He's hardly worth it
But I can't resist. With respect to Michael McGee's comments on the
tragic death of Charlie Sykes' mother, three things occur to me.
1. I assume that McGee only sounds like he's wasted at 8 am in the
morning, so that drugs and alcohol are not an excuse.
2. If the local left and "responsible establishment" continues to
coddle this guy, it is racially condescending. Too often we are asked
to "understand" the "authenticity" of the "rage" expressed by people
like McGee and his son. Years ago when McGee Sr. went on one of his
rants at a Common Council meeting threatening racial Armageddon,
Larraine McNamara-McGraw said (and I roughly paraphrase) that she
"really liked Mike tonight." More recently, Eugene Kane seems to think
that the incoherent press release by McGee, Jr. "explaining" that his
comments about bricking speeding motorists were a "psycho-political"
message actually means something. (Perhaps if he would have omitted
the word "political.")
The upshot of all of this is that people like the McGees are not
expected to be grown-ups. They need not be rational or responsible.
They only need play the role that white liberals have assigned them in
a stale political morality play.
If we treated McGee like a man, we'd treat him like a pariah. The
failure to do so is accord him something less than full human agency.
3. Jerrell Jones who owns WNOV and who continues to host this cancer
will apparently not be compelled by sponsors or McGee's audience
(which is not the same as WMCS' listeners where I do not believe this
garbage would be tolerated) to do anything. Jones may be compelled to
do something by the fact that McGee flat-out defamed Charlie Sykes. If
I were Charlie, I'd go see a lawyer and see if I can't add a radio
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