(ThyBlackMan.com) I was amused and intrigued by the online criticism of Nicki Minaj’s new song “Only.” Some are saying that the video is anti-Semitic, primarily because it presents imagery similar to the German military during World War II. Of course, the Jewish holocaust is nothing to laugh about, and most of us cringe when we think about what their people had to go through during that horrible time.
But the interesting and perhaps even hypocritical thing about this sudden outrage is that, in the midst of the uproar by the Jewish community, there isn’t a peep being said about the use of the n-word in every other sentence or the promotion of murder among African American men. The video, which you can watch below, is basically the standard Nicki Minaj formula, where she raps about how big her breasts are and the size of her butt. There are also the standard commercialized hip-hop references to sexual promiscuity, racist language, extreme sexism and the glorification of black male genocide.
Chris Brown, Drake and Lil Wayne are on the song as well. I’m a little disappointed in Chris, mainly because he seems to get just a little more ignorant every year since he had that Rihanna incident back in 2009. If I were to talk to Chris, I’d tell him, “Brother, stop trying to fit in with ignorant people. There’s nothing wrong with being an intelligent black man.”
The song is pretty much par for the course in commercialized hip-hop these days, and most of it promotes the toxic, self-destructive lifestyle that we see our kids emulating on a regular basis. There’s a reason that black people are the only ones being used to denegrate ourselves in public; it’s basically to fill the prisons with people determined to ruin their lives over a drunken night at the club. In fact, whenever a black man ruins his life, there is usually a liquor bottle somewhere in the background.
The music industry would never push such a consistent and hurtful message onto Jews or anyone else. This is a special poison built just for us.
Some might say that the video can’t be racist toward blacks because Nicki Minaj, Drake and Lil Wayne are black people too. Here’s the thing: Many of the greatest perpetuators of racism can be blacks who hold an overseer position. Quite a few blacks are put into power and financed by wealthy whites to do their dirty work, mainly because we are more likely to give this kind of behavior a pass because the perpetrator happens to be black. A good example is when payday lending companie hire Magic Johnson to parrot the message that the corporation wants black people to hear.
So, when Nicki has a song that uses the n-word left and right and encourages harmful behavior among black people, I’m not looking at the face of the artist who made the video….I’m looking at the corporate machine that is responsible for the production and marketing of that harmful product.
Nicki Minaj is with Young Money/Cash Money Records, which is run by Lil Wayne and two brothers, Ronald and Bryan Williams. However, much of their wealth and power is given to them by white corporate entities and a large white audience that pays them to act like a pack of thugs (white people love it when we imitate their favorite stereotypes). So, in some cases, we are duped into thinking something isn’t racist because the perpetrator has a black face. But I argue that racism is actually far more effective when you allow a black person to be the messenger boy (or girl).
It’s interesting that Jews running the entertainment industry might be offended by Nicki Minaj’s perceived, even modest anti-Semitism, when I’m sure a few of them were happily sitting in that room when Bobby Shmurda was dancing around like a one-man minstrel show just a few weeks ago at Epic Records. I’m not sure why they would think that black people are the only ones who can be consistently disrespected in the music being pushed out by this industry.
While Nicki is going being rightfully criticized for creating music that is hurtful and offensive to Jews, many Jewish-run film studios will gladly produce an annoying slave movie every three or four months. They won’t show a Jew being put in an oven, but they will gladly feature films with plantations, masters, slave ships, beatings, rapes, lynchings and castrations whenever they want. I say that if you would like for people to be sensitive to the holocaust that lasted for less than a decade, then we should be even more sensitive to the holocaust that lasted 400 years.
One mistake that is often made in the music industry is that there is a presumption that, because the music is coming out of a black person’s mouth, that all black people must be OK with it. Sorry, but Nicki Minaj is not on the black community’s team…she’s on the team of money hungry extreme capitalists who worship dollar bills over people. Lil Wayne is not a representative of black men….he does the dirty work for racist white men. The desperate negroes being hired to denegrate their people have almost nothing to do with black culture, nor do they appreciate it. They are more harmful to the black community than the Ku Klux Klan itself.
Message to the music industry: Many of the artists I’ve mentioned are NOT our allies. They are your corporate puppets. Chuck D, Dee-1, Talib Kweli, Immortal Technique, Watoto from the Nile, and Bizzle are friends to the black community. People love them because they aren’t willing to destroy their people to get a larger paycheck. It’s important to know who the good and bad guys are in the war for the souls of our children.
Watch the video below and tell me what you think. Beware: The song might entertain you, but the language will annoy you and probably drop your IQ about 10 points. The video is a little raunchy, but important for educational purposes, since a million black kids will be reciting these lyrics in about a week.
Let’s support the artists who actually respect their people, not the ones who want our kids to die. We can’t quietly let people destroy the futures of our children with harmful and poisonous brainwashing.
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Staff Writer; Dr. Boyce Watkins
Dr. Boyce Watkins is the founder of the Your Black World Coalition. For more information, please visit http://BoyceWatkins.com.