Okay, I am laughing my ass off at the moment. Forgive the vulgarity, but our Right Wing friends are losing their minds. If you thought that moron from Fox calling Michelle and Baracks first pump a, "terrorist jab," was over the top, you are gonna love this. An entire interview, with a Catholic priest no less, on the alleged deification of Obama.

Now looking at the Video at the top, did you see anyone praying to Obama, I sure as hell didn't.

They have lost it. They are simply beside themselves that Obama could win this thing. I mean this is plain and simple DESPERATION. Its really kind of scary that people who ride behind a banner that says COUNTRY FIRST, would so shamelessly try and destroy it. There is NOTHING that these people will not do to win. Obama is a socialist, no a terrorist, no a muslin, no a foriegn Muslim, Terrorist, Socialist, XXX fill in the blanks. Anyone stupid or partisan enough to vote for these people and their tactics, deserves the economic desolation to come.

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.

Amen Brother! Read the whole thing...

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.”

Read the whole thing.

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 they invented 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.

I for one have lost all respect for the Clintons.

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.

are finally being bought to justice.

Its a good thing...

Obama is right...

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?

You want to know who the Nappy headed hos are?

Look no further:

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...

We have a long way to go...

John Cole is at his best in this commentary:

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."

Conservatives continue to blame every black person on the planet for Don Imus' comment... And of course to beatify the Duke Lacross Players...

No problem... The people writing this drivel... They are not black. They are not human either...

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.

Somehow this just seemed appropriate today...

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.

Someone want to tell me why Imus should not be fired?

I mean it aint like Imus hasn't done this before?

Pam, hits the nail on the head!

Seems the conservative types are really starting to show their true colors 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.

Islam and the West

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.

So this is more than a bit overdue...

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...

Seems my buddy Paul at Wizbang is a little obsessed.... But as usual, WRONG. And by the way Paul, I have even admitted that OJ did it!

Nice job of trying to Swiftboat me though.

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...

IP Address: 220.194.195.129 Name: DR. FESTLER Email Address: 44MAG@FOR_NIGGERS.COM URL: Comments:

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.

Words like those are why I love you Juliette!

Hat tip Booker Rising

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 created many martyrs.

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...

Hat tip, Little Brother Shabooty!

The original video...

The "apology..."

Stick a fork in him... He's done.

Hat tip, The Moderate Voice

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.

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.

Absent from history: the black soldiers at Iwo Jima
By Dan Glaister in Los Angeles
Guardian (UK)

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.

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!

Okay, I have tried to be nice to so called Black Conservatives... I really have. But this is the biggest crock I have ever heard.

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.

Or does it look like a Brother has snuck into the Klan?

What a bunch of idiots these guys are...

Bush's Base at Work:

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...

From Ace....

Nine black kids were ordered to take the last seats in the bus, which only sat two, so younger kids had to sit on older kids laps.

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.

Michelle gets her gun loaded for free by this post on the HP.

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 picture was offensive as hell, and STUPID. And I reluctantly join the Right Wingers on condeming the posting of such hateful garbage. Liberals have a real problem these days in that we cant seem to get our message out without putting our foot in our mouths. I think Arriana herself should appologize for this latest... What do you think?

Others commenting: Michelle Malkin, Firedoglake, The American Street, Right Wing News, Say Anything, Wizbang, Ankle Biting Pundits, NewsBusters.org, Done With Mirrors, Decision '08, TigerHawk, Sweetness & Light, PunditGuy and Booman Tribune

Eh, and tell me LGF did not get off on publishing the picture?

The biggest crock of racist bullshit, I have ever read...

There's an initiative to give $100 laptops to children in Nigeria (see link here). If we really want to help Africa, we would encourage the colonial powers to return and build government institutions that don't steal from their citizenry. Nigeria would be a good place to start.

Africa has a multitude of problems, but giving laptops to children is not one of them, nor is returning control of African nations to the racist colonial powers that exploited them for centuries. While you are at it Scott, why don't you just reccomend a return to Aparthied in South Africa...

Well you got to give them credit, you want to dismantle civil rights, do it from the inside...

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is quietly remaking the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, filling the permanent ranks with lawyers who have strong conservative credentials but little experience in civil rights, according to job application materials obtained by the Globe.

The documents show that only 42 percent of the lawyers hired since 2003, after the administration changed the rules to give political appointees more influence in the hiring process, have civil rights experience. In the two years before the change, 77 percent of those who were hired had civil rights backgrounds.

In an acknowledgment of the department's special need to be politically neutral, hiring for career jobs in the Civil Rights Division under all recent administrations, Democratic and Republican, had been handled by civil servants -- not political appointees.

But in the fall of 2002, then-attorney general John Ashcroft changed the procedures. The Civil Rights Division disbanded the hiring committees made up of veteran career lawyers.

For decades, such committees had screened thousands of resumes, interviewed candidates, and made recommendations that were only rarely rejected.

Now, hiring is closely overseen by Bush administration political appointees to Justice, effectively turning hundreds of career jobs into politically appointed positions.

The profile of the lawyers being hired has since changed dramatically, according to the resumes of successful applicants to the voting rights, employment litigation, and appellate sections. Under the Freedom of Information Act, the Globe obtained the resumes among hundreds of pages of hiring data from 2001 to 2006.

Hires with traditional civil rights backgrounds -- either civil rights litigators or members of civil rights groups -- have plunged. Only 19 of the 45 lawyers hired since 2003 in those three sections were experienced in civil rights law, and of those, nine gained their experience either by defending employers against discrimination lawsuits or by fighting against race-conscious policies.

Meanwhile, conservative credentials have risen sharply. Since 2003 the three sections have hired 11 lawyers who said they were members of the conservative Federalist Society. Seven hires in the three sections are listed as members of the Republican National Lawyers Association, including two who volunteered for Bush-Cheney campaigns.

Several new hires worked for prominent conservatives, including former Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth Starr, former attorney general Edwin Meese, Mississippi Senator Trent Lott, and Judge Charles Pickering. And six listed Christian organizations that promote socially conservative views.

This is what it's all about. My fraternity Brother sent me the link I posted in this post today. Latter I got an email about David's adventures, including this PDF file. Amazing... Anyway, the story of the Kevin L. Bowser Scholarship, is a story of people fighting to make a difference. Take a moment from the political bickering and give this cause some Love.

Help spread the word!

Wow! This is heavy stuff...

According to a Southern Poverty Law Center report, (also covered in the Washington Post):

Ten years after Pentagon leaders toughened policies
on extremist activities by active duty personnel -- a move that came in
the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing by decorated Gulf War combat
veteran Timothy McVeigh and the murder of a black couple by members of
a skinhead gang in the elite 82nd Airborne Division -- large numbers of
neo-Nazis and skinhead extremists continue to infiltrate the ranks of
the world's best-trained, best-equipped fighting force. Military
recruiters and base commanders, under intense pressure from the war in
Iraq to fill the ranks, often look the other way.



Neo-Nazis "stretch across all branches of service, they are linking up
across the branches once they're inside, and they are hard-core,"
Department of Defense gang detective Scott Barfield told the
Intelligence Report. "We've got Aryan Nations graffiti in Baghdad," he
added. "That's a problem."

The SPLC has a timeline illustrating instances of extremism in the military.  It
appears that the government has made efforts in the past to eliminate
the problem.  I do not mean to fault them for lack of effort.
 Rather, my point is this: it is a lot harder to keep the
military in top professional form, when the forces are stretched too
thin, fighting an unnecessary war.  

If military recruiters are knowingly bending the rules, and military
officers are knowingly or negligently allowing unfit members to serve,
and if such deceit and/or negligence led to the atrocities in Iraq,
then this was not mere collateral damage.  It was criminal, and
the culpability goes right to the top of the chain of command.



There are a lot of "ifs" in the preceding paragraph, and we need to be
prudent, not jump to conclusions.  But given the fact that the
US military is under civilian control, it is necessary that we
civilians keep an eye on what is happening.  The fact is, we
are responsible fro what is going on over there.  



I can't help but add one more point to this montage.  In order
for us to exercise out responsibility, we need a free press.
 That is, we need journalists who are not intimidated
by the government.

If this is true, it's a very disturbing thing. Not only because of it's implications in influencing attrocities in Iraq, but also the idea that we are providing professional military training to a whole new generation of American Terrorist.

Read this post from WAPO:

In Iraq, lives differ in value -- and so do deaths. In this disparity lies an important reason why the United States has botched this war.

Last November in Haditha , a squad of Marines, outraged at the loss of a comrade, is said to have run amok, avenging his death by killing two dozen innocent bystanders. And in March, U.S. soldiers in Mahmudiyah allegedly raped a young Iraqi woman and killed her along with three of her relatives -- an apparently premeditated crime for which one former U.S. soldier has been charged . These incidents are among at least five recent cases of Iraqi civilian deaths that have triggered investigations of U.S. military personnel. If the allegations prove true, Haditha and Mahmudiyah will deservedly take their place alongside Sand Creek, Samar and My Lai in the unhappy catalogue of atrocities committed by American troops.

"You have to understand the Arab mind," one company commander told the New York Times, displaying all the self-assurance of Douglas MacArthur discoursing on Orientals in 1945. "The only thing they understand is force -- force, pride and saving face." Far from representing the views of a few underlings, such notions penetrated into the upper echelons of the American command. In their book "Cobra II," Michael R. Gordon and Gen. Bernard E. Trainor offer this ugly comment from a senior officer: "The only thing these sand niggers understand is force and I'm about to introduce them to it."

But recall a more recent incident, in Samarra . On May 30, U.S. soldiers manning a checkpoint there opened fire on a speeding vehicle that either did not see or failed to heed their command to stop. Two women in the vehicle were shot dead. One of them, Nahiba Husayif Jassim, 35, was pregnant. The baby was also killed. The driver, Jassim's brother, had been rushing her to a hospital to give birth. No one tried to cover up the incident: U.S. military representatives issued expressions of regret.

In all likelihood, we will be learning more about Haditha and Mahmudiyah for months to come, whereas the Samarra story has already been filed away and largely forgotten. And that's the problem.

The killing at the Samarra checkpoint was not an atrocity; most likely it was an accident, a mistake. Yet plenty of evidence suggests that in Iraq such mistakes have occurred routinely, with moral and political consequences that have been too long ignored. Indeed, conscious motivation is beside the point: Any action resulting in Iraqi civilian deaths, however inadvertent, undermines the Bush administration's narrative of liberation, and swells the ranks of those resisting the U.S. presence.

Read the whole thing. It goes a long way towards putting into context some of the problems with alleged abuses of civilians in Iraq. Now I am going to reserve judgement on the active cases going on in Iraq, the Haditha incident and the alleged rape and murder, are open cases... The AG Prison scandal is not.

The apparent attitude of commanders on the ground towards the people of Iraq could go a long way towards explaining why such incidents have occured. This is pretty uncomfortable stuff we are talking about. The image of Americans as Liberators, and the whole Rah Rah, we are here to save the Iraqi people from tyranny thing, is going to ring pretty damned hollow if the latest accussations prove true...

The fundraiser thrown for Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele on Thursday night, while ordinary in most ways, struck some African American leaders as notable because of the host.

Unlike the dozens of high-dollar events across the country in his U.S. Senate bid, this event was thrown by the producer of the famous "Willie Horton" ad, the 1988 commercial that came to symbolize the cynical use of skin color as a political wedge.

It seemed a most unusual choice for Steele, the first African American elected to statewide office in Maryland and a Republican whose strategy for winning a Senate seat in a state dominated by Democrats has involved the aggressive courtship of black voters.

"Why would he go for money to those who have done us harm?" asked Elbridge James, a former leader of the NAACP's Montgomery County branch.

Steele said he sees nothing unusual about getting help from Floyd Brown's Citizens United Political Victory Fund. Brown produced the Willie Horton ad, which helped torpedo Michael Dukakis's presidential campaign by drawing attention to a weekend furlough program that released a black convicted murderer serving a life sentence.

Nor, Steele said, was there anything incongruous about donations he took from others who have offended black audiences in the past, including Republican Sens. Trent Lott (Miss.) and Conrad Burns (Mont.) as well as Alex Castellanos, the man behind the racially charged "White Hands" ad that then-Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) used to attack his black challenger.

It featured a close-up shot of a pair of white hands crumpling a letter as the narrator says, "You needed that job . . . but they had to give it to a minority."

In an interview, Steele said, "I appreciate all the support I get from members of my party."

Looks like it was not far off the mark...

While I condemned the racially charged attacks on Steele last year, it's obvious the man is more interested in winning, than in having any principles or standards of morality. How much is your dignity worth Mr. Steele?

Why some people have such bad luck... Why their health is messed up. Why they are so damned bitter... And then you read shit like this....

In the late 1950s and all through the 1960s I received a decent education in public, though segregated schools. The situation was racist, deplorable and downright un-American, according to compassionate "experts." Politicians brain-farted mandatory integration of ALL public schools, which resulted in three wonderful results. First, horrible race riots in schools all over the country. Second, a tremendous dumbing-down of expectations because blacks couldn't compete. Third, the extinction of neighborhood schools, which went from being a part of a community to becoming forbidden zones by a faceless, disinterested bureaucracy. There's also a #4 result which is politically-incorrect to mention--- and that's the Balkanization that occurred in "intergrated" schools when kids divided themselves along racial lines on their own, which isn't surprising if you understand human nature. You can't make people less race-conscious when they know the only reason they are forced to go to the schools they are forced to attend is because of race.

And suddenly you understand... Karma is a mother fucker!

I tend to try and help bloggers in trouble. When I first read about Acidman's tax problems, I was tempted to run a piece suggesting that people donate to help him out, and then the above piece reminded me of what a hateful racist he is and I decided what the hell do I care. It's no wonder even conservatives de-linked him, and that his traffic is in the shitter after being one of the top conservative blogs. Some conservative friends of mine excuse Rob as just a hopeless old codger, but he isn't. Rob is the worst kind of racist. The kind who is actually defiant about his racism.

Let's just say I wont cry if the man ends up in a homeless shelter, sandwitched in between a black man and a latino in the soup line...

I still have to wonder...

If the alleged victim in the Duke Rape Case was a promiscuous white Coed, and the accused were black players from the Football or Basketball team... Would conservatives be so eager to dismiss the charges as false? What happened to "lets have a trial?" If these boys are innocent, then we need to rely on the justice system to demonstrate it.

Instead, this case has been all about, "Ho's, and innocent boys having their lives ruined." If this girl lied, then she ought to be prosecuted. It's as simple as that. But the DA has decided to go ahead with prosecution, and a Grand Jury has found reason to proceed with one. All of these news stories about inconsistencies will mean nothing when the case goes to trial.

I for one am sick of this girl being dragged through the mud because of her profession or her past. What about the Gay bashing Lacrosse player. I never hear about that incident on Conservative blogs. If anything, that at least implies a propensity towards violence and discrimination on the part of the player. What does not seem to be in much dispute, is that racial slurs and insults were used during the party, a dehumanizing tactic often used by those inflicting violence on those who they see as, "lesser," than them.

I don't know what happened that night. I do know that there will likely be a trial, and we will ALL have a better idea at that time of how strong the evidence is. There is a possibility that the case may be full of holes, and eventually dismissed. If it is, great! But it seems to me that BOTH parties deserve their day in court.

"I disagree with Michelle Malkin plenty, and sometimes think she goes over the top, but I respect her. I once laughed out loud when someone tried to tell me most of Michelle Malkin's fans are racist. Yeah whatever. I see things like this a lot more often these days."

I got that comment from Dean Esmay's blog today.

I think it is downright stupid the people who throw racist insults at Malkin or anyone else, but I have to tell you, I am sick of the MEME that Lefty's are more hateful than Right Wingers. Anyone who wants to throw a "pitty party," for Michelle is welcome to do so, but I have seen worse racism directly from Michelle herself at times, not to mention her readers.

Just the fact that Michelle justified Japanese American internment during WWII, makes her suspect with me. But I could site you a dozen examples... Look at the story on Ray Nagin today. Michelle quotes one of the resident idiots from Powerline:

"Having witnessed Marion Barry repeatedly elected mayor of Washington, D.C., I can't say I'm surprised at Nagin's success. Re-electing an unsuccessful or disgraced mayor apparently can become a source of civic pride, particularly when the racial politics are right."

Now, other than being BLACK, what the HELL does Ray Nagin have to do with the convicted criminal from D.C.?

So yeah, I agree with Dean that the racial insults against Michelle are deplorable. But painting her as a picture of innocence in all this, is equally ridiculous, just as it is to say that Lefties have some sort of monopolly on hate...

Oliver is right.

Malkin has found her "outrage" du jour: You see, the Texas Rangers are a team in the southwest with a considerable Hispanic fan base. As a tip of the hat to their fans, the Rangers wore jerseys saying "Los Rangers" on May 5th, Cinco De Mayo. Then the team signed the jerseys and auctioned them off for charity.

I had to chuckle when I saw her lates piece. I mean what the hell, does Michelle really believe all the crap she sells about "reconquista?" And are the Texas Rangers part of the plot? Please... I have absolutely nothing against what the Rangers did, or people celebrating Cinco de Mayo (Correct Spelling Jay). I think what the Rangers did, especially in the poison environment of the moment, was pretty cool.

As for Michelle. Well I doubt Michelle reads my blog, but if she happens to drop by based on this trackback... "Michelle, there is a huge difference between what the Rangers did and putting a confederate flag on their jerseys. I kind of feel sorry for you and La Shawn, because you just don't get it. The very racist, that are your most ardent readers, would in your ideal world, relegate you to Maid or Nanny status, both of you...

BWHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!! All I have to say about collecting that money is... good luck. I will be amazed if the government collects ANYTHING. After all, we're dealing with a lot of "poor" people who also happen to be members of a certain politically-special ethnic group. If the government attempts to force these people to pay back what they stole, cries of "racism!" will put a stop to THAT shit.

It was just the niggers that took advantage of FEMA relief efforts, and defrauded the government, right Rob?
I got an email from one of your readers the other day claiming you were not really a racist, what the fuck do you call it then? Sort of reminds me of the media coverage I saw immediately after the flooding. Pictures of white looters were captioned, "Katrina Survivors scrounge up food for families." Blacks doing the same thing were labled, "looters." There was a time when I tried to give you the benefit of the doubt, knowing that some people I respect liked you. But I have come to the conclussion that you are just a bitter ole' cracker, who looks to find race in damned near every conversation you have.
If people stole from the government in the aftermath of Katrina, and it is pretty clear based on some reports that they did, you can be damned sure that there were folks with your skin tone and disposition among them!

 Currently, the #3 New York Times’ best selling, non-fiction paperback is The Covenant With Black America, a collection of essays aimed at improving the lives of Black Americans, edited by Tavis Smiley. The book starkly details the disturbing statistics of a faltering community in desperate need of courageous leadership. Yet thankfully, from the best minds this nation has to offer, we also gain the proper tenets to lead African-Americans through the most difficult phase of an uncompleted civil rights movement.

TCF drops a truth bomb on us in his latest essay. I had not heard of the above book, but I am placing my order right now on Amazon. Check out TCF's piece and pick up the book.

This woman is such a self hating person, that she makes me want to gag. If I was wondering when La Shawn Barber was going to speak up on the alleged rape at Duke, I should not be surprised to see she waited until she thinks the alleged white perps have been cleared. I am not going to print a single word of her hate filled, ridiculous and racist rant about the case. But I will leave you with this:

District Attorney Mike Nifong has said he would have other evidence to make his case should the DNA analysis prove inconclusive or fail to match a member of the team.

"I believe a sexual assault took place," Nifong told The News & Observer of Raleigh on Monday. "I'm not saying it's over. If that's what they expect, they will be sadly disappointed."

I don't know if a rape took place or not. I only know one thing, slandering the alleged victim, using coded racist language to attack her charecter, is not something I would expect from another woman, and less from another black woman. But I forgot... LaShawn stopped being a black woman a LONG time ago. Good thing for her that her white conservative patrons dont hold her jaded past of substance abuse against her....

La Shawn, I realized a long time ago, the depth of your hate for your own people. You have no shame! But what comes around goes around. One day, when your conservative bretheren are out of vogue, and that may be sooner than you think. Pray that your own people will still have a place for you...

Oh and one further note. Condoms (More than likely used), would eliminate most DNA evidence.

This post at FiredogLake is a must read.
I am not going to excerpt it.
Honestly, I have no idea of where to excerpt, is is just so damned good.

Despite my friendship with a number of Black Conservatives, including
Marty,
Cobb and
Baldilocks,

I have become increasingly disolutioned with their failure to speak up about blatant racism in the conservasphere. The recent diatribes by conservatives against the African American alleged rape victim, have been especially troubling for me.

The Firedoglake post makes some great points about racism in the conservative blogsphere.

I find it interesting that one of the most vile racist is Michelle Malkin, who in a White Supremist Society would be at best a concubine for some Brownshirt.
Perhaps Michelle has not payed much attention to her own image in the mirror lately, but HELLO, Michelle... You are a BROWN PERSON.
If your Utopia ever came to pass, you might... as a reward for being a collaborator, get to work as a maid in Anne Coulter's house, but having kissed Anne's rear end so much, LaShawn Barber would probably beat you to that job.

I am not claiming that all Conservatives are racist. My best online buddy in the world is conservative, and I have some pretty good conservative friends. But David makes some good points about the direction the movement has taken.

I share some conservative beliefs, but it is because of the issues David has raised, and things like the Conservative attacks on the Duke Rape victim, that I could never claim allegiance to that philosophy, and if I did, you can bet that I would not be silent in the face of racism from my ideological bretheren.

Update: Right Wing Nut house calls me an idiot for my comments about Malkin and Barber. Well lets look at the facts. Malkin wrote a book justifying the internment of Japanese during WWII. LaShawn has been known to reserve her most virulent attacks for black folks. Michelle is Asian and Barber black. Perhaps they don't know this. But taking things to the extreme, if a White Supremist Regime did come to power, does anyone really think that either of these women would have any position of significance? Please, idiocy is ignoring reality to embrace one that is more comfortable to your world view. As I have often said, I often find common ground with conservatives on a number of issues, and I DONT think all conservatives are racist, but I agree with the FDL post in that much of what passes for Conservative Commentary these days, serves the purpose of racist. I make NO appologies for that. And I still want to know why Conservative Bloggers are not speaking out against those who would smear a possible rape victim. I believed that the Conservasphere had learned its lesson with the Jill Carroll issue, aparently not.

I usually dont excerpt ENTIRE Articles, but this is a must read. And some of you wonder why I just cant understand Blacks who identify themselves as conservative.

It's racism at Duke, all right. Racism against white students. Members of the Duke University Lacrosse team may have abused a black party girl, but, without any proof or trial, the Duke Lacrosse team was punished by the university, suspended from further games. So terrified was the administration of being charged with "racism." The black female wins again. She is truly an ace on the field and in court.

Naturally, the name of the black girl has not been released, appropriate if she is a rape victim, inappropriate if she is engaging in scurrilous race baiting. The reports say the woman is a divorced, 27-year-old "mother" of two, attending North Carolina Central University. She is not a person of note, and is said to do exotic dancing as a side job to pick up extra cash.

The entire Duke Lacrosse team and the university may have been severely maligned on all sides. The alleged incident occurred March 13, but as of Sunday, April 2, no charges have been filed against anyone. One report says 46 of the 47 members of the team were required to submit DNA for testing. (The black member of the team, of course, was exempted, since the accuser says she was attacked by white males.)

The story, as reported in the papers, indicates either profound social retardation on the part of the black "dancer," or else irrationality on the part of racist oriented reporters.

There were two women involved, one apparently white (whose name also remains unrevealed), and the other black. Police got a call from the black woman who claimed she had been yelled at by some guy in the rented quasi-frat house of the Lacrosse team. She and her companion nevertheless went back to the house to "dance," expecting, they say, four or five college boys to be there. Idiotic mistake No. 1.

Then, she says, the two women were suddenly surrounded by 40-some boys, all coughing up racial epithets-presumably at the black woman. (Remember, she's a 27-year-old-mother. Some of the team members are under twenty-one, else how could any of them have been charged with under-aged drinking?) The women then say they were so upset and frightened that they left the house.

Then, "helplessly," the two women went back! Idiotic mistake No. 2.

Some guy on the porch "coaxed" them back, after which time they claim the black woman was abused. So far, there are no witnesses. (So, what happened to the other woman?)

Two weeks later, the team was suspended from games. The team captains say that the DNA testing will prove that all the members are innocent. This, of course, if true, will mean that it was either an easy set up for the women, or else the fervor of youthful hormones blinded everyone. In the heat of passion, well-ignited before the girls even showed up, there may have been some rough-housing. That should have been a serious tip-off. Of course, a 27-year-old mother of two certainly must have more sense than a drunken 19-year-old, no? However, our nameless victim showed less maturity than a six-year-old.

All the racial issues in this story are moot. This is a tale of stupidity on the part of two women, particularly the black woman.

Black advocates are trying to play the racist element to the hilt. Rayone Bland, a black divinity student at Duke, thinks it's that superiority complex of the rich whites. "So being told 'No' for the first time, I mean, is mind-blowing for them," he observes.

If a rape occurred, it is inexcusable, regardless of the race of the victim or perpetrators. However, all the indications raise serious questions about this situation and the racial hyperventilating makes the case even muddier.

So, that black woman said, "No," eh? First, she's in a profession where she's expected to do tricks for clients. Second, she's walking into a house full of young, drunken athletes, who happen to be white. Third, she called the police and complained once; then she went back, but then left. And then she went back again! That's a peculiar way of saying "No," it seems to me. These racist black people just want a role model victim, with mistreatment wreaked upon the weakest of the weak: the black woman. All she has to do is cry, "rape by white male!" and she rules the world.

Weak? How about "strong" as in a strong manipulator?

But she had to have the money, right? She just has to feed those children, pay that tuition, rent, car payment, and books. She's not on welfare, scholarship, or assistance of any kind? Well, whatever she does receive may not cover her expenses. That's quite possible.

But, exotic dancing, and then to cry "abuse"? This may be pushing victimhood beyond reason.

(emphasis mine)

I wonder if someone like LaShawn Barber can take off her conservative hat for a moment, and put on her "woman" hat, and maybe even her "woman of color," hat. I am not even going to bother responsding to this racist drivel, as Jill at Feministe, has already answered it paragraph by paragraph, and far better than I ever could.

Have you heard about this story? Why is a potential serial killer cop still on the street?

Think Again:

Following the recent outbreak of neo-Nazism in my own neighborhood, I've become even more acutely aware of the silent tide of white supremacism that's creeping back into our lives, if that's possible.

It's one thing when it happens elsewhere, as I usually find myself documenting. But having it in your own back yard drives home the reality in a particularly pungent fashion.

And it does continue to manifest elsewhere too, in nearly identical fashion: Until they unfurl their flags and don their costumes, today's white supremacists dress, talk, and comport themselves like normal people. They present their ideas as though they were simply normative, rather than the hateful aberrations they've been widely considered to be over the past half-century.

They see the current political environment as ripe for their return. So they constantly stress the need for movement followers to blend in and appear normal. They often call themselves "ghost skins" because their skinhead beliefs are often invisible.

I found Dave's Article through The General, who took off his humor hat for a moment, to discuss what is a very serious issue. Read David's Article, it will open your eyes...

Negro in the Country, outside of Condi of course... Of course he should have some insight into what the other Negro said!

Michelle needs to just shut up. It didn't work the first time, it won't work this time...

Radio talk show host Michael Graham, now at Boston's WTKK, is also staying on top of the Haleigh Poutre case. Be sure to check out his website for the latest Haleigh developments.

Michael e-mailed me that many talk show hosts don't want to discuss the story:

I fear it's the post-Schiavo syndrome.

I think Michael is right, and that the post-Schiavo syndrome is affecting more than just talk radio. Few on either the left or right in politics, in the blogosphere, in the MSM punditocracy, want to grapple with the moral, legal, and medical implications of this wrenching case. And as I noted before, the bleeding hearts in Hollywood, so quick to leap to the defense of every last Death Row convict are AWOL. There's already a jaded and shockingly callous exasperation about Haleigh's case epitomized by the title and comments at John Cole's blog: "Dear God, not again."

Michelle, a bit of advice, why don't you use your bully pulpit to raise awareness about child abuse. I mean this child was "killed," by those who were suppossed to be protecting her. Don't you see that as a more compelling issue here?

Hat Tip Crooks and Liars

Read John Cole's piece....

And let me add... DAMN, DAMN, DAMN! Damn all the hypocrits to hell!

I appreciate the sentiments behind this post by Rob. I really do. He is probably one of the few conservatives who will even acknowledge the King Holliday....

Today has been set aside to remember a great man. A man who fought for equality, not because it was the politically correct thing to do but because it was the morally right thing to do. A man who embraced all races equally and envisioned a time and place where people could live and work together despite differences in color or culture.

Today is Martin Luther King day.

While the likes of Jesse Jackson bandy this great man's name about like so many political poker chips, take time to look up what Dr. King actually had to say. Don’t let someone like Al Sharpton speak for him, read it yourself:

But you are wrong Rob, dead wrong. First off, as much as I despise Jesse Jackson for what he has become. He was there in TN when King was killed, at his side. He was with King in the struggle, while Conservatives were the ones holding the firehouses and attack dog leashes. He would not claim conservatism as a philosophy and he never did. While many of us who consider ourselves progressive, embrace some conservative principles, as did King, specifically family values (altough in his own weakness, he was something of a hypocrit in this area), that by no means makes us a Conservative. And while I am sure King would appreciate your celebration of his fight for equality, I am just as sure he would be outraged at an attempt to make him a Conservative Icon.

Would he have stood for affirmative action? I think in your heart you know the answer to that. King would almost certainly have in the face of a lack of alternatives. What King dreamed of was a color blind Utopia where all are valued for the "content of their character." Today, nearly 40 years after his death, that is far from reality. So I don't think King would be standing shoulder to shoulder with you on ending Affirmative Action. Instead I think he would be fighting to end the enduring racism that makes it necessary.

I'm so glad there's no more racism in this country.