Rap star Common's White House controversy

Michelle Obama and the White House are facing criticism from the likes of Sarah Palin and Sean Hannity after inviting rap star Common to a poetry event. CBSNews.com's Ken Lombardi reports.

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[shank187dta]

@A86: First, disregard my previous comment. Secondly, I want to apologize to you for the Republican comment. It appears I replied to the wrong person. What's up with that yabruf character? Please excuse the caps here, as I am talking to yabruf... HOW DO BLACKS CLAIM THAT EVERYTHING THAT IS SAID OR DONE BY WHITES IS RACIST, WITH COMMENTS LIKE THE ONES YOU MAKE? I WOULD LIKE TO POINT OUT TO YOU THAT, WHILE THERE STILL EXIST SOME WHITE RACISTS, THE MAJORITY OF RACISTS IN TODAY'S CULTURE ARE BLACK.

[RonQE]

@ShellB12 Bullshit. Whites have MORE reason to be upset with the BLACKS, today!

Forget the DEAD whites who brought DEAD blacks here. That time is DEAD.

You are so full of it about the cops. Cops have to be very careful how they treat blacks, these days, because of all the noise about it.

The last thing we need is some idiot rapper grunting near-illiterate "poetry", when this same rapper has been clearly anti-white, anti-USA and anti-government.

It's not about politics for most.

[xXDANKNUGGETZXx]

the shittiest part about it is tht she hasnt paid her rent for 2 months but she can re-up so she can be a fucking worthless piece of shit crack whore spook!!!FUCK NIGGERS!!! I SAY THT WITH FUCKING PASSION!!!!

[xXDANKNUGGETZXx]

i went into this corner store i usta go into all time as a child..anyways i lost the 2 bucks i had for some candy..so i asked this nigger that was renting from my mom to spare 1 fuckin dollar..and she gives me this snotty lookin smerk but still gave me the dollar but while she was getting it outta here purse i see a legit rubberband roll of benjamins and i knew she was on welfare!!!

[xXDANKNUGGETZXx]

let me solve this right now!!! alright 1st of all niggers are worthless pieces of shit tht rob the government and the people of america tht actually get off the lazy fuckin asses and get jobs!!!welfare is a fuckin joke..people work so hard to make a living in this shitty economy for wat?? to pay for some niggers breakfast,lunch+dinner thts bullshit!!!the other day i went down to my old neighborhood which looks like a land fill now!!(i wonder why?)

[RonQE]

@DJCW More of your pointless insults? They fall flat.

As for what non-mainstream hip-hop is, why does it matter? What matters is what is mostly played, and what is out there in the media, or blasted by ghetto-types on the streets. That is the "voice" that many black people are giving to themselves, by rap, not the obscure, perhaps more artistic flavors.

You wrote "before YOU [meaning me] understood what a modem was". Oh? I used modems, albeit slow, in the 70s.

[DJCW]

@RonQE Trollolololol, you don't know anything about being black or Hip Hop, so your rhetoric and opinions are like assholes. You've got one but it's full of shit.

If you really want to know why Hip Hop? try watching Hip Hop documentaries, also reading books written by artists, listening to the poets I mentioned before.

Also the truth I was speaking of refers to Commonsense writing poetry before the internet/modem. So yes it's true.. As I said "don't mince my words"

[RonQE]

@DJCW (cot'd)

As for your generalizations, those situations are far more complex than simple race, in some cases have little to do with "race", and in others are distant past that no one even disagrees with.

The difference is that few white people want to call the KKK and Nazis as an identification with "being white". So why do so many blacks want to claim the worst aspects of their culture as a matter of "black voice/identity"?

[RonQE]

@DJCW Just calling something the "truth" neither makes is less an insult, OR the truth.

I was referring to the comment where you called my assertions "short sighted" and "rather naive". At best, that's your OPINION. Truth? I don't think so.

Same as your attempt to dismiss my comments about being black or hip hop. One needn't be an expert on hip hop to know certain things about it, and what is normally played.

Funny, that you capitalize "black" and not "white". That says a lot.

[DJCW]

@RonQE Insults? What I wrote is truth.

You think you can generalise Rap because you (may have) read one black poets thoughts which just happened to make the news.You simply have no credibility on the subject of being Black or Hip Hop, so your opinions are worthless.

Speaking of aspects, I could generalise about white democracy/history, whitewashes, wars, racist narcissism which has left obliterated infrastructures, devastates entire countries and millions DEAD!!!

[RonQE]

@DJCW Voice of, or "last" voice of, it's still the same issue; why would a majority of black people elect RAP to be their "voice"?

Seems to me leaving violence, illiteracy and crime back in the ghetto and the past would be the best idea, instead of promoting the worst aspects of every black stereotype?

As for your insults, they fall short.

[DJCW]

@RonQE Yet suburbia is swallow the bitter like candy...So it really doesn't matter what you or I think!! Does it?