Who knew that Waka Flocka on CNN could elicit so much venom in a morning news panel.
Wednesday’s Morning Joe, co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski discussed the controversy caused by the now-expelled SAE fraternity members who led their brothers in a racist chant. The panel determined that rap music was to blame for vulgar and racist comments.
Responding to a CNN interview with Waka Flocka Flame — in which he said he was “disgusted” by the video — Mike Brzezinski said that some of the blame for the behavior belongs on artists like him.
“I look at his lyrics, and you have to ask yourself why he would go on that campus. If you look at every single song [by Waka Flocka Flame], it’s a bunch of garbage,” she said. “It’s full of n-words, it’s full of f-words. It’s wrong. And he shouldn’t be disgusted with them — he should be disgusted with himself.”
The Weekly Standard‘s Bill Kristol opined that “popular culture becomes a cesspool, a lot corporations profit off of it, and then people are surprised that some drunk 19-year-old kids repeat what they’ve been hearing.”
Wait lets stop here!
Even if that was the case, and every “garbage” rapper chose to spew the n-word, it doesn’t make it right for a drunk 19-year-old to repeat the words or make up their demeaning song out of it.
Are we to believe that those SAE members were paying homage to Waka Flocka?
Joe Scarborough then jumped on the popular bandwagon of trashing the new Fox series, ‘Empire.” Scarborough added that “as anybody who watches Empire” — the hit Fox series about a family fighting for control of a hip hop media enterprise — “knows, 70 percent of the audience is white. The kids that are buying hip hop or gangster rap, it’s a white audience, and they hear this over and over again. So do they hear this at home? Well, chances are good, no, they heard a lot of this from guys like this who are now acting shocked.”
People better wake up and recognize what’s going on in front of them.
You have a panel of people saying that it’s “okay” and somewhat “normal’ for white kids or white men to use the n-word because they purchase or support your music.
It’s even more criminal to suggest that those white kids are using the n-word as some sort of ‘homage’ or sign of respect.
h.t rawstory