It's not about not blaming artists and the media, but it's more so about not placing the complete blame on the artists and media. If there were not women who were willing to make some fast cash by showin their **** in a video, black women would not be put out there to the rest of the world like that. Unless there is some kind of underground slavery that I know nothing about, no one is forcing these women to appear in videos and take off their clothes. I think Spelman women could make much more of a difference if they addressed the issue as to why their classmates parade around half **** as soon as a 70 degree day comes up.
oh yeah...
let me tell the ladies of Spelman that rush **** gave yall a shout out for protesting...i think it was ludacriss or soembody last year that was suppose to perform on campus or something...
shout out to my spelman queens....yeah i miss yall. :-(
Well let me put to fifty cents in the pot:
i don't blame the artist because music tells a story so most of what they're talkin about are actual situations that happened to them they are grown **** famous men. hell, most of the guys that i know could identify with what he was saying in tip drill.so it's not like they're proposly trying to degrade women.What you doing watching UnCut anyways? if you know damn well what kind of material they showing.
i don't blame the women either because i don't know their situations. some of them were college students and, so what?.........not everybody is able to get that good scholarship or have the parents that are fortunate enough to pay for college so they have to it for themselves, by any means neccessary. Some of the women may have kids that they needed to provide for and don't have that six figure salary or they just wanted some extra money. me, personally, i don't look at the videos and see myself because that's NOT me. hip hop isn't forming"the image of black women in popular culture" becuase in that tip drill video and many other videos there were white women shakin they so- called **** too. and i doubt that they feel degraded. hell, when the whole paris hilton **** went down do you think that all white women felt like dirty ****...........NO. they looked at it and moved the hell on. women in general have a stereotype not just black women. but protesting their helping to prove the stereotype that black women are loud and always causing drama. i say that if those women are confident enough to get out there and show their body and shake that cellulite then more power to them cuz unless you giving them the money that they losing you have no say in what they do!
You totally missed the point of why this protest was started. It was started to challenge the current status of the hip-hop community. Not to showcase how loud and ghetto black women can be.
we cant change society........it just changes over time. the words **** and hoes are not being used today as obscene they are mainstream words used the same as girl and female and shawty.....whateva u say dependin on where u from.
people have to make a living. rappers gotta do what they do to make money. society likes obscene Sh*t so its gon be on TV.
and its not like we makin black girls do this. they choose to. and its not only black girls look at disco inferno video.
Society can be changed!!!!! Only if we as a community choose to change it. and as far as your comment about people making a living....Ummm, so making money is more important than uplifting and protecting our people?!? Quite frankly, i'm sick and tired of people thinking that its ok to be disrespectful.
And one way it can be changed is if these women stop going to these video auditions. I hope no one's putting a gun to their heads making them shake they **** in these videos.
Where are the Black women in these videos , all I see are Latin and White girls anyways?
This whole situation isnt about the women in the videos as much as it is about you all. What they're doing is reflectin on EVERY black woman in some way. Thats how stereotypes get started. As a black male I have alot of stereotypes surrounding me and as a black male I choose to prove those wrong in my life, BUT I dont want that to just be in my life alone. I want to spread the word that as black males we dont gotta bow down to stereotypes no matter what environment we comin from. I wanna show that we not drug dealers, we not gangstas, we not criminals, and that we are intelligent and full of potential. The girls in those videos whether some like it or not represent you in society. Therefore playing the blame game shouldnt be goin on at all. I believe in rooting up and planting, tearing down and building up. The women need to know what they are doin, the stigma that it puts on them, and what they are portrayed as. Me personally I wanna see my african american brothas prosper, but I dont want them to go about it on by comin up sellin and makin a feared name in the streets. I care because their goin about it the wrong way and before it even hurts the entire race it hurts the majority of them and their families. So with this being said why should black women (not speakin about any other races) be comfortable seein each other goin about -comin up- in the wrong way. How would it had been if we did all we thought we could to come up in the 50's and 60's and just started boxin white folk out? There's a better way....
-If your not thinkin about the race as a whole and the blood that was wasted so black women wouldnt have to be looked at as objects then you don't apply.
I really want to curse you out but I won't...But you really should get a freakin' life! Are they not paying you enough at bestbuy?? That's if they have not fired you already
eh man i tried to fill out an application at btes buy...there were a hwhole bunch of kids there my age...but i dunno man looks like this job at walmart's gonna pay GOOD!
let that be a lesson...you drop out of college either go to the following places:
>>best buy
>>walmart
>>sears
>dillards (tasia)
