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Today Sunny Hostin of The View expressed outraged that Trump questioned Kamala Harris's racial identity.

Two years ago Sunny Hostin questioned Nikki Haley's racial identity, calling her a chameleon and accusing her of not "leaning" into her Indian heritage. pic.twitter.com/NOsFX2IvOo

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HATE CRIME HOAX: FBI Determines No Federal Crime Was Committed Against Bubba Wallace While Investigating Noose In His Garage

                                                   NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace.

The noose was actually a pull rope set up by a team that used the garage in 2019

By Gabriel Fernandez
3 hrs ago

Following an investigation into the noose that was found in the garage of Bubba Wallace, a Black NASCAR driver, the FBI has determined that no federal crime was committed. Their reasoning is that the noose in question has been in the garage since Oct. 14, 2019, and that nobody outside of NASCAR officials could have known Wallace would have been assigned that garage until a few days before Sunday's race at Talladega, which was ultimately rained out and ran on Monday.

NASCAR's statement about the incident adds a lot more color, noting that the noose was actually a garage door pull rope that was fashioned in a loop. The decision to tie the rope that way during a race at the track last year ultimately resulted in a rather misfortunate understanding, per the statement.


"The FBI has completed its investigation at Talladega Superspeedway and determined that Bubba Wallace was not the target of a hate crime. The FBI report concludes, and photographic evidence confirms, that the garage door pull rope fashioned like a noose had been positioned there since as early as last fall. This was obviously well before the 43 team's arrival and garage assignment. We appreciate the FBI's quick and thorough investigation and are thankful to learn that this was not an intentional, racist act against Bubba. We remain steadfast in our commitment to providing a welcoming and inclusive environment for all who love racing."

This information about the noose being around since 2019 was also discovered in NASCAR's independent investigation. Wood Brothers Racing, the team that had Wallace's garage during the Talladega race in Oct. 2019, released a statement of their own about the incident. Apparently an employee had remembered seeing the garage rope tied in that way and quickly alerted NASCAR about what the team refers to as "coincidence of our stall from 2019."


"We are thankful that there was no one involved in perpetrating hate during this weekend's race. Just like the rest of the NASCAR garage, we were shocked and appalled to learn of the existence of the rope fashioned like a noose. One of our employees alerted us yesterday morning that, without knowing the details of the incident, he recalled seeing a tied handle in the garage pull-down rope from last fall. We immediately alerted NASCAR and have assisted the investigation in every way possible. What transpired over the past day plus is a unity that has only served to strengthen the bonds between each and every crew member, fan and non-fan alike. The Wood Brothers organization is proud to stand with Bubba Wallace and the entire industry as we work to make every race fan a part of our NASCAR family."

Wallace received an outpouring of support from members all over the NASCAR community, including his fellow drivers, after the noose was discovered in his garage.


Despite all of the distractions that Wallace and his team were dealing with leading up to the race itself, Bubba put on one memorable performance as he led the race at one point and ultimately posted a career-best finish at Talladega in the end. [source]

Obama Collecting Personal Data For A Secret Race Database

A key part of President Obama’s legacy will be the fed’s unprecedented collection of sensitive data on Americans by race. The government is prying into our most personal information at the most local levels, all for the purpose of “racial and economic justice.”
Unbeknown to most Americans, Obama’s racial bean counters are furiously mining data on their health, home loans, credit cards, places of work, neighborhoods, even how their kids are disciplined in school — all to document “inequalities” between minorities and whites.
This Orwellian-style stockpile of statistics includes a vast and permanent network of discrimination databases, which Obama already is using to make “disparate impact” cases against: banks that don’t make enough prime loans to minorities; schools that suspend too many blacks; cities that don’t offer enough Section 8 and other low-income housing for minorities; and employers who turn down African-Americans for jobs due to criminal backgrounds.
Big Brother Barack wants the databases operational before he leaves office, and much of the data in them will be posted online.
So civil-rights attorneys and urban activist groups will be able to exploit them to show patterns of “racial disparities” and “segregation,” even if no other evidence of discrimination exists.

Housing database

The granddaddy of them all is the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing database, which the Department of Housing and Urban Development rolled out earlier this month to racially balance the nation, ZIP code by ZIP code. It will map every US neighborhood by four racial groups — white, Asian, black or African-American, and Hispanic/Latino — and publish “geospatial data” pinpointing racial imbalances.
The agency proposes using nonwhite populations of 50% or higher as the threshold for classifying segregated areas.
Federally funded cities deemed overly segregated will be pressured to change their zoning laws to allow construction of more subsidized housing in affluent areas in the suburbs, and relocate inner-city minorities to those predominantly white areas. HUD’s maps, which use dots to show the racial distribution or density in residential areas, will be used to select affordable-housing sites.
HUD plans to drill down to an even more granular level, detailing the proximity of black residents to transportation sites, good schools, parks and even supermarkets. If the agency’s social engineers rule the distance between blacks and these suburban “amenities” is too far, municipalities must find ways to close the gap or forfeit federal grant money and face possible lawsuits for housing discrimination.
Civil-rights groups will have access to the agency’s sophisticated mapping software, and will participate in city plans to re-engineer neighborhoods under new community outreach requirements.
“By opening this data to everybody, everyone in a community can weigh in,” Obama said. “If you want affordable housing nearby, now you’ll have the data you need to make your case.”

Mortgage database

Meanwhile, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, headed by former Congressional Black Caucus leader Mel Watt, is building its own database for racially balancing home loans. The so-called National Mortgage Database Project will compile 16 years of lending data, broken down by race, and hold everything from individual credit scores and employment records.
Mortgage contracts won’t be the only financial records vacuumed up by the database. According to federal documents, the repository will include “all credit lines,” from credit cards to student loans to car loans — anything reported to credit bureaus. This is even more information than the IRS collects.
The FHFA will also pry into your personal assets and debts and whether you have any bankruptcies. The agency even wants to know the square footage and lot size of your home, as well as your interest rate.
FHFA will share the info with Obama’s brainchild, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which acts more like a civil-rights agency, aggressively investigating lenders for racial bias.
The FHFA has offered no clear explanation as to why the government wants to sweep up so much sensitive information on Americans, other than stating it’s for “research” and “policymaking.”
However, CFPB Director Richard Cordray was more forthcoming, explaining in a recent talk to the radical California-based Greenlining Institute: “We will be better able to identify possible discriminatory lending patterns.”

Credit database

CFPB is separately amassing a database to monitor ordinary citizens’ credit-card transactions. It hopes to vacuum up some 900 million credit-card accounts — all sorted by race — representing roughly 85% of the US credit-card market. Why? To sniff out “disparities” in interest rates, charge-offs and collections.

Employment database

CFPB also just finalized a rule requiring all regulated banks to report data on minority hiring to an Office of Minority and Women Inclusion. It will collect reams of employment data, broken down by race, to police diversity on Wall Street as part of yet another fishing expedition.

School database

Through its mandatory Civil Rights Data Collection project, the Education Department is gathering information on student suspensions and expulsions, by race, from every public school district in the country. Districts that show disparities in discipline will be targeted for reform.
Those that don’t comply will be punished. Several already have been forced to revise their discipline policies, which has led to violent disruptions in classrooms.
Obama’s educrats want to know how many blacks versus whites are enrolled in gifted-and-talented and advanced placement classes.
Schools that show blacks and Latinos under-enrolled in such curricula, to an undefined “statistically significant degree,” could open themselves up to investigation and lawsuits by the department’s Civil Rights Office.
Count on a flood of private lawsuits to piggyback federal discrimination claims, as civil-rights lawyers use the new federal discipline data in their legal strategies against the supposedly racist US school system.
Even if no one has complained about discrimination, even if there is no other evidence of racism, the numbers themselves will “prove” that things are unfair.
Such databases have never before existed. Obama is presiding over the largest consolidation of personal data in US history. He is creating a diversity police state where government race cops and civil-rights lawyers will micromanage demographic outcomes in virtually every aspect of society.
The first black president, quite brilliantly, has built a quasi-reparations infrastructure perpetually fed by racial data that will outlast his administration.[source]

Paul Sperry is a Hoover Institution media fellow and author of “The Great American Bank Robbery,” which exposes the racial politics behind the mortgage bust.

Brian Moore, New York Police Officer Shot in the Head, Dies As NYT Rushes To Conclude "No Story Here" Concerning Targeting Police

 

Hundreds of police officers paid their respects to Officer Brian Moore outside Jamaica Hospital Medical Center on Monday as the officer's body was carried away by ambulance. Credit Uli Seit for The New York Times.

Officer Brian Moore followed his father into the New York Police Department, rose to the ranks of an elite plainclothes unit tasked with confronting the city’s most dangerous street crime and died on Monday, two days after a gunman opened fire on him in Queens.

At the time that Officer Moore, 25, was shot on Saturday evening, he was still young enough to be living in the Long Island home of his father, Raymond. Yet he was seasoned enough in the job he had been drawn to since childhood to have earned accolades from superiors and departmental medals for “meritorious” police work. He had made over 150 arrests since joining the department in July 2010.

“In his very brief career, he already proved himself to be an exceptional young officer,” the police commissioner, William J. Bratton, said in announcing Officer Moore’s death, outside Jamaica Hospital Medical Center on Monday afternoon.

“I did not know this officer in person in life,” a visibly shaken Mr. Bratton added. “I’ve only come to know him in death.”

Officer Moore’s death plunged the nation’s largest police force into mourning for the second time in six months. Though his wounds were grave from the moment the gunman’s bullet struck his face, officials had held out hope that he might survive. But on Monday his family made the decision to remove him from life support, prompting an outpouring of grief.

Shortly after Officer Moore’s death, the Queens district attorney, Richard A. Brown, said the charges against the man accused of opening fire, Demetrius Blackwell, 35, would be elevated to include first-degree murder.

“We lost one of the best amongst us, a young man who was called to do good for others,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said at an evening news conference at Police Headquarters. “This was his dream because he had seen such extraordinary examples in his own family.” ”

At a time of low crime in the city and a national debate over deadly police actions, officials said Officer Moore’s death served as a reminder of the dangers inherent in everyday situations encountered by officers. The shooting erupted in an instant as the officers tried to question a person they deemed suspicious.

It differed, in that respect, from the targeted killing of Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu in December by a man who linked his actions to protests over police killings of unarmed black men in Missouri and on Staten Island. The police have said that no such political motive existed for Mr. Blackwell, whom they described as a “professional criminal.”

“Policing is never easy,” Mr. Bratton said at the evening news conference. “At this time in America, it’s even more difficult.”

For city officers, the story of the Moores was the story of many police families. Not only Officer Moore’s father but also his uncle and his cousin were New York City officers. Officer Moore grew up on Long Island, in a middle-class neighborhood filled with city workers. He attended a public high school, Plainedge, whose athletic field was named for Edward R. Byrne, another alumnus who followed his father into the city’s Police Department and was fatally shot on duty in Queens as a 22-year-old rookie in 1988.

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“Officer Moore was very proud of his father and uncle, and they were very proud of him,” said Lawrence Byrne, the deputy commissioner of legal matters and the brother of Edward Byrne.

Officer Moore worked in a department where his family name preceded him in some of the highest ranks. Officer Byrne knew Raymond Moore as a high school classmate at Plainedge High School, in North Massapequa; James P. O’Neill, the chief of department, worked with him in the warrants squad in the 1990s and on Monday called the Moores a “terrific family.”

On Monday evening, a candlelight vigil was to be held at the high school in honor of Officer Moore, the local schools superintendent said, to “remember the dedicated, courageous and kind young man he was.”

It was about 6:15 p.m. on Saturday when Officer Moore steered his unmarked police sedan toward a man whom he and his partner observed walking on a quiet street in Queens Village and adjusting his waistband in what the police said was a suspicious manner.

They pulled up behind him and as they began talking to him, the police said, the man turned and fired at the car. Officer Moore was struck in the cheek and had trauma to his brain, officials said. Officer Moore’s partner, Officer Erik Jansen, was not hit.

Ninety minutes after the shooting, officers arrested Mr. Blackwell at a house within view of the scene of the gunfire, near the corner of 212th Street and 104th Road. He had discarded the weapon, the police said, and tried to mix into a crowd of curious neighbors as heavily armed officers went house to house.

For more than a day, officers searched the backyards and rooftops for the gun used in the shooting. It was found by detectives on Monday morning under a box near a grill in a backyard that officials said was along the short route they suspected Mr. Blackwell took after the shooting. The gun, a silver .38-caliber, five-shot revolver, had two live rounds and three expended rounds..

The police said three .38-caliber rounds were fired at the officers, two striking their car and one hitting Officer Moore.

The gun was among 23 reported stolen in 2011 from a Georgia gun shop, the chief of detectives, Robert K. Boyce, said. Nine of those weapons, including the revolver, have been recovered in New York City by the police, he said.

On Monday afternoon, hundreds of officers looked on as an ambulance carrying Office Moore’s body left the hospital and headed to the morgue. Distraught relatives placed their hands on the vehicle. Along the route, firefighters at every station stood and saluted. At the morgue, a sea of blue formed.

Still others converged on the gray Cape Cod-style home where Officer Moore lived in North Massapequa. This week, thousands will gather for the familiar rituals of a police goodbye.[source]

Baltimore Meltdown: How Easily Witnesses Can Cause Yet Another Riot Under Analysis

Out of nowhere we are treated to breaking news about yet another Baltimore police shooting only days after the Freddie Gray funeral and riot. Since the turmoil there has been only temporarily mitigated after a few days of curfew enforcement began, the waters are still roiling with unrest, agitation, and hostility. This appears to be something that will cause the Md Nat'l Guard to put those boots back on again: So a very cool, calm, Mike Tobin from Fox News is reporting that he actually witnessed a young African American man get shot in the back by a Baltimore policeman on the street in broad daylight. Mike's eyewitness testimony references a handgun that fell when the African American started running away from the policeman. The on site testimony of a different supposed witness was a lot more emotional in what she thought she saw. She even started crying and was visibly distraught: Sounds pretty horrific, doesn't it? This young woman sounds ready to lead the charge herself against City Hall and beyond. But then we hear the correction. It turns out that this young African American wasn't shot in the back, and that he was provided hospitalization at the taxpayer's expense just to check him over for possible injuries. No one was shot: It's these kinds of things, which happen every day across America and the world, which make you appreciate the act of giving pause before rushing to conclusions. Especially if you're also the type to start swinging a bat and throwing Molotov Coctails. But when you see things like this that even dispassionate eyes see incorrectly, the type of witness who rushes past the facts to design the response...it's hard to imagine a great outcome for Baltimore anytime soon.

After Inmate Dies Under Suspicious Police Activity, Baltimore Riots, And Mayor Says They "Gave Room" To Those Seeking To Destroy

During a Saturday briefing, Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said her city government “gave those who wished to destroy space to do that,” seemingly approving of the rioters who smashed the city’s police vehicles in the wake of the death of Freddie Gray.


Gray, a man with a drug rap sheet arrested on a weapons conviction, suffered a spinal cord injury–perhaps due to rough handling by police–and died on April 19. Reports are inconclusive, however, and the police are not talking. Rioters destroyed cop cars in a frenzy, while the police hung back. They attacked a wheelchair-bound woman, and a man wearing a #BlackLivesMatter shirt tried to stab a terrified bystander.

THE LEFT: How They Really Feel (American Leftists Call For Thomas To Be Lynched Or Enslaved)

At a rally this past weekend in Palm Springs, proud, noble Leftists and Progressives assembled to protest the Koch brothers. Listen to the way random attendees express their feelings about American members of the Supreme Court and other citizens:

The Left's Pitiful Attempts to Rewrite The History Of Reagan

The other day I heard a caller on CSPAN's Washington Journal trumpet the Left's proudest example that CONSERVATIVES ARE RACISTS: the Neshoba County speech of Ronald Reagan in 1980.

The under-educated caller spewed, "Well everyone knows that Reagan chose to start his presidential campaign where those three civil rights workers were killed in 1964." For him, the proof was in the pudding: a white Republican talking to whites in Mississippi equals a Klan meeting. If the speech doesn't come right out and say, "When it comes down to good whites like you and those blacks, we're with you", then there has to be some coded phrase or tone that means the same.

This sad instance of looking-for-a-racist-under-every-rock is typical in today's impoverished understanding of history. With hateful people in our universities who are intent upon brainwashing the last three generations of teachers, this is the natural result. The entire beauty and grandeur of America has been reduced to a Howard Zinn bumper-sticker.

Here is a column from David Brooks which details the facts about Reagan's speech in Neshoba County, MS, in 1980 (but, unfortunately, for simple-minded haters like Bob Herbert and Paul Krugman, never let the facts get in the way of a good fairy tale):

History And Calumny

Today, I’m going to write about a slur. It’s a distortion that’s been around for a while, but has spread like a weed over the past few months. It was concocted for partisan reasons: to flatter the prejudices of one side, to demonize the other and to simplify a complicated reality into a political nursery tale.

The distortion concerns a speech Ronald Reagan gave during the 1980 campaign in Philadelphia, Miss., which is where three civil rights workers had been murdered 16 years earlier. An increasing number of left-wing commentators assert that Reagan kicked off his 1980 presidential campaign with a states’ rights speech in Philadelphia to send a signal to white racists that he was on their side. The speech is taken as proof that the Republican majority was built on racism.

The truth is more complicated.

In reality, Reagan strategists decided to spend the week following the 1980 Republican convention courting African-American votes. Reagan delivered a major address at the Urban League, visited Vernon Jordan in the hospital where he was recovering from gunshot wounds, toured the South Bronx and traveled to Chicago to meet with the editorial boards of Ebony and Jet magazines.

Lou Cannon of The Washington Post reported at the time that this schedule reflected a shift in Republican strategy. Some inside the campaign wanted to move away from the Southern strategy used by Nixon, believing there were more votes available in the northern suburbs and among working-class urban voters.

But there was another event going on that week, the Neshoba County Fair, seven miles southwest of Philadelphia. The Neshoba County Fair was a major political rallying spot in Mississippi (Michael Dukakis would campaign there in 1988). Mississippi was a state that Republican strategists hoped to pick up. They’d recently done well in the upper South, but they still lagged in the Deep South, where racial tensions had been strongest. Jimmy Carter had carried Mississippi in 1976 by 14,000 votes.

So the decision was made to go to Neshoba. Exactly who made the decision is unclear. The campaign was famously disorganized, and Cannon reported: “The Reagan campaign’s hand had been forced to some degree by local announcement that he would go to the fair.” Reagan’s pollster Richard Wirthlin urged him not to go, but Reagan angrily countered that once the commitment had been made, he couldn’t back out.

The Reaganites then had an internal debate over whether to do the Urban League speech and then go to the fair, or to do the fair first. They decided to do the fair first, believing it would send the wrong message to go straight from the Urban League to Philadelphia, Miss.

Reagan’s speech at the fair was short and cheerful, and can be heard at: www.onlinemadison.com/ftp/reagan/reaganneshoba.mp3. He told several jokes, and remarked: “I know speaking to this crowd, I’m speaking to a crowd that’s 90 percent Democrat.”

He spoke mostly about inflation and the economy, but in the middle of a section on schools, he said this: “Programs like education and others should be turned back to the states and local communities with the tax sources to fund them. I believe in states’ rights. I believe in people doing as much as they can at the community level and the private level.”

The use of the phrase “states’ rights” didn’t spark any reaction in the crowd, but it led the coverage in The Times and The Post the next day.

Reagan flew to New York and delivered his address to the Urban League, in which he unveiled an urban agenda, including enterprise zones and an increase in the minimum wage. He was received warmly, but not effusively. Much of the commentary that week was about whether Reagan’s outreach to black voters would work.

You can look back on this history in many ways. It’s callous, at least, to use the phrase “states’ rights” in any context in Philadelphia. Reagan could have done something wonderful if he’d mentioned civil rights at the fair. He didn’t. And it’s obviously true that race played a role in the G.O.P.’s ascent.

Still, the agitprop version of this week — that Reagan opened his campaign with an appeal to racism — is a distortion, as honest investigators ranging from Bruce Bartlett, who worked for the Reagan administration and is the author of “Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy,” to Kevin Drum, who writes for Washington Monthly, have concluded.

But still the slur spreads. It’s spread by people who, before making one of the most heinous charges imaginable, couldn’t even take 10 minutes to look at the evidence. It posits that there was a master conspiracy to play on the alleged Klan-like prejudices of American voters, when there is no evidence of that conspiracy. And, of course, in a partisan age there are always people eager to believe this stuff. (source)

The CSPAN caller can't be blamed by himsef, of course. Listening to Pied Pipers like Bob Herbert obviously kept the man from thinking for himself. Here is an example of the kind of propaganda that the NYT has been pushing for years, now (ironically, you are about to witness an African American mention a Jewish person without the same Crown Heights-type hate and animosity that accompanies much of African America's regard of them today):

Righting Reagan's Wrongs

Let’s set the record straight on Ronald Reagan’s campaign kickoff in 1980.

Early one morning in the late spring of 1964, Dr. Carolyn Goodman, her husband, Robert, and their 17-year-old son, David, said goodbye to David’s brother, Andrew, who was 20.

They hugged in the family’s apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, and Andrew left. He was on his way to the racial hell of Mississippi to join in the effort to encourage local blacks to register and vote.

It was a dangerous mission, and Andrew’s parents were reluctant to let him go. But the family had always believed strongly in equal rights and the benefits of social activism. “I didn’t have the right,” Dr. Goodman would tell me many years later, “to tell him not to go.”

After a brief stopover in Ohio, Andrew traveled to the town of Philadelphia in Neshoba County, Mississippi, a vicious white-supremacist stronghold. Just days earlier, members of the Ku Klux Klan had firebombed a black church in the county and had beaten terrified worshipers.

Andrew would not survive very long. On June 21, one day after his arrival, he and fellow activists Michael Schwerner and James Chaney disappeared. Their bodies wouldn’t be found until August. All had been murdered, shot to death by whites enraged at the very idea of people trying to secure the rights of African-Americans.

The murders were among the most notorious in American history. They constituted Neshoba County’s primary claim to fame when Reagan won the Republican Party’s nomination for president in 1980. The case was still a festering sore at that time. Some of the conspirators were still being protected by the local community. And white supremacy was still the order of the day.

That was the atmosphere and that was the place that Reagan chose as the first stop in his general election campaign. The campaign debuted at the Neshoba County Fair in front of a white and, at times, raucous crowd of perhaps 10,000, chanting: “We want Reagan! We want Reagan!”

Reagan was the first presidential candidate ever to appear at the fair, and he knew exactly what he was doing when he told that crowd, “I believe in states’ rights.”

Reagan apologists have every right to be ashamed of that appearance by their hero, but they have no right to change the meaning of it, which was unmistakable. Commentators have been trying of late to put this appearance by Reagan into a racially benign context.

That won’t wash. Reagan may have been blessed with a Hollywood smile and an avuncular delivery, but he was elbow deep in the same old race-baiting Southern strategy of Goldwater and Nixon.

Everybody watching the 1980 campaign knew what Reagan was signaling at the fair. Whites and blacks, Democrats and Republicans — they all knew. The news media knew. The race haters and the people appalled by racial hatred knew. And Reagan knew.

He was tapping out the code. It was understood that when politicians started chirping about “states’ rights” to white people in places like Neshoba County they were saying that when it comes down to you and the blacks, we’re with you.

And Reagan meant it. He was opposed to the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, which was the same year that Goodman, Schwerner and Chaney were slaughtered. As president, he actually tried to weaken the Voting Rights Act of 1965. He opposed a national holiday for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He tried to get rid of the federal ban on tax exemptions for private schools that practiced racial discrimination. And in 1988, he vetoed a bill to expand the reach of federal civil rights legislation.

Congress overrode the veto.

Reagan also vetoed the imposition of sanctions on the apartheid regime in South Africa. Congress overrode that veto, too.

Throughout his career, Reagan was wrong, insensitive and mean-spirited on civil rights and other issues important to black people. There is no way for the scribes of today to clean up that dismal record.

To see Reagan’s appearance at the Neshoba County Fair in its proper context, it has to be placed between the murders of the civil rights workers that preceded it and the acknowledgment by the Republican strategist Lee Atwater that the use of code words like “states’ rights” in place of blatantly bigoted rhetoric was crucial to the success of the G.O.P.’s Southern strategy. That acknowledgment came in the very first year of the Reagan presidency.

Ronald Reagan was an absolute master at the use of symbolism. It was one of the primary keys to his political success.

The suggestion that the Gipper didn’t know exactly what message he was telegraphing in Neshoba County in 1980 is woefully wrong-headed. Wishful thinking would be the kindest way to characterize it.(source)

Sign Of Our Times: Things You Never See In Civilized Communites (The SC IHOP Brawl)

Sign Of Our Times: Things You Never See In Civilized Communities (Teenage Girls Viciously Beat A Wendy's Cashier)

Vicious Attack on Wendy's Worker: MyFoxNY.com

New AG Holder Calls Whites Cowards

February 19, 2009

"Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards." (source)

We can't have a conversation about race because of the built-in damage done by the Democrat Party. Imagine trying to converse sincerely with a person who is filled with hate and rage because they realize how deficient they are compared to the person across the table from them.

We say things like, "I'm tired of affirmative action for people who still hate my race", and are told by the pc police that "that isn't being productive".

So where can the conversation go from there? We have sincere feelings about harmony and right behavior, but are constantly told to stifle.

Do you know how hard it is to have a sincere conversation with all of the double standards that stand between us? Blacks have had so many rules bent for them in the American society that the rest of us don't know where to begin.

You see, when white people have a family member that gets pregnant at 14, we have the emotions of shame and regret that dominate our conversations: "How could you have done that, Debbie? We taught you better than that", and so on, so forth.

The sincere emotions that we express with our own kind are seen as racist and intolerant if we were to expect the same to be said to an African American. We have been told for a couple of generations now that our emotions and expectations out of ourselves is "living in a white world", by the leaders of the African American community.

Well, when you tell people like us whites something like that, we're actually embarrassed. We look hard at ourselves and try to correct what came from the black accuser. We don't suddenly get our back up at a person and try to "flip the script" on them. We actually try to self-improve, and avoid that kind of sentiment from coming up again.

So the conversation dies there.

Meanwhile, we try to teach our young the same principles that another segment of our population doesn't take as seriously. Years go by, kids grow up to become the next generation, and the problem continues to grow.

Today, African Americans commit 70% illegitimacy in their community. Whites are at 29% here in America.

It's hard to have a conversation on the weekends when every effort you've made to be good to the African American community is thrown back in your face as "racism".

If we let you go to your own schools for an education, we're told that we're racists because we graduate more people than your schools do.

If we force bussing and desegregation to have your black children next to our white children in school, you call us racists because our white kids do better.

If we dumb down the class curriculum so that your black children can finally keep up academically, you say we're racists because they still fail the SAT exams for college entrance.

If we dumb down the SAT so that you can score better, you say that we're racists because the colleges try to teach us about "dead white men".

If we dumb down the college experience so that you can feel more comfortable, you call us "racists" because there aren't as many scientists, doctors, and engineers who are black.

Whites aren't cowards because we don't seek you out on the weekends. We're simply exhausted with trying to keep up with your latest accusation.

Today Was Earth Day

May 27, 2008

Today was Earth Day, 2008. I first realized it when I walked into work, and our receptionist, Dianne, greeted me with an "Earth Day" kind of sentiment. I enjoyed the exchange, joking back with her that I planned on chewing some tree bark to commemorate this honorific event. I remember that those early Earth Days from the 70's usually included media footage of celebrations in (fill in the blank city), complete with hippie-strewn lay-abouts, some carrying big signs that said quasi-flower power sentiments like "Recycle" , "No Nukes", etc., and occasionally there would be placards warning of the climate problems resulting in a coming ice age.

An ice age!

What happened to those "experts" and their prediction about global…cooling? Oh, that's right. They are the same ones who today tell us that we'll be globally warming eight more degrees within ten years. Meanwhile, no apology for going on such a frenzy about chlorofluorocarbons, freon, and hair spray. No apology for being wrong about a lot of things: We were harassed about ddt to the point of banning it from our shelves, and now the rate of malaria is skyrocketing in developing countries where the American eco warriors have done their handywork. Oh, but at least the eggshells of a certain bird species may be stronger!

Coming home tonight was peaceful enough. I'm listening to a book on cd these days. It's called Widow Of The South. A lot of it is from the viewpoint of a Confederate infantryman. Instead of listening to Hannity on the way home, I decided to continue with my progress on the book. I'm on the 4th disc out of 6. The sacrifice of my normal AM show routine is no small departure, as today is the Pennsylvania primary, and I would normally be focused on any political discussion leading up until the returns tonight.

I get home about the same time most afternoons, and my dog Phoebe is always at the door, prancing around as I open the door. She's my best companion, and I don't have to feed her Prozac to be happy to see me every time I greet her. A long day of work is now over, and it's time to fire up the lcd and watch history play out.

NOTES:
Chelsea appears on stage before mom, and does the act-surprised-to-see-someone-far-into-the-crowd-then-point-at-them thing…
Bill appears slackjawed at the 12 minute mark of Hill's speech. Uncertain if he's looking at his wife or the 17 year-old supportor in a tight jumpsuit behind her…
Her speech lasted 17 minutes, fifteen too long…
She seemed as stiff and scripted as Al Gore does…
You were happy it was over finally…

Obama has a much better style than Hillary…
His concession speech sounded better than Hill's winning speech…
Only John Mellencamp and his wife were on the stage immediately afterwards…
His 17 minutes felt like 5…
He left you wanting more…

Isn't it amazing that Southern white states are the ones with the highest amount of white males voting for Obama? Yet it's true: Obama took Va, Nc, Sc, and Ga. And African Americans weren't the majority of Democrat primary voters, either. True, the African American voting bloc has voted for Obama at 92 percent in all of the primaries, but if it hadn't been for 62 percent of the white primary voters in those southern states [ALERT! ALERT! Southern White Men…gathering in numbers…details at 10pm], then Obama wouldn't be where he is right now.

So much of the real drama with what's going on right now is not being discussed, and I'm watching as much or more news than I used to. The drama isn't so much that blacks are overwhelmingly voting for an African American…it's the unavoidable reality of a demonized sect in our country-Southern White (Christian) Men—showing open-mindedness and enthusiasm for someone that conventional wisdom says, by the poor devils' nature itself, they can't.Why aren't there a lot of microphones and cameras grabbing Bubbas at every bowling alley, demanding an explanation at how they can defy mythology and prejudice like this as they actually go cast a vote for a black man?

That is the real story here.

(when will) We Shall Overcome

April 02, 2008

Most of us have experienced this: a child says to you, his or her parent, "You just hate me". This happens when you, acting as their gaurdian, decide to deny them something that they really wanted: ice cream, PS3 time, online access, etc. It is ridiculously wrong to assume that, indeed, you hate your own child, but that is how the little one feels. If he/she doesn’t get exactly what they want when they want it, then "the world is against me."Usually we grow out of this kind of immature reasoning.

Unless, of course, you have people around you who foster this kind of thinking, and you are too comfortable with blaming your shortcomings on someone else. We can find examples of this kind of immature reasoning in adult minds from time to time, but we also quickly rebuke it, usually.
Unless we are gripped by the throat with fear.

What kind of fear would keep us from telling someone that they are acting like a child? Well, simply put, it is fear of not appearing politically correct.

The Thought Police have terrorized America for the past 20 years, and the condition, unfortunately, is that of a yoke which has become all too comfortable on our necks. Want to keep your job? Well, keep your mouth shut when thinking about applying the same standard to that African American at work. You have to word things very carefully, so as not to be seen as reflecting attitudes from people you never knew 150 years ago, towards people who have never been slaves for 150 years.

Despite the mammoth amount of laws to prevent black people from being fired, excluded from purchases, or treated without respect, the convenient drumbeat continues.

Rapper 50 cent displays the mildest of reactions against white America:"I just think there’s people that might not be ready for an African-American president," he continued. "It’ll be an issue, believe it or not." "I’m not sure America is ready to have a black president," he continued. "I think they might kill him." The MC said that as a black man, "You’ve got to be conscious of racism, period. And it’s still there. We don’t deal with it as often as my grandparents did. My grandparents grew up in South Carolina, so they experienced the heart of that."

Alice Walker displays the more resentful side of African Americans. In case you forgot who Alice Walker is, she’s the one who wrote, "The Color Purple". She received a full scholarship to two different private, elite colleges, and became angry for her lot in life. You can read her bio at: http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vZW4ud2lraXBlZGlhLm9yZy93aWtpL0FsaWNlX1dhbGtlcg==

She just wrote an open letter to us all about the selection of a candidate for President Of The United States Of America. You can see it in full here: http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3LnRoZXJvb3QuY29tL2lkLzQ1NDY5L3BhZ2UvMQ==

Here are some excerpts to which I express my reaction:

"I made my first white women friends in college; they were women who loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered. That, for instance, at Sarah Lawrence, where I was speedily inducted into the Board of Trustees practically as soon as I graduated, I made my way to the campus for meetings by train, subway and foot, while the other trustees, women and men, all white, made their way by limo. Because, in our country, with its painful history of unspeakable inequality, this is part of what whiteness means. I loved my school for trying to make me feel I mattered to it, but because of my relative poverty I knew I could not."

Excuse me while I wipe away my tears. Poor Alice had to attend a college where, *gasp*, there were people who had more money than she! What a CRUEL thing to do to a woman! How clueless of me not to realize that when I was catching a bus ride in Athens, OH, to my school campus every day that "whiteness" meant that I was to ride in a limo! This is the ridiculous standard of equality that we are treated to by these child-like brains: "If I, as a black person in America, have to ride a bus or walk to my destination while white people ride in limos, then IT’S A RACIST SOCIETY!"

How does any adult reason with childish emotions like that?And pray tell, just how did "whiteness" matter in her context? Here is a woman who gets to attend a college that SOMEONE paid for (no one paid for mine. I still have $30,000 in student loans to pay back from a degree I completed 12 years ago), and upon graduation, she is IMMEDIATELY given a position on the Board of Trustees! Just WHO in America gets treated like that?

And yet Alice receives all of this privilege, resulting only in her spiteful resentment of the "system" that put her there! There is no pleasing some people! There is a great saying I learned while substitute teaching in Virginia public schools years ago. It was etched into the hall pass the kids would use: "Gratitude is the sign of a noble soul." After all that our mean, racist, evil "whiteness" has done for African Americans in this country for the past two generations, the only thanks or expressions from the benefactors is, "What have you done for me lately?"

I guess, for brains like Alice’s, if we don’t catapult all poor black people to the same income level as Bill Gates, then "AMERICA IS A RACIST SOCIETY."

"When I have supported white people, men and women, it was because I thought them the best possible people to do whatever the job required. Nothing else would have occurred to me. If Obama were in any sense mediocre, he would be forgotten by now. He is, in fact, a remarkable human being, not perfect but humanly stunning, like King was and like Mandela is. We look at him, as we looked at them, and are glad to be of our species. He is the change America has been trying desperately and for centuries to hide, ignore, kill. The change America must have if we are to convince the rest of the world that we care about people other than our (white) selves."

Oh, I see. America is supposed to be on a quest to convince the rest of the world that we care about people, "other than our (white) selves." Silly me. I’d thought that when my paycheck has many dollars taken from it every two weeks to be spent on foreign aid to practically ALL Third World (excuse me, "Developing Nations"), that I was working for a gesture of kindness to be spread to Africans, South Americans, Asians, and Arabs. But I was wrong! According to Alice, my tax dollars going to all of those black, brown and yellow folks proves just the opposite: that I only spend my hard-earned dollars at white stores, on white-produced products, in white neighborhoods.

Thanks, Alice--you really cleared that one up for me.And here’s something else that Alice illuminated for me, a Southern White Chrtistian Male: Me and my band of brothers didn’t REALLY put ourselves on the line and die for non-whites when we were in the Army. It was all an illusion: I didn’t really serve as a combat infantry soldier for 5 years in far-away lands, amongst non-white villagers. Me and my fellow soldiers didn’t really do anything special when we liberated yellow South Koreans, protected and fed black Africans in Somalia, defended Serbian Muslims against genocide in Bosnia, or any of the other far-away places we went to in order to die for their cause.

Since Alice doesn’t live in her original continent, where her own people sold her ancestors to European slave merchants, I guess she’s never felt the overwhelming gratitude of a native people who were liberated, rescued, and served by good, white men in American uniforms.

Funny how foreigners love America more than many of it’s citizens.

"I want a grown-up attitude toward Cuba, for instance, a country and a people I love; I want an end to the embargo that has harmed my friends and their children, children who, when I visit Cuba, trustingly turn their faces up for me to kiss. I agree with a teacher of mine, Howard Zinn, that war is as objectionable as cannibalism and slavery; it is beyond obsolete as a means of improving life. I want an end to the on-going war immediately and I want the soldiers to be encouraged to destroy their weapons and to drive themselves out of Iraq."

This passage is stunningly stupid. In one paragraph she manages to reveal just how deficient is her awareness of world politics: belief in Howard Zinn and helpmaid of communism. Leave it to someone who was "educated" (indoctrinated?) at Sarah Lawrence college to be unaware of the evil system known as communism, or it’s long record of murder, malaise, and decay.

To be fair to the braintrust at Sarah Lawrence, perhaps poor Alice just missed the bus to school that day when this was covered.

"I want the Israeli government to be made accountable for its behavior towards the Palestinians, and I want the people of the United States to cease acting like they don’t understand what is going on. All colonization, all occupation, all repression basically looks the same, whoever is doing it. Here our heads cannot remain stuck in the sand; our future depends of our ability to study, to learn, to understand what is in the records and what is before our eyes. But most of all I want someone with the self-confidence to talk to anyone, "enemy" or "friend," and this Obama has shown he can do. It is difficult to understand how one could vote for a person who is afraid to sit and talk to another human being. When you vote you are making someone a proxy for yourself; they are to speak when, and in places, you cannot. But if they find talking to someone else, who looks just like them, human, impossible, then what good is your vote?"

Whew...the stench from that well Alice is in is beginning to really stink. She’s so far deep into her hole that she can’t see any light whatsoever. Poor thing. She’s so racist and angry that she can’t even see an epic story for what it is.

The story of Moses and his people all the way up until now has been an amazing story of an underdog against the world. The Jews have been chased, murdered, and disrespected for four thousnd years. Whereas the Jews have always been a distinct people, with a distinct homeland, the Palestinians are a people who have constantly moved in and out of different cultures, refused entry into their own people’s nations (refugees, even. Regular studies show that "Palestinians" are discarded Jordanians, Syrians, and other Arabs. Whereas their parent nations refuse them citizenship, Jews actually allows Palestinians the right to vote in Israel.) and have resisted every attempt to establish a homeland for them also.

When the newly-formed UN tried to erect a Palestinian nation in 1948, their "leaders" refused, on the grounds that they wouldn’t put up with living next to those pigs and monkeys we know as "Jews". The surrounding Palestinians, Egyptians, Jordanians, Syrians, Iraqi, Saudi Arabians, Kuwaitis, and Algerians have waged more than four major wars on Israel since 1948, and when they aren’t trying to push the Jews "into the Mediterranean", they are waging minor wars, known as "intifadas".

But, then again, I guess I’m just a "typical white person" (Obama qoute), who is acting like I "don’t know what is going on." (Alice quote). Perhaps I should learn from such an enlightened mentor as she.

"It is hard to relate what it feels like to see Mrs. Clinton (I wish she felt self-assured enough to use her own name) referred to as "a woman" while Barack Obama is always referred to as "a black man." One would think she is just any woman, colorless, race-less, past-less, but she is not. She carries all the history of white womanhood in America in her person; it would be a miracle if we, and the world, did not react to this fact. How dishonest it is, to attempt to make her innocent of her racial inheritance."

"Racial inheritance"? "...carries all the history of white womanhood in America in her"? My, my. Just WHAT kind of "education" is that Sarah Lawrence school peddling?

I’ll tell you what, Alice: if you stop seeing all the evils of white society every time you look at my people, I’ll stop seeing all the rapes and murders that blacks have been responsible for when I look at you. Deal?

"I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking, person to person, with any leader, woman, man, child or common person, in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks. I cannot see the same scenario with Mrs. Clinton who would drag into Twenty-First Century American leadership the same image of white privilege and distance from the reality of others’ lives that has so marred our country’s contacts with the rest of the world."

That’s (part of) your problem, Alice: you imagine too much. Sure, you can easily imagine lots of things, but Obama himself exclaimed that he would have bombed Pakistan right after 911! He didn’t say that he would "talk" to them. But details like this are unimportant when you live in a fantasy world, where everything around you is imagined (racism included). "...with no baggage of past servitude or race supremecy to mar their talks."

Here’s a little clue, Alice: we whites don’t walk around, remembering the "good old days", when we used to buy you from your own people. It isn’t something we hold onto, ya’ know? It’s not as if we’re learning anything valuable from the hateful rhetoric that too many blacks like you spew, so we’re not obsessed with concentrating on "how it used to be."

And, believe it or not, when a white American is in the position of ambassador or diplomatic attache’ to some third-world nation, the "whitey" in him or her isn’t dictating their every thought or move. We whites are mostly thinking of how to do our job to the best of our ability so that we may advance in our job capacity.

And in case you haven’t noticed, being an outright bigot is not a way to advance. Even for Condoleeza Rice, who is our present Secretary of State (that’s the office which is designated to talk to foreign leaders). And she’s black.

"And yes, I would adore having a woman president of the United States. My choice would be Representative Barbara Lee, who alone voted in Congress five years ago not to make war on Iraq. That to me is leadership, morality, and courage; if she had been white I would have cheered just as hard. But she is not running for the highest office in the land, Mrs. Clinton is. And because Mrs. Clinton is a woman and because she may be very good at what she does, many people, including some younger women in my own family, originally favored her over Obama. I understand this, almost. It is because, in my own nieces’ case, there is little memory, apparently, of the foundational inequities that still plague people of color and poor whites in this country. Why, even though our family has been here longer than most North American families – and only partly due to the fact that we have Native American genes – we very recently, in my lifetime, secured the right to vote, and only after numbers of people suffered and died for it.Imagine, if he wins the presidency we will have not one but three black women in the White House; one tall, two somewhat shorter; none of them carrying the washing in and out of the back door. The bottom line for most of us is: With whom do we have a better chance of surviving the madness and fear we are presently enduring, and with whom do we wish to set off on a journey of new possibility? In other words, as the Hopi elders would say: Who do we want in the boat with us as we head for the rapids? Who is likely to know how best to share the meager garden produce and water? We are advised by the Hopi elders to celebrate this time, whatever its adversities." "...in my own nieces’ case, there is little memory, apparently, of the foundational inequities that still plague people of color and poor whites in this country."

Sorry, Alice. It looks like you’ve thrown a pity-party, and no one is coming! Your own neices don’t have a bitterness in their hearts towards us whites, but you do! And I’ll bet you won’t let them remain happy, either.

Perhaps there’s "no memory....of the foundational inequalities that still plague people of color and poor whites in this country" because the memory is just that: a memory. If these foundational inequalities were actually a problem, then they wouldn’t need angry Aunt Alice to point them out!

And just what "madness and fear" are you suffering from, poor Alice? Just what else do you want besides your Ivory League education, celebrity life as a poet/author, and large family? Is the madness you describe something that could better be described as, "failure to assimilate"? Is the fear you describe more aptly stated as, "aversion to hard work"?

"We have come a long way, Sisters, and we are up to the challenges of our time. One of which is to build alliances based not on race, ethnicity, color, nationality, sexual preference or gender, but on Truth. Celebrate our journey. Enjoy the miracle we are witnessing. Do not stress over its outcome. Even if Obama becomes president, our country is in such ruin it may well be beyond his power to lead us toward rehabilitation. If he is elected however, we must, individually and collectively, as citizens of the planet, insist ..ing him do the best job that can be done; more, we must insist that he demand this of us. It is a blessing that our mothers taught us not to fear hard work. Know, as the Hopi elders declare: The river has its destination. And remember, as poet June Jordan and Sweet Honey in the Rock never tired of telling us: We are the ones we have been waiting for."

All hail the prophet, Alice Walker! We have come to learn the Truth about America from her trusted bossom: "Even if Obama becomes president, our country is in such ruin it may well be beyond his power to lead us toward rehabilitation." That’s it--set up the board for the next round: no way will simply electing a charlatan like this black man we call Obama really do any kind of "healing" for our black citizens.

The fight must continue! White brother kills white brother for what end? To free the black slaves! Is that enough? NO. Massive restructuring to our constitution and the creation of intrussive agncies are formed for the next 140 years to give you even MORE of a chance at the American Dream. Is that enough? NO. Ok, what if we elect a black man as president of this beautiful nation--will that be enough, Alice? NO.

You know, it’s funny. Ancient slave masters never were treated to the vitriol from their subjugated that the free great-great-great-great grandsons of the slaves inflict upon the whites of today. And that’s after the whites from the past two generations have put themselves at the back of the line for hiring, receiving education loans, and cultural respect. People who have NEVER experienced slavery or even Jim Crow laws are exacting pain and suffering from people who NEVER had anything to do with slavery or Jim Crow.

The Minefield We Walk Through

October 28, 2007

I'm the first to admit that I don't read things as accurately as I should all the time. I've been flat-out wrong about many things in my life. But all of us are guided by that "little voice" inside our head. Whether we choose to listen to it or not is another thing.

The other day I was in my company's small kitchen with three other women. We all work in cubicles throughout the day, so it feels different when you're actually grouped together with one or more people at the same time. Such times allow for a little playful interaction with each other, something to break up the monotony of the day.

It was lunchtime, and I had to leave to run some errands during my break, so I was trying to nuke my lunch, a soft burrito from WallyWorld, before I set out on my trip. Every minute counted, as I don't like to be late when clocking back in after lunch is over.

Out of the three women in the kitchenette with me, two of them were ahead of me for the sole microwave we have there. One was finishing warming up her meal, then the next one, I'll call her 'Jane', had to cook hers, then I would be next. The third woman was behind me in order.

While we were all standing there, the women started to joke with me about how they were not going to be "bumped" out of rotation for their meal, and I'd better get used to it, etc, etc. I was joking right back with them, enjoying the light banter for once. My job is such that I deal with angry, exasperated women on the phone all day, and for there to be a conversation that doesn't start with an upset tone is really a momentary blessing for me.

"Oh, I know better than to jump in line in front of you guys. I've heard you're really cutthroat about that stuff!", I jokingly replied. Two of the women were immediately laughing with me and going along with the joke, adding things like, "That's right, you better watch it", or, "Umm-hmm", and the like. But Jane's tone changed slightly when she chimed in on the lighthearted banter. "What do you mean "you guys"?"

It just so happened that out of the three women, two of them were African American. Jane was one of them.

Let me say right now that I am 40 years old, and I have been around the block a few times. I don't look for things to separate myself from others, as I've spent my life seeing the things that make us all similar to each other. As a white male, being raised in America right after the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965 were passed, I think it fair to say that I've "seen the light" when it comes to race relations. We all are overwhelmingly deluged with cultural messages which seek to continually portray my white race, particularly Southern White Males, as having "a lot further to go" when it comes to treating African Americans as equals.

It doesn't matter to the race-baiters that I was raised in a family where the 'n-word' was NEVER used. It also doesn't matter to those who see a racially-bigoted component in all facets of American life that as a young adult, I've promoted and advanced African Americans in every station of life in which I've been in a managerial position to do so. To those that are prejudiced against my race, I still am in need of being "taught a lesson" about race. I get the message, and have had to quietly deal with it my entire life.

So, when "Jane" made the exclamation about, "What do you mean, "you guys"", my internal radar immediately went off, assessing her accusatory tone. I was hoping I was wrong, frankly, in hearing what I thought I might be hearing. I have had a great relationship with "Jane" up until now, but her tone and quickness with that remark were almost unmistakable to this man of many years.

I jovially replied, without missing a beat, "Well, I mean 'you guys' who work up here with me". Jane then said back to me, "You cleaned that one up really well". Her tone was slightly less joking at this point, and it seemed to say, 'You may have gotten that one by me now, but I'm watching you'. But what, indeed, did I "clean up"? When I said, "…you guys who work up here with me", how could anyone see that as being 'cleaned up', unless a person was seeing an implied insult by referring to a group of people in my immediate vicinity as 'you guys'?

Now, I hope I've misinterpreted her implications. Like I said above, I'm guilty of misreading things in life occasionally. Some of us are plagued with a sensitive antennae, and have to always be on guard for reading "too much" into signs from people. I mean, after all, Jane could have been angling for me to say, "You women" is what I had really meant, and then the little room would have erupted into a lot of anti-woman, sexist kind of accusations instead of the racist element that ended up just hanging in the air, unclear and unrefined.

I know what I meant, and it wasn't either sexist or racist. It was just a joke that I was going along with from them in the first place. But of course, as a White Southern Male in this modern world, I don't get the luxury of defining what I mean when I talk. It's all in the mind of the minority, these days.

What The ObamaNation Has Brought Us: Taking From The Rich

Black Panther Intimidation Redux: The 2010 Mid-Term Elections

New Black Panther Seen At Polling Place

No Voter Intimidation Reported Tuesday At Poll

PHILADELPHIA - Fox 29 News spotted Tuesday a member of the New Black Panther Party standing outside of a local polling place where voter intimidation was reported two years ago.

The man was seen outside the polling place in North Philadelphia was wearing a pin that indicated his party affiliation, along with a black hat, sunglasses and leather coat.

In footage obtained by Fox News back in 2008, two members of the New Black Panther Party stood outside the same polling place shaking a Billy club and allegedly intimidating voters.

The case was ultimately dropped by the Department of Justice after President Obama's administration came into power, although controversy surrounding the incident's handling has persisted.

Just last month Attorney General Eric Holder was defending the Justice Department's performance on the matter, saying the top career person in the civil rights division made the decision to seek an injunction against one person.

The man seen at the same polling place Tuesday would not answer questions posed by Fox 29 News but was apparently working at the polls as a volunteer and greeting voters.

A check with Philadelphia election officials revealed no voter intimidation reports at the polling location this time. (source)

Barry As President: Keepin' It Real To Only Urban Audiences On Election Day

WASHINGTON (AP) - Even with voting already under way, President Barack Obama furiously worked the phones to urban-format radio stations Tuesday, arguing that his agenda would be "all at risk" if Republicans trampled Democrats.
"We need to keep moving forward, that's why I need folks to vote today," Obama told listeners to KPWR in Los Angeles.

Interrupting the music and chat of the station's morning show, Obama phoned in from the Oval Office to acknowledge voter frustration with the recession-bound economy - and say that even though he's not on the ballot, his agenda is.

"Are we taking the steps now to move us in the right direction, or are going to go back to the policies that got us into that mess in the first place?" he said.

Other calls went to radio stations in Las Vegas, Chicago and Jacksonville, Fla., with large African-American listenership. On Monday, Obama phoned a series of nationally syndicated radio programs.

With polls forecasting major GOP gains - possibly including a controlling majority in the House - Obama also scheduled a postelection news conference for 1 p.m. Wednesday in the White House East Room.

He strove to energize a key Democratic constituency hours after polls opened in the East and Midwest.

On the line to radio station KVEG in Las Vegas, Obama said, "I know things are still tough out there, but we finally have job growth again ... It is all at risk if people don't turn out and vote today."

That call to the state with the nation's highest jobless rate aimed to boost turnout for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, locked in a tight contest with Republican tea party-backed candidate Sharron Angle.

"Harry Reid has been my partner," Obama said. "Every poll shows the race between Harry Reid and his opponent neck and neck. We know that if people who voted in 2008 turn out to vote in 2010, Harry will win. if they don't turn out, he will lose."

Obama said losing lawmakers like Reid would make it hard for him to "keep making improvements in the economy."

"Across the board, thing have gotten better over the last two years," Obama said on KPWR. "The question is, can we keep that up? But we can only keep it up if I've got some friends and allies in Congress and in the state houses."

The host and others on the "Radio Big Boy" program were vocal in their support, and told the station's listeners how "cool" is is to have Obama as president.

Toward the end, Obama joked, "I know that everybody's thinking we need to get back to some music," then turned serious.

"The future is yours to shape," he said. "But if you don't get involved, then somebody else is going to shape it for you." (source)

Barry As President: To The Homeless: "Let Them Eat Cake"

A man gets on his knees next to a car carrying U.S. President Barack Obama as he pulls away from Valois restaurant in Chicago, October 31, 2010.

Democrat Racism: Throw The Black Man Overboard To Sink The Hispanic Man

Former President Bill Clinton tried to persuade Florida Democratic Rep. Kendrick Meek to drop out of his U.S. Senate race and support Gov. Charlie Crist's independent candidacy in hopes of thwarting a victory by Republican Marco Rubio.

People familiar with the matter said the former president and other top national Democrats worry a win by the charismatic Mr. Rubio, a 39-year-old Cuban-American, would make him a political phenomenon capable of boosting the GOP's chances with Hispanic voters. These people said the conversation occurred during Mr. Clinton's Florida visit on Oct. 19. Mr. Meek wavered for several days—suggesting to some that he could leave the race—but decided against it.

"They had a conversation about the fact that the prospects of him winning had passed him by and that the only way the Republican would be defeated is to jump on board with Crist," said a Florida Democrat familiar with the discussion.

The conversation was reported Thursday evening by Politico.

Meek campaign spokesman Adam Sharon said he didn't know if Mr. Clinton asked Mr. Meek to drop out of the race. "They talked, they've been talking about this race all the time," Mr. Sharon said.

But in a written statement, Meek campaign manager Abe Dyk said Mr. Meek "was never dropping out of this race, is never dropping out of this race, and will never drop out of this race."

Clinton spokesman Matt McKenna confirmed the conversation took place.

Three people familiar with the discussion said Mr. Meek came very close to dropping out. The talk with Mr. Clinton occurred after days of shuttle diplomacy by Clinton counselor Doug Band, who acted as an intermediary between the Crist and Meek camps. The people familiar with the matter said the White House, which has publicly backed Mr. Meek, was aware of the discussion but was not involved. A White House official did not respond to requests for comment late Thursday.

The news of Mr. Clinton's intervention comes as the race appears to be a two-way affair between Messrs. Rubio and Crist, with Mr. Meek dropping far behind. A Quinnipiac poll this week showed Mr. Meek backed by 15% of respondents, while 42% supported Mr. Rubio and 35% backed Mr. Crist.

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele accused Mr. Clinton of wronging black voters in his attempts to coax Mr. Meek out of the race. Mr. Meek, a Miami congressman, is African-American. The intervention would send a "chilling signal to all voters, but especially African Americans," said Mr. Steele, who is black.

Mr. McKenna declined to comment on Mr. Steele's statement. The former president and Mr. Meek are close friends.

Mr. Crist has been trying to build a coalition of Democrats and independent voters, and some Democratic strategists have argued that Mr. Meek's base could put Mr. Crist over the top.

Other Democrats argue Mr. Meek should remain in the race because he may turn out a higher black vote—which would help Democratic gubernatorial candidate Alex Sink, locked in a tight battle with GOP businessman Rick Scott.

Crist campaign spokesman Danny Kanner called the report "accurate." He said Mr. Crist was focused on "uniting common-sense Democrats, independents, and Republicans behind his campaign because he is the one candidate who can defeat" Mr. Rubio." (source)

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