PUBLISHER'S PEACE
Life in Black & White
The greatest thing about creating and producing this exciting new media outlet, is my desire to bring a content driven vehicle that will communicate with Blacks, whites, Hispanics, Asians and others.
I've secured some journalists from diverse backgrounds who will start presenting stories and images about this melting pot called America. The only way to solve America's small and large race relation problems, will require solutions and commitments from all people.
Of course race matters. I always get disturbed when I hear Black leaders blasting whites and others for the mistreatment and lack of equality within minority circles. Yes, there has been terrible cases of racial injustice over decades, and I will be blind if I didn't confront the facts and express them in regards to the hear and now.
This is why more middle class Blacks don't participate in marches and rallies, because the same Blacks who are expected to roll up their sleeves and beat down the man has to go to a job in down town Chicago, where 80% of co workers and managers are probably the man.
Racism will only be taken seriously and defeated when Blacks can get whites to buy into the fight, and for whites to acknowledge there's a problem, and collectively work to beat down the walls of discrimination and bigotry. Then and only then will this disease be cured.
What if you own a mid size to large business, and that business requires partnerships and relationships with suppliers, vendors and authorized dealers, who for all respective purposes are be white.
I don't want Black, white or leaders of other nationalities to mislead the masses to think all whites and all Blacks are bad people. When you encounter misdeeds and disrespectful treatment, regardless of race; that's the person you should direct your frustration to only.
TBTNewsService brand will unite its readers under one banner, and that's the banner that made hip hop culture such a global phenomenon. As I watched VH1 Hip Hop Honors last evening, I saw a melting pot of America together celebrating the lives of souhern culture, and that's the world I want my smart, talented and progreesive daughter to know. Peace and one love.
(C. Dwayne West, publisher, Founder/executive director TRUTH 4 Literacy after school mentor program, producer The TRUTH Hip Hop/R&B Awards)
Coming in July, 'The State of White America: Life with Obama', a three part series.
NOTE: In Monday's edition Alderman Pat Dowell was listed as 4th Ward council member, but with all due respect, Alderman Dowell represents the wonderful 3rd Ward.
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