Never is it ok or alright to promote violence, harm, or discrimination against homosexuals or individuals of minority groups. This is something that we all stand so firmly against publicly as a nation. Last weekend during the super bowl CNN contributor and TV One anchor Roland Martin tweeted a comment and now is being crucified for his comment. Roland Martin a brother of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity Incorporated is being scrutinized for making a joke about David Beckham underwear commercial, saying if anyone is excited about it at your super bowl party, the issh needs to be smacked out of them.” The comment was made as a joke, just as it was meant to be, not to stir up a slapping riot or war on homosexuals or anything of that nature. In the African American community, people often joke and play around like that, especially homosexual individuals themselves. Roland meant nothing hateful or mean spirited about his comment. It was really random that in the middle of the super bowl of all places; David Beckham shows up with a tight underwear commercial, during the grandest American sporting event of the year. Across America in many households, one is certain the same conversation, thoughts, or worse were said or imagined about the commercial. We all have someone in our family or somebody that we know that is a homosexual, it is just something that is rare these days not to accept as normal. There may be gay individuals who are football fans, and they themselves may have silly comments to make about the commercial. No one really knows, but what is a fact is that Roland comments were taken out of content, in that it was a joke, a way people in the African American culture converse and play around, nothing meant to stimulate hate.
A theory in the African American community is that the powers that be are trying to get to Roland Martin, in that he is a African American intellect and a strong supporter of President Obama and the Democratic party. It has been a while, since we have seen a wave of African American intellectuals, who are as charismatic and well liked as Roland Martin on the major network television stations. Here is a man, who has worked his way up the ladder, being pulled down by individuals who do not know what it took to get from the bottom to the top. How unfortunate this is, to see this happening to one of our very own. Is the media and our nation crossing the lines, getting into our personal lives and dictating our freedom of speech, through the use of our own social media and networks? Is this fair what they are doing or are they really showing us that they control us in a placebo like fashion, making us feel as if we are all free, by allowing us to do what we want, while just monitoring us, until we make a mistake they don’t want us to make? This seems to be exactly the case, as they have showed us with Roland Martin. Roland is an instant everyday twitterer , always tweeting about his day and life, just as most of us do. He has a personality, a playful one at that, especially off the air, remember his twitter battle with Jamal Bryant the Kappa. Twitter is everybody's playground and also our therapist. Not to say we should say ugly things about people on the playground but we should be free to play as others do. To say that Roland meant to be ugly and hateful in his joking comment about Beckham, is completely out of line. It makes no sense for us to be micro managed as we are now being, especially if you are considered an elite or threat to the elites. Everyday conservatist go on air and make hateful comments about gays, lesbians, and even individuals in our military, as well as against our very own President of the United States and nothing comes out of it, now CNN wants to suspend Roland for this? Ridiculous, just plain ridiculous. Tell Anderson Cooper to put that on his ridiculist.
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