The Dishonourable Rev Jesse Is Set To Lead A Tea Party Rally

TransGriot Note:  I wrote about this cookie chomping Knee-grow in one of my Saturday Sellout posts, and the editrix of Womanist Musings had the displeasure of being a guest on his talk radio show.   She takes another whack at her least favorite sellout.

Every community has their sell outs and as far as I am concerned, when it comes to Black folks, Jesse Lee Peterson is high on that list.  This is a man who after all went on Fox News and declared that 90% of all Blacks hate White people.  This man is so concerned what the massa is going to think in the big house that he forgets that he is Black.  Perhaps, on some level he believes if he sells out enough that Whiteness will make him an honorary White person, but what this uncle Thomas has yet to figure out that he is just another person in the long line of useful tools.  Of course Whites going to sit contentedly to hear him bash Blacks.  It affirms their White supremacy after all, but nothing that Peterson says or does will ever change the fact that he is Black.

It his latest act of house negro antics, the less than honourable, self made reverend is going to lead a Tea Party march. 

'LOS ANGELES, July 14, 2011 /Christian Newswire/ -- The newly formed black led South Central L.A. Tea Party group will hold a major rally to expose the lies and misinformation of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) during its102nd annual convention in Los Angeles on July 24. The purpose of the rally is to bring attention to the failed liberal big government agenda of the NAACP and to expose their lies and hypocrisy on race issues.

Who: South Central L.A. Tea Party
What: Rally to expose the failed big government agenda and lies of the NAACP
When: Sunday, July 24, 2011, from 2-4 p.m.
Where:1201 S Figueroa St., Los Angeles, CA 90015 (Outside the L.A. Convention Center- West Hall).

"The NAACP is a tool of the Obama administration," said founding member and President of BOND Action, Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson. He added, "For decades, this group has supported left-wing policies which have created dependency, destroyed black families, and hurt race relations." Rev. Peterson cited the following examples:

• NAACP spreading lies about the Tea Party movement. NAACP has made numerous false allegations of 'racism' against the Tea Party movement, but has yet to provide a shred of evidence backing up their baseless claims.
  
• Support for failing public schools and unions. The NAACP has aligned itself with the United Federation of Teachers to block 22 of the worst performing schools in New York City from being shut down. This has put them at odds with thousands of black parents in Harlem who support replacing these failing public schools with charter schools.
  
• NAACP's hypocrisy on crime and race. The NAACP has remained silent while black thugs attack white Americans and commit crimes in flash mobs across the country -- but
  NAACP President Benjamin Jealous says he's "deeply concerned” with the lack of black news anchors on Television. 
  
• The NAACP supports black genocide. As an ally of Planned Parenthood and abortion on demand, the NAACP has aided and abetted in the death of some 15 million black babies since the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling legalizing abortion.

This event is open to all Tea Party supporters and like-minded patriots of all races."

I think what galls me the most is that he had the nerve to accuse the NAACP of supporting Black genocide.  This from a man who does not care about Black people except how we can be perverted and oppressed enough to serve Whiteness.  The high abortion weight of Black women has everything to do with the fact that we are living in a White supremacist state.  With good sex education as well as services to help women keep their children perhaps it would not be an issue today.  I fail to see how supporting a woman's right to choose is supporting genocide and furthermore, since what they are aborting is embryos it hardly rises to the level of genocide.  If Black women were running around Black babies who were fully capable of living outside of their mothers bodies, then, and only then would this asshat have a point.


Having this rally in South Central is yet another extreme example of how far Peterson is willing to go to have his head patted by massa. South Central L.A. has long been hotbed of racial animosity specifically because of police violence (Rodney King and the Watts riots everyone), a lack of jobs, as well as the introduction of crack cocaine by the White supremacist government to help stall community improvement projects and Black self help groups. 

Say what you will about the original Black Panthers, but they gave Black kids free breakfast programs and figures to look up to who were proud of being Black -- that is until the government systematically hunted them.

If the NAACP were about supporting White hegemony, this fool would be all over it.  As it is there principals center around the improvement of Black lives and this is threatening to a man that has based his entire existence on shucking and jiving. Every single complaint the NAACP made about the Tea Party is absolutely correct and each day the Tea Party adds to the list of complaints. 

Just recently the hideous Michelle Bachman decided to declare that the Black family was better off in slavery, and yet we are to believe that this party isn't racist?

Jesse Lee Peterson is a reflection of a sickness within our community.  He has internalized racism to the point where he can only see the point of view of Whiteness.  Some would argue that he is a profit mongering sell out who cannot possibly believe all of the vile things he claims to support, but it is my belief that this is a case of denial.  It may be hundreds of years since the end of slavery but unfortunately there are still Blacks walking around with a slave mentality.

Where Are The African-American Faces On Prime Time Cable?

When I'm not watching my favorite dramas, a movie or some sporting event, the bulk of my TV viewing time is geared toward watching news.

I'm always tuned in to either my local news stations, MSNBC or CNN and as dedicated news junkie, one of the things that is glaringly obvious to me is that in the prime time hours from 5 to 11 PM ET all the shows are hosted by white anchors. 

And that's irritating to me as a person of color who loves politics, loves talking about it and likes diverse ways and opinions of looking at issues in order to formulate my own informed opinion concerning my political stances. 

But before some of y'all start rolling your eyes and hollering 'there she goes again', I'm not the only one complaining about this situation.  The NAACP, the National Association of Black Journalists and African American oriented blogs and  bloggers have noticed the cable blackout as well..

With CNN announcing its new melanin-free fall evening lineup in the wake of the cancellation of Eliot Spitzer's In The Arena show, the simmering discontent over talented African American journalists such as Roland S. Martin, CNN's Don Lemon,  Radio One syndicated talk show host Joe Madison, and BET's Ed Gordon just to name a few continuing to be passed over for those prime time anchor desks boiled over.

NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous and National Association of Black Journalists president Kathy Y. Times led the way in speaking out about the issue. 

"The NAACP is deeply concerned with the lack of African-American journalists in prime-time news, both on cable and national network news shows."

"In the spirit of award-winning African-American journalists, from W.E.B. Du Bois to Ed Bradley, the NAACP feels it is critical to bring this disparity, and the broader trend reflected in the overall lack of people of color as prime-time news anchors, to the attention of the top officials at all of the major broadcast and cable news stations."   

NABJ President Times had written a 2010 open letter to network execs in the wake of Spitzer being hired to replace Campbell Brown's failed show in that same problematic 8 PM ET timeslot, and in the wake of the CNN fall lineup announcement that snubbed African journalists once again, wrote this in a letter to NABJ members. 

"Exacerbating the issue is the fact that CNN has several times passed over its own qualified African-American journalists for prime-time posts in favor of whites who possess celebrity (Piers Morgan) or infamy (Spitzer).”

The CNN and industry blackout is sure to be a hot discussion topic at the upcoming August 3-7 NABJ convention in Philadelphia.

Yes, there are African American anchors on cable news shows such as MSNBC's Tamron Hall and CNN's Don Lemon, T.J. Holmes and Fredricka Whitfield.   But all of them are either weekend anchors or in Hall's case on from 2-3 PM ET.Monday-Friday.


The reason I and others are griping about the prime time cable blackout is because the prime time slots are the most influential ones in the 24 hour news cycle, the most watched and in many cases the ones outside of the Sunday gabfests (which are also melanin-free) that drive the news narrative.

And all white people talking the vast majority of the time means that other points of view don't get considered, discussed, are ignored or get short shrift because let's be real, they do have that vanilla flavored cultural blind spot..  


For example, I loved Rick Sanchez's show when it was on CNN.   It not only had a different feel from the other CNN shows because he added elements from his cultural background into it for example with the Fotos Los Dia segment, as a Cuban American he has a different perspective on the issues of the day that needed to be heard.


But Rick's show also came on before 5 PM ET    Who followed him on the air?   Wolf Blitzer's The Situation Room.  

And since I'm talking about CNN, as much as I love my Houston homeboy Roland S. Martin and believe he should have been hosting his own primetime CNN show ages ago especially considering CNN's repeated failures in that 8 PM timeslot, he is not the only African American who can discuss national politics and has the chops to anchor a show as he proves every Sunday he can do on TVOne .

By the way CNN, the last thing y'all need is more ex-Fox Noise peeps like E.D. Hill joining the network.

There may be some hope for changing the stagnant status quo. Current TV, which is the new cable network home for Keith Olbermann's rebooted Countdown show is looking to start a new program to follow his. Maybe they'll give an African-American or Latino journalist a chance to change the current programming paradigm and anchor that proposed show.

And yes, even though we have an African American president in the White House, we'd also like to see an African American anchor covering the news and discussing the policies that come out of there as well. 

If cable outlets can give open and closeted gay and lesbian peeps 5 to 11 PM slots, it's past time to open it up to African-American and other POC's as well.   And that old bull feces excuse of we can't find a qualified African descended journalist to do so won't wash. 
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