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April 16, 2007
The guy looked like a pervert
If black Americans in 2007 are this delicate and overreact to the slightest insults with this much unrighteous indignation, it’s pretty safe to say black people are not made the way they used to be, of stronger stuff, able to withstand truly demeaning and criminal treatment at the hands of true oppressors. It’s sad to know that the children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren of people who faced actual oppression are so much weaker, much less discerning, and much more undignified.
"Don Imus, Booker T., and XM Radio," by La Shawn Barber, La Shawn Barber's Corner, April 11, 2007
What Imus said is lowdown indeed, but so is the way blacks refer to each other. And life goes on.
Street theater is not strength. It saps energy better put to other uses. The focus we'll be dedicating to the next gaffe sometime in (this time I'll give myself a little more wiggle room) May will mean that much less commitment to addressing black people's real problems.
"A dangerous detour: Cycles of outrage and apology distract blacks from confronting many big, chronic problems," by John McWhorter, The New York Daily News, April 10, 2007
While we’re fixated on a bad joke cracked by an irrelevant, bad shock jock, I’m sure at least one of the marvelous young women on the Rutgers basketball team is somewhere snapping her fingers to the beat of 50 Cent’s or Snoop Dogg’s or Young Jeezy’s latest ode glorifying nappy-headed pimps and hos.
I ain’t saying Jesse, Al and Vivian are gold-diggas, but they don’t have the heart to mount a legitimate campaign against the real black-folk killas.
"Imus isn’t the real bad guy: Instead of wasting time on irrelevant shock jock, black leaders need to be fighting a growing gangster culture," by Jason Whitlock, The Kansas City Star, April 11, 2007
Posted at April 16, 2007 05:57 AM | Categories: America
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