Don’t Call Tawana Brawley’s Name in NYC

This past Sunday, Black talk radio and Black television programming discussed Don Imus’ derogatory comments without discussing Tawana Brawley. This is like discussing slavery in the United States without mentioning Harriet Tubman. Of course, if you were on the plantation, you knew that the mentioning of Harriet Tubman’s name was taboo.
One hundred forty-two years after the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment, we still have to keep the names of “notorious” Blacks under our tongues. Blacks must never mention Tawana’s name and must never, verbally, attack Steven Pagones. This is plantation life.
Gov. Eliot Spitzer ordered Rev. Al Sharpton to stay away from his own defamation trial in Dutchess County Supreme Court and, by 1999, virtually all leading Blacks followed suit. Spitzer had hoped that Sharpton’s absence from his own trial would pay dividends for former State Attorney General Robert Abrams, Spitzer’s mentor.
Whites have employed this tactic to defeat us throughout history and we continue to bit the bait. Fish are smarter. It was hoped that the jury would find against me. Had that been the case, I could be fined every time I mention Pagones’ name. Spitzer is seething.
The FCC has a “no censorship” rule which even permits racial slurs over the airwaves. This is why leading Black are misleading the Black masses when they take credit for the firing of Don Imus. The operative word is “firing.” When a person makes a racial slur, the station may only transmit a content-neutral disclaimer. A “firing” is illegal.
Despite the FCC’s no censorship rule, James Mtume of KISS-FM candidly told the audience that I was barred from commercial radio because I would insist on mentioning Tawana Brawley’s name. This Brawley censorship also extends to WLIB-AM, WBLS-FM and WWRL-AM. My rights are rooted in Dred Scott.
Imus recently inked a five year deal for $10 million annually. He is not about to lose this gravy train. To protect his interest, he retained Martin Garbus who appeared in Pagones v. Maddox et. al. at the Dutchess County Courthouse. He is known as a high-powered lawyer with an expertise in media law. This means that Imus is on sabbatical for five years.
We must learn to use the correct language. This is the first step in critical thinking. The First Amendment and the FCC clearly favor Imus. Legal reasoning is essential to put Imus in check. Blacks must play their trump card; the Thirteenth Amendment.
Otherwise, Blacks are simply hallucinating and engaged in unrestrained paranoia like Cho Seung-Hui. Unlike Cho, we are headed back to the plantation for not being able to engage in critical thinking and legal reasoning. No one can advance a position without the ability to craft logical argument. Our mental slip is showing.
This past weekend, Black spokespersons asserted that they would not permit anyone to “disrespect” Black women. What about raping Black women? Steven Pagones, Harry Crist, Jr. et. al. were involved in the kidnapping and rape of Tawana Brawley. This finding was made by Pagones’ peers in Dutchess County Supreme Court.
Although a jury of five whites and one Black person found that Pagones was involved in kidnapping and raping her, no Black selected official nor leading Black will point the finger at Pagones. They are simply posturing for the cameras. New York is a plantation and Spitzer is the slavemaster.
We are more afraid of whites today than our ancestors were of whites in the eighteenth century. I am unable to get an audience with any leading Black about Tawana. A white person wrote Sen. Barack Obama demanding that he call for a federal probe of Durham District Attorney Michael Nifong. He complied. I wrote Obama and I have received no response.
Gov. Spitzer and State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo are sitting tightly on the Brawley file. No reason explains the continued sealing of the file except Black fear of disobeying white supremacists. This is like living on the plantation and demanding the criminal files of the slavemaster’s son who had raped a Black female.
Imus’ fate hinges on the Thirteenth Amendment provided Blacks have the courage to raise it as an issue before Congress and the FCC. The Thirteenth Amendment not only prohibits the institution of slavery but also the badges of slavery. Until all badges of slavery are erased, slavery is still in effect. So far, all badges of slavery are thriving.
No red-blooded white man would allow himself to be gagged while a Black rapist is still on the prowl and white women are his target. They would certainly not permit censorship. It is unthinkable that in 2007 Blacks must be wary about their speech.
Every Sunday, we must hear empty rhetoric over the airwaves from hallucinating Black spokespersons. Of course, you will never hear the name Tawana Brawley roll from any of their lips. Watch out for the red herrings. Distractions are concocted weekly.
It was reported on Sunday that several, Black, female police officers in the New York Police Department were called “nappy-headed hos” on or after Don Imus went on sabbatical. The NYPD knows the real deal and is unafraid of any backlash from Black selected officials or leading Blacks.
The NYPD has an intelligence apparatus and it knows that no leading Black and no Black selected official has the courage to demand justice for Black rape victims like Tawana Brawley or the Duke lacrosse rape victim. It is not a stretch to conclude that if a community is afraid to stand up for a rape victim it can also be intimidated to run away from a Black woman who has been disrespected.
A bully knows that if you flinch in a stare-down with him, you will always flinch. When Black spokespersons ran from Tawana, they have never stopped running. Their act is tired and they should go somewhere and sit down away from the cameras. Whites have already peeped their cards.