Wednesday - January 18, 2012
NAAAH looks for, finds racism in unreleased app
The National Association for the Advancement of Assholes (NAAAH, aka NAACP) has found racism in a smart phone app that is not only unreleased, but is still under development.
An in-development Microsoft smart phone app designed to help drivers and pedestrians avoid unsafe neighborhoods is proving controversial among some minority rights groups that find the software potentially discriminatory.
The as-of-yet unnamed product is being referred to as the “Avoid The Ghetto” app by those who are concerned with where it will guide users.
“I’m going to be up in arms about it if it happens,” said Dallas NAACP President Juanita Wallace.
That’s the way to ‘tone down’ the rhetoric isn’t it? Especially after your President asked for the rhetoric to be ‘toned down’ after the Gifford’s shooting.
Wallace spent her afternoon at a rally on Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. and said she felt safe there, but fears the app may project otherwise.
“Can you imagine me not being able to go to MLK Blvd. because my GPS says that’s a dangerous crime area? I can’t even imagine that,” she said.
No I can’t. It just informs you that it is a high crime area. You are free to enter the area. Nothing is stopping you!
Now, to make this a really racist app, and therefore more useful, I would include stats about white-on-black crimes vs. black-on-white crimes in the area. That would be useful!
Almost forgot: source article here.
Having reported that, last time I checked, there is still a Constitutional freedom of association. If I don’t wish to associate with assholes, jackoffs, and other assorted scumbags, that’s not discrimination. That’s freedom of association.
Ditto if I’m a business owner and don’t want AJS in my business. Or even want to hire such.
What we really need is an app that would show conservative vs. liberal areas!
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Permalink • Tuesday - January 17, 2012
liberal retards on the march to further pc
A bit of a brouhaha over a remark about blacks having a built in suntan.
Are white folks getting dumber and dumber?
Appears so. And many black folks must be having an honest laugh at the silly white people who seem hell bent on feeling offended on their behalf. Even if they aren’t.
The Telegraph earlier this week reported on a youth worker who was thrown off a council course for describing black folks as having a “built in suntan.”
Nobody so far has managed to explain exactly how or why that’s racist or offensive.
The lady made the remark was also called to account for her use of the term, “coloured boy.”
During the first day of an Essex county council youth offending service training session, the woman commented, “I have a stepfather who has a built in suntan.”
Oh woo-freekin-hoo. Quick. Rope and tree for the awful offence against humanity.
The woman of course has been apologizing left and right for any perceived offence which she says wasn’t intended. She’s 59 and said that growing up she was always told to use the word colored rather then black. Perhaps that was the choice of her stepfather. Who knows. But the two things taken together were seen by the council as unacceptable and racist, in spite of her coming from a mixed race home and background.
I can’t even guess when, where or how this stupidity will end. Or indeed if it ever will.
The politically correct idiot spokesman for the Essex county council says,
“People need to display open, friendly, non-judgemental communication skills and also show an appreciation of diversity and respect for all people at all times.”
So I guess that woman violated all of that but I still can’t figure out how.
And in other politically incorrect happenings.
A Conservative councillor has been suspended for comments he made on Twitter, labelling some disabled people who were protesting over cuts in their programs, as
retards.
John Fareham, a Hull city council leader, made the remark after a budget cuts debate last year.
He Tweeted: “15 hours in council today, very hard-hitting day and the usual collection of retards in the public gallery spoiling it for real people.”
He had the unmitigated nerve to write what people say all the time and write in truth more likely. But that isn’t accepted anymore. People now must be cautious about speaking their minds as heaven forbid, someone will be offended.
The committee that dumped him says his remark “breached equality enactments and brought his office and the council into disrepute.”
Never mind he was speaking for himself alone.
Now I wasn’t there of course and so I can not say with absolute surety that it went this way. But anyone wanna bet that the retards in the gallery were probably shouting over speakers because only their voices had any right to be heard.
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Permalink • Monday - January 16, 2012
Martin Luther King Jr Day
Martin Luther King Jr meets with Richard Nixon, 1957
As many will point out today, the ignored truth about MLK is that he was a Republican. At Grand Old Partisan, Michael Zak reminds us that Dr. King met with Nixon to try to figure out how to overcome the Democrat’s opposition to the Republican’s civil rights agenda.
And let’s not forget who voted for the Civil Rights Act, and who voted against it.
The Democrats do not now “own”, nor have they ever “owned” civil rights. The truth they want to hide from everyone is that they were dead set against it. This is the pro-slavery party, the KKK party, the Jim Crow party, the segregation party, and the party against civil rights. Always were, still are. And by expanding the welfare state, tearing down the family structure, endlessly playing the race card, and engaging in an endless war of character assassination against those with a certain color to their skin who show the content of their character by “leaving the plantation” (Hillary - “you know wha I’m saying!"), not to mention the soft racism of unnecessary affirmative action and lowered standards and expectations, they continue to do their damnedest to keep the black man down, beholden to the “massa” of big government.
WWDKS? What would Dr. King Say, seeing how many people voted for Obama mainly based on the color of his skin, knowing nothing - worse, purposely ignoring blatant evidence - of the corruptness of his character?
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Permalink • Thursday - December 22, 2011
it’s RACIST to use the word colored. wtf. why is that a bad word? what’s next?
I just happened upon this a minute ago. I don’t follow sports here, or as the Brits call it, Sport. No ‘s’ on the end.
But the headline caught my eye and I was going to pass on it until I realized the word was “colored.” There’s a video at the end at the link. Take look and listen.
His accent is pretty hard but judge for yourself if he said anything in an offensive way. Or meant it to be taken as ridicule based on race.
Jeesh. The stupid hand wringing bed wetters are making things worse by the day.
So then, an apology for the use of the word colored. Fucked up politically correct left wing dictatorship has taken over.
Gaffe of the day: Alan Hansen forced to apologise after making race blunder TWICE on Match Of The DayOutrage on Twitter after pundit calls black players ‘coloured’
England captain John Terry to be charged over alleged racist remarks
By EMMA REYNOLDSBBC pundit Alan Hansen is the latest to come under fire in football’s race row after making an embarrassing gaffe on Match of the Day.
The commentator - who is paid a huge £40,000 per show - shocked viewers by twice describing black players as ‘coloured’ when discussing the John Terry and Luis Suarez cases.
Fellow pundit Lee Dixon looked on in apparent discomfort as Hansen, 56, said: ‘I think there’s a lot of coloured players in all the major teams and there are lots of coloured players who are probably the best in the Premier League.
‘If you look at 25 or 30 years ago it was probably in a bad way - not as bad as some of the other nations on the Continent - but certainly there is always, always room for improvement.’
The ex-footballer had been discussing the separate allegations that England captain Terry and Liverpool striker Suarez have hurled racist abuse at other players on the pitch.
Ex-Liverpool star and broadcaster Stan Collymore was quoted in The Sun saying: ‘What colour would that be? Blue? Green? Orange?’
Although he didn’t see the incident, musician Example waded in to the debate, saying: ‘I didn’t see MOTD but did Alan Hansen really say ‘coloured players’?? Wow. Hand him his P45.’
Hansen was even labelled ‘ignorant’ and ‘overpaid’ by society blogger Toby Young on the Telegraph website - the same newspaper Hansen writes for as a columnist.
Mr Young wrote: ‘Alan Hansen, the overpaid football pundit, just dropped a clanger on Match of the Day. In fact, make that two clangers.
‘Clearly, Hansen’s intentions were honourable. But his ignorance is breathtaking. Is he really unaware that the word “coloured” has been verboten since the mid-70s?’
Hansen has now apologised, but it may come too late with fans and observers horrified at the lack of action to stamp out racism in football.
He said: ‘I unreservedly apologise for any offence caused. This was never my intention and I deeply regret the use of the word.’
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a couple days ago ...
Eric Holder doesn’t have a good answer for his involvement in the Fast and Furious scandal, but he has come up with an explanation for why he is the target of so much criticism. It’s because he’s black, which he says is also why Barack Obama gets criticized, too.
Holder says he’s a convenient two-fer for Obama critics. People identify him with the President because “you know, the fact that we’re both African American.” He also says those people who take exception with him or with Obama are part of the “more extreme segment” of America.
Of that group of critics, Mr. Holder said he believed that a few — the “more extreme segment” — were motivated by animus against Mr. Obama and that he served as a stand-in for him. “This is a way to get at the president because of the way I can be identified with him,” he said, “both due to the nature of our relationship and, you know, the fact that we’re both African-American.”
Today ... it never happened, it was all in your mind?
The Justice Department decided to respond to Attorney General Eric Holder’s deployment of the race card with a statement that essentially pulls the Jedi Mind Trick and informs us that we did not hear what we heard.
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Everyone capable of understanding simple conversational English was able to follow the plain meaning of these words.
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[ the response of the Justice Department:] “That is a complete distortion of the attorney general’s comment. His comments both in the article and elsewhere made clear that he believes much of the criticism is launched against him are unfortunately the typical Washington gotcha game. A simple reading of those comments show he was referring to how he is identified with the president given their close relationship and all they share in common including their ideology.The position of the attorney general has been a target for partisan attacks, and given the critical work that this attorney general he is doing at the Department of Justice, it’s no surprise that some are engaging in such tactics. His critics rightly view the attorney general is a progressive force, and given our current political environment, there will those who use any opportunity to score political points.”
Sure. Holder said that he got grief because he was Obama’s stand-in because he was black. And because he worked for him. The black part was half of his stated reason.
The parts I really like best:
This statement is much more effective if you print it on a piece of paper and spin it rapidly, forming a hypnotic pinwheel, while chugging eggnog. It’s possible the resulting trancelike state and/or nausea might make you forget what Eric Holder actually said, or the abundantly clear context of his remarks.
The idea that Holder remained in office for one single day after the program came to light is absurd.
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And now the nation’s top lawman plays the race card to save his hide… and his department produces the lamest, clumsiest attempt at spin to come out of Washington in living memory?
Once again, nothing to see here, move along. These are not the droids you are looking for. Hey, how about that weather we’re having? It’s almost Christmas and I’ve got the heat off and the windows open. It must be 55° out; feels like spring.
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Permalink • Tuesday - September 27, 2011
golly, he can’t be serious??
We’re in the era of Herman Cain, people, not Maxine Waters, Jesse Jackson, the stultifying Travis Smiley, or that man who has put a generation of Harvard and Princeton students into perpetual narcoleptic sleep — Dr. Cornel West.
And while we’re at it, all other caucuses based on race, religion, creed, or national origin should be put out to pasture along with it. Such groupings are so reactionary and self-destructive they make your eyes roll back in your head, collide with each other, and shoot out again like pinballs, destroying half your brain from the cerebellum to the medulla oblongata in the process. They divide us and help no one. They have no justification any more, if they ever did.
Racism is dead. Or as dead as it’s ever going to be.
Yes, I understand these things happen. I cringed when Bernard Madoff, a fellow Jew, was accused and then convicted of heinous crimes. But I shouldn’t have. And Obama — no criminal — is light years from Madoff.
The time has come to get beyond such identifications. Not only are they specious, they reinforce stereotypes that too often become self-fulfilling prophecies. They define us in ways we cannot even understand, let alone easily escape from. They warp our unconscious.
In that way, affirmative action may have hurt more people than it helped, lowering that most crucial of all “liberal” pieties, self-esteem. In any case, like the Black Caucus itself, it is outdated now.
Roger L. Simon in PajamasMedia
Good comments there too ... more than 20 of them before somebody brings in Hitler. Most of them would agree that you can join any group you want, but our taxes shouldn’t go to support it. And eventually a few of them bring up the obvious - notions that were obvious to most of us 25 years ago in college when we saw the Student Unions break into Black Student Union, Jewish Student Union, Women’s Student Union, et al, but never a White Student Union or a Men’s Student Union:
* I’d like to see what would happen if a Congressional White Caucus were formed. And for that matter, White Mayors, White Police Officers, White Entertainment TV, Miss White America, and so on. Can you imagine? Probably not. And that indeed proves a very frightening reality.
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* Ya think they’d allow a Straight White Guy Day Parade (“guy” is not gender specific) in ANY city in the US?
* The reactions amongst liberals would be awesome to watch and most likely so hypocritical as to point out their own failings so intensely that they would become a laughing stock. I’d love to see someone do it.
Oh, so you want to actually SEE? Ok, check today’s headlines for RACIST BAKE SALE, where a group of college Republicans is pulling out the hoary old chestnut - in use for 40 years now - of a fund raising bake sale that has pro-diversity pricing (minorities and special people pay less). RAAAAACISST!!! This old canard works every year, without fail. The left never sees how stupid it makes them look, and they never get wise to the fact it’s been done so many times before.
An open plaza at the University of California Berkeley will be an epicenter Tuesday in the debate over affirmative action and college admissions.
On one side, Berkeley College Republicans will host their “Increase Diversity Bake Sale”—a satirical event that will charge customers different prices based on race and gender.
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At Bucknell University in Pennsylvania, officials shut down a similar bake sale on campus. Officials at The College of William and Mary in Virginia cut off a cookie sale, saying they were “shocked and appalled.”
The University of California, Irvine, shut down a bake sale on campus, saying it was discriminatory. And a bake sale at Southern Methodist University in Texas was shut down after 45 minutes because of what officials called an “unsafe environment,” according to local reports.
Do you really want to get beyond race? Me too. Let’s not only stop collecting racial data at all levels of government, academia, and business, let’s throw away all the data that they have, and remove those columns from the database tables. Do the same for gender as well. And toss out every last law of any kind that mentions race or gender. Because it’s abhorrent that such things are even at the level of awareness, much less that they have any kind of legal merit. That way there will be no more discrimination based on either, and all of us will be equal as we should be. Of course, that means an end to every last “boot strap” Affirmative Action program, every last Hate Crime law, and every last Minority Incentive program everywhere. True equal rights. Oh, and we’d have to send all the race hustlers to some desert island somewhere in the remote southern oceans. Chatham Island ought to do it, 500 miles east of New Zealand. I’m sure the Maoris will welcome them.
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Permalink • Tuesday - August 30, 2011
some news from those wonderful folk who gave the world pol. corrrectness
They keep saying immigrants and keep referring to multi culture. But in one place someone slips and says what really is the issue. You’ll never guess.
This is the Netherlands, the folks who who gave us pc. This is their future and perhaps all of Europe as well. It’s their country and their lives and that’s the bottom line. But someday in the future, all this kind hearted multi-culture we are the world shit will come back on em hard. And while it’s a long way in the future for us, I fear America will go that way too. Would it make any difference as long as all were Americans? Yeah, maybe. Cos there are too many who unlike immigrants of another generation, want to bring more then the cuisine of their homeland to the west. Too many hardly speak the language of their host country. They have names they won’t westernize that consist of a series of letters none but the scholars of language can get a tongue around. Too many want the host country to be more like what they left behind, and cater to their idea of culture. No matter that it’s foreign to the host country.
Some of the young girls, like the few interviewed, will find that the Mr. Nice Guy they married have different ideas about a woman’s place, they didn’t reveal in courtship. And when the kids come and a problem arises, try and get those kiddies back from a muslim country where daddy has taken them. Far fetched? No. Not a bit of it, according to the horror stories that have been published here over the years.
I’ve said it before. I confess to being a dinosaur. I’m aware I could be wrong on everything. If not tho, there’s a bumpy road ahead as more and more Dutch (and other Eurowhites) continue to dilute their race and nationality with a stone age religion and culture. Of course, there are also other examples but I’ll leave those for another time. So far at least, they aren’t bringing home any Somalis.
Dutch parents: mixed attitudes to mixed relationships
Nearly half the parents of underage children in the Netherlands are not eager to have a son-in-law or daughter-in-law of immigrant origin, according to a recent poll. RNW asked teenagers whether they share that sentimen
In the poll published by popular pedagogical magazine J/M, 600 native Dutch parents specified how frequent their contacts with children of other ethnic groups are. The mothers and fathers were also asked how they prepared their children for life in a multicultural society.
Most parents said they thought it beneficial for their child to be raised in a multicultural environment. But 43 percent of parents said they would not like it if a daughter brought home a boyfriend from an immigrant community. An immigrant girlfriend for their sons would be hard to accept for 38 percent of parents.
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A brief note to clarify something. The girls mentioned above aren’t married. But it’s the all embracing attitude they have been indoctrinated with from childhood, that will bring about the future I write about.
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Permalink • Wednesday - August 24, 2011
calling ppl by names that appear to refer to their native countries is racist. huh?
I guess in today’s world one must expect this kind of nonsense.
I don’t understand anything about this. It’s way beyond stupid. What next?
Maybe there’s some kind of super hidden meaning here that only club members will understand. Jeesh. If this isn’t a good example of the overuse of the ‘R’ word, I haven’t a clue what is.
Take a look.
Polish engineer nicknamed Borat by ‘racist’ colleagues wins £2,250 compensation
By STEVE DOUGHTY and ROB COOPERA Polish engineer who was called Borat at work has been awarded £2,250 compensation after a tribunal ruled the nickname was racist.
Adrian Ruda was ‘degraded and humiliated’ by the nickname given to him by a fellow worker in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, the panel found.
The decision means a million Poles and other Eastern Europeans now living in Britain are legally victims of racial abuse if bantering workmates call them by names that appear to refer to their native countries.
Borat, the comic character made famous by Sacha Baron Cohen, is said to be a national of Kazakhstan, the Asian former Soviet republic that borders Russia and China.
Kazakhs have long resented both the comedian and his films which they say traduce their nation and its people.
The Leeds tribunal declared someone who was not from Eastern Europe would not have been called Borat and so the engineer, from Wakefield-based TEi Ltd, ‘had been the subject of direct race discrimination’.The tribunal also said the Borat image also insults Eastern Europeans.
TEi, which racked up substantial legal costs defending Mr Ruda’s claim, was ordered by the Leeds tribunal to put in place a workplace harassment and bullying policy.
It must now also train all employees in line with the policy and make them aware of the unacceptable conduct in Mr Ruda’s case.Employment law experts said the verdict is a warning to other managers and their workers.
Barrister Daniel Barnett said: ‘Although the case sounds frivolous, imagine if an African employee was nicknamed “Uncle Tom” or “Kunta Kinte”.
‘There is no difference in principle; Mr Ruda was given this particular nickname because of his national origins and for no other reason.
‘Other employees who were not from Eastern Europe had been given nicknames associated with their personal characteristics rather than with their national origin.’The tribunal declared that someone who was not from Eastern Europe would not have been called Borat and so the engineer ‘had been the subject of direct race discrimination.’
Mr Ruda, an engineering supervisor, was called Borat over a four-week period in the autumn of 2007 by one of the welders in his charge, the tribunal said.
He did not object to the name and regularly replied to it with a Borat catchphrase, ‘I love you.’The panel found the evidence given by the welder and all his colleagues at their Wakefield-based company, TEi Ltd, to be ‘forthright and honest’.
But it said the welder who used the nickname Borat – and who also called Mr Ruda ‘gay’, that ‘his knowledge and appreciation of discrimination in 2007 and even in 2011 left a great deal to be desired.’The tribunal said it disbelieved Mr Ruda’s evidence on a string of counts, including his claims that he spoke poor English and that a series of other colleagues abused him over a long period of time.
It said the engineer had been ‘less than honest’ over a number of his claims.
However it said he was a victim of both race and sex discrimination and said ‘the use of the nickname Borat was an act of racial harassment.
Employment judge Jonathan Whittaker ruled: ‘The application of the nickname “Borat” violated Mr Ruda’s dignity in the period in question and created for him a degrading, humiliating and defensive work environment.‘Although the majority, if not all, other employees had nicknames applied to them, the examples of other nicknames which were given to the tribunal were not in any way associated with the racial or national origins of the persons in question.
‘There was therefore a significant difference between the nicknames applied to others and the nickname applied to Mr Ruda.’
The tribunal allowed Mr Ruda’s claims to succeed even though he was almost three years too late in law bringing them.
It took into account that Mr Ruda was unfamiliar with British working practices and ruled that it was ‘in the interests of justice’ to extend the time limit.
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Permalink • Sunday - August 14, 2011
mustn’t tell the truth, the whole truth, or you’ll be branded with the ‘r’ word
Dare to tell the fuckin truth and make it plain and out in the open and the left descends in their usual pious way. Even they know truth, they just won’t face it and belong to a club of bed wetting hand wringers.
This caught my eye first thing this morning, it isn’t even 8:30am but I need to get this posted.
Starkey is not only right, he had the platform to say out loud and very publicly, what we all already know. So naturally the left wingers and professional victims on behalf of other ppl now condemn him.
So here …. take a look at what he had to say. First of all, what’s racist about it.
Second …. and even if it was, so fucking what? Libtards never look at what’s actually written or said. They see and hear nothing and understand nothing beyond the opportunity to hurl the dreaded ‘R’ word at anyone who says what millions already know. I guess that’s why they’re referred to as lib-tards.
‘White chavs have become black’: David Starkey TV outburst provokes race row as he claims Enoch Powell was right
By CHRIS HASTINGS
The Sunday MailHistorian David Starkey remained defiant last night after provoking a race storm by claiming the recent riots happened because too many young white people had ‘now become black’.
The broadcaster was branded a racist yesterday after an appearance on Friday night’s Newsnight programme, when he blamed the riots on a ‘violent, destructive and nihilistic’ gang culture, which he said was being embraced by many white and black people.
He stunned his fellow guests on the BBC2 show, writer Owen Jones and black author and broadcaster Dreda Say Mitchell, by placing the blame for the riots squarely with a form of black male culture that he said ‘mitigated against education’.He said: ‘A substantial section of the chavs have become black. The whites have become black. A particular sort of violent, destructive, nihilistic gangster culture has become the fashion.
‘Black and white, boy and girl operate in this language together. This language which is wholly false, which is a Jamaican patois, that’s been intruded in England and this is why so many of us have this sense of literally a foreign country.’
Fellow broadcasters, politicians and members of the public criticised his remarks on Twitter and other social networking sites yesterday, and some even predicted that his television career was now ruined.
Piers Morgan, the chat-show host and Mail on Sunday columnist, tweeted: ‘RIP David Starkey’s TV career. And good riddance. Racist idiot.’ Owen Jones, who challenged Dr Starkey during the Newsnight discussion, said: ‘David Starkey has had a career-ending moment, but in the current climate, his comments are very dangerous.’
Oh right. That great intellect with the doughy face, Piers Morgan. He’s a self important ego bloated libtard gas bag.
Here’s a video of Dr. Starkey’s comment, and the exchange after it. Not only is the good doctor absolutely right, what he says has been true for many years.
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Permalink • Saturday - July 02, 2011
Will We Ever Get There?
A divided federal appeals court [ the 6th Circuit ] on Friday struck down Michigan’s controversial ban on consideration of race and gender in college admissions.
The 2-1 panel at the 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals concluded the voter-approved ban on “preferential treatment” at state colleges and universities was unconstitutional, and “alters Michigan’s political structure by impermissibly burdening racial minorities.”
The issue is likely to renew the national, political and legal debate over affirmative action, which the Supreme Court could be poised to resolve in the coming months.
The affirmative action ban was passed five years ago in a referendum and was added to the state’s constitution, barring publicly funded centers of higher education from granting “preferential treatment to any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin.” That prompted a series of lawsuits and appeals from various groups.
The issue comes after the justices in 2003 ruled that while Michigan universities could use race as a factor in choosing which students to admit, they could not make race the determining factor in deciding whether applicants are accepted.
The appeals court has now said the Michigan law violated the Constitution’s equal protection laws.
Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette said today he will appeal a court ruling that overturned the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, which bans the use of race and gender preferences in college admissions and government hiring and contracting.
Schuette said he will make a formal request for a rehearing with the appeals court, a move that will keep the civil rights initiative — known as Proposal 2 — in place at least temporarily.
“MCRI embodies the fundamental premise of what America is all about: equal opportunity under the law,” Schuette said in a statement. “Entrance to our great universities must be based upon merit, and I will continue the fight for equality, fairness and rule of law.”
A federal appeals court today overturned Proposal 2, saying the voter-approved measure harms minorities and is unconstitutional.
The 2006 law forced the University of Michigan and other state schools to revise their admission policies. In a 2-1 decision, the judges ruled that the law violates the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
The court in particular objected to the inclusion of the voter-approved ban in the Michigan Constitution in its 59-page ruling.
“Proposal 2 reorders the political process in Michigan to place special burdens on minority interests,” judges R. Guy Cole Jr. and Martha Craig Daughtrey said.
The ban, passed with 58 percent of the vote nearly five years ago, affected government hiring as well as college admissions.
In 2008, a federal judge in Detroit upheld the law, saying it was race-neutral.
Justices Ransey Cole Jr and Martha “Cissy” Daughtery, both Clinton appointees; Reagan appointed judge Julia Gibbons, dissenting
Jennifer Gratz, who headed the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative ballot proposal, said she doesn’t think the ruling is going to stand long term because the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled initiatives than ban ran preferences are constitutional.
“To me, this is the epitome of an activist court. These justices held onto this ruling for years and released it the day before the holiday weekend. They were hoping they would catch people off guard and not make the news,” said, Gratz, director of the American Civil Rights Institute, a California-based group that advocates against affirmative action.
Ward Connerly, a former University of California regent who was a major backer of Proposal 2 and California’s similar Proposition 209, said the ruling means the people have no right to govern their own institutions.
“It’s saying the people have no right to insist that everyone be treated equality. It places the ultimate decision in the hands of the university — that they are supreme ones,” Connerly said by phone from California. “It’s a terrible, terrible decision that will not stand.”
Michigan’s ban on affirmative action — covering both government hiring and admission to public colleges and universities — was made part of the State Constitution after a 2006 voter initiative that passed by 58 percent to 42 percent. It was known as Proposal 2 and prohibited public institutions from giving “preferential treatment to any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin.”
The voter initiative followed the Supreme Court decisions, which found that while the University of Michigan could not set quotas for certain racial groups, or give them extra points, in undergraduate admissions, it could consider race as one factor in the holistic law school admissions process.
The 59 page court decision in .pdf format is here, wherein we find the words of the hateful Prop 2 now found unconstitutional. As you read those hateful words, bear in mind those other words, the ones from the Declaration of Independence as we head into the 4th of July weekend:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, ...”
Here they are. Surely it takes an activist, living-Constitution, elitely superior liberal mind to see the blatant inequality in that amendment:
Proposal 2 amended the Michigan Constitution by adding the following pertinent
provisions to Article I—titled “Affirmative action”:
(1) The University of Michigan, Michigan State University, Wayne State University, and any other public college or university, community college, or school district shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education or public contracting.(2) The state shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting.
(3) For the purposes of this section “state” includes, but is not necessarily limited to, the state itself, any city, county, any public college, university, or community college, school district, or other political subdivision or governmental instrumentality of or within the State of Michigan not included in sub-section 1.
To unenlightened evil conservative minds like mine, the above is the clearest possible statement of equal protection I think I have ever read. Sorry I is so stupit.
My aunt was a school teacher. She started teaching back in the late 60s in a small town school in almost-rural Georgia. Her students were mostly black kids. They had just about nothing in the way of books or school supplies, and she had to fight the prevailing powers to get them what they needed. That was a very long time ago. 17 years ago I spent the summer at my university, and I was amazed that my little school in the wilderness suddenly was wall to wall black kids when the weather got warm. Yet not one of these kids was in any of my classes. They were all incoming Freshmen, spending the summer beforehand taking remedial courses. The school also provided them mentors and free tutoring. The few who did make it to graduation had first pick of the jobs. In New Jersey we have a thing called Abbot Schools, which are a special kind of gold label inner city schools that get massively larger amounts of funding than another other schools in the state. Guess who attends them?
From kindergarten to grad school, the educational system has turned itself inside out to give blacks every possible leg up. And they still need special laws to get into schools?
I will be the first to say that, yes, once upon a time Affirmative Action was a necessary evil. That was 40 years ago. An entire generation of minorities have been through the educational system since then, and their children as well. 40 years worth. And being a minority is a distinct advantage in the jobs market, especially the corporate one. We even have an Affirmative Action President, elected for no reason other than half his heritage (because the election had nothing to do with race you know).
When is enough ever going to be enough? Our entire society caters to the whims, needs, and sensitivity of black people. They have help in all things from cradle to grave. And yet they’re always the victims, no matter how accepted everyone else tries to make them. We’ve removed all the glass ceilings and lowered all the bars right down into the mud, but that’s not enough. When will they ever be equal again, after being superior for all this time?
My wife is furious about this decision. “If I were black” she says “I’d be &^#+ing insulted! Where the hell is Al, or Jesse, speaking up about this? It’s a slap in the face to every minority in the country: we have to baby you, even by law, because you aren’t good enough.”
Isn’t she the greatest?
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Explicit admission
NJ Assembly panel advances health benefits bill
TRENTON, N.J. – The move to stabilize New Jersey’s underfunded pension and health care systems by requiring public workers to pay sharply more for the benefits while suspending bargaining over health care was fast-tracked through the Legislature Monday, after Democrats joined with Republicans to buck the powerful public employee unions.
The Senate passed the bill 24-15 as a gallery full of raucous union members looked on; eight Democrats aligned with all 15 Republicans to pass the bill. An Assembly budget panel advanced the measure hours later, also without the majority party’s support.
A vote by the full Assembly is set for Thursday. Gov. Chris Christie has already indicated his support.
“The time for political calculations is over,” said Senate President Stephen Sweeney, a Democrat and member of the ironworkers’ union, who sponsored the bill. “The time for passing the buck to someone else is over.”
The Assembly Budget Committee approved the bill 7-5 after an eight-hour hearing that began with an impassioned plea from Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver. Three Democrats paired with four Republicans; five Democrats voted ‘no.’
“This is the correct legislation for this moment,” Oliver said. “This bill will ensure a strong future for our state.”
The Republican governor, a driving force behind the landmark legislation, praised the Senate for its action.
“This is a watershed moment for New Jersey, proving that the stakes are too high and the consequences all too real to stand by and do nothing,” he said in a written statement. “As a result of Democrats and Republicans coming together to confront the tough issues, we are providing a sustainable future for our pension and health benefit system, saving New Jersey taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars and securing a fiscally responsible future for our state.”
NAACP: Making NJ public workers pay more for health care is racist!!
National NAACP head Ben Jealous weighed in against the pension and health benefit bill moving through the Legislature today, saying black New Jerseyans would be disproportionately hurt by the changes.
“We see this same pattern in many states and cities across the nation. Public sector jobs are critical in communities of color and attacks on bargaining rights and health care disproportionately affect our communities,” said Jealous in a prepared statement.
The statement was accompanied by a new report by Rutgers labor relations professor Jeffrey Keefe that argues public sector employment is a “a special bulwark for the Black middle class” because it “provides stable full-time employment with middle income earnings and employer provided health insurance, among other benefits.”
“New Jersey’s public sector has provided stable full-time employment with middle income earnings and employer-provided health insurance for more than 15 percent of black workers, all of which is now under attack as New Jersey leaders threaten to sharply reduce public workers’ pay and benefits,” wrote Keefe. “Because of the particular importance of public sector employment to the black community, black workers will suffer disproportionately if the attacks on public worker benefits prevail.”
Oh how I would love to see the real raw numbers. Because 25 and 40 percent are also “more than 15 percent”. Mr. Jealous has come right out and spoken the one truth that must never be mentioned: government employment is a jobs program for black people. I’m fairly certain he’s aiming quite low. If you were to combine local, state and federal numbers, my guess is that the real percentage of the black community working for the government - any kind or level of government - is considerably higher than 15 percent. Like 25 percent. Perhaps more. 15 percent is probably only the part that works for the state government.
I would not like to then be able to look up the actual size of the working age black population, and I certainly would not want to add in the number of black people who are in prison or receiving multiple forms of government assistance (welfare & food stamps) etc. Because the total number you’d get would show you just how large a slice of their population is being supported either fully or majorly (>50%) by government. And people would get upset if that number was something like 80%. They’d come to the wrong conclusions and start getting terrible ideas about demographic sponging. And that would be racist!
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it’s the old race ploy. again.
I read this in the morning paper and thought, what a load of crap. How can she make a big deal out of this but then I remembered.
Naomi Campbell. Right. The same self loving women who, when a suitcase was lost by an airline, cursed the airline, started a fight and proceeded to claim that the airline lost her case due to ...... yeah. RACE! That Naomi Campbell.
Maybe one has to be Negro to feel the offense here. It certainly wasn’t intended, but am I wrong to think she sees something here that honestly doesn’t exist?
She sure does have the “diva” reputation and that’s how I see the advert. How about you? Or, are we too white to understand?
Then of course there are the hanger ons coming out of the woodwork. The professional victims, as I see em. I bet most of the ones doing the most shouting feel nothing at all, unless it’s joy to have something to be offended by. A cause to wrap themselves in.
And they are insisting that this little bru-haha be exported to the USA and a boycott of Kraft.
Dream on idiots. Take a look.
Naomi Campbell’s outrage as ‘racist advert likens her to a chocolate bar’By RYAN KISIEL
Naomi Campbell is considering taking legal action against Cadbury after claiming a ‘racist’ advertisement compares her to a chocolate bar.
The supermodel said she was shocked and hurt to see her name on billboards and in newspapers next to the Dairy Milk Bliss bar.
Black civil rights groups have urged shoppers to boycott products of Cadbury’s U.S. parent company, Kraft Foods.
And Miss Campbell, who is known for being litigious, said she is currently considering taking ‘every available option’ over the adverts that appeared in a national newspaper last week and in supermarkets, reading, ‘Move over Naomi, there’s a new diva in town’.
She said: ‘I am shocked. It’s upsetting to be described as chocolate, not just for me but for all black women and black people.I do not find any humour in this. It is insulting and hurtful.’
Her mother, Valerie Morris, supported her daughter’s stance, saying: ‘I’m deeply upset by this racist advert.
Do these people think they can insult black people and we just take it? This is the 21st century, not the 1950s. Shame on Cadbury.’
Black rights group Operation Black Vote has called for Cadbury to apologise after receiving dozens of complaints about the advert from members of the public.
Simon Woolley, from the group, said that without an apology, the ‘only recourse black people have is not to buy its chocolate’.
He has written to the American civil rights activists Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson to ask them to mobilise the country’s Afro-American population in a boycott of Kraft goods.
Being likened to chocolate was as bad as being called a golliwog for black people, he added. ‘Racism in the playground starts with black children being called “chocolate bar”.
‘At best, this is insensitive – and at worst it demonstrates Cadbury’s utter disregard for causing offence. Its lack of apology just adds insult to injury.
‘It’s particularly galling because we’ve just had a week that saw the establishment fall over themselves to be close to the Obamas and yet black people are being derided in such an insulting and negative way.’
Lee Jasper, who was senior equalities adviser to Ken Livingstone when he was London’s Mayor, said: ‘This issue is not just about the insult to Naomi Campbell. It’s about how these companies treat black people in general. Part of the problem is that they don’t see it as offensive.’
Kraft Foods said the poster has been removed and there are no plans to repeat it.
A statement read: ‘It was certainly never our intention to cause any offence and the campaign itself is a light-hearted take on the social pretensions of Cadbury Dairy Milk Bliss.’
In all my 74 years, I have never heard a black kid referred to as a chocolate bar. Not even once. There were many other sometimes very accurate discriptions, but not chocolate bar. I think these folks make things up as they go along.
And THIS is what the fuss is all about. Does she really have a legit case?
The diamonds are a clever touch and she was much criticized at the time if you remember. Now in that case I thought ppl were being a bit touchy and unfair to her. Maybe they should have asked permission to use her name?
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On Being Black In The UK
No, I am not having fun at this fellow’s expense. Not at all. Theater professional and television personality Ben Douglas encountered a mouthy drunken racist at a rather posh soiree. But the Black Experience over there is quite different than the one over here, and sometimes the reactions set off by the same old garbage - mindless racism from the liberal elite - are quite different. Actually, I rather applaud his reaction, and his admission that such things happen perhaps once in a decade. In America it is almost a guarantee that there would have been violence of some type, and a vast explosion of anger. And with just cause. But this fellow is all “My goodness me. Whatever am I to make of this? In the main, I find it most vexing, and my latent reaction seems to have a violent tinge.” And that to me, is quite hysterical, because it’s ever so British. And that in itself is proof positive that the insults thrown his way are utterly unfounded. Chin up Mr. Douglas! Illegitimis non carborundum and all that.
Every now and again something happens that is so shocking, you walk away wondering if it was just a bad dream. These events are mercifully rare – they come along perhaps once or twice a decade, and are all the more remarkable for it. I experienced one of them last Sunday night, and I am only now coming to terms with the fact that it actually happened. It took place at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London, where I had been invited to attend the Bafta awards.
This was the Baftas, a supposedly elegant soiree of educated, liberal individuals, not a BNP fundraiser at an inner-city boozer.
But here’s the rub: this fool thought he was bonding with me as a black man. By using the N-word (and for the record I would rather he had used the C-word – it’s that bad), he thought he was being fashionable. I believe they call it ‘street’.
Well here is the reality: I am not from the mean streets of Detroit, Harlem or LA. I am from Teddington in Surrey, and while my genetic roots are Bajan, the parents who raised me are as white as the buffoon who stood there insulting me. But this is irrelevant. It shouldn’t matter where I come from. Who in their right mind would launch into language like this with somebody he barely knows, within earshot of half a dozen perfect strangers? I am the least politically correct person you could care to meet.
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What is it about fashionistas? First we had John Galliano’s drunken anti-Semitism, and now this. As far as I could tell, this man had no idea how much offence he had caused.But think of the context. The N-word originated as an insult, a throwback to the days of slavery, inherently placing one race above another.
In hindsight, I should probably have punched him on the nose. Since the event, I have gone over it in my mind a thousand times, dearly wishing I’d had a witty retort ready to puncture his obscene self-regard.
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Permalink • Friday - May 27, 2011
un race commy-sar brands australia racist. screw the un.
The UN just has to stick it’s big nose into everyone’s business in the holy name of ‘rights.’
Guess who da new racists be.
AUSTRALIANS
Yeah. How about that? I wish the head of state would look the commissioner in the eye and just say .... “up yours.”
The Prime Minister .... Doin’ her job trying to protect her country.
But the commissioner doesn’t approve.
Well ...
‘Racist’ Australia compared to Apartheid South Africa by UN Human Rights commissioner
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER· Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, unlikely to change policy
· Aboriginals make up 2 per cent of Australian populationThe United Nations’ top human rights watchdog has attacked Australia’s tough refugee policies and the treatment of outback Aborigines, saying there was a strong undercurrent of racism in the country.
According to UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay, long-standing policies of locking up asylum seekers had ‘cast a shadow over Australia’s human rights record’, and appeared to be completely arbitrary.
‘I come from South Africa and lived under this, and am every way attuned to seeing racial discrimination,’ she said.
U.N. Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay claims that the Australian government does not do enough to support Aborigines, who make up 2 per cent of the population.
The 69-year-old is a former anti-apartheid campaigner and international criminal court judge, and she was speaking to reporters at the end of a six-day visit.
‘There is a racial discriminatory element here which I see as rather inhumane treatment of people, judged by their differences, racial, colour or religions,’ she said yesterday.
Before she left Pillay held talks with Prime Minister Julia Gillard and expressed deep concern about the minority Labor government’s latest plan to send hundreds of asylum seekers to Malaysia for refugee processing, hoping to appease voter concern about asylum seekers arriving by boat.
The government has been struggling to handle the flow of illegal immigrants and earlier this month said it had struck a deal with Kuala Lumpur to ensure asylum-seekers caught heading to Australia would be sent to Malaysia, which is not a signatory of the U.N. refugee convention.More than 900 people, mostly from Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran and Sri Lanka, have arrived in Australia so far this year.
A total of 134 boats carrying 6,535 people turned up last year, prompting the government to harden immigration policy.
While Pillay’s criticism may cause Australia some discomfort internationally, it is unlikely to convince Gillard or her conservative political opponents to change tack, given polls showing wide voter concern about border security.
She also criticised an ‘intervention’ policy.
It was introduced by the former conservative government and continued by Gillard.
It places controls on welfare spending for Aborigines to help fight alcohol and child sex abuse in remote outback areas.
‘In my discussions with Aboriginal people, I could sense the deep hurt and pain that they have suffered because of government policies that are imposed on them,’ she said.
Australia’s 460,000 Aborigines make up about 2 per cent of the population.
They suffer higher rates of unemployment, substance abuse and domestic violence than other Australians, as well as having a 17-year gap in life expectancy.
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