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Looks like there’s a new craze in the publicity-winning social faux pas. Taking a page from Micheal Ray Richardson’s playbook, bullet riddled gangsta rapper 50 Cent would like to let you know that his lawyers are Jewish. And vicious.
The NY Daily News reports
Hip-hop artist 50 Cent added his two cents on the Tony Yayo assault case - and inserted his foot in his mouth at the same time.
Yayo, a member of 50 Cent’s notorious G-Unit crew, was arrested last week for allegedly attacking the 14-year-old son of music industry rival Jimmy (Henchmen) Rosemond last month in Manhattan.
50 Cent called into “Miss Jones in the Morning” on Hot 97 yesterday and said the 29-year-old Yayo’s troubles won’t hurt his crew.
But then he added, “Worry about the Je-Je-Je-Jew unit. They’re the real goon squad. When the lawyers come out, you’ll see what it is. I don’t pay nobody. I only pay the lawyers.”
Fitty said neither he nor Yayo had anything to do with the assault.
According to a contributor to AllHipHop Rumors,
I heard that Shady Records [Eminem’s record label] actually started this Jew-Unit thing a few years ago in 2004. From what I was told (but haven’t confirmed), Shady printed up some T-shirts and they said “Jew Unit” and on the back it said “Get Rich and Don’t Spend It.” I don’t know if this is true, but from what I understand, Jewish people there actually made the T-shirts. It wasn’t meant to be offensive, just funny. Nowadays, people are offended.
I will say this: I'm so jealous of my parents. All their Old School social circles are so very mixed; Jews, Blacks, Quaker WASPs, "ethnic" Irish and Baltic. I watch them together at holidays and gatherings, and the "slurs" fly so free I am prone to blushing. What is different today, that it is impossible for a Jew to make and successfully promote a modern day "Blazing Saddles," and that there were very few Jews at the Million Man March?
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As a Negro Jew homo, I'm offended by much in the world. These comments may not be offensive to 50's lawyers or other Jews he works with, but in a larger context this is obviously a play on how stereotypically vicious Jews are and is at its best a problematic statement. The shirts are just overtly offensive to the point that it would have to remain an inside joke or else be deemed highly anti-Jewish. (Though I'm sure the people in on the joke, whether Jewish or not, are very amused by this juvenile shit).
He should get at least as much castigation
as your average nationally-radio-and-TV-syndicated commentator that refers to top-ranked (I mean educationally, not just athletically) college basketball-playin' women as "nappy-headed hos".
(And that Shul site is indeed kewl, thanks for the tip. Loved the piece about the Christianist group alerting us to the rabbi leading the Jewish War on Easter. As the rabbi put it:
Satire isn't just dead in this country, satire will get your ass shot off, metaphorically anyway.
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What is different today, that it is impossible for a Jew to make and successfully promote a modern day “Blazing Saddles”...
One could argue that Borat is the new Blazing Saddles.
so?
im a jew too and i think its ok becuase he didnt think of offensing anyone and by the is he was an hater or racist he wouldnt hire jews to the job or singing in a bat mitzvah