Writing on the website of the National Review, Dennis Prager confronts the moral decay on show at the Grammys:
Nor is the nomination of “F*** You” as Song of the Year an aberration. Two of the other four nominees are rap “songs” whose lyrics are also vile.
SCARE QUOTES? Oh no he di’n’t!
The third nominee is an ode to New York City, “Empire State of Mind,” performed by black rapper Jay-Z and Alicia Keys, and which also contains the N-word. It is worth recalling that when white radio-show host Laura Schlesinger used this word solely in order to condemn its use in inner-city black life, society’s elite poured such wrath on her that it forced many of her sponsors to abandon her, and she decided to leave radio. But when Jay-Z uses it, he is rewarded with the nomination for the highest award in the music industry.
Even if one didn’t find Schlesinger’s own use of the epithet clueless and offensive (which it was), how is it insidious hypocrisy (rather than perfect consistency) that she was publicly censured for saying black people shouldn’t use it while Jay-Z (a “black rapper,” mind you!) was not similarly censured for usi—ARGH! I will not be drawn in by a Master Troll of the Culture Wars. (Except in writing this post.) Go read white pundit D-Pray’s whole silly column.
Who are you?
No! I love your work so far here, but every Slog poster and their grammaw is pointing to the National Review blog now! Too damn easy a target!
nigga please
This “ZEUGMA” thing is stupid.
Fuck You is a fucking awesome song. And @3 is right – it’s not a rap song – it’s a throwback/homage to Jackson 5-esque R&B pop.
Need a quick Slog item? Find some conservative magazine’s website, troll until you find something that offends your liberal sensibilities, and mock it — and then say you won’t be drawn in.
Snore…
Although, there IS a valid point. Why am I not allowed to say ‘nigga’ and a black dude is?
If the intention and context of the word is the same, who says it shouldn’t be a problem. Charles?
On a day that find we find out that Aretha has limited time left we should remember that black music was at one time good and decent. To be fair modern black culture is vile and sad and dumb whites/Asians are only too happy to ape it’s worst qualities. That is unless being foul-mouthed, illiterate, and with pants hanging off your ass is a good thing. Go hang out on 3rd and Pike for an hour and tell me blacks are moving in a good direction.
@8: Because life isn’t fair and the playing field isn’t level. Suck it up. Or, start a blog about your terrible burden.
Sorry for that extra “find”
I particularly enjoyed the contrast of the column on the NR’s website being framed by ads for “concealed carry reports” with pictures of handguns instructing readers to “know their rights!” What did I learn from this? Cursing (and rap) is causing the degradation of society, but guns are good for you!
You don’t want me to say fuck and I don’t want you carrying a handgun. maybe we should both shut the fuck up and calm the fuck down.
@12, well, I guess it’s a good thing you have a first amendment right to say “fuck,” and I have a second amendment right to own a gun. Alright? Good. Now go fuck yourself.
Haters gon’ hate.
Honkys gon’ honk.
Sounds like my parents when I set the AM station to KRLA (I think) in December of 1964. There was so much groovy music on… but no Glenn Miller or Percy Faith or Walter Wanderly.
What!?! Somebody out there doesn’t like reading or hearing the word “fuck?”
Maybe you should go suck the Seattle Times’ tit some more, you crybaby. They also don’t like people who say, “conservatives eat fresh, wet, stinky goat droppings and suck the piss out of a syphilitic camel’s willie,” either! Go figure! But their weaner-pig editors do not — repeat: do not — have any so-called “free speech” laws they have to obey.
CONGRESS shall make no law constraining free speech. There’s nothing in the U.S. constitution about a private organization not being allowed to limit what speech may appear within its jurisdiction.
So hie thee to the Times’ website… and don’t come back, ever.
Fifty-two eighty is the price of a cheap funeral, too. Should we take up a collection for him? It’s also an estimate of what his I.Q. could be… if he had a brain, which he doesn’t. He’s got a gun, though, and a big belt buckle, so we know he’s a real man!
What the FUCK is that asshole doing here, anyway? This website is for people who know how to think and express themselves coherently.
5280 is an essential element of Slog. He ain’t just old school, he’s original school. You don’t like it, then you go away.
Essential elements are squares of toilet paper. They go away on their own when they are covered with shit.
The Times is beckoning you like a Siren singing the song to Ulysses.
It must be really painful having your head up your ass like that.
@3: I worked in a record store in the suburbs. To 40% of those idiots, any music made by a black person is rap music. I repeatedly found middle-aged white people wandering around the rap section, looking confused and asking for Hendrix, Fitzgerald, or Michael Jackson.
I smell the message from the TV
Does my Humpty nose deceive me?
Smells like the blacker the wacker
Polly wants to be a cracker, if you let her
But see for me, the bigger the nose the better.