I'd have to say the above top ten don't do it for me either..why an artist like DM is not on the top 10 don't make sense to me..

Question:

I think you have a distorted view of Americans when you make such blanket statements like the one you made in your reply to the question of "Why doesn't the NBA look like America?" You stated "... because it's still not acceptable in our society to think of black people as being intellectually equal." (See also: Why Are Sports Dominated by Blacks? and Why Are Sports Dominated by Blacks? What Our Readers Said)

I find that very offensive. I know I don't think like that, nor do most whites I know. I do know a number of African Americans who think whites think that way, and your statement just reinforces their thinking. Perpetuating that kind of thinking only aids in supporting the separatist attitude that too many African Americans hold, and it certainly won't help it to go away.

Answer:

You may not think like that—and because you don't, you associate with people who share your opinion. That's good. However, unless we face the facts as they are, we can't change our circumstances. I think the facts show that most whites do not accept blacks as intellectually equal. 

We live in a society that purports itself to be open for all people, but we should keep in mind that Dr. King and the civil-rights movement had to bring the federal government to the state of national unrest and international embarrassment (over the treatment of peaceful civil-rights marchers) to get the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Bills passed just 42 years ago. Until that time, most African Americans could not legally vote, and access to "mainstream" higher education was almost zero.

Sen. Obama is the third black senator since reconstruction (which ended in approximately 1877). There have been 1,148 senators sworn in since 1877. African Americans have been fairly consistent at 13 percent of our population. If whites felt that blacks were intellectually equal, they certainly wouldn't have enslaved African Americans, and the Senate would have been far more than 0.26 percent black.

It's a sad state of affairs, but there's no way our country would sit still for a second and accept Gary, Ind., or Camden, N.J., looking as it does if the inhabitants were not almost 100 percent black.

You and I may accept blacks as intellectually equal—and I'd assume that we both socialize with people who feel the same as we do—but that's no reason to assume most white people feel the same way, because the facts show otherwise. 

 What Is White Privilege?

Answer:

White people comprise the dominant culture in our country. Dominance is what racism is based on. The fact that some local areas are predominantly black, or have black political leaders, is meaningless.

There's no "problem" with white privilege. It exists. The beauty of white privilege is that white people can apply it to help non-white people and their white privilege is not diminished as a result.

  my vote would have to be with Navy..hmmmmmmmm, i sure dig a sailor's basic drag...

ABOUT FLAVA WORKS AND COCODORM FILMS/MODELS AND AN ILLEGAL SEX
HOUSE BUST. THE STORY CALLED "THE HOUSE NEXT DOOR"

Dude, we have seen a tape of these young dudes
fighting inside and outside of this home with a
hammers and shit. On the news video shown there were
like 20 dudes smoking and shit in the front yard. In
the video the police dude said they have been called
out there 20 something times. There are families in
this neighborhood, good hard working ones. They may
not have known those dudes are fucking each other but
I bet they don't appreciate the activity surrounding
the house. PLUS, they have "client" come to the house
to partake in the activity which turns the house into
a brothel. I think this is pretty much illegal in
itself.

If he is going to be a business man ...do it right and
if he is gonna have a house full of young dudes, keep
them in check. Take care of business is all I am
saying. Get all the proper paperwork and licenses, get
your dudes tested weekly. Make sure your dudes have
home training. And all ya'll make your money. He even
lied when in the statement it said they practice safer
sex. Has anyone else seen Raw Thugs 1 2 and 3. Or the
countless videos of dudes nutting in each others
mouths and faces and on the booty holes. How are you
gonna lie about something that can easily be found
out. This dude doesn't even think. One more thing if
they ain't doing shit wrong why did the RUN out of
Chicago off of accussations, oh I forgot the health
department shut them down. Get it together and us men
need to stop supporting half assed shit because we can
get a nutt from it.