They Say In Order To Appreciate Anything, You Must Compare It To It's Alternative. Would You Prefer Your Son Think More Like ex-Congressman Harold Ford Jr. or drug dealer turned rapper turned actor turned financier 50 Cent?
Monday, August 13, 2007
Harold Ford Jr. vs 50 Cent
They Say In Order To Appreciate Anything, You Must Compare It To It's Alternative. Would You Prefer Your Son Think More Like ex-Congressman Harold Ford Jr. or drug dealer turned rapper turned actor turned financier 50 Cent?
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i think your good friend Curtis Martin is a more viable alternative. Now answer the question for me, DV: Would you rather have your son think more like Fiddy, or Mr. Martin?
Simple ...Neither! But it's easy to play Monday morning queaterback now that you/we know the outcome of each person's career. The better question is what career are you going to let your kid pursue as a teenager. A rap career or a career in medicine??
Medicine is my choice...
How is medicine any less "controlled" than rap music?
An industry where the insurance companies decide who gets treated and how and where doctors have been reduced to pushers for big pharma is hardly the model to put on a pedestal.
II
No offense, but sometimes you are just plain silly.
Great question Kalena.
Actually, I find that Curtis Jackson thinks much more like Curtis Martin than does Harold Ford Jr.
Curtis Martin and Curtis Jackson share much more in common than the same first name. Both think big. Both want to be owners. Both are best at what they do. Neither drinks. Neither does drugs. Both pray. Both survived the harsh realities of the drug wars in the 1990's. Both are highly intelligent. Both love sistas.
Curtis Jackson found his way through entertainment. Curtis Martin found his way through football.
Entertainment in America = sex, partying and money. Turn on the TV or HBO for proof positive of that.
Singling out Curtis Jackson as the personification of all that's wrong in Black America because his entertainment ventures use the same language and imagery AS EVERYBODY ELSE is really nothing more than jealousy of a dark brown brotha doing his thing.
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Michael Fisher said...
II
No offense, but sometimes you are just plain silly.
Mike, I'm sure none was taken.
Sometimes you are an old bitter man angry that Hip Hop happened without you and who criticizes rappers for celebrating money while you sit up at night trading in abstractions like foreign currencies.
What's more silly than that?
No offense taken, but I'd love to hear why my comparison is silly. Why the parallel between medicine and rap music isn't valid?
How an industry that is supposed to heal the sick and save people got turned into a business that fearmongers, gets people hooked on more and more drugs by inventing more and more diseases (restless leg syndrome my ass), only treats those with money and lets young Black children die from toothaches.
How is the Black doctor who turns away a patient without health insurance any more or less culpable of exploitation than these rappers you and Casper attack so fervently?
Who are the exploiters? The rappers who make money from an industry that is beyond their control or the doctors who make money from from an industry that is beyond their control? Why is one better or worse than the other?
II
Are you serious?
DV
Curtis Martin and Curtis Jackson share much more in common than the same first name. Both think big. Both want to be owners. Both are best at what they do. Neither drinks. Neither does drugs. Both pray. Both survived the harsh realities of the drug wars in the 1990's. Both are highly intelligent. Both love sistas.
Wow!... is that it I can name 60 of my mke friends who fit that profile. So does CM currently call his women hoes? Does he openly beef with men in his industry? Does he wear a bullet proof jacket? Does he find the need to get on screen and the mic and brag about material items all day.
I wonder what CM would say about your comparison?
No, I wasn't serious. I was just throwing that out there for shits and giggles.
"I wonder what CM would say about your comparison?" Casper
Mr. Martin's imagination, intellectual courage, and genuine goodwill would may possible afford him a perspective beyond your comprehension.
DV,
very beautifully and eloquently put. Lots of great points!
but you didn't answer my question.
Which one?
LOL. Kalena.
I didn't? My fault.
You know actually... after thinking about it. I can't answer honestly. I know one Curtis very well and I don't know the other at all.
Actually. Curtis Martin is one of the few Men of God that I have ever met. I can hear that in Fiddy's voice ("Many Men"), so I suspect it is there too, but I don't for sure.
So I'd have to go with my man CM.
Et tu?
"I didn't? My fault"
I love when you play the innocent, unsuspecting blogger.
C'mon DV, you know I'm going with Martin.
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