Just imagine what would happen if a female rapper turned the tables on the ghetto bucks…

Bounce That Dick

Jenna Marbles does a pretty good and hilarious job with her rap role reversal, Bounce That Dick. I’d laugh my ass off even though if some female rapper really did something like that.

It’d be fun to watch and hear some women talking trash to these thugs. They normally only get to hear that shit in prison when they’re getting pimped out for commissary.

Even highly paid Black fashion models such as: Iman, Naomi Campbell, Tyra Banks, Liya Kebede, Jourdan Dunn, and the ill-fated Katoucha Niane, tended towards having a slim figure, fair skin, and straight or, at least, smooth hair.

In other words, Black models have to be an exotic twist upon normative White features in order to be considered beautiful and employable.

For the most part even the “passable” Black models are consigned to double bookings with a White model and/or to modeling exotica and “urban” fashion.

This has naturally led to Black girls and women being presented with a beauty ideal that they are genetically and physical incapable of fully meeting, though many people were willing to make money selling them “treatments” to get them a little closer to it.

In the U.S. specifically, many Black women were faced with a beauty ideal that did not resemble the reflection in the mirror. Many entrepreneurs began and sustained successful businesses based on selling the white ideal to the Black woman. Skin lightning became a common practice in the Black community

– Kathy Russel
The Color Complex:
The Politics of Skin Color Among African Americans

That’s a crying shame since – leaving all the societal ills caused by cultural self-image problems aside for now – there’s many, many different roads to beauty and/or sexiness and Black women who look like any of the myriad varieties of Black women can and have traveled many of them.

Women – Beautiful, Sexy, and Black

Sadly, I have to point out that while these three relatively successful models: Phenyx Rose, Esther Baxter, and Buffie Carruth, are all beautiful Black women with darker skins, more classically African features, and figures of differing the “White ideal,” they do all possess straight hair either through genetics or chemical artifice. I could not find Black pin-up style models who didn’t have “good hair.”

They are each, however, examples of beautiful and quite sexy Black women who can’t “pass” as an exotic twist to the media and fashion industries’ beauty ideal.

The latest furor – small and localized as of yet, but it will most likely grow – is over the findings of a survey conducted by the Boston Public Health Commission in the immediate wake of the Brown v. Rihanna altercation. It seems that almost half of Boston area teens think Rihanna is to blame for the assault. Some people are dismayed by the responses of the 200 Boston youths (ages 12 to 19) surveyed last month by Boston Public Health Commission.

Among the findings:

• 71% said arguing was a normal part of a relationship
• 44% said fighting was a normal part of a relationship
• 51% said Chris Brown was responsible for the incident
• 46% said Rihanna was responsible for the incident
• 52% said both individuals were to blame for the incident
• 35% said the media were treating Rihanna unfairly
• 52% said the media were treating Chris Brown unfairly

Since 51% + 46% + 52% = 149% (!) the findings listed were either the result of separate questions or a deliberate overlap / massaging of the results by the BPHC.

Additionally, a significant number respondents in the survey said Rihanna was destroying Chris Brown’s career, and it was shown that females were no less likely than males to come to Rihanna’s defense in this matter.

Boston parents need to be aware that our children are facing a crisis. Ten percent of Massachusetts youth report having experienced dating violence during their lifetimes.

The consequences of dating violence can be severe and long-lasting. Teen dating violence victimization can be a precursor to adult violence victimization, and can increase risky behaviors during adolescence, including substance use, unhealthy dieting and weight control practices, and suicidal behavior.

– Asst. Prof. Emily F. Rothman
Boston University Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences

I believe the underlying cause of the concern and dismay of people like Professor Rothman is that they’re largely out of touch with modern society. They – Rothman especially judging by her research (examples here and here) – approach this incident from the traditional or “old school” viewpoint of Male Aggression, Dominance and Violence over Women. The results of the survey certainly seem to indicate that the youths queried approached the Chris Brown / Rihanna fight from a far different perspective.

The youths  (ages 12 to 19) are growing up- or have grown up in a post-Feminist Revolution world. I do not think that they have the inherent assumption of a Power Exchange or abuse in the circumstance of inter-gender violence. This is a logical conclusion of feminism; violence is violence, irrespective of gender.

It logically goes to follow that, if women are the equals of men, then physical altercations between the sexes need not carry the burden of abuse. Frankly, the feminists can’t have it both ways. They can’t strive to empower women and still keep them a “protected class” by claiming that violence against them is inherently worse (abuse) than any other sort violence.

That is NOT to say that such abuse doesn’t actually happen; it does. It is merely to say that violence against women no longer always equates to abuse. The power dynamic isn’t always there.

If my assessment of the respondents’ attitude is anything close to being correct, then we – and those feminists who care about equality and empowerment more than hating men – should be somewhat pleased. Breaking the cycle of victimization is a very positive step, if one that undercuts the political power of the “capital-F” Feminists.

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Rather than than being dismayed by the responses from a sexist perspective, these people should be dismayed by the youths’ seeming acceptance of violence at a personal level in general. The prevailing music and culture of these young people, Rap and Hip-Hop – R & B far less so – have glorified violence, drug use, promiscuity and a plethora of other antisocial behaviors. It should be a cause of sadness and shame that our young people are so inured to violence as they are these days.

NOTE: This post covers my views and opinions of the societal impact and revelations of the survey in question. It does not in any way shape or form reflect my personal views on Chris Brown beating Rihanna.

I’m a mostly un-reconstructed American man. Given my preferences, I’d drag Brown out back somewhere and take my belt to him. I’d stripe his back bad enough and permanently enough that he’d never think of raising his hand to a women again.

Obama current problem is caused by the poison dripped from the slack lipped orifice of one parasite in particular – the rapper Chris Bridges, aka Ludacris. Ludacris has released a new rap spiel entitled Politics as Usual which is also frequently referenced as Obama’s Here.

Ludacris’ “Politics as Usual” Lyrics

I’m back on it like I just signed my record deal
Yeah the best is here, the Bentley Coup paint is dripping wet, it got sex appeal
Never should have hated, You never should’ve doubted him
With a slot in the president’s iPod Obama shouted ‘em

Said I handle my biz and I’m one of his favorite rappers
Well give Luda a special pardon if I’m ever in the slammer
Better yet put me in office, make me your vice president
Hillary hated on you, so that bitch is irrelevant

Jesse talking slick and apologizing for what?
If you said it then you meant it how you want it head or gut?
And all you other politicians trying to hate on my man,
watch us win majority vote in every state on my man

You can’t stop what’s bout to happen, we bout to make history
The first black president is destined and it’s meant to be
The threats ain’t fazing us, the nooses or the jokes
So get off your ass, black people, it’s time to get out and vote!

Paint the White House black and I’m sure that’s got ‘em terrified
McCain don’t belong in any chair unless he’s paralyzed
Yeah I said it cause Bush is mentally handicapped
Ball up all of his speeches and just throw ‘em like candy wrap
’cause what you talking I hear nothing even relevant
and you the worst of all 43 presidents

Get out and vote or the end’ll be near
The world is ready for change because Obama is here
’cause Obama is here
The world is ready for change because Obama is here, yeah
cuz Obama is here

Two quite easily expected things happened as a direct result of Ludacris releasing his latest example of hip-hop filth: a large number of civilized people complained about Ludacris’ vile, jabbering mouthings, and Barack Obama’s campaign staff very quickly condemned the rapper’s piece and attempted to distance the Presumptive Democratic Nominee from his “friend” Chris Bridges, aka Ludacris.

As Barack Obama has said many, many times in the past, rap lyrics today too often perpetuate misogyny, materialism, and degrading images that he doesn’t want his daughters or any children exposed to.

This song is not only outrageously offensive to Sen. Clinton, Rev. Jackson, Sen. McCain and President Bush, it is offensive to all of us who are trying to raise our children with the values we hold dear. While Ludacris is a talented individual he should be ashamed of these lyrics.

– Bill Burton
Obama Campaign Spokesperson

It seems that once again the Senator’s biggest image problem is his friends and the sort of people who go to great lengths to support him – or feed off of his fame.

Stop Snitchin’ refers to a controversial campaign used by criminals and the hip-hop and rap industry to frighten people with information to stop “snitching,” or reporting criminal activities to the police. It’s is essentially a method of witness intimidation. This subversive and dangerous criminal phenomenon became mainstream in the hip-hop and rap communities as many rappers express support for this method. It specifically refers to a Baltimore-based home-made DVD that threatened violence against would-be informants.

Why is this atrocity allowed to continue? This isn’t – or shouldn’t be – protected Free Speech; it’s sedition and advocating and endorsing criminal acts. The people producing and disseminating this filth need to be rounded up and incarcerated.