> From: "Frank LeFever" <wbaiFM-activist at yahoo.com>
> Date: June 30, 2007 3:48:15 PM EDT
> To: HelpFixWBAI at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [HelpFixWBAI] So why did Nia Bediako's LSB Report to
> Listeners deny I was called an old MF?
> Reply-To: HelpFixWBAI at yahoogroups.com
>
> Feel free to copy and promulgate this, but always with the
> clarificaton that "Baba" is actually "Ed Marshall, former (& future??)
> JUC candidate for LSB". And of course the Older Male Figure said to be
> in need of "psychiatric, therapeutic, and rehabilitive support" is
> president of the NY Neuropsychology Group and organized a conference
> this spring on "Neuroimmune Disorders" (joint meeting of NYNG and the
> Psychology section of The NY Academy of Sciences, on whose Steering
> Committee he serves):
>
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> To: wbai_lsb_prog_comm at yahoogroups.com
> From: "Baba Mamadu" <bamadu48 at yahoo.com>
> Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 06:10:08 -0700 (PDT)
> Subject: Re: [wbai_lsb_prog_comm] confronting an on-air lie and
> demanding a public apology
>
> Frank,
>
> I am shocked at the level of senility and mental collapse you have
> descended to! You deserve NO APOLOGY. What you deserve is sound
> psychiatric, therapeutic and rehabilitative support. Nia Bediako was
> ABSOLUTELY CORRECT when she addressed your malicious charge that I
> called you an "an old MF". You are a LIAR and DISTORTIONIST. The
> acronym "OMF", as I addressed it, clearly meant: "Older Male
> Figure". It is your misinterpretation and gutterish translation that
> utterly distorts what the meaning of "OMF" stood for. If you read the
> context, of what I was focusing on, you would have understood that I
> was addressing maturity, understanding and wisdom...and the lack there
> of...on your part.
>
> Are you not an "Older Male Figure" (OMF) ?
>
> Certainly you are. But your racist, white supremacist nature only
> interprets the negative. As you attempt to make the case for how
> outraged you are ...you further enhance my theory that Melanin
> Deficiency is more than a condition, but a serious mental disease. And
> the bi-product of this disease is racism and bigotry, as witnessed
> here.
>
> Cerene Roberts and Nia Bediako are among the most credible,
> intelligent and dedicated African Women I know. And for you to make
> such atrocious, ridiculous claims about them, on the air or off the
> air, and to compound this by asking for a "PUBLIC APOLOGY" is the
> most absurd, distasteful demand I have witnessed in some time. Perhaps
> your deficiency ignores the fact that if I wanted to call you an "Old
> MF" I would call you that to your face and not by way of the written
> word. No Frankie boy... you're WRONG and in case you haven't noticed
> I have several grey hairs myself, which puts me in the same category
> as you, when it comes to Older Male Figures (OMF's).
>
> So stop this demonstration of how acute your Melanin Deficiency is and
> let us move on to more important matters without having to question
> your senility.
>
> Ed Marshall
>
> - - - - - - - - - - -
> Frank LeFever <fflefever at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I think a public, ON AIR apology is in order: Nia Bediako, committee
> Chair, called me a LIAR, on air, during the LSB Radio Report,
> asserting that nobody called me "an old MF". It is clear from the
> context that another committee member (Ed Marshall) denigrated me not
> only because of my age: he specifically called me an "inane" old "MF".
> Moreover, he alluded to my having a "melanin deficiency", which he
> considered a "serious disease".
>
> It is shameful that she and Cerene Roberts agreed this was OK so
> long as it was understood that "melanin deficiency" was merely a
> "condition" and not a "disease".
>
> It is shameful that she obfuscated this in a public broadcast, and
> shameful that she libeled me by asserting that it was a "lie" to say
> that anybody was called an "Old MF". This requires at least equal
> publicity to her retraction of that assertion, which COMPOUNDS and
> PERPETUATES the original character assassination.
>
> Here is the original derogatory description. Please note that
> besides "malanin deficiency", it includes "OMF":
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> POSTED Fri Apr 6, 2007 2:21 pm BY Baba Mamadu <bamadu48 at .. .>
> Message #418 of 442
> Re: [wbai_lsb_prog_ comm] Re: April 7th Forum cancellation
> Hi Nia,
> Thanks for notifying everyone of the change. It's unfortunate that
> men, who are in their senior years (OMF's) , who profess to be
> Doctors, Phd's and supremacist, find the time to be so sarcastic and
> inane. This just chronicles why the times we live in are so uncertain
> and so contentious, because the octogenarians are so malicious and
> lack the wisdom of our African Ancestors. Melanin deficiency is a
> serious disease.
>
> Blessings to you My Sista.
> ------------ --------- --------
>
> I will not let this be swept under the rug. This is the ugly
> underbelly of much of what is wrong at WBAI and which underlies some
> of its membership attrition.
>
> --Frank
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