Must hear radio: the Levin/Smith interview
Bookworm on Sep 19 2009 at 10:47 pm | Filed under: African-Americans
I’ve had three emails about this audio of Mark Levin’s interview with Stephen A. Smith. Having listened to it, I understand why:
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I heard this one live….Mark isn’t called “The Great One” for nothing, and Steven A. Smith is a clear thinker, a straight-shooter, and one gutsy guy!
A shame that it’s a matter for admiration when a man speaks his mind, isn’t it? Why shouldn’t that be…..”normal”?
I had a conversation with two black men on the subway.
They were speaking about disproportionate black crime rates and how they would combat this. I, of course, spoke about New Orleans, Katrina, and the disarmament of blacks there. It was an overly bold probe, as I didn’t know how they would react. One guy said something like, “that isn’t safe”, presumably about an armed citizenry.
The rest of the conversation concerned authenticity. What does that mean? Well, they had their own questions about me, concerning where i was coming from, where i lived, how many black people I knew.
I hesitated somewhat in answering because my neighborhood is mixed, and part of my brain was concentrating on the purpose behind such questions. At the moment when one of em said, ‘naw, we’re talking about something different’. You can hear that they had thought I was inauthentic, that I didn’t know what I was talking about, that black crime rates would not be decreased by promoting gun ownership.
That’s when I used the nuke. The tonality of my voice changed, the emotive contents changed. Before I was talking about something abstract, something which I believed was true, knew was true, but didn’t believe on faith. When I dropped the nuke, it was specifically about white privilege in the form of Kennedy. The difference became very stark. They started nodding their heads at white privilege and institutional racism. They heard the hate in my voice, because it was real.
A nice bit of demagoguery there, if I may say so myself.
I did find out some concrete useful information. One of the black men told me he was a chef, that he hunted for recreation, that he loves hunting and grilling em up. But he believes the 2nd Amendment culture of America is backed by some white armament corporations that are selling weapons on the streets to kill more black people.
That’s an interesting take, one based upon faith not evidence, per say.
Given that Diane Feinstein’s husband is in a military contracting business, and that Feinstein funneled government contracts to her husband’s firm utilizing her political influence, it is not particularly hard to make the connection between white death merchants and the Democrat party. Not if you get enough hate as a common emotion.
The lesson I got from that experience is that propaganda is powerful. There was no law against it, and even if caught, I would not be in trouble. Yet it is enough to get people to kill, to get them killed.The feeling of power in knowing that regardless of what you feel, you are the one controlling the emotions of others because you understand their strings, is interesting.
This is a power that can be used for harm or good. It all depends upon the agent, which was me in this particular case.
The mistake of many Republicans, Steele included, is that they try to use logic and reason and facts to ‘argue’ a case when in fact they don’t understand at all where people are coming from. they don’t know their trials, their tribulations, the life experiences which have given them their ideology or faith.
The Republican party hates what we love, and loves what we hate. How more so must it be when Repubs try to talk to Democrat black voters?
But when I uttered the words ‘institutional racism’ and ‘white privilege’ to those two, I took those two terms for my own. I would not let the Helens or the Obamas or the Sharpton/Jackson buggers of the world define what it meant. It would mean what I say it means. And when I said it meant Kennedy could get away with murder while a black man doing the same thing without that white status and privilege, would be executed.
I’ll use hate and direct it against what I decide it will be directed against. It does not control me, but rather the other way around.
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