"Can U Control Yo Hoe" ( Snoop Dogg, "R&G: Rhythm and Gangsta: The Masterpiece")
The same standard of racial accountability must apply whether the racial and gender offender is a Snoop Dog or UCSD students. When it doesn't, that's a double standard, and that always translates into hypocrisy. The UCSD officials, lawmakers, and civil rights leaders were right to condemn the students for their blatant racial insult. However, be mindful that urbandictionary and the offending UCSD students aren't the only cooks who prepared the Compton cookout racial insult stew.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson is an author and political analyst. His new book is, How Obama Governed: The Year of Crisis and Challenge (Middle Passage Press).
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