Posted by Min. Paul Scott (minps) on 11/11/2002, 10:58 pm (cause Aint Nuthin Merry bout Genocide) Min. Paul Scott twas the month before Christmas and all through tha hood; Black folks buy stuff so White folks can live
good Rap Master Minista P One of the saddest things about being Black in America is seeing our people fund their own destruction. This is especially evident during the holiday season when many of us will run out and buy the latest CD or video that degrades women and promotes Black on Black violence, all the while drinking egg nog and singing Peace on earth, goodwill towards men. This is especially sad this year when the Hip Hop community is still in mourning the death of Jam Master Jay, not to mention the other unnamed brothers and sisters who have had their lives cut short by the senseless violence that some in hip hop want to glorify. Things have gotten so bad that even one of the most famous rap stars was quoted as saying that he was scared of his Black fans. Many people in the Hip Hop community are now coming together in efforts to put an end to the glamorization of violence. However, power concedes nothing without demand. There must always be an O. E. (Or Else!) factor. I can see the CEO of High Morality Records, parent company of Death Music, Inc, sitting back in his reclainer smoking a cigar saying, So what ya gonna do, huff and puff and blow my house down ? Invite me to another meeting, so I can make some more promises that I dont intend to keep? Or write essay number 1099 begging the music industry to change their ways? There must be consequences for disrespecting the Black community. I am sick and tired of corporate fat cats filling their childrens Christmas stockings with the blood of the Black community. This season we must say, no more! The Black community is always coming to the rescue of White America when their backs are against the wall. Whether it is a TV network that uses hip new Black programming to build an audience, only to drop us like hot potatoes once they get off the ground or, in this case, using Black artists to save a lack luster year of CD sells. During the next few weeks we will be bombarded by CD and DVD commercials trying to get us to drop $20 dollars of our hard earned money as the industry tries to capture the urban market for the holiday season. It is their goal to have you go out and buy Cousin Renita the new Christmas CD by the Gangsta Grinch, whether you can afford to or not. In the age of bootlegging and downloading the music industry needs us to spend some benjamins this holiday season more than ever. I always find it funny when the same rapper who glorifies stickin a fool up, and how rattin on somebody is against the code of the streets, starts whining about someone downloading his music. (But I digress) This year we have started the "No Hos This Christmas" Boycott (cause aint nuthin' merry bout GENOCIDE). We must not only boycott the CDs that call our sistas hos, glorify Black on Black violence and have us buck dancing for the pleasure of White America but we must put the focus on the parent companies as well. The entertainment industry is used to us calling out Brothers and Sisters that promote negative images but we must put the responsibility on the shoulders of the heads of the corporations who sell our community mental and spiritual poison but at the same time attend holiday functions and brag to White America about how moral they are. We must bring attention to the fact that the company that is putting out I Saw my Ho Kissin Santa Claus, So I Shot em by Gangsta Grinch in tha hood is the same company putting out Have a Holly Jolly Christmas by Rudolph and those darn elves in the burbs. We must hold these companies accountable. So it is up to us to begin marking the negative stuff off our wish lists. We must seize this opportunity to teach our children about the mind games that are being played on Afrikan people every time they ask for a CD that they will see advertised on television over and over again. Everyone must get involved in this boycott from the leaders of Black organizations to the dudes ringing those bells outside of the mall. As many will be celebrating the birth of the Messiah, we must also see a rebirth of the pride of Afrikan people this year. and I heard him exclaim as he rolled outta sight, next year well celebrate; but this year we fight! Minister Paul Scott is the founder of the Durham, NC based New Righteous Movement. For information on the No Ho! Boycott contact the National Hip Hop Reformation Campaign at : nhhrc@yahoo.com
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