[StBernard] MTV - ST. BERNAD PROJECT

[Westley Annis]

I'm glad the St.Bernard Project was highlighted on MTV & the Youth Inaugural
Ball, but was disappointed that they said it was coming from New Orleans.
St. Bernard Parish was mentioined, but I would have liked it much better if
it was understood that we are not part on New Orleans.  

"St. Bernard was more devastated. So, I feel MTV should have presented it as
just St. Bernard, not anything to do with New Orleans. Just my
opinion--Syl."

Jer responds:

Absolutely, right, Syl. But, who else but those in St. Bernard will
sincerely understand this phenomena?

Why can we expect a liberal (now AfriKanized stations like MTV, CNN, NBC,
ABC, and even the New York Times, etc.) to support a majority faction when
these stations work so hard at distancing themselves from and can beat up on
a dying majority? (How is it that they don't support the Sicilian-American
population, but are lop-sided to but one complete culture?)

 The Liberal media gets more press and sells more papers when they can
easily play the race card to draw sympathy. "Whites played no role in the
survival of America's worse disaster", according to what we have witnessed.
They believe that St. Bernard, a significant white suburb represents a
too-lilly-white culture of Americans for their media. In these times, no
sympathy for the working class or poor whites which made up the parish's
majority. We know this by having watched their broadcasts or read their
lop-sided media. We saw Brad Pitt, Spit, Spat and Spunk at St. Bernard
believing what he saw during very horrendous moments: you know, where blacks
were wading in 3 feet of water at the Convention Center/Dome or looting
stores to get wide-screen TV's, name-brand Running Shoes, etc. Doesn't these
pictures speak volumes instead of 12 feet of water over roof-tops, or boats
everywhere, or oil in the streets, or people on rooftops?

St. Bernard is simply geographically in the wrong place at the wrong time.
It is at the end of the world geographically to get the press it needed and
existing at the wrong time--when it seems there is no respect to people in
today's media to include anyone who is not a minority. According to them,
they are the only victims from Katrina and it's so easy to turn one's eyes
and attention to what's pop-culturally more easy on the eyes on their
channels--being a minority is iconic and everyone else, is simply a drag and
non-interest to the media and liberals. 

Forget about St. Bernard being mentioned appropriately or with any degree of
warmth. It didn't happen then, and it won't happen again because it's all
about what's socially acceptable in our time and what brings in da big bucks
culturally. What a shame. Because if we tend to support those who "dis" us
to the max, we need to get our brains examined and our a$$es kicked for
being stupid enough to do/be so. Hell, we're proud as St. Bernardians, and
if we're a majority, we also shouldn't excuse ourselves for being such
simply because we're on the wrong side of the cultural playing field.

--jer--