Nappy-Headed Hoes

I find the Don Imus scandal, where he called the Rutgers women’s basketball team a group of “nappy-headed hoes”, very enlightening in regard to our modern culture. The usual suspects from the poverty-pimp crowd came out angrily denouncing Imus for his racist remarks. However, I wonder…how is a white man insulting a specific group of black women any different from a black man insulting black women in general? What is the real crime here? Which is the worse crime here?

If Chris Rock made the same statement, it wouldn’t have been news. It would have been “funny”. No one would protest. No one would demand an apology. The Rutgers women would have been just as insulted.

The statement by Imus is juvenile and revolting, but it is G-rated compared to the lyrics of today’s Hip-Hop stars. Google the lyrics to any of the current Top 20 Hip-Hop hits and you will find messages of using, abusing and killing women. It’s sick. Even the white rapper, Eminem, will have some serious explaining to do if his ex/2nd/ex-again wife ever ends up found dead in the trunk of a car. He’s “sung” about such a thing. Sick.

The crime Imus committed isn’t degradation of women. Rap “artists” commit that crime in every song. Imus committed an offense worse than the Holocaust (according to the PC police)…racism. Whites aren’t allowed to acknowledge Blacks. Doing so, is “racism”. We should live in a “color-blind” society. Joe Biden, a Democrat no less, was taken to task for calling Barack Obama “articulate”. Personally, I would find that a compliment. I write a lot and if someone called me articulate, I would say “thank you”. Not so when a White gives a Black the same compliment. It “infers” that most Blacks are inarticulate, since it had to be pointed out that this particular Black is not. I would ask for a guide book to know the politically correct rules, but I really don’t give a crap.

Regarding the color-blind society, why is it that the poverty-pimps only show up when a White person commits the infraction? If we are ever going to be truly color-blind, then anyone who insults Black women should be called to task. The only “racism” I see here is coming from the Black community. Perhaps they should actually read what Martin Luther King said, instead of relying on others to tell them.

I noticed a couple of things while the Rutgers basketball team was basking in its 15 minutes (which turned into a 60 minute press conference) of fame. First, about a third of the team is White. Second, most of the Black girls had straight hair. Not nappy at all. Imus obviously never saw them play. (Of course, who can blame him as no one but alumni or parents watches the Women’s NCAA tournament). It hit me that Black women aren’t “nappy” anymore. Black women have adopted a style that makes them more attractive to…hold on here…White men.

For years, no one other than the KKK was more opposed to Black men dating White women than Black women. They were furious with their men for abandoning their community. Black women kept the afros, and the “nappy” hair, as a call to solidarity. Their men abandoned them. Black men went outside of the Black community for relationships, while expecting Black women to stay faithful to it. Today, Black women are asserting their rights. They are integrating with American culture because they want to be Americans, not African-Americans. Black women are on the front lines of racial integration and equality. Let’s not let their men keep them down.