[lbo-talk] sex offenders! sex panic!

[B.]

I read that same report Debbie Nathan refers to --
about Bush allocating all this money to combat human
trafficking and that it has yielded few arrests,
leading many to believe the problem was way,  way
overstated to begin with. Regardless, it still makes
fine subject-matter for TV shows like Law & Order:
SVU.

Also mentioned by Debbie Nathan is Bill O'Reilly's
excitement that no one at an African-American eatery
in Harlem was shouting, "I want more iced tea,
motherfucker!" (Yes, that is literally what Bill
O'Reilly said he was surprised no one was shouting.)
O'Reilly then proceeded, based on this one trip out of
his white n' wealthy comfort zone to make sweeping
proclamations about the state of black America. Based
on a restaurant visit of maybe an hour, O'Reilly said
he was now convinced, having himself been to Hell and
back, that black people are becoming "more
independent" and less beholden to the tyrannical whims
of leaders like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. Yet it
was Sharpton that invited him to eat at Sylvia's. So
O'Reilly's brief foray convinced him, since no one was
cussing and calling on motherfuckers for iced tea,
that black people everywhere were becoming less
beholden to the man that had invited him there for a
meal.

-B.

Doug Henwood wrote:

"And a roundup of sex panic news by Debbie Nathan, who
is a national treasure: http://www.debbienathan.com/"