Rabid Responses
I know this is going to sound a little odd, but I really am looking forward to Rev. Al Sharpton bringing his Negro, oops, National Action Network to Indianapolis next year. Not because I’m going to love watching these guys walk right up to the legal line and be the attack dogs for the Democratic Party, but Al and his people will provide me with so much material and fodder I’m going to feel like Jon Stewart during the Bush Presidency.
And not not only will Sharpton provide me with material, but so will his supporters. Here’s an example of one message I got on Facebook from Anthony Williams of Indianapolis…
you are the most ignorant person i have come across in a very long time sometimes stupidity is just to ignorant to reply to please take your tail back to chicago or what ever rock you crawled out from under please do the city of Indianapolis a big favor
I cut and paste his message exactly as he sent it.
I had another woman, “Shane”, call me on the air this week telling me how I hated black people, which is hard to fathom because my wife, parents, brothers and sisters are all black. And she wished my mother had aborted me when I was in my mother’s womb. If it makes Shane feel better I was a breach birth and nearly died during delivery when my mother’s umbilical cord wrapped around my neck. Had I known Shane had such contempt for me I would have tried harder not to make it.
And even my old friend Amos Brown of Radio One called me a snake and the devil on his afternoon program.
Oh well. If it weren’t for the fact that I have an ego the size of God and I’ve gotten tons of positive responses from people of my complexion thanking me for calling out Reverend Ike, uh Al and Baptist Ministers Alliance, I might actually take some of the criticism to heart.
But like my old Journalism professor once told me, a good columnist is measured by the people who hate what he has to say. Looking at who some of my critics are, I have to start aiming higher.
Enjoy your weekend.
