The Self Hate that Hate Produced....

I just wanted to provide you guys with even more evidence of a cultural decline indirectly relating to the Don Imus fallout. The above Youtube clip is of a young White male (referred to as "JD") rapping, quite effectively with a recognizable southern drawl-popular among the current stream of minstrel/crunk artists. Please pardon the expletives. He is also spouting the word "nigga" with comfort and reckless abandon. As I have alluded to previously in this blog, the word nigger (or the more popular derivitive, nigga) just does not mean anything to me. Whether it's nappy or nigger, it appears that having these words become the bane of our African-American existence is not only foolhardy but regressive to our future.

Having said all that, the clip represents what happens when you allow a minstrel product to become the default definition of Black culture-white appropriation. If anyone is familiar with this entry's title-it refers to a 1959 Mike Wallace news report, entitled The Hate That Hate Produced. Wallace interviewed a then widely unknown Malcolm X as well as introducing the world to Elijah Muhammad's Nation Of Islam. Of course, the "hate" reference implied that White hatred for persons of African descent birthed an inverted hatred from Blacks back to Caucasians. Almost fifty years later, it appears that Black self-hatred has allowed Whites free reign to mimic a lower echelon Black aesthetic-beyond what many would consider minstrelsy. So, I implore our readers to write, call and/or email the corporate heads we listed in the last post-we have a cultural war on our hands. And for old times sake, let's walk down memory lane and take a look at prescient footage of Malcolm X (below)-take a way the separatist ideology and he could have been mistaken for a Black conservative.