They said it: “man this dude is Krazy!” “you sir are an idiot” “you are a lunatic” “are you really black?” “meanest, most divisive, most irrelevant blog I have ever read”
Both chambers of the Commonwealth of Virginia’s General Assembly passed a resolution saying government-sanctioned slavery “ranks as the most horrendous of all depredations of human rights and violations of our founding ideals in our nation’s history; and . . . the abolition of slavery was followed by . . . systematic discrimination, enforced segregation, and other insidious institutions and practices toward Americans of African descent that were rooted in racism, racial bias, and racial misunderstanding.” The General Assembly also expressed regret for the “exploitation of Native Americans.”
Isn’t that nice? I agree that slavery was an abomination, but I’m going to be even more generous than Virginia’s General Assembly. I regret the murder of an estimated 61 million people whom the former USSR executed, slaughtered, starved, beat or tortured to death. I also regret the Chinese government’s slaughter of 45 million Chinese; Hitler’s slaughter of 6 million Jews; the Khmer Rouge’s murder of 2 million Cambodians; the half a million Ugandans murdered by Idi Amin’s death squads; the million Hutus and Tutsis murdered in Rwanda’s genocidal bloodbath; and slavery that still exists in the Sudan and Mauritania.
A released inmate walks out of prison in Rwanda’s capital Kigali February 19, 2007. Rwanda on Monday released 8,000 prisoners accused of involvement in the country’s 1994 genocide, prompting anger from survivors of the slaughter who fear new ethnic killings. REUTERS/Arthur Asiimwe (RWANDA) All of these, and many more, are horrible injustices at least as horrible as the slavery that existed in the U.S. But after all the regrets and apologies for injustices, what comes next? Let’s examine Virginia’s statement of regret with an eye toward what it might mean.
I wonder what Obama’s spiritual advisor thought of him writing a fundraising letter for a fucken KKK racist. Particularly since Wright thinks America is this racist nation.
I’m so confused!!!
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Robert Byrd stands up for what he believes:
“[The Ku Klux Klan] is an effective force in the struggle against communism and in the promotion of traditional American values.” –Robert C. Byrd, speaking as a “Kleagle” for the Klan, 1942
“I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side. Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds” — Robert C. Byrd, in a letter to Sen. Theodore Bilbo (D-MS), 1945
“The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia and in every state in the Union.” — State Rep. Robert C. Byrd, letter to the West Virginia KKK Grand Wizard, 1948
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And who was Theodore Bilbo? If Robert Byrd’s mentor had had his way, Barack Obama would not only not be in the Senate, he would not even be allowed to vote.
A master of scathing filibuster and a “rough and tumble” fighter in debate, Bilbo became a synonym for white supremacy. He held unapologetic “anti-Negro” views and was a fiery defender of segregation.
Bilbo was also outspoken in his belief that blacks should not be allowed to vote anywhere, the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution to the contrary. There were many allegations of disenfranchisement by black veterans, along with allegations that his campaign tactics provoked violence.
Clinton Apologizes To Black Voters After Unapologetic Ferraro Resignation: Too Little Too Late?
Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Senator Hillary Clinton has apologized to black voters due to the controversy surrounding the widely-condemned comments of now-resigned unapologetic campaign official Geraldine Ferraro, who basically said Obama is where he is because he is black.
News reports say Clinton’s speech was an uncharacteristically long and heartfelt apology.
But some are bound to note that it once again shoves the issue of Obama as an African-American into the news cycle. There have been accusations that this is why there have been so many instances of Clinton campaign associates raising the issue, then apologizing and resigning: to raise the issue and keep it in the news cycle. Either that or it’s an issue they simply can’t help hinting at or– in Ferraro’s case — all but discussing it complete with Al Gore-style slide show.
Hey Ferraro you are a stupid racist ass old white skank, unfortunately people like you are the biggest voting block
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
Before you read my rant watch Keith Olbermann go off on Ferraro and Hillary. This is the first time I actually agreed with this dude on anything.
This race shit if the Democrats don’t fix it will doom the party. Now nothing would make me happier, BUT, although I am a conservative I still function with the mindset that for America to be a strong nation both sides of the political divide must field quality competent individuals and let the battle of ideas decide the direction of the country.
Although watching the Clinton campaign circle the drain with their racial mudslinging and identity politics is amusing it is not good for the nation.
Having this skank ass old white bitch Ferraro sounding off like David Duke is a further reminder of why my comments below are more correct than not.
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I have to rant about this to remind myself why I named this blog Political Party Poop.
I read on some obscure blog by this dude trying to explain this racial mess the Democrats are in regarding the racial civil war between Hillary and Obama.
He states that we have three choices for president; a white dude, an aging white lady and a middle aged black dude and your choice basically lies with who you identify with the most.
Reading not only his statement but others basically babbling about the notion that we pick our political leaders simply based on physical characteristics is more than a little disturbing.
This particular dude is a Hillary supporter, but he does like Obama and he is trying to grasp (as is Geraldine Ferraro) how this relatively unknown black dude can be so close to the presidency. They wonder how did this Negro slip through the cracks of the Democratic Party machine.
Let me tell you why I find Ferraro’s comments over the top offensive.
First she used the same comment to describe the Jackson campaign years ago. Uppity ass white people - when trying to explain their racist tendencies towards black folks who manage to break through the racist haze - must somehow try to explain how that nigga was able to get that position, whether it is a political position, work or business related.
As Shelby Steele pointed out, all of us black folks must wear the survival masks to muck our way through society. Some of us are just better at playing the game then others.
I have been in countless situations where I have been the only black individual who was part of some major project, or chaired some committee or organization. And I have heard, via friends, that rednecks questioned my participation and my “standing.” They wanted to know what I brought to the table. Besides my blackness that is.
I mentioned in a post long ago that when I first got the job I now occupy, my predecessor who could not perform the job because he did not have the technical skills, asked me point blank when I met him, “what is your background, what are your qualifications for this position” before we even finished our handshake. I wanted to punch the mutherfucker.
What white person do you know, who has a job position, high paid or high profile, would be asked by someone “how’d the fuck did you get this gig?” I’m thinking “I don’t know, I FUCKEN APPLIED FOR THE POSITION.”
Unfortunately that would not be the last time individuals would take a double take when I told them my current job title.
Again it has nothing to do with anything other than perception. If I were a fucken delivery driver or some other common laborer, if I were sweeping the floors of my lovely facility nobody would blink and eye.
That is what this racist world expects of a black man.
Shit I work on a campus, your typical liberal bastion of educational endeavors and except for some black folks in such fields as African-American studies there are no black people around here. Hell there is only one black dude working in the entire campus maintenance department. Niggas can’t even get a job cutting the grass here. There are not even black folks working in the mess halls. I know we are a small percentage of the total population in Kansas, but I am convinced that there would be more blacks hired if the employers did not know our race before they made the decision.
I must say there is one black provost who is the head of campus technology. Must have been a quota hire. See, that is why people like Ferraro and her ilk assume that any black had help to get to a higher level.
Now keep in mind folks, my job don’t pay jack but I am responsible for the care for a high profile facility and they gave me the biggest fanciest office in the place, and perhaps in the whole town. When folks, particularly old white folks ask and when I tell them my job title more than a few people have asked me “how did you get this job?”
I have to wonder, would they ask that question if I were white? I don’t think so!
Shit if blacks are seen on college campuses white folks automatically think “affirmative action.” Same thing if we are in the corporate world. More than a few of us have endured the “quota” hire rant.
Every damn time black folks manage to achieve their little tiny piece of the pie, people like Ferraro, and especially old white people, need to attach the “well he or she must be a nigga quota hire or appointment.”
I have no plan to vote for Obama, because he is a closet Socialist and a flaming liberal. I don’t give a fuck what your color or background he is, if I find your particular brand of politics offensive I won’t vote for you and I damn sure can’t identify with you.
At Mrs. Snoops’ birthday dinner party the other night I was explaining to a friend, my still held belief that all of the Obama hype is fleeting, that white people when it comes time to vote will not pull the lever or tap the touch screen for a black dude particularly a black man.
Let me be even more specific, I seriously doubt that any Asian or relatively few Mexicans will vote for him, Mexicans don’t like black people, don’t get along with them. Most Mexicans would send black folks back to Africa faster than Robert Byrd.
That is why I have no problem voicing my disdain for illegal immigration. These Mexicans are not coming over here to become “American citizens.” They want their fucken country back and assimilating with the gringos, while stooping to mowing their lawns, making up hotel beds and building backyard decks for a few dollars an hour is just the ticket to keep the gringos at ease. Yea, I know, I’m stereo typing. I learned it from whitey!
I’m still not convinced, particularly with the heightened racial tensions that continue to boil over, that there is a significant enough number of white people who will put this nation in the hands of a black dude.
He needs 52 or 53 million people must win the majority of white men. He cannot win if no other racial or ethnic group is going to largely vote for a Negro.
Talks about racial identity! Scores of white people have little or no ongoing contact with black folks. Don’t work with any, don’t socialize with any, never dated a Negro, never went to grade school with one and more than likely never attend college with a Negro.
There are few if any positive black role models on TV and in the movies.
Sunday political talk shows are crammed with talking head old white people, all major radio broadcast talk shows on the right or left are by white folks.
Few influential black folks in the major news media and of course the majority of today’s decision makers are mostly white.
Still, today a white father’s worst nightmare is to have his lovely daughter marrying a Negro. That is still morally repugnant in the minds of way too many rednecks.
I’m black and my “Negro” friends all live on the east and west coasts. I can go days and not see another Negro in my humble little progressive (read liberal) town.
After all of that - you people want to still try and convince me that enough white people will say “fuck it” and hand the keys to the White House to a black dude? Oh I forgot to mention that a great number of white people are still trying to hand the Muslim tag around his neck.
“Gee won’t it be peachy keen to have a Negro as president?” Seriously folks I would need to smoke some really good weed to process that reality.
“But Snoop what about the primaries and the fact that he won white states like Vermont and Iowa” Look, I don’t discount Hillary hatred.
Obama is winning over the more educated and progressive white folks. The more education a given white person has the more likely they are to support Obama, because any rational thinking person would never consider Hillary, which is why she is most popular with lower middle class white folks particularly poor white women and old white women.
If on election night I am wrong I will have no problem admitting it.
Back to Obama. This black dude represents the hopes and dreams for black folks that somehow his presidency will transform niggas into more productive citizens when that is just a pipe dream. Yea. Right.
At the dinner party - and I have told Mrs. Snoop and others this many times - I said that nothing pisses me off more that to have someone tell me that Obama’s potential presidency will somehow transform me, I guess since I’m a black dude. On inauguration day somehow I will become a slightly better human being. I will suddenly be accepted for who I am without regard for my race. Fuck that. No magic negro is going to wave the magic wand and make the racists all think well of a black man!
Now I can see through the political crap and do often ridicule Obama’s ascendancy to the presidency, but when people like that fuck Ferraro feel that it is her obligation to remind the masses that your support of this unqualified Negro is “foolish” it is more than a bit insulting.
A nigger at the top of the Democratic ticket “that is just outrageous!”
It’s only because dude is black. Yup it tis funny that a great number of white people, mostly politically ignorant young people who see a vote for Obama as a vote against the man. Never mind that nobody reached the presidency has ever gotten there without dealing with “the man.” He will become “the man” and not much will really change!
Obama leading the Democrat presidential race was Howard Dean’s worst nightmare.
I would hope that black folks will continue to keep a close tab on the future racist statements that will come from the mouths of various Democrats. Hopefully black folks will finally start to comprehend that neither political party has a monopoly on your well being and by continuing to vote Democrat they give creative license to people like Ferraro.
When Ferraro was supposedly fighting for Negros as a politician, she saw herself as the slave master. All Democrats see black folks this way.
They are just simply tools to achieve political power. And how dare we not do things according to their master plan for us!?
They (the Ferraro’s of the world) never envisioned a time where some stray Negro would usurp their rightful place at the top of this countries political ivory towers.
“If Jesse Jackson were not black, he wouldn’t be in the race,” she said.Really. The cite is an April 15, 1988 Washington Post story (byline: Howard Kurtz), available only on Nexis.
Here’s the full context:
Placid of demeanor but pointed in his rhetoric, Jackson struck out repeatedly today against those who suggest his race has been an asset in the campaign. President Reagan suggested Tuesday that people don’t ask Jackson tough questions because of his race. And former representative Geraldine A. Ferraro (D-N.Y.) said Wednesday that because of his “radical” views, “if Jesse Jackson were not black, he wouldn’t be in the race.”
Asked about this at a campaign stop in Buffalo, Jackson at first seemed ready to pounce fiercely on his critics. But then he stopped, took a breath, and said quietly, “Millions of Americans have a point of view different from” Ferraro’s.
Discussing the same point in Washington, Jackson said, “We campaigned across the South . . . without a single catcall or boo. It was not until we got North to New York that we began to hear this from Koch, President Reagan and then Mrs. Ferraro . . . . Some people are making hysteria while I’m making history.”
If former Democratic vice presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro is worried she has offended Barack Obama by suggesting his political success is due to the colour of his skin, she isn’t showing it.Ferraro caused outrage in the Obama camp by telling a California newspaper that the Illinois senator would never be winning the Democratic race if he was a white man or a woman. But facing calls for her ouster from a ceremonial role in Clinton’s campaign, Ferraro instead tried to turn the tables on Obama’s aides.
“I have to tell you that what I find is offensive is that everytime somebody says something about the campaign, you’re accused of being racist,” Ferraro told Fox News Channel.
” ‘Any time anybody does anything that in any way pulls this campaign down and says let’s address reality and the problems we’re facing in this world, you’re accused of being racist, so you have to shut up. Racism works in two different directions. I really think they’re attacking me because I’m white. How’s that?’ “
She then explained why she thought Obama was “lucky” to be a black candidate running for president, a statement that would seem to fly in the face of White House campaigns going back to, well, America’s origins.
“If in 1984 my name was Gerard Ferraro instead of Geraldine Ferraro, I would never have been the nominee for VP,” she said.
Ferraro was Walter Mondale’s running mate in the 1984 presidential campaign.
This is from the blog: David W. Boles’ Urban Semiotic, this is from Sept 07, I had it bookmarked and forgot to post long ago. Just a little education for some of you white folks.
We already know Barack Obama has a castrating wife and the pain of public observation grew even more extreme as Jesse Jackson recently accused Barack Obama of “acting White.”Now we must wonder if being born into Black skin is enough to be considered “Black” in America — or does the droplet still triumph in the polling place?
Or is there a behavior and an attitude that must be sustained in order to carry out the wishes, dreams and hopes of the “Black” experience that defines a man beyond the blood?
The repercussions of Jackson’s claim are enthralling as an example of political ambition and blind savvy in the making of the namesake:
Jackson sharply criticized presidential hopeful and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama for “acting like he’s white” in what Jackson said has been a tepid response to six black juveniles’ arrest on attempted-murder charges in Jena, La. Jackson, who also lives in Illinois, endorsed Obama in March, according to The Associated Press.“If I were a candidate, I’d be all over Jena,” Jackson said after an hour-long speech at Columbia’s historically black Benedict College.
“Jena is a defining moment, just like Selma was a defining moment,” said the iconic civil rights figure, who worked with Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1965 Selma civil rights movement and was with King at his 1968 assassination.
Later, Jackson said he did not recall making the “acting like he’s white” comment about Obama, stressing he only wanted to point out the candidates had not seized on an opportunity to highlight the disproportionate criminal punishments black youths too often face.
Does anyone smell a setup?One wonders if Jackson’s breathless accusation of Obama “Acting White” actually helps Obama win White Southern Male votes instead of losing them in a general election because — one could argue, based on Jackson’s claim — “while Obama’s skin is dark, he’s really White on the inside.”Is Jessee Jackson’s accusation a valid one expressed as a public admonition?Or is Jackson cunningly helping promote Obama as a “safer” candidate by separating him from the mainstream “Black” ghetto mentality and thus making him more palatable for White voters to swallow in the future?Will White voters be more comfortable casting a vote for a Black Man who, according to Jesse Jackson, is really White Like Them?
Is it helpful or hurtful to Obama if Jesse Jackson publicly disowns him and, in the process, frees Southern voters to, perhaps, see Obama as “half Black, but not all that bad.”
“hey, if I run for president and if old redneck white people have a problem with me I can say to them, for the good of my party I was willing to put aside the racist past of a man who has a clear disdain for black people. Even after raising a record number of dollars for his campaign I bet he still thinks I’m a nigger! I was willing to sell out my own race for the good of the party; I will always put the interest of white folks first, after all I am half white”
All he has to do is show up at a Klan rally and raise a few dollars for the cause and that will help his standing with old white people. LOL!
ABC News’ Tahman Bradley Reports: Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh issued an on-air apology to Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., today after a caller said her daughter thought the Democratic presidential frontrunner looked like the cartoon character Curious George, a monkey.
Limbaugh, who laughed at the caller’s comments, later apologized explaining he didn’t know anything about Curious George.
There has been much discussion about whether the media is more aggressive with Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and a bit more polite and careful in dealing with Obama, which is what Limbaugh was alluding to today. But forty years removed from racist archetypes like Blackface, Limbaugh probably won’t get much sympathy by laughing at a child thinking a black man favors a monkey.
Update: Ironically, after lambasting the RNC for being too easy on Obama, Limbaugh found it necessary to issue an on-air apology to the Senator:
“I’ve got to do something here to open this hour of today’s excursion into broadcast excellence. I need to apologize to both Sen. Obama and to Sen. McCain, ” said Limbaugh. “I had never heard of Curious George. Only now have staffers sent me little pictures of Curious George,” he continued.
“So I wish to apologize to both Sen. Obama and Sen. McCain. It was not my intent to bring dishonor and guttural utterances into this campaign. It happened. I laughed about it. It was a 12 year old kid’s reaction to Obama, it was told by his mother. I was laughing because I was being polite, but I had never heard of Curious George.”
In this instance, I have to commend Limbaugh for doing the right thing, but also feel compelled to point out that Rush might have known a little bit more about Curious George if he didn’t spend so much time carrying water for Incurious George.
Things eventually turned ridiculous, though. A caller, discussing how Clinton and Obama are both terrifying or whatever, made the comment that “my 12-year-old says that Obama looks like Curious George!” As my jaw hit the steering wheel, Rush chuckled and they moved on to the next topic. Upon coming back from a commercial break, however, Rush made an announcement: he apologizes, he didn’t know who Curious George was, let alone the fact that he is a monkey, and to drive home the point proceeded to spend about 30 minutes denying any knowledge of pop culture in general, professing ignorance, in turn, of Snoopy, The Simpsons, and “cartoon monkeys” of any sort. He apologized multiple times to Obama and, inexplicably, to McCain, but it was all just so sad that I started to feel kind of ill, and I finally put on “104.1 It Just Rocks” until I neared the Bay Area and a staticky public radio signal, although they were broadcasting “Talk of the Nation,” which really isn’t that much better. But my trip through the valley of the shadow of death did at least confirm that while Limbaugh may have brief moments of internal logical consistency, eventually he’ll indict himself with hypocrisy so pathetic you’re willing to listen to Nickelback instead.
Trevor Phillips, chairman of the UK’s Equality and Human Rights Commission, is likely to stir up a hornet’s nest after claiming that Barack Obama might prolong racial divisions in the US, rather than heal them, if he becomes President.In an article entitled ‘Healing postponed’, which appears in the new issue of the UK current affairs magazine Prospect, Phillips - who is black - suggests more forcefully than many US commentators have that Obama’s success is in large part due to white guilt (they’ll vote for him ’so long as they don’t have to live next door to him’), and goes so far as to suggest that he’s taking advantage of racial divisions.
Phillips, whose observations on the failure of multiculturalism in Britain have drawn criticism from white ‘progressives’ such as odious London mayor Ken Livingstone, draws on many of the arguments put forward by Shelby Steele in his book on Obama, A Bound Man, in which he divides America’s black leaders into ‘challengers’ (Malcolm X, Jesse Jackson) whose power derives from real or imagined black victimhood, and bargainers (Cosby, Oprah).
Phillips, like Steel, portrays Obama as the quintessential bargainer, and claims that Obama is more Bill Clinton that JFK…
How Barack Obama played the race card and blamed Hillary Clinton.
After several weeks of swooning, news reports are finally being filed about the gap between Senator Barack Obama’s promises of a pure, soul-cleansing “new” politics and the calculated, deeply dishonest conduct of his actually-existing campaign. But it remains to be seen whether the latest ploy by the Obama camp–over allegations about the circulation of a photograph of Obama in ceremonial Somali dress–will be exposed by the press as the manipulative illusion that it is.
Most of the recent correctives have concerned outrageously deceptive advertisements approved and released by Obama’s campaign. First, in Iowa, the Obama camp aired radio ads patterned on the notorious “Harry and Louise” Republican propaganda from 1993, charging falsely that Senator Hillary Clinton’s health care proposal would “force those who cannot afford health insurance to buy it, punishing those who won’t fall in line.” In subsequent primary and caucus campaigns, the Obama campaign sent out millions of mailers, also featuring the “Harry and Louise” motif, falsely claiming that Clinton favored “punishing families who can’t afford health care in the first place.” A few bloggers and columnists, notably Paul Krugman in TheNew York Times, described the ads as distorting, but the national press corps mainly ignored them–until Clinton herself, seeing the fraudulent mailers reappear in Ohio over the past weekend, publicly denounced them.
The Obama mass mailings also attempt to appeal to Ohio’s labor vote by claiming that Clinton believed that the North American Free Trade Agreement, signed in 1993 by President Bill Clinton, was a “‘boon’ to our economy.” More falsehood: In fact, Clinton had not said that; Newsday originally applied the word “boon” and has now noted the Obama campaign’s distortion. In this campaign, Clinton has called for a moratorium on all trade agreements until they are made consistent with labor and environmental standards–and account for the effect on jobs in the United States. Obama makes a big deal about how Bill Clinton signed NAFTA. But he fails to mention that, within the councils of her husband’s administration, Hillary Clinton was a skeptic of free trade agreements, and as a senator and candidate she has said that NAFTA contained flaws that need to be rectified. Ignoring all that, the Obama flyer features an alarming photograph of closed plant gates, having no connection to any action of Senator Clinton’s, as well as the dubious quotation about her from Newsday in 2006. Newsday has criticized “Obama’s use of the quotation” as “misleading … an example of the kind of slim reeds campaigns use to try and win an office.” Obama, without retracting the mailing (and while playing to protectionist sentiment in the party) said only that he would have his staff look into the matter–long after the ad has done its dirty work.
Race-mongering Rep. Diane Watson channels Ray Nagin
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Tipster JP passes along audio from a Black History Town Hall meeting last night held by Congressional Black Caucus leaders at Howard University in Washington, D.C.California Democrat Rep. Diane Watson, in discussing D.C. representation, channeled New Orleans Mayor Ray “Chocolate City” Nagin. Partial transcript:
Did you know your representatives can not vote? They can only vote in the committee as a whole. So what you’re going to have to do is declare the District [of Columbia] something like a state so they can have a proportional representation who vote. But that would give this district two senators and there are a lot of people on that floor who don’t want to see that occurbecause if there’s a chocolate city, this is it.
More at Michelle Malkin
In case you have not heard of Watson, here is a clip.
Former NBA all-star, now an NBA announcer for TNT, Charles Barkley has a unique take on conservatives and Republicans. He questions their faith.
Barkley appeared on CNN’s February 15 “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer,” not to discuss basketball, but to discuss who he is supporting for the 2008 presidential election. Barkley has said he was once supportive of the Republican Party because he believed Democrats wanted to raise his taxes. Now he has changed his tune and has adopted a very hostile tone – calling Republicans “fake Christians.”
“[B]ut I don’t like the way the Republicans are taking this country,” Barkley said. “Every time I hear the word conservative it makes me sick to my stomach because they’re really just fake Christians, as I call them. That’s all they are.”
However, Blitzer followed-up at the end of his interview with Barkley and asked him to elaborate on his “fake Christian claim.”
“Well, I think they want to be judge and jury,” Barkley said. “Like, I’m for gay marriage. It’s none of my business if gay people want to get married. I’m pro-choice. And I think these Christians, first of all, they’re not supposed to judge other people. But they’re the most hypocritical judge of people we have in the country. And it bugs the hell out of me. They act like they’re Christians. They’re not forgiving at all.”
So why is Barkley so adamant about supporting Barack Obama for president? Barkley said it was economics.
“Well, you know what, it won’t affect me at all,” Barkley said. “But what I really said was ‘I’m rich like a Republican.’ I never voted for a Republican. I’m actually an independent. But, I’m supporting Barack because I have to look at the big picture. This country is divided by economics between the rich and the poor and I’m going to support him all the way to the wall. I really like his chances right now.”
Barkley told Blitzer he wasn’t worried about any feedback he would get for making those comments.
“They can’t do anything to me,” Barkley said. “I don’t work for them.”
Barkley said he was planning to run for governor of Alabama in 2014. He reiterated his views on social issues, but didn’t say how he would campaign in a socially conservative state.
“I feel very comfortable saying I’m pro-choice, and I’m for gay marriage – very comfortable,” Barkley added.
In an ironic twist to the historic Democratic nominating contest between an African American and a woman, the balance of power may be held by a more familiar face: the white male.According to a Politico analysis, close to half of the 700-plus Democratic superdelegates who could end up determining the party nominee are white men.
One Obama superdelegate, a House member, had sharp criticism for the superdelegate racial and gender make-up, a reaction that reflects the sensitivities surrounding the issue.
“It’s still the old guard, the white men. They always want to control the outcome,” the superdelegate said. “But this time, they won’t be able to do it.”
That strong response could portend a messy intra-party fight in the event that superdelegates cast the decisive votes for the nominee.
Read the rest, but why bother, one way or another, race will find its way into every political or social conundrum.
Posting just in case you folks did not catch this article…
The campaign’s other most potent form of currency remains its thick deck of race cards. This was all too apparent in the Hallmark show. In its carefully calibrated cross section of geographically and demographically diverse cast members — young, old, one gay man, one vet, two union members — African-Americans were reduced to also-rans. One black woman, the former TV correspondent Carole Simpson, was given the servile role of the meeting’s nominal moderator, Ed McMahon to Mrs. Clinton’s top banana. Scattered black faces could be seen in the audience. But in the entire televised hour, there was not a single African-American questioner, whether to toss a softball or ask about the Clintons’ own recent misadventures in racial politics.
The Clinton camp does not leave such matters to chance. This decision was a cold, political cost-benefit calculus. In October, seven months after the two candidates’ dueling church perorations in Selma, USA Today found Hillary Clinton leading Mr. Obama among African-American Democrats by a margin of 62 percent to 34 percent. But once black voters met Mr. Obama and started to gravitate toward him, Bill Clinton and the campaign’s other surrogates stopped caring about what African-Americans thought. In an effort to scare off white voters, Mr. Obama was ghettoized as a cocaine user (by the chief Clinton strategist, Mark Penn, among others), “the black candidate” (as Clinton strategists told the Associated Press) and Jesse Jackson redux (by Mr. Clinton himself).
The result? Black America has largely deserted the Clintons. In her California primary victory, Mrs. Clinton drew only 19 percent of the black vote. The campaign saw this coming and so saw no percentage in bestowing precious minutes of prime-time television on African-American queries.
If Barack Obama becomes the next US president he will surely be assassinated, British Nobel literature laureate Doris Lessing predicted in a newspaper interview published here Saturday. Obama, who is vying to become the first black president in US history, “would certainly not last long, a black man in the position of president. They would murder him,” Lessing, 88, told the Dagens Nyheter daily.Lessing, who won the 2007 Nobel Literature Prize, said it might be better if Obama’s Democratic rival Hillary Clinton were to succeed in her bid to become the first woman president of the United States.”The best thing would be if they (Clinton and Obama) were to run together. Hillary is a very sharp lady. It might be calmer if she were to win, and not Obama,” she said.
Today’s birds of a feather entry: Race-hustler Maxine Waters is set to endorse Hillary Clinton in a conference call today. Maybe Hill will put a little Selma-style flavor in her voice today to celebrate. I came to know and loathe Waters when I lived and worked in Los Angeles. Here’s the column I wrote about Democrat pandering to Waters in August 2000. It still stands today:The Party of Maxine WatersShe is one of the most self-serving, hate-filled, race-obsessed politicians in America. The Democratic Party doesn’t just embrace her. It kneels at her feet.
Los Angeles Congresswoman Maxine Waters reigned supreme this week when Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Lieberman appeared before a black audience to “explain” himself. The Connecticut senator’s sins? Opposing affirmative action and supporting educational vouchers that benefit minority children. Lieberman, once a courageous voice for equal opportunity, has now been schooled: Pander hard and keep your dissenting thoughts to yourself.
After throwing a hissy-fit in the press because she had not been personally consulted about Al Gore’s veep picks (”I never had the opportunity to talk to anybody about it before he was decided on as the vice presidential choice,” she whined), Waters gave her benediction.
The skilled publicity hound dissed and then kissed Lieberman for the cameras; a cheek-to-cheek photo of the couple appeared in newspapers across the country.
Is “Canadian” the new black? Perhaps – that is if you’re a racist speaking in code.Recent revelations that the term “Canadian” is being used to replace racist names for black people have got a Texas assistant district attorney into trouble and have left others wondering what exactly it means to be labelled a Canadian in the American south.
Long derogated as weak-kneed liberals with lax laws and funny monopoly money, Canadians have carried a negative connotation in certain regions of America – but not as a replacement for the N-word.
Earlier this week a columnist with the Houston Chronicle uncovered an email from Harris County assistant district attorney Mike Trent who, in a congratulatory note to a junior prosecutor, used the word “Canadians” to describe blacks on a jury.
Trent wrote of the prosecutor in a 2003 email: “He overcame a subversively good defence by Matt Hennessey that had some Canadians on the jury feeling sorry for the defendant and forced them to do the right thing.”
Trent’s email remained unchallenged by colleagues who received the email, despite there being no actual Canadians on the jury.
But when Trent’s office came under scrutiny this month over an unrelated incident, the email was unearthed, leaving Trent open to accusations of bigotry.
Those accusations are grounded in allegations that the use of “Canadians” was in keeping with the definition listed on an online racial slurs database that defines “Canadian” as a masked replacement for the N-word.
In his own defence, Trent said he honestly thought there had been Canadians on the jury and did not understand the negative connotation of the word.
Others, including the columnist with the Houston Chronicle initially thought the reference to Canadians may have been a misspelling of Californians, who are themselves seen to espouse many of the same liberal values as Canadians.
Despite the controversy, Henry Wells, a Texan and media relations officer with the Canadian Consulate General in Dallas, says he has never heard the term used in a racial manner before.
Sen. Barack Obama’s longtime friend and spiritual adviser trashed the memory of a missing and presumed dead American teenage girl, according to church publications reviewed by WND.Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the controversial minister of Obama’s church in Chicago, cited the case of Natalee Holloway’s disappearance in Aruba in complaining about what he sees as the media’s bias in covering white victims of crime over black victims.
“Black women are being raped daily in Darfur, Sudan, in the Congo and in Sub-Saharan Africa. That doesn’t make news,” Wright said in the August 2005 edition of Trumpet Magazine, a publication of his Trinity United Church of Christ.
But, “One 18-year-old white girl from Alabama gets drunk on a graduation trip to Aruba, goes off and ‘gives it up’ while in a foreign country, and that stays in the news for months!” he added. “Maybe I am missing something!”
Oh some of you white folks are gonna want to throw shit at your computer but what the hell.
Dude is 100% correct. Every time some pretty little white girl goes missing the media and the general public goes into a frenzy.
Don’t get me wrong, any child that goes missing is a tragedy, but the fact that this society, focusing on the media, does not treat missing black children the same as missing white children is a crime.
I know what you are thinking, and you would be wrong.
In case you folks did not know, Mrs. Snoop is white, thereby I have a number of white nieces and nephews, my daughter is half white, and I have a white blonde blue eyed grandbaby that is as much a part of me as any DNA confirmed blood relative.
And the thought that one of my grandchildren would be treated differently simply based on their skin pigmentation would simply be wrong.
I don’t love any more or less based on skin color, never have, and never will, it frankly is not part of my personality.
Although I read WND often, this article and many others on Obama seek to paint him as black and as Negro as possible, doing the Clinton’s dirty work.
I’m not an Obama fan by any stretch, and have no plans on voting for him. Also I’m not like a great number of black folks who see the possibility of Obama becoming president as some sort of feather in my Negro cap. Whether or not Obama is elected or whether or not any black candidate is ever elected president does not make me more of a man, will not make me any prouder to be black or raise my racial self esteem, it is a silly premise.
However as these stories come out, it tis simply another reminder that far too many white people will stop at nothing to ensure you are reminded that electing a Negro to the presidency could be a detriment to America’s “white way of life.”
Bill Clinton dozed off at the Convent Avenue Baptist Church in Harlem just as his wife was receiving the endorsement (or, more properly, the blessing) of Calvin Butts at Abyssinian Baptist Church, eight or so blocks away. This church had been the pulpit of Adam Clayton Powell Jr. — “Mr. Jesus” to his congregation, member of Congress and husband to the politically fearless lefty (just one instance: as a witness before the House Un-American Activities Committees) and staggeringly sexual songstress of my youth, Hazel Scott, like Lena Horne. A randy fellow. I don’t think that black preachers have the sway they once had. Or white ministers, for that matter, except for those who are evangelicals and fundamentalists operating out of humongous mall churches.But back to the black ministers and their diminished sway. The decline of preacher power is a coming of age of the African-American population, much as it is among Irish and Italian Catholics or Jews or, for a demographically near-fatal shift, mainstream Protestants, who mostly and at best think their ministers are irrelevant. The black clerisy cannot any longer instruct its parishoners about their voting. It is an irony, of course, that the Harlem pastorate’s last swing at real political influence over their congregations is for a white woman and against a black man. Yet it also emphasizes their reactionary cast. No one since Martin Luther King has anyone so inspired and energized young whites as Barack Obama. This, then, is a real cross-racial alliance built on the cultural and educational achievements of African-Americans and on the true openness of whites and Asians to their black brothers and sisters. The bond between every Calvin Butts in America and Hillary is the old fix, pliant for the former, patronizing for the latter. And, as for the latter and her husband, it is also ugly. An article in this morning’s Financial Times by Edward Luce and Stephanie Kirchgaessner makes clear how perilous this is for the Clintons — and for the Democrats, in general. The most significant trap is that Bill risks making himself the prime issue of his wife’s campaign, two nasty and unimaginably calculating folk baying at Barack Obama whom almost everyone finds gracious. Me too.
There is a calculus to the Clintons trying to make Obama run as the black candidate. It is to stir up fear in one part of Hillary’s constituency, white women and particularly older white women. The other goal for Hillary is to turn Obama into a taunt for Hispanic Americans. After all, there was not one significant black figure in the Clinton administration, except on what you’d have to call the black reservations like Housing. Yes, there was the supreme fixer outside the administration, probably because he couldn’t get confirmed for anything or no plausible appointment was high enough for him, Vernon Jordan. The Clintons did not offend Hispanic Americans, not at all. For instance, they made Bill Richardson U.N. ambassador.
One of the largely unexamined frontiers in American politics is the one between African-Americans and Hispanic Americans, and it is at best a frosty frontier. There are more voting Latinos than there are voting blacks in the electorate, and probably more in the larger states that are soon to have primaries. Like New York and California on Super Tuesday. Watch for malicious mischief.
Another idiot Negro flunky bowing down and kissing Hillary’s skank ass like a plantation house Nigga.
It’s all about the dead presidents. He is being asked to deliver the Niggas to the plantation, and for succeeding dude gets paid and likely some time in the Lincoln bedroom.
Butts does not care that he comes across here like a slavish little bitch, reading a statement prepared by Hillary’s staff.
Negros unfortunately has no qualms about riding the coattails of race baiting Democrats.
By Walter Williams - Townhall
