DarkStar Spouts Off

Sharpton Gets Spanked

I had this post as a "featured post" because I thought what Sharpton did was disgusting. He should not have been defending the accused rapists of the Haitian woman who lived in Dunbar Village. Please check out this update. I'll post only a small excerpt.

In the past week, a rapidly-moving viral email campaign was launched, and thousands of concerned black citizens spread the word about a shocking crime against a Black woman and her 12 year old son, in which crimes against nature were committed. (read more details of the crime here)

This email, entitled “Stop Al Sharpton and the NAACP from endangering Black Women,”(source1) (source2) described a stunning betrayal in which the NAACP and Al Sharpton held a press conference and demanded bail consideration for three suspects in custody for the crime.

Again, please go to the link because it provides more background links.

DNA Database

Let me understand this.

If you are arrested as a suspect in a violent crime, your DNA goes into a database. What happens if you are not convicted? What happens if the charges are dropped?

In theory, this is a good tool. HOWEVER, given the Baltimore police RECENT history of locking people up on bogus charges, I don't like this bill at all.

The Baltimore police have arrested and put in jail:

• A teenager, in front of his house, who was talking to his cousin who had just given him a ride home. The boy spent 3 days in jail because he couldn't be arraigned in a timely manner. And after that, the charges were dropped. He has to sue to get his arrest record expunged.
• A meter maid parking violation officer, on duty, in her uniform, while she was ticketing a car.
• A man, on his porch in his back yard, for drinking a beer. He. Was. Drinking. A. Beer. On. His. Own. Property.
• A cart vendor who was moving his vending cart, even though he had all of the proper stickers and permits displayed.

No, I don't like this. I foresee sweeps based on bogus charges to collect DNA samples of everyone in the neighborhood.

White's Hate Speech

Did you know that Wright's hate speech was quoting a white pastor ambassador?

More later.

[ UPDATE]

It's later:

“I heard Ambassador Peck on an interview yesterday did anybody else see or hear him? He was on FOX News, this is a white man, and he was upsetting the FOX News commentators to no end, he pointed out, a white man, an ambassador, he pointed out that what Malcolm X said when he was silenced by Elijah Mohammad was in fact true, he said Americas chickens, are coming home to roost.”

“We took this country by terror away from the Sioux, the Apache, Arikara, the Comanche, the Arapaho, the Navajo. Terrorism.

“We took Africans away from their country to build our way of ease and kept them enslaved and living in fear. Terrorism.

“We bombed Grenada and killed innocent civilians, babies, non-military personnel.

“We bombed the black civilian community of Panama with stealth bombers and killed unarmed teenage and toddlers, pregnant mothers and hard working fathers.

“We bombed Qaddafi’s home, and killed his child. Blessed are they who bash your children’s head against the rock.

“We bombed Iraq. We killed unarmed civilians trying to make a living. We bombed a plant in Sudan to pay back for the attack on our embassy, killed hundreds of hard working people, mothers and fathers who left home to go that day not knowing that they’d never get back home.

“We bombed Hiroshima. We bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon and we never batted an eye.

“Kids playing in the playground. Mothers picking up children after school. Civilians, not soldiers, people just trying to make it day by day.

“We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff that we have done overseas is now brought right back into our own front yards. America’s chickens are coming home to roost.

“Violence begets violence. Hatred begets hatred. And terrorism begets terrorism. A white ambassador said that y’all, not a black militant. Not a reverend who preaches about racism. An ambassador whose eyes are wide open and who is trying to get us to wake up and move away from this dangerous precipice upon which we are now poised. The ambassador said the people we have wounded don’t have the military capability we have. But they do have individuals who are willing to die and take thousands with them. And we need to come to grips with that.”

Should I Even Go Here?

"Chickens coming home to roost?"

Should I even go here?

Sure.

E.L. Bynum

At long last, the proverbial chickens are coming home to roost. Because of abortion and many other sins against God, this nation is beginning to reap what it has sown. "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people." Prov. 14:34. The terrible race relations, the deplorable dope addiction, appalling alcoholism, widening crime wave, utterly amazing unisex and homosexual movement and the anti-God, anti-Christ attitude of multitudes today signal the approaching calamity. Insatiable inflation and the excruciating energy shortage may soon evaporate the American dream and turn it into a nightmare. The one world government to which we are already committed, will soon drag this nation down to the level of the rest of the World. "Whatsoever a man (or nation) soweth, that shall he also reap" Gal. 6:7. We are only now seeing the beginning!

"Religious Conservatives" and Katrina

LINDSEY: It seems clear that the prophetic times I have been expecting for decades have finally arrived. And even worse, it appears that the judgment of America has begun. I warn continually that the last days lineup of world powers does not include anything resembling the United States of America. Instead, a revived Roman Empire in Europe is to rule the West, and then the world.

Donna Takes A Hunk Out Of Hil's Behind

Donna Brazile:

Donna Brazile -- an uncommitted superdelegate of the Democratic National Convention and one of television's few black, female political pundits -- interjected an intriguing observation this afternoon into a discussion on CNN about Hillary Clinton's stiff-arming of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

In short, Brazile provided a pointed reminder that some voters (African Americans, in particular, we would think) might recall that Wright did not turn on Clinton's husband during an hour of need for him.

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Brazile's none-too-subtle point: There's a potential downside to turning away, with nary a forgiving nod, from those who once stood by you.

That last point. Isn't that why someone was called Judas?

Something Tells Me

Something tells me that Pat Buchanan and other paleo-conservatives have said some of the same "anti-American" things that Wright has said of "the chickens have come home to roost" type.

I know I remember Buchanan saying something about the U.S. support for Israel being why bin Laden is mad at us.

Or am I truly mis-speaking?

[ UPDATE ]

No, I wasn't mis-speaking.

Osama did not send fanatics to ram planes into the World Trade Center because he hates the Bill of Rights. He sent the terrorists here because he hates our presence and policies in the Middle East. He did it for the same reason FLN rebels blew up cafes in Paris and Hamas suicide bombers blow up pizza parlors in Jerusalem.

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The 9/11 killers were over here because we are over there. We were not attacked because of who we are but because of what we do. It is not our principles they hate. It is our policies. U.S. intervention in the Middle East was the cause of the 9/11 terror. Bush believes it is the cure. Has he learned nothing from Iraq?

In 2003, we invaded a nation that had not attacked us, did not threaten us, and did not want war with us to disarm it of weapons it did not have. Now, after plunging $200 billion and the lives of 1,400 of our best and bravest into this war and killing tens of thousands of Iraqis, we have reaped a harvest of hatred in the Arab world and, according to officials in our own government, have created a new nesting place and training ground for terrorists to replace the one we lately eradicated in Afghanistan.

Hmmm....

Climate Cooling

Climate cooling?

Last Monday - on ABC Radio National, of all places - there was a tipping point of a different kind in the debate on climate change. It was a remarkable interview involving the co-host of Counterpoint, Michael Duffy and Jennifer Marohasy, a biologist and senior fellow of Melbourne-based think tank the Institute of Public Affairs. Anyone in public life who takes a position on the greenhouse gas hypothesis will ignore it at their peril.

Duffy asked Marohasy: "Is the Earth stillwarming?"

She replied: "No, actually, there has been cooling, if you take 1998 as your point of reference. If you take 2002 as your point of reference, then temperatures have plateaued. This is certainly not what you'd expect if carbon dioxide is driving temperature because carbon dioxide levels have been increasing but temperatures have actually been coming down over the last 10 years."

Duffy: "Is this a matter of any controversy?"

Marohasy: "Actually, no. The head of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) has actually acknowledged it. He talks about the apparent plateau in temperatures so far this century. So he recognises that in this century, over the past eight years, temperatures have plateaued ... This is not what you'd expect, as I said, because if carbon dioxide is driving temperature then you'd expect that, given carbon dioxide levels have been continuing to increase, temperatures should be going up ... So (it's) very unexpected, not something that's being discussed. It should be being discussed, though, because it's very significant."

More at the link provided.

Rev. Fred Price

He's Still Not Afraid to Confront

At 68, Price is showing no signs of mellowing. He remains an uncompromising, shoot-from-the-hip faith teacher whose ministry has seen controversy but no public blemish. Much of his teaching, while grounded in Word-Faith doctrine, flies with prosperity teaching. His current series is "None Suffer Lack," and his previous, "Race, Religion and Racism," lasted for more than a year.

Though this explosive series ended in early 1999, its shrapnel remains imbedded in Price's soul. He strongly believes that racism is an open wound in the body of Christ and an injury the church largely ignores.

"We believers can say that God has given us the Holy Spirit to help us overcome drugs, drink and lying, but it is not quite powerful enough to get rid of racism," he told Charisma. "If we don't deal with it, it taints everything else we do."

Price's series on racism brought to light notes in The Dake Annotated Reference Bible that list 30 reasons why God intended the races to live separately. This 1963 version has since been replaced by a 1997 edition rewritten, according to its authors, to remove any racial overtones. The company issued a letter of apology to Price saying in part, "We agree that racism has no place in the body of Christ, or anywhere else."

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His criticism of statements made by fellow faith teacher Kenneth Hagin Jr.--and the ensuing backlash--still causes pain. The dispute began when Price heard an audiotape by the pastor of the 5,000-member Rhema Bible Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, recorded in 1993. On it Hagin Jr. said that when he found one of his children playing with a black friend, he told his child: "We play. We go together as a group, but we do not date one another."

Hagin Jr. has a policy of not responding to criticism, but he later wrote an apology to his board that read in part: "If I could take the words back, I would...but I can't. I can only apologize for having said them and pray that the hurt and confusion will be healed."

It hasn't. And what's worse, Price holds an honorary degree from Rhema and his church had been a supporter. He also credits Hagin Sr.'s book The Authority of the Believer, which he read in a single night in 1970, with making faith his ministry's staple.

He said he has sought a retraction from Hagin Jr., but when asked if he received it, Price replied: "When was the last time you got an e-mail from Mars? He apologized for 'if what I said hurt you,' but that is not a recantation of what you believe.

"Because you made a statement that made it appear that you have a problem with blacks and whites, you've got to come back to the plate and say, 'Listen, I said thus and so, but I have to take it back.' They simply apologized for saying something that offended me. They never recanted, and everybody is missing the whole thing. It's amazing to me how they can't see that or refuse to see it."

When informed that Bob Jones University had lifted its long-standing prohibition against interracial dating after a February visit by Texas Gov. George W. Bush created a firestorm of criticism for the Republican presidential nominee as well as the school, Price was suspicious.

More at the link provided.

Please read: The history of the A.M.E. church and the Southern Baptist Convention resolution on racial reconciliation.

So, has any of this been mentioned with the Wright and Obama controversy?

Easter Hats

I hope viewing these 11 pictures puts you in a good mood. It helped mine but in order for it to get better, ... never mind.

Church Hats: Sisters Step Out In Style

Southern Baptist Convention Resolution On Racial Reconciliation

WHEREAS, Since its founding in 1845, the Southern Baptist Convention has been an effective instrument of God in missions, evangelism, and social ministry; and

WHEREAS, The Scriptures teach that Eve is the mother of all living (Genesis 3:20), and that God shows no partiality, but in every nation whoever fears him and works righteousness is accepted by him (Acts 10:34-35), and that God has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on the face of the earth (Acts 17:26); and

WHEREAS, Our relationship to African-Americans has been hindered from the beginning by the role that slavery played in the formation of the Southern Baptist Convention; and

WHEREAS, Many of our Southern Baptist forbears defended the right to own slaves, and either participated in, supported, or acquiesced in the particularly inhumane nature of American slavery; and

WHEREAS, In later years Southern Baptists failed, in many cases, to support, and in some cases opposed, legitimate initiatives to secure the civil rights of African-Americans; and

WHEREAS, Racism has led to discrimination, oppression, injustice, and violence, both in the Civil War and throughout the history of our nation; and

WHEREAS, Racism has divided the body of Christ and Southern Baptists in particular, and separated us from our African-American brothers and sisters; and

WHEREAS, Many of our congregations have intentionally and/or unintentionally excluded African-Americans from worship, membership, and leadership; and

WHEREAS, Racism profoundly distorts our understanding of Christian morality, leading some Southern Baptists to believe that racial prejudice and discrimination are compatible with the Gospel; and

WHEREAS, Jesus performed the ministry of reconciliation to restore sinners to a right relationship with the Heavenly Father, and to establish right relations among all human beings, especially within the family of faith.

Therefore, be it RESOLVED, That we, the messengers to the Sesquicentennial meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention, assembled in Atlanta, Georgia, June 20-22, 1995, unwaveringly denounce racism, in all its forms, as deplorable sin; and

Be it further RESOLVED, That we affirm the Bibles teaching that every human life is sacred, and is of equal and immeasurable worth, made in Gods image, regardless of race or ethnicity (Genesis 1:27), and that, with respect to salvation through Christ, there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female, for (we) are all one in Christ Jesus (Galatians 3:28); and


Be it further RESOLVED, That we lament and repudiate historic acts of evil such as slavery from which we continue to reap a bitter harvest, and we recognize that the racism which yet plagues our culture today is inextricably tied to the past; and

Be it further RESOLVED, That we apologize to all African-Americans for condoning and/or perpetuating individual and systemic racism in our lifetime; and we genuinely repent of racism of which we have been guilty, whether consciously (Psalm 19:13) or unconsciously (Leviticus 4:27); and

Be it further RESOLVED, That we ask forgiveness from our African-American brothers and sisters, acknowledging that our own healing is at stake; and

Be it further RESOLVED, That we hereby commit ourselves to eradicate racism in all its forms from Southern Baptist life and ministry; and

Be it further RESOLVED, That we commit ourselves to be doers of the Word (James 1:22) by pursuing racial reconciliation in all our relationships, especially with our brothers and sisters in Christ (1 John 2:6), to the end that our light would so shine before others, that they may see (our) good works and glorify (our) Father in heaven (Matthew 5:16); and

Be it finally RESOLVED, That we pledge our commitment to the Great Commission task of making disciples of all people (Matthew 28:19), confessing that in the church God is calling together one people from every tribe and nation (Revelation 5:9), and proclaiming that the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is the only certain and sufficient ground upon which redeemed persons will stand together in restored family union as joint-heirs with Christ (Romans 8:17).

 

The A.M.E. Church

The History Of The A.M.E. Church

The African Methodist Episcopal Church, is a United States Methodist Church, not affiliated with the United Methodist Church governmentally, that was formally organized in 1816.
   
It developed from a congregation formed by a group of Philadelphia-area slaves and former slaves who withdrew in 1787 from St. Georges's Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia because of discrimination.

They built Bethel African Methodist Church in Philadelphia, now fondly known as Mother Bethel. In 1799, Richard Allen was ordained minister of the church by Bishop Francis Asbury of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
   
In 1816, Ausbery consecrated Allen bishop of the newly organized African Methodist Episcopal Church.

Confined to the Northern states before the Civil War, the church spread rapidly in the South after the war.

The Church is Methodist in doctrine and church government, and it holds a general conference every four years. It has about 1,200,000 members.

   

Drop Squad Candidate: Al Sharpton

I had a big problem with Sharpton not admitting that he knew Tawana Brawley had lied. He had the situation investigated and his investigator told him she was lying.

I had a big problem with Sharpton doing advertisements for a car title loan company.

But this one goes too damn far. There is NO WAY these inhuman people should be defended like this. Their parents failed in humanizing them and socializing them. So, let these people rot. And because you have the NERVE to defend these people, you get drop squaded! N****r you CRAZY!!!!

Hat Tip: P6

Chris Wallace Defends Obama

Chris Wallace comes to the defense of Obama when his Fox cohorts go "too far"!

This is unbelievable considering he was dishonest concerning Al Sharpton. BTW, stay tuned for a post about Al Sharpton.

Notes On The News

Passing comments on news and opinion pieces of the past few days.

Huckabee on Wright

I've received a few emails about this, and I've seen this a few places on the web. Mike Huckabee goes out on a limb:

And one other thing I think we've gotta remember. As easy as it is for those of us who are white, to look back and say "That's a terrible statement!"...I grew up in a very segregated south. And I think that you have to cut some slack -- and I'm gonna be probably the only Conservative in America who's gonna say something like this, but I'm just tellin' you -- we've gotta cut some slack to people who grew up being called names, being told "you have to sit in the balcony when you go to the movie. You have to go to the back door to go into the restaurant. And you can't sit out there with everyone else. There's a separate waiting room in the doctor's office. Here's where you sit on the bus..." And you know what? Sometimes people do have a chip on their shoulder and resentment. And you have to just say, I probably would too. I probably would too. In fact, I may have had more of a chip on my shoulder had it been me.

I'm stunned.

Sports

Bye-Bye Dookies!!!!!

Second-seeded Duke's quest for a fourth national championship ended abruptly in the second round when West Virginia used an astonishing rally to shock the Blue Devils 73-67 in the West Region on Saturday.

I shall forever despise Duke and their fans because of the racist comments directed towards Patrick Ewing, Sr. when Georgetown played Duke at Duke.

It's About History, If You Are A Terrorist

The next time some jack ass pundit says Blacks should move from areas where they are not wanted, or someone tells you the Confederate Flag isn't about hate, it's about heritage or history, tell them to kiss your a**, and if you're Black, tell them to kiss your BLACK a**, with emphasis appropriately placed where it belongs.

Deana Bryant allowed her 16-year-old son to wear a shirt emblazoned with the flag to school one day last week in open defiance of the ban. Speaking from behind the grocery counter where she works, Bryant said the flag is not about racism.

"It's his heritage," she said, her blue eyes flashing.

The same day, Lakeal Ellis, a nurse, kept her three daughters home from Fort Hill High School. Shaken by the escalating tension, they packed their clothes. The African American family came here a little more than a year ago from the District hoping to find better schools and a quieter life.

The girls were getting good grades at the high school. But after enduring racial slurs and harassment, sometimes at the hands of youths with Confederate flags, the Ellis family decided to give up and return to the District.

"Everything is over with Cumberland," Ellis said. "It's not okay for my kids."

I've been there. The heritage of Cumberland also includes incest. I'm not kidding. Look at where it is located.

Yeah, Thi$ Make$ $en$e

$ure, thi$ make$ $en$e.
NOT!

The federal government yesterday gave Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac permission to operate with a reduced safety net in order to increase their aid to the troubled mortgage market.

The step could allow the two federally chartered finance companies to immediately increase their investment in mortgages by a combined $200 billion, potentially compensating for weak demand from other investors. That could improve the availability and affordability of home loans, leaders of the two companies said.

Together, the two companies already hold more than $1.4 trillion of mortgages and securities backed by mortgages.

This is going to make matters worse.

Throwing Family Under The Bus

Do you remember who made this comment?

"She gets mad when the mailman is late with her welfare check. That's how dependent she is."

Do you remember the "she" is the person's sister?

So, now people the people who said not one word about the "mailman" comment are mad about Obama's comment about his grandmother?

I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother -- a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.

Oh, I guess I should mention Clarence Thomas made the comment about his sister. Here's more information about that one.

Why Obama's Speech Failed

Obama's speech failed in my opinion for one reason: it didn't go far enough to give whites who had doubts raised because of Wright, that comfortable feeling again. If you haven't read the transcript yet, here it is.

The fact is, the clips demonstrated that Wright is an angry Black man. When Obama stated:
Not once in my conversations with him have I heard him talk about any ethnic group in derogatory terms, or treat whites with whom he interacted with anything but courtesy and respect. He contains within him the contradictions -- the good and the bad -- of the community that he has served diligently for so many years.
That feeds into the fears of some white people that Blacks are angry and racist because of American history.

Obama's speech was nuanced when he had to be direct. Don't get me wrong, it was good, BUT, it wasn't what had to be done. Let me state it, again, in another way. It didn't go far enough to give whites a good feeling.

The following comments from Obama's speech is accurate and on point.

That has been my experience at Trinity. Like other predominantly black churches across the country, Trinity embodies the black community in its entirety -- the doctor and the welfare mom, the model student and the former gang-banger.

Like other black churches, Trinity's services are full of raucous laughter and sometimes bawdy humor. They are full of dancing, clapping, screaming and shouting that may seem jarring to the untrained ear.

The church contains in full the kindness and cruelty, the fierce intelligence and the shocking ignorance, the struggles and successes, the love and yes, the bitterness and bias that make up the black experience in America.

But that is too nuanced when, I think, right now, emotion and fear of the bad Black man, rules the day.

It just didn't work. I wish I could listen to talk radio to determine if what I'm writing is accurate or inaccurate, but I can't. But a big part of his appeal is that he was not seen as another Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson, Sr., and Wright blew that image out of the water.

Church

From the cell phone I have to say if there is a focus on the Black church, I hope it includes real discussion concerning Rev. Fred Price's race series as well as the Southern Baptists.

Social Justice

I have a few questions:

1. What is "social justice"?
2. Is there a consensus on the definition of social justice?
3. Why should a church seek to address issues of social justice?
4. Why should a church NOT seek to address issues of social justice?
5. Is HIV/AIDS a social justice issue?
6. Is abortion a social justice issue?
7. Is a married couples ministry a social justice issue?
8. Is a singles ministry a social justice issue?
9. Is n education ministry a social justice issue?

Whenever I hear "social justice" in connection to churches, it's always in connection to Black churches and a brother needs to know.

Obama's Speech

On the road and running late. I'm listening to Obama's speech and it's not going to do him good I think.

He had a good groove when he mentioned generational differences accounting for Wright's views.

He did a decent job of tying the Black man Wright, to himself, then tying himself to his white grandmother who expressed fear of some Black men.

[ UPDATE ]

Watch for "blame whitey" commentary.

JPMorgan And The Fed

JPMorgan and *THE FED* are bailing out Bear Stearns.

Bear Stearns, facing a grave liquidity crisis, reached out to JPMorgan on Friday for a short-term financial lifeline and now faces the prospect of the end of its 85-year run as an independent investment bank.

With the support of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, JPMorgan said in a statement that it had "agreed to provide secured funding to Bear Stearns, as necessary, for an initial period of up to 28 days."

For the next month, JPMorgan will work with Bear Stearns to reach a solution for its financing crisis. Options could include organizing permanent financing or, according to people briefed on the discussions, buying the bank for a discounted price.

"JPMorgan Chase is working closely with Bear Stearns on securing permanent financing or other alternatives for the company," JPMorgan said in its statement.

There was some discussion last week that The Fed was quietly hiring people to handle bank failures. Ladies and gentlemen, prepare for a life change.

[ UPDATE 3/15/2008 ]

JPMorgan buys Bear Stearns for TWO DOLLARS A SHARE!

Bear Stearns Cos. reached an agreement to sell itself to J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., as worries grew that failing to find a buyer for the beleaguered investment bank could cause the crisis of confidence
gripping Wall Street to worsen.

The deal calls for J.P. Morgan to pay $2 a share in a stock-swap transaction, with J.P. Morgan Chase exchanging 0.05473 share of its common stock for each Bear Stearns share. Both companies' boards have approved the transaction, which values Bear Stearns at just $236 million based on the number of shares outstanding as of Feb. 16. At Friday's close, Bear Stearns's stock-market value was about $3.54
billion. It finished at $30 a share in 4 p.m. New York Stock Exchange composite trading Friday.

Effective immediately, J.P. Morgan Chase is guaranteeing the trading obligations of Bear Stearns and its subsidiaries and is providing management oversight for its operations. The deal isn't subject to any
conditions, except shareholder approval. It is expected to close before the end of the second quarter.

DAMN!!!! It closed at $30/share and is brought at $2/share!

Jeremiah Wright Does Want Billary Can't

Jeremiah Wright's words are coming down the pike, hard and fast, to haunt Obama.

Black prejudice brings down Obama, not white prejudice.

[ Update 3/14 ]

I did this post quickly as there was D.S. 2.0 drama occurring at the same time of the posting. P6 rightly asks in the comments: Could you explain how "Black prejudice" is in the mix here?

"We've got more black men in prison than there are in college," he began. "Racism is alive and well. Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run. No black man will ever be considered for president, no matter how hard you run Jesse [Jackson] and no black woman can ever be considered for anything outside what she can give with her body."

I consider statements like what I've quoted to be prejudiced. Is racism alive and well? Yes, but to many people are succeeding in spite of it. "No black man will ever be considered" but Obama, up to this point, was being considered by enough white Democrats to cause Billary some headaches and go to the extent of using the race card. "No black woman can ever be considered for anything outside what she can give with her body"? I can only respond to that by saying my wife's OB/GYN is a Black woman. I have a cousin who is a medical doctor who has the option of going into private group practice which will allow her to have her loans paid or going into research and hopefully obtaining grants, part of which is allowed to go towards medical school loans. There is a female friend of the family who has started a group home care business. There are others, personal and those I'll never know about that directly contradicts Wright's comments.

You know my thoughts on white supremacy. For those who don't know, I don't think that white supremacy in the U.S. has as much power as some Blacks in this county thinks that it has. In fact, I think those Blacks actually GIVE white supremacy power.

Hopefully that is good enough of an explanation.

Paternalism Not Racism

Even though I used the term "massah" and "darkies" in a post yesterday, what she said isn't racist, it's paternalistic.

When Mondale was running for president, he didn't campaign for Black votes. When asked why, he replied, "Where else do they have to go?" That is paternalism.

Because of this, when I registered to vote, I registered independent. I didn't know enough about the Republican party at that time and what I did know, didn't please me at all.

Ferraro's paternalism came though in flying colors and it made people mad. I am one of them, but I've been saying and writing for years that the Democrats are not the friends of Blacks that they make themselves out to be. Older Blacks will stay Democrats, but younger Blacks are going to go more independent. The reason I say independent vs. Republican is because the Republican party is purposefully(?) not trying to get more Blacks into the GOP.

If any Republicans want to challenge me on this, bring it and I'm sure I'll make a strong point.

You Inconsiderate Darkies!

Ferraro: Obama should be thanking me for comments

"I was celebrating the fact that the black community in this country came out with a pride in a historic candidacy, and has shown itself at the polls. You'd think he'd say, 'Yeah thank you for doing that. ... we want to say thank you to the community.' Instead I'm charged with being a racist."

You inconsiderate darkies! Massah was being good to you!

Avery Has The Mic

I give Avery the MIC:

I’d probably suffocate if I waited for all the self-styled conservatives who acted like the world was coming to an end, or that the justice system was broken when the Duke lacrosse team was falsely accused of rape to rise to the cause of Alton Logan, a Chicago man who was convicted of a murder he didn’t commit. They might, but I’m not gonna hold my breath. The long and short of the situation, according to the Sun Times, is this:

Read the rest at his spot.