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Friday, August 26, 2005

If You're Sensitive You Might Not Wanna Read This...

Song Playing: "I Run NY" Tony Yayo Feat. 50

Still here? Well I warned you. Here goes...Why in the world are people still searching for Natalie Holloway? If you've been getting your Saddam on and hiding in a spider hole you're probably wondering who the hell is Natalie Holloway. I'ma sum it up. She's this 18-year-old chick from Alabama (white chick). Her and her senior class go on a senior trip to Aruba (I ain't have no trip in high school did any of you?). The day everyone is supposed to go home...Natalie is missing. That was in like late April. It's Late August...do the math. We're going on 4 months of coverage of looking for this white chick. This ain't a racial thing...but then again it is. Had this been a black girl from Anywhere, USA all you woulda heard about her was that she's missing and the story would've ran for about a month. TOPS. I hop they find the girl or her remains because no parent should have to go through this. However, I still think it's bullshit that we've spent 4 months covering a white girl when there was hardly a mention of the founder of Ebony magazine dying. I was talking to my friend and I wa just my honest self. I told her Johnson just died on the wrong day. He and Peter Jennings died on the same day. Once again do the math...beloved White TV anchor vs. Black magazine founder. I ain't a racist, I just ain't blind.

2 Comments:

Blogger T Dot said...

No, what killed me was this line I swear I heard on the TV newscast. After a long piece about Peter Jennings and all he had done for American journalism, I hear: "Also dead today, John H. Johnson." They kept talking, but I was just like, huh? And even our paper, we had a big thing on Peter, front top right corner on the day he died. Johnson? He got a box on the bottom right corner the next day, saying he died. Stuff is crazy in this industry. Crazy.

12:27 AM

 
Blogger Jameil said...

What pissed me off was the number of Black people that didn't even know who Johnson was. And one of them is a journalist. WHAT?! I'm revoking your NABJ membership right now. You know Bill Clinton escorted Mrs. Johnson at the funeral? How hot is that? I'm tryin to be like her when I grow up. Except I don't want my future husband to die. Him and my momma gotta live forever. I already told her. She didn't sign up for that plan tho. And that triflin?

12:07 PM

 

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