Summit City Noise “Buy White” Campaign: Too Controversial for Fort Wayne Corporate Media?
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Guest post by Dean Robinson
Summit City Noise
Dean Jay Buy White (Audio introduction by Dean Robinson)
When INK newspaper’s 2008 “Buy Black” economic activism campaign launched, not a single competing media outlet in Fort Wayne considered the racially-oriented “Movement in Fort Wayne” controversial or newsworthy.
When former KKK Grand Dragon Tom Metzger runs for Congress in 2010, every news outlet in Fort Wayne rushes to cover and quote the self-admitted racist who openly admits to hot chocolate WANE-TV reporter Janice Allen that he does not expect to win an election against incumbent representative Mark Souder. Metzger tells Allen that he plans to put on a concert with a bunch of “hillbilly bands.”
WANE has done a great job of promoting Metzger’s Whitestock Hillbilly Band music event.
Will Fort Wayne media allow Summit City Noise producer Dean Robinson — a black guy — to PURCHASE COMMERCIAL AIRTIME to promote his “Buy White” economic campaign? No broadcast freebies here — like former KKK grand dragon Metzger gets whenever he opens his mouth.
Numerous white-owned businesses promote wares and services via corporate-controlled media operations everyday. Why can’t Dean Robinson do so in a collective manner?
Is the Summit City Noise-Dean Jay “Buy White” campaign too hot for Fort Wayne’s rock ‘n’ roll radio stations that happily spin songs by Nickelback in which women are regarded as “disease?”
“I like your pants around your feet … You’re my favorite damn disease … I like the white stains on your dress …” says Nickelback vocalist Chad Kroeger in the song “Figured You Out,” though it is not exactly clear whether or not he likes dirty knees on a man or woman so I may have to take back that comment about women being regarded as disease.
When he references “white stains on your dress,” perhaps Kroeger is talking about fashions worn by gender-confused dudes — you know, Nickelback’s core listening audience — who would have been protected by Fort Wayne City Council member Karen Goldner’s gender-identity ordinance.
Either way, considering someone with dirty knees “looking up at me” like “my favorite damn disease” is NOT controversial according to Fort Wayne rock ‘n’ roll radio.
You know, the same Fort Wayne “rock ‘n’ roll” radio stations that REFUSE to play recordings by black artists like Leadbelly and John Lee Hooker but instead play COVER VERSIONS of their songs as performed by white artists.
You know, the same Fort Wayne “rock ‘n’ roll” radio stations who don’t see the relevance of music performed by the likes of King of Rock ‘n’ Roll Elvis Presley, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis and Buddy Holly.
Why play that old garbage while there are new classics by Nickelback and Staind records to spin?
Will big-time corporate media dare allow Dean Robinson and Summit City Noise to present “Buy White,” a pointed satire on race relations in the United States of America? Is doing something to break down the idiocy of racism in the United States “too controversial”?
A big stack of cash awaits the radio station ready to air the radio commercial attached to this email.
Is “Buy White” too controversial for Fort Wayne’s big and bad rock radio stations?
Does a black man have to put his pants around my feet to get BUY some airtime in Fort Wayne? Just watch where you put that white stain. I won’t be wearing a dress.
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Your credibility ended when you described Janice Allen as "hot chocolate."
Dean, you are a remarkable guy, as is AWB, so I read you both and love my Hillbilly cousins and my German family, too, and the Scots and the Indonesians. I tried to save a Polar Bear yesterday and a whale is on the list for today. I will go out, hug a tree, kiss the blarney stone and walk the dogs. Buy local, too. Dean, to me, a minority is an Austrian. Tschuss.
Thanks for the PR. Would you like to appear on my monthly TV show in Fort Wayne
Tom Metzger
Thanks for the post, but man are you wrong. See in your post it clearly shows that you are the racist, keep up the good work to promote MR METZGER , I say MR METZGER because he does what is right for the people of our country the white working class, not the goverment.
I see above MR METZGER has made a post , would love to see you on his tv show. Keep up the good work for the white race as your post clearly shows most of the points that MR METZGER makes it shows your true color, to use the words for a nickle back song also shows you have no clue. One more point what is wrong with what you refer to as a hillybilly, I'M not one have have knowen many and find nothing wrong with them.
Brian,
If you believe anything that the racist KKK Metzger says, you yourself are obviously the racist here, along with Metzger. Dean is not a racist, and it's apparent to me that his article is above your <del>pay grade</del> comprehension level.
Why not? The corporate-controlled mainstream media won't even let me BUY broadcast time in Fort Wayne. You seem no more racist than the genocidal slave-owning "Founding Fathers," the founders of INK newspaper, the publishers at Fort Wayne Newspapers, or Mayor Tom Henry who admits to hiring people based on racial preference.
Heck, I don't even think half-white President Barack Obama likes colored people more than you. He acts more like a classic white dictator than anything else. I KNOW Jesse Jackson hates colored people more than you. That dude LOVES killing black babies via abortion.
Can you invite WANE-TV reporter Janice Allen to your show, too? I called her "Hot chocolate" as a compliment. I need to clear that up. You KNOW they sent her chocolatey but to Warsaw just to give YOU a chuckle. Or maybe it was just to give me a chuckle.
I would ask you to invite some other local newsbabes for me to mack on, but they are mostly white and I know you are not trying to make that happen. Feel free to invite the all the colored female reporters in town — except for Terra Brantely and Aisha Hasnee.
Hmm. I guess that just leaves Janice.
However, you COULD hook me up with the "feeble-minded" white newsbabes, Tom. Dust off your old KKKlan Handbookkk. You are probably allowed to hook a brother up under such circumstances. I won't tell anyone. We can handle all such details behind the curtain. You'll be like my own person Grand Wizard of Oz, yo.
You can contact me through summitcitynoise.com. I don't know why you're wasting time with me, though. I am small time. You're going to get WAYmore bang for your buck with WANE-TV and INC. WOWO and Pat WHITE will deliver a much larger audience than my dark occult ass.
Perhaps you can teach me how to promote my stuff effectively. You are doing your thing big time — at 71-years of age, no less!
What kind of food are you eating, Tom? How do you stay so fit? Is it from keeping that blood boiling?
I will consider appearing on your TV show, but I am NOT coming to your hillbilly band concert — unless you hire Black Oak Arkansas … and they play during daylight hours.
Believe me, Tom — appearing on a former Grand Dragon's TV program is not exactly what I envisioned as a chocolatey kid at Holy Spirit grade school.
ok… Trying to figure this out. A minority group has come up with a plan to promote black business, using the perhaps misguided name of "Buy Black." Mr Robinson has put together a satirical bit of media dubbed "Buy White." And is upset that no one will allow him to buy airtime to run his satire on television or Radio.
FYI, Frost Illustrated I believe is a competing media outlet for INK, and did cover this story when it broke in 2008. "Not a single competing media outlet…."
I'm trying to figure out what relevance any of this has with race relations, or what purpose it would serve to further same?
And if you feel "hot chocolate" is a compliment, you are basically saying that she's good looking for a black girl? In my opinion, such comments are really fostering racism.
I have respect for AWB and his blog, I have a very difficult time understanding what Mr Robinson is trying to accomplish through his poorly thought out and even more poorly written rant about his inability to buy airtime in order to exacerbate race relations.
Pez,
THANK YOU for this response. Lots of rational thought in there. We will focus on that.
You mentioned that "Buy Black" is "perhaps misguided" as a name for a plan to promote black business.
I believe the name "Buy Black" is PERFECT for a plan to promote black business. It is honest and open. There is no masking of the intent of the campaign. No mistakes to be made here by the recipient of the message: "Buy BLACK."
My belief is that a "Buy Black" campaign is racist in nature. A "Buy White" campaign is also racist in nature.
My belief is that ANY racist campaign should be ridiculed, even if it is accepted by certain segments of the populus.
"Buy White" — an obvious satire on race relations in the U.S. as pitched by a colored guy — is considered "too controversial" by Federated Media while "Buy Black" is accepted as perfectly fine.
Federated Media won't even let me BUY airtime for my satire. I am trying to give these people $500. They refuse to take it. WBYR-FM 98.9 the Bear says my "Buy White" campaign is "too controversial" for the big, bad Bear!
Have we forgotten Dave Chappelle already? The very first "Chappelle's Show" featured a skit about a blind black KKK leader! It is a HILARIOUS sketch.
Now people just don't get it. They don't get the jokes being played on all of us.
Here is a "Buy Black" Frost article I found: http://www.frostillustrated.com/full.php?sid=4327…
THANK YOU for bringing this to my attention to this, Pez. I should make it clear that the Frost report I found is NOT written as a criticism or as an editorial. It is solid reporting. It is journalism.
My comments are opinion. Take them as you will. I can take the criticism.
We may be referencing different reports, Pez. You can listen to my commentary regarding this information during my next DeanCast at summitcitynoise.com (probably Tuesday). It would do no good to go into that right now. Doing so may wrongfully denigrate your good work here.
If you are trying to figure out what relevance any of this has with race relations, feel free to keep trying. Walk with it for a while. You may even forget about it only to think about it later. There is no rush. I didn't come up with this stuff overnight.
I am not going to argue with you here, Pez. If you want to call me, we can yell at each other over the phone. Email me through summitcitynoise.com and I will sent my number.
Ol' Tom Metzger hasn't tried to contact me yet. I think he is standing me up!
I am going to take your more pointed statements as criticism. It would be FOOLISH for me to argue that you don't feel the way you feel. How can I argue against beliefs? I cannot. It would be dumb for me to try.
But I just HAVE to tell you that I honestly consider "Hot Chocolate" a compliment. I call myself chocolatey.
The word "chocolate" would actually communicate the color of my skin better than the word "black." My skin is brown — more like chocolate than "black." The various different blends of chocolate — chocolate, chocolate milk, milk chocolate, dark chocolate — would more accurately express the various shades of brown people in the "black" community.
People LIKE chocolate — while black is cemented in our culture as being synonymous with "bad." Many people are generally afraid of the "dark." That is why Darth Vader — a WHITE chocolatey guy, no less — wears the black outfit. People are scared of that guy — even his thousands of white-uniformed Stormtrooper clones.
If black people were chocolate, people would like us more.
That is the extent of an argument you will get out of me, Pez!
Stay sweet, you candy dispenser, you!
Love,
Dean
Sometimes life imitates art and sometimes the other way around. I contend that you would show more responsible leadership by stating your opinion that the Buy Black campaign is racist by clear, concise and thoughtful communication, rather than a satirical piece of art intended to be controversial.
Honest question for you… would you have used the term 'chocolate' to describe Ms. Allen if she were unattractive?
To be quite honest, Pez, I am NOT trying to be a leader. There should be no line forming behind me.
I just live life my way — like Frank Sinatra. I can take the criticism because I put myself out here. It would be pretty lame if I could not stand criticism or correction.
My satire is intended to be satirical. Controversy is in the mind of the beholder. I am not attempting to do anything that Dave Chappelle hasn't done years ago. Check summitcitynoise.com to see what I am talking about.
There is no point to speculating how I would describe Janice Allen if she were not PHYSICALLY attractive. She has revealed nothing of her mind that attracts me. The woman looks gorgeous to me — just like 95 percent of the sexy newsbabes working on television today. TV news stations typically hire model types to read the news.
If you are looking for "political correctness" from me, you will be sorely disappointed, Pez. Rational thought is all I have.
By the way, I have yet to hear from Tom Metzger. He probably realizes by now that I am no punk. He probably realizes that having me on his show would backfire on him big time, spewing black soot all over his white face.