Hippity hoppity, all the way to the bank
Colbert King takes Senator Clinton to task for pocketing $800,000 from a fund raiser hosted by an attractive role model for today’s youth:
$800,000 that’s sitting in her presidential campaign coffers thanks to a fundraiser hosted in her honor March 31 in the Pinecrest, Fla., home of a huge Clinton fan who refers to himself as Timbaland…a well-heeled hip-hop producer and noted performer of the kind of misogynistic and denigrating lyrics that informed Don Imus’s derogatory comments about the Rutgers women’s basketball team.
Mrs. Clinton, you may recall, took umbrage at Imus’s remarks, branding them “small-minded bigotry and coarse sexism.” His words, she said in an e-mail to supporters, “showed a disregard for basic decency and were disrespectful and degrading to African Americans and women everywhere.”…
it must be asked why she was down in Florida making nice to — and pocketing big bucks from — a rapper whose obscenity-laced lyrics praise violence, perpetuate racist stereotypes and demean black women…Here are lyrics…
“Nigga Your Time Is Up, I Aint Come To Kid You
I Knew You Niggas Was Dumb, But How Dumb Is You . . .
I’m A Ride Or Die Nigga, I Be Tearing shit Up
We Aint Like Them Other Fools, Who Don’t Compare To Us
All The Hoes Love A Nigga, They be Backing It Up
But Me I Love Money I Be Stacking It Up . . .
I’m Rich I Can Pay To Have You Six Feet Deep (Nigga)”…“. . . Hoes coming up short? Hoes finna get cursed out!
. . . Slam the mask out of these hoes and they say, ‘What is that, velvet?’
And they betta meet they quota, betta yet betta meet they deadline . . . I’m a pimp all around
A pimp of the town — we pimpin ‘em up, HOES DOWN.”
Colbert King has an excellent point. It was correct of him to publish the lyrics in the Washington Post as well. People who are offended to see them there should be much more offended that they grace the public airways daily, and are a staple of many a tween’s iPod.
As for Senator Clinton, well, at least we were spared the sight of her meeting with the Rutgers basketball team to show her solidarity. That’s some small comfort.