tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90404511785596022612024-03-13T08:27:28.860-07:00Tom Stedham writes about stuff...Tom Stedhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00268201250851961272noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9040451178559602261.post-30443840077163332772021-08-02T20:55:00.002-07:002021-08-02T20:56:37.886-07:00Da Baby and "suck a nigga dick".. Hey, it's journalism<p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">"... suck a <b>dick </b>in the parking lot"...π</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">"...suck a <b>nigga dick</b> in the parking lot"...π</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">I have no idea who this "Da Baby" person is. I try to avoid folks like him, just like I don't know anything about this obese black woman "tha stallion", and all these other tattooed black "celebrities" who are in the news this week.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">But this post is about JOURNALISM. More than 20 years ago, I was an "award-winning journalist", back when that actually meant something. Calling yourself a "professional journalist" was a thing of pride, unlike nowadays, when it has become a joke.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">Anyway, this "Da Baby" person is currently the focus of hysterical headline news, because he said Naughty Things about homosexuals. If you don't know, look him up.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">If you read 99% of the articles, they quote him as saying:<br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">"</span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white;">Fellas, if you ain't </span><b style="background-color: white;">suck a dick</b><span style="background-color: white;"> in the parking lot.</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">..."</span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: times;">But if you listen to the video, he actually says:</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: times;">"Fellas, if you ain't </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: times;">suck a nigga dick</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: times;"> in the parking lot...."</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Years ago, you would not have been allowed to alter or censor a direct quote this way, ESPECIALLY involving a controversial subject AND a "celebrity." But this is 2021, and the only rules are woke rules.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I emailed the "National Association of Black Journalists" about the "N word" and black celebrities and direct quotes. Here's my email:<br />>><br /></span></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;">Serious question...</span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">So this "Da Baby" thing is lighting up the internet. I listened to the video, and then I read some articles. There are dozens of articles quote him as saying:<br /><span style="font-family: Pensum, "Times New Roman", times, serif;">"Fellas, if you ain't </span><b style="font-family: Pensum, "Times New Roman", times, serif;">suck a dick</b><span style="font-family: Pensum, "Times New Roman", times, serif;"> in the parking lot...."</span><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: Pensum, "Times New Roman", times, serif;">But when you listen to the video, he actually said:<br /></span><span style="font-family: Pensum, "Times New Roman", times, serif;">"Fellas, if you ainβt</span><b style="font-family: Pensum, "Times New Roman", times, serif;"> suck a nigga dick </b><span style="font-family: Pensum, "Times New Roman", times, serif;">in the parking lot,"</span><span style="font-family: Pensum, "Times New Roman", times, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Pensum, "Times New Roman", times, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Pensum, "Times New Roman", times, serif;">My question for the NABJ is this:<br />* do you have an official "position" on that word, when used by black people? Meaning: when a black celebrity such as "Da Baby" uses the word, and a journalist is going to quote him, how should that word be handled?<br />Should it be censored entirely, with no acknowledgement of it? Ie, just ignore it, in a direct quote??? </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Pensum, "Times New Roman", times, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Pensum, "Times New Roman", times, serif;">Or should it be handled like profanity, and written like "n*gga", or "n***a", or something like that? Da Baby used the word a dozen times or so in a follow-up video. If YOU were writing an article about it, would you fully quote him? Would you censor that word? Would you use **** for that word? Would you acknowledge it, or would you ignore and censor it? And most importantly, as a black journalist organization, what would you advise journalists (of all races) to do, when encountering it in quotes by black people...?</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Pensum, "Times New Roman", times, serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Pensum, "Times New Roman", times, serif;">I think this would make an interesting article, and I certainly think it should be written by the NABJ.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Pensum, "Times New Roman", times, serif;">>>></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Pensum, "Times New Roman", times, serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Pensum, "Times New Roman", times, serif;">Let's see if they reply....π¬</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Pensum, "Times New Roman", times, serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Pensum, "Times New Roman", times, serif;">Tom</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Pensum, "Times New Roman", times, serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-l4zulLHSbyg/YQi9O9BScAI/AAAAAAAAA10/RGVC3kCw5S8rugKYFY5zPPgdaMhYrBv8ACLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="507" data-original-width="900" height="180" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-l4zulLHSbyg/YQi9O9BScAI/AAAAAAAAA10/RGVC3kCw5S8rugKYFY5zPPgdaMhYrBv8ACLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Pensum, "Times New Roman", times, serif;"><br /></span></div>Tom Stedhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00268201250851961272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9040451178559602261.post-66595570666925164782021-06-04T00:03:00.005-07:002021-08-02T21:01:25.780-07:00opening scene for my script A DENTIST<p>Captain Ben Salomon was a Jewish dentist who was killed in WWII. His body was found behind his machine gun, with 98 dead Japanese soldiers in front of it. He was later awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism that day....</p><p>My script is titled: A DENTIST.</p><p>"First he fought against prejudice. Then he fought against the Japanese. Before he became a hero, he was just.... a dentist."</p><p class="sceneheading" id="Gk7Bt000" scenenumber="1" scenestr="1">>>>>></p><p class="sceneheading" id="Gk7Bt000" scenenumber="1" scenestr="1">fade in: the island of Saipan, outside a medical tent....<br />
</p>
<p class="action">A MAJOR is talking to a GENERAL, as they walk toward a medical tent. Several other soldiers are with them, carrying folders, and taking notes and pictures.<br />
</p>
<p class="character">MAJOR</p><p class="character">"This is the tent he was working in, General."</p>
<p class="action">They enter the tent, which was shot up in the recent fighting. Bloodstains are still present, and numerous bullet holes and large tears in the fabric. The Major consults some papers.<br />
</p>
<p class="character">MAJOR</p><p class="character">"Sergeant Jenkins says that the Captain killed three
Japs inside here. They ran in, from that end, and started bayoneting
the wounded. They were on the ground, over there. The Captain picked up a rifle
and shot them down."</p>
<p class="character">GENERAL<br />
</p>
<p class="dialog">"And the sergeant saw this?"<br />
</p>
<p class="character">MAJOR<br />
</p>
<p class="dialog">"Yes sir, he was inside the tent, five feet away. He was one of the medical orderlies. He
killed another one himself, with a pistol. He said the Captain put down
his scalpel, picked up a rifle, and went to work."<br />
</p>
<p class="character">GENERAL<br />
</p>
<p class="dialog">"Outstanding. And then?"<br />
</p>
<p class="character">MAJOR<br />
</p>
<p class="dialog">"The fighting grew more intense, so the Captain
ordered Sergeant Jenkins to fall back with the surviving wounded men.
Then he reloaded his rifle and went toward the fighting, out that way.
He told Sergeant Jenkins 'Evacuate all of these wounded men back to
safety. β¦ Iβm going to hold these guys off as long as I can.'</p><p class="dialog">"That's the last time Sergeant Jenkins saw him, General."<br />
</p>
<p class="action">They walk out the back of the tent.<br />
</p>
<p class="character">MAJOR<br />
</p>
<p class="dialog">"And over there, at those sandbags, that's where the machine gun was."<br />
</p>
<p class="character">GENERAL<br />
</p>
<p class="dialog">"That's where they found his body?"<br />
</p>
<p class="character">MAJOR<br />
</p>
<p class="dialog">"Yes sir. Report says.... his body had 76 gunshot
wounds. After they killed him, they shot and bayoneted his body over
and over. It would appear that they were pretty mad at him."<br />
</p>
<p class="character">GENERAL<br />
</p>
<p class="dialog">"I guess so, Major. He killed a hell of a lot of them before they got him. What was the body count? A hundred?"<br />
</p>
<p class="action">The Major turns to another soldier. <br />
</p>
<p class="character">MAJOR<br />
</p>
<p class="dialog">"Sergeant Turner?"<br />
</p>
<p class="character">SERGEANT TURNER<br />
</p>
<p class="dialog">"Says here, 98 Jap bodies were found in front of the
gun, General, all the way back to the ridgeline. There were 4 other
American bodies around the gun, though. The Captain took over after
they were killed, so some of the body count is probably theirs---"<br />
</p>
<p class="action">The General cut him off with a glare that could freeze water.<br />
</p>
<p class="character">GENERAL<br />
</p>
<p class="dialog">"Those men aren't being put in for the Medal of Honor, Sergeant. Doctor Solomon is."<br />
</p>
<p class="action">Sergeant Turner didn't dare speak again, but he glanced over at the officer beside him...<br />
</p>
<p class="character">LIEUTENANT SIMMONS<br />
</p>
<p class="dialog">"Excuse me, General. It's Salomon, not Solomon. And... he wasn't a doctor."<br />
</p>
<p class="character">GENERAL<br />
</p>
<p class="dialog">"What? He was the regimental surgeon."<br />
</p>
<p class="character">LIEUTENANT SIMMONS<br />
</p>
<p class="dialog">"No, sir. He volunteered to fill in for the regimental surgeon, who was wounded, General. He wasn't a doctor, though. He was a dentist."<br />
</p>
<p class="action">The General, speechless, just stares at the
Lieutenant for a long moment. Then he turns back toward the fighting
position, lost in thought.<br />
</p>
<p class="character">GENERAL<br />
</p>
<p class="dialog">"A dentist..... A DENTIST with a machine gun killed 98 Japs. What the hell kind of dentist was he???"<br />
</p>
<p class="sceneheading" id="lLm31000" scenenumber="2" scenestr="2">begin flashback<br />
</p>
<p class="action"><br />
</p>
<p class="character"><br />
</p>
<p class="character"><br />
</p>
<p class="action"> <br />
</p>
<p class="character"><br />
</p>
<p class="action"><br />
</p>Tom Stedhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00268201250851961272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9040451178559602261.post-3968517759836349172020-07-07T15:09:00.001-07:002021-08-02T20:58:54.100-07:00What does the future hold for our people?<div style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;">
<span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Things are rapidly spiraling out of control, for white people. If you can't see that fact, then it is only because you REFUSE to see it. You better start getting ready, most rikky-tik. Find some friends, stock up on "tools" and food, and make plans to be in a place surrounded by like-minded white people.</span></div><div style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: times;">Otherwise...... well, frankly, otherwise, you're not gonna make it.</span></span></div>
<div style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;">
<span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Tom</span></div><div style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;">
<span style="font-family: times;"><img height="451" src="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/70/32/74/70327455cdc0ef02732407ab5a4ff9a0.jpg" width="640" /></span></div>
Tom Stedhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00268201250851961272noreply@blogger.com0