Black Men Need to Step Up!

Black rappers bare some responsibility for their hurtful and degrading lyrics as well. There is NO EXCUSE for the mysogynistic lyrics found in MOST rap lyrics. Black men need to STOP calling Black women hoes, tricks, bitches, etc.

Black Males are the only ethnic group in the US who use the media to degrade their women. Should it come as any surprise when males from other racial groups follow suit and continue the degradation? Hip hop music has long been a vehicle for Black men to systematically destroy the public image of black women; without any repercussions on the part of the perpetrators and (for the most part) without systemic community contest. In that music women (who are our community's mothers, sisters, nieces, daughters, etc.) are called 'hos', 'bitches', 'hoochies', 'broads', 'cunts', etc and both verbally (in the lyrics) and physically (in the videos and award show performances) treated as such.

Am I upset that the 'I-Man' called the women of the Rutgers B-ball squad "nappy-headed hos"? Of course! But where do I lay the blame? At the feet of the black men in our community who have failed – time and time again – to protect us. The collective absence of black male public protection of US black women leaves open wide the door for any male in the world to publicly debase and degrade African-American women of any class, age group, or profession.