DarkStar Spouts Off

Romney And The Curse of Ham

The Hutchinson Report from Black America Web:

For more than a century, the Mormons clung tightly to their well–documented, race-tinged dogma that blacks were an inferior race, could not be priests, serve on missions or be married in the Temple. They repeatedly cited the Old Testament curse of Ham as a cover for their unabashed racial bigotry. Mormon church leaders didn’t budge from making pronouncements about God’s alleged curse against blacks even when other fundamentalist groups backpedaled -- at least publicly -- from using the Bible to justify racism. Sharpton may in fact have been moved to take his shot at the Mormons because he is a Pentecostal minister, and his church has at times been at odds with Mormonism. The Mormons finally backed away from their ban against blacks after church leaders claimed they got a revelation from God in 1978 that declared blacks were now equals.

That was a decade and a half after the great civil rights battles of the 1960s.

The Mormon leaders claim that they have convincingly junked their racist past. They tout their much-publicized genealogical research on African-American families, their aggressive missions in Africa, and the handful of blacks that serve in the important church body known as the Quorum of the Seventy to prove it. Yet, Mormon leaders have also have rejected calls for the church to apologize for its century-plus defense of Biblical-touted racism.

Nuff said.

Organ Donations

I understand the libertarian position that a person should be able to sell their body parts to anyone who is wishing to buy those parts.

While I don't find the idea to be immoral, I think the results of such a scheme would lead to rampant immoral, or amoral at best, schemes to obtain body parts. I think this reality show is a glimpse into what happens.

I also realize that some poor people, today, sell their body parts to people who can afford it. Right now, I don't want to dig up articles about it, but I know it happens, especially in other countries.

AMSTERDAM - A Dutch TV station's plan to air a reality show during which a dying woman will choose a recipient for her kidneys has triggered condemnation in Europe.

"Desperation becomes a spectacle in the Netherlands," said Italian newspaper Del Corriere Della Sera.

This is a "macabre contest," the Times of London said.

When the 80-minute show airs on Friday, a 37-year-old woman with a brain tumor, identified only as "Lisa," will pick one of three candidates with kidney problems, based on their history and conversations with their families and friends.

Viewers are encouraged to advise her via text messages.

Public broadcaster BNN said the idea was to highlight the growing shortage of organ donors in the Netherlands and the show would also serve as a tribute to its founder who died of kidney failure five years ago despite several transplants.

Imagine people going to India or poor countries in Africa and offering "a lot of money," say $200, for a liver, or a lung, or a kidney.

[ Update 6/01/2007 ] It was a hoax!

A controversial Dutch reality TV show featuring a contest to win a kidney was a hoax, producers Endemol have admitted.

The Big Donor Show was supposed to have featured a terminally-ill woman choosing a recipient for her kidneys.

However, at the last minute the programme's producers, who also make Big Brother, revealed on air that the woman starring on the reality show was a healthy actress.

But the contestants trying to win the kidneys are genuine and are still in need of organs.

All knew the programme was a hoax before they agreed to participate.

Programme makers Endemol said their show was intended to focus on the shortage of donor organs in the Netherlands.

Global Stuff

Pottie Poot is talking about new ICBMs capable of defeating missle shields...

Chavez has grabbed private oil company assets and made them government owned...

The U.S. is talking to Iran for help with Iraq. Iran. IRan. IRAn. IRAN...

China needs oil and has access t it with Sudan so they are going to block U.N. "efforts" in the Sudan...

We live in interesting times.

T.B. Man....

[ Update ]

It's being reported that the TB person who flew all over the world is a LAWYER!!!!

Seriously. I. KNEW. IT!!!!!

Yesterday, it was reported in the news that he had said that it was not explicitly said to him that he was not allowed to travel, only that he should not travel. I told Mrs. D.S. that the person was a "high powered business man" with an over inflated sense of himself and that he was probably a high powered lawyer.

DENVER — The tuberculosis patient under the first federal quarantine since 1963 is a 31-year-old personal injury attorney who practices law with his father in Atlanta, a federal law enforcement official said Thursday.

The official, who asked to remain anonymous because he was not authorized to talk about the case, identified the patient as Andrew Speaker. A medical official in Atlanta also confirmed the name on
condition of anonymity.

The man has a rare and dangerous form of tuberculosis that has proved resistant to drugs. He arrived at Denver's National Jewish Medical and Research Center for treatment Thursday, walking under his own power after flying from Atlanta with his wife and federal marshals, hospital spokesman William Allstetter said.

He looked healthy and tan, and "he said he still felt fine," Allstetter said.

Only a lawyer would parse language in that manner.

The jackass needs to be brought up on charges if possible.

No Words...

No comment necessary. From Black America Web.

The federal Department of Health and Human Services is stepping up efforts to help victims of sex trafficking -- particularly children -- to get help rebuildiing their lives, including finding food, shelter, health care and employment.

According to the department’s National Human Trafficking Resource Center, “Sex trafficking is a modern-day form of slavery in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such an act is under the age of 18 years.”

The State Department has reported that 600,000 to 800,000 victims are trafficked across international borders each year and that more than half of the victims worldwide are children. And while most people are aware of the importation of young women into the United States from Africa, Latin America, Eastern Europe and rural parts of Asia to be sold into prostitution, fewer know that FBI statistics show that in the U.S., 55 percent of people under the age of 18 arrested on prostitution-related charges are black children.

RanDumb Stuff

Just some random stuff:

• High school steroid testing:

Texas public high school athletes would face mandatory random steroid testing under a bill given final approval Monday by the Legislature and sent to Gov. Rick Perry.

If Perry allows the bill to become law - he has not publicly expressed opposition - the state could begin testing tens of thousands of students at the start of the coming football season. It would be the largest high school steroids testing program in the country.

"It will help secure healthy and safe lives for our young people," said Rep. Dan Flynn, R-Van, the House sponsor of the measure. "Coaches, parents and fans are going to appreciate it."

Here is the thing about this. What type of testing is next? Additionally, for those who know, this will destroy the Texas football machine. Actually, it won't. The students will learn out to defeat the testing much sooner.

• Hat tip to P6:

The principal of Bushwick Community High School in Brooklyn told me about a student who was gratuitously insulted by a police officer at a subway station the other day. The girl had lost her MetroCard and was carrying a note on the school’s letterhead asking that she be allowed to ride the train. This was fine with the token clerk, but the clerk told the girl to show the note to a cop on duty at the station.

The cop, in front of several onlookers, told the girl she was the oldest-looking high school student he had ever seen. He demanded that she tell him the square root of 12. He loudly declared that she was stupid and refused to let her board a train.

P6 is providing a growing list of alleged NYPD abuses. Later, when these kids are part of a jury, and it comes down to the word of a policeman and the accused, they will take the word of the accused and prosecutors will blame "Black culture" instead of the blue culture in NYC.

• If the dog fighting allegations are true, Michael Vick is toast. Him and his brother are proving themselves to be STOOOPID!

ATLANTA Falcons quarterback Michael Vick was at a dogfight in 2000 and is "one of the heavyweights" in the sport, ESPN reported.

The network Sunday cited a police informant whom a dogfighting investigator called "extremely reliable."

"That's who bets a large dollar," the informant said on the show Outside the Lines. "And they have the money to bet large money... I'm talking about large money, 30 to 40 thousand, even higher. He's one of the heavyweights."

When asked how he knows Vick bets that amount, the informant said, "because I've seen it."

The informant said his dog beat Vick's dog in 2000, the year before Vick was chosen by the Falcons with the first overall pick in the NFL draft.

• Dang. She bust her butt in front of the entire world!
• Star Parker is some where laughing at Barbara Wah Wah

 

Feeling Uneasy Yet?

Not long ago, Chavez took control of the oil producing assets of foreign companies in Venezuela. Now, Chavez is going after television stations opposed to him.

President Hugo Chavez's clampdown on opposition television stations widened Monday as police used rubber bullets and tear gas on demonstrators protesting what they called an attack on free speech.

Venezuela levied charges against US cable network CNN for linking Chavez to Al-Qaeda terror network headed by Osama bin Laden. The move came just hours after the shutting-down of the country's oldest television station, the openly anti-government Radio Caracas Television network.

The government also accused Venezuelan TV network Globovision of encouraging any would-be assassins of the president.

So, are U.S. Chavez supporters feeling uneasy yet?

It Was Wrong

It was wrong of the NY Times to publish a Memorial Day article highlighting doubts of current soldiers concerning the military actions going on in Iraq. The article was a political move by the NY Times, and I think on Memorial Day, it was way out of bounds.

And, no, I'm not going to link to it.

Maybe I Need To Change My "Mission Statement"

Because this search "do black men masturbate?" in Yahoo caused my blog to be visited.

Now, why in the world would someone search for THAT?

Parren J. Mitchell: 1922 - 2007

Parren J. Mitchell, the first African-American elected to Congress from Maryland and a lifelong crusader for social justice for the nation's minorities, died yesterday of complications from pneumonia at Greater Baltimore Medical Center.

He was 85 and had lived in a nursing home since a series of strokes several years ago.

A founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus and later its chairman, Mr. Mitchell was the younger brother of Clarence M. Mitchell Jr., Washington lobbyist for the NAACP in the hard-won civil rights struggles in Congress of the 1960s and 1970s.

He and other members of the family, including his brother and sister-in-law, Juanita Jackson Mitchell, the longtime matriarch of Baltimore's civil rights movement, played important roles in social causes and held city and state offices.

"The Mitchell family is to social justice what the Rockefellers are to money," the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson said when Clarence Mitchell died in 1984.

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Born in Baltimore in 1922, Mitchell was a graduate of Morgan State College (now Morgan State University), and earned a Master's degree from the University of Maryland, according to biographical information supplied by Cummings' office.

Mitchell served in the U.S. military during World War II, and received the Purple Heart.

Memorial Day

My family has been involved in the military conflicts that the United States has been involved in since World War II, up to, but not including, the current military activities in Iraq.

I give them honor for what they did.

I don't have any family members involved in the current military activities in Iraq or Afghanistan. However, my daughter has friends who are in Afghanistan, GTMO, and Iraq.

I give my daughter's friends honor for what they are doing.

Finally, I show honor to those who I don't know, who have served and lost their lives, lost parts of their bodies, and those who have returned.

Thank you.

Macy Gray, "Big"

I heard about the latest Macy Gray release, but I didn't want to take a chance buying the CD, so I did something, as a rule, I don't do: I downloaded DRM protected singles. Yeah, I did the iTune thing.

Well, for Macy Gray, the download model worked. I sampled some of the cuts and downloaded those. First I downloaded "Okay" because it had a slightly funky feel to it and I'm feenin for some funk. After listening to the full song, I wasn't disappointed. It was well worth the $0.99.

Then I downloaded "One For Me" and, again, I wasn't disappointed. When I heard the first few seconds, I was hot, and then it got into the melody and I calmed down. It is a nice song and dare I say that her voice is sounding better or is it the production?

Her CDs have always shown that she likes sex and is crazy. Some men will swear that combination means she is very good in the sack, but that's not about this post. To see what I'm writing about, listen to "Harry" on "The Id" CD or "I've Committed Murder" or "Gimmie All Your Lovin' or I Will Kill You" on "How Life Is".

Straight. Up. Wacky woo.

Back to my review.

I downloaded "Shoo Be Do" and, again, I liked what I heard. This was another $0.99 well worth it. However, that was it until the other night when I decided to crank up iTunes and let some of the music I labeled as 3 and above play. I realized then the "Big" CD met my minimum buy requirements: 3 songs that I really like.

I downloaded the entire thing and I like it.

And there is "Strange Behavior."

Yep. She's nuts.

The Truth About Acting White

Surfing around I found the following link.

The Truth About "Acting White"

For twenty years, black students have been chastised based on flawed research. Black leaders and black public intellectuals routinely claim that black students see academic achievement as “acting white.” The actual evidence for the “acting white” hypothesis, however, is meager and not at all convincing when examined carefully.

A study by the Girl Scout Research Institute shows that black and white girls experience equivalent levels of academically-oriented teasing. Forty-one percent of white girls reported that they worried about being teased for speaking or participating in class. Thirty-five percent of black girls felt the same. These results are statistically equal because the margin of error is plus or minus 7 percentage points.

The proponents of the “acting white” hypothesis claim that black students experience much more academic teasing than white students, but they have never presented any direct evidence to support this assertion.

I need to find out more about this. Something seems "weak" about this.

I Don't Got A Belly Button

Ghetto Pass

D.S. 2.0 was in his crib as Mrs. D.S. and I were getting ready for church. We had put on a Veggie Tales CD. When I entered the room, "Belly Button" was playing.

People, that song is the JAM!!!

I was joking with Mrs. D.S. when I told her that if the Veggie Tales has another song like that, they may have to get a ghetto pass.

So, my list of Ghetto Pass artists are:

• Teena Marie -- Do I even have to explain why?
• Hall & Oates -- Again, do I even have to explain why?
• Average White Band -- Look, NO ONE will even blink an eye at the brothas of anotha color from Scotland.
• K.C. and The Sunshine Band -- Some called it airy pop, but I don't care. There is no way you can listen to a "best of" and NOT agree they had music to keep a house party going.
• Wild Cherry -- "Play That Funky Music" gets them at the door. The music they had afterwards wasn't of that high quality, but they gave it a good effort. The album covers gets them in the door! ;-)
• The Doobie Brothers -- Yes, this one is controversial given their early stuff and some people have suggested that MY PASS gets revoked for even mentioning them. But I still say they have it, if not, then I acknowledge the controversial nature of my choice by substituting Michael McDonald.
• Eric Clapton -- Listen to his blues work and what he did with B.B. King.

I need to tell you something...
I don't got no belly button...

Black scholars mentor struggling peers

Black scholars mentor struggling peers

BRENT CHAMPACO; The News Tribune
Last updated: May 24th, 2007 01:20 AM (PDT)

Titus Kimbowa has worked all year to give some of Curtis High School’s struggling black students what they need to improve in class – encouragement, advice, nagging or whatever it takes.

Kimbowa isn’t a teacher or adviser. He’s a peer, “an average student like any other,” the 17-year-old says.

He is one of nine black juniors and seniors who are mentors on the University Place school’s Minority Achievement Committee.

The mentors, called MAC scholars, have met every Tuesday to relate with nine students in ways that few teachers, staff members or parents can.

The outgoing Kimbowa said most mentors don’t have perfect grades. Some had trouble in elementary school or just didn’t care about academics until they got older.

They’ve all felt pressure from peers to act a certain way. Good grades, they’ve learned, can hurt your image on campus.

It’s especially true for black students, said Kimbowa, who described himself as a B or C student.

“What we did was show them where we’ve been, where we’ve struggled,” he said. “We connected a lot better.”

Spouting Off On Political Involvement

From a comment I made at Baldilocks:

After one's party "wins" or "loses," what are we all going to do about the things that we really care about?

Nuthin.

We have a populace where most of those who are eligible to take part, are not taking part. That means we are "controlled" by a minority. Of that minority, a minority actually takes part in the local and national party process. That means a super-minority (hah!), controls the political process at the local, state, and national level. They control who "we choose." And those who care, who do we choose? We choose a person from a short list of megalomaniac puffed up suits, whose intelligence and commitment to the people "who elected them" is suspect.

Actually, their commitment to those who *REALLY* elected them is NOT suspect. The super-minority rules in 9 out of 10 cases.

The cynic quotient is high.

Coronor's Report

This is just damn funny!

Three dead bodies turn up at the mortuary, all with very big smiles on their faces.  The coroner calls the police to tell them what has happened.

The Coroner tells the Inspector: "First body is an 85-year-old Frenchman. He died of heart failure while kissing his 20 year old mistress, hence the enormous smile."

"The second body is an Irishman, 25 years of age.  He won a thousand dollars on the lottery and spent it all on whisky in one day.  Died of alcohol poisoning; hence the smile."

The Inspector asked, "What of the third body?"

"Ah," says the coroner, "This is the most unusual one.  This is the Reverend Al Sharpton. He was struck by lightning."

"Why is he smiling then?" inquires the Inspector.

"He thought he was having his picture taken."

50% Rise In Energy Price For Maryland

[ Update ] Updated to contain link to newspaper article

"I told you" so will be what some friends of mine will be hearing today.

I told them then Mayor O'Malley was fooling the citizens of Maryland when he "stopped" the pending rate increase, which was due to price caps coming off, with a lawsuit. I told them there is no way the price increase will not kick in eventually because you can't use $200 worth of energy and only pay for $100 worth of energy and not pay the remaining difference.

I TOLD people after the election, if O'Malley wins, "his" public energy commission would let the rate increase go through. I TOLD people that all he was doing was making an election year move that would come back and bite us in the ass.

I TOLD people this but was waved off.

Guess what? "His" public energy commission approved the 50% energy rate increase. Plus, we have to pay the difference accrued during the past few months, with interest.

The Maryland utility commission said today that state law and past commission decisions leave it no choice but to approve a 50 percent rate increase for customers of Baltimore Gas and Electric Corp. starting June 1.

In a 106-page order released today, the Public Service Commission also approved a BGE-sponsored plan that will allow customers the option of delaying the full impact of the rate increase until January.

Consumers who sign up for the optional plan essentially will choose to take the increase in three parts, with price boosts in June and October and a final jump to full market rates next year. They will then pay back the deferred amount beginning in April through the end of 2009.

Paula Carmody, who heads an independent state agency called the People's Counsel that represents Maryland's residential consumers of electricity, said she wasn't surprised by the decision.

"There is no doubt about it," Carmody said. "Consumers as of June 1 billing are going to be facing a very high increase in their bills, and I think what you heard today is that there is a long list of long-term issues that we need to address as public policy issues in the state of Maryland."

...

Today, Republicans pounced on the rate increase to criticize O'Malley.

"O'Malley's pledge to hold the line on rate increases and help working families was a false campaign promise," said Maryland Republican Party Chairman James Pelura.

I. TOLD. YOU. SO.

2 Tales of 1 Poll

[ Update ] Reformatted

Young U.S. Muslims back suicide attacks

By Jennifer Harper
THE WASHINGTON TIMES May 23, 2007

The first nationwide survey of Muslim Americans revealed that more than a quarter of those younger than 30 say suicide bombings to defend Islam are justified, a fact that drowned out the poll's kinder, gentler findings suggesting that the community is mainstream and middle class.

"There are trouble spots," noted Andrew Kohut, director of the Pew Research Center, which conducted the survey of 1,050 adult Muslim Americans -- two-thirds of whom were foreign-born -- January to April. The results were released yesterday.

"We should be disturbed that 26 percent of these young people support an ideology in which the ends justify the means," said Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, chairman of the Arizona-based American Islamic Forum for Democracy.

Survey: U.S. Muslims Assimilated, Opposed to Extremism

By Alan Cooperman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, May 23, 2007; Page A03

Unlike Muslim minorities in many European countries, U.S. Muslims are highly assimilated, close to parity with other Americans in income and overwhelmingly opposed to Islamic extremism, according to the first major, nationwide random survey of Muslims.

The survey by the Pew Research Center found that 78 percent of U.S. Muslims said the use of suicide bombings against civilian targets to defend Islam is never justified. But 5 percent said it is justified "rarely," 7 percent said "sometimes," and 1 percent said "often"; the remaining 9 percent said they did not know or declined to answer.

Just Think About This

Just think about this.

Are you tired of going to the bathroom to do a #1 or #2? Wouldn't you like to not have that "inconvenience"? Why don't you have an operation that plugs up the holes? That will solve it, right?

Huh? It's a natural process that cleans the system? So what? At least you won't have to take a time out to "relieve" yourself.

Now, think about taking a pill that stops your periods. And the difference is what?

A Damn Shame

A pre-teen Black boy comes home and tells his mother that he doesn't want to return to the school which he currently attends.

The following events have happened during the year:

• He has complained the teacher doesn't control the class. When the parent complained to the principal, she was dismissed as a hovering parent. (The real problem is the school is on the NCLB list as an under performing school. If they have too many "disruptions" this year, the school will be labeled as dangerous, which it is).
• He has complained that when a fight breaks out in the class, it is the students who break up the fights, not the teacher.
• The teacher was "out" for 2 months. During this time, the long term substitute had the class under control and the students learned. The boy actually enjoyed the time. Parents tried to get the substitute as a replacement but were unsuccessful.
• Parents who enter the school for one reason or another, take it upon themselves to clear the hallways of children who are roaming freely.

I wonder if his mother will sneak him into a county school?

Parents Fleeing City Schools

When I attended Baltimore City Public Schools, I knew of people who lived in Baltimore, but lied about their address so their children could go to better schools. I know that it still occurs and this confirms it:

Baltimore County officials are ready to go to the wall...or at least the state Attorney General...to verify residency for up to 10 percent of the county's public school students.

That's the estimated number Councilman Vincent Gardina believes are non-residents.

Non-residents comprise from 1 percent to 10 percent of the student body, Gardina said.   

That could mean at least 10,000 students are non-residents, Gardina said.

But school officials are resisting efforts to open up student records.

Gardina said the County Council's attorney's believes the records should be open.

And the Council is ready to go to the state Attorney General to get a legal opinion on opening up the records for inspection.

Gardina said the non-resident students are costing taxpayers up to 80 million dollars a year.

I've written politicians in this state to strongly suggest that students should be allowed to attend Maryland public schools in public school systems for which they are not residents. The first priority should be given to residents for which the school they want to attend is in their zone. The second priority should be given to school system residents. Then, open slots should go to students who live in other areas. The school system that "loses" the student could transfer the money to the school system that "gains" the student. This would be a lot better than having the child pulled out of the school and the parents potentially made criminals for doing something good for their children.

In fact, right now, the Baltimore County Public School system hires people full time to verify student residence. That is a silly waste of money.

Stop Sinnin'

Provided without commentary:

Vowing to decrease by half the number of murders in Baltimore this summer, the Rev. Jamal-Harrison Bryant, whose youth and charisma have propelled him to celebrity status in the area's Christian community, announced yesterday plans for a new crime-fighting initiative called "Stop Sinning" - a play on the infamous inner-city mantra "Stop Snitching."

Standing under a white tent before a podium on a West Baltimore street, Bryant, who heads Empowerment Temple AME Church - which began as a congregation of 40 and grew into a megachurch of more than 10,000 under his leadership - called for the city's more than 2,000 places of worship to help decrease the violence and "apathy," that he said has overtaken the city.

Bryant said he hopes to meet his goal by hosting a gun buy-back June 1, conducting "'hood invasions," in which ministers and other community outreach personnel hit the streets to talk to young people - particularly young men who lack male role models - and pushing for local businesses, particularly the ones that the church patronizes, to offer jobs and internships to people in the community.

"Men and women of God, get from behind the pulpit and get on the street," Bryant roared to a crowd of congregants, city officials and police gathered at West North Avenue and Poplar Grove Street. He declared "war" on the "Stop Snitching" campaign, which gained notoriety when NBA player and Baltimore native Carmelo Anthony appeared in a video that urged crime witnesses to refrain from cooperating with the police. Anthony later apologized.

"Don't let Empowerment Temple stand alone," Bryant said. "Don't let the mayor stand alone. Don't let the police commanders stand alone. We declare war on the violence and murder. The only thing we're burying is apathy. ... This will not be a summer of funerals. It will be a summer of revivals."

Carmelo Anthony is a PUNK!!!!
OK, one comment. :-)

Phrase For The Day: Garbage In, Garbage Out

The phrase for the day is "garbage in, garbage out."

I'm going to break down commentary concerning middle class Blacks and poor Blacks and the "responsibility" of middle class Blacks. Actually, I'm going to look at the fallacies involved in the commentary. Thus, I will show GIGO in action.

This is part of a post at Booker Rising:

The May Essence magazine examines the growing divisiveness between poor blacks and the black middle class today. Of course there is a divide: Those of us who've 'made it' have been taught to despise those who didn't.

There is more to the quote, some of which I believe in, but I really tire of statements based on myths and/or fallacies, being used as a starting point for an article or "conversation" because the myth or fallacy, gains credibility.

For example, here is a link to information concerning Black philanthropy:

Her belief may not surprise other black people who give to churches and charities. According to a national study published this month, black Americans give a higher percentage of their income to charitable causes than any other racial group.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy study is the first to examine how housing, food, taxes and other costs of living affect the percentage of income donated to charity. The study examined giving patterns by people who earn $50,000 or more and itemize deductions on their taxes. The metropolitan area surfaced as the fifth most generous area in the country.

A separate Chronicle study that looked at giving at all income levels found that black people give 25 percent more of their discretionary income to charity than do others. For instance, black people who make between $30,000 and $50,000 give an average of $528 annually, compared with $462 donated by their white counterparts in the same income range.

I remember reading an article by Michelle Singletary that pointed out people in the Black middle don't have the same amount of disposable income as whites in their income range because Blacks use a portion of their income to help out less well off family members.

While Sherri Winston makes good points after the quote I provided, I can't get past her initial fallacy.

Booker Rising points to this related post:

No one is their brother's keeper within their own race. In fact that is the sort of talk that held back discussions on what is going wrong for a sizable amount of blacks within the community. The responsibility to the community regardless of race in some respects is for those who have "made it" make the effort to help create/nurture/guard opportunities for others to follow. That means not encourage or demand giving handouts or make excuses for failure.

I really don't know what to say about this one, given I disagree so much with the statement. I'll make a simple statement and leave it at that.

If Blacks have no responsibility to be the brother's keeper of others in our race, why is a lot of the commentary coming from "the right" about Blacks NOT being the brother's keeper? You can't have it both ways. You can't praise Cosby for saying what he said when he IS trying to be the brother's keeper.

There is more for me to write about this, but the truth is, I'm bored going over the same things.