Okay so what does IMUS have to do with RAP? Nothing. Nothing at all. When someone decides to call women any type of ho, it’s not because of rap music. It’s because that person chose those words to say.
Sure many rap artists use that word and many other offensive terms, but that doesn’t mean that I would go out and say “hey, ho!” to some girl walking down the street. I was brought up better than that. If people want to denigrate themselves, they will do it. I, nor anyone else, has to be part of that type of activity.
If rap artists all got together tomorrow and decided to stop saying derogatory words like ho, would that make any difference? I doubt it. People’s thinking won’t change because the lyrics of the songs do. One being a racist doesn’t change because we are no longer segregated. People’s mindsets about slavery don’t change just because it was abolished. The N word didn’t lose its sting for everyone just because a few letters were changed to connotate something more positive.
They shouldn’t have fired Imus because of this one offense. He has been degrading people with his words for years. He didn’t just call the African American players hoes. He FIRST called them all “some hardcore hoes”. If anything, he only shows the ignorance that he himself has been allowed to display for the last however many years he has been on radio without incident. In essence, this or some other form of punishment should have been doled out before.
Where, I ask, were the censors? They had plenty of time from the first moment he said “hoes” to bleep the second occurrence, but they didn’t. What is happening to them?
