OH, BOY

by Malik Isasis























My grandmother use to say, “Lord, have mercy.” She said that when something terrible happened—like when as a child I got a fever of 103 degrees. Today after watching what is consider news, I found myself saying, “Lord, have mercy.” The corporate media are slobbering like Pavlov’s dogs as O.J. Simpson is back on stage to play the straw man for the white rage that is so prevalent in American culture.

O.J is not alone in the media orgy. Former Detroit Piston basketball player and current New York Knicks’ basketball coach/president Isaiah Thomas is also in the media mix. He has been accused of sexual harassment. Thomas’ court proceeding is being played out like a soap opera here in New York.

I’m not in the business of justifying anyone’s behavior, but the media are Klingons when it comes to black athletes and their pathologies. There is an assortment of admiration, resentment and racism at the core of their obsessive coverage and manufactured outrage.

Although it appears that O.J. Simpson may have been set up on kidnapping, and armed-robbery charges, the corporate media are lazy, and the nostalgia of having another O.J. Simpson trail is too tempting to set on the back burner and cover say, the occupation of Iraq.

The cottage industry as a result of O.J. Simpson spawned the awful mess that is Greta Van Susteren, who no matter what is going on in the world, continues to cover selectively, missing white girls.

If only corporate media investigated the Hurricane Katrina Aftermath with such vigor. The corporate media will allocate so-called reporters and newsreaders in a big waste of air time.

Lord, have mercy.

I’m done with giving this anymore life.

Don’t be fooled by the yellow brick road of distraction.

Bush is still out there.

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