QUESTION: Just how many black people need to be included in anything for the Left to not make a racial issue of it?
This morning, I ran across this article by Clark Collis on Entertainment Weekly’s site, purportedly about the latest inductions into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum.
Instead of actually focusing on the inductions (which this year includes the Beastie Boys, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, the Small Faces/The Faces, the late singer-songwriter Laura Nyro, and Donovan), Collis racialized the article, insinuating the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame selection committee is racist because there were no black people inducted this year (and misogynist too, apparently, since there was only one woman inducted (and she’s dead)).
Just how many black people have to — by the Leftist standards employed by hacks like Collis at EW.com — be included in anything to spare us from another lazy “America is so RAAACIST!” rambling like this?
Two? Three? Can we get a definitive and set number?
In the case of something like the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductions, where there were only 5 inductees total, how many of the induction slots needed to be reserved exclusively for black people in the worldview employed by Collis?
Better question: would the black people nominated have to actually be talented and deserving of the nomination, or would the fact that their skin passed a Sherwin Williams “dark enough” visual scan appease Collis?
Blacks make up 13% of the US population, but are already disproportionately represented in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame — and deservedly so, considering the roots of Rock run through R&B, Soul, and other heavily-black genres.
I’m originally from Cleveland — where the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame stands — and can assure you artists like Tina Turner, Aretha Franklin, The Jackson Five, James Brown, and many others are given immense respect for their contributions to Rock and Roll…though they are presented and honored as artists, not as “black people” who’ve been included just because their skin colors were needed to meet some sort of arbitrary quota assigned by Clark Collis and the editors of Entertainment Weakly (spelling intended).
I bring all of this up because it’s apparent to me that hacks like Collis have no real idea what they’re writing most of the time when it comes to race. Collis appears to be in his 20s, and no doubt went to Leftist schools where agenda-driven professors taught him that black people must be viewed by those in the media as perpetual victims and that racial quotas must exist in everything.
If you read EW.com for any length of time, you’ll see that Collis is not the only hack there who feels this way.
If there are five slots open for something and a black person didn’t get one of those slots that year, then too bad.
I’m sure there are some years where black people get two or three of the slots; would Clark Collis complain that white people were not well enough represented in those years? Of course not, because Collis has been programmed never to see racism when scenarios exist where blacks are given the majority share of something disproportionate to their percentage in the population.
Take the BET Awards for instance, or Miss Black America, or the Congressional Black Caucus. All of these have in-your-face racial prejudice built glaringly into them. It’s BLACK Entertainment Television (no whites allowed!), the Miss BLACK America pageant (sorry blondie, no room for you!), and the Congressional BLACK Caucus (where YOUR tax dollars fund a racist private club smack in the heart of the nation’s Capitol).
I can’t recall Clark Collis or anyone at EW.com ever writing about any of this.
What do you think about that?
© 2011, Kevin DuJan. All rights reserved.
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What do I think? I think you’re absolutely right! Excellent article, Kevin. We need to start calling out – constantly – leftist racist groups/organizations such as BET and LaRaza (there are so many…) that jump to call us racists at every little turn. We need to start calling THEM racists. Each and every time they have an event, “Where are the WHITE people!?!” We are too polite and too chickensh*t from their bullying. Time to turn it back on them. Do I think specific groups shouldn’t have the right to assemble with each other and make their own rules as to who is included? No, I don’t. I absolutely don’t. But as long as they use their groups to call US racists, then… all’s fair.
I can't recall The "Reverend" Al Sharpton calling for affirmative action for white players or hispanics or Asians or Hassidic Jews in the NBA. What's up with that?
ZERO. Come on, folks, you can't have it all ways, but you can try.
In this country, we celebrate people who work hard and succeed (or, we used to). So, adding a black to the list to be "racially correct" is lame. If that is the only reason to add a black, then forget the whole thing. No, I changed my mind. Screw it. The best are inducted. Period.
IF this writer is serious about this racial crap and making sure all people are represented (which I doubt, because only blacks are called out), then we need ALL races on sports teams. Why stop at an overwhelming percentage being blacks only? Oh,what is that you say? Because they are the BETTER PLAYERS? Hmmm… thought that's what you would say.
Well, this time, there are no blacks inducted because these musicians were deemed THE BEST.
I don't think that number exists. The TOLERANT LEFT will call conservatives RAAAACIST no matter how many blacks are included. The facts have nothing to do with anything the TOLERANT LEFT says about conservatives.
screw black people- what about KISS? come ON rock n roll hall o' fame!
Excellent piece.