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Show The Salt Lake Tribune NATION Sunday,September Tucker was alarmed to learn that NAACP directors and trustees possibly could be held liable for misuse of money, by not keeping a close eye onthetill. She organized a group, the Save Our Ship Committee, last December, and through a relentless barrage of press conferences,letters, statements and lawsuits, battered Gibson until the board of directors voted him out of office in February. At the same time, Tucker was encouraging herold friend, Myrlie Evers-Williams, to take over. When Evers-Williams was elected, it was Tucker who pulled together an inaugural for her that netted $1.7 million in donations. That taken care of, Tucker Crusade Attacks Gangsta Rap @ From Previous Page ister prisoners to vote — well, those who were awaiting hearings but had not been convicted. In addition to her work with the National Political Congress of Black Women, Tucker is a member of the Democratic National Committee. She also helped establish the Bethune DuBois Fund, which aims to increase black voter registration and encourage candidacies amongblacks. Tucker dug into a different cause — salvation of the NAACP — with as much fervor as she has devoted to gangsta rap. AACP trustee, Tucker railed against board of directors Chairman William Gibson, upon ape up, the child replied, “‘a -- gangster,” Tucker said Despite private schools, summers with relatives in the Bahamas and general intervention by Tucker and her husband, Bill, the child remained under the influence of “gangsta” music. Other parents curbed her contact with their children, Tucker said, because the gangsta influences in herlife had madeherunruly. “She has the culture of a gangster,” Tuckersays. ““She’s already a social leper and she doesn’t know why.” Snoop Doggy Dogg, ak a Calvin Broadus,is a favorite Tuckertarget. She decries his “Doggystyle” 10,1995 album coverdepiction of a young woman as a voluptuous female dog. She read “Doggystyle” lyrics about gunplay, anal sex, marijuana and liquor — some of which call women “bitches” with “fleas” — and wentinto tirade. “T said, ‘You find out if this is sold to children.If it’s soldto children, we march,’ Tucker said. “It was because of Snoop Doggy worldly career woman and stern mother, Tucker canrecite a range of rap lyrics from memory, some- musiche distributes. songtitle. He was quite shocked that we don’t hate him,” Tucker says. “I didn’t know what ‘gangsta’ All the while, Tucker's mind harks back to the contributions of rap wasuntil I read a report of it in the newspaper,” Tuckersaid. the great women inher office. Misogynist rap endures, she says, because black people won't rise up againstit. “I saw these words: ‘Her body's beautiful. I'm thinking rape Slit her throat and watch her shake.’ I couldn't believeit. What Tuckerfinds more unbe- “They've never wanted black mento be warriors. Our warriors have been transformed into zom- lievable is the fact that gangsta rap is dominated by black men who she believes are playersin “a genocidal plan to destroy the Dogg.” Still, she doesn’t hold a personal grudge against the rapper. “ I believe he’s a nice fellow,” Tucker says. In a voice that teeters between - Al9 times even namingtheartist and bies,” she says. ‘All of this gangsta rap is because we didn’t stop it whenit started.” black male.” She told this to Death Row Chairman Marion “Suge” Knight, 29, in a meeting earlier this summer. With the “The children are finding now the street for home and the gang for family. Therefore, they're on the streets, and that’s whythey're singing these songs. tone of an elder, she asked Knight not to glorify violence with the turned back to rap music. It is a stand that Evers-Williams supports. “Her tenaciousness in pursuing thatis, in my estimation,to be applauded. 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