Doug Henwood Talks

“JUC” is the Justice & Unity Coalition, the formation that dominates
the WBAI local board, which itself is dominated by a rather unsubtle
black nationalist ideology that likes to claim things like “melanin
deficiency is a serious disease.”

From: “Frank LeFever” wbaiFM-activist@yahoo.com Date: June 30, 2007 3:48:15 PM EDT To: HelpFixWBAI@yahoogroups.com Subject: [HelpFixWBAI] So why did Nia Bediako’s LSB Report to
Listeners deny I was called an old MF? Reply-To: HelpFixWBAI@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):

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ To: wbailsbprogcomm@yahoogroups.com From: “Baba Mamadu” bamadu48@yahoo.com Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 06:10:08 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [wbailsbprogcomm] 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

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Frank LeFever fflefever@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 Message #418 of 442 Re: [wbailsbprog_ 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.

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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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