--- Deborah Harrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> http://www.msnbc.com/news/964761.asp
>
> "The energy drink, Pimp Juice - named after one of the
> rapper�s hit songs � sends the wrong message to young
> Blacks, says a number of organizations, including
> Project Islamic H.O.P.E., the National Alliance For
> Positive Action, the National Black Anti-Defamation
> League and the Messianic Afrikan Nation...
>
> "...But Scott [Minister Paul Scott of the Messianic
> Afrikan Nation] called the endorsement a �tremendous
> step backward.�
> " �...The title of Nelly�s new energy drink,
> Pimp Juice, rubbed me the wrong way and made me jump
> up and shout, �We are not pimps and ho�s; we are the
> fathers and mothers of civilization being pimped by
> the system and treated like ho�s,�� Scott said."
How do you tell the difference between indoctrinated raceism and civil rights
leaders?
Let's say that some fool came out with an energy bar called "money grub".
Based on some white musician who is constatly talking about how cool it is to
be a greedy buisnessman.
What would white ministers do in response? Probably nothing, but if they did
do something, they would talk about the evilness of greed. Never would they
mention the race of the musician. And they certainly wouldn't use the
opertunity to slam black people.
After all, what do you think Scott means when he says "the system"? He means
"white people". And you know that if you confronted Scott with such a claim
he would deniy it, and tell you that it ment all those people who conspire
either intentionaly or unintentionaly to keep black people down. But that
would just be another way of saying "white people and the black people who go
along with them".
It's time we stoped listening to supposed "leaders" who look back with
nestalgia and the 60's and the civil rights movement. People who want the
"good old days" of fighting against -them man-. At some point you have to
admit victory and move on. Sure there are racial wrongs that still need to be
righted, but recently most of the talk has been directed to the black
comunity, and like in this case they include and ever so (not so) subtle call
to "fight the man" -which man?- the -white man-. Sounds an auful lot like
indoctrinated raceism to me.
People like Scott NEED racesism. Without it, they are irelevent. Instead of
"keep hope alive" they are saying "keep hate alive". And the real danger is
that they might just succede. In more seperate comunities when non-racists
white people here such "leaders" as Scott talk, it puts them into an us-them
frame of mind. Scott and others like him produce an invironemnt of conflict
seperating the whites from the blacks. What do you think young whites baraged
by enough of this conflict talk will think and feel? Like I said, people like
Scott NEED racesism. And they are doing a good job "keeping hate alive".
A true leader would have talked about the evils of pimping and the
rediculousness of using the word pimp to describe a "cool guy". You know that
end the end, Scott didn't even get the mannor in which the word "pimp" was
being used. A real leader would have understood and adressed the situation
appropriatly, and without envocing racial conflict.
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