Passing comments on news and opinion pieces of the past few days.
Huckabee on Wright
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
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.
Colbert I. King
Colbert I. King has been CRUSHING IT for the past few weeks concerning Obama and Clinton and race. This past Saturday, he does a good job on the Wright controversy. I've been wondering why no one has mentioned the birth of the AME Church or of Rev. Fred Price year long race series.
So one Sunday morning as Allen, Jones and the other black worshipers knelt to pray, white church elders tapped Jones and Allen on the shoulders and told them to take their praying upstairs to a recently built balcony.
Rather than submit to such humiliation, Jones, Allen and the rest of the black worshipers walked out.
The two men formed their own congregations. Jones gained permission from the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania to establish America's first black parish, St. Thomas African Episcopal Church. He eventually became the Episcopal Church's first African American priest.
Allen formed a Methodist congregation that eventually became today's multimillion-member African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church.
The walkout in the City of Brotherly Love occurred in 1787 -- a year that marks the beginning of America's independent black church, a theological movement born out of racism.
This history comes to mind as I listen to conservative commentators, chief among them MSNBC's Pat Buchanan, brand as "racist" the slogan adopted by Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago: "Unashamedly black and unapologetically Christian."
Jail 'Em and Sorry But You Brought It On Yourself
This is one of those situations where the people taking out the loan share a lot of the blame for what happened to them, but on the other hand, the people who "helped them out" are scam artists and need to be fined and locked up. I feel sorry for the Ortiz's, but she wanted something so bad that she willfully overlooked a lot of things that should have been warning signals.
Looking back, Glenda Ortiz can see she did everything wrong when she bought her house in 2005. In fact, to understand the housing crisis that has swept the country, one need only listen to the tale of the Ortiz family.
She looked at only one house and paid too much for it: $430,000 for a run-down, one-story duplex in Alexandria, triple what the house had sold for the year before, and $5,000 more than the asking price, according to real estate records.
She agreed to a high-interest loan that would cost her more than $3,000 a month, more than 70 percent of the $4,200 that she and her husband brought home monthly.
She signed papers in English that she didn't understand. One said she was married to a man she didn't know.
She placed her financial future in the hands of a woman she barely knew who sold cosmetics and jewelry door to door. She sought no one else's advice.
Please read the entire story. And if you come away thinking I'm a jerk or an unfeeling jerk, or something worse, so be it.
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