Ray Taliaferro Talks About Color Discrimination

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Run time: 04:52 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njfGyyF-H4M   Posted on YouTube: March 13, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: March 14, 2008 By DU Member: Amerigo Vespucci Views on DU: 1024

 
As much as I appreciate the "MANDATORY MALLOY" and "Sam Seder is ON FIRE" and "Randi is on FIRE" threads, Ray is in a class of his own. Ray's the real deal.

:toast:

[Mountainman]

1. I love listening to him but it is too early in the morning for me most days.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

2. I hear ya...

...Ray spoke to my senior class in high school.

He's a "sharp dressed man"...very dapper, very professional, cool guy all the way.

He started out with about five minutes worth of pleasantries.

Then he got in our faces.

He challenged us.

He was the first adult who spoke to us as equals and demanded that we go out and build a better world.

Ray's on early, but every once in a while it's worth getting up before the sun to hear a man who GETS IT.

:patriot:

[wake.up.america]

3. I listen to him regularly while working.

He comes on at 0900 where I am so, it's not difficult to arrange time for him.

Don't agee with him 100 per cent of the time, but he comes close.

At times, he can be rude and impatient.

[tuog chen]

4. Ray Taliaferro archives and Bay Area radio

You can also check out Ray at KGO am810 radio archives http://bayradio.com/kgo_archives/

The archives are stored for a week. You can go to whatever hour you need, Ray's program being from 1am to 5 am San Francisco time during the week. There is a very basic summary of topics that have been discussed, which you can get to from a link at the bottom of this page http://kgoam810.com/showdj.asp?DJID=3450

I also should add that community radio originated right here in the mighty bay in 1949. Listener sponsored free speech radio airs on http://kpfa.org/ which archives everything and still reigns free in spite of the efforts of former US Civil Rights Commission Clinton appointed Mary Frances Berry who became chair of the Pacifica Radio Network and attempted to cannibalize or commercialize and mainstream the valuable hot properties. http://kpfa.org/history/

You might also remember one Michael Powell another Clinton appointee. As the chairman of the FCC, Powell's deregulation of communications changed drastically the balance of news distribution and ownership.

[disndat]

7. Michael Powell, son of Colin

was appointed by Bush to eviscerate the FCC, and evidently, in so doing, he made out like a thief. Nice people. Thank God for Ray T. to offset these evildoers.

[tuog chen]

10. the slow march of progress

Michael Kevin Powell (born March 23, 1963) is an American Republican politician.He was appointed to the Federal Communications Commission by President Bill Clinton on 3 November 1997. President George W. Bush designated him chairman of the commission on January 22, 2001. Powell is the son of former Secretary of State Colin Powell and Alma Powell.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Powell_%28politician%29

Looking back we have 20/20 vision on the Clintons if we examine the facts fairly. Problem is we can not seem to get to that point on the matter of what bigotry has done to the world. America needs a healing, history and our continuing course justify that we all look fairly at the mistakes of the past if we are to avoid more damage to ourselves. I think we now have that opportunity. We now are at a turning point. Hopefully we have learned the heart has more intelligence than the brain. We can recover from errors of fact and mental mistakes. But oh people, if we commit errors of the heart we do more than deviate from our goal. We stand to perpetuate our failings on yet generations to come. We need change but more immediately we need devotion to the ideals we declared when we started this voyage.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

8. Yeah, Ray can get in your face...

...when he gave that talk at our high school he turned on a dime. The intro...let's say the first five or ten minutes...was smooth, even, gregarious...and then, out of nowhere, he just dropped a bomb (don't remember exactly what it was...this was more than a couple of years ago). In the space of a couple of minutes he transformed himself into a "fed up with the status quo" guy, challenging us to question the "realities" placed before us and expect more from ourselves. The structure of the talk, obviously, was to get us relaxed and receptive and attentive so that he could get his real message through. It worked.

He's not everyone's cup of tea, for sure.

:patriot:

[Razorblade01]

5. I voted For Hillary..

I loved Ray Until he decided to take a piss on The Clintons after he defended them for over 13 years. I even remember laughing one night during Clinton's impeachment hearings that quote"I don't give a damn who's licking Bill's Balls" "It's not an issue." Now he brings Bills affair up with Monica like he has always been against it. I know what he said then. It makes me sick how he's turned his back on them. And before you all say Hillary is at fault, let me say that Obama is just as equally hateful in some of the stuff he's put out about her. I will vote for Obama in November if he wins the party's nomination. But there may be alot of Hillary supporters who may not vote for him. He and his followers need to take the strut out of their walk and the cockiness out of their tone in their voice. It's not very attractive to those they will need their vote in the fall.
As for Ray Taliaferro..I will stop listening to him so long as he continues this attack on the Clinton's. Even Stephanie Miller is hard to stomach these days. Guy James and Thom Hartman have been the only sensible two who have kept it fair.

[susankh4]

6. It is amazing, isn't it?

What these folks will do for ratings?? I guess I always though left wing radio better than right, for some odd reason. Boy was I wrong. Hate is hate... and the left dishes it as well as the right these days.

[Razorblade01]

9. You've got that right...

I bet Rush and co are creaming in their jeans watching the Democrats attack the Clintons.

[tuog chen]

11. keeping the flies away

Those emotions we see on talk radio today are like the fingerprints left by everyday life.
They seldom mean what we think they say. Why Ray uses anger so often I can't say. Temper, temper. He can't be so sweet with the many neocon flies flitting about. They are the real nasties, I see that our local Air America has put a usually calm and courteous Peter B. Collins in the same time slot. When I get tired of the fireworks and just want good info I simply switch channels.