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'O' must stand for Opportunist

'O' must stand for OPPORTUNIST!
Virtues: Opportunist, ignorance, deflection, redirection, scapegoat

The other day I caught a portion of the Oprah show (which I don't watch on a regular basis) and I saw Russell Simmons, Common and some other people talking about the state of hip-hop. Of course, this is all in relation to the whole Don Imus fiasco, which incidently, Don Imus is not a racist because of Hip-Hop and black culture. I don't know how the light has been re-directed to hip-hop in this whole situation, but I guess we can account that to 'spinning' the story or deflecting attention from the true events.

But, I don't want to really lament on Imus, my focus is Oprah, and I just have a brief assessment - in all of her thousands of shows, Oprah never ONCE did a show regarding hip-hop culture. She voices her displeasure to the genre (which i'm not hating), but she could have had open discussions on the state of hip-hop many years ago ... I find it interesting that it takes Don Imus and a racist statement (that has nothing to do with hip-hop) for Oprah to have a 2-part series on the state of hip-hop .... sounds like an opportunist to me ... or I guess a "money grubbin driving by advertising hoe"

Check out these very, very intelligent quotes by Snoop Dogg - I couldn't have put it any better myself:

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Labels: oprah imus hiphop ignorance russell simmons common

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