Comments on: MC Huxtable

By: T

Fri, 25 Aug 2006 15:48:01 +0000

I couldn’t read the article (dang firewalls!) but I’ll just take your word on what he said.

Honestly, I’m ambivalent on Mr. Cosby. I believe anyone can deliver a good message; the messenger should be secondary. But that said, is he not the one who was being extorted by a love child? Hmm… I wonder if he’s managed to add “men, stay faithful to your wives” to his commentary yet. lol

At any rate, I don’t consider myself an “armchair activist” and many people I know who critcize rap aren’t either. And that doesn’t mean we have more of a right to criticize than those who really are of the “armchair” variety. I say, anyone who appreciates decency has a right to criticize. Cuz at the end of the day, we don’t “hate” rap…we just give a damn about our folks…excuse us for caring I guess. *Shrug*

Oh well…

By: Cool AC

Cool AC — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 00:04:15 +0000

Umm, Bill needs to rap what he is saying over that Nitty beat and the message will get out to the people (not the choir) who do not attend such functions. I always wonder if the functions where he speaks are free. You know he gets a pretty penny to come speak somewhere. My alma mater wants us to pay $250 for a benefit where Oprah is going to be. (I don’t even know if she will utter a word to the crowd.) All that being said, his message will continue being preached to the choir until he figures out how to reach the ones that need to hear it. Maybe he can work w/ Diddy and get some subliminal messages in the Young JOC song? Like, “use a condom, take care of your kids, be respectful to women, and stop saying n*gga, etc…” As much as that song plays, I think people would start to change. Lol!

By: Panama

Panama — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 21:22:21 +0000

@Cube: I agree.

@The Hostess: Does he have to live in it to know it isn’t right? Maybe not, but if you have a very limited vantage point in the first place, then you’re right for the wrong reasons and to me that’s just as bad. A broke clock is right twice a day, doesn’t mean we use it to tell time.

As far as preaching to the choir, maybe some of the men in there (and women in there too) need to hear some of that stuff, but the difference is at least they are there to hear it, which is a step in the right direction. Of course, folks have a lot of dirty laundry so they could be there just for show, but on a larger scale, he isn’t talking to the folks in his audience when he says we need to claim our kids.

He’s wanting the folks in the audience to go out and tell the ninja’s on the corner to claim their kids. And I’ll bet more than half of the folks are just there to hear Heathcliff Huxtable speak.

And not to get all technical or anything, but how many men as a percentage of the whole are you talking about? And further, are you saying that those numbers would more than likely hold up against all the so called “upstanding Black men?” Basically, ninjas ain’t shit?

By: Hostess

Hostess — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 20:31:24 +0000

When you say he’s out of toouch, does he have to live in it to know it isn’t right?? And I used to think his audience would be a choir too and not need preaching to. But I’m finding a lot of ‘up-standing’ Black men who have random kids they made and didn’t claim, with the check-out girl at Giant their freshman year of college. I once worked in a payroll office and I was surprised at how many upstanding BLACK men were having their wages garnished for child support. Mind you, these cats were walking aorund telling any slice that would listen that they didn’ have any kids and no criminal record.

By: Washington Cube

Washington Cube — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 19:55:52 +0000

Bill has just turned into that crotchety old man waving his cane and saying, “You kids stay out of my yard. Come here again, and that ball is mine, dagnabbit.