, and Nelly.

Once again...I've just got to give Obama kudos for speaking out against the double standard which got Don Imus fired and which the mainline rap artists of today are absolved of.

[Trumpeldor]

What's he going to do about it? It's one thing to say you are against something and entirely another do something about it.

[Allen-T]

Obama hits out at black rappers who degrade women
By Tim Shipman, Sunday Telegraph
Last Updated: 11:54pm BST 14/04/2007



The man who hopes to become America's first black president has launched an outspoken attack on rap singers who use derogatory language about women.

   
Rapper Snoop Dogg, who has been sentenced to five years' probation for gun and drug charges

 
Barack Obama told a crowd at a campaign rally in South Carolina that rap artists were "degrading their sisters", and added: "That doesn't inspire me".

The Democratic hopeful for the White House also compared the references to "[censored]" and "hos" in rap music to the racist outburst last week which cost the country's most famous "shock jock" his job.

Radio talk show host Don Imus, who is white, was sacked after branding a female college basketball team "nappy-headed hos" - a term for black prostitutes with unkempt hair.

Sen Obama's comments are part of a growing backlash at the double standards in American public life that mean Mr Imus was fired, but black rappers like Snoop Dogg and Ludacris continue to cash in by using similar imagery.

advertisement
They are also further evidence of Sen Obama's determination to align himself with the concerns of middle America. Last week, however, he came under fire for that very strategy, from black activists who said he was too slow to respond to the Imus affair.

While civil rights activist Al Sharpton toured the studios condemning Mr Imus, the senator from Illinois waited five days before making any public statement, and then pointedly refused to make it a racial issue.

It was only following a wave of public criticism of his caution, that he later joined the calls for Mr Imus to lose his job.

A California Democrat activist, who worked on the previous presidential campaigns of both Rev Mr Sharpton and Rev Jesse Jackson, told The Sunday Telegraph: "A lot of people of colour are uncomfortable with Barack Obama. He wants the kudos of being the first African American who could win the presidency, but he does not want to get there by becoming a leader who speaks to African-Americans."

   
Ludacris has had four
US number one hits

 
Melissa Harris Lacewell, a professor of African-American studies at Princeton University, said: "Black people want to love Barack, but they will turn on him."

As the son of a recent African immigrant, Sen Obama cannot claim any link to slavery or the civil rights movement and is, therefore, not seen as "authentic" by many in the traditional black leadership.

The latest poll shows Democrat front-runner Hillary Clinton leading him by 50 per cent to 41 per cent among black voters.

Sen Obama's calculation, however, is that he has a greater chance of winning the presidency if he remains a candidate who happens to be black, rather than "the black candidate".

One European diplomat compared Sen Obama to Tony Blair: "Most Americans have moved on from the civil rights battles, in the same way that people in Britain have moved on from the union politics of the 1970s.

"Obama is a post-civil rights politician just as Blair was post-socialism. The problem he has is that many in the black hierarchy are still fighting the old battles."
 
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It's all bullsh%t to sway white voters to vote for him, he knows whitey will love to hear him attack rap music. As soon as he [G-d forbid] gets into the black house he will record a new re-mix of NWA's F&ck Tha Police with Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton making cameos in the video with plastic uzis the way those idiots in Public Enemy used to posture behind Chuck D and Flavor Flav.     

[Fruit of thy loins]

Take a look at some young persons' nightclubs and see if the (mostly white) women there are annoyed at the lack of feminism in the music.



This is pandering to the effete white middle classes, who know nothing and can only tolerate life so long as reality doesn't come anywhere near them.

Their daughters want babies who will look like Osama. 

[Fruit of thy loins]

It's all bullsh%t to sway white voters to vote for him, he knows whitey will love to hear him attack rap music. As soon as he [G-d forbid] gets into the black house he will record a new re-mix of NWA's F&ck Tha Police with Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton making cameos in the video with plastic uzis the way those idiots in Public Enemy used to posture behind Chuck D and Flavor Flav.     

The first thing Osama does when he takes office: call up some high-class white hoes and have a blacks-on-blondes sexual orgy at the White House.

 

[ihkili18]

That shvartza is just trying to pander to whites as he realizes that most of the people who would vote for him are too stupid to operate a voting machine. Lets not say anything positive about him as Jesse Jackson And big Al have endorsed him which tells you all you need to know.

[Lewinsky Stinks, Dr. Brennan Rocks]

DownwithIslam: I completely agree with you. Barcock's "anti-rap" posturing is a snow job for whites.

Fruit: For the first time, I suspect you are completely right.

[RationalThought110]

Obama and Hillary both accept campaign donations from the rappers and hip-hoppers.