KELSEY MITCHELL, C’MON IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT COLOR SWEETIE!

FULL STOP, IT IS ALL ABOUT COLOR AND THE BLACK RACE.

IT IS ALWAYS ABOUT COLOR.

HAVE YOU NOT PAID ANY ATTENTION OF THE GREAT WHITE HOPE? LOOK UP MR. BILL RUSSELL AND WHAT THE FBI COINED HIM, WHAT ABOUT MAGAMMAD ALI AND HIS MALTREATMENT? WHAT ABOUT JACK JOHNSON AND THE RIOT CAUSED BECAUSE HE BEAT JEFFRIES?

WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN POURED ACID IN THE POOL WHILE SWIMMING?
WHAT ABOUT SERENA WILLIAMS?

WHAT ABOUT SIMONE BILES?

What about the 1.6 GPA that was permitted PRE 1973 when BLACKS weren’t allowed to participate and dominate in the NCAA?

What about the DIPLOMA PRIVILEGES handed WHITE lawyers before integration?

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SOUL TRAIN vs. AMERICAN BANDSTAND

In 1973, Dick Clark, who dominated TV for teens with American Bandstand, felt threatened as Soul Train’s popularity grew. American Bandstand began to lose its black audience, so he tried to have Don Cornelius’ Soul Train taken off the air and replaced with his own knockoff, Soul Unlimited.

Clark’s power move outraged black political leaders who along with the black community believed that having a black-owned show on television was not only cool, but an extension of the civil rights movement.

Led by Chicago’s Reverend Jesse Jackson, they contacted Clark and ABC executives to protest. The idea that Clark, with whom blacks had always had an uneasy relationship, could kill Soul Train led to threats of an ABC boycott.

Black leaders were joined by one of the most powerful men in the history of the black music business—and also a consultant to ABC, Clarence Avant, who went ballistic when he learned about Clark’s power move.

After too much pressure, ABC finally caved and cancelled Soul Unlimited.

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55 years ago the Miss Black America contest was born. The groundbreaking contest was created as a response to the racially prejudiced Miss America pagent in 1968. Businessman J. Morris Anderson founded the pagent. It was organized as a direct protest of the Miss America pagent. It was held in Atlantic City N.J on the same day. It garnered support of artists like Curtis Mayfield who wrote the theme song Miss Black America. Also Stevie Wonder, activists and many others. It was first televised on NBC in 1977. Singer Toni Braxton is a former Miss Black America winner. Many people did not know this. Like it, love it or not, it is part of Black history in America. And it proved what we always knew that Black is Beautiful.

Contestants for the Miss Black America pageant line up on stage in front of a panel of judges during the evening gown competition in the early 1970s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8PBrhFN35c

The revelation that Linda Johnson Rice sold Jet and Ebony for $14 million in 2020 comes as a shock. It is evident that Mr. Johnson’s legacy is deeply connected to these publications. And I am deeply saddened that it did not stay in the family he built this Empire with $500. Acquired by his mother selling her furniture so that he could start his legacy.

Following Johnson Publishing Company’s dissolution after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2019, Ebony and Jet were acquired by Ulysses “Junior” Bridgeman for $14 million in 2020. I would like to offer my condolences to Junior Bridgeman and his family.

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver issued the following statement today regarding the passing of Milwaukee Bucks minority owner, NBA Africa investor and former NBA player Junior Bridgeman:

“I am devastated to learn of the sudden passing of Junior Bridgeman. Junior was the ultimate entrepreneur who built on his impactful 12-year NBA playing career by becoming a highly respected and successful business leader. He served as a mentor to generations of NBA players and athletes across sports who were eager to learn from him about what it takes to thrive in the business world. Junior was a dedicated member of the NBA family for 50 years – most recently as a minority owner of the Milwaukee Bucks, an investor in NBA Africa and as a player who set the standard for representing the league and our game with class and dignity.

“We express our heartfelt condolences to Junior’s wife, Doris, their children, Eden, Justin and Ryan, the Bucks organization, and his many friends and admirers in the basketball community.” SERENITY FAITH

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