Russell Simmons Calls For Removal of Offensive Words

  /  04.23.2007

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On Monday, Russell Simmons recommended eliminating the words “bitch,” “ho,” and “nigger” from the recording industry, considering them “extreme curse words.” The call comes less than two weeks after radio personality Don Imus’ nationally syndicated and televised radio show was canceled amid public outcry over Imus calling a women’s basketball team “nappy-headed hos.”

“We recommend that the recording and broadcast industries voluntarily remove/bleep/delete the misogynistic words ‘bitch’ and ‘ho’ and the racially offensive word ‘nigger’,” Simmons and Benjamin Chavis, co-chairmen of the advocacy group Hip-Hop Summit Action Network, said in a statement.

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