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Ozone Mag Chin Check June 2008

May 15, 2008 | Tags: none

Jesus would have been a radio personality/DJ. I want you to understand exactly what I just said so I will repeat it again. Jesus would have been a radio personality/DJ. How did I come to this conclusion? Well, Jesus was a public servant. He is an example of a man who truly came to serve. The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan says we should not want public office or positions of power so that we can become big shots. We should want public office and positions of power so that we can serve.

Jesus himself said, “He who would be great among you, let him be your servant." What Would Jesus Do If He Was A Jock? He would be a public servant. He would serve the needs of the people. If you’re a radio personality/DJ and you don't feel that you are a public servant then you need to do us all a favor and dress like Bin Laden and go running up to the White House with a backpack on screaming JIHAD! The people have needs, so those of us in service are only good if we can use our power to satisfy the needs of those whom we serve.

Let's be clear, we all know the radio personality/DJ game is a thankless business. The hours are long and the money is short. Most of us probably wouldn’t be doing it if we didn't have a genuine love for what we do. Think about the headaches you go through when dealing with program directors who don't even live the lifestyle. Think about having to compete with other radio personalities and DJs who are so far outside the demographic you are targeting that they think Day 26 is a four week weight loss program guaranteed to have you 20 pounds lighter on the 26th day. Even worse, they think Shawty Lo is an artificial sweetener for young kids with diabetes.

I ask Mass Communication majors all the time “Are you getting involved with radio because you have a genuine love for the game?” “Do you want to be involved because you have a genuine need or desire to make the lives of others better?” If not, then I would strongly suggest another profession; something that does not have you directly affecting the lives of the people that hear you on a daily basis. I know there are some radio personality/DJs out there right now saying, “Man Charlamagne sit your ass down somewhere, I'm just here to collect my little piece of a paycheck and keep it moving.” Well my friend that is why your ratings suck. That is why you still don't have that shift you wanted at the station. That is why no one is returning your calls about that air check you sent out. That is why you can't get any more than $200 to spin at a party and that is why the streets of the city you are in don't f**k with you. The reason is because you have not embraced the divine position that God has put you in, the position of public servant.

A lot of times we get caught up in our own hype and we stop serving the needs of the people. We start thinking it's all about us. DJs play what they want to hear or what their feeling instead of really checking the pulse of the city and seeing what the people want to hear. I know DJs that won't play local records that are smash hits on the radio just because the artist hasn't personally come to holla at them and rub there balls. Message to those DJs…your purpose in life will only be found in service to others and in being connected to something far greater than your punk ass ego. And you wonder why local artist want to fight your ass now. It's called Karma from not doing your divine duty as a public servant.

I also have an issue with DJs who don't play records because they are directly affiliated with certain crews. DJ Khaled shouldn't stop playing G-Unit music just because they have issues with Fat Joe. Now they have thrown Khaled into the so called beef, but that is only because Khaled chose sides and stopped playing G Unit music. It’s the same thing with Whoo Kid. He shouldn't stop playing Fat Joe's records because Joe has a so called beef with 50. When you start getting caught up like that, you as a DJ are totally abandoning the needs of the people. You mean to tell me no one has called Khaled's show and requested a G Unit record? No one has called Whoo Kid and requested a Fat Joe record? I'm sure they have and when these DJs don't play the records because they can't swallow their false sense of pride to serve the needs of the people what does that listener do? They switch stations. That listener goes somewhere where their needs can be served.

Law 20 in the 48 Laws of Power says “Do not commit to anyone, it is the fool who always rushes to take sides. Do not commit to any side or cause but yourself.” If you are a truly a public servant committing to yourself or your cause is not a problem because your cause is to serve the needs of the public and not the needs of the crew you wear on a chain around your neck. Whenever you DJs and radio personalities get put in a situation where you have to make a decision between your ego and the needs of the people simply ask yourself, “What Would Jesus Do If He Was a Jock?” If Jesus was in New York spinning in a club or on the radio and he knew that the people where demanding Southern Music, he wouldn't purposely play hours of everything else and only do a 15 minute Southern set; especially when those 15 minutes where the only time the club got live.

Jesus would serve the needs of the people because a true public servant comes to serve! When it comes to being a radio personality/DJ there are forces greater than your ego that are always at work. Do you think Jesus would get caught up in radio station beef? Jocks not talking to other jocks in the streets because they work at rival stations. I hate to see jocks throwing shots at each other because anything can and will happen in this business and that jock you are dissing could be your co worker one day or better yet your boss!

Malcolm X was a public servant and so was Martin Luther King Jr. You never saw them dissing each other even though they didn't agree with each other’s approaches. Do you know why? Because even with different approaches they where fighting for the same cause. That cause was the betterment of those who needed it, a cause we are still fighting for today. Instead of throwing shots at each other and fighting for positions in the ratings, radio stations should be coming together and devising ways to make the city you are in the best city it can possibly be.

What Would Jesus Do If He Was a Jock? That is the question; Jesus would use his platform to teach. He would give the people food for thought to digest. I know everyday I approach the mic as Co-host of the Wendy Williams Experience I make it my duty to give the people a jewel. I make it my duty to plant a seed in someone’s brain. P.E.A.C.E. can be a acronym for Please Educate Allah's Children's Everyday! That is why you come on the radio six days a week damn near everyday because God is giving you a chance to teach and that is the duty of a public servant! I encourage all radio personalities/DJs to get on your job. The people in the city you are in need you. Stop going to the station just to collect a check. God put you in the position you are in for a reason. You have the power to change lives. There is a reason they call it radio programming. You are psychologically programming people’s mental states through the radio.

DJs, those BDS spins mean the world to an artist! You can single handily change someone's life by simply playing a record enough times! Don't abuse your power people! If you have any doubts about your position, simply ask, “What Would Jesus Do If He Was a Jock?” The answer to that question lies in service to the public.

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Don't Believe The Hype!

May 01, 2008 | Tags: none

North Carolina and Indiana as each of your primaries approach, please don't be fooled. Barack Obama is still the right candidate to vote for at the end of the day no matter how much the media tries to spin this Rev. Jeremiah Wright situation out of control. The media has a way of demonizing any issue or any person it chooses to. The same people in the media who are spinning this out of control and taking the Rev. Jeremiah Wrights words all out of context are the same people who don't want to see Barack Obama in the White House. As a matter of fact what do Rev. Jeremiah Wright's opinions and views have to do with Barack Obama? So what if he was Barack's pastor for 20 years. So what if he baptized Barack's daughters. So what if he officiated Barack's wedding. Does that make his views the views of Mr. Obama? If you believe the answer to be yes, then you believe Rev. Jeremiah Wright is an unpatriotic racist and you must believe Barack is as well because Rev. Wright is his pastor. You must also believe that everyone who listened to the words of the various Catholic Priests that were involved sexually with young boys to be congregations filled with homosexual pedophiles.

How do I feel about Rev. Jeremiah Wright's comments? I think he speaks truth to power. There is so much truth in the things he says that I'm shocked they are even giving him the media coverage they are! Of course their just doing that because there real agenda is to hang Barack Obama, but i'm hard pressed to find one untruth in Jeremiah Wrights statements. Did the government create HIV and Aids to destroy the black community? Rev Wright says based on the Tuskegee experiments and what has happened to Africans in this country, he believes this government is capable of anything and guess what people, he is right!

The Tuskegee experiments for those who don't know, was a forty year ordeal between 1932 and 1972. During this time, the U.S. Public Health Service conducted an experiment on 399 black men in the late stages of syphilis. These men, for the most part illiterate sharecroppers from one of the poorest counties in Alabama, were never told what disease they were suffering from or of its seriousness. Informed that they were being treated for "bad blood, their doctors had no intention of curing them of syphilis at all. The data for the experiment was to be collected from autopsies of the men, and they were deliberately left to degenerate under the ravages of tertiary syphilis—which can include tumors, heart disease, paralysis, blindness, insanity, and death. For good measure Rev. Jeremiah Wright should have threw in the alleged use of smallpox blankets as a means of Indian genocide by the Unites States Army and the Government.

The headline in the NY Post quoted Rev. Wright saying, "You cannot do terrorism on other people and expect it never to come back on you.” Those are biblical principles, not Jeremiah Wright bombastic divisive principles. He used the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II as an example of US Terrorism, and guess what? Once again the Rev is Right (pun intended)! Let's be real, a nuclear bomb was not necessary at the end of World War II. President Truman's theory in doing so was the bombing would bring the war to an end in a timely fashion, but over 100,000 innocent Japanese men, women and children were killed. That was an act of terrorism just as the planes that were hijacked and forced to collide with the World Trade Center and innocent men and women where killed!

The US doesn't look at Hiroshima as an act of terrorism and the people that planned 9-11 don't look at their actions as acts of terrorism. Someone said to me you might be right but how can Jeremiah Wright say that is a biblical principal? Galatians Chapter Six Verse Seven reads, “Whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.” Karma muthafuckers! You can't escape it! I continue to hear people say Jeremiah Wright shouldn't be talking right now, he's hurting Barack. Hurting Barack in the eyes of whom? He's a man of God not the government. He is a pastor not a politician. He's doing his divine ordained duty by preaching and he's speaking truth to power! Rev. Jeremiah Wright said it best, “I'm running for Jesus not political office.” Let's not forget they chose to put the cameras on him! So he is supposed to stop doing what God wants him to do because the media is making and issue out of something that shouldn't be an issue at all?

What Rev. Jeremiah Wright says shouldn't even be linked to Barack Obama. Barack shouldn't have to hold press conferences denouncing another man because of that other man's views. I don't see anyone telling Republicans to denounce the endorsement of Pat Buchanan who has been a senior advisor to Nixon, Ford, and Regan. He sought the republican presidential nomination in 92 and 96 and endorsed President George W. Bush and is no doubt backing John Mccain. Pat Buchanan should be demonized in the media just as much as Rev. Wright referring to AIDS in 1983. Buchanan wrote in his column that Gays have "declared war upon nature and now nature is extracting an awful retribution.” In later years he urged New York City Mayor Ed Koch and New York State Gov. Mario Cuomo to cancel the Gay Pride Parade or else "be held personally responsible for the spread of the AIDS plague." In a 1990 interview, he stated he was "the first national columnist to demand why the government wasn't dealing with this national epidemic" and stood by his view that AIDS is a consequence of immoral sex. In 1993, Buchanan called homosexuality unhealthy and said most people will describe sex between two men as, "not only immoral, but filthy." Further, Buchanan said public acceptance of homosexuality inevitably leads to societal decay and the collapse of the family. In his autobiography he wrote,"Someone's values are going to prevail. Why not ours? Whose country is it anyway? Whose moral code says we may interfere with a man's right to be a practicing bigot, but must respect and protect his right to be a practicing sodomite?" Now you all know if Rev. Jeremiah Wright had said anything remotely like that they would be calling for Barack Obama to drop out the race. No one says anything to the Republicans when they have someone like this amongst them. In a 1983 syndicated column, Buchanan wrote, women are "simply not endowed by nature with the same measures of single-minded ambition and the will to succeed in the fiercely competitive world of Western capitalism.”

Hillary supporters should hate that one and hate Pat Buchanan for saying it! Why are they not forcing John Mccain to explain the words of Pat Buchanan? Why has no other president that Buchanan has advised been forced to explain Pat's views? For some reason, when it comes to them the media is smart enough to know that Pat Buchanan's views don't reflect who he's advising or endorsing! And just for good measure on March 21, 2008, after Barack's race speech, Pat Buchanan had this to say, “First, America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known. Wright ought to go down on his knees and thank God he is an American. .Second, no people anywhere has done more to lift up blacks than white Americans. Untold trillions have been spent since the '60s on welfare, food stamps, rent supplements, Section 8 housing, Pell grants, student loans, legal services, Medicaid, Earned Income Tax Credits and poverty programs designed to bring the African-American community into the mainstream.Governments. Businesses and colleges have engaged in discrimination against white folks with affirmative action, contract set-asides and quotas — to advance black applicants over white applicants, churches, foundations, civic groups, schools and individuals all over America have donated time and money to support soup kitchens, adult education, day care, retirement and nursing homes for blacks. We hear the grievances. Where is the gratitude?

Barack talks about new "ladders of opportunity" for blacks. Let him go to Altoona and Johnstown, and ask the white kids in Catholic schools how many were visited lately by Ivy League recruiters handing out scholarships for "deserving" white kids. Is white America really responsible for the fact that the crime and incarceration rates for African-Americans are seven times those of white America? Is it really white America's fault that illegitimacy in the African-American community has hit 70 percent and the black dropout rate from high schools in some cities has reached 50 percent? Is that the fault of white America or, first and foremost, a failure of the black community itself?

As for racism, its ugliest manifestation is in interracial crime and especially interracial crimes of violence. Is Barack Obama aware that while white criminals choose black victims three percent of the time, black criminals choose white victims 45 percent of the time? Is Barack aware that black-on-white rapes are 100 times more common than the reverse and black-on-white robberies were 139 times as common in the first three years of this decade as the reverse? We have all heard at nauseam from the Rev. Al about Tawana Brawley, the Duke rape case and Jena and all turned out to be hoaxes, but about the epidemic of black assaults on whites that are real, we hear nothing. Sorry Barack, some of us have heard it all before, about 40 years and 40 trillion tax dollars ago. Now this is racist even though there is a lot of truth in what Pat is saying I would say that the system here in America created a lot of the conditions that caused Black people to need so much government aid to begin with, but that's not the point. The point is why is no one making John Mccain denounce Pat Buchanan? Because there is a double standard commonly called some bullshit people!

It's the same double standard (bullshit) that allows Hillary Clinton to blatantly lie about being under fire in Bosnia and no one puts pressure on her to explain it. It’s the same double standard (bullshit) that allows John Mccain to simply apologize for opposing a federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr. Yes ladies and gentleman he was against honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with a federal holiday.
McCain said he was "slow to give greatness its due" before eventually supporting a state MLK holiday in Arizona. Why exactly where you slow Mr. Mccain? Let Barack have been in that situation, the media would have eaten him alive! Even with the Sean Bell case, why is Barack being asked how he feels about the verdict but not the other candidates? Oh cause Barack's black, but what about the fact Hillary was the Senator of New York City and New York is allegedly her territory. Not one reporter wants to know how she feels about the verdict or how she feels about police brutality in NYC.

Don't fall for the media's bullshit people especially in Indiana and North Carolina. The media is trying to mentally program you to have a view of Barack Obama that doesn't even exist. They really don't want him to win trust that. North Carolina especially, vote Barack next week in the primaries if you don't, you will be doing yourself an your country a grave injustice by falling for the media's tricknology.