Ebony Magazine

Ebony Magazine Shows It’s “Colors” … Again

Published by Papa Giorgio

The oozing of bias is more noticeable now than ever, as DAILY CALLER notes:

Ebony Magazine profiled 18 black women running for Congress in early October but did not include any of the six black Republican women, including one sitting congresswoman, running.

Ebony suggested that their profile, which was published on October 11, was the definitive list of all of the black women running for Congress, titling the piece, “Meet the 18 Black Women Running for a Seat in Congress.”

“This midterm election is one to watch with all 435 seats in the U.S. House up for grabs. Meet the 18 black women vying for a congressional seat,” Ebony writer Sarafina Wright said.

The piece, however, does not mention any of the black Republican women running for Congress….

FLASHBACKS

Ebony Editor: Killing White People Shouldn’t Be Considered a “Hate Crime”

Remember LARRY ELDER’S letter to Ebony from some years back?

…Ebony magazine, a monthly staple of American black life since 1945, publishes an annual list of the 100-plus (now 150) “Most Influential Blacks in America.” Why not rename it the “Most Influential Liberal Blacks in America”?

Each year, Ebony leaves out conservative, heavyweight black intellectuals like Walter Williams, a distinguished professor of economics and former department chairman at George Mason University. In addition to his 10 books on economics and race relations, Williams writes a popular weekly syndicated column carried in about 200 papers. If another black person ran the econ department at any other major, non-historically-black college or university, I don’t know whom that would be! Yet you ignore Williams — because you think his politics hurt black people.

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Each year, Ebony leaves out Thomas Sowell of Stanford’s Hoover Institution. He has only written some 40 books about economics, politics and race relations. His column appears in more than 300 papers, making him one of the most widely read writers in the English language. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet (“Glengarry Glen Ross”) called Sowell “our greatest contemporary philosopher.”

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And each year, Ebony leaves out Clarence Thomas, who is one of only nine sitting Supreme Court justices. You leave him out, as you do Williams and Sowell, because you don’t like their politics….

`Conservative Black Chick` Lays Into Ebony Magazine ~ Rightly So

Published by Papa Giorgio

The whole post is well worth reading. But here is a large swath of it followed by a link so you can read the rest at Conservative Black Chick’s site:

Personal responsibility is for whites only, according to black apologists like MSNBC’s Toure Neblett, Oprah, Russell Simmons, and the mainstream media. In the wake of the George Zimmerman not guilty verdict in the death of Trayvon Martin, this low expectation message is pushed relentlessly–that all men (except blacks) are created equal with certain unalienable rights among them “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” Show me where it says that in the Declaration of Independence or Constitution.

Earlier this week, Oprah Winfrey, Queen of talk, declared Martin’s murder “the same” as Emmett Till. Eye roll! In 1955, Till was savagely murdered by two racist white men in Mississippi because he was a 14 year old black boy and a white woman thought he whistled at her. Martin, a 17 year old black teen tragically contributed to his own death by starting a fight with Zimmerman. Not the same, not even respectfully close. Oprah should stick with pushing Hollywood stereotypes of blacks by promoting her new film “The Butler” and leave history to experts who know it.

But the victimhood indoctrination of blacks continued in earnest this week. After Oprah misrepresented civil rights history, EBONY magazine published a series of covers featuring black celebrities and their sons dressed in hoodies in honor of Trayvon. The headline read “JUSTICE FOR TRAYVON: EBONY Takes a Stand.” Editors wrote the “September cover pays tribute to the slain teen and the continuing fight for justice.” What justice exactly? Perpetuating the lie that Trayvon and his parents didn’t contribute to his death or the lie that black males aren’t the cause of their own demise? Why did twice divorced Tracy Martin leave Trayvon at his girlfriend’s home alone with a friend while he and his girlfriend went out?

Blacks represent 13% of the population yet 55% of all federal prisoners; a startling 54% of all murders committed with guns are murders of blacks, according to the Centers for Disease Control. From 1980 to 2008, The Justice Department found blacks were six times more likely than whites to be killed by a gun and seven times more likely to kill with a gun. A Children’s Defense Fund report found over 44,000 blacks have been killed by guns since 1979 more than the total number of blacks lynched from 1882-1968.

Trayvon wasn’t profiled because he was black but because he was walking around a neighborhood where he didn’t live and many burglaries had occurred. Did wearing a hoodie make him look more suspicious? Probably. Zimmerman didn’t know Martin was black when he first saw him from behind.

EBONY’s “hoodie covers” are an injustice, glorifying a thug culture, which can get young black men killed. I guess the next EBONY cover will feature black male celebrities and their sons wearing saggy pants, revealing their boxers. Black and white men for that matter can wear what they want but the only reason men dress in hoodies, chains and baggy pants is to look menacing. Except hip hop moguls, making millions off inciting violence, I don’t know any businessmen dressing like thugs, which brings us to CNN’s anchor Don Lemon.

Ever since Lemon had the audacity to state the obvious— the problems facing black America are caused by their OWN bad behavior, not white people, black liberals went apoplectic. After the George Zimmerman murder trial ended, Lemon felt he could unleash his frustrations about the state of black America. From use of the word “n****r” to blacks 73% out of wedlock birth, Lemon cited five things blacks should avoid.

Lemon who usually tows CNN’s liberal narrative was lambasted by MSNBC contributor Goldie Taylor as a “a turncoat mofo” and called “a slave” by Russell Simmons for daring to jump out of the black box of denial. Simmons, who has made billions off of producing hip hop music, glorifying violence, sent Lemon a letter this week. During his recent show, Lemon said he wasn’t going to bother to respond to the letter it because he couldn’t take it seriously after Simmons called him “a slave on Twitter.”

Simmons declined Lemon’s invitation to appear on CNN to defend his actions but tweeted this:

“Russell Simmons @UncleRUSH Hey @DonLemonCNN — I want to formally apologize for calling you a “slave” – I just think you’re promoting the wrong message.”

But Lemon decided to address points in Simmons’ letter, including that Lemon was taking the conservative point of view in criticizing black men. Lemon said problems don’t have political affiliation, “attack the problem not the messenger.” Simmons letter was nonsense. He accused Lemon of blaming black teens “for their own demise” because they don’t speak “the King’s English or wear belts around their waistbands.” Well they should.

After giving Simmons a history lesson on the civil rights movement and African pride born out of the 1960s, Lemon asked, “Are you equating dressing like a criminal to African pride?”

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