More Liberal Racism
I see the Democrats, who have screamed and hollared about "voter disenfranchisement," are now insisting that no identification is necessary to vote.
12-20 million illegals are in this country with many using fake credentials and receiving government assistance. They vote and every vote they cast disenfranchises an American citizen.
This is the height of hypocrisy. Wnat even more Democratic hypocrisy?
I thought electronic voting machines were a threat to Democracy and a conspiracy by Bush and Diebold to steal elections. But the Democrats here in Maryland run elections like they do in Florida - badly. They totally screwed up the primaries here, so the Governor said we should use paper ballots. But the Democrats are having none of that:
A week after the primary election was plagued by human error and technical glitches, Maryland Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. (R) called yesterday for the state to scrap its $106 million electronic voting apparatus and revert to a paper ballot system for the November election.
"When in doubt, go paper, go low-tech," he said.
Linda H. Lamone, the administrator of the Maryland State Board of Elections, quickly denounced the plan to swap voting systems just seven weeks before the general election as "crazy." And Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. (D-Calvert) said it "cannot happen. It will not happen."
Which is it?
Also, here in Maryland, the media is trying to cover-up for the racist and anti-semetic comments by Maryland Democrats and people on Ben Cardin's staff.
The push was evident in a Baltimore radio advertisement targeting African American listeners that was sponsored by the Washington-based National Black Republican Association. The ad identifies Martin Luther King Jr. as a Republican and pins the founding of the Ku Klux Klan on Democrats.
One woman says: "Democrats passed those black codes and Jim Crow laws. Democrats started the Ku Klux Klan."
"The Klan?" her friend replies. "White hoods and sheets?"
First woman: "Democrats fought all civil rights legislation from the 1860s to the 1960s. Democrats released those vicious dogs and fire hoses on blacks."
Second woman: "Seriously?"
The ad says that "Democrats want to keep us poor while voting ONLY Democrat" and, "Democrats have bamboozled blacks."
Steele said he had not heard the 60-second spot but said he generally does not oppose Republican efforts to assert their "real place in history."
But the ad brought immediate condemnation from Democrats, who called it misleading and ill-intentioned.
"That's despicable. Downright despicable," said Isiah "Ike" Leggett (D), a former state Democratic chairman who is his party's nominee for Montgomery County executive.
"To run that kind of ad, to assume we are so stupid to fall for that kind of baloney, to use Dr. King's name in a cheap political ad like that, in my opinion, this will not be something African Americans will fall for," said Leggett, who is black.
Well, isn't that the pot calling the kettle nigger.
Everything mentioned in this ad is accurate. But what is more hypocritical is Legget's derision of the ad when he was silent about all the racist stuff coming from his state party...
Like throwing Oreo cookies at Lt. Governor Steele
Like the ad accusing Bush of the same kind of evil that those white racists did to Byrd by dragging him to his death - because he would not execute them.
It is just insane.
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UN Reality
A United Nations committee dealing with racism took time out from its normal schedule Thursday to discuss Israel's military campaign in Lebanon, despite appeals by Jewish groups and concerns raised by an American member that it was stepping outside its mandate.
Some members of the 18-person, Geneva-based Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) argued that whether within its remit or not, the body had the right to express concern about the humanitarian situation in Lebanon resulting from the conflict.
Others, however, believed the discussion was clearly within the competency of an anti-racism body, and accused Israel of targeting Arabs because of their race, according to a U.N. summary of the debate.
Jose Lindgren-Alves, a Brazilian on the committee, asked whether there was not at least a tinge of racism behind Israel's "disproportionate" response to the kidnapping of its soldiers.
He wondered whether Israel have reacted as harshly if there was no racism involved.
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Racist Epithets thrown at Condi
No, this isn't the latest DNC ad (but it comes close):
While U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has been in the Middle East meeting regional alongside Israel's military campaign in Lebanon, media outlets controlled by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party the past few days have been using racist rhetoric in their reports, referring to the American representative as the "black woman," "raven," "colored dark skinned black lady" and "black spinster."
According to a translation by Palestinian Media Watch, the PA daily Al Hayat detailed Wednesday's Ramallah protests in which Rice was described as a "raven" who "brings only destruction."
Al Hayat featured pictures of ralliers brandishing anti-Rice placards, some reading, "Murderer Rice go to Hell" and "Get out." One placard had Rice drinking the blood of dead babies and stating, "I need more blood."
I know, I know. The Palestinians have been reading Huffington Post and the Democratic Underground again for their talking points.
But I think it's ironic coming from a bunch of "sand niggers" - er, Arabs... ;-)
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Conservative Blacks and Ministers Blame Black Culture for Katrina Woes
I don't know if I would go that far, but there is a kernel of truth in that statement. What went wrong during Katrina was threefold: failure of local and state government, leftism and the media.
The media is the one that mostly fed into the perception that blacks were becoming animals (raping babies, murderous rampages and eating people) and leftists are the only people who would believe that blacks were capable (after only three days) of such evil.
But that doesn't negate the photos of people running out of Walmart -- not with medical supplies and water -- but Xboxes, jewelery and other things that were not essential.
What should come out of this is a lesson on how citizens need to remember their own responsibility in disasters like this: organize, help yourselves and others, and know that you are ultimately responsible for your own safety.
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Democrats Should Pay Reparations
That's what a study concluded:
North Carolina should compensate victims of racial violence that led to the overthrow of a racially mixed city government a century ago and ushered in a new political era in the Jim Crow South, a fact-finding commission recommended Wednesday.
The murders and terrorizing of blacks by white supremacists in 1898 led to a Democratic takeover from Republicans who controlled the city of Wilmington during Reconstruction.
...By murdering and terrorizing blacks in Wilmington on Nov. 10, 1898, white supremacists were able to overthrow government officials at gunpoint - the only recorded violent government overthrow in U.S. history, according to the 500-page report.
...The attacks killed as many as 60 people and sparked an exodus of 2,100 blacks, the commission concluded. Then the largest city in the state, Wilmington flipped from a black majority to a white majority in the months following the violence.
Democrats quickly passed voter literacy tests and a grandfather clause, which disenfranchised black voters until the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
Wilmington likely became a "catalyst" for the violent white supremacist movement around the country, with other states taking note, said Lerae Umfleet, the state's lead researcher.
The article does indicate that the study was commissioned by a Democrat. So much for the rewriting of history by the leftists in this country.
I am against reparations to descendents of victims, but perhaps the city itself could mount a successful lawsuit against the DNC.
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Rush is Wrong, Wrong, Wrong
I could not disagree with Rush more today when he supported the Congressional Black Caucus' stand for William Jefferson, Democrat, Louisiana, saying he was innocent until proven guilty and, therefore, should not be removed from the Ways and Means Committee:
"A drive by the Democratic leadership to strip the embattled William Jefferson (Democrat-Louisiana) of his committee post [that would be the House Ways and Means Committee] has triggered a backlash. This happened yesterday." With everybody else paying attention to al-Zarqawi and his assuming room temperature, the Democrats were trying to get rid of Congressman William Jefferson (Democrat-Louisiana). The Congressional Black Caucus stood up, opposed the move, and said the that Democratic lawmaker deserves a presumption of innocence. The caucus chairman is Representative Mel Watt of North Carolina, and he said that "some black voters might ask why some action was sought against a black member of Congress when there was neither precedent nor rule for it."
Now, haven't we heard the Democrats accuse the Republicans of running the House "like a plantation"? We have heard that said. That was one of the mantras that the Democrats tried, that the House was run like a plantation. Well, excuse me, but who is it that seems to be running the Ways and Means Committee and their own caucus like a plantation? It sounds to me like it is the Democrats doing this. Now, I know what some of you are thinking. Okay, the Black Caucus is asking for the presumption of innocence for Congressman William Jefferson (Democrat-Louisiana), and they're saying that we shouldn't rush to judgment out there. They don't think anything should happen to Congressman William Jefferson (Democrat-Louisiana) at all.
Now, I know, this is quite a different view being taken by Democrats when it came to Tom DeLay. They wanted DeLay to step down right away after he had been indicted, but that was because the Republicans caved to pressure to show the Democrats how fair they could be when they were in the leadership. So the Republicans wrote a rule for themselves that the Democrats have not adopted, and that rule says that if any of the Republican leadership is ever indicted, then that member will step down from his leadership position. There was no reason to do this. It was again Republicans trying to show how nice they are, how cooperative and how fair they would be once they assume power.
There is nothing more dangerous to my community than its coddling of criminals. There is no weaseling out of taking bribe money from an FBI agent on camera. This is just as insane as black people supporting R. Kelly peeing all over a teenage girl in a sex video. This is just as insane as black people supporting crack-head Mayor Marion Barry who was caught smoking rock an cavorting with a prostitute on camera. This is just as insane as black people supporting Bill Clinton (the first black president) for lying under oath knowing full well he molested his intern.
Innocent until proven guilty [corrected, thanks DoDo] is a legal term and only applies in court. Republicans are right to have the rule that if you are under indictment, you need to step down from leadership positions. This is not to say that people are guilty and cannot return to their position later, but it forces people to avoid any perception of impropriety that could lead to an indictment even if they are exonerated later.
Question: If OJ Simpson was on the Ways and Means Committee, should he have been allowed to continue to serve in that capacity while on trial for murder? How about after? He was legally exonerated from criminal charges, wasn't he? This demonstrates the seriousness that Republicans have for ethics. Tom DeLay is gone and if he is proven innocent, then he can come back to the table. No one really asked he resign from congress, but from his leadership position. Nixon resigned instead of dragging the country through impeachment (unlike another president). Libby resigned instead of fighting his legal battles from the Vice President's office. There is a reason for this; we don't want to tie a cinderblock around our necks.
I understand Rush's larger point: Democrats will throw any black person under the bus after they are used up for all their racial preening (see here, here and here). But black people need to stop standing up for these people! It makes us look ridiculous and it takes away the thunder of reporting actual racism.
What do you think?
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McKinney Mania Catches on at Black Chamber
Everything Republicans do is racist I suppose. Check out this item from the National Black Chamber of Commerce:
5. Now the Bigots want to Kill the SBA: Right wing conservative think tanks have found a new target. Being that they can’t thoroughly kill affirmative action through hate initiatives and stacking the commission of the US Civil Rights Commission with anti-civil rights fanatics, they now want to kill the SBA. It appears to them that the SBA has done too much for Black, Hispanic, Asian, Native Americans and Women-owned businesses. Providing loans and contracts that would otherwise not touch these segments, they are furious that not all lending and contractual opportunities go strictly to white males. Job creation in minority communities and women leaving the kitchen are considered threats to them. Think tank Groups such as the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research have gone on the attack. Let’s rise and beat them back. Congress should be put on notice: Trying to kill the SBA will be like trying to kill your political career – LITERALLY. We are watching.
This is in reaction to the following hearing:
An April 6 hearing called by U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., is one of the precursors to eliminating the Small Business Administration, says a California small business advocate.
The hearing will be biased toward elimination of the SBA because of the witnesses on its agenda, says Lloyd Chapman, president of the Petaluma-based American Small Business League.
A key witness scheduled to testify is Veronique de Rugy of the American Enterprise Institute, Mr. Chapman says.
Ms. de Rugy has advocated abolishing the SBA, contending that common beliefs about small business are wrong. She says when it comes to jobs, the greatest job creation comes when small companies become big companies.
What I find interesting in the eBlast that was sent to me is the advertisers on the email:
Verizon
Comcast
Exxon Mobile
Altria
Wells Fargo
and...(drum roll)
the United States Postal Service.
I have a HUGE issue with my tax dollars being spent in advertising fees to such an inflamatory organization!
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Neal Boortz crosses the line
I am disgusted that I go to David Brock's site and find something there that actually infuriates me. Neal Boortz:
BOORTZ: For instance, or for goodness sakes, jump in and I'm gonna say -- I'm gonna start out with something controversial. I saw Cynthia McKinney's new hair-do. Have you seen it, Belinda?
SKELTON: No.
BOORTZ: She looks like a ghetto slut.
SKELTON: Well, how is it?
BOORTZ: It's just -- it's hideous.
SKELTON: Is it braided? Or --
BOORTZ: No, it's not braided. It just flies away from her head in every conceivable direction. It looks like an explosion in a Brillo pad factory. It's just hideous. To me, that hairstyle just shows contempt for -- no, it's not an Afro. I mean, no, it just shows contempt for the position that she holds and the body that she serves in. And, I'm sorry, there's just no other way to -- it's just a hideous and horrible looking --
...BOORTZ: She looks like Tina Turner peeing on an electric fence.
MARSHALL: OK, so you don't like her hair.
BOORTZ: Yeah, OK, I don't like her hair. I'm sorry.
MARSHALL: That being said, I think a lot of people would say it looks a lot better than those cornrows she was wearing. You can't tell me that's dignified.
BOORTZ: Well, I'm not a big cornrow fan but I got used to her with that. OK?
MARSHALL: So she's staying the same for you?
BOORTZ: She looks like a shih tzu!
I just don't even know where to begin. Where does he get off calling her a slut? I made fun of Rep McKinney for her stupid statements about the incident. How does that make her a slut?
Who are his listeners? I hear people call into Laura Ingraham and Rush saying they heard Neal Boortz say this and that and they always almost sound like they are going to say something bad and Laura and Rush jump in to keep them from saying it.
And it's the tone of his voice; listen to it here.
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A Dose of Hypersensitivity
I saw the headline splashed on Drudge about some radio talk show host calling Secretary Rice a "coon."
I was outraged until I read the story. Isn't this really an honest mistake?
Lenihan was listing what assets Rice could bring to the league, including her tenure as a top academic officer at Stanford University and the fact that she is African-American.
“She’s just got a patent resume, of somebody that’s got such serious skill,” Linehan said on the air. “She loves football, she’s African-American, which would kind of be a big coon, a big coon – oh my God, I am totally, totally, totally, totally, totally sorry for that, OK? I didn’t mean that. That was just a slip of the tongue.” Lenihan later said he meant to use the word "coup."
Reached at home, Lenihan said he was still trying to figure out what happened, and was drafting a letter of apology to Rice.
"I was trying to say 'quite a coup' but it came out 'coon,"' he said. "I caught myself and apologized. It wasn't anything I was meaning to say. I never use that word.
Coup, Condi, Coon. That all could get jumbled to me. If Kennedy got a pass for calling Barack Obama, "Obama Osama" then this guy deserves a chance to apologize and keep his job.
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The Boondocks on Martin Luther King, Jr.
Aaron McGruder, the cartoonist who created the comic strip, "The Boondocks," is no fan of this administration, Republicans and white people in general. He's said some pretty disgusting things about Secretary Rice in recent years.
I don't care much for the comic strip, but he has created a half hour cartoon on Cartoon Network's [adult swim]. [adult swim] starts each night at 11pm and plays reruns of Family Guy, Futurama and American Dad along with some hilarious series they created like Sealab 2021, Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Home Movies.
Boondocks (the TV series) is actually pretty hilarious and last night's special about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was no exception. The episode, "Return of the King," pretends that instead of being assassinated, that King actually just went into a coma after being shot and wakes up in 2000. He comes out against retaliating after 9/11 and is called a traitor and is subjected to being a B-list television commentator.
However, at the end of the episode, they decide to create a new political party and King decides to give a speech. The speech went something like:
As I look out across the crowd now at all these black people who sacrificed nothing for the cause of freedom, I see nothing but a bunch of lazy, shiftless, trifflin' niggas! BET is the worst channel in the history of television. I saw Soul Plane and it was the most embarrassing movie I've ever seen.
He went on an on and I could not stop laughing. I think it was the best message for young blacks today--to see how absolutely embarrassed King would be if he were alive to see our culture today.
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Abortion, Blacks and the Democratic Party
During the Senate inquisition (a.k.a. confirmation hearing) of Judge Alito, it became clear that Senate Democrats are worried that, if confirmed, Alito would vote to overturn the Roe v. Wade decision. These Democrats believe that by rejecting Alito, they are defending abortion rights.
Well, according to some black Americans, abortion shouldn’t be defended because it is detrimental to black Americans.
In a commentary for Townhall.com, Star Parker wrote the following:
There's no way that a rubber stamp on Roe v. Wade is a pro-black stance.Black women constitute 7 percent of the American population yet account for almost 40 percent of our abortions. The abortion scenario in America today is one of white liberals rolling out the welcome mat for black women to destroy their babies. Black America is destroying itself under the encouraging and approving eye of white, liberal, elitist America.
About 400,000 black babies are destroyed each year. Thirteen million have been destroyed since the Roe v. Wade decision.
Tanya L. Green is particularly concerned about the abortion rate among black Americans, which she attributes to a policy implemented by Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger. Here is the beginning of a column written by Green:
On the crisp, sunny, fall Columbus Day in 1999, organizers of the “Say So” march approached the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court. The marchers, who were predominantly black pastors and lay persons, concluded their three-day protest at the site of two monumental cases: the school desegregation Brown v. Board of Education (1954) and the pro-abortion Roe v. Wade (1973). The significance of each case—equal rights for all Americans in the former, and abortion “rights” in the latter—converged in the declaration of Rev. Johnny M. Hunter, the march's sponsor and national director of Life, Education and Resource Network (LEARN), the largest black pro-life organization.
“'Civil rights' doesn't mean anything without a right to life!” declared Hunter. He and the other marchers were protesting the disproportionately high number of abortions in the black community. The high number is no accident. Many Americans—black and white—are unaware of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger's Negro Project. Sanger created this program in 1939, after the organization changed its name from the American Birth Control League (ABCL) to the Birth Control Federation of America (BCFA).The aim of the program was to restrict—many believe exterminate—the black population. Under the pretense of “better health” and “family planning,” Sanger cleverly implemented her plan. What's more shocking is Sanger's beguilement of black America's crème de la crème—those prominent, well educated and well-to-do—into executing her scheme. Some within the black elite saw birth control as a means to attain economic empowerment, elevate the race and garner the respect of whites.
The Negro Project has had lasting repercussions in the black community: “We have become victims of genocide by our own hands,” cried Hunter at the “Say So” march.
Considering the negative impact that abortion has on the population of black Americans, why do so many black Americans support a political party that has turned abortion into one of its idols? The Democratic Party has, in effect, supported a relatively high abortion rate among black women. Is this what black Americans want the Democratic Party to do for them?
Ted Kennedy had a lot of nerve to insinuate that Judge Alito is a racist, when Kennedy and his party are the ones supporting the eradication of black babies.
Of course, one would expect Kennedy to act callous in regards to human life. After all, he is the one who let a woman drown while trying to protect his political rear, and she was white.
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Why I Don't Celebrate or Support Kwanzaa
I don't celebrate Kwanzaa for several reasons:
1. It is not an African Harvest celebration that is what many black American's believe.
2. The holiday is completely made up (it's not even 40 years old) and is used to instruct people in collective Marxism.
3. It is designed to further segregate black Americans from American culture.
4. It is simply an excuse for a bunch of haughty blacks to don African costumes and parade around being "African."
5. It's lame.
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Excellent, Excellent, Excellent Demonstration of Black Hypocrisy
I would have never thought of this; NAACP politics are dubious to say the least:
About the death penalty, according to the NAACP's website, the organization opposes it: "The NAACP has long opposed the death penalty because in many states there has been a disproportionate number of African-Americans sentenced to death, particularly when the crime involves a white victim."
But where was the NAACP's opposition to the death penalty back in 2000? The organization ran an ad during the 2000 presidential campaign of then-Gov. George W. Bush. The ad -- with a voiceover by the daughter of James Byrd, the man dragged to death by three men in Jasper, Texas -- attacked Bush for not passing enhanced hate-crime legislation. Bird's daughter, in a dramatic voice, said, "(I)t was like my father was killed all over again." But two of the three men convicted of killing Byrd had already received death sentences, with the third, who testified that he attempted to stop the other two from committing the murder, getting life without possibility of parole.
The NAACP ad, in essence, says that Byrd's killers should have been punished more harshly. So apparently white bigots deserve the death penalty, but a black multi-murderer who founded a street gang does not. All clear now?
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Black Accuse Washington Post of Racism
Must suck for WaPo to suffer the same accusations that Katrina survivors level at the Bush Administration:
"Black and white get along just fine on the work floor, but the Post wants us fighting with eachother. Their plan is simple: divide and conquer."
Check out the petition by workers of the Washington Post.
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Andy Rooney Prefers "Negro"
'I have a problem with the term African American...The word negro is a perfectly good word. There is nothing wrong with that'
Andy Rooney on Imus 11/4/05, MSNBC, 8:45am ET
Drudge reports...
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Miers Is No Affirmative Action Pick
I came out earlier against the Mier's nomination to SCOTUS. Other bloggers here disagree and that is welcome. What I want to discuss briefly is the anger over Miers' support of affirmative action.
I have a different take of affirmative action than many of my conservative counterparts. Also, I should note that I do not agree that affirmative action and quotas are the same thing.
There is no governmental remedy to combat racism other than provable malice during the hiring process..."I won't hire any niggers." But affirmative action is an important tool to combat something else: laziness.
Miers supported a policy that asked, simply, that entities try to hire a QUALIFIED minority for every nine other candidates. To me, this is not racial preference; it is asking that people make the effort to FIND that minority that is qualified, but that might not have applied because he/she felt they would never be hired.
It did not ask that they find a token--it's asking for due diligence. If there is a minority candidate on par with the class of people being hired, find him/her and hire him/her.
This is the essense of true affirmative action: go beyond laziness and find that gem, polish it and make it shine. That's the least that could be done in a country that in living memory of my father and mother would have once forbid them from even marrying each other.
Therefore, Miers is not an affirmative action pick, she is a lazy pick by Bush. An affirmative action pick would have been found after an exhaustive search for another John Roberts, but with different skin color or gender.
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42 v. 37
So, 42% of the deaths from Katrina were black and 37% white.
Considering that 60% or so of New Orleans was black, what does this say about the racism argument (that being black and poor in America is a death sentence)?
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Kinfolk
Blacks turn to violent rioting in Toledo, OH, to protest a peaceful Neo Nazi protest.
They throw rocks at ambulances, trash black-owned businesses and burn down a bar.
This is all Bush's fault.
Meanwhile, political science scholar and world history phenom Wyclef Jean calls the Stalinist, terrorist, genocidal former dictator of Iraq, "Father Saddam."
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Brock, Bennett, Clinton, Jess and Sullivan
I am going to post extensively on this later, but I have a few quick questions...
1. Has anyone checked to see what level the Andrew Sullivan freak-out meter is at today?
2. Where's Hillary?
3. Where is Jesse--"Abortion is black genocide...What happens to the mind of a person and the moral fabric of a nation that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience?"--Jackson? [Yes, Jesse said it back in 1977]
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Solving Ebony Turner's Problems
I just read the article Kitty linked to below. This passage is what caught my eye:
Ebony Turner, a New Orleans health technician, struggled to keep her optimism but frustration had her near tears. She was staying at a temporary shelter -- a Motel 6 -- in Lewisville, Tex., which has a black population of 7 percent and is 22 miles from downtown Dallas. Officials from federal, state and private agencies were set up at the Dallas Convention Center to help her access the services she needed, but Turner was having a difficult time connecting her needs with their suggestions.
She was told she could get food stamps. "But, Miss," Turner pleaded, "where are we going to cook the food? We're in a shelter." She was told she could get unemployment benefits, that a letter could be mailed to her in two weeks. "Miss, where are you going to send the letter when I don't have an address?" She was told she was eligible for a low-interest federal loan. "Miss, how am I going to pay it back to you? I don't have nothing."
She was told the Salvation Army could provide clothes for her son, a ninth-grader who has a 40-inch waist and wears a size 12 1/2 shoe. The Salvation Army didn't have clothes that fit him, she already knew, and now she was at her wit's end.
"I'm not sending my child to school in flip-flops," she said angrily. "I'd rather go live in swampland than send my kid to school in flip-flops. Where is the government right now? I don't know what to do."
To demonstrate the impact of liberalism on the poor, I will attempt to solve all of her problems in one post:
1. Where is she going to cook the food?
Answer: buy food that doesn't need to be cooked.
2. Where are you going to send the unemployment checks?
Answer: Motel 6, 1705 Lakepointe Dr, Lewisville, TX 75057; she will need to specify a room number.
3. How is she going to pay back a federal loan?
Answer: By using the loan for what it is intended: find an apartment, find work and then pay the loan back.
4. What should she do with her fat, big-footed son?
Answer: Send him to school in flip-flops; we wore them all the time in Arizona. [the way her son looks is more important than his education???]
5. Where is the government right now?
Answer: In the Dallas Convention Center trying to help you while you kept peppering them with these dumb questions.
Posted by Aaron at 01:50 PM | Comments (11)
Black Lunacy
Yes, these are MY people:
The Red Cross has been praised for its tireless efforts assisting storm victims in Middle Tennessee. But there are concerns in the black community that the organization lacks diversity, especially in an effort helping mostly black evacuees.
A number of minority churches and groups are offering to help, but say they've been left out.
The Red Cross Shelter in Franklin opened its doors to storm victims last week. It’s only one of two shelters in Middle Tennessee. The other is in Nashville.
Both shelters are in suburban areas, and the volunteers are predominately white, while the evacuees are almost all black.
Some members of the African-American community say that’s not good enough.
...
[R]everend Enoch Fuzz says in times like this, the volunteer corps should be more diverse, “Who in Brentwood would know where a black beauty shop or barber shop is?” asks Fuzz.
The Red Cross acknowledges most of it’s volunteers are white, but says training is open to anyone. Since then, Joyce Searcy went through training, and is signing up others.
A number of black churches are helping evacuees on their own even though it isn't through the Red Cross.
Also they are assembling teams of 50 take turns volunteering at the Red Cross shelters.
I am utterly speechless. This is the stupidity liberalism wrought. The Red Cross is a VOLUNTEER organization. If there aren't enough black people its because they are not signing up. That doesn't mean black people don't volunteer. Many do through the Church. But to bitch and moan about people saving lives is contemptable at best.
Thanks, Michelle.
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Attention MSM: Black Folks Ain't Stupid!
This is Pulitzer Prize winning footage; ABC News discovers that black people are not stupid. Reporter wants to know, are you gonna believe the MSM or your lying eyes?
I just heard clips of the interview on Rush. Here is the video at the Political Teen via Polipundit.
It's ironic that the RNC newsletter is called "Rising Tide." How accurate.
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73 Year Old "Looter"
I am just beside myself. I've made my position clear on looting: food, water, diapers, formula, medical and survival supplies (hell, I'll even throw in cigarettes--if my city was destroyed, I'd need a smoke too) do not count. People running around with DVDs, TVs, 15 pairs fo jeans, jewelery, 20 pair sneakers should be shot on site.
Of all the bad things listed about the NOLA police, this crap takes the cake:
Merlene Maten undoubtedly stood out in the prison where she has been held since Hurricane Katrina. The 73-year-old church deaconess, never before in trouble with the law, spent two weeks among hardened criminals. Her bail was a stiff $50,000.
Her offense? Police say the grandmother from New Orleans took $63.50 in goods from a looted deli the day after Katrina struck.
Family and eyewitnesses insisted Maten was an innocent woman who had gone to her car to get some sausage to eat only to be mistakenly arrested by tired, frustrated white officers who couldn't catch younger looters at a nearby store.
Despite intervention from the nation's largest senior lobby, volunteer lawyers from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and even a private attorney, the family fought a futile battle for 16 days to get her freed.
Maten's diabetes, her age, not even her lifelong record of community service could get the system moving. Even the store owner didn't want her charged. "She has slipped through the cracks and the wheels of justice have stopped turning," her attorney Daniel Beckett Becnel III said, frustrated.
The woman was taking food. A lazy cop arrested this 73 year old woman. And her bail was $50,000.
I would send her $100 just for having to suffer this ordeal when all these teen and tween looters were just running away, laughing, pulling up their ill-fitted shorts.
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Rice on O'Reilly
This is not a 100% perfect translation. But Dr. Rice was on O'Reilly. I laughed my ass off on this comment (something like this):
I've been black my whole life; I don't need anyone to tell me about what it's like to black in America.
I've had a few drinks. I could be wrong. A transcript is forthcoming.
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I Want $20,000 II
James Taranto gets the goods on what I talked about here.
Acuna: [There's] a lot of frustration, and a lot of it stems from the confusion over what a lot of the evacuees have been told is going to happen with regard to their federal assistance coming in. And I have a gentleman standing here with me who helps illustrate that picture. He has chosen not to give his name, he is from New Orleans, and he only says he is for the people.
So if you can explain to me, what has happened with your debit card? You're having a lot of problems, right?
Man: Well, for one thing, you know, they're not activating. You know, they're giving us these cards, and they're not activating these cards, and they're giving us a runaround. Then when we call, you know, for the, you know, to find out if the card is activated, they're giving us the runaround. And they send us back to Red Cross, and we go to Red Cross--nobody knows anything, you know.
I mean, c'mon now, f---, you know, excuse my French, you know, but anyway, you know, we're out here, we're stranded, you know, we don't have any goddamn thing, nobody's not [sic] trying to help us. FEMA is a fake and a fraud. Red Cross is a fake and a fraud, you know. Where do we go from here? I mean, who should we depend on? If we can't depend on our own federal government, who can we depend on? [um, yourself?]
...
Sellers: Could you ask him what he wants? What is he looking for?
Acuna: Sure, hold on one second.
The anchor in New York would like to know--his name is Bob--he would like to know what it is that you would like to happen. What do you want?
Man: What I would like to happen? I would like for them to give us at least $20,000 apiece so we can, you know, get our life together. You know, we didn't ask to come on that bus, slave. It's like a slave ship. It's just like, you know, back in history, you know, they put us on a slave ship. They separated us from our family. They did it--you know, just modern-day slavery, you know? Just give us what the f--- we deserve.
Sellers: Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! Whoa! Hold on! Hold on! That's, that's, that's enough. I mean, you've made your point, sir. We thank you very much for being with us. But Alicia--
Man: It's like a slave ship.
Sellers: --we know there's frustration there, and a lot of these folks have gone through so much, and we don't want to, you know, minimize or trivialize that. But we still have certain responsibility here in terms of what we're doing as far as broadcasting.
James get's it right: Looks just like a slave ship, doesn't it? Well, except that on a slave ship, he probably wouldn't have his arm around a white woman.
Amen
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That American Racism
Check out the great slideshow at Townhall.
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Racism in the MSM
I, of course, am not surprised.
Is this just me playing a race card? Or can my fellow conservatives begin to see that not all is right with race in this country and that it's not trumped up grievance-mongering in many cases.
From Wonkette (of all places):
So. White people "find" food. Black people "loot" food.
This would be different if one had food and the other was carrying a flat-panel HDTV.
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Chris Rock Was Right
I am bewildered by the analysis of Patrick Ruffini's 2008 August Straw Poll. You can just see the results by clicking here.
I mince no words about my fawning over Condi. But in every senario in the poll, Condi (as a fantasy candidate) beats everyone, handily.
So how does Instapundit and Hugh Hewitt interpret Condi's victory? Here's Glenn's take:
And Condi Rice seems to lead pretty much everywhere in the "fantasy candidate" category. I think this makes her a very plausible VP candidate.
She beats everyone and they send her to the back of the bus! Honestly, I don't throw out the race card a lot (if ever), but this is very typical and I don't think that white people see what they are saying. I am not saying Hugh and Glenn are racists (or sexists). I just need to point out how sometimes Republicans/conservatives say things seemingly innocent can come across to others.
Here's what Hugh says in his analysis:
Glenn is spot on, to a point. It is a Guiliani-Allen race --in the late summer of 2005-- and will stay that way until the fall of 2007. Senator McCain and Senator Hagel have zero chance of being the GOP nominee because GOP primary voters will be vey loyal to W, and those two senators haven't been.
And when John Thune or Tim Pawlenty decide to test the waters, well, all bets are off.
Of course the front runner would be Jeb but for his last name, and that doesn't really bother the base at all. Perhaps he will change his mind...
And if Lynne said to Dick, "okay, honey, if that's the way it has to be..."
John Thune? He's been a senator for 6 months and Hugh is talking about John Thune? He also talks about Jeb Bush (who came in third in the "fantasy candidate" category) and Dick Cheney (who came in second in the "fantasy candidate" category), but no mention of Dr. Rice who's numbers are more than double that of Cheney.
And don't say its because she is unlikely to run--she is as unlikely to run as anyone in the "fantasy candidate" category as everyone in that category isn't publicly eyeing the White House (which is why it's called the "fantasy candidate").
Whether or not it is intentional, some people read statements like that as either racist or sexist. Chris Rock said in Bring the Pain that only in America would people ask Colin Powell to be vice president to a guy he could beat--Bob Dole.
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