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America’s first Race Hustler died

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The Godfather of race hustling Jesse Jackson has passed away. Jackson has been called a “civil rights icon” which is much better than being called a “Poverty Pimp.” Jackson did a lot for black people. The black people in his family. We’ll take a look at some of Jackson’s greatest hits.

When called out on his lavish lifestyle Jackson said he never took a vow of poverty. Jackson lived in the Jackson Park Highlands neighborhood. Far away from the blacks he claimed to care about on the south side.

In the 1980’s Jackson called out Anheuser-Busch for lack of minority owners. In 1995 Jackson hooked up with August Busch and got his sons a very lucrative beer distributorship in Chicago.

Through his entire life he would go to companies demanding more of a minority stake and his Rainbow/Push outfit got donations from the shakedown

In 2007 Jackson attended a “funeral” for the “N-word. ” In 2008, he was caught on a “hot mic” moment calling the people presidential candidate Barack Obama was talking down to the N-word

And Jesse Jackson fathered a daughter. Out of wedlock!

We can say Jesse Jackson inspired a new generation of race hustlers such as Alton Maddox, C. Vernon Mason, Benjamin Crump, Mayor Eric Adams, the gals at Black Lives Matter and Jackson’s protégé, Al Sharpton.  

Over the past 60 plus years since the birth of the modern Civil Rights movement, things have remained the same for Black America. The rate of poverty is between 18 and 20%, the incarceration rate is around 33% despite black people comprising only 13 of the population. 48% of Black adults have never been married and 70% of black children were born out of wedlock and 64% of black children live in a single parent home. The overwhelming majority are headed by the mother.

So in retrospect, all the yelling, screaming, grandstanding and mugging for the camera has done virtually nothing for Black Americans. If Jackson wanted to improve the lives of Black America, he would need to give Black America a reality check!

Jackson said nothing on black-on-black crime.

Jackson said nothing on getting an education.

Jackson said nothing on black entertainment glorifying violence, and misogyny.

Jackson said nothing on self-reliance.

Jackson said nothing on black marriage.

Jackson said nothing on illegitimacy.

Someone want to tell us how Jackson improved the lives of Black people!?

75 Radio storms the DMV

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By: Scoop Stanton

This weekend 75 Radio was all over the DMV. Not the place where you register your car, but the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia.  And I saw “eeeevvveeerrrryyyone!”

First, the kids and I met up with Ed Huebner for the Georgetown Fordham football game. Ed is a Fordham alumni and played for Fordham on the gridiron. Both teams were not that good. Ed wanted to be put in. He was actually bigger than most of the defensive line! Georgetown was slightly better than the Rams. Worst part; no beer! A football game with no beer is like going to a gentleman’s club with no entertainment! But since two people from 75 Radio are there, it’s a 75 Radio event. Hey, those are the rules!

I dropped off the kids and headed up to pick up my friend Lisa. Like every other lady I hang out with, Lisa is a hot. bad ass boss lady. And like every woman I meet, I disappoint them simply by opening my mouth.  The crazy thing about Lisa is that she runs in the same circles as me and knows everyone I know! And we haven’t met until June of this year! 

We roll up to WINO in Arlington, Virginia for Barry Morgenstein’s book party for Rock and Soul which Barry promoted on 75 Radio. Alessandra Griffitt and Brian Sussman along with Shelly Morgenstein were also there. And Lisa knew everyone!

On Facebook I told Barry no pop music at WINO and when I enter I want “Ain’t Wasting Time No More” playing. And sure as shit, I see DC Mike Echo spinning the ipod and he recognized me before I recognized him. And he played the song! Don’t know if it was a coincidence or not. I’ll take it!

After a couple of cocktails it was time to head to Maryland for Eliza Nguyen’s Friendsgiving Birthday Party. Since it was close to Thanksgiving, Eliza thought it would be nice if it was a Thanksgiving theme. There were plenty of tables for all the people. Kudos to Eliza and everyone for putting it together.

And of course, 75 Radio Spokesmodel Danila Rodrigues was there looking like her typical bad assed self! And since myself and Ms. Rodrigues were there its’ now a 75 Radio event!

The party was going full tilt. Then it was time to go to overdrive. I asked Dani if she wanted to come on. She wanted to have a good time, so she declined! But, she will get some shout outs! As I’m getting my stuff ready walking outside, I saw Dani dancing her ass off! That diverted my attention. Luckily I was walking slowly because I ran into the screen door! Similar to when allegedly Donald Trump ran into a glass door looking at some girls in bikinis!

I get the show up and running. We’re talking about the Epstein nothing burger, and Elisa comes over for the next segment. She kills it! Another gentleman comes on named Kenneth. Kills it! Then at the halfway point we lost our internet feed and I have to phone it in! But Tammy Eanes comes on and confirms that I did wear a bedazzled G-string last year!

As the show goes on, I lose contact with the studio. I hear absolutely nothing, so I say: “Ground control to Major Tom?” A short time later I’m back on with Walter and Mike. Thank God they are on the air! We cross the finish line and I pack up, I walk through the dance floor with my box looking like I just got fired clearing my desk. Across the basement I see Danila sitting down on a huge ottoman which gave me an idea. I threw my box upstairs and grabbed Dani. “Dani I need to borrow you for 10 seconds.” I told her what I wanted to do and she thought it was a good idea. Look, I don’t know much, but I do know a good photograph of Danila when I see one.

Now here’s why Danila is the only choice for our Spokesmodel. As I was taking the photograph, a dude who saw me do radio take the lovely photo of Ms. Rodrigues. He asked me who was that!? I said that Danila. She’s the spokesmodel for the radio show. “Whaaaaaaaaat!?” I said that’s Danila. She’s our spokesmodel for our radio show. I then gave a business card and said to check it out! We did our “Irish goodbyes” and made our way home.

I need to thank everyone I saw this weekend. It’s because of you I’m in a much better place than 5 years ago. I am currently living my best life. The reason why I attend all these functions is the people. If someone was going to have beer at a dumpster fire, I’m there. You are the best the DMV has to offer. Not the politicians, not the media types or other people who think they are something. All of you bring the best out of me. For that I say thank you!

He’s still on the air, and no one cares!

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The self-proclaimed “King of All Media” Howard Stern will remain on the air after all. For months rumors were flying all over that Stern’s contract with Sirius/XM would not be renewed. As for us, we remained silent because there was no official work from either Stern or Sirius/XM.

Stern was brilliant in remaining silent all summer as the buzz was building up to see if Stern was returning. Stern was supposed to return on September 2nd. But that was postponed until today. Then today Andy Cohen took over the microphone stating that Stern was no longer with Sirius/XM. Then later in the broadcast Stern came on the air and said he is still employed by Sirius/XM.

People in the industry and former fans were hoping that this was the end of Stern. The industry people wanted Stern’s gig. But, 30 years ago Stern could relate to his millions of male listeners as they have to slug it in to work, slug it back home, dealing with a nagging wife, kids and less than satisfactory sex life. Stern also had great talent including Jackie “The Joke Man” Martling and Billy West. Stern’s show was outrageous with members of the KKK, lesbians, and all sorts of impolite conversations. Then, Stern’s biggest rivals Gregg “Opie” Hughes and Anthony Cumia came on the scene in New York and Stern went to management at CBS and Sirius/XM to silence Opie and Anthony. Then as Stern started to amass his fortune, the stories of him including clearing the halls of Sirius/XM come out, Stern married a trophy wife, and there was the show itself. Stern went from blue collar to Hollywood. No more immature adult humor. Instead, listeners get to hear about Stern going to parties in the Hamptons, hanging out with A list Hollywood types and interviewing Hillary Clinton and Rosie O’Donnell. Needless to say, Stern’s listenership has declined with some saying he only gets 125,000 listeners per day. Stern is a shell of his former self. Someone put together a clip of Howard Stern berating Don Imus for staying in radio for too long. Anthony Cumia plays the clip and states that Stern did in fact turn into Imus who’s show was horrendous!

As for us, we won’t change. We’re still the same people since day one. Yes, Scoop may be able to sneak into some lovely parties with gorgeous ladies, but (unfortunately) it’s Scoop! But he takes us into those parties with photos and live broadcasts!

Run Dani!