RE: Is Quinn Gray a sick woman or a desperate housewife?

Posted by n on 11.11.09 @ 11:37 AM

Are you serious? Still with the whole not getting enough media attention slant? I mean, Tawana Brawley got plenty of attention. Didn't garner nearly as much when her story turned out to be a complete lie. Same deal with Megan Williams. Crystal Gail Mangum's charade dominated the news for months, the truth maybe a couple of days.

I think it's one of two things. One, blacks only make up 13% of the population and since news outlets make money from demographically targeted advertising, they're going to cover stories that more heavily appeal to larger markets. This would be pretty obvious to anyone else. Anyone else. Anywhere. Idiot.

Possibility two, and the more likely one, is that with real kidnappings the perpetrator generally nabs someone of their own race. It's a fact, you can look... I mean have someone that knows what research is look it up for you. Since the media is afraid to touch any story that even remotely puts a black person in a bad light, stories like that have to be dealt with kid gloves. It's just very touchy and even you have to at least be able to see that. If they start putting real deal racial crime figures out there, it's not going to do much for your whole "po lil' black foke" approach to life and, let's face it, a lot of people rely very heavily on that to get by. This column certainly wouldn't exist without it.

Along your same lines though, there has been zero follow up on the two black guys that attacked that girl Uptown last week. I mean, rapists are on the loose, but the lack of coverage on that doesn't seem to be rattling your cage much. Since the media never published the suspects' descriptions, readers could pretty much assume that the suspects were black, those kid gloves again. So if this kind of thing happens so often, that the media is afraid of accurately reporting VITAL details, you really can't think it's that crazy that someone would use black men to bolster their story.

This was kind of a critical study, the lack of even attention to all stories is definitely a massive societal problem, you're just entirely to obtuse, whiny, and mired in that pathetic sense of martyrdom to see what the real issue is.

I saw some stuff about Lindsay Lohan in the news this week, I assume that means in three weeks you'll be on top of that critical study, which is good because stories like that don't require any sort of logic or consistency, your two main weak points.

RE: Racism in the 21st century

Posted by n on 10.25.09 @ 07:49 PM

Well put Frank. If it's true, it's not really racist. It might be unpleasant to confront, but it hardly registers as unfair.

That said, these actors that did this skit in black face. It's technically just makeup, unless N Word is claiming the Jackson Five weren't black I really can't see how this is that serious an affront. It's not like they were portrayed as illiterate criminals having a bunch of babies they had no intention of taking care of. Now that would be really raci..., wait, no it wouldn't.

RE: Jon and Kate: All that glitters ain't gold

Posted by n on 08.04.09 @ 08:52 PM

This is the worst issue of US Weekly I've ever read. Wait. I'm sorry, I thought I'd been transported to a gynecologist's waiting room. This barely qualified as news when it was news, two months ago.

Critical issue, really.

RE: Is Dr. Regina Benjamin too fat to be surgeon general?

Posted by n on 08.01.09 @ 08:37 AM

Is she too fat to be surgeon general? No, there's no weight requirement. Does it set a good example, not really. I think a more appropriate question would be, is she the most qualified candidate for the job or is she part of the new administration's policy of "if you're a minority without a felony record you're hired". It'd be like putting some thug with a bunch of kids in charge of family services. She definitely sounds like an accomplished doctor, but surely there's someone out there with more experience that's not 50 pounds overweight. Would you want a surgeon general who chain smoked and had arms covered in track marks? Obesity is a major problem in this country, it's just as unhealthy as smoking, and for some reason it seems to disproportionately affect the black population. These high ranking officials aren't just tasked with doing their jobs, their also expected to set an example, and I'm afraid she just doesn't cut it. I don't think anyone finds her scary, it's just kind of hypocritical to have someone in charge of mandating health policy when they can't even get themselves in shape.

RE: NCAA and NBA rules lead to pimping of athletes

Posted by n on 06.16.09 @ 10:58 PM

Ms. Critical Studies, I realized referring to you as Dr. may come off as insulting to real doctors with legitimate Ph.Ds, you have really outdone yourself this time. You're comparing slavery with having kids stay in school for a whole YEAR? Kind of takes the sting out of the idea of four centuries of forced labor don't you think? Or maybe you think slavery really wasn't that bad, although you have to admit it certainly has come back to bite decent society in the ass.

First off, it's a big deal that Floyd gave Mayo $1000 because it's against the rules. Regardless of how much money he made them, at present the rule is the rule and they're expected to follow it. I will give you this, you're "everyone's doing it" attitude explains the overwhelmingly black prison population. Moron.

And of course it's racist because it doesn't apply to Europeans. Couldn't have anything to do with their completely different secondary educational system. Nope, if black people are involved, it's got to be racism. Speaking of racism in basketball, how about we institute affirmative action, I mean diversity, so we start seeing some more white faces out there. Let's face it, if I have to put up with uneducated, ill mannered, black people that dress like their on their way to "da club" while speaking that ever devolving dialect of yours every day in a professional environment just to satisfy some asinine notion of fair play, I imagine basketball audiences could put up with some more white influence. I mean, you got your degrees through these handout programs, share the wealth sista.

It's a real shame that these players and their moms, more likely their grandmothers (and let's be fair, definitely not their fathers) can't see their luck in being at a college at all. Maybe these "kids" shouldn't be relying on basketball as their sole means of opportunity in life. Perhaps they should look at college as a guaranteed, yes guaranteed, means of advancement instead of the astronomically slim shot of playing professional ball.

On the plus side, I saw Lindsay Lohan was in the news today so I imagine in two weeks you'll be all over that subject as a recent critical newsworthy event. I really can't believe even you, in your endless stupidity, would compare this to slavery. Mocking slavery to draw attention to your crusade/charade is a disgrace I would have even thought beneath you. Silly N Word, there's just no low you won't sink to. Must be pretty bored since Rushmore closed.