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grew up in the new town section of Greenville and took time to pose for our camera.
Pictured above is Attorney Robert White, former City Council Member Ruffus Huggins,
_ Otis Darden and retitee and vocalist Zack Reddick
pose under the old tree.
A National Urban Leag
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Takes On Hateful Talk Shows
by Pharoh Martin exposure on your programs,
while minority hosts and guests
NNPA National Correspondent are still all-too-rare, makes this
situation even more
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mos ~ unacceptable. ? These shows
WASHINGTON (NNPA) - The very rarely have African-
gatekeepers of political opinion American hosts, Jones said. She
on cable are doing nothing to said when African-Americans
curb the increasingly incinerate are presented as guests they are
and oft times blatantly false almost always paired up with
rhetoric coming from their another guest to talk about race
political hosts and commentators. or politics but are almost never
against political figures of color presented as experts. oThe past
such as President Obama and few months the National Urban
Supreme Court Justice Sonia League T has been stressing
_ Sotomayor.__ Therefore, harder to the networks that
" are going for the jobs some of theit commentators are
of conservative pundits like problematic and should not be
CNN's Lou Dobbs and FOX Ts there. ? Jones said. oI think Pat
Glenn Beck, who have made Buchanan is a perfect example
some of the most inflammatory with some of the things that he
statements. oIn recent months, has been saying. ? Buchanan T?
we've seen aramping up of the recent comments have
most hateful rhetoric, ? said suggested that the Supreme
Stephanie Jones, executive Court Ts first Hispanic Justice
' director of the National Urban Sotomayor was an oaffirmative
League Policy Institute. oAnd action ? selection and that White
also, complete misinformation males have become victimized
about President Obama and a due to'such policies that ensure
bunch of other issues. ? In diversity. The National Urban
August, Jones wrote a letter to League did not receive any
the heads of all three of the major responses to their letter: None
cable news networks and NBC of the network presidents; nor
for giving the one-sided platform. their representatives responded
for such incendiary points-of- to NNPA Ts repeated requests
views. oWe wrote to you in for comment. CNN president
October 2008 to urge you to Joe Klein has defended Dobb Ts
increase the racial diversity of continual pursuit of the
your political and policy obirther ? conspiracy, which
coverage in order to meet your questions Obama Ts country of
obligation to presént fair and birth, as one of editorial
accurate information to your prudence. .* T[Lou Dobbs] got
viewers and to prevent the more than. 30 years as a,
increasingly... frequent television journalist, and I trust
dissemination of dangerous him, as | trust all our reporters
myths on your programs, ? Jones and anchors, to exercise their
wrote in the letter addressed to judgment as various stories
network presidents Roger Ailes evolve, ? Klein said in an
of FOX News, Steve Capus of interview withthe Los Angeles
NBC News, Phil Griffin of Times. While FOX News has
MSNBC, and Jonathan Klein of not publicly prodded Glenn
CNN. oUnfortunately, in recent Beck for calling the president a
weeks, certain hosts and racist who has a odeep-seeded
commentators on your networks hatred for White people ?
have ratcheted up their rhetoric advertisers have been pulling
and are actively advancing their dollars from Beck Ts show.
outright lies, advocating To date, 57 advertisers have
offensive and extremist social pulled their support from
agendas and inflaming dangerous Beck Ts show, according to
elements in our society, ? Jones Colorofchange,org, a Web-
wrote, Jones specifically targeted based African-American
conservative talking heads Lou advocacy organization that is
Dobbs, Pat Buchanan, Glenn spearheading the Glenn Beck
Beck and Michele Malkin inher Show advertising boycott.
letter. oWhile differing oUnfortunately, 57 advertisers
perspectives are welcome, these dropping Glenn Beck Ts show
persons not only often blatantly have not convinced Fox News
isrepresent facts, the views they to take responsibility for his
express are so extreme and comments publicly and it does
reckless that they have no place not appear network executives
on the public airwaves, The fact have made any attempt behind
that Such hosts and the scenes to reign it
commentators are given erratic on-air behay
expansive and consistent Jessica Levin,
Media Matters, a media
watchdog organization.
oSimilarly, efforts. by
organizations to reign in Lou
s
Dobbs seem to have fallen on
deaf ears. CNN President
Jonathan Klein has been
Dobbs T number one defender,
calling his " relentless
promotion of conspiracy
theories about President
Obama Ts birth certificate
olegitimate. ? Levin said that
none of this changes the fact
that cable news networks
must be held responsible for
what is said on air, Some
observers have questioned
whether the attacks on
political figures of color like
Obama are more incendiary
than T -=thetr--s White
counterparts? T ~ " * TThe
president doesn Tt think it Ts
thé case, ? Obama spokesman
Bill Burton responded when
asked at a press brief last ..
week during the President Ts
vacation in Martha Ts
Vineyard. Levin disagrees.
oThere Ts. no doubt that
attacks on President Obama
and Supreme Court Justice
Sonia Sotomayor have racial
undertones, ? Levin said, oIn
fact, at times the attacks have
been outright racially
charged. I think everyone can
agree that the conservative
media Ts coverage of Obama
has been Vicious, violent, and
unlike coverage of previous
presidénts. No one ever
demanded to see George W.
Bush Ts birth certificate, Since
the start of 2008,
conservative media figures
have attempted to paint
Obama as foreign T and not
one ofus T and I think a lot of
that is a blatant attempt to
play off of people's fears
about the first Black
president. ? She continued by
saying, oThe problem is that
the . viewpoints being
presented are not
representative of the diverse
country we live in. During the '
controversy surrounding
Don Imus T racist and sexist
remarks in 2007, a Media
Matters report found that a
huge majority of the guests
on cable news shows were
White males, Such disparities
still exist today. So when you
have someone like Glenn
Beck calling the president
he
cist T, there is often not a
person of color there to
explain why that assertion is
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holiday season, which will be to_
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award and to. promote her
upcoming endeavors. Not only
does she have a new album: on ~
the way, the princess divulged to
HipHopWired exicusively that
she will share her world with her "
fans through a reality show and
give the ladies a chance to "
emulate her style through a
clothing line. Unbeknownst to
many, Trina Ts Diamond Girl T a
clothing was almost shelved "
completely ~ " following
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a line of jeans to fit ocurvy, inf stint atthe VMAsand fet solace to the embattled
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call for a revision oIt Ts a beautiful reports kee surfaced abou te
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inviting Ye to continue to study
Hinduism even after he returns to
America. He spoke out on Kanye Ts
recent fascination with the religion
and offered his guidance saying,
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Page 10 October 16- 30, 2009
Jesse
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No Urban Dictate? T
Well the Rev. Jesse Jackson,
president of the Rainbow Push
Coalition would like to know.
According T to published
sources, one of BMW Ts media
buying agencies, The Matlock
Group, sent an email to radio
stations throughout the country
requesting ad-rates but took it
a step further by specifying, that
oNo combos or urban formats
should be included. ? The No
Urban Dictate T(NUD) clause
simply means that a particular
corporation would prefer, that
their marketing campaign not be
placed in media outlets that
claim people of color (African-
Americans) as their main target.
.. Back in 2004 radio
personality Tom Joyner was |
very vocal about this practice
when CompUSA exercised this
racist tactic. Joyner went on to
single out over 20 corporations
that had also been guilty of
following suit including Lexus,
Eddie Bauer, Keebler,
Starbucks and Northwest
Airlines. Rev. Jackson who is
notorious for letting big
business have it T with both
barrels sent a letter to BMW
expressing concern over the
. NUD stamp on any future MINI
Cooper ads. In his letter to
BMW Ts Chairman and CEO Jim
O TDonnell, the Rev. Jackson
called the exclusion of urban
radio stations odisturbing. ? He
also went on to say that, oThis
issue, along with many others,
continues to boycott
communities of color and
excludes us from participating
on a level economic playing
field even when we fully
embrace and purchase your
vehicles. ? The automaker has
been sent several invitations by
PUSH over the years to
"participate in Symposiums: to
Se ne eg a a
address diversity issues and they
have repeatedly declined.
oBecause diversity and
inclusion are so important to the
automotive industry, each year
the Rainbow pusH
Automotive Project hosts a
symposium whose mission and
programs include a multitude of
topics on diversity, ? wrote the
Rev. Jackson. oThe
Symposium Ts purpose is to
facilitate substantive dialogue,
open communication on
diversity opportunities, and to
prevent this type of behavior
recently demonstrated by
BMW. ? The matter is. still
unresolved, Rev. Jackson is
waiting for a response from the
BMW powers-that-be, So what
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He noted that, with Obama. and the previous UN. secretary :
general, Kofi Annan, there have been several blacks in positions
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man also as pope, thanks be to God. ?
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Writers - OSLO ~ Members of
| the Norwegian committee that
+ gave Barack Obama the Nobel _
Peace Prize are Strongly
defending their choice against a
storm of criticism that the award
liability for the U.S. president.
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announcement, four members of
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criticism. Three of them rejected
the notion that Obama hadn't
accomplished anything to
deserve, the award, while the
fourth declined to answer that
question. A fifth member didn Tt
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oWe simply disagree that he has
done nothing, ? committee
chairman Thorbjoern Jagland
told the AP on Tuesday. oHe got
the prize for what he has done. ?
Jagland singled out Obama Ts
efforts to heal the divide
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tension, ? Jagland said by phone Nobel Prizes in his 1895 will.
from the French city of oAlfred Nobel wrote that the .
Strasbourg, where he was prize should go to the person
attending meetings in.his other who has contributed most to the .
role as Secretary-general of the development of peace in the
Council of Burope. He said previons year, ? Jagland said.
most world leaders were Who has done more for that
positive about the award and than Barack Obama??"? It Ts an
that most of the criticism was embarrassment and even an
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only the judgment of the himself look vain, a fool and
committee, which was dangerously lost in his own
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