A ‘Ho’ By Any Other Color: The History and Economics of Black Female Sexual Exploitation
While white women’s sexuality is celebrated in movies and magazines, Black women acting out the same behavior are relegated to the ranks of whoredom.
Don Imus in his “apology” went on to say that the term “ho” didn’t originate in the white community, but rather in the Black community. As the term “ho” is a variation of the word “whore” (a word not foreign to the American lexicon and indeed has been used with great frequency in the white community), that assertion does not hold water. So once again, what is endemic in American society is viewed as a specific “Black” identifier or just a “Black thing.” That would be the equivalent of saying that the first person to call the television a TV undeniably invented it or the individual who first referred to the automobile as a car, now holds the patent to the creation. However, let it be understood, this truth does not excuse or exonerate sexist hip-hop from its shameful contribution to the debasement of women.
Very interesting article I think some of you guys might want to check out. Let me know what you think about it.
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the world is filled, wit pimps and hoes, and im just talkin bout those i know
this don imus dude is an asshole, he is a rascist on the really
100% accurate,period.
I laughed my ass off when Oprah asked Common and the rest “What efforts are you guys making in stopping the use of the B word in your music?”.Like,hold up,are you fuckin serious?Did we INVENT the B word?ELVIS muthafuckin Presley has a SONG with the B word in it,now what da fuck is she talkin bout?
If Don Imus would have called a car “a fly whip” this author would’ve had no problems admitting this originated in the Black community. There is no shame in inventing negative slang.
good article
dam blacks will make up anything to attack the white race… look at how some black guy came up wit the idea that “referees call more fouls against black players in the nba” give me a break the whole nba is black.. sad n makin the black race look worse
Who said it was a black guy that came up with the referee study?
All I’m saying is just because somebody invented the words before us, doesn’t mean we have to use them. If we use the word in prevalence, that we have to take some of the blame for it. No one forced us to turn these words negative and no one forced us to use them either.
There are bitches and hoes in every race, so I understand rapping about bitches and hoes such as Paris, Monica Lewensky or Karrine Steffens but those Rutgers women didn’t do anything to deserve that insult. They’re just basket ball players why call them out.
comment 6 fuck u mean blacks make up anything to attack the white race,the white race don’t have to make up anything to attack the black race cuz they do it openly,since slavery they brought blacks here,tellin them they aint shit,not human and stupid,and today majority of white people seem like they still got that mentality,y don’t u get off realtalk and go to country music site if we attackin too much
OK is a stupid asshole coz that NBA study was by white proffessors
obvious you know nothing about race relations
hey OK, u dickface, how u gonna come on a hip hop site and talk shit about black people? skinhead muthafucka u probably go to every site and look for something that says something negative about white people. mississippi burning came on last night and it was a roots marathon on last week. i really feel like fuckin u up right now
Despite what Snoop Dogg may say….We love them hoes.
Well I have to say it makes me SO mad when a black women is in a rap or R&B video basically looking beautiful and dancing, she is a video HO. But everytime I look on the internet, Kim Kardashian and Paris Hilton and the rest of the REAL HO’s are on the arms of our wealthy brothers like they are a prize and all of them have some type of sex tape and have screwed the entire industry…Now who is the HO!? Get it together black men!
alaright #14 that’s what i’m talking about tell em girl…they do need to get it together..they=black men..