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Why the ‘Pick Up Your Pants’ Rant Falls Short

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What’s your style? Baggy pants and N-word user? Modified suburban gangsta?

We’ve had a reprise of the Bill Cosby rant, most recently by Fox News icon Bill O’Reilly, who was then backed up by CNN’s Don Lemon.

O’Reilly, who has recently made a career move by writing on the killing of Presidents Kennedy and Lincoln, is hardly a sympathetic character when it comes to his view of Blacks, diversity or on any issue of race in this country.

But since he knows all about assassination, his assassination of Black culture should come as no surprise.

His latest rant put the Black community’s problems on the “disintegration of the African-American family,” drugs and the entertainment community’s embrace of gangsta culture.

Maybe he’s just afraid of how gangsta style is being adopted by suburban Whites through pop stars like Justin Bieber?

Of course, commentators like Chris Hayes slammed O’Reilly’s views as “super racist.”

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