OMG! Common is at the White House! Everybody RUN!!!

[pghin08]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011...e-house-invite

This is so ridiculous. I know, I'm an Obama supporter, but to those who aren't, are you really enraged by this? And do these people have ANY idea who Common even is? One of the last things he's done was a guest appearance on a JONAS BROTHERS album (still not sure why he did that).

I get it though, he's a thug. Nevermind that he has zero criminal record, is the son of a former pro basketball player and a teacher (I think his mother has a doctorate), and is a staunch AIDS advocate. What a joke.

[duane1969]

Perhaps it has something to do with lyrics talking about killing cops and calling for Pres. Bush to be killed???

These are all lyrics from his rap poem "A Letter to the Law"

Tell the law, my Uzi weighs a ton.
I walk like a warrior, from them I won't run.

Them boys chat-chat, on how I'm goin to pop guns.
I got the black strapped to me, make the cops run.

Burn a Bush cuz for peace he no push no but-ton.
Killing over oil and grease, no weapons of destruc-tion.

And perhaps the most telling line of all...

Black people in the area, urban one.
I hold up a peace sign, but I carry a gun.

Perhaps the Republicans need to have a guy who is calling for killing Obama and cops make an appearance at the RNC. Nobody would have a problem with the Republicans showing their support and respect for a person that publicly advocates killing Obama and cops, right?

Common is not a hero or a person to look up to, he is a well-spoken thug. Nothing more.

[angel0430]

Why do people make big deals out of all this stuff? There are more importtant thing to be reporting and wasting our time in this is ridiculous. I do not care who they invite to the WH, they can be ither democrat or republican and I really don;t care.

[pghin08]

Perhaps it has something to do with lyrics talking about killing cops and calling for Pres. Bush to be killed???

These are all lyrics from his rap poem "A Letter to the Law"







And perhaps the most telling line of all...



Perhaps the Republicans need to have a guy who is calling for killing Obama and cops make an appearance at the RNC. Nobody would have a problem with the Republicans showing their support and respect for a person that publicly advocates killing Obama and cops, right?

Common is not a hero or a person to look up to, he is a well-spoken thug. Nothing more.

And this is what he ALSO says in his song "Follow Me", in response to all of those lyrics.

"No time for that, but just things to be done,
Stay true to what I do"

See, this kind of stuff is the problem. People get all in a tizzy over stuff like this while we're spending our way into oblivion and fighting multiple wars. Yet Common is the biggest issue in our country? No. I simply refuse to accept that. Anyone who knows ANYTHING about Common knows that he wouldn't hurt a fly, and is truly a good human being.

[duane1969]

For the record, I have very little problem with Common being at the WH. However, there are some people who take things at face value, and face value for Common comes across as being less than desirable. Expecting people to ignore the negative lyrics and symbolism and see you as a misunderstood nice guy is asking a bit much.

Common is regularly seen displaying the Black Power fist in the air thing, which makes him appear to be militant, then he raps about killing cops and Pres. Bush. Are people not supposed to have a problem with that?

Would it be OK for a guy who regularly proclaims "White Power!" and sings a song about killing Obama to visit the White House? Of course not.

You think the conservative reaction is over the top? Let a white supremacist who has stated that Obama needs to be killed visit the WH and you will see a reaction all right. The liberals will be rioting in the streets and burning down cities. The conservative reaction is minor.

[mrveggieman]

The late great Easy E from N.W.A fame (for those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about google it) made a donation to a charity (I'm not sure who) but that charity was cool with the republican party and he was therefore invited to a dinner at the white house when the first Bush was in office. There was some controversy back then as well. Easy E stated that he wasn't a republican and said that he made a $1,00 donation and got $1,000,000 worth of free press. In the internet age imagine how much that would be to Common in today's dollars.

[pghin08]

For the record, I have very little problem with Common being at the WH. However, there are some people who take things at face value, and face value for Common comes across as being less than desirable. Expecting people to ignore the negative lyrics and symbolism and see you as a misunderstood nice guy is asking a bit much.

Common is regularly seen displaying the Black Power fist in the air thing, which makes him appear to be militant, then he raps about killing cops and Pres. Bush. Are people not supposed to have a problem with that?

Would it be OK for a guy who regularly proclaims "White Power!" and sings a song about killing Obama to visit the White House? Of course not.

You think the conservative reaction is over the top? Let a white supremacist who has stated that Obama needs to be killed visit the WH and you will see a reaction all right. The liberals will be rioting in the streets and burning down cities. The conservative reaction is minor.

I'm a pretty big Common fan, and I've NEVER seen him do the whole Black Power fist thing. And even if that were the case, why not raise a stink if Tommie Smith and John Carlos (were he still alive) would come to the White House? Talk about black supremacists! Nevermind that they won the Arthur Ashe Courage Award and are widely admired.

Common is not a black supremacist. He's a rapper and a poet, and that's it. In Jon Stewart's diatribe on this whole issue (which, frankly, was funny), he brought up Johnny Cash. Cash wrote some violent lyrics in his day too:

"And I said: "My name is 'Sue!' How do you do!
Now your gonna die!!"

Well, I hit him hard right between the eyes
And he went down, but to my surprise,
He come up with a knife and cut off a piece of my ear.
But I busted a chair right across his teeth"

Among others. And I could make the argument that Cash promotes violence, and it's JUST as justifiable as saying that Common does. Nevermind the fact that Cash isn't promoting violence in that song at all.

Sorry, but if people actually think that Common is a wannabe cop-killer black supremacist, then they only see the world through their Sean Hannity 3-D glasses.

Edit: Sorry Duane, I'm not trying to attack you or anything. My real problem is with the media. Most media outlets are simply "distractors-in-chief". Taking up valuable news space and time with mindless dribble that does nothing but boil my blood because all I want to see on the cover of a newspaper is a story about someone's plan to fix the budget or how things are going in Libya/Afghanistan/Iraq or something of the sort. Yet I always seem to be greeted by crap like this showing up on my doorstep.

[sanfran22]

Your side is the first side to cry fowl when they don't like something someone has said. They cry racism and bigotry at the drop of a hat. If someone on the right called for Obama's head or talked of cop killing, it would be on every news outlet. I personally don't care about this story, but I think it does shed some light that everyone with "Common" sense already knows...(Sorry,lol)
The list is a mile long so I think I'd just let it be.......

[pghin08]

Your side is the first side to cry fowl when they don't like something someone has said. They cry racism and bigotry at the drop of a hat. If someone on the right called for Obama's head or talked of cop killing, it would be on every news outlet. I personally don't care about this story, but I think it does shed some light that everyone with "Common" sense already knows...(Sorry,lol)
The list is a mile long so I think I'd just let it be.......

Pretty sure that both ends of the spectrum do this. As exemplified by this "controversy" as a whole.

[gatorboymike]

The biggest outrage is that Obama didn't invite Dr. Dre instead.