tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post2040900637952284666..comments2020-04-11T03:30:02.282-05:00Gary R. Welshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-37577375041113042042008-02-16T18:38:00.000-05:002008-02-16T18:38:00.000-05:00Seems to me that the 'race card' is played in Indianapolis more than I would have thought. I get tired of people blaming racism for what happens to them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-18035002268733335112008-02-16T17:20:00.000-05:002008-02-16T17:20:00.000-05:00Amos Brown is the racist. Everything that happens, he calls it a racist act by a white person.<BR/><BR/>It wouldn't matter if it were a purple radio program, if someone said that, good for the mayor.<BR/><BR/>But of course, Brown has to make it a racist act.<BR/><BR/>That's the only way he knows how to operate.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-57464958600775326852008-02-16T15:55:00.000-05:002008-02-16T15:55:00.000-05:00Once in a while, Amos gets something right.<BR/><BR/>Ballard played right into an inside flush on this poker hand. Stupidly.<BR/><BR/>Rookie mistake.<BR/><BR/>He's a Marine. He won't make that mistake again.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-4533659748040911332008-02-16T15:48:00.000-05:002008-02-16T15:48:00.000-05:00I didn't hear it so I don't know what was actually said. I included what the Ballard people understood to have been said during the show to give people a perspective on what the dispute was over. The Star's report left that out. I included Amos' claim that what they thought they heard wasn't what was actually said.Gary R. Welshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-82252913990998110102008-02-16T15:43:00.000-05:002008-02-16T15:43:00.000-05:00Ending this controversy is simple. What is on the tape? Certainly the Mayor's office asked to hear the program. Or requested a tape. What does the tape say? Did a caller actually refer to the Mayor as a Klan member? AI did your sources play the tape for you or show you a transcript? Given some of what has happened in the new administration and given AI's concerns, how do you KNOW that what you've told about what was said is correct?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-59398434246579957902008-02-16T15:25:00.000-05:002008-02-16T15:25:00.000-05:00Ballard sure knows how to kick off Black History month.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-35403499215959854122008-02-16T10:36:00.000-05:002008-02-16T10:36:00.000-05:00It is interesting to note that the Indianapolis Star refused to print the story regarding Barlows memo when the flap occured. Instead, they run a story that reads like a followup to a story that they reported on when in fact they swept it under the rug.<BR/>The reader, having read what the Star reported is left scratching their head wondering what the flap was about in the first place.<BR/>Now we know the rest of the story but we had to get it from blogs and not the ms media. Why?<BR/>Because Amos Brown felt that was just fine to allow his African American listeners to call in and state that Mayor Ballard was part of the Ku Klux Klan. Is this how the African American community in Indianapolis fews white people, particularly those in elected office?<BR/>And then the Indianapolis Star panders to the stacked deck of race cards that Amos deals and give him a free ticket by refusing to meantion that the flap occured over Amos effectively agreeing with his caller that Ballard was Klansman?<BR/>Yet Amos Brown, WTLC and the Recorder expect whites in the 7th District to support a candidate that not only was a former member off the Nation of Islam and a the hip hop street gang 5 Percenters bit has accepted the endorsement and Black Muslim leader Louis Farrakhan and the local bigot Nuri Muhammad?<BR/>If Amos Brown's racism and bigotry is refective of the entire African American community then Indianapolis has some serious problems on their hands that will be compounded ten fold if Andre Carson is elected.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-89170054308347781592008-02-16T10:16:00.000-05:002008-02-16T10:16:00.000-05:00Gary, you really don't expect the integrity challenged newspaper to actually give credit? They are still puzzling over how they are going to endorse a fellow who associates with the Jew Hater and White Hater.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-91300620230292894472008-02-16T10:14:00.000-05:002008-02-16T10:14:00.000-05:00It is too bad Amos is such a hate-monger. He is in a unique position where he could really do some good in this city, but he choses to be played by powers who care little to nothing for him personally.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-79242160479717549412008-02-16T10:05:00.000-05:002008-02-16T10:05:00.000-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com