Modern Day MLK
La Shawn Barber may just be the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. of the 21st Century. Her post today titled Do You Hate Black People? is solid proof that she loves black people. She leaves little room for excuses for blacks who are not willing to first look at themselves before trying to pass blame for shortfalls in their lives. I know many blacks who demonstrate a similar attitude, but they choose not to openly speak out like La Shawn Barber.
I have been waiting for a black person with an audience like La Shawn Barber to say, “I hate “affirmative action” because it’s immoral, unconstitutional, embarrassingly unfair, and undignified.” There are very few white people who dare make a statement like that in a public forum, but La Shawn Barber holds nothing back.
I was impressed to see others post positive comments on other blogs as a result the above mentioned posting over at LBC. Lorie Byrd over at the PoliPundit.com drove some fresh traffic into LBC where one reader the Postmodern Pundit said, “That was a fantastic post. I hadn’t visited La Shawn Barber’s blog before, but now I’ve got it bookmarked.”
One part of La Shawn Barber’s post had to do with an interview she did for The Baltimore Sun. Her comments did not make it into the news story. Mark Tapscott give explains the interaction between a reporter and editor to show how a story gets a slant like the one The Baltimore Sun did this week.
December 24th, 2005 at 1:13 am
My conversations with Dan Thanh Dang of The Baltimore Sun
After Morgan Freeman’s comments about Black History Month, Baltimore Sun reporter Dan Thanh Dang did a story about reaction to his comments.
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