Thursday, July 15, 2004

Mo' Pimping "I don't know what you heard about me...but I'm a motherfuckin' PIMP." No, 50, you ain't. You're a motherfuckin' pop icon, like Britney Spears and the Backstreet Boys. You make money from selling CD's and videos, and all the girls in Omaha think you're cute. Two more thoughts on pimping: 1) At my old job, there was a white guy who would drop the word in conversations. You'd wear something stylin' and he's say you were wearing "big pimpin' style, yo!" (Always, with the "yo.") I asked him to stop it because it was an insulting word. What pissed me off wasn't that he stopped because he saw my point. He stopped because he know I didn't want him to use it. He still saw nothing wrong with the word, but if I was going to get all upset... 2) The pimp caricature reduces black folks to just another cartoon character. Just like seeing the Atlanta Brave mascot as the synthesis of Native American identity, or the lowrider as the synthesis of Chicano identity, the pimp is the ultimate synthesis, the total definition of popular black identity. People can think "black people" and think Don "Magic" Juan, or Snoop Dogg, and never associate black folks with human beings. Read this for more: http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2004/07/15/pimps/index.html 8:00:49 AM    comment []

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