RECORD NUMBER OF BLACK GOP CANDIDATES GATHER for SUMMIT IN WASHINGTON

 

 
(Washington, DC) – Black Republican Congressional candidates will gather today and tomorrow in Washington to express their disapproval of the current liberal agenda of President Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, as they prepare to be a part of a historic election year that will see the Republican Party possibly take back the House and Senate this November.   As of today, there are thirty-one congressional Black Republican candidates that are actively campaigning throughout the United States this election cycle, a number that rivals Reconstruction-era Black Republican activism. More than half of these candidates will participate in the 2nd Annual Frederick …

Georgia Black GOP candidate “Cory Ruth” announces campaign against U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson

An Atlanta corporate executive and self-called conservative is the latest candidate to announce a bid for U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson’s seat. Cory Ruth will announce his bid for Georgia’s Fourth Congressional District Saturday at 3 p.m. at the Library Coffee Company on Caldwell Road in Atlanta.

Ruth, 32, joins business consultant Liz Carter and retired naval officer Larry Gause on the Republican ticket. In addition to Johnson’s bid for a third term, DeKalb County Commissioner Connie Stokes and former DeKalb CEO Vernon Jones are running as Democrats.

NOBLE WARRIOR: ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Zora Neale Hurston embodied Republican sentiments concerning race-relations and African-American People. Infuriating many people including Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, and Richard Wright because of her “right-wing” and ultraconservative perspective, by the time of her death, at the age of sixty-nine, Hurston had become an obscure writer dying in a welfare home for the aged.

A Moderate Republican’s Thoughts on Health Care Reform

As the health care debate seems to heat up, I’ve had a few thoughts about the whole drama from my vantage point as someone on the center-right. This is less of magnum opus than some random thoughts on the issue. I should stress these are the thoughts of one person and don’t reflect all Republicans or all moderate Republicans (all twelve of us).

First, I still don’t understand why many Democrats and liberals are so hung up on a public option. I know that the rhetoric is that it is needed to keep the private insurers honest, but to me it seems needless. I mean if we wanted to make sure the insurance companies are playing fair, we would have laws that would ban certain practices like pre-existing conditions or recission and the like. In short we could use regulation. I know that has become an anathema among your typical Republican, but then, I have never been the typical Republican.

SONNIE JOHNSON:It Takes A Hood to Raise A Hood

Once upon a time in a Fairy Tale land called Chicago, there lived a little boy named Tre. Tre lived with his mother in a two bedroom apartment in a run down housing complex. His father was a police officer killed in the line of duty.

Tre loved everything about seeing his father in a uniform. The pride he took in making sure his clothes were clean and pressed made Tre want to do the same. The time he spent talking to the every person he met on the street had opened Tre’s heart and allowed him to open his ears. But nothing compared to what Tre’s father gave him outside of his uniform.

Tre’s father loved Science. He was always in their little garage doing experiments with John, the boy next door. Tre was to small at the time to help with any of the experiments but he loved sitting and watching as his father tried, failed, and tried again. After his father died, John would often come over and continue the experiments.

JOSEPH C. PHILLIPS OP-ED: There will be Blood

As I write this, Congressional Democrats are engaged in a furious partisan battle to pass their idea of healthcare reform. Alas it is an idea the majority of Americans do not share.

Dr. Jean Howard-Hill: Time to Speak Out on President Obama’s Campaign of Change

President Obama campaigned on the notion of “change” and “partisan cooperation”. This is no doubt what caused him to be elected. Advocating for such change was so potent that it etched itself within the pillars of history, as it swept across racial and even partisan lines to elect the first African American president. For that moment in time, there was hope and a sense of a new direction for America, along with a belief that he would be the one to bring about that change. Now in 2010, a little over one year of the President being elected, we see very little change and an even more partisan Washington.

Some may say that it is because Republicans are not willing to work with the President. As an organization, for the first year, we reserved our opinion, with a willingness to give President Obama the opportunity and time to bring about that change and to involve both parties. But now, we feel that it is time to speak out.

Cleo E. Brown: No Auschwitz in the USA!

I graduated Suma Cum Laude in 1984 from a California State College. I was not, therefore, an affirmative action student when I studied as a graduate student on The UC Davis Campus. Invariably, however, the Caucasian students on campus always thought that I had been an affirmative action admit and, consequently, treated me as though I had less of an intellectual right to study on the campus than they did. I will never forget the Friday afternoon when a fellow graduate student (female) would not initially acknowledge my hello. As an after thought, she told me that none of the other students were permitted to speak with or to study with me.

I was the only African-American in my program. Upon graduation from Davis I filed a complaint of racial and gender discrimination after one of my professors told me why I was not to be awarded my Ph.D. along with my M.A. despite having submitted both a Thesis and a Dissertation. According to Professor Goodman, my focus on African-American females as a topic of study did not excite the all male members of my committee. They would grant me my Masters Degree but not my Doctorate. The Office of Equal Rights, however, which had become a powerless, toothless, and an ineffectual organization by 1990, did not decide in my favor.

Happy Valentine’s - Chocolate: good for something,besides a craving.

Happy Valentine’s to all, even to those who visually have no Valentine, like myself. Just because you are not in love does not mean that you need to mope around being sad and it also does not mean that you can’t feel like you are in love, you can love yourself. If you want to indulge in chocolate, you can still do this and remain healthy and be even healthier than you were before consuming chocolate. The reason why I am stating this is because there has been scientific research that states chocolate is healthy. You may ask in your mind, why is chocolate healthy? Chocolate is made from plants, which means it contains many of the health benefits of dark vegetables. These benefits are from flavonoids, which act as antioxidants. Antioxidants protect the body from aging caused by free radicals, which can cause damage that leads to heart disease.

Dark chocolate contains a large number of antioxidants (nearly 8 times the number found in strawberries). Flavonoids also help relax blood pressure through the production of nitric oxide, and balance certain hormones in the body by Mark Stibich, Ph.D., About.com Guide. I have always joked around and said, imagine one day they discover that all bad foods are good for you and that your life can be extended as a result of eating them. Well, that has not happened, however, partially it has. Of all foods, chocolate, one of the best tasting, dark, rich and enticing foods has been confirmed to be good for you, who ever knew. It seems as if we have died and gone to heaven (chocolate lovers, of course).

A MODERN DAY “DEEP THROAT”: A REVIEW OF COLLAPSE

In Collapse, Michael Ruppert, who is a former UCLA College Student; a former Los Angeles Police Officer; and a CIA employee, offers his explanation of, in a March 2009 Interview, why The United States’ Economy and, ultimately, The Government “collapsed.” Often interesting but, for the most part, far too willing to offer simplistic explanations of highly complex concepts, Collapse is an extremely confused attack against the misuses and abuses of natural and man-made resources (Oil, Energy, Electricity, Transportation, Food) by the World.

Perhaps, if he had been less pro-Saddam Hussein and anti-Obama, as well as less intent upon passing himself off as a modern day “Deep Throat” who emerges from the shadows, Mr. Ruppert would have been more convincing.

Teddy Pendergrass Dead At 59

Teddy Pendergrass’ soul has taken flight. The buttery smooth R&B singer died today in Philadelphia (hat tip: Booker Rising). Mr. Pendergrass, who was paralyzed from the waist down in a car accident in 1982, underwent surgery for colon cancer eight months ago and had a “difficult recovery,” according to his son, Teddy Jr. A Philly native, Mr. Pendergrass came to fame in the early 1970s as lead singer of the Blue Notes, responsible for hits such as “If You Don’t Know Me By Now” and “Wake Up Everybody.” He released his self-titled debut in 1977 and enjoyed a successful solo career, siring velvety singles like “Close the Door” and “Turn Off the Light.”

Cleo E. Brown: No Auschwitz in the USA!

I graduated Suma Cum Laude in 1984 from a California State College. I was not, therefore, an affirmative action student when I studied as a graduate student on The UC Davis Campus. Invariably, however, the Caucasian students on campus always thought that I had been an affirmative action admit and, consequently, treated me as though I had less of an intellectual right to study on the campus than they did. I will never forget the Friday afternoon when a fellow graduate student (female) would not initially acknowledge my hello. As an after thought, she told me that none of the other students were permitted to speak with or to study with me.

I was the only African-American in my program. Upon graduation from Davis I filed a complaint of racial and gender discrimination after one of my professors told me why I was not to be awarded my Ph.D. along with my M.A. despite having submitted both a Thesis and a Dissertation. According to Professor Goodman, my focus on African-American females as a topic of study did not excite the all male members of my committee. They would grant me my Masters Degree but not my Doctorate. The Office of Equal Rights, however, which had become a powerless, toothless, and an ineffectual organization by 1990, did not decide in my favor.