Monday, November 5, 2007

Racism & The Dark Reality

First of all, as someone said once, there is always going to be racism. No matter who you are, how educated you are, and/or what the situation is. It is a natural way to express a certain feeling of dealing with something, or someone, different to us. Now that mentioned, there is respect and knowing how to deal with the situation in order to don't offend anything or anyone, deal with the way one feels, and evolve in order to overcome or at least learn to accept it and not make anything or anyone feel bad because everyone deserves a chance to be accepted and understood. I think that what Don Imus did was wrong because if that is the way he feels towards women, he should have been respectful and polite enough in order to do not offend them and also to do not lose his status as a educated man. From the two videos, the first one convinced me because that guy is a mature guy, but like 50 cent said, he already made his money out of the hip hop industry as a singer. Overall, I think there are many issues in our society, and one of them is indeed the way that hip hop has the presence of bad language and expressions. These comments appealed my values because I was thought to be respectful with other people by not mentioning certain words and expressions, but I unfortunately do use them sometimes in the wrong moments. They have some evidence going on, but they should try to change the perspective that people have towards them: Hip Hop singers say profanities in all their songs and promote young people to do the same as well. They should also educate themselves more and try to come up with better ways to defend their point of view, instead of trying to cover up the issue with a bigger issue, just like 50 cents did on the 2nd video; when he said that the media is trying to cover up the war and more serious issues with the fact that hip hop music has bad language in its songs. I personally believe that they are both attacking and respecting their opinions because both the consumers and the suppliers of the Hip Hop industry have the fault of having these profanities on Hip Hop albums, but if people would really care about this, we would stop buying Hip Hop singer's albums, concert's tickets, and so on in order to boycott them and make them once and for all stop using bad language on their songs.

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