IS BLACK RADIO WORTH SAVING…
Caught this over at the FreshXpress…
VIA FRESSXPRESS
“As a new mother, with a two-month old, I refuse to let these companies, these corporations, call my daughter a ‘bitch,’ a ‘hoe,’ a ‘nigger.’ It’s over. It’s not about ‘free speech.’ It’s about you’re peddling drugs into the mind of our community. What you do is addicting our children to violence.”
—Rosa Clemente, Hot 97 protest, 2005.
“Turn off the radio!/
Turn off that bullsh**!/
… What’s on the radio—propaganda, mind control/
And turnin’ it on is like puttin’ on a blindfold/”
—Dead Prez, “Turn off the Radio,” Turn off the Radio: The Mixtape Vol. 1, 2002.
“Can you get down, can you talk trash, can you get funky, can you get nasty? You got the job! Now look, Brother, that’s the basis upon which they hire you… Don’t you know why Black people are not productive—it’s because their minds are being controlled. And you are the agent that they’re using. You—in Black music.”
—Hon. Min. Louis Farrakhan, Jack the Rapper Convention, 1980.
It’s rare to have Rep. John Conyers (Detroit) and Rev. Al Sharpton (Heaven?) publicly split against each other, but a recently-passed bill (H.R. 848), championed by Conyers, just accomplished that. The “Performance Rights Act” has created a full-blown spectacle, even enlisting the megaphone of media mogul, Cathy Hughes, who called it a “bill that could put many black owned radio stations out of business. And force others to abandon their commitment to provide free music, entertainment, news, information, and money losing formats like gospel and black talk.” In recent weeks, many, including the inimitable Dick Gregory, Rev. Jesse Jackson and Tom Joyner, have rallied in opposition to it.
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