Tavis Smiley says don't call it a comeback

[Optimus Prime]

I saw he bought a radio station and wondered where the money came from but now I see its a AM station
Who still listens to AM radio

 

[get these nets]

Tavis' situation is proof why independence and ownership is so necessary. I don't knock people for calling out a lack of diversity, but there are not enough people championing and promoting ownership. Like Cube said years ago, they got jealous when I got my own got company, but I'm a man and ain't nobody humping me.

I agree with you.
In this so called racial reckoning that the country is going through, and with economic stimulus policies, a lot of resources and avenues are being opened up to Black people. What people decide to do with them will reveal how they are wired, and whether their walk matches their talk.

Create, build, and support your own. No matter what comes from it, it belongs to you, and you can pass it down to your line.

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

Honestly, I've never understood the end goal of some of these metoo'd cases.

It's fukked up how a lot of society is perfectly fine with kicking these celebrities/public figures out of their industry, but would be fine and content said person going to a lower tier industry and subjecting others to that same type of treatment. Even a lot of people operate under that same mindset and are essentially looking down on service level workers by relegating those flawed individuals to their industries.

 

[AquaCityBoy]

Eh, Tavis admitted to smashing his female employees and making inappropriate comments toward them, but I don't think the allegations against him were as bad as some of the other people who have been MeToo'd and slowly crept back into the public eye.

That said, buying an AM radio station in 2021 is very bizarre. In the era where everybody has a YouTube or Patreon show, and even Twitch has several political streamers, it'd make more sense to go that route, especially since advertisers may not want to fukk with him after the allegations.

 

[get these nets]

Pacific time

On right now

 

[old pig]

In the Malcolm X film, Al Freeman as Elijah Muhammad gave a great illustration of this point.

He held up a dirty glass of water. Told Malcolm that if people are thirsty enough, they will drink it.
But given the choice between that and a clear glass of water, they will drink the clean water.

DAMN.

 

[get these nets]

That said, buying an AM radio station in 2021 is very bizarre. In the era where everybody has a YouTube or Patreon show, and even Twitch has several political streamers, it'd make more sense to go that route, especially since advertisers may not want to fukk with him after the allegations.

Fair questions.
The obvious difference is that he owns the station, as opposed to those who have shows on platforms owned by others.

Terrestrial radio isn't dead, yet.

 

[Take It In Blood]

Is Tavis still canceled?

i honestly dont remember what he was canceled for

 

[Ahadi]

fukk that nikka

 

[Take It In Blood]

I've noticed that the media is tryna make Marc Lamont Hill the new Tavis Smiley