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Three White People Who Won't Be Voting For Barak Obama

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:46:53 GMT

clipped by: ouyangwulong
clipper's remarks: People still keep talking about how racism among "working class whites" (that's media code for "po' white trash") will not vote for Obama because he is black.

I'm getting seriously tired of this. Working class people in America aren't any more racist than the class of Americans who are too wealthy to work.

Sure, there are some people who are racist and won't vote for him, and that shocks people so it gets a lot of attention. But seriously, look at these three guys: do you think they vote AT ALL? (remember, something like 60% of America doesn't!)

Nobody is talking about all the working class whites who had trouble voting for John Kerry or Al Gore. If Obama loses, it will be because of the pathetic Democratic Party itself, not because he is black.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

From left, Shawn R. Adolf, Tharin R. Gartrell and Nathan D. Johnson were arrested Sunday on drug and weapons charges.

“We’re taking it very seriously,” said Troy Eid, the United States attorney for Colorado, at a news conference on Tuesday. But he said the racist rants that the men made after their arrests on Sunday — all three for possession of methamphetamine, and two of them on weapons charges — had not risen to the level of a “credible threat” that would have allowed federal charges of threatening Mr. Obama to be filed.

Tags: obama, methamphetemines, drugs, conspiracy, assassination, white working class voters

From Slate: If Obama Loses

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:18:13 GMT

clipped by: missmartini
clipper's remarks: Whether you are comfortable with the discussion of race or not. Whether you believe race is still an issue or not. This is a very interesting article.

Clip Source: www.slate.com

If Obama LosesRacism is the only reason McCain might beat him.

If it makes you feel better, you can rationalize Obama's missing 10-point lead on the basis of Clintonite sulkiness, his slowness in responding to attacks, or the concern that Obama may be too handsome, brilliant, and cool to be elected. But let's be honest: If you break the numbers down, the reason Obama isn't ahead right now is that he trails badly among one group, older white voters. He does so for a simple reason: the color of his skin.

Tags: race, politics, obama, 2008, election

Aug 24: Notting Hill Festival (U.K.)

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:38:59 GMT

clipped by: egsnyder
clipper's remarks: an annual event which takes place in Notting Hill, London, UK each August, over two days (Sunday and the following bank holiday). It has continuously taken place on the streets of Notting Hill since 1965.[1] It is led by members of the Caribbean population, many of whom have lived in the area since the 1950s.

Another event brought to you by Eric "Calendarwallah" Snyder - calendarwallah@gmail.com
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Clip Source: multiculturalcalendar.com

Notting Hill Festival

The Notting Hill Festival is held during the last weekend in August. This is a West Indian Street carnival with floats, bands, and stalls. It began in 1964 with the focus of deterring racism toward Caribbean and other Black immigrants and bringing together the people of the Notting Hill area.

Notting Hill Festival
UK

Tags: diversity, multiculturalism, calendar, calendarwallah

Rush Limbaugh on Barack Obama's Success

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:39:12 GMT

clipped by: zizzy
clipper's remarks: The Blazing Saddles clip - that's what R.L. is really saying. Rush is the guy on the rooftop. LOL. I love this scene.

Rush Limbaugh = Racism Pays

Clip Source: www.crooksandliars.com

“it is striking how unqualified [Sen. Barack] Obama is and, and how this whole thing came about with, within the Democrat [sic] Party. I think it really goes back to the fact that nobody had the guts to stand up and say no to a black guy

I think this is a classic illustration here where affirmative action has reared its ugly head against them. It’s the reverse of it. They’ve, they’ve ended up nominating and placing at the top of their ticket somebody who’s not qualified, who has not earned it

It’s perfect affirmative action

Read on…

Clip Source: www.presidentsusa.net

Qualifications for the Office of President

Age and Citizenship requirements - US Constitution, Article II, Section 1

No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.

Clip Source: patriotboy.blogspot.com

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Barack Obama, Bill Ayers and Social Justice

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:59:48 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: In other words, Bill Ayers et. al., along with Barack Obama, have, working side by side, cultivated the ground and sowed the seeds for the fruit now ripe for the picking.

Three years ago, prompted by human stinkbomb Ward Churchill, I wrote five pieces about rebarbarization in the academy. The last one, with links to the first four, was called "So This Is Where They Come From: The Zombie Dispositions." In that piece I described how graduate education students are required to prove that they have absorbed social justice dispositions before they will be accepted as teachers. This is how I defined those dispositions, in another post about "community engagement" at Arizona State University's Herberger College of the Arts:
It was century-old Progressivism, everyone should serve the common good, including those in educational institutions; they must do what they can to right the injustices and inequities of racism, sexism, poverty, health care, education, homophobia, the environme

Clip Source: www.thetearsofthings.net

Since Barack Obama came into the national spotlight last year, I've often asked myself what lies behind his popularity, but I didn't bother to do any serious research about it. I thought he was a jumped-up empty suit draped in moribund socialism. I skipped news stories about him and changed the channel every time he showed up. Only recently, after the Bill Ayers connection came up, have I begun to dig into his background, specifically his relationship with Ayers, and their common ground, which is social justice in education. And right there, I believe, is the source of his popularity. To state my thesis succinctly: Obama's largest demographic is the college-educated young, and those people have been schooled in social justice because their teachers have been schooled to teach social justice by Bill Ayers and his allies in the educational establishment. And social justice is the core of Barack Obama's message.

Tags: obama, bill ayers, "social justice", "community engagement", war on the agenda

Hip Hop Republicans

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 19:26:51 GMT

clipped by: Kalagenesis
clipper's remarks: Is the world gone mad?Why do many Black people when they believe in education,hard work,and a sense of responsibility they identify this as conservative values?Don't they know that the majority of Black people are very socially conservative,and Godly but it is racism and rejection from White America that keeps us in the condition we are in

Clip Source: blogs.bet.com

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Tags: hip hop republicans, 50 cent, jay z, obama, black conservatives

Well...he's an elitist

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 03:10:48 GMT

clipped by: sillysam

Clip Source: townhall.com

Ask the typical Obama supporter why this should be so and you'll get a range of answers. Some just stare at the poll numbers the way my late basset hound would look at me when I tried to feed him a grape: with pure unblinking incomprehension. Others act like the guy who sits alone with his shopping bags at the public library, muttering about Fox News conspiracies and how Karl Rove-like aliens are doing terrible things with probes of proctological exactitude. Still others just shake their heads at the racism of anyone who could possibly have a problem with a very left-wing politician with almost no experience, who often sounds like his campaign slogan is: "People of Earth! Stop Your Bickering. I Am From Harvard, And I'm Here To Help."

Perhaps therein lies the answer to this supposed mystery. Indeed, perhaps there's no mystery at all, and Obama's problems are the same problems Democrats always have at the presidential level: He's an elitist.

Mostly African American Children are Assaulted Legally in Schools

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:43:15 GMT

clipped by: DanaGarrett
clipper's remarks: Just as slavery, Jim Crow laws and the subjugation of women in the USA are looked upon as primitive and embarrassing practices, I believe that corporal punishment in schools will someday be looked upon as a strange and inexplicably cruel practice.

It will also be looked upon as another vehicle of racism as this study indicates.

What will the conservative critics say in response? That African American children misbehave more in schools and, therefore, deserve the punishment? But isn't that what they say about higher incarceration rates for African Americans?

So what is the picture that emerges from those who rationalize these institutional racist practices? In my view, it tells us that (their denials notwithstanding) conservatives believe that from childhood to adulthood African Americans are naturally more disposed to violate cultural norms, to act out in an anti-social manner. It's a racist orientation masquerading as a pro law and order stance.

Corporal punish

Clip Source: www.reuters.com

More than 200,000 children were hit as punishment in U.S. schools last year and in the South more blacks than whites are struck, two human rights groups said in a report released on Wednesday.

Texas accounted for a quarter of the instances of corporal punishment in the 2006-2007 school year

Twenty-one U.S. states still permit the use of corporal punishment in schools. In Texas and Mississippi children as young as 3 are struck for transgressions as minor as gum chewing, the report says.

In 13 states in the U.S. South where corporal punishment is the most prevalent, African-American girls are twice as likely to be hit as their white counterparts

"African-American students are punished at 1.4 times the rate that would be expected given their numbers in the student population," the groups said in a statement.

Peter Saul - Bush at Abu Ghraib

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:04:43 GMT

clipped by: horst

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Peter Saul's "Bush at Abu Ghraib," 2006; acrylic on canvas 78 x 90 inches (198.1 x 228.6 cm); Hall Collection.

What is the appropriate venue for art that stirs together John Wayne Gacy and Angela Davis, Mickey Mouse and Ethel Rosenberg, Stalin and Willem de Kooning, Basil Wolverton and George W. Bush, and spikes the broth with prickly references to capitalism, Communism, homophobia, feminism, Black Power, racism, pedophilia and art-world politics, and last but not least, to the aging, decaying, self-lacerating artist himself?

Photo: Image courtesy of the Orange County Museum of Art

Jerome Corsi, 'Obama Nation' Author, Set To Appear On White Supremacist Radio Show

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:53:42 GMT

clipped by: ratilfar
clipper's remarks: What a piece of work!

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

So, on last night's Larry King Live, one of the things that Paul Waldman brought up as a way of demonstrating Obama Nation author Jerome Corsi's lack of credibility was his past embrace of bigotry and general scumbaggery, as documented by "a whole series of bigoted and hateful posts" that Corsi "put up on right-wing Web sites." None of which Corsi denied! But, Corsi defended himself by shooting back that Waldman had failed to mention "all my apologies for those statements."

because this Sunday, he is set to make an appearance on the well-named "The Political Cesspool" - which, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, is "an overtly racist, anti-Semitic radio show hosted by self-avowed white nationalist James Edwards." In the past, the show has welcomed some marquee names in the hate movement, including "Christian Identity pastor Pete Peters, Holocaust denier Mark Weber and former Klan boss David Duke."

If you can bear a look at some of the show's Great Works, you can do so here.

Tags: racism, racist, corsi, liar, swiftboater

A discussion of Diversity and Race

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 04:42:33 GMT

clipped by: bmeuppls
clipper's remarks: An excellent post on the failures of race as a social construct.

Clip Source: proteinwisdom.com

Ironically, in my experience in the university culture, it was the students who were most accepting of such a solution — to many of them, race has never been much of a consideration, until they received the requisite leftwing “consciousness raising” — while it was the university that spent much of its time tut-tutting student willingness to “forget” about racial differences, as well as “correct” their innate refusal to Balkanize.

And I suspect that such a curricula has to do with the sad fact that, after years of catering to race and “diversity” issues, too many careers are on the line to let intellectual rigor, which involves at least the willingness to consider a change in strategy, get in the way of a professional status quo, and a lifelong defense of what it turns out was a remarkably simplistic and dangerous multiculturalist worldview.

“Diversity” — inasmuch as it remains committed to the superficial — is simply an extension of bad racial politics

Tags: race, racism

Racist

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 04:18:58 GMT

clipped by: longly5819

Clip Source: www.angryasianman.com

Everything is racist, but not everything is racist. Yes, I've been calling anything and everything racist. I'm only joking... some of the time. I think some people tend to take issue with my definition of 'racist.' Yeah yeah, I know. But for me, racism and ignorance all run together in the same club —it happens all the time, and I'll be happy to point it out for you. It sometimes just helps to deal with it using a little humor. But I'm not organizing crusades and media campaigns against every little offensive thing I mention on this site.

Day for Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 08:55:06 GMT

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Clip Source: bristol.indymedia.org

UNESCO International Day for Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition

The Bristol Black Archives Partnership is pleased to present the screening of this film by award-winning filmmakers, Clive and Lonnie Smith (As It Is TV), which

captures the story of the Caribbean elders who came to Bristol in the 1950s and 1960s. The film explores their reasons for coming here; experiences of housing, jobs and racism; the growth of their community, businesses and churches; and asks whether anything has changed today.

The film will be followed by a panel discussion chaired by Rob Mitchell (creative media producer and BBAP chair) featuring Clive Smith, Princess Campbell (1st Black ward sister), Madu Ellis (director of Project Signpost) and others.

AUGUST 23rd 2008, 12:30 – 2.30 pm, Watershed Media Centre - Entry - Free!!!

Race And Racism

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 13:12:15 GMT

clipped by: debbyski

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Bush is hobbling out of office, the economy is in the toilet, voters are sick of the war and the party’s wunderkind candidate is raking in money hand over fist.

So why is the presidential race a statistical dead heat? The pundits have offered a host of reasons, but one in particular deserves more exploration: racism.

As Obama gently put it in his race speech, today’s racial “resentments aren’t always expressed in polite company.” However, they can be — and possibly will be — expressed in the privacy of the voting booth.

Some might say that turnabout is fair play, citing the fact that 89 percent of blacks say they plan to vote for Obama. That level of support represents a racial advantage for him, too, right? Not necessarily. Blacks overwhelmingly vote Democratic in the general election anyway. According to CNN exit polls John Kerry got 88 percent of the black vote in 2004.

Think racism isn’t a major factor in this election? Think again.

How to Prevent Racism in Your Child

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 05:55:11 GMT

clipped by: rodneysouthern

Clip Source: www.associatedcontent.com

How to Prevent Racism in Your Child

In today's world, racism has become a lightening rod for opportunistic people of every color. Racism is sometimes out in the open, and often disguised. Racism is always ignorant.

By Rodney Southern | Read Article

Tags: racism, parenting, children, racial tolerance, fighting racism, american, patriotism, black history