today, i learned the value of not talking too much.
we did the roundtable this morning. on point today was George Currey, E.R. Shipp, and yours truly hanging with Ed Gordon, who was broadcasting from his home town of Detroit. We were scheduled for a few topics, but ended up talking mostly about the pending supreme court nominee and how the Congressional Black Caucus has stated their opposition. click on the NPR link if you want to tune in to the discussion for today.
we actually rolled into the topic right after some cat named Michael Massey totally made any conservative look horrible. not only did he launch into the tired old "O.J./Michael Jackson-as-travesty-of-justice" card tirade, but he got so caught up in what he was saying that he totally tried to take over Ed's Show. He had to basically just cut the microphone off after 4 or 5 attempts to respectfully end the segment. i was wondering if this cat realized that he would've made a better point by just sticking to the issue at hand, the nomination of a Supreme Court Justice. no wonder the far-ended spectrum of the so-named conservative population has a bad reputation for being reactionary, xenophobic, and paranoid.
needless to say, we had a pretty spirited conversation afterward. Massey was like comic relief. and--once again--i learned that sometimes you say so much by saying so little, something i'm working on more personally.
i just got through paying some bills (ouch!), and so the rest of the day will be filled with their delivery. i do have, un-read, a copy of Tananarive Due's latest book, "Joplin's Ghost." i'm going to crack it open as a present to myself. i've been waiting a long time for it. i have devoured all of her other works and i've also just completed Octavia E. Butler's "Fledgling." i've devoured her work also. those sisters can flat out FLOW! i quoted Tananarive's husband's book today on Ed Gordon. as i jet out to keep the lights on, i'll leave it for you. it's from Stephen Barnes' "The Lion's Blood" (A great book about reverse slavery, i might add):
"Fear turns people into sheep; and sheep respond to a strong shepherd."
peace
joc
