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”
Nothing really new here just some typical 411 regarding Obama’s race baiting bullshit.
Just remember as of today even as pathetic a candidate as John McCain is Barack Hussein Obama is only a few points up on him in the polls.
Wow, imagine if the Republicans were running a legit rock solid conservative candidate someone with backbone and a clear vision.
I think people are starting to get really sick of Obama and his arrogant ass; white folks are tired of his racial pandering and his convoluted and often confused vision for the country.
The media is really worried about his current standing. All of the pandering and grandstanding liberal media types and talk show pundits have done for him has apparently done little to persuade as many people as they hoped.
SIDEBAR: Now all of this will fly out the window if the STRONG rumors of John McCain picking Joe Lieberman are true.
I have been reading numerous sources and asked some people in the know that I am familiar with in the McCain campaign and they said that the possibility of having the former DEMOCRAT Vice presidential nominee on a Republican ticket is very likely.
If this is true I’m pretty certain that rock solid conservative types will say fuck it and bail and simply say let Hussein and the Democrats have the country.
Now back to Obama the “race” man.
“Nobody thinks that Bush and McCain have a real answer to the challenges we face. So what they’re going to try to do is make you scared of me,” Obama said. “You know, ‘He’s not patriotic enough, he’s got a funny name,’ you know, ‘He doesn’t look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills.’”
“now that Obama has played the race card in the Democratic presidential campaign my respect for him has diminished. By playing the race card I mean inappropriately exploiting race in the hope of personal or political gain. The controversy began when Hillary Clinton said, “Dr. King’s dream began to be realized when President Lyndon Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, when he was able to get through Congress something that President Kennedy was hopeful to do, the president before had not even tried, but it took a president to get it done.”
Perhaps this sentence was not perfectly or artfully phrased, but it said nothing more than the basic truth that it took both the moral force and organizing and rhetorical genius of Martin Luther King Jr. and the inside political skills of President Lyndon Johnson to gain passage of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964. The remark did not diminish the accomplishments of Dr. King.
When Obama’s supporters used these remarks to charge that Hillary Clinton was insensitive to King’s accomplishments and the aspirations of African-Americans, Obama should have stepped in immediately to put an end to this phony, manufactured controversy. Instead, he fanned the flames of conflict by saying, “Senator Clinton made an unfortunate remark, an ill-advised remark, about King and Lyndon Johnson.” Later, Obama backed off, saying, “I don’t want the campaign at this stage to degenerate into so much tit for tat, back and forth, that we lose sight of why all of us are doing this. We’ve got too much at stake at this time in our history to be engaging in this kind of silliness.” By then, however, it was too late. The damage was done.
At a fund-raiser in Jacksonville, Fl., presumptive Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) said he expects Republicans to inject race into the campaign. Pool report from John Broder, New York Times:
Obama “The choice is clear. Most of all we can choose between hope and fear. It is going to be very difficult for Republicans to run on their stewardship of the economy or their outstanding foreign policy. We know what kind of campaign they’re going to run. They’re going to try to make you afraid. They’re going to try to make you afraid of me. He’s young and inexperienced and he’s got a funny name. And did I mention he’s black?”
Misleading propaganda is hardly new in American politics –although the adoption of techniques reminiscent of past Republican and special-interest hit jobs, right down to a retread of the fictional couple, seems strangely at odds with a campaign that proclaims it will redeem the country from precisely these sorts of divisive and manipulative tactics. As insidious as these tactics are, though, the Obama campaign’s most effective gambits have been far more egregious and dangerous than the hypocritical deployment of deceptive and disingenuous attack ads. To a large degree, the campaign’s strategists turned the primary and caucus race to their advantage when they deliberately, falsely, and successfully portrayed Clinton and her campaign as unscrupulous race-baiters–a campaign-within-the-campaign in which the worked-up flap over the Somali costume photograph is but the latest episode. While promoting Obama as a “post-racial” figure, his campaign has purposefully polluted the contest with a new strain of what historically has been the most toxic poison in American politics.
More than any other maneuver, this one has brought Clinton into disrepute with important portions of the Democratic Party. A review of what actually happened shows that the charges that the Clintons played the “race card” were not simply false; they were deliberately manufactured by the Obama camp and trumpeted by a credulous and/or compliant press corps in order to strip away her once formidable majority among black voters and to outrage affluent, college-educated white liberals as well as college students. The Clinton campaign, in fact, has not racialized the campaign, and never had any reason to do so. Rather the Obama campaign and its supporters, well-prepared to play the “race-baiter card” before the primaries began, launched it with a vengeance when Obama ran into dire straits after his losses in New Hampshire and Nevada–and thereby created a campaign myth that has turned into an incontrovertible truth among political pundits, reporters, and various Obama supporters. This development is the latest sad commentary on the malign power of the press, hyping its own favorites and tearing down those it dislikes, to create pseudo-scandals of the sort that hounded Al Gore during the 2000 campaign. It is also a commentary on how race can make American politics go haywire. Above all, it is a commentary on the cutthroat, fraudulent politics that lie at the foundation of Obama’s supposedly uplifting campaign.
I remember when I first ran for the state Senate - my very first race. A seat had opened up, and some friends asked me if I’d be interested in running. Well, I thought about it, and then I did what every wise man does when faced with a difficult decision: I prayed, and I asked my wife.
And after consulting with these higher powers, I threw my hat in the ring and I did what every person on a campaign does - I talked to anyone who’d listen.
I went to bake sales and barber shops and if there were two guys standing on the corner I’d pull up and hand them literature. And everywhere I went I’d get two questions:
First, they’d ask, “Where’d you get that funny name, Barack Obama?” Because people just couldn’t pronounce it. They’d call me “Alabama,” or they’d call me “Yo Mama.” And I’d have to explain that I got the name from my father, who was from Kenya
If you sell drugs, being black will land you in prison… well DUH?
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
First read the editorial from the Modesto Bee in California
A drug raid at San Diego State University last week made headlines. Student drug dealers were caught openly selling drugs to fellow students over the Internet, in fraternity houses and in dormitories. The arrests of children of privilege is noteworthy mostly because of its rarity. Despite rampant drug use on many college campuses, student dealers and users seldom risk prosecution.The novelty of the SDSU raid stands in sharp contrast to the contents of two reports issued last week about the nation’s 30-year “war on drugs.” The reports detail the devastating effects of a drug policy that has targeted poor blacks in inner cities even as rates of illegal drug use have remained similar for blacks and whites.
The reports, one by the Sentencing Project and the other by Human Rights Watch, rely on federal law enforcement data to document racial disparity in drug arrests and imprisonment. The statistics show a consistent pattern of discriminatory enforcement that has sent blacks — young men especially, but black women as well — to prison at rates disproportionate to their presence in the population.
According to the Human Rights Watch report, African-American men are nearly 12 times as likely to be imprisoned for drug convictions as whites. In its report, “Targeting Blacks: Drug Enforcement and Race in the United States,” Human Rights Watch includes statistics from the 2003 National Corrections Reporting Program. Combined reports from the 34 states that responded show that blacks are imprisoned for drug crimes at a rate of 256 for every 100,000 African-Americans. Whites were imprisoned at a rate of 25 per 100,000. In California the rate was 280 blacks in prison for drug crimes per 100,000 compared to 26 for whites.
The incarceration strategy has had a destructive impact on black communities. For black men, imprisonment carries a stain that is impossible to erase. It leads to joblessness and hopelessness that in turn translates into more crime.
It has contributed to the widespread belief among African-Americans that the criminal justice system is racist, that young black men selling nickel bags of crack in the gritty inner city of San Diego are more likely to be arrested, prosecuted and sent to prison than young white men who sell drugs out of frat houses. The reports give those beliefs substance.
The point here is not to treat white drug dealers more harshly. What the nation needs is a drug strategy that treats everyone equally and moves from a failed strategy of expensive incarceration toward greater emphasis on treatment, education and creating other opportunities; programs less damaging to individuals and communities.
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I’m posting this as a Snoop public service, to remind you white people just how evil and racist you are!! LOL!
I have been reading shit loads of articles from Black websites and blogs hammering the point home about the incarceration rates of blacks vs. whites and how unfair the judicial system is when it comes to prosecuting black folks for drug offenses and how white folks tend to get a slap on the wrist.
However let me say what black websites and blogs won’t say. Negros who live in the communities where drug dealers and crackheads crawl around the hoods like roaches actually are HAPPY that many of these thug drug dealers get their asses thrown in jail.
Black community leaders often appeal to the police to be more vigilant in arresting these people. I’m thinking good, if more prisons need to be constructed to remove from society people who obviously show contempt for a criminal free society then so be it.
Let get real, sensitive Negros don’t read if you are easily angered, but white folks who deal drugs in the suburbs are not blasting mutherfuckers in the streets in whiteyville battling over drug turf.
Shit I live in Lawrence, Kansas and I’m sure that there are many white folks here who light up on a daily basis, but they are not shooting up their neighbors, robbing neighborhood liquor stores for drug money, hanging out on the street corners with other whiteys pimping out hoes and using little kids to make drug runs which increase crime, lower property values and lowers the quality of life.
Yes I know there are the toothless, acne scared, mullet sporting meth rednecks living in aluminum shoe boxes on wheels who instead of wreaking havoc in their neighborhoods limit their abuse to their wives, girlfriends and kids.
I get just a tad bit irritated because these blogs and websites whining like little bitches complaining about whitey not getting arrested and why Negros get caught up in the criminal game instead of focusing on how we can help prevent another generation of crackheads from terrorizing urban communities and giving the kids in those areas a shot at escaping the hood through education.
My dad told me long ago that white people have a distinct advantage in life, but he also told me that the sooner I got over that little fact and lived my life accordingly the better off I would be.
He also reminded me that “not all white people are as smart as many think they are, so you must be ready to step in when those white folks to stupid to take advantage of their lofty status are asleep at the switch. Because there are actually some white people who care more about results than color,”
I have worked to several in my life; he always reminded me that only less educated white folks have this color chip.
Bottom line too many black folks are too busy bitching and complaining about that whitey advantage than taking advantage of the multiple opportunities that this country provides.
Back to the criminal front, if Niggas are too stupid to realize that the police dragnet is just a little tighter in the hoods then they have nobody to blame but themselves.
Why not try the obvious, stay away from criminal activity and don’t associate with other criminals, maybe…just maybe it may decrease your chances of appearing in your local criminal court.
I swear Negros act as if they have a unique brand of misery. I oft wonder, when Negro women are appearing on Maury multiple times because they can’t figure out the sperm donor, or like an episode of Judge Mathis I watched the other day where this mother took her 18 year old son to court because of bail money he supposedly owed her, never mind that the mom has been on crack the kids entire life and he was trying to support himself and his little brother I thinking what the fuck?
I’m not trying to be difficult but when I read articles like this one from the Philadelphia paper on The African American Family Conference, where they had community workshops offered nearly 30 seminars on subjects including youth empowerment, fatherhood, violence, and family life skills.
How many fucken conferences do we need to have to teach people about fundamentally basic life issues? You mean some black dude needs to attend a conference to remind himself that he has a responsibility to be a father to a child or that committing violence either in the home or in your community if frowned upon?
I mean, damm is our society getting more and more retarded where folks have to be taught everything from basic parenting skills to how not to punch your wife after a drunken stupor? This is just mind numbingly pathetic.
White People Won’t Vote for Blacks, Congressman Charges
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
NOTE: This is an old post from 2006. But since we just had a primary in “racist” Pennsylvania yesterday and North Carolina is coming up, and since the Obamatopia is fading since we have discovered so much about his past, just keep this post in mind in the next few weeks.
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I have been hearing a lot about the ramifications of the political ads targeted at Harold Ford in Tennessee.
People on the left claim the ads were “racist” but I disagree with the racist slam, but I do agree there was some race baiting in the ads and this is something that all black political candidates, especially men, have to deal with.
White folks don’t have to view political ads to be reminded of their biases.
Chris Wallace of Fox talked in an interview about the 15% lie.
Basically black candidates will poll 15 points better in public opinion polls than they do in the voting booth. Makes sense to me.
The article below talked about 30 percent of folks in NC said they would not vote for a black candidate under any circumstances, I believe this is true throughout the country.
This is not rocket science. 45 or 50 years ago there were millions of white folks taking their kids out of schools, keeping black kids from attending schools, refusing to serve black folks in restaurants and other crazy shit. These people are now in their 60’s, 70’s and 80’s. These people vote.
You think a generation of crazy ass white people yelling obscenities at little kids entering a school has changes their stripes enough to actually vote for a nigga running for public office?
C’mon people tis not that hard to process
Don’t get mad at ole Snoop for pointing out the obvious.
I’m shocked I don’t see a political commercial that would contain the following:
“This is James Doe (black guy) a candidate for the United States Senate.”
(his photo stays on the screen for 20 seconds or more, NOTHING is said)
“you have been warned, vote Tim Doe in November” .
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By Nathan Burchfiel
CNSNews.com Correspondent - From October 2005(CNSNews.com) - The chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus on Friday urged his Capitol Hill colleagues to extend and strengthen the Voting Rights Act in order to “level the playing field” because, U.S. Rep. Melvin Watt said, “white people … will not consider voting for an African American candidate.”
Watt, a Democrat from North Carolina, made the remarks at a Washington hearing held by the National Commission on the Voting Rights Act. The commission, a project of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, is conducting nationwide hearings to gather data on voter discrimination for a report it will issue supporting the extension of the Voting Rights Act.
Watt told Cybercast News Service that his views are based on a 1980s blind poll of North Carolinians, which he said revealed that 30 percent of whites would not vote for a black candidate under any circumstances.
Watt told the commission that if another poll were conducted today, “there would be a substantial majority of white voters who would say that under no circumstances would they vote for an African American candidate.” He later amended his comments, allowing that “some of them would.”
The number of white Americans who would refuse to vote for a minority candidate is “decreasing,” Watt conceded, but he maintained that the Voting Rights Act should “adjust districts to take [racially motivated voting] into account.”
Voters refusing to vote for a minority candidate “need to be factored out of the equation,” according to Watt, because “I’ve got no use for them in the democratic process.”
Watt admitted that some black voters only cast ballots for black candidates, but said in those cases, the voters are exercising “preference,” which he said is different than “an absolute commitment” to cast a vote based on race.
“Black people have not had the luxury of being able to say, ‘Under no circumstances will I vote for a white candidate,’” Watt said.
However, he also advocated a race-based solution to the problem he described. The solution — expanding the Voting Rights Act to encourage minority candidate victories is “exactly the same thing” as citizens voting against a minority candidate, Watt said. “The only way to level the playing field is to take race into account on the other side.”
While much of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 is permanent, several sections periodically come up for renewal in Congress. Three provisions will expire in August 2007 if Congress does not extend them.
Section 5 requires jurisdictions in 16 states to obtain U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) approval if they want to change voting methods. Sections 6-9 authorize the DOJ to send federal observers to those jurisdictions to deter and report voter discrimination. Section 203 requires counties with significant numbers of non-English-speaking residents to provide translation assistance at all stages of the voting process.
The last time the provisions were reauthorized was 1982, when President Ronald Reagan extended them for 25 years.
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.
Guess I won’t be calling Mika Brzezinski a “newsreader” again anytime soon. She went to Iowa over the weekend and scored an in-depth interview with Michelle Obama that included a highly-controversial suggestion from the candidate’s wife.
According to Mrs. Obama, her husband isn’t polling better among African-Americans because in the back of their minds, many blacks think “others” are better.
Folks let’s forget the fact that I’m by no stretch an Obama supporter, but Mrs. Obama is 100% correct. It is as she states, the legacy of racism in this society that black folks choose to diss their own in favor of what is “white.”
I remember an episode of Sanford and Son as a little kid, where Fred had to go to the doctor, or dentist I think and he “insisted” that his doc be not only white, but a Jew. Yes that is a fictional show but I’m telling y’all this is very real in the black community. Amongst our own folks anything black is typically inferior.
Quickly my own personal take, for several years prior to moving I had a black doctor and dentist. I had a great relationship with them and they were decent dudes in all but it wasn’t until I moved and found a really good young, white female doctor that I discovered I has some serious health issues that somehow were missed by my brotha docs.
Long story short, the “discovery” of my diabetes, and high blood pressure, more detailed analysis of some of my chronic back pains, more detailed discovery and analysis of my diet and need for exercise.
More detailed test on my eyes and minor skin problems, what I’m getting at folks is why did my new community and hence my new docs do FAR more detailed scrutiny that my much older experienced black docs, who should have been more versed in these ailments typically found in black males?
Let me tell you, I had the same “black is inferior” complex, but I went to many of the black health care professionals mostly out of let’s just say “community pressure” and at the time political expediency. I worked in the black community on a number of issues and I was a visible presence particularly working on community health issues, and I wanted to show support for black health care professionals.
Again what does this have to do with black supporting Obama? Well I guarantee you much of what Mrs. Obama discusses in this interview is part of why dude is not getting near as much political support from blacks as maybe he should.
NOW having said that, as dude says at the end of the video clip “blacks are under no obligation to support him, based solely on his race.” That would just be stupid. Also Hillary was married to “the first black president,” and black folks are very loyal, LOL!
Again, what I have said in another post today and have been saying all along, a black man has ZERO chance of being president. And make no mistake I’m not the only black dude who would say this. I’m just up front about it, whereas most black people would keep this to themselves or would only say this only in the company of other black people.
Michelle Obama is going to get some big time grief for spilling black folks business into the streets. But this black inferiority complex shit is “fo real!” Obama is just another casualty of this ongoing psychological struggle in the minds of way too many black folks.
A great deal of blacks, typically the “less educated” will hitch to that Hillary train no matter what.
They know that train will take them much further in their minds. Black folks you see are “limited” in how far they can go.
Reality TV star Duane “Dog” Chapman has apologized for repeatedly using a racial slur (HE SAID NIGGER) in a private phone call to his son.
The star of “Dog the Bounty Hunter” allegedly told his son to break-up with his black girlfriend during a taped conversation that was leaked online.
Chapman was forced to issue an apology after bosses at A&E television suspended production on his reality series.
He says, “My sincerest, heartfelt apologies go out to every person I have offended for my regrettable use of very inappropriate language. I am deeply disappointed in myself for speaking out of anger to my son and using such a hateful term in a private phone conversation.”
A spokesman for A&E says, “We take this matter very seriously. Pending an investigation, we have suspended production on the series. When the inquiry is concluded we will take appropriate action.”
Who is he kidding, just like when the racist prick said that “blacks were less intelligent than whites,” who gives a shit, he was only showing his true colors. He is not apologizing because he gives a shit about “hurting” people; he is going to lose money and fame.
Now we have to hear every fucken TV show debate this stupid shit again.
White people who are honest with themselves would say hell when I see certain black folks I think “damm niggers!” However getting caught calling someone a nigger does not usually cost you a career.
There are, as he ought to know, plenty of black conservatives. There are plenty of African American parents teaching their children the same lessons of hard work and self-reliance that Thomas’s grandfather taught him. The black church, I would argue, is one of the more socially conservative major institutions in the nation.
Black America has never been monolithic in its views, but black Americans do vote almost monolithically for Democrats. That wouldn’t necessarily be the case if Richard Nixon hadn’t built an electoral strategy on a race-based appeal to Southern whites — and if every Republican presidential candidate and party leader since Nixon hadn’t followed suit. Just last week, the four leading contenders for the Republican nomination all skipped a forum at historically black Morgan State University. As long as snubbing black voters is seen as smart politics in the Republican Party, black conservatives have good reason to stick with the Democrats.
Robinson goes on to explain why, until the cows come home, black conservatives like Clarence Thomas will be known as the self-loathers they are.
Ok why did I post this, because unlike ass kissing Democrat sycophants like the jackass who posted this crap and the idiot Eugene Robinson who wrote the post piece I think it’s eye opening to read the ridiculous hateful ranting of idiot liberal Negros as they still are bitter that a conservative black man who refuses to drink the “red flavored” liberal kool-aid still is castigated by these ghetto flunkies.
Oliver Willis in case you don’t know is the token Negro at Media Matters and to impress his liberal hippie white boy frat friends, loves to sell his soul to the Democratic Party to show he is the good Negro.
This is on his site: The views on this site are mine and mine alone, they do not reflect the views of my employer, Media Matters for America
I always find this amusing when I peep this fools site.
Anywho, Eugene still whines about the Republicans not attending the debate last week and still bitches and moans about the “southern strategy” invented by Republicans to fuck black folks over.
For all the bitching about the no shows I have still not found any idiot Negro who can articulate why not attending some bullshit debate is a swipe at me as a black man.
If you even listen to any Negro on CNN, on Meet the Depressed, or some other liberal pundit shows they still use the “southern strategy” buzzwords, recommended talking points for all black rednecks.
What Tavis and other clueless Negros wanted to hear was crap like Brownback stated, saying the United States should issue an official apology condemning slavery, or maybe more rhetoric about reparations, increasing the minimum wage, more affirmative action crap.
Later in the piece it is even more amusing that idiot Negros still believe Anita “hot lips” Hill and still see her as a the hero of workplace sexual harassments issues, when as Thomas said, that entire theatrical exercise was simply about abortion and using hot lips as a propaganda tool.
Black folks like Robinson, Walters, Smiley, this blogger Willis who receive perks from the Democratic Party establishment continue to write paid hit pieces to ensure that their audience of retards ass white liberals continue to view “free thinking” black men who happen to be conservatives as an enigma and a threat.
It’s not enough that we disagree how to get to the perceived promise land, conservative ideals particularly coming from black folks must be destroyed and buried.
These people can kiss my black ass.
This is one of the few times I agree with Jessie Jackson. Hussein is acting like a pussy. I have read in great detail about this issue and these black kids are being fucked. Hussein should have been on the first flight down there to take a stand on the issue.
The fact that he is not doing or saying jack says volumes.
(link) The Rev. Jesse Jackson called Tuesday on Democrats seeking the 2008 nomination for president to give S.C. voters “something to vote for” when they go to the polls in January.
On a statewide tour to register new voters, Jackson said South Carolina will determine “who has momentum” in the primary when it votes Jan. 29.
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.
Jackson also said Obama, who consistently has placed second in state and national polls behind New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, must be “bolder” in his political positions if he is to erase Clinton’s lead.
Jackson is the only African-American ever to carry South Carolina in a presidential primary election.
Obama’s South Carolina campaign pointed to a statement it released last week in which Obama called on the local Louisiana district attorney to drop the excessive charges brought in the case.
“When nooses are being hung in high schools in the 21st century, it’s a tragedy,” the Obama statement said. “It shows that we still have a lot of work to do as a nation to heal our racial tensions.”
Thousands from across the country, including some from Columbia, are expected to converge on the small town of Jena today to protest the “Jena 6” arrests.
Jackson told the 500 to 600 students in his audience at Benedict that “criminal injustice,” instead of a rope, is the pressing civil rights issue of their day, but that voting remained their strongest ally.
“Your fight is not about ropes, it’s about hope,” Jackson said, blasting the flood of guns and violence he said permeates many black communities.
Civil rights, he said, has become the counterculture of the day rather than the prevailing culture. “You can’t call on the Justice Department anymore; it’s not there.”
Jackson, who became only the second major black candidate to run for president, won five primaries in his 1984 bid for the office, then 11 primaries and nearly 7 million votes in his 1988 run.
He said the 2008 presidential candidates must speak most directly to the pressing S.C. issues of housing, high tuition costs, health care and a plan to end the war in Iraq.
“The candidates have got to speak to South Carolina,” said Jackson, who was traveling also to S.C. State University in Orangeburg and to Charleston Tuesday evening before wrapping up his registration drive tonight in Aiken.
A Greenville native, Jackson said he hoped to register thousands of new voters during the statewide swing, which began Saturday in Rock Hill.
“Their votes must equal change,” he said, referring to residents in a state where only 1 in 4 eligible voters go to the polls. “I want to make sure the right agenda is being voted on in 2008.”
His approach worked for senior mass-communications major Darius Dior Porcher, 21, who graduated from famed Scotts Branch High School in Clarendon County, which produced the Briggs v. Elliott school desegregation case of 1954.
“The main thing when you speak to students is to get them to move,” Porcher said. “He moved students today. He got them to come down to the floor and register to vote.”
I can’t tell you how many idiot ass white people I have read over the past several days that keep writing these stupid ass articles about Michael Vick repeating this ridiculous notion that DOGFIGHTING IS PART OF THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN CULTURE.
What fucken planet are you idiots getting this from?
Dog fighting is no more part of the Negro culture than is baggy pants, parking on the lawn, 40’s, hair weaves and press on nails.
Before any more of you dumbass white people keep spreading this bullshit nonsense, try having a conversation with a Negro who is not from the hood, at least a graduate from high school, employed, wearing a belt and is not named after a major kitchen appliance, a car or some faux “African” sounding name ending with “quan.”
I am a dog lover and have adopted and rescued abused dogs. I believe that inhumane treatment to animals is counter to the best interests of our society. On the other hand, I do believe in proportionate justice and the Michael Vick case is a horrible example of disproportionate justice against blacks and its consequences could be profound.There are many cultures in the world that accept and promote cruelty to animals. In some countries of Hispanic origin, bullfighting is promoted as a national sport. And dogs are eaten in some Asian countries.
It is my understanding that dog fighting is part of the African-American culture despite the fact that it is a federal crime. That does not make it right, but it does explain in part Vick’s participation in this event.
President Bush commuted the sentence of Irving “Scooter” Libby for crimes he committed knowingly which compromised our national security. Surely he could find it in his heart to use the same rationalization for commuting Libby’s sentence. If Libby paid enough of a price for his crime, surely Vick should be given the same consideration since he has lost his over $125 million and his career.
Obama’s Pastor sounds more like a hate spewing imam. I am shocked this hasn’t gotten real media play (oh yeah, it’s Obama.) The more you peel back the layers of the Obama onion, the more rotten it is at its core. Obama’s checkered resume. Mickey Kaus in Slate; hat tip Ed Lasky
Old CW:Not Black Enough; New CW: What’s All This Black Business? Tom Maguire wonders why Jodi Kantor’s front-page NYT piece on Barack Obama’s pastor, Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright, hasn’t generated more controversy. Having now read it, I tend to agree. I’d certainly be more comfortable with a presidential nominee whose main spiritual man 1) hadn’t visited Col. Qaddafi (even back in ‘84); 2) talked less about “oppression” and “this racist United States of America;”3) when discussing the solution to poverty, talked more about individual achievement and less about the role of “community”–including maybe even celebrating “middleclassness” instead of using it as shorthand for selfishness; 4) in general wasn’t so obsessed with race
Oprah discussion day 2, Ghetto minstrels circling the wagons…
Tuesday, April 17th, 2007
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This is Oprah discussion day 2, on Imus and racism and rap music, this discussion was a joke because Russell Simmons and the other ghetto minstrels on the panel are simply circling the wagons.
This topic does not need a lot of discussion because these black men are simply getting rich of the backs and “asses” of black women.
It was clear during this discussion that they don’t want to acknowledge their role in demeaning women and glamorizing ghetto clown culture.
Simmons referred to these fools as “poets” which told me immediately that nothing will change.
Simmons and this other dude in the clip even went so far as to call these rap thugs “victims of a racist society.”
Watch the clip and be amazed at the level of stupidity.
Below is an article I found that spells out this situation perfectly.
One of the guest complained about the “lynch mob mentality towards hip hop” I say GOOD we need it to clean up this crap. All black folks need to beat back this idiot ghetto culture.
******* Article: Hip-Hop’s Betrayal of Black Women
Kevin Powell in Notes of a HipHop Head writes, “Indeed, like rock and roll, hip-hop sometimes makes you think we men don’t like women much at all, except to objectify them as trophy pieces or, as contemporary vernacular mandates, as baby mommas, chickenheads, or bitches.
“But just as it was unfair to demonize men of color in the 1960s solely as wild-eyed radicals when what they wanted, amidst their fury, was a little freedom and a little power, today it is wrong to categorically dismiss hip-hop without taking into serious consideration the socioeconomic conditions (and the many record labels that eagerly exploit and benefit from the ignorance of many of these young artists) that have led to the current state of affairs. Or, to paraphrase the late Tupac Shakur, we were given this world, we did not make it.”
Powell’s “socio-economic” explanation for the sexism in hip-hop is a way to silence feminist critiques of the culture. It is to make an understanding of the misogynistic objectification of black women in hip-hop so elusive that we can’t grasp it long enough to wring the neck of its power over us. His argument completely ignores the fact that women, too, are raised in this environment of poverty and violence, but have yet to produce the same negative and hateful representation of black men that male rappers are capable of making against women.
Powell’s understanding also lends itself to elitist assumption that somehow poverty breeds sexism, or at least should excuse it. Yet we all know that wealthy white boys can create the same hateful and violent music as poor black boys. As long as the boys can agree that their common enemy is female and that their power resides in their penis, women must not hesitate to name the war they have declared on us.
Hip-hop owes its success to the ideology of woman-hating. It creates, perpetuates, and reaps the rewards of objectification. Sexism and homophobia saturate hip-hop culture and any deviation from these forms of bigotry is made marginal to its most dominant and lucrative expressions. Few artists dare to embody equality and respect between the sexes through their music. Those who do have to fight to be heard above the dominant chorus of misogyny.
The most well known artists who represent an underground and conscious force in hip-hop—like Common, The Roots, Talib Kweli, and others—remain inconsistent, apologetic, and even eager to join the mainstream player’s club. Even though fans like me support them because of their moments of decency toward women, they often want to remain on the fence by either playing down their consciousness or by offering props to misogynistic rappers. Most socalled conscious artists appear to care more about their own acceptance by mainstream artists than wanting to make positive changes in the culture.
The House Judiciary Committee, under the new leadership of Representative John Conyers Jr., Democrat of Michigan, is planning hearings on the laws, starting later this month or in early February. One of the first issues planned for review is the sentencing disparity between offenses involving powder and crack cocaine. Read full article.
Below is an article I posted back in November and my brief on the issue.
This is why I love blogging you don’t have to reinvent the wheel and find new stuff because the Democrats keep going back to the same old playbook.
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I have never understood the crack vs Powder cocaine sentencing crap.
Also being someone that has never injected, snorted, cooked, smoked crack or cocaine I thought the simple goal was to get high.
You mean to tell me that some white person out there when offered some crack would say “goly gee no I don’t want that crack stuff, only Negros smoke that shit, besides didn’t you know about the sentencing guidelines if you get caught?” Sorry I just can’t process that.
If there is some crackhead or other dope fiend out there that can explain it to me please feel free.
(Published Edited - Wall Street Journal - April 29, 1997, by Wayne J. Roques. Mr. Roques is a retired Drug Enforcement Administration agent.)
Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court injected some reason into the debate over alleged racial disparity in sentencing for crack cocaine vs. powder cocaine. The justices let stand the 10-year prison sentence of Duane Edwards, a black man convicted for selling 126 grams of crack to an undercover officer for $3,400. Edwards’s lawyers had argued that their client was a victim of discrimination because a conviction for the sale of an equal amount (in weight, not dollars) of powdered cocaine — a drug preferred by non-minorities — would have garnered a lighter sentence.
Prison reformers and advocates of [tag]drug legalization[/tag] have played this race card in an effort to divide and conquer those who demand that drug traffickers be held accountable for their crimes. Unfortunately, two prominent black leaders, the Rev. Jesse Jackson and [tag]Rep. Charles Rangel[/tag] (D., N.Y.), have bought into this scam and declared the sentencing laws racist.
Yet Jackson and Rangel held a news conference in 1986 demanding that the federal government do something about the crack epidemic that was raging through inner-city neighborhoods. They understood that the introduction of this cheap, rapidly addicting form of cocaine posed a particular danger to the weakest denizens of those areas. Mr. Rangel, in fact, voted for the statute imposing tougher sentences for [tag]crack cocaine[/tag]. Now, it appears that these two gentlemen have forgotten whence the statute came.
The crack cocaine law is not racist. It was enacted to permit federal agents to lend their enforcement efforts to combatting the growing crack cocaine menace. Most drug investigations are conducted by local law enforcement officers functioning under state laws. In instances where the [tag]U.S. Drug Enforcement[/tag] Administration gets involved, intelligence denoting the relative significance of the trafficker or organization, in addition to the actual and potential violence of the drug-trafficking organization, is a vital consideration in targeting a particular group.
Crack, which is smoked rather than snorted, is far cheaper and more rapidly addictive than powder cocaine, and it renders its users more prone to violence. The only effective way to combat it is by going after the retail end of the market. With powder cocaine, on the other hand, the federal government generally reserves its limited resources for wholesale operations. That’s why cases involving wholesale distributors of powder cocaine normally involve multiple kilograms of the drug, while crack cocaine cases generally are measured in grams. The average amount of powder cocaine per inmate in federal prison on a powder cocaine violation is about 183 pounds. The average amount of crack cocaine per convict is about 700 grams, which converts to approximately 7,000 “rocks” (dosages), hardly the stock of a small-time pusher or addict.
There has been a great deal of sophistry in the discussion of the relative sentences for crack cocaine vs. powder cocaine. In truth, the sentencing statute doesn’t impose longer sentences for crack cocaine. Rather, it establishes a lower weight threshold to get to an equivalent sentence for crack cocaine as compared with powder cocaine. It is predicated on the relative importance of the defendant in the phase of the market in which he operates. If federal agents were subject to the same quantity thresholds for crack cocaine investigations as they are for powder, they simply wouldn’t be able to work the retail crack market.
In the Southern District of Florida, for example, the threshold for powder cocaine cases is three kilograms. The same amount of crack is the equivalent of 30,000 rocks. It is unlikely that a crack cocaine dealer would ever have sufficient quantity to meet such a threshold.
Do tough crack sentences [tag]discriminate[/tag] against blacks? Consider: A comprehensive 1991 study revealed that of 2,980 federal crack cocaine prisoners, 2,513 (84%) were black and 467 were non-black. (The most recent figure available for the number of federal prisoners incarcerated for crack charges is 3,771 — out of roughly 100,000 total federal prisoners–in 1995.) Crack defendants are a small percentage of drug criminals behind federal bars. The same 1991 study found that there were 16,528 federal powder cocaine prisoners, of whom only 4,439 (27%) were black. And of 6,015 federal prisoners serving time for marijuana charges, only 442 (8%) were black.
Do these numbers reflect discrimination against the non-black marijuana and powder cocaine criminals? Or is it simply reflective of who is involved at the upper levels of organizations trafficking in each of these drugs? (The average amount of marijuana involved for a federal marijuana prisoners is over three tons of the drug.) And the most important question is this: Why are we focussing all this time and energy on the “plight” of drug criminals? The object of our efforts and devotion should be the victims of crack cocaine — children who are seduced by it or addicted even before birth, and law abiding citizens whose communities are devastated by its effects–not those who profit by the misery and harm they visit on our society.
For anyone who thought the worst racist ad of the electoral cycle was the RNC ad against Harold Ford Jr. in Tennessee, Tom Bevan of Real Clear Politics has an answer. (I heard this ad yesterday on the Sean Hannity show.) In Atlanta, a last-minute radio ad suggested that electing Republicans to the Fulton County Commission would be worse than the beatings administered in the civil rights era of the 1960s — it might endanger the life of blacks. The script is amazing:
LEWIS: This is Congressman John Lewis.
FRANKLIN: And I’m Mayor Shirley Franklin.
YOUNG: And I am Andy Young.
LEWIS: On Nov. 7, we face the most dangerous situation we ever have. You think fighting off dogs and water hoses in the ’60s was bad. [Now we] sit idly by, and let the right-wing Republicans take control of the Fulton County County Commission.
The Hutchinson Report: Martin Luther King a Republican? Not as Far-Fetched an Idea as You Think
Monday, October 2nd, 2006
This is a silly argument. Without having to go to a lot of details, the bottom line is most black people have more conservative leanings than the label of “Democrat” claimed by most of them.
MLK would have presented himself with the preferred label of Black America, Democrat because to be relevant in political circles the correct label is necessary.
Claiming republican MLK would have been ignored and scorned by the liberal media as black conservatives are today.
Democrat playas and pimps have successfully blended the “black America/Democrat” position for a generation. MLK by himself would not have changed that.
Trying to assess how MLK would have labeled himself is futile.
Trying to sort out the political leanings of a civil rights icon is not the issue, it is black people recognizing that liberal Democrat politics are a cancer on the black community and of course this country.
MLK message was loud and clear. He did not “sound” like a liberal or conservative, he sounded like an individual who was grounded in reality and common sense when it came to explaining the path to success and societal tolerance.
If a label must to be put on his message, for individuals to properly identify then people are either incapable or unwilling acknowledge the simple wisdom behind them.
I don’t want to have to bamboozle people into taking “my” side.
Political campaign having to revert to long dead icons to “sell” a particular political point of view smells of desperation and manipulation.
Making a political commercial using this tactic proves how stupid some political strategists are.
True conservatives recognize that social and economic prosperity is the key to American prosperity. Views that promote prejudice, racist, economic and social repression (traits of liberal Democrats) should be obvious to you no matter what individuals are voicing them.
Civil rights leaders, black Democrats and Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele went ballistic when the they heard a woman in a 60-second radio ad say, “Dr. King was a Republican.” The ad, bankrolled by the National Black Republican Association, purportedly is running on several Baltimore radio stations. At first glance, the ad is a cheap political shot that stretches political lunacy far past the outer limit. But is it? The ad is not the first time that Republicans, and more specifically Republican conservatives, have claimed Martin Luther King, Jr. as one of their own.
The debate over whether King has anything in common with the GOP has raged since the 1980s. Republicans grabbed at King’s famed line in his “I Have A Dream” speech at the March on Washington in August 1963 — in which he called on Americans to judge individuals by the content of their character and not the color of their skin — to prove that he’d be on their side against affirmative action. Supporters of affirmative action loudly protest that this deliberately distorted the spirit and intent of King’s words. They are both right.
During the fierce wars over affirmative action in the 1990s, King’s words were shamelessly used to justify opposition to affirmative action. Yet, there is enough paradox and ambivalence in the few stray remarks that King uttered on the issue to give ideological ammunition to both liberals and conservatives. In several speeches and articles in the 1960s, King did not demand that the government and corporations create special programs or incentives exclusively for blacks, but to the disadvantaged of all races. He vaguely called for the government and corporations to increase spending for jobs, skills training, education and public works.
With the passage of the civil rights bill in 1964, King realized that ending legal segregation wasn’t enough. Integrating a motel or lunch counter did not provide jobs, improved housing and better schools for the black poor. These were stubborn and intractable problems that required massive spending on new social programs by government and business.
King felt that the bigger problem for blacks and whites was the disappearance of thousands of industry jobs to automation. He sensed that jobs were a volatile issue that could inflame blacks and whites. He claimed that black and white workers suffered equally when jobs were lost and tactfully called on labor to fight for jobs for all. But in those days, affirmative action was seen as a tool to prod employers not simply to hire and promote the disadvantaged of all races, as King insisted, but blacks. If that happened, King almost certainly knew that this would leave many whites out in the economic cold.
King’s debatable ambiguity on affirmative action was only one issue that Republicans manufacture common cause with him on. Starting with Reagan, Republican presidents slowly and grudgingly have realized that they can wring maximum political mileage out of King’s legacy. They have recast him in their image on civil rights, and bent and twisted his oft-times public religious puritanism on morals issues to justify GOP positions in the values wars that they wage with blacks, Democrats and liberals. But that wouldn’t be possible if some of King’s pronouncements did not parallel the GOP’s positions on crime, marriage, the family and personal responsibility.
Republicans have carefully cobbled bits and pieces from King’s speeches and writings during the 1950s and early 1960s together on values issues to paint a King that is anti-big government, welfare, black crime, and an advocate of thrift, hard work and temperance. This is not a completely politically skewered picture of King. In those speeches and writings, he took the moral high ground and lectured blacks on the value of hard work, the importance of setting personal goals and striving to develop good character.
In countless speeches in the 1950s, he mingled the demand for civil rights, voting rights and the government clampdown on racial violence with a forceful call for blacks to practice thrift and self-help. King realized that government programs meant little if fathers weren’t in the home, and he railed against the peril of family breakdown. This was a major social problem that civil rights leaders either ignored or downplayed. King strongly emphasized values training, discipline, hard work and the reduction of family violence as the key to resolve the family crisis. That crisis increasingly caught the policy attention of liberal and conservative academics and government officials. In numerous speeches, even into the early 1960s, King continued to stress personal responsibility, economic self-help, strong families and religious values as goals that blacks should strive to attain.
While King can never be considered a political conservative, the snippets of conservative thinking in his musings on the black family, economic uplift and religious values blend easily with the social conservatism of many blacks. In the decades after his murder, it has blended just as easily into the GOP’s prescription for black ills. And that evidently is more than enough for black Republicans to say that today he’d be a big player on the GOP team.
I have said this before, I will say it again, I would not send one fucken federal dollar down to New Orleans. If those idiot negros were so stupid as to vote for a racist, ignorant bastard who abandoned the city during a major crisis I would not trust him with my tax dollars.
The entire goddamm state is made up of a bunch of idiot crooks.
We don’t need to rebuild NOLA. But nobody has the guts to say it because it’s not politically correct.
It does not have shit to do with racism. NOLA was a corrupt, murder mecca and Ray Nagin proved during a major crisis that he is a fucking bumbling idiot.
Anybody with half a brain would invest in the Mississippi gulf coast instead of NOLA.
If they keep the population down and the crackheads out and limit idiot Nagin’s chocolate city image then maybe investing in NOLA might make sense.
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin on Friday blamed racism and government bureaucracy for hamstringing his city’s ability to weather Hurricane Katrina and recover from the disaster that struck the Gulf Coast nearly a year ago.
In remarks to the annual meeting of the National Association of Black Journalists, Nagin said the hurricane “exposed the soft underbelly of America as it relates to dealing with race and class.”
“And I, to this day, believe that if that would have happened in Orange County, California, if that would have happened in South Beach, Miami, it would have been a different response,” Nagin said.
New Orleans was 60 percent black before Katrina struck Aug. 29. Early this year the mayor called on fellow blacks to again make New Orleans a “chocolate” city, but he later apologized.
On Friday, Nagin condemned federal regulations that discourage rebuilding in the largely black and low-lying Ninth Ward.
While tens of billions of dollars in federal aid have flowed to Louisiana and other states devastated by Katrina, much of it has gone to developers and contractors, Nagin said.
“Very little of those dollars have gotten to the local governments or to the people themselves,” Nagin said.
Katrina dispersed three-quarters of New Orleans’ pre-hurricane population of about 460,000 people, and today it’s a city of about 250,000. Nagin suggested that Louisiana and federal officials would prefer the city remain smaller.
He said the city is struggling to deliver services and rebuild with a quarter of its former municipal budget. The federal and state aid the city has received is inadequate and comes with too many rules, he said.
“We are being strangled, and they’re using the money to set local policies to try to take control of the city to do things that they had in mind all along, and that’s to shrink the footprint, get a bunch of developers in the city, and try to do things in a different way,” Nagin said.
“We’re not going to let that happen. They’re going to give us our money, and we’re going to rebuild this city.”
Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court injected some reason into the debate over alleged racial disparity in sentencing for crack cocaine vs. powder cocaine. The justices let stand the 10-year prison sentence of Duane Edwards, a black man convicted for selling 126 grams of crack to an undercover officer for $3,400. Edwards’s lawyers had argued that their client was a victim of discrimination because a conviction for the sale of an equal amount (in weight, not dollars) of powdered cocaine — a drug preferred by non-minorities — would have garnered a lighter sentence.
This is a silly argument. Without having to go to a lot of details, the bottom line is most black people have more conservative leanings than the label of “Democrat” claimed by most of them.
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin on Friday blamed racism and government bureaucracy for hamstringing his city’s ability to weather Hurricane Katrina and recover from the disaster that struck the Gulf Coast nearly a year ago.
