Welcome to the age of free speech and dumb remarks!

Hello dear readers. After last months boring piece on the political races its obvious that people want the dirty stuff. It seems we (and when I say we, I mean black people) catch on to the smaller issues and would rather blow them out of proportion than come to grips with the facts. The expression goes the “truth hurts”, which is why a very good story of the Bruce Gordon matter never made the pages of the news letter and the same reason some old disgruntled out-dated and, until now, virtually irrelevant “shock jock” finally loses his job not over the comments he made but the fact that sponsors had started to take their dollars away, its all politics and bullshit. Don Imus to the rest of the United States was irrelevant and, now because of his remarks, is an overnight celebrity. So instead of writing some story blasting some idiot, let’s call a spade a spade. MONEY CONTROLLS EVERYTHING!! Although it was a nice gesture for the “Reverend” Al Sharpton to bring Mr. Imus in to do his radio show (which got really high ratings that morning by the way) which would equate to more money to his station but was not the intent of the good Rev at all or was it? Or did he push is own agenda so far that he might have gained one or two more listeners to add to his own growing popularity as “THE” civil rights leader.

Imus would have not lost his job if it weren’t for the money that MSNBC stands to lose or the funding we stand to lose if I write about Gordon’s departure that was canned before it got started and because the truth hurts! But lets look at the deeper issue here: Were does someone like Imus hear the phrase “Nappy headed hoes”? If you need a second to think about it then you’re probably older than I am and have no real record of just hearing that phrase and being black and not knowing just means that this white man might have more flavor than you, which I highly doubt. But I know where I have heard the phrase. Maybe you have heard of the rapper Ice Cube. Yeah the same guy who now is making family movies and comedies who has proudly proclaimed that he “started this gangster shit.” Wow, funny that an older white guy hears a whole generation talking about “nappy-headed hoes” and “bustin’ caps in niggas” played loudly in his same radio studio, I assume, and since rap is the biggest form of music in America we get mad at him for saying what we hear everyday on the radio, and not to bad mouth the genre of music (done that already), I am not going to blast a man who may be a racist for the fact that we as a people MUST change.

Here is what two of the writers that I idolize had to say on the subject Mr. Whitlock (journalist from Kansas City) was actually right on with his assessment of the whole situation. I have wrote about the fact that blacks must first be accountable for themselves especially when every other race seems to have it out for you (Kenneth Eng author of why I hate black people) or at least watches our self-destructive manner and wonders why we get upset if someone outside the race says the same thing our entertainers say or tell us. This is the exact reason the NAACP should have two separate wings: one for public service and one for protesting and lobbying, which seemed like the plan that Bruce Gordon had but it was shot down because it sounded too much like… right! Look, the days of the sit-in and the marches are over and we need services and funding for our poor southern black colleges, help with ex-cons to get jobs so they can stay ex-cons and not go back to what put them there in the first place and we need programs in place to help our mothers keep their kids out of the foster system. Causing a big deal to get an apology that was rehearsed for the lack of better word is lame! Not a day goes buy now that I and some friends turn the radio off and listen to some older rap or hip hop (whatever you want to call it) just because we can’t listen continuously to the dumb music that is being played today. Or the fact the our leaders today are some how scared to tackle the growing threat on Black America (ourselves) from the streets of Harlem to the blocks of Oakland, black kids are getting little to no help from our schools and the parents have little education so fighting the system seems pointless to them. We are in return stuck with poorly educated student body that can’t defend itself from the powers that get mad when someone outside (the race) uses some of “our” slang. My good people we must change not conform but change. Until then so long Mr. Imus I hoped you enjoyed your last fifteen minutes of fame!!