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The Official Newsletter of TheBlackMarket.com
for May 2008
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ONE
MAN'S OPINION
Wright & Wrong
I was wrong on Rev. Jeremiah Wright. When the Youtube videos
started showing up I think I was like a lot of people, thinking
oh snap, this bru is trippin in the pulpit. At the same time, I
assumed that his comments were probably taken out of context. And
Barack Obama went on TV and said he did not agree with everything
that Rev. Wright said, and also tried to open a dialogue with the
country on race (we ain't ready). After a few months it started
to die down, then Rev Wright went on PBS.
To his credit Bill Moyers played some of his sermons but in longer
pieces and you got to see what was said before and after the comments
that freaked everybody out. Then last weekend CNN, after catching
much grief from one
of their own, aired Rev. Wright's speech
to the Detroit NAACP in it's entirety. And I listened. And for
the life of me, I could not find anything racist, sexist, or any
other kind of -ist (if someone heard something that was please let
me know what it was). Then he addressed the National
Press Club. I haven't heard the whole speech, but the snippets
I did hear did not seem bad or any of the -ists listed above. But
then I realized, the problem is not Rev. Jeremiah Wright, it is
not Barack Obama. It is us.
Chris Matthews said Rev Wright had a big ego. I'm
thinking, does Chris Matthews personally know Rev. Wright? Probably
not. Does Chris Matthews have a big ego? Probably, but I don't know
him personally to make that statement. Over the last few weeks I've
heard a lot of reporters make comments like ".. in his latest
rant." or "you won't believe what he's said now"
or "... this train wreck just won't go away" when talking
about Rev. Wright. These "reporters" are allowed to make
these statements and no one holds their feet to the fire to defend
the statements. Since his last 2 public speeches, I've noticed that
now news shows will show him speaking in the background, but with
the sound off, while their own reporters talk about him. But this
is not meant to be about Rev. Wright. This is about the media.
The truly sad thing about this whole Rev. Wright
brouhaha is that it has gone so far beyond one man's actual or perceived
hatred of America. This is an election year and the media, contrary
to its claims to the contrary, has a horse in this race. Chris
Matthews asked a Barack Obama supporter to name any of Obama's legislative
accomplishments and he could not. But a moment later
his co-anchor asked Chris Matthews if he could name one of Hillary
Clinton's accomplishments - and he could not. But that's not important.
Fox News Reporter Chris Wallace tried
to blame Bill Clinton for not taking care of Osama Bin Laden.
Seeing as Bill had been out of office for 6 years at that
point., it seemed pretty late to be bringing this up. And answer
me this, who has said more things that seemed to be pulled from
a sphincter, things that are hurtful, ridiculous and personally
attacking: Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Rev.
John Hagee or Ann
Coulter? But while Rev. Wright can't go to the grocery
store without a camera following him, Ann is getting a free ride
and we won't even talk about the invisible Mr. Hagee, who stood
on stage with John McCain less than 3 months ago, after he said
"God
created Hurricane Katrina to punish New Orleans for its sins, particularly
a scheduled “homosexual parade there on the Monday that Katrina
came". It don't get much more hard core than that.
Is there racism involved? The media would say no.
This is the same media that reports on every
missing white female anywhere in the world, but conveniently
ignores missing non-white females. But they say they only report
on the stories that people want to hear about By that logic, more
people wanted to hear about the acquittal of 3 New York City police
officers in the
shooting death of unarmed party goer Sean Bell on the
morning of his wedding day than people who wanted to hear about
the original shooting. Even that statement is a joke. When was the
last time you got a call from a reporter asking what story you wanted
to hear about on that night's newscast? Reporters, and news shows
in general, talk about the stories that will get them the ratings
they want, like when an Idaho network reported on a sex offender
who worked with children. The fact that the charge
was 10 years old and had been dismissed by a judge was a minor detail.
The guy had not had any other charges filed since and was married
with daughters in the local schools. Now he can't go see his kids
in the school play anymore. Yeah, that's protecting the community.
FoxNews is an easy target because their slogan
is We Report, You Decide,
and everybody knows they do both, and not in that order. But CNN
and MSNBC are not that much different. No wonder most
people under 30 get their news from Comedy Central's The Daily Show.
It says something about the news when more young people turn to
a comedy show to get their news than the news shows. It's because
reporters are reporting the news less and less and trying to spin
it more and more. But not just spin it, embellish it and extend
it too. The media keeps saying the Rev. Wright story "just
won't go away." I guess not if you keep reporting it every
day. There must be 10-20 polls taken every day, with varying results,
and reporters pick the results they want to report on. I keep wondering
why are they even report what the polls say anyway. They're telling
us what we think. Or is it what they want us to think?
I'm rambling, but the point is that every time
Rev. Jeremiah Wright cuts the cheese 1,000 reporters are yelling
at Barack Obama to open a can of whip booty on him. And we still
have Americans and Iraqis dying - some say needlessly - in Iraq.
It is absolutely possibly to support the troops and not support
a mission that nobody understands what the goal is anymore. For
the record, I support our troops 100%. I support them so much I
hope they all come home safe. And I still think many of them, as
well as an uncounted number of Iraqi civilians have died for no
good reason.
I had a conversation with a member of the armed
services who'd been to Iraq a few times. He pointed out that what
he found amazing about Muslims in that part of the world is how
they could hold 2 diametrically
opposing thoughts in their mind at the same time. I'm thinking,
so did some of the signers of our Declaration
of Independence, who owned
slaves. Even though it says "...all
men are created equal...", in
their minds they decided the men they kidnapped
from Africa, who had 2 eyes, 2 arms, 2 legs, etc., just like they
did, were in fact not men. Wow, talk about 2 diametrically
opposing thoughts. And the fact that they specifically said "men",
says a lot about how they felt about their women. Many of these
same signers were God-fearing Bible toters who went to church every
Sunday. Amazing what you can justify in the name of religion.
My point is that this election is very, very important
to the future of this country. Everybody has their own opinion.
Don't vote for someone because someone told you to, or because your
candidate didn't win the nomination so you're going to hurt the
person who did. Pick your candidate based on what you think is the
best candidate given the concerns you and your family have, not
someone else. Go Ron Paul.
Iverson
Allen Iverson's Denver Nuggets are sitting home watching
the playoffs after catching a beatdown from the LA Lakers. Coincidently,
the same night they got eliminated, The Best Damn Sports Show was
doing a top 50 list which included a clip of how
Allen Iverson feels about practice.This was funny before,
now with him sitting home again, it's downright hilarious.
But then, this is just one man's opinion.
Let me know what you think. Hit me back at OneMan@TheBlackMarket.com.
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