--- Jan Coffey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- 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...<snip>
> > 
> > "...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?
<snip> 
> 
> 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.

Mmm, I was too annoyed with the drink name to notice
Scott's stance WRT "the system;"  someday I hope that
everyone is judged on who they are as a person,
without appealing to various "isms."

Debbi
Not In My Lifetime, But Someday Maru

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