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rolandsmartin
@rolandsmartin
host, #RolandMartinUnfiltered daily digital show; ; CEO, Nu Vision Media, commentator, Black Information Network, international speaker
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Jul 30 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I see that @TIAreports is defending @NABJ’s decision to invite Donald Trump to speak. I could ask her some questions but she has me blocked. So y’all go ahead and RT these.

1. Tia, how did @NABJ create a panel of journalists to question Trump and not invite one male journo?
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Image If @NABJ did a panel of all men, I doubt Black women would be quiet. Answer that @TIAreports.

2. I respect @semafor, but they are barely 2 years old in October. How is @NABJ in Chicago, a city with a rich Black Press history, and not invite ANYONE from Black-owned media?
Jul 11 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Since @davidaxelrod @jonfavs are two of the loudest folks calling for @JoeBiden to drop out, I need them to answer a questions: Do either of you have any experience navigating a brokered convention? If so, please tell me how that played out, and how your party won in November? To @davidaxelrod @jonfavs: Since you want @JoeBiden to drop out, are you publicly backing @KamalaHarris as the nominee? If not, how do you deal with the loss of infrastructure already built and developed?
Oct 28, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
My Texas A&M Aggies @tamu @aggiefootball just beat the South Carolina @GamecockFB team and the winner gets to keep the “Bonham Trophy,” named for Alamo battle hero James Bonham, a native of South Carolina. No football player, especially ANY BLACK ballplayer, should EVER hold 1/4 Image this trophy or take a photo with it. And shame on former Gov and Texas A&M graduate for even commissioning this damn trophy. Why? Because the fight at the Alamo was over SLAVERY. Mexico abolished slavery in 1837, and was not happy when the Texas settlers kept expanding it. 2/4
Oct 3, 2023 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Too many of us have only listened to the last 2 minutes of MLK’s “Mountaintop” sermon on April 3, 1968 at Mason Temple in Memphis. He SPECIFICALLY called on Black people to use economic withdrawal against companies that refuse to do business with us. #BlackOwnedMediaMatters 1/11 Image What we must do today w/these ad agencies is follow MLK and @RevJJackson and “redistribute the pain.” For far too long they have been allowed to screw over Black-owned media companies. They use phrases like “brand safety” yet ads show up on @FoxNews. #BlackOwnedMediaMatters 2/11 Image
Jul 11, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
ATTENTION ALL BLACK HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETES: DO NOT sign with Texas A&M University @tamu unless they apologize and reinstate their offer to graduate Kathleen McIlroy. I’m also calling on Education @SecCardona to launch a civil rights investigation into the university. 1/4 Enough is enough. As a Black Texas A&M journalism graduate, I am appalled by what the @tamu Board of Regents has done. Texas A&M recruited a UT professor to revive its journalism program, then backtracked after “DEI hysteria” via @TexasTribune 2/4texastribune.org/2023/07/11/tex…
May 11, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
True story: When I was at @CNN, I did a segment with Heidi Phillips and another guest. We were discussing Trump. I blasted him and said anytime he comes on the air we have a crawl that says, “This is for entertainment purposes only.” EVP Ken Jautz sent me an email saying NOT 1/4 To criticize Trump when he was coming on our air. He’s still there. I often told booker Stephanie Kotuby that is was wrong for @wolfblitzer to keep interviewing Trump. I was told he always rated well. When @BarackObama gave a speech, @piersmorgan had Trump on to respond. Even 2/4
Dec 14, 2022 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
The reason you find it hard to believe is because you don’t understand the reality of Black-owned media today. First, there are VERY FEW Black-owned media who have actual reporters. That’s plural. It comes down to resources. #BlackOwnedMediaMatters 1/8 In the advertising industry, $322B is spent annually. Black-owned media gets .5% of that. That’s ALL Black-owned media. If you assess what is covered, it’s mostly sports and entertainment. And a lot of this is opinion. Not actual reporting. 2/8
Nov 17, 2022 • 19 tweets • 15 min read
I’m on a plane reading this trash @nypost article viciously attacking @TiffanyDCross. It is obviously a story planted by a so-called @msnbc source to destroy her name and reputation. But it’s a bad hatchet job. The “source” was too dumb to even realize it. I’ll explain. 1/17 First, the “source” tries to offer 6-7 reasons why @msnbc didn’t renew @TiffanyDCross contract. They allege she wanted to burn the building down; she spent lots of money on expensive hotels; wanted more office space; and on and on and on. This is LAUGHABLE. 2/17
Nov 10, 2022 • 6 tweets • 7 min read
#BlackTwitter, why give Elon $8 a month? We have six shows on the @BlkStarNetwork. Three shows in development. We want to launch 5 more next year. I am asking for $50 a year. That’s 4.19 a month; 13 cents a day. HALF of what Elon wants! Give at RolandMartinUnfiltered.com! 1/6 Since launching four years ago, 30,000 people have joined the @BlkStarNetwork #BringTheFunk Fan Club. WE can’t keep saying we want and need Black news if WE don’t fund it! I have NO millionaires/billionaires funding me. NO Black celebs cutting big checks. But we do the work! 2/6
Nov 9, 2022 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
Listen! I’m not wasting any time of these non-voting fools. Come on my TL with your anti-voting, anti @staceyabrams anti @SenatorWarnock vitriol, you’re blocked. No response. No warning. DONE. Now, let’s get to work. Let’s talk Georgia runoff. 1/6 The @GOP in Georgia did not want a repeat of 2020, so they changed the law. Instead of the runoff being 2 months away, it’s now one. The deadline to register for the runoff has PASSED. It was Monday. Again, by design! Now, let’s talk money. 2/6
Nov 7, 2022 • 7 tweets • 6 min read
Hey @MeghanMcCain, this really is a silly question you pose, and it’s one that’s based on having no understanding of the long-term impact of politics. I’m from Texas and am still registered there. @BetoORourke’s run for the US Senate did more to help Dems down ballot than 1/5 Even @BarackObama in 2008 and 2012. It’s easy to sit in Arizona @MeghanMcCain and suggest that @BetoORourke running is a waste of time & money, but you literally have no clue about the impact it has had for voter mobilization and down ballot fundraising. Same for 2/5
Oct 22, 2022 • 9 tweets • 6 min read
You can always count on dumb ass Boyce “Clout Chasin’” Watkins to run his mouth. Not only is he a failed political commentator, he even was a failure getting tenure. Sp @drboycewatkins1 let’s go. We had TWO choices in 2020: Biden or Trump. Who did YOU vote for? Come on,
Punk. 1/6 You mention Black wealth decreasing. Why, @drboycewatkins1? Was it the collapse of the housing market? That was under George W. Bush, right? Is he a Dem or a Republican? We lost 53% of Black wealth. Black homeownership was at its highest under Clinton. Is he Dem or GOP? 2/6
Oct 21, 2022 • 10 tweets • 8 min read
This has been a crazy, busy week. I was in Georgia Monday and Tuesday for @SenatorWarnock @ReverendWarnock race, and had a lot going on. But I did want to speak on these right wingers who took aim at two Black journalists in the last week, but especially @TiffanyDCross. 1/10 The attacks on @TiffanyDCross by @megynkelly and Tiff & @JoyAnnReid by @TuckerCarlson in the past week is evidence that Tiffany is successfully hitting her mark. Tiffany is hitting the right wingers with the same ferociousness they are accustomed to dishing, but not taking. 2/10
Oct 19, 2022 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
So this clueless wonder has an attitude because I called her out for LYING, then she wants to get sensitive. It’s abundantly clear that Demetra needs Hooked on Phonics as a Christmas gift because she never bothered to read the damn bill. She just sounds like a new fool. 1/4 Y’all notice how @demetrakaye wants to slam Dems, but knows damn well the @GOP doesn’t fight white supremacy. Who refused to back the @JamaalBowmanNY anti-white supremacy bill after the Buffalo massacre? The @GOP. Who opposed ridding the military of white supremacists? GOP. 2/4
Oct 8, 2022 • 5 tweets • 6 min read
Ok. I REALLY need @KillerMike to explain this. He says @GovKemp had “an effective week” with Black people. How? What’s the context? What did he do? Where did he go? @staceyabrams has gone to EVERY COUNTY in Georgia. Why should she follow him around? WHAT DID HE DO? 1/5 What did @GovKemp say to Black people this week @KillerMike? I know for a fact that @staceyabrams did events with African Americans this week. She literally met with Black business owners. The problem with this statement to @cthagod is that it lack DETAILS. 2/5
Jul 1, 2022 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
To ALL Kentucky Dems, DO NOT support this deal @POTUS @JoeBiden cut with McConnell @LeaderMcConnell. @BarackObama did the same thing in Georgia and folks like @repdavidscott blew it up. Rev. Joseph Lowery and @repjohnlewis were against it too. Obama called Lowery and told 1/4 Him that he was going to honor the deal and asked the civil rights leaders to stand with him and not criticize the deal. Lowery said that would be his only comment on it. Who told me all of this? LOWERY in a phone call. But the judicial pick was going through. Some accused 2/4
Apr 20, 2022 • 5 tweets • 5 min read
Hey @SteveDeaceShow, was Bob Enyart a man? He was a conservative talk radio show host who died of COVID. What about Tod Tucker? Another conservative talker DEAD of COVID. How about Dick Farrel? Conservative talker DEAD of COVID. Phil Valentine? Big time talker. DEAD of COVID. 1/5 Shall we go on @SteveDeaceShow? You right wing #MAGA idiots are stupid, and so are the fools who listen to you. You punks claim to be pro-life, but tell me about those conservative talkers dead due to COVID? @hermancain? Add him to the conservative talker dead of COVID list 2/5
Apr 20, 2022 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
God knows exactly what we need at the right time. I was very emotionally spent driving home tonight. My segment on the millions, or perhaps billions that @wellsfargo has cheated Black folks out of was heavy. I saluted @ericadamsfornyc and NYC for refusing to open new accounts 1/7 because of their discriminatory past AND present. I also blasted Black civil rights groups for not demanding more from the company to repay Black folks for the harm they caused. And then my producer tells me that @pastormurph William Murphy wanted me to text him. So I did. 2/7
Mar 25, 2022 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
BREAKING NEWS: Black News Channel @BNCNews staffers are angry and demanding answers after getting an email yesterday that their paychecks are being delayed. I have been inundated with phone calls, texts and emails from staffers on this issue. @bnc_ceo Princell Hair told me 1/5 15 minutes ago: “I am working hard to get people paid for the work that they’ve done.” Staffers say they have been left in the dark for nearly 24 hours as to whether they will be paid. @BNCNews is owned by billionaire @Jaguars owner Shahid Khan, who became the majority owner 2/5
Mar 24, 2022 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
These #B1 #FBA #ADOS love to call #RolandMartinUnfiltered @BlkStarNetwork a failed platform. So why keep tweeting about and posting about me? Oh, maybe because we are growing and they are mad. Boo, this is our 2021: 1/5 YouTube

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Mar 13, 2022 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
If you live in New York State, you should absolutely opposed this deal. Why in the hell would you give $1 billion in TAXPAYER money when the owner is worth $7 billion? "Buffalo Bills' billionaire owner set to get $1B in public funds for new stadium" nypost.com/2022/03/11/buf… 1/4 These taxpayer-funded @NFL stadium deals are pathetic and atrocious. They offer no real financial benefit to the city and county. This is all about an emotional attachment to a team. This is how the NFL screw cities. Owners threaten to leave and politicians get scared. 2/4