2007 Lawn Jockey Awards

(thuglifearmy.com) “When George Curry’s Emerge Magazine published its famous 1993 cover depicting US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as “Lawn Jockey for the Far Right”, he used ridicule to ignite a potent WMD — a weapon of mass discussion among African Americans that clarified black opinion on the uses to which an earlier Bush administration put its prominent black faces. In that spirit, Black Agenda Report and CBC Monitor will be at the annual Congressional Black Caucus Legislative Conference in DC this September 26 to establish a new tradition — the awarding of the “Lawn Jockey” to the three or four African American members of Congress who score lowest on the semi-annual CBC Monitor report cards. The Honorable George Curry will present the awards. It’s time to reclaim, to restart and to redeem the African American political conversation, the dialog among and about us that neither black nor white corporate media is willing to air.” (more…)