one good thing that can be said of this imess incident is that it exposed all the news critics of their own hypocrisy. where were all of these black talking heads before? as soon as this incident blew up, you began to see the high number of highly qualified black journalists and pundits that were always there. they were on all the stations; cnn, fox news, msnbc. hell, even the animal channel had black talking heads on it last week. now a truly progressive step would be to have black, latino and other minority people on those stations when the topic isn't on race but "non- race" issues like the war in iraq, the troubling economy and other topics that don't need a black face attached to it for legitimacy.
one more thing before we finish:
it is the 60th anniversary of the day that my hero, the one and only jackie robinson broke baseball's color barrier. you wouldn't know it today, but people really used to believe that black people couldn't play sports. what is that tom brokaw says about that era being the greatest generation? whatever. i hope that god continues to bless that great man from cairo, georgia and his family. may we all have as much courage as he did in our struggles. if people had even an ounce of the courage that he displayed throughout his life they wouldn't need a press conference to illustrate their dignity, an al sharpton to be their spokesman or an apology from an old man for that doesn't know them.
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