Bill O'Reilly

Hey All,

I think I just need to start writing a Colum called “Marvo Think’s”. Every week there’s some BS that comes out of the mouth of people that completely pisses me off. For those of you who haven’t heard the local idiot Bill O’Reilly has made a Don Imus like comment. The audio clip and some video commentary (found at the bottom of the page, just click the links, the clips will then be in the upper right hand corner) about the clip are found here http://mediamatters.org/ .
Bill O'Reilly has a history of making malicious comments, and these comments contribute to his assault against Black people. I believe, like Imus, he should loose his job. Not to compare the two, but in many ways I believe his comments to be worst than the comment made by Imus. I believe this to be true because O’Reilly’s comments attack the civility of all Black people. Not that Imus comments didn’t, but O’Reilly comments seem to be more calculated, while Imus more belligerent.
I wonder how many Black restaurants O'Reilly frequents. He clearly hasn’t visited the other 150 Black restaurants in Harlem. He clearly hasn't visited Chicago, where the concentrations of Black owned restaurants are at a level uncanny to any where else in the entire nation. Places such as Flavors, in the south suburbs of Chicago, or Harold's Chicken. He has never been to 311 or Swanks in Milwaukee, WI. On what grounds does he make the comments about Black restaurants does he stand. His comments aren’t based on the restaurant business at all; his comments are based on how he, and his constituent, view Black America.
Ill be the first to say it if no one else will, I have just as much or more disdain for their community as they have for ours. I don’t want to hold hands, I don’t want to sing songs, and I don’t want to talk and try to work it out. In the wake of New Orleans, and the Jena 6, how much more will we take before this generation goes on the offense! We cannot sit hear and continue to be berated by folks that clearly don’t have our best interest in mind. I’m sitting in lunch today, not a half hour ago, listening to one of my co- workers call the names that Black parents name their children crazy and ridiculous. Every culture on earth has names that distinguish who they are as a people, (including O’Reilly) why can’t we do the same. This is the conscience of white America as a whole. It permeates beyond simple conversation, and vests itself in the mind state of the whole. If it didn’t then a rebuttal to such ridiculous comments like Bill O’Reilly’s would exist. In fact, people like Bill O’Reilly, even if they felt a certain way, wouldn’t dare mumble such idiotic statements. The proof is in the pudding as they say.
For the last week, here in New York, there have been front cover stories on each of the three major newspapers, and the 5 minor news papers about Isaiah Thomas and his alleged comments about black women (on a side note: Thomas' comments are completely crazy, and in no way am I defending the comments of Thomas, in the event that he actually made the comments in which he is being accused). Do you think O’Reilly made the cover of any of the papers, in New York as of today 9-26-2007? NO!!! In fact in most of the papers you have to dig almost to the middle of the paper to find anything mentioning O’Reilly. This in my opinion contributes to the view of the Black community. It affects how we think about each other, and how others think about us. The white power structure, successfully tricks us every time.
In short, I hope his ass gets fired. The only way white folks feel it is in their pockets. I hope this issue is another step forward in the minds of Black folks, that it doesn’t matter how well you do, you’ll still be a nigger, whether they say the word or not. O’Reilly says the Black community is “changing”, how would he know? What I do know is that he is right to certain degree, the conversations among Black folks is changing. Its getting more courageous, more upset, more educated, and more ready for change. I hope that all reading this blog are on the right side of change, and don’t end up getting lead out to pasture like Bill O’Reilly and the litany of white, black, brown, red and yellow folks that try their hardest to adopt the mores (mor-rays) of the white power structure.

Marvo

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On a side note, proof of O’Reilly recessive genes is found in his comments about tea. Most students of history are familiar with the role tea played in the imperialistic nature of Europeans. If you don’t recall this fact, a brief example of this fact is found in the reality that a whole revolution in the US started over throwing some tea in the ocean. I don’t think it a coincidence that he made mention to tea, during his attack of black people. This may seem kind of crazy, but in his effort to stereotype the type of beverages black people (and most people) enjoy, he exposed a throw back ideology of the European coming from a place where something a simple as tea cannot grow.

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As soon as I was about to send this e mail I get an e mail from this lady down in Nashville, about another e mail I wrote earlier this week. I guess I’m pissing people off all over the country. She was upset about something’s I wrote about Danita Marsh, a police officer that got shot down in Nashville. Then I got an e mail about Bill Cosby fool ass! How am I suppose to work if people keep pushing m buttons. LOL If you didn’t get my stuff about Danita Marsh and you want it holla back. Bill Cosby tirade to come tomorrow. I might piss someone off way out in Cali with the next one.