DISTURBING MUSIC RAP VIDEO

by Lynette Long

I have thought long and hard about posting this video because it is so disturbing.  The blatant disrespect it shows toward women, not just Republican women, is alarming.  It saddens me that not only are women not outraged by this video but participate in this.  Again I feel frustrated by the silence that envelopes the womens groups that are supposed to protect all women not just Democratic women. The task for equality seems impossible at times.  Stand tall women.  Stand with me. And find the names of the boys in this band and their email addresses.  Please help.

Comments

[samanthasmom]

After spending last evening conversing with the women and men at the New Agenda, Ezra Stead has removed his video from all sites where he had uploaded it. Hopefully, the conversation will stick with him.

[samanthasmom]

Ezra Stead, the young man who created this video, has joined the conversation at the New Agenda.

[Mary O'Bryan]

The Dems no longer represent me because they are a very changed party since 2000. I am now Independent and will vote for McCain/Palin. This is the first time in my adult life that I will vote Republican.

[samanthasmom]

The New Agenda is tracking this young man down. I have contacted the faculty in the film making department where he goes to school so that they can see what he is doing with the skills they have taught him and invited the president of his college to comment at the New Agenda blog. It's time to turn the heat up on the perpetrators of this stuff like Ezra Stead. NOW is a joke. They have become the Ladies' Auxillary to the Democratic Party. We need to make them irrelevant.

[Alice Paul]

I weep and weep. Nothing is won because N.O.W. was bought and paid for by Soros. They do NOT stand with us or speak for us. They have been sold to the highest bidder and old, rich white man with an agenda...an agenda cloaked in so called "good" but, he is fond of saying he feels nothing at many injustices.

Kim Gandy please step down now.

We are in the middle of a hate spree against my gender. It's being condoned. It's being encouraged. The consequences to our sons and daughters are REAL.

I weep but, I also FIGHT. This is never going away until it's answered for. Have you seen the venom and hatred being encouraged and inflamed to ever higher levels on Kos lately?? Go look, it won't surprise you then that it's being justified. They're on a ride of dangerous evangelical hatred and many don't even understand why or care the damage that is being done.

This video is a symptom of a larger problem. Men and women of good conscience HAVE to stand against this and do so strongly.

"Jackie" many of us have been threatened. Children too. Stay safe. My thoughts are with you and everyone who is being threatened in this time of "change" and "hope" in the name of hatred. HATRED against gender or anyone who speaks the truth against the Obama shirts.

Speak the truth anyway people, no one else will do it for us. Most especially not N.O.W. anymore, they can't afford to or they'd lose their generous donation from their sugar daddy. Enough!!

[Lynette]

I am heartened that most of you respond to this video the same way I do. For those of you that want to take action, call NOW in Washington DC. If you can show up on NOW's doorstep, even better. Make yourself heard. Thanks.

[Jackie]

I am horrorfied. I called the NOW and I plan on showing up at their DC offices to ask why it condones violence against women.

I have been harassed and threatened for my work on behalf of John McCain. My college aged daughter has been harassed and feels threatened on Campus at American University because she is a natural conservative and big McCain-Palin supporter.
But now Obama workers have threatened my 10 year old daughter.

Obama is a thug and so are his supporters. Women and their interests are not served by him or what was once called the DNC. THe increasing violence and Obama's inability to repudiate the perps tells me he approves of the violence. HE refused last night inthe debate to repudiate the horrific things said and done by his supporters. But whined about 1 alledged incident of threat against him (which according to the Secret Service was not legit).

As women we either support one another or we will always be standing in the back of the bus.

[christmasghost]

Thank you for bringing this disgusting video to everyone's attention.
My real fear? If that socialist Barack Hussein Obama gets "elected" America will never recover.
There will be no going back, your children will be indoctrinated and you won't have a thing to say about it.
A.C.O.R.N. will decide all future elections [like they are this year] and entitlement and lack of personal responsibility will rule the day.Being a decent ,hardworking American will be a thing of the past.
IF it is remembered at all.....
I do not recognize my country anymore...and I never thought I would ever say that.......

[RealChange]

No, I don't think free speech should be censored,

We are exercising OUR right of free speech by condemning this kind of violent, pornographic, misogynistic inflammatory spewing of filth.

We condemn the KKK. We condemn atrocious racism and WE CONDEMN THIS.

Just because someone has the "right" to do something this despicable, doesn't make it "alright" to do it. We have the "right" to say that also!

[Cassandra]

Dr. Long,

I have been so thankful for your work during Hillary's primary campaign. You have been such a standard bearer for what is right and such a crusader against what is wrong with the way women are treated. As Hillary said, women's issues are human rights issues. Your work on caucus fraud made that clear because the fraud has impacted men as well as women, though it was clearly directed mostly against women.

The video is disgusting. I am truly frightened about the state of morals of many of our younger people today. How young women can participate in a video like this is inexplicable, unless you see them as victims of the "culture" that they grew up in. I can't imagine how they will feel as they grow older and look back on their lives. No dignity, no self-respect, no sense of sisterhood--no sense of the way they might feel as they are facing the last minutes of their lives and having to look back on how they lived them.

I know many young men and women who would also find this sort of thing disgusting. The thing is that they are not making disgusting videos or watching disgusting videos. They live in rural areas, small towns, suburbs, and cities. They are dedicated to service and making the world better. My fervent hope is that those young people will come through on Nov. 4 to counter the thuggish behavior that is exhibited in the video.

I am so frightened because this thuggish behavior has attached itself to Obama's campaign. Consistent with his history of taking advantage of the "power" of the nasty characters he's used to rise in the world, he uses these types to get what he wants and pretends their maliciousness has nothing to do with him.

I have said it on other threads on NoQuarter, Obama makes me think of Faust. He's sold his soul.

[DWF]

This is a true shame. From what I have seen of Obama supporters and their behavior, this country is in really seriour trouble if NUTJOB takes the highest office in the land. Where have we went wrong? I think some of the "WOMEN'S" feminist movement needs to go back to the drawing board. They have missed the mark if this video is to depict "equal"rights for women.

McCain/Palin 08

[Beverly in KY]

I'm from the wrong century, so I wouldn't have any idea who the members of the band are.

The sadness I've felt about the behaviour of the young women in these videos is indescribable. This behavior goes back a way, the first I remember seeing it was in clips on tv from the "Girls Gone Wild" videos. I have no idea how it came to be that girls have so little respect for themselves when so much effort has been put into elevating the position of women. This behavior reflects a culture without a moral compass.

[MBC]

Dear Dr. Long,
I was unable to view the video, it indicated it was no longer available, but that is just as well. I actually sobbed when I saw the pictures of the protesters wearing their "Sarah Palin is a C===" t-shirts, so watching this would have made things worse I am sure. Maybe it was pent up frustration about this election tinged with a deep, deep sadness for the state of current affairs. I don't know, but it is lingering and I am feverishly praying for an Obama defeat. Thank you for all your wonderful posts on No Quarter, they are witty and enlightening. This is my first visit to your site, I will be back.

[caringnurse1]

I am sickened by those who took part in the making of this video and those who enjoy its content.. They not only have no respect for others.They have no SELF-RESPECT or they would not lower themselves to this level. They are scum!

[Idunn]

Here's the rappers My space addy:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=56368957

[ladynite54]

Dr. Long;
I could not even watch the whole video, the world is going straight to hell in a hand basket unless the parents take responsibility of their children.

They let them watch anything on television, wear any kind of clothes and try to be their friend instead of their parent.

The followers of Barack Hussein Obama are no better than what I see everyday. We must not let Obama and his O-Bots take control of our country. Heaven help us all if this empty suited Chicago hustler gets into the White House.

I am black and I will never vote for Obama after the way he and his thuggish supporters treated Hillary and her family and supporters. May they all rot in hell.

I am a PUMA and will never come back to the folds of being a Democrat, I am ashamed I ever thought they were the good guys.

[jdona]

I don't know what to say. I've never been this disgusted in my life. What in God's name are they trying to even say? The imagery in it is God awful, and the fact he would use this is beyond comprehension. I have to believe he only meant to use the shock value of it to try to make a name for himself, and that it was all about his own publicity. No one else would be this crass and this crude.

[cal]

Thank you for shining a spotlight on this video. It needs to be seen, and I've never felt taller.

[Idunn]

If anyone does find the email info, please post it here. Thanks.

[wodiej]

disgusting piece of TRASH. But then most of Obama's followers are just that. The women in the video are trash too. Glad they are not on my side.

[sarainitaly]

Ezra Stead made the video.

[Snickers]

I am a longtime feminist and former my state chapter of NOW (I'm still on the executive board). I am still outraged by misogynist behavior of Obama, his wife, his proxies, and the DNC. I will be voting McCain/Palin this year and probably for the U.S. Senate slot and the U.S. Congress slot as well. I've shared these feelings with the National NOW President and have received no response except an announcement that our NOW PAC was endorsing That One. I am the only member in my immediate family who's a political activist and who's voting McCain/Palin. Everyone else has told me I'm nuts and how wonderful Barry and his wife are. This video you posted here and at NQ is too disgusting for to finish watching. But that's what this election has done to our country: put women's rights and race relations back decades. When I think of all the hundreds of hours I've spent at my state capitol protecting reproductive choice while working on equality for all, just to have my siblings and their children (I'm a lesbian who has no children) mouth Roe v. Wade at me and how much they hate Sarah Palin and Hillary wasn't good enough and then spout more sexist blather, I realize that I have absolutely no more interest in preserving their reproductive rights. I visited the local Republican office today and donated money and bought some buttons, but I live in a heavily voting Obama area of my state and I doubt if we will go red this year.
I will end with something I should have started this post with: Thank you for all our hard and long work. Thank for the informative caucus fraud information. Thank you for standing up for all of us. I support you and send you blessings and appreciation.

[Medusa]

Ezra Stead

Here's his Myspace page
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=56368957

[samanthasmom]

If you don't have an account at YouTube, create one and flag this video. The more of us that do it, the better. Be outraged! It only takes couple of minutes.

[x_eleven]

"Again I feel frustrated by the silence that envelopes the womens groups that are supposed to protect all women not just Democratic women."

They don't even protect Demovratic women: just ask Hillary Clinton or any of her female supporters. The trendie-leftie whackos in charge of the DNC made sexism respectable again.

It's been the right wing and the Republicans who've done more for women these days. I will remember that when I go to the polls this election day.