Tuesday, May 04, 2004

This is something from Davey D's website, just read:

Gangstaz, Gunz and Half Naked Girlz

Min. Paul Scott


Baby Got back, but Baby needs backbone/Get off the
video screen and put some clothes on…
Brother Khamisi (Revolutionary Son)


Back in tha day, a radio program director told me
that heavy metal was marketed to 16 year old white
boys who were mad because they couldn’t get a
girlfriend.
Fifteen years later, we must ask what is the marketing
scheme behind Sex Guns and Hip Hop.

I ’m not saying that some Brotha with a bad rap is
somewhere sitting alone in his bedroom pumpin’ G-Unit
while throwing darts at a picture of his ex
girlfriend screamin’ ‘Take that you
slut…Westside!!!!!’ But we do have to look at the way
sista’s are portrayed in videos today through the eyes
of marketing executives who spend millions of dollars
psychoanalyzing Brotha’s in order to pinpoint our
weaknesses and find ways to exploit us.

Now be honest, Brothers, if you had to choose between
looking at a centerfold of the sista from the Outkast
video and reading this article, which one would you
choose? (That’s what I thought) So they are experts at
appealing to our attraction to our Nubian Queens.
Instead of denying our attraction to beautiful black
women we must learn to discipline our natural urges.
In other words we can’t let the size of the booty
blind us to the beauty of Afrikan Brothers and Sisters
working together to ensure the future of little Black
children.

Also, we can never look at any issue concerning Black
folks without putting the discussion in the context of
the battle of Afrikan people against the agents of
white supremacy. Since the Hip Hop Nation has all but
called a truce with the white power structure, this
issue will not be raised from those who view reality
from a purely 'hip hop-centric' point of view.

Many of the videos today feature a beautiful black
woman prancing around while 20 Brotha’s are rapping,
‘Get off my block before I shoot, you , fool !‘ Those
of us who are not sleeping while standing up must pose
the question’ what in the world does a half naked
sista have to do with drug dealin’ and Brotha’s
blastin’ Brotha’s?’ This is an obvious attempt to kill
two birds with one stone; a case of cross promotion of
negative stereotypes.

Historically , it has always been a goal of white
America to portray the sons and daughters of Africa as
animals lacking souls, culture and moral character.
So Black women have been portrayed as disparate over
sexed, Ho’s and Black men have been portrayed as blood
thirsty rapists and sexual predators.

So when a diabolical tool of oppression meets with a
billion dollar marketing scheme the result is what you
get gyrating across your favorite music video channel
24 hours a day.

Back in the day when the 2 Live Crew had Sista’s
'movin’ sometin’' to the sound of 'Me So Horny' the
excuse was 'Well. What about them white girls that be
all up in tha videos, HUH?' But in 2004, the white
video vixen is more or less, a thing of the pass.
While Heather White has long since traded in her
G-string for a government job, Shorty Doo Wop is still
holding down her 9 (PM) to 5 at tha strip joint.

The reason being that the entertainment industry has
found their niche market and will exploit it until the
well runs dry, until there is no such thing as a
normal relationship between a Black man and a Black
woman.

With thousands of Black men in jail , the future of
the Black family is in danger. Most black men live
everyday of their lives with the fear of winding up in
jail before night fall, whether guilty or innocent.
The music industry has capitalized off of this fear by
manufacturing the 'we don’t love them Ho’s mentality.'
For the Brotha who is looking at twenty years in the
slamma a Sista becomes nothing but a quick hit while
he is out on bail. Why market a video concept about
long lasting caring relationships when you have
created an environment where most of your market will
be spending 20 years of quality time with Big Bubba in
cell block D ?

Where the saying that made a Sista’s blood boil back
in tha day was ‘women are only good for two places;
the kitchen and the bedroom;' in Hip Hop, for the ride
or die chick, they are also good for hiding a crack
stash and working the strip club. (How many children
out there who have to visit their incarcerated mother
once a week because she caught a conspiracy charge for
being in the car with drug Dealin’ Darrell?)

What would happen if we turned this Mother’s Day into
Black Queen Restoration Day ? What if Afrikan
Brothers and Sisters across the country joined with
sisters like those of Spelman College or LaFonda Jones
(Operation ’hood Freedom, Durham NC) and demanded more
positive images in videos.

What if an army of Angela Davis/Assata Shakur, kente
cloth head wrap wearing Sisters rolled up on rappers
like Trina and 'made' them understand the damage done
to the self esteem of young Black girls through songs
such as 'Big Ole D@### ?'

As the saying goes, a journey of a thousand miles
begins with one step. Isn’t it time that we started
steppin’ in the name of love for Black women?

Minister Paul Scott represents the Messianic Afrikan
Nation in Durham NC. To join the Messianic Afrikan
Nation contact (919) 949-4352 email
minpaulscott@ yahoo.com
Web site: members.blackplanet.com/THE-MYD

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