Donahue - Indecency & Obscenity - feat. 2 Live Crew - circa 1990 - 1 of 4

In 1990, American Family Association and Jack Thompson, a lawyer affiliated with the AFA, met with Florida Governor Bob Martinez and convinced him to look into the rap group 2-Live Crew's "As Nasty as They Wanna Be" to see if it met the legal classification of obscene. In 1990 action was taken at the local level and Nick Navarro, Broward County sheriff, received a ruling from County Circuit Court judge Mel Grossman that probable cause for obscenity violations existed. In response, Luther Campbell maintained that people should focus on issues relating to hunger and poverty rather than on the lyrical content of their music.

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[tylerjaydavis]

wow lol they need to gtf over themselves ik this was 1990 but hey, it's kinda funny because what's considered acceptable today wouldve gotten charges on it back then?

[Chuloloc]

@choice2099 Yeah, very much. If these warriors wouldn't of fought and won, we wouldn't of had the freedons we have today and things would be more difficult. Also, through exposing the fascist nature of these convervative clowns, they had a difficualt time successing in the political elections no less having a successful political career.

[choice2099]

@Chuloloc To think this was over 20 years ago, and this was considered as obscene as it gets. Times change huh?

[Chuloloc]

@Chuloloc in this country. It's time to expose these rats for who they really are. Hail human freedom and human rights.

[Chuloloc]

Awesome. Interesting video. First, great collection of artists, hail to Mike from Suicidal Tendencies and RIP, Wendy O Williams. Second, some parts of this episode have been used on the 2 Live Crew song Banned In The USA. Third, notice that those convervative clowns at the end of the video used the issue of moral correctness and false assumptions of potential moral decline as a reason to maintain their postion of control. This is how the convervative right have maintained their influence in

[MSoulPoet]

Phil Donahue was the best. He could be pompous and condescending, but he actually took issues seriously. Now the only shows that address things like this are on PBS.

[skronnyrotten]

the whole state of Canada!...LOL/

[MichaelHansenFUN]

luther is right and jack is WRONG!!!

[ikeatl1]

Been looking for this footage for a while too.

[aaronamccoy]

dang, i been looking for this forever, i seen this the day it was shown on tv but never was able to watch it again, thanks