Bill O’Reilly: Rap Music May Have Driven Michael Brown to Confront Police

[big_dog]

In his latest print column, Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly says Michael Brown‘s affinity for rap music may have led him astray and influenced him to have a negative attitude toward police. Brown is the black 18-year-old who was unarmed in Ferguson, Mo., when he was shot dead by a white police officer in early August. Brown was reportedly a fan of rap music and wrote some of his own rap lyrics.

“Michael Brown rapped about violence, smoking weed, making big money, and having sex with ‘hos,’” O’Reilly wrote. “[T]hat does not automatically mean he was a thug. Far worse, it shows that he was not all that different from so many other young men who are stewing in a pernicious culture that glorifies violence and misogyny.”

O’Reilly says in the op-ed that for “suburban” kids, rap music is usually a mere distraction. “But to young men with no fathers, no guidance, no structure, and very little hope, the thug life depicted in the music is a siren song.” The column then turns to criticism of President Barack Obama and the first lady for promoting what O’Reilly sees as similar entertainment:

“Rap music didn’t kill him, a policeman’s bullets did,” O’Reilly concludes. “But who knows whether his attitude towards cops, shaped by violent music, played some role in any possible confrontation?” Previously on his TV show, O’Reilly went after some news commentators for what he called their “lynch-mob justice” approach to the situation in Ferguson.
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[1StrongBlackMan]

1. Well ...

“But who knows whether his attitude towards cops, shaped by violent music, played some role in any possible confrontation?”

Here's a hint: The eye witness gave no indication that Michael Brown did nothing to express an "attitude" (oter than maybe his walking in the street, rather than on the sidewalk. Further, again according to the eye witness(es), Michael Brown ran, then stopped and raised his hands and said, "I don't shoot me", not "F@#k the police!"

[Generic Other]

4. The man suffers from nouveau affluenza

In O'Reilly's perfect world any inner city black teen is bound to have an "attitude towards cops." Bill O'Reilly asks disingenuous questions he already thinks he knows the answers to, questions that do not touch the heart of the problem but further fan the flames. He's a TV troll.

[Scootaloo]

8. But remember, O'Reilly's a white man, so is the more reliable source!

[XemaSab]

12. He probably played VIOLENT VIDEO GAMES and watched VIOLENT MOVIES AND TV SHOWS too!

Utterly out of control.

[Initech]

2. So what if it was found that the cops were listening to hardcore Norweigan death metal?

There's just about as much violent imagery and racism in those lyrics. What's your point, O'Reilly?

[FarPoint]

3. So the African American culture is what killed Michael Brown?

Am I understanding him correctly?

Maybe the Rap Community will speak up and correct the hate messenger , O'Reilly...

[alcibiades_mystery]

11. Why should anyone respond to a racist and white supremacist like Bill O'Reilly?

You mark him down as a racist to be ignored and move on.

[Louisiana1976]

14. Right. O'Reilly is spewing horsefeathers as usual.

[randys1]

5. And if shit hits fan in the streets people like O'Reilly will be safe in their gated communities

[MindPilot]

6. Mindpilot: Conservatism May Have Driven Bill O'Reilly to Stupidity.

So Bill, let's take a look at some of the lyrics you may have listened to when you were 18:

"If you want to be happy for the rest of your life, make an ugly woman your wife." If You Wanna Be Happy, Jimmy Soul

"I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man." Run For Your Life, Beatles

[madinmaryland]

7. STFU, Orally. nt

[Rex]

9. Looks like Billy O' Blowhard is trying to dethrone Rush as the biggest asshole in America.

[alcibiades_mystery]

10. Bill O'Reilly is a racist, pure and simple

His inordinate "concern" for black communities and supposedly black "behaviors" is just sign and symptom of a vicious and aggressive racism that he shares with his listeners.

He's a racist. I'd no more listen to him than I would David Duke. These people have nothing constructive to say because they are racists.

[drray23]

13. do they have a contest at fox

To see who can fit the most cliches in any story ?

So you get 5 pts for reference to rap culture, 10 if you can bring up benghazi, 20 for black on black crime, etc..
It sure seems that way. These people can not possibly be that dumb can they ?

[IggleDoer]

15. What music did the murderer Darren Wilson listen to.

Elevator music? Montivani?

[COLGATE4]

16. Bill O'Reilly. The Mouse that roared. nt

[0rganism]

17. "a pernicious culture that glorifies violence and misogyny"

Fox News?

[The empressof all]

18. Poor Bill...People are saying that....

Rare miniature banana maggots are slowly eating through his brain.

[AverageJoe90]

19. Oh, shut up, Bill. Just shut the fuck up. ENOUGH.

So WHAT if he listened to rap? So WHAT if he wrote his own rap lyrics? That doesn't make him a bad kid, you fucking dick! What is wrong with you?!

The fact that you've been engaging in trolling us liberals in general over the past few months(more than usual) is bad enough(you know damn well that "white privilege" is not a universal belief amongst liberals, including those of us actually involved in social justice causes, and fighting actual institutional injustice. [And many who do are really good folks with their hearts in the right place] Not that that didn't stop you from dishonestly conflating the two, but whatever. ).

But this shit is pretty much beyond the pale. Millions of African-American, Latino, etc. kids & young guys listen to rap music. And they don't hate on women. They don't join gangs or beat their children, or do hard drugs, etc.(Just as most video gamers don't go on killing sprees, just as most metalheads aren't a bunch of devil-worshipping crazies, etc.) If you ever bothered to actually take an objective look at reality, you'd know that they're perfectly ordinary people like everyone else.

Let's face it, Bill: you haven't been relevant outside the RWNJ circuit since your Inside Edition days ended.

[TheKentuckian]

20. What a stupid, racist motherfucker.