Sonnie Johnson

[babe]

So I've been listening to XM 125 around 10 to noon PST while I run around visiting folks every week.

Sonnie has become my fav conservative because she is street, and nobody's damn sheep. She puts a face on Capitalism and tells you why socialism is the lie.

She's not quick study, she is not very preachy, not much pretension, and she lets her guests say their stuff.

She is black and proud of it. She loves her people and knows the history. You won't know anything about her in an hour, in a day. She is a true educator who gives out her insights but knows she can't force her points Lots of ways to raise questions and challenge the set points we all are stuck on.

She also does podcasts, which is different in style from her radio program. OB asked me to pick a podcast for some critical discussion.

Here's the old ones from last year.
https://player.fm/series/did-she-say-that-with-sonnie-johnson-1390321

 

[babe]

@One Brow : I listened to the second one about Republican Failures, and some of the first on the two tiered system.

The language is not genteel or refined, but when she talks about history, she has done her homework. You won't know her until you get some Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Dubois under your skull. Or until you hear her explain why the blacks were run off by the intrusive takeover by progressive Republicans a hundred years ago, because there wasn't room for them at the table the blacks themselves had built. Let's just start with the gentrification of not only a neighborhood but the Republican Party.

Sonnie will maintain the line that capitalism is the hope and change the Blacks want and prosper with. She will maintain that the blacks are natively good family people, with deep religious values and conservative principles at root, only betrayed or disrupted by socialist programs.

She says the RNC just won't put money on local black candidates who are what we need in the urban strongholds now secure for the Dems. And the RNC isn't listening to her.

What we need, she says, is local candidates on the ground in all those races, listening to the local folks and willing to do the good things the community needs for less intrusive control and more local opportunity, and less cartelist monopolistic systems of regulation.