[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
The end result of pimping is ownership of someone else. [/quote]
If you say so.
I have personally seen that this relationship involves people from dysfunctional backgrounds…so the “ho” is often looking for a father figure and the “status” that comes from associating with that person. The “pimp” also gets status based on how his girls looks and acts and acts as protection and basically “manager” for the “ho”.
If you only see “slave” in that, I don’t know what to tell you.[/quote]
What is your point, X? Even if I were to concede the point and say that SOME hoes are not slaves (a point which I am NOT conceding) what is your point here? Are you trying to say that pimps are actually good for prostitutes? That there is actually a benefit to being locked into an abusive relationship with someone who takes advantage of your pussy? Are you saying that this sort of behavior is something that doesn’t deserve to be vilified, that it’s actually okay to glorify this sort of thing?[/quote]
Uh, my point is simply that it is not a SLAVE to be a HO. I am not sure what you do when people don’t agree with you, but it seems you jump to massive assumptions.
If the people engaged in the act don’t agree with you on that concept, why do you think your OPINION holds true for all?[/quote]
Again, you’re avoiding the actual issue at hand here. Do you think it reeks of ignorance, hypocrisy, or both for large swaths of the black community, especially hip-hop artists, to glorify pimping? I suppose not ALL pimps are running actual slaves, but the fact is that many, many pimps ARE running outright slaves. By slaves, I mean people who are forcibly taken from their homes, sold to someone (usually the pimp in question) and then forced into sexual slavery under threat of death, further subjugated by the forced use of drugs and generally treated like a piece of property. So, given this basic fact about pimping, not all pimping but a very significant amount of it, do you think there is some hypocrisy or ignorance on the part of blacks who bemoan racism and the history of slavery in this country and then turn around and literally glorify an illegal profession in which many of the pimps’ hoes are literal slaves and many others are for all intents and purposes treated like slaves or something a small step above slaves? Where do you stand on the actual issue of glorifying pimping? Do you see this as a problem within the black community?
And don’t give me this bullshit about other races and all that fucking nonsense. We aren’t talking about other races here. What other races, ethnicities, nationalities or any other demographic thinks or does is immaterial here. I’ve already acknowledged that we’re ALL a part of the same hypocrisy, but given the outrage that comes from the black community on the issue of racism, and given that the black community is the only one that was enslaved in this country AND is glorifying actions that in many instances are nothing more than keeping slaves, the burden of addressing this hypocrisy is present, needs to be addressed and SHOULD be addressed. So, what is your take on the issue of glorifying pimping?