By Grand Rapids Anonymous
friday, april 12, 2024 at 7:30:00 p.m. edt
GRA: You’re a rarity at nbc, these days, if you’re White and reporting on air at negro nightly news (nnn), but if you are, you’d better tow the company line on blacks and repeat often, how racist all Whites and cops are against them.
Today, McFadden, an older White female, who’s ballooned up into Kathleen Turner territory, weight-wise, did a retrospective on O.J.Simpson, describing him as “charismatic,” showering him with adulation. You’d never have known Simpson had killed two White people—and she barely mentioned it.
At the end, Lesta Holt, a racist negro instigator—who should come out of the noi closet and wear a bowtie—asked McFadden, “what has not changed in the legal system, since the O.J. trial?”
[N.S.: Note the moral reversal, long since institutionalized in “American” society: A heinous black criminal is treated as if he were a victim of “racism.”]
She responded, “blacks are still being targeted by police, as they were in the 1990s.”
Anyone here knows that blacks are literally getting away with more murders, carjackings, robberies and rapes than anytime in our history. There are fewer arrests and very few actual convictions. In most major cities, there’s a less than 30-40% success rate of police and district attorneys clearing black crimes from the time they are first reported.
I don’t have to explain WHY blacks are “targeted”—to except to idiots like McFadden.
Cynthia McFadden, another one to ignore on television.
--GRA
N.S.: During the mid-1990s, I had watched Ted Koppell religiously on Nightline. (In 1997, I met and got hitched with The Boss. I believe I also tired of Koppell’s pc routine.). He was pc, but at least he gave the impression of being intelligent. In 2005, the suits—abc news president David Westin—fired him from the show, and replaced with the troika of british pakistani Martin Bashir, who had done a documentary on child molester Michael Jackson; an extremely tall White guy named Terry Moran; and McFadden.
I have no memories of Terry Moran, which is probably a positive. Cynthia McFadden immediately proved to be painfully stupid. But it was Martin Bashir who weaned me off of the show. He interviewed racist, black actor Terrence Dashon Howard, who had just starred in the obscene movie hustle and flow (2005)—which Bashir asserted was about a black man who pimped his own sister.
Bashir emphasized that Howard was a chemical engineer, though Howard provided no signs of intelligent life.
Bashir apologized to Howard for falling into “lazy stereotypes,” as if there were nothing wrong with a man pimping his own sister. Never mind that the “stereotype” was in the movie!
Well, that did it for me with Nightline.
I later tried watching hustle and flow, and made it through 15-20 minutes. The protagonist did not pimp out his sister, but his White girlfriend. Why did Bashir lie about that? Either it was to hide the act’s racist character, or because he had never seen the movie, and instead relied on a dishonest assistant’s notes.
The White girlfriend would turn tricks for her pimp/boyfriend, while he sat in his car and wrote crap lyrics. When she returned to him after each trick, she would be apologetic, saying she had the easy part, while he struggled mightily to produce art.
That was not “keepin’ it real.”
In an expression of racism and decadence, in 2006, the motion picture academy awarded hustle and flow the oscar for best original song for “it’s hard out here for a pimp.”
The song was not a parody.
I make a point of reminding readers how far back America’s degeneration goes, but it goes much further back than 2005.
Remember when songs like Mancini and Mercer’s “Moon River” won the Oscar for “Best Original Song”?
(And Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961) was already morally compromised—its two protagonists were both prostitutes! Note, however, that while hustle and flow apparently took itself seriously, all sorts of pranks, and layers on top of layers of irony were in play in Tiffany’s. Still, its star never understood why many of her fans considered “Holly Golightly” her greatest character. Audrey Hepburn was every inch a lady, and thus did not think much of having played a prostitute.)
“it’s hard out here for a pimp,” by, oh, who cares?!
“Moon River,” from Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961): Music by Henry Mancini and Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
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7 comments:
Remember when the God-awful "Theme From SHAFT" won Best Song for 1971? "Song"? No melody; awful music; in its own crass way, a precursor of rap. Beginning of The End.
-RM
jerry pdx
Great movie but now on the PC s*%#t list due to Mickey Rooney's unforgettable Yunioshi character. You can no longer poke fun at asian or black stereotypes but it's OK to ridicule and mock Whites.
A rerun of "Meet the(Commie) Press" is on at this hour,as I'm posting a few things.
Once again,nbc(Kristin Welker today) mentioned that the O.J. Simpson trial "captivated" the nation.
Captivated:having one's interest or attention held or captured by something or someone charming, beautiful, entertaining, etc.
We weren't captivated by O.J.,we were watching the trial,hoping he would be found guilty of two hate crimes(before there were hate crimes)--the slaughter of two White people.
That's a lot different than being captivated,but nbc has repeated the word many times since O.J.'s supposed death.
Is a tribute special for Simpson next on the agenda by this obviously mentally ill network?
I wouldn't doubt it(cbs and abc are equally beserk,btw.)
--GRA
Have to disagree. Isaac Hayes' theme from "Shaft" is a driving, scintillating piece of music that perfectly embodies the coolness of the character and the zeitgeist of New York City streets of that time. It also stood out because it didn't sound like anything before it.
During the marches for the Floyd boy after his overdose that one observer noted the number of young white wimmen of child bearing age among the participants. Young whitey wimmen of child bearing age seem to have an unnatural and unhealthy affinity and sympathy for the negro man.
Re SHAFT:
"He's a sex machine for all his chicks"
Yeah, it did embody the zeitgeist of its time. Definitely Oscar-worthy.
-RM
More about SHAFT: music aside, the genesis of the movie is interesting. It started as a novel written by a Jewish man, Ernest Tidyman. The ultra-liberal screenwriter Stirling Silliphant had a pothead son; one day, a black comes knocking on the son's door, looking for drugs. The son ends up being shot dead by the black, and Mr. Silliphant does what any grieving father would do in response to his son's murder: decides to produce a movie glorifying black violence, and in particular, bringing to the mainstream the image of the cool black "superstud" (as exemplified by that late great role model, O.J. Simpson). I believe Mr. Tidyman wrote the screenplay; it must have been fairly tame- I saw it eons ago and have no memory of it whatsoever. There were certainly better, or at least more exciting, "black exploitation" movies to follow.
But for sure, it "wasn't like anything before it."
=RM
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