Day: April 12, 2007

Thanks to Imus from a black guy

K.C. Star sports columnist, who happens to be black (that’s how you say it, right?), has crocodile thank you for the man who used to be from CBS and MSNBC but now should know it doesn’t pay to truckle to Sharpton and friends:

Imus isn’t the real bad guy
Instead of wasting time on irrelevant shock jock, black leaders need to be fighting a growing gangster culture.
By JASON WHITLOCK – Columnist

Thank you, Don Imus. You’ve given us (black people) an excuse to avoid our real problem.

You’ve given Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson another opportunity to pretend that the old fight, which is now the safe and lucrative fight, is still the most important fight in our push for true economic and social equality.

You’ve given Vivian Stringer and Rutgers the chance to hold a nationally televised recruiting celebration expertly disguised as a news conference to respond to your poor attempt at humor.

Thank you, Don Imus. You extended Black History Month to April, and we can once again wallow in victimhood, protest like it’s 1965 and delude ourselves into believing that fixing your hatred is more necessary than eradicating our self-hatred.

The bigots win again. . . . .

Read it all, and hat tip (that’s how you say it, I think) to Just One Minute.

Two recommendations:

1. “The Chorus,” or “Les Choristes,” on DVD from OP Library and elsewhere, a marvelous story about teaching kids and being a human being.  Cinematically, if I may be so bold, it’s very intelligent.  For instance, we see someone beckoning another and are NOT given the face of the one beckoned.  Rather, the camera remains on the beckoner as we wait for the other to heave into view.  Small thing, but telling as the movie continues and you realize you are not going to be treated as a TV-viewer, with all spelled out for you.  Neither is this film wantonly mysterious (read dumb).  Nor is time spent on face shots nervously wondering when the damn camera goes to something interesting.  See “Les Choristes.”

2. The Dennis Miller Show on WIND-AM in Chicago, also national.  Mid-day, competing nicely with Rush Limbaugh on WLS-AM.  Miller went all conservative after 9–11.  He’s excellent with language and has decided it hurts only when you DON’T laugh.  Rush laughs too, but I think Miller will wear better over a longer period.  Of course, either one has its limits, when one is well advised to send them on mute, which is a killer on radio, of course, and pursue one’s Times Literary Supplement over lunch in the kitchen.  A word to the wise is sufficient, I hope.  In any case, it’s all I have to offer.

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