The following is a comment I posted on Afronerd’s site (note–I added one more sentence in my blurb):
I think one of the biggest complaints I heard against J.W. commentary (“Taylor’s death a grim reminder for us all“) was the fact that he laid part of the blame on hip hop. Personally, I would not have gone that far with it, but I do understand the overall message JUST LIKE MANY OF HIS CRITICS. Plus the resistance (which is often cheaply disguised as “setting the record straight”) to such a message is not only painfully obvious, but should be expected. There have been MANY commentaries put out there that have falsely laid the blame of all that ails Black America mainly on Whites, poverty, or the government with NO challenge to its accuracy–especially from the same social critics who know better. Do what J.W. did and it gets micro-analyzed followed by the ever-expected response “Black Conservatives (or right-leaning Blacks) just TALK about Black problems but do nothing about them” as if some amount of street cred was required for stating the obvious (mind you, ‘cred’ oftentimes they themselves have never acquired to the level they hang over folks like J.W.). BTW, “stating the obvious” in Black America is not a “Right” issue, but it often gets categorized that way in MSM and bloggers. That is why the best response to commentaries like the one put out by J.W. is no response to the online tit-for-tat which is ineffective on the streets. What is funny here is that his biggest critics do a much better job at keeping up with and advertising his commentaries than the rest of us.
Nothing wrong with the micro-analyzation. Again, it should be expected and welcomed. However, the flare-ups every time a Black individual like a Cosby or J.W. states the obvious is not all about “setting the record straight”.
