This nation’s media and our black leadership have their
panties twisted in a bunch about the racists comments of the Nevada rancher
Cliven Bundy (see:The Guardian Story.) and Donald Sterling, owner of the LA Clippers basketball team (see: Forbes Story.) Such naive and inappropriate utterances do deserve condemnation, but, for
once, I would love to see the same media treatment of the equally offensive
comments made by the likes of Louis Farrakhan, Jessie, Jackson, Bill Clinton, Al
Sharpton, Harry Reid, Eric Holder, Jay-Z and Jeremiah Wright. I’m sure with a
little thought or Goggling dear reader you can recall of what I write.
Such a narrative has always seemed to me to be strangely
disproportionate when prominent blacks say offensive things. The media subtext
usually reduces itself to “boys will be boys” and, with a wink and a nod, their
mild discomfort never lasts more than one news cycle. And, even weirder, very
often those actually condemning such hypocrisy receive the brunt of the media’s
tsk-tsking. (And I am reasonably certain that many of you have already
classified me as a racist for pointing out this gross disparity.)
Very strange and
diabolical indeed!
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