Joe "The Black Buzzard" Madison
The fact that now svelte Joe Madison even has a radio talk show and, concomitantly, an audience that listens to him is practically unfathomable but definitely inscrutable. In the final analysis, it serves to illustrate how an abysmal dearth of radical, progressive black voices on the airwaves has stymied a revolutionary black agenda from taking hold in America with ill-informed, inarticulate relics like Madison, and to a lesser degree an utterly contemptuous Coach Butch McAdams on another Radio One property (WOLB 1010 AM), refusing to make way for young, passionate and articulate Black voices; powerful, dynamic, young activists who are forced to wait impatiently in the wings while these “elders” spin regurgitated conservative talking points into factual evidence of “progress.” Back to Madison, I started listening to him to my chagrin by happenstance a couple of years ago when he was still on WOL-AM along with Al Sharpton (though he has long since departed for greener pastures at Siriu