NATIONAL CRY BABY DAY ON THE MICHAEL MEDVED SHOW!

Michael Medved Show | January 21, 2002

[Cinnamon Girl]

All day on the radio people have been calling into various talk shows to explain how African Americans are no better off than they were during Dr. King's time. If that's true, why bother celebrating a day for him? Apparently, he accomplished nothing.

Chris Rock had a joke a while back about how, no matter what city you're in, you don't want to get lost on MLK Blvd. USA Today addresses this issue in an article Medved is discussing.

[Cinnamon Girl]

Crybabies on now!

[RedBloodedAmerican]

I demand a refund!

[Cinnamon Girl]

He told the lady he's talking to right now to watch Alan Keyes' show and she said 'no,' she wouldn't.

[Quicksilver]

Could it be that they put all their stock in the Democratic [sic] Party?

[Cinnamon Girl]

CRYBABY STORY #1: from USA Today: These are America's governors. No blacks. No Hispanics. For many reasons, statewide offices still elude minorities. The U.S. Senate is no more representative of the nation's diversity.

By Kathy Kiely

USA TODAY

Cover storyCover story WASHINGTON -- It's a fact so obvious and so widely accepted that it's not even a political issue. But if the U.S. Senate and the National Governors' Association were private clubs, their membership rosters would be a scandal.

They're virtually lily white.

Not a single black or Hispanic is to be found among the nation's sitting governors. The same is true for the Senate, whose 100 members represent a population that is 12.5% Hispanic and 12.3% black.

As the nation celebrates the birthday of civil rights pioneer Martin Luther King Jr., his dream of equal opportunity for all races appears far from being realized in the country's most elite political circles. Women have made major political strides since the civil rights movement of the 1960s: Five are governors and 13 are in the Senate, both record-high numbers. But the statewide jobs that historically have been steppingstones to the presidency have remained mostly out of minorities' reach.

Of the 1,864 people who have served in the Senate since 1789, 15 have been minorities: four blacks (two elected), three Hispanics, four Asian-Americans, three Native Americans and one Native Hawaiian. More than 2,200 people have served as governors. Nine have been minorities: four Hispanics, three Asian-Americans, one black and one Native Hawaiian.

[Cinnamon Girl]

Crybaby story #2.

[breakem]

I'm willing to give up our Senators from California for the first black and hispanic in the phone book. Can't be any worse.

[clintonh8r]

The senators and governors reflect the will of the people more accurately than the House of Representatives because, obviously, there is no district gerrymandering. If blacks haven't been elected to theses offices they should examine the qualifications of their candidates and how the electorate views the "black agenda".

[Blood of Tyrants]

MLK's dream of having his children judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin has been hijacked by race baiting poverty pimps like jackasson and sharpton and exploited by the entire DemoNAZI party for political gain.

[bray]

Happy Divide the Races Day!

Pray for GW and the Truth

[MACVSOG68]

They'll simply never have equality as long as they're all willing to settle for only $15 million a year in the NBA!

[anniegetyourgun]

If my two senators resigned to let the Governor select two black replacements I would see no change in the voting record. In fact, I think it's the least my two senators could do - to prove they aren't racists.

[Lucky2]

They should listen to the likes of Walter Williams, Larry Elder, Ken Hamblin, Armstrong Williams, Alan Keyes, etc. etc. etc. Then they'd see and hear the true vision of Dr. King!

[Geezerette]

I am always so glad when this day of whining is finally over. It gets worse every year.

Does one whose relatives came from Jamaica call him/herself an "African American"?

Just wondering ... Ken Hamblin used to bring up that point. I haven't heard him for years, as our local station dropped him. Now there was a good Conservative!!!

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[breakem]

I'd donate to their pension of the Cal Gals would leave now.

[Cinnamon Girl]

Better yet, listen to Larry Elder's father, who votes Republican, while Larry encourages people to bring themselves up and throw their vote in the garbage voting Libertarian.

[Lucky2]

True enough! Mr. Lucky2 is a libertarian and I tell him all the time that he's throwing away his vote. His response: "I'm voting my conscience". His consicience is what caused the Florida fiasco and a lot of Rats being voted in!

[Cinnamon Girl]

Read that chapter from Goldberg's book Bias where he explains how a producer was told his story about a black man would be spiked unless he referred to the man as an African American. The producer said, "but he's Jamaican." CBS wouldn't budge.

A gorgeous friend of mine is half Jamaican, half Swedish, but she considers herself Indian.

[Drew68]

I am always so glad when this day of whining is finally over. It gets worse every year.

But then we get a whole month of it in February. Thankfully it's not a leap-year.

[freedomcrusader]

Indian as in 'Native American' or Indian as in from the country of India?