It’s Moral If Hollywood Praises It
Here’s a shocking example of the way people think. Don Imus’s brief vulgarity is atrocious and must be punished. The music group Three 6 Mafia, which is much more vulgar, is fine, because they won an Academy Award for it. Morality is all relative, and is defined for us by Hollywood. This, of course, is the attitude that tolerated segregation and lynchings back when they, and not rap, were in fashion–or would have, if their promoters were from Southern California instead of just the South.
Beverly Calendar-Anderson, director of Bloomington’s Safe and Civil City program, offered help.
“I think Imus should have known better; he should have known where the line was,” she said Friday. “When you are on public airways … you have the responsibility not to harm people.”…
She had some insights into why Three 6 Mafia can get away with their nasty viewpoints more easily than some, Imus in particular.
“I don’t care for their music. I won’t listen to their music. I won’t buy their music,” she said. “But they have been accepted by mainstream media. They are Academy Award winners. As much as I dislike their lyrics, our country in a way has said they’re OK.”