Hijacked" on PBS.

A note from LiberalHawk blogger.

Because of the bias, I normally don't endorse PBS programming;
however, WSJ goddess Dororthy Rabinowitz touts this as a fair
and informative program about the 1970 hijackings of 4 airliners
to Beirut airport.

3 planes were pirated to Beirut. The 4th plane was an El Al
flight from Europe, whose pilot RESISTED THE HIJACKERS, threw
the plane into a sharp dive, allowing onboard El Al security the
chance to execute the Muslim animals on the spot. Yashir Koach!
The plane landed safely in Tel Aviv.

A tourist shot video of the scene, and it will be shown tonight.

The Boondocks

The Boondocks is a daily comic strip written and originally drawn by Aaron McGruder. Created by McGruder in 1997 for The Diamondback, the student newspaper at the University of Maryland, College Park, the strip moved from the college pages and was printed in the monthly hip-hop magazine, The Source, in 1997.

As it gained popularity, and a loyal following the comic strip was picked up by the Universal Press Syndicate in 1999 and made its national debut on April 19th of that year. A popular and highly controversial strip, The Boondocks deals with various issues involving African-American culture and American politics, as seen through the eyes of its main protagonist, a ten-year-old black radical named Huey Freeman. In the fall of 2005, The Boondocks was adapted into an animated television series of the same name for Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming block.

The Boondocks is a daily comic strip written and originally drawn by Aaron McGruder. Created by McGruder in 1997 for The Diamondback, the student newspaper at the University of Maryland, College Park, the strip moved from the college pages and was printed in the monthly hip-hop magazine, The Source, in 1997. As it gained popularity, and a loyal following the comic strip was picked up by the Universal Press Syndicate in 1999 and made its national debut on April 19th of that year. A popular and highly controversial strip, The Boondocks deals with various issues involving African-American culture and American politics, as seen through the eyes of its main protagonist, a ten-year-old black radical named Huey Freeman. In the fall of 2005, The Boondocks was adapted into an animated television series of the same name for Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming block.


The strip depicts Huey Freeman and his younger brother Riley, two black children who have been moved out of Chicago by their grandfather to live with him in the predominantly white suburb of Woodcrest (most likely in Maryland, as seen from the area code stated in the March 16th, 2000 strip). Huey is a devotee of black radical ideas of the past few decades (as explained in the May 4th, 1999 strip, Huey is in fact named after Black Panther Huey P. Newton) and is harshly critical of many aspects of modern Black culture. Riley, on the other hand, is enamored of gangsta rap culture and the "thug"/bling-bling lifestyle. Their grandfather is a firm disciplinarian who is offended by their values and ideas.

Huey's best friend is Michael Caesar, a dreadlocked aspiring MC who agrees with many of Huey's criticisms but serves as a positive counterpoint to Huey's typically pessimistic attitude by taking a humorous approach to issues. He is also a budding comedian, although most of his humor consists of trying to play the dozens on Huey, which always falls flat. The Freemans' neighbors are NAACP member Thomas Dubois (a reference both to WEB DuBois and Uncle Tom) and his White wife Sara, who are both lawyers. Their young daughter Jazmine is very insecure about her ethnic identity and is often the subject of Huey's antipathy for being out of touch with her African ancestry.

The Boondocks is very political and occasionally subject to great controversy, usually sparked by the comments and behavior of its main character, Huey. The comic strip has been withheld by newspapers several times. In this aspect, it is similar to Doonesbury. In particular, the principal characters often discuss racial and American socio-economic class issues. Some attribute the disputes over the strip to a political correctness that discourages any discussion or recognition of ethnic and cultural distinctions. Because of its controversy, many newspaper publishers either relegate the strip to the op-ed section of the paper, pull more potentially controversial strips from being published, or do not publish the strip at all, tactics also similar to Doonesbury.



Main characters

Huey Freeman - a ten-year-old boy who appears angry most of the time with strident political awareness and sees himself as a revolutionary. He is disturbed by the ignorance in modern-day black television and issues in politics. In the early days of the strip, he is mentioned to be named after Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panthers.

Riley Freeman - The opposite of his older brother, eight-year-old Riley praises the "thug life", and aspires to be the same as all the rappers and thugs he sees on television.

Michael Caesar - Huey's classmate and best friend, and agrees with most of Huey's views of life. Unlike Huey, Caesar is more optimistic and cheerful, and is usually making jokes about whatever issue is at hand.

Robert Freeman - Huey and Riley's retired "Granddad". Robert is known to overpanic and for occasionally being selfish and valuing his own peace and comfort over the needs of others, but does look out for the children's welfare. He is often shown to be an "old school" disciplinarian when dealing with the kids. Like Andy Fox, he is also a miser with indoor heating.

Thomas and Sarah Dubois - an interracial couple in the neighborhood. They both work as lawyers. Tom is often seen talking (sometimes arguing) with Huey about present events in politics. Huey tends to rip on Tom for being too much of a conformist yuppie, sometimes going as far as to suggest that he's not really black.

Jazmine Dubois - Thomas and Sarah's biracial daughter who seems to like Huey, despite the fact that he is occasionally cold towards her. Jazmine is often portrayed as naive, and is very optimistic in contrast to Huey's pessimism.

Cindy McPhearson - a Caucasian girl in Huey's class who appears to be utterly clueless about racial issues and is a general airhead. She shows a fondness and curiosity for rap music (Snoop Dogg in particular).

Uncle Ruckus - a mentally disturbed neighborhood handyman and acquaintance of the Freemans who plays the archetypal role of a Black man who dislikes his own race and constantly, but often illogically, praises Caucasians.

Minor characters
Hiro Otomo - One of Huey's friends; a young Asian-American DJ. Hiro only appeared in the original Diamondback version of the strip.
Psycho Star Wars Guy - a long-haired young man who stood in line for The Phantom Menace for months. Huey regularly visited him in line. Finding the movie disappointing, he thought he had nothing left to live for, until Huey convinced him to sue George Lucas, though Huey didn't actually mean for him to do so. Later, he ran into Lucas himself and decided to kick him in the rear, sparking a brief wave of publicity for both himself and Huey, who claimed responsibility for the attack.
The school principal - an out of touch young man who prepared for the arrival of Huey and Riley by mistakenly renting several blaxploitation films thinking of them as representative of black culture. Somehow has access to FBI files of Huey.
Mr. Petto - Huey and Caesar's teacher, who is as clueless about how to handle them as the principal is. Old-fashioned and not used to dealing with Blacks, he is intimidated by Huey's intellect. Has struggled trying to debate with Huey during class.

The Buffalo Soldier

The Buffalo Soldier



From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Buffalo SoldierBuffalo Soldiers is a nickname originally applied to the members of the 10th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army, which was formed on September 21, 1866 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

The term eventually encompassed the 9th Cavalry Regiment, the 10th Cavalry Regiment, the 24th Infantry Regiment and the 25th Infantry Regiment. Although several black regiments were raised during the Civil War to fight alongside the Union Army (including the famous 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry and the many United States Colored Troops Regiments, the Buffalo Soldiers were established by Congress as the first peacetime all-black regiments in the Regular U.S. Army. The Spanish referred to them as "Smoked Yankees".

On September 6, 2005, Mark Matthews, who was the oldest living Buffalo Soldier, died at the age of 111. He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery. [1]

Origins of the name
The Kiowa bestowed the term upon the 10th Cavalry Regiment in admiration following encounters with them in western Kansas. The name is believed to be a reference to either:

the hair of the troops, said to resemble the mane of the buffalo, or
more general attributes ascribed to buffalo, such as ferocity, strength, and stamina.



Their service

During the American Civil War, the U.S. government formed regiments known as the United States Colored Troops, composed of African-American soldiers led by white officers. After the war the Congress reorganized the Army, authorizing the formation of two regiments of black cavalry with the designations 9th and 10th U.S. Cavalry, and four regiments of black infantry, designated the 38th, 39th, 40th and 41st Infantry Regiments (Colored). The 38th and 41st were reorganized as the 25th Infantry Regiment, with headquarters in Jackson Barracks, LA, in November 1869. The 39th and 40th were reorganized as the 24th Infantry Regiment, headquartered at Fort Clark, TX, in April 1869. All of these units were composed of black enlisted men commanded by white officers such as Benjamin Grierson, and, occasionally, an African-American officer such as Henry O. Flipper.

From 1866 to the early 1890s these regiments served at a variety of posts in the southwest United States and Great Plains regions. During this period they participated in most of the military campaigns in these areas and earned a distinguished record. Thirteen enlisted men and six officers from these four regiments earned the Medal of Honor during the Indian Wars. In addition to the military campaigns, the "Buffalo Soldiers" served a variety of roles along the frontier from building roads to escorting the U.S. mail.

After the Indian Wars ended in the 1890s the regiments continued to serve and participated in the Spanish-American War (including the Battle of San Juan Hill), where five more Medals of Honor were earned. They took part in the 1916 Punitive Expedition into Mexico and in the Philippine-American War.

In total, more than 20 Buffalo Soldiers received the Medal of Honor, the highest of any United States military unit.


Systemic prejudice
The "Buffalo Soldiers" were often confronted with racial prejudice from both other members of the US Army and civilians in the areas in which they were stationed and occasionally responded with violence. Elements of the "Buffalo Soldiers" were involved in racial disturbances in Rio Grande City, Texas in 1899[3],Brownsville, Texas in 1906 [4], and at Houston, Texas in 1917[5]; [6]](connects to 4 other Police killed in 1917 riot).

The "Buffalo Soldiers" did not participate as organized units during World War I but experienced non-commissioned officers were provided to other segregated black units for combat service-such as the 317th Engineer Battalion.

Early in the 20th century the "Buffalo Soldiers" found themselves being used more as laborers and service troops rather than active combat units. During World War II the 9th Cavalry Regiment and 10th Cavalry Regiments were disbanded and the soldiers were moved into service oriented units. One of the infantry regiments, the 24th Infantry Regiment, served in combat in the Pacific theater. Another was the 92nd Infantry Division aka the Buffalo Soldiers Division.


Korean War and integration
The 24th Infantry Regiment saw combat during the Korean War and was the last segregated regiment to engage in combat. The 24th was deactivated in 1951 and its soldiers were integrated into other units in Korea.

There is a monument to the Buffalo soldiers in the state of Kansas at Fort Leavenworth. Then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell was guest speaker for the unveiling in July 1992.


Just a "Foot Note"

The song "Buffalo Soldier", co-written by Bob Marley and King Sporty and one of their best known songs, first appeared in the 1983 album Confrontation. Many Jamaicans, especially Rastafarians like Marley, identified with the "Buffalo Soldiers" as an example of prominent black men who performed with courage, honor and distinction in a field long dominated by whites, and persevered despite endemic racism and prejudice.

Ex-child soldier now Kenya's hottest rapper

Last night on the BBC, I heard Emmanuel talk about the protest over the Prophet Muhammed pictures, he is a christian survior of Sudans blood war.
He was asked by the lefty BBC what he thought about the cartoons.

Emmanuel kindly said something that touched me greatly, he said that God does not need any one to fight for him, if he did he would no longer be God. He said God is big enough to fight for himself.

What timely words for a Islamic world gone psycho!

NAIROBI, Kenya — Emmanuel Jal was eight when he was handed an AK-47 and trained to fight. By the time he was 13, he was a veteran of two civil wars and had seen hundreds of his comrades reduced to cannibalism as they struggled to survive in the Sudanese bush.

Today, the former child soldier is coming to grips with his new status as Kenya's hottest rapper.

Taking a break in a Nairobi recording studio, he sprawls on a cushion and tells his remarkable tale of death, music and the British wife of a warlord who saved him.

"What I have gone through and where I have been should encourage other people to realize that they can be saved, too," he says above the throbbing bass line pumping through the studio.

Earlier this month, his debut album —Gua, which means peace in his native Nuer language — had hit No. 4 on the Kenyan charts. The songs mix messages of peace, delivered in staccato English, Arabic and Nuer, with Jal's personal tale.

Now 25, Jal was born in southern Sudan just before the region was split by civil war. In 1983, rebels of the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) began a battle against the government in Khartoum for independence and control of the region's lucrative oilfields.

Taken away by rebels

When war reached Jal's small village in the Bentiu oil field, he says SPLA commanders ordered children to be transferred to U.N.-run refugee camps in Ethiopia where they would be fed by aid agencies and offered a simple education.

Jal's father had signed up with the rebels and his mother had recently died. So the 7-year-old had little choice but to find safety in the swollen camps. He stayed in school there for only six months.

"Then we were taken away from the camp to the bush for training," he says. "The United Nations had no idea what was going on."

The SPLA was using the camps to recruit soldiers. The bigger boys were handed grenade launchers. Jal could only manage an AK-47. He grins as he remembers the thrill. "I was psyched up. It was so exciting to learn how to use a gun."

He was among thousands of child soldiers who were used to prop up Mengistu Haile Mariam's communist regime, allied with Sudanese rebels, as Ethiopian rebels closed in on the capital, Addis Ababa. As one of the youngest soldiers Jal was assigned to SPLA headquarters in Ethiopia. But he would sneak away to the front line.

When Mengistu was gone, the Sudanese rebels had to return to their homeland. Jal made his way to Juba, in southern Sudan, where SPLA troops were massing for an assault. "There were thousands of young boys like me," he says. "Their work was to weaken the government defenses by running through minefields and getting right at the enemy. Because they were lighter and could run fast, they had a better chance of surviving. I was among them."

One night, Jal, then 13, and almost 400 other child soldiers simply walked out.

The children carried enough corn grain and sorghum flour for a month, the time they thought it would take to reach safety. Three months later, racked with hunger and thirst, the child soldiers and a handful of adults were still stumbling through the Sudanese bush.

Cannibalism became the only way to eat. Jal remembers his lowest moment. "There was a night when my friend died and I was tempted to eat him the next day," he says. "I was eating almost anything. Snails. And when those things were no longer there I had no choice.

"We put mines around him so that if hyenas came at night they would not be able to take the body," Jal says. "The hyenas still managed to take him."

Jal was lucky. He reached the safety of Waat, a town in southeastern Jonglei state, before he had to consider cannibalism again. But by the time the children had staggered into the town, only 12 of the original 400 runaways had survived.

He was immediately picked out from the throng of homeless children by Emma McCune, a young Briton who worked for the Canadian aid group Street Kids International. McCune had married Riek Machar, leader of one of the two rival SPLA groups. She smuggled Jal from Sudan to Nairobi in a suitcase aboard an aid flight.

'Emma's War'

McCune died in 1993 in a car accident in Nairobi, leaving her 14-year-old charge in the care of friends and other aid workers. "She was like a mum," he says. "She would take me everywhere with her and got me into school."

McCune's story of love in a war-torn state was turned into a book, Emma's War, by Deborah Scroggins. 20th Century Fox and Tony Scott, director of Top Gun, are basing a movie on the book.

Today Jal lives with Machar, who is a distant cousin. They live in Kileleshwa, one of Nairobi's more fashionable districts, where Machar is the vice chairman of the Sudanese People's Liberation Movement.

Kenya's capital also is home to a thriving rap music scene. Jal turned his growing interest in African music toward hip-hop and performing to raise money for children's homes. With the support of backers in the USA and Europe, he recorded Gua last year. It reached record shops last month.

DJ Moz (the stage name of Moses Mathenge) was one of the first to play the album on Kenyan radio after seeing the rapper perform for Sudanese refugees in northern Kenya. "As well as simply being great songs, people are really getting into the lyrics, really understanding his message," says DJ Moz, who hosts a rap show on the Nairobi radio station Metro FM. "And he is a great role model for young Sudanese and Kenyan men."

Two months ago, Sudanese rebel leaders and government ministers met to agree on the final terms of a peace deal designed to end Sudan's 21-year civil war between the north and the south. It took considerable pressure from the international community, particularly the United States, to keep both sides at the talks. Government and rebels agreed on a series of power-sharing structures and on holding a referendum in six years on independence for the south.

In his Nairobi recording studio, Jal says he is optimistic about the future of his country. "There have been many peace deals that have failed before. This one looks more serious. The world is focused on it and America is really behind it, so I think it will work."

Tavis Smiley’s State of the Black Union

Tavis Smiley held his State of the of Black Union convention this weekend.
The more I watched this event it became clear to me how Jim Jones
was able to kill so many black souls.

As you may recall Jim Jones was a leftist, cult leader who would play on'
the religious asetoric nature of black folks.

He eventualy lured hundreds, by promising them a promised land in
cenral America, where he drugged and killed them.

This entire "Black State of the Union" meeting was nothing but black leftist academics, and cult leaders who were rehasing there same old arguments.."What goverment can do for you, or what a pan african black state can do for you!

Its true that Tavis tried to play the referee, but even cult leader
Louis Farakhan blasted him and the event as trying to rely on Government to
solve black folks problem.

I have no idea what Louis Farakhan was on, he made some good points but
most people have no idea about his cultic background system.

He wants to establish a black state seperate from the USA.
He called for the the US to be burned on national televison,
with black folks clapping like they were in a pentecostal trance.

Any way I hope to God most people watched this event and then turned it
off in disgust!

I went to Starbucks, and ordered a frappacino to get the taste of out my mouth.

Others sounding off on this event: State of the Black Union: My View (Ed Brown “Darkstar”), http://blackinformant.com/2006/02/27/tavis-smileys-state-of-the-black-union-quick-random-notes/#more-1722

http://www.nykola.com/archives/000598.html#comments


http://darkstarspoutsoff.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/02/state_of_the_bl_3.html

http://caseylartigue.blogspot.com/2006/02/unsolicited-advice-for-black.html

http://washingtontimes.com/national/20060225-115001-8015r.htm

P.S. It is also interesting to note that so far there has been only one review for this book on Amazon. For a book so widely advertised, I would have expected more than that.

Troop Levels Stretched Thin? Not Quite

The Department of Defense has announced its recruiting and retention statistics by the active and reserve components for the month of January.

Active duty recruiting. All services exceeded their recruiting goals in January. The Navy’s recruiting goal was 2,694 , and it enlisted 2,726 (101 percent). The Marine Corps’ goal was 3,044, and it recruited 3,234 (106 percent). The Air Force goal was 2,898, and it recruited 2,915 (101 percent). The Army's goal was 8,100, and it recruited 8,337 (103 percent).

Active duty retention. All services are projected to meet their retention goals for the current fiscal year.

Reserve forces recruiting. Three of the six reserve components met or exceeded their recruiting goals this month.

* Army National Guard: Goal: 5,614 Recruited: 6,341 (113 percent)
* Army Reserves: Goal: 3,234 Recruited: 3,114 (96 percent)
* Air National Guard: Goal: 752 Recruited: 678 (90 percent)
* Air Force Reserves: Goal: 2,354 Recruited: 2,362 (100 percent)
* Navy Reserves: Goal: 859 Recruited: 757 (88 percent)
* Marine Corps Reserves: Goal: 852 Recruited: 854 (100 percent)

Reserve forces retention. For January, Army National Guard retention was 103 percent of the cumulative goal of 10,511, and Air National Guard retention was 98 percent of its cumulative goal of 3,256. Both Guard components are currently at 96 and 99 percent of their end strength, respectively. Losses in all reserve components for December are well within acceptable limits. Indications are that trend will continue into January.

Fiscal 2006 Enlisted Recruiting from October 1, 2005 - January 31, 2006

http://usmilitary.about.com/od/joiningthemilitary/a/06recruiting.htm

Props to Shani Davis

Props to Shani Davis, is the Gold Medal Champ of the 1000m Speed Skating race.
He became the first African-American man to claim an individual gold medal in Winter Olympic history.

(born August 13, 1982 in Chicago, Illinois) is an African-American speedskater who specializes in both short track and long track speedskating and hails as the first Black athlete to win an individual gold medal (in addition to a silver medal) at the 2006 Olympic Games. In short track he was part of the United States Olympic team in the 2002 Winter Olympics. In long track speedskating he became North American champion in 2003, thereby qualifying for the World Championship.

At this championship Davis found out he wasn't yet able to compete with the top skaters from Europe. One year later he did find himself among the very best. A few weeks after achieving his second North American title, he won the silver medal at the World Championship, with only fellow American Chad Hedrick beating him. In March 2003, he convincingly won the 1,500 metres distance at the World Championship in Seoul.

In January 2004, he became the North American champion for the third time in a row. At this championship he broke the 1,500 metres world record, recording a time of 1:43.33. The record was previously held by teammate Derek Parra, who skated 1:43.95 at the 2002 Winter Olympics in the same rink at Salt Lake City. In February 2005, he became the first black speedskater to become World Champion all-round, scoring 150.778 points and beating Chad Hedrick by 0.184 points.



Davis qualified for the 2006 Winter Olympics long track team, but failed to make the short track team; his quest to become the first to compete in both skating disciplines in the same games was made into a TV documentary by NOS shortly before the Games, entitled Dubbel Davis (Double Davis). Once at the Games, Davis did go on to win gold in the 1,000 meters, and was the only skater to record a time below 1:09. Davis' win was historic, as he became the first black athlete to win an individual gold in Winter Games history. Davis also finished seventh at the 5000 metres, nine seconds behind gold medallist Chad Hedrick.

Regarding his decision to opt out of the team pursuit, Davis said, "A lot of these people haven't even skated as long as me. I've been skating since I was 6 years old. And I'll be pretty upset if people got upset about my decisions and what I feel is best for me because, all in all, I know what's best for me. And if I feel that not skating the pursuit will do me better for the 1,000 meters, then I'm going to do it. I worked to get here. None of my teammates helped me get to where I am. I worked hard, and I got myself here."

Davis was criticized for this decision, with teammate Hedrick claiming Davis' presence would have meant "a pretty sure gold", and said Davis' absence was "tough to swallow" for him, despite the fact that Davis had never practiced or signed on with the U.S. pursuit team. The United States men's pursuit team was eliminated in the quarterfinals of the competition despite skating the second fastest time of the quarter-final session, as K.C. Boutiette failed to keep up with the pace near the end.

Fellow American speedskater Joey Cheek was publicly supportive of Davis' focus on the 1,000 metres. "I'm actually surprised that people think (Davis not racing the team pursuit) is such a negative thing. Some (reporters) were kind of harsh on him. He hasn't skated one (pursuit event) ever. He was focusing on both short track and long track. To do both would have been incredible."

It should be noted that five-time gold medalist and Olympic-team physician, Eric Heiden, has publicly written that Shani Davis made the right choice in not participating in the team pursuit and thereby not jeopardizing his chances at a gold medal in his best event, the 1,000 meter race.

Davis did go on to win gold in the 1,000 meters, was the only skater to record a time below 1:09 becoming the first Black athlete to win an individual gold medal at the Olympic games. He also won silver in the 1,500 meter competition narrowly beating the time of bronze medalist Chad Hedrick in an exciting race.

Davis is almost completely alienated from the American speed skating program. Davis broke with the American speed skating program when it blocked him from wearing the logo of his personal sponsors on his uniform, insisting he wear only the logos of the team sponsors. Davis refused to comply with this decision, and the association withdrew his funding. He is today almost completely seperated from the American speed skating system, and for the last several years he has lived and trained in Calgary, Canada. He has trained alongside the Canadian team, and for a time he was the next door neighbour of Canadian star Jeremy Wotherspoon

Pics and Video from "Pro Denmark Rally"

Pro Denmark Gathering with Christopher Hitchens today!

Instapundit has photos of the pro-Denmark gathering at the Danish Embassy convened by journalist Christopher Hitchens this afternoon. Looks like there was a great turnout.





























Watch Online Video ...http://exposetheleft.com/2006/02/24/hitchens-danishembassy/

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A Dream Deferred

A Dream defferd is a powerful poem about the struggles of
African Americans during the Harlem Renaissance.

It is one of the first Poems I recall as a child growing up in
Virginia.

The poem I think will always be relevant, to all people
who seek a better world.

In Iraq, Iran, and places the world over
A dream deffered is a prophetic poem into
what happens when people are not given freedom and hope

A Dream Deferred

by Langston Hughes

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore--
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over--
like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?

Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951), from which a line was taken for the title of the play Raisin in the Sun.

Liberal Commits a “Hate Crime” at Cornell University

ITHACA—A contributor to Cornell University’s “premier liberal voice” has been charged with stabbing a black student on the university’s campus after using “racial epithets” in front of his victim.

According to the Cornell Daily Sun, Nathan Poffenbarger, Class of '08, a regular contributor to the campus magazine, “Turn Left” was charged with second-degree assault, a class "D" felony, after allegedly stabbing a visiting student on West Campus during an altercation on Saturday (February 1.

Police said the attack stemmed from a racial incident.

“Witnesses told police Poffenbarger was yelling racial remarks at someone else, when the victim, a black male student, stepped in to stop him. The victim's name has not been released,” News10 reported.

According to the Ithaca Journal, Poffenbarger is white.

Capt. Kathy Zoner of the Cornell Police Department, told the Sun that the current charges could be elevated to class "C" under hate-crime statutes "if racial motivations are proven."

Wayne Huang , the former editor-in-chief of "Turn Left," confirmed that Poffenbarger was a regular contributor to the magazine. Huang and "Turn Left" staff member Josh Perlman both said they were “shocked” to learn Poffenbarger had been arrested in this matter:

"He had written a lot of good news pieces for us," said [Perlman]. "I had spoken to him earlier that day about a new article he was going to be doing. He didn't seem weird or anything when I spoke to him, just enthusiastic to be writing as he usually was. I was extremely shocked to hear about all this. This seems really out of character."

According to "Turn Left’s" website, its mission statement is to “uphold and maintain tolerant and respectful political dialogue on the campus, promote and practice an ideology rooted in the belief of equality and freedom."

Emergency workers took the victim to Arnot Ogden Medical Center in Elmira where he is in stable condition, the Sun reported.


http://www.federalreview.com/2006/02/campus-liberal-commits-hate-crime.htm

Dr. Ada M. Fisher for Congress

Fisher says No American Should Be Left Behind

Greensboro, North Carolina, --- Dr. Ada M. Fisher who has filed for her home district’s 2006 12th US Congressional race on the Republican ticket has made a pledge and a promise to insure as do our soldiers that we as a nation “Leave No American Behind.” Addressing the crowd at the February 18th Guilford County Lincoln/Reagan Day Dinner, Fisher said she was “running for this seat because Mel Watt is wrong in not supporting control of illegal immigration, health care tort reform which affects the ability of us to have physicians who can practice for people in need, the Marriage Amendment, and on so many other issues.”

Dr. Fisher said she cried when she saw the devastation of the people during the flood, was moved to volunteer for the Red Cross serving in Mississippi and emotionally drained witnessing the suffering of those affected by the hurricanes Katrina and Rita. We now as a nation need “healing hands” to bind us and heal our wounds. She said if we won’t exhibit leadership and stand up for our citizens “Don’t vote for her, for we must have compassion in doing the difficult task of rebuilding America and preparing to deal with terrorism.”

The keynote speaker for the Dinner was the Honorable Richard Burr who was introduced by the Honorable Howard Coble. There was a hint made that Congressman Coble may be in line for a seat on the House Judiciary Committee and Senator Burr may be on the national ticket in 2008.

Candidate’s Schedule: Months of February and March 2006 attending County Lincoln and Reagan Day Dinners
Attendance at State, District 12, and County Conventions

**Dr. Fisher to be featured on NBC 17 talk radio on February 20th 200s at 1:30 addressing the issue of the state of Black North Carolina with Attorney Dan Blue.**
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AVAILABLE THROUGH FISHER FOR CONGRESS 2006 CAMPAIGN MANAGEMENT OF MR. BRYON NELSON AND MR. ANDY YATES AT 704-223-ADA1 (2321).

Enlightened Europe: Netherlands ponders forced abortions for Blacks

Enlightened Europe: Netherlands ponders forced abortions for Blacks
From WorldNetDaily...

A health official in the Netherlands has called for a debate on the idea of forced abortion and contraception to deal with what she sees as a crisis of unwanted children.

Alderman Marianne van den Anker of the Leefbaar Rotterdam Party wants specifically to target communities of Antilleans and Arubans where she sees the biggest problems of unwanted children....

According to the report, Van den Anker said children from these groups run an "unacceptable risk" of growing up without love and with "violence, neglect, mistreatment and sexual abuse."

"The exceptions," she said, "and there are some, can be counted on a pair of hands."

Van den Anker pointed to the growing number of Antillean youth gangs in Rotterdam whose members come from loveless homes.

Antilleans and Arubans would be the Black natives of the Lesser Antilles Islands and Aruba, Caribbean Islands settled by escaped slaves, now Dutch colonies. Netherlands is the "Progressive Utopia" where prostitution is legal and those annoying old folks are euthanized at the whim of doctors or relatives. Now they are considering forcing Blacks to have abortions. Netherlands, of course, would be the picture of where the Democrat party want to take the US. Margaret Sanger would no doubt be leaping for joy right now, if such behavior were allowed in hell.

.."Stand Up For Denmark"...

Stand Up For Denmark

The Freedom's Zone international blogging community is encouraging all bloggers to help 'Stand Up For Denmark' by immediately writing a post on Christopher Hitchens' call for a demonstration at the Embassy of Denmark, between noon and 1 p.m. this Friday, Feb. 24.

Please be outside the Embassy of Denmark, 3200 Whitehaven Street (off Massachusetts Avenue) between noon and 1 p.m. this Friday, Feb. 24.

Quietness and calm are the necessities, plus cheerful conversation. Danish flags are good, or posters reading "Stand By Denmark" and any variation on this theme (such as "Buy Carlsberg/ Havarti/ Lego") The response has been astonishing and I know that the Danes are appreciative. But they are an embassy and thus do not of course endorse or comment on any demonstration. Let us hope, however, to set a precedent for other cities and countries. Please pass on this message to friends and colleagues.

Please also post that for those who cannot attend the demonstration, they are encouraged to call and email the Danish embassy, and offer their support and appreciation for their standing up to freedom and the right of free speech that is so much a part of our Western culture:

Embassy of Denmark
3200 Whitehaven St., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20008
Tel: +1 (202) 234-4300
Fax: +1 (202) 328-1470

Email: wasamb@um.dk

After the date of the event, bloggers are encouraged to post on at least 3 "free speech" issues a week, and also encourage their readers to continue voicing their concern and support for free speech by emailing their friends to help keep the emails of support (to the Danish embassy) going for the Dane's stand on freedom over sharia.

All Freedom's Zone bloggers are encouraged to cross post to Freedom's Zone, any freedom of speech or anti-sharia issue (or any other issue consistant with our mission). If you are not already a member of the Freedom's Zone international blogging community, and wish to participate, you can apply by just emailing us via our contact link on the banner. If you have recently applied, we will be getting back to you shortly. Your posts at your blog will be included in the FZ aggregator as soon as you are accepted.

A new "Stand Up For Denmark" Freedom's Zone logo will be available at the site tomorow. Just link back to FZ from your blog Stand Up For Denmark.

Liberals Rationalize Gumbel

February 22, 2006

Selective Outrage: Liberals Rationalize Gumbel, Angry Over Treatment of Athletes (VIDEO)
See the Video http://exposetheleft.com/2006/02/22/gumbelbrownhc/


On Hannity & Colmes last night, a segment was devoted to the Bryant Gumbel incident where the television host quipped “a paucity of blacks that makes the Winter Games look like a GOP convention“, which featured Democratic strategist Michael Brown and author John McWhorter. Earlier in the show, liberal co-host Alan Colmes promoted this segment by saying “why can’t they [Republicans] take a joke?”. The only funny thing about this is Colmes’ hypocrisy because he quickly tried to rationalize Gumbel’s racist remark:


COLMES: Michael Brown, in terms of looking like a GOP Convention, the 2004 GOP Convention there were 6.7% African-Americans on the floor. Maybe Bryant’s got a point, huh?

The man he was addressing this rhetorical question to was Michael Brown, a Democratic strategist who thinks we don’t treat our athletes like the Kings and Queens they are:


I think the issue is how our country treats its athletes as opposed to how other countries treat theirs. Inner city kids in the United States of America basically are treated to only a couple of sports, that’s what they are exposed to, that is all that they can do. In other countries around the world, their athletes are treated like first class citizens.

My God, is this guy functionally retarded? Is he suggesting that our athletes are NOT treated like “first class citizens” and that if they are not, that they should be?

First of all, this is the kind of thought process on the left; celebrate the athletes but not the average citizen. Secondly, I don’t think this Michael Brown has either watched a sporting event in years or seen television coverage of athletes. They are treated like Gods. What a fool.

However, the point here is, Michael Brown, like the average Democratic strategist, got off topic and didn’t even discuss the issue on hand.

The real issue here is that Bryant Gumbel, a black man, made a comment that the GOP are racists and got away with it.

If you remember, several years ago, Rush Limbaugh made a somewhat similar comment about Donovan McNabb, a black quarterback in the NFL. Liberals and race baiters a like were freaking out and eventually forced Rush to resign his position as an anchor on ESPN.

Why do all liberals look alike?

Now that's just scary.

Port controversy: Ethnic profiling?

Maybe this is a stretch, but does anyone else see the irony in the
left's criticizing Bush for supporting the deal that allows the U.A.E.
company to manage major eastern seabord ports?

These are the same people who get outraged at the notion that security screeners at
airports or police at subway stations might scrutinize Muslims or Arabs
a bit more closely than, say, 80-year-old grandmothers. But they are
happy to abandon such highmindedness for an opportunity to criticize
Bush and denounce a deal solely because it involves an Arab corporation.

Now I'm not thrilled about this deal either, mainly because I don't see
the upside, and I'm not persuaded by Bush's assertions that the U.A.E.
is a great partner in the war on terror. But I do see some hypocrisy
here. And if I had to choose between scuttling this deal or allowing
profiling of airline and subway passengers, I know which one I'd choose.

Protest Warriors Smash Black Panthers at Danish Embassy

A blogger from Free Republic alerted me about a counter protest this weekend!
http://smashleftwingscum.com/

NOVA-YAF joined with about 15 members of Free Republic's DC and Protest Warriors stood between the "New Black Panthers," led by the rascist Malik Zulu Shabazz, and the Danish Embassy. Some Arab Muslims were also there, but they just looked confused - it was clear who was in charge.

Shabazz seemed unable to stay on topic and instead sought to ridicule us, his counterprotesters. Four times he said that he would tell us what he really meant if the press and cameras wasn't there, and that he'd show us with his fists. He said that he'd have white slaves and that half of America would be slaves.

He also made fun of Westerners in general - saying that we ate raw meat and hid in caves while Islam took over the world, and that the West is dying. He said that we were all Zionists and that the US government was occupied by Zionists.

NOVA-YAF, and the Freepers responded with chants of "USA!" and "Western Civ!" as well as "Free Speech!" when Shabazz actually stayed on topic.

I was able to speak to one of the men from the Danish Embassy, who thanked us for being there and apologized for not being there last week when other YAF members came by to show support. He seemed generally amused at the spectacle that was going on across the street.

More pictures and description can be found at Michelle Malkin's site, as well as The Redhunter's.

MIchelle Malkin..hehe She looks like a reporter!

SPIKE LEE ATTACKS ALL-WHITE HOLLYWOOD

Outspoken movie-maker SPIKE LEE has attacked the Hollywood studios for not including African-Americans as executives.

The MALCOLM X director is appalled the major studios only recruit white men and women for executive positions.

He tells US style magazine Complex, "You go to any studio, the (only) black guy you are going to see is the guy at the gate. In Hollywood, there is not one African-American who is an executive that has gatekeeper position that could greenlight a picture.

"They'll make a movie with DENZEL (WASHINGTON) and JAMIE (FOXX)and EDDIE (MURPHY), but only because they can make money off them.

"They (studios) might think there's diversity because four white women run studios."

Spike Lee Trivia

Always credits his films as "A Spike Lee Joint".

In Paris, France, in 2003, Lee received an honorary Cesar Award for Lifetime Achievement in the film industry.

He is a big fan and admirer of fellow New York City film director Martin Scorsese.

Lee was particularly appalled at how Scorsese's classic Raging Bull was passed over for the Best Picture Oscar for Ordinary People.

In 2003 Lee sued the Spike TV television network claiming that they were capitalizing on his fame by using his name for their network. The claim was settled out of court.

Lee also appeared in the documentary Hoop Dreams, giving a lecture to young African-American students getting a college sponsorship for their basketball talents.

His production company is 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks, named after the "40 acres and a mule," that was promised to the freed African American slaves in 1865.
Lee is also famous for directing a series of Nike commercials featuring Michael Jordan, which helped establish Jordan as a highly successful commercial pitchman.

In several of the commercials, Lee also played his alter ego of Mars Blackmon, a character he created for his first major film, She's Gotta Have It.

Lee received death threats, allegedly from the Nation of Islam, over his 1992 biopic Malcolm X. The threats prompted Lee to remove scenes in which the NOI is depicted as plotting the murder of Malcolm X.

He is a well-known and highly visible fan of the NBA's New York Knicks, a team he has supported since childhood. Lee has courtside seats, and had several famous verbal run-ins with Indiana Pacers star Reggie Miller.

On April 5, 2005 after Miller's last game at the Knicks home court Madison Square Garden, Miller and Lee hugged each other.

Lee's sports interests are not limited to basketball. In 2005, he became a season ticketholder for Inter Milan, one of the strongest football (soccer) clubs in Italy and Europe. Lee is also shown at Yankee Stadium with a Yankee hat on.

He has also publicly stated an affection for Arsenal Football Club in London.


Is a fan of Michael Moore's films. Bowling for Columbine was his favorite film of 2002.

Was voted the 48th Greatest Director of all time by Entertainment Weekly.
He was name-checked by Atlanta rappers Dem Franchise Boys in their 2005 single "I Think They Like Me".
Spike was used as a character on an episode of Crank Yankers.

Valentine party poopers

Valentine party poopers

An Iranian activist once told me that Valentine's Day is a hot holiday in Tehran, but is celebrated covertly as it's disallowed by the crazy mullahs. Not sure if it's too sexy, too Western, or just too un-Islamic. Today comes a story of Hindu nationalists in India torching Valentine's Day cards -- not because they're a bunch of mad singles, but because pretty pink and red hearts are too Western. And how dare we infest their culture with romance!!!

"... A group of some 30 activists from the Shiv Sena party, or Lord Shiva's Army, inspected shops across the city on Sunday before barging into one and making a pyre of snatched cards in the road outside.

'We had warned all shops in advance not to sell these cards. We are not against love but we don't want people to celebrate Valentine's Day as it's a Western concept,' a Shiv Sena official told the Hindustan Times.

Colleges in the city also warned students not to celebrate the day on campuses because of concerns of violence, according to reports.

Hindu groups have in previous years attacked shops selling Valentine's Day items.

However, newspapers are running articles on celebrating the day, adverts are promoting romantic nights out while shops in the city's malls are selling chocolates, heart-shaped trinkets and cuddly toys."

More on the fiery popularity of V-Day in India here. Good -- if they don't take a stand, the Love Grinch wins!

Still, some aren't giving in in their quest to stomp all over Valentine's Day. From Agence France-Presse:

"... In Lucknow, capital of Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state, Hindu activists threatened to publicly humiliate couples celebrating Valentine's Day.

'Our volunteers will monitor all the parks and restaurants. They will click the couple exchanging flowers and show the same to their parents,' Vijay Tiwari, a local Shiv Sena leader, told AFP.

'The faces of those couples not heeding our warning will be blackened and their heads tonsured,' he said.

Hindu groups were also threatening couples caught celebrating Valentine's Day with instant marriage."

Sounds like a) the little love spies have way too much time on their hands, and b) these guys would be in a better mood if they had some sweet lovin'.

http://gopvixen.blogs.com/

Pictures from NYC Danish Protest

The Facist "Islamic Thinkers Society" (the last thing they do is think) sponsored this anti american hate fest.

The group is a Sunni Orthodox Islamic group that seeks the goal of restoring the Islamic Caliphate to create what they call "an ideal Islamic society."
Just one thing they live here in the USA and are Americans!

What's so sad is that Americans did not counter protest this group!
We walk by with our starbukcs cups as Islamofacist declare war on us!

Shame on us all!














Whats Left?...maybe a career and job





The girls from Al Noor School in Brooklyn were doing a lot of chanting. The chants were led by a man, who stood nearby.


These pictures came from a fellow Protest Warrior in New York City!

This is her letter to me about the event!


Here is a link to pictures of today's rally in New York in front of the
Danish Consulate near the U.N.

http://tinyurl.com/92akm

The pictures are really interesting despite the fact that they really tried to stress non violence (for example, the sign that says "RESPONSIBLE EDITOR MUST BE PUNISHED" did not specify Sharia law and call for his tongue to be cut out...) Take
the time to read the signs (descriptions under the pictures give the
text of some of the most interesting ones)

The really seems to have been co-sponsored by A.N.S.W.E.R. (Ramsey
Clarke's outfit)
A.N.S.W.E.R.'s speakers were inciteful, saying the cartoons printed in
those newspapers were not only a provaction, that publication itself
was an act of war.

There were quite a few signs in Hebrew; maybe they were for the benefit
of the Zionist run media? (I read Hebrew: the signs say the same as
some of the signs in English, such as "We respect Moses and Mohamed"
etc.)

Please feel free to use the photos and/or use the link on your web site
if you choose to cover this.

Didn't see any PW's there, but I don't know that a counter protest
would have made a lot of sense, other than holding a large print of
this one:

Video OF Radical "Islamic Thinkers Society of New York "Protest Cartoons

Video OF Radical "Islamic Thinkers Society of New York "Protest Cartoons

CHECK OUT THE VIDEO'S!!

http://www.intelligencesummit.org/news/GW1.php

http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/158387.php

AND YES THESE GUY'S LIVE IN AMERICA!

They are not overseas, this is here!


Today hundreds of NYC American Muslims Protested outside the Danish Embassy over the Mohammed Cartoons, and Called for Destruction of the USA!

The Islamic Thinkers Society is a Sunni Orthodox Islamic group that seeks the goal of restoring the Islamic Caliphate to create what they call "an ideal Islamic society."

The group states they wish to see a reversal of what they consider to be colonialism and imperialism, including an 'on the ground' reversal of the Balfour Declaration, Sykes-Picot Agreement and San Remo Agreement. They allege these agreements are part of 'Colonialist Designs' on the Muslim World, and they urge Muslims to consider them illegal, null and void. The group calls for an end what it says are "Colonialist-Imposed Borders," "Colonialist-Imposed States," and "Colonialist-Imposed Rulers."

The group is based in the largely muslim community of the Jackson Heights neighborhood in Queens, New York City.

Observers such as the Intelligence Summit have called the Islamic Thinkers Society a Fundamentalist Islamic group that endorses the goals of Islamic terrorists such as Al-Qaeda. They cite videotaped Islamic Thinkers Society rallies where slogans supporting the 9/11 terrorists and "next time we will get all of New York" were used and violence has broken out. They say that the Islamic Thinkers Society calls on Muslims to oppose the United States, Christianity and Western society.

CHECK OUT THE VIDEO'S!!

http://www.intelligencesummit.org/news/GW1.php

http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/158387.php

Gay Ex-Hustler a Democrat Runs For Texas Legislature

Wow another one bites the dust!

I hope the Democrats will be as tough on this guy as they were
on the Republican Jeff Gannon.

I bet that fat slob over at Americablogs will be silent on this one!



February 17, 2006

(Dallas, Texas) A Dallas man running for the state legislature has been outed as a former male prostitute.

Tom Malin acknowledged his past when confronted by the Dallas Morning News and said he hoped voters accept that his past is firmly behind him when he runs in the Democratic primary in March.

The News reported in Friday editions that Malin had advertised himself in a gay hustler site as "Todd Sharpe" and showed a "blurry beefcake photo and listing a Dallas phone number."

The paper said the ad showed he was available for work in the New York City and Los Angeles areas. His rates ranged from $200 to $600.

"I've made mistakes in my life, and I've stood before my Creator and I've accepted responsibility for my behavior," Malin told the News when confronted with the ad. "I've also accepted his grace and his redemption and his love and his forgiveness, and that's what important."

The "Todd Sharpe" Web sites are now defunct. The Dallas Morning News said that it found archived versions online after receiving a tip this week.

Today Malin markets electricity, but his resume also includes stints selling Mary Kay cosmetics and serving on the Dallas Citizens Police Review Board.

"I don't regret my past, nor do I wish to shut the door on my past," he told the News. "I think anyone who has made mistakes in their lives can be a viable member of community and society."

Some Democrats are calling for him to quit the campaign but Malin said he is still committed to race.

Black Virginia Votes: For the Virginia GOP, Looking Back Will Move Us Forward

By Don Scoggins
Guest Writer, South of the James Blogspot

With the untimely death of Tidewater activist Tony Cobb, it's a good
time for all black Republicans in Virginia to reflect on how far we
have come and how far we still must go. Tony dedicated a significant
portion of his recent years to advancing the GOP agenda, making it a
point to take that agenda directly to black communities in his region.
He cared about his people and his party, and his goal was to unite
both politically, a sentiment that I share. Reflecting on Tony's
service to the party, particularly in light of the recent declines
that we have seen on the statewide and legislative front, has shown me
a few things that need to be shared. Hopefully, Tony's work will not
have been in vain.

For African Americans working in the Republican Party of Virginia, the
past election season was a double-edged sword. For those of us who
worked hard for the GOP ticket, it was disappointing to see Jerry
Kilgore go down to defeat in such an ignominious manner. However, Bill
Bolling and Bob McDonnell were successful, thus giving us statewide
leadership for the next four years. Amidst the disappointment of
seeing another four years of Democratic rule in the Governor's
mansion, several black Republicans were successful at the local level.
Election Day saw two new black sheriffs - Gabe Morgan and Octavia
Johnson, in Newport News and Roanoke, respectively – who won as
Republicans. Despite this, the RPV still has a ways to go in
publicizing these successes if it intends to seriously compete for the
hearts and minds of Virginia's black voters.

Following the election, hundreds of Republicans got together for the
annual Advance at the Homestead. With a combination of wound-licking
and motivational speaking, the RPV was looking to move a new agenda
that would help stymie Democratic gains in the General Assembly, and
prepare the party for the next set of elections. Members of the
party's minority outreach effort held a session to generate new ideas
and thoughts about how to reach diverse communities. Despite our best
efforts, this session was poorly attended, and demonstrated a lack of
commitment on the part of our party to reach into our communities on a
serious level. Having been around the GOP for over 30 years, people
are now telling me that I am swimming upstream in my attempt to get
the RPV to become more sensitive and attentive to black concerns.

Despite his defeat, Jerry Kilgore offered a different approach to
outreach by making himself accessible to blacks on a personal level by
holding events at people's homes and other small events around the
state. This strategy looks to be part of a good model to incorporate
into future campaigns, but it is only one element of what our party
needs to do. Kilgore lacked high-profile black Virginians who had
recognition either on a statewide or local basis. In all honesty, the
Kilgore camp missed a golden opportunity to reach out to blacks this
time around.

Aside from the personal outreach, the campaign made quite a few key
miscalls regarding blacks. The Kilgore campaign failed to recreate the
wonderful model that Jim Gilmore implemented in his 1997 race, in
which he snagged a good deal of black votes, and hurt the Beyer
campaign badly. Gilmore had a committee of homegrown, high-profile
blacks with connection to various communities, such as corporate
professionals, ministers, and business owners. Also, there was a great
organization, Virginians for Black Inclusion in Government (VABIG),
which did great work for Gilmore as ambassadors to black Virginia.

Finally, Gilmore brought on-board Claude Allen and Kay Coles James,
two senior black officials from Governor Allen's administration, to
work on behalf of campaign. 2005 was a great opportunity for blacks to
be tapped into, but the party did not capitalize on it. Given that
blacks in VA went for Bush at 16% in 2000 and 14% in 2004, Kilgore
could have done better if he had worked differently. What is certain
is that more work needs to be done to create lasting bonds between the
GOP and the black community outside of the election cycle.

For example, VABIG was formed during the latter days of the Allen
administration to work toward the next races, and during his term as
Attorney General, Gilmore put together a network of potential black
governmental appointees to give him a head start for his gubernatorial
race and fill roles in his administration. Despite this, after the
Gilmore days were over, it appears as if blacks simply scattered and
were not part of the Republican apparatus. This falling-off was a
major motivator behind the creation of the Frederick Douglass
Republican Forum - something needed to be done to hold black
Republicans together while the GOP did not have the governor's office.

Looking forward, the presence of Paul Harris as a major favorite for a
statewide ticket spot could go a long way to fostering better
interplay between blacks and the Republican Party. Paul has great
connections to many corporate interests, and he has a real shot at
winning the nomination for the Attorney General's race, which if he
won would be a prelude to a run for Governor. If he can establish good
grassroots contacts with local committees, as well as, open-minded
black organizations, it will go along way to shoring up his run.

In my mind, the way for the GOP to better increase its minority
participation, especially for blacks, is to keep working hard and not
give up despite obstacles. On a personal note, I am getting a little
long in the tooth to pursue the goal of more black participation if it
will only remain a people dream. However, since I am an eternal
optimist, I trust that RPV's younger and more enlightened activists
and executives will push our party to abandon the ways of the old
days. Demographically-speaking, if our party keeps ignoring
open-minded, politically-independent, yet culturally-authentic,
blacks, the Republican Party will continue to lose out over time as
whites become smaller as a percentage of the total population and
voting base in VA. The status quo will only keep us failing.

Don Scoggins is the chairman of the Frederick Douglass Republican
Forum and a member of the Prince William County Republican Committee. Previously, he contributed to South of the James' 2005 Virginia
statewide election coverage.

Kanye, dig it: George Bush cares about black people

Kanye, dig it: George Bush cares about black people
By Clinton W. Taylor

Feb 1, 2006


The old hippies at Rolling Stone magazine try once again to get a rise out of us Jesus-folk by running a cover photo of rapper Kanye West in a crown of thorns, beaten and bloodied, as if he were the subject of the Crucifixion. Ho-hum. Back when I was a teenager, Madonna’s Like a Prayer video actually attracted some attention. Today, though, Rolling Stone is going to have to work harder to cause a blasphemous splash—perhaps they could run a cover photo of Jewish shock-comic Sarah Silverman dressed as the Prophet Mohammed, and see if that gets some feedback.

While we’re waiting for hell to freeze over, let’s think about why poor Kanye’s visage is so artfully posed in thoughtful anguish. West, you’ll remember, was that fellow who went off the script during a live Hurricane Katrina fundraiser and extemporized about how “George Bush doesn’t care about black people!”

I was thinking about West’s rant the other day when I saw that Ellen Sirleaf-Johnson had been sworn in as the democratically elected President of Liberia. She is the first female president in an African country, and she rises to that position from the ashes of a long and brutal civil war.

It’s good to remember how George W. Bush helped her get there.

Liberia had been a fairly stable and successful nation since it was founded by repatriated American slaves in the 19th century, right up until things went horribly wrong and a civil war broke out between rival warlords—Prince Johnson, Samuel Doe and Charles Taylor.

“Civil War” to Americans conjures up images of ranks of blue and butternut uniforms squared off with muskets at Antietam. Liberia’s was different. War is hell, but Liberia’s struggle was distinguished by its insane, surreal brutality. (A thorough, scholarly account of the war and its causes is The Mask of Anarchy by Stephen Ellis.)

I will spare you the hideous details of the war; suffice to say a rotten fellow named Charles Taylor (no relation) ended up in charge, having displaced another warlord/President named Prince Johnson. Prince Johnson had himself come to power upon killing President Samuel Doe, after torturing him and eating his severed ear in front of him.

Before all this Taylor did some time in America, where he earned a degree in economics and went to jail for embezzling Liberian money. (Subsequently he retained a better class of lawyer: along with such humanitarians as Saddam Hussein, Manuel Noriega, and Slobodan Milosevic, Taylor was a client of former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark.) In 1985 he escaped from a Massachusetts prison and returned to Liberia, where he started the war against Doe on Christmas Eve, 1989. Taylor used legions of child soldiers to fight his battles, adolescents who would fight while bizarrely dressed in wigs and dresses and even toilet seats, often high on amphetamines and marijuana. Rape and ritual cannibalism were tools of oppression regularly employed by the warring militias.

Not only did Charles Taylor do his share in killing well over 250,000 Liberians in the civil war, as well as destabilizing neighboring Sierra Leone and Cote d’Ivoire; it has since emerged that Taylor, according to the Washington Post, was in bed with Al Qaeda:

In 2000, among those operating simultaneously in Liberia under Taylor were: senior al Qaeda operatives; Hezbollah financiers; Victor Bout, an arms merchant who was supplying weapons across Africa and to both the Taliban and the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan; Leonid Minin, a Ukrainian-Israeli drug dealer and arms merchant; and Aziz Nassour, the onetime bagman for Mobutu Sese Seko in Zaire and middleman for al Qaeda and Hezbollah.

It turns out that the promotion of democracy in Liberia was quite demonstrably in our strategic interest as well.

Charles Taylor clung to power until mid-August of 2003, when a Nigerian peacekeeping force was advancing toward Monrovia. And a shipload of U.S. Marines had dropped anchor right offshore. The summer of 2003, of course, was a busy time: it was just as the Iraqi insurgency was kicking up into full swing. Nonetheless, President Bush committed some Marines toward fixing a trouble spot of marginal strategic importance: Liberia.

President Bush offered to send our Marines in to keep the peace and guarantee a settlement, but he imposed a condition. Our troops would not risk their lives to keep any peace which left Charles Taylor in charge. Taylor had to go. And so he did. Today Taylor skulks in exile in Nigeria, under indictment for war crimes. Our troops went in and made sure that another warlord didn’t immediately fill the vacuum Taylor left, and laid the groundwork for democratic elections.

By sending Marines ashore in Liberia, President Bush also put to rest another myth about America’s resolve: that after the 1993 Black Hawk Down tragedy in Mogadishu, America would have nothing more to do with Africa. The experience in Somalia obviously had colored future decisions to intervene in African politics. It had even influenced Osama bin Laden’s assessment of America as a “weak horse.”

Although American troops may not have headed ashore in force until after Taylor agreed to leave, American boots were on the ground well before he fled. A timeline of U.S. troop activity in Liberia shows that a Fleet Anti-Terrorism Security Team was inserted into Monrovia in late July, while Taylor was still in power. These 41 Marines were in a dangerous spot, alone and unsupported in the middle of a civil war. If things went sour, the Blackhawk Down scenario could easily have repeated itself, especially since Taylor, like Mohammed Farah Aideed, might have consolidated local support to repel an American invasion.

But the situation in Monrovia was very different from the situation in Mogadishu. Any Liberian warlord still doubtful of American resolve in the summer of 2003 now could consider the salutary example of the recently deposed Saddam Hussein. None of them called President Bush’s bluff. At the same time, President Bush bucked pressure to invade outright and throw Taylor out. As it turns out, he didn’t need to. Under the Bush doctrine, doubts about American willingness to intervene in Africa have been resolved.

It would be rash for America and the Bush administration to take too much credit for getting rid of Taylor and restoring democracy to Liberia. Several nations helped win the peace, and the Liberians themselves deserve credit for pulling themselves out of their shambles and setting up a legitimate government. But it is certainly fair to say that American diplomacy and force played a part in driving yet another monstrous dictator from power, and ensuring an orderly transition to democracy. When the roll is called of states where democracy has been obtained under this administration, Liberia ought to be counted, and Charles Taylor ought to be numbered among the dictators who have been toppled.

So “George Bush doesn’t care about black people?” On the contrary. The president took quite a gamble on behalf of the Liberians. Today a democracy stands where chaos stood before, because President Bush acted according to one of his most radical and most noble principles: that men everywhere, regardless of race or religion, want to be free and to govern themselves.

According to the Rolling Stone piece, the bloodied, thorn-crowned Kanye West is fighting a tragic addiction to pornography. I guess we all have our crosses to bear.

Speaking of which, President Sirleaf-Johnson, who isn’t making too many magazine covers, has a few problems of her own as she begins the redemption of a blasted country from the aftermath of a hideous war. One of those problems might be the newly elected senator from Liberia’s Nimba province, a man with a real appetite for politics: former President Prince Johnson.

Kanye West's Dad Slams Son

Kanye West is under fire because of February's Rolling Stone cover.

Wearing a crown of thorns with blood running down his face, the rapper posed as Jesus Christ for the cover shot.

Inside the publication, Ray West, a sociology professor and former Black Panther, takes his son to task.

Evidently Kanye's father disapproves of the degrading lyrics in his son's songs.

"I've stated to him very clearly that he needs to move beyond the negative language and the 'n****r' statements," Papa West explained to Rolling Stone.

Sounding similar to Bill Cosby, Kanye's father continued, "It's alright to say 'b***h' and 'm***er f***er' on the corner, but when you start operating on a different level you can't talk like that. Fine, you're trying to get some street acceptance. Now that you got that, get back to your roots."

Sounding a familiar parental refrain, he finished up with the statement, "You know that's not where you came from. You know that's not how you were raised."

The Left Coast Report hopes someone sends Kanye a DVD of "Father Knows Best."

My View

Kanye's father was on point. Its about time somebodyu in the so called rap game took video's and music to a new level. I'm sick and tired of seeing pimp, car and ho commercials with stupid lyrics and lame loops.
give it too him ray

Henry Louis Gates delves into celebs' genealogy on PBS

I will take a Henry Louis Gates over a Cornell West any day.

This guy is awsome, but he still hangs out with some bad folks!
born September 16, 1950, Piedmont, West Virginia Mineral County) is an educator, scholar, literary critic, writer, editor of Transition Magazine and the chair of Harvard's African and African American Studies department.

Gates earned a BA summa cum laude from Yale University and a Ph.D. in English from Clare College, Cambridge University. After teaching at Yale, he was denied tenure, passed over in favor of the distinguished literary critic Robert Stepto. Gates and his frequent collaborator, Anglo-Ghanaian philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah, decamped to Cornell University, then to Duke University before settling at Harvard, where Gates is the W. E. B. DuBois Professor of the Humanities and teaches primarily in the AAAS and English departments. In 1994 Gates received an honorary L.H.D. from Bates College.

Gates has applied structuralism, post-structuralism and semiotics to textual analysis and matters of identity politics. He hosted America Beyond the Color Line and African American Lives for PBS.

He originated the application of the concept of "signifyin(g)" to African-American literary criticism and history. In 1981, Gates was awarded a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship.

In 1997 Gates was voted one of Time Magazine's "25 Most Influential Americans."

In recent years Gates has become a strong supporter of Fred Newman and Lenora Fulani's All Stars Project, a controversial youth charity based in New York City. In 2005, Gates joined the board of directors of All Stars.


ANYONE WHO'S ever dragged a finger across the name of a grandparent or great-grandparent who disembarked at Ellis Island, or studied the faded pages of a family Bible listing the births, deaths and marriages of long-dead ancestors knows the thrill of history made personal.

Beyond a certain point, though, it's a thrill that's been denied to many African-Americans, whose ancestral ties are sometimes assumed to be untraceable, their family connections severed by slavery and their original homelands lost to history.
Except that that's not true.

Thanks in part to the Mormon church's intense interest in genealogy, a growing number of records documenting the comings and goings of all sorts of people, both free and enslaved, are being rediscovered and many put online, even as geneticists offer an intriguing glimpse of the possibilities of the past through DNA.
Those increased research opportunities are the main message of PBS' two-night, four-hour exploration of "African American Lives," which not coincidentally is launching at the beginning of Black History Month.
The other message?

It helps to be famous.

Because how many of us, of any color, can expect to have Henry Louis Gates Jr. doing our genealogical legwork for us?
Gates, chairman of Harvard's African and African American Studies department and host of this, as well as past PBS series "America Beyond the Color Line" and "Wonders of the African World," isn't afraid to use celebrity connections to make a point, which is why among the eight prominent African-Americans whose family trees he helps trace in the series are household names like Oprah Winfrey, Quincy Jones, Whoopi Goldberg and Chris Tucker.

"I was trying to seduce high school and elementary school kids into science and into historical research," Gates explained to reporters last month in Pasadena, Calif., as he sat on a dais with Dr. Mae Jemison - the first African-American woman in space - and mega-church pastor Bishop T.D. Jakes, each of whom possesses a family history that rivals Winfrey's for sheer fascination.

"I didn't know anything about these people except that I admired them. I wanted people representing a wide variety of occupations," Gates said. "So I didn't want to reinforce stereotypes about entertainers and athletes. But I wanted them to be seductive enough so people would actually watch."
I think a lot of people will find Jemison, Jakes, pediatric neurosurgeon Ben Carson - a Yale classmate of Gates' - and Gates' Harvard colleague, Professor Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, every bit as seductive, if not more so, than they do the four entertainers Gates rounded up, but I take his point.

Perhaps if he didn't come across at times like a graduate of the James "Actors Studio" Lipton School of Celebrity Interviewing - or if he'd just stop referring to his subjects as his "guests," as if what they were participating in weren't a documentary but some very long talk show - I could get past the celebrity thing.
Because, at the very least, we know that these people are famous and successful not for who their distant ancestors were but for who they themselves are, and in some cases despite who their parents were.

Unfortunately, tonight's first installment bogs down a bit in those more immediate ties, particularly as Winfrey recites the details of her admittedly horrific childhood, a story that may be losing some of its power through repetition.
The fun - and there's a surprising amount of fun in Gates' sometimes meandering journey toward his and his subjects' roots - really begins in next week's installments, as science comes up against family traditions, and several people are forced to face some unexpected truths about their histories, whether it be Native American ties they'd taken for granted that don't show up in DNA or Winfrey being told that, no, she is not, as she has publicly declared in the past, part Zulu.
(If you think this isn't fun to watch, then imagine the look on the faces of your family's amateur genealogists were you to produce DNA tests over your next Thanksgiving dinner that proved that, well, you and they probably aren't descended from William the Conqueror, or that "Indian princess" Grandpa was always talking about.)

One of the most surprised subjects is Gates himself, who, though aware of at least one white ancestor, still seems astonished to learn that fully half his DNA indicates European ancestry, and some of it from the female line, meaning not all of it can be attributed to a slave owner.
"What does that mean? Does that make me less black? I had to ask all those questions," he said.

Meanwhile, another DNA test apparently put the kibosh on a long-held tradition that the Gates family was linked by blood to a white family named Brady.
Not that DNA meant much to Gates' 92-year-old father.
"My father's response, which was cut out of the film, was, 'Bull- - - -,' " Gates recalled.
"He said, 'I don't care about no test. I've been a Brady all my life, and I'm going to stay a Brady.

Singer, entrepreneur, Republican Activist: Hood has done it all his way

BY JOSEPH PICARD

It was a hot, muggy night in Valdosta, a college town in southern Georgia in the summer of 1966. Electric fans feebly churned the heavy air in the old auditorium. But the kids weren't concerned with the weather. They were dancing to the lean, grass-roots rock 'n' roll of blues guitar legend Jimmy Reed.

Reed and his band were percolating on stage. The black kids were dancing, and the white kids were dancing. Some black kids were even dancing with white kids. Everybody was having fun.

"They were having too much fun — that must have been it," said Mel Hood, 73, Neptune entrepreneur, political activist and singer, who was Reed's vocalist on that night 40 years ago.

"Someone must have decided the white kids were too close to the black kids, or that all the kids were getting too wild. But the cops started moving onto the dance floor, shoving kids, smacking them with their nightsticks. We got off the stage in a hurry. It was truly frightening," Hood said.

But Hood did not have to travel through the Deep South to confront racial hatred. He has received, over the years, a full helping of the Garden State variety.

When Hood and his wife moved to Neptune in 1963, a man used to drive by their home every day, with his kids in the car, shouting racial epithets out the window, Hood said.

"On the other hand," he recalled, "another man welcomed us to the neighborhood and asked if he could bring his children over to meet us, so they could learn that blacks are no different than whites."

The Air Force brought Hood to New Jersey, to McGuire Air Force Base in 1962. He met his future bride, Jean, married her and stayed.

He got a job with Johnson & Johnson, made some investments and, in 1972, he purchased the Wellington Lounge, in what is now Lake Como and was then South Belmar, and made it a blues and jazz club.

Soon afterward, Hood, who was born in North Carolina, saw what he'd never seen below the Mason-Dixon line — a burning cross, in the parking lot of his business.

"There were other incidents, too, but eventually people got the message that we were not leaving and things calmed down," said Hood, who changed the club's name to Jason's in 1976.

"You expected bigotry down South. You didn't think it would be as bad up North. But it was, and it's still around, although not as blatant."

Jason's became THE place on the Jersey Shore for blues and jazz. James Cotton, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Otis Rush, Grover Washington, Freddie Cole — these and other artists of similar caliber have performed at Jason's.

Darrell Bridges, 57, a performance manager and producer from New York City, met Hood over 10 years ago, when his entertainment magazine featured Jason's, and they've been friends ever since.

"He's a man of his word, a man of impeccable character," Bridges said. "He helped me make my way in business. Mel Hood is a dear friend and a mentor."

Jason's closed its doors in 2002. It was the economy after the Sept. 11 attacks, rather than domestic bigotry, that caused it.

"It was a wonderful time. I miss it," Hood said of Jason's. "But the club had its run. Sometimes, you just have to know when to get off the stage."

But Hood, a Republican all his adult life, has always been politically active and remains so. He is planning to run for the Monmouth County GOP chairmanship, which would mean a challenge to current Chairman Fredrick R. Niemann.

"When another black man asks me what have the Republicans done for blacks, I ask him to step back, be honest with himself and ask himself what the Democrats have ever done for blacks," Hood said. "Frankly, it does not matter greatly to me if blacks choose the Republicans or the Democrats. I just want them to choose a party and get involved. You cannot change things unless you are politically involved."

Thomas E. Daniels of Asbury Park, former active member of the Asbury Park/Neptune NAACP, worked with Hood during the racial turmoil following the Greekfest incidents in Belmar in the early 1990s, when black fraternity members clashed with police. Daniels, a Democrat, said Hood has always worked for equality for the races despite political affiliation.

"I respect Mel's choice of the Republican Party," Daniels said. "He's a businessman, and businessmen tend to be Republican. His heart's in the right place. He is very knowledgeable in business, in racial issues and in politics."

Hood is a member of the Neptune Planning Board, and is active in the county GOP organization and in statewide black Republican organizations.

"It's been a struggle all the way," Hood said. "But I'm still here. And I have my wife and family, my sense of humor, and my dignity."

HBO's Gumbel: Lack of Blacks Makes Olympics 'Look Like a GOP Convention'

HBO's Gumbel: Lack of Blacks Makes Olympics 'Look Like a GOP Convention'

There were some eye-opening remarks from Bryant Gumbel on the most recent episode of HBO's Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel.



Brian Gumbel was always called an uncle tom when I grew up.
He talked white according to my freinds and loved white blondes!
So he must on occasion say these silly statements so he can deflect attention
from himself.
Its not like Brian Gumbel is coming from the hood!


According to a transcript posted by a television columnist named Seth Frelich, Gumbel said the following in his closing monologue last week (emphasis mine):

"Finally, tonight, the Winter Games. Count me among those who don’t like them and won’t watch them ... Because they’re so trying, maybe over the next three weeks we should all try too. Like, try not to be incredulous when someone attempts to link these games to those of the ancient Greeks who never heard of skating or skiing. So try not to laugh when someone says these are the world’s greatest athletes, despite a paucity of blacks that makes the Winter Games look like a GOP convention. Try not to point out that something’s not really a sport if a pseudo-athlete waits in what’s called a kiss-and-cry area, while some panel of subjective judges decides who won ... So if only to hasten the arrival of the day they’re done, when we can move on to March Madness — for God’s sake, let the games begin."

THE TUSKEGEE AIRMEN

THE TUSKEGEE AIRMEN
Period: World War II

Racial exclusionary policies were in full force in certain areas of the military during the late 1930's and early 1940's. General H. H. Arnold had made it clear that "no Blacks would ever pilot a plane in the upcoming war.

" The United States was mobilizing for a possible war against the united front of the AXIS POWERS: GERMANY, ITALY, and JAPAN. The legal segregation of African Americans did not allow them to receive the necessary training to become FIGHTER AIR PILOTS at white-operated pilot schools. After some protest, the WAR DEPARTMENT, in 1941, agreed to accommodate an all-black FLIGHT SCHOOL at TUSKEGEE AIR FORCE BASE.

That base produced the first African American COMBAT FIGHTER PILOTS, and they became known as the TUSKEGEE AIRMEN of the 99TH PURSUIT SQUADRON. Out of this squadron came Colonel Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., son of the first African American General, Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. Colonel Davis was awarded the SILVER STAR for gallantry in COMBAT. He was later promoted to general in 1965.


This is a picture of the original Tuskegee airmen.

Dennis Walington Essay

The other day while reading The New Yorker Magazine, I accidentally turned to the "Lives" section.

Dennis Walington, is a filmaker and writer, who has been criticial of the new wave of black sex obssesed reading material. Many of the top book chanins make no distinction in black book selections. They are all put under black authors! He would prefer a more catagorrized section. I am not sure I agree with him because most black books that cover social sciences, or literature can be found twice.
I picked up last week Mcwhorters "Winning the Race" it was in the black section and the social sciences section.

So in some way black authors get there book soled twice!

Any way Deenis Watlington just wrote a wonderful piece for the New Yorker, about
being spared the Justice systems wrath, and becoming a productive citizen.

Here is the entire essay!


On a cold East Harlem morning in 1966, when I was 15, my new best friend Stinky and I ran inside an old tenement building to shoot up. After scaling six flights, we arrived at the landing that led to the roof. Our day's first stab at ghetto kids' roulette was about to begin. We were gleefully unfolding the pouch containing our heroin and paraphernalia when trouble arrived. The faint sound of footsteps activated our "uh-oh" meter. As the sound grew louder, Stinky and I looked at each other before harmonizing out loud, "The po-lice!"


We made a break for the door, anticipating an activity almost as scary as a bust — roof jumping — but it was nailed shut. Trapped, we discarded our razor-blade-size cellophane packets of poison in the void of the spiraling stairwell, thinking in terms of a "not mine" defense. Looking down, we saw a strong arm in cop blue extend itself and turn its palm upward. And then we watched one packet flutter right into the palm of the dusky hand.

Cornered like rats, we were soon confronted by a young, six-footish, well-built African-American known on dope-fiend row as Mike the Cop. He patted the club in his hand. "First things first — I'm not going to have to use this, am I?" he asked. Stinky and I vigorously shook our heads in the negative. We were powerless children.

I was already on juvenile probation, so everything that came out of Mike the Cop's mouth sounded to me like "incarceration." This bust would buy me three to five years of jail mail. I started to imagine myself in my impending prison garb, with a long line of numbers on the chest. Stinky was in even worse shape. Having just turned 16, he had crossed the line between juvenile and hard core.

Mike ordered us up against the wall. After picking up the paraphernalia, he commanded us to face him. But then I had a fear-driven impulse: I got down on my knees and started singing "Mammy." I sang for my freedom with the passion of the great Al Jolson during his Winter Garden peak. From an early age, I had been forced to respect education, and the work was now paying a surprising dividend, for I was able to enunciate, articulate and gesticulate beyond the ghetto pale. I could feel Stinky's jealousy as Mike's attentiveness increased.

"Get up off your knees," Mike instructed. I obeyed. "I'm going to take a gamble. Something tells me that there's more brains in that big head of yours than you realize." He took a deep breath, looking skyward, as though searching for a divine tiebreaker, before sternly motioning his head toward the stairwell. "Get out of here!" he barked.

I made a beeline for it, and Stinky tried to sneak into my draft, but Mike blocked his path; his well-deserved reputation for being a tough guy returned. I could hear Stinky screaming in protest as I ran down the stairs. I sprinted four blocks before I allowed myself to believe that I had been let out of a noose that I would have dangled from for the remainder of my teenage years. Poor Stinky. It was a good bet that by nightfall he was on Rikers Island staring through wires and bars.

After that incident, I kicked my three-year habit. A fluke of the civil rights era landed me in an elite New England prep school, where my newfound love for the power of words convinced me that the pen was mightier than the syringe.

Years later, I was working at the double Dutch rope-jumping competition at the New York Coliseum. I was there as a film assistant taking sound for a small crew. This was the early stage of what would become a difficult but satisfying career. Passing the judges' table, I heard a voice: "Hey, you!" I turned and discovered Mike the Cop. He summoned me over to the table. "Are you that kid I gave a pass to about 10 years ago?" he asked.

I told him I was. He looked me over and gave a sigh of relief. "I made a snap decision that someone must have put some polish on your black behind," he said. We laughed. "But it scared the hell out of me. I was on the lookout for you for a long time, because you could have hurt someone. If you'd been out there, believe me, I would have taken care of business, quick!"

I told him how much I owed him. Without his nod toward that stairwell, death or the big house would surely have found me. "That was good cop work, man," I said.

"It wasn't," he said, "but it was a good decision."

We engaged in a black man's handshake, and I thanked him for all I was worth.

Dennis Watlington is a filmmaker and writer. This essay is adapted from his memoir, "Chasing America: Notes From a Rock 'n' Soul Integrationist," out this week from Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press.

Better To Be Nuked Than To Bomb Iran?

One of the fascinating things about polls is that relatively minor changes in the way that a question is phrased or coming at an issue from a slightly different angle can cause wild shifts in the results.

For example, take a look at these results from a CNN / USA Today / Gallup poll of 1000 adults:

"Fifty-nine percent thought Iran would use nuclear weapons against the United States, and 80 percent thought the Iranians would hand them over to terrorists to use against the United States.

"More thought Iran would use the weapons against Israel -- 77 percent -- and about as many -- 81 percent -- thought Iran would give them to terrorists who wanted to use them against Israel.

"Sixty-eight percent of the respondents called for economic and diplomatic action to keep Iran away from atomic weapons, while only 9 percent called for military action.

"Even if diplomacy were to fail, only 36 percent of those who responded to the survey thought military action would be called for, while 45 percent said it would not."

So let's see if we have this straight: 80% of the people polled think Iran will give terrorists nukes to use against the United States, but only 36% say they would support military action against Iran even if diplomacy failed?

That means we have what, probably 44%, who think Iran getting nukes would probably lead to let's say New York and Chicago disappearing under a mushroom cloud, but they still wouldn't support bombing Iran? Doesn't that seem more than a little bizarre? Surely there can't be that many Noam Chomsky hate America types out there who think America deserves to be nuked, right? Right.

What probably happened is that you had people who see Iran as a threat, but then, when they're asked about military action, they figure we have our hands full in Iraq and rule out a military strike on that basis, without thinking things all the way through (Sure, Iran could cause trouble for us in Iraq, but is that really worse than them handing over nuclear weapons to terrorists to use against us?)

In any case, since either the US or Israel will likely end up bombing Iran, and relatively soon, within a few months to let's say 18 months out, it's good that the Bush administration has started to beat the war drums a little louder lately. The fact that they haven't gotten too overt about it yet probably either means that nothing is coming up in the next few months or that Israel will be making the strike, but it's too early to tell yet. Whatever the case may be, it's not too early to start preparing the American people what may turn out to be an inevitable bombing run that will have some very serious repercussions.

Poll: Jackson, Rice Are Top Black Leaders

How the hell does Jessie get the top spot?

I am black and they never asked me about any poll!

Well whatever, I guess Condi could run for Prez after all!


By WILL LESTER Associated Press Writer
© 2006 The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Jesse Jackson and Condoleezza Rice get the top support among blacks asked to name the nation's "most important black leader," according to an AP-AOL Black Voices poll. Next come Colin Powell and Barack Obama.

Many blacks question whether any one person can wear the leadership mantle for such a large and diverse group of people. At the same time, two-thirds in the poll said leaders in their communities were effective representatives of their interests.

When blacks were asked to come up with the person they considered "the most important black leader," 15 percent chose Jackson, a civil rights activist who ran for president in the 1980s, while 11 percent picked Secretary of State Rice, 8 percent chose former Secretary of State Powell, and 6 percent named Obama, a freshman Democratic senator from Illinois.

About one-third declined to volunteer a name.

Two of the four mentioned most often _ Rice and Powell _ are from a Republican administration that is unpopular with most blacks.

Less than one in five of those polled, 18 percent, said the current black leadership is doing a "very effective" job of representing the black community. Half described black leadership as "somewhat effective."

"I'm kind of disillusioned," said retiree John Manning, who says the leadership is somewhat effective. The Democrat from Port Charlotte, Fla., added: "They seem to be going in different directions, there doesn't seem to be a cohesiveness."

The answers to the open-ended question about leadership were divided among a number of well-known black Americans, a sharp contrast to the 1960s when Martin Luther King Jr. was recognized as the leading voice among many prominent civil rights leaders.

Nation of Islam minister Louis Farrakhan got 4 percent; talk show host Oprah Winfrey received 3 percent; King, who was killed in 1968, got 3 percent, and former Democratic presidential candidate Al Sharpton got 2 percent. Some 14 percent picked somebody else.

One in five, 21 percent, said they were not sure whom to name among current black leaders and 13 percent chose no one. A few in the poll, 1 percent, named themselves.

"What is 'the most important black leader?'" asked Thomas Miller, a 59-year-old political independent who lives in Philadelphia. "You have to lead your own self, don't put that on anybody else. Putting faith in somebody else is blind."

At the height of the civil rights movement, the need to rally behind individual black leaders was more clearcut.

"In the days of segregation, when blacks were limited to certain neighborhoods, you could look around the black community and identify who the leaders were," said Roger Wilkins, a history professor at George Mason University and a former Justice Department official involved in the civil rights movement.

There have been dramatic changes for blacks, who have closed the income gap considerably with whites over the past few decades.

"There's been an extraordinary expansion of the black middle class and a shift in the locus of leadership," said Michael Eric Dyson, an analyst of racial politics and author of "Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster." "A more diversified black community doesn't find it necessary to have one voice."

For Karissa Ayers, a 25-year-old Democratic-leaning mother of three from East Moline, Ill., the most meaningful comments about Katrina's disastrously slow recovery effort came from a popular hip-hop performer who blamed racial bias.

"I liked everything Kanye West had to say about the hurricane and everything he had to say about President Bush," Ayers said. However, blacks say by a 2-1 margin that hip-hop artists are a negative influence, rather than positive. Younger people were more likely to say they are a positive influence.

Galvanized by the images from Katrina news coverage, black activists and elected leaders around the country are considering new strategies for making gains for blacks, both politically and economically.

The changing of the guard in leadership in black America was highlighted by the recent deaths of civil rights pioneers Rosa Parks and Coretta Scott King, widow of the slain civil rights leader.

"The old has passed away," Bernice King said in her mother's eulogy last week in a church in the Atlanta suburbs. "There is a new order that is emerging."

The AP-AOL Black Voices poll of 600 black adults was conducted by telephone from Jan. 9 to Feb. 3 and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points. It was conducted by Ipsos, an international polling firm.

Acorn Protest Group Exposed

The Washington Post this week headlined protesters who are in town to complain about the slow pace of Katrina relief in New Orleans.

The sympathetic portrayal of the protesters' grievances left out one critical part of the story: The protest was organized by ACORN--the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. ACORN got a grant of $1,999,920 of your money from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

It turns out ACORN actually charged the demonstrators $50 a head to join their protest. I have plenty of sympathy for people from the Gulf Coast whose lives have been turned upside down by Katrina. And I certainly wonder about federal bureaucrats who may be dragging their feet on relief efforts.

But funding ACORN is just nuts. This far-left group has its roots in the radicalism of the 1960s. Marxist agitator Saul Alinsky described such "community-based" organizing in his book, Reveille for Radicals.

This is a cause that cries out for reform. Congress should look into the entire array of left-wing agitation undertaken with your money. De-funding the left could do much to end culture wars. Why should we be funding one side?

Ralph Bunche an American Icon

Of all the great leaders in this nation to me Ralph Bunche stands out as a true american hero.

He paved the way for Andrew Young and Condi Rice!

He was a man who maintaned under great stress, and attacks from the right and left.
The black left accused him of being a sell out, an uncle tom, and the right
accused him of being a Communist.

McCarthy labeled him a Communist until he showed up to a senate hearing with a true
Communist, who said Bunche was no Communist.

Also In 1939, the Republican National Committee asked Bunche to conduct research on why black voters defected from the party in the two previous national elections (Rivilin 1990, 8-9).

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Ralph Johnson Bunche (August 7, 1904 – December 9, 1971) was an American political scientist and diplomat who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his mediation in Palestine in the late 1940s that led to an armistice agreement between the Jews and Arabs in the region. He was the first African-American, and first individual of non-European ethnicity or race to be so honored in the history of the Prize.


Bunche was born in Detroit, Michigan to an African-American family; his father was a barber, his mother an amateur musician. They moved to Los Angeles when he was a child to improve his parents' health. His parents died soon after, and he was raised by his grandmother, who looked "white" but was an active member of the black community.

Bunche was a brilliant student, a top debater, and the valedictorian (top ranked student) of his graduating class at Jefferson High School. He attended the University of California, Los Angeles and graduated summa cum laude in 1927 -- again as the valedictorian of his class. Using the money his community raised for his studies, and a scholarship from the University, he studied for a master's and a doctorate in political science at Harvard. He chaired Howard University's Department of Political Science from 1928 until 1950. He lived in the Brookland neighborhood of Washington, DC.

In 1936 Bunche authored a pamphlet entitled A World View of Race. In it Bunche wrote: "And so class will some day supplant race in world affairs. Race war will then be merely a side-show to the gigantic class war which will be waged in the big tent we call the world."


World War II years
Bunche spent time during World War II in the Office of Strategic Services (the predecessor of the CIA). before joining the State Department In 1943 Bunche went to the State Department where he became associate chief of the division of dependent area affairs under Alger Hiss. He became, with Hiss, one of the leaders of the Institute of Pacific Relations (IPR).

He participated in the preliminary planning for the United Nations at the San Francisco Conference of 1945, and in 1946 he was a member of the first U.S. delegation to the U.N. He then became an employee of the U.N. as the first Director of its new Trusteeship Department, at the appointment of Secretary-General Trygve Lie.

.N. mediator
Beginning in 1947, he was involved with the Arab-Israeli conflict. He served as assistant to the U.N. Special Committee on Palestine, and thereafter as the principal secretary of the U.N. Palestine Commission. In 1948 he traveled to the Middle East as the chief aide to Count Folke Bernadotte, who had been appointed by the U.N. to attempt to mediate the conflict. In September, Bernadotte was assassinated by members of the radical Zionist group Lehi. Bunche became the U.N.'s chief mediator and concluded the task with the signing of the 1949 Armistice Agreements, the work for which he received the Peace Prize and many other honors.

He continued to work for the United Nations, mediating in other strife-torn regions including The Congo, Yemen, Kashmir, and Cyprus, eventually rising to the position of undersecretary-general in 1968.


As a prominent African-American, Bunche was an active and vocal supporter of the civil rights movement, though he never actually held a titled position in the major organizations of the movement.

Bunche died in 1971 and is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx.


bust of Ralph Bunche, Bunche Hall UCLAA bust of Ralph Bunche, on the entrance to Bunche Hall, overlooks the Sculpture Garden at UCLA.

Ralph Bunche Park is in New York City, across First Avenue from the United Nations headquarters. Ralph Bunche house is in the Brookland neighborhood of Washington, DC, where he resided for many years.

Bunche is a recipient of the Silver Buffalo Award, the highest adult award given by the Boy Scouts of America.

'Aunt Jemima' Sues After Council Meeting Ban

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- An activist arrested after disrupting a City Council meeting dressed in an Aunt Jemima costume and banned from attending meetings until the end of March has filed a lawsuit claiming her rights were violated.

Brown was arrested and charged with causing a disturbance at a lawful assembly and resisting a police officer.

Jackie Brown filed a lawsuit in federal court seeking to have the ban declared unconstitutional as well as unspecified damages and attorneys fees, The Florida Times-Union reported Monday.

She is also seeking an injunction that would let her attend council meetings while the lawsuit is pending, the paper reported.

The city will oppose the injunction, according to Assistant General Counsel Michael Wedner who declined further comment.

Brown, president of the Jacksonville Coalition of Black Contractors, was escorted out of a Nov. 22 City Council meeting after loudly criticizing the council for the city's small business incentive law. Brown said the law treats blacks like "slaves" because it does not provide enough opportunities for minority contractors.

She returned during a later public comment period and scuffled with a police officer after refusing to leave when ordered.

Brown was arrested and charged with causing a disturbance at a lawful assembly and resisting a police officer.

Opportunity is not black or white

by Herman Cain

Former President Jimmy Carter said last week at Coretta Scott King’s funeral:
“The struggle for equal rights is not over. We only have to recall the color of the faces of the people in Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi — those who are most devastated by Katrina — to know that there are not equal opportunities for all Americans.”

The unfortunate snapshot of poverty exposed by Hurricane Katrina is not an accurate portrait of the equal opportunity available all across America. Carter’s comment dismisses the millions of black Americans who ran through the doors of opportunity following the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, but he could not resist a chance to further stir feelings of racial resentment.

Our great nation was established on a concept once thought revolutionary, yet considered by our founders as so fundamental that they described it as “self-evident.” The concept is that “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” Although it took America nearly 200 years to live up to that ideal, the fact is that we are a long way from the struggle. Today’s challenge is to protect equal rights and opportunity for all of us.


Carter’s comments deny the successes achieved by leaders such as President Abraham Lincoln, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the late U.S. Senator Everett Dirksen, who was the driving force behind the Civil Rights Act, and the millions of anonymous heroes who fought for and achieved equality of opportunity for all American citizens.

Though the founders declared that all men are created equal, slavery was still permitted until 1862, when Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. In 1865, soon after the end of the Civil War, the 13th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, banning slavery throughout the entire United States. In 1868, the 14th Amendment was ratified, which established citizenship for all persons born or naturalized in the U.S., and guaranteed all citizens due process and equal protection under the laws. Discrimination against blacks in the electoral process still continued, and the 15th Amendment, ratified in 1870, stated that the right to vote shall not be denied on the basis of race.

Legal barriers to blacks’ full participation in our nation’s educational, electoral and economic processes continued through the 1960s. The famous 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education tackled the issue of forced segregation in schools. The 24th Amendment, ratified in 1964, abolished poll taxes that had prevented many blacks from voting. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited both discrimination in employment and forced segregation in schools. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 further empowered the federal government to monitor voter registration and elections in counties and states with histories of racial discrimination.

Today, the word race has lost much of the meaning that it carried just over forty years ago when Congress passed the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts. Prior to the 1960s and the enactment of these historical pieces of legislation, a person’s particular race determined where he or she could attend school, whether or not they could vote and even access to drinking fountains and swimming pools. Laws separated us by race, and it was these racial barriers that inspired many to give their lives – sometimes literally – to the cause of equal protection and equal opportunity for all Americans.

Enactment of legislation such as the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts did not guarantee equal outcomes for blacks and other racial minorities, but their passage did guarantee the opportunity for all to pursue their economic freedom through academic achievement. Millions of blacks and minorities took advantage of the educational opportunities available for the first time and found economic success in virtually every profession.

Today, with the absence of laws to segregate us and limit our opportunities merely because of our racial ancestry, race alone is no longer a barrier to success. Instead, academic achievement and making smart decisions in our personal lives remove the barriers we may have been born with. College entrance exams don’t care who holds the pencil, high school and college diplomas are colorblind, and money doesn’t care whose pocket it’s in. Today men and women of any skin color can compete for admission to any college or university, compete for jobs in the private sector and freely vote for their favorite candidates. Race itself is no longer an impediment to achieving academic success and economic freedom.

Every American citizen who chooses to pursue and achieve economic freedom has that opportunity today, regardless of his or her skin color. The current metrics and trends of the current economy also prove Carter’s assertion to be misleading. The unemployment rate is 4.7 percent, GDP has grown for over 4 years and most families are moving up the income brackets, as they have done in each of the previous three decades.

Race matters only to those who want to continue to keep the nation divided. Some individual Americans may from time to time stand in your way, but America does not. America is defined by its ideals, not by its limitations.

The charge young blacks and minorities must keep today – their debt for the struggle that took nearly 350 years – is to capitalize on all the opportunities available in the U.S. for academic and economic growth. People create limitations. America creates opportunities.


Herman Cain is host of the nationally syndicated radio talk show The Bottom Line with Herman Cain and a contributing columnist on Townhall.com.

African immigrants face bias from blacks

As Africans who leave there native homelands come to the US and suceed some black americans are upset?

Why?

African immigrants face bias from blacks
Tension climbs highest in poor communities
Monday, February 13, 2006

By Ervin Dyer, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

In 1989, Zedueh Doerue, a proud and traditional-minded father of eight, smuggled his family out of civil-war ravaged Liberia into Guinea, a more stable West African nation to the south.


Zedueh Doerue:
"I don't understand it."

Before long, Guinea, a former French colony, began to slide into political unrest as well, and Mr. Doerue was jailed and harassed as an insurgent because he spoke English.

Four years ago, a Catholic refugee resettlement program brought him to Pittsburgh, where two of his children were born. Now, working as a nursing assistant and living in a two-story Bon Air home, Mr. Doerue and his family would seem to have left danger and chaos behind.

But Mr. Doerue, 44, said that for the last year he's been continually harassed, his children have been bullied by neighborhood thugs, his car damaged and the windows on his home have been repeatedly broken.

Mr. Doerue has called police because he feels "hunted" by the perpetrators, who he claims are mostly black youths.

Police are unclear on the motives for the attacks, and Mr. Doerue said, "I don't understand it."

He's not alone. Many sociologists and researchers are trying to understand the relationships between black Americans and a recent boom of immigrants who have come to America from Africa and the Caribbean.

It is not always an easy transition and black Americans and the immigrants find they are being forced to confront complex issues of identity, ethnicity and community.

"As a general trend, the two groups are having tensions," said Jacqueline Copeland-Carson, a scholar with the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota and author of the book, "Creating Africa in America."

The tensions can be especially raw and violent in urban communities struggling with poverty, she said, as black Americans who feel economically trapped clash culturally with immigrant Africans who have escaped turmoil worse than Hurricane Katrina and may have stereotypical views of black Americans as being lazy or glorifiers of gangster life.

There are other barriers that create problems, too, said Ms. Copeland-Carson, who studies contemporary immigration issues.

These include widespread ignorance about the history of ethnic groups and nationalities and not understanding how others define their identities.

For example, she said, in Nigeria alone, there are more than 250 ethnic groups. Africans don't come here with the same racial notion of "black" identity that African Americans have formed, said Ms. Copeland-Carson.

Furthermore, she said, when immigrant Africans move into communities of concentrated poverty, where people are already struggling with low-wage jobs, they are often seen as economic and political threats.

When the misunderstandings loom that large, "even by speaking English with an accent," said Ms. Copeland-Carson, "[immigrant Africans] can become the enemy."

Mr. Doerue says his children were picked on and targeted simply because they speak differently.

Accents can also target immigrants as people less familiar with the system and thus more vulnerable to scams, robbery or attack.

Some of the 30 to 40 Somalian families in town have faced other hostilities from black Americans.

Their dress, mannerisms and accents mean they stand out as foreigners in many neighborhoods, said Joshua Kivuva, a University of Pittsburgh teacher and Kenyan native who helps ease the families into life here.

In Northview Heights, there are allegations that a Somalian has been threatened with a gun; in Homewood, a Somalian middle school student has had a gun pointed at him, and a Somali mother in Homewood has been told she needs to move to be safe, said Mr. Kivuva.

In Oakland, with its stew of international students and faculty, the immigrant Africans can fit in, said Mr. Kivuva, but in low-income areas open conflicts are more likely.

"I think the perception is that [immigrant Africans] are given priority for services and that causes tensions," he said.

The tensions surface not just in Pittsburgh, but across the country.

Three months ago, a 13-year-old Ghanaian boy was brutally beaten, police say, by black American youths in his neighborhood in southwest Philadelphia.

On occasion, the conflicts turn deadly.

Congo immigrant Nzubamunu Mitete, 51, a Pentecostal preacher, was robbed and murdered in Lincoln-Lemington while driving a jitney on a cold December night. Police say his attacker was a young black man.

Thirty days later, David Agar, 24, a "Lost Boy," one of the survivors of the conflict in the Sudan, was killed while leaving an Uptown club. Police arrested Todd Akrie, 26, of Windgap, charging him with robbery and homicide in the incident.

While issues of racial identity and poverty can heighten the hostility of black Americans against immigrant Africans, said Ms. Copeland-Carson, the rancor against newcomers is nothing new.

"In the early 20th century, there was enmity against Irish immigrants and Italians," she said. "This dynamic is a piece of the ethnic history of the United States."

To make it more confusing, said Mr. Kivuva, is the fact that most immigrant Africans hear from black Americans that whites can't be trusted; but, in Pittsburgh, he said, few black organizations help the Somali families that he works with.

"The person who comes to the house with bread, who comes to read to a student, who takes children to the zoo," said Mr. Kivuva, "is a white person."

The solution to help everyone get along is using common ground to build bridges, said Yinka Aganga-Williams, an immigrant Nigerian who works with local groups to ease immigrant transitions into Allegheny County.

What black Americans need to understand, said Ms. Copeland-Carson, is that their culture, from spirituals to food to healing practices, is an amalgam of African traditions. It can be revitalizing to re-link these cultures with immigrant Africans.

Likewise, black Americans who have survived in this country can help immigrants sustain identities in schools and help build political coalitions.

The glass is not half-empty when it comes to relations between the two groups, said Ms. Aganga-Williams, who warned that media stereotyping paints a picture that all black Americans are harassing Africans.

"I don't think they are being targeted. [David Agar] went to a bar, and there happened to be a bad guy there. I don't think Mitete's killer set out to kill an African immigrant that night.

"There are people in Nigeria, Ghana, wherever you're from," she said, "who get killed from this kind of robbery every day.

"I just think we never hear about the ones who have said this is my African-American friend, and he truly wants to hear about Africa."

A true Vocher System!

A true voucher system would provide X amount of dollars in funding for each student eligible in the district, payable to a qualified educational institution in the area. It would provide a serious financial incentive for more schools to be built in your area, and would also increase the demand for area schools that do well. The only losers would be the local public schools who cannot gain the trust (and in turn, desire) of the local parents.

Opinion On Gun Control

D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton has been working hard to keep guns useless in the hands of law-abiding citizens. Earlier this summer, the House voted overwhelmingly to alter D.C. draconian gun laws. Republican Congressman Mark Souder’s bill protects everyone’s right to self defense within the home by defunding the D.C. law that requires shotguns and rifles in the home to be disassembled and unloaded or bound by a trigger lock at all times.

I think if it's in the home it can be wherever and held however the homeowner sees. again, they're trying to get into the privacy of individuals homes.

I want my junk loaded. When someone breaks in, you don't have enough time to remove a trigger lock, open the shell box, load the shotgun and then defend. c'mon man. they are just tryin to do this because history shows that with each small progression in law, with each new precedent, they get closer to achieving the final and ultimate goal which is to ban/outlaw all weapons in america period.

We all know that the black market is more powerful than the resources our government uses to halt crime. Once guns are outlawed, only the criminals have access to them. They have access to them now via the black market. Gun control only serves to limit and endager law abiding citizens in america. Door locks only keep the good people out.

Illegal Immigation

First let me preface it by point to the term -----------> Illegal

Second let me point out that simply doing something because of need that is Illegal is still --------> Illegal

Let us change the premise to a kid who sell say something relatively harmless like small amounts of marijuana maybe a joint or two a week just to help him buy his books for college. Should he not be prosectuted or fined if he is caught simply because of need?

Now I also want you to consider this, every job that an illegal immigrant has is a (potential) stolen job from an American worker. Now, we can argue that some of the jobs are jobs Americans don't want, but if that is the case and the illegals weren't here, that would force companies to increase wages in our free market supply and demand system to the point where the salary would be attractive and therefore an American worker would take it.

Finally, I want you to consider the effects of what occurs when an illegal takes money OUT of the American economy and sends the funds back home.

1) It lets Mexico escape with bad policy, and not making Mexico better for their own citizens. As long as America tolerates illegal immigration, which adds BILLIONS of dollars to the Mexican economy, the Mexican government not only tolerates their citizens sneaking across the border IT ENCOURAGES IT. Why? Because when an illegal enters this country, they benefit their people back in Mexico, and therefore the citizen isn't complaining that the government isn't being reformed, as they are making enough money from AMERICA to not force their government to change.

2) It negatively effects the American economy. Think basic economics for a second, and lets make it simply. Let us say that an illegal makes $100 and sends it back home. If that money was kept in the American economy, that money would go to support a local gas station, a local grocery store, a local clothing store etc., all of these companies which HIRE AMERICAN WORKERS. When illegals send money home, they on the back end, reduce the number of AMERICAN workers than can be hired, as they subtract money out of the AMERICAN economy.

There are benefits to illegal immigration as well. But when you consider that it is illegal, that it robs Americans of jobs in two ways, directly and indirectly, and then consider the security risk that it poses in the post-9/11 world and ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IS A BAD IDEA AND SHOULD BE FOUGHT!

Hand Outs and Political Representaion

Often liberals argue that the sole purpose of politics is to receive a "hand out" in some form or fashion through the individual you vote to represent you.

Why would they argue someone vote for someone that inherently does not have their best interest in mind?

This they say is a general question, not specific to one party or another.

For example, why would the Christian Right vote for a extremely liberal democrat that it is going to counter ever belief they hold dear through public policy that attacks the premise of their faith?

So they instead vote for what?

Someone who is going to best (or the lesser of two evils) serve what they hold as important, and who will "hand out" through public policy things which they think they as a block need and want."


The problem in this argument is that Representation and Hand-outs are inherently different. A hand out and looking out for someone's best interest are two different things. A hand out is a bribe. Looking out for somebodies interest is noble and virtuous. The two are *generally* mutually exclusive in definition - A hand out doesn't always mean you have someone's best interest in mind. I hate to beat a dead horse, but just take a look at affirmative action. Or food stamps. It's not a solution. It's a bandaid built to give positive outlook on the designers.


When someone represents me, I choose to follow them for the higher good in the moral and ideological concepts as opposed to any implementation of a concept designed to benefit only a single person, group, religion, race or creed. Hand outs are bait for the ignorant, dumb and blind. Representation is the state or condition of serving as an official delegate, agent, or spokesperson on behalf of me and my personal and moral views. Not my personal agent trying to get me "hook ups" for something I really want. I want a solution, not a band aid. People these days are two greaty and are ignoring the moral responsibility we should all have as citizens. By voting for anyone in any party that attempts to give out handouts is to forgo all virtue and piety for humanity.

Celebrating Black Republicans

Carter G. Woodson

(1875 - 1950)

"Switch parties if you are not being represented."

These are the words of Dr. Carter Godwin Woodson, distinguished Black author, editor, publisher, and historian. Carter G. Woodson believed that Blacks should know their past in order to participate intelligently in the affairs in our country. He strongly believed that Black history - which others have tried so diligently to erase - is a firm foundation for young Black Americans to build on in order to become productive citizens of our society.

Known as the father of Black history, Dr. Woodson at the peak of the Harlem Renaissance established "Negro History Week" in 1926 during the second week of February to commemorate the birthday of abolitionist and orator Frederick Douglass and President Abraham Lincoln. Woodson sought to create a forum that later became Black History Month. He was also instrumental in the founding of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History in 1915.


Martin Luther King, Jr.

(1929-1968)

Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on January 15, 1929 at his family home in Atlanta, Georgia. King's grandfather was a Baptist preacher, and his father was pastor of Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church. King earned his own Bachelor of Divinity degree from Crozier Theological Seminary in 1951 and earned his Doctor of Philosophy from Boston University in 1955. As a Baptist Minister, he was an eloquent civil rights movement leader from the mid-1950's until his death by assassination on April 3, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee where he was there to support striking sanitation workers. King registered as a Republican in 1956.

As pastor of a Baptist church in Montgomery, Alabama, King lead a black bus boycott. He and ninety others were arrested and indicted under the provisions of a law making it illegal to conspire to obstruct the operation of a business. King and several others were found guilty, but appealed their case. A Supreme Court decision in 1956 ended Alabama's segregation laws enacted by Democrats. After this success, King was made president of the newly established Southern Christian Leadership Conference. King led the 1963 March on Washington where he delivered his most famous “I Have a Dream” speech. King became a national hero as he promoted non-violent means to achieve civil rights reform. He was awarded the 1964 Noble Peace Prize for his efforts, and President Ronald Reagan made King’s birthday a national holiday.

Jackie Robinson

Jackie Robinson is a hall of famer Brooklyn Dodger who in 1947 broke baseball's "color barrier," becoming the first African American in the major league baseball. He played for the Dodgers from 1947 to 1956. His impact on the game was legendary, and he was chosen for his cool intelligence and high level of skill. He was also a pioneer in the nation's civil rights movement and exemplified the utmost courage, determination, character and competitiveness. On March 2, 2005, Robinson was recognized posthumously with the Congressional Gold Medal by President George W. Bush.


Frederick Douglass

(1817 - 1895)

Frederick Douglass was one of the foremost leaders of the abolitionist movement which fought to end slavery within the United States in the decades prior to the Civil War. He eagerly attended the founding meeting of the republican party in 1854 and campaigned for its nominees.

A brilliant speaker, Douglass was asked by the American Anti-Slavery Society to engage in a tour of lectures, and so became recognized as one of America's first great black speakers. He won world fame when his autobiography The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, in which he gave specific details of his bondage, was publicized in 1845. Two years later, he began publishing an anti-slavery paper called the North Star. He was appointed Minister Resident and Consul General to Haiti by President Benjamin Harrison on July 1, 1889, the first black citizen to hold high rank in the U.S. government.

Douglass served as an adviser to President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War and fought for the adoption of constitutional amendments that guaranteed voting rights and other civil liberties for blacks. After the Civil War, Douglass realized that the war for citizenship had just begun when Democrat President Andrew Johnson proved to be a determined opponent of land redistribution and civil and political rights for former slaves. Douglass began the postwar era relying on the same themes that he preached in the antebellum years: economic self-reliance, political agitation, and coalition building. Douglass provided a powerful voice for human rights during this period of American history and is still revered today for his contributions against racial injustice.


Mary McLeod Bethune

(1875 - 1955)

Mary McLeod Bethune was an educator, presidential advisor, civil rights advocate, and one of America's most influential African American leaders. As former slaves, Bethune's parents were determined that she accept an offer from a Quaker woman to attend school when few educational opportunities were available to African Americans.

Bethune founded a school for African-American girls in Daytona, Florida, which in 1923 became the co-educational Bethune-Cookman College. As college president until 1942, her efforts gained tremendous recognition. Bethune became a national leader and united all major black women's organizations across the nation into one powerful group, the National Council of Negro Women. As its president for 14 years, Bethune led campaigns against segregation and discrimination. Presidents Coolidge, Hoover, Roosevelt and Truman sought her advice on issues concerning black Americans, and Franklin Roosevelt appointed her director of the Division of Negro Affairs of the National Youth Administration. She was the first black woman to ever head a federal agency


Mary Terrell

(1863 - 1954)

Mary Terrell was a civil rights pioneer and lifelong political activist who fought for equal rights for African American women. Terrell was born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1863. Both her parents were former slaves, but her father became very successful in real estate, making it possible for her to have a privileged childhood. In 1884 she graduated from Oberlin College and in 1886 began teaching in Washington's M Street High School (later known as Dunbar High School). She her husband, Robert Terrell, Washington's first black judge, were the second black family to move into LeDroit Park in 1894.

In 1896 she began president of the National Association of Colored Women . She was active in the National American Suffrage Organization, and later she became actively involved in the NAACP. At the age of 90 she was still an activist, playing an instrumental role in the boycott of Washington, DC restaurants that refused to serve blacks. She carried that fight to the Supreme Court in 1953, which upheld the right of blacks to equal service in DC restaurants. The decision set in motion the desegregation of the capital. Terrell's autobiography, A Colored Woman in a White World, is the first full length published autobiography by an American black woman.



Edward William Brooke, III

In 1966, Edward William Brooke was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate and re-elected in 1972. He was the first African American Senator born in Washington, DC and the first African American Senator to serve since the Reconstruction era. He graduated from Howard University in 1941 and from Boston University Law School in 1948. Brooke moved to Massachusetts and became the first African American to win a statewide office in Massachusetts when he was elected attorney general in 1962. He was re-elected in 1964. Brooke was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on June 23, 2004 by President George W. Bush

A letter to my Leftist, Moonbat Friends

At times I believe your views are honestly held. It's just that I think your view of history is dysfunctional.

You seem to force your own morality onto history. It's as if you hold history to a high moral standard and then spend all of your time in an outrage when it fails to live up to it (which of course it will).

You spend an awful lot of time outraged don't you?

Look, America has warts in it's history just like any nation on earth. What has been done in Latin America is a crime that is hard to argue away. I just don't think it even comes CLOSE to the crimes of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany in even the slightest scale. All of the America bashing types always point to Latin America.

I don't ever pretend to think America is perfect, but as things are...America has caused a lot less harm in the world and a lot more good than a lot of nations. I also don't think that America is defined by the actions of it's government. This is why I agree with Reagan when he said "Government isn't the solution to our problems, government IS the problem" despite what our government did under his or any other presidency. This is why true conservatives hate big government...because big government is the gateway for all of the things you say you decry in your last post.

When it comes to religion...sure, Christianity orchestrated some awful shit. But heres the key...it doesn't any more and hasn't for centuries. I think most of that got out of it's system with the Thirty Years War. But while there have been some large coordinated efforts of persecution, I don't think they scale to the large scale industrialized murder of Communism and Nazism. Most of those organized efforts took place in the pre-industrial period and on much smaller scales.

Look, I can agree to some of what you say about rhetoric spouted by governments. Of course it would be nice if governments lived up to their rhetoric. But they don't. They never have, and probrably never will. Human beings are sort of like that you know? This is why I am a classic Liberal and believe in small government and individual liberty...it is a philosophy that has the most chance to do the least harm.

As a modern American...I know my country is not what it should be, that it has come far from it's own humble political philosophies. But I love it just the same. I'm not a jingoist who says "My country right or wrong". I am also not a neo-confederate who demands America return to some romaticized view of some sort of perfect form of constitutionalism that never existed. I just think we as a nation have our hearts in the right place, our hands out to a LOT of people in the world and our head up our asses at times (which allows for bad stuff to happen by us or because of us at times).

I just don't think you have a realistic perspective on history or humanity.

Rainbow Coalition racism

By Salena Zito
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Sunday, February 12, 2006

Just pretending racism doesn't exist doesn't mean it isn't there.
Racism is not a forest; racial slurs pelted at black Republican candidates are not trees falling silently. People hear them, people see them and they are coming from a Democrat near you.

Yes, the Rainbow Coalition party has a dirty little secret: racist practices against blacks who dare to speak differently.

Democrats know how to fight and attack opponents whose skin color means they should not play for the other team.

How else can you explain Lt. Gov. Michael Steele of Maryland being pelted with Oreo cookies at Morgan State University in Baltimore?

The unfunny joke -- Oreos are black on the outside, white on the inside -- shouldn't make any reasonable person laugh.

Otto Banks, a black Republican and recent Harrisburg City Council candidate, endured his share of similar racial attacks. Mailings by the Democratic State Committee portrayed him as a sellout, his signs were defaced with the word "whitey" and he was constantly called "Uncle Bush Tom."

Said Banks, now an outreach director for the Republican State Committee: "An African-American Republican running for office can expect to be pictured incessantly with President Bush, linked with the NRA and gun proliferation ... labeled a sellout and compared to Strom Thurman."

Yet that has not scared him away from the GOP. One campaign Banks will concentrate on is that of Lynn Swann, newly endorsed Republican gubernatorial candidate. Swann, the ex-Steeler, ex-chairman of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports and self-proclaimed conservative, is black.

Racism is based on fear and fear makes people behave in ways they might not normally consider. The Democratic Party is fearful of losing its black-voter base, so it attacks. But the same bile it hurls on a daily basis at white Republicans comes out racist when it attacks black Republicans.

Just ask Condi Rice. Numerous unflattering labels have been hurled in her direction.

Something to consider, though. The superheros of the black movement -- Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton -- are noticeably absent when a black Republican is attacked.

They have no problem donning their race-card capes when a liberal black is attacked. But they had a hard time finding Maryland on the map when New York Sen. Chuck Schumer's henchmen did an illegal credit check on Michael Steele.

Where was their outrage? Their circus-like news conferences?

Oh, wait -- Steele isn't black, he's Republican.

What made the civil rights movement so great was that it was an agenda that was not personal; it had the support of all races. But somewhere along the way, the civil rights movement was hijacked by radical liberalism.

Somehow, I find it hard to believe that Martin Luther King would have advocated anyone of any color being treated in such a despicable way. Nor would he have appreciated his wife's funeral, a celebration of a life well-lived, being turned into a political rally intent on embarrassing a sitting president. This is the legacy of the civil rights movement?

No matter which way you cut it, racism is ugly, vile, and used as the lowest common denominator when all else fails.

If you have problems with candidates, attack their principles or their ideas, not the color of their skin.

Last time I checked, that was called racism.

History of the "Rainbow/PUSH" Coalition

Jesse Jackson formed two non-profit organizations, Operation PUSH (People United To Serve Humanity) in 1971 and the National Rainbow Coalition in 1984. Both groups were merged in 1996. The combined organization keeps its national headquarters in Chicago and has branches in Washington, D.C., New York, Los Angeles, Detroit, Houston, Atlanta, and Silicon Valley.

The RainbowPUSH Coalition is a progressive organization fighting for social change. As a mighty coalition of conscience; workers, women and people of color have the power to make the American Dream a Reality!

Black Hollywood on Bush!

"[We gotta] get Bush's a** up out that office.I honestly feel like the
president we have in office today, he doesn't care about the young people.
He doesn't care about minorities, I don't know if he feels it everyday, if
he feels the pain that the mothers and the fathers are feeling of all of
those lost soldiers that are being reported everyday." - Sean Combs a.k.a. “Diddy” (Rapper, Producer)





"Puffy is certainly more well-liked and well-known across the world than
George Bush. Jay-Z is much more liked and well-known across the world than
Colin Powell..." - Russell Simmons (Recording Executive, Producer, Promoter)


"Too many people are being bowled over by Bush and Tony Blair in Britain.
It's ludicrous to expect the whole world to follow what they want. America
doesn't have the moral right to tell other people what to do... I hope more
people will rise up."- Spike Lee (Director, Producer, Writer)




" We must stand vigilant against Bush in these times and work with the abolitionists." "One of the main purveyors of violence in this world has been this country [the U.S.], whether it's been against Nicaragua, Vietnam or wherever." - Danny Glover (Actor, Producer, Activist)



”I not only think that they [U.S. leaders] are misguided, but I think they
know exactly what they are doing and I think that they are men who are
possessed of evil." - Harry Belafonte (Actor, Singer, Entertainer)

"National Association for the Advancement of Democrats"

More evidence that the NAACP has thrown its old attempted bipartisan stance, last seen in the Benjamin Hooks era, out the window. Reporter Hazel Trice Edney, a Washington correspondent for the National Newspaper Publishers Association ("The Black Press of America"), has this report in the Baltimore Times and other papers:

Although the head of the Republican National Committee and President George W. Bush have pledged to make a more concentrated effort to win over Black voters, 98 percent of Republicans in the House and Senate earned an F on the latest NAACP Civil Rights Report Card, compared to only 2 percent of Democrats receiving failing grades...

According to the NAACP’s mid-term report for the 109th Congress, all but one of the 231 Republicans in the U. S. House of Representatives got an F. The exception was Rep. Christopher Shays of Connecticut, who earned a D. No House Republicans got Bs or Cs.

In the Senate, 51 of the 55 Republicans earned Fs. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island was the only one to get a C, the top grade among GOP members. Olympia J. Snowe and Susan Collins, both of Maine, and Mike DeWine of Ohio, all received Ds. Sen. Jim Jeffords of Vermont, an Independent, got a C....

At the close of the last Congress, all Republicans got Fs except one, Rep. Jim Leach of Iowa, who earned a C. This time, he got an F. On this report card, five Republican lawmakers scored higher than F.

NAACP Washington Bureau Director Hilary Shelton says the GOP improvement may be misleading because there were few major civil rights issues facing the Congress during the last session.

“There has been some improvement, but that is only within the context of the limited issues,” says Shelton. “There are a significant number of crucial, more contentious issues that haven’t made it to the floor for a vote.”

It's comical that Shelton feels the need to suggest that it's misleading and wrong that the GOP hasn't unanimously flunked! Better luck next year? Is it really exceptional for President Bush to decide to skip over this convention if he was invited?


Wow, the NAACP the same group that wants to lower eductaional standards, are issuing out report cards on Republicans.

This report is as funny as Saddam getting 90 percent of the vote. Everyone knows that the NAACP is full of Democrats. The entire base is biased!

These guys start with a premise and then distort whatever they need to in order to support that premise. : )

If any thing given propotion of blacks in the Democrat party, all things being fair
the Dems should be the ones failing!

Bush is the first POTUS to appoint minorities to such high ranking positions.

Also no Democratic President or any President other than Dubya has had as many high ranking minorities in their administration.


The American population is roughly 50/50 Republican/Democrat.

The African-American population is roughly 10% of the total U.S. population (actually a little more, but we'll use 10 for our example).

95% of African-Americans are Democrats. This equates to 19% of the Democrat base.

5% of African-Americans are Republicans. This equates to 1% of the Republican base.

Therefore, to be fairly represented within the Democrat party, 2 out of every 10 elected or appointed officials should be African-American.

Conversely, 1 out of every 100 elected or appointed officials within the Republican party should be African-American to be fairly represented.

I think it's pretty obvious which party is FAILING African-Americans (D) and which party is EXCEEDING representation for African-Americans (R).

Also this year there are 2 black candidates running for Governor and 1 black candidate for Senator this year. All are Republican.

Doesn't anyone find it disturbing that the democrats, the party that claims to love all minorites, never has any that they support for high public office? When the Black, former 1 term failed mayor of NY General Dinkins wanted to run for Governor, Willie had the DNC to cut off his funds all the while telling him how much they admire and support him. The democrats, unlike Republicans, never have had any Black party member to hold a position of authority within their party.

Ken Blackwell is expected to be the next governor of Ohio. Lynn Swann is seen as a real challenge to Ed Rendell in Pennsylvania and Michael Steele is polling 8 points ahead of any of the announced democrats at this point in Maryland for the open Senate seat here.


It would appear that yet again, democrats tell Blacks whose ancestors they owned as slaves, that their money and votes are good enough for them, but as candidates, they are not.

We should now call it the "National Association for the Advancement of Democrats"

Quote of the Day

This is my favorite Martin Luther King quote.

"Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve.... You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love."
------ Martin Luther King, Jr.

You Down with GOP?

Rappin' Donnie: Republican activist and hip-hop lyricist Don Kennedy


by Anders Smith-Lindall

February 16, 2000

As amateur hip hop goes, the fidgety high-hat and chant-along, gun-toting chorus that kick off the disc Racism Exposed sound pretty typical. "You think I ain't goin' carry my strap?" demands an MC named Shoanna Z (a.k.a. Shoanna Zealand), before the album's first minute is up. But check the rhyme preceding it: "Democrats want me to stress like that?" Uh, Democrats? Since when did the buttoned-down DFL join sucker MCs, industry snakes, and jealous haters on rap's universal enemies list?
No, an album that opens with "Gun Control Is Racist" and follows with "Liberal Democrats Are Racist" is hardly pedestrian in its agenda. In fact, credited producers Don Kennedy and Rocco Gotti are among the unlikeliest impresarios the rap world has ever seen.

They're odd in part simply for who they are (St. Paul-based salesmen in their midthirties who describe themselves as "successful white businessmen") in relation to what they've done (written an album's worth of rap lyrics for a hired team of African Americans to make into songs and perform). But it's the pair's Limbaugh-like obsession with the L-word--other titles include "Liberal Hollywood Hypocrites" and "Liberal Democrat Education Is Wack"--that relieves the authors of precedent.

Kennedy and Gotti aren't aspiring hip-hop stars; they're Republican activists. In the fall of 1998, the pair founded Citizens Opposing Racism and Discrimination (CORAD), a political advocacy group that, in Kennedy's words, "promotes conservative values and philosophies as a means to overcome racism." Released in September by CORAD Records, Racism Exposed was born of the duo's plan to reach an audience not usually steeped in right-wing discourse. "Rocco called me on April 15 last spring," Kennedy recalls. "He says, 'Don, I've got an idea. We can make a CD!' I said, 'Are you crazy?' He said, 'No, I'm not. We can do this.'"

To Kennedy, making a rap record was a matter of political expediency, not the realization of a creative urge. "I'm not a big music fan," he admits. "I do like some rap music. I like some of the stuff that Puffy Combs puts out, some of the stuff Biggie Smalls puts out. Master P has a couple good songs that I like, Public Enemy does some good stuff. But I'm more into mainstream rock, I guess."

But hip hop "seems to appeal to everybody," he continues. "We wanted our message to reach the broad spectrum of youth, and we felt this would be the best way."

So the pair began writing lyrics, trading ideas via fax and e-mail, then getting together to share their work. The process was quicker and easier than Kennedy had anticipated. "We thought we'd just do one or two songs, but then it really took on a life of its own," he recounts. "We had so much information and so much to write about that we decided to put out a full LP." In the end the pair penned lyrics for ten tracks (the album wound up with thirteen; the last three are dramatic readings of snippets from the Gettysburg Address, the Bill of Rights, and sound bites culled from John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and...Barry Goldwater).

Only "Our Black Founding Fathers," with a nearly inspired paean to forgotten black heroes of the Revolutionary War, ventures beyond easy mudslinging. Most of the rest are right-wing shoot-'em-ups, riddling everyone from Patricia Ireland to Leonardo DiCaprio with verbal bullets. The broadest targets take the most direct hits: "Ya know where Clinton was in Rwanda's genocide/Gettin' busy with an intern in the White House on the side." The disc is genuinely entertaining only when it stumbles blindly into the ridiculous, as in "NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, aka Left Wing Trickery," wherein we learn that "Alan Dershowitz is a liar" and Matt Drudge is "the truth resource."

Having rhymed the rhymes, the duo lacked the musical acumen to record them. So Kennedy approached the staff of KMOJ (89.9 FM), the local black community's longtime bastion of community news and music. KMOJ disc jockey J.R. Maddox pointed CORAD to St. Paul record producer B-Cube (a.k.a. Ben Obi), and later debuted a pair of tracks from the album on his program Rush It or Flush It, a show that invites listeners to phone in their reactions to new (mostly amateur and local) songs. When Maddox spun the cut "Secret Hidden Racism," supportive calls poured in. Most of the listeners who called during the segment (a tape of which Kennedy gave to City Pages) seem to have been less concerned with the lyrical content than CORAD might have intended. "It made me want to get up and dance," one caller declared. "That was dope--I liked the beat," added another. Kennedy's rhymes found a few friendly ears: "You got to rush that," a female caller said. "That girl was talkin' her mind." Only one caller voted to "flush it," opining, "Man, that wasn't cool with me." Additionally, Maddox's fellow KMOJ DJ Ray Richardson wrote a warm article about the album for the Minneapolis Spokesman in September.

KMOJ station manager Vusumuzi Zulu doesn't want to comment about his station's involvement in the project. "We are not dealing with that mess," Zulu says of Racism Exposed. "Personally, I find [the album] very offensive and manipulative. It's anathema to our mission of promoting positive images of the black community."

Until Racism Exposed came along, there's little evidence CORAD was much more than a name Kennedy printed on his letterhead. Kennedy claims the group has "a couple of thousand" registered members, but he can offer no proof. The chat boards on his Web site (www.coradpress.com) are all but silent. He says that last year CORAD organized a food drive and held an anti-racism rally, both in partnership with KMOJ. But station manager Vusumuzi Zulu denies ever having worked with Kennedy, and Kennedy was unable to find any records to document those events.

The CORAD Web site is Kennedy's electronic soapbox, a forum for his beliefs that many typically Democratic positions limit individual freedoms (notably support for gun control and opposition to school vouchers) or trap minorities in endless cycles of poverty and violence (affirmative action, welfare entitlements, public housing). And the site exudes a fervor noticeably absent from the CD. Cloaked in the relative anonymity of the Web, Kennedy labels Democrats "the party of the Klan," and rails about perceived similarities between "extreme Liberals" and Nazis. But even online Kennedy has a habit of ducking sole ownership of his views. He writes in the first person plural, as if intending to amplify CORAD's membership. Then there's his narrative voice as a rap lyricist: Kennedy, a white salesman, writes in a voice he imagines is that of a black MC ("Sit back, relax, while I hip you to the hap").

He says he felt no qualms about writing lyrics in which the terms "we" and "us" speak for a group to which he does not belong. He has little time for questions of authenticity and shrugs off the squeamish specter of minstrelsy. He did his homework, he says, talking to "thousands of blacks" in informal settings. ("Say, on an airplane or in an airport," he posits.) "I take an interest in black people, because blacks have an understanding of freedom," he explains. "Blacks and conservatives have a lot in common: We want a couple of things out of life, and that's to be free, to have low taxes, to live where we want, to have a car if we'd like, and not have to abide by the rules of overbearing government."

And how did the black participants in Racism Exposed feel about disseminating Kennedy's lyrics? While the MC Shoanna Z was out of town prior to press time and could not be reached for comment, producer Ben Obi says he had his doubts. "Initially, a flag went up," says Obi, a British national of Nigerian descent who has lived and worked in the Twin Cities for a decade. "Anybody's initial reaction to this is probably gonna be, 'I don't want to have anything to do with this.' But there's a passion there that has to be respected."

In the end, Obi says, he set his qualms aside. "I purely approached it from a musical standpoint," he explains. "As a music producer, it's my job to bring out the best in their project. I'm just trying to enhance what they do." Obi says Kennedy and Gotti told him exactly what they wanted to do: Reach the masses. "They just said they wanted some R&B music that was accessible to anybody," he recalls.

Despite the producer's best efforts, the album's sales figures are less than impressive. A check of the disc's retail history at metro area Best Buy locations reveals that the chain stocks 10 to 15 copies at each store--and sold a grand total of four of them in the ten weeks prior to press time. (One of those was purchased by City Pages for this article.) Though Kennedy says he and Gotti have invested $100,000 in the project, he seems unconcerned about the financial bath he must be taking. That may be because he believes he has found a wealthy new benefactor: The state Republican Party.



The use of rap music to spur activism is nothing new. KRS-One and Public Enemy's Chuck D have long mixed nation-building with market-testing, and Grandmaster Flash got out the vote for Jesse Jackson way back in '84. Contemporary "raptivists" such as the Black Star-affiliated Black August group easily align with the political left (they recently sent a delegation of rappers to Cuba), as does Mumia 911, a collective spearheaded in part by Spearhead's Michael Franti to agitate for prison reform and a new trial for Mumia Abu-Jamal. If anything, CORAD is raptivism's right-wing doppelganger--and one that carries the endorsement of Minnesota's Republican establishment.

In January, Kennedy and KMOJ DJ J.R. Maddox met with Tony Sutton, executive director of the state GOP. Says Sutton: "I'm not a connoisseur of hip-hop music, but to me the music has a pretty good beat." It must have been good enough to convince him to give Racism Exposed some exposure--an item about the disc appeared in the January 25 edition of the party's weekly e-mail update GOP Newsline, in which communication director Bridget Cronin sampled "some of [her] favorite lyrics." Sutton also says he played the album at a recent meeting of the state executive committee and promoted it at last month's Republican National Committee meetings in San Jose. "I had so many requests for it that I didn't have enough copies with me," he beams. "I had to get extra copies from Don Kennedy to mail around to people."

Sutton admits he was skeptical of the disc at first. "It sounds kind of strange," he says. "But then you listen to it, and it's good music and it's got a conservative message. Frankly, in order to reach out to young people in general and young African Americans specifically, we need to have somebody other than a guy in a stuffed shirt with a suit and tie on." Sutton says he wasn't aware of CORAD's Web site. Having perused it, he professes surprise at the group's fondness for comparing political opponents to Nazis and Klan members, but he sees no reason for the GOP to distance itself from the group. Deeming CORAD's rhetoric "a little politically incorrect," Sutton adds, "Compared to what liberals call us, [referring to them as Nazis] is probably very kind."

Meanwhile, thanks to Sutton's connections, Kennedy is planning to take his CD nationwide. He's working with the College Republicans to distribute the disc at historically black colleges and boasts that the Republican National Committee is considering granting his group $200,000 to further its efforts. (The RNC did not return a call seeking comment.) DFL Party officials say they hadn't heard of CORAD or its collaboration with the GOP. After being contacted by City Pages, the DFL hastily issued an official statement aimed at the group, condemning "any kind of political hate speech that incites anger." DFL associate chair Mary McEvoy is more blunt: "Sutton's got his head screwed on wrong," she avers. Of course, instead of getting mad, the Democrats always have the option of getting even. There'd be no need to manufacture a feud like hip hop's East Coast-West Coast rivalry: With CORAD actively raising money and rounding up support for Frank Taylor, a black Republican challenger to U.S. Rep. Martin Sabo in the Fifth District, the stage is already set for a DFL disc.

Nelson Mandela a Neocon or Pacifist?

Was Nelson Mendela a pacifist?

Was he a terriost?

Or could he be described as a "one man necon entity"?


Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela,

was the first President of South Africa to be elected in fully-representative democratic elections. Before his presidency he was a prominent anti-apartheid activist committed to non-violence, but later became involved in the planning of underground armed resistance activities.

Mandela's 27-year imprisonment, much of which he spent in a tiny prison cell on Robben Island, became one of the most widely publicized examples of apartheid's injustices. Although the apartheid regime and nations sympathetic to it considered him and the ANC to be terrorist, Mandela's support of the armed struggle against apartheid is now generally regarded as justified. Moreover, the policy of reconciliation Mandela pursued upon his release in 1990 facilitated a peaceful transition to democracy in South Africa.

Having received over a hundred awards over four decades, Mandela is currently a celebrated elder statesman who continues to voice his opinion on topical issues. In South Africa he is known as Madiba, an honorary title adopted by elders of Mandela's clan. The title has come to be synonymous with Nelson Mandela.



As a young student, Mandela became involved in political opposition to the white minority government's denial of political, social, and economic rights to South Africa's black majority. Joining the African National Congress in 1942, he joined its more dynamic Youth League founded by Anton Lembede, two years later, together with Walter Sisulu, Oliver Tambo and others.


At a South African Communist Party rally with Joe SlovoAfter the 1948 election victory of the Afrikaner-dominated National Party with its apartheid policy of racial segregation, Mandela was prominent in the ANC's 1952 Defiance Campaign and the 1955 Congress of the People, whose adoption of the Freedom Charter provided the fundamental program of the anti-apartheid cause. During this time, Mandela and fellow lawyer Oliver Tambo operated the law firm of Mandela and Tambo, providing free or low-cost legal counsel to many blacks who would otherwise have been without legal representation.

Initially committed to non-violent mass struggle, Mandela and 150 others were arrested on 5 December 1956, and charged with treason. The marathon Treason Trial of 1956–61 followed, and all were acquitted. From 1952-1959 the ANC experienced disruption as a new class of Black activists (Africanists) emerged in the townships demanding more drastic steps against the National Party regime. The ANC leadership of Luthuli, Tambo and Sisulu felt not only that events were moving too fast but also that their leadership was being challenged. They consequently bolstered their position by alliances with small White, Coloured and Indian political parties in an attempt to appear to have a wider appeal than the Africanists. The 1955 Freedom Charter Kliptown Conference was justifiably ridiculed by the Africanists for allowing the 100,000 strong ANC to be relegated to a single vote in a Congress alliance, in which four secretary-generals of the five particpating parties were members of the secretly reconstituted South African Communist Party (SACP), the most slavish of all communist parties to the Moscow line.

In 1959 the ANC lost its most militant support when the most of the Africanists, with financial support from Ghana and significant political support from the Transvaal based Basotho, broke away to form the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) under Mangaliso Sobukwe and Potlako Leballo. Following the massacre of PAC supporters at Sharpeville in March 1960 and the subsequent banning of PAC and ANC, the ANC/SACP followed the African Resistance Movement (renegade liberals) and PAC into armed resistance. Luthuli, criticised for inertia, was peripheralised, and the ANC/SACP used the All-In Conference of 1961, where all parties met to decide a joint strategy, for Mandela to issue a dramatic call to arms, announcing the formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe, modelled on the Jewish guerrilla movement, Irgun, and commanded by Mandela with SACP Jewish activists Dennis Goldberg, Rusty Bernstein, and Harold Wolpe.

Mandela then left the country secretly and met African leaders in Algeria and elswhere. Startled to discover the depth of support for the PAC and the widespread belief that the ANC was a small Xhosa tribal association manipulated by White communists, Mandela returned to South Africa determined to reassert the African nationalist element in the Congress Alliance. It is widely suspected that a heated discussion with the communist leaders over this issue led to his subsequent betrayal and arrest near Howick. Mandela glossed over these events in his autobiography but at least one prominent SACP activist associated with him at that time was cold shouldered on his return to South Africa.

In 1961, he became the leader of the ANC's armed wing Umkhonto we Sizwe (translated as Spear of the Nation, also abbreviated MK), which he co-founded. He co-ordinated a sabotage campaign against military and government targets, and made plans for a possible guerrilla war if sabotage failed to end apartheid. A few decades later, MK did indeed wage a guerrilla war against the regime, especially during the 1980s. Mandela also raised funds for MK abroad, and arranged for paramilitary training, visiting various African governments.

On August 5, 1962, he was arrested after living on the run for seventeen months and was imprisoned in the Johannesburg Fort. There was some speculation, as yet unproven, that the CIA might have tipped off the police as to his whereabouts. Three days later, the charges of leading workers to strike in 1961 and leaving the country illegally were read to him during a court appearance. On October 25, 1962, Mandela was sentenced to five years in prison. Two years later on June 11, 1964, a verdict had been reached concerning his previous engagement in the African National Congress (ANC).

While Mandela was in prison, police arrested prominent ANC leaders on July 11, 1963, at Liliesleaf Farm, Rivonia, north of Johannesburg. Mandela was brought in, and at the Rivonia Trial, Mandela, Ahmed Kathrada, Walter Sisulu, Govan Mbeki, Andrew Mlangeni, Raymond Mhlaba, Elias Motsoaledi, Walter Mkwayi (who escaped during trial), Arthur Goldreich (who escaped from prison before trial), Dennis Goldberg and Lionel "Rusty" Bernstein were charged with the capital crimes of sabotage and crimes equivalent to treason, but which were easier for the government to prove. Bram Fischer, Vernon Berrange, Joel Joffe, Arthur Chaskalson and George Bizos were part of the defence team that represented the accused. Harold Hanson was brought in at the end of the case to plead mitigation. All except Rusty Bernstein were found guilty, but they escaped the gallows and were sentenced to life imprisonment on 12 June 1964. Charges included involvement in planning armed action, in particular sabotage, which Mandela admitted to, and a conspiracy to help other countries invade South Africa, which Mandela denied. Over the course of the next twenty-six years, Mandela became increasingly associated with opposition to apartheid to the point where the slogan "Free Nelson Mandela" became the rallying cry for all anti-apartheid campaigners around the world.

While in prison, Mandela was able to send a statement to the ANC who in turn published it on 10 June 1980, reading in part:

Unite! Mobilise! Fight on! Between the anvil of united mass action and the hammer of the armed struggle we shall crush apartheid! [1]
Refusing an offer of conditional release in return for renouncing armed struggle in February 1985, Mandela remained in prison until February 1990, when sustained ANC campaigning and international pressure led to his release on February 11, when State President F.W. de Klerk ordered his release and the ending of the ban on the ANC. He and De Klerk shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993. He became the third of only three persons of non-Indian origin (Mother Teresa in 1980, a naturalised Indian citizen, and Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan in 1987, a non-Indian, being the others) to be awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award, in 1990. Mandela had already been awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in 1988.

On the day of his release, February 11, 1990, Mandela made a speech to the nation. While declaring his commitment to peace and reconciliation with the country's white minority, he made it clear that the ANC's armed struggle was not yet over: He also stated that his main focus was to give peace to the Black people and give them the right to vote in National and Provincal elections.

"Our resort to the armed struggle in 1960 with the formation of the military wing of the ANC (Umkhonto we Sizwe) was a purely defensive action against the violence of apartheid. The factors which necessitated the armed struggle still exist today. We have no option but to continue. We express the hope that a climate conducive to a negotiated settlement would be created soon, so that there may no longer be the need for the armed struggle."


ANC presidency and presidency of South Africa
South Africa's first democratic elections in which full enfranchisement was granted were held on April 27, 1994. The ANC won the majority in the election, and Mandela, as leader of the ANC, was inaugurated as the country's first black State President, with the National party's FW de Klerk as his deputy president in the Government of National Unity.

As President, (May 1994 – June 1999), Mandela presided over the transition from minority rule and apartheid, winning international respect for his advocacy of national and international reconciliation.

However, his adminstration attracted some criticism, particularly when South Africa invaded Lesotho in September 1998 while he was still President.

Certain interest groups were also disappointed with the social achievements of his term of office, particularly the government's ineffectiveness in stemming the AIDS crisis.

After his retirement, Mandela admitted that he may have failed his country by not paying more attention to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. He has taken many opportunities since to highlight this South African tragedy.

Radical American Left Firmly In Bed With Islamists

Picture's taken in DC at the World Cant Wait Confrence in DC.
This is right here in the USA.

These are the same liberals who complain that they might be spied on,
Well duh retards you walk and hang out with Islamist you hippie bitches!





World Can’t Wait” is a Communist-funded organization according to reports. Glad to see our youth support such icons of free speech and democracy as Lenin and Stalin.

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So these kinds of folks repeatedly demean Christianity and burn our flag in our free country. I wonder what they think of the gunfirey response of Islamists who are horrified of the mocking of their religion in cartoons?

And now it appears the Left advocates the tactics of al-Qaeda….
Picture of Bush's head ebing cut off



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Saturday’s “World Can’t Wait” demonstration in Washington, DC has all the proof you need to know that the radical left has joined hands with our international Islamic enemies. (hat tip: LittleGreenFootballs) Unfortunately, much of their rhetoric and slogans are shared by leaders of the Democrat Party of America including Howard Dean, John Kerry, Ted Kennedy and Hillary Clinton.

But first, just to level-set my argument…here’s a lovely child protesting the cartoons of Muhammed this week.

Wallace D. Mohammed

Wallace D. Mohammed, son of Nation of Islam founder Elijah Muhammed, was tossed in the federal prison in Sandstone, Minnesota in 1961 for a violation of the Selective Service Act.

Why Rolling Stone Didn’t Put Kanye West as Muhammad on the Cover

Liberal editors are a lot smarter than they look. If Rolling Stone had put Kanye West posing as Muhammad on the cover, they’d be in hiding, too. Instead, they chose the safer route: West, a rapper and contributor to the cultural toilet, posing with a crown of thorns on his head.

Christ is fair game, isn’t he? Unbelievers, liberals, and other secularists make fun of him, mock him, scorn him, and curse him, yet they steer clear of doing the same with Muslims’ god. They know offended Muslims, unlike offended Christians, issue death threats.

But I don’t think liberal journalists are psychotic, though.

Just gutless.

LaShawn Barber..http://lashawnbarber.com/

...Don Not Apologies to Islamist........

Apologies will not calm things down, since plenty of
apologies have already been issued, unfortunately.

The Islamists are just using the cartoons as an excuse to whip up fanaticism among
the "troops," and apologies will only encourage them.

Cleric calls on Mohammed cartoonist to be Executed

This guy should be jailed, for inciting violence.
This is a coded message to kill the guy.

This is like the no snitch T-shirts in Boston, that put fear
in people for reporting crimes.



Omar Bakri Mohammed, the radical Muslim cleric, has said the cartoonist behind caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed that have sparked outrage across the Arab world should be tried and executed under Islamic law.


Omar Bakri Mohammed
The cleric said the cartoonist had insulted Islam and must pay the price, as three people were killed during protests against the cartoons in Afghanistan.

"The insult has been established now by everybody, Muslim and non-Muslim, and everybody condemns the cartoonist and condemns the cartoon," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

"However, in Islam, God said, and the messenger Mohammed said, whoever insults a prophet, he must be punished and executed.

"This man should be put on trial and if it is proven to be executed."

The cleric said Muslims in Britain were not allowed to kill people who insulted Islam because it was against the law of the country.

"We are not saying ourselves to go there and start to look to him and kill him, we are not talking about that. We are talking about Islamic rules. If anybody insults the prophet, he will have to take a punishment."

He said if countries refused to put people on trial for insulting Mohammed they must "face the consequences".

Three people were killed and several were injured as protestors clashed with police in the central city of Mihtarlam.

It was the latest display of outrage against the cartoons, which were originally published in Denmark and have been reprinted in various European countries.

Protests in London over the weekend sparked concern over placards containing radical slogans.

American Liberals Quiet over Mohammed Cartoon

American Liberals Quiet over Mohammed Cartoon

First let me start by saying,
I think the picture was offensive, but I would
never burn down buildings to prove a point.

Also in a democracy you do not have a right not to be offended.

The American left which ridicules the religious right happens to be very quiet.

Why is the left quiet on this issue?

Is it because in there pursuit of attacking the so called "religious right",
and mocking evangelical faith they never thought of the consequences from working with Islamist in Anti war protest and acedemia.

These relationships have silenced the left, they are speechless.

Al they can do is blame America, like the Islamist.

Lets face it the Left is afraid of radical Islam, because unlike the evangelical
the Islamist will kick there fucking ass.

So that's why instead of screams attacking the Islamist the left is as quiet as a church mouse.

They have been so preoccupied for years with Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell that they had no idea that real religious thecorats were lurking.

Now I hope they use that same passion and zeal in attacking the Islamist.

If not they are hypocrites, and bigots themselves.

Black Racist Cult from Hell....Nuwaubianism

In black communities from Harlem to Georgia Avenue near Howard Univeristy black cults groups dominate.

They can be seen on street corners selling there lies.
One group that is the most active is the Nuwaubians.
These guys are the black version of L Ron Hubbards Scientology.
If you happen to live in DC these are the black guys selling crazy cult material on the subway, with the red caps, and african out fits.

Mostly boys!

They are a cross between white hate groups and black natiionalsim ,mixed in with hubbards teachings.


The founder of this black cult group is Dwight D. York (Malachi Z.York) (born June 26, 1945 or 1935)

He is an author and musician and the founder of various fraternal orders, religious, and black nationalist groups collectively referred to here as Nuwaubianism.

York’s organizations came under increased government scrutiny in the early-1990s after building Tama-Re, an ancient Egyptian-themed compound featuring pyramids, temples, and living quarters for hundreds of his followers, in Putnam County, Georgia near Eatonton, Georgia. He was arrested in May of 2002, charged with over 100 counts of child molestation, and was convicted in 2004 and sentenced to 135 years in prison

Nuwaubianism is a term being used here to describe the various doctrines and practices of Malachi Z. York and his "students," though it is not a term which they use themselves (the suffix "-ism" gives more of a religious connotation than they feel is appropriate).

The Nuwaubianist teachings are sometimes referred to as “Nuwaubu”, “Right Knowledge”, "Sound Right Reasoning", "Overstanding," and “Factology”.


“White people are the devil. They say the Nuwaubians are not racist – bullcrap! I am. He might not be; that’s his prerogative. I am. White people are devils — always was, always will be.” — from the Egipt and the Mask of God lecture

Check this out--if you're at work be sure to turn down your volume:

(be sure to watch for the black Jesus on the ankh and the black Sphinx!)

http://www.nuwaubiaholylandofthenuwaubians.com/

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



In 2005 a federal appeals court on Thursday upheld the 2004 conviction of religious sect leader Dwight "Malachi" York that led to a 135-year prison sentence on child molestation and racketeering charges.

The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision was announced without comment by G.F. Peterman III, acting U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Georgia.

York appealed his conviction on several grounds, including claims that prosecutors improperly applied federal racketeering laws, the trial judge erred when ruling on defense motions and the grand jury that indicted him had been tainted by pretrial publicity.

Because of the publicity, York's trial was moved from U.S. District Court in Macon to Brunswick, where a jury convicted him Jan. 23, 2004, on charges of conspiracy, racketeering, conspiracy to transport minors for unlawful sex, transporting minors for unlawful sex, traveling interstate to engage in unlawful sex and structuring cash transactions to avoid reporting requirements.

The convictions were based largely on the testimony of former members of York's cult, the United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors, who said he began molesting children as young as 8 years old in New York, where the cult was founded. He continued molesting children after moving the group in 1993 to a 476-acre compound outside Eatonton in Putnam County, witnesses testified, as well as at the sect leader's mansion on Mansfield Court in Athens.

Former Nuwaubians testified York had manipulated the sect's finances for personal gain from 1998 until his arrest in 2002.

The Athens mansion was seized by the U.S. Marshals Service and sold at auction in August.

York, who currently goes by the name of Chief Black Thunderbird Eagle, is serving his sentence in a special housing unit of the federal prison in Leavenworth, Kan.

MOUSSAOUI: "I AM AL QAEDA"

Aicha Moussaoui, the mother of Zacarias Moussaoui, supports her son


February 06, 2006 10:50 AM

Proclaiming "I am al-Qaida," Zacarias Moussaoui was escorted from a federal courtroom in Alexandria on Monday at the outset of jury selection in his terrorist conspiracy trial. As he was removed by federal marshals, he shouted, "This trial is a circus."

The acknowledged al-Qaida conspirator, often a volatile figure in the courtroom, got almost immediately into an argument with U.S. District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema, demanding "I want to be heard" and saying of his lawyers, "These people do not represent me."

He left with his hands on his head, offering no resistance.

Prospective jurors filed into a heavily guarded federal courtroom Monday as U.S. District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema began calling the first prospective jurors from a pool of 500 to fill out questionnaires about their attitudes on the death penalty and knowledge of the case. Jury selection is expected to take a month, a painstaking process that sets the stage for deciding whether the 37-year-old Frenchman of Moroccan descent is imprisoned for life or put to death...

Wow...was not the ACLU using this guy as evidence of Bush gone wild.

At some point we as Americans need to wake the fuck up, and stop being nice
or we will all be dead.

Protest in London of Muhammed Cartoon

Picture from London, after the Danish press did a cartoon making fun
of Muhammed.

In time such protest will be here in the USA.


































































Moroccan Muslims protest against the Danish and Swedish publications of Islam's Prophet Muhammad drawings, in front of the Parliament in Rabat, Morocco, Friday, Feb. 3, 2006. The sign says in Arabic 'Prophet Muhammad'



Lebanese protesters march, with a Danish flag draped on a donkey, during a demonstration against caricatures of Prophet Mohammad published in several European newspapers, after Friday prayers in Tripoly in northern Lebanon




Angry protesters shout anti-Denmark slogans in front of the Danish embassy during a demonstration against the publication of cartoons depicting Prophet Mohammed in Jakarta. Muslim faithful vented their anger in mosques around the world over European cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed




Muslim demonstrators burn a Norweigian flag in the West Bank town of Nablus where Muslims during a protest against the countries who published cartoons representing the Prophet Mohammed



Protesters pray in front of the French Embassy over the publication of cartoons of Prophet Mohammad in London February 3, 2006.







Conservatives had a rally against Islamofacism two days ago and in New York near the
World Trade Center..real Islamist tried to counter the conservatives!

Anti-Protesters at Ground Zero protesting the UAC's Rally Against Islamofascism on February 1.

Keep in mind this is at GROUND ZERO.

Bin Laden Artwork Now Hanging In New York

by
Morry Alter

Our interest in this story was sparked by an angry email sent to us here at WCBSTV.com. The writer wasn't angry at us, but rather about what he'd seen at the current National Black Fine Art Show in the Puck Building. This is the 10th anniversary edition of the show which features galleries from across the country selling the works of America's top African American painters, sculptors, and photographers.

But the writer had big problems with a painting by Harlem artist "Tafa". It depicts an upside down Christ-like figure with a face strongly resembling Osama Bin Laden. The email read in part, "This is outrageous. This is an attack against my religion. How can an artist go so low? Most people are outraged, most Christians."

On the phone with me, the artist declined to do an on-camera interview, telling me the work speaks for itself, but adding, the resemblance to Bin Laden was no accident.

The art show's producer Josh Wainwright, insisted he hadn't even made the Bin Laden connection. "Knowing what you know now would you have barred the painting from being part of your show?" I asked. "Absolutely not," he replied. Wainwright says he's a military veteran and despises Bin Laden, but he added, "I don't think it's anyone's job or vocation to limit the expression of artists."

While some at the show did recognize the Bin Laden face on the Christ body, we found none who were offended. Instead most defended "Tafa" the artist's right to speak his mind. The painting is bordered with hand lettered expressions and names including "mujahadin," "McCarthyism," and "Amadou Diallo," a man killed by New York City police in 1999.

You could take the painting out of circulation, or not, for a mere $12,000 and change. You can see the painting, or not, by visiting the show which runs through Sunday. Daily admission is $15.

"Not Everyone Is As Brave As Hirsi Ali"

Asserts René Marres, as Het Vrije Volk interviews him about his latest book, The Attacks On Pim Fortuyn And Ayaan Hirsi Ali And Their Maintainence Of Western Values (article in Dutch).

Pim Fortuyn was the flamboyant gay libertarian politician who argued that Muslim extremism threatened undermine Dutch values, and who was later murdered by a white animal rights activist who said that he did the deed on behalf of Muslims.

MP Hirsi Ali, a black moderate-conservative feminist politician, is often considered to be the successor of Mr. Fortuyn in arguing about individual freedom and Muslim extremism. Mr. Marres argues that both figures are demonized in certain circles. "The campaign against Ayaan Hirsi Ali is, as far as I can tell, rather, but not entirely the same, but it is differently framed and more subdued.

Generally people do not write that she is racist [as they did with Fortuyn], but it is insinuated.. He adds, "Hirsi Ali has rightly warned about censure in the press and elsewhere.....It has been unfortunately bad for freedom of opinion expression in the Netherlands. Not everyone is as brave as Hirsi Ali and Afshin Ellian. It is sad that someone must be nowadays brave death when expressing a controversial opinion."

Quote Of The Day

Quote Of The Day



"At a time when the continent strives to liberate itself from the expansive powers of postcolonial governments and the politicization of society brought about by them, the real need of the day is economic freedom.

Alas, the economic situation is so bad in so many African countries that young men are fleeing their own governments, trekking through the vast and dangerous Sahara desert and struggling over heavily guarded barbed wires to look for better opportunities in Europe. Unfortunately, many die on this pilgrimage of freedom.....Globalization can hardly be blamed for the fact that only 10 percent of Africa’s trade takes place among African countries themselves.

With 750 million people living on the continent, the potential for the expansion of trade must be enormous. Very little trade has been allowed in this poorest of continents where tariffs are almost as high as 50 percent and where highway robbers dressed as customs officials block free exchange. What is it that motivates Nigeria, which calls itself the giant of Africa, to ban the importation of ninety-six different products from Ghana when both countries have duty-free and quota-free access to the U.S. markets for 6,500 of their products?" — Franklin Cudjoe, Ghanaian libertarian head of Imani: The Centre for Humane Education

Kane: "Often-Crude World Loses A Quiet Voice Of Decency"

Asserts Gregory Kane, a conservative Republican columnist, in recalling a situation where the late Coretta Scott King was booed by black delegates at the 1984 Democratic National Convention for defending Andrew Young (who had opposed a proposal by Rev. Jesse Jackson re: primaries and where delegates called him names): "It was Jackson himself -- credit should be given where it's due -- who rose to Coretta King's defense. 'It is a source of embarrassment to me for those of you who respect me and my leadership to boo or hiss any black leader,' Jackson said, according to the Time article. "She deserves to be heard." Coretta Scott King deserved more than that. As black America's unofficial first lady for the past 38 years, she deserved a great deal of deference, if not reverence. Especially if she was making perfectly good sense. Those delegates who booed her succeeded in unnerving a woman who for years had shown exceptional composure and spiritual fortitude at a time when black Americans -- and white Americans -- needed it."

The Queer Left's Palestinian Folly

The Queer Left's Palestinian Folly

By Richard J. Rosendall
FrontPageMagazine.com | February 2, 2006

Given the bitter polarization currently reigning in American politics and the scarcity of voices straying outside their partisan echo chambers, I cannot be accused of playing it safe as a gay writer when I submit an article to Front Page Magazine. Although I have been published by FPM three times before and have been criticizing the gay Left for a quarter century, the flames in the FPM comment areas show that some readers cannot see past that word “gay.” But it would be hard for angry readers on the Right to be any nastier than those on the Left whom I face in the gay press, and I share vital concerns with the publisher of this magazine; so, here goes.

In this age of Islamofascist terrorism, the Achilles Heel of Western civilization is one of the very things it treasures most: its hard-won tradition of tolerance and openness. The medievalist thugs who seek to destroy us do not share those values and have been using our tolerance and openness against us; hence, our struggle to balance liberty and security, which is important precisely because each loses its value without the other. That struggle has continued fitfully for more than two centuries. The least we should be able to agree upon is our obligation to use our collective strength and intelligence to protect the oases of liberty where they are threatened in the world. Unfortunately, too many of the West’s most privileged children have no idea how good they have it, and eagerly serve as Useful Idiots to our enemies.

Today’s example is Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism (QUIT). As the name suggests, these people imagine themselves to be much more liberated and fashionable by their naughty embrace of the epithet “queer” and their incredibly selective outrage against the only nation in the Middle East that offers a shred of liberty.

Ever eager to show their solidarity with Palestinians who despise them, the terribly “rad” queers of QUIT have organized a boycott against an international gay celebration scheduled for this summer, because its host country will be Israel. As a recent unsigned QUIT op-ed put it:


The theme of World Pride 2006, to be held in West Jerusalem in August, is ‘Love Without Borders.’ From the planned starting point of the march on Ben Yehuda Street, you can see with the naked eye one of the harshest borders ever constructed: a 25-foot concrete wall, called by Israel the ‘separation barrier’ and known to Palestinians as the Apartheid (or Segregation) Wall.

Here we see the obscene logic of the Left, by which a nation’s self-defense is trivialized and slandered as a mere expression of racism. Smug, self-styled idealists, observing from a safe distance that spares them from a daily risk of getting blown to bits in order to go about their business, luxuriate in their moral superiority as they march defiantly through the streets of Berkeley.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=21124

A Hammas Victory

The radical Islamist movement Hamas win the Palestinian elections. A Dark Victory for the rest of the world.

Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia and his Cabinet ministers submitted their resignations Thursday as the Islamic militant group Hamas appeared to have captured a large majority of seats in the Palestinian elections — a shocking upset sure to throw Mideast peacemaking into turmoil.

"This is the choice of the people. It should be respected," Qureia said. "If it's true (the results), then the president should ask Hamas to form a new government. For me, personally, I sent my resignation."

Yeah right. About 25 masked gunmen from various factions held a joint news conference this Tuesday in Gaza City to announce they would be unarmed during the balloting. "Everyone agreed to keep the election process moving in a smooth, clean and honest way in order to create the fundamental basis for a political partnership," These people really are crazy.

The Palestinian elections have amounted to deciding which one of the terrorist parties the Palestinians will vote for. Which method of killing do the Palestinians prefer? Disgraceful.

Al Jazeera predicted Hamas would show strong gains: "Hamas's corruption-free reputation and extensive charity network mean its popularity is rising among Palestinians." It's hard not to be cynical, but 'extensive charity network', really. Translated, this should read, money and celebrations, complete with candy for all, in jubilant and joyous memory of yet another suicide bomber who has successfully accomplished another 'holy' mission, killing innocent Jewish civilians, children and all.

Hamas has won more than 70 seats in Gaza and the West Bank, which gives it more than 50 percent of the vote, and forcing the new government into the uncomfortable position of adding Hamas to its cabinet when most peacebrokers consider them part of the problem.

Although apparently rejected by Fatahs there seemed to be talk of a coalition between the two, so perhaps they can start killing each other off whilst continuing to bomb the Israelis. Charming state of affairs indeed.

Already violence has marred the period before the elections, with militants taking over government offices and threatening poll workers. Much of the unrest was carried out by gunmen linked to Fatah, apparently fearing losses to Hamas.

Fatah has also been riven by internal divisions, which turned deadly Tuesday. Fatah gunmen shot to death Abu Ahmed Hassouna, 44, a party leader in Nablus after he told them to stop shooting at campaign posters on his house, relatives said. It was the second politically motivated killing of the campaign.

These people hate being contradicted. Hamas formed out of a singular hatred and philosophical determination to annihilate Israel, and giving them power only hands them better weapons with which to carry out those aims.

Perhaps this election will finally convince the United States, if not Europe and Russia, of the folly of continued efforts on "road maps" and the like. Gaza showed that Fatah cannot govern a state, and the West Bank just elected bloodthirsty terrorists almost to a Parliamentary majority. These people want war. They will not settle for half the land when they believe a war will bring them all of it. In the end, it may be better for the world to let the two sides fight their war in order to make them both sick enough of the consequences to start selecting leaders that want peace and plan for it. If all the Palestinians understand is death and martyrdom, then let them have their fill of both.

There is of course no chance now of Hamas ever being compelled to disarm. Hamas has a stated aim, and has the fervent following even down to young children, and the arms to pursue that aim.

But, what happens when civil war breaks out in autonomous Palestine? When Palestinians start to kill each other on a wide scale? What if Hamas gains the upper hand, which they have the means to do? Israel evacuates any remaining Israelis in Palestinian lands and hunkers down at home....and then what of our 'Arab League' of friends?

With Hamas in control, what choices will they have to make? Egypt has no love lost for Hamas. They are already a direct threat to Egyptian stability. The Egyptian people, after their recent round of elections aren't going to permit Hamas in charge right on their border, they have more important matters to deal with and a rabid Hamas encroaching into Egypt is not something desired by most Egyptians, from Mubarak on down. Likewise Lebanon.

Jordan cannot be happy with the results today. King Abdullah is probably awake right now contemplating his options, and counting how many countries he has to grovel to, in the proud manner of his father.

Despite their own brand of Wahabi fundamentalism in Saudi Arabia, the Saudis are not going to allow Hamas such a foothold, either. Right now the major aim of the Saudis is to keep things under a tight lid at home to maintain the Royal Family control of the nation. Hamas threatens that control and raises the level of discomfort. Hamas is also closely identified with Iran and our friendly Thug-In-Chief Ahmadinejad, which brings bright new options to both sides. Will they openly provide aid to Hamas, essentially invading Palestine by proxy, something the Gulf States, Saudi Arabia and Egypt will not condone?

Julian Bond "Ass Hole of the Month"

Julian Bond is a sick and mentaly unstable man,
who needs fucking help.

Maybe he is getting a little old, but you would think after the death of Coretta Scott King, he could shut the fuck up for only a minute.

But not thats not his style, the tenured professor, at UVA just wants to get
on his message out.
He should be fired from the NAACP, his remarks are a desperate attempt at making a
point when you dont have a point.

The guy needs to take a break, read some porn and shut the fuck up!
Juilan Bond is the ass hole of the day.


Civil rights activist and NAACP Chairman Julian Bond delivered a blistering partisan speech at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina last night, equating the Republican Party with the Nazi Party and characterizing Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her predecessor, Colin Powell, as "tokens."

"The Republican Party would have the American flag and the swastika flying side by side," he charged.

Calling President Bush a liar, Bond told the audience at the historically black institution that this White House's lies are more serious than the lies of his predecessor's because Clinton's lies didn't kill people.


"We now find ourselves refighting old battles we thought we had already won," he said. "We have to fight discrimination whenever it raises its ugly head."

He referred to former Attorney General John Ashcroft as J. Edgar Ashcroft. He compared Bush's judicial nominees to the Taliban.

The talk so infuriated at least one black family in attendance among the 900 in the auditorium that they got up in walked out in protest.

"He went on and on name calling," said Lee Wilson. "I walked out in the middle of his speech with my wife and three kids"

The harsh partisan rhetoric from Bond should not have surprised anyone who has followed him in recent years.

In July 2001, Bond said, "[Bush] has selected nominees from the Taliban wing of American politics, appeased the wretched appetites of the extreme right wing, and chosen Cabinet officials whose devotion to the Confederacy is nearly canine in its uncritical affection."

Pictures from May Day Protest!!

These are pictures from a recent protest, by the anti war movement!

The anti war moonbats were surprised when a group of diverse Republicans showed up,
and decided to lay down the law!

The National Black Republican Association has started a new magazine
you can purchase the magazine at there website!

http://www.nbra.info/