That's the PROBLEM we think everyone needs to be heard.The message can be about Black economics and some random jackass gonna stand up and start talking about slut shaming ,gender norms or how some other non Black group is being treated unfairly and next thing you know no one is focusing on the real issue anymore.
Black people as a group do not understand how acquiring power works.Look at anyone who has ever had to fight their way into power and you'll see that any dissenting voices or would be trouble makers were identified and purged immediately.We allow a number of people with clear ulterior motives to be amongst us and wonder why we can't get shit done.No excuse at all that his platform shouldn't have been used to 100% defend Nate Parker.
Well we know now why he was dancing a jig and was soft on Hillary Clinton.He was busy slipping her side debate questions looking out for himself instead just like all Black democrats and political pundits do which is why we as a community are in the state we are in now.
Wheres NewsOnes coverage of the ongoing purge of Black people from Amercian cities thats been going on the last 15 years?The lead exposures of poor Black communities thats been linked to learning difficulties and violent behavior that can explain a lot of the dysfunction we see in the hood especially in his hometown Chicago where this study was done?Why isn't the CBC being brought up to task for their failure to represent Black people instead of corporate interests?How about the many Black mayors in Black cities who get in office and end up doing nothing for the people?
People voted into leadership positions need to be held accountable and put on blast when they are fucking up but it's obvious we can't trust Roland on that since he seems to be playing the game as well.
NewsOne is not the place I go to get informed about anything.
Family, you are deflecting.
You mentioned that show that Roland did about Nate Parker and said that he brought on Nate's detractors as if that made him a coon. Then you said he
should have done the show defending Nate. Then I pointed out that he had guests on who did just that and that at the end, all including his detractors agreed that people should go see the film. Where have you seen such a consensus on a white station?
Instead of acknowledging that, you deflected off onto TV-One being a bust because it doesn't cover the isssues you listed, and therefore TV-One doesn't really reflect the interests of the Black community. Well, how many shows has Tariq had on about lead exposure and the non-representation of the CBC?
You already know that Tariq's overreaction at Roland defending a Sista from being called a "negro bed wench" was way overblown. Let's stay on topic. Bottom line. When we criticize one for not being "on code", but excuse the "off code" behavior of the pundit we favor, that is a double standard.
We should be able to publicly disagree with each other on issues without turning to personal insults. That burns bridges and cuts off opportunities for coalition. It breeds dissension and disunity and plays into the hands of our oppressors - whose wish has always been to see us disunified and fighting. Back in the 60s the FBI under COINTELPRO lowkey sent poison pen letters between Black power groups to instigate them to hate each other. In 2016 going into 2017, brothers are doing the same thing without the help of white supremacists. Volunteer slavery.
My point is this. We should be broad minded and mature enough to realize that no one is going to be everything we want them to be. But just like any healthy relationship, we need to be able see where - in spite of our differences, we can bring our individual strengths to the table and unify on common causes. Tariq, Boyce, Roland, Umar all have something useful to offer.
I would have loved to have been able to see Roland have Tariq on his show maybe even with Van Jones on deck to discuss the issues of the day - or vice versa. I would have loved to have seen them coalesce around a common cause. Their collective potential strength of their individual gifts is astounding.
But when instead of responding to disagreement in a thoughtful way, one goes onto a campaign of ridicule and insults - all chances of unifying are all but killed. All over some stupid ego shit. Our prominent Black folks, the ones who are doing it, need to stop that shit. Yesterday.
Once upon a time, two others disagreed in what approach to take towards our liberation. They disagreed with methods and even with whom the other appeared to represent, but never was it personal.
Malcolm X on Dr. King:
"He got the peace prize, we got the problem.... If I'm following a general, and he's leading me into a battle, and the enemy tends to give him rewards, or awards, I get suspicious of him. Especially if he gets a peace award before the war is over."
"I'll say nothing against him. At one time the whites in the United States called him a racialist, and extremist, and a Communist. Then the Black Muslims came along and the whites thanked the Lord for Martin Luther King."
"Dr. King wants the same thing I want -- freedom!"
"The goal has always been the same, with the approaches to it as different as mine and Dr. Martin Luther King's non-violent marching, that dramatizes the brutality and the evil of the white man against defenseless blacks. And in the racial climate of this country today, it is anybody's guess which of the "extremes" in approach to the black man's problems might personally meet a fatal catastrophe first -- "non-violent" Dr. King, or so-called "violent" me."
Dr. King on Malcolm X
"I met Malcolm X once in Washington, but circumstances didn't enable me to talk with him for more than a minute. He is very articulate ... but I totally disagree with many of his political and philosophical views — at least insofar as I understand where he now stands. I don't want to seem to sound self-righteous, or absolutist, or that I think I have the only truth, the only way. Maybe he does have some of the answer. I don't know how he feels now, but I know that I have often wished that he would talk less of violence, because violence is not going to solve our problem. And in his litany of articulating the despair of the Negro without offering any positive, creative alternative, I feel that Malcolm has done himself and our people a great disservice. Fiery, demagogic oratory in the black ghettos, urging Negroes to arm themselves and prepare to engage in violence, as he has done, can reap nothing but grief."
"You know, right before he was killed he came down to Selma and said some pretty passionate things against me, and that surprised me because after all it was my territory there. But afterwards he took my wife aside, and said he thought he could help me more by attacking me than praising me. He thought it would make it easier for me in the long run."