Mr. DelGiorno:

I am writing you from the East Nashville offices of a newly formed nonprofit community organization, FIGHTprejudice, Inc.  I personally listen to 99.7 every time I’m in the car, and I hear your show often.  Today I was extremely interested by your “Obama voice.”

The thing is, it doesn’t sound anything like him.  If you recall, earlier in his term the President was sometimes criticized for “acting white” or for having been called Barry when he was younger, for example.  It is funny to me, then, that your impression of him sounds much more like an impression of the proverbial poor, undereducated black male than of a graduate of Harvard Law and someone largely considered to be the greatest speech-maker of our time.

I called and spoke with your producer Tommy (I believe was his name) this morning, and he said that he thought your Obama voice was actually dead on.  I respectfully suggest that perhaps you should have your producer listen to an audio clip of President Obama speaking so he can learn what the President’s voice sounds like.  Many excellent example of the President’s speech writing and public speaking abilities are available on YouTube, for example here.  You may also want to refresh you memory, so as to perform a more accurate impression for your radio show.

Would love to talk to you on the air sometime.  I’ll do my best to call in next time I catch the show.


<3[FIGHT(!)prejudice],

Shawn Thomas Meerkamper

Founder, Executive Director, FIGHTprejudice, Inc.
Candidate for Doctorate of Jurisprudence, UCLA School of Law, 2013
B.A. Philosophy & Political Science, George Washington University, 2010

shawn@FIGHTprejudice.org 

“It has to be based on the belief that everyone has the capacity for the most valuable forms of experience, and on the processual belief that people can and should collectively determine the conditions of collective life. These beliefs cannot be grounded in reason, as reason is commonly understood, nor is it possible to resolve their contradictions otherwise than in practice, but that is not to say that they are arbitrary. Because the existing system of hierarchy denies their validity and frustrates their realization, we should abolish it.”  — Duncan Kennedy, The Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence, Harvard Law School, Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy.

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Michael DelGiorno is a local Nashville conservative talk radio host.