Posts filed under 'Racial Issues'
And on and on and on goes the story of a race hustler who makes his living off of keeping hate alive…
Hundreds of angry people marched through Harlem on Saturday after the Rev. Al Sharpton promised to “close this city down” to protest the acquittals of three police detectives in the 50-shot barrage that killed a groom on his wedding day and wounded two friends.
“We strategically know how to stop the city so people stand still and realize that you do not have the right to shoot down unarmed, innocent civilians,” Sharpton told an overflow crowd of several hundred people at his National Action Network office in the historically black Manhattan neighborhood. “This city is going to deal with the blood of Sean Bell.”
Sharpton was joined by the family of 23-year-old Sean Bell - a black man - and a friend of Bell who was wounded in the 2006 shooting outside a Queens strip club. Two of the three officers charged were also black.
The rally at Sharpton’s office was followed by a 20-block march down Malcolm X Boulevard and then across 125th Street, Harlem’s main business thoroughfare, where some bystanders yelled out “Kill the police!”
Please note the name of the street they marched down - Malcolm X Boulevard…a street named in honor of a racial con artist, just like Al Sharpton. We can either keep going - and eventually have the corner of Malcolm X Blvd and Al Sharpton Way, or we can stop playing these games. Whatever happened in the Bell case - and it does seem, to an outsider who doesn’t know all the details (ie, I wasn’t on the jury), that something has gone wrong with our legal system - the facts of the case do not warrant punishing all of the citizens of the New York City. And when we see some people shouting “kill the police”, we know we’ve got a poisonous, incendiary situation which requires the authorities to remain vigilant and immediately arrest anyone who appears to be inciting violence in any way, shape or form.
We must cease this paying court to the rabble rouser who shouts the loudest - order a re-investigation of the case; see if there is a federal civil rights case in regards to the death of Bell…but arrest Al Sharpton if he even looks like he’s going to start something.
Tags: Al Sharpton, Sean Bell
April 27th, 2008
Never thought I’d say that I agree with Bill Clinton, but Obama supporters do seem to be playing the race card in an attempt to bring the nomination process to an end:
Clinton’s solid win in the Pennsylvania primary exposed a quandary for the party. Her backers may be convinced that only she can win the white, working-class voters that the Democratic nominee will need in the general election, but many African American leaders say a Clinton nomination — handed to her by superdelegates — would result in a disastrous breach with black voters.
“If this party is perceived by people as having gone into a back room somewhere and brokered a nominee, that would not be good for our party,” House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn (S.C.), the highest ranking African American in Congress, warned yesterday. “I’m telling you, if this continues on its current course, [the damage] is going to be irreparable.”
That fear, plus a more general sense that Clinton’s only route to victory would be through tearing down her opponent, has led even some black Democrats who are officially neutral in the race, such as Clyburn, to speak out.”If you have any, any kind of loyalty to the Democratic Party, perhaps you need to rethink your strategy and bow out gracefully in order to save this party from a disastrous end in November,” Rep. William Lacy Clay (Mo.), an African American Obama supporter, said in an appeal to Clinton.
In other words: “Back out, Hillary, ’cause the loyalty of black voters to the Democratic party is dependent upon Obama securing the nomination.” I get the impression that, certainly among the black Democratic leadership, they feel it is “their turn” to run the show - 40 years of rock-solid support for the Democratic party, and the bill has now come due. Keep in mind that “disasterous end” has two meanings - a loss of the White House, as well as a possibility of black voters ceasing to be so loyal to the Democratic party. Too bad that support for the Democratic party is not based on shared American values - its all about getting a piece of the pie and ensuring that the swag is divvied up equitably; a little bit of concern about America over the past 40 years, and Democrats wouldn’t be in this mess.
Tags: Democratic Nomination, HillBama
April 26th, 2008
We seem to be having a bit of fun with this one, so lets have at it some more.
And still having fun with it…
Thank you, liberalism, for making this possible:
Two primary schools have withdrawn storybooks about same-sex relationships after objections from Muslim parents.
Up to 90 gathered at the schools to complain about the books which are aimed at pupils as young as five.
One story, titled King & King, is a fairytale about a prince who turns down three princesses before marrying one of their brothers.
Another named And Tango Makes Three features two male penguins who fall in love at a New York zoo.
Bristol City Council said the two schools had been using the books to ensure they complied with gay rights laws which came into force last April.
They were intended to help prevent homophobic bullying, it said.
But the council has since removed the books from Easton Primary School and Bannerman Road Community School, both in Bristol.
A book and DVD titled That’s a Family!, which teaches children about different family set-ups including gay or lesbian parents, has also been withdrawn.
The decision was made to enable the schools to “operate safely” after parents voiced their concerns at meetings.
What to do, what to do? Just how will our liberals square this circle? They must accord special rights to the Moslem minority, but they also need to accord special rights to the gay minority - and as the Moslem minority has a subset bent on beheading the gay minority, just how are we to “all get along”? Will more welfare make everyone play nice? Perhaps Obama can head over there and organize the Gay and Moslem communities into a loving fellowship?
Conservatives have no problem with this - we hit the gay rights people over the head with a two by four as a means of emphasising the point that you don’t teach five year olds about homosexuality; we then re-employ that same two by four on the Moslems who pitched a fit as a means of hammering home (as it were) the need to respect freedom of speech in the West. As conservatives, we find endless uses for the “two by four” debate method - though we find at times that only high explosives can solve the really tricky problems (al Qaeda, Berkeley, eg).
I don’t suppose that this impass with convince liberals that, you know, justice should be the goal? That, just perhaps, people should be treated as people and not as “gay”, “black”, “female”, “Moslem”, etc?
Tags: multiculturalism, political correctness
April 12th, 2008
Just keep turning over those rocks, and see what scurries away in the light:
The Advocate, a student newspaper at UCLA that ran an investigation about Planned Parenthood’s acceptance of racially-motivated donations, has released another video from its series of investigations into the organization’s fundraising practices.
In February, the Advocate released the recording of a call to an Idaho Planned Parenthood Director of Development in which the caller pretended to be a racist donor who wanted to reduce the number of black people. The Planned Parenthood employee said she was “excited” to take the donation.
“This new video demonstrates a disturbing trend of racism at Planned Parenthood,” said Lila Rose, editor of The Advocate. “Planned Parenthood has no shame in accepting donations to purposely abort minority populations. People have forgotten the organization was founded on these principles and has continued to operate under these same racist views for decades.”
The video features James O’Keefe, a law student posing as a racist donor, who contacted Irene Gray of Planned Parenthood in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
O’Keefe told Gray he wanted to make a donation to abort a black baby. He pretended to rant about affirmative action and how the black population needed to shrink because they compete with whites for admission to schools.
“Yes, yes, it’s a strange time for sure,” Gray replied to O’Keefe.
A group founded with the express purpose of reducing “inferior” births…most notably, of course, black births. To be sure, PP is ok with aborting anyone who walks in the door, but the institutional disregard for basic human decency is on display here - any one with a shred of morality would have told O’Keefe to hit the road…but when it can pay for an abortion (which is PP’s primary function these days), PP just doesn’t care where the money comes from.
Abortion is murder - if you engage in murder, smaller sins just slide on by…
Tags: abortion, Planned Parenthood
April 7th, 2008
An excellent description of Obama’s credentials, from Powerline:
There has been a lot of discussion about what Barack Obama knew about Jeremiah Wright’s anti-American, racist beliefs, and when he knew it. It turns out, though, that there is no mystery at all: Obama’s own autobiography, Dreams of My Father, answers the question. In Dreams of My Father, Obama describes the very first time he attended Trinity and heard Wright preach. What was Wright’s theme? A racist attack on white people. I heard this on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show today:
It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks’ greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere … That’s the world! On which hope sits.
Obama describes himself being moved to tears by this sophomoric analysis of the world’s problems. By his own account, Obama wasn’t repelled by Wright’s racism, it was the very quality that drew Obama to Wright’s church!
It strikes me that Barack Obama is uniquely unfit to be President, or, for that matter, to serve in the Senate.
PAUL adds: It’s pretty clear that no form of Christianity other than black liberation theology had any chance of attracting Obama. Wright’s sophomoric ranting was a perfect fit for Obama. It made him feel authentically black (see Shelby Steele on this subject), it fit the anti-American narrative Obama had picked up in the Ivy League, and it was the best church around for advancing Obama’s career in Chicago politics. People have had religious experiences on considerably less than that.
I have to agree with that - Senator Barack Obama has proven himself to be unfit for the office of President of the United States. He belongs to a racist, anti-American church; will not disavow said church or its pastor; he subscribes to a belief system entirely at odds with the facts of history and basic Christian theology. Never in American history has a man so manifestly unworthy of the honor come this close to the White House. Our task as patriots over the next 7 months is to do everything we can to ensure that someone other than Obama is sworn in on January 20th, 2009.
There is one very useful thing, however, about the Obama campaign - it has brought this species of thought (at once tiresome and hateful) to the forefront of our political debate, and if we can crush it at the ballot box, it will cast such a light of negativity about it that no future national leader will dare embrace it, and we might even see the Democratic party start to disentangle itself from such paranoid, lunatic thinking. For far too long we have patiently suffered ourselves to be called racists, and the great achievments of our nation to be slandered by mountebanks on the make - let us hope that Obama and his “reverend” are the last we see of such things in our national politics.
UPDATE: Also discussed over at Battle Born Politics.
Tags: Barack Obama, Jeremiah Wright
March 29th, 2008
That about sums up this story at Fox News about democrats vowing once again to end the race debate in the 2008 campaign:
National Public Radio national correspondent Juan Williams, a FOX News analyst, said a potential complication following Obama’s speech is the attention that it continues to draw to the issue of race. It poses a problem in a campaign where the candidates are trying to focus on the economy, national security and health care.
“He doesn’t want to be the black candidate in the race, because he wants to be the candidate who transcends race … suddenly he’s back in the box as just a black candidate,” Williams said.
The race issue appears to have had an effect on voters.
A CBS poll showed that 25 percent of those surveyed had heard “a lot” about Wright’s comments, while 33 percent had heard some. Of those aware of the story, 15 percent of Democrats, 36 percent of Independents and 47 percent of Republicans said it made them see Obama less favorably.
A Rasmussen survey taken from March 14-16 of 1,200 likely voters showed 56 percent of those interviewed were less likely to vote for Obama because of the Wright’s sermons.
And for the second day in a row, Clinton took the lead in the Gallup daily tracking poll. The poll from March 15-17 showed Clinton with 47 percent support among Democrats and Obama with 44 percent. The two candidates have been neck-and neck throughout the month of March.
Obama’s speech Tuesday was widely praised as a heartfelt, candid assessment of racial divisions that put bitterness between whites and blacks in historical context.
“With this speech Barack Obama showed he’s ready to be president of the United States,” said Democratic strategist Dan Gerstein. “The question now is, is America ready for Barack Obama?”
But it was also widely noted that Obama will probably not be done with the race issue if he becomes the Democratic candidate.
The Democratic candidates are finally starting to realize that when it comes to tackling race, they run the risk of doing nothing other than airing their own dirty laundry.
The dirty little secret is that, despite their best efforts, race will always be an issue in a democrat campaign for any office in the land, because for the past five decades, democrats have set up their policies and rhetoric in such a manner that race matters.
Whether it’s regarding affirmative action or any of a myriad of class-warfare inspired talking points, the white limousine liberal establishment have set up the plantation in such a manner as to convince a whole race of people that they are victims; and as such, are powerless in matters of self-determination, and impotent with regard to their affairs without the “benevolent, paternal assistance” of the white limousine liberal establishment; who promise to be there to distribute meager morsels of sustenance as token rewards for their continuing allegiance.
And woe be to those who stray off of that plantation.
I have said it often, and I’ll say it again. If the KKK, the Nazis and the Aryan Nation suddenly came to power, they could do no more damage to Black Americans than that wrought by the limousine liberal establishment over the past five decades.
One cannot extract race from democrat politics. They are forever and inextricably intertwined; that is, as long as there continue to be people of differing levels of melanin who are willing to buy into their empty promises and scaremongering tactics.
Tags: 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Democrats, Hillary Clinton, limousine liberal plantation
March 20th, 2008
Geraldine Ferarro had to resign from the Hillary campaign for saying “If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman (of any color) he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept.” For this comment, she’s been called a racist. Was there really anything racist about it? No. Of course not. It all comes back to the ultimate truth that Barack Obama is a media star and has avoided a lot of scrutiny because of his race. Hillary has gone from presumed frontrunner for the Democratic nomination to fighting for survival because while the media has treated her far more severely than Barack Obama.
I’ve watched the two of them debate a number of times, and it was ridiculously apparent that she was getting tougher treatment. She can’t even attack Obama without accusations of racial insensitivity being raised. To bring up Obama’s past cocaine use is apparently racist. To mention his middle name is xenophobic and racist. To show his picture in an attack is racist. Barack Obama has become virtually untouchable in this campaign because his race has been used as a shield to protect him scrutiny.
Ferraro may have not chosen the best words to make her point — certain in defending herself she seems to be digging herself further into an whole — but there was nothing racist about what she was saying. Keith Olbermann equating her words with that of David Duke actually quite proves Ferraro’s point.
I’m sorry, but Geraldine Ferraro’s comments are far less offensive than the rhetoric of Barack Obama’s pastor and spiritual mentor, Jeremiah Wright:
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAYe7MT5BxM]
But, I’m sure I’ll be called a racist for daring to talk about this.
UPDATE: More from Michael Graham.
Tags: Barack Obama, Democratic Nomination, Hillary Clinton, Jeremiah Wright, race baiting, racism
March 13th, 2008
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