Now that Chaz Bono has mercifully been voted off “Dancing with the Stars,” it’s time to talk about the real controversy involving the ABC show. And no, it wasn’t Bono’s appearance.
There was controversy aplenty when it was announced that Bono would be on the show — dancing with a woman.
Problem is Bono was born female; since then Bono embraced the transgender phenomenon, which goes something like this:
Guy or gal feels he or she would be more comfy being the opposite gender. Guy or gal then makes an effort to look and live like a member of that gender.
Transgender guys who want to be female insist on being called “she.” Transgender females who want to be male insist on being called “he.”
Throughout Bono’s run on “DWTS,” just about everybody called Bono “he.” I was not among them; my position on this is clear.
Unless and until Bono can show me that Bono possesses one X chromosome and one Y chromosome each, I’ll not refer to Bono as “he.” It’s a matter of strict scientific fact with me.
If those on the left-liberal side of the political debate insist that creationists adhere to strict scientific dogma when it comes to evolution, then they should insist on the same thing when it comes to the scientific definition of determining the gender of Homo sapiens.
That aside, I had no real problem with Bono’s “DWTS” appearance. Those who claimed Bono being on “DWTS” compromised the show’s “family appeal” missed the boat: ABC execs did that quite some time ago.
It happened the season that Master P, whom some consider a “hip-hop star,” was on the show. Master P’s atrocious dancing was bad enough, but when he made some comment about how he came from a community where “snitching” was frowned upon, that, for me, was when the show hit rock bottom.
Master P was referring to the “stop snitching” craze that way too many rappers buy into. The strict interpretation of the “stop snitching” code requires that one criminal not snitch on another criminal or criminals who committed a crime with him.
That notion has since devolved into the idea that no one — even private citizens not involved in crime and who don’t want it in their neighborhoods — is supposed to call police and report crime. Here’s how bad it got at one point.
A rapper named Cam’ron went on the television show “60 Minutes” and righteously proclaimed that he would never snitch, on anyone.
When the interviewer asked Cam’ron if he’d call police if he knew a serial killer lived right next door to him, the rapper nixed the idea.
Even serial killers, in Cam’ron’s world and the world of other rappers, deserve the “stop snitching” protection.
This has led, in some of the black inner cities of America, to a situation of “snitches” being killed. The most horrendous example occurred on Oct. 16, 2002, in Baltimore.
Angela and Carnell Dawson had repeatedly called police to stop drug dealers from hawking their wares in front of their homes.
One of them, a man named Darrell Brooks, kicked in the door of the Dawson home, poured gasoline in the doorway and tossed in a lit match. The Dawsons and their five children died in the blaze.
Master P, in his “DWTS” comments, gave implicit endorsement to Brooks’ actions. So did ABC execs, none of whom live in those black inner cities where the fires are raging and the bullets are flying.
ABC execs did it again when they had rapper Lil’ Kim on the show, fresh off her prison stint for not “snitching.”
Compared with the appearance of Master P and Lil’ Kim, Bono’s “DWTS” appearance was downright mainstream.
Examiner Columnist Gregory Kane is a Pulitzer nominated news and opinion journalist who has covered people and politics from Baltimore to the Sudan.
