Oprah show and 50 Cent

The gentlemen on the Oprah show did not convince me at all. Although they were dressed professionally and spoke professionally as well, their views about the Don Imus' comments about the girls college basketball team and also about Hip-Hop did not convince me at all. Their points were not strong enough and they were basically just trying to get around it and also trying to back up hip-hop. They were backing up hip-hop because that's what they do for a living. They were trying to say hip-hop was wrong without actually saying it. There was one man in particular who I did not agree with at all. He said that hip-hop brought races together. That is the last thing it has done. It has made so many stereotypes and generalizations. He also got very defensive towards the end. One man called people in the hip-hop industry clowns and he was offended by it because he started off as an intern and made his way up to executive of a producing company and he has not once told the artists to use derrogatory language and he has apparently asked them if they could say things without using derrogatory language. I personally do not buy any of this. Why did he sign the artists if he's so worried about derrogatory language? Because he would not have a job, that's why.
50 Cent did not really answer any of his questions straight forward. He just started saying how we forgot about the war and he got off topic. I do agree that the war in Iraq is a big issue but it's not the only issue we need to focus on. None of his points convinced me at all. He was trying to be funny, he got off topic and I did not understand many of his points, and he was trying to promote his new album. That was extremely unprofessional. Obviously he did not care about the issue at all.
Both of the arguments barely talked about the real issue. Don Imus' derrogatory comment about the womans' college basketball team. They just lead it to hip-hop. Hip-hop may have to deal with derrogatory comments against women but Don Imus said this comment. I have a feeling that hip-hop did NOT influence Don Imus to say something demeaning against these young women. He is an older man and grew up in a different time when women still were not seen as equals to men no matter the color. This has been an age-old problem, disregarding color. It is really tough to say what will change people's views about women.