by Paula Neal Mooney Oprah is conducting two days worth of town hall meetings taking hip-hop to task , asking the oh-so-poignant question: Now that Don Imus has been fired for calling black women hos, what should happen to the rappers that do the same thing? It's the same question I asked in my recent post about Imus, and I'm gladder than glad that Oprah is bringing it to her show. Though parts of Oprah's hip hop town hall weren't shown due to coverage of yesterday's truly tragic Virginia Tech shootings , a good portion of Oprah's show about rap still played. I'm praying above all else that these hip hop town hall discussions will lead sponsors to pull the funding from only those rappers who unapologetically call women bitches and hos and objectify naked booty-shaking women in their videos. Hip-Hop Hypocrisy? I could kiss award-winning newspaper columnist Jason Whitlock, a writer for The Kansas City Star , who noted that we as a people have yet to attack o...
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