Is It Us? Or Them? (Repfanz)

Listening to shock jocks, Steve Harvey and Tom Joyner is becoming more and more difficult to do every morning. I mean I get their positions and their right to express their opinion. I get that and I will fight for their right to say them. However, listen too, I don't think so. I do have the right to change the freaking station and listen to something else, but I live in Los Angeles. We only have three stations worth listening too. And unfortunately two of them have black radios top shock jock Joyner on one and shock jock Harvey on the other, so I'm kinda of stuck listening to one of them until I get closer to downtown Los Angeles to switch to the third station. Which by the way hosts a early morning talk show which is just as brutal as Harvey and Joyner combined.

The comments and opinions expressed by these people are killing me! It leaves me wondering if it is us (or me) or them? Let me fill you in on what I'm talking about. Week before last, the nation looked back on the one year anniversary of the floods that devastated New Orleans caused by Hurricane Katrina. Joyner took the opportunity to slam the federal government of its role in responding to people who either chose to ride out the storm or were just left behind. Joyner and his crew all but, one thumbed upped Spike Lee's, I don't want to call it a documentary, "When The Levies Broke" and validated it as gospel according to Spike. On Harvey's show, Spike himself was on the show and gave everyone a quick glimpse of what the show was going to be about. Blame Bush and by the way Blame Bush, the end. It's amazing that these men who have a forum can continue to give half truths and passes to parties, who too were the blame. No mention of Nagin or Blanco. No mention of the unnecessary looting by the very people who these shock jocks placate to. No mention of after one year of this country's pouring of compassion, donated time and monies of the individuals who squandered the opportunity to make a new life for themselves by getting jobs and taking advantage of classes to get a skill. No, these group of individuals continued their dependance of the US Government by remaining stagnant. No mention of the City of Houston's rise in crime and the huge strain on their social programs. No, not a peep out of these shock jocks. And don't be Bill Cosby or a conservative and say something. Then the Big Joker aka The Race Card will come out and that person is labeled out of touch with the poor [blacks] or someone who is out of touch of the [black] community.

Oh it doesn't stop with the floods that devastated New Orleans. Next week is the five year anniversary of 9/11. Today on Joyner's show he played a mix, I guess dedicated to 9/11. On it he had quotes from elected black leaders and self elected black leaders. Also on the mix was the sound of the terrorists on the hijacked planes and Marvin Gaye's "What's Goin' On?". After the mix was played, Joyner commented and said, "After that, we were together, and all of sudden we went after Saddam. What happened to getting Bin Laden?" In essence Joyner went to the "Bush Lied-People Died" card and "War for Oil" card.

So I'm left wondering if is it us (or me) or them? Because Joyner, Harvey and others who still don't get why we are in Iraq is quite frankly, mind boggling. What about the war are they not getting? And it doesn't make sense to try to explain over and over again. It doesn't make sense to give articles and quotes from people most knowledgeable. Because in the end, they still won't get it. I could write e-mails to the both of them and remind them that the day when we were all together, filled with emotions ranging from anger to sadness that not only did we have to destroy the Taliban which was harboring Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. That we had to remove the one man who was a sworn enemy to our country, paid thousands of dollars to terrorists, already attacked and invaded his enemies and by the way have used chemical weapons. I could have wrote them and told them that on September 12, 2001, that Saddam's world changed. Although Iraq was not connected with the attacks, Saddam was under UN Resolution to allow inspectors in Iraq to inspect his weapon's capabilities. We now know that France, Germany and Russia was trading weapons for Iraq's oil trove. We know that after the first Gulf War, Saddam continued manufacturing his weapons capabilities and everyone, including the administration before GW Bush came in said so. Harvey and Joyner probably didn't get that memo. What's even sadder is that Harvey and Joyner probably won't get the fact that once we were attacked that fateful day, that Saddam should have allowed inspectors in with open freakin' arms and jugs of water. Those two shock jocks probably didn't get the memo that once Saddam got defiant and attempted to man up to save face with his people, that a pissed off U.S., after getting the necessary votes, promptly removed him and his regime, 2 hours faster than the Germans invaded and got the French to do what they do best, surrender. They totally ignored that Libya, a country who was/is on our s-list gave up their WMD's and said that Iraq had them. I'm thinking that Khadifi didn't want to give up his power and end up where Saddam is.

You see it doesn't matter how you explain it. Joyner and Harvey are still going to be stuck on 9/11, Bin Laden and Afghanistan. Never mind that there are memos from Zarqawi saying that Al Qaeda is losing and probably won't hold up much longer. Last week, one more Al Qaeda key member is in paradise errr!! Hell. It's a matter of time before Bin Laden is either captured or killed. But regardless of what happens....

Those two will continue to voluntarily be misinformed and guilty, along with others, of spreading it like a bad secret.