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Saturday, April 17, 2010, 7:49 am

'Measuring the Movement' Live Blog Party!

It's time for some action!

A host of top African-American government, education, religious, and cultural leaders are expected to participate in the National Action Network's forum, "Measuring the Movement," moderated by our own Fly Jock, Tom Joyner, and TJMS political analyst Roland Martin.

It's airing live this morning, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. EST, on TV One. So tune in, and join us!

Among the notable panelists participating are:

NAN founder Rev. Al Sharpton

House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC)

National Urban League President Marc Morial

NAACP President Benjamin Jealous

Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter

Harvard Law School professor Dr. Charles Ogletree

Georgetown University professor Dr. Michael Eric Dyson

Public Enemy rapper/activist Chuck D

Syndicated radio host Warren Ballentine

"The Tom Joyner Morning Show" commentator Jeff Johnson

Judge Greg Mathis

Michael Blake, associate director, White House Office of Public Engagement & Deputy Associate Director of the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs

LaKimba B. DeSadier, executive director, National Black Caucus of State Legislators

Dr. Elsie Scott, president & CEO, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation

Lezli Baskerville, president & CEO, National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education

And, as always, we want to hear from you! Watch the show with us, hear what the Fly Jock and his crew has to say throughout - and give us your input in the comments section. Don't be surprised if your words appear on your TV screen as part of TV One's live coverage ...

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10:54 a.m.: Welcome, welcome, welcome ... let the movement begin!

10:56 a.m.: Thanks for attending our live blog party. Thanks for your questions and comments. And for those of you who keep asking: No, he isn't and no, he wasn't.

10:57 a.m.: Like all of our live blog parties, we will have drinking games. I know it's a little early to be consuming spirits, but this is a special day. so everytime you hear the word "empowerment" mentioned, take a sip.

10:58 a.m.: The big show is about to start. And please let Sybil and J. know that I AM in church.

11:01 a.m.: Are you watching the broadcast? How's my hair? I know it pales next to Rev. Al's.

11:02 a.m.: It's a full-house, and these people are not playing. Like you, they do not want to hear the same old thing. They want answers and solutions. But they need to loosen up!

11:03 a.m.: We should have had J.Anthony Brown come out and warm up the audience. If we weren't in church, I would suggest that we show his video, which you can still check out on BlackAmericaWeb.com. But, I digress ...

11:05 a.m.: Okay, y'all - here we go.

11:06 a.m.: Tom is busy on stage. I'm his producer, Nikki Woods, and I'll be taking over for him for a while.

11:08 A.M.: The show has started, and we're inviting you to start sending your comments right away. Please don't leave Tom hanging ... we've got two hours to fill!

Okay, Tom is back - for a few minutes.

11:11 a.m.: Hey, y'all. How did I do? Have you voted since the presidential election? If you haven't? Why not?

11:14 a.m.: Do you feel like the major national issues actually touch your community? Health care reform? The stimulus package?

11:24 A.M.: That sister set it off. She has an alternative for the Tea Parties - the Cocoa Parties!

Everything was so much better when the government used to provide summer jobs and programs for youth in the community. If you were a young person before the Reagan administration, you probably had one of those jobs. What was .....

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Posted by Hopep July 24, 2010, 4:20 pm
The unemployment bill shuts out millions of minorities and others known as the "99ers,” unemployed 99+ weeks. The black unemployment rate is more than twice of the white unemployment rate. We need to PUSH congress to include 99ers in the extended benefits bill or to write a bill that will! These citizens and families have lost their savings and are in great danger. This is a national emergency! 100,000 more citizens joined the 99ers this past week! Join"The 99ers group: www.linkedin.com. Our action strengthens our President's position to get Congress straight!.
hope499ers@gmail.com

Posted by Dwanda scott July 14, 2010, 11:14 am
Maybe you do not remember the listeners who helped you get to where you are today. I bet about fifteen years ago it was not white women listeners that made you as successful as you are today. It was MOORS and mostly female MOORS. I wish you and Sybil continues great success..PEACE and ALL HONORS

Posted by Dwanda scott July 14, 2010, 11:10 am
None of us is perfect and I believe there is special place in HELL for nbc’s like brown. Love white folks all you want but keep your sickening comment about the MOORS. Are there female MOORS that are BAD yes Are there male MOORS that are bad. But that crap you are promoting is uncalled for and destructive. It really makes all the other great things you all are doing meaningless. I hope my friends and I can continue to support your endeavors and we are all (so called “black women”) Moors.

Posted by Dwanda scott July 14, 2010, 11:04 am
But since he has the mic his empty headed comments are heard all over the world now why do you continue to support and broadcast that crap he spews about Moors. Since ms. brown is ugly fat over hyped he cannot act and looks like he stinks I am glad he is with white women and I am glad no Moor will have to be bothered with his stupidity. If it all is a show and pretend. I do not see the entertainment in you putting down and making derogatory statement about female Moors. I am requesting that you stop putting us down.

Posted by Dwanda scott July 14, 2010, 11:01 am
and I could stomach that cause for each his or her own. But I had to comment on his sickening put down of the female Moors. He is very much entitled to his opinion on that matter, but after all the Moors have through at the hands of the Romans I think his comment add to the distain this society have for our women. If your show was as small as it was back in the days before mr. jabrown I would not see it as so much of a problem. But you are nationally promoting his ignorance and mean remarks. WE can sometimes be our own worst enemy mr. brown has never been relevant or funny to me.

Posted by Dwanda scott July 14, 2010, 10:59 am
I know this is not the subject but I have been wanting to say this to Mr. Joyner for some time. I have listened to your show forever and I really have enjoyed the show and learned so much from you and Sybil. However I have never enjoyed mr. brown and really think you and Sybil know better than that and can do better. I am so sick of hearing about the nbc called jabrown love for white women

Posted by Striving4dgold June 9, 2010, 11:34 am
Good day Mr. Fly Jock. Can you do a story on how mortgage companies are giving customers the run around. You can instruct you listeners to post their mortgage modification horror stories on mortgagemodhorrorstories.blogspot.com. Thank you.

Posted by DavBey May 29, 2010, 11:59 am
P.S.

His choices should have been: #1. A black woman - Ann Claire Williams, #2 or #3 either Al Gore – 2000 Court Decision or Elena Kagan – 2010 Court decision. Fight Obama Fight!

Posted by DavBey May 29, 2010, 11:48 am
A voice of reason’s April 26 post is VERY fitting! His wife’s a lawyer and in college, better than he was; he should have seriously considered her. Many would’ve had an unending cry of nepotism, but we should we support US when we’re in power. Others have … to our detriment. He didn’t want THAT controversy. His 2010 State of the Union address blasted the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision. Defending the U.S. … Elena Kagan. If she is confirmed, those against her will feel uncomfortable every day having to face her and how bad their decision was. On Obama’s part, that’s how to use power!

Posted by A voice of reason April 26, 2010, 2:09 pm
Please read this article: "The Time is Ripe for an African American Woman on the American Supreme Court." The link is below. If you agree, please sign the petition, which is linked in the article. Please make your voice heard!!

http://thedailyvoice.com/voice/2010/04/it-is-high-time-for-a-black-wo-1-002626.php#comment-192951

Posted by A voice of reason April 26, 2010, 1:48 pm
Please sign a petition urging President Obama to nominate an African American woman to the Supreme Court. It's a shame that we have to resort to this, but that's life in the big city. Please sign! Time is of the essence. Thanks in advance.

And Mr. Joyner, even if you don't mention the petiition on-air, could you please keep President Obama's upcoming nomination on "Front Street"?

Please copy and paste the following link to the petition:

http://www.petition2congress.com/2/3146/it-is-high-time-black-woman-on-high-court/

Posted by Truthsayer504 April 24, 2010, 6:35 pm
Of course TJ is going to keep talking about it.... That's his job - and the job of Jesse and Al - to keep Americans of Color on the DEMOCRAT PARTY Plantation: http://files.meetup.com/1498651/Americans%20of%20Color.pdf

Read it - e-mail me about - or tell me where I'm WRONG!

Posted by MsPurple69 April 20, 2010, 2:35 pm
To you and Tavis and Oprah and all the others who can:::
STOP TALKING ABOUT IT AND BE ABOUT IT....
Your listeners are really tired of hearing about their problems and are looking to some of you to provide some type of resolution... Where is our next Martin?

Posted by K777 April 20, 2010, 2:34 pm
I need to apologize beforehand while I break the rules and pray REALLY hard I’m not booted from posting remarks [in the future,] but I posted an array of comments on my website at http://www.keeba.org/Commentary16.html.
(I hope this is not considered solicitation/advertising. Oh and I did list at least 12 of the banks.)

Let me say that I TRULY enjoyed the conference and am optimistic about the future of “Measuring the Movement.”

Posted by Saldunn April 19, 2010, 8:56 am
I want to work on the mid-term election. People need to understand that their local government is also affecting their communities. If you have a mayor or governor that is voting against the people that voted them in and the ones that they represent they need to be removed. NC needs to get rid of Richard Burr and Virginia Fox and I will help NAN to get out the vote. People need to pay attention to their community. Listen they are not expecting black folks to vote in the midterm lets prove them wrong

Posted by Angel45 April 18, 2010, 6:28 pm
I believe that schools should start taking children on trips to colleges (HBCU's) on field trips.Let them see another side of life. Let them see young people who look like them furthering their education and participating in activities. Many children only know their immediate neighborhood and that is their entire world. Let them see another side of life.Also I joined the bank recommended by W Ballantine. In my home state I bank at a credit union. I will not put my $ into any large bank until they change. With this 2nd acct I will deposit what I can every pay, even if it is just 10$.

Posted by Queenhoneybee12 April 18, 2010, 12:42 pm
whaere and what are the names of the black banks? Part of our problem as a black community is that we are not well informed on many issues in the south. who are some of the people who are leading blacks concerning black issues of the south

Posted by Queenhoneybee12 April 18, 2010, 12:28 pm
i would like to be able to see the conference on the national action network that happened this last week in it's entirity what web site can i find it on? I encourage this web site to get a video sectiion and show us all the important meetings that are going on conerning the black community . this web site is the only web site that we as blacks have and opportunity to see what happening and being said in our communities espicially in the south

Posted by Eogreene April 18, 2010, 12:21 pm
Until the actions of the major credit reporting agencies (Equifax, Experien, and Transunion) are monitored, policed, and legislated against, no amount of deposits in Black owned banks or economic empowerment will amount to a "hill of beans," because it is these organizations that determine our livelihood (where we live, bank, work, what we drive, etc.). No one ever mentions the importance or intrusion of these agencies in our daily lives. eogreene

Posted by Linda.Mack25 April 18, 2010, 12:16 pm
As Roland Martin ask what am I prepare to do. I raised children that didnt need a summer program to babysit. I raised children to get educated and not be a problem in school .I raise children and told them they go to college, military or get a job and help pay bills. But you wll not be a bum. I raise children not to be criminals and go to jail. Now Mr. Roland, I can proudly say I did contributed to the community by the Grace of God. I believe that's where it all start at home. Until that happen, We need to take responsibility.

Posted by Loralei68 April 18, 2010, 12:04 pm
There was talk on the forum this morning about depositing monies into black banks. I live in Columbus Ohio. Where are the black banks located here in this city. I am more than willing to transfer funds from my bank now to a black owned bank. Thank you

Posted by Mrs jw goldston April 18, 2010, 11:55 am
Would anyone be willing to come and help get a mentoring program started in NC. The age group I am interested in getting to is the high school students. These are the ones that graduating, that can't get into college, can't find a job because there's no jobs here. NC is seeking help. support, and advice.

Posted by Linda.Mack25 April 18, 2010, 11:39 am
We as African American will have to stop thinking the government, President Obama , and everybody is responsible for the black communities. We have to make a changes, starting at home. women stop having all these babies by different men and worrying about what free programs can babysit your kids for the summer.. Take responsibillity for your own problems.

Posted by Txsandman42 April 18, 2010, 11:30 am
Something that is not heard about very often is a black man convicted of a felon who has returned to be a good father and holding a steady job making close to 70K per year. With the screenings that these brothas are subject to, what can these men do to make an impact in this movement?

Posted by La Quinta Blackmon April 18, 2010, 11:26 am
tom,please the comment about the black banks please,cause this is with we need to do this

Posted by Airframer April 18, 2010, 11:24 am
The child support system is broken. Family court is broken. How can you say spend time with your child when the system wont let you . I think family court is keep the black family apart.

Posted by La Quinta Blackmon April 18, 2010, 11:24 am
we too stand up black people,I will!!!!!!!!!

Posted by Gernardpyton1 April 18, 2010, 11:24 am
EDUCATION! We need to stop expecting our kids to be educated be people that don't care one iota a-
bout whether they learn or not. Teachers should be fired when the students don't perform. There's no
way any other country should outperform our kids when our country has infinately more resources

Posted by Txsandman42 April 18, 2010, 11:23 am
To piggy back on Mr. Johnson's comment, we should not be adopting the "entitlement" mentality where when we've "made it" to kick our folks who haven't to the curb. So many turn to the conservative white mentality and snub their noses at where they came from. We need to revert back to the proud black nation that we were.

Posted by Detex April 18, 2010, 11:23 am
In Killeen TX the pastors are so busy getting paid and asking for personal gifts that they have forgotten they are sprt of thr community.

Posted by Gernardpyton1 April 18, 2010, 11:17 am
The tax structure also needs to be revamped. I think
it's wrong for a company to start in the US and then when it's coffers are full to move it's operations
out of the country where labor borders on piad slaves. There should be a tax on this that should make up for the jobs that leave as a result.

Posted by Txsandman42 April 18, 2010, 11:13 am
A "cocoa party" movement is just what the Dr. orders however we should include other races and listem to them as well. We all voted for President Obama and this should be for all who did and still back him. There is power in numbers.

Posted by Txsandman42 April 18, 2010, 11:10 am
Another start would be to get our young black men out to view some of these sites where homes are being built. Why can't our unemployed young people do these jobs instead of illegal immigrants (bless their hardworking hearts).

Posted by Kimmag April 18, 2010, 11:10 am
Black Americas must show respect to the President of the United States. We have leaders, newspapers, and speakers who are still saying formal Presidents Bush, Clinton and every formal president as “President” using the proper title, but when they say President Obama they address him as Obama or Barack. Wake up if we do not show respect then how do we expect others to show respect? The panelists on this show are still not addressing him as President you can say The President and everyone know you are talking about President Obama. He is the ONLY President of the USA!!!! What is the problem?

Posted by Busylady54 April 18, 2010, 11:08 am
Economic power opens doors. Open your businesses to high school students because our students need workplace competencies in order to practice their career and college readiness skills. What will businesses do to prepare our young people and empower them.

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