Father of Affirmative Action..Black Republican

Most people would never have known that it was the Republican Party,
that gave us affirmative action as a policy.

A little know history is the black Republican leading the fight.


Arthur A. Fletcher was born in Phoenix, Arizona, in 1924. As a child, his parents moved frequently. He graduated from high school in Junction City, Kansas. From there he attended Washburn University, earning degrees in political science and sociology. He later went on to earn a law degree and a Ph.D. in education.

Fletcher organized his first civil rights protest while still in high school after being told that African American student photographs would be included in the back of the yearbook. After graduating from high school, Fletcher served in World War II under General George Patton and earned a Purple Heart. Fletcher joined the Los Angeles Rams in 1950 and later became the first African American to play for the Baltimore Colts.

Fletcher started in politics in 1954, when he worked on Fred Hall's gubernatorial campaign and took a position working for the Kansas Highway Commission. He took the knowledge of government contracts he gained there to encourage African American businesses to bid on contracts. After moving to Washington, Fletcher worked a number of government jobs, becoming the special assistant to the governor in 1969. That same year, President Richard Nixon appointed Fletcher assistant secretary of wage and labor standards in the Department of Labor. While there, he devised the "Philadelphia Plan," which enforced equal employment and business opportunities for minorities. In 1972, Fletcher joined the United Negro College Fund as executive director and coined its slogan, "A mind is a terrible thing to waste." Fletcher returned to government service when President Gerald Ford appointed him deputy of urban affairs. In this role, Fletcher came to be known as the father of the affirmative action enforcement movement.

In more recent years, Fletcher was appointed to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights in 1990, where he served until 1993 as chairman and a commissioner. In 1996, prompted by Senator Bob Dole's reversal of his forty-year affirmative action policy, Fletcher made a run for the presidency. He later became president and CEO of Fletcher's Learning Systems and publisher of USA Tomorrow/The Fletcher Letter.

Fletcher spent a great deal of time touring the country for speaking engagements on equal opportunity rights and the benefits of affirmative action, and served as the chairman of the National Black Chamber of Commerce. He has wrote several articles that have appeared in magazines such as Ebony and Fortune and wrote a book, My Hour of Power.

Fletcher passed away on July 12, 2005. He is survived by his wife, Bernyce.

African Americans Census Facts!

Why African Americans vote overwhelmingly Democrat, most live according to the census Bureau in Red States that Bush won.

Here is a break down for my blog readers.

1) U.S. Census figures, 37.1 million African Americans live in the United States, comprising 12.9 percent of the total population.

2)54.8 percent of African Americans lived in the South..the "Red States"

3)17.6 percent of African Americans live in the Northeast and 18.7 percent in the Midwest, while only 8.9 percent live in the western states.

4)Almost 88 percent of African Americans lived in metropolitan areas in 2000.

5)With over 2 million black residents, New York City had the largest black urban population in the United States in 2000

6)Among cities of 100,000 or more, Gary, Indiana, had the highest percentage of black residents of any U.S. city in 2000, with 85 percent (2003), followed closely by Detroit, Michigan, with 84.6 percent (2004). As of 2004, Memphis, Tennessee has an African-American population of 61.4 percent (2004), Atlanta, Georgia has about 54.2 percent (2004), and the nation's capital, Washington, D.C., has a 57.8 percent Black population (2004).

The Apprentice…Randall Pinkett!

Randal Pinkett 34-year-old entrepreneur from New Jersey, was named Donald Trump’s newest protege in last weeks live two-hour season finale of “The Apprentice.”

In the midst of earning five degrees from Rutgers University, the University of Oxford at England and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Pinkett has overseen the creation of five companies, including his latest venture, BCT Partners, a management, technology and policy consulting firm based in Newark, N.J

Much of the blogosphere since (however you spell it) was pissed at Randal for not suggesting that Rebecca should be hired as well especially since Trump very casually mentioned that he could have been convinced to hire her.

I agreed that although it was “cold”, he was right in his decision.

The whole series is based on proving that you are better than the other person. The only time contestants are pushing for each other is when they are on the same team. Tonight, Randal and Rebecca were clearly not on the same team. This is kinda why I do not think this was a fair question given the stated goal of the show–to become THE apprentice.

Randall stands as a reminder to every black man, that in America you can succeed!

Maybe Evolution Story is allegory...

Maybe Evolution Story is allegory...

When people say that creatures evolved over millions of years, maybe it's just a metaphor for the earth and stuff actually being created by God in six days, because they know that people can't possibly "understand" that God story so it was restated in terms people could "understand."

Just Joking

Boys Choir of Harlem Is Facing Eviction

How sad,

I knew they were having problems, a year ago there was a sex scandal.
How is it that such a great choir is surving on pennies.
With tons of black millionaires, hip hop artist who claim they care,
should throw them some cash.
I guess unless its in there own interest, they do not care.

This would be a perfect oppurtunity to show, that the rich ballers,
and hip hop artist care.

Will they save The Harlem Boys Choir?

Will African American's come together to help them?

We shall see.


The world-renown Boys Choir of Harlem, struggling under millions of dollars of debts and allegations that its founder ignored reports of sexual abuse, is being evicted by the city.

The choir has been asked to leave the public school where it practices for free by Jan. 31, 2006. The Boys Choir also provided some instruction at the school, called the Choir Academy of Harlem, as part of a 12-year collaboration with the Department of Education.

The choir failed to fulfill a 2004 agreement to find a new chief executive to replace founder Walter Turnbull, said department attorney Michael Best in a letter Thursday. Turnbull was demoted to artistic director after an investigation concluded he did not act on reports that an employee was sexually abusing a student.

Turnbull has continued to run the organization, the attorney said.

The department also said the choir staff failed to report to the school when expected _ apparently because the staff was not being paid due to the choir's financial problems.

In January 2005, the Boys Choir asked the department for $705,000. It said it had debts of up to $5 million and anticipated a deficit of hundreds of thousands of dollars that fiscal year. The department, which had not previously funded the Boys Choir, refused.

Turnbull said Friday the Boys Choir would find a new home.

"Surely there are people out here who realize that when 98 percent of your kids graduate high school and go on to college that there's something right," he told Fox 5 News.

Eliot Spitzer being Investigated

Wow,

This could be big,
given its an election year!

New Yorkers tell me what you think.

The state Republican Party is seeking an investigation into a claim by a former Wall Street executive that Attorney General Eliot Spitzer threatened him in a private conversation.

Spitzer is denying that he made any threats against John Whitehead, the appointed chairman of the state Lower Manhattan Development Corporation.

Last week, Whitehead wrote an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal in which he accused Spitzer of having threatened him during a telephone conversation held eight months before.

Whitehead says Spitzer told him he would -- quote -- "pay the price" for publicly criticizing the attorney general's investigation of insurance magnate Maurice Greenberg.

State Republican Party Chairman Stephen Minarik (min-AIR'-ihk) is calling on the Manhattan District Attorney's Office to investigate Whitehead's claim.
Spitzer so far is the only Democratic candidate for governor in 2006.
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http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=4290617&nav=4QcS

Reggaeton's attack on Castro

Given the political leaning of Cuba,

You may have never guessed that Hip Hop, is often Fidels sharpest critic
in Cuba!

I wonder how liberals will deal with this new "rage".

What happens when art and music is used against "Leftist Governments".

The American liberal press would never report it, but the under ground anti

castro hip hop industry is real and alive!

One form of music which does this is "Reggaeton" a mx and blend of

Jamaican music,reggae and dancehall with those of Latin America, such as

bomba and plena, as well as that of hip hop.

The music is combined with rapping in Spanish.

Reggaeton has empowered the Spanish Caribbean youth, specifically those of Puerto Rico, Panama, and the Dominican Republic, as well as the Latin American audience and the Latino communities in the United States, with a musical genre as a voice.

Black Charity Sits on Katrina Cash

If you have yet to hear,

A Bush bashing African American charity has yet to give out cash,

it collected for Katrina!

I am sure Kanye West will flip!

The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation CBCF then launched its own relief fund on Sept. 21, with a stated goal of raising $1 million to help Gulf Coast residents rebuild their lives.

As Cybercast News Service previously reported, the CBCF claimed immediate success, telling reporters on Sept. 21 that it had already received $700,000 in corporate pledges.

But on Wednesday, exactly three months after the news conference launching the CBCF relief fund, Rice told Cybercast News Service that the Foundation has actually raised “somewhere in the neighborhood of $350 to $400,000.”

She added that the distribution of the money would not begin until January or February of 2006 at the earliest

The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, which slammed the Bush administration for its allegedly slow and racially insensitive response to Hurricane Katrina, has yet to spend any of the estimated $400,000 that it raised for the victims of the Aug. 29 storm.

Read full story
http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2005/12/22/congressionalblackcaucus/

New NBA Dress Code Racist?

I have a very hard time sympathizing with multi-millionaire athletes who throw temper tantrums whenever they can't have their way.

The uproar resulting from the National Basketball Association Commissioner David Stern's announcement of a new dress code for NBA players is a case in point. According to the new dress code, players are required to wear business casual attire whenever engaged in team or league business.

This includes:

A long or short-sleeved dress shirt (collared or turtleneck) and/or a sweater;

Dress slacks, khaki pants, or dress pants;

Appropriate shoes and socks, including shoes, dress boots, or other presentable shoes, but not including sneakers, sandals, flip-flops, or work boots.

Players in attendance at games but not in uniform are required to dress business casual as well. Excluded attire include:

Sleeveless shirts;

Shorts;

T-shirts, jerseys, or sports apparel (unless appropriate for an event, such as a basketball clinic, team-identified, and team-approved;

Headgear of any kind while a player is sitting on the bench or in the stands at a game, during media interviews, or during a team or league event or appearance (unless appropriate for said event or appearance, team-identified and team-approved);

Chains, pendants, or medallions worn over the player's clothes - commonly called "bling";
Headphones (other than on the team bus or plan, or in the team locker room).

Some players, however, including Indiana Pacers guard Stephen Jackson, , Philadelphia's Allen Iverson, Boston Celtics player Paul Pierce, Golden State's Jason Richardson, say the new rule is a slap in the face of black hip-hop culture, and is, thus, racist.

Says Iverson, "Basically, you're saying, 'Don't dress hip hop.' What does a chain have to do with your outfit? A lot of guys wear chains for personal reasons. I have a chain with my mom's name on it, my kids' names on it, a chain with my man that passed away on it. I don't think that's right for people to say that I can't wear that and I can't express it. It's just not right. I think they went way overboard with it."

The Denver Nuggets' Marcus Camby takes the cake: "I don't see it happening unless every NBA player is given a stipend to buy clothes. Guys who haven't been wearing suits and don't own suits, it will be really hard to get them in time for the season (needing to be specially made for tall players)."

The average NBA player earns around $4.5 millions a year (with a league minimum of $385,000), and Camby needs a "stipend" to comply with the new dress code.

Yeah, right.

As much as he might not like it, though, Pacers guard Stephen Jackson, who was suspended for 30 games last year for his role in the November 2004 fight between Pacers players and Detroit Pistons fans in Auburn Hills, Michigan, has apparently learned his lesson and doesn't plan on bucking the system. “You have to listen to the people who employ you,” he said. “The people who are paying us make the rules. You need to abide by the rules or don’t work. I want to work.” Smart man.

Given the sagging NBA TV ratings and revenues - directly related to last November's basket brawl - David Stern is trying to restore a modicum of respect and dignity into ailing league. This new dress code, in my opinion, is a step in the right direction. Furthermore, employers have every right to make policies regarding the appearance of their employees. It's just good business.

Players critical of the new dress code need to stop whining and start acting like the PROFESSIONALS that they are paid millions of dollars a year to be. Check the bling at the door.

Tax cut plans and Black America?

What will the Bush tax cut plan mean to Black America?

The question is being asked by many.

The issse at hand is a straight forward proposition; Will Bush's proposed $1.6 trillion dollar tax cut benefit the majority of the nation's 35 million African-Americans?

If so, how?

In order to have a clearer grasp of the potential economic benefit the Bush Tax Cut Plan will have on African-Americans we must develop a greater appreciation for the economic stratification that exists across family, class and gender lines.

Part III of the paper begins to explores specific issues that have arisen in the course of the debates regarding it impact on African-Americans.

Part I: Key Provisions fo the

The Bush Tax Cut Plan

Tax Rates -- Reduces the number of tax brackets for personal income taxes from five to four. Marginal tax rates pegged at 39.6%, 36%, 31%, 28% and 15%, would be re-structured to 33%, 25%, 15% and 10%.

Estate Tax -- Would gradually eliminate the estate tax on all money and property transferred to heirs by 2009.

Marriage Penalty Tax -- Would create a deduction for a two-income family allowing a 10% deduction for the first $30,000 of the lower earning spouses income by 2006.

Child Tax Credit -- Would gradually increase the $500 child tax credit to $1000 by 2006 and raised the adusted gross income limit for eligible married couples filing jointly to $200,000 to $100,000.

Charitable Contribution -- Extends the deduction to taxpayers who do not itemize, and raises the cap on corporate giving.

Education Savings -- Expands the contribution limit for education savings from $500 to $5000 per child.

Hip Hop Republicans?

Paris Dennard a Hip Hop Republican

Spoke at the 2004 Republican Convention

Kamal Lathan grew up in Jamaica, Queens, New York as an avid hip hop enthusiast and a registered Democrat. But after graduating from college and starting a small community-based business in Brooklyn, his taste in music remained, but his politics began to change.

He became frustrated by what he felt was an inordinate amount of government regulations and high taxes, which he says helped drive him out of business.

"I was employing convicts, welfare mothers, and youngsters," said the 26-year-old. "But I had to close up shop and fire the people working for me due to the high taxes that were killing my business."

This experience made him scrutinize the tax structure, and was one of the key factors that helped him make his mind up about political parties and their positions. Today he is a registered Republican, one of a growing number of "hip hop Republicans" who attended the 37th annual Republican Party Convention.

The Republican convention strove to highlight the GOP's inclusion of blacks and other minorities, featuring speeches by Gen. Colin Powell, presidential nominee George W. Bush's foreign policy advisor Condoleeza Rice, and other prominent black Republicans.

The youngest speaker to address the delegates was 17-year-old Paris Dennard of Phoenix, Arizona, an African American Republican supporter from a single-parent family who worked as a page for the Arizona delegation throughout the convention, and whose speech was greeted with thunderous applause. The presence and enthusiastic participation of Dennard and other black youths underlined the growing appeal that the Republican Party is having for some young African Americans.

These young blacks have come into the Republican Party for a number of reasons, ranging from disenchantment with the Democrats to support for the Republicans' focus on issues such as school choice, self-reliance and personal responsibility.

"The hip hop mentality is to maximize your power, but the problem with politics in the black community is that we are in one political party," said Lathan, who is co-chair of America's Black Republicans, a black GOP group. "With 85 percent of African Americans voting Democrat, we are taken for granted. And because so many of us vote Democrat, the Republicans ignore us. We're like ‘Monie in the Middle,' stuck in the middle," he added, referring to a popular rap song of the late-1980s.

Lathan, along with other black Republicans who attended the convention, believes it is time to leverage the black vote, to force both parties to respond to the interests of the black electorate. And they feel that the GOP is the party that best speaks to the concerns and the current condition of black people.

"Brothers and sisters in the hip hop culture who grew up are concerned about economic independence and full access to a quality education," said Shannon Reeves, a Republican and president of the Oakland NAACP.

"This is the message that we are fighting to deliver into the black community for the next generation, because the hip hop generation has the chance to become the first economically self-sufficient generation of our lifetime and this cannot be achieved by following Democrat government programs.

"In his latest film, Maangamizi – The Ancient One, independent Los Angeles filmmaker Ron Mulvihill and Tanzanian director Martin Mhando tackle the mysterious African spirit world, as well as the complex relationship between African Americans and Africans. Swahili for "destroyer," Maangamizi refers to a powerful ancestral spirit whose guidance binds two women from very different worlds together.

In the film, accomplished Tanzanian actress Amandina Lihamba plays Samehe, a patient at a mental institution who has not spoken for twenty years. When Dr. Asira, an African American physician played by American actress BarbaraO (Daughters of the Dust), comes to work at the hospital, she is inexplicably drawn to Samehe.

The pair embark on a spiritual journey to recovery and redemption which takes them to the top of the dormant volcano, Mt. Meru, overlooking the spectacular Kilimanjaro plains and home of Samehe's ancestor, Maangamizi, "the grandmother of all grandmothers," played by Zanzibari actress Mwanajuma Ali Hassan.

Chemi Che-Mponda, a Tanzanian journalist now living in Boston, played Nurse Malika, a staff member at the mental hospital. Although she is not an actress, Che-Mponda said she was offered the part after telling Mhando how a previous film, Mama Tumaini, could have been improved. At the director's request, she acted out some of her suggestions and was offered the role on the spot.

"My mouth dropped and I was speechless," she said. "As soon as I regained my composure, I immediately said ‘Yes'…All of us who took part in Maangamizi became emotionally involved in it. For that time we were a family. I have high hopes for Maangamizi, which is a groundbreaking movie for African filmmaking. I thank the Lord and my ancestors that I was able to play a role in it."

The film was shot in the Tanzanian town of Bagamoyo, a former slave port. In Swahili "bagamoyo" means "lay down your heart," referring to the fact that slaves would symbolically leave their hearts in Africa before being shipped away. "The locations have a lot to do with the symbolism in the film," Mulvihill said. "The story is about reclaiming your heart."

Although it is still being prepared for general theatrical release, Maangamizi was presented in video form at the Zanzibar Film Festival, where it was named the best feature film in 1998. The film has also been acclaimed by such prominent luminaries as Alice Walker.

"[It's] more than a movie," wrote the celebrated African American writer on the film. "It is a look at how we've been torn at our roots; severed from nourishment at the source...Those of us who can remember and honor who we have been over eons of time, will be able to inspire the whole world to greater heights of compassion."

The film is primarily shot in Swahili, but does feature English dialogue between doctors and officials, which Mulvihill explained is faithful to the African reality, where European languages are often used in professional or business situations.

Mulvihill said the filming of Maangamizi contained a number of ironies.

Having worked in Tanzania before, he presented the Tanzanian Film Company a number of scripts written by his wife, Queenae Taylor-Mulvihill. Although most of the scripts featured African or African American-oriented themes, the film company picked the only script with no apparent connection to Africa whatsoever: They chose a story based on the life of the Greek goddess Hekate, a role Taylor-Mulvihill had originally written for Betty Davis. The film company told Mulvihill that all he had to do to was make the goddess African and he would have a totally African story.

It has been six years since they started shooting, and Mulvihill has raised almost the entire $1 million to prepare Maangamizi for release. Prominent Hollywood director Jonathan Demme, whose work includes Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia, and Beloved, has contributed considerably and is the film's executive producer.

'Twas the night before Christmas

'Twas the night before Christmas, as in days of yore;

Not a liberal was stirring, not even Al Gore; Our prospects were sinking, we pined in despair, And prayed that St. Hillary soon would appear.

We Democrats waited, while snug in our beds, Impeachable articles danced in our heads! But with Bush in the White House and Cheney as veep, I’d just settled down to a paranoid sleep. When out on the Beltway arose such a clatter, I headed for Hardball to check out the chatter.

I reached for my clicker with partisan glee, But only to gape at a blacked-out TV. The moon through the window cast light all about And showed me quite clearly the plug had come out.

When what did I see on the former dark screen, But the visage of DNC chair Howard Dean!

He introduced someone, with looks that could kill; I cheered when I realized it must be St. Hill! More rapid than eagles her myrmidons came, When she whistled, and shouted, and called them by name; “Now, Daschle! Now, Durbin!

Now, Eliot Spitzer! On, Matthews! On, Russert! On, Woodruff and Blitzer! To the Sunday news shows! To the National Mall! Now bash away! Bash away! Bash away all!"

As big bucks before dirty congressmen fly, When they meet with flush lobbyists, eager to buy; So out to the hustings the Democrats flew, With a slate full of programs for states colored blue.

And then in a twinkling, I saw on TV, As stunning a change as you’re likely to see; As I grabbed for my clicker to turn up the sound, Through my Sony, St. Hillary came with a bound!

She was dressed all in white from her head to her toe, All except for a pink blouse that set her aglow; An American flag pin she wore with great pride, And she looked to my eyes like a blushing new bride.

Her eyes -- how they sparkled! Her cheeks were so rosy! Her little pug nose just like Nancy Pelosi!

Her sweet smiling lips bore no hint of complaint And her overall bearing was that of a saint. A worn-out old bible she clutched in her hand And declared that upon it our nation should stand:

“The war in Iraq is just part of God’s willing, Like permanent tax-cuts and ANWR oil drilling.” She was clearly possessed by some right-wingish soul, And she spoke with the drawl of Elizabeth Dole!

A shy sheepish grin and a toss of her hair, Soon gave me a feeling of awful despair. She spoke of the heartland with tears in her eyes; And grand fruited plains and of God’s spacious skies. When praising Rush Limbaugh and Tammy Wynette, She caused me to wake from my sleep in a sweat!

My screen was now dark but I wasn’t alone; St. Hill had a message that chilled to the bone; With a voice that resembled sharp nails on a slate, She exclaimed, “HAPPY CHRISTMAS! At least till ’08!"

Lisa Fabrizio is a freelance columnist from Stamford, Connecticut.

Quote of the Week

The West is unique not in having slavery but in abolishing it.
- Dinesh D'Souza-

http://www.dineshdsouza.com/

Foxy Brown Forced to Apologize in Court

NEW YORK -

Rapper Foxy Brown was handcuffed, threatened with jail and made to apologize Friday after she opened her mouth and stuck out her tongue in the direction of a judge who had asked her to stop chewing gum.

Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Melissa Jackson told Brown that she was showing disrespect to the court and had previously been "making faces" at the judge. "I don't like her attitude," Jackson told Brown's lawyer Joseph Fleming.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051223/ap_on_en_mu/people_foxy_brown;_ylt=AucpMsO9fnPKo_A7hs7OCvas0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3b2NibDltBHNlYwM3MTY-

Democrat Congressman's wife in brawl

Remember when Democrat Senator Dayton's wife was busted for attacking a woman in a mall parking lot?

History repeats itself, where Democrat Congressman Conyer's wife gets busted for wailing on a gal in a bar.

Rep.Conyers is the American of African decent who is always holding fake, circus like, commisons on the hill.

He usually stacks the committe with every left wing nut case to offer there "expert opinon" on the right.

These hearings are so funny, that most people watch for the fun of it!

Well it appears that Conyers wife decided to beat some body up!

We do not know as of yet if it was a "unilateral attack"

But the sista got her fight on!

Maybe the next Conyers Commison should be on violence, being that

his wife no doubt set a bad example for black girls!

DETROIT -

The wife of Democratic U.S. Rep. John Conyers has been accused of punching a woman in the eye during a bar fight. A spokesman for Monica Conyers, a city councilwoman-elect, confirmed Friday that she was involved in an altercation. But he said Conyers merely defended herself after being attacked by another woman.

The spokesman said Rebecca Mews became upset Tuesday during a birthday celebration for an attorney, who Mews says was her date. While Conyers was speaking with the man, Mews "came over and literally started spewing obscene names," and shoved Conyers, said Conyers' chief of staff, Sam Riddle.

"This woman was obviously drunk, and the councilwoman vigorously defended herself," he said. Mews, who appeared on WDIV-TV on Thursday with a black eye, denied she was intoxicated. Mews said that when Conyers began speaking to her date with her back to her, she tapped her on the shoulder and said, "Pardon me."

"She turned around and began yelling at me," Mews said. "When I began yelling back at her, she punches me in my left eye several times," Mews said.

"I never struck her. Never once did I hit her." A message seeking comment was left Friday at a telephone listing for Mews. Both women filed police reports. A message left with police Friday was not immediately returned.

Poll: Bush job approval hits 50%

Wow,

I guess the Democrat lies are not working,


© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

Following a series of speeches meant to shore up support for the war on terror, President Bush's overall job approval rating has reached 50 percent, as investor confidence nears its post-9/11 high point, according to a pair of new surveys.

Scott Rasmussen of polling firm Rasmussen Reports says Bush's new approval rating has climbed six points since his speech Sunday night from the Oval Office in which he pledged America "will help the Iraqi people build a new Iraq with a constitutional, representative government that respects civil rights and has security forces sufficient to maintain domestic order … ."

In a series of speeches beginning Dec. 7, Bush reiterated oft-repeated claims of the importance for both the U.S. and Iraq to stay the course in the embattled Arab nation. He also has recounted progress in the war on terror and the situation in Iraq. Bush has emphasized that in Iraq, a series of elections over the past several months has ushered in a new period of democracy in a nation once firmly in the grip of dictator Saddam Hussein.

Rasmussen said Bush has not seen 50 percent approval ratings since July.
As to investor confidence, the polling firm said its current finding of 145.9 was the highest in 17 months, adding it was only five points off the firm's highest-ever rating in the immediate aftermath of Saddam's capture by American forces in a Dec. 13, 2003, raid near his hometown of Tikrit.
"Other than the Hussein bounce, the Rasmussen Investor Index has topped today's reading just twice since it was created in October 2001. The Index reached 146.0 once in June 2004 and once in July 2004," said Rasmussen.


In the same report Rasmussen said consumer confidence also was up two points, to 119.2, the highest level since February. In all, he found, "America's economic confidence is nearing the highest levels of the post-9/11 era."

....Liberal's try to sue the Pope....

This must be the Democrat's "Catholic Outreach" before Christmas,

(CWNews.com) - A federal judge in Texas has dismissed Pope Benedict XVI (bio - news) as a defendant in a sex-abuse lawsuit. Judge Lee Rosenthal ruled on December 22 that the Pope is immune from lawsuit, as a head of state.


His ruling came after the US Justice Department filed a notice that including Pope Benedict in the lawsuit would be "incompatible with the United States' foreign-policy interests.

" The Pope had been named as a defendant in a lawsuit brought by plaintiffs who said they had been abused by priests in the Galveston-Houston archdiocese. Daniel Shea, the plaintiffs' lawyer, argued that Pope Benedict was involved in a cover-up of the abuse.

http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=41404

Gay Patriot's..."Conservative Diva Awards"

GayPatriot has begun the voting for "Conservative Blogress Diva," and Tammy Bruce been nominated.

If you are so inclined, voting for her would be cool.

And of course, it would take a gay patriot to have a divacompetition. :) Go here to vote:

http://www.gaypatriot.org/

Christmas Gift For Your Liberal Freinds

"Special Offer"...Prepaid calling Cards.

Limited time only!


For your leftist freinds, family members, and the

nut case handing out flyers down the street!

Merry Christmas!

Intelligent design not so Intelligent!

Tuesday’s ruling in the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District was a blow to the proponents

of the Intelligent design.

The ruling was orchestrated by a conservative Judge appointed by President Bush.

"We conclude that the religious nature of Intelligent Design would be readily apparent to an

objective observer, adult or child," wrote Judge John E. Jones III in his decision, Kitzmiller v.

Dover, which rules that disparaging Darwin's theory in biology class is unconstitutional.


Before Micheal Behe became famous I picked up his book Darwins Black Box,

I must say I was impressed, by his arguments.

I prefer Richard Dawkins "The Selfish Gene", he is a better writer.

However I must say it is possible that ID proponents may come out sronger.

At least now they know the arguments that will be used agains them.

And to many they are apersecuted group of scholars.

For those who do not know what ID is here is a simple explantion.

The media give sit own spin.

I think the problem with this case was that zealous religious groups tried to

push this through, with no idea what they were doing.


Thinking they were on some kinda crusade against godlessness, they were

willing to hurt the emerging ID movement, many who are not Christian


The theory of intelligent design (ID) holds that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause rather than an undirected process such as natural selection.

ID is thus a scientific disagreement with the core claim of evolutionary theory that the apparent design of living systems is an illusion.

In a broader sense, Intelligent Design is simply the science of design detection -- how to recognize patterns arranged by an intelligent cause for a purpose. Design detection is used in a number of scientific fields, including anthropology, forensic sciences that seek to explain the cause of events such as a death or fire, cryptanalysis and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI).

An inference that certain biological information may be the product of an intelligent cause can be tested or evaluated in the same manner as scientists daily test for design in other sciences.

ID is controversial because of the implications of its evidence, rather than the significant weight of its evidence.


ID proponents believe science should be conducted objectively, without regard to the implications of its findings. This is particularly necessary in origins science because of its historical (and thus very subjective) nature, and because it is a science that unavoidably impacts religion.

Arrest the Communist MTA Strikers!!!!

Buses and subways are not running in New York City as the MTA's transit union began a full strike at 3 a.m. this morning.

The city's strike contingency plan is in place, including a new "zone" fare structure for taxis, additional ferry service, enforcement of 4-person-minimum carpools for Manhattan-bound traffic on weekdays from 5 to 11 a.m. and many major streets are closed to all but emergency vehicles.

Transport Workers Union (TWU), currently aligned with the AFL-CIO, was started in 1934 by New York City transit workers who were tired of the abuses by the managers and owners of the transportation companies, who took advantage of high unemployment rates sparked by The Great Depression by offering jobs to and keeping on only those individuals willing to accept excessively low wages, brutal management practices, poor working conditions, and other severe aspects. With the unemployment rate reaching 25 percent, there were nearly 20,000 applicants for every one job in the transit workers industry.

The TWU was headed by charismatic IRT subway line worker Michael J. Quill, an Irish-born militant who came to the U.S. to escape British rule in his homeland. His abilities in public speaking, and 'playing to the media' boosted his effectiveness and the overall draw of the union. Another prominent figure in early union history was Douglas McMahon, who led a group of lieutenants assisting Quill.

Quill was close ally of the Communist Party USA for the first twelve years of his leadership of the union, he broke with it in 1948. He drove his former allies out of the union. At odds with the mayors of New York City for most of his career, he led a twelve day transit strike in 1966 that landed him in jail, but won significant wage increases for his members. He died three days after the end of the strike.


The first significant strike by the newly formed union was in 1935. Previous strike attempts in 1905, 1910, 1916 and 1919 were crushed by the transit companies' use of beakies, hired goons who intimidated and violently attacked any who opposed the transit companies. On July 9, 1935, however, the Squeegee Strike demonstrated the power of the union. Management at the Jerome Avenue barn in the Bronx attempted to make the cleaning crews work faster by forcing the use of a 14-inch squeegee instead of the customary 10-inch tool. When six Car Cleaners were fired for insubordination, a two-day walkout inspired by the TWU caused the mangament to acquiesce and reinstate the workers.

Another important incident happened a month later when Quill and a number of colleagues were jumped by beakies at Grand Central Station. Strangely, this led to Quill and four other union activists, including Herbert C. Holmstrom, Thomas H. O'Shea, Patrick McHugh and Serafino Machado, being arrested. The charges were later quickly dismissed by a court. Nonetheless, the incident was retold in the media and at various work locations, where it epitomized and typified the cumulative history of abuses suffered by transit workers throughout the city.

On January 3, 1937, nearly 600 workers staged a three day sit-down strike when three engineers were fired for engaging in union activity. The workers were immediately reinstated. This event inspired thousands of transit workers to join the union, marked the beginning of the TWU as arguably the most significant influence in New York City transit, and the beginning of the end of the harsh treatment of transit workers in the nation's largest city.

My View of the Situation!!!!!

These bitche's are going to cripple the city during the important holiday shopping season, causing a lot of economic distress for hundreds of thousands of other workers. Lots of babysitters, eldarly caregivers, etc. won't be able to make it to work either. Its just very selfish, especially when you consider how much better the average transit worker's salary and benefits are then a lot of the other people in this city.

Perhaps busboys, dishcleaners, and newsstand workers should go on strike... the working poor with jobs nobody else wants. But as for transit workers, they can strike without pay for as long as they want, for all I care, and I hope they get fined amounts equalling the economic hardship they cause the rest of the city.

There a bunch of incompetent people who cant find work anywhere else and complain about how little they make.

Its all bullshit.

Its all propaganda to feel sorry for these people that they dont make 100,000 dollars a year, like lawyers and doctors.

Go to college and get a better job.

Dont complain and maybe when enough time has passed by you people will see that there are alot of other people much worse off then you.

Your a bunch of selfish Communist fucks!



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

LIL Kim Deaf?

Rap and hip hop star Foxy Brown speaks out regarding her deafness.

A press conference was held on BET's 106 & Park show Dec. 15th where Foxy Brown told the media that she has been completely deaf for a total of six months, and an emergency surgery will begin in January of 2006 to make the necessary repairs within her ear.

"In May 2005, my life was altered drastically," Foxy stated. She had been using techniques to communicate such as reading lips, facial expressions, and notes. "We take for granted the simple words such as 'I love you,' but I appreciate them all."

Russell Simmons and his wife Kimora Lee accompanied Foxy, as well as Doug E. Fresh, Dr. Benjamin Chavis, Reverend Young Blood, and her alleged boyfriend, Tyson Beckford, Brown ended all questions by stating that she is planning on returning to working on her new album 'Black Roses' after her treatment is complete in 2006.

Is she deaf?

I do not know but I want to see some medical records,

And not from Dr Dre!

Iran's President Bans Western Music

Citizens of the Revived Roman Empire:

It appears the president of the Islamic Revolution is intent on reviving the revolution that marked his formative years.

Emperor Linus IIran's President Bans Western Music - Yahoo!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051219/ap_en_mu/iran_music_ban

What Liberal Media?

The American Media Is Biased

Well, sure, we all knew that. Or at least most of us knew that.

But now there is an important formal study demonstrating that bias.

While the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal is conservative, the newspaper's news pages are liberal, even more liberal than The New York Times.

The Drudge Report may have a right-wing reputation, but it leans left. Coverage by public television and radio is conservative compared to the rest of the mainstream media.

Meanwhile, almost all major media outlets tilt to the left.

These are just a few of the surprising findings from a UCLA-led study, which is believed to be the first successful attempt at objectively quantifying bias in a range of media outlets and ranking them accordingly.

"I suspected that many media outlets would tilt to the left because surveys have shown that reporters tend to vote more Democrat than Republican," said Tim Groseclose, a UCLA political scientist and the study's lead author. "But I was surprised at just how pronounced the distinctions are."

"Overall, the major media outlets are quite moderate compared to members of Congress, but even so, there is a quantifiable and significant bias in that nearly all of them lean to the left," said co—author Jeffrey Milyo, University of Missouri economist and public policy scholar. MORE... -

http://www.thatliberalmedia.com/

Bolivia Slide back in time!

Hmmm....Looks like Bolivia's about to dust of the ol' Manifest Destiny?



Bolivian socialist leader Evo Morales has claimed victory in that turbulent Andean country's presidential election after conservative rival Jorge Quiroga conceded defeat.

An Indian labor activist who advocates the "distribution" of Bolivia's natural gas revenue to the public, Morales rose from poverty and obscurity to become the leader of Bolivia's coca farmers.

Wow its so sad how leftist exploit the ignorant!

The Communist are so fucking innovative, find a poor peasent, teach him lies
and hope he becomes leader one day!

Morales, is also friend and ally of Venezuela's outspoken leftist President Hugo Chavez and Cuban President Fidel Castro.

Clinton NSA Eavesdropped on U.S. Calls

Given that the left is always "shocked" and disturbed about something this president has done, it not surprising how they refuse to acknowledge that when they were in power they did the same things!







Whats more disturbing is they did it when "we were not at war".

Here is an article that reflects just that!

The NSA Eavesdropped on U.S. Calls During the 1990's under President Clinton, the National Security Agency monitored millions of private phone calls placed by U.S. citizens and citizens of other countries under a super secret program code-named Echelon.

On Friday, the New York Times suggested that the Bush administration has instituted "a major shift in American intelligence-gathering practices" when it "secretly authorized the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on Americans and others inside the United States to search for evidence of terrorist activity without [obtaining] court-approved warrants."

But in fact, the NSA had been monitoring private domestic telephone conversations on a much larger scale throughout the 1990s - all of it done without a court order, let alone a catalyst like the 9/11 attacks.

In February 2000, for instance, CBS "60 Minutes" correspondent Steve Kroft introduced a report on the Clinton-era spy program by noting:

"If you made a phone call today or sent an e-mail to a friend, there's a good chance what you said or wrote was captured and screened by the country's largest intelligence agency.

The top-secret Global Surveillance Network is called Echelon, and it's run by the National Security Agency." NSA computers, said Kroft, "capture virtually every electronic conversation around the world."

Echelon expert Mike Frost, who spent 20 years as a spy for the Canadian equivalent of the National Security Agency, told "60 Minutes" that the agency was monitoring "everything from data transfers to cell phones to portable phones to baby monitors to ATMs."

Mr. Frost detailed activities at one unidentified NSA installation, telling "60 Minutes" that agency operators "can listen in to just about anything" - while Echelon computers screen phone calls for key words that might indicate a terrorist threat.

The "60 Minutes" report also spotlighted Echelon critic, then-Rep. Bob Barr, who complained that the project as it was being implemented under Clinton "engages in the interception of literally millions of communications involving United States citizens."

One Echelon operator working in Britain told "60 Minutes" that the NSA had even monitored and tape recorded the conversations of the late Sen. Strom Thurmond.

Still, the Times repeatedly insisted on Friday that NSA surveillance under Bush had been unprecedented, at one point citing anonymously an alleged former national security official who claimed:

"This is really a sea change. It's almost a mainstay of this country that the NSA only does foreign searches." http://www.newsmax.com/scripts/printer_friendly.pl?page=http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/12/18/221452.shtml

Che's a white boy with a tan!

Do not let Che's tan fool you, he is a white boy with a tan!

One little-known fact about Ernesto Guevara ("Che" was a childhood nickname) is that he was of Irish heritage.

He was born in Buenos Aires in 1928, the first child of Ernesto Guevara Lynch and Celia de la Serna.

Ernesto Guevara Lynch's mother, Ana Isabel Lynch, with whom Che's family lived for years and to whom Che grew especially close, was the daughter of immigrants who had sailed to Argentina from County Galway, Ireland, at around the time of the Irish Famine.

As a white-skinned Argentinean descended from local nobility on his mother's side, Che lived among the more privileged ranks of his country's class- and race-conscious society

Lynn Swann Expected to Announce Candidacy

Given the Republican National Committee white wash of candidates,

for the 2006 elections, I was pleased to hear that Lynn Swann may run for governor of Pennsylvania!

"Look the image of a Republican Party with no black elected officials, is not

good!

And only plays into an unfair stereotype, about the "Christian White Party".

While Howard Dean is of base, he does have a point, that if the RNC ingores

minority Republican canidates, the image on tv of which party is more open to

diversity will be a no brainer!

The truth is we need fresh faces in the party, and to many old guys

refuse tp give up there seats for potential candidates.

After months of testing the water,

former Pittsburgh Steeler Lynn Swann is giving indications that he's ready to

announce a run for governor of Pennsylvania.

Swann says he'll make a major announcement during a state tour next month.

He'll kick off the tour -- where else but in Pittsburgh -- on January fourth.

Swann is a Republican who has been raising money since early this year.

Please help support Swann's Campaign

http://www.lynnswannteam88.com/?referrer=google

Will Tookie Williams Die?

Stanley Tookie Williams is the founder of the Crips, one of the most

widely-known and notorious street gangs in the United States.

In 1981 he was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1979

murders of four people in two

separate incidents.

He later became an anti-gang crusader while on Death Row.


He is scheduled to be executed December 13, 2005 by lethal


injection.

On December 8, 2005, his attorneys and the District Attorney for the County of Los Angeles

argued, respectively, for and against clemency before Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

I am against the death penalty, I do how ever suport it under certain situations.


Even though I am pro life, in the case of life and death of the mother, I will support abortion.

Also when it comes to terroism, I would support the death penalty.


The life of Tookie William is a tricky one for me, because he was the founder of a gang

movement.

And to me this group has terroized the lifes of poor blacks all over america since it was founded.

This movement till this day is killing black children all over the country.

The death penalty may create a mythical image of him.

But the death penalty may send a warning to future leaders of this gang.

No amount of tear's from professional actors will save you.

Instead of pleading his case to Arnold he should plead his case to the final Judge God.

My heart goes out to the families of Albert Owens, Tsai-Shai Yang, Yen-I Yang, and Yee Chen

Lin, who were mudererd.

These are the faces and hands Hollywood should be embracing, we need a movie about there

lives!

Has any one watched CNN on this matter?

Is it me or does it seem like they are in support of Tookie?

CNN should take more time in letting us hear there stories instead of Tookies.

Shame on CNN!

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

'Stop blaming the colonists!'

Great Article! Nearly 50 years after the liberation of Africa from colonial servitude, the sad reality is that the

continent on the whole is still a very sorry mess and, in many cases, much worse than during the

time when the foreign overlords still held sway.

At this rate, it is doubtful that we shall ever get our act together and save this continent from

ourselves, and for ourselves.

Why are we Africans often guilty of being perceived as thoughtless, unthinking people? Why do

we embark on activities which lend credence to such perceptions?

There is a haunting billboard along the double-decker M1 South freeway, near Johannesburg central police station, showing a severely malnutritioned and crying black child.

It is an SAfm advertisement, bearing the caption: "This year the world will spend three trillion dollars on arms".

The emaciated child is an apt metaphor for what we have done to this bountiful continent.

The caption implies that there is something amiss with the world's spending on arms.

But looking hard as I often do, I have never been able to decipher what implications there are in

the picture of Africans ruining their continent to the point where human life becomes nearly meaningless.

'It not our fault'

Some defensive types will jump up at this and shout the usual: "Hey man, colonialism and racism are responsible for the mess we are in.

The foreigners looted our continent blind, and used the stolen wealth to build their own countries.

And now they tell us we have foreign debts to the World Bank and the IMF."


Instead of purchasing arms of war, they have a duty to help poorer nations towards creating a better life for themselves and eradicating poverty" - or something similar.

I used to argue like that, saying colonialists never prepared their vassals for eventual

independence, and when they departed left a largely clueless populace in charge of

administrations they did not understand and therefore mismanaged.

But at some point sophistry becomes evident even to its most ardent practitioner - baloney,

however thinly you slice it, remains baloney.

I am well aware I will be crucified as being "hankering after colonial oppression and exploitation"

or some such rubbish, but can we please have some sensible debate on the ills afflicting Africa,

and try to propose some concrete solutions?

Much of Africa today is a refugee camp, housing millions of people displaced from their countries

for a variety of reasons: political instability, wars, ethnic fighting, hunger and natural causes like drought.

Back in the day

When I was growing up, the scene was one of secessionist strife in the Congo, no doubt fuelled by the Belgian colonialists.

In Algeria some French millionaires and absentee landlords were not very happy about giving up "little France", and the British and MauMau in Kenya slugged it out toe-to-toe.

Then the world caught the lingering images of despair and kwashiorkor from the Biafran secessionist struggle in Nigeria, and Africa went mad.

The advent of people such as Milton Obote and Idi Amin did not help to give this continent a

glowing image; the death of Haile Selassie heralded the divisions in Ethiopia, and suddenly tinpot

dictators developed a keen liking for toppling the man in power and summarily executing him.

The recent holocaust in Burundi and Rwanda is still fresh in our memories, and Sudan is a live powder keg: Darfur is a crying shame.

What is wrong with us?

Just what is wrong with us? Will we ever rid ourselves of the demons that possess us?

The corruption that one sees taking firm root here at home - Africa's last liberated nation - does

not encourage one that things will turn out differently here than in other African states.

Accuse me of Afro-pessimism, but I think the weight of corruption has long passed its critical

mass and the thin membrane of orderliness and civility is wearing thin, and pretty soon the

heavy claws of lawlessness will rip apart the flimsy veneer.



Trouble is we have become home to all sorts from the African continent, and many of them

unfortunately bring with them many of the unsavoury traits and practices they learned from

the countries which they fled.

And they find very willing pupils among some of us, eager to learn the wrong things.

Let us begin to look very critically at ourselves, and stop blaming others. Then, perhaps, we will reverse our downward spiral to doom.

Jon Qwelane's column is published each week on News24, courtesy of Jon Qwelane and the

editor of Sunday Sun, which originally carried the article.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Columnists/Jon_Qwelane/0,,2-1630-1633_1806374,00.html

Quote Of The Day

December 9th, 2005

“It is funny how McCain gets incredible press when he disagrees with the administration, but when Joe Lieberman disagrees with the leaders in the Democratic party, he is largely ignored. Can’t imagine why that could be”.

–Lorie Byrd, writing on PoliPundit

What have Republicans ever done for Blacks?

Maybe I am asking the wrong question it should be "What have the Democrats DONE to us?

Republicans do not run city hall in black communities, black elected officals do.

And by far they are Democrats.

Government isn't there to help any particular group based on skin color. I mean, think about it. What can an entire party do for one race, any race!

If one party gets 80 percent of the vote, how do you expect to articulate youre views if you are not even at the table!

"There’s a reason why monopolies in business are illegal, They reduce competition and provide lower services, ""Monopolies in the public sector are bad ideas, too."

And so to are Political Monopolies, this voting 80 percent democrat should be a wake up call to

all people, who want genuine "freedom"



While Democrats were busy passing laws to hurt blacks, Republicans devoted their time to passing laws to help blacks.

Republicans were primarily responsible for the following Civil Rights legislation:

1. The Emancipation Proclamation

2. The 13th Amendment

3. The 14th Amendment

4. The 15th Amendment

5. The Reconstruction Act of 1867

6. The Civil Rights of 1866

7. The Enforcement Act of 1870

8. The Forced Act of 1871

9. The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871

10. The Civil Rights Act of 1875

11. The Freeman Bureau

12. The Civil Rights Act of 1957

13. The Civil Rights Act of 1960


14. The United State Civil Rights CommissionAnd gave strong bi-partisan support and sponsorship for the followinglegislation

15. The Civil Rights Act of 1964

17. The Voting Rights Act of 1965

18. The 1968 Civil Rights Acts

19. The Equal Opportunity Act of 1972

20. Goals and Timetables for Affirmative Action Programs

21. Comprehensive Employment Training Act of 1973

22. Voting Rights Act of Amendment of 1982

23. Civil Rights Act of 1983


24. Federal Contract Compliance and Workforce Development Act of 1988Programs By Republicans & their Supporters .

24.Many of our key traditional Black Colleges are named after Republicans

25. founded and funded the NAACP

Ann Coulter Strikes Back

The Left has Al Fraken, we have Ann!

STORRS, Conn. -- Conservative columnist Ann Coulter cut short a speech at the University of Connecticut amid boos and jeers, and decided to hold a question-and-answer session instead.

"I love to engage in repartee with people who are stupider than I am," Coulter told the crowd of 2,600 Wednesday.

Before cutting off her speech after about 15 minutes, Coulter called Bill Clinton an "executive buffoon" who won the presidency only because Ross Perot took 19 percent of the vote.
Coulter's appearance prompted protests from several student groups.

About 100 people rallied outside the auditorium where she spoke, saying she spread a message of intolerance.

"We encourage diverse opinion at UConn, but this is blatant hate speech," said Eric Knudsen, a 19-year-old sophomore journalism and social welfare major who heads campus group Students Against Hate.

It wasn't the first time Coulter has had trouble at a university speech. In October 2004, two men ran onstage and threw custard pies as she was giving a speech at the University of Arizona.
UConn junior Kareem Mohni, 20, said he was disgusted by his peers' reaction to Coulter.

"It really appalled me that we're not able to come together as a group and listen to a different view in a respectful environment," Mohni said.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1110AP_Coulter_Speech.html

Whats on Black Folks Minds?

A poll was commisoned by Black Entertainment Television and CBS alongside Zogby.

Here are some of the results!

69% prefer larger government providing more services,

22% support limited government

Gay marriage: 64% oppose, 26% support, 10% don't know

Abortion: 56% oppose abortion in most cases, 20% oppose in all cases

Death penalty: 55% oppose, 39% favor. For minors: 80% oppose, 16% favor

Most appropriate penalty for murder: 44% say life sentence with no parole, 25% say long sentence with parole, 18% say death penalty

62% support set-asides for minority businesses & racial quotas in employment and education

Affirmative action programs should be: 76% say continued for foreseeable future,

15% phased over next few years,

3% ended now. Self-identified conservatives:

27% say end now or phase out

What would help most to get illegal drugs out of black communities:

35% say law enforcement crackdowns,

28% more drug treatment programs,

25% more anti-drug programs

How to solve youth crime:

70% say more community programs, 18% hold parents responsible,

6% longer jail sentences

85% favor holding back on tax cuts to provide more help for the needy

48% blame child poverty on parents' individual failures

73% believe race relations have somewhat or greatly improved

78% say they prefer to live in racially mixed neighborhoods

21% say all or most of the civil rights movement's goals have been achieved

63% say blacks are inaccurately portrayed in media & movies, 31% say accurate

61% say immigration is good for USA

44% believe immigration should be decreased

49% say amnesty for illegal immigrants is bad or very bad

48% say immigrants should adopt U.S. culture, 43% maintain own culture

Embryonic stem-cell research: 48% favor, 44% oppose

Prohibit people under 18 from buying explicit music: 59% favor, 37% oppose

Hip hop influence on kids: 52% negative, 23% neutral, 18% positive

Ages 18-29: 42% hip hop a negative influence, 28% neutral, 24% positive

Ages 30-44: 52% hip hop a negative influence, 22% neutral, 20% positive

Ages 45-54: 55% hip hop a negative influence, 24% neutral, 16% positive

Ages 55-64: 55% hip hop a negative influence, 17% neutral, 14% positive

Ages 65+: 58% hip hop a negative influence, 25% neutral, 6% positive

71% favor requiring Arabs, including U.S. citizens, to undergo security checks before boarding airplanes

64% favor special identification cards for Arabs

.......Black Facist..........

Its official Africa is black owned!

No more White Colonies!

So who is to blame for Africa's Failures today?

The answer is Africa's own Leaders.

While shredding the shackles of Colonolism these

black Facist have put on new ones!

Below is just what life would be under a real Black Power Revolution.




TOURE, Sekou (1922 - 1984)

Toure was considered a hero in Guinea for defying French colonial rule. According to Rubin, when Guinea became independent in 1958 Toure said that ‘the Guinean people preferred poverty in freedom to riches in slavery’, but upon becoming its first president ‘Toure gave them both poverty and slavery’.

Gulag style death camps were established by Toure in the early 1960’s and continued to operate for the whole of his twenty year rule. Many of Toure’s own elite class ended up being tortured and shot in these camps, such was Toure’s paranoia and his determination to maintain ‘a high level of internal repression’. Around one million Guineans fled the country during Toure’s rule, for both political and economic reasons. When he wasn’t terrorising people, Toure liked to write poetry! He died during surgery in America in 1984.

NYERERE, Joseph (1922 - 1999)

Nyerere was president of Tanzania from 1965 to1885. Anyone who established a one party state, especially one with socialist leanings, was labelled a dictator during the Cold War, yet Nyerere was a benevolent dictator at worst, since he is still remembered fondly by the Tanzanian people and allegations of abuse of power are rare.
NGUEMA, Teodoro (1942 - )

Nguema dislodged his own uncle from power in 1979 and remains president of Equatorial Guinea to the present day. His method of disposing of his political enemies has generally been to drive them into exile. Nguema maintains a tight grip on all aspects of government and the security forces, and is accused of regularly arresting and torturing those who speak out against his rule.

In May of 2002, a failed attempt on his life caused Nguema to round up his political enemies and jail them indefinitely. According to the Equatorial Guinea Advocate website, one scholar has described that country as ‘probably the worst governed state in the world’.

MOI, Daniel Arap (1924 - )

Moi became president of Kenya on the death of its first leader Jomo Kenyatta in 1978 and remained in that position until 2002. Although he was initially a popular leader, Moi became increasingly dictatorial, especially after a failed coup in 1982. According to Wikpaedia, at that time Moi’s regime ‘resorted to strong-arm rule, imprisonment without trial and torture’ against his opponents. Moi’s regime also grew increasingly corrupt, to the point that in 1991 Moi accepted the introduction of multi-party democracy in exhange for continued economic assistance from the International Monatory Fund and the World Bank.

Despite that, Moi managed to exploit ethnic and tribal rivalries amongs his political opposition in order to get re-elected twice in the 1990’s. He was constitutionally prohibited from contesting the presidential elections of 2002, but he still continues to exert an influence in Kenyan politics.

MUGABE, Robert (1924 - )

Robert Mugabe became Zimbabwe's first president after the establishment of majority rule and the official granting of independence from Britain in 1980. He still holds that position today. Mugabe was a hero in the struggle for majority rule in the former British colony of Rhodesia, however over time he has lost popularity as his regime has become increasingly dictatorial.

The controversial land redistribution program has seen mobs of Mugabe loyalists, referred to as ‘war veterans’ physically removing white farmers from their land, but Mugabe has not just targeted white people. Any opposition to Mugabe’s regime is not tolerated, with independent media outlets a particular target, as is the main opposition group, the Movement For Democratic Change. Its leader, Morgan Tsvangirai was arrested recently and faces charges of treason for promoting protests against Mugabe. Homosexuals have also been a particular target of Mugabe’s repressive regime. British authorities believe Mugabe has stashed large amounts of money in foreign bank accounts.

KING MSWATI III (1968 - )

King Mswati III of Swaziland is Africa’s last remaining absolute monarch. He became King in 1986, and since then has maintained a tight grip on authority with particular attention paid to the media. In fact Mswati is so paranoid about his image that he opened his own television station in order to ensure that a positive view of his dictatorship is portrayed.

He even has his own web site at, http://www.swazi.com/king/king.html. Mswati has no regard for human rights, especially women’s rights, having recently released a statement suggesting that women who wear pants are the reason why ‘the world is in such a state today’.
MOBUTU, Joseph (1930 - 1998)

Joseph Mobutu, also known as Mobutu Sese Seko, was President of the former Belgian Congo from 1965 until 1997. Mobutu seized power in a CIA backed military and named himself head of state, head of government, commander in chief of the armed forces, and head of the only political party allowed, the Popular Movement of the Revolution.

It has been said that the only thing that Mobutu gave his country was a new name - Zaire, in 1971. In return, Mobutu took all that there was to take.

In fact, some observers have branded Mobutu's regime a 'kleptocracy', since he made no distinction between state assets and his own. At its peak, Mobutu's personal fortune was estimated by the International Monetary Fund to be more than US $4 Billion. After his death, a search of one of Mobutu's many palaces uncovered a wine collection worth US $2.3 Million.

Meanwhile, the people of the Congo remained among the poorest in the world and indeed the country was declared insolvent by the World Bank, which closed its Kinshasa office in 1995. This is despite the fact that the Congo is potentially one of the wealthiest nations in Africa, with vast reserves of Gold, Copper, Cobalt, Rubber and Ivory. Mobutu was overthrown by forces backed by the Rwandan army in 1997, and died in exile in Togo the following year. The search for his asset

MENGISTU, Haile Mariam (1937 - )

Mengistu assumed the presidency of Ethiopia in a military coup which ousted Haile Selassie in 1974. His links with the Russians and his ruthless nature earned him the tag 'the red terror'. Using so-called 'neighbourhood commitees', Mengistu had as many as 1.5 Million of his own people executed in just four years between 1975 and 1979.
This ranks among the top ten genocides of the twentieth century. Those that survived the genocide had a good chance of starving, since Mengistu’s regime stole international food aid during Ethiopia’s famine during the mid 1980’s and distributed it among themselves. Mengistu fled to Zimbabwe, where he now has permanent residence, after being ousted in 1991.

The Ethiopean government has been unsuccessfully trying for years to get Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe to extradite Mengistu so he can be tried for crimes against humanity.


KABILA, Laurent (1939 - 2001)
Kabila became president of the Democratic Republic of Congo when he led forces that overthrew Joseph Mobutu in 1997. Although he does not rank in the same league as Mobutu as a dictator, Kabila’s four year rule coincided with the deaths of around 3.3 Million people in the DRC.

When he came to power Kabila promised institute political reforms and ‘intra-Congolese dialogue’, but he actually ended up removing ministers from his initial cabinet who were from different tribes than his own, and placed other political opponents into internal exile.

Kabila was shot by one of his own bodyguards in 2001. Despite early promises to the contrary, Kabila never faced his people in any kind of popular election during his four year rule.


HABRE, Hissene (? - )
Habre was president of Chad from 1982 until 1990. According to the Human Rights Watch group, there was widespread genocide against ethnic minorities during Habre’s rule.
His personally directed secret political police are also believed to have assassinated tens of thousands of political opponents. Systematic use of torture was also common during Habre’a reign. Habre is now in exile in Senegal where he faces deportation to Belgium to face charges of crimes against humanity.
Gaddafi, Muammar (1942 - )

Gaddafi came to power in Libya in a coup against that country’s monarchy in 1969. His 'anti-western' attitudes have brought him into regular conflict with the US since he has been regularly accused of being associated with terrorist organizations, including the former Palestinian Liberation Organisation.


Gaddafi controls all media in Libya and criticism of him is not tolerated. In the 1980’s, Gaddafi ordered hit squads to assassinate Libyan dissidents living overseas. Political trials in Gaddafi’s Libya are held in private and offenders are regularly tortured. Some sources suggest that Gaddafi has become more moderate in recent times.


EYADEMA, Gnassingbe (1937 - )
Eyadema is Africa's longest serving despot, having orchestrated Africa's first military coup in Togo in 1963 and then assuming the presidency in 1967.

At that time Eyadema banned all political parties and political activity, a situation that was officially reversed in 1992 when a new constitution was introduced and elections were held. Amid allegations of widespread vote rigging, Eyadema retained the presidency with 96% of the vote. The 1992 constitution had only allowed individuals to serve two terms as president, however Eyadema had this clause reversed in 2002 and plans to stand again in elections to be held in June 2003.

DOE, Samuel (1950 – 1990)

Doe seized power in Liberia in a military coup in 1980. His rule was marked by cronyism and brutal repression of political opponents. Doe favoured his own ‘Krahn’ tribe above all others, which resulted in violent uprisings. Doe banned political parties in Liberia until 1984.

The next year elections were held, however they were rigged and Doe remained in power until he was overthrown and executed in an uprising led by Charles Taylor in 1990. Doe's death was rather gruesome, in that he was slowly cut to pieces and forced to eat his own ears as he bled to death. Video footage of this event apparently exists. Lovely!

BOKASSA, Jean-Bedel (1921 - 1996)

Jean-Bedel Bokassa was president of the Central African Republic from 1966 until 1979. Bokassa had served in the colonial French army and helped establish the new army of the independent C.A.R. He seized power in a military coup against president David Dracko in 1966 and almost immediately abolished the country’s constitution.

In 1972 he declared himself president for life, and in 1976 he adopted the title of 'emperor' after a US $30 Million coronation ceremony. Whilst enriching himself to the tune of US $125 Million, Bokassa brutalised and exploited his people with apparent flair.

His 'hands on' approach led Bokassa to be personally involved in atrocities including torture, executions and even cannibalism. Bokassa was ousted by a French backed coup in 1979, but arrogantly returned in 1986, only to be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death for crimes against humanity. This sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, and yet Bokassa was released in 1993. As if he wasn’t busy enough, Bokassa apparently found time to have seventeen wives and around fifty children! He died of a heart attack in 1996.

BARRE, Said Mohamed (1919 - 1995)

Barre seized power in Somalia in a military coup in 1969 and remained its leader until 1991. Barre played Somalia's clans off against each other in a 'divide and rule ' campaign and in particular he singled out the Majerteen tribe. Mohamoud M. Afrah claims that Barres forces killed thousands of innocent civilians and their livestock and poisoned their water supplies.

Africa watch suggest that between 50,000 and 60,000 people were killed in the years between 1988 and 1990 alone. After his overthrow in 1991, Barre fled to Nigeria. The fact that Barre was unable to consolidate central authority in the face of constant civil war makes him a second rate despot.
AMIN, Idi (1925 - )

Idi Amin was president of Uganda from 1971 until 1979. A former boxer, Amin rose through the ranks of the Army in the 1960's, and seized power in a military coup against Uganda's first president, Milton Obote. His reign was marked by brutal repression, torture and other violence. 'Bodies were found with genitals, noses, livers, and eyes missing. Prison camps began filling up with common citizens, where prisoners forced to bludgeon each other to death with sledgehammers'. Most sources suggest that around 300,000 people were killed by Amin's forces. Another 60,000 Kenyans of Asian descent were expelled from the country.

In 1976, Amin declared himself president for life. Amin's Uganda was highly militarized, with 'Military tribunals placed above the system of civil law, soldiers appointed to top government posts, and civilian cabinet ministers informed that they will be subject to military discipline'. Citing 'ancient tribal ownership, Amin invaded Tanzania in 1978, in an apparent attempt to deflect world attention away from Uganda's impending economic collapse.

This move failed, since Amins troops were routed by the Tanzanians, who forced him to flee to Saudi Arabia, where he still lives today, reportedly with the aid of a monthly payment of US $1,400 per month from Saudi officials. Amin left Uganda with an estimated debt of US $250 Million. Amin has been proclaimed as 'Africa's Adolph Hitler'.

AL BASHIR, Omar (1947 - )
Al Bashir seized power in Sudan in a military coup against a democratically elected government in 1989. Since his ascendancy, Amnesty International claims some 1 million people have been killed in the Sudanese civil war, whilst another 9 million have either fled the country or been subjected to 'internal exile', which basically means 'stay inside or be shot'. Al Bashir has also dissolved Sudan's parliament, banned political parties and closed down all independent media outlets. He has imposed a strict version of Islamic law (shariah) and used it to brutally repress the predominantly non-muslim people of Southern Sudan.
AFEWERKI, Issayas (1945 - )

Afewerki became president of Eritrea upon that country's achievement of independence from Ethiopia in 1991. In recent times his ruling party has split and Afewerki's faction has begun to brutally repress its opponents. In 2001, Afewerki shut down all of Eritrea's free media and arrested eleven former high ranking officials from his own government. According to one web site, Afewerki has cracked down on dissidents at Eritrea's only university by arresting the student union leader, who has since 'disappeared'. Over 2000 other students have had their compulsory national army service 'commuted' to service in 'community work camps', where conditions are terrible and deaths are not uncommon. According to Reporters Sans Frontiers, Eritrea is the only country in Africa without any private media.


http://www.ssn.flinders.edu.au/global/africa/marcroberts/body.htm

............Racist Scum.........

RACIST OF THE YEAR


A teenager who murdered black college student Anthony Walker with an ice axe has been detained at Her Majesty’s pleasure.

A jury at Liverpool Crown Court found Michael Barton, 17, of Huyton, Liverpool, guilty of murdering Anthony, a devout young Christian. He will serve a minimum of 17 years and eight months.

Paul Taylor, 20, also of Huyton, Liverpool, admitted the murder and was sentenced to 24 years and eight months.


The grieving mother of murdered teenager Anthony Walker says she has forgiven the two men who killed her son last July.

Gee Walker, 49, has been praised for the way she has handled the horrors of her son’s death and her attitude towards his killers.

Speaking outside Liverpool Crown Court shortly after Michael Barton, 17, and Paul Taylor, 20, were both jailed for life, Gee Walker, a devout Christian, said she forgave her son’s killers.

“I think there is a misconception about forgiveness. It doesn’t mean that I have let them off the hook, not at all,” said Mrs Walker.

She continued: “I believe vengeance should be left to God. Man’s vengeance is temporary. The way God deals with it is different. I am just doing it my own way and I will leave the rest to God really.”

http://www.blink.org.uk/pdescription.asp?key=10214&grp=2&cat=383

......Exposing Kwanza........

The "non PC" Story of Kwanzaa

December 26, 1966 Ron Karenga and his family and friends lit the Unity candle,

the Umoja candle, and commenced the first Kwanzaa.

Kwanzaa has only gained popularity since.

On December 24, 1971 the New York Times ran their first article covering the festival, and recently the Postal Service released a Kwanzaa stamp. Hallmark, too, has begun to market the holiday.

Seven principles--one for each day of the feast--guide the celebration: Umoja, Kujichagulia, Ujima, Ujamaa, Nia, Kuumba, and Imani.

In English, the principles are unity, self-determination, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity, and faith.

Today, the holiday does not serve as a replacement for religious holidays, although it may, but rather is a secular event aimed at encouraging American blacks to remember their African roots.

The founder of Kwanzaa, Ron Everett, a.k.a. Maulana Ron Karenga, stood at the forefront of the black power movement in the 1960s. Karenga distinguished himself as a "cultural nationalist" as opposed to a traditional Marxist. In 1965 Karenga founded the United Slaves Organization (US), a group that would rival the Black Panthers on the UCLA campus. The US was more radical than the Panthers, setting off quarrels between the two.

The biggest dispute between the US and the Panthers centered around the leadership of the new Afro-American Studies department at UCLA; both groups backed a different candidate. On January 17, 1969, 150 students gathered to discuss the situation.

Panthers John Jerome Huggins and Alprentice Carter used the meeting to verbally attack Karenga, much to the dismay of his followers. Two US members, George and Larry Stiner, confronted Huggins and Carter in a hallway after the meeting and shot and killed them.

A May 11, 1969 letter in The Black Panther officially denounced Karenga. Wilbur Grattan, the Minister of State and Foreign Affairs of the "Republic of New Africa," wrote to Bobby Seale: "Speaking in the position of Minister of State and Foreign Affairs for RNA, I have always felt that Ron Karenga represented a great deal less than the best interests of the Black Liberation struggle against domestic colonialism, white racism, and world-wide imperialism."


This, however, did not faze Karenga, who continued to build and strengthen the US. Members of the US followed the "Path of Blackness" detailed in The Quotable Karenga, authored by Karenga himself. "The sevenfold path of blackness is think black, talk black, act black, create black, buy black, vote black, and live black," the book states.

The US would not last too much longer. On September 17, 1971, Karenga was sentenced to one to ten years in prison on counts of felonious assault and false imprisonment. The charges stemmed from a May 9, 1970 incident in which Karenga and two others tortured two women who Karenga believed had tried to kill him by placing "crystals" in his food and water.

A year later the Los Angeles Times described the events: "Deborah Jones, who once was given the title of an African queen, said she and Gail Davis were whipped with an electrical cord and beaten with a karate baton after being ordered to remove their clothes.

She testified that a hot soldering iron was placed in Miss Davis' mouth and placed against Miss Davis' face and that one of her own big toes was tightened in a vice. Karenga, head of US, also put detergent and running hoses in their mouths, she said."

The shooting at UCLA caused Karenga to become deeply paranoid and spurred his bizarre behavior. At his trial, the question of Karenga's sanity arose. The psychiatrist's report stated,

"This man now represents a picture which can be considered both paranoid and schizophrenic with hallucinations and elusions, inappropriate affect, disorganization, and impaired contact with the environment." The psychiatrist observed that Karenga talked to his blanket and imaginary persons and believed that he had been attacked by dive-bombers.

Eight years later California State University at Long Beach made Karenga the head of its Black Studies Department. Karenga had toned down his rhetoric and abandoned his cultural nationalism for straightforward Marxism. As an academic Karenga has authored various books on such topics as Egyptian art and has guest lectured at Stanford.

Initially, Kwanzaa proceeded from Karenga's hostility toward Western religion, which, he wrote in his 1980 book, Kawaida Theory, "denies and diminishes human worth, capacity, potential and achievement.


In Christian and Jewish mythology, humans are born in sin, cursed with mythical ancestors who've sinned and brought the wrath of an angry God on every generation's head." He similarly opposed belief in God and other "spooks who threaten us if we don't worship them and demand we turn over our destiny and daily lives."

Thus, Karenga explained in his 1977 Kwanzaa: Origin, Concepts, Practice, "Kwanzaa is not an imitation, but an alternative, in fact, an oppositional alternative to the spookism, mysticism and non-earth based practices which plague us as a people and encourage our withdrawal from social life rather than our bold confrontation with it.

" The holiday "was chosen to give a Black alternative to the existing holiday and give Blacks an opportunity to celebrate themselves and history rather than simply imitate the practice of the dominant society."

Since then, the holiday has gained mainstream adherents, and Karenga has altered its justification so as not to alienate practicing Christians: "Kwanzaa was not created to give people an alternative to their own religion or religious holiday," he writes in Kwanzaa: A Celebration of Family, Community, and Culture, published in 1997.

Still, some charge that the holiday and its official black, green, and red flag promotes racial separatism and violence. Says the official Kwanzaa Information Center: "red, or the blood, stands as the top of all things. We lost our land through blood; and we cannot gain it except through blood.

We must redeem our lives through the blood. Without the shedding of blood there can be no redemption of this race." The Kwanzaa Information Center also notes that the flag "has become the symbol of devotion for African people in America to establish an independent African nation on the North American Continent."

James Coleman, a former Black Panther, argues, "By only stressing the unity of black people, Kwanzaa separates black people from the rest of Americans.

Americans must unify on whatever principles ensure we live in a safe, prosperous, God-loving country, with the race and ethnicity of any American seeking to abide by those principles being of no consequence."

—J. Lawrence Scholer and the E

http://www.dartreview.com/issues/1.15.01/kwanzaa.html

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Jeff Chang ..Hip Hops Scholar in Residence

I just finished reading Jeff Changs "Hip Hop Nation".

Jeff Chang is one of those guys who if you need to embelish you're resume you hire!

He will make you bigger than what you realy are!

Jeff Chang calls himself a " hip-hop journalist"!

Only in the halls of Berkley can one get such a title.

Any way Jeff has made a name for himself.

He is one of "hip-hop's intellectual pioneers".

A "quote from Jeff sums it all up!

"We've grown up with multiculturalism, grown up in a world where pop culture has always mediated how we analyze the world.

We're not afraid of the media anymore; there's a constant dialogue in hip-hop about the gaps

between our reality and the ways we're represented.

We're naturally interdisciplinary; we mix signifiers, we break everything down to bits and bytes and rebuild something new."

Given that billons of dollars is now involved, I wonder if Jeff realy wants to break it all down

and build something new.

Maybe Hip Hop Country, thats new.


According to his website he has worked for URB and The Bomb Hip-Hop magazines, and has

written for the San Francisco Chronicle, the Village Voice, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Vibe,

Spin, The Nation, and Mother Jones, among others.

He was a Senior Editor/Director at Russell Simmons' 360hiphop.com, and a founding editor of ColorLines magazine.

He was an organizer of the National Hip-Hop Political Convention and serves as a board member for several organizations working for social change in youth and community organizing, media justice, culture, the arts, and hip-hop activism.

After being politicized by the anti-apartheid and anti-racist movements at U.C. Berkeley

he worked as a community, labor and student organizer, and as a lobbyist for the students of the California State University system


In other words he is a big, fat, extra biscuit on the side Liberal!

Instead of writing real history books Jeff writes Hip Hop History books.


Jeff is of Chinese and Native Hawaiian ancestry.

Showing he still has a taste for the "streets" he claims to be a big fan of Japanese curry

and poi.

......Black Men and Poverty

Living in New York City gives a person a great deal of advantages!

I love the big apple, it has such a diversity of shops, people and foods.

From Central Park, to Times Square this city is where it all happens.

New Yorkers like to work, and they work hard!

The most dangerous time to get in a New Yorkers way is when he

or she is on his way to work.

Given all of this one thing that has annoyed me some what

is the reports of huge unemployment in young black males here!

A report by the The Community Service Society came out last year saying 51.8 percent of black

men in New York City were employed last year.

This takes into account all those who were without a job, whether or not they were considered to

be in the work force.

By comparison, 75.7 percent of the city's white men and 65.7 percent of Hispanic men were

working in 2003.

Most liberal groups say this increase is primarily "racism" or what may be termed racial

stereotyping they also blame the city's school system!

While I concur that these things may give black males a disadvantage.

This does not fully account for my own personal experiences.

I am black a male and I also went to public schools.

Too me these two things do not account for the real issues underlying "African

American Males.

I personals belief that this has to do more with character traits and family!


If you go to a job looking like Wu Tang Clan, the employer does not know to call the cops


or give you an application.


A year ago , I got a job waiting tables for extra cash, I got hired pretty easily!


I had a smile and I presented my self very well.

I did not present an application, I just went and got hired on the spot.

These people did not know me, they just liked my personality!

Employers hire a lot based on character skills, and personality which allow them to sum up

a person .

I would bet even if you had a great resume and a bad attitude you would not be hired!

Most of the African American waiters who worked with me, were cheerful and in good spirits!

There were males and females but all were all African Americans.


The ability to have people who are not seemed as a threat is conducive to a great working

environment.


This has to through the employers mind when hiring .

Most employers want good workers.

And if and employer hires someone who has goals and is responsible,

he or she going to create a good work environment.

The debate around black employment should be "How to keep a job,

not how to Get a job.

Job centers in the Bronx, and Harlem are irrelevant if the person can not

keep the job.

character must be taught, in other words teaching boys to get rid of

the hip hop attitude!

Using offensive words and having an "I don't care attitude" will not

keep anyone employed black or white!

Character problems or what Psychologist call a" character structure" are a

number of traits that are manifested in the characteristic ways that an individual reacts to

various kinds of challenges.

So how does one respond to lets say work stress?

How does a person respond to a boss who is in a rush giving blunt orders!

If character traits are learned at a young age and taught by parents,

how one repsonds to these issues may enormous.

And this brings us back to that word FAMILY!

The issue of black male unemployment may be direcly influenced

by the fatherless welfare state!

If a child is growing up in a family where the father is not there,

Then his view of authority figures may be hindered!

This may effect his life down the road with regards to lets say a future boss!

Just looking at my own life, and my personal involvement in this city,

the facts cry out all around me.

Many black immigrants from African nations do very well,

and so do African American females.

These two groups grew up and are raised in the same environment!

And they are the same color.

Immigrant African children usually have both a mom and dad.

Even when a parent has been taken by HIP, this

gives African immigrant children a strong boos to do something

to make there fallen parent proud!

Young males in there 20's come from African countries

like Sierra Leone they still, have families back home who they

support!

They do not run away from there responsibility they

in fact it gives them a moral boost!

Also America is the land of endless jobs, and there is a whole net work

to go to get those jobs ounce here!

Black females who may not have had a father still have a mother.

A black gilr may do better than the boy who has no similar experiences in a father!

Latino's despite poverty also place a strong emphasis on family.

This to me explains why Latino men who play and eat with there black brotha's

have more jobs!

The truth is the same Latino men working grew up in the same poor communities .

A recent study shows that 65.7 percent of Hispanic men were working in 2003.

Some not even citizens!

To deal with the issue of poverty one must deal with the issue

of the family!

Families produce wealth and thus an extra incentive for raising responsible children.

The left in America is scared if that term because of its perceived religious undertones!

In a country where even gay Americans seek family recognition, should not

African American leaders be the ones advocating for a strong black family.


But no these cowards are shamefuly hidden when dealing with the real causes of poverty.


The simple fact is in order to effectively deal with joblessness and poverty you must first deal


with that other time tested institution the family!

Louis Farakhan

Who is Lois Farrakhan?

I took this from wikipedia!

Louis Farrakhan (born Louis Eugene Walcott, May 11, 1933 in Bronx, New York), is the leader of the largely African-American Nation of Islam.

Walcott was raised within the West Indian community in the Roxbury section of Boston. His mother had emigrated from the Caribbean island of Saint Kitts in the 1920s; his father was a Jamaican cab driver from New York but was not involved in his upbringing.

As a child, he received training as a violinist. At the age of six, he was given his first violin and by the age of 13, he had played with the Boston College Orchestra and the Boston Civic Symphony. A year later, Walcott went on to win national competitions, as well as the Ted Mack Amateur Hour. He was also one of the first blacks to appear on the popular show.
In the 1950s, Walcott became an up-and-coming calypso singer. Popularly known in Boston as "Calypso Louie," he recorded several Calypso albums under the name "The Charmer."

In 1955, while headlining a show in Chicago entitled "Calypso Follies," Walcott first came in contact with the teachings of the Nation of Islam. He had been inspired by Malcolm X and he had accepted a friend's invitation to attend the Nation of Islam's annual Saviours' Day address by Elijah Muhammad.

Walcott accepted Elijah Muhammad's teachings that day and became "Louis X" later to be renamed Louis Farrakhan by Elijah Muhammad. Nation of Islam doctrine explains that because in mathematics the 'X' represents an unknown variable, followers use it to represent their lost, unknown African surnames. The followers accept this 'X' as a symbol of the rejection of their slave names and the absence of a "proper" Muslim name. Eventually, the 'X' is replaced with an

Arabic name more descriptive of a person's personality and character.
After joining the Nation of Islam, Farrakhan quickly rose through the ranks to become Minister of the Nation of Islam's Boston Mosque. He was appointed Minister of the influential Harlem Mosque and served in that capacity from 1965 to 1975.

After Elijah Muhammad's son, Warith Deen Mohammad, was installed as Supreme Minister of the Nation of Islam, he disavowed many of his father's beliefs and practices. He brought the group closer to mainstream Islam and renamed the organization the Muslim American Society.

By 1976 Farrakhan became disillusioned with Warith Deen Mohammad's leadership and quietly walked away from the movement. In 1978 Farrakhan, with a few supporters, decided to rebuild the Nation of Islam. In 1981, he publicly announced the restoration of the Nation of Islam as an organization that followed Elijah Muhammad's teachings.

On October 24, 1989, at the J.W. Marriott Hotel in Washington, DC., Louis Farrakhan stated that he had a vision of being abducted in 1985 by an invisible pilot in a UFO and carried up on a beam of light to a "human built planet" known as the "Mother Wheel."

There the voice of Elijah Muhammad informed him that the president and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, under the direction of Gen. Colin Powell, were planning a war, which Farrakhan said he later came to realize was "a war against the black people of America, the Nation of Islam and Louis Farrakhan."

"I saw a city in the sky," Farrakhan said, after which the UFO "brought me back to Earth and dropped me off near Washington; over to Tyson Corners and Fifth Street I think...to make The Announcement."

On January 12, 1995, Malcolm X's daughter, Qubilah Shabazz, was arrested for conspiring to kill Farrakhan. It was later alleged that the FBI had used a paid informant, Michael Fitzpatrick, to set up Shabazz.

After Shabazz's arrest, Farrakhan held a press conference in Chicago in which he accused the FBI of attempting to exacerbate division and conflict between the Nation of Islam and the family of Malcolm X. Nearly four months later, on May 1, U.S. government prosecutors dropped their case against Shabazz.

On May 6, 1995, a packed public meeting in Harlem, New York termed A New Beginning featured Louis Farrakhan and Malcolm X's widow, Betty Shabazz. Originally organized by community activists as a fund raiser for Qubilah Shabazz's legal defense, the meeting marked the first public rapprochement between Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam and the Shabazz family.

On October 16, 1995 Farrakhan convened a broad coalition of black men in what many say was the largest march in American history, the Million Man March.

The calming of Farrakhan's fiery rhetoric in recent years possibly signals a change of direction in the Nation of Islam, and may also be due as well to the seriousness of the advanced prostate cancer with which he was diagnosed years ago, but is evidently now in remission.

Louis Farrakhan is currently the leader of the Nation of Islam and lives in Chicago, Illinois at the former home of Elijah Muhammad, near the campus of the University of Chicago.

Farrakhan, along with Malik Zulu Shabazz, leader of the New Black Panther
Party, Al Sharpton, Barack Obama and other prominent African-Americans marked the 10th anniversary of the Million Man March by holding a second march, the Millions More Movement on October 14, 2005 through October 17, 2005, in Washington.


One of the most controversial quotes attributed to Farrakhan, and which led to him being censured unanimously by the United States Senate, was, "Hitler was a very great man." Farrakhan made this statement in response to a Jewish journalist at The Village Voice referring to him as a "Black Hitler":

"So I said to the members of the press, 'Why won't you go and look into what we are saying about the threats on Reverend Jackson's life?' Here the Jews don't like Farrakhan and so they call me 'Hitler'.

Well that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man. He wasn't great for me as a Black man but he was a great German and he rose Germany up from the ashes of her defeat by the united force of all of Europe and America after the first world war.

Yet Hitler took Germany from the ashes and rose her up and made her the greatest fighting machine of the twentieth century, brothers and sisters, and even though Europe and America had deciphered the code that Hitler was using to speak to his chiefs of staff, they still had trouble defeating Hitler even after knowing his plans in advance.

Now I'm not proud of Hitler's evil toward Jewish people, but that's a matter of record.

He rose Germany up from nothing. Well, in a sense you could say there is a similarity in that we are rising our people up from nothing, but don't compare me with your wicked killers."

Farrakhan has referred to Jews, Palestinian Arabs, and Asians as "bloodsuckers" and stating that "Murder and lying comes easy for white people."

He has been accused of calling Judaism a "gutter religion" although Farrakhan and his defenders deny this.

An article in the NOI's periodical, Final Call, states that Farrakhan used the expression "dirty religion," and that "...in Minister Farrakhan’s vocabulary the phrase 'dirty religion' has a particular meaning...'dirty religion' is the distorted faith which emerges from its manipulation by hypocrites or sinners.

In 1998, Former The Wall Street Journal editor Jude Wanniski attempted to foster dialogue between Farrakhan and those who had labeled him anti-semitic.

He arranged for Farrakhan to be interviewed by reporter Jeffrey Goldberg who had written for the Jewish weekly, The Forward and The New York Times. Since the extensive interview was never published in either publication,

Wanniski decided to post the transcript on his website in the context of a memo of Senator Joseph Lieberman. The following are links to the interview, parts one, two and three:

Interview with Farrakhan Part I
Interview with Farrakhan Part II
Interview with Farrakhan Part III

In comments regarding the flooding of New Orleans in consequence of Hurricane Katrina, Louis Farrakhan revealed to the press a report that he received, from a "very reliable source" he said, that there was a 25-foot hole under one of the levees that broke, which suggested it may have been busted on purpose to destroy the part of the city where Black people lived.[3] Farrakhan in a broadcast leading up to the Million Man March 10th Anniversary revealed that New Orleans' Mayor Nagin during a meeting in Dallas, Texas shared with him the information regarding the 25-foot crater underneath the levee. [4]
Citing the fact that the levee broke the day after Hurricane Katrina passed, others including Baltimore Sun and BlackAmericaWeb columnist Gregory Kane and political commentator Cedric Muhammad, have raised additional questions and called for federal investigations into the source of the levee break.[5][6]
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Farrakhan and classical music
When Farrakhan first joined the NOI, he was asked by Elijah Muhammad to put aside his musical career. After 42 years of abstinence from playing the violin Farrakhan decided to take it up once more, particularly due to the urging of prominent classical musician Sylvia Olden Lee.

In early 1993, Farrakhan made his concert debut with performances of the

Violin Concerto in E Minor by Jewish composer Felix Mendelssohn, which was widely seen as a response to his critics, such as the Anti-Defamation League, who had charged him with Anti-Semitism.

Reviews were mixed, but some critics agreed that Farrakhan, while not on a par with established solo violin performers, had nonetheless put in a creditable performance.

He has gone on to perform the Violin Concerto of Ludwig van Beethoven and has announced plans to perform those of Tchaikovsky and Brahms.