Hip-hop Rev. Conrad Tillard (http://www.revconradbtillard.org/) from Brooklyn, New York taking over the Gary Byrd radio program (WLIB from 7pm to 12 am) on Sunday 7/01/07 was a welcome relief. Usually listeners who have a difference of opinion or who want to talk about how lousy, scandalous and incompetent more than half of black elected and civil white leaders are, are usually hung up on or have to contend with Byrd’s microphone booming 10 decibels over theirs. And if that’s not enough then calls are screened and blocked, or if a caller doesn’t have a strong stance, then their opinion is twisted to suit Byrd’s.The only time a listener can call in and chastise or reprimand a so-called black leader is when that leader doesn’t go along with a superficial civil whites issue, street naming, legislating the “N”-word, or police brutality. Other than that, in Gary Byrd’s opinion, so-called black leaders are doing a great job. Although, the communities that they get paid $3,000 plus per week to represent is suffering economically, go figure.
Poverty equals crime; more crime equals more police; more police equals more police brutality. But, in Brooklyn you have black councilmen who brag about bringing home 29 million dollars to study black unemployment which is a joke to everyone but Gary Byrd, who makes 200,000 dollars a year?
On Gary Byrd’s show the needs of the few police brutality victims out weigh the needs of the many black brutality victims. The new Negro tricknology is to mention black brutality on these Sunday black talk shows so that if the hosts are challenged by the many blacks whose family members are affect by black brutality then the host can say we’ve “addressed it” or “touched upon it” so the host can tell the listener that they don‘t know what the hell they‘re talking about. But if you’d actually clock the amount of time given to black brutality versus police brutality and who is affected the most by either one, it would make you suspicious about the motives of the host who gets paid by white advertisers but say they have the interest of the black community at heart.
Having Conrad Tillard take over the Gary Byrd talk show was an improved difference. Especially when reverend Tillard, held 2 so-called black leaders accountable. When reverend Tillard, denounced slick talking poverty pimp, Michael Eric Dyson for not digging in his pockets to invest (charity is another form of welfare) in the black communities that he makes his hustle off of, it was applauded by everyone I know who tuned in to listen. If Michael Eric Dyson was to give ten percent of the money he makes from books about black poverty and misery to black people in his community that want to open up grocery stores like undereducated Hispanics, whom by the way, have done a great job in putting bodega’s on every corner in the black community, it would create a realistic change. Michael Eric Dyson doesn’t even use his money to help other black writers with getting their work published and marketed. And if Mr. Dyson was to put his money where his mouth is, and as much as he runs his mouth, that could cause a ripple affect across our nation.
The other so-called black leader that reverend Conrad Tillard brought up was Negro Jethro intellectual Cornell West for refusing to teach at HBCU’s to help mold young black minds but preferring to teach at iv[or]y league colleges to educate mostly white students. Well, I guess its to be expected from Mr. West. He is after all part of the civil white leadership community and their mantra and creed is to be, “the moral conscientiousness (mammy’s and fag-hags) of white America. Coincidently, it just so happens that Michael Eric Dyson and Cornell West are the same two people that Chris Rock clowned on PBS’s Tavis Smiley show recently, hmm.
One of the major reasons why black talk radio is losing it listeners and ratings is because the hosts have not been able to do their job effectively when it comes to holding black elected officials and civil white leaders accountable in terms of their priorities. Black talk show hosts have become too friendly with black elected officials and therefore unable muster up the courage to focus on the lack of pork and/or grant money to take part in purchasing buildings and businesses in what once was the black community. No one I know wants to sit around listening to grown-ass black men whine and complain for hours on the radio about how white men are picking on so-called black leaders. As if so-called black leaders aren’t as morally corrupt and incompetent as George Bush.
If black talk radio on Sunday doesn’t change its format from being the moral conscientiousness of white men, while ignoring the immorality and screwed-up priorities of so-called black leaders, then poor blacks won’t care whether or not the new ratings system will keep them from being on the air to collect a hefty check from white advertisers on Madison Avenue.
