I sent that Whitlock piece to several friends and I haven't yet gotten one negative comments about it. Just a lot of "amens!" and "the brother told it like it is".
Last time I called up on your show I made a comment that there seems to be "a war between the unconscious and the conscious" When I said that afterwards to a friend of mine during a conversation he said that actually I was wrong. That there's really "a war by the unconscious AGAINST the conscious" Case in point that tragic story of the young U of Chicago student from Senegal just two weeks awy from getting his Ph.D in chemistry shot a killed by some 16 year old punk during a robbery. If that isn't a perfect example of what Whitlock is calling the Black KKK then I don't know what is
No doubt (and you know it's coming) we're going to be hearing stories about the killer's sad pathetic life, No father, mama's in and out of jail... you know the story. No excuse at all for what he did.
As I always say, what we're seeing here is evidence of extreme self-hatred. (Something that TEAM JUSTICE has NO answers for which is why they're silent against black-on-black crime) I've always argued that there's no group of people on this planet that hates and despises themselves more than African-Americans.
Yeah, sure you can blame slavery which is what the apologists do. But that's just another way of begging white people to help us. "They started this so they have to fix it." Sorry, that doesn't wash me. I follow the words of Marcus Garvey still the most misunderstood, unknown and to me the greatest of all "Black leaders" IT's up to us to rise up and stop blaming white people for our mess and at the same time on our knees like a good loyal slave begging them to help us.
Sorry I'm on my soap box but I had to get this off my chest
Trust me Serg....there is a reckoning on this stuff. 2 plus 2 will always be four and the facts as Whitlock so eloquently stated are also clear and irrefutable.....Team Justice(lol...gotta love it) are going to be out of business soon because there stage act is wearing thin...the death count is still rising and asking either political party to address it with substantive answers is not the way to go....time for Black folk of conscience to rise up and bury the excuses....
I think one of the biggest complaints I heard against J.W. commentary was the fact that he laid part of the blame on hip hop. Personally, I would not have gone that far with it, but I do understand the overall message JUST LIKE MANY OF HIS CRITICS. Plus the resistance (which is often cheaply disguised as "setting the record straight") to such a message is not only painfully obvious, but should be expected. There have been MANY commentaries put out there that have falsely laid the blame of all that ills Black America mainly on Whites, poverty, or the government with NO challenge to its accuracy--especially from the same social critics who know better. Do what J.W. did and it gets micro-analyzed followed by the ever-expected response "Black Conservatives (or right-leaning Blacks) just TALK about Black problems but do nothing about them" as if some amount of street cred was required for stating the obvious (mind you, 'cred' oftentimes they themselves have never acquired to the level they hang over folks like J.W.). BTW, "stating the obvious" in Black America is not a "Right" issue. But it often gets categorized that way in MSM and bloggers. That is why the best response to commentaries like the one put out by J.W. is no response to the online tit-for-tat which is ineffective on the streets.
Nothing wrong with the micro-analyzation. Again, it should be expected and welcomed. However, the flare-ups every time a Black individual like a Cosby or J.W. states the obvious is not all about "setting the record straight".
Thanks for letting me write my next post here, Afronerd 
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Duane, the only thing that I think I might disagree with you about is the hip hop issue. I do not see Hip Hop-specifically the gangsta/mintrel strain of it as a sacred cow. The art form is so pervasive that it is propaganda and hip hop has been deemed a "culture" which if we accept that description is a way of life....hip hop..again the minstrel stuff reinforces failure or more specifically an outlaw, criminal & failing message....its links to behavior have been studied...I think we have to start to admit that a propagandized message of failure doesn't bode well for our youth right now.....the message must be made to be more diverse in order to give these youth a choice.
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