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Al 'Freemason' Sharpton Calls Out Rappers - Take Back the Music
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Goal- Revoke Freedom of Speech!
Problem- Racist comments from NWO Agents!
Reaction- String up the white man!
Solution- Hate Crimes Laws!
Results- Freedom of Speech Revoked!
Backfire is putting it mildly....
[link to www.msnbc.msn.com]
May 9 issue - Hip-hop music has long been criticized for being misogynistic—and now the African-American and hip-hop communities are speaking out. Essence, one of the leading magazines for black women, has launched a yearlong "Take Back the Music" campaign, which includes a series of articles designed to spark a dialogue about anti-woman attitudes in rap music. This comes as Kim Osorio, the former editor in chief of hip-hop magazine The Source, and former marketing executive Michelle Joyce have begun legal proceedings against the magazine and its cofounders, David Mays and Raymond Scott. Osorio and Joyce claim they or other women were degraded, touched inappropriately or pressured for sex; five more women may also bring charges. (In an e-mail, the lawyer for the cofounders, Mercedes Colwin, calls the charges against her clients "baseless," and says that The Source "has always prided itself in the advancement of women.")
Religious and community leaders are speaking out, too. The Rev. Adrian Rodgers and 30 other pastors in Jonesboro, Ark., recently mobilized against a 50 Cent show there; Rodgers says he'll do the same thing whenever an artist whose message he deems derogatory comes to town. Al Sharpton also plans to talk to the FCC about an airwaves ban on rappers who don't respect women. "If they've got the right to call my daughter a b----," Sharpton says, "I have a right to say 'boycott'."
Rappers insist it's an issue of free speech. Still, an Emory study by Ralph DiClemente and Gina Wingood suggests that disrespectful lyrics may lead to lower self-esteem in young black girls, who are more likely to accept the words and images as reality. The 2003 study tracked 522 14- to 18-year-old black girls in rural Alabama and found that those who saw more than 21 hours of rap videos weekly were more likely to engage in risky behavior.
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