Watching the Sunday morning discussion programs on ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, etc. I recognize that the freedoms and liberties that African American soldiers are fighting and dying to give to the Iraqis they have yet to achieve for themselves in America! It is perfectly clear that there is not one of these panelist representing or representative of the liberal ideology of the majority of young progressive democrat African American soldiers who are fighting or have died in Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. supposedly fighting for democracy, freedom, and ethnic representation in Iraq , Afghanistan, and around the world! Moreover, this travesty, void, and absent of African American participation contributed to the great and tragic failure of the media/press to use America’s Public Air Waves to carry-out their protected and guaranteed charge to challenge the powers that be, in this case, Bush on his claims against Saddam Hessian, also their failure to challenge republicans, democrats, corporations, and the government on a long list of other erroneous and/or failed positions and policies on social and world issues! The blood, suffering, and lost lives that African Americans have shed by participation in every American conflict since this nation conception should have guaranteed them a voice at every form in America... but it hasn’t!
Truth, is undisputable and absolute with contrasting black versus white clarity and without any area of grey! Where there is disingenuous and endless debate, discussion, and assault upon a factual reality, the integrity of truth is weaken and gets diluted, clouded, and areas of gray uncertainty are maliciously manufactured! For generations the tool and weapon of choice for so called Conservatives and other hostile, self serving and bias groups have been hostile, amateur, bias, twisted, subjective, and endless and repetitive discussion and debate! Conservative and other hostile and bias groups have used generation of false, negative, erroneous, inciting, and unsubstantiated rhetoric to create a fictitious areas of gray in any discussion! To correct this historical assault upon truth... all fair, just, and honest professional citizens should stop sharing a stage with historically hostile bias, self serving, liars, and bias individuals, groups, agents, etc! To share a stage with ignorant, hostile, and bas disingenuous liar is to add legitimacy and credibility to them and to dignify their lies, half truths, and misinformation!
These major networks have limited and relegated discussion to nothing but the bias political rhetoric of conservative/moderate Anglo democrats, republicans, giant corporations, etc and without any independent and opposing African American opinion and truth ever being exposed or represented! If American and world discussions and debate were more open, inclusive, and held among sincere and like minded objective, fair, just, and ethical individuals then this would go a long way toward correcting the discrepancy in representation in discussion and debate in America and the world and would also help break the cycle of flawed and failed results such as the invasion of Iraq!
Poor, working, and middle class Americans are mocked and stereotyped in media production like Jerry Springer while they have no real representation in media news so their real life struggles, suffering, and truths are never told. Furthermore, what’s even more troubling is that even the progressive visions of wealthy Americans like Warren Buffet, Angelina Jolie, Madonna, etc are suppressed and ignored by America’s corporate controlled media! Oprah Winfrey and Barack Obama are in for a rude awaken when they run into the infamous "White Lie" where Anglos lie to pollsters and say they will vote for an African American candidate but do not when they actually cast their vote! Oprah Winfrey has been part of this media failure because she has used her stage more to spotlight and promote famous and/or dysfunctional Anglos and non controversial issues rather than using her form to advance the dream of Matin Luther King, civil right activists, and all others fair and just Americans! Conservative corporate America has allowed Oprah to be that one token black poster face for black achievement just as long as she remained A-political, silent, neutral, and irrelevant on most pressing and relevant social issues and injustices! Oprah thinks that all of Anglo America love her for what she says but the truth is they tolerate and prop her up because of all the things she refuses to say! Conservative/moderate corporate America and public will only tolerate a Oprah as long as she stay in her politically impotent/moderate/neutral place of comfort!
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