Black radio will only succeed if it can bring in a white audience as well.
In the 1960s, a lot of walls between blacks and whites were broken down with music. Truly talented and innovative musicians crossed the color barrier, but much of that well has run dry. Today, “black” music is either entirely for black audiences, or it is a corporate sound from the music industry, stripped of innovation and treated as product.
And by becoming “wholly owned” by the political left, black America has had its agenda replaced with that of the left. Not only that, but even under the pretense that they are one in the same. So what is the black interest in $10/gal gasoline? Impoverishing blacks?
How about the left’s opposition to charter schooling and No Child Left Behind, that has shown to strongly improve the test scores of black children?
And the left’s embrace of abortion is downright murderous to blacks as a group. Were it not for abortion, would black Americans now be 15% of the population instead of 12%?
So what can black radio offer white people that will sell as well? Certainly not liberalism. Liberal radio doesn’t work because very few of any color want to listen to it. And it can’t exclusively be for a black audience, because that already exists where there is enough black audience to support it.
This leaves using either what worked, which means cultivating a new generation of talented and innovative musicians, or appealing to a conservative black audience. Selling black America conservatism as something that offers a lot more to them than liberalism.
Conservatives won’t offer black America the Moon and the stars, but they will give blacks jobs with real power, not just as figureheads, and real success, not just handouts and scraps. And conservatives won’t stand in their way if they want to reach the Moon and the stars themselves.
If you do not have an IQ over 80 you will not grasp any of that. Stupid people of all races tend to vote Democrat because they know who hands out the 'Free Cheese'. It is not difficult to escape poverty but you need to be intelligent enough to see what isn't working out, or at least have people guiding you who are acting in your best interest. The black leadership and liberal elitists have really exploited the the most vulnerable amongst us; the stupid.
Watching Chris Mathews now....discussing difficulty of blacks getting the Jewish vote. Looks like Obama gains a few but loses just as many.