If you challenge roland martin in public, BE READY

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No what the hell you are talking about if you are going to press someone on the issue. Roland taught him a valuable lesson

 

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Roland did the right thing and taught him a good lesson on due diligence. You do not get up and try to play a game of gotcha with half-truths you took from twitter or youtube, especially with a veteran debater. I would’ve expected more from a student government representative. Breh knows next time that he needs to come correct.

And he is a good example of not just majority of the Coli, but majority of people in general.

Reminds me of how Cornell West went after Ta-Nehisi Coates over Obama, completely oblivious to the larger breath of his work where he leverages legit criticism against Obama and his policies.

agreed.

Dr. West went off the deep end with his criticisms of Obama. He and Dr. Julianne Malveaux were some of the early critics of Obama. I think that she was accurate and objective in her critiques. West, I my opinion, was hurt by not being let inside the President's private circle , and it became personal.
The moment he turned on Obama.........they put media greenlight on him and whiteballed him.

Obama neutralized some of those who would have been his critics by giving them access....includes those of the left...and Bill Oreilly of all people. He knew that the access meant more to those critics than anything else and that they would go (relatively)easy on him


Which brings us to Roland Martin. And this is where the Tariq Nasheed effect becomes dangerous. Roland Martin was also neutralized by a politician granting him access. The Hillary interview looked and sounded like a fluff piece rather than a journalist interviewing a presidential candidate. The dancing was just the cherry on the top.....the proverbial "look, she can dance, she's cool" cliche that Bill pulled off by playing sax on Arsenio.He threw any pretense of being objective about Hillary out of the window.

That college kid watched the "dance with massa" clip of RM dancing, he laughed..and missed the larger point.. When he was asked a simple follow up question "give me an example of that"........he coudn't even answer that. And it would have been a LEGIT criticism if he was asking the question legitimately.

TN and others are convincing youth followers that shyt is funny out here, that everything is a joke..that you can deflect criticism by calling people cute pet phases. When out of cyberspace , and in a real world setting with adults in the room and people watching him , the young man folded.
And as you noted, he was some sort of student govt. leader...not just a random teen who wasn't familiar with politics at all