Is Black Radio Poisoning Our Kids?

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Source: Black and Married with Kids / by Tara Pringle Jefferson

by Tara Pringle Jefferson

By now, if you’ve spent any time listening to a Radio One station over the past several months, you’ve heard Radio One founder Cathy Hughes screeching about how H.R. 848 The Performance Rights Act, sponsored by congressman John Conyers, will put black radio stations out of business. The bill aims to make it right with artists by making radio stations pay extra fees to play their songs.

In one camp, there’s well…Cathy Hughes, who insists that this bill REPRESENTS THE END. She’s oh so serious about this, y’all.

On the other hand, there are people who wish black radio WOULD take a leap off the deep end. I used to think they were a little extreme. Surely the songs played by black radio can’t be that bad. But then my XM radio subscription ended and before I went to re-up, I decided to listen to it and see if I could skip the $9.99 a month payments and just listen to music for free in the car.

Now? Eh, I think I’ll go back to XM.

I do not mind when artists come out with sexually explicit songs. I really don’t. They have a right to express themselves however continue reading