SisterToldJah.com
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Sister Toldjah
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I have had a few people email to ask me who I am and what my “credentials” are to make political commentary, hence this post. Some of this I have written elsewhere at places I frequent, but I’m going to put it all together here. Let me start off by saying that I am a native North Carolinan - I love this state and would recommend it to anyone who wanted to visit or live here. We’ve got everything you need: beautiful mountains, serene beaches, and tons of gorgeous countryside in between. It goes without saying that this state has many small towns which are suited for those who would choose to live far away from the hustle and bustle of big city life. But we’ve got a few nice big cities for those so inclined.
Being a native North Carolinian, you’d think that by nature I’d have always been a conservative. Well, I haven’t been. I was a liberal from age 17 to right around the time I was 22. I got most of my info from the news outlets, rather than reading anymore in depth into the issues than that, which I think is one of the reasons I would have found myself voting for Mike Dukakis in 1988 - but I was 2 months shy of being able to vote that election year. Hadn’t quite hit my 18th birthday. Not to turn this into a liberal bias piece, but at that time when every single ‘mainstream’ source out there was liberally biased, how could I not have been a liberal Democrat? I complain a lot about liberal bias in the media for that very reason: because I know how influential it can be to those who don’t research the issues much outside of what they hear in the media. Mind you, I’m not saying that liberals aren’t grounded in their beliefs, just saying that some do form their political beliefs based on what they see in the mainstream media and I was one of those people.
I spent about 5 years in college after graduating high school - 3 at a local community college where I took business classes aimlessly while trying to figure out what I wanted to do, and another 2 at a community college in a neighboring city, which had a Radio/TV broadcasting 2 year degree program I became intertested in pursuing. When I graduated from college, I looked forward to beginning my career as a DJ but the first job I landed in radio was not at a music station, but talk radio and it was conservative at that. I produced the show for our morning host who was on for 2 hours (I think at one point that was changed to 3 hours) and learned a lot from him as well - especially how to dissect the media. He was a conservative but not a hard core conservative and was willing to look at both sides of an issue. At that point, I was still in the process of transforming from a liberal to a conservative, and listening to him and reading up more on the issues completed the transformation. Eventually I hosted an afternoon talk show there for an hour, and then moved to the three hour morning slot when the guy I had been producing for went to another station. I really miss those days sometimes!
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