If You Don't Want BET Part DUH Write to the FCC TODAY!!!!

I like to temper my complaining and outrage with action so in case you're not aware of the vast Bob Johnson conspiracy to make Black people look like fools some more here's the gist:

Ion Media (white company) has "partnered" (though the terms are a secret) with Bob Johnson and Urban Television to petition the FCC to grant Ion an all-access pass to programming that would kick off all the smaller Black and OPC (other people of color) programmers including believe it or not, TV One. The scam is on people! It's a bait and switch because Bob doesn't own Ion and Urban would be granted access through the other company - maybe. Once the deal is made it would be too late to change the terms or nullify it.

Bob Johnson gets to be the Black face for a white company and he even had the nerve to get support from other Blacks to do it. Talk about selling yourself short....and selling each other out for pennies?!!! So the question is: do you want Bob Johnson's second wave of Black bucks/video hos/idiocy staring not only at you - but being broadcast around the world as the ONLY IMAGE OF BLACKS - every day into perpetuity? 

Speak now (actually write a letter and mail it pronto) or forever hold your peace.....

Federal Communications Commission 

Office of the Secretary

445 12th Street S.W. 

Room TW-A325 

Washington, D.C. 20554

File#: BALCT-20081118AGX, et al.; 

          DA 08-2621, DA 08-2772

Subject:

In the Matter of Paxson Communications Licensee & Urban Television LLC

Assignee, For Creation and Assignment of Full-Power Television Licenses

To the Attention Of:    Commissioner Copps

                                Commissioner Aldelstein

                                Commissioner McDowell

Write your FCC "You had better deny this crap of poo!" (body of the) letter here -

I'll even suggest something so you can cut and paste.   

We do not approve of this pending request from the above-mentioned parties. These companies and organizations DO NOT SPEAK FOR THE ENTIRE BLACK POPULATION in this country. We do not want Bob Johnson and his enablers trading our self-respect for a few trinkets. We do NOT want this deal approved. PLEASE DENY IT!!! 

 

Read the entire thread at What About Our Daughters for ALL the gory details. I'm going to take another shower now.

Edible Schoolyard Project: Revolutionary & Practical

Chef Alice Waters should really be commended for her years of work in promoting sustainable, healthy food that's affordable to all. She has focused on teaching students from lower economic neighborhoods how to grow and enjoy fresh food, which is fast becoming a lost skill set. If we can create a generation of people who will seek out and demand nourishing food we can eliminate a host of health problems that result from poor eating habits. Where certain residential areas may not even have a local supermarket, it is very difficult for children to get access to nutritional meals. Children who go hungry or are lacking in filling meals often cause disruptions and aren't able to retain what they're being taught. 

Gardening and food preparation may be the difference between being fed and going hungry for many as this economic free-fall continues. It also elevates the minds and perception of those children and their families. Arugula for example wouldn't be looked at as some alien food exclusively for the haute couture crowd. If you've ever had organic vegetables from a local farmer - and I'm thinking of spinach as I write this - you could not describe the explosion of flavor and freshness by comparison.

Where Chef Waters could have chosen the celebrity route exclusively, she decided to give back to communities with a purpose. The Edible Schoolyard Project began in Berkeley but other schools have coordinated their own programs, tailoring them to their local markets. She's hoping for White House support in expanding these types of projects.

"We need a WPA project that rebuilds our public schools," she said, referring to the Works Project Administration before World War II that helped put people to work during the depression. "Why not put a garden in at the same time, teach people about gastronomy and ecology and feed them a good lunch?"

Ah, mercy mercy me indeed....