BLACK RADIO'S HYPOCRISY & CHRIS BROWN
4 commentsThe other day, my nephew was telling me about Chris Brown going on a local station and literally begging for his records to be played, and for fans to help save his career. Then he told me that Brown is also on the verge of being dropped from his label, because of poor sales. This kid has done everything that was asked of him, and people still won't give him a second chance. I'm not particularly a fan of Chris' and I'm totally against what he did, but I do wonder when is he going to get his second chance? I guess Americans are selective about who they give their second chances to, and I found the way that black radio dee jays have treated him to be the most shameful and hypocritical.
The 2 that treated him the worst were Tom Joyner and Steve Harvey. Hell, these 2 clowns wanted to actually fight Chris Brown for hitting Rhianna. Oddly enough, I don't seem to recall them wanting to fight Mike Tyson for hitting Robin Givens, but I digress. These 2, and many other dee jays will not play Brown's songs, but they still play R. Kelly songs. Tom Joyner asked Kelly to remix his theme song and was yucking it up with him on air, while the Steve Harvey show promoted his current tour. Warren Ballentine called Brown a coward, but uses R. Kelly's music as the intro to his show. I guess to them, it's cool to have sex with and urinate in a 14 year old girl's mouth on camera, but hitting a woman for hitting you first is somehow crossing their continuously moving line.
I heard many black people say, "Man, what R. Kelly did was sick, but '12 Play' is my jam! I'll still bump his music.", but after the Chris Brown story broke, I heard the same people say, "I'll never listen to his music again!". Really? You wanna know how pathetic it got in the R. Kelly case? I heard MANY black women blaming the 14 year old girl! Hell, the NAACP even nominated him for an Image Award! We all showed up with the mentality of an angry mob to defend Michael Jackson against molestation charges, and now that same mob is showing up to lynch Chris Brown. I guess we black folks don't care about children as much as we do pretty women.
A lot of these black holier than thou morning show hosts and their listeners frequently hoped for the end of Brown's career. Keep in mind, these are the same black people that like to whine about white folks not giving Michael Vick a second chance. The next time a black celebrity gets in trouble and pays his debt to society, and you black radio personalities start whining about "the man" not giving him a second chance, think about the second chance you gave Chris Brown. How in the hell can we black people complain about the "white man" not giving us a second chance, when we won't even give our own a second chance? Jus' sayin'.
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April 15, 2010 at 6:19 AM
[quote]I guess to them, it's cool to have sex with and urinate in a 14 year old girl's mouth on camera, but hitting a woman for hitting you first is somehow crossing their continuously moving line.[/quote]
There was a better way to put this, that didn't excuse Chris Brown or make a comparison of his 'sin' against R Kelly's. I got what you were saying, right up to this sentence...
"hitting a woman for hitting you first"? That's a cop out...
April 15, 2010 at 6:36 AM
I disagree with you sungoddess. The comparison is not of the sins, but our ability to forgive them. I am a mother to three black men, I know first hand how women will try them, kudos to my kids for keeping their hands in their pockets and walking away from these relationships.
I think Rihanna is no different from some of these girls, wants to curse scream and hit knowing that the average Black man won't hit back for fear of jail time. It's a double standard, we gotta raise our girls up better than that.
That being said Chris does not deserve what he's getting (or not getting in this case), he's just a kid who made a big huge mistake.
April 15, 2010 at 6:54 AM
No, Sungoddess, it's not a cop out, it's a fact. He didn't hit her for the hell of it, he hit her back. Was it right? No, but it is a fact. Don't confuse facts with cop outs. If I said that he was right because she hit him first, then it might be considered a cop out, but that's not what I said.
April 15, 2010 at 7:04 AM
My problem is this: at best, Rhianna hit him once or twice and caused no damage to him... he literally beat her face into different shape. To say he 'hit her because she hit him'... it just rubs the wrong way.
As to whether or not he deserves a second chance or not, I am not the one to say... I've never listened to Chris Brown's music, so cannot testify to his talent.
Yet, the writer's comments here are ALL TRUE about American society and the way it passes out favours and awards celebrity.