Black Radio in NYC Requires Black Funding
By Alton H. Maddox, Jr.
Alton H. Maddox, Jr. will be the guest of Claud Sharief and Ed Daniels on Sunday, March 15, 2009 at 5:00 p.m. at WPAT-AM (930). This will follow his appearance on the same radio program this past Sunday. There will be a discussion of a variety of issues affecting the Black community.
UAM has been excluded from WLIB-AM, WRKS-FM, WWRL-AM and WBLS-FM. These are commercial radio stations. They depend on white dollars. Whites refuse to finance our liberation. On the other hand, UAM has been welcomed on programs like WBAI-FM (99.5), WVIP-FM (93.5), WPAT-AM (930) and WHCR-FM (90.3). These are listener-sponsored stations or the hosts pay for airtime.
Censorship is not a personal problem. In 2006, for example, Ollie McClean vied for the 11th Congressional District as an independent. Yvette Clarke was the eventual winner. During the campaign, Clarke was able to appear on several radio and television shows unchallenged.
Even when McClean petitioned those programs her petitions were summarily denied. This is a violation of federal laws. No candidate for a federal office can suffer unequal protection of communication laws. Federal candidates enjoy equal time.
The same is true of the Central Park jogger case. Censorship prevents the wrongfully-convicted defendants from telling their own story because it would implicate the Manhattan district attorney’s office and the NYPD. Next month will be twenty years after their wrongful arrests. So far, no victim has received any compensation and there is no relief in sight.
This is a throwback to the Jim Crow South. Blacks could only listen to race music. There were no talk shows and certainly no political communications. Whites, on the other hand were able to spew racist propaganda day and night. Plessy v. Ferguson amounted to racial hypocrisy.
Today, some political shows exist for Blacks but all guests must be pre-approved by white supremacists. This is censorship. No people can advance in the United States without enjoying First Amendment rights. See the establishment of ACLU and ADL.
No Black person in New York City can exercise, unscripted First Amendment rights. If any Black teacher in New York City is engaged in militant speech and does not suffer any retaliation, he or she is reading from a script. Compare Natalie Williams. This is politics and it is a Machiavellian tactic. The name of the game is confusion. Blacks are exposed to “Mutt & Jeff” routines.
The latest victim was Viola Plummer. She criticized Council Speaker Christine Quinn. Although Councilman Charles Barron hired her, Quinn fired her for challenging a white woman. First Amendment rights should not be shed at the gates to City Hall.
Unless I am missing something, no employer-employee relationship exists between Plummer and Quinn. Blacks are awaiting a decision from the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. An unfavorable decision will only confirm that slavery is back in effect full throttle.
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has already ruled that racial profiling is constitutionally permissible in New York. It has also ruled that Plessy v. Ferguson is also back in effect. In Maddox v. Prudenti et. al., this intermediate appellate court ruled, on analogous facts, that a white doctor has standing to sue in federal court but a Black lawyer lacks standing.
This is a replay of Dred Scott who resided in Missouri and sued a defendant who resided in New York. A federal law allows for diversity of citizenship as a basis for invoking federal jurisdiction. Chief Justice Roger Taney said no African could ever be a citizen of the United States and, since Dred Scott was an African, the federal court lacked jurisdiction to entertain Scott’s complaint.
Maddox v. Prudenti et. al follows Dred Scott but invokes the no-citation rule. This rule undermines the doctrine of stare decisis because it prevents Maddox v. Prudenti et al from being used as legal precedent. This is a backdoor approach to reinstating Dred Scott. Like Jim Crow, the judicial system now has two doors. Out of fear, Blacks are submitting to Jim Crow.
If we ever connected the dots, it would be clear that an injustice is like a cancer. –it spreads like wildfire. Dr. Martin L. King, Jr. said it best: “An injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Of course, there are only King impostors in our midst today.
Information is power. Whites have no intention of allowing Blacks to have access to the airwaves. That being the case, we must establish a general fund from the Black community to finance Black-oriented radio programming. This would allow us to hear from persons who are objectionable to whites. This would break up the radio cartel.
By Alton H. Maddox, Jr.
Alton H. Maddox, Jr. will be the guest of Claud Sharief and Ed Daniels on Sunday, March 15, 2009 at 5:00 p.m. at WPAT-AM (930). This will follow his appearance on the same radio program this past Sunday. There will be a discussion of a variety of issues affecting the Black community.
UAM has been excluded from WLIB-AM, WRKS-FM, WWRL-AM and WBLS-FM. These are commercial radio stations. They depend on white dollars. Whites refuse to finance our liberation. On the other hand, UAM has been welcomed on programs like WBAI-FM (99.5), WVIP-FM (93.5), WPAT-AM (930) and WHCR-FM (90.3). These are listener-sponsored stations or the hosts pay for airtime.
Censorship is not a personal problem. In 2006, for example, Ollie McClean vied for the 11th Congressional District as an independent. Yvette Clarke was the eventual winner. During the campaign, Clarke was able to appear on several radio and television shows unchallenged.
Even when McClean petitioned those programs her petitions were summarily denied. This is a violation of federal laws. No candidate for a federal office can suffer unequal protection of communication laws. Federal candidates enjoy equal time.
The same is true of the Central Park jogger case. Censorship prevents the wrongfully-convicted defendants from telling their own story because it would implicate the Manhattan district attorney’s office and the NYPD. Next month will be twenty years after their wrongful arrests. So far, no victim has received any compensation and there is no relief in sight.
This is a throwback to the Jim Crow South. Blacks could only listen to race music. There were no talk shows and certainly no political communications. Whites, on the other hand were able to spew racist propaganda day and night. Plessy v. Ferguson amounted to racial hypocrisy.
Today, some political shows exist for Blacks but all guests must be pre-approved by white supremacists. This is censorship. No people can advance in the United States without enjoying First Amendment rights. See the establishment of ACLU and ADL.
No Black person in New York City can exercise, unscripted First Amendment rights. If any Black teacher in New York City is engaged in militant speech and does not suffer any retaliation, he or she is reading from a script. Compare Natalie Williams. This is politics and it is a Machiavellian tactic. The name of the game is confusion. Blacks are exposed to “Mutt & Jeff” routines.
The latest victim was Viola Plummer. She criticized Council Speaker Christine Quinn. Although Councilman Charles Barron hired her, Quinn fired her for challenging a white woman. First Amendment rights should not be shed at the gates to City Hall.
Unless I am missing something, no employer-employee relationship exists between Plummer and Quinn. Blacks are awaiting a decision from the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. An unfavorable decision will only confirm that slavery is back in effect full throttle.
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has already ruled that racial profiling is constitutionally permissible in New York. It has also ruled that Plessy v. Ferguson is also back in effect. In Maddox v. Prudenti et. al., this intermediate appellate court ruled, on analogous facts, that a white doctor has standing to sue in federal court but a Black lawyer lacks standing.
This is a replay of Dred Scott who resided in Missouri and sued a defendant who resided in New York. A federal law allows for diversity of citizenship as a basis for invoking federal jurisdiction. Chief Justice Roger Taney said no African could ever be a citizen of the United States and, since Dred Scott was an African, the federal court lacked jurisdiction to entertain Scott’s complaint.
Maddox v. Prudenti et. al follows Dred Scott but invokes the no-citation rule. This rule undermines the doctrine of stare decisis because it prevents Maddox v. Prudenti et al from being used as legal precedent. This is a backdoor approach to reinstating Dred Scott. Like Jim Crow, the judicial system now has two doors. Out of fear, Blacks are submitting to Jim Crow.
If we ever connected the dots, it would be clear that an injustice is like a cancer. –it spreads like wildfire. Dr. Martin L. King, Jr. said it best: “An injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Of course, there are only King impostors in our midst today.
Information is power. Whites have no intention of allowing Blacks to have access to the airwaves. That being the case, we must establish a general fund from the Black community to finance Black-oriented radio programming. This would allow us to hear from persons who are objectionable to whites. This would break up the radio cartel.
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