Category Archives: world history

RE: MSM and Africa: Finally, A Discussion On “Soft” White Media Supremacy

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Well! I’ll give Nicholas Kristof credit for his honesty. These folks only admit that whites matter more than Blacks in stories about Africa in academic books and J-seminars and such. (I first noted the problem when I was 25 or so, when Amy Biehl died and ABC’s “Primetime Live” pulled out the stops.) So it’s good to finally see this mostly intra-racial discussion (as in, among whites 🙂 ) in the mainstream media.

Of course, what’s always missing is a harder—and Blacker—perspective. So here it is, and some comment about it.

I *Heart* Broadcasting While Black!

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Ah, what an appropriate post for Number 600!

Man, I am LOVING the “Broadcasting While Black” site. (Roxie Roker from “The Jeffersons” was a host of one of the shows! LOL!) New material is up, but it takes a LONG time to load.  So while waiting, I found the above on Google Video. The show is called “For The People.” Its host is Listervelt Middleton.

A related comment: I have also been LOVING the idea of “Like It Is” being online. I have been slightly disappointed, though, with the reality of the small time window WABC-TV has created on the “Like It Is” page to see the shows. Well, I can now report that many of the episodes that WABC-TV has put online (but moved off of its main page) are available if you search “Like It Is” within Google Video! I knew WABC-TV was not erasing them! YES!!!!!

SEPTEMBER 19th UPDATE: I clearly spoke too soon. The old, “archived” links listed on Google Video don’t work, and “Like It Is” only keeps the current show (or two) on its page. *SIGH*.

The Last Word On……..

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…..the debate between Jews on Gaza. Once again, NPR’s “On The Media” provides great (mainstream) radio. I also enjoyed the reaction.

……Helen Thomas. Damn. Talk about no one being safe. The real loss is the vaccuum of White House press corps skepticism that will now be all too evident.

…….Wilbert Rideau’s coming out party. Congrats!

CLICK THE ABOVE IMAGE for additional PHOTOS OF DEBRAHLEE LORENZANA.

…….the woman who claims she got fired from her job because she was too fine. I believe her! LOL! 🙂 Yes, sue, sue, sue! And CONGRATS to my blog sponsor Saswat, who took the inital pictures of her seen around the globe! My friend Saswat is now a prominent photojournalist in addition to being a new daddy and a revolutionary! Hat trick! LOL!

Asante Sana, Lena Horne

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I hope you find peace in the Realm of the Ancestors. You sure worked hard enough for it.

I’m glad that your commitment to what Negro newspapers used to call “the race” has not been forgotten. I’ll never forget how shocked I was to see your Op-Eds in The People’s Voice on the same page as Paul Robeson and W.E.B. Du Bois!