Please use this commerical from "back in the day" as a reference to the pride and standards that used to be enforced WITHIN the Black community.
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Now please consider these two music videos which tell of some "drama" between a male and female in a relationship.
Which of these two videos are further beyond the admonition presented by the Frederick Douglass character in the AfroSheen commerical?
Appraisal Criteria:
Is what is CLAIMED to be the "most hateful word in America" used in the song. That word is "Nigger".
- Is the song profanity laced?
- Is the profanity that is used a part of the gimmick which makes the song popular?
- Which of the songs was nominated for a Grammy - thus enhancing its credibility?
- Which of the songs possess the Ignorant/Stereotypical/Degrading content that Black people used to say was attractive to the White people who hold the balance of the award panel - that we as a people should call them out for?
- Which of these songs would more likely appear in Spike Lee's "Bamboozled"?
Looking At The Front Door - Main Source - 1990
"Fuck You" Cee Lo - 2010

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