Lincoln Ware's Boner is bigger than Deters. BP Gulf Coast Spill complaint

Lincoln Ware’s bone head callers.

It’s no wonder local politicians think they can come before Lincoln Ware’s audience with a radio jingle and a smile and expect our vote. In fairness, a great many of Ware’s callers are passionate people that have the greatest love of all for their community.

Unfortunately, a hand full of the callers are bone heads with boners. They hide behind meeboo instant messages, or call in with their flawed interpretation of what they think a caller has said.

On Tuesday, I called Ware’s show to voice my concern that some media outlets were portraying the clean-up oil spill people, mostly black people, as lazy and shiftless people, who were bathing in the sun and taking excessive breaks while on the clock. I called Ware’s show to commend the workers for taking on the dangerous, low paying job of cleaning up BP’s greed. On the news they show black people cleaning up toxic brown clumps, dead wildlife (that may possiblly carry disease), and other hazardous shit.

I questioned why it is that black people, more specifically the ones that you see cleaning up the spill, have the look of people that have a tough time getting gainful employment with private companies or the government because they have barriers to employment (substance abuse or a  prior conviction on their record). Nobody wants to hire them. But when it comes to jobs that could be considered modern day slavery --Gulf Coast oil spill clean-up, or here locally, cleaning up the ball parks at the rate of a cup of draft beer ($7.00), companies and the gub-ment want to hire black people first.

It bothers me that many news outlets will show the black workers on their breaks resting, as if they aren’t working. I question what the BP execs were doing when the drill blew, killing eleven people and causing the worst catastrophe in history. Were they resting? Hitting a few golf balls?

The greedy execs want to throw black people their lunch money, a pithily 13 dollars per hour. That’s an insult. An insult to the BP execs. Surely they would never eat a lunch that cost a mere 13 dollars.

Some callers, the bone heads with boners, thought that I shouldn’t complain because black people are working. Sorry bone head with your boner, all work is not good work. Especially if it comes at the expense of black people’s health and safety.