With President Obama’s Birth Certificate, Klansman Trump Reminds Blacks They Will Never Be American

from Baratunde Thurston, over at Jack and Jill Politics:

The Police, Gates And Black In America

You've heard of getting pulled over for a DWB? Driving While Black? Well, the Henry Louis Gates, Jr. saga in Cambridge, Mass. gives us arrested Entering Own Home While Black.

The Story
To recount, if you have not heard, eminent Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. was arrested after returning home from an overseas trip. A neighbor reported seeing two suspicious black males breaking into a home. As it turns out his door was wedged shut so there was a bit of struggle. Unable to open the front door, Gates went around back and opened the door from the inside. Mind you, Professor Gates uses a cane to walk.

When the police arrived, Gates was asked for ID, which he provided. Still, Gates was arrested. Why? Apparently, Gates was "tumultuous." What the hell?

Analysis
To many African Americans, this is a case of an arrest of an upstanding black male for not being appropriately deferential to the police. It is a long-running (never ending, really) story that defines the fabric of America. Blacks believe, and stories like this validate, the belief held by blacks that it doesn't matter how hard you work, how smart you are, how clean your record is, if you're black, it doesn't matter. If they want to lock you up, they can.

The McCain Campaign on White Voters

An Open Letter to White Voters, or What McCain Really Thinks of You

from the Racialicious blog

Dear white voter,

Sorry, was that too direct? Sarah Palin loves calling you “Joe Six Pack” and “hockey mom.” Perhaps I too, should use one of 68 possible euphemisms to refer to you instead.

I want to ask you a simple question: Which candidate — McCain or Obama — do you think has a higher opinion of your character?

John McCain has spent the last couple of weeks asking ominously: “Who is the real Barack Obama?”

Sarah Palin hasn’t hesitated to supply an answer to this question. She declared at a Florida rally on Monday that Barack Obama “is not a man who sees America the way you and I see America. I’m afraid this is someone who sees America as imperfect enough to work with a former domestic terrorist who had targeted his own country.”

And as CNN’s Campbell Brown pointed out in her commentary Wednesday night, McCain surrogates have made a point of calling the Democratic candidate “Barack Hussein Obama” at least twice this week.

The McCain campaign is doing its best to paint Obama as a shadowy Manchurian candidate who is un-American, unpatriotic, dangerous, sympathetic to terrorists, and possibly even a secret Muslim (needless to say, that’s a bad thing in their eyes).

That much is obvious.

But what does their strategy say about what they think of you, the white voter?

Judging from their messaging, they seem to be stereotyping white voters as closed-minded, paranoid, naive, xenophobic, and just a tad bit racist.

Full article at Racialicious

Black Reporter Escorted Out of McCain Event

Oh.... but there is no race problem with the McCain camp. In fact, the Republican Party has no problem with race at all.... look, they have Michael Steele, Uncle Clarence, Ken Blackwell...and their Black outreach program has been a huge succe...... Oh wait. Nevermind. But you get the point. The Republicans and John McCain have nothing to be concerned about, and they definitely don't play any race cards.

Tell that to Stephen Price, a Sr. reporter with the Tallahassee Democrat, who was removed from a McCain event in Panama City Florida last week. The McCain camp initially claimed that they did nothing wrong and that it was Mr. Price who screwed up. He was in the "wrong place" (with a group of White reporters with the same Press credentials). But now the McCain folks have flip flopped on that and they are going into damage control mode. Now all of a sudden they are sorry. Their "we're sorry" seems so calculated it makes me sick. They know damn well that if bloggers had not picked up on this, they wouldn't be apologizing. Their initial reaction said it all.

Stephen Price Interviewed By Keith Olbermann


And Race isn't the only problem with McCain & Co., they have a gender problem too. Have you heard about McCain's appearance at the Sturgis Biker Fest? He apparently offered to have his wife take part in one of the stripper contests. Interesting! That's after calling his wife the C-word.

Now that's good old Republican family values for you. But the mainstream media will give him a pass. If Obama had said anything remotely close to this ..... the media would be on his case from now to November (and probably until the grave). The media double standard is unbelievable.

The East St. Louis Riots of 1917

Hear an interview with author Harper Barnes about his latest book, Never Been A Time, chronicalling the 1917 East St. Louis race riots.

Barack & Michelle Obama - AA Run Amok and Ingrate?

Found this one from Michelle Obama Watch:

From Townhall.com:

Obama: Guilty By Association
By Burt Prelutsky
Monday, June 23, 2008

I mean, it’s always nice to be reminded that America is the place where anyone is free to achieve his dreams, although perhaps not quite yet her dreams. But when it comes to being president of the United States, the commander-in-chief of the best and the most powerful nation on earth, I don’t think we should be getting quite this excited. To me, Barack Obama seems like nothing more than the end result of affirmative action run amok. ...............................................

Ok.....a man who was President of the Harvard Law Review...Graduated Magna Cum Laude...

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION RUN AMOK.

Uh huh.

Has any other Harvard Law Review President been labeled ' Affirmative Action Run Amok'?

Has any other United States Senator been labeled ' Affirmative Action Run Amok'?

Has any other Presidential Nominee been labeled 'Affirmative Action Run Amok'?

But, the BLACK MAN...

With TWO Ivy League Degrees...

Who began from NOTHING and won his Senate seat in a crowded field....

Then began from NOTHING, and built a political machine that toppled THE Democratic Party Dynasty of the past 20 years.....

IS AFFIRMATIVE ACTION RUN AMOK.

Damn.

Oh, but it gets better:

........The first screwball we found out about was Reverend Jeremiah Wright, the gutter mouth whose swinish sermons Obama lapped up for a thousand Sundays. Then there was Bill Ayers, the mad bomber who should have wound up sharing a cell with Ted Kaczynski, but instead was apparently offered the option of becoming a professor. And let us not forget Tony Rezko, who was recently found guilty by a Chicago jury of just about everything except kidnapping the Lindbergh baby. It’s still up in the air whether he’ll be offered the same deal as Bill Ayers, but there’s no getting around the fact that “Professor Rezko” has a nice ring to it.

It probably isn’t cricket to include Michelle Obama in this dirty laundry list of Barack’s associates, and yet it’s hard to simply overlook the fact that he chose to marry this nasty, bitter, openly racist ingrate..................

Let's dispense with some facts.
Jeremiah Wright is Jeremiah Wright. IF he had been preaching ' God Damn America' all the time, there would have been more of it on Youtube. That these clowns are still playing the same ones, over and over proves that he didn't. And, even if he had said it every Sunday that Obama was there, he had the right to do it as a preacher, and nothing he said was factually wrong.

Ayers. Ayers is a respected member of the Chicago community. He knows everyone, including DA MAYOR, who stuck up for him. We all know that if his name was LeRoy and had done what Ayers did, he'd STILL be in jail, but it's not, and he's not, and he was allowed to ' rehabilitate' himself. Obama was in grammar school when Ayers committed his crimes, and if the rest of the muckety muck of Chicago are willing to appoint him to Boards, then who cares?

Rezko..Rezko..Rezko...the Right keeps on dreaming. They had the trial. There is NO smoking gun between Rezko and Obama. WHY? Because Obama wasn't important enough in Illinois Politics for Rezko to become deeply involved with him. Our current Governor? Yes. Rezko's sending him to jail. People in the House and Senate LEADERSHIP - in BOTH parties? Yes...they shouldn't be sleeping well at night. Obama was down on the totem pole, and the Right is blowing smoke up their asses dreaming that Rezko holds some smoking gun for them. Not happening people.

Barack Obama might not be the Magic Negro, but he's a Smart Negro. Smart enough to know what he had to do in order to get this far. Got hints for you on the Right: read David Brooks and Andrew Sullivan from last week. I don't agree with everything they said about Obama, but they're smart enough to respect his skills.

And, let me just tell you this bluntly:

For a BLACK MAN to have gotten THIS far in the process, IN AMERICA?

Affirmative-Action-My-Black-Ass.

He's smarter than YOU. Everyone you know. And your Mama.

But then, I think you know that. And, it pisses you off.

So, now, we get to Michelle.

Well, they finally came out and said it.

INGRATE.

Well, good.

They finally said it.

They’ve been beating around the bush with it for awhile now.

They’re mad because she isn’t a ‘GRATEFUL DARKIE’.

Come on, now.

You know that’s what they call her. That's what they all 'Us'.

You know ' Us'.

Us 'Uppity' ones.

They don’t understand.

After all, she was GIVEN her education.

She was GIVEN her career.

She couldn’t POSSIBLY have EARNED it.

And, after all White folks have done for her - giving her the chance to get into hock up to her eyeballs to go to at least ONE hostile educational institution…

HOW.DARE.SHE.

How DARE she actually think for herself.

HOW dare she not buckdance for them like their own little ‘ Grateful Darkies’ like Shelby Steele, Thomas Sowell and Clarence Thomas.

HOW.DARE.SHE.

I was asked elsewhere WHY I didn't give the author the benefit of the doubt, as to the interpretation of the remarks. You know, MAYBE, if I hadn’t of read too many stories like this about Michelle Obama, he’d get the benefit of the doubt. But, it’s always there - that subtext…

Who do these ungrateful Negroes think they are?

I know it, because I’ve lived it.

AS IF because of my education and other opportunities that I’ve had in life (due to the parents who took hell and SACRIFICED ), I’m supposed to be a ‘ Grateful Darkie’.

I mean, you live where you do, you went to school where you did, ‘ what could you possibly be ANGRY about rikyrah?’

Um, maybe because I can read above an 8th grade level and understand the White Supremacist Underpinnings of this country. And how my ancestors literally BUILT America with FREE LABOR, and not only is it not acknowledged, but lied about.

Maybe it’s THAT.

Maybe it's because I had the opportunities that I've had and know others, who, if only THEY HAD THE CHANCE, would have done as well as me.

Been there, done that.......... heard it most of my life.

So, for all of us ' Ungrateful Darkies' out here...

Go crawl back under your racist, bottomfeeding rock.

When It Comes To Michelle Obama, Where Are The Feminists?

So asks a good op-ed by Mary C. Curtis in the Washington Post.

In her piece called ' The Loud Silence of Feminists', Curtis opens with:

Michelle Obama has become an issue in the presidential campaign even though she isn't running for anything. An educated, successful lawyer, devoted wife and caring mother has been labeled "angry" and unpatriotic and snidely referred to as Barack Obama's "baby mama."

Democrats, Republicans, independents, everyone should be offended.

And this black woman is wondering: Where are Obama's feminist defenders?

She's not the only Black woman asking this.

I'd like to know too...

feminists...

where is you at? (Mama, forgive me)

One has to wonder, as Michelle Obama is being labeled unpatriotic, bitter, mean, angry. Where are those feminists who saw sexism lurking around every corner with Hillary Clinton?

Where.are.they?

Ok, so they don't defend Michelle Obama, but can't they at least come up and point out the hypocrisy of the attacks on Michelle Obama as compared to the Pill Poppin' Piece-On-The-Side? Is it too much for them to bring THAT up?

Why is an accomplished professional, Double Ivy-League graduate, loving wife and devoted mother NOT WORTHY OF DEFENSE BY THE FEMINIST ESTALBLISHMENT?


A new blog that has become part of my daily routine is Michelle Obama Watch, a sort of Media Matters for Michelle Obama. If you have the time, take a look at the blog. The stuff being thrown out there with regards to Michelle Obama is enough to make the blood pressure rise. But, I want to thank Gina M for doing this. For cataloguing all things Michelle Obama so that there is a one stop shop, so everyone who 'poo-poos' those of us who defend Michelle Obama as being ' sensitive'-WE can see the cumulative effect of those attacks. Seeing them gathered in one place adds to the strength of those of us who DO defend Michelle Obama.

To be fair, I have seen defense of Michelle Obama somewhat in the Feminist Blogosphere, so I give credit where it's due. But, the SILENCE of all those that were yapping their flaps for Hillary just can't go unnoticed.

Curtis wrote:

The campaign against Michelle Obama -- who went on "The View" this week to prove her everywoman bona fides -- has not caused a rift between black and white women so much as it has exposed it.


I've long been frustrated, as a black woman and a feminist, with our national conversation. I didn't hear the cause speaking up for women of color or for women who have always worked in blue-collar or service jobs. Choice was not their issue.

The woman who employed my educated mother to clean her house never quite saw her as a sister in the struggle for equality.

Well, it's no secret that I'm not a fan of feminism. I don't believe that it had anything to do with Black women's lives. I believe we already had our own brand of feminism, because Black women have always worked. Our ancestors - mothers, aunts, grandmothers, elders in the church- have been balancing work, relationships and marriage, well, since forever. We failed to uphold the lessons that they tried to teach us, throwing it away for something that NEVER had our families in mind. I can't be a Black feminist if I'm being separate from the Black men in my life. Just doesn't work for me. That's part of the reason why there was no real 'conflict' for me when it came to Obama vs. Clinton. Am I Black or Woman? I'm both, but I've been in this country long enough to know:
1. Being Black is the true designation of my life
2. Being separated from the men in the community has not done us any good
3. 'Sisterhood' is a one way street; I'm a ' Sister', when Mainstream Feminism wants something from me. When they're done, then I'm kicked to the curb. I understood long ago that Miss Anne wasn't studdin' about my Black behind, and I don't think I'm alone in that realization.

I said before that I wasn't going to hold my breath waiting for Mainstream Feminists to defend Michelle Obama. This was a job that those of us who cared would have to take on our shoulders.


Their silence has been quite instructive....don't you think?