Quote of the Day
5.3.2011 Leave a comment
Ishmael Reed wrote this passage while discussing Joan Walsh, Salon.com and Ishmael Reed:
And after taking abuse from a Jim Crow media for a couple of hundred years has cyberspace provided a blogger underclass with the ability to talk back? To be heard and not just seen? To have a voice instead of being confined to providing musical interludes between serious “progressive” talk, like in the movies where the folks were brought up to the big house to belt out a few numbers. Are we arriving at a time when we get the opinions of the rest of us without being interpreted and explained by intermediaries?
All Tied Up and Nowhere to Go 