Fox News senior correspondent Geraldo Rivera offered his unsolicited opinion about hip-hop during an interview on Tuesday with HuffPost Live, saying that the music “has done more damage to black and brown people than racism in the last 10 years.”
Rivera suggested to host Josh Zepps it is nearly impossible to find “a Puerto Rican from the South Bronx or a black kid from Harlem” who has “been a success in life walking around with his pants around his ass and with, you know, visible tattoos.”
He then took a moment to name-check Def Jam founder Russell Simmons, who he described as “a dear friend of mine.”
But, he said, “At some point, those guys have to cop to the fact that by encouraging this distinctive culture that is removed from the mainstream, they have encouraged people to be so different from the mainstream that they can’t participate other than, you know, the racks in the garment center and those entry-level jobs.”
Watch below. (Rivera’s comments on hip-hop start at 22:19):
h/t HuffPost Live
Welp, there goes my daily quota for offensive idiocy again. These guys are on a roll. I’m assuming he gets to say this because he’s brown?
My youngest daughter knows this to be true. She has a Ph.D. in Classics from Mizzou. Twenty job rejection notices yesterday alone. I warned her that getting a classical education would set her “so different from the mainstream” If she had only listened to pop-rock instead of Indy, Broadway, and Classical music. More Taylor Swift and less Melissa Etheridge and Stephen Sondheim - yeah, that’s the ticket.
Try to listen closely to Geraldo … but all I can hear is “LOOK AT ME …LOOK AT ME”
Why does TPM spend so much time reporting the inane, lunatic, misinformative bullshit that blatherskites like Geraldo, Bill-O and a host of other Fox miscreants noise abroad? It’s meaningless bullshit!
Why not report on neat stuff like this:
When this stuff comes on line, Billo-0 and Geraldo will FIRST in line and they’ll be too busy dry-humping large stuffed panda bears to provide fodder for Live Wire.
PS - A great article filled with outrageous puns. Me likee!
This [insert genre here] is destroying today’s youth!
Same shit - different decade.