By Antonio D. French
Filed Wednesday, January 18 at 8:49 AM
On Monday, I was on KDHX's "Collateral Damage" with hosts D.J. Wilson and Fred Hessel, along with Steve Patterson from Urban Review - St. Louis. D.J. made a comment about how he couldn't find anything King-related on Black Entertainment Television (BET), the once-black-owned network founded by Bob Johnson that was purchased by Viacom in 2000 (Viacom also owns MTV, VH1 and CBS).
I noted that on the last episode of "The Boondocks", the show's creators imagined that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't die. Instead, he had been in a coma since being shot in Memphis in 1968. But shortly before 9/11 he awoke. And he was not pleased with what he saw -- including so-called Black Entertainment Television. Equally, America was no longer in love with Dr. King.
The episode culminates with a MLK speech unlike any you've heard...
Thanks to Weezcake for the video. And Watch "The Boondocks" every Sunday night at 10 on Cartoon Network.
UPDATE: Weezcake said that YouTube deleted the video because of "inappropriate language." But you can still find it at http://media.putfile.com/MLK-speech-boondocks
Thanks again, Weez!
1 Comments:
He probably wouldn't like the state of Black St. Louis either.
2:25 PM, January 18, 2006
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