The “Make America Great/White Again Movement” and Denver
radio station 850 KOA are exploiting Coach
Prime’s Black Buffs…. Black men unknowingly
doing the heavy lifting, getting their hands
dirty, and in the long run, enriching filthy
rich White male aristocrats, who along with
the KKK, Proud Boys, and Oath Keepers support
Trump’s efforts to return America to being a
racially, culturally and economically
separate, unequal nation.
They don’t grasp the “Black Power” they have and what they
could do with it.
Monday through Monday, 24/7, around the flippin’ clock,
KOA pumps out what can only be considered
racist, sexist, elitist, and xenophobic White
male supremacist propaganda which directly and
indirectly targets African-Americans and other
Americans of color, as well as progressive,
liberal-minded women from all walks of life.
Nonetheless, on Saturdays and Sundays the
University of Colorado Buffaloes Football
team, along with the NFL’s Denver Broncos,
becomes the voice of both, drawing in a major
slice of the listening audience. 50,000 watts
goes a long way, well across 38 states -
Austin to Boston, Fargo to Key Largo, it’s 850
KOA.
This is an “exploitative” relationship” by anyone’s
measure. It is also prevalent across the radio
industry, consequently, widespread and
permissive across the nation. Yes, Black men
naively helping “conservative,” if not 1861
“Confederate-minded” White men rake in
millions of dollars for their “Conservative”
agenda and personal financial obesity.
Tragically, pimping is easy!
University of Colorado Football head coach Dion Sanders
most likely isn’t hip to some of the White
supremacist shenanigans that are going on
around him, but someone ought to tell him how
his gridiron program is being exploited by
Rocky Mountain good ol’ boys who publicly hold
gutter low opinions of Black folks and other
racial minorities as well as
independent-minded White women.
Clear Channel’s flagship operation, KOA, along with sister
station 630 KHOW is home to an assortment of
Conservative/MAGA hosts and callers who
belittle Black and Brown people endlessly - we
are the infinite source for all of White
America’s societal ills and woes - just look
no further than people of color. However,
there are virtually no liberal,
progressive-minded people of color in their
lineup who counter this narrative. No one to
defend nor offer a different perspective, and
that’s a crime against freedom and democracy,
my friends….
Understand this, I’m one of the last to sit behind a KOA
mic and articulate the popular opinions of
Black and Tan folks, and that was over 20
years ago. This silence is not by
happenstance, coincidence, or pure chance. No,
instead this quarter-long century void is
strategic, deliberate, and politically
tactical. The tragedy is apparent to everyone,
all you have to do is listen, and you’ll
discover KOA sounds like a 1962 White Citizens Council meeting.
Black men can toss a pass, run a power sweep and catch a
deep bomb, yet we can’t comment on women’s
rights, the economy, global issues, or
national politics….we are to be “seen but not
heard.”
Just shut up and run, boy!
CU, the athletic program, the President’s Office, the
college newspaper, and the Board of Regents
are, willingly and knowingly, facilitating
this highly exploitative relationship,
allowing KOA to utilize Black athletes to
further the anti-Black agenda of the (MAGA) Make America Great/White Again
Movement which dominates the AM airwaves. Call it “Hate Radio” -
I do and so do millions more, but local
mainstream media outlets won’t.
Go figure?
Forgive me, I’m sorry, but I can’t sit quietly by and let
that play out without stating the obvious. The
voices coming out of Clear Channel’s KOA and
its affiliates are as insulting and belittling
of Black and Brown people as Trump’s cult can
go. And on the flip-side, ownership and more
importantly their sponsorship base, won’t
allow any contradicting and challenging voices
on the AM airwaves.
This isn’t complicated, at all. The only occasion in which
Black men can perform on KOA is to run with a
ball.
Where’s what’s left of the local press? The Denver Post, WestWord, and all the rest? If this isn’t an instance of pimping and
exploiting people, then what is? How insulting
and belittling can it get? Is this a case of “if you don’t say anything,
neither will I?”
It’s so very quiet, you can hear a rat piss on cotton.
Why should young Black men, who the MAGA Right brands as
“Public Enemy #1, thugs who’re always up to no
good, underwrite their efforts? Now, if Dion
isn’t instantly competitive, and isn’t
automatically successful, despite the
mediocrity the gridiron program has been mired
in, Coach Prime will be a target for a public
lynching. No different from the Bronco’s
Russell Wilson was this year. The fanatical
fans, who when not rooting for their favorite
boys, will be rooting for Lord Trump and Ron DeSantis will
want to remove the “uppity” Black alpha males
who don’t know their assigned inferior place.
The CU/KOA working business relationship is a black and
white illustration of a conflict of interest,
in which the Black players are financing men
who apparently struggle with the belief these
men are civilized human beings - the hypocrisy
is morally disturbing.
These businessmen are well aware of what they’re doing,
but they have no scruples nor conscience - and
I’d argue that’s the “American Way.”
I’ve fired off a letter to the CU Athletic Director, Rick
George; let’s see what he does. Please take a
deeper dive into the situation in your city,
because most likely the Black athletes who
play for a Collegiate or professional sports
franchise are, too, being pimped by MAGA.
