Tuesday, May 17, 2011

News Break : Common is the new Chuck D!



At the end of every Daily Show (kudos to Jon Stewart for an excellent showing on Bill O'Reilly's show here), Stewart offers a daily dose of zen. It's often an opportunity for the good folks at Fox News to show how ridiculous they are (click the image below to see the full episode - - - but this post only talks to the last 10 seconds or so starting around 20 mins 50 secs in).



Now, it may have slid by you on the first time, but watch it again and you'll notice that host Gretchen Carlson says this,

"Well, I don't know how you could have any rap star come to the White House with any of their lyrics. But anyway, don't want to open up. . ."

And that pretty much sums up the substance of the opposition to Common's appearance at the White House. It isn't about the content of Common's library of work. It couldn't be, the guy is perhaps most known as a sex symbol, socially conscious rapper and
actor. Comparing Common's efforts to gangster music is frankly disrespectful to the likes of N.W.A and Ice T - - - and everyone should know by now that Eazy E of NWA fame has had a visit to the White House at the invite of Bush I. It'd be like comparing Kim Kardashian to Jenna Jameson. Sure Kim's got a sex tape, but Jenna's got a sex tape ARCHIVE. It isn't even that there is and always has been some defined criteria as to how brilliant your resume and past history must be in order to receive the invite to the people's house (if that was the case, some of our President's would have had their house keys revoked).

What is it? Well, we could state the obvious but we'll hold off and play nice. Let's say . . . people who express their dissent for the Common invite are simply afraid with that which they are not comfortable with. Gretchen expresses this plainly and clearly in her final words as the show ends. The entire genre of hip-hop/rap should be excluded from the White House invite list (actually, we should take advantage of this and make it known to the youth today that being a rapper may exclude you from ever entering the White House doors . .. shoot for a Nobel in Math or Science instead). There isn't a need to decipher or even just listen to the lyrics of a hip-hop/rap song, it's not necessary to know that they are rooted in evil and anti-christian teachings and you can probably bet they're drowning kittens somewhere in the chorus. And they're all the same no matter if it's Soulja Boy or the Geto Boys, Will Smith or Public Enemy. No matter if your lyrics are promoting pistol whipping or encouraging you to whip your hair back and forth like Willow.

It has nothing to do with content. It has everything to do with the fact that some people will not like you because of what you are versus who you are.

Poor Kittens!



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