*EUR/Electronic Urban Report recently chatted with outspoken journalist and TV Host Roland Martin to get his opinion about the current state of racial politics, most specifically: this ridiculous New Black Movement.
You will recall last year when Pharrell Williams declared to Oprah that he’s leading the vanguard in the New Black movement, which is his delusional reality that black folks can avoid racial discrimination and tragedy if we simply stop blaming the white man for his untested system institutionalized racism. It seems that Pharrell, and those who co-sign his comments, would rather blacks support White Supremacy than fight it.
Rapper Common flashed his New Black membership card during an appearance on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” last year. The Oscar and Golden Globe winner “explained why black people should extend a hand to white people and “forget about the past” as it pertains to race relations.”
Sigh….
Raven-Symone and Stacey Dash are also proud card-carrying members of the New Black movement, as well as Wu Tang’s RZA, who recently said that if black males dress better then they could avoid being harassed and murdered by the cops.
Mr. Martin told us that the comments from these new blackers is “laughable.”
“These comments are laughable but it’s not like those are new comments. I can take you back to folks saying that stuff in the 90’s, the 80’s, the 70’s the 60’s, the 50’s, the 40’s, the 30’s, the 20’s the early teen years and also back in the lat 1800’s,” Roland explained. “It ain’t nothing about it that’s new. It’s easy to dispute when somebody says some nonsense like that because the reality is, if they were lynching black folks wearing their uniforms during the Jim Crow era, don’t think that somehow a suit is going to be bullet proof and keep you from getting gunned down by a cop.”
Martin also weighed in on the recent comments by the Governor of Maine who said black drugs dealers are coming into his state and making single mothers out of young white women.
“First off, you gotta understand that the Governor of Maine is nuts,” Roland said. “This guy has made all kinds of comments on numerous occasions and he frankly makes Donald Trump look like a Boy Scout. That’s just who he is, and I think it’s our job to put him on blast and call him out, we did so on the show. It is laughable but here’s the other thing, though, we should also be providing critical analysis to what is happening to the presidential campaign. All of sudden, because white kids are overdoing on heroin, all of a sudden you’re seeing people say ‘We need to have compassion for those families and those folks who are affected because of how difficult this situation is.’ Please show me the compassion you had white folks providing in the 80’s, 90’s and 2000’s for blacks who were being impacted by crack cocaine and addiction.”
He continued:
“I think it’s important for us in media to show (how) it’s a whole different reaction. You have Chris Christie who is passionate because he had one of his well-off friends who died because of a heroin overdose. We got some folks who are not well who are black who have been impacted as well but we don’t hear the same sort of compassion. We hear tougher sentencing.”
Regarding mainstream media ignoring the Daniel Holtzclaw trail, Roland echoed the sentiments of many who believe that if the victims were white women, there would have been 24/7 non-stop media coverage.
“You can’t tell me if 13 White women were raped by a cop that that trial would’ve been utterly ignored by every cable outlet in the country,” Martin said during our teleconference.
When asked if he believes the Affluenza teen, Ethan Couch, has set a precedent for young people in the future to commit violent crimes and avoid prison, Mr. Martin said: “If you’re white and rich, yeah.”
“First of all, the judge in Forth Worth, who gave this sentencing, has no job, and no business ever being a judge again. That is beyond despicable that this guy can get drunk, kill four people and buy this ridiculous affluenza defense and get off scot-free. This little punk needs to be in jail. He killed four people! It just shows you the two Americas. You can not convince me, ever, that you’re gonna see a black teen drive drunk kill four people and then be sent home on probation. Ain’t gonna happen. But that’s what happens when you are rich and white in America.”
Catch Roland Martin on “NewsOne Now” daily at 7:00 a.m., with the third hour airing weekdays at 9:00 a.m. ET, on TV One. You can also listen to his podcasts here.
