What is really burning me up today is this whole "Dog the Bounty Hunter" debacle. If you haven't heard, here is a snippet of what he said...
"I'm not going to take a chance ever in life of losing everything I've worked for 30 years because some (expletive) n--- heard us say 'n---' and turned us in to the Enquirer magazine."
Ironically, it was his son who recorded the tirade and sold it to the National Enquirer...And this is the tame stuff.
He was urging his son to break up with his black girlfriend. He later apologized and said he didn't like her "character" and not that she was black...
You know what?..whatever man.
I don't care about Dog or whatever he says to his son. I know there are and always will be racist in this country and if we stop every time they spew, we would make no progress.
What IS bothering me, is how whenever someone famous or well known says something racist or demeaning to Black women in particular, The focus turns to Hip Hop music as a way of justifying their behavior. Well, to quote my grandma, "two wrongs don't make a right".
Today, I'm hearing white people (no offense to my white family and friends) complain about a double standard. Are you kidding me? In this world there are double standards that we as people (be it racial, gender, sexual orientation, etc) have to live with as a part of life. And you know what? That's life!
In no way am i saying that rappers are without blame, but they are not a reason for bigots to have a "say N*gger for free pass". That goes for Imus, Dog and Kramer from Seinfeld.
Note: Even though i may be taking a somewhat light or humorous approach to this. It still pisses me off.
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