Conservative Women Forums new President!

More evidence that Republicans are racist....lol

I received in my email today new's that Michelle D. Bernard will be the Independant Womens Forums next President!

IWF is the country's leading voice for moderate, and conservative women in
America, Lynne Chenney is on the board and is a member!

This is the letter I received!

To IWF's Funders and Friends:

I am thrilled to announce that IWF has completed its search and that Michelle D. Bernard will assume the position of president and CEO on Jan. 2, 2006, when she returns from her maternity leave. (As of this writing the baby hasn't yet hatched, but is expected at any moment.)

We are delighted that Nancy Pfotenhauer will continue to serve as president and CEO until that time, and thereafter will participate actively as a member of IWF's board, working with fundraising and, of course, media.

Michelle's appointment culminates a thorough search for the best candidate to lead IWF into the future. I want to thank Ricky Silberman, Carol Crawford and Nancy Pfotenhauer for constituting such an excellent, thorough, and professional search committee.

After winnowing the field of applicants, our first round of interviews presented us with eight serious candidates. The caliber of these applicants demonstrates that the strategic importance of IWF to the greater public-policy debate is broadly appreciated. And it is also a testimony to Nancy Pfotenhauer's leadership. Thanks to Nancy, IWF is on solid footing financially, has reestablished its institutional presence, has focused and strenghtened its strategic vision, and presents today an organization filled with talented, dedicated people.

Nancy has consistently gone beyond the call of duty, committing herself to IWF's well being and always acting with professionalism, courtesy, and grace. IWF would not be where it is today, nor would it be in a position to attract the field of candidates that it did, without Nancy's selfless devotion and determination to see IWF through the bumpy times.

Michelle Bernard stood out clearly among those superb candidates as the person best able to lead IWF in the future. Michelle came to IWF in February 2004 as a senior fellow with an impressive resume: former partner at Patton, Boggs, LLP; CEO of her own law and lobbying firm, Bernard International; and chairman of the District of Columbia Redevelopment Land Agency. She quickly demonstrated a capacity for leadership, trenchant policy analysis, as well as articulate media appearances. Eight months after arriving at IWF, Michelle was named senior vice president. Since joining IWF, she has focused on judicial, legislative and foreign policy matters.

The board was particularly influenced by Michelle's outstanding work on IWF's Iraqi Women Leaders Program, the Iraqi Women's Educational Institute (IWEI), a joint project of IWF, the American Islamic Congress and the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. Michelle was instrumental in the conception of this initiative, which has successfully cultivated a nationwide, influential group of pro-democracy Iraqi women leaders and activists who are committed to working to strengthen and sustain democratic institutions in Iraq and assume leadership positions in political, economic, and decision making processes at the national and local levels. Michelle led IWF's efforts in being selected as one of six grantees in the U.S. Department of State's $10 million Iraqi women's democracy initiative and is the project administrator of the entire project. In April 2005, IWEI held a five-day conference in Jordan for 150 pro-democracy Iraqi women leaders on the principles and practice of democracy. Joined by two Congressional delegations, faculty and speakers from around the world, the conference was a great success.

Several delegations of Iraqi women visited the United States for training on issues ranging from micro-enterprise to women's human rights and the Iraqi constitution. Michelle and IWF have won rave reviews on the project, which is ongoing.

This past summer, when Nancy took a partial leave, Michelle's leadership skills came to the fore. As we looked at her work over the past two years and her dedication to the institution and to her colleagues, it was clear to all of us that

IWF is extremely fortunate to have found a president whom we know we can rely on in the years ahead.

As we have the great fun of building IWF into the strategic force it can be, it is my hope that you will join with us and we will do it together.
Sincerely,Heather R. HigginsChairman

The Black People of Iraq Freed

This is a report from Salid Khalid, of News Journal Reporter!

He takes us into the world of the black, african peoples of Iraq who were brought to Iraq by muslim slave traders!


Bush liberation of Iraq will no doubt give these people some hope!

Usually Black History Month focuses on the accomplishments of African-Americans or the past glories of African civilizations. When the issue of slavery is explored, the focus is almost always on slavery in the United States. Seldom do we ponder the history of slavery in Africa or the Arab slave traders who exploited the continent long before the 15th century, when the

Portuguese became the first Europeans to buy and sell Africans.

What happened to the millions of Africans who did not make the voyage west across the Atlantic but wound up in bondage in the Middle East?

I didn't give it much thought while growing up in the United States. I never saw images of Arabs with dark skin and African facial features on television or in newspapers. All the Arabs I saw in news accounts seemed to have about the same complexion as Saddam Hussein. So you can imagine my surprise when I -- an African-American journalist and a Muslim -- traveled in the Middle East and saw lots of people who looked like my friends and relatives in the United States.
Eventually I began to trace the link between Africa and the Arab world. My research took me back more than 1,500 years to African villages where slaves were captured, tied together and marched to seaside fortresses.

They were herded onto ships, and many wound up in what is now southern Iraq and Kuwait, where they became laborers, farm hands, servants, concubines and eunuchs. Initially many of the slaves came from Abyssinia (Ethiopia) and what is now Somalia.

They were brought to what is now southern Iraq to build canals and to turn marshlands into fields for crops, including cotton. The rulers needed more arable land to feed the region's rapidly growing indigenous population.

The demand for slaves grew, but the supply dwindled along Africa's Indian Ocean coast. Two factors contributed to their scarcity: --> some African ethnic groups began to resist the traders and others converted to Islam.

Muslim slave traders were prohibited from enslaving fellow Muslims. This forced Arab slavers to go deeper into the Africa, eventually reaching present-day Malawi, Zambia, southern Sudan and the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.


Laboring for freedom
Arabs also enslaved Persians, Kurds, Jews, Indians, Chinese, Slavs, Turks, Caucasians and others. But most slaves were Africans. A glaring difference existed between Muslim slavery and slavery under the Europeans. In the United States, slavery often lasted a lifetime. Slavery under the Muslims was closer to indentured labor, and slaves could often purchase or earn their freedom.

Eventually African slaves came to be known as the Zanj. Some academics say Zanj comes from the Arabic word Azania, which means the "land of the blacks." But others trace it to an old Arabic or Farsi colloquial expression related to Zanzibar, an island off the East African coast, which was a major shipping point for slaves headed to the Middle East and other Muslim lands.
In the middle of the ninth century, the Zanj are believed to have numbered about 3 million.

Written accounts from the era are replete with racial slurs denigrating the intelligence and physical characteristics of Africans. These slurs are strikingly similar to those expressed by European slave masters centuries later in the New World.

A 14-year uprising later in that century brought an end to slavery as it had been known in the Middle East. The rebellion had a major impact on the region, said Thabit Abdullah, a history professor at York University in Toronto.

"As a result of the Zanj rebellion," Abdullah said, "the Abbasids never again tried to establish the system of plantation slavery, even though the institution of slavery continued. So, in many ways, while the revolt ultimately failed, it did put an end to plantation slavery in what became Iraq."

The African influence did not end with the Zanj rebellion. Abdullah points to many words of the Arabic dialect spoken in present-day southern Iraq that can be traced to East Africa.

For example, the haywa, a popular dance in Basra and Kuwait, is believed to have East African origins, along with boza, homemade beer brewed throughout southern Iraq. Some Iraqi classical music, composed by the late Munir Bashir, is based on the African-influenced music of southern

Iraq.
In Basra, which was sacked twice by the Zanj, are areas called Mahalat al-Abid (Quarter of the Slaves) and Jisr al-Abid (the Slaves' Bridge), which refer to areas where African slaves were sold or transferred.

Distant kin
And the African genetic imprint survives in the faces of some of the people of southern Iraq, Kuwait and southern Iran, who are referred to as Zanji and resemble distant kinfolk in other places touched by the African diaspora.

Iraqis of African descent speak Arabic and almost all are Muslims, belonging to Iraq's Shi'a majority or the powerful Sunni minority.

Intermarriage with lighter-skinned Iraqis is common.

Divisions within modern Iraqi society are primarily based on class, religion, region, genealogy and sex -- not necessarily race.

But that's not to say that racial prejudice does not exist there.

As for Iraqis with African blood, the fact that even a distant ancestor was once enslaved carries a considerable social stigma.

This has as much to do with the degrading nature of slavery, which implies cultural and often genetic inferiority of the slaves and their descendants. As a result, there are few, if any, public displays of cultural affinity by African-Iraqis with their hereditary homeland of sub-Saharan Africa.

Instead, they identify with the Arab culture.

This is also the case throughout the modern Arab peninsula, which has included a significant number of Afro-Arabs since the pre-Islamic era. The birth of Islam and the institution of the annual hajj, or religious pilgrimage to Mecca, have brought literally millions of Africans to Arabia.

The hajj has demonstrated since ancient times that neither Africans nor Arabs considered physical barriers or long distances as insurmountable obstacles. Large numbers of African pilgrims never returned to their native lands as far away as Senegal.

Instead, they settled throughout the Middle East, including present-day Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Palestine/Israel, Iran, Lebanon, Yemen, the Persian Gulf countries and Turkey.

Prominent Arabs of African descent include Kuwaiti Crown Prince Saad and Saudi Arabia's longtime ambassador to Washington, Prince Bandar bin Sultan. Also included are many popular musicians, such as Mohamed Abdu of Saudi Arabia, members of the Miami Kuwaiti Group and Nabil Shuail of Kuwait, and Yemeni musician Abu Rab Idriss.

Despite social and cultural differences, these natives of the Arabian peninsula have historic and genetic ties to the African diaspora. And they also share a common bond with African-Americans and others who live in Europe, the Caribbean and Africa.


* Sunni Khalid, a former News Journal reporter, is a free-lance journalist. He also was a foreign correspondent based in Cairo.


*This Washington Post Artilce also well written

A Legacy Hidden in Plain Sight

Iraqis of African Descent Are a Largely Overlooked Link to Slavery

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A6645-2004Jan10&notFound=true

Lt. Governor Steele Announces Md. Senate Bid"

"Watch out Obama here Comes the Steele!

Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele today formally announced he will run for the U.S. Senate, recasting the successful political partnership that enabled him to become the first African American elected to statewide office.

With Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. sitting in the front row and a crowd of cheering supporters in a Prince George's Community College field house, Steele kicked off what promises to be a bruising 2006 campaign for the seat being vacated by six-term Sen. Paul S. Sarbanes (D).

"Too many in Washington today are not working toward that common goal of growth and freedom and an equal opportunity for every individual. Instead, too many on the left have their feet set in the concrete of old fears, old divisions and old ways of government."

"It's time to heal our divisions. It's time to empower people, instead of empowering government
It's time to change the culture of our nation's capital, and that's why I am certain it is time for me to run for the United States Senate," Steele said.

Steele stood alone on stage, delivering a speech that called for change in Washington and never once mentioned the Republican Party. As one of the party's only African American elected officials, he promised to be a bridge -- a bridge of steel -- between cultures and communities.

"A bridge that not only brings both parties together but more importantly, brings all of us closer to one another," he said.

After the speech, Ehrlich said he felt "like a grandfather," nervous at first, but then proud that his political partner had set off on his own.

"My advice has been, if you think you can win, go for it," Ehrlich said.
The race will test Steele's ability to marshal support in a state where Democrats outnumber Republicans on voter rolls by a margin of nearly 2 to 1. He will count on an unlikely blend of grass-roots support from minorities who are disenchanted with the Democratic Party and financing from GOP donors who are mostly white and conservative.

His candidacy faces some clear challenges. Among them, its open ties to national Republican luminaries who have largely been unpopular with Maryland voters, such as top White House aide Karl Rove, who hosted Steele's first fundraiser.

An independent poll released yesterday showed him trailing the Democratic front-runner, Rep. Ben Cardin of Baltimore. But it also showed him ahead in a match-up against another well-known Democratic contender, former congressman and NAACP president Kweisi Mfume.

Steele, 47, has already defied long odds in Maryland when, as the chairman of the state Republican Party, he was tapped by Ehrlich to be his running mate in the 2002 gubernatorial race. Theirs became the first GOP team to capture the state's top two elected offices in nearly four decades.

During the campaign, Steele proved an able compliment to Ehrlich, in that he connected with African Americans and social conservatives, two constituencies who may not have found Ehrlich's moderate positions appealing.

To read more please follow link http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/25/AR2005102500543_2.html

Rosa Parks an American Hero!

Rosa Louise Parks
(February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005)

Every since I was a child the story of Rosa Parks has been told to me.

When February "Black History Month" came around Parks is the image I would conjur up.

I was watching CNN when I first heard that she had died.

As I walk the street today and watching black youth getting on trains, and subways,

I wonder if they even think twice about her legacy!

I doubt it, many young people my age and older are more concerned about self!

They have no idea that we all stand on th e shoulders of those before us.

As black people our success is a direct link to the heroic action like Rosa Parks.

With her passing, we have lost an image and icon of the civil rights movement!

Even in her last days her she was attacked by a member of her own race.

On August 30, 1994, at age eighty one, she was attacked in her Detroit home by Joseph Skipper.

The incident created outrage throughout America. Skipper was arrested and charged with various breaking and entering offenses against Parks and other neighborhood victims.

He confessed to the crime and when recounting the sequence of events said he didn't know he was in Parks’s home but recognized her after entering.

Skipper asked, "Hey, aren't you Rosa Parks?" and she replied "yes."

She handed him $3 when he demanded money and an additional $50 when he demanded more.

Before fleeing, Skipper struck Parks in the face.

Skipper admitted guilt and on August 8, 1995 was sentenced to eight to fifteen years in prison. Parks notably forgave her assailant and expressed a wish that he could receive rehabilitation instead of imprisonent.


Like Dr. Delores Tucker Mrs Parks also had her issues with hip hop and gangsta rap

In 1999 a lawsuit was filed on her behalf against the popular American hip hop duo OutKast and LaFace Records, claiming that the group had illegally used her name without her permission for their song "Rosa Parks", the most successful radio single of their 1998 album Aquemini.

In 2004, the judge in the case appointed an impartial representative for Parks after her family expressed concerns that her caretakers and her lawyers were pursuing the case based on their own financial interest.

"My auntie would never, ever go to this length to hurt some young artists trying to make it in the world," Parks’s niece, Rhea McCauley, said in an Associated Press interview.

"As a family, our fear is that during her last days Auntie Rosa will be surrounded by strangers trying to make money off of her name."

OutKast was dismissed from the suit in August 2004. Parks’ attorneys and caretaker refiled and named BMG, Arista Records and LaFace Records as the defendants, asking for $5 billion in damages.

The lawsuit was settled on April 15, 2005. In the settlement agreement, OutKast and their producers and record labels agreed to work with the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development in creating educational programs on the life of Rosa Parks. The record labels and OutKast were not made to admit any wrongdoing.

Hip Hop's Arch nemesis Dies!

It is with great sadness that Dr. C.Delores Tucker died, this week.

I am sure the fat money maker's at Sony are happy!

As a crusader against “Gangsta Rap,” she bevame an enemy to the

hip hop industry!

I await Russel Simmons and Death Rows public statement

about this true " life strugge"

She also fought against the NAACP's decision to nominate late rapper Tup Shakur for one of its Image Awards and filed a suit against his estate for comments that the rapper made in one of his albums.

My prayer are with her and her family!

C. DeLores Tucker (born Cynthia DeLores Nottage) (October 4, 1927-October 12, 2005) was one of the most renowned visionaries and civil rights activists of the 21st century, best known for her stance against rap music.

Born in Philadelphia to a minister and a "Christian feminist mother" on October 4, 1927, she was the 10th of 11 children. In 1951, she married William "Bill" Tucker, a successful Philadelphia real estate agent. Dr. Tucker, who herself dabbled in real estate and insurance sales, attended Temple University and the University of Pennsylvania-Wharton School. She was the recipient of two honorary Doctor of Laws degrees from Morris College in Alabama and Villa Maria College in Pennsylvania.

C. DeLores Tucker (third from right) marches in Selma, Alabama with Martin Luther King, Jr. (center) in 1965.

A tall, elegant woman who spoke with a stirring cadence (inherited from her pastor father), Dr. Tucker had a long history in the Civil Rights Movement. Early on, her civil activities included participating in the 1965 march in Selma, Alabama alongside the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and raising funds for the NAACP.

Dr. Tucker became the first African-American Secretary of State for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, serving from 1971 to 1977. She was the convening founder and national chair of the National Congress of Black Women, Inc. (NCBW), having succeeded the Hon. Shirley Chisholm in 1992.

She is the first African American woman in the nation to serve as Secretary of State, during which time she instituted the first Commission on the Status of Women in Pennsylvania. Dr. Tucker also was responsible for the Governor’s appointment of more women judges and more women and African Americans to boards and commissions than ever before in the history of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

She also led the effort to make Pennsylvania one of the first states to pass the Equal Rights Amendment. As Chief of Elections of Pennsylvania, she was a leader in instituting a voter registration by mail and reducing the voting age from 21 to 18 years of age.

She was founder and president of the Bethune-DuBois Institute, Inc., which she established in 1991 to promote the cultural development of African American youth through scholarships and educational programs. Dr. Tucker also launched, and serves as publisher of the renowned publication, Vital Issues: The Journal of African American Speeches; an acknowledgement of its launching was inserted into the Congressional Record by then Congressman William H. Gray.

Dr. Tucker dedicated much of the last few years of her life to removing sexually explicit lyrics from rap and hip-hop tracks, citing a concern that the lyrics were misogynistic and threatened the moral foundation of the African American community.

Called "narrow-minded" by some rappers who often called her out in their lyrics, Dr. Tucker picketed stores that sold rap music and bought stock in labels like Sony, Time Warner, and others in order to protest hip-hop at their shareholders' meetings. She also fought against the NAACP's decision to nominate late rapper Tupac Shakur for one of its Image Awards and filed a suit against his estate for comments that the rapper made in one of his albums.

Selected as one of 25 of the World’s Most Intriguing People by People Magazine, Dr. Tucker was also selected as a People Magazine 1996 Yearbook Honoree, and was featured in the inaugural issue of John F. Kennedy, Jr.’s George Magazine for her crusade against gangsta/porno rap. In addition, she has been acknowledged for her deep concern for children by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton in the book It Takes A Village. The National Women’s Political Caucus and Redbook Magazine also named Dr. Tucker as the woman best qualified to be Ambassador to the United Nations.

For five consecutive years, from 1972 through 1977, Dr. Tucker was listed as among Ebony Magazine’s 100 Most Influential Black Americans. During that period, she was listed as Ladies Home Journal Nominee for Woman of the Year in both 1975 and 1976. She was recognized by Ebony as one of the 100 Most Influential Black Organization Leaders in the country in 2001 and 2002. Dr.

Tucker was also a prominent member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.

Dr. Tucker died on Wednesday, October 12, 2005 at SuburbanWoods Health Center in Norristown, Pennsylvania at the age of 78.

http://www.npcbw.org/

NAACP welcomes Republicans

Awsome article, details how young blacks are changing there views!

By Linda Feldmann

Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

WATERBURY, CONN. – Jim Griffin was anxious. He had invited Ken Mehlman, the Republican Party's chairman, to address his chapter of the NAACP, and he didn't know what to expect. Would anyone come? Would there be angry questions? Protesters?

After all, the vast majority of African-Americans do not vote Republican. Nor did the delayed federal response to hurricane Katrina, in which most blacks perceived racial bias, help President Bush's image.
In the MonitorWednesday, 10/19/05

But Mr. Mehlman, who has done 31 black-outreach events since becoming GOP chief in January, didn't hesitate to come here for his first visit to a local branch of the civil rights group.

More than 125 people - Democrat and Republican, black, white, and Hispanic, plus a few dozen (mostly white) College Republicans - came to hear Mehlman's breakfast speech. There was no time for questions, angry or not. And no protesters.
In the end, it was a baby step toward a hoped-for renewal of the historical link between the party of Abraham Lincoln and the descendants of the slaves he freed.
"The most important thing is that [Mehlman] came and that there is a concern that African-Americans don't respond to the Republican Party," says Griffin, who is both an ex-Republican and an ex-Democrat and now calls himself unaffiliated. "I just want people to know ... that we are willing to listen to different sides of an issue, not just be wedded to the Democrats."

'Give Republicans a chance'

Over muffins and fruit salad, Mehlman started with the story of his grandfather, a shopkeeper in Baltimore, who joined the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People long before the civil rights movement and who liked to sneak in to hear Cab Calloway and other black entertainers.

Never mind that Joseph Mehlman was a Democrat, a point his grandson omits. The anecdote may speak more to Mehlman's personal commitment to his mission of GOP diversity than anything else. But there is no doubt about the heart of his message: that African-Americans should give Republicans a chance.

The next step in the civil rights movement, Mehlman says, is "to build on the equal treatment under the law ... to ensure equal opportunity to pursue the American dream" and close the gaps in education, employment, housing, healthcare, and retirement. He rattles off statistics showing improved school test scores and record rates of home ownership for minorities.

It was his standard black-outreach speech - with an interruption to snipe at Democratic Party chairman Howard Dean, who had declared earlier in New Haven, Conn., that it took "nerve" for Mehlman to address a black group after hurricane Katrina.

"In my judgment," Mehlman said, "the only person with nerve is Howard Dean, who continues to take the African- American vote for granted, and who believes he can dictate who you should and should not meet with and talk to."

About one-third of blacks voted for Republican presidential candidates after World War II.

But after Democrats embraced civil rights in the 1960s, far fewer blacks voted GOP.
This poll show's black vote pattern!

Democratic is first
Republican is second

1944
68%
32%

1948
77%
23%

1952
76%
24%

1956
61%
39%

1960
68%
32%

1964
94%
6%

1968
85%
15%

1972
87%
13%

1976
85%
15%

1980
86%
12%

1984
89%
9%

1988
88%
10%

1992
82%
11%

1996
84%
12%

2000
90%
8%

2004

88%
11%


SOURCE: Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies

In fact, both parties are uneasy about their standing with African-Americans.

In last fall's election, Mr. Bush boosted his black vote by three points - from 8 percent in 2000 to 11 percent in 2004. In Ohio, the final battleground state, Bush's black vote went from 9 percent to 16. But even at 11 percent nationally, Bush was still below the 12 percent average of post-1964 Republican presidential nominees.

For the Democrats, the loss of any portion of this loyal constituency hurts, especially in tight races.

A Gallup Poll in July found that most blacks who support the GOP are younger than 50 - a sign of a potential generational trend that bears watching in subsequent polls, analysts say.

At the Waterbury event, Mehlman was introduced by a young black businessman named Skip Wyatt, a "committed conservative Republican" - with liberal parents. His message of low taxes and educational opportunity resonated with audience member Clarence Jackson, a student at Southern Connecticut State University set to switch to the GOP.

"A lot of the entertainment world is so much against George Bush, but they're glorifying sex and all the wild things, drugs, and we have a high HIV/AIDS rate, especially for minorities," says Mr. Jackson, who also cites the GOP message of lower taxes equals more jobs as a reason to sign on.

To men like Mr. Wyatt and Jackson, the Republican Party's role in ending slavery and, eventually, letting the Democrats take over the civil rights mantle may be important - but it's history.

Today, the message of economic opportunity, which dominates Mehlman's outreach speeches, is the driver.

The values message is also there, as he promotes the president's faith-based initiative, but Mehlman skips a social issue that could give the GOP inroads into the black vote: gay marriage.

Pastor R.W. Vance, a Pentecostal minister and a Democrat, says he came to the Mehlman breakfast because "the more we gain a relationship with whoever's in office, the better off we'll be as a whole."

He says that marriage should only be between a man and a woman, and he opposes abortion. But he credits Democrats for their defense of affirmative action. "When the bottom line comes, we'll always make a move to those who will give the most help," he says.
Wasted effort?
Given the African-American community's 40-plus years of strong allegiance to the Democrats, some Republicans have quietly told Mehlman he is wasting his time. Other observers agree.
"It's not just the way the Bush administration responded to Katrina, but events afterwards," says David Bositis, an analyst of the black vote at the Joint Center for Political Economic Studies.

He notes the suspension of rules about giving subcontracts to minority-owned firms and those requiring payment of the prevailing wage. "There's too much history.... The center of gravity of the Republican Party is white Southerners, the group African-Americans trust the least."

Raynard Jackson, a black political and business consultant, calls Mehlman a dear friend, and gives him credit for believing in what he's doing. But Mr. Jackson thinks the outreach should be focused more on concrete business connections. "You can talk about school choice or the faith-based initiative, but if I don't have a job, I don't hear your message," he says.

The president himself has his work cut out to reach African-Americans. In Gallup's annual minority-relations poll, Bush has gone from a high of 41 percent job approval among blacks in 2002 down to 16 percent in 2004 and 2005. In Gallup's first post-Katrina poll, that figure had slipped to 14 percent. Bush also has yet to address an NAACP convention, a point that, after five years in office, has grown symbolically loaded, despite his appearances before other black groups. The skepticism appears to be mutual.

"The more important question will be, why have some national NAACP leaders allowed themselves to become so partisan that they would appear to many people to be speaking on behalf of one of the two political parties," Mehlman said to reporters in Waterbury.

Mehlman himself addressed the national NAACP convention in July in Milwaukee, including a headline-making acknowledgment that Republicans' strategy of trying to benefit politically from racial polarization was wrong.

It was there that Jim Griffin tapped him on the shoulder and invited him to Connecticut. That was before Katrina. Now, to Mehlman, the imperative to reach out is no doubt even greater.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1017/p01s03-uspo.html?s=yahw

Farakhan's Hate Fest America!!!

Farrakhan In His Own Words Introduction

Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam, has long expressed anti-Semitic and anti-white rhetoric, that mark him as a notable figure on the extremist scene. A number of recent speeches testify to the unchanging nature of his views.

“Now the thinking of these neoconservatives is written of in scripture. In the book of Revelations, 2 and 9, it reads, ‘I know the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews and are not but are a synagogue of Satan.’ What is the blasphemy? A Jew is a noble name. A Jew means one who is in a covenant relationship with God in obedience to the divine laws, statues and commandments of God. But these people claim to be Jews but they’re not in obedience to God’s law, they have given a mission of evil a divine look on it. And George W. Bush has swallowed that bait, hook line and sinker. The synagogue of Satan is a gathering of persons of like mind and spirit who are in opposition to the will of God. So Paul said we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers that are not of this world, and spiritual wickedness in high places.

National Press Club, Washington, D.C., 5/3/2004


Dewey, Kant and Hegel, and the rabbis that wrote the Talmud, make blacks inferior.”
National Black Agenda Convention, Boston


“I call them the so-called Jews because to be a Jew you have to adhere to the statutes and laws that create the special relationship. How can you be a Jew and promote homosexual marriage?”

National Black Agenda Convention, Boston, 3/18/04



“See, you so called Jews – I’m not gonna give you the credit for being one of those that obey God. You portrayed us, you know what images do, that’s why you jumped on Mel Gibson. But you painted us, big lips, red eyes, kinky hair, you put in the movies like that. You mocked our characteristics and made us to hate God’s creation of us. You did that. Hollywood did that….You take our strongest, more courageous black minds, you think we don’t see you? And you put us in Hollywood. You give us television shows, and then we gotta bug our eyes.”

Saviours' Day Speech, Chicago, 2/29/04

http://www.adl.org/special_reports/farrakhan_own_words2/farrakhan_own_words.asp

http://www.adl.org/special_reports/farrakhan_own_words2/on_jewish_con.asp

http://www.adl.org/special_reports/farrakhan_own_words2/on_holocaust.asp

Is PBS sponsoring a Hate Fest?

All racists are equally bad,
but SOME racists are less equally bad than others....


Is PBS sponsoring Tavis Smiley at an event sponsored by a Hate Group?

Why would black leaders condem Bill Bennet, while embracing Louis Farakhan.

Why does the media give black hate groups a pass?

Why is Tavis Smiley using tax dollars to allow a racist to speak!

Please Join me in asking PBS as to why Tavis Smiley is speaking
at an event offered by a Racist?

http://www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/

www@pbs.org

Of all the people I see on this list " Tavis Smiley's" NPR connections should keep
him away from an anti semtic event !
Leaders/Co-Convenors

The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, Leader of the Nation of Islam

Reverend Willie Wilson, National Executive Director

Leonard Muhammad, National Deputy Director


National Co-Conveners (partial list)
Mrs. Coretta Scott King, Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change

Dr. Benjamin Chavis Muhammad, Hip Hop Summit Action Network

Rev. Dr. Barbara Williams-Skinner, Skinner Leadership Institute

Dr. Dorothy Height, National Council of Negro Women

Dr. Conrad Worrill, National Black United Front

Attorney Malik Zulu Shabazz, New Black Panther Party

Charles Steele, Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Reverend Jesse Jackson, Rainbow/PUSH Coalition

Phile Chionesu, Millions Women Movement

Ambassador Asiel Ben Israel, Hebrew Israelite Nation

Marc Morial, National Urban League

Councilman Marion Barry and Cora Masters-Barry

Dr. Julianne Malveaux, author and columnist

Reverend Al Sharpton, National Action Network

Dr. Maulana Karenga, The US Organization

Rt. Bishop Vashti Murphy McKenzie, African Methodist Episcopal Church

Jim Brown, Amer-I-Can

Susan Taylor, Essence magazine

Ramona Edelin,

Black Leadership Forum

Fredrica Bey, Women in Support of the Million Man March

Rev. Michael Jenkins,

Family Federation for World Peace and Unification

Rev. John Hunter,

First A.M.E. Church

Tom Joyner

Tavis Smiley .."Not Tavis"..NPR is supporting Louis Farakhan?

Erykah Badu

Dr. Leonard Jeffries

Bob Law

Danny Bakewell

Dr. Baba Hannibal Afrik

Dr. Joseph Lowery

Dr. Ray Winbush

Dr. Faye Williams

Dr. Susan Newman

Rev. Floyd Flake

Pastor T.L. Barrett

Rev. Dr. Barbara King-Outley

Rev. Dr. Maxine Walker

Rev. Walter Fauntroy

Rev. Al Sampson

Bishop Alvin Richardson

Bishop Augustus Stallings

Father Michael Pfleger

Dennis Courland Hayer

Kwesi Mfume

Ron Daniels

Ron Walters

Dr. Julian Bond

Ambassador Andrew Young

Ambassador Carole Moseley-Braun

Rep. Eleanor Holmes-Norton (D.C.)

"Black Hate Groups"..in America

If you happen live in Harelm, DC, Richmond, LA you are very aware black hate groups!

Given the up coming "Millions More Movement", I hope to give my blog readers some insight into the cult paranoia of these groups!

These groups, can even be found hanging near black University's like Georgia Avenue, near Howard Univeristy in DC.

In fact some years ago Howard had to put out a warning to its students, after some were brainwashed!

I hope this will be of help to those who will want to understand the sick mindset of black cult groups!


Black supremacy vs. white supremacy

In its simplest form, black supremacy is the belief in the inherent superiority of the "black race." Unlike many white supremacists, who often embrace the label, black supremacists generally do not regard their belief in black superiority as equivalent to white supremacy, which historically has been reinforced and sustained worldwide by instruments of Western economic, political and military power.

By comparison, there has never been any powerful, far-reaching nexus of instruments under black control with a corollary effect on whites.

In modern history, black supremacy has been a reactionary phenomenon most evident among various religions or cults as an ideological tool in framing a kind of liberation theology for the societally marginalized and oppressed.


In the 1930s, the Nation of Islam emerged, coming to prominence during the 1960s, when charismatic minister Malcolm X became a spokesman for the movement. It was during the time of the American Civil Rights Movement when a number of African American organizations became more militant in their demands for equality.

The Nation of Islam teaches that white people were genetically engineered "devils", created to be liars and murderers. They are held to be the enemies of all black people. The group's founders "Master Fard" Muhammad and Elijah Muhammad, preached the Doctrine of Yakub, which held that the Original Man, was an "Asiatic black man.

" White people, it contended, were "grafted" from black people 6,000 years ago by an ancient black scientist named Yakub.

Additional to the Yakub doctrine, it's the teaching of the Nation of Islam that Allah, (God) himself is the original and supreme black man and that all black men today are a part of this God-race and the black race is thus divine and superior to all other races.

It's also the teaching of the Nation of Islam that some time in the future, Allah will bring a spaceship into the earth's atmosphere and bomb the cities of the world so that the unconverted white race will be purged from the earth. This ideology would culminate in the creation of the Death Angels, a branch of the Nation of Islam. Between 1972 and 1974, the Death Angels murdered 71 white men, women, and children in Southern California. These murders would later become known as the Zebra Killings because the police used Radio Z to keep up to date with them.

Elijah Muhammad also preached black self-reliance, black separatism, cooperative economics, strict moral and physical discipline, and opposed black-white miscegenation. Since its founding, the NOI has gone through reorganizations, and internal conflicts, but even though the Nation of Islam moves closer to the mainstream of Islamic belief and practice, such as the observance of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting, Farrakhan's organization has not rejected any of Master Fard's doctrines and oppose any changes in the major beliefs and programs that had been instituted by Elijah Muhammad, including the annual "Savior's Day".

Most historians and social scientists classify the Nation of Islam also as a black nationalist, or black separatist, organization. Recently, the Southern Poverty Law Center headed by Morris Dees placed the Nation of Islam on its list of hate groups.



Melanin and Melanin Theory

Based on the single-origin hypothesis, black supremacists believe that, because human beings first evolved in Africa with darkly pigmented skin, blacks are more advanced than other peoples of the planet.

They claim that the early, powerful black civilizations of Nubia and early dynastic Egypt are proof of inherent melanin-based superiority (see Afrocentrism). This contention, known generally as "Melanin Theory", is founded upon a combination of scientific information and pseudo-scientific claims, and has been a subject of interest among some African-Americans since the discovery of melanin as an organic semiconductor in the early 1970s.


The purported qualities of melanin, some accurate, some based on distortions of scientific fact or speculation, are used to justify black supremacist assertions.

The central idea of "Melanin Theory" is that the levels of melanin in dark skin naturally enhance intelligence and emotional, psychic and spiritual sensitivity. Believers in Melanin theory also claim that, because melanin is a proven neurotransmitter, higher levels of melanin enable nerve synapses to fire more quickly and efficiently, thereby enhancing the natural athleticism of blacks.

Some black supremacists believe that melanin is a semiconductor of sound and heat energy and a superconductor of electromagnetic radiation, claiming that it can convert light and magnetic fields to sound; that it can process information without reporting to the brain; and, further, that it is the chemical basis for what is commonly called "soul".


One of the most widely accepted and fundamental notions of Melanin Theory is that whites are "mutants", that white skin is an aberration, a form of albinism.

Melanin theorist Wade Nobles takes this notion even further, stating that only blacks are fully human because of their higher levels of skin melanin:

That in the evolution of the species, in what some people call the ontogenetic evolution of humankind, that in the evolution of the species the human family separated in a sense that one branch of the family stopped its evolutionary path and simply depended upon the central nervous system as the total machinery for understanding reality.

Whereas, the root of the family continued its path and not only evolved a central nervous system but developed what I called at that time an essential melanic system. And that I even went so far as to try to develop a little formula and suggested that CNS + EMS = HB. CNS (Central Nervous System) + EMS (Essential Melanic System) = HB (Human Being). That the central nervous system combined with the essential melanic system is what makes you human. That, in fact, to be human is to be Black. To be human is to be Black.(Nobles 1989).


Others, such as psychiatrist and writer Frances Cress Welsing, express the same idea by their use of the term "hue-man" instead of "human,". Welsing is the author of the Cress Theory of Color Confrontation, which in part ascribes certain purported, inherent and behavioral differences between blacks and whites to a "melanin deficiency" in whites.

Welsing also claims that the prevalence of high blood pressure among African Americans is due to the fact that melanin exchanges "black photons" with other electrons and, therefore, picks up the negative energy vibrations from white people


Melanin theorist Carol Barnes argues that white scientists have deliberately created drugs such as cocaine, that are specially structured to chemically bind with melanin. Barnes claims that melanin and cocaine have a high affinity for each other because both are alkaloids, and that blacks get addicted faster, stay addicted longer, can test positive for cocaine even a year after its most recent use, and suffer more from these drugs because cocaine co-polymerizes into melanin. Yet, melanin is not an alkaloid (then what is it?), and there is no evidence that melanin co-polymerizes with cocaine in vivo.


Scientific research indicates that neuromelanin, which is found in the substantia nigra (in Latin, literally "black substance") of the human brain, plays a role in the transmission of neuronal impulses, with neuromelanin deficiency or neuromelanin deterioration being a distinctive etiological factor in certain disease states affecting neuromotor functioning in humans, such as Parkinson's disease.

Further, albinism and vitiligo, both forms of melanin deficiency, are strongly implicated in deafness in mammals, including humans. No direct correlation between race and the level of melanin in the substantia nigra has been observed; however, the significantly lower incidence of Parkinson's in blacks than in whites has "prompt[ed] some to suggest that cutaneous melanin might serve to protect the neuromelanin in substantia nigra from external toxins."[1] Conversely, high levels of cutaneous melanin are positively correlated with vitamin D deficiency and associated illnesses. (See Melanin, "Physical properties and technological applications".)

Research into the properties and possible commercial applications of melanin is ongoing in the biotech fields of organic electronics and nanotechnology.
Most scientists consider Melanin Theory pseudoscience; it has little credibility in mainstream medicine or science.


Black supremacists and organizations


African Hebrew Israelites

Bobo Ashanti Order of Rastafari

Robert L. Brock

The Nation of Gods and Earths

Nation of Islam (see Nation of Islam and anti-Semitism)

Nation of Yahweh

Original African Hebrew Israelite Nation of Jerusalem

United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors

Yahweh ben Yahweh

Dwight York

New Black Panther Party

http://www.muhammadspeaks.com/Makingofdevil.html " Racist Book of the Month!

No racism charge from NOPD beating Victim

New Orleans police beating victim Robert Davis not only holds no animosity toward the police in general, but his lawyer has also said that his client does not believe the assault was racially motivated. He's right--the rot of that system doesn't discriminate--it fails every citizen of New Orleans.
A retired teacher injured during a videotaped beating by New Orleans police says he feels no anger toward the department.

"I hold no animosity against anyone. I want to thank the new police chief for his quick action. I really do," 64-year-old Robert Davis said Tuesday...
Joseph Bruno, the attorney for Davis, said his client does not believe the assault was racially motivated.

"I know there is a big temptation to go there, but my client firmly believes that is not what is involved here," Bruno said in an interview.
Instead, Bruno said, Davis believes he was assaulted by "a couple of rotten apples that need to be dealt with."

In a day where the charge of racism is used as casually as the word hello, it's refreshing to see it not applied here. The reality is, it wasn't racism. Abuse by the corrupt is indeed colorblind. Mr. Davis, probably because he's a decent guy, can't imagine systemic indecency.

'Millions More March is a Sham"

The Millions More Movement was launched by a broad coalition of Black leaders to mark the commemoration of the 10th Anniversary of the historic Million Man March.

Plans called for a mass march on Washington, D.C. on October 15, 2005 to galvanize public support for the movement's goals. It will be open to men, women and children and will focus on creating lasting relationships between participating individuals, faith-based organizations and community institutions.


The pre-march event is being organized by the virulently anti-Semitic and racist Malik Zulu Shabazz, leader of the New Black Panther Party, who has been chosen by Minister Louis Farrakhan as one of the major organizers of the Millions More Movement.

ADL cited several speakers at the event as having a long and unrepentant record of anti-Semitic and racist rhetoric, including:

·CUNY professor Dr. Leonard Jeffries, who has claimed that Jews financed the Atlantic slave trade.

·Members of the New Black Panther Party, the largest organized anti-Semitic and racist black militant group in America, who will be presented with citations "for their vanguard work in the Millions More Movement and Hurricane Katrina."

·Members of the Nation of Islam, who will receive a special award "for their hard work on the vision of Minister Louis Farrakhan."

· Chief Ernie Longwalker and Warrior Woman of the Red Indian Dakota Nation, who spoke at Farrakhan's Million Family March in 2000. At that event, Warrior Woman said that the "imperialists, capitalists and Zionists" control America's resources.

· Representatives of Dr. Malachi Z. York, the founder of the United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors, a group which has a history of promoting racists and anti-government beliefs. York was sentenced to 135 years in federal prison on child molestation and racketeering charges.



The Issues of The Millions More Movement

1. Unity
We call, first, for the unity amongst Black peoples and organizations. We call for unity amongst all African peoples and peoples of African descent worldwide. We call for unity with our Brown, Red, disenfranchised and oppressed Brothers and Sisters in America, Caribbean, Central and South America, Asia and all over the world. “The Power of One” is the synthesis of men, women, youth and elders working in unity for our total liberation.

2. Spiritual Values
We call for Atonement, Reconciliation and Responsibility. We organize in the name of our God (The One Creator) and on sound ethical, moral principles and values. Our Movement affirms the rich legacy and diversity of our spiritual traditions and calls for unity and understanding among our religious faiths and spiritual traditions.

3. Education
We demand an end to substandard education in our community. The Millions More Movement advocates, and will develop, a new, independent educational paradigm for our people. We must have a knowledge of self, our history, and the best education in civilized society. We will build a skills bank, the talent of which will be used in the development of our people.

4. Economic Development
We will establish a Black Economic Development Fund, with the support of millions, to aid in building an economic infrastructure. We will also offer housing ownership opportunities to check the adverse tide of gentrification. The Millions More Movement will produce and distribute its own products and supports “Buy Black” campaigns.

5. Political Power
The Millions More Movement is the political voice of the poor and disenfranchised. We are resolved to take an independent political path in order to achieve political power. The Millions More Movement will be an organized political force of consequence in America and all over the world.

6. Reparations
We demand full and complete Reparations for the descendants of slaves. We demand that America take the appropriate steps to help in the repair of the damage done from 300 years of slavery, 100 years of segregation, and 50 years of the misuse and abuse of governmental power to destroy Black organizations and leaders.

7. Prison Industrial Complex
We demand freedom for all political prisoners held in U.S. prisons and detention facilities, both foreign and domestic. We demand an end to police brutality, mob attacks, racial profiling, the herding of our young men and women into prisons and the biological and chemical warfare perpetrated against our people.


8. Health
We demand an end to the lack of adequate health care in our community and we demand free health care for the descendants of slaves in this nation. The Millions More Movement will present a Preventive Health Care Plan to our people that will begin with a campaign to educate our people on healthy dietary, eating and exercise habits.

9. Artistic/ Cultural Development

We demand a greater accountability and responsibility of our artists, entertainers, industry personnel and executives, for them to commit to the redevelopment and upliftment of our people. We demand an end to the exploitation of our talent by outside forces. We will make strides in obtaining greater control over the means of production and distribution of our immense artistic talent and creative genius. We advocate for cultural development, and for the knowledge of our original culture to be used as a model for future advancement.

10. Peace

We call for the establishment of peace in the world. We demand an end to wars of foreign aggression waged by the United States Government against other sovereign nations and peoples. We demand an end to senseless violence, and advocate peace amongst street organizations (gangs) and youth.

http://news.ncmonline.com/news/view_article.html?article_id=6ddd94f2effc6a088a0bcfeedf073364

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millions_More_Movement

Whats up with the Congo?

In recent day's, the Congo has gone wild.

As American's fight the war against terror, let us not forget the terroist thugs in Africa!

Suspected Rwandan Hutu rebels hacked to death 24 Congolese villagers, including several children, in the latest attack against civilians in eastern Congo, a senior local official said Monday.

United Nations spokesmen said the massacre was carried out by machete-wielding raiders who attacked at least two hamlets late on Sunday in the Walungu area of Democratic Republic of Congo's South Kivu province, which borders with Rwanda.


The Congo is situated in west-central Africa astride the equator. It borders Gabon, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the Angola exclave of Cabinda, with a short stretch of coast on the South Atlantic. Its area is nearly three times that of Pennsylvania. Most of the inland is tropical rain forest, drained by tributaries of the Congo River.

History

In precolonial times, the region now called the Republic of Congo was dominated by three kingdoms: Kongo (originating about 1000), the Loango (flourishing in the 17th century), and Tio. After the Portuguese located the Congo River in 1482, commerce was carried on with the tribes, especially the slave trade.

The Frenchman Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza signed a treaty with Makoko, ruler of the Bateke people, in 1880, thus establishing French control. It was first called French Congo, and after 1905 Middle Congo. With Gabon and Ubangi-Shari, it became the colony of French Equatorial Africa in 1910. Abuse of laborers led to public outcry against the French colonialists as well as rebellions among the Congolese, but the exploitation of the native workers continued until 1930.

During World War II the colony joined Chad in supporting the Free French cause against the Vichy government. The Congo proclaimed its independence without leaving the French Community in 1960, calling itself the Republic of Congo.

Congo's second president, Alphonse Massemba-Débat, instituted a Marxist-Leninist government. In 1968, Maj. Marien Ngouabi overthrew him but kept Congo on a Socialist course.

He was sworn in for a second five-year term in 1975. A four-man commando squad assassinated Ngouabi on March 18, 1977. Col. Joachim Yhombi-Opango, army chief of staff, assumed the presidency on April 4. Yhombi-Opango resigned on Feb. 4, 1979, and was replaced by Col. Denis Sassou-Nguesso.

In July 1990 the leaders of the ruling party voted to end the one-party system. A national political conference, hailed as a model for sub-Saharan Africa, renounced Marxism in 1991 and scheduled the country's first free elections for 1992. Pascal Lissouba became the country's first democratically elected president.

Political and ethnic tensions intensified in 1993 after legislative elections, when the opposition's rejection of the results developed into violence. A peace agreement was signed between the government and the opposition in Aug. 1994. A four-month civil war (June 5–Oct. 15, 1997) devastated Brazzaville, the capital.

Buttressed by military aid from Angola, former Marxist dictator Denis Sassou-Nguesso overthrew President Lissouba. In late 1999 a peace agreement was signed between Sassou-Nguesso, who comes from the north, and the rebels representing the populous south. The postwar period has been traumatic for the desperately poor country.

In March 2002, President Sassou-Nguesso was reelected with 89.4% of the vote. His opponents were either barred from the country or withdrew from the election.

The so-called Ninja rebels continued to battle government forces, each attempting to gain or maintain control of the country's rich oil reserves and each seemingly unconcerned about the toll this new outbreak of violence took on civilians. In May 2003, the government and Ninja rebels signed an agreement to end hostilities.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L1086271.htm

Dr. Angela Merkel..Germany's Thatcher!

Dr. Angela Merkel--The Woman Who Will Save Germany

Any one who follow's International Poltic's, know's that Germany has been in limbo
for some week's!

After an historic election, the center right Christian Democrats, defeated
Gerhard Shorder's Party!

Our relationship with Europe has been and always will be important. Yet, we saw the impact as EU countries Germany and France limped along with Socialist leadership and their subsequent crippled economies, but now things do seem to be taking a different turn. The Germans are famous for avoiding change, but they came as close as they could in their election. While they didn't give the conservative candidate, Angela Merkel, a strong majority, they gave her enough to remove Gerhard Schroeder, take his post and set up a coalition government. The problem is, up until now Schroeder has refused to acknowledge Merkel's right to be Chancellor. She would be the first woman to ever hold that post.

The latest news is that Merkel and Schroeder are meeting to negotiate, this after she won another seat in parliament in the last district to report. This story has the up-to-date situation.

Here's a snippet which tells you the dramtic difference a Merkel chancellorship will make:

The high stakes include no less than Germany's frayed relations with the United States, a possible new direction for Germany's leadership role in theEuropean Union, and hopes for a way out of the doldrums that have vexed Europe's largest economy.
Merkel is regarded as more likely to get along with the White House, where relations with Schroeder remain merely businesslike after his vociferous opposition to the war in Iraq.

She has indicated she would take Germany's EU role in a different direction, with less emphasis on the German-French alliance that helped block a U.N. resolution supporting U.S.-led invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein.

She also hopes to stimulate the economy by simplifying taxes and making it easier and cheaper for small companies to fire people.


The Germans, despite their reticence, know they have to get out of a troubling situation. It's also a message that Schroeder's "Hate America First" rhetoric is not embraced by the majority of Germans. If Merkel prevails (which I believe she will) it will mark a sea change for the EU, and especially the German relationship with the US.

Germany is on her way to reform and change, and France will be next.

http://www.tammybruce.com/

I went to Ramadan Yesterday!

Yesterday,

I went to the 96th street Mosque in NYC,to get a Koran for a Muslim
friend who has HIV, and is in the hospital!

I went with a friend of mine from Guyana,
who converted to Islam, 2 years ago!

Yesterday and the entire month is Ramadan Islam's holiest period. It is the ninth month of the year, and its start is signaled by the first sighting of the young crescent Moon without the aid of a telescope.

The mosque I went to is located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan!

My freind was clueless about, what do do with me a non muslim, when I got there!

She left me, in the main floor, while the men prayed, and listened to the Imam,

talk of moderation on life's affair's.

I felt bad because so many people may have thought I was a spy! I
stared at them from a mile away as they prayed!

I did not even know to take my shoes off...lol

The New York subway's were on high alert, as the FBI claimed
terroist were planning on attacking the subways!

After the prayers, I followed my freind and got a Koran to give
to my freind in the hospital!

I came away with the view, that Islam is very ceremonial, emmotional,
and very masculine! All the men sat in the front the women sat and prayed on a top floor in the back!

I was surprisedsed to see so many latino's and African's.

There were 4 white people in all!

Any way, I managed to speak breifly to the Immam, and talk to some muslim there
all together it was pretty cool.

There was an argument outside as we left the mosque!

A women, and a man screamed out loud at each other, until they had to be
pushed to the side!

Soldier gets Bronze Star

Congratulation's to this heroic solider for bravery!!

Spc. Matthew Wester
3/1 Armored Division Public Affairs

TAJI, Iraq – A routine mission turned into a moment of courage for one Task Force Baghdad Soldier last April. In the blink of an eye, a non-commissioned officer was forced to make several quick decisions, even as enemy bullets were raining down on him.

Sgt. Cory J. Scott, a squad leader with A Company, 1st Battalion, 41st Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 1st Armored Division, was recently awarded a Bronze Star Medal with a "V" Device for valor for his actions on April 3 during a mission south of Baghdad.

Scott and nine other Soldiers were on a mission to conduct a census of a rural area. They completed the survey, but an enemy ambush was waiting for them when their convoy rolled out of the neighborhood.

"We heard some noise like some people screaming out, and they started firing (rocket-propelled grenades) at us," said Scott, a Reynolds, Ga., native. "My guys immediately started firing toward the enemy. By this time, I was looking around, trying to assess the situation."

His squad spread out, sought cover near a concrete canal and took up firing positions.

"My A and B Team leaders were on the right side hugging the canal, and all of a sudden, they disappeared. Then, the third rifleman disappeared," he said.

The Soldiers were out of sight because they had fallen down the steep sides of the canal and were struggling to stay afloat in the swift current.

Scott quickly organized an attempt to get them out of the water.

He removed his belt and told two other Soldiers to remove their belts as well. Scott tied the belts together and made a makeshift rope.

He threw the lifeline into the canal, but the first of the Soldiers in the canal couldn’t hold on and was pulled underwater by the current.

"He grabbed the belt and it just slipped out of his hands," Scott said. "He went under."

The other two Soldiers couldn't get a grip on the belts either, so Scott improvised again by breaking a long antenna off a radio and dangling it near the troops.

Scott said the enemy noticed the squad's efforts to rescue their buddies and focused small-arms fire on the sides of the canal. Now, he had to contend with not only the raging canal water, but also more bullets and grenades.

"The rounds were landing about five to six feet from me. Then they tried to shoot the guys in the water," he said.

Shrugging off the AK-47 fire, Scott fished out two of the three stranded Soldiers. Spc. William D. Richardson, the Soldier who went underwater, was lost in the current and died.

Sgt. Dustin Garner, one of the Soldiers Scott pulled out of the canal, said he would have drowned if Scott did not think on his feet and use the antenna to help him out of the water.

Garner, a Fort Riley, Kan., resident and team leader for 2nd Plt., thinks Scott's actions were worthy of the Bronze Star. "He does deserve it," Garner said. "If he hadn't been on his toes thinking, or been concerned about where we were, he might not have noticed us out there in the canal."

Although he was the recipient of the Bronze Star, Scott said the medal was a reminder of his whole squad's efforts to save their comrades.

"If we didn't work as a team, then we would have had a lot more casualties," he said. "Everybody went beyond the call of duty that day."

http://www.mnf-iraq.com/Hero/050921.htm

Black Repubican...Wins in Deep South!!!!

Published on: 10/02/05

Melvin Everson made history Tuesday by becoming the first black Georgia Republican since Reconstruction to win a legislative seat in a contested election. AJC Gwinnett News reporter Ben Smith interviewed the former Snellville city councilman at his home Thursday. Rep.-elect Everson discussed his historic victory, the possibility for more African-Americans in the GOP and his plans for the upcoming 2006 General Assembly in January.



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Q: During the election, you consistently avoided discussing the historic nature of your campaign. Now that you've won, have you had a chance to ponder what it means to be the first black Republican since Reconstruction to win a contested election for the Georgia Legislature?


A: I've pondered it. I realize and understand I am under a microscope. . . . Everything that I do will be monitored. . . . I understand that I'm a role model for many other African-American Republicans. That this is an example of hope for the conservative movement. I understand that I have opened the door for others.


Q: Did you experience any racial animus during the campaign?


A: To me, personally, up front, no.


Q: Are there any other black Republicans poised to run for elected office in Gwinnett County, or will you be an anomaly?


A: I do foresee some running in the future but not in the very near future.


Q: Why does the national Republican Party seem to have so much difficulty attracting African-American voters?


A: Because of the unfair labeling of the Republican Party by various organizations — the unfair labeling of being the party for the well-to-do. Because of the stigma that has been attached to the Republican Party, that has made it very difficult for the Republican leadership to make inroads into the African-American community. But, however small, I do see that changing. I do see the pendulum swinging the other way. As we went door to door in the 106th District, I was amazed at the number of black Republicans living right here in Snellville. I was amazed to see African-Americans with Bush-Cheney bumper stickers. We are here, but I think many are afraid to show their party loyalty because of the labeling of the party by those various groups.


Q: It wasn't that long ago that Republican candidates, such as former U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms, injected race into their political campaigns to win elections. Do you believe the Republican Party has moved significantly away from that?


A: Yes I do. All the campaigns I've been involved in in the state of Georgia, I've never seen that. It's interesting you mentioned that because it happens on the other side and nothing gets mentioned. Right now, I'm holding a flier that was sent out by the Democratic Party when Calvin Smyre was chairman. . . . On the front of the flier, you have a picture of a frail African-American lady, and next to her you have the comment, "The Republicans are going to take away your Social Security." Then below that, you have a chained African-American male, and it says: "They are going to put you back in chains." Nothing was ever [printed] about that flier in the press.


Q: Do you think the Bush administration's response to Hurricane Katrina, which was widely criticized, even by members of his own party, has set back the GOP's effort to attract more African-Americans to the party?


A: No, I don't think so. It has stalled the efforts, but I don't think it's set it back. . . . The Democratic Party is trying to make this one of the raw-meat issues as far as gearing up for next fall's elections. And when you take a natural disaster like Hurricane Katrina or Hurricane Rita and you make an attempt to place the blame for the lack of government response at the foot of the president, I think the voters will be able to see through that facade. . . . I really don't like [it] when these people are suffering. Here we are, as elected officials, pointing blame when there is so much work to be done down there. Here we are crucifying someone in front of a House committee when people are suffering down there. I think it's time for us to roll up our sleeves and give them the assistance they need, and then we can come back and address what went wrong.


Q: How can the Republican Party craft a message for lower-income Americans?


A: We have to do it if we are to survive as a party. What I want to see take place is not a party dominated by one race vs. the other. What I want to see take place is liberals vs. conservatives. We cannot afford to have parties broken down on racial lines. We need parties broken down by ideology.


Q: You have proposed that illegal immigrants be denied any state-funded services. Would you bar, say, a mother, illegally residing in the United States, from giving birth to a premature baby in the emergency room of a state-funded hospital?


A: That would have to be answered on a case-by-case basis. . . . That's a trick question, a very, very difficult question. My first thought would be yes. But when you look at the situation, chances are I wouldn't.


Q: What about public education for children of illegal immigrants?


A: No, not at the expense of taxpayers. If they want education, they'll have to provide it for themselves. That's not saying they can't enroll in a private school.


Q: What about vaccinations for children?


A: They'd have to pay for it .


Q: You had nearly the full weight of the Gwinnett Republican Party behind you, professional consultants advising you and considerably deeper financial support than your opponent. Why was it still such a close race?


A: Because of the quality of the candidates. Each race I've run in Snellville has been close.


Q: Why is Snellville politics so contentious?


A: It's always been that way. I tell people you have not won an election until you've won one in Snellville.


Q: How do you feel about having to qualify for re-election in six months? Have you started raising money for that campaign?


A: Yes. I started election night. I'm excited about it.


Q: What House committees are you interested in that would benefit from your personal expertise?


A: Transportation, Public Safety, Education and Judiciary — which I won't get because I'm not an attorney.


Q: What will be the first thing you do when you go to the Gold Dome in January?


A: Pray.
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