"African-American Leaders" week on NPR

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Mon--Juan Williams, Tues--Cory Booker, Mayor of Newark, NJ. I don't know the topics for the rest of the week. I'll note them as they are made available.

Unfortunately, black people have not been so integrated and accepted into this society such that the bad political stances of a few don't affect everyone else. (Why the Irish continue to whine, I'll never understand. :nopity:) As any regular reader here knows, esp. those that read Black Commentator and Black America Web know, the MSM doesn't highlight black people that take the general US society, economic system, and history to task. They highlight the self-hating lawn jockeys and corporate tools the RW corporate media trot out to let mainstream society feel good. I'd be suprised to see if they give Eric Michael Dyson or Cornell West or Tim Wise the same amount of unopposed airtime. The standard feel-comfortable mantra: Black people are responsible for their problems, racism is over and when will they stop whining about it? Get over it and move forward!

The MSM won't give airtime to anyone who tells the truth: this is a racial caste social system and corporate capitalist economic system and black people did not create it. Yet they're blamed for the evils of the system. As noted by Tim Wise in his article "Responsibility Is A Two-Way Street": As for Cosby -- white America's favorite black man (for now) -- perhaps we should ask how most whites felt about his comment several years ago that AIDS may well have been created by the U.S. Government as a plot to destroy certain communities; or the statement of his wife Camille when their son was murdered, in which she noted that America had taught her son's Russian killer to hate blacks. As I recall, most whites either said nothing in response to these claims, or went ballistic, accusing the Cosbys of "playing the race card." But, they couldn't get enough of Cosby's personal responsibility rant, as long as mainstream society wasn't the target.

Remember, black people "loot", white people "find".

If you really want to stump them, ask them to name one black game show host. I can't.

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1. Wednesday's article on "African-American Leadership"

this morning was John McWhorter, who works for a conservative think tank as stated in the interview. At least it's no secret that he's a RW lawn jockey. Three RW lawn jockeys in a row, we'll see who they have for the rest of the week.

Search the above names on Black Commentator (http://www.blackcommentator.com) to see what I mean.

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2. Thursday and Friday

Thursday--Ann Fudge, CEO of Young & Rubicon Brands. She spoke of black executives and business figures as role models. I personally think that's excellent, because too many kids think that the only way to success is via entertainment or as pro athletes. (writer's note: More residue of the racial caste system where black people are compelled to think that entertainment is the only way to success. The larger society too often sees not-white is the same as not qualified.)

Friday--Rev. Al Sharpton. I can't do him justice, you'll have to listen to the interview. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5635637