From thehill.com

Jackson Lee said it was ridiculous for the soft drink maker to air the advertisement during African-American history month.

“In this month of African-American history where we’re trying to celebrate what is good and great, it certainly seems ridiculous that Pepsi would utilize this kind of humor,” she said. “It was not humorous. It was demeaning — an African-American woman throwing something at an African-American male and winding up hitting a Caucasian woman.”

Jackson Lee said she has a sense of humor and believes in the First Amendment. She also said the Super Bowl is a great time for “fellowship” with family members.

“That is why I’m so disappointed with the Pepsi advertisement that showed a demeaning role for African American women, in an ad that showed a can being thrown and being utilized to wound someone else or hit someone else,” she said.

“I think that we can come together in a much better way, sell Pepsi, and as well talk about good nutrition,” she said. “But, frankly, I consider this insulting, and so did many other women of all colors.”

Except White women, of course.

Let’s look at what’s popular this week on the Billboard charts.

Rap

Make a Movie (currently #7 )

Twista

The perfect storm is Twista and Chris Brown ya dig
I got a new one for ya
Lets make a movie baby

Twista got cars
Big swagger
I’m a rock star like Mick Jagger
And I got bars that I spit faster
You a hot star no bitch badder
So let me take you on a ride
On a journey with the one that you call daddy
Who gon make you get it wet
But this time we gon do something romantic and different
I’ll tell you about it when we get on the movie set

I was thinking that we could just make a sex tape
Plus I think yo face cute when its a HD
Maybe I could tape you and you could tape me
When I pull my h2 up to your h3
You know that you want to be in this movie
So dont be acting like a trippin with a stranger mission
Recording you while you lovin me down below
Switching the camera angle when we change positions
You could be the director aiming the camera down at me
Filming me licking until you say cut
Ready for any footage you wanna get
Ain’t gotta call nobody else because
I do my own stunts
Its the X rated version of a box office hit
I see you ready to strip for this

So let me get the music in, get the tape in, get the cameras in (oh oh oh ohhh)
Baby we dont need no script for this
I’ma throw a couple thousand baby strip for this
Let me pull my camera and make a movie yeah
Starring you and me yehhh
Baby we dont need no actresses
Let me tell you what I’m working with, I’ma break your back with this
Let me pull my camera out lets make a movie yehhh
Starring you and me yehhh yehhh, girl

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6 foot 7 foot (currently #3)

Lil’ Wayne

Excuse my charisma, vodka with a spritzer
swagger down pat, call my shit Patricia
Young Money militia, and I am the commissioner
you don’t want start Weezy, ’cause the F is for Finisher
so misunderstood, but what’s a World without enigma?
two bitches at the same time, synchronized swimmers
got the girl twisted ’cause she open when you twist her
never met the bitch, but I f-ck her like I missed her
life is the bitch, and death is her sister
sleep is the cousin, what a f-ckin’ family picture
you know father time, we all know mother nature
it’s all in the family, but I am of no relation
no matter who’s buying, I’m a celebration
black and white diamonds, f-ck segregation

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No Hands (currently #2)

Waka Flocka Flame

[Chorus]
Girl the way you movin’ got me in a trance
Dj turn me up ladies, this yo jam (Come on)
Imma sip mascato and you gon’ loose them pants
And Imma throw this money while you do it with no hands
Girl drop it to the floor I love the way yo booty go
All I wanna do is sit back and watch you move and I’ll proceed to throw this cash

[Waka]
All that ass in yo jeans, kid wale me
Kid and Roscoe speak
Long hair she don’t care
When she walks she gets stares
Brown skin or a yellow bone
DJ this my favorite song
So Imma make it thunderstorm
Blood want it flocka yea throw it, f_ck it, I dont care
Glasses flying everywhere tap my partna Roscoe like “brah I’m drunk as hell”
Can’t you tell, goose we been spent fifty stacks so f_ck it
Well I’m tryna to hit the hotel with two girls that’s wide awake
Tell this dick and swallow bay mascato got her freaky
Hey you got me in a trance, please take of yo pants
You pop on a handstand you got me sweating please pass me a fan DAMN!!

What’s My Name (currently #3 on the RnB chart)

Rihanna & Drake

Hey boy I really wanna see if you can go downtown with a girl like me
hey boy, I really wanna be with you
cause your just my type
ooh na na na na
I need a boy to take it over

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Shelia Jackson Lee wants to talk about Black history, let’s talk about Black history….

There was a time in our culture when it was common to hold each other accountable. If our kids were caught remotely talking like this foolishness above, the community got together and dealt with it. We had to hold each other to a higher standard because Whites expected the worse and we could not give them ANY opportunity for a “See, I told you so” moment. Not only that, plain and simple we knew the greatness that was inside of us and that given the space, our God-given ingenuity, and freedom there was nothing we could not accomplish.

The very things our forefathers did not tolerate back then today we celebrate and call it “cultural expression”. Older folks (many) in our communities who should be calling this mess out are either too busy trying to be “young” or are simply to afraid of being that elder at the gate (if you are being an elder at the gate, good for you. Keep it up!).

Yet somehow I am supposed to get bent out of shape over a Pepsi commercial that is supposedly demeaning to Black women everywhere.

All the songs that I highlighted within OUR current top ten describe women as sexual toys where our Black men can use up and play with as they please. And we celebrate it by dancing to it. Pepsi’s 30 second commercial? All hell is raised.

It is high time we stop holding other races to these ridiculous standards of purity and start demanding excellence from our own.

So please, stop with the Twitter and Facebook protests against Pepsi and start demanding nothing short of greatness from each other.