Friday - May 29, 2009
RACISM !!!
What kind of horseshit is this? The entire country saw them on live TV “guarding” a polling station on election day. Standing outside the doors with weapons in their hands. And then we watched the police show up and shoo them away.
In America, at least prior to 11/4/08, if the police were anywhere near the polling stations they were tarred with the Intimidation brush. Hell, if they were just sitting in their cars by the side of the road blocks away they caught grief.
You don’t have armed guards outside of the polling stations in America. It simply is not done. Ever. Period.
The mere presence of this pair of thugs, in “uniform” is evidence of intimidation. That they were armed makes the charge far worse. That one of them was holding a nightstick in his hand, and waving it around? This is called brandishing a weapon, and is a fairly severe offense.
There is no question whatsoever of their guilt. They didn’t have to bust heads to be guilty. They didn’t have to hassle voters to be guilty. All they needed was to be there, “providing security” unasked for. And believe me, they were unasked for. And there is no question that this didn’t happen. Here it is, on YouTube, although this video has been edited for run time; we don’t see the police showing up and telling them to leave.
So this is pretty much an open and shut case. So why is the Justice Department dropping the charges? Because these guys are black? Here is the entire news article from Fox News:
Three men were accused of trying to threaten voters and block poll and campaign workers by the threat of force—one even brandishing what prosecutors call a deadly weapon.
Charges brought against three members of the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense under the Bush administration have been dropped by the Obama Justice Department, FOX News has learned.
The charges stemmed from an incident at a Philadelphia polling place on Election Day 2008 when three members of the party were accused of trying to threaten voters and block poll and campaign workers by the threat of force—one even brandishing what prosecutors call a deadly weapon.
The three black panthers, Minister King Samir Shabazz, Malik Zulu Shabazz and Jerry Jackson were charged in a civil complaint in the final days of the Bush administration with violating the voter rights act by using coercion, threats and intimidation. Shabazz allegedly held a nightstick or baton that prosecutors said he pointed at people and menacingly tapped it. Prosecutors also say he “supports racially motivated violence against non-blacks and Jews.”
The complaint says the men hurled racial slurs at both blacks and whites.
A poll watcher who provided an affidavit to prosecutors in the case noted that Bartle Bull, who worked as a civil rights lawyer in the south in the 1960’s and is a former campaign manager for Robert Kennedy, said it was the most blatant form of voter intimidation he had ever seen.
In his affidavit, obtained by FOX News, Bull wrote “I watched the two uniformed men confront voters and attempt to intimidate voters. They were positioned in a location that forced every voter to pass in close proximity to them. The weapon was openly displayed and brandished in plain sight of voters.”
He also said they tried to “interfere with the work of other poll observers ... whom the uniformed men apparently believed did not share their preferences politically,” noting that one of the panthers turned toward the white poll observers and said “you are about to be ruled by the black man, cracker.”
A spokesman for the Department of Justice told FOX News, “The Justice Department was successful in obtaining an injunction that prohibits the defendant who brandished a weapon outside a Philadelphia polling place from doing so again. Claims were dismissed against the other defendants based on a careful assessment of the facts and the law. The department is committed to the vigorous prosecution of those who intimidate, threaten or coerce anyone exercising his or her sacred right to vote.”
This is outrageous. But you know what? This is just a little thing, compared to what’s coming down the pike. Oh lawdy, the Change be a’comin.
CNN is ignoring this story. Not one word.
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Permalink • Monday - April 20, 2009
“Peace” Imam Calls for Extermination of Jews. Right, a moderate muslim of peace.
Sorry Charlie but I find I do NOT even trust the ones called moderate.
I can see past their oh so insincere smiles as they talk about peace.
I find it impossible to add anything here. I can’t find words and so will leave it up to anyone who wants to comment.
H/T Europenews.dk
“Peace” Imam Calls for Extermination of JewsFrontPage magazine.com 20 April 2009
By Itamar Marcus and Barbara CrookA Hamas cleric who once participated in an international conference of “Imams and Rabbis for Peace”—whose delegates vowed to “condemn any negative representation” of each other’s religions—has wholeheartedly espoused Hamas’s racist ideology in a recent Friday sermon on Hamas TV.
Ironically, this latest profession of Hamas’s genocidal racism was preached and broadcast at the start of the month in which the UN is meeting in the “Durban II” conference in Geneva to condemn Israel as being “racist.”
According to the Hamas interpretation of Islam, the Jews are inherently evil, seek to rule the (...)
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Permalink • Monday - April 13, 2009
Canada’s Green Party urges U.S. booksellers to ban hate material.
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Oh good grief. Do people actually believe that to be the truth, the whole truth and nothin’ but? I know the answer before you tell me.
Unfortunately, yeah. It is mind boggling that anyone today with all the research at hand, would still buy that out and out forgery. Even worse is the fact that if looked at rationally, it isn’t even logical. Ah, never mind. The issue is censorship. The kind of people who want to buy that, along with The Turner Diaries, already have their minds made up. These books merely confirm for them what they already believe.
I have another issue though. It’s The Green Party. My take on them is that they’re very left and I have this (I admit it) propensity to be against anything they are for. And if they’re against it, well. There may be times I have ta be for it.
They say (as does the Simon Wiesenthal Center) that the book sellers are “distributing hate material.” I say, NO THEY ARE NOT. They are selling to individuals who are looking for and buying that material. But I question the idea of distribution as it has connotations (to me anyway) of some sort of official agency of the govt. responsible for seeing to it that material is “pushed” on the public. It’s commerce. All the bans in the world will not stop people from reading what they want to. Ban it and all ya do is build a conspiracy theory with people saying, ah ha. I knew it. They don’t want me to have any information. Why? Because it’s possible that it’s all true.
I think the Wiesenthal Center was correct in asking (ok, they demanded) that the seller in question also post a notice that the Protocols were a forgery. Of course, that won’t make any difference to those buying the book who already “know” the truth. Not to make light of a serious subject but I’m even surprised that so many of those folks can read at all.
But I believe they were dead WRONG to insist that “Mein Kampf"not be sold in Germany. It’s an over long and thoroughly boring book. I tried to read the damn thing once in a school project. Couldn’t finish it. Have since read extracts and it’s still a bore and still badly written. The point is, I do know those who have read the whole damn thing (? How?) and they weren’t turned into raving anti-Semitic sword waving Nazis.
Honestly I don’t even think the ban that some countries have (Germany,Austria,France) on Nazis or on Nazi art and memorabilia and the Nazi salute (which we once used in America when pledging to our flag in school long before the NSDAP), I don’t believe that ban has any effect on those who are already predisposed that way. On the other hand, perhaps their experience is different enough from ours, that is the USA, that they fear if allowed to be open then the hate mongers will again gain the upper hand. I suppose because I am American and because all those things are easily available in the US, and so far we haven’t turned ourselves into a Nazi state, I guess I have a hard time understanding the extent of that censorship.
Or to put it another way, and pardon me please if I have to quote a Nazi to do this but it is appropriate in this case.
When the NSDAP (Nazis) were banned once, Dr. Gobbels issued the following line.
TROTZ VERBOT, NICHT TOT.
BANNED BUT NOT DEAD.
April 13, 2000 2:00 PM PDT
Canadian group urges U.S. booksellers to ban hate material
By Troy Wolverton
Staff Writer, CNET NewsLeading Internet bookstores are under fire again for selling hate literature abroad, this time from Canada.
The Green Party of Canada has accused Amazon.com and Barnesandnoble.com of violating Canadian criminal and customs laws by selling racist and anti-Semitic books such as “The Turner Diaries” and “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” in the country. Party leaders say that although they notified the companies in February, Amazon and Barnesandnoble.com have not yet responded.
“It’s important that they take responsibility for what they are distributing out into the public,” Green Party spokesman Richard Warman said. “They have to respect the laws of other countries.”
But Canadian officials expressed doubts about whether the sale of such books over the Internet by foreign companies constitutes a crime.
“This is not straight cut,” Royal Canadian Mounted Police spokesman Paul Marsh said. “It’s not straight-forward when you look at the sections.”
Representatives for Amazon were not available to comment. A Barnesandnoble spokesperson declined to comment.
The controversy is the latest incident in which an e-commerce player has been taken to task for carrying hate-related merchandise. Last month, Amazon and Barnesandnoble.com agreed to post a statement from the Anti-Defamation League calling the “Protocols of Zion” an anti-Semitic forgery.
Earlier this year, online auction giant eBay bowed to pressure from outside groups and banned the sale of items that promote hate groups such as the Ku Klux Klan and the Aryan Nation.
And last August, Amazon, Barnesandnoble and Borders Online came under fire from the Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Center for selling Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” in Germany. The companies later banned sales of the publication in the country.
Canada prohibits advocating genocide or publicly inciting hatred via spoken or written words. The country also bans the importation of hate propaganda.
The “Turner Diaries” and the “Protocols of Zion” are on a list of books that the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency consider illegal to import into the country, agency spokesman Michel Cl?roux confirmed. But with $1 billion worth of goods crossing the border from the United States into Canada every day, the agency cannot check every package that comes over the border, Cl?roux said. In any case, if the agency intercepted a shipment of banned books, it would contact the Canadian importer, not the U.S. exporter, he said. He added that the agency did not have authority to regulate the actual online sales of the books.
“Electronic commerce is outside our jurisdiction as customs officers,” Cl?roux said.
Complying with scores of complex international laws is a “classic issue” of doing business on the Internet, said Maureen Dorney, an attorney with Palo Alto, Calif.-based Gray, Cary, Ware & Freidenrich. Amazon and Barnesandnoble could have some criminal liability for the sales of banned books even if they don’t have a presence in the countries they are shipping to, she said.
“If you are willing to make your products available internationally, you are potentially subject to the laws of all those jurisdictions that you are shipping to,” Dorney said.
Regardless of whether the sales are illegal, Green Party officials said the companies had a moral obligation to refrain from profiting from the sale of hate literature.
“We would like to express our general concern about the decision by Amazon.com to carry works that are self-evidently racist,” the party said in a letter to the leading e-tailer. “We do not doubt the right of these individuals to hold racist ideas, but we do question the moral and ethical basis of Amazon’s decision to profit from their distribution and how this reflects upon Amazon’s presumed desire to be a responsible corporate citizen.”
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Permalink • Monday - March 23, 2009
The unspoken truth about our language.
Over the last few days I’ve been keeping up to date on the controversy surrounding the postmaster who refuses to serve people who either do not speak English or choose not to or come to his window without an interpretor. He has taken to a country that’s given him opportunities not dreamed of where he came from. Like many immigrants before him and in another age as well, he has become something of a patriot and says he and his wife will not speak any language but English at home and especially in front of their two children, who they want well grounded in the language of this country first. Which btw reminds me of my own grandparents who were bi-lingual. It was English first and everything else after that. America first and there wasn’t anything else worth knowing about. But that’s another story and I only mention it here because I understand why they felt that way and became so dedicated to their adopted country.
So .... that brings me to the article that appear a day or two go ago by a lady named Jemima Lewis, who writes for the Telegraph.
She says a few things I had not seen in print before in just this way.
I thought you’d find her comments of some interest.
I might mention here that this may be my last post today as am having severe pc problems at the moment. Hope I can post this. we’ll see. We are also experiencing gale force winds at this time. If not, then it sure looks that way.
The unspoken truth about our language
The Sri Lankan postmaster who banned customers who could not speak English has taken an important stand, says Jemima Lewis
By Jemima Lewis
Last Updated: 3:13PM GMT 21 Mar 2009Deva Kumarasiri has paid a heavy price for his patriotism. The Sri-Lankan-born postmaster has been forced to leave his job for refusing to serve customers who couldn’t speak decent English. His stance, he said, was partly a matter of principle. Mr Kumarasiri is passionate about his adopted country: he moved to Britain 18 years ago, has taken citizenship, taught his children the words of the National Anthem, and flies the Union flag in his front garden in Nottingham. “It’s about making the effort to be part of the community where you have decided to live,” he said.
It was also a practical issue – he didn’t want the queue grinding to a halt while each customer tried to make themselves understood.
Mr Kumarasiri, who is a Liberal Democrat councillor, feels it is his duty to say these things because the white, native-born Brits no longer dare. This, alas, is perfectly true. Living in east London, I often come across council officials or health workers whose English is so shaky, or so thickly accented, that it is impossible to have a meaningful conversation. But I am far too anxious not to seem rude, let alone racist, ever to complain.
When my son was born, we were visited a few times by a health visitor who spoke at length, in a kind of Bantu-cockney dialect impenetrable to all but the professional linguist, about how to avoid cot death. I nodded in what I hoped were the right places, then looked it up in a book. I have given up trying to get an appointment at the local GPs’ clinic because it is too embarrassing trying to make myself understood – repeatedly mouthing my request into the telephone as if it were an elderly dowager’s ear trumpet.
It’s not just a question of inconvenience; in some jobs, the inability to communicate effectively can be fatal. When my sister gave birth recently, she was attended by a midwife who could not speak English. My sister tried in vain to explain that she had been in labour for four days; that her waters had long since broken; that she knew something was wrong.
The midwife wrote some incomprehensible notes, and failed to pass on any of the relevant information. Both my sister and her baby almost died. Even then, no one was rude enough to complain.
who is a Liberal Democrat counselor: Not anymore as reported yesterday.
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Permalink • Thursday - March 19, 2009
SCOTS WIMPY,WHINER PILOT IS SUING BRIT. AIRWAYS FOR RACISM. mommy,mommy, boo-boo
What a difference in attitude between this wimp and the last post re. the postmaster insisting on English.
Sure, not the same kind of story but I’m willing to bet that when that other fellow immigrated to the UK from Sri Lanka he probably had to put up with real honest to gosh race problems.
This turkey suddenly discovers after 29 years that he’s sensitive to expressions like “RAGHEAD?” He has suddenly found after working for the company for sixteen years, his liberal side?
He’s sooooooo disturbed by the use of Raghead that he needed to make an issue of it? Oh I’m sure the Arabs will shower him with kisses.
Freekin wuss!
However, what tipped this whiner over the edge was hearing from a co-worker that Scotland is a welfare state paid for by the English middle class.
Now I would not be in a position to know the truth or falsehood of that statement, being a foreigner myself and so not familiar with that issue.
But I’d hardly call it “racist” would you?
Here, you can make up your own mind.
The Scots pilot suing for racism after being told: ‘Your country’s a welfare state paid for by the English middle classes’
By Ryan Kisiel
Last updated at 1:55 PM on 18th March 2009
The Daily Mail
A Scottish pilot is suing British Airways over claims he was racially abused by his English middle-class colleagues.
Captain Douglas Maughan alleges he was sent offensive letters and called a ‘Jock’ who should go back to Scotland.
He claims BA had a ‘canteen culture of racism’ and that one captain referred to Saudi passengers as ‘rag-heads’.
The trouble started when Mr Maughan, 54, defended Labour’s economic record in a letter to the staff magazine BA News in 2005.
He said an English pilot, who he had never met, started sending him racially abusive letters and emails about his views.
In one three-page handwritten letter on notepaper from the luxury Singapore hotel Raffles, the pilot said: ‘Come Separation, will all Jocks f. off to that Welfare State (paid for by English middle classes)??? Please say yes.’
Mr Maughan is taking BA, the self-proclaimed ‘world’s favourite airline’, to an employment tribunal on the grounds he was victimised racially.
He said he regularly tried to alert senior management to the abuse, but was told it was a private matter between two individuals.
He added: ‘There was a time when we set off for Los Angeles with a large party of Saudis on board, who had joined us at Heathrow direct from the VIP lounge.
‘In the cruise, my captain suddenly embarked on an extraordinary rant about “ragheads”.
‘He got the word out twice before I stopped him by explaining he was going to be short of a first officer for the return sector if he carried on.’
Mr Maughan, who lives in Edinburgh, said he was on another trip when a flight officer complained to him that there were too many Asians living in Britain.
‘The captain turned to me and said: “I don’t suppose there are many of them up your way.”
‘I replied: “Well, there’s my wife.” After that, they had the decency to fall silent,’ he said.
‘There is a canteen culture of racism, especially between pilots, where they use gross racial terms.’
The pilot, who has 29 years’ flying experience including 16 years with BA, said it is only because the airline failed to react to his accusations that he is taking it to a tribunal.
Yesterday a judge at the employment tribunal in Watford dismissed three out of the four grievances Mr Maughan had claimed against BA.
The judge ordered him to pay £4,400 legal costs for the work BA did in defending the three allegations at the pre-hearing case review.
But he ruled the claim he was victimised racially would be heard at a full employment tribunal on June 11.
Mr Maughan still works for BA and has flown throughout the world on Boeing 777s. He returned from a seven-day trip to India on Sunday.
Speaking outside the court, Mr Maughan said: ‘As a captain, if I don’t take this stand against racism within BA, then how can you expect ethnic minority staff working in lower levels of the company to do so if they feel they are being racially abused?’
He added: ‘I want British Airways and its chief executive Willie Walsh to address this issue and put a stop to it.’
A BA spokesman said it would ‘vigorously defend’ the remaining part of his claim.
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Permalink • Wednesday - March 04, 2009
An honest conversation about race
Via Gateway Pundit:
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090301/OPINION03/903010308/1008/OPINION01
It was a tragic circus, a festival of ignorance that confirmed the No. 1 obstacle to Detroit’s progress is the bargain basement leaders that city voters elect. The black nationalism that is now the dominant ideology of the council was on proud display, both at the table and in the audience.
Speakers advocating for the deal were taunted by the crowd and cut short by Council President Monica Conyers, who presided over the hearing like an angry bulldog; whites were advised by the citizens to, “Go home.”
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Permalink • Friday - February 20, 2009
Black medical student who claims she was bullied by racists sues for £300,000.
First of all, judging by what her hair looks like in the hard copy edition of our morning paper, can’t say as I blame anyone for not wanting to share a shower room with her. But no matter, since bloody when does not wanting to shop with someone or share a meal with someone open an institution to charges of race? Why does this (please note her origin) former Nigerian believe anyone has some sort of moral obligation to have lunch with or go shopping with her. This is what the world has come to and the blame isn’t with the self styled victims. No. It’s the white,left liberal brigade that’s taught em they have rights beyond normal rights.
Can anyone seriously believe that a college like this one, which isn’t some unknown backwater college, can anyone believe they would act in a way that might open them to this sort of thing. But hey ... there’s money in victimhood. Sure, the school went looking for problems and so out of the racist blue they intentionally failed her. Uh Huh.
Hell, no point in my ranting on when Drew did it better under comments in another posting.
Here’s part of Drew’s comments and nobody has said it better.
Race gets thrown up against white people constantly because without it - the “we’re treated differently because you think we’re different because we go out of our way to act and BE different, unless it suits our immediate purpose” there is no reason to expect anyone to not assimilate and act like the majority. And that means white folk.
The shoe has been on the other foot for 3-4 decades now. The young Up and Comers on today’s corporate fast track were all born after 1980. A full third of our population has never known a time or a situation when being a minority was not a distinct advantage. Another third was not aware of the wider world until after the Civil Rights movement had made huge gains. The poorer people in that age demographic have been on government support their entire lives. Entire. Lives.
A black medical student who claims she was bullied by white racists on her course before examiners deliberately failed her is suing her college for more than £300,000.
By Caroline Gammell
Last Updated: 2:18PM GMT 19 Feb 2009Virginia Jibowu claims she was ostracised by students in an “institutionally racist” environment at London’s King’s College medical school.
The 25-year-old alleges that fellow students refused to shop, eat or share a shower-room with her in their accommodation.
She claims one female student suggested introducing a killer disease into Africa to wipe out all the black people, while a male student allegedly asked her if black men were less intelligent than whites.
A third allegedly complained that the black nurses at King’s College Hospital were no fun.
Miss Jibowu is suing the college, which is part of the University of London, at Central London County Court for harassment, race discrimination and victimisation.
She alleges that while her fellow students have graduated and are now working in the NHS, the college has refused to investigate her complaints, intentionally failed her and tried to stop her re-sitting the course.
Miss Jibowu, who is of Nigerian origin and from Lambeth in south London, is demanding over £300,000 for loss of earnings, aggravated damages and injury to health and feelings.
If she fails to qualify from the course, she is expected to sue at the High Court for further compensation for the loss of her career, which could run into hundreds of thousands of pounds.
In legal papers submitted to the court, she alleged: “The college disregarded my complaints and graduated all students complained about.
“All of the alleged racists are now practising as doctors in the NHS. This can only ingrain the problem of institutional racism within the medical practice.
“They were not interviewed. At no point has the college accepted it was at fault for allowing an institutionally racist and victimising, hostile studying environment to exist.”
Miss Jibowu enrolled on the college’s six year extended medical degree course for students from disadvantaged backgrounds in September 2002.
She said students on that course had to wear a special badge, which led to them being bullied by counterparts on the regular five year degree programme.
In the legal papers, she claimed one student “asked me if black men were less intelligent than other people. He also asked if black people were more prone to becoming fat.
“He also said that he had stopped contacting a mutual friend because he had become ‘too black’.”
Miss Jibowu claimed three other white students were “hostile” to her during her hospital placement in Hastings, East Sussex in 2006.
One allegedly said that immigrants were “spoiling the UK” and said of the hospital in Hastings: “The nurses are great here - might have some fun. It’s not like in King’s cos they’re all Afro-Caribbean.”
Miss Jibowu had passed the first five years of study without failure and fully expected to complete her final year.
She had secured a job as a doctor at Gwent Hospital in Wales and was due to start work in August 2008.
But she claims the college deliberately failed her from final exams and then, without informing her, contacted hospital bosses in Gwent to say she would not be taking up her post.
She said the post should have been held open pending her appeal against the exam results.
“The college appears to be continuing actively to take steps to ensure that I fail my course or am removed from the course before its completion and am thereby denied the opportunity of becoming a doctor.”
King’s college and the former students accused of racism deny Miss Jibowu’s allegations.
The college is vigorously defending her court claim but a spokeswoman said: “We are unable to comment while legal proceedings are ongoing.”
The case is due to be heard later this year.
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Permalink • Monday - January 19, 2009
MLK Day 2009
Martin Luther King Jr Day 2009 might be a bit overshadowed, or even usurped, by the Obampalooza going on right now. But it was the success of the former that opened the door for the latter to walk through all these years later. Although I rarely link to him any more, I’ll make an exception today. Michael Zak reminds us again that MLK was a Republican, and that it was Republicans who were behind the civil rights movement, while it was Democrats that were against it. Nearly 100 years before that, it was the Republican Party that was formed expressly to fight for freedom and equality, while it was the Democrat Party that was pro-slavery. It was those same Democrats who put Jim Crow laws into place post-war, and the grandsons of those same Democrats who kept segregation and the disdainful “separate but equal” laws in place. Keep that in mind today and tomorrow, because it is going to be a truth lost in the mist in DC. Oh, and today is a holiday because Ronald Reagan signed the bill. Not Jimmy Carter.
“The first Republican I knew was my father, and he is still the Republican I most admire. He joined our party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register him to vote. The Republicans did. My father has never forgotten that day, and neither have I.”
Update: There is an opinion that this holiday was a sop; a bone thrown to the dogs. There may be a grain of truth in that, but I think it is worth remembering this man for what he accomplished. He did it with the help and sacrifice of a whole lot of other people, we know that too, but every movement needs it’s icon. And you’ll recall that this holiday cost us one presidential holiday. We used to have both Washington’s and Lincoln’s birthday; now we have President’s Day (which sort of seems like it could be applied to any President) and thus history is again lost in the fog. And I never really knew just how “official” this holiday was. My banks seem to be open, and when I worked in the corporate world those offices were open too. But all holidays seem less important than they used to. Remember how no stores, not even food stores, were open on Thanksgiving and Christmas? Or there would be one drug store, one grocery store, and 3 gas stations open per county on that day? Now everybody is open, always. Holidays are hardly more than a reason for stores to have sales these days. That’s a shame.
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Permalink • Monday - December 29, 2008
Republican party candidate distributes racist Barack Obama song.
I don’t suppose this is news to BMEWS but it’s just being reported here.
I went to the site at Rush and tried listening to it. First, I didn’t think it was clever or really witty. Cute? Funny? Depends on your sense of humor.
I thought it was sort of juvenile.
I guess it could be thought to be funny because there are a couple of clever lines in the parody. But the production quality was, in my opinion, very poor.
Maybe it was supposed to be. My background is in recording studios and so perhaps I expect too much. I admit I did not listen to it all. Not because of the content. I had no problem with that. It was the sound that I found very annoying and because of that alone, it was hard to listen to. Like it was recorded on a phone line.
A candidate to lead the Republican party is facing a wave of criticism after he sent other senior US politicians a Christmas CD featuring the song “Barack the Magic Negro”.
By Toby Harnden in Washington
Last Updated: 10:02AM GMT 29 Dec 2008Chip Saltsman, who is campaigning to become chairman of the Republican National Committee, defended the tune as one of several “lighthearted political parodies” that have aired on Right-wing talk radio host Rush Limbaugh’s show. MAGIC NEGRO
The 2007 ditty by conservative comedian Paul Shanklin, which is sung to the tune of Puff the Magic Dragon, calls into question the President-elect’s racial identity. In the song, Shanklin, doing an impression of the New York activist the Reverend Al Sharpton, sings: “They’ll vote for him but not for me because he’s not from the ‘hood.
“See, real black men, like Snoop Dogg, or me, or Farrakhan, have talked the talk, and walked the walk, not come in late and won.”
The song picked up on a March 2007 comment article in the liberal Los Angeles Times in which David Ehrenstein argued that part of Mr Obama’s role was “to assuage white ‘guilt’ over the role of slavery and racial segregation in American history”.
It was part of a collection of 41 songs by Shanklin on a CD titled We Hate the USA that Mr Saltsman, who managed Mike Huckabee’s campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, sent to Republican party members with the message: “I look forward to working together in the New Year”.
Mr Saltsman was condemned by the current party chairman Mike Duncan, who is running for re-election.
“The 2008 election was a wake-up call for Republicans to reach out and bring more people into our party,” he said in a statement. “I am shocked and appalled that anyone would think this is appropriate as it clearly does not move us in the right direction.”
Ada Fisher, one of three black Republican party members, responded in an open letter: “Racist actions and deeds have no place in the party. The lack of sensitivity in understanding the historical election we just had and the challenges this nation faces as we must bind our wounds as well as bring our people together requires that we set aside our biases.”
But Mr Saltsman was unrepentant: “Liberal Democrats and their allies in the media didn’t utter a word about David Ehrenstein’s irresponsible column in the Los Angeles Times last March,” he said.
“But now, of course, they’re shocked and appalled by its parody on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
“I firmly believe that we must welcome all Americans into our party and that the road to Republican resurgence begins with unity, not division. But I know that our party leaders should stand up against the media’s double standards and refuse to pander to their desire for scandal.”
He told The Hill, a Capitol Hill newspaper, that members of the Republican committee have “the good humour and good sense” to see Shanklin’s tunes as “lighthearted political parodies”.
OK SO A QUESTION FOR BMEWS.
Should this guy have known better then to mail out the CD? Shouldn’t he have envisioned the criticism ‘to the party’ before mailing something out to many people he was going to be working with? Was it irresponsible? True, it was 2007 originally and true the libs are just making political hay which we’d do as well and you know that’s true. Heck, I can’t see our side missing an opportunity like that were it a dem. who produced the CD.
I think he should have known he was giving the Democrats a free gift. As individuals we might be excused for a bit of silliness perhaps.
But not if you’re hoping to be a leader of a major political party that some folks already believe is a second cousin to the klan. Please lets be honest about it, this simply reinforces the negative attitudes about us. Do we really need that?
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Permalink • Monday - November 10, 2008
Gag Me
If this quote alone doesn’t make you heave, read the rest in Debbie Schlussel’s latest post.
Ultra A-list celebrity Will “Hitler wasn’t a bad guy really” Smith has just turned 40. Raised in a comfortable middle class suburb of Philadelphia where he attended a very high-end private high school, Smith has been raking it in since shortly after he graduated. He reportedly earned over $20 million just for his work in his latest film Seven Pounds, which is more money than you would make working your entire career at a job that pays a meager $220 per hour. PER HOUR.
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Permalink • Carla Bruni has said she is glad she is no longer an Italian. (she’s beautiful,,but stupid!)
Yeah, she is one class act and I love her looks. If she had more then ego for brains though, she would know she can’t sing and can’t carry a tune in a paper bag. OK, in her case a Versacse bag.
Don’t ya just gag over folks who automatically become offended on behalf of other folks they don’t even know.
Well, this ain’t about that anyway.
Here, you read and see where she shows how little she knows. Or is making up stories.
Actually ... if ya read this you may agree with my wife who believes Carla is the Italian version of Paris Hilton except Carla does show some class.
It’s her damn brain that needs an overhaul. Surely even Paris wouldn’t be this far left.
What is it with very wealthy good looking white women, born into fortunes and grow up loving the left. Had they been able to, the left in Italy would have left her an orphan. No, Paris has got to be smarter then this broad.
I don’t see that Berlusconi’s remark is racist. Was it in bad taste? Don’t know. Maybe. But she really impresses as one who will use anything to garner attention in the media.
Carla Bruni angry at Silvio Berlusconi’s ‘suntanned’ Barack Obama jibe
Carla Bruni has said she is glad she is no longer an Italian following Silvio Berlusconi’s crude joke about Barrack Obama’s “suntan”.
By Peter Allen in Paris
Last Updated: 10:32PM GMT 09 Nov 2008In a strongly-worded attack on racism, France’s first lady said prejudice and discrimination should be eradicated from the modern world.
The 40-year-old top model turned pop singer was infuriated when the Italian prime minister paid “tribute” to America’s first black president on Thursday, saying he was “handsome, young and also suntanned”.
The Italian-born Ms Bruni, who became a French national following her marriage to President Nicolas Sarkozy earlier this year, said: “When I hear Silvio Berlusconi making light of the event (Obama’s election) and joking about the fact that Obama is “always tanned”, it feels strange to me.
“Some people will no doubt put it down to humour, but often I find that I am pleased to have become French.”
Italy’s left-wing opposition parties have accused Mr Berlusconi of embarrassing the nation with the quip.
He responded by calling them “imbeciles” with no sense of humour.
In an interview with Le Journal du Dimanche newspaper, Ms Bruni also referred to racism being directed at black British supermodel Naomi Campbell.
Referring to her adopted country, Carla said: “We are not affected by the brutal, impassive racism which exists in America.
“I remember as a young model - I was 25 - during a photo shoot organised in South Carolina. We stayed there for a few days.
“We were given trays of food delivered to our caravan from a restaurant next door.
“I asked why, and they said because the diner would not accept Naomi Campbell, because she was black.
(Hey ... do ANY of you believe that? In 1992? Maybe 1952 or even ‘62. But 1992 ?)
“That was America in 1992! Now, look at the arrival of Obama, it’s clearly an immense joy. For me, for everyone who loves America. For all the French, and notably one of them who I know well.”
In a further reference to Mr Sarkozy, she said: “My husband is not Obama. But the French voted for the son of a Hungarian immigrant, whose father had an accent, whose mother was of Jewish origin, and his stance has always been to say that he’s French although he comes from somewhere else.
“He doesn’t look like the traditional French elite but that didn’t stop him. And, personally, I don’t correspond to the profile of a first lady! I’m an artist, born Italian.
(yeah right. she’s an artist like I’m Drew’s technology guru. lol)
“Of course, we are, him and me, of European stock, and that’s easier.”
Ms Bruni was backing a petition calling for positive discrimination in favour of people from ethnic minorities.
Despite being one of the most racially mixed countries in the world, France’s rulers are almost exclusively white and middle aged.
She said: “Power has often had the same face: that of men who are white and ageing.“That is why I can identify with this appeal. Without political measures we will be waiting too long.” She said she could not sign the petition - called ‘Yes We Can’ - because of her position at first lady.
There is only one black member of parliament from mainland France and none of Arab origin.
Ms Bruni’s multi-millionaire family left Italy in the 1970s to live in Paris following threats from Left Wing terrorists, including the Red Brigade.
Mr and Mrs Sarkozy will host Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, at a dinner at the Elysee Palace on Monday prior to Tuesday’s commemorations of the 90th anniversary of the end of World War One in France.
Oh yeah one more thing for the record.
Naomi Campbel has a reputation for being rude and very difficult. At times she can be quite nasty. When an airline lost her baggage, it was due to racism. Remember that one? How much ya wanna bet that place that may have “refused” to serve her, had problems with her and they refused to have anything to do with her. Not because she’s Negro. But because she was most likely acting like the second coming. Anyway, I don’t believe Carla Bruni. Not a word of it. The one thing I do believe is that she is firmly among the ranks of the lunatic and loony left. As Drew would say, “BAH!”
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Because it would be evidence of a huge lie, that’s why
I guess this is another one of those daily moonbat posts. Well, maybe not moonbattery in the pure form, but a certain kind of willfull blindness seems to be in evidence.
You may find it hard to believe that this remains an issue in this campaign, but it does. The candidates, both candidates, are still getting questions about Barack Obama’s ethnicity and religion. If you are even semi-informed, then by now you already know that of course, Barack Obama is an American.
Of course, Barack Obama is a Christian. Yet just a few days ago, there was a woman at a rally for John McCain incorrectly calling Obama an Arab
So what if Obama was Arab or Muslim? So what if John McCain was Arab or Muslim? Would it matter? When did that become a disqualifier for higher office in our country? When did Arab and Muslim become dirty words? The equivalent of dishonorable or radical? Whenever this gets raised, the implication is that there is something wrong with being an Arab-American or a Muslim. And the media is complicit here, too. We’ve all been too quick to accept the idea that calling someone Muslim is a slur.
Not true Campbell darlin. Calling someone a flea bitten, goat raping, carpet stealing, wife beating, pedophilic, 7th century dune coon is a slur. Calling anyone a jihadist is a slur, IF they’re innocent. But since you ask, so sorry to let you down, but you do remember 9/11? You do remember the 1972 Olympics? You do recall all those years in between with the endless series of terrorist acts all carried out by guys named Mohammed? Guess what? Islam - or if you must keep at least part of your so pretty head buried in the sand - “radical” or “fundamental” Islam is our enemy. And they’ve said so a billion times, for 1400 years now. It’s what violent jihad is all about. So maybe the lines have become just a wee bit blurred lately, and members of that faith are viewed with a bit of skepticism by the rest of us. Lie down with dogs, get up with a suicide vest. Smart muslims over here probably know enough to speak out against terrorism and violence, and the smartest ones know not to take their religion too too seriously. So yeah, unpleasant as it may be, we have “good muslims” and “bad muslims” in our midst. Until this thing is over, they’re going to have to walk on eggshells. But we aren’t shooting them in the street, we aren’t beating them in the dark (90% or more of these “islamaphobia” cases turn out to be self-induced, ie faked) and we have neither deported them nor rounded them up in camps. They aren’t even being fired from their jobs, and the police and other public services have bent over backwards to see that they aren’t getting unfair treatment. That’s as good as it’s ever going to get for people who share some major core identity with an avowed and active enemy of the United States.
There are more than 1.2 million Arab-Americans and about 7 million Muslim-Americans, former Cabinet secretaries, members of Congress, successful business people, normal average Americans from all walks of life. These are the people being maligned here, and we can only imagine how this conversation plays in the Muslim world. We can’t tolerate this ignorance—not in the media, not on the campaign trail. Of course, he’s not an Arab. Of course, he’s not a Muslim. But honestly, it shouldn’t matter.
I don’t know why you break those populations up, since 95% of all Arab-Americans are muslims, or at least were muslims when they came here. And honestly, they aren’t being maligned. Hardly at all. Less than us evil white males are, that’s for sure. And all the ones who might suffer a little malignment need to do is to change out of the Immigrant Pants, dress like Americans, and assimilate a little. At which point we wouldn’t be able to tell them from Hindus, which everyone knows are hard working, very well educated people with excellent family values.
But you were talking about Obama. Are you high sweetheart? Are you that naive? Or is this just more of CNN’s bias creeping in, trying to lay down some more guilt against us whiteys?
Let’s say he was, and had been up front about it:
“Hello, my name is Barrrrrrackkk Huzzzzein Obama. I’m an Arab-American Muslim who happens to be part African and part White. And I’m running for President, because I believe in a Change for Socialism, and I Hope you do too!”
He would have been allowed to campaign. But people would have somehow listened more to what he was saying. And taken a good hard look at his background, his family, and his friends. And wondered if it was a Good Thing, and likely decided it Wasn’t. And that’s all, really.
Now, let’s say he is, always was, and has been keeping it a secret. Which is what many people suspect right now, because so much of his past is locked away. This means he’s been lying to us. This means he is a total phony, a fake, a fraud, a pretender. And we don’t like that. So if these turned out to be true, believably true, then the evidence of a campaign of lies would be overwhelming. And he’d get about 8.2 million votes (your 1.2 plus your 7) at most. We’d reject him utterly. Because he tried to put one over on the whole damn country. Not because he was a member of the wrong religion or ethnic group. Because he was a liar. And maybe because he was a far left Socialist too.
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Permalink • Monday - October 06, 2008
OK, EVEN IF YOU DON’T AGREE WITH EVERYTHING, THIS IS A MUST WATCH AND LISTEN VIDEO.
Just before getting ready to shut down for the night, I paid a visit to Vilmar’s site where I stole this.
I don’t think he’ll mind me doing that.
Now then, please, please stay with this fellow even if it is a mite hard to watch because he’s jumps a lot.
This really does have a large WOW factor.
One of the things I’ve always liked about Vilmar, is his take no prisoners attitude and kick the hell out of the left when ya have em down.
Well, while this young man might not be Vilmar he sure does score some points and doesn’t seem to worry much about prisoners either.
NOW THEN ... WANNA TALK ABOUT TAKE NO PRISONERS?
HE GOES ON AGAIN HERE. THIS YOUNG FELLA IS ON A ROLL.
Thanks Vilmar. http://antzinpantz.com/kns/ and thanks as well to Sndrak, which is where V got it. http://tinyurl.com/48qoj8
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Permalink • Monday - September 15, 2008
Show Me
I’m a little behind the news curve today, but I’ll try to catch up. This was going around a couple days ago ...
A box of Obama Waffles is seen in Washington, Saturday, Sept. 13, 2008. A vendor at a conservative political forum was selling boxes of waffle mix depicting Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama as a racial stereotype on its front and wearing Arab-like headdress on its top flap. The product was meant as political satire, said Mark Whitlock and Bob DeMoss, two writers from Franklin, Tenn., who created the mix and sold it for $10 a box at the Values Voter Summit sponsored by the lobbying arm of the Family Research Council.
(AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Ok, aside from the “lipstick on a pig” addition, this is a pretty reasonable caricature of what the man actually looks like. I didn’t see a picture of the top flap, but we’ve all seen the picture of OBambam actually wearing that kind of clothing, taken during one of his trips to Africa. It’s not like the artist had to make anything up out of ... whole cloth.
Yes, there is a brand of pancake/waffle mix on the market that features a black lady on the box. That brand has been around, with her image, longer than Obama has been alive. Seems to me that Aunt Jemima shed her “mammy” image decades ago ... even Mrs. Butterworth is an elderly white lady these days (was she ever black? We never bought that brand.)
Notice that the parody box doesn’t even use the AJ color scheme or placement design. If anything, it’s only marginally reminiscent of the Bisquick product, because the colors are different, the “swoosh” is absent from the logo, and the placement object is waffles instead of pancakes:
So it’s really tough to make the Aunt Jemima association. If I made a parody picture of a bottle of Coketm would that mean I’m being racist because once upon a time Michael Jackson set himself on fire while filming a Pepsitm commercial? Show me how the Obama Waffles flap is not also that kind of trans-dimensional conclusion leaping.
The term “waffles” dates from the Carter era I think, and means the same as “flip flops”: someone whose political beliefs and statements change all the time.
So, show me the racial stereotyping. PLEASE. I honestly invite our more PC aware readers to point this out to me, because I don’t see it. If you make your case, and you use the Waffles = Aunt Jemima = mammy = slavery, therefore Obama Waffles = Racism argument, then please also show me how any black person who eats pancakes or waffles or any breakfast product is not automatically an Uncle Tom.
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