The other day we posted a piece with a former klansman telling us how he recovered from racism. today we bring you a woman who recently called into a national radio show and went "Colored" yes Colored..take into account that she's 90 years old and in Naples Fl. that's not exactly the ghetto of republica. she is however listening to a conservative radio talk show on politics.
Watch This and no this is not a dramatization - this is real
CALLER: I'm 90 years old and I just wanted to ask the colored man, why don't colored people instead of saying what we did to them, why don't they say what we did for them? They talk about the slavery but since then they have been given welfare, free medicine, free everything.
HARLESTON: Ma'am I think this is more of a conversation about the relationship between the administration and the people on Wall Street and not necessarily one that's based on race.
CALLER: Oh, okay. I'm not a racist. That was my comment. Thank you.
now of course we have a snappy retort on this little incident. you see this is the mentality of 90 year olds who vote. if you sit home in november, she and her camomile tea partiers will take over the recently in the process of being reformed government; and set us back to Colored.
Yes White and Black People we will again be dealing with this old and tired addage. just think of how easy it is to equate it with todays ills.
Listen to this bs, He is now asking to have his tattoos removed BEFORE he goes to prison. WTF is he talking about ?
Remember that this is the asswipe who wanted to ride up on President Obama in a convertible in a white tux and top hat; then open fire. He wanted to finish up his rampage by shooting at least 100 unnamed Blackfolks with multiple versions of automatic weapons, still from the convertible in a white tux and top hat. we wrote about his stupidity and it is still one of our most popular posts
Please Somebody Shut The Noise..
somebody hand me a hot pot of grits, and I promise to do the job and feed him in the process – all for the nominal fee of $3.17 cents. yes that’s just enough for the grits and some butter. I believe that grits always deserve butter; and since it supposedly is a remedy for a grit burn; we can call it a part of the fixins.
Yeah Fixins..
Lets fry some chicken while we’re at it, and call up the rest of the klan and have ourselves a good ole’ Picnic. yeah I said Picnic. we can pick their tatooed asses up from prison and take em out to a large area where we can either broast or fry and stew them down. why wait for them to die in prison ? they’re not coming out anyway so lets just make gravy, biscuits and have a colonels feast; fit for a nazi.
This is about the most ludicrous, yes Ludicrous not ludacris things I’ve ever heard. Everybody knows that this has run through many folks minds. these kids right here, these kids right here - need to be fried. and I mean in mazola canola oil, so it’s nice and healthy. then you can feed them to their folks; like cartman did on that episode of southpark where he feeds his enemy his OWN Parents in chili. yeahhh..
Huffington Reports that Daniel Cowart, who plead guilty to 8 federal charges, including a plot to assassinate President Barack Obama and over 100 black people, has requested that he be moved to a county jail in Tennessee to undergo tattoo alterations before he is sent to federal prison, reports to The Jackson Sun.
The 21-year-old has a tattoo of an iron cross on his chest, as well as a swastika tattooed on his shoulder and is worried that they will draw the unwanted attention of other inmates while he is incarcerated.
The U.S. Marshals Service has objected to Cowart’s request for the cosmetic procedure, arguing that it would set an unwelcome precedent, reports the Sun:
In their response, they said, “The Marshals Service is wary of setting a precedent whereby they are obligated to devote substantial resources to transporting and escorting inmates between facilities for the purposes of voluntary cosmetic surgery.”
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The manufactured anger driving the birthers and health care town halls is the same white rage that has divided poor white people from poor black people for all of our history.
By: Kai Wright | Posted: August 12, 2009
If ever there was a “teachable moment” about race in modern America, now is it. With the birthers and the reparations conspiracy theories and the Nazi imagery at health care meetings, someone’s gotta explain why all these white folks are wilding out. We need an articulate, impassioned race man to clarify things. But not Al Sharpton; I say pass the mic to Jim Webb.
Remember way back when Webb, a Democratic senator from Virginia and the voice of Appalachia’s neglected white yeoman, was sniffing around a veep nod? In the midst of that media moment, he hit on an idea we’d do well to dwell upon. “Black America and Scots-Irish America are like tortured siblings,” Webb patiently explained to Pat Buchanan in a May 2008 Morning Joe appearance on MSNBC. “There’s a saying in the Appalachian mountains. … ‘If you're poor and white, you’re out of sight.’”
Webb went from there into a bizarre attack on all the nonwhite and nonblack people who he believes have hijacked affirmative action. But his core message is deeply relevant to today’s tumult. Poor whites have always gotten screwed in America, Webb told us, and they’re terribly angry about it. Whoever directs that rage harnesses a powerful political tool.
Which brings us to both the profiteering right-wing media and the aimless Republican Party stuck in its tail wind. Both have decided their survival in America’s new multiracial reality depends upon a very old playbook: pursue narrow financial and political gain by exploiting the justified anxieties of working-class whites.
As a result, we all feel like we’re living through a Saturday Night Live skit. Each day brings another twisted punch line. More than half of Republicans aren’t convinced Obama’s a citizen? Huh? Fox host Glenn Beck actually attracts viewers by proclaiming Obama has “a deep-seated hatred of whites”? Health reform as Holocaust? Really?
Most commentators try to make sense of it by harking back to Nixon and the GOP’s “Southern strategy,” when it consolidated regional power by stoking reactionary fear of the civil rights movement. That’s true as far as it goes. But years earlier Martin Luther King described it more broadly. “The Southern aristocracy took the world and gave the poor white man Jim Crow,” he explained, summing up the region’s history in a sentence. “And when his wrinkled stomach cried out for the food that his empty pockets could not provide, he ate Jim Crow, a psychological bird that told him that no matter how bad off he was, at least he was a white man, better than a black man.”
The white aristocracy is still serving that gamy old bird. All that’s changed is the waiter. Gone are thugs like Bull Conner and the local elites whose power they protected. In are stooges like Beck and the corporate media elites they enrich. Rupert Murdoch may have decided that the feud between his guy Bill O’Reilly and MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann hurts News Corp.’s bottom line, but you’ll see no such restriction on demagoguery. And Rush Limbaugh brags that 2009 revenue is “through the roof.”
*A veteran civil rights organization - the Southern Poverty Law Center - last week issued a report carrying a severe warning.
We Also Saw This Headline -
and it made us wonder when the FBI would be getting the message that all the rest of America is seeing on their nightly news ? this is no joke people. this is what you can label Homegrown Extreme-ism. anotha ism and skizm to act as a buffer to reality in america.
*A swastika was found Tuesday painted on a sign outside Rep. David Scott's district office, an act the Georgia Democrat said reflects an increasingly hateful and racist debate over health care, reports the Associated Press.
Could it be that when we read these two stories we didn't read them together, and use the same scale to measure the effects on the whole of America ?
*The town hall meetings on "Obamacare" have been eventful to say the least. Outbursts and fury have been commonplace, but the news reports of unruly participants have been erroneous ... well, at least in the case of a Ms. Maxine Johnson in Missouri.
Look at 0.42 of the video and see her assaulted from across the aisle by a man who snatches her sign, and tosses it out. she is taken out and arrested - he is just taken to the lobby and returns to the event; even though he is the one who started it.
WHY ?
This guy poses a definante threat - with a GUN.
Why Is He Allowed to be so close to a crowded debate with a gun?
He is a threat to the President of the United States. this wouldn't have ever happened under Any Other President.
Do You Remember it Happening Before ?
anyone found thinking about a gun in the state would end up in a stranglehold and in jail; or a mental institution, for the rest of their lives; under the previous administrations.
Do you remember Lynette "Squeeky" Fromm who was just released from jail this week; yearssss after Reagan was dead and burried. hmmmm.... this is a sign that the times have changed - and not for the better I might add.
Please tell me why he is NOT a Threat to The People There and The President -
By AMANDA LEE MYERS and TERRY TANG (AP) – 08/17/09 7:30pm
President Obama supporters and protestors gather outside the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Monday, Aug. 17, 2009. Obama is scheduled to speak at the Veterans of Foreign Wars 110th Convention at the convention center later in the day. (AP Photo/Matt York)
PHOENIX — About a dozen people carrying guns, including one with a military-style rifle, milled among protesters outside the convention center where President Barack Obama was giving a speech Monday — the latest incident in which protesters have openly displayed firearms near the president.
Jacquline McClelland poses with a photo of her son Brandon McClelland, Friday, Oct. 24, 2008, in Paris, Texas. Brandon, a black man, was on a late-night beer run across state lines to Oklahoma with two white friends last month and ended up dead on a rural Texas road. Authorities say he was run over by a pickup and then dragged as far as 70 feet beneath the truck. Two white men have been charged with murder in the case. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
"I truly feel that race played a part in it," said the victim's mother, Jacquline McClelland. "It is a racist town, and Paris has always been a racist town."
The city is perhaps best known for its 70-foot Eiffel Tower replica topped by a giant red cowboy hat. Paris, which is 73 percent white and 22 percent black, was in the news last year after ablack girl was sentenced to up to seven years in a juvenile prison hundreds of miles from her home for shoving a teacher's aide at school, while a white girl was sentenced by the same judge to probation for burning down her parents' house.
At the town square, decorated with pumpkins and hay bales for Halloween, the mother of the black girl said Friday that she began to feel Paris was a racist town after moving there from Oklahoma.
"There's a certain amount of fear that is pressed into black people when they live in Paris," said Creola Cotton.
According to court papers, Finley and Charles Ryan Crostley, both 27, told police they left the dry town to get beer in Oklahoma, and on the way back, the three men, all apparently drunk, argued about who was sober enough to drive. McClelland, an unmarried maintenance worker, decided to walk home, taking some beer with him, the men told police.
Finley's estranged wife and one of his friends said they had been told by the two defendants that Finley began to bump McClelland with the front of his truck until McClelland fell, and Finley drove over him, according to court papers. Crostley and Finley then allegedly drove to a car wash to clean off the blood.
This is the Look of a Mother Who Has Lost a Child.. to Murder, – This is Jacqueline McClelland; the mom of Brandon McClelland who was murdered by these two snots below.
a Blackman’s life ain’t worth a Whitemans life in Paris Texas. apparently, since the two whitemen who dragged a blackman to death in 2008 were released free. Why ?
“A Black man’s life is still not worth a white man’s life in Paris, Texas,” said activist Anthony Bond. “I am 55 years old and I know racism when I see it. Paris, Texas, is eaten up with racism.”
Bond was among 300 people who protested June 8 at the courthouse in Paris after the special prosecutor suddenly dropped murder charges against two white men accused of murdering a Black youth last September.
Above we see the victim Brandon McClelland's Mom - Jacqueline McClelland, as she speaks to a rally at the courthouse. She is surrounded by members of the New Black Panther Party, Nation of Islam, Tarrant County Local Organizing Committee and the NAACP.The New Black Panther Party, the Nation of Islam and Concerned Citizens for Racial Equality organized the rally.
Brandon McClelland’s mangled body was found on Sept. 16, 2008, on a country road. Authorities estimated that it had been dragged more than 70 feet.
McClelland’s family and members of the Black community who attended the protest stressed that the dismissals were the real injustice, and another example of racial inequality in Paris, a town with a long history of violent racism.
Shannon Finley and Charles Crostley, the two white men who had been arrested for McClelland’s murder, walked out of jail on June 4 with no restrictions.
At the courthouse rally, where a monument to the Confederacy dominates the lawn, McClelland’s mother and father spoke to the crowd through tears. Jackie McClelland said the dropped charges show that the justice system treats Blacks and whites in Paris unequally.
“I said from the start they were going to sweep this under the rug,” she said. “And nine months later, that’s exactly what happened. This was a hate crime. We couldn’t even have an open casket for my son.”
“What if it was your son? Would you fight for your kid?” said Bobby McCleary, McClelland’s father. “I miss that one word my son used to say: Pops. He didn’t call me Dad. He called me Pops.”
Rock Banks, who said he was a “grand titan” in the East Texas Ku Klux Klan, angered the crowd during the rally. He held up a small patch displaying a Nazi-era Iron Cross. After a near confrontation, he was forced to leave.
Activists vowed to get the Department of Justice to take an interest in the case. They have begun writing letters to the White House and Attorney General Eric Holder. “It’s going to be a huge campaign to get the attorney general involved,” said Deric Muhammad of the Nation of Islam in Houston. “They released two killers on a maybe. They released two killers on a might be. They released two killers on an if.”
The district attorney released Finley and Crostley after defense attorneys suddenly produced a truck driver who said he may have accidentally hit McClelland. The district attorney had given the truck driver immunity for his statement.
Protesters carried signs saying, “We Want Justice,” and “Where is the Justice for Brandon?” Using a bullhorn, organizers led chants of “Black Power,” and “No Justice, No Peace.”
A national rally to protest the dragging death of McClelland is planned for July 21, the day that the murder trial had been scheduled to begin.
Paris also made national news in 2007 when an African-American student, Shaquanda Cotton, was sentenced to seven years in a Texas Youth Commission jail for pushing a teacher’s aide. Months earlier, the same judge had given a white teen probation for burning her family’s house down.
Cotton was finally freed after a national campaign on her behalf.
Paris is located in East Texas, known for its long history of racism and Ku Klux Klan activities. In 1998 another Black man, James Byrd Jr., was dragged to death in Jasper, 200 miles south of Paris.
According to the Dallas Morning News, Paris was the site of one of the country’s most notorious “spectacle” lynchings in 1893, when 10,000 people gathered to watch the torture and burning of Henry Smith, a Black man who was accused of killing the 3-year-old daughter of a white policeman.
Smith had fled to a small town near Hope, Ark., but was caught and brought back to Paris by train. Word traveled that he had been brought back and spectators came from miles around, using “special excursion trains” to travel from Dallas.
Smith was placed on top of a wagon and paraded around the town square, then taken to a prairie south of the Texas & Pacific railroad depot, where scaffolding had been built for the occasion.
Ida B. Wells cited this case in “The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States,” printed in 1895, which documented her research on and campaign against lynching.
Three decades later, in 1920, a Paris mob killed brothers Herman and Irving Arthur, Black sharecroppers, who were accused of killing their white landlords.
The brothers, who claimed self-defense, were taken from the Lamar County Jail to the fairgrounds where, according to the Dallas Morning News, they were chained to a flagpole and burned. The mob then dragged their bodies through the Black neighborhood of Paris.
New Black Panther Party organizer Sister Krystal Muhammad told Workers World the group is getting endorsers and organizing around the state for the demonstration on July 21. “We will not stop organizing until there is justice for Brandon. Racist murderers cannot be allowed to kill with impunity!”
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*A veteran civil rights organization - the Southern Poverty Law Center - last week issued a report carrying a severe warning.
*A swastika was found Tuesday painted on a sign outside Rep. David Scott's district office, an act the Georgia Democrat said reflects an increasingly hateful and racist debate over health care, reports the Associated Press.
*The town hall meetings on "Obamacare" have been eventful to say the least. Outbursts and fury have been commonplace, but the news reports of unruly participants have been erroneous ... well, at least in the case of a Ms. Maxine Johnson in Missouri.
