The first time I heard the term "race card" was during the O.J. Simpson trail. Whites insisted that Simpson manipulated his race to get acquitted. In reality he manipulated his checkbook and it pissed off whites that a black man possessed the financial means to beat the state of California in court. Curiously, 15 years prior to the Simpson case, Claus von Bulow put his finances to work to avoid a guilty verdict for the same crime but in this instance everyone was fine with it. But hey, that was the '80s. Everyone was jacked up on cheap blow. We were carefree in those days.
Forget producing the race card, I don't need to see it to believe it exists. A concrete definition will suffice. In absence of one my working definition is this: Race card means when a white person makes a discriminatory remark about blacks and gets called out on it, said white person can claim blacks are being overly sensitive about race. Imagine if someone said to Elie Wiesel, "I loved Night but you Jews blew the World War Two thing way out of proportion. Admit it. Auschwitz wasn't that bad." We all agree that person would deserve a thorough slapping about the face.
Geraldine, here's a tip from your black homie, but only because I adore what you've done for the children: Discrimination and prejudice are not hard to identify. If you say something racially insensitive and someone calls bullshit on you, your immediate reaction should not be hostility. If you are defensive and you point blame elsewhere it's an automatic admission that you have not taken the time to look internally at whether or not you are acting intelligently. Furthermore, it's offensive to listen to you spout off about all the good things you've done for the coloreds as if that somehow validates the moronic statements you've made about Senator Obama.
Is the media trying to make this a two way thing. The Clintons started this, and continue in a desperate and destructive pattern of attacks against Obama. The media, including Time Magazine, make this a two way thing, when it is pretty clear that Obama has done little more than defend himself.
Whenever longtime Democrats gather to note how the chemistry and calculus of the 2008 campaign seem to favor their party this year, one or another will always add some version of the following: "Yeah, but we could screw this up before it's over."
After the past few days, the pertinent question to ask is, is the crack-up happening already? Far-fetched as it would have seemed a month ago, the seeds of self-destruction are being planted in the war of coded words about race between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. The bickering has exploded in the space of a week into Topic A in the Democratic race, supplanting for the moment the war and the economy and health care — and shows no sign of a quick resolution.
So yes, are the Democrats about to screw it up yet again?
Both campaigns are stoking this fire — and worrying at the same time about what this could do to them in the fall. They ought to be concerned: Keep this up and neither candidate may be able to marshal the votes from the various corners of the Democratic coalition that he or she will need in the fall. As pollster Andrew Kohut has noted, a party which found that it had at least two candidates who were seen as widely "acceptable" to its various factions just a few weeks ago could soon find that happy consensus has evaporated.
The mess began —as these things almost always do — in a normal tit for tat between the candidates. After Obama was poised to surge past Clinton after Iowa, Clinton charged that Obama was raising "false hopes" with his soaring rhetoric that emphasized ends over means. Obama skewered Clinton right back in New Hampshire, asking where the nation would be if both JFK — in making a manned mission to the moon a goal — or Martin Luther King Jr. (in his 1963 Lincoln Memorial speech) had instead shut down their visions and told America they were simply too hard to achieve. Delivered with humor and always to soaring applause, Obama's was a devastating rejoinder.
But then Clinton came back and, far less artfully, said that King's visions were great, but it took an experienced politician like Lyndon Johnson to get them enacted. At the very least, Clinton had equated the sometimes crass master of the legislative backroom with one of America's patron saints. (The real problem is that Clinton seemed to put LBJ on a pedestal higher than King's.) That was probably not her intention, but neither was this her best example in the deeds-not-words crusade she was on. In any case, at that point, things began to unravel.
Now we have both campaigns accusing the other of stoking the fire, of deliberately misunderstanding the other (and there is a lot of that going on, here, too) and both sides have had their various lieutenants and seconds trying to "help" explain things, which almost always makes things worse. That much was clear over the weekend, when BET founder Bob Johnson, in trying to defend the Clintons, appeared to all the world to be bringing up Obama's admitted history of drug use (Johnson later claimed he was actually referring to Obama's history as a community organizer, a laughable explanation that only dug the hole deeper.)
I have always like Jack Cafferty, and it is pretty clear that he has been moved by Obama's campaign. He was one of the first journalist I have seen to point out that this has been mostly a Clinton thing, while Wolf Blitzer appears to fall all over himself trying to make this a 50/50 thing.
Jack wrote an excellent piece on the subject on his blog:
For one brief moment after Barack Obama won the Iowa caucuses, it looked like we might have actually outgrown our petty racial bickering in this country.
It didn’t matter that Obama had run a dignified, intelligent campaign without so much as the mention of race. The people who have an interest in keeping the country divided along racial lines couldn’t wait to get started. Do you realize how many morons would go through the rest of their lives ignored and irrelevant if we could ever get over the racial garbage?
Now the racial fires are burning brightly once again.
The last two days, we’ve seen the Obama and Clinton camps embroiled in accusations that are steeped in race. Hillary Clinton is defending her recent remarks on civil rights. She’s suggesting that Obama’s campaign distorted what she said in an effort to inject race into the contest.
For his part, Obama has dismissed Clinton’s suggestion, saying “the notion that somehow this is our doing is ludicrous.” Obama is also describing her earlier comments about the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. as “unfortunate” and “ill-advised.”
The Clintons find themselves in unusual territory here, when you consider that Bill Clinton was once dubbed “America’s first black president.”
I was one of Bill Clinton's biggest supporters, and while I never went to far as to call him "The first black president," I did believe that Clinton had a special affinity for African Americans. Now as I look back across the years, I realize that that was all a bit of careful imaging. Bill is one of those individuals, and it is proven by his fairy tale comment, who is fine with Black Folk as long as they dont try and rise above their station.
Hillary will likely win the nomination, and she will get STOMPED by whoever survives the Republican wars. You see, Republicans are real good at the same kind of Piolitics that Hillary is playing right now, HELL you might even say theyinvented it.
I had hoped that this would not happen, and that Obama would not get dragged into this kind of conversation. The big news now is about old school politics and how the Clintons especially will use surrogates, especially BLACK ones, to try and plant the seeds of doubt about Obama.
Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama have become embroiled in racially tinged disputes as large numbers of black voters prepare to get their first say in the Democratic presidential campaign.
The candidates and their surrogates are heating up their rhetoric, and it could prove to be combustible beyond South Carolina's Jan. 26 primary.
Clinton, on defense over comments that she and her husband made regarding Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy and Obama's fitness for the White House, tried to turn the tables on her top primary rival. She accused his campaign of looking to score political points by distorting their words.
Hillary Clinton had said King's dream of racial equality was realized only when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, while Bill Clinton said Illinois Sen. Obama was telling a "fairy tale" about his opposition to the Iraq war. Black leaders have criticized their comments, and Obama said Sunday her comment about King was "ill-advised."
"I think it offended some folks who felt that somehow diminished King's role in bringing about the Civil Rights Act," he told reporters on a conference call. "She is free to explain that, but the notion that somehow this is our doing is ludicrous."
As evidence the Obama campaign had pushed the story, Clinton advisers pointed to a memo written by an Obama staffer compiling examples of comments by Clinton and her surrogates that could be construed as racially insensitive. The memo later surfaced on some political Web sites.
"This is an unfortunate story line the Obama campaign has pushed very successfully," the former first lady said Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press." "I don't think this campaign is about gender, and I sure hope it's not about race."
Clinton taped the show before appearances in South Carolina, where at least half the primary voters are expected to be black. On Monday, she planned to attend a union event honoring King's legacy in New York City.
But no sooner had Clinton said she hoped the campaign would not be about race than it got even more heated. A prominent black Clinton supporter, Black Entertainment Television founder Bob Johnson, criticized Obama and seemed to refer to his acknowledged teenage drug use while introducing Clinton at her next event.
"To me, as an African-American, I am frankly insulted the Obama campaign would imply that we are so stupid that we would think Hillary and Bill Clinton, who have been deeply and emotionally involved in black issues — when Barack Obama was doing something in the neighborhood; I won't say what he was doing, but he said it in his book — when they have been involved," Johnson said.
We may have a Black President BEFORE we have a a dozen black coaches at major Division IAA schools...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- When Ohio State and LSU face off in the BCS championship game Monday night, some of the best on the field will be black players.
Glenn Dorsey. Beanie Wells. Kirston Pittman. Brian Robiskie. Early Doucet. Vernon Gholston.
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Then check out the sidelines. They might as well put out a "Whites Only" sign for the guys running the teams.
College football is stuck in a time warp, stubbornly hanging on to a segregated system that largely keeps minorities from landing the top coaching jobs.
Oh sure, every school has at least one or two black coaches on its staff, but they are generally limited to anonymous position jobs such as running backs coach or secondary coach -- spots that tend to have a large number of minority players.
"Ever since I've been in coaching, there's been that frustration ... of not feeling like you can reach the pinnacle of your career in terms of being a head coach," said LSU assistant head coach Larry Porter.
With another hiring season nearly complete, college football is left with just six black coaches among the 119 schools in the NCAA's top division -- the same number as this season.
Go back and do the math... How many black Division IAA coaches have been shit canned in recents years after only a couple of mediocre seasons??? Now what was the record of Charlie Weis at Notre Dame this year???
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) -- James Ford Seale, a reputed Ku Klux Klansman, was sentenced Friday to three life terms in prison for his role in the 1964 abduction and murder of two black teenagers in southwest Mississippi.
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama (news, bio, voting record) on Friday questioned the way some rappers talk about women in songs, saying the lyrics are similar to the derogatory language used by embattled radio host Don Imus.
They are "degrading their sisters. That doesn't inspire me," Obama said of some hip-hop artists when a man in a crowd of about 1,000 questioned him. The Illinois senator was responding to a question of what inspired him, and said God and civil rights activists.
Earlier this week, Obama criticized Imus, who was fired Thursday for labeling the Rutgers women's basketball team "nappy-headed hos."
"I do think we've seen a coarsening of the culture," Obama said in an interview with The Associated Press after the town hall meeting. As a constitutional lawyer, Obama said he was a free speech advocate.
"But just because you can say something doesn't mean you should say something," he said. "And I think that we have not talked enough about the harmful images and messages that are sent."
He said as a parent it was a constant struggle to reinforce his two daughters' sense of self-esteem.
"I think that all of us have become a little complicit in this kind of relaxed attitude toward some pretty offensive things," Obama said. "And I hope this prompts some self-reflection on the part of all of us."
And it's about time it be said. THE REAL, "Nappy Headed Hos," are people like this:
Snoop Dogg and others like him have been tearing down African American women for years. You look at this ignorant assed video and tell me why Nelly and Snoop and others have gotten a free ride?
Some defenders of rap music and hip-hop culture, such as the pioneering mogul Russell Simmons, deny any connection between Imus and hip-hop. They describe rap lyrics as reflections of the violent, drug-plagued, hopeless environments that many rappers come from. Instead of criticizing rappers, defenders say, critics should improve their reality.
"Comparing Don Imus' language with hip-hop artists' poetic expression is misguided and inaccurate and feeds into a mindset that can be a catalyst for unwarranted, rampant censorship," Simmons said in a statement Friday.
The superstar rapper Snoop Dogg also denied any connection to Imus. "(Rappers) are not talking about no collegiate basketball girls who have made it to the next level in education and sports," he told MTV.com. "We're talking about hos that's in the 'hood that ain't doing - that's trying to get a n - for his money."
Simmons and Mr. Dogg are either delusional, liars or idiots. And I don't think they are idiots. They are the real hos... the ones who have sold out their culture and the dignity of black people in general by creating the modern version of a minstrel show for the majority white buying public who patronizes hip hop music. Simmons helped create the genre, Snoop popularized it, and was a pioneer of the clown like antics and images rappers have created of urban youth. They are the hos, because they have indeed prostituted our women and our culture.
Yeah, I for one hope that this leads to the complete de-legitimization of THUG hip hop. I would like to see black people start to disassociate themselves from artist whether they be Hip Hop, or Chris Rock...
We can slam Imus, define Richards, whatever.... Racism is still with us, at least in part because WE create and perpetuate the image... I leave you with this...
I swore to myself I was going to let this drop, but after hearing the statement “national dialogue about race” multiple times on Hardball and then again in the first few minutes of Countdown, I can’t restrain myself.
I know some of you are under the grand delusion that this is the greatest thing for civil rights and the African-American community since OJ was acquitted, but it really is no victory for anyone involved. For those of you who are too dim to figure this out, here is what happened:
A grumpy, surly, and flawed man, but not the total monster that some are now trying to make him out to be (he really didn’t shoot MLK, DU readers), who had a history of making borderline and overtly racist or sexist statements for dozens of years made another offensive statement that in past years would never have raised even an eyebrow. His only flaw this time was his target- a bunch of young women who really did not deserve to be smeared, and whom he has apologized repeatedly to and I believe honestly feels bad for insulting. Otherwise it was business as usual at Imus in the Morning.
The girls have been turned into victims, blowing the insult completely and totally out of proportion, and have been taught a hideous lesson- that being a victim is a good thing. My sisters, had they been called a ho by anyone, would have flipped them the bird and then gone back to work. Instead, we are regaled with tales that the girls have been scarred for life or their careers have been hampered. Lunacy, in other words.
Enter the professional race pimps. While unwilling and unable to apologize for their role in villainizing three young men for the past year as rapists and racists, Jackson and Sharpton ratcheted up the outrage machine, and applied enough economic pressure to get the man fired for his insults. And let’s pause for just a moment- which is worse? Which would you rather happen to your child- some jackass in poorly advvsed and disgusting banter casually calls your daughter a “nappy-headed ho,” or the entire mainstream media spends a year naming your son, villainizing him, calling him a rapist, and demanding that he be put in jail or worse. If you answer the former, Child Protective Services should come take your child away.
That doesn’t excuse Imus’s remarks, but what chafes me the most is the bullshit insincerity in this whole escapade. Everyone knew what they were getting with Imus- he delivered precisely what people paid for, and advertisers, pundits, authors, politicians were all fine with it. Hell, AL FUCKING SHARPTON was fine with it, because Imus is the one who, in large part, rehabilitated Al after he was found guilty for his far worse race-baiting and smearing in the Tawana Brawley episode. You all probably forget that- I don’t. Imus mainstreamed him, having him as a guest frequently.
Now that part about Sharpton, I did not know... The rest... Outstanding stuff.
I have to admit I have been conflicted over the whole thing. I felt he should have been fired the same day he said the shit, especially the jiggaboo thing. But having watched all the coverage and learning a bit more about Imus, I am not so sure.
As to Sharpton and Jackson... two attention "hos" who dont realize that they have no real relevance, other than what the mainstream media gives them in "appointing," them as "black leaders."
A tale of two scandals.... And Conservative Hypocrisy
Okay, so the Duke boys were exonerated. I have no problem admitting that I thought they were guilty as sin. They were not, I have apologized for my error, and wish them well.
And I pretty much agree with this one too, even though I doubt that if it had been a white woman accusing a black athlete of rape, that the woman's name would be all over the newspaper like that... Do we even know that woman's name?
But that is the nature of racism in our beloved country.
We have a group of beautiful and intelligent young black women, who happen to be athletes. They are shamelessly attacked by a popular radio host, with the worst kind of sexist and racist dribble, and our friends on the conservative side want to make the debate about Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton.
Eh, its not about either guy, and I would expect the Family Values bunch, to be defending womanhood and respect and all that...
Imus was fired for a reason. His comments were inexcusable. I dont doubt he was a good man, his charity work demonstrates that. I personally think if he would have stepped up as soon as the blunder was exposed, apologized, offered to make a donation to the athletic program of Rutgers, whatever... he may have survived.
Regardless of all of that. I am just amazed at how my conservative friends can wring their hands and cry over the Duke Case, (A case where a bunch of boys admittedly hired a couple of strippers and had a rowdy assed party), NOT EXACTLY examples of family values or virtues... While they ignore the pain inflicted on a bunch of innocent 18 year old women, in order to take a shot at a couple of not highly relevant "black leaders."
Jackson lost most of his credibility with the affair that was exposed a couple of years ago. Sharpton, while entertaining and smart, is an entertainer... It would be nice to see conservatives, especially conservative WOMEN, to be a little more concerned about the young women who were impacted by Imus' statements, rather than simply looking at this as an opportunity to criticize and "expose," a couple of black guys who are fighting to stay relevant in the face of Obamaism...
Of course the racism is pretty thinly disguised, these are people who are still trying to make Obama a clandestine Muslim.
It seems that Katie's staff has decided to join the Fox News slander of Barack Obama (I believe that's the liberal talking point phrase used to describe the reports, based on interviews with childhood friends and acquaintances) and repeat that he "prayed in mosques" as a child. And he prayed in Catholic churches, but it wasn't "serious" prayer.
Sorry Jay ole buddy, it was in the MOSQUE where the prayer was not serious. You need to listen to that one again.
After the VERY YOUNG women's basketball team from Rutgers University, responded to his remarks...
PISCATAWAY, New Jersey (CNN) -- The captain of the Rutgers women's basketball team said Tuesday that she and her fellow players will meet with radio host Don Imus in the near future.
"We just hope to come to some type of understanding of what the remarks really entailed, his reasons why they were said," Essence Carson said at a news conference. "And we'd just like to express our great hurt, the sadness that he has brought to us."
The team broke its silence Tuesday on the controversy that has raged since Imus called the players "nappy-headed hos" last week.
Coach C. Vivian Stringer praised the accomplishments and character of the team members, five of whom are freshmen.
"Before you are valedictorians of their class, future doctors, musical prodigies, and yes, even Girl Scouts," she said. "They are young ladies of class, distinction, they are articulate, they are brilliant, they are gifted. They are God's representatives in every sense of the word."
Stringer described the underdog team's hard work to bounce back from defeats early in the season.
"Ultimately, they ended up playing for the national championship," she said. "No one believed in them but them."
I agree with a lot of the pundits, that Imus has apologized enough... No amount of apologizing will make up for what he said... But the ladies of the Scarlet Knight Basketball Program made Imus and his idiot producer look like the morons that they are...
For me, this whole thing just provides further evidence of the racism that still lies at the heart of our society.
Seems the conservative types are really starting to show their truecolors when it comes to Barak Obama. How many lives have been lost in Baghdad in the last week, month, six months? Does the electricity run 24/7? Is Iraq safer than when we entered the war? How do YOU define wasted. I am sorry, but I take nothing away from the sacrifice of our troops when I say, "This war has been a disaster unparalleled in the history of our country, and if return for sacrifice is any measure of whether our soldiers lives were, "wasted," or not, I would say they were wasted, and all the spin and Conservative Bullshitista rhetoric in the world, will not change that fact...
In any human endeavour there is always a chance of error and this is an unfortunate consequence. Therefore it should come as no surprise when stories concerning ethnic profiling of the wrong person happen. This is especially so when western transport systems are at a high and sustained level of threat from Islamists. However no amount of rationalizing can be comfort to the innocent who are caught up in the "dragnet".
John Cerqueira a U.S. citizen of Portugeuse ancestry has been award $400,000 in compensation by an American court. Mr. Cerqueira was deemed a security threat by American Airlines removed from a flight and refused a place on any other American Airlines flight.
I love the fact that AA, which used to be my favorite airline, back in the day... had to take it up the touche on this one. It's about time. Since when did "looking like one ethnicity or another," entitle a business to deny you service.
To an imperfect man, with a perfect dream... May you rest in peace Dr. King, you mattered then, and you matter now! Your dream, while not complete, lives in all of us...
Update: It looks like David Scott Anderson -the biggest racist in the blogosphere- finally admitted he was wrong. He's still a racist but at least he got something right.
I'm just waiting for that idiot to ADMIT he is ever wrong. Fat Chance...
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NIGGERS ARE AND WILL ALWAYS BE NIGGERS!!!!
The most important lesson, for those who have wit enough to learn it, is that niggers are by nature savages, and that nature cannot be changed by window-dressing or persiflage. No one doubts the unalterability of inherent instincts in other animals. Chimpanzees, for example, may be taught to wear clothing, understand commands, ride bicycles, smoke cigarettes, and even to act as nursemaids to children (if well paid for their services in bananas). They recognize that they must be obedient to their masters, but everyone knows that if bands of chimpanzees were free from control, they would behave with the ferocity you may have glimpsed for a moment or two if you watched the National Geographic's video-tape about them, filmed by Jane Goodall.
The simple fact is that all pure-blooded Congoids and most other niggers are innately savages and can never be anything else. First-generation mulattos, the result of miscegenation, a crime that would be stringently prohibited if tender-hearted humanitarians had any sense of pity, are almost invariably savages, but may inherit some White instincts and thus be condemned to suffer an incurable schizophrenia throughout their wretched lives. In quadroons occasionally and octoroons frequently the White elements may dominate and produce individuals capable of civilization instead of mimicking it when expedient. A few, indeed, are highly intelligent, as witness Lawrence Dennis, who was one of the victims of Franklin Roosevelt's premature attempt to begin ruling by terror in imitation of his model, Lenin, and his fellow conspirator, Stalin. A rational and compassionate American, however, would have thought it pathetic that so intelligent and courageous a man as Dennis had to be almost childishly proud that he could entertain acquaintances in the Harvard Club, aware, of course, of the indelible genetic blot on his being.
With the stated exceptions, niggers are savages and you should understand that you can never understand them, except as you understand cheetahs or cuttlefish, by observing their behavior. All missionaries and other gospel-venders pretend, and simple-minded ones actually believe, that niggers can be transformed by dousing them in holy water and giving them sips of Jesus-juice, but that is sheer nonsense, as No묠Hunt puts succinctly, "A white man can no more think like a black than he can think like a bee."
Like all anthropoids, the savages can be taught patterns of behavior by persons who have authority over them, and, since they are capable of speech, they are more adaptable than chimpanzees. They can be taught to speak a recognizable English, wear currently fashionable clothes, drive automobiles, and perform almost any simple act that will win them a reward--even one that is deferred for some little time--and to avoid performing acts that will certainly be punished, sooner or later. (This is a marked difference from, e.g., dogs, who, as you know, must be rewarded or punished at the time of the act, for there is no way of communicating to them the meaning of a deferred reward or punishment. The same is true of chimpanzees.) Under competent supervision, niggers can perform useful work, and many can be taught to perform tasks that require some continuous attention and a fairly high degree of skill. Many, like all domesticated animals (especially dogs and horses), can become attached to their masters and take pride in serving them. And our enemies can teach them to yell for unearned rewards and privileges that White nitwits think themselves obliged to bestow on what they imagine the savages to be. And it is likely that, as has been verified by observation of American Indians, the Congoids' nervous systems perceive pain and pleasure in ways that differ greatly from the comparable reactions of Aryans.
Savages are incapable of civilization, for the same reason that tigers are incapable of becoming vegetarians. Savages, however, being innately treacherous, have a well developed capacity for simulation when it is to their advantage to employ it. Some anthropologists believe that the savages could, if left alone, evolve biologically and become capable of founding or inwardly appreciating a civilization in ten thousand years or so. Under coercion, they might develop a sense of civilization more quickly, perhaps in two or three thousand years.
If our race finds it profitable or otherwise worthwhile to impose a measure of civilization on savages, it can bestow on them great benefits, according to our scale of values. But you must always remember what Dr. Albert Schweitzer, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1952 for his efforts to improve conditions in Africa, learned by bitter experience and stated clearly in a memorable passage of which an American newspaper, if we had any instead of the Jews' liepapers, would continually remind its readers:
'I have given my life to try to alleviate suffering among Africans. There is something that white men who have lived there, as I have, must have learned and know: that those people are a sub-race.'
'They have neither the intellectual and mental nor the emotional abilities to equate themselves or share equally with white men in any of the functions of our civilization.
I have given my life to try to bring to them the advantages which our civilization must offer, but I have become well aware that we must preserve our status: whites are the superior, and they the inferior race. For whenever a white man seeks to live among them as their equal, they will destroy him and all his work.
And so for any lasting relationship or any benefit to this people, let white men from anywhere in the world who would come to help Africans remember that they must continually maintain this status: you are the master and they the inferiors, like children that you would help or teach.
Never fraternize with them or accept them as your social equals, or they will devour you, they will destroy you.'
The indisputable facts that Dr. Schweitzer courageously stated, sacrificing the favor he had enjoyed from our enemies and their dupes, were, of course, known to the World Destroyers when they began their gradual and cleverly accelerated work to stir up the savages by telling them they had "rights" they must assert, while at the same time paralyzing the minds of the American boobs by convincing them they had a Christian duty to deny themselves something they wanted in order to subsidize and pamper the "underprivileged" savages. In a nation that was already suffering from the egalitarian psychosis and had given the savages the "right" to vote, the work of calculated subversion was easily carried out and not even noticed by the boobs who are to be herded to extinction.
Apparently sent from an IP address in China.... The amazing stupidity of these people... For those who think Racism is dead.... Think again...
"I'm tired of the insinuations about Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) because his dead father was a Muslim. I'm tired of the insinuations about his middle name "Hussein," and the racist/bigoted insinuations that I've seen on the Right that flow from there. I'm even tired of the assertion that the senator isn't even really a black American (whatever that means to a group of people who are demonstrably of mixed-race for the most part) because he has a white mother and a non-American black i.e. African father and, yes, since his father and my [atheist] father were/are of the same tribe and nationality, I take that last bit of information quite personally. Like me, Senator Obama wasn't even raised by his biological father and, though he had an Indonesian step-father who was probably a Muslim, he says that he is a Christian. And, like me, Obama has been long interested in knowing more about his heritage--probably since, like me, Obama was born and raised here in our beloved USA with a zero amount of it, outside of our middle and surnames. And, unlike most black Americans, the senator and I are blessed enough to know at least some part of our African heritage--something that is very prized among the mostly slave-descended black American population.....Well, guess what. I was raised as a Muslim also. My mother and (black American) step-father subscribed to the creed of the Nation of Islam back in the day. And like Obama, I went to a Muslim school for longer than he did.....But things change. Both my mom and my step-dad are now Bible-believing Christians, as am I. Dad is now even a Methodist pastor. However, I wonder whether our conversions will be questioned as Senator Obama's is being even now by [Debbie] Schlussel, who calls the senator's middle name 'a Muslim name.'"
Juliette Ochieng, conservative Republican blogger of partial Kenyan descent, on bigotry by conservatives.
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a political and social protest campaign started in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama intended to oppose the city's policy of racial segregation on its public transit system. The ensuing struggle lasted from December 5, 1955 to December 21, 1956 and led to a United States Supreme Court decision that declared the Alabama and Montgomery laws requiring segregated buses unconstitutional.
The protest was triggered by the arrest of African American seamstress Rosa Parks on December 1, 1955. She was charged for violating racial segregation laws in Montgomery, Alabama after refusing to give her seat on a bus to a white man.
Wikipedia - Montgomery Bus Boycot
Shamefully, 50 years later, racism continues to be a problem in America. If you doubt that statement, read this transcript from CNN. I watched, "Out in the Open: Racism in America," last night, and I was not encouraged.
Racism is the open sore of America. It still exist, though it has went somewhat underground. I applaud Zahn and CNN for focusing on this issue. 50 years ago, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus. Mrs. Parks was no revolutionary, she was a simple woman who was just tired and did not see the justice in giving up her seat. She started a revolution, a revolution that createdmanymartyrs.
Today, 50 years later, things have improved for African Americans in the United States. But problems remain, as the Zahn program so graphically illustrated. So many people want to forget the past. They want to pretend that things are all good. I say to them, "walk a mile in my skin," and tell me that.
I am a successful black man. I have traveled the world, educated myself, speak two languages fluently and have far surpassed the accomplishments of my parents. But I have been called a Nigger. I have felt the sting of discrimination and I have suffered the consequences...
Heroes like Dr. King, Mrs. Parks and the fallen Civil Rights workers, made it possible for my success, by opening doors that were once closed and bolted against me... I sometimes ask myself if 40-50 years later, they would be satisfied with the progress we have made... While I think they would be pleased, but I also think they would still be walking the lines, knowing that while battles have been won, the war is not over.
God Bless the heroes, and let us never forget their sacrifice!
I just dont see this as that big of a deal. Now if the cop asked them to do a minstral show or something.... I know I am going to get blasted by some of my bros for this one... But I think the cop was being nice. Two young cats who look like rappers. Hehe... Anyway, I have seen a lot worse out of police officers. A LOT worse...
Which has some incredible commentary on the subject.
Indeed, this may be remembered as Richards' "Mel Gibson Moment" except for one difference. Gibson was drunk when he displayed his anti-semitism (no excuse). Richards was merely angry (no excuse). Tony Hicks notes:
It was all squeamishly bizarre. And — because this was a public figure spewing hate in a public place — somebody needs to do some honest explaining.
The concept of the celebrity breakdown isn't new, but Richards, and Mel Gibson's anti-Semitic rant earlier this year, have taken it to a new, strange place. After all, this isn't a spaced-out Mariah Carey handing out popsicles on MTV in 2001, before doing a brief striptease and saying, "I just want one day off when I can go swimming and eat ice cream and look at rainbows."
Nor is it a drugged-up Robert Downey Jr. breaking into a neighbor's house to take a little nap. Like we all haven't done that.
There have been some classics, but most of them made us chuckle, not wince....But this is different. As a white-Euro man, I have no clue about the feelings generated by some idiot-celebrity telling a black man, before a room full of people, that he deserves lynching. And Richards, even if flees to the old "snapping-under-pressure" defense, deserves further calling out. It's seems an unnecessary reminder, but celebrities aren't the people they play. Period. So why is it so shocking to see them act like jerks?
But the race issue makes this worse for Richards. We're not allowed to talk about race in this country. Everyone is afraid of offending by asking honest questions, or giving honest opinions. Comedians blur the line further, especially with the so-called "N" word. Dave Chappelle uses it, and we fall of our chairs laughing. Of course, being a matter of context, it's funny.
Even a white guy could possibly get away with it, if done in the proper context. However Richards was going after two guys personally, going so far as to remind them we used to lynch them not long ago.
Maybe Richards needs a fork in his (expletive). If nothing else, to see if his career is cooked.
Hicks is correct: there will be spin, and Richards is already appearing with Jerry Seinfeld on David Letterman to offer a profuse apology.
"For me to be at a comedy club and flip out and say this crap, I'm deeply, deeply sorry," he said during a taping of David Letterman's "Late Show."
"I'm not a racist. That's what's so insane about this."
But, in the longrun, it probably won't do him much good. The toothpaste is out of the tube and it's hard to get it back in again.
Read the second link. It's about as good as it gets in addressing this story. Richards is a Racist... A weird one, but nevertheless, a Racist. No amount of support from Seinfeld is going to change that. I don't think the guy's career is over. This will pass, and he will find work. But he will never be the beloved idiot we all grew to love, again...
"Comedian Michael Richards, known to millions as Seinfeld's Cosmo Kramer, is about to become known for another point in his career. In a story emerging from the overnight hours, reports find Richards shouting racial slurs at comedy club hecklers."
Whatever....
I never liked Sienfeld anyway. The guy is nothing more than a cheap Harold Lloyd or Charlie Chaplin wannabee, and a no talent RACIST one to boot!
And lastly, Racism is alive and well in America.... Just read the justifications (In the comments), for his ridiculous behavior.
I checked out the video on TMZ, it was pretty heinous. Of course all the Klosett Klansmen are dragging out the, "Chris Rock says Nigger all the time," meme. Again whatever... My mama always taught me that being a, "nigger," had nothing to do with color, and everything to do with class. Richards is a Nigger classless idiot!
Andrew Sullivan has this to say about Karl Rove's Anti Gay Marriage strategy...
Check out this exit poll analysis of the first anti-gay-union amendment to fail. It's from Arizona. You find some obvious data that bear out what we already know. Women are marginally more in favor of gay unions than men - but it's not that big a gender gap. Men split 50-50. Women broke 53 - 47 against a constitutional ban. The under-30s voted against the amendment by a whopping 61 to 39 percent. I expect in a decade or so that many of these amendments will be repealed by similar margins. Education is a key indicator of being anti-gay or not. Those with dropped out of high school favored the amendment by a huge 65 to 35 percent. Those who graduated college opposed it by a narrow margin. Post-grads were overwhelmingly opposed.
The only ethnic group to favor the amendment by a large margin was black, by 61 - 39 percent. Karl Rove's attempt to peel off a few black votes by gay-bashing was not stupid. It was based on the data. African-Americans are easily the ethnic group most hostile toward gay rights. The reasons may have more to do with education and class than race.
Eh..... WRONG! It has nothing to do with education or class, and I invite Andrew to spend some time in the Inner City that he seems to think he understands... Inner City Blacks, of which I was one of them, tend to be very conservative when it comes to homosexuality, for religious reasons. Most blacks, practicing or no, are protestants, the vast majority Southern Baptist. Despite the fact that I am supportive of Gay Rights, I was taught from early on that homosexuality was wrong. And race does come into play, in ways far more complex than Mr. Sullivan can understand.
Gay black men have always been looked at as WEAK, effeminate, contrary to the image Black men seek of being strong and masculine. Gay black men have been seen as self castrators, weaklings, and collaborators with racist in our country who seek to intellectually, if not physically castrate our men. Andrew, I respect your writing, but in this case you are wrong, and you are in fact perpetuating a racist myth...
Ace and Booman get it mostly right, although Ace goes off on his own tangent about the evils of Liberalism, and patronization, yada yada...
The bottom line is that Sullivan is wrong, and perhaps non intentionally racist in his own proclamation...
I just received this from one of my fraternity brothers this morning... Well worth passing on! Thanks Greg for sharing.
A friend came to my dorm room just to chat while her laundry was drying. As we were chatting, two young freshman came by. One of the boys wanted to "talk" to my friend (as in date). She asked him how old they were, and both of the boys replied 18. My friend and I both laughed hysterically because we are both 22 years old. After my friend left the young men were still hanging around and he wanted to know how he could gain the interest of her.
The first thing I told him to do was to pull up his pants. He asked why, then said he like saggin' his pants. I told him to come over to my computer and spell the word saggin'. Then I told him to write the word saggin' backwards.
S-A-G-G-I-N
N-I-G-G-A-S
I told him the origin of that look was from prison. Men in prison wore their pants low when they were spoken for. The other reason their pants looked like that was because they were not allowed to have belts because prisoners were likely to try to commit suicide.
We as young black people have to be the ones to effect change. We are dying. The media has made a mockery of the Black American. Even our brothers and sisters from Africa don't take us seriously. Something as simple as pulling up your pants and standing with your head high could make the biggest difference in the world's perception of us. It is time to do right by ourselves. We need to love and embrace each other. No one is going to do for us.
It all comes down to perception. What people perceive, is what is reality to them. We have to change not only the media's perception of us, but we need to change the perception of ourselves. Remember all eyes are on you Black Man. All eyes are on you Black Woman. All eyes are on you Black Child. People are waiting for us to mess up. We have let not only the media, but the government and the world taint the pure essence of us. They have stripped our culture down to the point where we only believe we can become rappers and sports athletes. We are so much more.
To all my black men,
Its time to stand up. There are billions of Black Women who want to do nothing more than worship the ground that you walk on. We are so in love with your potential. We want to have your back, we want to love, support and cherish every ounce of your being. But with that you have to show that you are willing to be the head of our households. You have to prove yourselves worthy of our submission. We need you to be hard working...Not a hustler. We need you to seek higher education, to seek spirituality. We need you to stand! And trust us, we will have your back. We know that it gets hard, we know you get weary. Trust and believe that there is nothing that a Black Woman and a Black Man can't handle with God on their sides.
To all my Black Women:
It is also time for us to stand up. It is time for us to stop using our bodies as our primary form of communication. It is time to be that virtuous woman that Proverbs spoke of. We can not sit by the way side, while our men our dying by the masses. We are the epitome of Black Love. It starts within us. We need to speak with conviction to let not only our Black Men know, but the world know that we are the Mother's of this world. We are so powerful. We are so beautiful. We need to love and embrace every blessing God has given us physically emotionally and spiritually.
For all My Black Children:
We need to love them. We need to teach them. We need to stand up for them. We need to protect them. We need to show them that there is no "get rich quick." We need to tell them that they WILL die trying if the submit to a life of crime and deceit. We need to teach our children to that no one will love them the way we can. And being a basket ball player or a rapper is not reality, its not realistic and a small percentage of people ever make it that far. We need to teach our children that we can be better than the rappers and athletes. We can be the owners of these sports teams, we can be the CEO's of our fortune 500 companies. We need to believe in literacy. I am almost certain if we were to look back to the 1930's and 40's, the literacy rates for Black American Children are probably still the same.
Continues to support these people... To my Sisters and Brothers in the Rightsphere, how can you sit still for this shit?
I want to call on every DECENT American to look at this... To understand the absolute scummyness of these people. Failing to do that, I ask... And you know who you are? HOW, Why... How can you look at yourself in the mirror and know, this is the party you support.
Why are the contributions of black soldiers so often forgotten?
For some reason, this story does not surprise me.... That Clint Eastwood neglected to portray blacks as participants at Iwo Jima, does... Clint is not known as a racist, and is in fact well respected by Blacks in Hollywood, especially after producing movies like Bird. I am willing to cut him some slack on this one. Fact is, the omission may just help to bring some acknowledgment to Black Veterans of WWII.
Nearly 900 African-Americans fought on the Japanese
island but not one appears in Clint Eastwood's Oscar-
tipped film, writes Dan Glaister
On February 19 1945 Thomas McPhatter found himself on a
landing craft heading toward the beach on Iwo Jima.
"There were bodies bobbing up all around, all these
dead men," said the former US marine, now 83 and living
in San Diego. "Then we were crawling on our bellies and
moving up the beach. I jumped in a foxhole and there
was a young white marine holding his family pictures.
He had been hit by shrapnel, he was bleeding from the
ears, nose and mouth. It frightened me. The only thing
I could do was lie there and repeat the Lord's prayer,
over and over and over."
Sadly, Sgt McPhatter's experience is not mirrored in
Flags of Our Fathers, Clint Eastwood's big-budget,
Oscar-tipped film of the battle for the Japanese
island. While the battle scene's in the film - which
opens today in the US - show scores of young soldiers
in combat, none of them are African-American. Yet
almost 900 African-American troops took part in the
battle of Iwo Jima, including Sgt McPhatter.
The film tells the story of the raising of the stars
and stripes over Mount Suribachi at the tip of the
island. The moment was captured in a photograph that
became a symbol of the US war effort. Eastwood's film
follows the marines in the picture, including the
Native American Ira Hayes, as they were removed from
combat operations to promote the sale of government war
bonds.
Mr McPhatter, who went on to serve in Vietnam and rose
to the rank of lieutenant commander in the US navy,
even had a part in the raising of the flag. "The man
who put the first flag up on Iwo Jima got a piece of
pipe from me to put the flag up on," he says. That,
too, is absent from the film.
"Of all the movies that have been made of Iwo Jima, you
never see a black face," said Mr McPhatter. "This is
the last straw. I feel like I've been denied, I've been
insulted, I've been mistreated. But what can you do? We
still have a strong underlying force in my country of
rabid racism."
Melton McLaurin, author of the forthcoming The Marines
of Montford Point and an accompanying documentary to be
released in February, says that there were hundreds of
black soldiers on Iwo Jima from the first day of the
35-day battle. Although most of the black marine units
were assigned ammunition and supply roles, the chaos of
the landing soon undermined the battle plan.
"When they first hit the beach the resistance was so
fierce that they weren't shifting ammunition, they were
firing their rifles," said Dr McLaurin.
The failure to transfer the active role played by
African-Americans at Iwo Jima to the big screen does
not surprise him. "One of the marines I interviewed
said that the people who were filming newsreel footage
on Iwo Jima deliberately turned their cameras away when
black folks came by. Blacks are not surprised at all
when they see movies set where black troops were
engaged and never show on the screen. I would like to
say that it was from ignorance but anybody can do
research and come up with books about African-Americans
in world war two. I think it has to do with box office
and what producers of movies think Americans really
want to see."
He added: "I want to see these guys get their due.
They're just so anxious to have their story told and to
have it known."
Roland Durden, another black marine, landed on the
beach on the third day. "When we hit the shore we were
loaded with ammunition and the Japanese hit us with
mortar." Private Durden was soon assigned to burial
detail, "burying the dead day in, day out. It seemed
like endless days. They treated us like workmen rather
than marines."
Mr Durden, too, is wearied but unsurprised at the
omissions in Eastwood's film. "We're always left out of
the films, from John Wayne on," he said. Mr Durden
ascribes to both the conspiracy as well as the cock-up
theory of history. "They didn't want blacks to be
heroes. This was pre-1945, pre civil rights."
Eastwood and the makers of the film, Warner Bros and
Dreamworks, did not comment for this article. The
omission was first remarked upon in a review by Fox
News columnist Roger Friedman, who noted that the
history of black involvement at Iwo Jima was recorded
in several books, including Christopher Moore's recent
Fighting for America: Black Soldiers - the Unsung
Heroes of World War II. "They weren't in the background
at all," said Moore.
I don't know about all the who-ha about Racism....
To me this video is just stupid! Everyone is making hay about the bimbo in the ad, personally I dont think someone like Ford would give her the time of day, but knowing the Republicans, this is one of those "wink to the Southerner," ads. Willie Horton anyone?
THEN PLEASE... go take a look at this! I got the tip from The General, who reports on an inflamatory and absolutely RACIST exchange in one of the radio ads.
I particularly liked the one you call, "Don't Go There:"
Michael: If you make a little mistake with one of your ho's, you'll want to dispose of that problem toot suite, no questions asked, right?
Dennis: That's too cold. I don't snuff my own seed.
Michael: Huh. Really? Maybe you do have a reason to vote Republican!
I'm sure it's a message that'll resonate well with black men. Worrying about what all their "ho's" are going to do with their seed must be a full time job. It's a wonder that guys like Kenneth Blackwell and Vernon Robinson can even find time to run for office. Heck, where did you find the time to write the $900K check to fund the ads. A handsome black man like yourself must have "ho's" all over the place.
Make sure you listen to the Radio Ads, they are the most disgusting and patronizing collection of Stepin' Fetchit bullshit I have ever read/listened to! These people are BEYOND contempt!
When a black conservative group ran a radio ad proclaiming that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican, reaction was swift. "We've gotten some e-mails and telephone calls filled with vitriol," said Frances Rice, chairman of the National Black Republican Association. "They've called me Aunt Jemima, a sellout, a traitor to my race."
In the battle for the black electorate, liberals, who make up the overwhelming majority of black voters, have long disagreed with conservatives over ideology, public policy and economic strategies to better the lives of African Americans. But when conservatives placed the civil rights movement in a Republican context, black liberals said, they crossed a line.
"To suggest that Martin could identify with a party that affirms preemptive, predatory war, and whose religious partners hint that God affirms war and favors the rich at the expense of the poor, is to revile Martin," said the Rev. Joseph Lowery, the former president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which the slain civil rights leader helped establish.
Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), who marched with King in the 1960s, called the ads an "insult to the legacy and the memory of Martin Luther King Jr." and "an affront to all that he stood for."
The spot, which ran for a time in the District, Georgia, Maryland, Ohio and Pennsylvania, will soon run again in those areas, as well as in Miami, Orlando and Tampa, Rice said.
The debate surrounding the ad is the latest skirmish in the ongoing battle over the King legacy. Foes of affirmative action, for example, often cite a line from King's "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963 in which he prayed that his children would not be judged by the color of their skin but by the "content of their character," an adoption that makes black liberals fume. But in the latest fight, civil rights veterans may be surprised to find that some black conservatives agree with them.
Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele (R), who is running for the U.S. Senate, denounced the King ad, and Donald E. Scoggins, president of Republicans for Black Empowerment and a former member of the association, said it was a terrible idea.
Black Republicans railed against the radio ads, with the sharpest criticism coming from former members of the black Republican association.
"The vast majority of black Republicans I know would not have approved of the ad," Scoggins said.
In the ad, a black woman says, "Dr. King was a real man," and a second one responds, "You know he was a Republican."
"Dr. King, a Republican?"
Isn't it enough to deny blacks the vote in Florida, and Ohio among other places? Now do you have to lie on top of that. Dr. King would likely have a lot of problems with the Democratic Party of 2006, but to imply that he was a Republican, or that he would support this administration... is an outrage! King was a man who would be outraged at the cost in human lives of the Iraq war. He was a man who would be outraged at the abandonment of human rights under the Bush Administration, and he was a man who would be sickened by the divisive and dirty politics of the regime in power. King was no Republican, and to imply that he was, or that he would support this administration, or Republican policy, is an insult to his legacy, and a betrayal of the African American people...
Perhaps one of the most beautiful and talented singer/actresses to never achieve mega-fame status. Now the next time you are watching one of the blonde bobble head idiots that pass for superstars today, think of Irene Cara...
And remember....
And then ask yourself... Why did a woman this talented and beautiful and with this kind of recognition, not go on to become a superstar... I think you know why.
First up from the God machine this week is a Baptist church that is filled with the Christian spirit — just as long as church officials approve of your racial background.
Fellowship Baptist Church in Saltillo, Mississippi, voted out a 12-year-old boy who "asked Jesus to live in his heart" at the church two weeks ago. Why the ban? Joe is biracial, and church members didn't want the black side of his family attending with him.
They were "afraid Joe might come with his people and have blacks in the church," church pastor John Stevens told the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal.
To his credit, Pastor Stevens resigned from the church the same day 12-year-old Joe was voted out of the church. Cliff Hardy, a local police officer, also resigned from the church. "My best friend is a black man," he said. "I wouldn't be comfortable going to a place where I couldn't ask my best friend to go to church with me."
The local paper contacted church members, but they refused comment. Go figure.
Looks like conservatives have had a "compassionate" week. And you wonder why I question the sanity of Black Conservatives...
I think she's getting a raw deal. Everyone knows that the back of the bus is the coolest place to sit, and that only geeks and freaks sit up front, so she was really just giving the black kids the best part of the bus, and...
Umm.
Okay, I'll give them this one. There may be actual racism going on here...
"May be?"
Eh Ace.... This is one of the reasons that most logical black folks shy away from Conservative Politics. Too often Conservatives are willing to pooh pooh or excuse this type of thing, while at the same time jumping all over any issue or person, who does not agree with their views. This was clearly a case of racism, and the school district SHOULD be looked at closely. Most black folk of my age know that for this person to be on the job, it is unlikely that someone in their supervision chain did NOT know about their leanings. This is clearly a case that requires more investigation.
The Lieberman in blackface picture has been removed from the post, but no appology or explanation has been made by the Post or Jane Hamsher. Perhaps as Malkin and the host of other Conservatives crowing over this issue, say, Ms. Hamsher feels that as a Liberal she is above criticism over racism... NOT!
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a political and social protest campaign started in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama intended to oppose the city's policy of racial segregation on its public transit system. The ensuing struggle lasted from December 5, 1955 to December 21, 1956 and led to a United States Supreme Court decision that declared the Alabama and Montgomery laws requiring segregated buses unconstitutional.
