| REVIEWER | RATING & REVIEW |
 | Barabaha (0)
08/25/2007 | Too much African American glad handing i.e - 'Keep the faith, brother.' Wtf are they talking about? As an earlier blogger mentioned, this show would have been relevant 30 years ago. The tone of the show, in this day and age, seems to try to open wounds and point out inequalities where they just dont exist. This 'all black' show is racist in and of itself.
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| 1SKEETER (1)
04/08/2006 | Every time I have caught this show, it seemed to be discussing topics that have already been run into the dirt ad nausium. It is about 40 years too late, this show would have been current and relevent in 1970. It seems to be about past history more than the current social climate or events. It sounds like it could be renamed "back in the day".
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 | tavishatespeople (0)
07/31/2005 | Tavis on Tom Joyner audio commentaries shows his true feelings towards anyone who isn't the same race as Tavis.
On TV or Radio, he might put up a front. But on Tom Joyner, that's the real Tavis.
Basically, your listening to Nation of Islam spokesman Khalid Muhammad minus the anti-semitism.
If he spoke privately, he can hold any view he wants...but remember this is PUBLIC TV, using PUBLIC MONEY, paid for by ALL GROUPS, so is actually racist of them and him to force you to pay for his own designer version of Jim Crow
How about an intelligent host ( who might also be black -- or any other race ) who doesn't hold Tavis' racist views ) instead
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 | dzzy dave (0)
11/24/2004 | Tavis recently defended the Piston's melee' with the following points. 1) White NBA team owner made the stars believe that they were invincible stars and beyond reproach. Therefore, the owners are, in his words, culpable for this idiotic behavior. 2)Today's black athletes are beyond the Jackie Robinson days and trained to not take any from white people. Therefore, the melee was the result of this training.
10 steps back for blacks in America with this kind of us-against-them thinking from someone who holds himself out as an example.
Puh-leeze!
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 | BlueStateBlues (0)
11/22/2004 | Tavis engages in too much us against them shuckin' and jivin' for my taste. He's also very quick to point out if a newsmaker is white, and if a news story has any angle that involves more than one race, Tavis will shrilly defend any black point of view as if his life depended on it. He's all over the map when it comes to black-on-black issues, such as Bill Cosby's call for black men and women to take responsibility for their social actions. Tavis could not seem to form an opinion for more than a minute or two. Not my first choice for an African American NPR host.
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 | PMD (0)
08/04/2004 | Affirmative action comes to public broadcasting. This dreadfully dull talk program seems to be little more than NPR tossing a bone to the token Negro to host a show which, at least in our area, is buried during the 8-10pm hour when there are about 15 potential listeners.
NPR can do far, far better. Smiley's delivery is stilted at best, and his guests and featurettes are stereotypically NPR - which is to say compelling to about 2% of the American population.
I can't imagine a large African American audience spending time with Tavis when local African American radio personalities in larger markets offer far more compelling listening. If Ed Bradley could be convinced to do a talk show in addition to hosting his excellent jazz show, that would truly be entertaining and informative radio.
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 | Charm (0)
03/16/2004 | Tavis Smiley's NPR show allows the listener to be educated and entertained. I t addresses isues that the main stream media ignores because they do not find it relevant or it does not appeal to the ruling classes. A prime example of this is the tragedy of Haiti. If it were not for Mr. Smiley's NPR show we would not get any real coverage of the Haitian revolution.
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| Da Iberian Librarian (0)
12/16/2003 | Too much racist right-wing garbage, ie fawning tributes to Louis Farrahkan & Rev. Al.
Sometimes sounds like the Cornell West Shuck& Jive show.
It's what the White Bread NPR views as intellectual fodder for the colored set. So patronizing.
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 | reeny (3)
02/26/2003 | Tavis tells it like it is. He holds absolutely nothing back and that is what I enjoy about his show. Tavis is not afraid to ask those questions that many are afraid to ask. He is honest, straightfoward and an excellent journalist in my opinion.
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