zulater
07-29-2013, 08:33 PM
http://www.ijreview.com/2013/07/68951-cnn-host-don-lemons-tough-love-for-black-community-inspires-hate-filled-backlash/
Bill O’Reilly enraged many with his “Talking Points Memo” criticism of black culture in America. One surprising ally was CNN’s Don Lemon who approved of O’Reilly’s critique, and even said that he didn’t go far enough.
His five points were simply but eloquently elaborated.
5) How sagging pants evolved from prison culture and reflects poorly on the self-esteem of the perpetrator of this fashion statement:
Sagging pants, whether it’s Justin Bieber or no-name Derek around the way, walking around with your ass and your underwear showing is not okay. In fact, it comes from prison when they take away belts from the prisoners so that they can’t make a weapon. And then it evolved into which role a prisoner would have during male-on-male prison sex. The one with the really low pants is the submissive one. You get my point?
4) Use of the n-word in popular culture degrades blacks:
I understand poetic license, but consider this: I hosted a special on the N-word, suggesting that black people stop using it and that entertainers stop deluding yourselves or themselves and others that you’re somehow taking the word back.
3) Littering your own community shows disdain for yourself and those around you:
Respect where you live. Start small by not dropping trash, littering in your own communities. I’ve lived in several predominantly white neighborhoods in my life. I rarely, if ever, witnessed people littering. I live in Harlem now, it’s an historically black neighborhood. Every single day I see adults and children dropping their trash on the ground when a garbage can is just feet away. Just being honest here.
2) Not making use of the educational opportunities afforded you:
Finish school. You want to break the cycle of poverty? Stop telling kids they’re acting white because they go to school or they speak proper English. A high school dropout makes on average $19,000 a year. A high school graduate makes $28,000 a year. A college graduate makes $51,000 a year.
1) Having children out of wedlock erodes educational and economic opportunity:
Number one, and probably the most important: just because you can have a baby, it doesn’t mean you should. Especially without planning for one or getting married first. More than 72 percent pf children in the African-American community are born out of wedlock. That means absent fathers. And the studies show that lack of a male role model is an express train right to prison and the cycle continues.
Not surprisingly, this has inspired just as much hatred from the black community as O’Reilly’s comments did. MSNBC’s Goldie Taylor calls him a “turncoat mofo,” while Toure also took to twitter to revile the common sense points Lemon made. Many others in the black community took to social media to excoriate Lemon’s remarks. Many decided the best course of action was to describe Don Lemon himself as an N-word, while others took a homophobic angle.
Bill O’Reilly enraged many with his “Talking Points Memo” criticism of black culture in America. One surprising ally was CNN’s Don Lemon who approved of O’Reilly’s critique, and even said that he didn’t go far enough.
His five points were simply but eloquently elaborated.
5) How sagging pants evolved from prison culture and reflects poorly on the self-esteem of the perpetrator of this fashion statement:
Sagging pants, whether it’s Justin Bieber or no-name Derek around the way, walking around with your ass and your underwear showing is not okay. In fact, it comes from prison when they take away belts from the prisoners so that they can’t make a weapon. And then it evolved into which role a prisoner would have during male-on-male prison sex. The one with the really low pants is the submissive one. You get my point?
4) Use of the n-word in popular culture degrades blacks:
I understand poetic license, but consider this: I hosted a special on the N-word, suggesting that black people stop using it and that entertainers stop deluding yourselves or themselves and others that you’re somehow taking the word back.
3) Littering your own community shows disdain for yourself and those around you:
Respect where you live. Start small by not dropping trash, littering in your own communities. I’ve lived in several predominantly white neighborhoods in my life. I rarely, if ever, witnessed people littering. I live in Harlem now, it’s an historically black neighborhood. Every single day I see adults and children dropping their trash on the ground when a garbage can is just feet away. Just being honest here.
2) Not making use of the educational opportunities afforded you:
Finish school. You want to break the cycle of poverty? Stop telling kids they’re acting white because they go to school or they speak proper English. A high school dropout makes on average $19,000 a year. A high school graduate makes $28,000 a year. A college graduate makes $51,000 a year.
1) Having children out of wedlock erodes educational and economic opportunity:
Number one, and probably the most important: just because you can have a baby, it doesn’t mean you should. Especially without planning for one or getting married first. More than 72 percent pf children in the African-American community are born out of wedlock. That means absent fathers. And the studies show that lack of a male role model is an express train right to prison and the cycle continues.
Not surprisingly, this has inspired just as much hatred from the black community as O’Reilly’s comments did. MSNBC’s Goldie Taylor calls him a “turncoat mofo,” while Toure also took to twitter to revile the common sense points Lemon made. Many others in the black community took to social media to excoriate Lemon’s remarks. Many decided the best course of action was to describe Don Lemon himself as an N-word, while others took a homophobic angle.