) and asked if she was interested in writing a guest post. She offered up the following about comments Neal Boortz recently made on his radio show:
BOORTZ: You know what? I, for one, am tired of putting up with this crap. And you want to know why I moved out of Atlanta and only spend a couple of weeks a year in this town? That's one of the reasons. Carjackings, violence, people getting shot. It's ridiculous. This city harbors an urban culture of violence. And I want you to look around. You drive into the city. The railroad overpass is on the downtown connector covered with graffiti. And that-- That is just an advertisement for everybody coming into this town that we really don't give a damn about those who would screw up our quality of life around here. We really just don't care. We don't care enough to paint over graffiti on the overpasses that come into our city, advertising welcome to Atlanta, here's some of our finest graffiti, from some of our finest urban thugs and their little gang signs. And pick up the paper tomorrow morning. Read about all the carjackings. Read about the innocent people shot for the pure de-hell of it.
This town is starting to look like a garbage heap. And we got too damn many urban thugs, yo, ruining the quality of life for everybody. And I'll tell you what it's gonna take. You people, you are - you need to have a gun. You need to have training. You need to know how to use that gun. You need to get a permit to carry that gun. And you do in fact need to carry that gun and we need to see some dead thugs littering the landscape in Atlanta. We need to see the next guy that tries to carjack you shot dead right where he stands. We need more dead thugs in this city. And let their -- let their mommas -- let their mommas say, "He was a good boy. He just fell in with the good crowd." And then lock her ass up.
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Neal Boortz has called for killing! He claims it is self defense, but he has taken law enforcement, the court system and the rule of law totally out of the picture.
He has put out a call for all his listeners, you know them, the 'good citizens of Atlanta' to pick up arms! Go get "trained" people, before you head out to do some "urban thug" hunting. Don't forget your permit, while you drive down that Atlanta street, sweaty palmed, just waiting for that "urban thug, Yo". Every stop light is a potential killing ground. If one of those "urban thugs" come near your precious car, the car you work every day to pay for, the car that is the life blood of your family, when that "urban thug" comes to take your car away, you will be ready to shoot him dead "right where he stands!" That car of yours is far more important than any "urban thug's" life, "yo."...but why wait until they get to your car, like the Bush doctrine taught us (get them before they get you) and "see some dead thugs littering the landscape" in the ATL!
I know I went a little overboard here, but seriously, why is this guy still on the air? I heard today that he is a lawyer so we can assume that he isn't a total idiot, but from a simple Google search he does have a history of being a racist. Why is this guy who put out a call for citizens to pick up arms and become vigilantes still on the radio? Have we become so desensitized by the "Right Wing Shock Jocks" of the world that this man's rhetoric is no longer shocking? I found it extremely disturbing and so does Ed Schultz and Joe Madison. Joe said on Ed's show this morning,
"I think that skin heads are thugs, does that mean I can go out and shoot them too?" Could you imagine the outrage if "The Black Eagle" Joe Madison went on his show and said what Boortz did, only about skin heads? Both of these guys have called out Boortz on their radio shows and Ed has done so on his MSNBC show, but the big 4 networks have said nothing. I do remember a story about 3 New Black Panther members standing outside a predominantly Democratic polling place in Philly in 2008, on not just the nightly network news but my local news here in Wisconsin, but not a peep about this "more dead thugs in this city guy". I don't want this to just fade into another news cycle and neither does Joe Madison. He is telling his listeners to call the people responsible for putting this man on the air: Cox Communications/Cox Media Group. Several of his callers tried to call Cox directly, but they transferred them over to the Neal Boortz show producers. Cox put out a
statement saying they were sorry for anyone who was offended, and providing links to Boortz's show.
One of the Mom things that I used to tell my little "urban thugs" before they went out to play with a ball or bat was, "That is your responsibility, if something gets broken because of your ball or bat, you are to blame, even if you weren't holding it at the time. You make the choice to take it outside or not." Knowing full well that if something got broken, my child would be the only one left stand there anyway, because the rest of the kids (non-urban thugs) would scatter. And things did get broken, and my kids did take responsibility and were often rewarded with not having to pay for the window. This is how Cox should be treated. You have to take responsibility for what you put on your air!
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