Some language not suitable for all ears.
This video appeared on mediatakeout.com which is how I found out about it.
This whole issue is a mixed bag, so addressing it poses a challenge to contain in one post.
The comments for this post over at mediatakeout go from being supportive of this film, to calling these girls “nappy-headed hos”–all from Black women and men.
I have a few quick takes and like always, the floor is open.
# The claim that White men are more respectable of their women than Black men is complete garbage. A man in heat is a man in heat–period! Anybody who doesn’t know this hasn’t been around.
# If there is a difference between White men and Black men, I would say that oftentimes we as Black folks have used our culture to insulate this problem in our community. Need proof? Black women have been disrespected in hip hop music for years (before I continue, please save your examples of rock music. I am talking about OUR stuff). While folks back in the day did their part to call attention to this issue (C. DeLores Tucker, Queen Latifah, Sister Souljah and others), the issue itself never got much traction until a White man (Don Imus) said what he did about the Black women of the Rutgers women basketball team. Only at that point did it become a high crime. Even when some of the women at Spelman college raised this issue, outside of getting praised by Oprah and Essence magazine, they were met with criticism for dissin’ hip hop. Three words uttered from the lips of a White man–Nappy-headed hos– and suddenly we are looking at press conferences, forced apologies, economic protests, commentaries from women who said they were taken back to the days of slavery thanks to Imus, and cable news SPECIAL REPORTS.
# Let’s be real. This video only focuses on sistahs that don’t like it when bruthas holla at them. Widen that lens a bit and you will find that there are sistahs out there who do like it. I don’t expect the wemins of cyberspace to acknowledge this, but there are plenty out there who would roll with a thug in a heartbeat.
# Bottom line, I do get the overall point of the clip: bruthas should not assume that every woman likes being called out.
Your thoughts?
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