Black Vocies for Isreal

“I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders.”

~Nelson Mandela
(AP, October 19, 1999)

"The African movement means

to us what the Zionist movement

must mean to the Jews.Palestine

is the only refuge that harassed

Jewry has today".

~W.E.B. DuBois

"I can understand you. I am also a member
of a persecuted minority.

~Dr. Ralph Bunche

During Israel’s War of Independence, Menachem Begin recalled that Dr. Ralph Bunche, Jr. conveyed this to him

Sharon made a bold and painful step toward a long-term solution....
He deserves a partnership that is just as bold and committed.”
“The moral burden now substantially shifts to the Palestinians.”

Civil Rights Leader
Jesse Jackson

Commenting about
Israel's relinquishment
of Gaza on August 26, 2005

Even though I'm not Jewish...Israel is one of the few causes
I feel good about supporting.Blacks and Jews are hooked up
and bound together by a common history of persecution...If
someone besides a black ever sings the real gut bucket blues,
it'll be a Jew. We both know what it's like to be someone else's
footstool.

~Ray Charles
(1976)



“I cannot stand idly by, even though I happen to live in the United
States and even though I happen to be an American Negro and not
be concerned about what happens to the Jews in Soviet Russia. For
what happens to them happens to me and you, and we must be concerned.”

"Peace for Israel means security, and we must stand with all our might to protect its right to exist, its territorial integrity. I see Israel as one of the great outposts of democracy in the world, and a marvelous example of what can be done, how desert land can be transformed into an oasis of brotherhood and democracy. Peace for Israel means security and that security must be a reality.”

~Martin Luther King

The Problem With Institutional Racism

"One of the classic debates within black politics is the debate over the effect of institutional racism over the prospects for African American success. Something very interesting occured to me as I was reading Booker Rising's account of John McWhorter today.

That is that the politics of anti-racism engaged by Leftists encourage the culture of dysfunction by blackfolks below the middle class baseline.....Part of the failure of progressive black politics is that they encourage people who can't even hack the middle class basics to believe they can beat the system via some Black Power. It never worked, it never will work. NOI is proof. Upon reaching the mainstream, that's when boldness and vision can work, but only based upon honest and open business dealings and relationships."

He continues: "Academics like [Michael Eric] Dyson, coming as they do from Socialist backgrounds, believe they can identify a structural racism *that can be structurally defeated* through the defunding of 'racist institutions'. But America is not undergirded by racist institutions, America is chock full of public institutions and market institutions that are corrupted and abused by individual racists. Every racist act perpetrated by racist individuals empowered by an institution do not prove that institution racist. It only proves that America is full of racists that we are unable to keep out of the mainstream. It is the unwillingness of Leftists to acknowledge that fact that keeps many blacks distrustful of the mainstream public and market institutions into which they must integrate and assimilate in order to make the American middle class baseline. Instead, they irrationally hate and fear the very institutions upon which their improvement depends."

And more: "I think instead we can say that the elimination of Jim Crow was the penultimate battle with the final battle played on social grounds - getting our entire culture past the interpersonal barriers of a Jim Crow society. The first priority of White Supremacy has always been to deny others any 'defiling' of the 'pure' white race. That's not a problem any longer. Opposition to Affirmative Action comes almost exclusively from the moral injunction against racial preferences. There can be no doubt that there are plenty of racists who can't stand the idea of race mixing on college campuses as the basis of their opposition, good luck trying to get them to say so in public. They cannot because the American mainstream doesn't tolerate such ideas. Not even when they're implied in disrespectful commentary. Virtually nobody stands on the principle of racial segregation. So where are the racist institutions? Maybe they're all in our heads."

~Michael David Cobb Bowen is the political & cultural blogger 'Cobb'. He writes from the perspective of a moderate conservative Republican representing the 'Old School' of African American culture and values. In his 15 year career of writing as a poet and essayist he has been called the Ralph Ellison of his generation.

"The Temperamental Minimum Wage"

The libertarian economist opines:


"On Jan. 10, the House of Representatives voted to raise the minimum wage from $5.15 to $7.25 per hour. Their bill, for the first time, extended the federal minimum wage to the U.S. territory of the Northern Mariana Islands, but it exempted American Samoa, another U.S. Pacific Ocean territory. American Samoa would have been the only U.S. territory not subject to the federal minimum wage. If increases in the minimum wage, like my 650 fellow economists claim, are so helpful to low-wage workers, why deprive Samoan workers from the benefits? Are Speaker Pelosi and my fellow economists anti-Samoan? StarKist Tuna, whose parent company is Del Monte, and Chicken of the Sea employ nearly 50 percent of the Samoan workforce. Samoan cannery workers earn about $3.50 an hour. I'll give you one guess what would happen if the minimum wage were raised to $7.25 an hour.

Here's a hint: The average cannery wage in Thailand is 67 cents an hour, and in the Philippines, it's 66 cents. If you guessed that StarKist and Chicken of the Sea might move their operations to Thailand or the Philippines, go to the head of the class. Perhaps Speaker Pelosi agrees that mandating a higher wage would have an unemployment effect, but just in Samoa. There's a better explanation for Speaker Pelosi's position that has nothing to do with the possible fickleness of the law of demand. StarKist, which owns one of the two Samoan packing plants, has been a big opponent of increases in the U.S. minimum wage.



Del Monte, its parent company, is headquartered in Speaker Pelosi's San Francisco district. Chicken of the Sea is based in Southern California. It's not unreasonable to guess that Speaker Pelosi's position has to do with the interests of her well-heeled constituents."He continues: "True compassion for our fellow man requires that we examine not the intentions behind public policy but the effects of that policy. There's no question that Congress can mandate the minimum wage at which a person is hired, but Congress hasn't found a way to mandate that a person have a level of productivity commensurate with the wage. Moreover, Congress hasn't chosen to mandate that an employer hire a person whose productivity is less than the minimum wage. This means higher minimum wages cause unemployment for the least-skilled workers."

"Someone once asked me why should they 'try God'
as I had suggested. I replied, 'because God can not
possibly manage your life worse than you have
..Give Him a shot!"

— John Hope Bryant, moderate founder of Operation HOPE in Los Angeles, California

Humilty Fuels A Cleaner Rap For U.S.

The moderate-conservative commentator, on global warming: "No matter which party takes the White House next year, the next administration will be faced with a serious problem made even more serious because there is no country that can rein in China and India, both of which have refused to abide by agreed-upon environmental reforms. China and India believe that the West built all of its economic strength on environmentally dangerous materials such as oil, but now that Asia is bringing leaves to the big table of power to make it wide enough to seat China and India, the West wants to tell Asian countries that they should slow down and reconsider which fuels to use and which ones not to use. Those who have suffered colonial exploitation are not quick to listen to former colonizers.

This is where the very highest level of closed door diplomacy should make itself felt. By threatening to reduce the number of foreign cars purchased unless they are both high quality and environmentally safe, China alone could force the automobile makers of the world to take oil off of the table. Combined with India, it would be an economic slam dunk in which it would be more profitable to be environmentally safe than to trot along behind slogans of the industrial revolution. That is the sort of leadership we need from Washington, the sort that can inspire enlightened and self-protective policies from the Asian powers that we will have to deal with at almost every turn in this new century.....While China or India or both would take the credit for leading the nations of this planet away from the polluting of the air, in the final analysis our world might be protected a bit better from poisonous but addictive consumption."

RÉVOLUTION

Nicholas Sarkozy is the new president of France!

"RIOT VIDEO after French Presidential Election"


The pro-American Nicholas Sarkozy beat the left-wing, socialist Ségolène Royal for president of France.With nearly 70 percent of ballots counted, the conservative candidate, Nicolas Sarkozy had just over 53 percent of the vote, according to the Interior Ministry. “The people of France have chosen change, ” Sarkozy said, while pledging to be “president of all the French.” Voter turnout was projected at 85 percent — a level not seen in 40 years.

UPDATE. Of course the left is upset so they choose to riot! This
is what the Democrats wanted to do in 2000 here! Sarkozy was
correct they are scum!

The fruits of the Leftist/Islamic alliance. Michel, our Frenchman on the wild street, sends us these video links:




Watch MORE VIDEO HERE here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.

BASTILLE VIDEO

ECHAUFFOUREES-A-BASTILLE-PARISPARIS POST VOTE RIOT

Hatip to Michelle Malkin and Pamela from Atlas for the links

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2007/05/video_riots_in_.html

Richest Person in Hip Hop

If you ever wondered how much your favorite emcees were really pulling in, wonder no more. According to a six month study done by Panache Report, Diddy is Hip Hop’s richest star. The Bad Boy label head edged out Jay-Z by six million dollars to claim the lists top spot. Diddy has managed to keep himself relevant, despite Bad Boy Records losing presence on the music charts. He’s kept busy with his MTV series, Making the Band, the Sean John clothing line, and his top selling cologne, Unforgivable. The fragrance netted him and extra six million dollars (note to the Jigga Man).

http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.4354/title.diddy-named-richest-person-in-hip-hop

Here’s the complete top 10

1. P. Diddy $346 Million
2. Jay-Z $340 Million
3. Russell Simmons $325 Million
4. Damon Dash $200 Million
5. Neptunes $155 Million
6 Dr. Dre $150 Million
7. Ice Cube $145 Million
8. Eminem $110 Million
9. 50 Cent $100 Million
10. Nelly $60 Million
10. (Tie) Jermaine Dupri $60 Million