Black Leader Protests Against BET, MTV
for Airing Explicit Content

Jim Brown - OneNewsNow
4/12/2008 6:15:00 AM

A young black pastor from Maryland is leading a campaign against "the marketing and distribution of soft pornographic themes to children and youth" by Black Entertainment Television and MTV.

Every Saturday, Pastor Delman Coates leads rallies outside the residences of the CEOs of Black Entertainment Television (BET) and Viacom to protest the profane and sexually explicit content permeating rap videos on BET and MTV. Coates was recently in Washington, DC, to discuss a new report analyzing daytime music video programming on the two networks. The Enough is Enough Campaign -- a group Coates founded -- commissioned the report.

According to Coates, the Campaign is not about censorship or anti-hip-hop, but rather an effort to hold corporate executives and advertisers accountable for promoting offensive content to young people.

"Other people in the popular culture who've been vilified, Don Imus for example, many people in the black community would be protesting, we'd be challenging it," he explains. "And I became convinced that as a people, as a community, we have to be consistent in our outrage."

Pastor Coates believes that if it is unacceptable for white men to degrade black women, it should be equally unacceptable for black men to do the same.

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All I have to say is;
Finally.




P.S. The title of this article is some lyrics taken from a Hip Hop song called "Grippin."

P.S.S. Mods - I am sorry for the "a**" I forgot to censor it!

Lonnie Courtney Clay

OOrah!!!
This is exactly what the black communities need. A man to restore their dignity.

YES!!! Make MTV show Music Videos again. And this will help un-crap up pop music as well!

Originally Posted by the_13th_redneck

OOrah!!!
This is exactly what the black communities need. A man to restore their dignity.

ha, yes it is.

Originally Posted by the_13th_redneck

OOrah!!!
This is exactly what the black communities need. A man to restore their dignity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Powell
Colin Powell is definitely a better choice for first black president than O-bam-a.

Lonnie Courtney Clay

I hate anything that denigrates women, so this approach is very welcome.

Originally Posted by claylc

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Powell
Colin Powell is definitely a better choice for first black president than O-bam-a.

Lonnie Courtney Clay

I would vote for either one of them, but the Republicans have already used Powell as a scapegoat on their little war, so he's out.

wow, yea he is!