And not to bring up politics, but when anyone black speaks to fixing the mentality of the black community at large (as Obama has done… and again, I’m still not an Obama fan), someone comes in, like Jesse Jackson (recently in the news, and I was waiting for an entry here on it…) and says something stupid and tries to make it all about racial justice, jobs and health care. Jackson makes it a function of the government and not a function of the people. You would think if Jesse had any pull anywhere, it would be within his own community. You’d think, as smart as he tries to appear, that he’d realize that if you get the community to act more responsibly, the rest would come.

The black people that work in my company are doing just fine… because they don’t act gangsta. They’ve got healthcare because they have jobs. They have jobs because they are responsible. And the one guy I remember in IT who came in and was a bit gangsta, lasted a month or two and decided that he couldn’t deal with working the regular hours and getting here everyday on time. He didn’t like having someone tell him what to do (his boss was actually very laid back). He lacked the responsibility. Had he been able to suck it up and realize that it was good money (it was), he could have had healthcare for his kid (with an barely legal girl, out of wedlock).

And the black community propgating that sort of mentality is just going to lead to problems. Sure I listen to gangsta rap at times. But I don’t act that way or agree with the glorification of money and drugs or the objectification of women. I wouldn’t let my kids listen to it. I wouldn’t promote acting in that way.

But Loren Feldman is to blame, of course. And as much as I really can’t stand Loren, he’s just pointing out the stereotypes… and they’re not really stereotypes as much as they are an accepted and promoted reality for a large part of that community. Watermelon comments and black face are ridiculous and outdated. But this? This is just the face that the black community is putting forward. For every Will Smith, there are a million gangsta wanna-bes.

And not to bring up politics, but when anyone black speaks to fixing the mentality of the black community at large (as Obama has done… and again, I’m still not an Obama fan), someone comes in, like Jesse Jackson (recently in the news, and I was waiting for an entry here on it…) and says something stupid and tries to make it all about racial justice, jobs and health care. Jackson makes it a function of the government and not a function of the people. You would think if Jesse had any pull anywhere, it would be within his own community. You’d think, as smart as he tries to appear, that he’d realize that if you get the community to act more responsibly, the rest would come.

The black people that work in my company are doing just fine… because they don’t act gangsta. They’ve got healthcare because they have jobs. They have jobs because they are responsible. And the one guy I remember in IT who came in and was a bit gangsta, lasted a month or two and decided that he couldn’t deal with working the regular hours and getting here everyday on time. He didn’t like having someone tell him what to do (his boss was actually very laid back). He lacked the responsibility. Had he been able to suck it up and realize that it was good money (it was), he could have had healthcare for his kid (with an barely legal girl, out of wedlock).

And the black community propgating that sort of mentality is just going to lead to problems. Sure I listen to gangsta rap at times. But I don’t act that way or agree with the glorification of money and drugs or the objectification of women. I wouldn’t let my kids listen to it. I wouldn’t promote acting in that way.

But Loren Feldman is to blame, of course. And as much as I really can’t stand Loren, he’s just pointing out the stereotypes… and they’re not really stereotypes as much as they are an accepted and promoted reality for a large part of that community. Watermelon comments and black face are ridiculous and outdated. But this? This is just the face that the black community is putting forward. For every Will Smith, there are a million gangsta wanna-bes.

And not to bring up politics, but when anyone black speaks to fixing the mentality of the black community at large (as Obama has done… and again, I’m still not an Obama fan), someone comes in, like Jesse Jackson (recently in the news, and I was waiting for an entry here on it…) and says something stupid and tries to make it all about racial justice, jobs and health care. Jackson makes it a function of the government and not a function of the people. You would think if Jesse had any pull anywhere, it would be within his own community. You’d think, as smart as he tries to appear, that he’d realize that if you get the community to act more responsibly, the rest would come.

The black people that work in my company are doing just fine… because they don’t act gangsta. They’ve got healthcare because they have jobs. They have jobs because they are responsible. And the one guy I remember in IT who came in and was a bit gangsta, lasted a month or two and decided that he couldn’t deal with working the regular hours and getting here everyday on time. He didn’t like having someone tell him what to do (his boss was actually very laid back). He lacked the responsibility. Had he been able to suck it up and realize that it was good money (it was), he could have had healthcare for his kid (with an barely legal girl, out of wedlock).

And the black community propgating that sort of mentality is just going to lead to problems. Sure I listen to gangsta rap at times. But I don’t act that way or agree with the glorification of money and drugs or the objectification of women. I wouldn’t let my kids listen to it. I wouldn’t promote acting in that way.

But Loren Feldman is to blame, of course. And as much as I really can’t stand Loren, he’s just pointing out the stereotypes… and they’re not really stereotypes as much as they are an accepted and promoted reality for a large part of that community. Watermelon comments and black face are ridiculous and outdated. But this? This is just the face that the black community is putting forward. For every Will Smith, there are a million gangsta wanna-bes.

Anyway, on this issue you are right to bring it up but I think we all know what the problem is here and it’s that most reporters aren’t the type to take the 1938media side on this and so they just have no interest in talking to him. So rather than doing their job and being neutral they just ignore him.

I mean really, what journalist with any integrity writes a story about someone and fails to interview that person if they have the chance? It’s preposterous.

But that’s the nature of our current society. When you teach it’s ok to just do what you feel than people can do just about anything. Sell your integrity down the river because you don’t feel like talking to a person. Interview someone who has no expertise in the area because you feel they’re the one to talk to. And so on…

Anyway, on this issue you are right to bring it up but I think we all know what the problem is here and it’s that most reporters aren’t the type to take the 1938media side on this and so they just have no interest in talking to him. So rather than doing their job and being neutral they just ignore him.

I mean really, what journalist with any integrity writes a story about someone and fails to interview that person if they have the chance? It’s preposterous.

But that’s the nature of our current society. When you teach it’s ok to just do what you feel than people can do just about anything. Sell your integrity down the river because you don’t feel like talking to a person. Interview someone who has no expertise in the area because you feel they’re the one to talk to. And so on…

Cheers.

Cheers.

Cheers.