Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

A complex man.   I think he was a brave man.  What do you remember best about Dr. King? 

BZ has an article from Bloomberg.com about Obama saying his ratings are low because people don't "like the idea of a black president."  Don't look now, but they liked the idea enough to elect him, didn't they. 

This makes me grieve for Dr King.  And I'm surprised Obama would go this far because people don't approve of him.  Just plain don't approve of HIM, not his color.


Z

You will NOT believe THIS...Trayvon and Zimmerman again; a very new angle

This utterly blew my mind......A rare, brave black pastor talks about how Zimmerman did what had to be done with Trayvon Martin.  He blames the mother and father for Trayvon's end.  He tells it like he sees it.
How do you see him?
Z

Do you have a minute for me?

You won't recognize me, of course.  My name was Antonio West and I was the 13-month old child who was shot at point blank range by two teens who were attempting to rob my mother, who was also shot.  A Grand Jury of my mommy's peers from Brunswick GA determined the teens who murdered me will not face the death penalty ... too bad I was given a death sentence for being innocent and defenseless.

My family made the mistake of being white in a 73% non-white neighborhood, but my murder was not ruled a Hate Crime.  Nor did President Obama take so much as a single moment to acknowledge my murder.  No one from the Department of Justice organized any demonstrations for me.

I am one of the youngest murder victims in our great Nation's history, but the media doesn't care to cover the story of my tragic demise, President Obama has no children who could possibly look like me - so he doesn't care, and the media doesn't care because my story is not interesting enough to bring them ratings so they can sell commercial time slots.

There is not a white equivalent of Al Sharpton because if there was he would be declared racist, so there is no one rushing to Brunswick GA to demand justice for me.  There is no White Panther party to put a bounty on the lives of those who murdered me.  I have no voice, I have no representation and unlike those who shot me in the face while I sat innocently in my stroller - I no longer have my life.

So while you are seeking justice for Trayvon, please remember to seek justice for me too. Tell your friends about me, tell your families, get tee shirts with my face on them and make the world pay attention, just like you did for Trayvon.

Thank you

Hat tip: Received from Jon Berg

Obama and crack cocaine

Check out the president's nose in this picture that illustrated one of the articles dealing with my subject below....After I printed this here, I noticed that the plaque on the painting behind him reads as if his nose is growing.......I'd say that's fairly appropriate for our Pinnochio in Chief!?   Sorry, but I thought that was funny!   Now to the point of my post regarding the president and crack cocaine:

The words in italics below are from an article from EDUCATION NEWS:  
Valerie Jarrett makes unreported remarks in meeting with media:
President Obama’s top aide, Valerie Jarrett, reportedly boasted to the black community that the administration sharply reduced the sentencing disparity for possession of crack cocaine instead of powder.

Jarrett made the remarks at a meeting of black journalists and columnists last weekend clearly aimed at Obama’s re-election efforts. Mainstream media outlets covering the event did not report on her comments regarding crack cocaine.

On Saturday, Jarrett engaged in a wide-ranging interview session with a group of journalists at the National Association of Black Journalists convention in New Orleans.

The Root, a website owned by the Washington Post aimed at the black community, reprinted a blog report by the Maynard Institute’s Richard Prince on Jarrett’s appearance at the convention. (Z: You'll want to read that in its entirety)


Prince reported that at the meeting Jarrett outlined “what she considered the Obama administration’s successes.”    Continued Prince: “Among them funding for historically black colleges and universities; health care reform, which she said will disproportionately help African-Americans; and reducing disparities between penalties for possession of crack and for powdered cocaine.”  

Before anyone starts in how The Root must be a Conservative rag, please know it's a Black-focused paper owned by The Washington Post.   I have to salute this venue for having admitted that, after Jarrett's talk, "Some rolled their eyes. "Why not just send a [campaign] video?" one said. "That was out of line," said another afterward." I particularly honor THE ROOT because most outlets completely overlooked the part about cocaine.  Another media cover-up of something Americans should hear.  Is this really a good thing for the Black community or is it actually true racism at its core?

z

Trayvon and Tyrone......you draw your conclusions

So, we have another Black/White vicious murder, but this time the rape of an elderly White woman is involved.  HERE is the information.  A young Black man rapes and kills woman and badly beats her husband.  But does the media care? 

I'll just leave you here with the last two paragraphs from Doug Giles' article linked above:

I wonder if President Obama is going to lecture the nation on this despicable act and tell us something similar to what he said regarding Trayvon’s shooting, namely:
“It is absolutely imperative that we investigate every aspect of this and that everybody pulls together—federal, state and local—to figure out exactly how this tragedy happened. I think all of us have to do some soul searching to ask ourselves how does something like this happen? And that means that we examine the laws, the context for what happened, as well as the specifics of the incident.”
Will Spike Lee and the New Black Panther Party tweet Tyrone’s address and put out a bounty on the remaining pieces of crap who have yet to be arrested for killing Nancy and brutally beating Bob? Spike and his ilk are all about “justice,” correct? Or is it more about “just us”?

Z reader;  What do you think of this?

By the way.  HERE is the page that opens when I Googled the name TYRONE WOODFORK (the guy who did this crime).   Anything from the NY Times on this?  No, of course not.  But it's covered by plenty of Conservative Black and White blogs who think this is horrible and both the crime and the media and Obama hypocrisy should be addressed.
In comparison,  I Googled the name TRAYVON MARTIN and got THIS result.   Sure...NY Times, ABC.News, USATODAY, Washington Post...ALL the big ones, you know the drill.  OUTRAGE that a "White" Hispanic (remember how the NYTimes played it till they had to retract that description?) might have killed an innocent Black kid, but zip on a nice old couple like this:

-The Straits just celebrated their 65^th wedding anniversary.

-Bob served in the 101st Airborne Division in WWII.

-Bob loved woodworking, and Nancy loved quilting.

-The couple used to sit on their porch and play the guitar and sing together during the warm summer evenings.

Happy anniversary, Bob...we're so sorry you lost your beloved wife in such a brutal manner and we hope you live through your injuries.  Your family matters to most good Americans, too.  God bless you and your family, who is probably grieving at least as much as the Martins are.   Just sayin'. 

z

Could Obama help stop VIOLENCE?

Mr Obama, a half-Black, half-White American, is a big hero of Black (and a lot of White) young people.
Right now, a lot of mostly (all?) Black young people are creating and joining FLASH MOBS which are entering stores and looting, counting on the fact that the store owners aren't armed and the cops are too busy to come right away.

By the way, Wikipedia, ever the honest purveyor of information (smile), says Flash Mobs are 'entertaining', imagine?  Here's their take:
A flash mob (or flashmob)^[1] is a group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual and sometimes seemingly pointless act for a brief time, then disperse, often for the purposes of entertainment and/or satire.  (Z: maybe Wikipedia will update their entry to reflect what 'flash mobs' seem to have become)

So, we have Flash Mobs and, meanwhile, there's the fact that about 500 Black kids attacked Whites at a Wisconsin Fair.....

Here's my take:  WHERE IS MR OBAMA?   Have you heard anything about what he thinks of Black kids forming flash mobs and hurting people, or Black adults beating on Whites at Myrtle Beach, or the 500 Black kids attacking Whites in Wisconsin?  And imagine if this were White kids beating on Blacks?  IMAGINE the media?  !!   (And, imagine how many Black Americans are as horrified as we are to read this stuff?   MANY.)


I'm wondering if Obama could POSITIVELY use his Blackness and his popularity among people like this to come on television and say the following:

No, I won't tell you...You supply his script!   What might he say?  Do you think it would help?
I couldn't resist posting this image I found! :-)   That might stop looters?

geeeeeeeeeeZ
z

African American media? Do we cater to it or manage it, or should we just have an AMERICAN MEDIA?

Did you know that the White House has a DIRECTOR OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MEDIA?
Yes, and the person, Kevin Lewis, has a salary that went from $42,000 to $78,000....in ONE YEAR.  Yes, an increase of what many people make in one year.......$36,000.00. (I hope you've seen the list of increases in salaries, I'd have posted the whole thing here but it wouldn't publish clearly....it's AMAZING; that our media hasn't exposed it is equally amazing)
Funny, that position almost makes it sound as if there's some separate country called AFRICAN AMERICA, doesn't it?  Maybe that's how the White House views it?
How pathetic, how VERY racist.   You think not?  What are your thoughts?

z

A Funeral I wish you could have been to

A friend's mother died and her funeral was yesterday.  I attended.  I'm close to this friend's beautiful wife and he and she have 3 outstanding sons.  This family is black.   The funeral was amazing.

The eldest grandson got up to speak about his grandmother, who was 91 when she passed on.  He talked about how she taught him to look people in the eye when you're speaking with them. He remembers that.   He told us how he used to love to spend time at his grandparents' home and watch cartoons he couldn't watch at home.  One day, something in the cartoon mentioned pork chops and so this young man as a little boy said he found himself saying out loud "I want pork chops"....Immediately, he saw his grandmother grab her purse and coat and head out the door.   He didn't realize it, but she was going to buy him pork chops for dinner. He was very little, he added, and didn't even know what pork chops were!   This stayed with this twenty-something young man all these years....what a lesson modeling teaches us.  He learned of love and quiet giving that day.  He said that, after she died, he felt she was still there in the house she'd lived in for so many years as he put his head down on her empty pillow and thought of her.  I couldn't help but cry.   I thought of this great woman who worked tirelessly for her Baptist Church and for the NAACP and for young people to have cultural opportunities they might not have had, and knew that, even with all of that community work, it was the love and the lessons she left behind to her family which meant the most.

Her son, my friend, told how he was going to be soloing at Carnegie Hall the next night and he called his mother to see how she was feeling.  He was a grown man filled with fear that any performer gets but didn't want her to hear it.  She asked if he was fine, and he assured her he was.  But, a mother reads between the lines, doesn't she.  She said "Honey, the Lord has laid out a big table for you....'he prepares a table before me in the presence of my enemies...'  You go eat from that table, you can't just 'eat and run'!  You remember to read that when we hang up."  He did, and he did a wonderful job the next night. 

I gazed around the church, which was about 99% full of Black Americans, and thought about how beautifully, respectfully dressed these people were.  No cut-offs and flip flops, but dark suits on that warm day, women in suits and high heels and stockings even in that heat.   Eloise had dressed like a lady and they sure weren't going to do any less for her, let me tell you.  From the pulpit, one man said he'd never called her Eloise, he's always called her Mrs.S(***) (*I don't want to put her last name here for privacy sake).  She was that kind of woman.

I thought about this blog and how often comments are filled with anger at the Black community for the crime and lousy politicians we all hear about.  You would sure never know any of that existed while you were with this crowd.  Just like you don't think of  White crime when you're at a White funeral.  The people I was surrounded with yesterday were concerned that I hadn't got a church bulletin (they'd run out by the time I got there) and shared theirs with me so I could read whatever I wanted to see on it (who was talking, what the name of a particular hymn was, etc.).  We laughed and wept at the same lines as friend after friend and family member after family member paid homage to an incredible woman. 

This was about being American and losing a great person from the community.  This had nothing to do with Black and White.  The people there were no worse and no better than any White bunch in any church.  Except, I have seen some White funerals with people not dressed with as much dignity as these people were yesterday.

This was all about INTEGRITY and RESPECT and DIGNITY. HONOR.  Those words were there with all of us as much as if they'd been plastered in large letters across the altar.  ELOISE dressed appropriately, ELOISE was kind, ELOISE gave of herself to her community and her family, ELOISE gave everything she did all she had.  And she left her stamp on all the folks at that funeral yesterday.   I thought how much I wished I could ever be like Eloise.

Eloise might have been White, but she wasn't. It makes absolutely no difference.  Black or White, she was total LADY, a woman of love and discipline and great faith.  She was a woman every child on this planet should have for a grandmother, black or white.

This is what I left thinking:  we hear a lot about the problems in the Black community and we forget to remember the problems are no different than that of the White community.  And the good stuff deserves to be said about both colors, too, about all Americans, some in each color doing their best, some in each color not doing their best.

I'll just leave you with that..........I wanted, somehow, to share this experience with you.  So, there you go. I wish you could have been with me.    I'll share one more thing, her son said she told him she was unhappy a few days before she passed away.  He asked her why.   She asked if he was okay with the fact that she was going (she'd told them all, for a year, she was eager to get to heaven and be with the Lord and with her husband who died shortly after Mr Z did, nearly 2 years ago).  Her son told her he was very okay with it.  When he had finally assured her that he knew where she was going and that he knew she'd be happier there and that he was happy for her, this lady who he said very rarely ever used this expression,  raised both her arms and said "Praise God!"    She died about two days later, when she knew her family would be okay.

Eloise, you were QUITE a woman.........we should all be like you.  Black OR White.  Color has NOTHING to do with it.

z

Jesse Jackson's Rainbow is still in the sky..........

The REVEREND Jackson is still PUSHING the RAINBOW....I wondered where it had gone.

I was clicking channels this morning and came upon a convention of Rainbow people in Chicago.  Jackson was in Wisconsin "caring about the disenfranchized", according to the speakers.

A certain Janice Mathis's speech was what I listened to from start to finish.  What intrigued me the most was that she sounded like a Civil Rights speaker before we Republicans finally passed the Civil Rights Law.

She began by saying the Pledge of Allegiance.."Good start," I thought.........until she pulled it apart.  That was after mentioning how, in her State of Georgia, "people on probation and parole can't vote...if they could, we'd have quite different election results."      Yes, she said that.  If people who were criminals could vote, I'm guessing we would have much different results....would they be good for the country or only good for PUSHERS? (you can take that both ways, come to think of it)

She went on to say we should never pledge allegiance to a country who now says kids need a 3.7 to get into college (which isn't true, of course, but it helped her speech)...She said they "jacked up that number so average kids couldn't get into college and only rich kids could".    She also said the SAT scores in Georgia are low and the nation set that number higher than their average of 1200 so Blacks can't go to college.  Yes, she did say that.

Oh, and did you know that the Tea Partiers are asking for cuts in education so our kids will suffer?
There was absolutely no mention anywhere in her 15 minute speech about self responsibility, positive parental influence and encouragement, nothing.  Never mind that children who went to school in prairie schools were better educated than most of our kids today with millions of dollars thrown at computers, teachers, etc etc......
By the way, she also said the Tea Party movement means "freedom from Black people"...yes, she did.

She went on that "one nation" is a joke because Detroit and Chicago and New York are 'among the most segregated cities in 2011'.........she added Los Angeles, too, but L.A. is so segregated that's just a bald faced LIE.

"Under God", she went on to add, is all wrong now because "we have surrendered our preachers to teachers who don't believe in SOCIAL JUSTICE"   How I wish that were true.  Sadly, more and more, our churches are moving from Scripture and into Socialism, but she doesn't see it..............lost in her hate and agenda.  

Did you know Georgia can take homes away without a hearing?   "without a hearing?"  Well, whatever that hearing is, apparently, that's not so in Illinois, and she's upset about that and "still working to change things in Georgia.".  I sat there wondering how hearings would help when a person bought a house he/she couldn't afford and now is losing it ...is this about dishonest judges she hopes will shove the banks down and baby the people who bought knowing they couldn't afford their house, buying the Daniel Mudd LIE?   She said    "Some in D.C. want to close down Fannie and Freddie, AS IF HOMEOWNERS CREATED THE HOUSING CRISIS!"  (is this woman CONSCIOUS?...she was no dummy, but...)


Then she closed with how "those who want to bust the unions do it because the union dues support Jackson and Obama.".......and how we all need to stop buying lottery tickets because "it only helps educate the RICH."


So, the reason this country isn't healing is become more easily recognized, isn't it?   No personal responsibility mentioned ONCE, no "keep your kids in school and work with them" ,  no "only buy a house when you can afford it, not owning a house is not a blemish on one's character, anyway!"...........

Her speech saddened me.   That's one angry lady who somehow got a degree in Law, even with no money in her earlier schools and as hard as whites are trying to stop the education of blacks (AS IF)!!  It must have been a MIRACLE :-)

By the way, don't you still kind of wonder where Jesse Jackson was during the Obama campaign?    Always struck me odd he was NOWHERE.   I wish Black America would understand that there are very few racists left, that racism works both ways, that the only segregation I've seen in schools here in L.A., for example, are self segregation (See Larry Elder's info on this) by the Black kids, and LIVE YOUR LIVES AS AMERICANS!  We'd all like that!  You're one of us, you're more American than my family is because most of you've been here way longer than my people have!    If Cops are arresting innocent Blacks, that has to stop, there are still apparent injustices but this constant drumbeat of victimhood is helping NO ONE.

geeeez

Black America and the 3/5 Compromise

I watched the Rev Al Sharpton debate Rick Santorum on a point of race on FOX Monday night.   Actually, the debate shouldn't have been about race but Sharpton was trying to take it there, maybe some of you saw it.   The 3/5 Compromise was brought up and it was clear that, if I understand it correctly, Sharpton hangs on to an old and ugly misrepresentation of it that's taught in our schools today and not the understanding I have of it. 

PLEASE, could we discuss that Compromise, what it meant to the North and the South but, especially, if it was a terrible insult or a protection of Black Americans of the day?    I'd really like to hear your take on it, your understanding of how it worked....the truth.  I've done some research and it's still not crystal clear.  Maybe it's a bit of  both Sharpton's take and my take, I'm eager to hear your thoughts.

Thanks very much.z

Racism in America.......from a Black Conservative friend

Do yourself a favor and read our friend NAMASTE'S POST HERE.  It's about racism and her feelings about it and a lot more.........I promise you won't be disappointed.  She's pure and true and honest.......
I'm proud to highlight it.    Please let me know what you think here or at her site...I'd say "let US know what you think" but Maria doesn't care, I like that :-).......thanks.

geeeez

Al Sharpton's "dream"

"OUR (z: that'd be black) KIDS" "OUR (z; that'd be black) people" "OUR (z; that'd be black) DREAM" was said throughout his speech today in DC to a Black crowd. Division to the Nth degree...

On the other hand, "UNITY" was the song a beautiful Black singer sang at the Glenn Beck Rally...the lyrics included words like "we're all part of God's world....." All Beck did most of the 3 hours was talk about how we must come together, to remind us that we are all 'created equal', we have to love our neighbors.......
Which is the 'side' that really wants to put aside differences? Ya, I think so, too. That's my kind of dream. I think it was Dr. King's, too.

z

Glenn Beck's Saturday

Just how much can the media distort, lie and misrepresent Glenn Beck? THIS MUCH.
Apparently, he's a 'racist', did YOU know that? Ya, the guy who spent weeks showing how much our BLACK FOUNDING FATHERS did for America, celebrating their contributions to our country, etc. , is a racist. Yes, the guy who so many Conservative Black leaders (like Dr. Martin Luther King's niece) are holding up is (shhhh) ...racist.

He's also a 'self-promoter', did you know THAT? Yup...because he's trying to do something for this country that the left doesn't understand, the leftwing media seems to think he's duped all of us jerks who apparently MUST have no education and no common sense and no ability to see through people (yes, I'm being sarcastic, of course), and....(shhh!) we're all being taken to the cleaners by this guy.

Well, please watch Saturday morning on CSPAN......and pray for his safety as it appears he's been threatened:

"Malik Zulu Shabazz: (from the link):I am aware of it, and that Glenn Beck should not be allowed to have this rally. Glenn Beck is a sneaky little devil, and he does sneaky things, and tries to portray that he’s really not the neo-racist that he really is. And for him to go and to secure the Lincoln Memorial on Dr. King’s birthday will meet not only opposition from civil rights leaders, but it’s going to meet direct opposition from the New Black Panther Party."

Pray for the safety of Glenn Beck, for all those who attend, and for the safety of all those buses coming from across the country, etc. He's trying to restore HONOR in America....you DO remember when we had honor, don't you, the media made that a thing of the past when they gave up "who, what, when, where, and why?" and turned to "because that's how we want you to think it is." It might take some doing to bring honor back to any arena of American life, not just journalism. Pray hard.
Apparently, if you don't agree with the leftwing of this country, you deserve insult (the whole article, linked in the top lines, is QUITE an eye opener and I encourage you to read it)and possible physical harm. And people insult Beck for wanting AMERICA BACK? wow.

Now, please watch THIS VIDEO at Mustang's blog......it's fabulous and will cheer you up, I promise!
z

"She's black, and she feels this way?" And WHY NOT?

I am proud to post this: You can skip all her credentials and start reading at FELLOW AMERICANS ........
The amazing and timely piece down below was written upon the election of Barack Hussein Obama, by a woman named Dr ANNE WORTHAM. Here are her credentials: She is a member of the American Sociological Association and the American Philosophical Association. She has been a John M. Olin Foundation Faculty Fellow, and honored as a Distinguished Alumni of the Year by the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education.
In fall 1988 she was one of a select group of intellectuals who were featured in Bill Moyer's
television series, "A World of Ideas." (Z: wait, MOYERS had someone like THIS on?!) The transcript of her conversation with Moyers has been published in his book, A World of Ideas. (Z: Oh$)
Dr. Wortham is the author of "The Other Side of Racism: A Philosophical Study of Black Race Consciousness" which analyzes how race consciousness is transformed into
political strategies and policy issues.
She has published numerous articles on the implications of individual rights for civil rights
policy, and is currently writing a book on theories of social and cultural marginality.
Recently, she has published articles on the significance of multiculturalism and Afrocentricism in education, the politics of victimization and the social and political impact of political correctness.
Shortly after an interview in 2004, she was awarded tenure. (Z: All that to say "this woman is NO DUMMY!") Wait till you read this:

Fellow Americans,
Please know: I am Black; I grew up in the segregated South. I did not vote for Barack Obama; I wrote in Ron Paul's name as my choice for president. Most importantly, I am not race conscious. I do not require a Black president to know that I am a person of worth, and that life is worth living. I do not require a Black president to love the ideal of America (Z: I do) .
I cannot join you in your celebration. I feel no elation. There is no smile on my face. I am not jumping with joy. There are no tears of triumph in my eyes. For such emotions and behavior to come from me, I would have to deny all that I know about the requirements of human flourishing and survival - all that I know about the history of the United States of America, all that I know about American race relations, and all that I know about Barack Obama as a politician. I would have to deny the nature of the "change" that Obama asserts has come to America .

Most importantly, I would have to abnegate (Z: "renounce"..who knew?!) my certain understanding that you have chosen to sprint down the road to serfdom that we have been on for over a century. I would have to pretend that individual liberty has no value for the success of a human life. I would have to evade your rejection of the slender reed of capitalism on which your success and mine depend. I would have to think it somehow rational that 94 percent of the 12 million Blacks in this country voted for a man because he looks like them (that Blacks are permitted to play the race card), and that they were joined by self-declared "progressive" whites who voted for him because he doesn't look like them. (Z: oh, gad, she's good)

I would have to wipe my mind clean of all that I know about the kind of people who have advised and taught Barack Obama and will fill posts in his administration - political intellectuals like my former colleagues at the Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.

I would have to believe that "fairness" is equivalent of justice. I would have to believe that a man who asks me to "go forward in a new spirit of service, in a new service of sacrifice" is speaking in my interest. I would have to accept the premise of a man that economic prosperity comes from the "bottom up," and who arrogantly believes that he can will it into existence by the use of government force. I would have to admire a man who thinks the standard of living of the masses can be improved by destroying the most productive and the generators of wealth.

Finally, Americans, I would have to erase from my consciousness the scene of 125,000 screaming, crying, cheering people in Grant Park, Chicago irrationally chanting "Yes we can!"
Finally, I would have to wipe all memory of all the times I have heard politicians, pundits, journalists, editorialists, bloggers and intellectuals declare that capitalism is dead - and
no one, including especially Alan Greenspan, objected to their assumption that the particular version of the anti-capitalistic mentality that they want to replace with their own version of anti-capitalism is anything remotely equivalent to capitalism.

So you have made history, Americans. You and your children have elected a Black man to the office of the president of the United States , the wounded giant of the world. The battle between John Wayne and Jane Fonda is over - and Fonda won. Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern must be very happy men. Jimmy Carter, too. And the Kennedys have at last gotten their Kennedy look-a-like. The self-righteous welfare statists in the suburbs can feel warm moments of satisfaction for having elected a Black person.

So, toast yourselves: 60s countercultural radicals, 80s yuppies and 90s bourgeois
bohemians. Toast yourselves, Black America . Shout your glee Harvard, Princeton , Yale, Duke, Stanford, and Berkeley. You have elected not an individual who is qualified to be president, but a Black man who, like the pragmatist Franklin Roosevelt, promises to - Do Something! You now have someone who has picked up the baton of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society. But you have also foolishly traded your freedom and mine - what little there is left - for the chance to feel good. There is nothing in me that can share your happy obliviousness. God Help us all.

Z: And, of course, nothing that's happened since she wrote this has done anything to change her opinion, I'm sure; if anything, it's been cemented. Isn't she good? And doesn't she represent more Black Americans than you might think? I believe so. I sure hope so.
z

A Letter from Camp.....Do YOU think even "tough kids" can change? .Sunday Faith Blog ...

MOST of my my Sunday Faith Blogs "write themselves." Nothing had come to me as of this morning, but I knew it would, and it sure did, in the form of the following email (in italics) which arrived Saturday afternoon, on the heels of my Walter Williams post down below about racism. (names have been changed at the request of my friend who emailed this):
Dear Friends, Thank you for your prayers for our kids at camp. The leaders could tell that people were praying for them! I wanted to get you some details on what kind of responses we had from the kids. One of our teen moms, Vanessa (z: who is black), was brought to our Youth teen mom group by a teacher at Venice High who was very concerned about her being depressed. She was living with her "baby daddy's" parents at the time. They speak only Spanish and she speaks only English. Her leader, (Emma), said that she rarely laughed and was very withdrawn, but Vanessa was completely transformed at camp. She laughed more than she had for the whole 6 months she has been part of the group!! She tried every activity, even the scary ones like the ropes course and the climbing wall. She told Emma that she had never heard the Message before. She said she went from being "confused" about God to "curious". It was her birthday a few days ago and Emma brought her a Bible and she will continue to help her to understand what she heard.
The middle school kids all loved being at camp. They were definitely not all "easy" kids for sure! They come from backgrounds of dysfunction and poverty. Some of the boys were going around "bullying" other kids. Chris (z: who is black), one of our leaders, had to put 4 of them in the van and start to take them home. These hard core type guys (z: from the inner city) began crying and said that they REALLY wanted to be at camp and after that they were better behaved. They had a blast and got into every activity. Several told their leaders that they would like a "face to face" relationship with Christ. Their leaders are starting a new bible study for them this Tuesday, so continued prayers would be wonderful. Here is what one of their guy leaders wrote about their time together at camp:
"Stinky, sweat stained and tired, the 11 of us walked up a nasty hill after a fun mountain bike ride. After a while, I felt something tug the water bottle out of my hand, and thinking it was one of the boys trying to be funny, I turned around quickly to see our smallest guy holding a pile of water bottles as big as his chest. Without any prodding or anything, he had volunteered to carry our entire group's water bottles up the hill just because he felt like it. Little windows into how our savior works, and how he moves within us. Our week together was a fun one...we rock climbed, skate parked, pool basketballed and slap-boxed our way through six days together, and we all got to hear a great telling of the Gospel story at the same time. We sat in our cabins and talked about the resurrected Christ, and then we went out and played on the slip and slide for hours. The boys we had got to hear some truth about a God who loves them and cares for them, some of them for the very first time, and then they got to go out and spend a week just being kids. And as the other leaders and I got to just be kids with them, I'm pretty sure we smiled just as much as they did."
Middle school kids are figuring out which direction their lives will head and I know that God has planted a seed in these kids that will help them to choose the right path. Thanks for your prayers! Speaking of middle school kids, I had a wonderful meeting with a teacher at the Middle School in Watts. She wants to start a Youth group weekly club for the kids there. She told me that several of the Christian teachers meet weekly to pray over the school as it has many problems with gangs, guns, low achievement, etc. But in the midst of all trouble there are some pretty terrific kids as well. We just need some more volunteer mentors to work with them in order to start the club. Could I impose on your prayer muscles once again to be used on kids' behalf for this school? Again, thank you for prayers! I know the Lord heard and honored them. Signed....(Z's Friend)

Z: I highlighted in red the part that brought tears to my eyes. These kids were acting up, angry, trying to do what they could do to shake things up until they were threatened with this joyful time being yanked from them and going back to what they know; then they CRIED to stay. These "hard core type guys" CRIED! And then they did so much better! Kids do WHAT THEY KNOW. These kids knew to MAKE TROUBLE, maybe even to react with belligerence when faced with true goodness? But, now they KNOW DIFFERENT! How many kids even KNOW the difference anymore?

This, to me, showed that children CAN do better if given love, hope, and encouragement....I believe God had a big part in this, too, and you can see that my friend does, too. I hope this encourages you to help a child, to think the best of them and let them know it, believe in them, let them live up to their potential. Please, God, let all children feel this, help us give them a chance no matter what color or creed. Amen.

Have a beautiful Sunday.....help a child, especially a really tough one. Every life is precious.
z

Racism or Stupidity? ...

HERE is an article, by excellent black columnist Walter E. Williams. I thought it was good for a discussion:

A black or white person, now dead, who lived during the civil rights struggles of the 1930s, '40s or '50s, might very well be appalled and disgusted by black behavior accepted today. Yesteryear, it was the Klan or White Citizens Council who showed up at polling places to intimidate black voters. During the 2008 elections, it was the New Black Panthers who showed up at a Philadelphia polling place to intimidate white voters and tell them, "You are about to be ruled by the black man, cracker." What's worse is the U.S. Department of Justice has decided to not to prosecute.

Black intimidation of voters, to my knowledge, is rare, but black intimidation of Asians is not. Recent reports out of Philadelphia and San Francisco tell of black students beating up Asian students. The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, in the wake of serious black-on-Asian violence at South Philadelphia High School, charged the district with "deliberate indifference" to the harassment of Asian students and with "intentional disregard" for their welfare.

The violence is not restricted to Asian youngsters. Asian adults are included, such as the recent bludgeoning to death of an 83-year-old Chinese man in San Francisco and the pushing of a 57-year-old Asian lady onto Muni subway tracks.

A white Charleston, S.C. teacher frequently complained of black students calling her: white b——, white m——-f——-, white c—- and white ho. Most people would judge that to be racism and demand it to end. Charleston school officials told the teacher this racially charged profanity was simply part of the students' culture, and if she couldn't handle it, she was in the wrong school. The teacher brought a harassment suit and the school district settled out of court for $200,000.

What about black youngsters who hit the books and study after school instead of hitting the streets? Sometimes they are ridiculed as being incog-negro or acting white and the ridicule is often accompanied with life-threatening physical violence.

Many blacks, particularly black males, have arrived at the devastating conclusion that academic excellence is a betrayal of their black identity.

The pathology seen among a large segment of the black population is not likely to change because it's not seen for what it is. It has little to do with slavery, poverty and racial discrimination. Let's look at it. Today's black illegitimacy rate is about 70 percent. When I was a youngster, during the 1940s, illegitimacy was around 15 percent. In the same period, about 80 percent of black children were born inside marriage. In fact, historian Herbert Gutman, in "Persistent Myths about the Afro-American Family" in the Journal of Interdisciplinary History (Autumn 1975), reports the percentage of black two-parent families, depending on the city, ranged 75 to 90 percent. Today, only 35 percent of black children are raised in two-parent households. The importance of these and other statistics showing greater stability and less pathology among blacks in earlier periods is that they put a lie to today's excuses. Namely, at a time when blacks were closer to slavery, faced far more discrimination, more poverty and had fewer opportunities, there was not the kind of chaos, violence, family breakdown and black racism that we see today. (Z: I think this is such an important point..)

Intellectuals and political hustlers who blame the plight of so many blacks on poverty, discrimination and the "legacy of slavery" are complicit in the socioeconomic and moral decay. But as Booker T. Washington suggested, "There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs." (Z: Guess who)

Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University. To find out more about Walter E. Williams and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.

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Is THIS racism??

Not much needs to be added to that............MILLIONS more Americans feel like this crowd does, but you'll have to see it on Conservative blogs. As usual. (Send money to Allen West)
Also, from Lloyd Marcus: "The mainstream liberal media has been relentlessly badgering the Tea Party movement with accusations of racism. Because I am a black tea party patriot, I am bombarded with interviewers asking me the same veiled question. "Why are you siding with these white racists against America 's first African American president?" I defend my fellow patriots who are white stating, "These patriots do not give a hoot about Obama's skin color. They simply love their country and oppose his radical agenda. Obama's race is not an issue." Amen
(thanks, Impertinent...Z)

"Not the whiteman's b**** "

From my commenter, Major, we learn that, in Madison, Wisconsin, a "legislative candidate from Wisconsin can't use a profane, racially charged phrase to describe herself on the ballot, an election oversight board decided Wednesday. Ieshuh Griffin, an independent running for a downtown Milwaukee seat in the state Assembly, wants to use the phrase, "NOT the 'whiteman's b----.'"" HERE is the link to the full article from which I pulled the italicized quotes below:

Griffin, who is black, argued her case to the five white, retired judges on the board that regulates elections. She said the phrase was protected free speech.

"It's a freedom of expression," she said. "It's not racial. It's not a slur."

Board member Thomas Cane, a retired state appeals court judge, said he didn't find the wording to be "particularly offensive."

Fellow board member Thomas Barland, who spent 33 years as a circuit court judge in Eau Claire, agreed.

"She says a lot in five words," he said. "It wasn't pornographic, it wasn't obscene and I didn't interpret it as racial." Who wouldn't find "whiteman's bitch" racial?

Roxanne Dunlap, a white woman from Sussex, felt compelled to speak up in the middle of the meeting, saying she was offended by the statement. She said if a white candidate wanted to have the statement "not the black man's b----" put on the ballot, it would be soundly rejected.

YATHINK? :-) The vote was 3 to 1 in her favor but one judge wasn't there and she needed 4 to succeed. Is this REALLY how bad things have become in decency and civility in America? Apparently so. She's an "Independent", by the way.

(Thanks, Major...Z)

NAACP RACISM revealed by BREITBART..and an update

PLEASE see the video at Mustang's blog...Andrew Breitbart exposed this story and we all need to support him and his blog(s). HERE is his other one (By the way, read Wikipedia on him, it's so biased you should read it when you're in a bad mood, it'll make you laugh out loud. I know him a little and know a lot about him and I think he's one of the nicest guys around, but they don't! Well, he is a Conservative, after all, who left liberal ranks, so he's a traitor).
Andrew is up against a HUGE media conglomerate which won't present to the country the truth he's finding (matter of fact, they're still turning away Gigi Gaston's documentary WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED, about the 2008 TX primary where Obama people were telling little old ladies outside polls "If you're not voting for Obama, GO HOME"(and worse).) You'd think the American media would want to tell all of America about that, WOULDN'T you?
If the NAACP was a group made of mostly conservative white people and ANYBODY spoke like the woman speaks in the video at Mustang's, do you think the media would ignore it?! (I know, stop laughing!!)

See the NAACP video and see that laughed-over and applauded, blatant, hateful racism and learn some truth. It's good for all of us. Poor America.
UPDATE: The woman's resignation for having been so racist has been accepted as of this evening.
z

IS it a "mental disorder?" :-)

I wouldn't call them RACIST, would YOU? (well, maybe Garofalo) I'd just say they're criticizing. Sort of like what the HUGE majority of Tea Partiers do, huh? Ya.

z