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September 1, 2005
Julian Bond
Chairman, NAACP
4805 Mount Hope Drive Baltimore, MD 21215-3297
Dear Mr. Bond:
It is with reference to your recent NAACP 2005
National Survey we write you. In it, you quote Martin Luther King Jr’s
words:
"We will remember not the words of our enemies but
the silence of our friends."
You go on to say: "Don’t be silent,
don’t stand by passively while violence, hatred, voter disenfranchisement,
subtle racism and sexism damage our country."
We think your words are ironic in that you and the
NAACP have been appallingly silent and stood by passively while the White
owned Black culture controlling music industry uses rap poison lyrics and
music to wreak violence, misogyny and cultural denigration upon our
community.
Your consenting silence has contributed mightily to
the pubic image disaster the money driven rap poison industry has inflicted
on the Black village it takes to raise our children.
The reality of music and word in late 20th
century distribution and pervasion is that it has unparalleled power as a
behavior modifier. It overwhelms the parents of our children who try
desperately to cling to positive aspects of our culture. The Bible says
"train up a child in the way it should go and it will not depart from it."
We have allowed the White owned music industry to train up our children in
the way they want them to go, and sure enough, many are not departing from
it. It is as if we support our neoenslavement for the pleasure we derive
from enrichment of the slave masters.
The world wide debasement of our women as bitches and
hos and our men as sex crazed niggaz, and thugs have reinforced and
bolstered the very distortions, falsities, and misperceptions of Black
people that you have complained about. By your abominable silence you
supported or even embraced the music industries’ propaganda and myth that
the public degrading of Black society and culture is OK because their rapper
puppets are only keeping it real. The stereotypes of Black society are
actually true according to your acquiescing silence.
We believe unless you and the NAACP are ready to exert
"real" leadership and are willing to break the Black taboo against
confronting the worst social disaster to afflict our people since slavery,
all your other efforts will be inconsequential. Regrettably, the NAACP is a
lockstep participant with virtually all other Black "leadership"
organizations, both secular and religious in obsequious tolerance and
support of the White owned rap music industries’ global disparagement of
Black people.
For the NAACP for example to claim credit for removal
of the "N" word from the dictionary while at the same time assisting its
promotion nationally and globally by rap music moguls, is no less than
farcical. Your ostensible effort to further the "advancement" our people is
in puny contradiction to the massive suffocation of your such efforts by the
rap poison pervaders who in dreadful silence you also "advance."
To paraphrase your King quotation, the silence of
our friends is worse than the poison words of our enemies.
Yours truly,
Bert Irons, Coordinator
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