I was listening to an interview with Al Sharpton on the Today show this morning and apparently this whole thing with Imus is creating a dialog about racism and sexism in rap music - particularly the misogynist aspect of rapping about violence toward women.
Keith Olbermann had a interview with Jesse Jackson on "Countdown" last night and asked him about the same topic, as well as the tolerance of the same sort of bad behavior by talk show hosts like Rush Limbaugh, Neil Boortz and Michael Savage.
I think that the uproar, while a bit distracting from other issues such as funding for the Iraq war and the failure of the whole "war on terror" was a good thing overall in that it highlighted some cultural and social issues that have been papered over of late.
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Date: 2007-04-12 11:29 am (UTC)Keith Olbermann had a interview with Jesse Jackson on "Countdown" last night and asked him about the same topic, as well as the tolerance of the same sort of bad behavior by talk show hosts like Rush Limbaugh, Neil Boortz and Michael Savage.
I think that the uproar, while a bit distracting from other issues such as funding for the Iraq war and the failure of the whole "war on terror" was a good thing overall in that it highlighted some cultural and social issues that have been papered over of late.