Nice job shooting the messanger though. Says alot about you guys.

You would think liberals would be alot more tolerant of other opinions.

Final question, how would any of you feel if it was Rush Limbaugh on that float?

Yankees just won a WS,after 8 long yrs,and this is the garbage you write about?
You quote malkin,and a murdoch’s nypost both GOP MOUTH PIECES ,as your source pawleeze!!

Get outta here!

Talk about people drinking hater~ade keep reading that GOP crap they got you mentally,where they want you,stuck in stupid!

If you know ANYTHING about the Yankees marketing their image,to everyone,you’d rethink your bigotry.

Arod was still wearing his hat!

Excellent post. Gotta stamp this sort of drivel out as soon as it appears.

Well done!

Tim Wise, to wit: …you have to understand the reasons why rap music sometimes, peddles images of violence, or lyrics that are sexist. If 80% of all rap music purchases are made by whites (and that is the conventional wisdom), then white consumers must be responding, via their purchases, to an already held impression of black people. Without such a pre-existing mental schema firmly in place, the images of blacks as gangstas, pimps, dealers and “hos” wouldn’t resonate nearly so much as to make possible billions of dollars of sales annually. In other words, perhaps whites need to consider the possibility that the thug image has been marketable, and thus created a financial incentive for black artists to play to that trope because these images comport with the negative things that much of white America believes about blacks in the first place. Things which they believed, it should be noted, long before Cool Herc threw his first house party in the Bronx.

If white folks were interested in buying CDs by rap artists who sang about radical social transformation and community uplift, and yes there are many, many such artists out there, then that’s the music that would be churned out in larger numbers. But white consumers aren’t, by and large, looking to buy songs about overthrowing the system from which we benefit. White boys in the stale and lifeless ‘burbs would rather listen to songs about guns and drugs, and being a thug, through which music they can live a more exciting life, if only in their fantasies. So in the ultimate irony, it is white buyers who make that kind of rap profitable, but instead of asking for any responsibility from them, we blame the artists for doing what they’re supposed to do in a capitalist system, which is respond to market demand, no matter the social consequences. Naturally, of course, it isn’t capitalism that gets the blame but rather, the black folks who have taken the bait offered by the market system.

Second, Jay-Z claiming that Obama is black even though he’s half-white is a concept created by whites which was actually passed AS LAW. Please look up “One Drop Rule” (I’ll make it easy on you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-drop_rule )on Wikipedia. This law was struck down several years AFTER the passage of the Civil Rights Act. And while such a barbaric law may not continue to exist, the practice of labeling anyone who is part black, no matter how small, as black is still a practice employed by most whites.

And if in this day and age you still can’t grasp the concept of blacks using the “N” word as a way to try to remove the offensive power from the word, which was created by whites, well then you’ll never get it.

You’re an astoundingly ignorant man who hasn’t the slightest clue about blacks, the black experience in America, or the racist history of this country which affects present day life in America for those who aren’t white.

So run back to your little Malkin blog and keep listening to Glen Beck. Keep letting other ignorant people do your thinking for you instead of using your own brain to research subject matter before opening your piehole to talk about things which you obviously haven’t the slightest clue about.