Radio Host Threatened After McCain Rally

[Charie]

Radio Host Threatened After McCain Rally

WTMJ-TV and JSOnline.com
updated 11:54 p.m. CT, Fri., Oct. 10, 2008
Radio talk show host James T. Harris is getting national attention for urging John McCain to attack Barack Obama's character. Harris, who is black, says he's received a flood of hate mail, even death threats.

MILWAUKEE - The hate mail started pouring in almost immediately after Newsradio 620 WTMJ radio host James T. Harris addressed Senator John McCain Thursday at a Republican rally in Waukesha. "You know this is sort of a sampling of the emails that I've been receiving," Harris said," Hey Sambo, maybe Master McCain will let you shine his shoes since you did such a good job licking his boots." During Thursday's rally, Harris urged Senator McCain to step up his attacks on Barack Obama's character. Harris said in the next presidential debate, "It's absolutely vital that you take it to Obama, that you hit him"where it hurts,"

Source (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27126962/)

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More from the party of love and peace.

[Terri]

I see this made it onto MSNBC's local news but I bet it never makes it on their main website. I haven't looked but I doubt it.

We really need to support this man.

The James T. Harris Show brings the National Conversation to Milwaukee and is on 620 WTMJ Saturday 1p-3p and Sunday from 3pm to 7pm, except when there is sports play-by-play. James began his career as a professional educator teaching high school history at Brown Deer High School. Throughout his career he has pursued global travel, visiting Western and Eastern Europe, India and West Africa, where he immersed himself in a multitude of diverse cultural systems in order to better understand the culture of his hometown of Milwaukee. Long before getting an opportunity to host his own show, he was known to many WTMJ listeners as the caller named James from Sherman Park.

James T. Harris graduated from Cardinal Stritch University and studied history and sociology at the University of Nottingham. He is a national motivational speaker and owner of the company IllumiNation. He and his family reside in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and his interest in seeing Milwaukee's continued growth shines through during his show.

There's a listen live link on this station. (http://www.620wtmj.com/news/local/30825819.html) He should be on soon unless they have sports this afternoon.

There's an email link (http://www.620wtmj.com/shows/directory/8048642.html)for him here. It would be nice if we put thank you or something like that in the subject line so he knows it's not more hate mail.

[Terri]

He's on the air and he is good. The link for listen live is in the above post.

Here's a link to his blog. (http://nationalconversation .typepad.com/) Good stuff!

[stormy]

This may be a quicker link to his actual broadcast. Especially for those who aren't used to listening online. :)


HERE (http://player.streamtheworl d.com/jbroadcast/?CALLSIGN=WTMJAM)

[Pillar of Salt]

Email of praise sent! Thanks for the link.

What's sad is that it's okay to say those horrid things to him! You can believe that it's not being sent by white people!! And if it was being sent by Republicans, then it would be newsworthy, huh? Sickening.

“Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.” -Orson Wells

[melreid41]

He's on the air and he is good.

I am listening right now...
and I agree, he is good!! I also sent him an email thanking him for what he said!!!

Melony

[George123]

E-mail sent.

Listening to his program right now.

[72yearsyoung]

Thanks Charie !!!!

This is the kind of American spirit that this country needs across America, in every city, on every radio and TV station, in every home.

Email of support and thanks sent.

ole Bill

[jgillil2]

email sent thanking him for standing up for his convictions and for speaking out to McCain.

You can believe that it's not being sent by white people!!

Actually, I would not be at all surprised if hate mail were being sent by white people, too. On another thread there was a story about a black gentleman in Virginia being scolded by some Obama volunteers trying to recruit him for his vote. When he told them that he was voting for McCain, they told him that since he is a black man, he should be voting for Obama! The Obama volunteers were a middle-aged white couple.

[qrayjack]

I demand that Barak Obama immediately admonish his supporters and apoligize for their hateful speech and actions, and I further call for him to stop fomenting anger and spite at his rallys. :rolleyes: (Hey, it works both ways, right?)

[jgillil2]

Yes, indeed, it does work both ways.

Fox has been asking Obama spokespeople (is that PC?) all day about the statement made by the Obama supporter (Rep. John Lewis) who said that the McCain campaign reminds him of the campaign of George Wallace. Because of that, Obama had to eventually make an official statement disavowing the man. Up until then, Obama had tried to ignore it.

[Pillar of Salt]

Let me see if I can describe what I mean when I said that it's not white people who are sending him the hate mail....

I am half of a mixed couple, so I have heard quite a few "remarks" from both sides.

If a white person is a bigot, they would use vulgar language toward a black person. They wouldn't try to convince a black person to vote for Obama. So, I don't think white bigots are emailing him. (And they probably wouldn't listen to his show, anyway.)

If a white person doesn't think himself a bigot, he might try to convince a black person they should vote for Obama, but they usually wouldn't use vulgar language. They are too "enlightened" for that.

If a white person really isn't a bigot, he doesn't care who you vote for because he's not judging a person for the color of their skin.

If a black person is berating another black person for not voting for Barack, they would use the most vulgar language and accuse the person of being an "Uncle Tom" or "Sambo." (Although Uncle Tom was just the opposite of what the characterization suggests.)

Of course, I don't believe it is the majority of black people who behave that way, but enough for him to get a lot of emails on it!

Just as Christians are often made in the public eye to look like fanatics because of a few crazies who blow up abortion clinics, blacks are often made out to be fanatics because of the militant few.

The responses my husband gets when he states his political beliefs are like the above stated reactions. Luckily, though many in his family will vote Obama, they are loving people, not militant, and don't do name-calling.

Okay, is that as clear as mud?

[Terri]

Pillar, you are trying to explain racism with logic and racists don't operate on logic. They operate on emotion and I sincerely doubt that any racist could give a logical explanation of why they "feel" the way they do.

Nice try though.