tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7503829.post113050911270100093..comments2023-11-03T09:08:15.025-04:00Comments on PG-Politics: The Hate campaign against Michael Steele: Media and local blog coverageD. C. Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00475868388213027780noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7503829.post-1130641513215230842005-10-29T23:05:00.000-04:002005-10-29T23:05:00.000-04:00I was sicken to read in today's Baltimore Sun arti...I was sicken to read in today's Baltimore Sun article " Image on blog portrays Steele in minstrel makeup" by reporter David Nitkin, a blogger has depicted Lt.Gov. Michael Steele, who is a African American as Simple Sambo and in "black face" . The blog : http://stevegilliard.blogspot.com/ uses comments made by Steele related to a Gov. Robert Ehrlich fund-raiser at the all white Elkridge Club country club, in Baltimore city, which for 127 years has NOT had African- American members. First of all if this "black face" had been done by a white person, African Americans would be up in arms about how someone of our race has been stereotyped, but this blogger is African –American, who is making fun of and dis-respecting another African- American, in this case Lt. Gov. Michael Steele. Powerspeaks has been protesting the Elkridge club, so as someone who has been on the frontlines and until recently due to the rain and the rumor that Elkridge has finally admitted a African –American. Powerspeaks must speak out on this issue. First, of all , Lt. Gov. Steele was one of the few policitans who has spoken out as has Gov. Ehrlich that the Elkridge Club should admit African American. Elkridge being a private club has not confirmed it but, rumor has it that it has recently admitted a African-American. The real minstrel show is that our other politicians (local,district wide, as well as those oppposed to Steele ) should have been speaking speak out but have said nothing! <BR/>Politics aside Lt. Gov. Steele as a African -American stood up and did speak up! We are proud of him. <BR/>For someone to try to discredit Steele in a blog from New York, from out of town, from out of the neighborhood and not knowing the intricacies of the issue is all the more reason that this depiction of our Lt. Gov. should be seen as fake, phony and demeaning to any person and especially a African –American. <BR/>Before you come into our town and try to belittle our leadership, whether its black or white. <BR/>If YOU don’t know … YOU better ASK somebody! <BR/>The REAL minstrel is you and no one has to make up a photo of blogger, Steve Gilliard to prove it. <BR/>If YOU don’t know … YOU better ASK somebody! <BR/>You have given more people reason to support Steele, than you could imagine. If YOU don’t know … YOU better ASK somebody! <BR/>Powerspeaks had been protesting the Elkridge Club for not having African- American members, now we are protesting New York bloggers who think they know what's best for Marylanders and have no clue. <BR/>If YOU don’t know … YOU better ASK somebody! <BR/>African- American bloggers who see their ownselves in "blackface " and have negative images of themselves and then try to project these images on to other African- Americans are the real Simple Sambo's. <BR/>If YOU don’t know … YOU better ASK somebody!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03530134470979361224noreply@blogger.com