Barack Obama has brought International prestige and acclaim to the United States with the winning of the Nobel Peace prize. While the prize was shocking to many, if the citizens of United States would close their eyes and remember why they voted for him they would realize that he deserves and earned the Nobel Peace Prize. I can not say that I necessarily agree or even know clearly the rationale of the Nobel committee for awarding the Nobel Peace prize to Barack Obama but I can articulate why I think he deserves the prize.
Barack and Michelle Obama deserve the Nobel Peace Prize for first of all being able to transcend themselves. In a world that frequently says you can’t and in a country that had never had a President of color The Obama’s said “Yes We Can”. They said Yes We can and Did. Barack Obama did not come from a two parent home with Daddy throwing him up to the sky every night, Barack Obama even mentions that he comes from a home where people may have told him they were scared of black men because he was raised by his caucasian grandmother. President OBama’s history and his subsequent accomplishments are a beacon of light to every child around the world who experiences controversies and problems in their lives. The ability of Barack Obama to overcome himself and his environment is a world class accomplishment, Nobel Prize worthy because one of the hardest things for people to do is to overcome themselves. Many great thinkers have written about this Napoleon Hill, recitations of the words of Jesus and others.
Barack Obama deserves the Nobel Prize by helping to prove to the world that the United States is not full of racists who hate black people and that the notion that an American Dream is possible for all is a reality not a notion for whites only. In a sociology class I learned about the third generational theory that all European racial groups who come to the United States can meld into the fabric of the United States and eventually become white or plain American, whereas people of color Asians, Blacks, Latinos, were subsequently out of luck and could never really melt because of their race into an American characteristic. Barack Obama and the United State shattered this myth by voting for him as President by actually implementing the words of Martin Luther King “not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character”. The various races of the United States gave Barack Obama a mandate. Barack Obama was not a president installed by force, given to the United States by some International Super Power he was democratically elected by the American people who said that we don’t care about race anymore just someone willing to work for our interests.
As for the significance of Barack Obama post election we the American People seriously hope that he will use the slogan YES WE CAN to solve our problems as well as take the attitude of YES WE CAN to the world and help solve their problems. As for what has gone wrong with the Presidency up to know, by and large Obama and the Democrats refuse to ignore the voices that did not elect them. The only way Obama can keep his promises is to ignore the voices of dissension and keep a straight path and fulfill his promise.
Sometimes people get so embroiled in their intragroup relationships and communications they forget that there is a whole world that is not in their group or their clique. They surround themselves with people that think the same way, act the same way, and only amplify their small view of the world. This is the conudrum of David Letterman and his Clique of Bitches. As an African American I have frequently run into individuals who only live in a certain social class who are used to saying certain things, believing certain things and verbally exclaiming very damaging stereotypes about poor and struggling blacks that in most cases simply are not true.
When Letterman cavalierly announced that he was sleeping with the women who worked for him and basically said, so what. Letterman revealed that he was hanging within a clique that I entitle the Clique of Bitches. I am not calling the women bitches but I am willing to bet that in his mind, in the minds of his associates and the men that he surrounds himself with, they think of women as bitches to be thrown away used and in the least a functional urinal. The caveat with Letterman was that in his mind he told himself just like the jock tells the virgin, everybodys doing it. Every man who is able to has a clique of bitches. Letterman told himself everyone’s sleeping with their staff not just in his industry but even the mom and pop waitresses are sleeping with pop. So he cavalierly announced that he had slept with his staff and made a two million dollar old fool out of himself.
Personally I find it disturbing that a man who has managed to make forty million dollars a year did it without having to possess a shred of sophistication or knowledge of the outside world. David Letterman revealed that in this mean society we live in that there are some men who only believe the only way a woman can get a job is on her back or her knees, and judging by the attitude towards his staff he assumes that women like it. He naturally assumes that women are giving free sex to a sixty-two year old man because they sexually desire him not because they need or want a job or the money. The sixty million dollar Larry King question of Letterman’s past female employees is DID YOU LIKE IT? . I hazard to guess not much. Please don’t forget to follow me on twitter blackhippychick
While the United States faces amazing obstacles that the president inherited from the previous administration, unemployment, foreclosures, bank closures, and social upheavals the president of the United States has demoted himself to the President of Chicago, winging him up is Oprah Queen of the world. One wonders if the bid for the Olympics is a true desire for the city of Chicago or just a power play to see if Oprah Winfrey and Barack Obama can be crowned King and Queen of World Influence.
While Oprah and Barack seek to be anointed King and Queen of the world ie. First Black President of the United States and Richest Black woman in the world , one wonders why the concept of solving very real problems in the city they call home is one challenge that they seem not to be too interested in solving. Currently Barack Obama seems to be not too interested in solving Americas problems but getting the Olympics to Chicago, just like he did not seem to be too interested in solving Chicago’s problems but being president of the United States .
The Quest for the Olympics seems to be very fake and shallow when there are young men and women beating each other to death on the streets of Chicago.
The quest for the Olympics seems to be a facade when a cold winter is approaching and there are individuals who may not have heat to heat there homes in Chicago or in Barack Obama’s case the United States.
These are problems that effect all cities not just Chicago but these are problems that Chicago seems not to be interested in taking care of. To the King and Queen of the World the very real problems of Chicago do not exist for they are essentially saying to the poor of Chicago “LET THEM EAT THE OLYMPICS”
Finally the caveat in the Chicago quest for the Olympics is that they are not that major of a city. For some of the Olympians this will be there first and only trip to the Olympics. Honestly now where would you want to be in the summer of 2016 in the mean streets of Chicago or on a Sunny beach in RIO. Ask the fallen flight of RIO to Paris where they would have rather been. RIO to PARIS. Straight Shot………..
The arrest by Henry Louis Gates by police for disorderly conduct after being accused of breaking into his own home is quickly being associated in my mind with incidents such as the Katherine Johnson case where police wrongly kicked the door down in her home after thinking she was a drug dealer killing her and lying to cover the killing up by saying she had a gun. The profession of police is quickly becoming like other professions where results are not measured and one can readily blame those you are supposed to serve for why there is an extreme need for your services, ie. in some cases educators blame children for not learning when they are given checks for performing the service of teaching. The profession of policing is quickly becoming the profession of getting a check and doing anything and saying anything to make sure that check is collected and not protecting.
The irony about Henry Louis Gates and his situation is that his door was jammed in, indicating that at some point a real person had actually tried to break into his house and no one was around. A reasonable human being and police officer would have noticed this and showed some concern after Mr. Gates showed ID and offered to file a police report. Instead after Mr. Gates showed ID to the police officer, the police officer called for backup which indicates the officer thought he was being handed a fake ID or did not believe that Henry Louis Gates lived there. Therefore when Henry Gates entered the porch of his home the police charged him with a trumped up charge of disorderly conduct violating Gates Rights to be secure in his own home a fundamental constitutional right.
More and more the charge of disorderly conduct is becoming skewed with a United States Citizens right to protest, with their rights to freedom of speech, and in the Gates case to be able to reside peaceably in their own home. The charge of disorderly conduct is increasingly being used to substitute for disagreeing with the police which is not disorderly. The charge of disorderly conduct is literally rendering American citizens to the role of slaves and the police as overseer who have too much discretion to use this claim when Americans may be tired, hungry, and appaled by the treatment that is being meted out to them by the “authorities”.
Hip Hoppers are fond of imitating Gangsters in their videos. Some even imitate the Italian Mafia. However with the recent beating of Rihanna by Chris Brown. Many are questioning the depth and the breadth of Hip Hops ability to be self policing and in the least have the ruthlessness to control star talents such as Chris Brown who not only harm his bottom line when he beats up women but harm the whole industry. Actions such as P Diddy in inviting Chris Brown to his home after Rihannas beating further shed light on the falseness of the ruthlessness facade of toughness and Gangsterism.
If the Black Hip Hop world were truly like the mafia the consequences of beating such a big star and money maker as Rihanna would have resulted in swift justice for Chris Brown such as a broken leg or in the least a black eye. Instead the woman ended up with the black eye almost fueling fire to the homoeroticism rumours swirling around hip hop artists. Furthermore Rihannas mentor though issuing lip service to his disgust concerning the incident seemed to be powerless to do anything substantial before the publicly aired beating or after. The manner in which Rihanna quickly returned to Chris Brown leads me to believe that this was not Rihanna’s first time being beat at the hands of Chris Brown. If this is true this further sheds light on the weak individuals that are in the hip hop industry and are Rihanna’s friends and lovers. Even if Rihanna chooses to go back to Chris Brown it seems like someone in the tough guy hip hop industry does not have the balls to tell Chris Brown if you hit her one more time you’re going to be gone from this earth. It just goes to show cash does not always translate into power.
A southern father in a small town has more power than these wealthy hip hoppers. In my early twenties I took a cross country trip on the greyhound bus and sat next to a man who had just gotten out of jail. He wanted to talk and seemed to think that he had been framed by a southern gentlemen because he cheated on his daughter. He seemed to think someone had planted drugs in his car and sent him off to jail for three years making Bob Barker shoes. Whether this story was true or not this Southern Father did what it took to defend his daughters honor. In the meanwhile hip hoppers are getting Prissy on the runway and kissing each other in the mouth. You know who you are. They seem to have forgotten who the girl is. Are they beating on women to indicate to their secret lovers that the straight life is just a facade.
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“I Wish I Could Take A Journey Through Your Mind and Find the Emotions You Always Try to Hide” JOE
Several years ago I was informed that their was a mind reading device that could read your thoughts and someone called the thoughts “computer thoughts”. While I was a believer and believed, I never thought that the technology would be mainstreamed and assumed that the technology would remain under some strange black project and would never see the light of day.
However a couple of innovative Australians have done what I never thought would happen. They will be main streaming a mind reading device that reads the brain waves in persons mind and translates them into their thoughts.
Two of the innovators behind bringing this technology to market were pioneers in early text messaging. They made their first millions by bringing text messaging technology to the masses. The other founder of the company is a Nobel prize winning scientist.
The writer from Inc. has tried the technology and has the following to say about the Mind Reading Device:
I‘m sitting in a darkened room, attempting to move a large block with nothing but my thoughts. I stare at it intently and imagine myself physically tugging on it, trying to flood my mind with a sense of strain and determination. But the block doesn’t budge. I try again, concentrating, concentrating: Move, damn you; I am your master. After a long moment, the block trembles a bit, then slowly skids toward me a few feet before stopping. Encouraged, I mentally bear down until the block resumes its sliding, and this time it keeps going. I’m gripped by the immensity of what I have just accomplished: effecting a change in the world around me without moving a muscle. Well, that’s not entirely true. I may have squinted a bit.
This isn’t a dream; it’s science — and soon, maybe, a big business. OK, the block was only a virtual one on a computer screen, but that’s a nit. The same technology that converted my thoughts into action on the screen someday could be hooked up to a real-life backhoe, robot surgeon, or microwave oven, placing any of those objects at my mental whim. This thought-conversion technology is composed of some extremely sophisticated software and a piece of headgear that looks like a cross between a telephone headset and a skeletal bike helmet. Embedded in the headset are 16 electrodes that press lightly on my scalp, monitoring the electrical signals generated by the 3 pounds of toothpaste-like goo sealed in my skull. The signals are my brain waves, the stuff of thought and emotion. The headset passes the signals to the software, which extracts patterns that can be used to control anything that’s run by electronics.”
Emotive plans to introduce the technology to the gaming community first because of their willingness to adapt new technologies and their openness to beliveing the technology could exist. The company then hopes to export the technology to as many areas of human interaction that it can. Some of the other uses the company hopes to export the mind reading technology to is to ipods and mp3 players, allowing your thoughts and feelings to determine what music is played.
Other areas that I can personally think of is answering the question do you really love me. Will people allow computer technology to do as Joe says “take a journey through their minds and find the emotions they always try to hide.” This device can answer the unanswered.
Personally while I know this stock will outperform Google I will be investing in the company that provides shielding from this type of technology because I’m sure it can be wireless.
It appears that one of CNN’s main purpose is to keep the racial pot stirred. They don’t even make it a stew they only want to report on one race “the black race”.
I have previously reported on Soledad Obriens negative attitude towards black women. She has said and I quote “maybe now that Michelle Obama is First Lady, they’ll get some self respect for themselves. “ This followed a segment of insults to black women that for me personally is unprecdented. Well guess what Soledad is slated to do another segment on Black America.
Well CNN guess what I will be reviewing the transcript from CNN’s black women segment and making a complaint to the FCC for defemation and the spreading of black lies about Black Americans.
With CNN the insults and the attacking of Black Americans is so insidious the early morning coverage of the innaguration of Barack Obama had a White Anchor who at the beginning of the coverage looked out over a sea of black faces and said all these people have come to see Barack Obama will have to return home to no jobs. I had to laugh because I knew that if you even took a $400 bus trip to the National Mall you had to have a job. The anchor later redeemed herself by singing like she was with her best friends with a group of women from Lousisiana; therefore proving what I always knew that there is always someone like you in every race. She meant no harm. She was a likeable sort, and she was willing to come to some sort of racial understanding. Unlike Soledad Obrien, who will never come to an understanding of black people, who has built her whole identity and career on potraying the seemy side of black life and has eesentially become a racial pimp, pimping her career on black people. The prior anchor redeemed herself. Soledad will never redeem herself.
During the King/Inauguration coverage Soledad Obrien was in character. She thinks she’s an expert on Black America and therefore since she’s never heard all of the King I have a dream speech she assumes no one has especially Kings fellow black folks . She walks up to a woman and screws up her face and says have you heard all of the I have a Dream Speech. The woman says yes, Soledad’s face falls as if to say your’re a smart “one” coon. She quizzes her and has to move on becasue this woman is just too smart. She does not rest until she finds a balck person as dumb as she wants them to be.
In the mean time, an anchor interviews a white girl who is so obviously with a white guy who’s tall, his face is fresh, and he’s chomping at the bit to be on the news. The girl keeps talking about he and him and he did this. Well the anchor identifies her him, it’s a black man who isn’t even in the shot. The white woman says no it’s him and points to the white guy. I suppose this particular anchor thought that the only reason a white woman would be out there in 18 degree weather is because she’s with or trolling for a black man. NOT TRUE!!!!
I suppose I truly realized CNN has race problems when this morning they are continuously running segments stating that blacks are shall we say fanatical about Barack Obama. They think he’s can do anything they are saying, keep their houses from being foreclosed on, give them a job, give them a job. Well ummmmmm isn’t this the platform he ran on. Isn’t this Obama’s own platform hope, jobs, stopping foreclosures. This is what he promised he would do for all Americans and this is why “all” americans voted for him. CNN keeps stirring the pot. All Americans are putting the same hope into President Obama.
Leaving us with the statement that set it all off:
“It’s not a Black America, It’s not a White America, It’s the United States of America”
Barack Obama
Maybe CNN in their Mocha Latte World missed this! The problem just may be the culture of CNN and not the “United States of America”
This year I have been amazed at the things happening before me in the media. I will never get over the Democrats in Michigan taking votes from Hillary Clinton and giving them to Barack Obama during the presidential primary and not hearing a peep about it except from Boston and LA media outlets. My previous blog entry covered the Anderson Copper episode on November 24, 2008 and their coverage of Black Women.
While everyone was in an uproar over Don Imus and his comments about black Female basketball players at Rutgers being Nappy Headed Hoes. No one seemed particularly concerned with the fact that CNN has aired a piece about black women that was doubly offensive, badly researched and just plain wrong. I have to admit that after contemplating the CNN piece I had to think that maybe my processing of the piece was over the top. Did I over react to the coverage and I have thought about this for days. At some point I even wondered if despite the fact that I had seen the coverage twice if I had somehow put words into the piece that were not there. In the modern day U.S. where Kings dream is played out everyday with black, white, red, and yellow children in schools and with adults in companies, and corporations and even in social situations. It was a little hard for me to believe that a major media outlet would make a racial attack on one group of people.
For me, personally the way CNN covers black people is just as offensive as historical coverage of whites calling blacks Niggers and Coons openly on T.V. in the 1950’s and 60″s. I find CNN’S coverage of black people and in this piece black women far more insidious and dangerous to black people than any noose hanging from a tree without a name or a color on it. The noose is objective and inanimate. If anyone feels offended by a noose it’s what they bring to the situation but CNN is actually telling people what to say and how to feel about black women and black people. They may say that it’s to benefit black women, but CNN’s coverage of Black women the other day made me want to hide. For me the coverage made me feel like some one had thrown me on the ground, pulled my legs open and looked in with a flashlight. It violated me.
As far as Michelle Obama is concerned I have not failed to notice Michelle is Black. Neither has my mother who keeps repeating slyly Safire in the White House. I find it particularly interesting that my mother uses this term because she’s never used it before. As a black woman I find it triumphant that a black woman is in the White House and I thinks it’s ground breaking. However what CNN is failing to pick up when they cover Michelle Obama at the expense of other black women (Quotes from CNN)
[ALLISON SAMUELS, "NEWSWEEK": When you look at television, we're either, you know, single mothers with a bunch of children or drug addicts or street walkers.]
[KAYE: Allison Samuels wrote this article for "Newsweek." She hopes and expects having Michelle Obama in the White House will help put an end to the stereotyping of African-American women, often portrayed as overweight, ignorant and angry.]
What CNN is failing to pick up is that as black people, as black women, we don’t care what black woman is in the White House and if she rolls her eyes stomps her feet and screams and these are the stereotypes we subscribe to. We don’t care we applaud it, and if she stomps her feet and gets loud we know why. I am African American and I am loud I admit it. In my case I have not always been loud . I used to be quiet as a mouse. I write this with tears in my eyes, becuase lately my tone is loud and strident and for those white women in particular who continually date black men and have black children after a while society has made them loud and strident too. If you choose to be culturally black you will eventually be a safire whether out loud or inside. We want Michelle to be a bonafide black woman in the White House and she has said that she’s the one who tells Barack Obama you’re not all that. I have even read it being described as her south side of Chicago roots make Barack Obama see reality. This is the safire in Michelle and this is what is admired. This is a real black woman in the White House. It does not matter what profession Michelle Obama has chosen Teacher, Attorney, House Wife, Stripper – (Italy and France). We admire her because she’s black and the first Black First Lady when all the rest have been white.
CNN fails to realize in their AC 360 piece on Michelle Obama as a role model, you don’t have to bring black women down to put her on a pedestal. She’s there. No one has to justify her existence who she is or why. She’s there. To attempt to cover Michelle Obama at the expense of black women not only insults the general population of black women but insults Michelle Obama also. She is the First Lady and that’s not negotiable.
As for CNN and their coverage of black women. I have heard black women stereotyped as the following:
[SAMUELS: We still have that negative image of black women being overweight and very loud and rolling their eyes and talking back and having these sassy one-liners all the time.]
I am familiar with the above stereotype. However I was not aware that all of the world and society thinks of black women as street walkers and drug addicts. This is indeed news to me and I would definitely be interested in seeing the research to back up these comments. I took a sociology class on interracial understanding many years ago with all races and we had to list our stereotypes about various races and the term street walker and drug addict was not associated with black people or for that matter was not a stereotype of a particular race. Hitler was a drug addict. In certain European countries they have drug addict areas. Places where individuals can go and use their drugs of choice. Prostitution is the oldest profession in the world and in Amsterdam women stand in the window and advertise their womanly charms. In London they have Pink brothels so people interested in paying for sex can get something in the middle of the afternoon. I don’t think anyone associates drugs and sex with any particular race. Anyone who says that the world views black women as prostitutes and drug addicts subscribes to a fallacy; and I don’t believe that these statements can be supported with real research.
CNN goes on to say about black women,
“OLIVIA FISHKIN, NEW YORK RESIDENT: The average African-American woman should take heed and hope that, with hard work and study, that they can also elevate themselves and aspire to become whatever they want to become.”
You know I don’t think that Michelle Obama when she met and married Barack Obama said gee if I marry this man I’m going to be First Lady. She became Barack Obama’s wife and he became president. The average women black or white unless they are Hillary Clinton is not going to go out and say golly gee if I marry this man, I’m going to be First Lady. As for Michelle Obama’s professional accomplishments I respect her for them but she won an athletic scholarship to Princeton and everyone knows the rumor about Ivy League colleges exposed by Larry Summers, Obama’s buddy, that if you are accepted into an Ivy League College you’re just going to get good grades no matter what. All you have to do is be accepted. Just like the NBA, not everyone is athletically gifted enough to get an athletic scholarship to Princeton like Michelle Obama. As for the six figure salary, she got that after her husband became a state Senator. We can not play the Emperors New Clothes game with the Obama’s but if we are playing the role model game lets be transparently honest. What is is.
CNN goes on to say,
[KAYE: What about her skin color? It's much darker than African- American celebrities like Beyonce or Halle Berry. Samuels says that may send the message black is beautiful.
SAMUELS: In the African-American community, a lot of times beauty is sort of determined by how light you are. And what I love about Michelle is that she's not that typical look.]
You know as a black woman I am familiar with the hurts of being browner. I am also familiar with the hurts of not being dark enough. I am not going to celebrate Michelle Obama’s darkness at the expense of my beautiful beautiful daughter or my mother , my mother like her father in her old age is looking more and more white versus black. My mother’s color has not saved her from hurt nor harm in life. Neither has the color of many of my friends. My daughter who is quite beautiful and tall, and at age eight looks like a petite black Asian woman went to pay for my gas and the store owner gave it to her, I had to track back and pay for it. I find it painful that she may be discriminated against because she is lighter and prettier. She has been discriminated against before because she was not dark enough and her features were not ethnic enough and it hurt me deeply. The Michelle Obama craze because of her skin color has me warning my daughter who is not even close to being sexually active not to have sex before marriage, because I don’t want anyone using her body and then throwing her away because she’s not dark enough.
A society that deals in a races color as a sex symbol ultimately wants what it want’s it’ own image. Maybe if CNN is concerned with the variety of black women they should try giving a black woman that is not the color of a paper bag a job as an anchor. Practice what you are trying to preach.
Finally CNN goes on to say,
KAYE: Michelle Obama’s physique may also light a fire under black women. Federal statistics show four out of five African- American women are overweight or obese. Mrs. Obama works out daily, often before her girls are even awake.
SAMUELS: You don’t necessarily look at a size zero and go, “OK, I can look like that” in fashion magazines, but you have this real- life woman, who’s a mother and a wife, who is making time to sort of work out and look good. And I think all of that is going to play a big role in African-American woman, you know, just sort of taking a step back and saying, “What can I do to be healthy?”
I am particularly concerned with the fact that CNN want’s to light a fire under my butt. I don’t think all of the exercise in the world will ever make me look like Michelle Obama. I am 5′3. I have large breasts like my grandmother and mother. She’s close to six feet and has small breasts and a big butt and she looks very big especially in the hips. I would be curious to know what size she wears and how much she weighs. I’d like to see her step up on the scale on TV and not get second hand knowledge about her size. If she’s working out I don’t see it, I did see it but it looks like the election may have made her gain weight, as I have since the election began. I think I’ll continue to look at celebrities as my radar for how I’m supposed to look. As for CNN there are a lot more white people in the United States than white people therefore there are a lot more white obese people in the United States. Since CNN is fond of picking up NBC’s cast off anchors maybe they could do what NBC has done, institute a National challenge for the whole United States regardless of color. I fail to see how a persons weight defines them as a person and health is important but in the context of this piece it’s just a cheap shot at black women.
As for CNN, CNN may want to look internally for why the piece on Michelle Obama was so negative towards black women. I am aware that some of the white women on staff at CNN are involved in interracial relationships with black men and vice versa. Years ago my Sunday entertainment was watching Lester Holt and one of the CNN anchor women and I knew that Lester was married but this current CNN anchor woman seemed not to care. In any event I think when someone referred to Obama as African American, a CNN representative went into a long sketch on Obama’s mother being white and how she had interacial kids. We all know that Obama is interracial but despite what some may think. He’s not where is because he’s interacial. He’s where he is because his white grandmother married to a white man set up a great example for him and demonstrated through example that anything is possible. It’s a great story that Barack Obama’s grandmother worked her way up from the secretarial pool to the Vice President of a bank. This is why Obama is where he is. Obama makes a great case for interacial adoption since his black father ran off and his white mother left him with his grandmother but I’m not seeing the case for interracial relationships. I’m seeing a case for stable relationships. I’m seeing that by marrying Michelle Obama, Barack Obama walked in the steps of his white grandparents in his desire for a more traditional lifestyle. He has a desire to be a husband and a father and have a traditional family life.
Erykah Badu Sings Southern Gurl – Every Black Girl Has A Vote and Every Black Girl Deserves to Be Respected Despite what CNN and Newsweek says
I have learned something about Anderson Cooper, whenever the producers of his show decide to air something controversial or distasteful that he does not want to be associated with he manages to not be on his own show Anderson Cooper 360 and hands the dirt bag to Soledad Obrien who as far as black people go will say anything distasteful, stereotypical or just plain out rotten about black people that she thinks will make her career. Well the last Anderson Cooper showed Soledad at her best in stereotyping Black Women. I also had to wonder as I watched the piece if Soledad had just swam across from Cuba, as she seemed totally unaware of the strides that black women have made outside of being someones wife. I had to wonder if Soledad had ever heard of Dr. Condeleeza Rice, on leave from Provost of Stanford University and current Secretary of State. The world has, but alas poor soledad must be suffering a language barrier. I am still wondering why she hasn’t done a piece on Hispanics yet, I think Latin America is having a really rotten drug war that’s resulting in a loss of lives. I would be interested in seeing this issue covered. I am concerned that the drug war may come over the border.
In any event, last night the gremlin resembling Soledad Obrien did a piece on black women and how Michelle Obama will elevate black women and how they the world sees black women and how they see themselves. As a women maybe ten years younger or more than Soledad Obrien, I had to think that her piece was hackneyed and not very current. As usual Soledad Obrien’s information was totally biased and badly researched. The miltimedia headlights included “Medea” and some other man who dresses as a woman in the piece, big fat women rolling around the screen, and children hollering. Evidently the producer of the piece is not aware that Medea is a man. The producer is also not aware that Tyler Perry tries to highlight Medea’s positive qualities and Medea is a satire on African Americans. It’s not a stereotype but almost a look at the past and maybe while some of us may not be like that “anymore” or have ever been like that, we may need to be like this in some ways is Tyler Perry’s message is. If anyone is familiar with the literature of Lindon Hills by Gloria Naylor who writes fiction on black class and status issues, they will notice the thread of Linden Hills a book by Naylor in Perry’s Work. Naylor essentially says in Linden hills by having the rich people live at the bottom of the hill and the poor at the top the higher they (Striving blacks) climb, the further they fall in terms of morals, family life,relation to God etc. I think Tyler Perry tries to draw the same parallel. Unless you have an extremely low IQ I don’t think that Perry expects viewers of his movies to think that his movies are real life and MEdea is a real woman.
Soledad had one Newsweek pundit saying society stereotypes black women as street walkers and drug addicts. The show also gave statistics on black women and obesity. She also conveniently mentioned blacks and skin color and how Michelle Obama’s dark skin would raise the esteem of dark skin people. She mentioned Beyonce and Hallie Berry as sex symbols and said we had no dark skin sex symbols. I think Angela Basset, Janet Jackson, Alliyah, Erykah Badu and Rihanna qualify for me as women who are brown or do not have traditional European features. I think girlfriends, produced by Kelsey Grammar who was a McCain supporter presents a multi colored cast of sexy African American women. Finally Soledad did an interview with Faye Waddeldon and said that Michelle Obama elevates the possibility of what black women can do. Personally while having a law degree and a job is commendable, as a woman I respect women who go to the top of their professions not who just perform the act of acquiring , for Barack or Michelle Obama even a brief before the Supreme Court would have earned a tremendous amount of respect from me. As for Faye Waddledon I remember Faye Waddledon from when I was ten years old, Pre-Cosby. The world has changed a lot in those years. Has she done any new research in twenty years she’s still saying the same thing she said twenty years ago. HUH”"”"”"”"”"”" I suppose Condoleeza Rice was not the first female National Security adviser and the first Black Female Secretary of State. Black Women have already been elevated and the Republican Party did it. The same people attacking black women are the same people who attacked and are attacking Sarah Palin. They hate women. They do not love Michelle Obama, they are attempting to compensate for her lack by attacking black women. They are attempting to build her up by comparing her with a social problem. All I want Michelle to do is comb her hair, put on a suit, and keep her children’s hair neatly combed and done at all times. This is not rocket science, the women who are the targets of CNN’s piece do it well all the time, maybe they would be more suited to the role of First Lady rather than a Harvard trained Attorney. Michelle’s job is First Lady (WIFE) lets just pray she can take care of her ceremonial duties without a hell to Oblivion dress on, let’s hope she knows how to be a good wife and mother if she can do this she would have met the criteria for the job of First Lady. There is no degree requirement for First Lady!
In the the year 2009 America will be celebrating a ground breaking event, it’s first Black President. Unfortunately what CNN has failed to realize on a recent report on Michelle Obama and how she breaks the mold of Black women is that this historic election of a black man in the white house was done step by step and partially shattered by the positive media examples of black women and men in the media. Personally I believe the presence of a smart articulate black woman such as Secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice was critical to Barack Obama becoming President. When the United States had no idea what was happening in the Bush Administration Condi, Secretary of State was able to explain to us in a graceful, feminine, kindly way what was going on in the world. In the Bush administration Condi was our light.
In any event the most ground breaking thing that a black women did this year for me was make a video. I am a horror buff. I just love the movie Silent Hill as well as Hostel. So when I saw the following video by Rihanna since I rarely see black people in a horror genre I was thrilled.
This is ground breaking to me (it says something about please click on a link thanks, I have not clicked on the link and do not know where it leads, as far as this blog is concerned please do not click on anything other than the youtube play icon.):
I find it awfully ironic that Soledad Obrien chose to try to report on the black experience in America when she is of Hispanic descent. The honest truth is that if I had to report on a social problem in America at this moment it would be the problem of illegal immigrants crossing the border taking the jobs of citizens of all races. In reporting on this I would report on the almost inhumane living conditions that I have personally witnessed in New Mexico which were worst than all the deepest darkest stereotypical Africa stories that I had ever heard about. They were certainly worst than any American ghetto that I haveever been too. Even so daily we are barraged by the crimes that Hispanic immigrants commit not on each other Ie/ black on black crime……..but on the general American population.
Solded and Mother
My words sound a little mean don’t they. Well the little I saw of Black in America and I mean very little that I saw. I think in the first episode, I happened to see a single father who had been given three months to find another places to stay and after three months he “still” had not found a place to stay and was granted six “more” months to find a place and then the sentiment by the reporting was poor poor poor man. Frankly my dear………….. I’m from the South you should be able to fill in the blanks. Furthermore, I think I did stick around for a liittle more with commentary from Micheal Baisdon a black radio personality, oh but wait, isn’t Micheal the radio personality that also has a show on BET that has urged women to get plastic surgery on their vaginas so that their husbands can feel more pleasure, and has a steady stream of strippers and adult entertainers on his show, where he asks such questions as since you are an adult entertainer can you still feel sexy with the one you love. Just the presence of this personality let me know that the documentary “Black in America” is not hard hitting journalism.
The next day I tuned into CNN with the expectations of looking at CNN and their report on the black man and I am blasted with the percentage of black men who are not fathers and I see a cute baby boy with a big fat mother and the commentator says no father in the house. I immediately turn the TV off. This is not my reality, neither is it my childrn’s reality. It took Obama’s playing the race card and CNN’s heavy reporting of it for my eight year old to even realize that their is a race problem in the United States. Since Obama’s presidential run and CNN’s reporting of race, I wonder if Asian, Black, and White children will ever play the same again in the IKEA nursery again. I deliberately have left out Hispanic children becuase they seem to possess an eerily race conciousness at an early age that I find rather strange. To emphasize this, I have to recount an incident that happened when my daughter was around three we had gone to the local health center for a check up and my daughter was playing with a little boy and a little hispanic girl no more than three herself walked up to my daughter and pushed her for no reason and grabbed the little boys hand and pulled him away. I know this could have been the way children play but it had never happened before and I never witnessed it happening again. Another incident that I witnessed between Black children and Hispanic children would be when taking my daughter to the park. I very much like the local park, I can drive my car up in front of the picnic tables and from there my daughter can run to the playground which is within seeing and walking distance of my car, so I can sit in the car and read while she has a great time. I say all of this to say all the children play together, white children play with black children and vice versa. However the Hispanic children will not play with black children. I have to backtrack just a little bit and say the Floridian Hispanics are very much Americanized and from one incident do interact with blacks and seem to have some affection for black people, but the other Hispanics from anywhere else seem to have a very real animus towards blacks I say all of this to say that Soledad’s documentary will not affect the way the majoity of Hispanics feel about blacks but will affect the way blacks and other races interact.
Personally after the documentary aired I self concious and less than as a person. I walked into the Farmers Market and probably because of me, I thought people were judging me, looking at a statistic, wondering things about me. HA I really felt this way.
In any event this documentary was ill timed and ill thought out. There may be more children in the United States without fathers, but there are other populations in the United States who’s rate of abortions are astronomical, how shall we say it or how are their own race of people saying it to each other, “you have aborted a whole nation of people” . In addition some populations are less fertile so their rate of pregancy is going to be lower. This accounts for some of the disparity between children without fathers in the black community versus the majority community. In addition black people my be experinceing an economic crisis but to my knowledge, the majority of American citizens are expericning an economic crisis in their lives also. This was empahsized to me by an article in the New York Times several years ago that discussed the fact that white men were not working and white women were taking care of their unemployed husbands. All of the above is said not to negate the fact that there is a problem in Black America but to say that documentaries characterizing a whole race are inappropriate and impede the efforts of those who are trying to climb out of their situations.
This blog posting is dedicated to the Usher the singer and his New Family!
Was your first child conceived under the following circumstances?
Lyrical Highlights of Make Love In Da Club as Sung By Usher Raymond
Refrain Repeated over and over throughout the song is the following:
I wanna make love in this club eh
in this club eh
in this club eh
I wanna make love in this club eh.
in this club eh
in this club eh
in this club yeah
You see you searching for somebody that’ll take you out and do you right.
Well come here baby and let daddy show you what it feel like.
Above translated
“We’ve talked and you’ve told me that you want to meet a nice guy that will treat you decently”
You know all you gotta do is tell me what your sipping on (sipping on)? Eh
And I promise that I’ma keep it coming all night looooooooong.
Above Translated
“I’m pretending to hear you and will possibly make you think I’m a nice guy as indicated by “eh”but what I’m really going to do is get you drunk so that I can get in your panties.
Have you ever made love to a thug in a club with his sights on, 87 jeans and a fresh pair of nikes on. On the couch, on the table, on the bar, on the floor.
you can meet me in the bathroom, ya you know im trained to go.
“I don’t need to translate this”
You might just wanna give me a kiss, we can keep touching like this
I know you scared baby, because you don’t know what we doing.
It’s ok, you can touch right here, keep doing that girl and I swear.
I’ma keep doing it to you non-stop.
And I dont care, who’s watching watching watching watching watching Oooooh In this club on the floor
Baby lets make love
“No need for Translation”
In this club Ehh YeY Hey Hey
Thats right in the front in the front in the peak of the day Hey
In the back Hey In the side Hey
In the front Hey
Left, right Oh crank that Hey
Translation
“ ‘he words In this club Ehh YeY Hey Hey,’ indicate that someone is saying that this is ludicrous. You can’t possibly mean have sex in a club , The following words indicate yes, whereever, whenever as well as describe what the singer plans to do with his penis with the women in question, personally I’ve seen the video and the women type casted for the video would not possibly do what’s described unless and a big unless there was an exchange of money, that type of women in my humble opinion is not going to lay on the floor in a club and give it away for free, even to Usher, Luda, or -50. ”
End of Lyrics
I have the following words for Usher Raymond just because you have ruined your life by getting a married women ten years your senior with four children pregnant which lead to the dissolution of her marriage and your marrying her resulting in your first born child and her fifth born child. Definitely nothing close to a virginal birth for your child, this does not give you the right to sing lyrics that can result in unplanned pregnancies for young women and responsible young men, I say responsible to indicate that there are some men who if they have sex with a stranger in a club who might give the women he had sex with his real name, phone number, address, tell her where he works, and where he was born etc. so that if the women in question does get pregnant or an STD she knows where to find him. However, I really don’t believe that this song was written or sung for this type of man. This song is for men who want to get off and leave and never see the women again and not get caught. This song is written for men who will give a women a fake name, fake phone number, and fake address. Finally if the women is dumb enough to have sex in a club with a stranger, she’s probably dumb enough or drunk enough to end up pregnant and or diseased and have no clue as to who the father is of her child or what kind of disease she may have.
Trust me if a young woman wants to know what will get a normal man and I’ve spoken to a lot of woman with wonderful marriages and I am not one of them. The bottom line from every woman I’ve met with a good long lasting marriage is don’t sleep with a man before you are married. This is true, I know from experience that if you don’t have sex with a man, if you barely kiss him but continue to date him and be nice to him he will ask you to marry him. Unfortunately, men if a woman barely kisses you after dating for months , you should not ask her to marry you because the bottom is she does not really like you, and no I did not marry this person because I did not like him. But it works!!!!!!
Finally I am an Atlantan and this artist hails from Atlanta this is essentially a southern worldview. This is probably why the majority of men that I’ve dated and the man that I did eventually marry was from California. Though Snoop Dog is from Southern California and we know it never rains in Southern California, give me a sensual seduction anyday over a roll in a nasty southern corner. WEST COAST ROCKS
“Wow, way to take words out of context and twist them to say what ever you want. Look I can do it too! “…I am quite surprised that the media has not mentioned the ‘low class comment’ but this shows their deep seated bias against honest and fair journalism.” As we all of course know, “fair” is another word for white, as in the “fairer race” or fair-skinned. It is clear that this blogger fears that there is a conspiracy to silence all honest white journalists. Who is this person? Twisting people’s words and then calling it fair and honest does not make it fair and honest. Take some serious time and work on your logic”
In response I wrote the following:
Pas, independent organizations have evaluated media coverage of Barack Obama and have determined that the media has given preferential treatment to Barack Obama. Even now the Tony Rezko issue and his associations with Barack OBama have not been fully explored, even now the connections with Weather Underground have not been fully explored. Trust me I would love to see a black president and Barack Obama is very likely to win. However due to Barack Obama’s past and affiliations a terrible message is being sent to our youth that to make it you have to be dirty; IE. a former drug user, former gang member, abusive towards other races, and have a love for people who hate. I have worked with people who loved Obama who were white and they still love him. However they were surprised with the way they were alienated by the other black people who were working to get Obama elected who were quite cold. This is a world that I want no part of. Contrary to what some people would have you believe the radical race problems were initiated by Obama’s associations with Reverend Wright not by people blogging about it. Obama is the racist not I. You know Hitler espoused a public disdain for Jews when he ran for election in Germany, Obama’s associates are espousing a public disdain for whites. Personally I think every white person ought to sit down and think about what electing someone who secretly hates white people means or every person needs to ask themselves what supporting someone who’s willing to hate anyone in that manner means to the United States. Furthermore people like Reverend Wright don’t just hate whites, they hate women, gays, Jews, and a variety of other people also. You may think that Barack Obama just want’s the Presidency but if he gets it something more megalomaniac might hit his mind other than running for President after he has been in the United Senate for three years, who knows his mind might initiate a mass extermination policy against groups and races he does not like. All that I’ve said is worth thinking about.
Booman on Daily Kos is confirming that there is a Michelle Obama “whitey” tape. He seems to think the Michelle Whitey tape has been doctored or taken out of context. He is providing text quotes as to the content of the video. You can link to his blog here.
This blog reported yesterday about the extremely strange way Michigan Delegate votes were allocated to Barack Obama yesterday. The published post discussed how Obama would get the results of two places on the ballot uncommitted and the write in vote. Obama asked the voters of Michigan and even passed out handouts suggesting to people who wanted to vote for him to vote uncommitted. We all assumed he would get uncommitted for Michigan. We did not assume he would get the write in vote also which according to Michigan is uncounted if a candidate has not formally declared that he would run for office in Michigan write in for the candidate can not be tallied or recorded the machine ignores them and no one knows who the write ins were for. Since it is illegal to look at ballots, Michigan says they relied on exit polls in determining the votes Obama should have for write in. In other words Michigan gave Obama votes without votes.
In any event I thought I was crazy and must have imagined the above because out of over 50 articles I’ve read about the “big” compromise, no one has written about it. It’s like Michigan did not do a dirty deal to give Obama votes. However one truth seeking newspaper is reporting how the Michigan Obama delegates were allotted also. Joseph Williams and Bryan Bender of the Boston Globe are reporting :
“Mark Brewer, chairman of Michigan’s Democratic Party, told the panel the best solution was a compromise, based on an assessment of exit polling and other data. Brewer said Obama was entitled to 59 pledged delegates to Clinton’s 69, “a far fairer reflection of the Democratic preferences in Michigan.”
Exit polls are not the same things as votes. Michigan did not hold an exit poll caucus. Honestly Obama should not have been given the write in vote, and technically he should have been made to associate the uncommitted with his campaign by asking uncommitted to come forward.
The democrats are going on the assumption that the American people are stuck on stupid. Everyone has been aware that Obama campaigned on the uncommitted vote in Michigan. However today the credentials committee voted to give him the uncommitted votes and all of the write in votes. If someone wrote in Mickey Mouse it went to Obama. If someone wrote in Donald Duck it went to Obama. MIchigan does not count the write in votes of undeclared candidates, therefore they have no idea who write in voters voted for, therefore they are using exit polls to allot Senator Obama his delegates. This seems to be highly illegal and strange to give someone delegates based on no votes but an exit poll. If this is how Democrats plan on running the White House. Count me OUT. Be warned dear people the news will only give you the result and tell you Michigan will get a half vote for each delegate, but some of Obama’s delegates were not even votes. They were given to him based on exit polls. This has to fall into the category of ultimate affirmative action. I predict a white backlash because of this that will result in a stunning loss by the democratic party unless Hillary Clinton runs as an independent which she very well should after the madness that I’ve just witnessed by the democratic credentials committee. THIS ELECTION IS LOOKING VERY STRANGE AND IF INDIVIDUALS CAN OPENLY BE UNFAIR< IT”S MAKING ME WONDER IF THE VOTES THAT HAVE REALLY BEEN GOING TO OBAMA ARE TRULY HIS BECAUSE I KNOW EVERY BLACK WOMAN I SPOKE TO EXCEPT OBAMA SUPPORTERS SAID THEY WERE HILLARY CLINTON SUPPORTERS.
Johnny Glines of KUTV is reporting that the Attorney General of Utah, the seat of Mormons has threatened FLDS with jail time if they bring their illegal activities to Utah. Flines Reports that the Attorney General has said the following:
In a live 2NEWS interview at 5 p.m., Shurtleff called Jessop a “liar” and threatened him saying, “we put Warren Jeffs in prison here, and as for the rest of them, we will too.”
“I’ve got a word for Willie Jessop, that lives in Utah, and is defending this, and says that it isn’t going on. He’s a liar,” said Shurtleff. “If you come here to Utah and think you can wed underage girls; you’ve got to think again.”
Furthermore, Jessop, one of the FLDSleaders says the nation is in agreement with their actions of marrying twelve year olds as revealed in pictures of another FLDS leader in an intimate picture with a yonggirl, and DNA tests may confirm that this leader has impregnated four girls when they were between the ages of twelve and fourteen. Jessop said the following: “Clearly the nation spoke tonight,” said Jessop. referring to the decision to return the children back to the FLDS ranch.
I am a registered voter and last year I helped to register over three hundred voters, while I am not allowed to discuss political issues while registering voters. I seriously doubt that the majority of the folk that I registered last year support spiritual marriages to young girls, incest, and rape. I believe the attorney general of Utah, they are liars.
It seems pretty clear to me that the residents of the Zion Ranch are as guilty as HELL as it relates to these young women. First of all if they were even on the Ranch when Warren Jeffs was separately and at different times marrying two twelves year olds, and two fourteen year olds they are guilty of a crime. According to Kovach and Johnson of the New York Times,
“Investigators said family marriage records seized in the April raid of the group’s compound, the Yearning for Zion ranchin Eldorado, Tex., suggested that the sect’s leader, Warren S. Jeffs, had “spiritually” wed at least four under-age girls, two of them 14 at the time, the other two 12. “
This seems pretty clear to me that if a whole commune sits back and allows one man to “connect” with four underage children then this is crime. The argument offered that parents and the courts can give permission for these marriages is bogus. He’s already married. Polygamy is illegal. So any other way he connects to these children is rape or statutory rape. Since the admitted living situation is communal living where on the ranch no child belongs to the parent the belong to the ranch, then when spiritual unions occur on the Ranch then they are all accessories to the crimes of molestation, and rape.
It has been reported that the men of the ranch go away and send money to the ranch for their child brides. If this is happening across states lines this is trafficking in children. This is clearly illegal under Federal statutes and I am seriously questioning in my mind whether FLDS receives money from men who want child brides, furthermore the very act of recruiting members who join and pay for a child bride is human trafficking to me. I don’t know what the supreme court of Texas calls it but it looks illegal if it’s not.
Finally, in the FLDS case I am heavily questioning the role of corruption in this case. I am also aware that the FLDS has threatened political officials with some sort of massive voter takeover with their 300 votes and to overthrow and run the local government out of town which it has been reported they’ve done in other places. Miguel Bustillo and Nicholas Riccardi of the Los Angelos Times write:
“The town also was abuzz over an anticipated mass voter registration by the FLDS. Hours after the court first ruled against the state, two members of the sect walked into the county clerk’s office and requested 300 voter registration forms, a potentially tide-turning number in a county with 1,800 voters.”
Everyone has the right to vote but when voting is used to intimidate a town because a commune is performing illegal acts. This is reprehensible. This is why the town, state, and Federal government must do their jobs in prosecuting these individuals for their acts against women and children.
There is still a big question mark on what the role of corrupt politicians, corrupt judges is. I seriously suspect that certain men in Texas are receiving money or child bride favors for protecting this prostitution/mistress ring. Furthermore, some media outlets are providing a platform for the FLDS which almost appears to be a commercial for this type of lifestyle. I even observed on commentator trying to put words in the mouth of a FLDS women he was interviewing when she was about to get caught in a lie. The lie was no members of the FLDS were not welfare recipients but he helped her clean up this lie. It was totally awful. I wonder if higher up in this media organization plan to take a trip to the Zion ranch soon or other FLDS locations and get a spiritual bride that their wife probably does not know about.
It’s 50 cent not 1 cent. Well for me it’s 1 cent. It is estimated that 1 cent will be worth an estimated 800 million dollars by the end of the year. Yet he was quibbling over a house that his child and child’s mother lived in. He does pay child support around 7,000 dollars a month but asked that the mother of his child pay him 4000 dollars rent for the house, Oh wait a minute he’s not 1 cent he’s minus 50 cent. Cheapy the Cheapskate. I suppose my children would call him Mr. Krebs!
We are all familiar with the D.C. Madam and her California home based business of hooking up high end prostitutes who went on to do much better things, these women engaged in the ultimate form of networking direct deposit and got high level jobs as a result of working for the D.C. Madame. Unfortunately it appears as if the politicians are engaged in some sort of moral battle to out each other as much as possible as it involves sexual indiscretions. In any event, the D.C. Madame uttered the words if I go down every ones going down. If this would have happened everyone would have figured out that telling their daughter to be moral and good is just not the key to success anymore and since I have a daughter I’m still trying to figure out what the rules are. As a young woman I gave it away for free I am sad to say but evidently if I would have sold it and or hoed it I may be where I want to be today. In any event the D.C. Madame threatened to out everyone if she was found guilty, she was found guilty and while awaiting sentencing was found hanging in her garage from an apparent suicide, never mind that a former call girl of hers was found dead from an apparent suicide also, and the Biggest never mind of all, if it was suicide she would have definitely named names before she jumped off of that chair, she would have called ABC, CNN, FOX etc. Furthermore after her year or two in jail she could have written an awesome book that would have set her up for life. This woman did not commit suicide. The names murdered her.
Another famous tattler, I was not aware of his threats until I looked them up today but Ron Brown the former Commerce Secretary under Clinton threatened to out Clinton for his roles in various deals if he went down. According to the sources I’ve read four days after making these threats Ron Brown was dead. Prior to today, I had heard rumours of assassination but I had not delved any further. My knowledge given to me by my father who is retired from the Air Force is that everyone on Andrews and Bowling Air Force Base knew that there was a big blow up by the normal pilot of the plane Ron Brown was scheduled to take. The pilot absolutely refused to fly Ron Brown on that Mission. He even appealed to someone of a higher rank to get him out of flying and finally he just said that he was sick. Finally I am inserting the folowing links for folks who want to read a little more about the Brown assassination.
The media is buzzing about McCains meeting with three perspective running mates and none of them are black. There are several Republican black hopefuls that could be added to the list the Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, and Condelleeza Rice (who says she’s not interested) to name two. McCain in not trying to give Americans no alternative but to break the racial barrier is failing to give himself a decided advantage over Barack Obama by allowing the American people to affirm to themselves that they are not voting for Barack Obama because he’s black but because he’s shown a decidedly unpatriotic streak that another black contender does not have, if MCcain can manage to find a black candidate that is articulate, well liked, and accomplished than he has a good chance of winning the general election. A large part of the electorate is looking to assuage their guilt because of discrimination and our history of slavery by voting for Obama. The media is exploiting the class issuse so strongly becuase they are telling certain people that in not voting for Barack Obama they have not transcended race and are not sophisticated enough to vote for a black man. If McCain can find a patriotic, Christian black running mate that can be juxtaposed with Obama this will be the key to winning the general election of 2008. A straight up failure to acknowledge that the United States is ready to make a symbolic gesture of a woman or a black will surely end up in McCain’s failure to be President. Barack Obama is extremely charismatic and is willing to ride out issues that would make a different man give up. As for putting up an Indian for Vice President, McCain ignores a lot of facts regarding the racial pecking order in this country. As for a Mormon, Romney grew up in a polygamist family and what’s going on with the FCLD in Texas or whatever they are called would strongly make Romney a sitting Duck for attacks. However as formally stated on this blog it can not be denied that Romney appears to be a racist as well as a male chauvinist pig and in this election cycle this might be what people who are looking to go the complete opposite way of progress ie. a black or a woman may wish to go, I seriously doubt they make up enough of a majority to discount the economic situation in this country and be a die hard racist. Some people who are hopeless would like to at least make a symbolic vote for a different social order to show that even though things may not change their vote has helped to change a little of the status quo . However the media has not been as hard on Romney and his background as the blogosphere may be. Finally Charlie Crisp, the most striking thing I’ve seen about Crisp is he has extremely striking good looks competitive in looks with how Obama looks on TV and he seems to have a personality that is as sunny as the Florida skys but the article I’ve just read in the New York Times indicates that he may be a little bit too Law and Order for the times we live in. “Don’t taze me bro” is literally my motto.
Here is the link to the New York Times article concerning partial birth abortion. Apparently it is now OK to dismember a baby in the womb as an abortion procedure in Virginia.
According to Reuters the Virginia Ban on abortion still makes the procedure known as extraction and dilation illegal which is the procedure where the baby is delivered vaginally and then killed. This is still illegal in Virginia. Reuters is stating that the law is designed to enable a women to still have an abortion during the second trimester without penalizing the woman having the abortion and the doctor giving it. In addition reuters is emphasizing the word procedure and implying that the supreme court decision banning partial birth abortion did not exactly apply to the third trimester but applied to the procedure of extraction and dilation. Personally there is serious word play going on in this decision. A doctor could give a woman medicine that will kill the fetus inside of her, then it will be dead and then it can be extracted. The Reuters reporter is obviously engaging in serious word play that the 4th circuit must have agreed to. In other words the 4th circuit is saying if you can kill a fetus in any other way besides delivering it or make it dead before it comes out of the womb then even the ninth month of delivery can be legally aborted. This is my take on the issue.
You know I am not a member of the religious right. I was raised Christian and my most vivid experiences with religion are in the rural Virginia community of my grandparents at vacation bible school and Sunday School. What I remember most is not bible verses are endless Gospel Songs, but what is most vivid in my mind about this rural Virginia Community and religious experience is that people were just good to each other, they were good to me and they taught me to be kind. My Grandparents had the type of house that I could consider a lighthouse, anyone in pain or in trouble could count on my grandparents and their children to be the helping hand. Likewise in Georgia our house has become the house that people “strangers” come to when they are in trouble, when they need food, when they are evicted, when they need money, when they need to use the phone, and one night when a man was mugged on the street next to mine a man said he knocked on over ten doors for help until he reached our house and we opened this door. As I said at this point in my life I am not particulalry religious, I am not a loyal church goer and may never become one but from my early experiences with goodness I have come to the conclusion that there is a circular nature of right and wrong and my moral code is basically what goes around comes around, if people are mean to you be good to them because it will all comes back to you. This is why I am against abortion, because literally for me it does not feel right, it feels evil. In order to ascertain if my feelings are shared by persons of different backgrounds I have had the “abortion” discussion with people of different backgrounds. I have spoken with muslims and hindus who believethe practice is horrible. The muslim woman I spoke to was especially vehement that Allah was against abortion. After speaking with a couple of folks I realized that my abhorrence to abortion was legitimate and probably is anti to most world religions in the world with the exception of a satanic cult.
Virginia has stroke down the ban on partial birth abortion. According to this Washington Post blog. Virginia has deified a Supreme Court decision banning late term abortion, which upheld the following and stated the following:
The federal law defines partial birth abortion as the following:
“An abortion in which the person performing the abortion, deliberately and intentionally vaginally delivers a living fetus until, in the case of a head-first presentation, the entire fetal head is outside the body of the mother, or, in the case of breech presentation, any part of the fetal trunk past the navel is outside the body of the mother, for the purpose of performing an overt act that the person knows will kill the partially delivered living fetus; and performs the overt act, other than completion of delivery, that kills the partially delivered living fetus. (18 U.S. Code 1531)”
The Washington Post has a past article that defines partial birth abortion as the following:
“It involves partly delivering the fetus and then crushing the skull to make removal easier. It is this procedure that Congress made a crime. Opponents say it is a form of infanticide, because the fetus could be viable at the time. It made doctors who perform such surgery subject to up to two years in prison.”
While the states may not prosecute a physician for performing a partial birth abortion. It is my assumption that if a physician performs this procedure they may not go to state prison but they will go to Federal prison because it is against Federal Law.
The presidential candidate Barack Obama and his wife have raised funds and even sent out an “abortion letter” highlights of the letter discussing a procedure that makes up less than ten percent of overall abortions were that women need to have the right to partial birth abortion because, denying them such a right affirms societies right to pay women less, beat women and give them substandard all around the world. You know Catholics are against ll forms of abortion but their good works all around the world are legendary. Barack Obama in this run for president does not even support Universal Health Care for all women, does not support lowering the gas tax for families and women so they can support themselves and their families. At this point in the fame it has not become clear what the motives are for supporting partial birth abortion so ardently, is it because it’s 1. a procedure Barack Obama has paid for in the past or 2) A procedure that Michelle Obama hs had in the past and needs to keep legal to assuage her guilt and the 10% of the 90% of individuals (abortion ladies as Anne Coulter calls them) that have participated in the procedure or 3) Is it a political tactic to show how loyal they are to what Anne Coulter calls the Church of Liberalism. I have no idea why Obama supports these people or this cause but the Virginia defieance of the Supreme Court Decision and Federal Law lets me know that a snowball will live in flames before I ever vote for Barack Obama and if things continue as they are Hillary either.
Finally in my disgust let me tell you what really goes through my mind about liberals. I think the price of gas is do high because the liberals are plotting to save the environment and want to reduce emissions so they have jacked the price up so hat only folks with shiny new low emissions cars can drive for leisure. I watched moveon accuse George Bush of blowing up the world trade center. However, Barack Obama is open friends with liberals who have admitted to plotting to blowing up buildings. In essence I believe that the liberals could have engineered this whole horrible economic catastrophe we are going through so they can get elected.
The above link is an opinion article that discusses Obama’s defense of his wife Michelle on GMA regarding the Republican ads repeating Michelle’s words that she was not proud of her country. Coming from Texas it is truly a memo. Chicago plays tough but when Texas plays tough the whole world hears about it. The Obama’s really need to toughen up a lot, the language Obama used in the interview was very much dictator like, ie. “I will not tolerate” could have literally been the words “off with their heads” “to the dungeons” they insulted my wife. Obama may speak to people within his campaign like this, but the last time I checked powerful people did not have the power to send an FBI detail on folks, call the police on them, sic the NSA on them, or do various actions that presidents have the power to do because they felt insulted by a commercial or the press. If he does this he will only be mimicking the corrupt regimes that aleady exist on a continent where the majority of heads of state are black.
If he does this I want every caucasion person to know that this man is not a descendant of a slave, he does not carry the same pain and the same blood as the majority of blacks of the diaspora meaning blacks that were brought here as slaves. Furthermore the majority of these diaspora blacks be they living in the United States, Jamaica, Haiti, Brazil or other places where slavery was once legal can not be blamed if Obama starts to show tyranical behvior once he becomes President. It is sad to say but Obama could return to Kenya now and be the President there if he so chose. None of us African hybrids of the Americans have a country to return to that we can be president of, this is our country and we have voluntarily give up our birthright to a native African. So don’t blame us if you feel a little likc you’re in a Puppet regime if and when Obama is elected. It’s in his blood.
After considering the blog I wrote several days ago concerning U.S. policy towards the Middle East and linking to a New York Times article that stated the Saudis blamed the Iranians for pre 911 terrorist attacks on the U.S. I really had to reconsider how Innocent the Saudi Arabians are in terms of terrorist attacks and how guilty the Iranians are. Personally it’s pretty strange that practically every terrorist attack all around the world involves a Saudi citizen, whereas almost none of these attacks involve Iranian citizens. The lesson for me is that the Saudis most be teaching a systematic hate of the United States where evidently the Iranians are not giving the United States a thought and are busy trying to contribute to the International Economy. I am not a Middle East Scholar so I may have to read a lot more to understand the issue, but at first glance the problem appears to be the Saudi’s maybe the United States needs to slow down a lot on Saudi Arms sales and consider talking to the Iranians more for it seems like their priorities and their culture in terms of getting ahead and what’s important might be a lot more compatible than what the Saudi society espouses. I do know that the Iranians have a more liberal policy towards the rights of women than the Saudis. Furthermore as evidenced by this American language news site linked to above from Iran, gone are the days when Iran will declare Jihad against someone who insults their culture and society. In addition their Prime Minister has gone over and above the call of duty to initiate peace between the U.S. If I were an American diplomat, before I ever held hands with another Saudi Prince I would definitely try to make peace with Iran. Then again maybe I just don’t know the whole story, but Iran is obviously not a society where people are obsessed with getting their thirteen virgins in heaven which makes me think that if they were to get the Nuclear bomb, they would play the nuclear arms game like everyone else.
In the above link democratic politico, Larry is absolutely positively positive that the ticking whitey time bomb video exists. He offers proof that he thinks that the video exists because Barack Obama goes so far as to call people “low class” for releasing videos of Michelle Obama. However Michelle is relevant we can’t have her plotting with Bin Laden’s many wives on how to blow up whitey now can we.
In any event I have heard Barack Obama say personally that he likes to appeal to casual voters that may not vote or usually do not vote. Statistically, the people who hardly ever vote are by social scientists considered the low class or the underclass and are not in the position to spread a video around the Internet. These are just the facts. Because of this I have to ask since a large part of people who are considered statistically low class are his constituents, What’s wrong with being low class, and does he have a plan to eliminate the low and the underclass once he gets in office since they are obviously never far from his mind whether he’s referring to the rural classes or the poor. What is this guy Marx or something. He show’s an incredible class consciousness that is totally unamerican.
I am quite surprised that the media has not mentioned the “low class comment” but this shows their deep seated bias against honest and fair journalism.
Star Jones comments regarding Barbara Walters are absolutelyhilarious. After the political sex scandals we have had this year and all of the politicians who have minimized the female party in the affair as “mistakes” I am surprised Barbara Walters did not at least wait a year to let this book out of the closet.
One day I was speaking to a friend or maybe a former friend who happens to be an Obama supporter on the phone. With many people I speak with these days it has been my policy not to speak about the presidential race especially with my elderly mother who is an avid Obama supporter who calls the campiagn on the phone giving them tips, tells her brother to email the campaign because I will not, and is literally ready to come to blows when anyone even says a hint negative about Obama. To emphasize how sensitive she is, one of the news shows did a segment about the drug border war in Mexico and she claimed the news media was picking on Obama. I had to pointedly tell her that they had not mentioned Obama’s name ,and that the war was so bad that college students who usually went to Mexico for spring break could not go because the war was so bad, the net result is according to her they were still picking on Barack Obama. I have found myself having to turn the news off for dear old mom because anytime “Obama” is criticized she starts screaming at the TV and blows her blood pressure up.
In any event the above description was a vast divergence from what I want to talk about. I was speaking to another Obama supporter who is just as obsessed with Obama, and I asked her a question about Barabara Walters. I asked her the following, “Do you think Barbara Walters came out with the information about her affair at this time to imply that Barack Obama was not being faithful to Michelle Obama and could be involved in an interracial relationships. Well the women called me the devil and hung up on me.
However, personally I have wondered why Barbara Walters chose such a time to come out with this information. For me personally, she’s saying Obama can’t possibly be being faithful to Michelle Obama, she’s just window dressing. However, from the looks of New York politics today. The joke may honestly be on Barbara. It is pretty evident in the body language displayed by Elliott Spitzer and his wife that they were in love with each other but Elliott just could not keep his hands out of the cookie jar. It is evident that the newest Governor of New York has never kept his hands out of other women’s panties and does not intend to. As for Michelle and Barack Obama, I don’t know how Obama feels about her because I have seen too many cases where the man Barack Obama who would be and probably will be president literally grovels like a dog at the feet of his Michelle. It really makes me think that she puts on the leather, cuffs him to the bed and pulls out the whip. Despite the other rumours I really don’t think there is much room in this relationship for adultery. Barack Obama seems so sanctimonious I would really be surprised if he were committing adultery, almost as surprised as the whole of New York was to find out that Spitzer was committing adultery.
Back to “Babs”
Your Senator did get a divorce and did not have an overwhelming desire to track you down and make you his bride. The fact that you have written about this incident frankly puts you in the category of the now Cambridge Scholar Monica Lewinsky, but she was between 18 and 21 this is her excuse for telling Linda Tripp that she had a carnal relationship with the President of the United States. What’s your excuse Barabara for revealing an affair that put you in the category of spitzers prostitute, or the now sitting Governor’s of New York probably over ten mistresses. Hush I know what it is it’s a slight case of Alzheimer’s, somewhere I read that you talked about his handsome mulatto looks, maybe just maybe when you are relating this affair you see Obama, Barack Obama and who know’s in your alzie dreamstate you might knock on his door one night.
The following except the headlines are all quotes from the June 2001 New York Times article except the bold and italicised emphasis text.
“The Clinton administration was widely criticized for its failure to pursue evidence that Iran was behind the bombing, but now, the Bush administration has shown that same reluctance. Prosecutors did not cite Iranian officials by name despite what some officials said was the hope of Louis J. Freeh, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, that Iranian officials would be charged. Mr. Freeh, who had taken a personal interest in the case, said on Thursday that it would remain open, and Mr. Ashcroft made it clear that the United States would be willing to pursue charges against Iranian officials if more evidence emerged. “
“The Bush administration did at least acknowledge the problem, and charge someone”
“Attorney General John Ashcroft charged that Iranian officials ”inspired, supported and supervised members of Saudi Hezbollah” in the attack. But prosecutors stopped short of bringing charges against any individual Iranian officials. “
”We chose law enforcement retaliation versus military retaliation,” the former Clinton administration official said. The Khobar investigation, however, bogged down in turf battles between the F.B.I. and the Saudis. The bureau complained of a lack of cooperation from the Saudi authorities, while the Saudis privately began to complain that the Clinton administration did not seem interested in hearing about evidence that Iran was behind the attack. “ Appeasement did not work during the Clinton Administration
By 1999, the evidence linking Iran to the bombing was strong enough so that President Clinton sent a secret letter to Iran’s president, Mohammad Khatami, asking for help in solving the Khobar case. The letter was sent after the United States obtained convincing information that Iranian officials were behind the attack. The letter came in the midst of Mr. Clinton’s broader efforts to reach out to Mr. Khatami and engage the reformist forces in Iran.
But the Iranians refused to help on the case. Mr. Freeh reportedly concluded that the Clinton administration was not serious about solving the case, and he is said to have waited until Mr. Clinton left office in order to try to bring charges in the matter. The indictment came in Mr. Freeh’s last week in office as F.B.I. director.
I could have sworn that Obama mentioned the farm bill as shall I say one of the accomplishments that he supported. The status of BarackObama during the farm vote was absent according to this NewYork Times article. Obama waxed hard about his support of the rural folks through the passage of this bill, how they deserved it, how great they were etc. and HE WAS NOT EVEN THERE. These are the antics that Momma Michelle had to deal with when he had to pay off a million ticket that he had gotten at least fifteen years ago when he was attending Harvard Law School. They were paid just before he ran for office. Teenage College lies and untruths or lets just say truthiness.
The other issue surrounding Barack Obama is that he used the word sweeie. This is not as irritating as the fact that the media keeps giving us crotch shots of barack and focusing on his behind. “Enough Already”
blackhippychick: now I have nightmares the roots cant breathe and are dying in the little pot put another plant in his pot have to go find a big one again
blackhippychick: I think I'm torturing the orchids repotted it cause the roots were hanging out internet told me they needed small pots so put it back in
blackhippychick: 1 month ago the brother died, this month the mother died, and yesterday her twenty-five year old son died please pray 4 this lady and family
