Joe Camel Helping Race Relations…How?

Posted on March 12th, 2009 - By Bossip Staff

Categories: F*ck a Thug, Jay-Z, News, Snoop Dogg, True or False?

Posted by Bossip Staff

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Pink shirted, smiling, and with “white friends”; Jay-Z was spotted leaving the Robin Thicke Birthday Party at the Waverly Inn. In a recent interview Hov said that race relations going so well in America are largely credited to him and Snoop:

JAY-Z has credited hip-hop with improving race relations across America – because white kids who idolize him and SNOOP DOGG don’t become racists….… The rapper insists there’s too much negativity about the musical genre and its related culture – and few dwell on the good it’s done. He explains, “It has changed America immensely… Hip-hop has done more than any leader, politician, or anyone to improve race relations. “Racism is taught in the home… and it’s very hard to teach racism to a teenager who idolises, say, Snoop Dogg. It’s hard to say, ‘That guy is less than you.’ The kid is like, ‘I like that guy, he’s cool. How is he less than me?’ “That’s why this generation is the least racist generation ever. You see it all the time. Go to any club. People are intermingling, hanging out, enjoying the same music.”

Hov has a valid point. Now, if we can shake the thug mentality that plagues our men, we will continue to progress.

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  • Ermy Erm (Yeah I said it!)

    LMAO @ Joe Camel…yall DEAD WRONG

  • O no Its Misty Babyyy

    I DONT KNW WAT IT IS BUT I DIG HIM…ALOT..AND HE SO NOT CUTE SO I JUST DONT GET IT

  • Erykah

    ?????WHAT????? So now he is an ambassador for the U.N.?????? Stupid!!!!

  • PURPPLE, just call me TADOW

    blah blah blah, wtf does he have on….

  • Scoobie

    LMBAO @ Pink shirted, smiling, and with “white friends”

  • Colonel Stinkmeaner

    …..no shit-sherlock…..and don’t forget…..you have good rapping skills due to Jaz-O………

  • Sickofitt!

    Yeah he may have a point but rap music gets a big fat F for degrading women, the black male sterotype, the treatment a women….etc

  • http://dicooper.spaces.live.com/ DICooper

    @ Sickofitt

    You are so right, but it is the Gift and the Curse.

  • Luv-Lee

    Look at his jeans!! I can officially say that he is the first one. Now lets see how many people jump on it.

  • Luv-Lee

    Jigga should work out. I think he would look a little more appealing. Not that I think he is the ugliest man on the planet , Im just saying…

  • c from stl

    He’s right….and…..all at the expense of our image in society….thanks jigga….

  • kahmmillion

    Shut your camel face up and get a damn comb or cut the shit…How dear you do to a damn b-day party looking homeless..SMH

    FYI: Jay-Z…they are still racist….it was only different back in the day because they let you know it….now a days…they are what I call “closet racists”…they hate blacks but are scared to say it because it’s not politically correct.

  • jswang

    He has a point.

  • Lady J

    I must say, I agree with his statement…Living in a town with mostly whites; it is funny to ride up alongside a car that’s booming with hip hop music only to see 2 white males or all white females in a car bobbing their heads & singing to the music word for word….yes, hip hop has bridged cultures and we still have a lot more to go…

  • Roni

    I wish I could agree with Jay Z. But I can’t. I was raised in Birmingham and I can’t tell you how many times I’ve experienced little white kids that idolize Snoop and then use the N word or acknowledge that they think people of color are less than… Unfortuanately, they see celebrities as the exception not the rule…Breaks my heart…Baby steps I guess…

  • Avatar

    I can’t imagine the reason for that stain on his jeans.

  • Swag-a-licious

    I see his jeans are getting tighter and tighter…he will be in skinny jeans too in a minute…I wonder if his money will actually fit in his jeans.

  • THISISME

    Can we all say, “BULL CRAP!!!”

  • Swag-a-licious

    I work in an all-white office and I agree that many people enjoy hip-hop..

    But you know what’s funny ladies….it’s hard to find a white girl that like Beyonce….I wonder why??

  • UNVME is waiting for Spring to hurrup!

    What?

    Morning Colonel, jb.

  • jb_1030 (No Amber Rose shoes this month)

    What’s up UNVME

  • Luv-Lee

    Baggy jeans are played but white people still rock it. You know how they dont let ish go.

  • Luv-Lee

    The shirt shoulda matched the stain..woulda look a little better…they dont like to match in hollyweird…they call it too matchy-matchy

  • yeah ok

    beyonce is the s*** which bother some of the white girls in my office too.
    but I don’t think rap music was the cause of white american think bad of black people. Hell that was something they thought since we came off the boat. Hip hop may not be perfect but it is a brand, business, style all in it self. as black people we are educated, enterprises, self made, self taught. as well as enterainers. plenty of us work in corp. america and in many other part of life to take care of our families. No race is perfect. But we have come a long way. The assignation of the african america race has been going on for a long time. We will make progress once we see HOW FAR WE NEED TO GO.

  • UNVME is waiting for Spring to hurrup!

    jb

    is that you with the joker hat? Cute!

  • Colonel Stinkmeaner

    @Roni

    You in the Ham?

  • http://bossip tiababy09

    I THINK I HATE HIM MORE THAN I HATE DIDDY.

  • And…

    Like I said…try that ish in the office.

    Aint nothing.

    Jim Carey, Justin Timberlake, Gwenyth, Ashton and all the rest of them don’t speak for everybody.

    Stop.

    Walk your @ss in an office with that…

    Sometimes celebs have good intentions but man do they come off wrong and bad.

  • sexi

    how stupid. they still will become racists. just because they enjoy the music, that doesnt make them become smarter and more tolerant.

  • jb_1030 (No Amber Rose shoes this month)

    jb

    is that you with the joker hat? Cute!

    Yep that’s me.

  • jb_1030 (No Amber Rose shoes this month)

    Baggy jeans are played but white people still rock it. You know how they dont let ish go.
    ___________________________________________________

    But when white kids do it, oh they are just skaters, but when blacks do it they are thugs.

  • stunnaz

    dats a dumb comment jay made….i mean just because u like music from black people does not necessarily make u a person who is not racist.

  • And…

    When is thinking Snoop or Jay-Z as cool the standard for good race relations?

    Lord help us…

  • UNVME is waiting for Spring to hurrup!

    Pimpin Pimpin Pimpin.
    You know you want some of that chocolate!

    @ jb,

    You are so right. Double Standards!

  • Colonel Stinkmeaner

    UNVME

    Whats good!!!!!!!

  • Colonel Stinkmeaner

    …here we go with the baggy jean-skinny jean beef……….skinny jeans are homo……..if you can see your key-print in your front pocket…..thats wack…..

  • trying to understand why i read this sh….

    Have a gimmick and America will let you get rich but they won’t let you forget you’re not white…sorry man, you fail.

  • Pimpin Willie Dynamite Supertight (Loafer Game Is Flu)

    @UNVME is waiting for Spring to hurrup!

    Pimpin Pimpin Pimpin.
    You know you want some of that chocolate!

    I do, but I gots to fight off the lust! that girl wants to take me out the game!

  • Pimpin Willie Dynamite Supertight (Loafer Game Is Flu)

    @Colonel Stinkmeaner

    …here we go with the baggy jean-skinny jean beef……….skinny jeans are homo……..if you can see your key-print in your front pocket…..thats wack…..

    2 words pimp: Relaxed Fit! not too baggy, not too tight, hang just right, never go out of style… Let us move on!

  • UNVME is waiting for Spring to hurrup!

    Colonel Stinkmeaner

    …here we go with the baggy jean-skinny jean beef……….skinny jeans are homo……..if you can see your key-print in your front pocket…..thats wack…..

    ——-

    A man should EVER IN LIFE be in skinny jeans. Even if he is gay!

  • Bajansparkle

    Those shoes are damn ugly!!

  • Swag-a-licious

    @yeah right….so true!

    @jb & UNVE
    The true double standard is with supporting black women…..

    white girls & boys do love hip hop acts like Jay and Snoop….but white girls & boys do not support Beyonce, Ciara, Jazmine not even Mary J for real….

    So they are not accepting the culture..(I had to tell some of my white friends this)because if you don’t accept R&B, you don’t accept hip hop they are more and more becoming one…

    What they are doing is exploiting the negativity in the music and using it as a form of rebellion!!

  • UNVME is waiting for Spring to hurrup!

    Colonel,

    How’s the weather there?

  • Swag-a-licious

    Good morning Aunt Viv! LMAO @ your comment!!! House of Dereon..bwawawawaah!!

  • UNVME is waiting for Spring to hurrup!

    Aunt Viv

    Are those House of Dereon jeans Hov? They sho’ is ugly. Please don’t wear them again.

    ——
    They look like it! Gahbage!

  • jb_1030 (No Amber Rose shoes this month)

    A man should EVER IN LIFE be in skinny jeans. Even if he is gay!
    -___________________________________________________

    Please tell this to Ms Thang down in the ATL

  • Colonel Stinkmeaner

    @UNVME

    It’s WACK!!! The tmep dropped to like 39 this morning with a high in the 50′s………….

  • Aunt Viv

    @ Swag and UNVME,
    Honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if we see this monstrosity of denim in stores this spring :(

  • Marsha..

    Music has “brought the races together” in this country since before this place was caled America.

    Black folks has/have been entertaining white folks for 200 + years..

    THIS IS NOTHING NEW..
    In Memory of Fiddler…

  • Colonel Stinkmeaner

    @Hello
    …..what if I don’t want to……..

  • Marsha..

    ^^^****called****^^^

  • http://bossip MY BAAD

    WHADDUPPP EVERYBODY!!!!!!!!!

    jb
    stink stink
    luv lee
    kahmillz
    c from

    LMAO @ JOE CAMEL’s everything!!!!!

  • jb_1030 (No Amber Rose shoes this month)

    White girls don’t like Beyonce because she reminds them of what they don’t got…

    1) Natural skin tone

    2) The donk (no implants)

    3) The Dance moves -Brittnay can’t even come close

  • Suga

    AND . . . . all white ppl LOVE to see black people shuck and jive. this is nothing new. Camel you are dillusionional

  • Robert

    I agree! Rap has done better at getting people to talk with each other then anything else. You have to thank not just rappers, but MTV, BET, VH1 and others for that.

  • jb_1030 (No Amber Rose shoes this month)

    Goot Mornting My Badd. What’s giong on?

  • EGda GOD

    He’s with Richie Akiva, co-owner of Butter and 1Oak in NYC…, Richie is friends with all the rappers, Jay and Diddy are good friends with this dude and he’s not white..he’s “other”.

  • Colonel Stinkmeaner

    @MY BAAD

    Waddup!!!!!!

  • rashoda

    joe camel thats messed up. lolz

  • Colonel Stinkmeaner

    I agree! Rap has done better at getting people to talk with each other then anything else. You have to thank not just rappers, but MTV, BET, VH1 and others for that
    ______________________________________________________________________________________________
    …it has also been the cause of deaths, domestic violence, THC inhalation, 40 ounces, gold teeth, spinning rims, throwback jerseys, and skinny jeans…….it has it’s pro’s and con’s………..

  • Usher’s ex DON’T hate he is fugly now

    Well it is good that at least the change in attitudes of today is actually noted

    but…..

    why do you decide to say something now after all the dirt flying in your wife’s direction
    she done did had to near enough scrap the bottom of a very deep barrel and found her own scummy attitude first before you spoke she went as low as her nature could carry her (towards me)….question? do you even love her, anymore?
    i guess she deciding to have your child would change all that
    but it begs the question and another point to be made, yall helpt racism alright and forgot about yall women talk about sexism, the obvious ignorance to the topics make your whole point NULL and VOID

  • Colonel Stinkmeaner

    ……and Mutha-FLUCK BET……..no more Rap City in the bassment………

  • love jay-z

    I love Jay-z!! Stop hating on my boy. He’s dope and looks so cute.

  • AWWWWWWWWWWWWSHADDAAAAAP!!!!

    Well, I’m glad he solved that problem. Now we can all go home.

  • And…

    Jay-Z would think that…

    His music & mainstream success nabbed him a white wife.

  • MrsT_n_DC

    Celebrities (i.e., Michael Jordan and Oprah) and other rich/popular folks can in a sense transcend their Blackness as far as the predominant society is concerned. The perceived level of acceptance is based on their class ($$$). Hip hop may have started the conversation, but racism is still alive and kicking. I am sure that the white kids involved in Jena 6 like hip hop, too.

  • UNVME is waiting for Spring to hurrup!

    …it has also been the cause of deaths, domestic violence, THC inhalation, 40 ounces, gold teeth, spinning rims, throwback jerseys, and skinny jeans…….it has it’s pro’s and con’s………..
    ——-

    Skinny Jeans too, Colonel? LOL

  • Get a Life People!

    Jay Z shut up and stop trying to be political! U ARE NOT GETTING A JOB IN THE WHITE HOUSE! STOP TRYING TO SNIFF OBAMA’S BALLS!

    The ninja swear he is so intelligent and important!
    Boy buy!

  • Get a Life People!

    OMG! And…you are so right for your white wife statement! LOL

  • UNVME is waiting for Spring to hurrup!

    Hey Mild!

  • Colonel Stinkmeaner

    @UNVME

    Yes…….skinny jeans is Rap’s fault…….

  • Colonel Stinkmeaner

    Waddup Mild

  • And…

    @ Get a life…

    Lol, I didn’t realize I said that until I said it.

    Jay is married to a white woman. I’ve been saying it for a while now.

    Another thing, why do these people want to please white people so much?

    WHYYYYYYYYY????? WHYYY???

  • hope4more

    white kids were dancing and listening to the Philly and Motown sound long before rap, what the hell is Jay-Z talking about?

  • UNVME is waiting for Spring to hurrup!

    @ Mild

    Fabulous! *passing you a bottle of water and wiping your foreheard*

  • http://signoftimes@msn.org mild sauce part of the sauce family tradition

    I can understand what HOV is saying, its true white folks have always enjoyed our music and copied it too> Music and dance moves, hell Ike Turner said one time back in his day they caught Elvis Presley sending one of his honchos in to crawl on the floor of Ike’s show to copy his sounds and moves! He copied jackie Wilsons moves Elvis P pelvic thrusts and moves were just like jackie Wilson!!

  • Usher’s ex DON’T hate he is fugly now

    wait a minute did he inform his wife of the bad news as the most famous black woman on the planet what message does that transcend to white racist should not have told her that it is okay to be black now rather than white……
    japanese
    chinese
    spanish(wishing she was born that way)

    he has a race problem on his arms to fix first before talking to his/her fans
    get it together mofo… you are talking hypocrisy

  • http://signoftimes@msn.org mild sauce part of the sauce family tradition

    UNVME.. Thanks ma for the water.. ole mild is cool now, cause they aint gonna be tearing my girl Bey down! not when i look and see these no talented folks like Britney and that other skank Madonna, plus we all know Ciara can dance but the white girls be rocking to her but let Snoop and Jay z come out , they go crazy!!!

  • http://www.k.com noelle

    What can I say that hasn’t been said…? Good Morning love!!! :)

  • And…

    @ Mild Sauce…

    LOL!!!!

    Don’t forget that damned Tyra squat she does.

    *Are you my cousin?

  • UNVME is waiting for Spring to hurrup!

    @ Mild

    What a world we live in, huh?

  • HF

    BTW Jigga:

    Consider that the overwhelming majority of rap music consumers today r WHITE KIDS:

    Albums by Talib Kweli, KRS-1, Common, The Roots, DON’T SELL.

    Lil’ Wayne had the top seller last year with his sizzurp songs.

    Who’s buying? And how is this furthering perceptions of black people?

  • http://signoftimes@msn.org mild sauce part of the sauce family tradition

    AND!!! LOL you crazy.. you may be my kin-folk, hey wait you aint one of my co-workers cause they be on here too, thats why imma about to do some work, you know when the cats away the mouse will play!!! Mild thinks somebody on this job is snitching because they be monitoring our work more now!!

  • Swag-a-licious

    Tell ‘em Shaka!!! and Sauce you get the “break down” award for the day!!

  • http://signoftimes@msn.org mild sauce part of the sauce family tradition

    Hey fam… later! mild better do some work around this place!! Snitches are among us!!

  • Colonel Stinkmeaner

    …..nogaimaiwa……..

  • And…

    @ Mild…

    Nah, THEY be in here on Perez Hilton.

    If you know who I’m speaking of…

    So serious, one confessed in a meeting that she be on it and if it wasn’t allowed she would like permission to browse it on her 15′s and or lunch break.

    -Silence…

  • Swag-a-licious

    @And..

    I agree with white people on that…I love me some Oprah!!! And she has done more for race relations than rap music

  • http://signoftimes@msn.org mild sauce part of the sauce family tradition

    Thanks swag! and i wanna thank my mama, and all my fellow fans who helped mild win this award.. bless you! bless you!!! Mild will take this award home and put it on the mantle piece!!!

  • NIKKI UNDERWOOD

    Hmmmm………

  • UNVME is waiting for Spring to hurrup!

    And…

    @ Mild…

    Nah, THEY be in here on Perez Hilton.

    If you know who I’m speaking of…

    So serious, one confessed in a meeting that she be on it and if it wasn’t allowed she would like permission to browse it on her 15’s and or lunch break.

    -Silence…

    _____

    Wow! Is she suicidal behind Perez? She probably has an I ♥ Perez t-shirt.

  • Blue

    Joel Camel? I’m weak! LOL!!!!

  • Lisa Vee

    Jay-Z needs a bodyguard/barber with him at ALL times!

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  • GGooDie

    OMG!! No this nicca just did not.

    Race Relations are improving because of him.

    Damn this celebrity steez has to stop.

    Just because you made an album and some white folks bought it…does not mean you have improved race relations.

    This is so funny.

  • uhhhh

    that’s funny, why did he retire a few years back then LOL? Then he decided to come out of retirement, i guess he thought he the world was getting racist again so he had to put out another album lmao ! He has a huge ego, get real jay-z, you are an ex-drug dealer who got lucky, you have no education, you are talented though ill give you that, but mannnn you didn’t do a thing for race relations !

  • And…

    @ Jay…

    I bet you or TyTy is reading this…maybe Beyonce is scanning comments for you in between her home schooling.

    Keep your mouth shut with your btch voice.

    Oh you can go to school but you can’t buy class?

    Now to you:

    You can be a part of history and still not make history.

    Get over yourself.

    *It’s ya’ll fault…all that swagger and handsome talk. Got too big for his britches.

  • And…

    @ And…..(with 5 dots)

    LOL @ you.

    “…which it is, has nothing to do with his nappy headed ass.”

    You know folk get touchy when they call somebody nappy headed. That’s the last word.

    Tell em why you mad.

  • tg

    AT least not to his face – they are not racist. But have any invited him home for dinner. LOL

  • SHAY

    THANK JAY FOR SAYING THE SAME THING ICE CUBE RUSSEL SIMMONS AND THE REST OF THE OLD HIP HOP HEADS HAVE SAID FOR THE LAST TEN YEARS

  • Daisy

    HIP HOP HAS DONE NOTHING, WHITES ALWAYS LISTED TO BLACK MUSIC EVEN WHEN THEY DIDNT LIKE BLACKS BECAUSE IT WAS SOULFUL. BLACK ARTIST COULD NOT WALK THROUGH THE FRONT DOOR, AND AFTER PERFORMANCES MOST OF THE TIME THEY GAVE STANDING OVATIONS….BUT WE COULDNT ENTER THE SAME WAY. SAMMY DAVIS JR USE TO HAVE TO ENTER THE BACK AND THE RAT PACK WOULD ENTER THROUGH THE FRONT, IF THEY CARED ABOUT SAMMY OR BLACKS THEY WOULD HAVE ENTERED THROUGH THE BACK AS WELL BUT THEY DIDNT. JAY Z HAS NERVES BECAUSE HE MINGLES WITH THOSE JEWISH MEN WHO GIVE HIM MONEY (ROTHSCHILDS/ROCKERFELLER) FOR DUMBING BLACKS DOWN WITH HIS MUSIC, JAY ONLY RAPS ABOUT DRUGS AND THATS WHERE THEY WANT TO KEEP HIM.

  • Kigali (Birth control until marriage)

    @tj,

    Are you sure about white celebreties having to e attractive? Sarah Jessic Parker was just voted the least sexist woman in Hollywood and she is very successful. Look at Renee Zellwegger? White female celebreties dont have to be that cute to be successful.

  • Kigali (Birth control until marriage)

    @mild Sauce,

    If white chicks didnt support Beyounce she wouldnt be as popular as she is. It wouldnt be possible. When she goes on tour in Europe who do you think she is performing for? There arent enough minorities to sell out her stadiums in Europe. Youre just plain stupid.

  • http://signoftimes@msn.org mild sauce part of the sauce family tradition

    @ Kigali.. I dont agree with the white woman skin tone theory. If their skin tone was so natural, why doesnt it hold up like brown skin, and if it was so natural why do they feel the need to get a tan to be brown and the end up with skin cancer. Thats not the way of naturalness. Beyonce shouldnt be compared to Eastern dancers, its two different ways of dancing and im sure bey could dance that way also! lay off my Bey please!! You can have your white owmen and ill keep my beautiful black sistas! I dont like skin where you can see all my veins and and redness and eveything that is wrong on and in my body!

  • http://www.myspace.com/ocky_j Octavia

    Im tired of the idea that listening to rap or dating black people or having black friends means someone can’t be racist. Why not? There are plenty of whites who think blacks are fine for entertainment, to party with, or sleep with, BUT would be pissed if their black co-worker were promoted over them or if a black family bought the nicest house on their block.

    Hell, there are PLENTY of flat-out wiggers who are mad that black people are in the white house.

  • http://signoftimes@msn.org mild sauce part of the sauce family tradition

    @ Kigali.. I addressed you as a man so you take stop the name calling! did i call you stupid for your opinion ? Hell no, so quit the name calling.. i know white women love beyonce’s performance and a lot of black chicks hate on her.. but after the name calling i will not address you again1 We can agree to disagree with out the name calling! You keep your opinion and i will keep mine!

  • Kigali (Birth control until marriage)

    @mild sauce,

    If white people cant be funny, who does all the writing for these comedy shows? Who writes with all these black commedians? You know all the Norman Lear shows, Sanford and Son, the Jeffersons, Good Times, were all written by white folks or actually Jews. And all those shows were taken from shows that originated in the United Kingdom.

    Youre ignorant.

  • http://signoftimes@msn.org mild sauce part of the sauce family tradition

    Octavia.. you are right and i even know a white woman who dated a black man for years , slept with him and all but when her daughters grew up to want to date black men she had a fit. Plus she is now married to a rich white man and both her daughters have mixed kids but her white hubby wont let them bring the mixed kids in his house so she goes to their house to see her own grandkids!! How racist is that after sleeping with a black man for years!!!

  • Kigali (Birth control until marriage)

    @mild sauce,

    I am not a man. But thanks for assuming I was. It means I am talking sense. :)

  • Eric

    A bit true Hov. I’ve been saying that since MC Hammer was at the top of the Billboard Charts. It has always ben this way…that was problably Bob Marley’s main goal…but Hip Hop is knocking down the door that Bob Marley and the Tempatations knocked at years ago.

    We still have a long way to go…don’t be blinded because Obama is the President.

  • Kigali (Birth control until marriage)

    @Octavia,

    Yes and there are plenty of black females who are mad that white women are scooping up rich black men. Look in the mirror honey and pray it dont break.

  • http://signoftimes@msn.org mild sauce part of the sauce family tradition

    man woman .. whatever.. bye kigali.. i have stopped talking with you!!

  • http://signoftimes@msn.org mild sauce part of the sauce family tradition

    Octavia.. actually i clicked on your picture and you are a nice looking lady.. keep up the good looks1!!

  • Kigali (Birth control until marriage)

    Vlad the Russian is a racist sleeping with his black trick. Thanks for clearing that up guys.

  • TheGoodGood

    He is right!

  • http://signoftimes@msn.org mild sauce part of the sauce family tradition

    AND… Who are you talking about with the Perez Hilton thing?????

  • http://www.freewebs.com/bestsexever Christy

    Jay-Z 2012… just wait..

  • Daisy

    only fools and classless people would think he is right. Travel to the south to a white racist town and let me know what happens, or go to where the Jena 6 were and tell me if hip hop helped them.

  • His Shoe Game is Tight

    I want a pair of those shoes Jay-Z has on

  • Blaq

    Racism will continue to exist, although hip hop has generated enough money, influenced all of popular culture and made significant advancement in race relations. The difference with hip hop is the fact they were able to use the capital generated from record sales and concerts to create corporations. The color white people are most concerned with is green. Moreover hip hop was the first generation of black music where we were not trying to impress white people not trying to assimilate, when you accept yourself others don’t have a choice but to accept you as well.

  • Original Ras

    Jay is corny, and arrogant.
    Are he and Snoop the highest grossing rappers in America?
    If you’re going to make that statement say,
    You can partially credit the decline of racism in the US to HIP-HOP.

  • black man

    why are people in here acting like they want intermingling when they are the first people to hate on interracial love
    SmH

  • Razzell Dazzell

    Stay in school people…ignorance is bliss!

  • Sharice

    Funny thing is, that outfit probably costed a $1,000 or more. When you are rich, you can dress like that.

  • CREEPER

    JAY-Z

    CHRIS BROWN DISS TRACK

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    MYSPACE.COM/THE804CLIQUE

    CHRIS BROWN DISS TRACK

  • Kool Breeze

    Agree..,young white kids may be more open to black folks because of rap. But….their white parents hate black people more since older white folks probably don’t like rap and the culture.

  • HF

    @ yeah right productions

    That was deep!

  • Loch Ness Monster

    “JAY-Z has credited hip-hop with improving race relations across America – because white kids who idolize him and SNOOP DOGG don’t become racists”

    Oh jeebus!! Heaven help us all. This man is stuck on stupid. Comments like this are the reason why it is important to have a proper education and obtain goals higher than wanting to be ‘a rapper’.

  • http://Bossip Soul Ese

    I think white girls hate on Beyonce because she can pull any guy of any color. Over the years I’ve noticed that most interacial couples were an ethnic male and white female, however more and more often I am seeing the roles reversed.

  • miz bella

    come to VA…racism BOTH wayz iz alive and kickin…

  • http://www.myspace.com/ocky_j Octavia

    @ mild sauce

    Thanks. And I think most people can see through the simplicity of Hov’s statement. Blacks have been entertaining and sexually satisfying whites for years… the hatred comes out when we start outdoing them where it counts (money, power, education, etc.).

    @ kigali

    (again) You should take a look around the real world… The vast majority of married black men (rich or otherwise) are married to black women. The really sad part is that it is getting to where there are white women PISSED OFF to see good brothas with black women. I know I’ve got enough hating on me and my man.

  • Kigali (Birth control until marriage)

    @Octavia,

    Youre ridiculously delusional. Yes the vast majority of black men are married to black women but the vast majority of black men and women arent married. Most black females are single. Most black men are single.

    And no there arent white women PISSED OFF because they see good brothers with black women ok. Why would she be? The white woman is more likely to be married than a black woman, she is more likely to be married to a good white men as opposed to all these black females walking around here saying black men aint shit, she is more likely to be married to a rich man than a black woman is; she is more likely to be married to a non white man than a black woman is, She is more likely to have her own hair.

    I dont see what she should be pissed off about.

    BTW Reggie Bush isnt married with children. Lastly Naomi Campbell swirl relationship is about adultuery with a man who has a child.

    Now I can see why they are jealous. NOT.

  • GUILTY AS HOME MADE SIN

    @screw face,

    Tell me how you really feel? LMFAO

  • IMWO

    Unless you’re white, or an actual mind-reader, none of you can really speak on what you think white people are “secretly” thinking or feeling or jealous of and why. Especially when there are so many comments on other posts about how white people are crazy and you could never understand why they act the way they do. Pick a side.

    Racism is clearly based on ignorance, assumptions and stereotypes- and these “all white people are racist” comments are also based on ignorance, assumptions, and stereotypes. The thought that a white person might actually NOT be racist never crosses your mind- you just assume that they’re just not saying it out loud. Ignorance, assumption, stereotype. If you think white people don’t like you, or are judging you – it’s probably not because they’re racist, but because they just don’t like you. (Maybe because you’re stupid and conceited, enough to believe that anyone who doesn’t like you must be racist, because you’re so wonderful that it would be impossible for anyone to actually dislike you as a person?)

  • And…..(with 5 dots)

    And…

    @ And…..(with 5 dots)

    LOL @ you.

    “…which it is, has nothing to do with his nappy headed ass.”

    You know folk get touchy when they call somebody nappy headed. That’s the last word.

    Tell em why you mad.
    ____________________________
    You know I’m right. Jay-Z’s head looks like my carpet.

    I’m sick of these “celebrities” and their over-inflated egos like they have done so much for mankind and ain’t done a damn thing.

  • http://www.stewartsynopsis.com/Site%20Index.htm We “Blacks” Are The Real Hebrew Israelites

    LOL@This thread

    Imma leave this one alone. :P

  • G.G

    IMWO is right…

    “Racism is clearly based on ignorance, assumptions and stereotypes- and these “all white people are racist” comments are also based on ignorance, assumptions, and stereotypes.”

    me….

    true music is very influential, but for me music doesnt make me hate anyone or any race. Im not attracted to any one type of a guy.

  • *Treasure*

    I don’t quite agree with Jay. For years white people enjoyed sports such as boxing, and basketball. They enjoyed the music of sammy, davis junior, Frankie lymons, the temptations, the supremes, all the while disparaging their race.

    They did not exclude these public paragons as a target for their race baiting and derrogatory sterotypes regarding black people. They just called them monkeys and said they were genetically built to excell in sports, music and dance.

    Being able to integrate through music is great, but it does not mean that they are free from abusive speech and divisive views regarding black people.

    Just because white people enjoy rap music, laced with mysoginisitc views and the frequent use of the N word does not mean that racism has subsided and that there is no animosity towards black people.

  • tj

    @ And
    And…

    @ And…..(with 5 dots)

    LOL @ you.

    “…which it is, has nothing to do with his nappy headed ass.”

    You know folk get touchy when they call somebody nappy headed. That’s the last word.

    Tell em why you mad.
    ____________________________
    You know I’m right. Jay-Z’s head looks like my carpet.

    I’m sick of these “celebrities” and their over-inflated egos like they have done so much for mankind and ain’t done a damn thing.

    —————
    You dead on this. This man and his wife are trying desparately to make believe they made the world a better place. The harsh reality is that Jay-Z has destroyed more black male lives than he’s saved. He sold his soul for money so he can continue to rap about his cars or whatever. Still won’t change a thing.

  • Don’t sell your soul

    If Jay Z actually thinks that Hip-hop has done more than any leader, politician, or anyone to improve race relations, I think he is either in denial or simply indulging his hubris. Everyone and their cousin is well aware that OPRAH has essentially done more than anyone to improve race relations for decades – the right way – with class.

    To prove my point: There is no denying that OPRAH’s endorsement in addition to HILARY CLINTON’s 18 million votes got President Obama to the White House. Period.

  • Weslyn

    I definately don’t agree..I think those kids are still taught some form of racism from an early age and the African-American celebrities and “elite” are only seen as the exception to the rule…

  • B.W.W.

    This is why most rappers make me sick. I am so over this dude. Read a book dumb*ss.

  • RE RE

    Jay-Z needs to do something about that nappy head.

  • About it

    Did Jay-Z graduate from high school?

  • Carly

    Jay does not know his history…….whites have always integrated toward black music. In the great Jazz Era whites were listening to jazz and hanging at the black clubs with black people. Black people and black music is a form of rebellion for some white kids but the way of the world does not seem to change. As a matter of fact, blacks owned more property, did better in education during segregation. It is after the Civil rights and interogation laws pass that we start to see a decline in our community. The Hip-hop post crack era helped to dumb us down(Jay Z era and Snoop Era). They got rich off the buffonery but the community got worst. A few blacks have learn to live like Europeans and think that they have race relations, no what you have is Assimilation.

  • My Opinion

    this guy is an fool. how dare he say hip hop has done more than any politician or leader. excuse me? i think MLK, Thurgood Marshall and countless others are the real reason for this country’s progress…not your dumb ass! just because white kids listen to your music does not mean they are not racist. their parents loved the motown sound and was still racist and their grandparents loved jazz and the blues and were racists. i can’t stand self-important fools like jay z.

  • Sha

    To Hov: N*GGA pu-leaze!!!!!

  • bococalady

    i want JAY Z to sell his pitch to the families of those ecudorians on LI who was killed because they were hispanis. or the family of the black guys who were beaten because OBAMA was elected president. jay-z from the marcy projects in brooklyn ny “you are so far removed from reality”

  • Flaboy

    hes right he’s made us mainstream. him and snoop every lil white kid in the burbs thinks there black

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