James Golden aka Bo Snerdly speaks

He had a legitimate point to make and fricked it up by overshadowing it with a stupid statement. Typical of sensational media types.

I can't express in words how disappointed I am Rush's guy's real name isn't Bo Snerdly.

I'd heard that Snerdly was black, but never seen a pic/heard an interview

Very cool.

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I can't express in words how disappointed I am Rush's guy's real name isn't Bo Snerdly.

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In the late 1980's or very early 1990's, he replaced Rush's other call screener who had the fake name Melva Snerdley. Rush made up some goofy story about how the two were cousins or something like that to make a funny bridge between the call screeners.

Rush used to do a local New York City show in the time slot before his national show. One time, some cable channel filmed that local show and broadcast it, sort of like they do with Imus. Rush had a female cohost on that show and she wore a mask that day so she wouldn't be recognized in public. For that time, the things that Rush said were pretty far out there and people were probably a little hesitant to be associated with him before his fame.

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“Isn’t it a shame that for most of black people, the good ol’ days were the days when things were segregated legally in this country?” Golden said. “That the good o’ days when there were two parent families were the norm in the black community and they were – two parent families were the norm back during segregation days. Howard University was graduating doctors and lawyers that were genuinely qualified not through affirmative action, but hard-working merit by the score. And there was this sense we’re achieving against the odds and we’re going to push and break through – all of this during the good ol’ days of segregation.

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Phil Robinson

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“I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person. Not once,” he said. “Where we lived was all farmers. The blacks worked for the farmers. I hoed cotton with them. I’m with the blacks, because we’re white trash. We’re going across the field … They’re singing and happy. I never heard one of them, one black person, say, ‘I tell you what: These doggone white people’—not a word!… Pre-entitlement, pre-welfare, you say: Were they happy? They were godly; they were happy; no one was singing the blues.”

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aren't these quotes basically saying the same thing? Yet one person is black and the other is white.

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quote:He had a legitimate point to make and fricked it up by overshadowing it with a stupid statement. Typical of sensational media types. I'm not certain what stupid statement you're referring too. He was setting a timeline and a place in history and demonstrating how black families, more often as not, succeeded even when the odds were stacked against them. I thought he made his point.

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Exactly

Snerdley is 100% correct and anyone who says otherwise is a concern troll

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Bo is RIGHT on

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Don't forget. He has actual slave blood in him.

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For many years I thought Snerdly was simply a figment of Rush's imagination.

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Some background. Rush has had many call screeners over the decades. He started referring to all of them as 'the Snerdly brothers.' He used first names for ethnicity. IE, when his screener was an Italian he was 'Mario Snerdly.' James Golden picked 'Bo' when Bo Jackson was the most popular black athlete in America.