"Good "ol’ boy Joe" pretends to be sophisticated by using GQ photos of him in designer clothes prominently displayed between segments. In most of these photo usually has has the the brains behind his show, the dazzling Mika, at his side. But when the hood comes off he his angers comes out like a red bolt of lightening and Joe reveals his true colors. His rants about the Michael Brown case show just how little he understands about White Privilege and how the demonstrations are about much more than Michael Brown.
One night a white kid I know was stopped by the police. The kid was questioned about where he was going, where he had been and what had he been up to by a very polite policeman. The offense my nephew had committed to cause this kind of grilling was a one of his license plate lights had burned out. He was given a ticket. To my nephew’s credit, even at 17, he knew that this was one BWD stop because he had his best friend a black kid in the car.
Had the policeman stopped Joe or his son, a warning would have been issued. But because one of the kids was black these two honor students and leaders in their school had to be punished so a ticket was issued.
It shouldn’t be happening. If you are a black male in a car driving through affluent Kansas and Missouri communities you can bet you will be stopped and you better have a good excuse for being in that neighborhood or you could find yourself in jail something good ol’ Joe will never experience.
So calm down Joe let’s see you and Donny become part of the solution instead of being the problem. Start a real dialog on your show about race and maybe you might actually become a show that is worth watching.
