INDIANAPOLIS, IN. — Rosa Parks once said, “Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.” Alex Haley, the author of the Best Selling book “Roots” gave it to us like this, “Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.” Then Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. put it where the goats could get it when he spit, “I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.”
Well playas…in order for us to have that unarmed truth and unconditional love we ALL have to stand up against racism. Not just black folks. At some point as many of our white brothers and sisters as possible have to start stampin’ out the hate that is racism. That’s why I’m so happy that the radio employee said enough is enough and went to Emmis Communications and revealed that Colts radio announcer, Bob Lamey, was on some foolishness. Otherwise, ole boy would be still announcin’ games in his 32nd season continuin’ to tell racists jokes when the mics are off.
I would also like to send my thanks to two of my white counterparts in the media, Gregg Doyel of the IndyStar and the big homie Bob Kravitz of WHTR, for writin’ such great pieces about this foolishness and literally standin’ up to all of the ignorant backlash on social media. There have been idiots literally blamin’ them for Lamey’s demise as the Colts radio announcer.
Here’s the old question that people have been askin’ for decades. Why is it okay for black folks to use the word and white folks can’t? I’m glad you asked playboy. It’s no different than two women that are friends callin’ each other the B-word. The meanin’ of the word has no sting when they use it because they mean no harm to one another. However, a man better not call them that because when he says it, it takes on an entirely different meanin’. I didn’t make the rules playa, I just follow them.
Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! When black folks speak out against racism we’re quickly dismissed as playin’ the race card because no one sees themselves as bein’ a racist. People act like racists live on a planet far far away in another galaxy somewhere.
Boyz are literally runnin’ around here blamin’ the media for Bob Lamey’s downfall and tellin’ cats like Doyel and Kravitz that they’ve disgraced him. At what point does Lamey take responsibility for bein’ racist in his willingness to tell the joke. Let’s be honest here, that wasn’t the first time Lamey’s sat in that studio and told a racist joke. However, it was the first time somebody had enough of it.
This is the very reason why duns like Colin Kaepernick and many other NFL players decided to take a knee in protest of police brutality, racial and social injustice. Why? Because when black folks scream to the top of their lungs that we’re bein’ treated unfairly in this country nobody seems to listen.
Most folks think that if they aren’t sayin’ the N-word to black folks openly or spittin’ in their faces, racism no longer exists. They think that if you can walk into a restaurant and everybody can legally sit down and eat we’ve gotten past the ugliness of racism in America. If they are no longer buyin’ and sellin’ slaves on the court house steps of southern cities everything’s cool.
However, if Bob Lamey pulls a joke out of his back pocket for the sole purpose of tellin’ the punch line so that he could freely say the N-word that’s completely acceptable as long as he doesn’t say it directly to a black person. That’s the foolishness that’s goin’ on around here.
If it wasn’t for white folks like Bob Kravitz and Gregg Doyel sayin’ “enough is enough” durin’ our turbulent past in this country it would be even worse than it is now. They called them abolitionists back then. They came along side to help because they saw the foolishness in it all. They helped people like Harriet Tubman free slaves by givin’ them shelter on their way to Canada. They came along side of MLK durin’ the Civil Rights Movement to denounce racism and marched hand in hand with black folks for freedom and justice for ALL.
The sad reality is, our white brothers and sisters hear the racist epithets more than black folks do in it’s hateful tone. However, most folks have the mind set that if they aren’t talkin’ about me or mine it doesn’t bother me. Well, I’m just glad that we’ve still got a few people with an Abolitionist mind set out here workin’ in the radio station and in the media that will stand up and say “Enough is Enough.” Thanks my brothers for always ridin’ in the car called “Good and Decent Humanity in America.” Stop me when I start lyin’!
Playas Thesaurus:
1) Dun: noun – the person in question, dude, guy, etc. It’s whoever I’m talkin’ about and its non-gender specific.
2) Put it where the goats can get it: verb phrase – to make it as elementary as possible. To put it at ground level so everyone can understand it.
3) Ole boy: noun – the person that I’m currently talkin’ about.
The G is excluded from the endings of all words because the G is near and dear to my heart because I’m from “The G” which is Gary, Indiana. So I only use the G when I’m talkin’ about “The G!”
The caption under the photo isn’t real but its real talk!