By Michelle Malkin
Friday, August 29, 2014
Did you miss Tinseltown's latest political correctness
powwow? Preening celebrities showed their solidarity with Ferguson, Mo., at the
MTV Video Music Awards show this week. Rapper Common led the convocation,
preachifying about the positive impact of hip-hop music on society as a
"powerful instrument of social change" and "truth."
Cameras showed drug-addled gangsta rapper Snoop Dogg
bowing his head and flashing a peace sign during a "moment of
silence" for Ferguson. MTV President Stephen Friedman aired public service
announcements plying social justice messages. "It's a call to action to
our audience that we have to confront our own bias head-on before we can truly
create change," Friedman pontificated.
Spare me the shizzle and hypocri-dizzle.
While these Hollywood do-gooders gnash their
Zoom!-brightened teeth over violence in the black community, they turn their
Restylane-filled cheeks from the bullet-riddled violence glamorized by their
own industry.
The night before the VMAs, a gunman barged into the 1Oak
nightclub in West Hollywood and shot rap mogul Suge Knight six times. He
survived.
It wasn't the first time Knight had been targeted for
apparent revenge. And it wasn't the first time the VMA party scene had been
rattled by violent gunfire. In 2005, Knight was shot at a pre-VMA party in
Miami hosted by rapper Kanye West.
Knight, founder of the Death Row Records empire and
possessor of a mile-long rap sheet, reportedly refuses to cooperate with L.A. police,
who are investigating the roles of the infamous Bloods and Crips rival street
gangs in the crime. The Bloods-affiliated Knight's reign of criminal terror has
been well documented by law enforcement and rap aficionados. A climax: the
still-unsolved shooting deaths of rappers Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls, which
multiple insiders believe the record executive ordered.
Fellow thug rapper Chris Brown (who remains on probation
for beating up former girlfriend/pop queen Rihanna) was at the West Hollywood
party last weekend, reportedly throwing Bloods gang signs. Also on scene:
gangsta rapper and Bloods-promoter The Game.
Fun fact: The last time "Game" was in the news,
he had released album artwork depicting Jesus as a Bloods gang member --
complete with gold chains and the signature red bandana of the Compton Piru
Bloods gang.
Not to be outdone, Crips-affiliated Snoop Dogg -- a
marquee Death Row Records "artist" with Dr. Dre before their falling
out with Knight -- boasts his own vicious criminal gang history ranging from
felony drug possession to assault and multiple deadly weapons possessions
charges. And that's not including a deadlocked jury outcome on voluntary
manslaughter charges after rival Crips gang member Phillip Woldermarian was
gunned down by shots alleged to have come from a car Snoop and two fellow gang
members were in at the time.
Corporate Hollywood liberals have made billions of
dollars off of hardcore, gang-promoting, gun-toting, cop-bashing, misogynist
rap. The corrosive effects on the black community are incalculable.
Grandstanding about Ferguson is a convenient distraction from the rank
hypocrisy of violence profiteers.
As you might expect, MTV didn't call for a "moment
of silence" about the latest Suge Knight shooting. There was no need for
one. When it comes to holding themselves accountable for fostering
black-on-black violence, Hollywood's gangstas have adopted a systematic code of
silence.
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