Creating white groups on campus "alienates minorities" - WIsconsin

Students: Chancellor failed minorities on pro-white agitator

Associated Press
1:51 p.m Friday, Jan. 27, 2017  
 

MADISON, Wis.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor's response to a student trying to set up a pro-white group on campus further alienates minorities as they struggle for a better campus experience, student leaders said Friday.

The student's effort to set up a campus chapter of the American Freedom Party — whose platform includes "prioritizing white supremacy values," according to its Facebook page — has raised questions about how the university should respond and comes as the white nationalist movement as a whole has been emboldened by Donald Trump's presidency.

Student government representatives urged Chancellor Rebecca Blank in a letter to denounce the AFP as racist. They said her statement Thursday saying that expressing objectionable viewpoints isn't illegal was weak.

"Chancellor Blank's statement is a testament to how administrators outwardly show a lack of verbal and systemic support for students of color or minority identities," the letter from Associated Students of Madison Chair Carmen Goséy, ASM Representative Brooke Evans and Student Activity Center Governing Board Chair Katrina Morrison said.

Blank did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Adding to the students' concerns is that the man who's recruiting for the AFP chapter, Daniel Dropik, served almost five years in federal prison for racially charged arsons against churches in Milwaukee and Michigan. Dropik, 33, says frustration over the university's efforts to improve the experiences of minority students led him to start a local AFP chapter.

Blank said in her statement that the university is monitoring the group for threats but that expressing hateful viewpoints is legal and within campus policies. She added that she would ask regents to revisit the University of Wisconsin System's policy of not considering criminal records in the admission process.

Goséy, Evans and Morrison wrote that Blank is focusing on admissions policy rather than acknowledging the threat Dropik poses.

Doctoral student Walter Parrish III, who's studying higher education leadership and policy, said Blank's response failed to address minorities' discomfort given Dropik's criminal history. Parrish said Blank's response suggests the university doesn't have a plan in place to protect minority students.

"As a black student on campus, I'm wondering what does this mean? Who is to say something extreme won't happen?" Parrish said.

AFP national chair William Johnson said in a phone interview that Dropik told him Friday morning that the backlash against his recruiting efforts has been overwhelming and that he fears for his safety.

"On college campuses, there is a great deal of pushback whenever someone wants to a start a pro-white group," Johnson said.

Johnson said he knows of at least one college AFP chapter that operates "under the radar," but he wouldn't say where and wouldn't say whether there were more colleges with chapters. He said Trump's presidency makes recruiting efforts easier.

"When people hear you're a nationalist, they used to say, 'Oh, you're like Mussolini?' Now they say, 'Oh, you're like Donald Trump,'" he said.

Trump's disavowal in late November of white supremacists who have cheered his election hasn't quieted concerns about the movement's impact on the White House. His strongest denunciation has not come voluntarily, only when asked, and he occasionally trafficked in retweets of racist social media posts during his campaign.

In their letter, the student government leaders also took Blank to task for not strongly denouncing a man who wore a costume of former President Barack Obama with a noose around his neck to a football game in November. University officials made the man remove the noose but allowed him to stay at the game.

Blank said the noose was unacceptable but that the university must resist the urge to censor political dissent.

The students want Blank to participate in a cultural competency program so she can create policies that directly address racism on campus. A group of students are planning a march to protest Dropik's group Tuesday.

Loss

When a parent loses a child, it is, from all I have ever read or heard, something one cannot ever overcome or get through, or feel better after any period of time.  The loss is deep.  I knew someone once who lost her son.  He wasn't lost, he was murdered at an ATM.  15 years later I met her, and the loss was as deep and painful.  It was evident on her face.

I don't think it matters why or how one loses a child.  Whether the child is 7 and dies from cancer or dies from a stray bullet intended for some gang banger ... loss is loss.  Whether your child is 20 or 40, if murdered, the loss is the same.

Whether it is losing a mother, father, son, daughter ... loss is unimaginable - even if they aren't a good mother or son or daughter or father ... they could very well be an asshole.  It is still a loss and it is immeasurable.

The loss isn't measured by whether the parent, child is or was a valuable member of society - it is family and as family we feel the loss.  We want a response, we want justice.  When 3000 people, many Americans were killed in New York, we wanted justice.  When 1 person is killed, we want justice.  It is the same feeling or need - justice.

Sometimes the person is a worthless parent and we wonder how they could have a child or children.  Sometimes we wonder and marvel that anyone could love them, but ... that isn't the point.  It is about our loss and our need for justice.

And we have a right to justice.  Not as Americans, but a basic human right - justice.

Fiat justitia ruat cælum

But there are times when our behavior contributes to what happens.

We are drinking, get in a car, driving along on freeway and another car swerves beside us and we go over the edge.  Did their action cause it, yes.  Did our being intoxicated play a roll - I believe it did.  Should they be punished in the pursuit of justice?  Yes, no matter who they may be.  But our responsibility cannot be ignored.

However, when a police officer tells you to stop - stop.  When they tell you to raise your hands - raise your hands.  Not raise them and then put them into your pockets.  Don't raise one while the other slides into your coat.  When told to stand still, raise your hands above your head - the physics of that seem simple.  STOP as in no further movement in any direction; raise your hands above your head means ... the hands must both be visible above the head.  Not at the shoulders, but above the head.  You should not be yelling at the police officer while he is instructing you to stop.  Your wife or girlfriend should not be adding her $3.00 to the conversation, nor should she be giving orders.

When you are told to stop.  Stop.  Do not move forward.  Do not lean into your car, do not put your hands into your coat .... just don't do that.  If you do, please be aware, whoever you are - you will be shot.  Why?  Because police officers want to go home.  They don't want to die because some fool reached for a gun and shot them, and they didn't act more quickly.  And why the hell should I listen to your wife/girlfriend about you not having a gun.  What retard am I suppose to be playing.  I will go home.  The question is, will you go to jail, or the morgue, or if a mistake, be on your way in a few minutes.

If I ask you to stop and you just walk away from me yelling epithets and telling me you ain't got time for my bullshit ... well, what should I do?  Pretend nothing happened.  It doesn't work that way and it never will.  It hasn't worked that way for the last couple years when black men get shot ... you think somehow you will get to just walk away and no one will notice? It can't work like that.  Not if you want justice. 

What I want if I am the cop is to have you stop, raise your hands above your head, NOT move, not twitch, not shuffle, not move as in IMMOBILE.  Stop.  Let me come up, handcuff you, check you for weapons or objects of any danger ... and at that point if you were to walk off, I would not feel a threat.  Nor would I be able to argue such.

When a police officer shoots someone, anyone without just cause, they should be terminated from the police department and prosecuted as anyone would be for negligence / manslaughter, or whatever the facts warrant.  We cannot know, but if everyone would have just stopped, raised their hands above their heads ... I don't believe most would have been shot.  Don't go rummaging around for weapons in the glove box.  Don't reach into a car and try to take the police officer's weapon.  Don't reach into your car rummaging around for a weapon.  In fact, if you are so law abiding and peaceful - why are you carrying a weapon in your car?  And yes, if a white guy had a gun in his car, he would be shot as well.  And when the police handcuff you, don't punch, spit, bite or resist ... deal with the discriminatory pattern after they are satisfied you are not a threat and you don't get to tell me the police officer you aren't a threat.  You don't decide that, neither does your wife or girlfriend.

Once all that occurs, let justice be done.  If it was racially discriminatory, the lawyers are available ... but you will live to see your children or parents again.  That's what we all want.  No one goes to work with the intention of shooting an innocent black man with children.  I can't say the same for the individuals who riot.

Sports and Social Justice

Without the names, just the idea which is much easier and simpler to address -

individuals, having witnessed via the media, actions toward African Americans across the United States over the last couple months, could stand the behavior no longer, and decided to stand up, or rather sit down for the national anthem.  This was their protest.  This was their way of showing solidarity with any number of African American males and several females who had been victimized by police.

There has been bad behavior by police for many months, years ... and apparently no one thought it necessary to act at that time, but now is the time.

Evidence suggests that Black youth ages 12 to 19 are victims of violent crime at significantly higher rates than their white peers.  Black youth are three times more likely to be victims of reported child abuse or neglect, three times more likely to be victims of robbery, and five times more likely to be victims of homicide. In fact, homicide is the leading cause of death among African American youth ages 15 to 24.
Living in urban environments also increases the risk of exposure to violence and one-quarter of low-income, urban youth have witnessed a murder. In one study of inner-city 7-year-olds, 75 percent had heard gunshots, 60 percent had seen drug deals, 18 percent had seen a dead body outside, and 10 percent had seen a shooting or stabbing at home. In a Chicago study, approximately 25 percent of Black children reported witnessing a person shot and 29 percent indicated that they had seen a stabbing. After one of the children participating in this study described the violent deaths of seven close family members, an eight-year-old remarked that "just" three people in her family had died violently. Such family and community violence is most often perpetrated by persons known to the youth, and is likely to be reoccurring—creating potentially greater harm to a developing child than would a one-time incident of victimization.
Youth exposure to victimization is directly linked to negative outcomes for young people, including increased depression, substance abuse, risky sexual behavior, homelessness, and poor school performance. Youth victimization increases the odds of becoming a perpetrator of violent crimes, including felony assault and intimate partner violence, doubles the likelihood of problematic drug use, and increases the odds of committing property crimes.
Despite the far-reaching impact of crime and violence exposure on children and teens, our nation’s youth do not receive the support and guidance needed to cope with these traumatic experiences. One estimate finds that only between two and fifteen percent of victims of all ages ever receive any victim assistance, and another indicates that among African American victims, only about nine percent of people sought help from non-police agencies that provided services.

There is a problem.  A real problem.  One that threatens not just some, but all, and is more insidious than bad policemen or a bad court ... it threatens the family, the children ... it threatens generations of black children, and that threat will perpetuate a cycle of violence and bad behavior by the police, illegal, and violent as it may be and is presently.

I assume those athletes are doing something about a danger that threatens to destroy the black community.  They feel strongly enough to sit down for the national anthem, collect their $100 million pay checks ... I am sure they are providing millions in aid, their time, and support.

They don't care what I think, and that's fine because I have no interest in what they think, but until such a time as we hear them speak up and do more publicly to deal with the real issues listed above affecting every African American ... I have no interest in following any sports team.  It's a waste of my time.  When they are able to understand perspective, the differences between what the police do and the magnitude and scale and .... what we, the people are and have done to make changes for all Americans ... until then I will sit on the sidelines, when they grow up and act responsibly, I will rethink my choice.

Democrats and Republicans - Politicizing

Obama campaign to the American people:

"His Republican opponents have jumped all over him because they do want to play politics with this issue. The President spoke from his heart on this, it was trying to emphasize with some parents who had just lost a child. By any measure, this was a tragedy and we need to let the investigation take its course," Stephanie Cutter, Obama's Deputy Campaign Manager, said on MSNBC today."People have to stop politicizing it," she added. "It's no surprise that some of our Republican opponents are trying to make an issue with this. But the President spoke from the heart and we need to let the investigation take its course."



In congress however, a different story:


Congressman Rush - a Democrat decided he needed a hood because ...



Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Florida): This is Treyvon Martin. Trayvon Martin's murderer is still at large. It's been one month, thirty days, with no arrest. I want America to see this sweet young boy who was hunted down like a dog, shot in the street, and his killer is still at large.

Not one person has been arrested in Treyvon's murder. I want to make sure that America knows that in Sanford, Florida, there was a young boy murdered. He is buried in Miami, Florida, and not one person has been arrested even though we all know who the murderer is. This was a standard case of racial profiling. No more! No more! We will stand for justice for Treyvon Martin.


and still others

 

Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Georgia): "He was executed for 'WWB' in a 'GC.' Walking While Black in a Gated Community."

and another

"I, personally, really truly believe this is a hate crime," said Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) in a joint interview with CBC Chairman Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) on CNN.

and another

You know if I had a son he'd look like Trayvon and you know I think they are right to expect that all of us as Americans are going to take this with the seriousness it deserves.



BUT

It is the Republicans who are politicizing this!


PLEASE.













liberals

Of Race and Obama: Who Woulda Thunk

Posted on July 15, 2011



Dem Congresswoman Brings Obama's Race Into Debt Ceiling Fight



Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) used the race card this afternoon to assess blame in the debt ceiling fight. Jackson Lee, a black Congresswoman, believes the disagreement over raising the debt ceiling is because of President Obama's race.

"I am particularly sensitive to the fact that only this president, only this president, only this one has received the kind attacks and disagreements and inability to work. Only this one," Jackson Lee said on the House floor this afternoon.

"Read between the lines."

"What is different about this president that should put him in a position that he should not receive the same kind of respectful treatment of when it is necessary to raise the debt limit in order to pay our bills, something required by both statute and the 14th amendment?"



I would remind Ms Lee that while Bush was president you had Democratic congressmen and women who said the most vicious and hateful comments – more than ever said about Obama – than I have ever heard in my life (which is not remembering too many presidents but it does go back 3-4). The personal and hateful attacks on Bush – on very nearly every issue possible Ms. Lee. And, you participated in these vile and personal attacks! It was not a matter of attacking Bush on policy – you attacked him personally. Now, you will mention that no one questioned Bush’s birth certificate. True, but some did question McCain’s eligibility to be president based upon his birthplace. In fact, as I recall, many from the liberal side of the political spectrum (and from the right). Work with the president – in 206 when Democrats took over Congress, they failed to work with Bush on anything, and they only compromised because with Bush ready to veto and the Republican minority able to prevent an over-ride of such a veto, Democrats were forced to actually consider what Bush had to say. Now, things are quite different and you come out calling it racially driven. It is unfortunate for the citizens of the 18th district that their representative was animated by fear and hate, not by service to district, state, and nation. It is a sad realization that any congressional representative has the intellectual failing to not comprehend the difference between reality and fantasy, between truth-telling and fabrication, between consistency and inconsistency in ones actions and principles. The people of Texas are the biggest losers Ms. Lee, and I am terribly saddened by what your continued presence means for all Americans.





 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
race

What a state we have, here in California.

This story is now old (November) and had been ongoing since the start of the Fall semester at this middle school, but I just learned about it.


The video to watch first:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po7k5O9LtBo&feature=player_embedded



What the video doesn’t tell us is more about the details of why he was told to take it down:



He flew the American flag on his bike as he rode to and from his school — Denair Middle School — for two months as he was gearing up for a school trip to Washington D.C. Cody’s display of American pride was cut short though when a campus supervisor asked him to remove the flag because it might be creating “racial tension” and there were some concerns for his safety.

January 7, 2011
http://www.turlockjournal.com/news/article/7371/

or the following

What seemed to be an innocent demonstration of patriotism soon spiraled into controversy when Cody's school administration forbade him from flying the flag because other students found it offensive. The Superintendent of the Denair School District spoke to the press saying he did not want to incite "racial tension" and that Cody was asked to not bring his flag to school for his own safety.



So … Turlock California … racial tensions????


How tolerant.
 

 

Take down the flag so as to avoid bothering people!!  In my country, I should not fly my flag so as to avoid bothering someone (who is not from my country, and to be honest, does not care much about my country) - not going to happen, regardless of racial tension.







 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
tolerance

German Tolerance and Openness.

Very carefully - the way Euros insert anti-Semitic statements or arguments into conversation.


And once again - why articles that are 8 years old (this one is from November 1, 2002).

Why?  because very nearly every attack and criticism of the US is based on drivel pulled out of someones rusty file cabinet, and or just printed and taken from one of those sites that highlight change and masquerade as lucid while they have no change to spare and clearly need more sense than they have.  I am so tired of contending with ancient wrongs by the US, culled from a media so willing to make available the opinions of reporters, taken for fact by willing accomplices and spread like butter for the masses to swallow. 

If they can do it, I think all these articles, factual and evidenced by sources - are equally as useful to delve into the character of a government or people - as useful as what is so often done by those who are so effortlessly propelled to the highest levels of the media in Europe and the US from where they pontificate their sad and miserable views onto a public who knows only what they hear and read ... from a media so ready to capitalize on the negative.

And if Americans are all racist for X, then most certainly we can use news stories of German efforts to .... maintain, as evidence.  Fair is fair.






Berliners protest move to put 'Jewish' back into street name


Berlin (dpa) - Crowds of angry residents in Berlin Friday protested attempts to return a road to its pre-Nazi-era name of Jewish Street, with several shouting, ;The Jews have made us suffer enough.''

The protest began peacefully enough Friday afternoon when about 40 people turned out to protest the changing of Kinkel Strasse to Jueden Strasse, which had been approved by the Berlin city council.

Local residents, particularly several retailers, said they had not been adequately informed about the name change and they resented the inconvenience of changing business cards and advertisements.

The protest turned ugly, however, when representatives of Berlin's Jewish community arrived for the formal name-changing ceremonies. Then there were chants of ;You Jews have had enough say'' and ;The Jews have made us suffer enough.''

Jewish Community Chairman Alexander Brenner attempted to fend off the attacks as TV camera crews filmed the scene, but as the vehemence rose, he responded, ;You people are siding yourselves with the Nazis with such remarks,'' and turned and left.

Afterward, several retailers said the confrontation had been taken over by neo-Nazis.

I heard someone shout terrible things at him,'' one retailer told SFB television. ;I heard someone say, 'You Jews are to blame for the German plight,' and that is a horrible thing to hear. I was absolutely appalled.''

Other businesspeople said they had come to protest the fact that the street name was being changed at all and were not concerned that it involved a Jewish name.

I've had a business on this street for 39 years and object to having to change all my business cards and make new advertisements now,'' one business owner said. ;I don't care what the city council has decided the new name should be; I just want it to remain as it has been.''

Jueden Strasse was the name of the road until the Nazis changed it in the 1930s to an Aryan name. After World War II, it was changed to Kinkel Strasse in honour of a resistance fighter.

The move to return the street its historical name came after the Social Democrats gained control of the Berlin city government last year.





 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Germany

French Racism and Hate-Mongering

French perfume designer under fire for racial slur


By The CNN Wire Staff
October 16, 2010 5:08 p.m. EDT


Paris, France -- French anti-racism group SOS-Racisme plans to file a legal complaint against perfume designer Jean-Paul Guerlain following a racist remark he made on French television.

Guerlain -- who is no longer connected with the perfume company that bears his name -- made the remarks during an interview with France 2 on Friday about his career and the making of Samsara, one of his famous perfumes he created to impress a woman.

"One day I told her -- and I still called her Madame -- 'What would seduce you if one was to make a perfume for you?' and she told me, 'I love jasmine, rose and sandalwood,'" Guerlain recalled.

"And for once I started working like a [racial epithet]. I don't know if [racial epithet] ever worked that hard," he said.

Guerlain issued an apology following the interview's broadcast, which a France 2 anchor read during the network's evening newscast.

"My words do not reflect in any way my profound thoughts but are due to an inopportune misspeaking which I vividly regret," the apology read.

According to a Guerlain company spokesperson, Guerlain has not been an employee since 2002. He now counsels the company as a "nose" for some perfumes.

SOS-Racisme said it is not satisfied with Guerlain's apology and will bring action against him. Guerlain could be issued a fine if the complaint goes before a magistrate.

Louis-Georges Tin, a spokesman for the Council Representative of Black Associations, told French radio RTL that his group also will join in the complaint.

"Until now we thought that Mr. Guerlain was the ambassador of grace, and he made comments particularly disgraceful, even a bit foul," Tin said.

"That's why we are shocked. These comments are racist, of course, which harken back to the colonial period and it seems unacceptable. For now, we are planning to file a complaint," he said.

France's finance minister, Christine Laguarde, also weighed in on the comments, telling RTL on Saturday, "It's pathetic. I simply hope this is just senile and grotesque, that the apologies will really be sincere and gracious, but this is truly pathetic."





 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
RACE

Los Angeles 2000

Colour-coded based on race: whites = pink.  blacks = blue. Hispanic = orange.  Asians = green.





Los Angeles 2000







http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1315078/Race-maps-America.html#ixzz10ZVzPPFD


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The Left are the Instigators of Race based intolerance - Just ask Maher

Bill Maher - not funny, not bright, and not terribly useful unless you are looking for examples of idiots and fools on parade.

He made a statement that lines up as one of the most racist and ignorant statements I have heard or read in, well, I don't think anything has come close -


HBO's Bill Maher: "I thought when we elected a black president, we were going to get a black president. You know, this [BP oil spill] is where I want a real black president. I want him in a meeting with the BP CEOs, you know, where he lifts up his shirt where you can see the gun in his pants. That's -- (in black man voice) we've got a 'motherfu**ing problem here?' Shoot somebody in the foot."










idiots

Race and Empathy

I Feel Your Pain, Unless You're From a Different Race



LiveScience.com charles Q. Choi
livescience Contributor
livescience.com – Thu May 27, 12:12 pm ET



Normally when you see or imagine someone else in pain, your brain experiences a twinge of pain as well. Not so when race and bias come into play, scientists now find.

Intriguingly, people respond with empathy when pain is inflicted on others who don't fit into any preconceived racial category, such as those who appear to have violet-colored skin.



"This is quite important because it suggests that humans tend to empathize by default unless prejudice is at play," said researcher Salvatore Maria Aglioti, a cognitive and social neuroscientist at the Sapienza University of Rome in Italy.

Scientists asked volunteers in Italy of Italian and African descent to watch short films showing either needles penetrating a person's hand or a Q-tip gently touching the same spot. At the same time, they measured brain and nervous system activity.

When the volunteers saw the hands get poked, the brain and nervous system activity revealed the same spot on each volunteer's own hands reacted involuntarily when the person in the film was of the same race. Those of a different race did not provoke the same response.

However, when both white and black volunteers saw violet-colored hands get jabbed, they responded empathetically. This suggests that people normally automatically feel the pain of others, and the lack of empathy that volunteers showed for people of other races was learned and not innate.

"This default reactivity of human beings implies empathy with the pain of strangers," said researcher Alessio Avenanti of the University of Bologna in Italy. "However, racial bias may suppress this empathic reactivity, leading to a dehumanized perception of others' experience."

It could make evolutionary sense that we feel less empathy for people who are different than us. "In case of war or even a friendly competition like a football game, it could be adaptive to feel less empathy for people we consider our opponents," said social neuroscientist Joan Chiao at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., who did not take part in this research.

Then again, "it also makes evolutionary sense for us to feel the pain of others, as it might cue that there is danger close by," Chiao noted. "Also, without feeling the pain of others, it could be harder to motivate altruistic behaviors, especially if such behaviors come at a cost."

Essentially, for the stranger in pain, in order to elicit help, he or she would need to actually get the stranger to feel empathy.

While the ability for culture to regulate empathy could be helpful, "when you feel prejudices that are not adaptive, that are not rooted in reality, that shows that there can be a darker side to empathy regulation," Chiao added.

These new findings could suggest one could help deal with racial prejudice with methods designed to restore empathy for others, the researchers said.

"One can reduce empathy, but one can also promote it, learning positive associations with another group," Chiao said.

The scientists detailed their findings online May 27 in the journal Current Biology.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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New York: Racists? They ask questions.

State Sen. Kevin Parker erupts again with raced-based rant, and even allies are concerned





BY Celeste Katz and Kenneth Lovett
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Wednesday, April 28th 2010, 2:11 PM



Berman for NewsState Sen. Kevin Parker Related NewsALBANY - Hothead state Sen. Kevin Parker erupted again Tuesday, this time with a race-based rant that rattled even his supporters.

"He needs help," said Sen. Ruben Diaz (D-Bronx), an ally who witnessed the latest angry outbursts. "He lost control of himself."

Parker exploded in anger at fellow Sen. John DeFrancisco, a Syracuse Republican, who was questioning a nominee to the New York Power Authority.

DeFrancisco, who is white, asked Mark O'Luck, who is black, about the nominee's prior claim that without programs for minorities, whites and the affluent "would have access to nearly 100%" of government funding.

As DeFrancisco told O'Luck he can't fault everyone who's prospered, Parker began screaming that the GOPer was "out of order."

"How dare you!" Parker shouted, at one point referring to "you racist people in here."

"I've never seen a white appointee be treated like this, in such rude fashion!" the Brooklyn Democrat yelled.

In a scene straight out of the Al Pacino movie "And Justice for All," Parker was repeatedly ruled out order.

"You're out of order!" he screamed back. "This committee's out of order!"

Amid the nearly two-minute tirade, committee chairman Carl Kruger (D-Brooklyn) told Parker he would be removed from the hearing room if he didn't settle down.

"Then get somebody to remove me," he said. "Bring people, though."

DeFrancisco later had little to say about the incident. "It speaks for itself," he said.

Parker dismissed the incident as a "heated debate" - but maintained DeFrancisco's line of questioning was beneath the "decorum" of the Senate.

He shrugged off his warning to Krueger to "bring people," saying, "We're all prone to hyperbole."

Parker, who had been ordered to anger management after being accused of punching a traffic agent, is currently under felony indictment on a charge he assaulted a news photographer.

Earlier this year, the imposing Parker screamed at fellow Democratic Sen. Diane Savino of Staten Island and charged toward her during an emotional closed-door Democratic conference.








New York

Dan Rather, Chris Matthews, Obama and Watermelon

Interesting video clip.

At least he didn't say Obama spoke without a dialect, or was a clean African-American. 















Obama

Double Standards

Should Reid resign?  No.  But what else can Retardicans do?  When any Republican says something so assinine, Losercrats jump up and down howling about the need to resign.  As I recall the events with Lott, Losercrats didn't let up.  No other business - just Lott.  They must have received a phone call from someone at the top of their food chain telling them - 'Lott, Lott, Lott, and Lott - no other news, no other subject, just keep on about Lott.'

Yet when Reid says something as assinine as he did and simply apologizes (as Lott did) and everyone says it is over )as the Democrats are doing) ... it is a double standard.  Slowly, the media is catching on.






Jan 2010
The Washington Times Daily
BY JOSEPH CURL


Democrats close ranks around Reid Apology for racial remarks called sufficient




Democrats on Sunday rallied to the defense of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid from a political firestorm caused by his newly reported remarks during the 2008 presidential campaign describing Barack Obama as “light-skinned” who chose to speak “with no Negro dialect.”

“I think if you look at the reports as I have, it was all in the context of saying positive things about Senator Obama,” said Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine. “It definitely was in the context of recognizing in Senator Obama a great candidate and future president.”

Mr. Reid apologized to Mr. Obama on Saturday, and the president issued a statement accepting the apology and saying he considered the matter closed.

The Nevada Democrat, a pivotal figure in Mr. Obama’s hopes of passing a health care reform bill and other top agenda items, said later Sunday that he had no intention of resigning his leadership post or his Senate seat, as Republican lawmakers began demanding Sunday.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat, said Mr. Reid should not resign and defended his remark as just a “mistake.”

“Clearly, the leader misspoke. He has also apologized. He’s not only apologized to the president, I think he’s apologized to all of the black leadership that he could reach,” she said. “So the president has accepted the apology, and it would seem to me that the matter should be closed.”

 
In a private conversation reported in a new book, “Game Change” by journalists Mark Halperin of Time and John Heilemann of New York magazine, Mr. Reid described Mr. Obama as an ideal candidate for the 2008 presidential campaign because he was a “lightskinned” black man “with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.”


While Democrats rallied to the Senate leader’s side, Re-publican National Committee Chairman Michael S. Steele mocked Mr. Kaine’s defense and he called on Mr. Reid to resign.


“ If [ Senate Minority Leader] Mitch McConnell had said those very words, then this chairman and this president would be calling for his head, and they would be labeling every Republican in the country a racist for saying exactly what this chairman’s just said,” Mr. Steele said.

Mr. Steele also compared Mr. Reid’s remark to comments by Trent Lott, Mississippi Republican, in 2002. Mr. Lott, the Senate majority leader at the time, said at the 100th birthday celebration of 1948 presidential candidate Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina that “if the rest of the country had followed [Mississippi’s] lead” in supporting Mr. Thurmond, “we wouldn’t have had all these problems over all these years.”

Mr. Lott’s remark was considered an endorsement of Mr. Thurmond’s segregationist past, and he was quickly drummed out of the Senate leadership post.

“ There is this standard where the Democrats feel that they can say these things, and they can apologize when it comes from the mouths of their own. But if it comes from anyone else, it’s racism,” said Mr. Steele, who is black. “It’s either racist or it’s not. And it’s inappropriate, absolutely.”

Sen. John Cornyn, Texas Republican and chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said in a statement that Mr. Reid should step down, calling his comments “embarrassing and racially insensitive.”

“It’s difficult to see this situation as anything other than a clear double standard on the part of Senate Democrats and others,” Mr. Cornyn said.

Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl, Arizona Republican, said on “Fox News Sunday” that “if [Mr. Lott] should resign, then Harry Reid should.” He decried what he called a “double standard” and said, “I’d like to see the same standard applied to both” Senate party leaders.

Mr. Reid, who has a history of verbal gaffes and is facing a tough re-election fight in November, said later Sunday through his office that he was not stepping down.

“Senator Reid will stay in his position as majority leader and will run for re-election,” said the statement from his office, boasting of Mr. Reid’s “long record of addressing issues that are important to the African-American community.”

“Republican critics who are looking to politicize the issue can’t say the same,” said the remarks by the veteran Democratic lawmaker.

Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island joined other Democrats in saying Mr. Reid’s apology and Mr. Obama’s statement were enough, rejecting comparisons to the Lott episode.

“I think that’s a totally different context. Harry Reid made a misstatement,” Mr. Reed said. “He owned up to it. He apologized. I think he is mortified by the statement he’s made. And I don’t think he should step down.”

Mrs. Feinstein also said that “I saw no Democrats jumping out there and condemning Sen. Lott.”

But several Democrats — including Mrs. Feinstein and Mr. Reid — did target Mr. Lott after his remarks, and some quickly called for his resignation.

“This statement casts a dark shadow over Sen. Lott’s ability to be a credible party leader,” Mrs. Feinstein said in 2002, according to an Inland Valley Daily Bulletin news report.

“I can tell you, if a Democratic leader said such a thing, they would not be allowed to keep their position,” Sen. Mary L. Landrieu, Louisiana Democrat, said of Mr. Lott in 2002.

Sen. John Kerry, Massachusetts Democrat, also called on Mr. Lott to resign, saying, “I simply do not believe the country can today afford to have someone who has made these statements again and again be the leader of the United States Senate,” according to a Boston Globe article.

According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Mr. Reid at the time denounced Mr. Lott’s remarks as “ not good for America; it’s repugnant.” When Mr. Lott resigned his leadership post, Mr. Reid observed that the Mississippi Republican “had no alternative” because he had “dug himself a hole.”




 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Harry 'We lost in Iraq' Reid: Negro Dialects

CALLING Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson ... where for art thou ...

Now just imagine if some Retardican had said the same thing!!!




Reid apologizes for 'no Negro dialect' comment


January 09, 2010 14:44 EST
Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is apologizing for a comment he made about Barack Obama's race during the 2008 campaign.

In a book set to be published Monday, Reid is quoted as describing Obama as "light skinned" and speaking "with no Negro dialect."

Excerpts from the book "Game Change," by Time Magazine's Mark Halperin and New York magazine's John Heilemann, were reported on the Web site of The Atlantic.

In a statement released today, Reid calls the comments "a poor choice of words" that he deeply regrets. He offers apologies to "any and all Americans, especially African-Americans."

Reid is facing a tough re-election campaign this year. A Las Vegas Review Journal survey out today shows him trailing former state Republican party chairwoman Sue Lowden by 10 points, 50 percent to 40 percent. More than half of those polled said they had an unfavorable opinion of Reid, while just a third held a favorable opinion.




He is sinking faster than the Titanic.







 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Jesse 'The Racist' Jackson calling blacks names

Despicable.




Jesse Jackson: 'You can't vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man'


By Mike Soraghan - 11/18/09 05:42 PM ET
The Hill


The Rev. Jesse Jackson on Wednesday night criticized Rep. Artur Davis (D-Ala.) for voting against the Democrats’ signature healthcare bill.

“We even have blacks voting against the healthcare bill from Alabama,” Jackson said at a reception Wednesday night. “You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.”

The remark stirred a murmur at the reception, held by the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Foundation as part of a series of events revolving around the 25th anniversary of Jackson’s run for president. Several CBC members were in attendance, including Chairwoman Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), who’d introduced Jackson.


Davis, who is running for governor, is the only black member of Congress from Alabama.

He is also the only member of the CBC to have voted against the healthcare bill earlier this month.

Davis referred to Jackson’s 1988 run for president in a statement, issued through his office, that said he would not engage Jackson on his criticism.

“One of the reasons that I like and admire Rev. Jesse Jackson is that 21 years ago he inspired the idea that a black politician would not be judged simply as a black leader,” Davis’s statement said. “The best way to honor Rev. Jackson’s legacy is to decline to engage in an argument with him that begins and ends with race.”

Jackson said later that he "didn't call anybody by name and I won't."

He added that he wasn't saying that black lawmakers must vote a certain way. Instead, they should vote the interests of the people in their districts, and he said the healthcare bill would help Alabama because it's one of the poorest states in the country.

"The poorest people need healthcare protection," Jackson said. "They have the highest infant mortality and the lowest life expectancy. They're dying from lack of access."

Other members of the CBC found no fault in Jackson's words. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) was in the audience. He called Jackson's criticism of Davis "accurate," but said he did not hear Jackson say "You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man."

"If it is an issue that disproportionately impacts black folks, race has to be considered," Cleaver said. Jackson, he added, "is expected by his constituency to call balls and strikes."

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) called the remarks "vintage Jesse Jackson," but said Davis's vote against healthcare was consistent with a voting record more conservative than many CBC members.

"Artur Davis has a more conservative constituency," Waters said. "Since he's running for governor of Alabama, he reflects an even more conservative constituency."

Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-Texas) said each man was doing what he considered the right thing.

"People have a right to vote their constituency, and people have a right to speak their conscience," Jackson-Lee said. "Both happened."

Davis’s Democratic primary opponent, Agriculture Commissioner Ron Sparks, highlighted Davis’s status as the lone African-American vote against the bill.

“He was the only Black Caucus member to vote against it. I don’t get it,” Sparks said last week, according to The Associated Press. Sparks is white.

Davis said he voted against the healthcare bill because "House leadership's approach is not the best we can do." He said he preferred a version passed by the Senate Finance Committee because it reduces subsidization of the healthcare industry, taxes high-value health plans instead of wealthy people, and is more effective in getting employers to help with health coverage.

Davis has countered that Sparks’s position on healthcare has changed over time, saying he’s being “deliberately dishonest.”

The primary will be June 1. All of the GOP candidates for governor have been critical of the healthcare legislation, according to the AP.



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Diane Watson, Dem, CA - serving the 33rd district - a district I might add, I once lived in!!

Listen to her by clicking the link:
Commenting on something Rush Limbaugh may have said (that Limbaugh hopes HE fails, refering to Obama)


If the president, your commander in chief fails, America fails. Now, when a Senator says that this will be his Waterloo, and we all know what happened at Waterloo, then we have him and he fails. Do we want a failed state called the United States. So remember they are spreading fear and they are trying to see that the first president who looks like me fails. Now just understand whats at the bottom line. We just got 38 hours ago, I just got back from, we were in Beijing China, Hong Kong China, we were in Taiwan, we were in Guam, we were all over the Far East, and I want you to know that people look at the United States as a country that has changed its way, and has elected someone from Kenya and Kansas, I'll put it like that.

And they are saying we thought you would never do that. So we don't want this young man, and he just turned 48, we want him to succeed because when he succeeds we regain our status, we regain our status.

It was just mentioned to me, by our esteemed speaker, did anyone say anything about the Cuban health system. And let me tell you, before you say he's co ... You need to go down there and see what Fidel castro put in place. And I want you to know you can think whatever you want to about Fidel Castro but he was one of the brightest leaders I have ever met, and you know, the Cuban Revolution that kicked out the wealthy, Che Guevera did that, and then after that they took over they went out into the population to find someone who could lead this new nation and they found, we'll just leave it there, an attorney by the name of Fidel Castro.

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Every chance she had she made it racial.








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Obama Regrets

25 Jul 2009
The Day

OBAMA REGRETS HIS REMARKS ON PROFESSOR’S ARREST

(AP) President Barack Obama tried Friday to defuse a volatile national debate over the arrest of Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. as he acknowledged that his own comments had inflamed tensions and insisted he did not mean to malign the arresting officer.

Obama placed calls to both Gates and the man who arrested him, Cambridge, Mass., Police Sgt. James Crowley, two days after saying police had “acted stupidly” in hauling Gates from his home in handcuffs. Obama said he still considered the arrest “an overreaction,” but added that “Professor Gates probably overreacted as well.”

“I obviously helped to contribute ratcheting it up,” Obama said. “I want to make clear that in my choice of words, I think I unfortunately gave an impression that I was maligning the Cambridge Police Department or Sgt. Crowley specifically, and I could have calibrated those words differently.”

Knocked off stride by a racial uproar he helped stoke, President Barack Obama hastened Friday to tamp down the controversy. Obama, who had said Cambridge, Mass., police “acted stupidly” in arresting black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr., declared the white arresting officer was a good man and invited him and the professor to the White House for a beer.

Obama conceded his words had been ill-chosen, but he stopped short of a public apology. He personally telephoned both Gates and Sgt. James Crowley, hoping to end the rancorous back-and-forth over what had transpired and what Obama had said about it. Trying to lighten the situation, he even commiserated with Crowley about reporters on his lawn.

Hours earlier, a multiracial group of police officers had stood with Crowley in Massachusetts and said the president should apologize.

It was a measure of the nation’s keen sensitivities on matters of race that the fallout from a disorderly conduct charge in Massachusetts — and the remarks of America’s first black president about it — had mushroomed to such an extent that he felt compelled to make a surprise appearance in the White House briefing room to try to put the matter to rest. The blowup had dominated national attention just as Obama was trying to marshal public pressure to get Congress to push through health care overhaul legislation — and as polls showed growing doubts about his performance.

[It was not the nations sensitivities to race that mushroomed this issue, it was Obama and his friend Gates. Had Gates not screamed and had a hissy fit, and had Obama not called the police officers actions stupid ... THIS WOULDN'T BE AN ISSUE.]

“This has been ratcheting up, and I obviously helped to contribute ratcheting it up,” Obama said of the racial controversy. “ I want to make clear that in my choice of words, I think I unfortunately gave an impression that I was maligning the Cambridge Police Department and Sgt. Crowley specifically. And I could’ve calibrated those words differently.”

The president did not back down from his contention that police had overreacted by arresting the Harvard professor for disorderly conduct after coming to his home to investigate a possible break-in. He added, though, that he thought Gates, too, had overreacted to the police who questioned him. The charge has been dropped.

Obama stirred up a hornet’s nest when he said at a prime-time news conference this week that Cambridge police had “acted stupidly” by arresting Gates, a friend of the president’s. Still, Obama said Friday he didn’t regret stepping into the controversy and hoped the matter would end up being a “teachable moment” for the nation.

“The fact that this has garnered so much attention, I think, is testimony to the fact that these are issues that are still very sensitive here in America,” Obama said.

Obama wryly took note of the distraction from his legislative efforts.

“I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but nobody’s been paying much attention to health care,” the president said.

Obama, who has come under intense criticism from police organizations, said he had called Crowley to clear the air, and said the conversation confirmed his belief that the sergeant is an “outstanding police officer and a good man.”

There were signs both that Obama’s statement had helped to ease tensions and that his critics were not about to let that be the end of it: A trio of Massachusetts police organizations issued a statement thanking the president for his “ willingness to reconsider his remarks.” The statement said Crowley was “ profoundly grateful” Obama was trying to resolve the situation. But a Republican congressman from Michigan, Thaddeus McCotter, said he would introduce a House resolution calling on Obama to apologize to Crowley.

Obama tried to lighten his tone in his public remarks about his phone conversation with Crowley.
He said the police officer “wanted to find out if there was a way of getting the press off his lawn.”
“I informed him that I can’t get the press off my lawn,” Obama joked.

In his conversation with Gates, aides said, Obama and the professor had spoken about the president’s statement to the press and his conversation with Crowley.

The case began on Monday, when word broke that Gates, 58, had been arrested five days earlier at the twostory home he rents from Harvard.

Cambridge police moved to drop the disorderly conduct charge on Tuesday— without apology, but calling the case “regrettable.”

Meanwhile, the police union and fellow officers, black and white, rallied around Crowley, a decorated officer who in 1993 tried to give lifesaving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to Reggie Lewis, a black Boston Celtics player who collapsed at practice. Lewis could not be revived.
Crowley, 42, had been selected to be a police academy instructor on how to avoid racial profiling.

A multiracial group of officers and union officials stood with Crowley on Friday at a news conference to show support and to ask Obama and Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, who is black, to apologize for their comments. Patrick had called Gates’ arrest “every black man’s nightmare.”

Obama’s take on the situation: “My sense is you’ve got two good people in a circumstance in which neither of them were able to resolve the incident in a way that it should have been resolved.”












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Hate Crime? Jesse and Al ... where are you???

Jesse ... where are you. Al ... where are you? Are you done with your ten seconds of publicity from infecting the Jackson funeral?

When you commit violance upon a person because of their race or ethnicity - it is, according to the law - a hate crime.





Akron police investigate teen mob attack on family

By Phil Trexler
Beacon Journal staff writer
Jul 07, 2009

Akron police say they aren't ready to call it a hate crime or a gang initiation.

But to Marty Marshall, his wife and two kids, it seems pretty clear.

It came after a family night of celebrating America and freedom with a fireworks show at Firestone Stadium. Marshall, his family and two friends were gathered outside a friend's home in South Akron.

Out of nowhere, the six were attacked by dozens of teenage boys, who shouted ''This is our world'' and ''This is a black world'' as they confronted Marshall and his family.

The Marshalls, who are white, say the crowd of teens who attacked them and two friends June 27 on Girard Street numbered close to 50. The teens were all black.

''This was almost like being a terrorist act,'' Marshall said. ''And we allow this to go on in our neighborhoods?''

They said it started when one teen, without any words or warning, blindsided and assaulted Marshall's friend as he stood outside with the others.

When Marshall, 39, jumped in, he found himself being attacked by the growing group of teens.
His daughter, Rachel, 15, who weighs about 90 pounds, tried to come to his rescue. The teens pushed her to the ground.

His wife, Yvonne, pushed their son, Donald, 14, into bushes to keep him protected.

''My thing is,'' Marshall said, ''I didn't want this, but I was in fear for my wife, my kids and my friends. I felt I had to stay out there to protect them, because those guys were just jumping, swinging fists and everything.

''I'm lucky. They didn't break my ribs or bruise my ribs. I thank God, they concentrated on my thick head because I do have one. They were trying to take my head off my spine, basically.''

After several minutes of punches and kicks, the attack ended and the group ran off. The Marshalls' two adult male friends were not seriously hurt.

''I don't think I thought at that moment when I tried to jump in,'' Rachel Marshall said. ''But when I was laying on the ground, I was just scared.''

Marshall was the most seriously injured. He suffered a concussion and multiple bruises to his head and eye. He said he spent five nights in the critical care unit at Akron General Medical Center.

The construction worker said he now fears for his family's safety, and the thousands of dollars in medical bills he faces without insurance.

''I knew I was going to get beat, but not as bad as I did,'' Marshall said. ''But I did it to protect my family. I didn't have a choice. There was no need for this. We should be all getting along. But to me, it seems to be racist.''

Akron police are investigating. Right now, the case is not being classified as a racial hate crime. There were no other reports of victims assaulted by the group that night.

The department's gang unit is involved in the investigation, police said.

''We don't know if it's a known gang, or just a group of kids,'' police Lt. Rick Edwards said.

The Marshalls say they fear retaliation at home or when they go outside. They are considering arming themselves, but they're concerned about the possible problems that come with guns.

For now, they are hoping police can bring them suspects. They believe they can identify several of the attackers.

''This makes you think about your freedom,'' Marshall said. ''In all reality, where is your freedom when you have this going on?''







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Racism, Obama, and the Election

Election spurs 'hundreds' of race threats, crimes

Nov 15, 2008
By JESSE WASHINGTON
AP National Writer

Cross burnings. Schoolchildren chanting "Assassinate Obama." Black figures hung from nooses. Racial epithets scrawled on homes and cars.

Incidents around the country referring to President-elect Barack Obama are dampening the postelection glow of racial progress and harmony, highlighting the stubborn racism that remains in America.

From California to Maine, police have documented a range of alleged crimes, from vandalism and vague threats to at least one physical attack. Insults and taunts have been delivered by adults, college students and second-graders.

There have been "hundreds" of incidents since the election, many more than usual, said Mark Potok, director of the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate crimes.

One was in Snellville, Ga., where Denene Millner said a boy on the school bus told her 9-year-old daughter the day after the election: "I hope Obama gets assassinated." That night, someone trashed her sister-in-law's front lawn, mangled the Obama lawn signs, and left two pizza boxes filled with human feces outside the front door, Millner said.

She described her emotions as a combination of anger and fear.

"I can't say that every white person in Snellville is evil and anti-Obama and willing to desecrate my property because one or two idiots did it," said Millner, who is black. "But it definitely makes you look a little different at the people who you live with, and makes you wonder what they're capable of and what they're really thinking."

Potok, who is white, said he believes there is "a large subset of white people in this country who feel that they are losing everything they know, that the country their forefathers built has somehow been stolen from them."

Grant Griffin, a 46-year-old white Georgia native, expressed similar sentiments: "I believe our nation is ruined and has been for several decades and the election of Obama is merely the culmination of the change.

"If you had real change it would involve all the members of (Obama's) church being deported," he said.

Change in whatever form does not come easy, and a black president is "the most profound change in the field of race this country has experienced since the Civil War," said William Ferris, senior associate director of the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina. "It's shaking the foundations on which the country has existed for centuries."

"Someone once said racism is like cancer," Ferris said. "It's never totally wiped out, it's in remission."

If so, America's remission lasted until the morning of Nov. 5.

The day after the vote hailed as a sign of a nation changed, black high school student Barbara Tyler of Marietta, Ga., said she heard hateful Obama comments from white students, and that teachers cut off discussion about Obama's victory.

Tyler spoke at a press conference by the Georgia chapter of the NAACP calling for a town hall meeting to address complaints from across the state about hostility and resentment. Another student, from a Covington middle school, said he was suspended for wearing an Obama shirt to school Nov. 5 after the principal told students not to wear political paraphernalia.

The student's mother, Eshe Riviears, said the principal told her: "Whether you like it or not, we're in the South, and there are a lot of people who are not happy with this decision."
Other incidents include:

_Four North Carolina State University students admitted writing anti-Obama comments in a tunnel designated for free speech expression, including one that said: "Let's shoot that (N-word) in the head." Obama has received more threats than any other president-elect, authorities say.

_At Standish, Maine, a sign inside the Oak Hill General Store read: "Osama Obama Shotgun Pool." Customers could sign up to bet $1 on a date when Obama would be killed. "Stabbing, shooting, roadside bombs, they all count," the sign said. At the bottom of the marker board was written "Let's hope someone wins."

_Racist graffiti was found in places including New York's Long Island, where two dozen cars were spray-painted; Kilgore, Texas, where the local high school and skate park were defaced; and the Los Angeles area, where swastikas, racial slurs and "Go Back To Africa" were spray painted on sidewalks, houses and cars.

_Second- and third-grade students on a school bus in Rexburg, Idaho, chanted "assassinate Obama," a district official said.

_University of Alabama professor Marsha L. Houston said a poster of the Obama family was ripped off her office door. A replacement poster was defaced with a death threat and a racial slur. "It seems the election brought the racist rats out of the woodwork," Houston said.

_Black figures were hanged by nooses from trees on Mount Desert Island, Maine, the Bangor Daily News reported. The president of Baylor University in Waco, Texas said a rope found hanging from a campus tree was apparently an abandoned swing and not a noose.

_Crosses were burned in yards of Obama supporters in Hardwick, N.J., and Apolacan Township, Pa.

_A black teenager in New York City said he was attacked with a bat on election night by four white men who shouted 'Obama.'

_In the Pittsburgh suburb of Forest Hills, a black man said he found a note with a racial slur on his car windshield, saying "now that you voted for Obama, just watch out for your house."
Emotions are often raw after a hard-fought political campaign, but now those on the losing side have an easy target for their anger.

"The principle is very simple," said BJ Gallagher, a sociologist and co-author of the diversity book "A Peacock in the Land of Penguins." "If I can't hurt the person I'm angry at, then I'll vent my anger on a substitute, i.e., someone of the same race."

"We saw the same thing happen after the 9-11 attacks, as a wave of anti-Muslim violence swept the country. We saw it happen after the Rodney King verdict, when Los Angeles blacks erupted in rage at the injustice perpetrated by 'the white man.'"

"It's as stupid and ineffectual as kicking your dog when you've had a bad day at the office," Gallagher said. "But it happens a lot."
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Is it possible to be too smart for your own usefulness? Gallagher is one such person. It has nothing to do with the story or issue, but - THE ANTI-MUSLIM violence that swept the country were little more than a handful of incidents, most less than significant, and a few no more or less than on any other day, BUT for the spotlight. Yet, Gallagher and others go on perpetuating a lie. It is unfortunate. They (fools like Gallagher) do more harm than good.


There are approximately 300,000,000 people in this country. There are approximately 115,000,000 households in this country. At least 2500 counties, and fifty states - in this great country of ours, and the best the AP can do is find 12 or 15 or 20 incidents. That is proof we have passed the issue of racism, and moved on to where the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. wanted us - to judge each other on the character, not the color.

Even if you find 100 cases - statistically it says NOTHING.

In fact - Gallagher and others fools like him, need to take statistics.

It is not that there are not racists - always will be until the earth blows up into 1000 pieces of rock and hurtle into the sun. Up until that time, racism will always exist - get over it. You cannot legislate it, you cannot educate it away, you cannot make anyone not be a racist. It is, simply that - as organic as cancer, but it is, and however much surgery - it will remain. What you do, is the best you can to ensure that people are treated fairly regardless of the color of their skin, and when you do that, most of the rest of the issue sorts itself out. For the remaining cases - understand they will remain and move on. The laws we have in place dealing with issues like vandalism, murder, and assault - those laws will handle the remaining cases. Dwelling on the few rather than recognizing where the nation has moved on to, is backward, destructive, and harmful to this, the greatest nation on this planet.











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