"Nappy Headed Hos" refers to the statement made by radio personality Don Imus about the Rutgers University Women's Basketball team. Without going into further detail, this comment reiterates the constant image of Black people being ugly, uneducated, undignified, and just basically primitive.
White people have degraded the image of people of African decent since slavery times. First as a means to condone the international institution of slavery, then after the American Civil War to help keep blacks subservient and whites continually afraid of Blacks, and finally up until the present to continually present us as being unable to succeed in modern society.
Today we have a situation where entertainers of African decent, which also include latinos, create music and visual works which either degrade or present us as ignorant and narrow minded. Is it so surprising that with rap videos as well as films glorifying thug life and hypersexual women, we have radio personalities feeling comfortable enough to call us "Nappy Headed Hos"?
What should we do as artists, musicians, filmmakers, and individual citizens to change OUR view in mainstream society? This is the question of the new millenium!
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Report of our EXpedition
Saturday, April 7, 2007
Intro
Dark Matter is part news and part forum. Information about Exodus and the artist's individual projects along with interesting topics relating to the World and art will be posted regularly here. Do not be fooled this is not for simply the "Fine Artist". Dark Matter will cover art in all of its forms ranging from films to Picasso to the schematics of the new wall being built to protect the U.S. boarders. That last part is a joke and although it was a corny one you get the point that we're going to cover a lot of ground:) Feel free to comment tell your friends and join the EXpedition.
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