Comments on: Roland Martin Is Not GLAAD…

By: MsMobetter

MsMobetter — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:32:30 +0000

Raynard,
Thank you for having the courage to write this post. I am a follower of Roland on Twitter and was tweeting myself on Super Bowl evening. Most of the tweets were about the commercials and many people (celebrities included)were expressing their opinions. I saw Roland’s tweets about the David Beckman ad and never once connected it with being directed at gays or violence. I even said to myself, “Roland is just hating on Beckman because he looked good.” I dismissed it as locker room talk. There were also others who had expressed the ad was not appealing to them personally.

I too have been disenchanted by the lack of outward support from leaders and his so called media friends. In fact, it has been so quiet, it is scary. My thoughts are no one wants to step on the toes of GLAAD. Who in the heck made GLAAD God? If their goal is to promote understanding and equality, I totally support that, but that should not destroy a person’s career because they may not agree with your lifestyle or what some individuals selectively deem as offensive. Even more severe is to somehow connect Roland to a beating in Georgia. This situation is too far out of hand and it appears Roland has become a way for GLAAD to attract more attention.

It was not long ago that someone tweeted Roland and asked him when he would be back on CNN because he had been absent for a while. Roland replied that he had not been asked in a long time. Shortly, after that, Roland was back on CNN. Whether you agree with Roland or not, he was one of the very few African American faces on major news networks during critical election times who was not afraid to step up and address important issues that support the African American community. This is something we have not had in major news networks for a long time. Beware of a quick rise to the top, it is a short fall.

By: lewis orr

lewis orr — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:28:03 +0000

There are no true Black leaders in America today. They were all murdered before they were able to deliver their message to the next generation. This is why after intergration the Black community is in the shape it’s in. What we have are place holders. Any Black masiah that shows up will have a target on his back. If there were Black leaders, they would stand up to these special interest groups that have too much power and attack the Black community with impunity. I know some will ask what do we do in the mean time? There are no easy answers, only remain in prayer.

By: H. Lewis Smith

H. Lewis Smith — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:42:29 +0000

The following excerpt from your article speaks volumes:

“Just a side note here; why is it that GLAAD called on CNN to fire Roland Martin, but did not make the same request from TV One, the network he has his own show on. Could it be that since TV One is a Black owned network, that somehow it is not viewed as having any value? Just a question!”

The key word in the excerpt is “value”. Somehow we as a group are under the mistakable impression that others should think more of us than we do of ourselves. We just don’t seem to get it that the world is watching and listening as to how we demean and degrade one another and are taking us at our word that we are indeed n**gas and are to be treated as such.

No matter the circumstances GLAAD and no other group compromises their values and convictions the way we as Black America compromises ours and think nothing of it, and then we wonder out loud why we are never shown any respect. There is nothing respectable, honorable and dignified about embracing the n-word and the sooner we wake up to that REALITY the better. We can diss GLAAD all we want, but one thing about them…they demand respect and they GET IT. Petition campaign drive against use of the n-word:

http://www.change.org/petitions/black-african-americans-to-denounce-and-stop-referring-to-one-another-as-the-n-word-ngahs?share_id=KieLfUvvjt&pe=d2e