Snoop Dogg preserves the essential distinctions
[quoted by Alexander Cockburn in his Counterpunch column on the Imus
affair]
“It’s a completely different scenario. [Rappers] are not talking
about no collegiate basketball girls who have made it to the next
level in education and sports. We’re talking about ho’s that’s in the
‘hood that ain’t doing shit, that’s trying to get a nigga for his
money. These are two separate things. First of all, we ain’t no old-
ass white men that sit up on MSNBC going hard on black girls. We are
rappers that have these songs coming from our minds and our souls
that are relevant to what we feel. I will not let them muthafuckas
say we in the same league as him. Kick him off the air forever. Ban
him like they did ‘Pacman’ Jones. They kicked him out the [National
Football] League for the whole season [for numerous violations of the
NFL’s personal-conduct policy, including multiple arrests], but this
punk gets to get on the air and call black women ‘nappy-headed ho’s.’ “