RUSSELL SIMMONS: Pulling 'Trump' Card

1. Dont forget to include all of the white-jewish money who were like 75% owners of your company either. Lets keep it real. Suge Knight, Sean Combs, R.S. -all of these people arent the majority owners in their own companies. R.S. went on to own more of his own company but most blacks are the face and image. Like Magic Johnson doesnt own nearly as many things as blacks think he does. He is like about 20% owners of all his businesses while whites and Asians own the buld of his projects. keep it real black people.

Eric Dumaine at 9:47PM on Apr 13th 2007

2. Two of the great business minds combine their powers to make sense of this non-sense. Hip Hop and Don't Stop join forces to tell America, "All is well!" All is not well. We are being told a huge lie. We know that the forces of evil are being unleashed on America and the World and most of us can't make sense of what's happening. We must tell the truth and set America back on the course to do what is right. Self-interests have dominated our collective thought and we are headed for self-destruction. If war doesn't blow us up, then fighting fire with fire to win small racial battles will. We are being blackmailed. The truth will make us free. Donald listened to me about Miss USA. Russell Simmons may have heard my Hip Hop and political cable radio show. Give credit where credit is due.

Cecil Jones at 2:31AM on Apr 14th 2007

3. Hip-Hop is for Queers...no wonder Nappys love prison.

White Civil Rights Activist at 3:11PM on Apr 14th 2007

4. in response to "white civil rights activist" a.k.a. "white supremacist", If you can't make INTELLIGENT & WITTY remarks, don't comment at all. You didn't even bother to RELATE to the topic, why? Because your an ignoramus. Go join IMUS in the looney bin for racist losers.

lovely at 4:46PM on Apr 14th 2007

5. stay on topic.

russell simmons is always selling out hip-hop.
what the fizuck does trump have to do with the hip-hop generation?
you see how trump turned on puffy after the whole club new york shooting a few years back. why is russell mixing up with this racist fool.

chuck at 8:06PM on Apr 14th 2007

6. "The artist must elect to fight for freedom or slavery. I have made my choice. I had no alternative"-Paul Robeson

While I respect the success of Russell Simmons, I would point out that he is not hip-hop any more than the Beatles were rock and roll. Hip-Hop is the cultural expression of a generation. While certain aspects (the negative) are being marketed and sold for mass consumption, the true heart lies in those poets, rappers, singers and performers whose works are known but yet unknown. To them, it's about the message, not just "getting paper", worshipping criminal behavior and psuedo toughness posing as Black manhood. The true artist matures with time and experience. These so-called artists are stuck in arrested development;they remain in a permanent adolescence-when do adults refer to their home as a "crib"? Why are women refered to as "ho's" and "bitches"? and if indeed they were, who would want to associate with them? No, these are people who do not believe in their art, just it's exploitation.

Corporate America will continue to sell their brand of Hip-Hop until they find something else to sell to a gullible public. Even now, they're about to find a way to dump those rappers who are "obscene" when it was perfectly acceptable/profitable before. It is now incumbent on all Hip-Hop artists to it back before it is completely co-opted and turned into something that no one will recognize.

Angelo at 6:05PM on Apr 15th 2007

7. I am a 60 year old African American woman and although I feel Imus was totally wrong for his comment the response from some other blacks were more insulting. To feel that it is okay for the hip-hop culture to say these words are demeaning to the black race and especially black woman. Black woman have been on the bottom since they were brought here from Africa, etc. No other race of men denegrate their women as the black man. Instead of singing praises to the black woman some choose to make their living putting them down. I am more angry at the black man who does not treat their women as queens than at Imus. Some have stated that the white culture are the ones that buy most of the hip-hop that uses degrading terms is no excuse. This is just another way for white America to try to keep their control over the black woman by using the black man.
Years ago Queen Latifa wrote a song condemning call woman b... and h...
When black men start respecting the black woman maybe then white America will respect them also. They are mother, sisters and wives and it is very sad to think that that is the way black entainers view their women.

jean at 8:56PM on Apr 15th 2007

8. A lot of people dont know that the situation we R N now kums about because, the new world order of Zombies , N gov. have allowed homos 2 erode R Moral Authority as human B'ns they should B made 2 register as perverts just like any other Sexual Dysfunctional pervert... Stop let'n them Zombie caucazoids dictate 2 us what concepts and word play is or is not offensive 2 us.... Mumia Abus Dreadlocks is the illegal transaction that is go'n 2 get him killed on 8-17-07 and we spend'n all this tyme on Kinggoftheknuckleheadedcrackersandniggasplzzzz

Imam Kashif at 10:03PM on Apr 15th 2007

9. This is in response to Jean's comment. I'm just about tired of everyone pointing the blame on black men degrading black women. Although I'm not condoning the actions of black rap artists and hip hop artists, but they write about what they see and experience. If black women didn't give them a reason to call them such names then they wouldn't have anything to write about, thus eliminating the use of such words towards black women. If we as black women take a stand against being degraded then we wouldn't have this problem. There are many black women out there who are willing to be degraded in videos by displaying themselves half naked and shaking their butts, showing all of America a negative stereotype. There are many black women out there who display and act like the very words the artists are using to describe them. We as black women need to take a stand and teach each other self-worth and boost our self-esteem so that we will no longer be portrayed in such a negative light. I'm a huge fan of hip hop and I'm not offended at all by the use of those words because I know that they are not singing about me or referring to me because I do not conduct myself in such a manner. The black community needs to start taking responsibility for our own actions and stop giving the white folks a reason to attack us.

Proud black Woman at 11:50AM on Apr 16th 2007

10. Who can stop these powerful men, Donald Trump, and Russell Simmons? They both are wonderful inspirational men of what Dr. Martin L. King, Jr., wanted to see come together, so it has worked somewhat...

Good Luck Gentlemen, you have both sold me, LOL...
MrsSwissMocha

Jaokishaia at 3:36AM on Apr 17th 2007

11. Proud Black Woman..You should have been a guest panelist on Oprah.You have been the only one that I have heard say outright what I have been thinking and saying to anyone who would listen.I am disappointed that even though Oprah had this discussion forum on her show their was not one mention of black women also taking responsibility for some of their own actions that cause many black men to see them in such a negative light.I am also not condoning the behavoir I am saying it is unfair to blame all of it on hip-hop and the black man.Thank you once again.

Omega at 6:13PM on Apr 17th 2007

12. Omega, obviously u were not listening to the Oprah show correctly. People seem to have selective hearing when they don't like what they hear. Anyway, I respect Russell Simmons to the upmost (I'm a true hip hop fan), he's done a lot for hip hop. Let's face it, the music for the most part, has made a turn for the worst. Not everybody's reality is negative all the time, and if it is... sorry. Just know that there are positive ways to express anger, frustration and downpression. I'm a great mom, sister, wife and friend. RESPECT me. Please people pray more it does bring enlightenment... you'll SEE. Not that you'll read this, but good luck Russell! The whole world is watching... help revive TRUE hip hop, if you remember what that is.

Mamouche at 3:41AM on Apr 18th 2007

13.
One of the arguments that is being used by hip hop is that hip hop artists have to express themselves by calling their mothers sisters and black women negative names because they live in tough times.
Baloney, those who lived prior to this generation were able to express themselves, and succeed financially, without the use of vulgarity. Ever heard of the Smokey Robinson, the Supremes, Temptations, Marvin Gaye Gladys Knight, and 100's of others, Johnny Mathis, James Brown ?
And several hip hop artist are doing just fine without calling their mothers, and sisters these horrific names.
I see the problem as a moral breakdown, and a sell out for a few $, The bible ask this question What will it profit you to gain $$$$ the world, but lose your soul ?

lorenzo at 11:38AM on Apr 18th 2007

14. Keep It Real About Blacks With Power and Money. Russell May Be A Billionair On Paper, Cash NOT!. Look At The Corporation Set Up and I.R.S. Tax Documents. Any Person In Any Possition Earning $1,000.000.00 One Million Dollars - $10,000,000.00 Million Dollars per. Is NOT! Succesful and Certainly NOT! My Role Model or Mentor. Making This Per. Year For Twenty 20 Years Before Taxes and Your Home Ain't Paid For, The Cars Ain't Paid For, Property Tax Ain't Payed For, No Insurance On Their Homes, Cars or Life Insurance(Remember The Huricane In New Orleans, Their College Student Financial Aid NOT! Payed For, They Got Bad Credit, Can't Keep A Wife, Can't Pay Their Staff and Employees On Time...This Is NOT! Success...This Is Foolishnes, Non-Sence and Ignorance. Black Models USA Has Been In Business 9 Years, I Own The ONLY! Legally Licensed Black Owned Modeling Agency In America, I Own 13 U.S. Copyrights(I Write Books and Crate Magazines, I've Owned 3 Businesses Downtown New Haven Since 1976. I've Never Had A Loan or A Grant or A Set Aside or A Hand Up. I Worked Two 2 Full-Time Jobs Saved My Money and Opened Up Commercial Dusinesses Downtown New Haven ALL By My Self. No One Would Help Me!.

Willie WilliamsJr at 7:51AM on Apr 21st 2007

15. I am a 52 year old Black woman born in the Bahamas, even when I was a child, I never considered to be on the bottom, and I still feel that way, our thoughts are the product of our future and what life holds for us. We speak our situation to our future, and when I say that not one or anyone who thinks that they are better than me, I refuse to accept that. As for the rap music and the hip hop music that is out there in media today I am not a bitch or a whore, I am simply a Mother, Grand-Mother, Daughter, and most of all I am a Child of God. People are going to talk, and in this country, you have freedom of speech. When my son's was coming up I refuse to have them play that music in my home, because what they listen to it becomes a part of them and they have the utmost respect for women, and anyone. All this fussing and carrying on about what women are being called don't make any sence to me at all. If you know who you are then you shouldn't have a problem. There are more serious things such as babies going hungry, a war, and men and women committing adultry, men not providing food and shelter for their children, young children having babies, and the spread of Aids. What we need to do is come together as Christ would want us to do, and start helping that Mother who has so many children, and the elderly who's children has turned their backs on them, and don't have time for them, and most of all bringing prayers back into the schools. When you take man's law and desrespect God's law there can only be nothing but distruction. We live in one of the greatest country in the world, and we find the least important things to be concerned about, such as the stars and how much money they spend on their weddings, and so forth, we all are one wether we came here from another country or not, we are not responsible for where the Lord choose for us to be born, we are still all his children. So my brothers and sister out there be a blessing to someone along the way wether you know them or not and you too will be blessed.

Jareen at 8:24PM on Apr 21st 2007