You may think that MANHUNT has some sort of vendetta against rappers, given this post and a similar one about Rick Ross. But we really don't! I've been known, on occasion, to "cut a rug" (is that slang the kids are using today?) to Juelz Santana's "There It Go (The Whistle Song)". He's quite talented, indeed. So what's my problem? Well… these rappers just keep saying stupid shit!
While trying to apologize for comments he made about bloggers being gay, Juelz said this: "As far as haters, for you to sit behind a computer and just give off hate, and I didn't mean it as far as potentially you being gay, it's just almost like a gay act. It was really just for the haters…And when I mean gay, it's no offense to gay people once again, because I have gay people that work around me. I'm comfortable, I do my business with them…It's almost like saying you're acting like a bitch."
Oh, I get it now! Calling someone "gay" just means that they're acting like a bitch. Thank you for the translation! That was much simpler than I expected it to be.
Just so you know, when I call someone an "asshole", I don't mean that they're literally a puckering asshole… I mean that they're acting like a douche. I'm glad we cleared that up.
– Dewitt
For a video of Juelz Santana's "apology", follow the JUMP:
I this Juelz Santana guy actually educated?He sure doesn’t sound like it. I thought the “Ebonics” movement had died years ago. take someone today that talks like this and compare them to, say, Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Barack Obama, or Bill Cosby- what is the reason they choose to talk like they just got up out of the gutter and they are going to pull a knife on me? I know that isn’t true, but if that is what the “image” calls for, then I would be looking for a different line of work. I thought that Mayor Menino in Boston was hard to understand- but even he sounds crystal clear next to this Santana guy. Come on now, folks! PROPER English is still taught in schools- and most of your parents probably speak it. It isn’t that hard!
Randy, proper english may be the norm in your community, but not everyone is raised and immersed in a culture that speaks standard american english in their everyday life.
It’s unfortunate that you assume that anyone who doesn’t speak like Bill Cosby perpetuates that thug image. You may not believe they will pull a knife on you, but the mere fact that you even mentioned it tells me how quick you are to stereotype people.
And Manhunt, there you go again inciting hate with your hypocrisy. Dewitt’s commentaries are as idiotic and politically incorrect as the articles he finds suitable to print.
Honestly, I think they have it pretty much dead on. Speak like a thug, and you most likely are one. Stereotypes exist for a reason, people. It is highly disingenuous to claim that you have nothing against gay people while at the same time calling them “bitches” even only at third hand. If these people would like to be taken seriously, then they should learn to speak properly, comport themselves professionally, and learn basic manners.
Wow, people need to get out of their tree-lined suburban communities and educate themselves on urban life in the inner cities to help with their poor judgement of people. “Speak like a thug, and you are most likely one”? Wow, that is one hell of a generalization. I’m sure “these people” do just fine within and outside of their communities in being taken seriously. You need to get used to the fact that cultural diversity does not begin with Run, Dick, Run. Though I agree that english is a definite must in our curriculum, one should expect varying degrees of broken english for first-generation speakers…and often, that’s as good as it gets. If you can handle a southern drawl, you most certainly can accept the regional dialects in our very own backyard. As for learning basic manners, you should take a hard look at yourself first before chastising a group of people. That was very rude!
Yet if you were to call them a [INSERT “N” WORD HERE] in the context of meaning they are a slave to something (work, sex, drugs, coffee, whatever) they would take it as a derogatory, racial slur.
As opposed to when they say “gay” to mean when something is stupid, ignorant, or bitch-like.