Can I Get Just One? - An Intelligent Breakdown
Below are the thoughts of Wise Intelligent on “Chicago Church Billboards Target Ten ‘Trash’ Rappers” which was published in AllHipHop.com on June 19, 2007:
Can I get just ONE billboard (not 10) paid for by the black church of Southside Chicago that criticizes BUSH and the American Establishment for COMMITTING, not just perpetuating, violence against ALL the human families of the earth?
Can I get just ONE billboard (not 9) paid for by the black church of Southside Chicago that criticizes the racially biased “drug war” incarcerates African American youth at much higher rates than their white counterparts and gives them more time for committing the same crimes?
Can I get just ONE billboard (not 
paid for by the black church of Southside Chicago that criticizes the WEALTHY white-male supremacist who run the “music industry” and controls the propagation of destructive images? Targeting rappers is NOT targeting the “music industry!” Rappers are laborers in the industry of music; they manufacture the products that their company demands of them. Rappers are like models in a cigarette advertisement that most often don’t even smoke cigarettes, but for want of work, they’ll promote the harmful tobacco products!
Can I get just ONE billboard (not 7) paid for by the black church of Southside Chicago that criticizes black “pastors” who sell their flock to politicians who DO NOT represent the interest of the Black Community?
Can I get just ONE billboard (not 6) paid for by the black church of Southside Chicago that criticizes the CIA/Reagan-Bush administrations deliberate flooding of the Black Community with cocaine from Central/South America to finance a covert war in Nicaragua?
Can I get just ONE billboard (not 5) paid for by the black church of Southside Chicago that demands reparations for this Genocidal crime against humanity?
Can I get just ONE billboard (not 4) paid for by the black church of Southside Chicago that criticizes the inadequate education in our communities that has left a substantial amount of black youth unable to read on a fourth grade level after 12 years of school. Inefficient administrators and superintendents. Not to mention horrible teachers who can not be fired?
Can I get just ONE billboard (not 3) paid for by the black church of Southside Chicago that criticizes Big Time black media moguls like Kathy Hughes, Bob Johnson, and the black woman who presides as president of BET for their participation in the dissemination, propagation and perpetuation of negative images that “degrade women” and “perpetuate violence.”
Can I get just ONE billboard (not 2) paid for by the black church of Southside Chicago that criticizes the lack of financial transparency in the black churches in America who fleece their poor urban and middle-class black families of tithes and offerings that never find their way back into the community to aid the very people the church is set up to support?
Can I get just ONE billboard (just 1) paid for by the black church of Southside Chicago that criticizes the rich white-male supremacist patriarchy in which we are embedded for its shaping and maintaining of anti-black behavior in all of its life sustaining institutions be they private or public?
JUST ONE!
by Guest Author: Wise Intelligent
Pete Tan wrote:
Real talk!
It’s funny how groups get their panties in a bunch over some topics, but completely ignore others.
Great article!
Posted on 22-Jun-07 at 1:02 pm | Permalink
Kala Nation wrote:
Boo-hoo bla bla bla,I am sorry brother the Black Church is the foundation of our culture and 90% of Blacks polled agree with the Saint Sabina billboard.You see it is a new a day in Black America.Self hate and self deprication is going out fast,and self love is coming in.I am tired of hearing about the white man,We are fighting an enemy within our community.Right now you cant even have a mostly Black nightclub without these hip hop thugs shooting it up and forcing it to shut down.You im in the hood I see these thugs everyday,they have as much love for their community as the devil has for holy water.You critcised the church for humbly protestingClear Channel for filling or airways(which used to be control by us but thanks to the socalled hip hop community the white man stole that stronghold from us)with sewage in rap form.You see most of us real men consider you rappers cowards,you see Drew at Rawkus telling rappers not to take the bait and come on shows to defend themselves.How boyish and cowardly.They know what they are doing is inexcusable,and undefendable.They brag about the harm they do the community.Your upset over a billboard,if this was any other time in history these traitors would be rounded up and burned alive.You’d better thank god we live in America,look at what they do to criminals,traitors,infedels,and rouge elements amongnst them.
Posted on 04-Jul-07 at 2:04 am | Permalink
Jay Smooth wrote:
“You critcised the church for humbly protesting Clear Channel for filling or airways”
Protesting Clear Channel? Quite the contrary, they PAID Clear Channel to put those billboards up. Look at the photos again and see who’s name is at the top. Which is part of the point here, we all agree with the church’s intentions and sentiment, but their method of conveying the message is flawed, and that needs to be addressed..
Posted on 05-Jul-07 at 7:40 pm | Permalink
B wrote:
The point is, rap & hip hop music needs to be cleaned up. The church’s intensions are good-WAKE UP-are you critics saying that the lyrics shouldn’t change? Are you saying that when they use these terms that it’s positive and inspiring? Are you saying it’s okay, despite the progress that our culture has made in this country to go back to being ignorant? If the church and the billboard project is wrong, then what’s right? What in the world are we teaching our children? No matter what any of you say; call it being artistic, call it artistic freedom, call it anything you like, but the bottom line is-the majority of the music rap/hip hop artist are putting out is not only degrading to women, but a slap in the face to all the people in this country past & present who have paved the way for them to have the freedoms they enjoy. Parents, teach your children better than to be money hungry, out for self, gotta get mine, bling blinging, I don’t give a f**** paper chasers! Teach them about God’s love & self love & love for their neighbor. This world has gone mad, when people (hopefully, just for the sake of argument) take offense to removing negativity from rap music. I guess what we need to do is to come up with more curse words and derogatory statements so it can sound better, huh? Peace & Love
Posted on 05-Jul-07 at 8:26 pm | Permalink
Kala Nation wrote:
Hey Bro Jay I agree with you on your analasis of hip hop.You seen to be the most informed person I’ve ever heard on the topic.You Criticised my defense of the Sabina billboard.You said that clearchannel paid for it I find that hard to believe.Do you have proof.If so though embarrassing,still it is a good cause.The rappers you have to admit know what the are doing .Today I read in an article that Jackie O,was dropped from her label.She sais now she was free to do her own thing .Which wont be an oversexed ho to sell records.She has her own label now,She says she feels free now.THIS IS MY POINT.The rappers are perpetuating a slavery,coon,role and the people have had enough.This is every corner of the black community.Even among the dumb thugs
Posted on 07-Jul-07 at 10:41 pm | Permalink