Sean Hannity suggested on Wednesday that if stores are going to stop selling Confederate flags, then perhaps they should also stop selling rap music containing the N-word.
“I have a question: can you still buy a Jay-Z CD at Walmart? Does the music department at Sears have any Ludacris albums? Can I download 50 Cent on Amazon? Can I do that? Can I get some Snoop Dogg albums on eBay?” he asked on his radio show after discussing stores that will no longer sell Confederate flags.
“Why do I say that?” Hannity continued. “Because a lot of the music by those artists are chock-full of the ‘N word,’ and the ‘B-word,’ and the ‘H-word,’ and racist, misogynist, sexist, anti-woman slurs none of those retail executives would be caught dead using.”
Hannity said that he is fine with Confederate flag bans, but suggested that perhaps certain music should be banned as well. He also mentioned that President Obama has invited artists like Jay-Z and Beyonce to the White House.
“So, if it’s okay for Obama’s teenage daughters and people to go into these stores and buy music chock-full of the N-word, the B-word, well maybe we should consider banning that too. We’re in the process of banning everything. Just a thought,” he said.
Listen to the audio via Media Matters:
if you can convince me those armies fighting under the battle flag were promoting freedom of artististic expression and not the continuance of slavery, I’m behind you Sean.
“So, if it’s okay for Obama’s teenage daughters and people to go into these stores and buy music chock-full of the n-word, the b-word, well maybe we should consider banning that too. We’re in the process of banning everything. Just a thought,” he said.
Golly, Mr. Hannity, beyond the gratuitous and ugly inclusion of the Obama girls, what sort of people do you ever mean? Are they those people for whom your racist and ugly flag is particularly offensive? Are you mad that those people finally, 150 years after their ¨liberation¨, have the support of enough of their fellow citizens to remove the smallest of barriers, a fucking flag, to their full participation as Americans? Why would that bother you so much?
Don’t answer, We know why.
So, now this is yet another instance of where Hannity’s lack of discipline to obtain a education much beyond his high school diploma leaves him unequipped to engage in substantive critical / analytical thinking.
Using your own “logic,” Sean, after banning rap music we can ban you. Watching a bagger’s thought process is like watching a dog eat peanut butter.
Yes! We should ban rap music…the day after all rap artists commit collective treason in the name of protecting the supremacy of a single race. I’d be fine with that.