http://www.thedailysquid.com/2007/04/12/snoop-dogg-on-don-imus/ Politics meets pop culture. With poems. Tue, 03 Jan 2012 21:56:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 http://www.thedailysquid.com/2007/04/12/snoop-dogg-on-don-imus/comment-page-1/#comment-1013 The Daily Squid » IMUS AND THE RAPPERS Sun, 15 Apr 2007 03:50:34 +0000 http://www.thedailysquid.com/2007/04/12/snoop-dogg-on-don-imus/#comment-1013 [...] The misogyny of Imus’ remarks certainly pales in comparison to what comes out of some commercial hip hop today; Imus, after all, isn’t the one “looking for a slut with a nice butt to get a nut” or observing “bitch ya’ pussy smell like Pepé le Pew.” But the racially charged aspect of his “nappy headed hos” comment is really non-comparable to anything coming out of hip hop today. Snoop Dogg referring to a black woman as a “ho” is incredibly sexist, indeed, but not at all racist; Snoop is not disparaging her race from a perch of racial privilege. Imus, on the other hand, was doing just that, an “old-ass white men that sit up on MSNBC going hard on black girls,” as Snoop himself put it. Whether Imus is an “actual racist” or not, it is that blatant racial insensitivity that ultimately cost him his job. [...] [...] The misogyny of Imus’ remarks certainly pales in comparison to what comes out of some commercial hip hop today; Imus, after all, isn’t the one “looking for a slut with a nice butt to get a nut” or observing “bitch ya’ pussy smell like Pepé le Pew.” But the racially charged aspect of his “nappy headed hos” comment is really non-comparable to anything coming out of hip hop today. Snoop Dogg referring to a black woman as a “ho” is incredibly sexist, indeed, but not at all racist; Snoop is not disparaging her race from a perch of racial privilege. Imus, on the other hand, was doing just that, an “old-ass white men that sit up on MSNBC going hard on black girls,” as Snoop himself put it. Whether Imus is an “actual racist” or not, it is that blatant racial insensitivity that ultimately cost him his job. [...]

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