tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7733468636589787122024-02-18T21:58:35.306-05:00The Post-Racial BlogAsking the question, Is this a post - racial America?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger90125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773346863658978712.post-57219990706349658892011-07-27T06:22:00.000-04:002011-07-27T06:22:34.353-04:00Justice Department Probes Wells Fargo, Did Post Racial NAACP Get Kick Backs From Wells Fargo?<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"></span><br />
By African American Pundit<br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" trebuchet="">Well look at this, According to published reports, <a bagof(null));?="" event,="" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/26/wells-fargo-justice-department-probe_n_910425.html" jaqc2u_wf?,="" onmousedown="UntrustedLink.bootstrap($(this), " rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Wells Fargo </a> who happens to be the NAACP's favorite predatory lender, donor and <a href="http://andersonatlarge.typepad.com/andersonlarge/2010/04/naacp-wells-fargo-measuring-the-movement.html" target="_blank">“Lead Sponsor”</a> of the NAACP’s 101st annual convention </span><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" trebuchet="">is the Target Of Justice Department Probe. </span></span><br />
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<span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" trebuchet=""><span style="color: black;">Get this, The NAACP which appeared to get "promotional kick back money" after mysteriously dropping it's lawsuit against Wells Fargo, the nation's largest home mortgage lender, for allegedly preying upon African American borrowers during the housing bubble and steering them into high-cost subprime loans.</span></span><br />
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<span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" trebuchet="">This is not the first bad news for the NAACP's lead sponsor, Wells Fargo.</span><br />
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<span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" trebuchet="">As reported by Faye Anderson over at <a href="http://andersonatlarge.typepad.com/">Anderson at Large</a>, On Wednesday, the </span><a href="http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/press/enforcement/20110720a.htm" target="_blank"><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" trebuchet="">Federal Reserve Board</span></a><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" trebuchet=""> ordered Wells Fargo to pay an $85 million fine for steering borrowers with good credit into subprime loans. </span><br />
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<span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" trebuchet="">The order reads:</span><br />
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<blockquote><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" trebuchet="">The $85 million civil money penalty is the largest the Board has assessed in a consumer-protection enforcement action and is the first formal enforcement action taken by a federal bank regulatory agency to address alleged steering of borrowers into high-cost, subprime loans. </span><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" trebuchet="">[…]</span><br />
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<span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" trebuchet="">The order addresses allegations that Wells Fargo Financial sales personnel steered borrowers who were potentially eligible for prime interest rate loans into loans at higher, subprime interest rates, resulting in greater costs to borrowers. The order also addresses separate allegations that Wells Fargo Financial sales personnel falsified information about borrowers’ incomes to make it appear that the borrowers qualified for loans when they would not have qualified based on their actual incomes.</span></blockquote><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" trebuchet="">There is more... In 2007, the </span><a href="http://naacpriverside.wordpress.com/2007/07/14/today-the-naacp-filed-an-historic-lawsuit-against-mortgage-lenders-alleging-racial-discrimination/" target="_blank"><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" trebuchet="">NAACP filed a class action lawsuit</span></a><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" trebuchet=""> against 15 of the nation’s largest subprime lenders for “systematic, institutionalized racism in sub-prime home mortgage lending.” </span><br />
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<span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" trebuchet="">One of the defendants included Wells Fargo Bank & Company.</span><br />
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<span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" trebuchet="">As Faye Anderson reported in her </span><a href="http://andersonatlarge.typepad.com/andersonlarge/2010/04/naacp-wells-fargo-measuring-the-movement.html"><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" trebuchet="">blog post dated April 28, 2010</span></a><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" trebuchet="">, "The NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Jealous was an outspoken critic of Wells Fargo. So you can imagine my surprise when earlier this month, I read the </span><a href="http://www.naacp.org/news/press/2010-04-08/index.htm" target="_blank"><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" trebuchet="">NAACP dropped its lawsuit against the predatory lender</span></a><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" trebuchet="">." </span><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" trebuchet="">So what did the NAACP get? As Citizen Journalist Faye Anderson ask in the same article.</span><br />
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<span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" trebuchet="">Easy answer, that the Justice Department needs to probe. The </span><a href="http://andersonatlarge.typepad.com/andersonlarge/2010/04/naacp-wells-fargo-measuring-the-movement.html" target="_blank"><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" trebuchet="">NAACP</span></a><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" trebuchet=""> in my humble observations accepted Wells Fargo’s tainted money as a "kick-back" for dropping the lawsuit.</span><br />
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<span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" trebuchet="">AAP says: "Forget all the black celebrities that kiss the NAACP's ring in order to get an Image Award. Average black Americans who are <a href="http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/ideas/2011/07/072611.html">hurting</a> and facing depression-like <a href="http://thyblackman.com/2011/07/26/dr-boyce-watkins-racial-wealth-gap-worse-than-its-been-in-25-years/">unemployment levels</a> </span><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" trebuchet="">have questioned for years the integrity and credibility of the National office of the NAACP.</span><br />
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<span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" trebuchet="">Average black Americans have wondered for years if the NAACP represented them of the interest of big banks and corporate kickbacks. Well again, here is the smoking gun. Let's hope the <strong><a __untrusted="true" href="http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2F2011%2F07%2F26%2Fwells-fargo-justice-department-probe_n_910425.html&h=JAQC2U_WF" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3b5998;">Justice Department probe</span></a> includes </strong>the "corporate kickbacks" from Wells Fargo to the national office of the NAACP."</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773346863658978712.post-37871428391950323162011-05-01T11:59:00.000-04:002011-05-01T11:59:52.101-04:00The Root (WAPO) and The Grio (NBC) Working to Take Over Black American Politics?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Yes, I said it. And yes, I am wondering out loud, if <strong>Corporate black blogs</strong> like <span class="tl"><a class="l noline" href="http://www.theroot.com/" kobi="1" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','','1','AFQjCNGl4Nw14buq6zFCTNEPYxvYZ9JR3w','sD0ejUfIJzDjRc-jt_vj4Q','0CBoQFjAA')"><span style="color: #2200c1;">The Root</span></a></span><span style="color: maroon;"> and </span><span class="tl"><a class="l vst" href="http://www.thegrio.com/" kobi="1" onmousedown="return clk(this.href,'','','','1','Am07x6E1Zr-rZrE8BE5HUw','0CB8QFjAA')"><span style="color: #551a8b;">The Grio</span></a></span> <a href="http://blacknewsjunkie.com/stories/479584/Coporate_Black_Blogs_Control_Black_Political_Thought.html">are working to <em>control black political thought</em></a> in America? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">AAP says: "Move over grassroots black political bloggers, NBC and The Washington Post have hatched a scheme to take over black political thought over the internet. They are like ATT taking over the smaller telephone companies. They are buying co-opting as many black bloggers as possible, and <em>unfortunately it just may be working</em>." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Now the question is, on the immediate political front, whether both of these corporate media giants (WaPo and NBC) are doing nothing more than <span class="tl"><a class="l" href="http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/4679795-418/obama-to-address-al-sharpton-convention.html" kobi="1" onmousedown="return clk(this.href,'','','','1','i1_vNJ4A2YZ9ET49WPiUlg','0CBkQFjAA')"><span style="color: #2200c1;">under cover operatives</span></a></span> (just like Rev. Al Sharpton) for getting President Barack Obama elected in 2012? </span><br />
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<span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As I said in my <a href="http://africanamericanpundit.blogspot.com/2011/05/obama-black-america-black.html">earlier post</a>, It get's under my black skin, that so-called black bloggers at (white controlled) corporate black blogs like <span class="tl"><a class="l noline" href="http://www.theroot.com/" kobi="1" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','','1','AFQjCNGl4Nw14buq6zFCTNEPYxvYZ9JR3w','sD0ejUfIJzDjRc-jt_vj4Q','0CBoQFjAA')"><span style="color: #2200c1;">The Root</span></a></span>, owned by the Washington Post, and the <span class="tl"><a class="l vst" href="http://www.thegrio.com/" kobi="1" onmousedown="return clk(this.href,'','','','1','Am07x6E1Zr-rZrE8BE5HUw','0CB8QFjAA')"><span style="color: #551a8b;">The Grio</span></a></span>, owned by <a class="yschttl spt" data-bk="5107.1" dirtyhref="http://search.yahoo.com/r/_ylt=A0oG7l4UG71N8xMAyaBXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTEyNjJkdDRrBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDNQRjb2xvA2FjMgR2dGlkA0RGUjVfODk-/SIG=13147ovnb/EXP=1304260468/**http%3a//www.hustleknockin.com/hustleknockin/2009/09/another-grio-is-comin.html" href="http://www.hustleknockin.com/hustleknockin/2009/09/another-grio-is-comin.html"><span style="color: #0000de; font-size: medium;">NBC</span></a>, are nothing more than a group of organized Obama loyalist who seem to <span class="tl"><a class="l" href="http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=sub_prime_as_a_black_catastrophe" kobi="3" onmousedown="return clk(this.href,'','','','3','L7AXblRGF4qLEA3vKcP27A','0CCkQFjAC')"><span style="color: #2200c1;">never report</span></a></span> on how <span style="color: black;"><strong>blacks</strong> will <strong>lose</strong> $194 <strong>billion</strong> in wealth through 2012, or <span class="tl"><a class="l" href="http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/2010/10/housing_crisis.php" kobi="2" onmousedown="return clk(this.href,'','','','2','l6LnxAIpUR62cHB5-pVYNA','0CCMQFjAB')"><span style="color: #2200c1;">how the housing crisis continues to hits blacks the hardest</span></a></span> and how President Obama (as </span><span class="tl"><a class="l" href="http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/and-the-ordinary-people-said/2011/04/russell-simmons-letter-to-president-barack-obama-dont-forget-the-poor.html" kobi="10" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','','10','AFQjCNE4Bj4Hvop6P3fwLuPROks9A9LnTA','u7TSF2UagttMPKbxse47gA','0CFoQFjAJ')"><span style="color: #2200c1;">Russell Simmons recently pointed out in his Open Letter To President Barack Obama</span></a></span>) has all but </span><a href="http://thepinehillsnews.com/wp/2009/07/30/obama-ignores-black-unemployment/"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">ignored the plight of black America</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">I remember when I learned that <a class="yschttl spt" data-bk="5159.1" dirtyhref="http://search.yahoo.com/r/_ylt=A0oG7mP7Hr1NXkwANy9XNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTEzdmU0ZnVnBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMTgEY29sbwNhYzIEdnRpZANERlI1Xzg5/SIG=13ajn8si2/EXP=1304261467/**http%3a//socialtimes.com/nbc-news-launches-an-african-american-news-site_b49877%3fred=wn" href="http://socialtimes.com/nbc-news-launches-an-african-american-news-site_b49877?red=wn"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0000de;"><b>NBC</b> would launch a African American news site</span></span></a></span><br />
<span style="color: maroon; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">and The <a class="yschttl spt" data-bk="5052.1" dirtyhref="http://search.yahoo.com/r/_ylt=A0oG7mjGH71NYGkAtChXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTEya2FmMzYzBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMgRjb2xvA2FjMgR2dGlkA0RGUjVfODk-/SIG=12vae6dvr/EXP=1304261670/**http%3a//www.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/2008-01-28-washington-post-root_N.htm" href="http://www.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/2008-01-28-washington-post-root_N.htm"><span style="color: #0000de;"><b>Washington</b> <b>Post</b> was planning to launch '<b>The <wbr>Root</b>'</span></a>, my gut reaction was, "there they go, white corporate America moving to "<a class="yschttl spt" data-bk="5129.1" dirtyhref="http://search.yahoo.com/r/_ylt=A0oG7m56Ir1NlHEADV1XNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTEzZGIxODllBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDNDcEY29sbwNhYzIEdnRpZANERlI1Xzg5/SIG=145okrht6/EXP=1304262362/**http%3a//www.nytimes.com/2008/01/28/business/media/28post.html%3fex=1201669200%26en=8ca5d2819ff79125%26ei=5087%250A" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/28/business/media/28post.html?ex=1201669200&en=8ca5d2819ff79125&ei=5087%0A"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0000de;"><b>takeover</b></span></span></a>" black political and social opinion over the internet." </span><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">I knew that folks at the Washington Post and NBC were getting concerned that black bloggers groups like the afrospear/afrosphere were getting too organized. I also felt in my gut that white media outlets, may have even sent its own operatives into the afrospear/afrosphere group to spread discontent. </span><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As I noted previously on this blog, there was a time when a group of black bloggers called the afrospear/afrosphere began to organize and became a force in the black America. </span><span style="color: maroon; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Unfortunately, the Afrospear/Afrosphere has seemed to 'step aside' as a group, and allow corporate black blogs like the Washington Post's <a class="l noline" href="http://www.theroot.com/" kobi="1" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','','1','AFQjCNGl4Nw14buq6zFCTNEPYxvYZ9JR3w','sD0ejUfIJzDjRc-jt_vj4Q','0CBoQFjAA')"><span style="color: #2200c1;">The Root</span></a><span style="color: maroon;"> </span>(<span style="color: black;"><b>owned</b> by <b>the Washington Post</b> Company through its online subsidiary, <b>Washington</b> <b>Post</b>-Newsweek Interactive) </span>and NBC's <a class="yschttl spt" data-bk="5096.1" dirtyhref="http://search.yahoo.com/r/_ylt=A0oG7nA1Hb1NImYAsz5XNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTEzZHNicXJpBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMTUEY29sbwNhYzIEdnRpZANERlI1Xzg5/SIG=13l1s1p01/EXP=1304261013/**http%3a//weeseeyou.com/2010/06/15/where-the-fck-are-the-people-of-color-on-the-cable-news-networks/" href="http://weeseeyou.com/2010/06/15/where-the-fck-are-the-people-of-color-on-the-cable-news-networks/"><span style="color: #0000de; font-size: medium;">The Grio</span></a>, to <strong>jump in feet first</strong>, and act as though they are <strong>the voice of on-line Black America</strong>. </span><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I guess the with big bucks from <a class="yschttl spt" data-bk="5162.1" data-bns="API.YAlgo" dirtyhref="http://search.yahoo.com/r/_ylt=A0oG7kkjIr1NpnMA7MVXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTEzbDVycmc3BHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMzgEY29sbwNhYzIEdnRpZANERlI1Xzg5/SIG=1334m1ena/EXP=1304262275/**http%3a//www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/the-root-names-new-managing-editor_b13142" href="http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/the-root-names-new-managing-editor_b13142"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0000de;"><b>The Washngton Post</b></span></span></a> and NBC, (<span class="tl"><a class="l noline" href="http://www.theroot.com/" kobi="1" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','','1','AFQjCNGl4Nw14buq6zFCTNEPYxvYZ9JR3w','sD0ejUfIJzDjRc-jt_vj4Q','0CBoQFjAA')"><span style="color: #2200c1;">The Root</span></a></span> and <span class="tl"><a class="l vst" href="http://www.thegrio.com/" kobi="1" onmousedown="return clk(this.href,'','','','1','Am07x6E1Zr-rZrE8BE5HUw','0CB8QFjAA')"><span style="color: #551a8b;">The Grio</span></a></span>) have just about become campaign organizations for President Obama's 2012 Campaign. </span><span style="color: maroon; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Candidly, Both of these black corporate blogs or so-called black news outlets should be required to file with the Federal Election authorities as part of the Obama organization. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Will </span><a class="l noline" href="http://www.theroot.com/" kobi="1" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','','1','AFQjCNGl4Nw14buq6zFCTNEPYxvYZ9JR3w','sD0ejUfIJzDjRc-jt_vj4Q','0CBoQFjAA')"><span style="color: #2200c1; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The Root</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: maroon;"> and </span><span class="tl"><a class="l vst" href="http://www.thegrio.com/" kobi="1" onmousedown="return clk(this.href,'','','','1','Am07x6E1Zr-rZrE8BE5HUw','0CB8QFjAA')"><span style="color: #551a8b;">The Grio</span></a></span> become the electronic voice of Black America? I don't think so... the voice of the black blogging community continues to grow. It will take more than NBC and The Washington Post to control black political thought in this country... But they sure are trying...</span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Cross Posted on <a href="http://black%20news%20junkie.com/">Black News Junkie.com</a>, <a href="http://africanamericanpundit.blogspot.com/2011/05/root-wapo-and-grio-nbc-working-to.html">African American Pundit</a>, <a href="http://mydd.com/dna/posts/73672">MyDD</a>, <a class="GBYWESJDEB" href="http://networkedblogs.com,/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3366cc;">Networked Blogs.com,</span></a> and African American Political Opinion, <a href="http://independentbloggersalliance.blogspot.com/2011/05/root-wapo-grio-nbc-working-to-control.html">Independent Bloggers Alliance</a>, and other blogs on the internet. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Please feel free to link to, and report on this issue.</span></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773346863658978712.post-81130075300929194932011-01-23T06:22:00.001-05:002011-01-23T06:22:38.834-05:00Ben Jealous, Lumumba snookering and pimping the Scott sisters<span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" trebuchet="">I want to discuss with you two old negro Civil Rights groups that have lost their way. First SCLC. They are becoming more and more irrelevant. </span><br />
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<span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" trebuchet="">As reported by </span><a href="http://www.wctv.tv/news/headlines/Daughter_of_Martin_Luther_King_Jr_Wont_Lead_SCLC_114401924.html?ref=924"><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" trebuchet="">wctv.tv</span></a><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" trebuchet=""> for more than a year, the daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. has declined to serve as president in a group her father co-founded. </span><br />
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<span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" trebuchet="">Now Reverend Bernice King doesn't want the job at all.</span><br />
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<span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" trebuchet="">Reverend King says she's decided to abandon the Southern Christian Leadership Conference because the once proud organization has struggled to stay relevant.</span><br />
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<span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" trebuchet="">She says the group has split in two different directions and had its finances scrutinized. </span><a href="http://www.theroot.com/buzz/former-sclc-chair-indicted-fraud-grand-theft"><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" trebuchet="">The former chairman was also indicted on theft charges last week</span></a><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" trebuchet="">. .</span><br />
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<div><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" trebuchet="">The former national chairman of an Atlanta-based civil rights organization was indicted Wednesday in Ohio on 51 charges that include grand theft, forgery and tampering with government records.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
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<div><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" trebuchet="">The Rev. Raleigh Trammell, 73, was indicted by a Montgomery County grand jury in Dayton, where he lives and also headed a local chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Trammell was indicted on one count of grand theft and 25 counts each of forgery and tampering with government records. </span><a href="http://blackchristiannews.com/news/2011/01/former-chairman-of-sclc-indicted-on-theft-and-forgery-charges.html"><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" trebuchet="">Read more HERE</span></a><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" trebuchet=""> Also read more about this story at </span><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/12/AR2011011204826.html" target="_blank"><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" trebuchet="">the Washington Post</span></a></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
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<span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" trebuchet="">Martin Luther King, III says, "I think she was in an awkward position and she prays a whole lot, so I think as a result she was led to no longer want to accept the position."</span><br />
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<span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" trebuchet="">The SCLC led the movement to end segregation in public facilities and earned more rights for million of black Americans today. </span><a href="http://www.wctv.tv/news/headlines/Daughter_of_Martin_Luther_King_Jr_Wont_Lead_SCLC_114401924.html?ref=924"><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" trebuchet="">More HERE</span></a><br />
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<span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" trebuchet=""><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span class="credit"><em>Southern Christian Leadership Conference leader </em></span><span class="credit"><em>Rev. Raleigh Trammell is escorted from the <span class="caps">SCLC,</span> </em></span><span class="credit"><em>Dayton, Ohio chapter office </em></span><span class="credit"><em>by an <span class="caps">FBI </span>agent Thursday, Feb. 11, 2009. </em></span><span class="credit"><em>(AP Photo/Dayton Daily News, Jan Underwood)</em></span> <span class="credit"></span>AAP says: </span></span><a href="http://www.thegrio.com/news/ex-chair-of-civil-rights-group-indicted-in-ohio.php"><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" trebuchet="">The SCLC is no longer relevant</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" trebuchet=""> just like NAACP national office is no longer relevant. Speaking of the NAACP here is an interesting UPDATE: Word on the street is the NAACP is preparing to pimp the the Scott sisters. There is also word on the street that the national office of the NAACP may be creating conflict between the Scott sisters and the Scott sisters family. The blogosphere and </span><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" trebuchet="">blog talk raio </span><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" trebuchet="">is a buzz with Scott Sisters family members talking about the national office of the NAACP and Attorney Chokwe Lumumba are causing friction and conflict within the family.</span> </span><a href="http://www.theroot.com/views/scorched-spotlight-instant-fame?page=0,1"><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" trebuchet="">The Root's E.R. Shipp</span></a><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" trebuchet=""> may just be right when in rights in </span><a href="http://www.theroot.com/views/scorched-spotlight-instant-fame?page=0,1"><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" trebuchet="">The Root</span></a><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" trebuchet=""> about how black folks get scorched by the spotlight of instant fame. In the article he talks about how Ted "Golden Voice" Williams isn't the only person to have his 15 minutes of fame before crashing to earth. Remember the subway hero? And what will come of the Scott sisters?</span><br />
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<span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" trebuchet="">It's a must read article. Here is a bit of what is said: "I think of Wesley Autry, who threw himself atop a man who had fallen onto a New York City subway track and saved him. He was honored by President George W. Bush at the 2007 State of the Union address and by other politicians in New York. Donald Trump gave him $10,000; he was given a Jeep and sports tickets. He was all over national television. And on and on.</span><br />
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<span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" trebuchet="">But months later, when he still hoping for lucrative movie and book deals, he was passing out business cards identifying himself as "Wesley Autry Sr. -- Subway Hero." Terrie Williams says she saw him at one event carrying around some of his awards and "pulled his coat" to tell him that was not a good thing. He and an early team of managers ended up in conflict over their insistence on taking 50 percent of any income that Autry earned from the subway incident, but eventually </span><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/11/06/2007-11-06_subway_hero_wesley_autrey_settles_lawsui.html" target="_blank"><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" trebuchet="">settled out of court</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" trebuchet="">.</span> </span><br />
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<span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" trebuchet="">When it comes to prisoners -- from men and women freed as a result of DNA evidence brought to light through the efforts of </span><a href="http://www.innocenceproject.org/" target="_blank"><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" trebuchet="">the Innocence Project</span></a><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" trebuchet=""> to the </span><a href="http://www.theroot.com/views/scott-sisters-freed"><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" trebuchet="">Scott sisters</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" trebuchet=""> released from a Mississippi prison earlier this month after 16 years for a robbery that may have netted $11 -- there is often a rush of publicity and invitations to tell their stories. Then everything is expected to be normal.</span> </span><br />
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<span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" trebuchet="">The Scott sisters' story became international in part because of outrage that a condition of their release was that one donate a kidney to the other. They have relocated to Florida, where they have family, but the </span><a href="http://weallbe.blogspot.com/2011/01/root-scorched-by-spotlight-of-instant.html"><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" trebuchet="">Mississippi NAACP</span></a><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" trebuchet=""> is more or less continuing to advocate for them, according to </span><a href="http://www.naacpms.org/presidentbio.html" target="_blank"><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" trebuchet="">Derrick Johnson</span></a><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" trebuchet="">, the state conference president. It will convene a meeting in coming days to coordinate their medical and transportation needs and to identify a facility to perform tests to determine if Gladys Scott is a match for her sister, Jamie." </span><a href="http://www.theroot.com/views/scorched-spotlight-instant-fame?page=0,1"><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" trebuchet="">More HERE</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<div align="left" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.bvonmoney.com/media/2011/01/benjealous.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><img alt="" border="0" height="200" hspace="4" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.bvonmoney.com/media/2011/01/benjealous.jpg" vspace="4" width="150" /></span></a><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" trebuchet="">AAP says: As I said earlier, word on the street is the national office of the NAACP is creating </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/earl-ofari-hutchinson/barbours-release-of-scott_b_803249.html"><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" trebuchet="">a bunch of mess</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" trebuchet=""> with the Scott Sisters and their family. </span><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" trebuchet=""></span><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" trebuchet=""></span><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" trebuchet=""></span><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" trebuchet="">NAACP President Ben Jealous </span><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" trebuchet=""></span></span><a href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2011/01/naacp-scott-sisters-and-haley-barbour/"><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" trebuchet="">The NAACP</span></a><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" trebuchet=""> and Atty Chokwe Lumumba are talking it up with the Scott sisters, telling them that they too can get lucrative movie and book deals. the only problem is, the real heroes are </span><a href="http://www.baystatebanner.com/natl17-2011-01-20"><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" trebuchet="">the mother, Nancy Lockhart</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" trebuchet="">, black bloggers, blogtalkradio, black radio, blacktalkradio, and other activist. Yes, the NAACP will have the Scott sisters on the NAACP Image Awards, and probably won't ask the mother or Nancy Lockhart to attend. </span><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" trebuchet=""></span><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" trebuchet="">AAP says: lets remember folks, this is "</span></span><a href="http://blackpoliticalthought.blogspot.com/2010/07/naacp-ceo-president-ben-jealous-decries.html"><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" trebuchet="">Ben Jealous</span></a><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" trebuchet="">, he is the same guy who issued a statement decrying shirley Sherrod's so-called abhorrent statements she made during an address to members of the NAACP at a banquet, about denying a white farmer as much help as she could because of the color of his skin. Then to cover his self he said the NAACP was “snookered” into </span><a href="http://blackpoliticalthought.blogspot.com/2010/07/naacp-ceo-president-ben-jealous-decries.html"><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" trebuchet="">condemning</span></a><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" trebuchet=""> former Agriculture Department official </span><a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0710/39961.html" target="_blank"><strong><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" style="color: #004276; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" trebuchet="">Shirley Sherrod</span></strong></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" trebuchet="">. </span> <span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" trebuchet=""></span><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" trebuchet="">Now Ben jealous and Chokwe Lumumba are </span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/africanamericanpoliticalpundit/2011/01/23/naacp-pimp-scott-sisters" peppycount="102" target="_blank"><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" trebuchet="">snookering</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" trebuchet=""> the Scott Sisters."</span> <span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" trebuchet=""></span><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" trebuchet="">Unfortunately the national office of the NAACP and Atty Chokwe Lumumba are now selling the Scott sisters another Jena 6 dream, now the question is whether the Scott sisters will be passing out business cards identifying themselves as "the Scott Sisters. -- former prisoners of the Mississippi prisons, new prisoners of Chokwe Lumumba and the NAACP."</span> <span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" trebuchet="">Listen and join in the conversation on my blog talk radio show. We will discuss how the NAACP and Chokwe Lumumba are snookering and </span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/africanamericanpoliticalpundit/2011/01/23/naacp-pimp-scott-sisters" peppycount="102" target="_blank"><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" trebuchet="">pimping the Scott sisters</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" trebuchet="">. </span><span ms?,="" sans-serif;?="" trebuchet="">Tonight on Blog Talk Radio. "If you can handle the truth."</span></span> </div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773346863658978712.post-56770923425757484842011-01-02T17:07:00.000-05:002011-01-02T17:07:28.512-05:00Ben Jealous and NAACP Sleeping With The Enemy<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Well it appears that NAACP is sleeping with the enemy. You see, </span><a href="http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2010/12/haley-barbour-civil-rights-prison-release-/1"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The NAACP</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> believes, what Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour believes, that government should control our bodies and can do what it likes with them after it declares us to be a criminal." As Desiree Washington also noted, "This action of making organ donation compulsory if one wants a fair prison sentence transforms an act of altruism into state oppression that could imitate and rival China’s lucrative forced organ harvesting market." </span><a href="http://blog.reidreport.com/2010/12/haley-barbours-kidneys-for-clemency-program/"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Read More Here</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><a href="http://africanamericanpundit.blogspot.com/2010/12/scott-sisters-nancy-lockhart-and.html">What am I talking about?</a> I'm talking about how Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour on Thursday of last week, suspended the life sentences of two black sisters who’d already served 16 years for an armed robbery that netted $11. Barbour conditioned the suspended life sentences on the promise that one sister would <a href="http://themoderatevoice.com/district-tmv/community-boulevard/gov-barbour-and-the-scott-sisters-better-justice-in-the-new-year/">donate one of her healthy kidney</a> to her sister, who is presently on dialysis paid for by the state to the tune of about $200,000 annually. And get this, the national office of the NAACP is making bizarre comments about his decision, saying, “<strong>This is a shining example of how governors should use their commutation powers</strong>.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">AAP says: There goes </span><a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=132451849"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">NAACP President Benjamin Jealous</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> again, this time he is stepping up as Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour <strong>"yes um" boss man,</strong> negro...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I agree with the Root's E.R. Shipp, "Pardoning two women serving life sentences for an $11 robbery they may not have committed is hardly a profile in courage." </span><a href="http://www.theroot.com/views/scott-sisters-freed?page=0,1"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Read More HERE</span></a><br />
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(above) <a href="http://africanamericanpundit.blogspot.com/2010/12/scott-sisters-nancy-lockhart-and.html">NAACP President</a> <a href="http://francislholland.blogspot.com/2011/01/in-case-of-scott-sisters-who-were.html">Benjamin Jealous</a> </span><a href="http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/7772894-benjamin-jealous-of-the-naacp-is-a-charlatan"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">plays in black face</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> and charlatan for Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As reported by Desiree Washington, many are saying that Barbour’s conditional pardon may be unethical and possibly illegal” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Get this, Michael Shapiro, chief of organ transplantation at Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey, told the Reuters news agency. “He is unaware of the procedures of transplantation that include making sure donors are not coerced.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I'm in agreement with so </span><a href="http://blog.reidreport.com/2010/12/haley-barbours-kidneys-for-clemency-program/"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">many</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> black bloggers, like who are raising questions about the NAACP Sleeping With The Enemy, and Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour brand of Mississippi justice. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As Earl Ofari Hutchinson noted, Jealous’s praise of Barbour as a “shining example” was stunning, given Barbour’s years of resistance in the face of a national campaign for the sisters’ release and the conditions he imposed on the two women when he finally did show mercy. Thirty-six-year-old Gladys must donate a kidney to 38-year-old Jamie, who is seriously ill. Meanwhile,</span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/16/opinion/16herbert.html"><span style="color: #3d31aa; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> four convicted killers whom Barbour earlier pardoned</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> and another whose life sentence he suspended had no conditions placed on them in return for clemency, despite the brutality of their crimes. </span><a href="http://newamericamedia.org/2010/12/why-miss-govs-sudden-show-of-mercy-for-jailed-sisters-is-no-shining-example.php"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">More HERE</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As Reid Report Editor Joy-Ann (“Joy”) Reid a political columnist for the Miami Herald and editor of The Reid Report noted; Ah, Mississippi justice. … The women, who are being housed in different parts of a prison just outside Jackson, Mississippi, say they want to go to Florida to be with their mother and children. Florida corrections officials would be in charge of making sure the kidney ransom is paid.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And while it’s a very good thing for the women to be freed, one wonders whether Barbour would have done it had he not come under fire for his ridiculous comments on race and the segregation era, and were he not likely seeking the presidency. I’d wager a guess it wouldn’t have happened. The Scott sisters’ case isn’t new. It has been a </span><a href="http://freethescottsisters.blogspot.com/2009/08/write-gov-haley-barbour.html"><span style="color: #151b54; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">cause</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> among activists for years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Here’s Barbour’s </span><a href="http://www.governorbarbour.com/news/2010/dec/12.29.10scottsistersrelease.html"><span style="color: #151b54; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">statement</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> on the release. I’m surprised he didn’t add a condition that the sisters appear in a campaign commercial for his presidential run, praising him as a fine example of Southern courtliness and good favor toward the colored people." </span><a href="http://blog.reidreport.com/2010/12/haley-barbours-kidneys-for-clemency-program/"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Read more HERE</span></a><br />
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<div class="rg_hc"></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773346863658978712.post-91931081570465052010-12-30T05:18:00.001-05:002010-12-30T05:18:43.730-05:00The Scott Sisters, Nancy Lockhart and the Politics of Freedom<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><a href="http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20101230/NEWS/12300346/Scott+sisters+to+be+freed+"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Newspapers</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">, national radio programs, bloggers and politicos are all talking about how Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour on Dec. 29 suspended the life sentences of two sisters jailed for an armed robbery that netted just $11—but the release of one sister will require her to donate a kidney to the other. As reported in </span><a href="http://www.afro.com/sections/news/national/story.htm?storyid=3653"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Afro American</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> Newspaper today, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour on Dec. 29 suspended the life sentences, saying:<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />“To date, the sisters have served 16 years of their sentences and are eligible for parole in 2014. Jamie Scott requires regular dialysis, and her sister has offered to donate one of her kidneys to her,” Barbour said in a prepared statement, according to </span><em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Hattiesburg American</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">. “The Mississippi Department of Corrections believes the sisters no longer pose a threat to society. Their incarceration is no longer necessary for public safety or rehabilitation, and Jamie Scott’s medical condition creates a substantial cost to the State of Mississippi.”</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><img alt="" border="0" height="202" src="http://www.afro.com/multimedia/photos/3653/Jamie%20and%20Gladys%20Scott.jpg" style="cursor: move; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="320" /></span></span></span></div><div class="photoCaptionWide" style="color: #9b9b9c; height: 28px; line-height: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 350px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Jamie (left) and Gladys Scott were convicted of robbery in 1993 and given double life sentences. (Courtesy Photo)</span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />According to </span><em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The American</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">, in 1993 the sisters lured two men down a road where they were robbed by three teens. The Scott sisters were convicted of robbery with a deadly weapon in the incident and each received reportedly unusual double life prison sentences. The teenagers who allegedly carried out the robbery only served two years in prison.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Barbour’s statement said that he asked the Mississippi Parole Board to review the Scott’s case, and that they supported his decision to suspend their sentences. <br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />According to the </span><em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Associated Press</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">, the sisters have received support from national groups including the NAACP. A march for them earlier this year drew hundreds of people. <br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />A release date for the sisters has not been decided, and will be set by the Mississippi Department of Corrections, according to Jackson, Miss. NBC affiliate WLBT.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">AAP says: But with all the grandstanding that is about to happen, groups like the national office of the NAACP, Al Sharpton and the rest of the slick poverty pimp hustlers need to move over, and salute one of the key people that fought the up hill battle to get these women free. A true black woman freedom fighter who deserves accolades and support from America and America's African American community, </span><a href="http://freethescottsisters.blogspot.com/2009/08/jamie-scott-nancy-lockhart-interview-on_19.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Ms. Nancy Lockhart</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">, who for years, through the strategic use of the Internet, and her <a href="http://freethescottsisters.blogspot.com/">Free the Scott Sisters Blog</a>, along with Internet BlogTalkRadio shows began a grassroots effort to free the Scott sisters. Without Nancy Lockhart who has proven to be a modern day, 21st Century, Harriet Tubman like, African American women working on the outside, the Scott sisters may not be looking at Freedom. Of course we have to include the recent color aroused political blunders by Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, as the emphasis for the his true interest in reducing the life sentences of two black American sisters jailed for an armed robbery that netted just $11. </span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Ms. Nancy Lockhart, who has worked closely with grass root groups and individuals like Jerry Robinson, a sharp mouthed grass root community organizer, political activist, and national President of the <a href="http://www.poorpeoplescampaignppc.org/default.html">Chicago based Poor People's Campaign</a> has worked with Nancy Lockhart in her efforts to engage grass-root Internet activist, bloggers, and community groups from across the nation to support the Scott Sisters quest for freedom. Let the truth be told, it was not the national NAACP that lead the effort to free the Scott Sisters, it was Nancy Lockhart through her use of grassroots Internet organizing, with the support of people like Jerry Robinson of the Poor People's Campaign, Black left Internet groups like the afrospear, Black Agenda Report, and black bloggers like Electronic Village, Jack and Jill Politics, Francis L. Holland Blog, along with many dozens of Internet <a href="http://blogtalkradio.com/">blogtalkradio</a> host, such as Black Achievement USA, Black Talk Radio, JWriter, Justice4Us, Duchess of Wisdom, AANation, PPC, Kala Nation, Joli Ali, BostonAnt, Pumpkin13, Madison Media, Antoinette former co-host of African American Pundit's SlugFest Program, along with Antionette Harrell, One Black Mans View, Scotty, and so many others, who were able to create a band of national Internet activist who worked with Nancy Lockhart to get the word out to the larger blogosphere, afrosphere, black radio and national media, that caused the Scott Sisters to be of interest to groups like the NAACP and because of recent color aroused political blunders by <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/29/AR2010122905093.html?hpid=topnews">Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour</a>, caused him to look at the Scott Sisters case as a political opportunity to make himself look good, as part of his potential Presidential ambitions. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">As noted in The Washington Post, Barbour, who is weighing a run for president, announced the pardon a week after he ran afoul of civil rights advocates. Last week, </span><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/21/AR2010122103767.html" style="color: #0c4790; text-decoration: underline;" target=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Barbour backtracked</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> on comments he made about the civil rights era in Mississippi. <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/29/AR2010122905093.html?hpid=topnews">More HERE</a></span></span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="http://africanamericanpundit.blogspot.com/">AAP</a> says: All that being said, America, particularly Black America should salute and thank Nancy Lockhart for a job well done! She has taught us a new lesson for the 21st Century, "grassroot Internet organizing can work for America, particularly black America, if we put your mind, heart and soul into it." </span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><br />
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</span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773346863658978712.post-31433958670924215032010-11-16T23:06:00.000-05:002010-11-16T23:06:09.686-05:00Black Caucus May Not Back Nancy Pelosi<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Could the Congressional Black Caucus finally be showing some guts? Well, we will have to wait and see if they stand up to Nancy Pelosi <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/11/16/pelosi.democrats/">like other Democrats</a> who blamed Pelosi for their losses and suggested she step aside as leader. <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/11/16/pelosi.democrats/">More HERE</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The CBC has a bit of a history of <a href="http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/260567">flexing for a few days</a>, then wimping out and getting <a href="http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=a686b3d78159af09d803699d3fde0c26">nothing but promises</a> without real outcomes for black folks. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">They don't have much of a history of showing guts for the long term. They backed down when George W. Bush gave away the U.S. treasury to the banks, mortgage companies and Wall Street. What makes it any different this time?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">According to Krissah Thompson of at <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1776624713">The </a></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/16/AR2010111603977.html">Washington Post</a> a compromise designed to end a nasty political fight in the </span><a href="http://projects.washingtonpost.com/politicsglossary/party-affiliated/Democratic-Party/" target=""><span style="color: #0c4790; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Democratic Party</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> has left an important contingent dissatisfied - the </span><a href="http://projects.washingtonpost.com/politicsglossary/general/Congressional-Black-Caucus/" target=""><span style="color: #0c4790; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Congressional Black Caucus</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">. </span><br />
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<div></div><div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As you remember from <a href="http://africanamericanpundit.blogspot.com/2010/11/clyburn-supports-pelosi-proposal.html">my previous post</a> I reported that </span><a href="http://www.whorunsgov.com/Profiles/Nancy_Pelosi" target=""><span style="color: #0c4790; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Speaker Nancy Pelosi</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> had developed </span><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/13/AR2010111302672.html" target=""><span style="color: #0c4790; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">a tentative deal</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> in which she would remain the party's leader in the House when Democrats become the minority in the next Congress. The Washington post had reported that </span><a href="http://www.whorunsgov.com/Profiles/Steny_H._Hoyer" target=""><span style="color: #0c4790; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> (Md.) would take the No. 2 spot, and </span><a href="http://www.whorunsgov.com/Profiles/James_E._Clyburn" target=""><span style="color: #0c4790; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Majority Whip James E. Clyburn</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> (S.C.) would move down to the third-ranking position, which Pelosi has called "assistant leader." </span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As <a href="http://africanamericanpundit.blogspot.com/2010/11/clyburn-supports-pelosi-proposal.html">I noted in my previous post</a>, I was surprised that Clyburn accepted the position. Now we learn from <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/16/AR2010111603977.html">Krissah Thompson</a> that he is discussing what his new role will entail. </span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">OK, I don't get this. Why would someone as smart as Rep. Clyburn take a position, then after accepting the position discuss what his new role will be? Sounds kind of ass backwards to me.</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Get this, Krissah Thompson also reports that after meeting with other members of the CBC on Monday night, he told reporters, "We're still working on it." Get this, The Washington Post reports several </span><a href="http://projects.washingtonpost.com/politicsglossary/Congressional/caucus/" target=""><span style="color: #0c4790; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">caucus</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> members have suggested that they will withhold their votes from Pelosi (Calif.) if more details are not provided about Clyburn's responsibilities or that the caucus could go along with a bloc of moderate Democrats in the </span><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/15/AR2010111506462.html" target=""><span style="color: #0c4790; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Blue Dog caucus</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> and vote to limit Pelosi's authority as </span><a href="http://projects.washingtonpost.com/politicsglossary/Congressional/minority-leader/" target=""><span style="color: #0c4790; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">minority leader</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">. </span></div><div></div><div id="article_body" style="padding-left: 10px;"><div id="body_after_content_column"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">"We had a full discussion about this, and we actually wanted to look at the portfolio that is being developed with Mr. Clyburn's input, and we wanted to see what that portfolio would be," said the CBC chairman, </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1yT6pvpF6U&feature=player_embedded" target=""><span style="color: #0c4790; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Rep. Barbara Lee</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> (D-Calif.), explaining the decision to withhold support for Pelosi's plan. </span><br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqQ9HwhEOqA&feature=player_embedded" target=""><span style="color: #0c4790; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Rep. Yvette D. Clarke (D-N.Y.)</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> said she is "reluctant to want to vote" for the party's leadership without more details and wants to make sure that Clyburn's new role is "not a marginal, ceremonial type of position." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Pelosi met with CBC members Tuesday night to discuss their concerns. Afterward, members of the caucus gave no indication that they felt differently than they did heading into the meeting, an aide said. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In an interview with CNN on Tuesday, Clyburn said he has encouraged caucus members to support Pelosi and believes the new structure is fair. <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/16/AR2010111603977.html">More HERE</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">AAP: "What new structure? It's the same old leadership that lost the mid-term elections, no change as far as this pundit is concerned." Nothing has changed, and the American people, particularly Democrats and independents such as myself don't get this musical chairs effort that does nothing but pat the current leadership on the back for losing the U.S. House of Representatives to the Republicans.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><a href="http://mydd.com/dna/posts/72195">Cross posted on MyDD</a> and <a href="http://africanamericanpundit.blogspot.com/">African American Pundit</a></span></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773346863658978712.post-82918423712610566692010-10-12T20:40:00.002-04:002010-10-12T20:40:29.252-04:00Black Bloggers Gain Influence In Washington.DC<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Well it looks like black bloggers are gaining opportunities for conversations at the highest levels of government in Washington, D.C. </span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">OK, let me re-state in a different way: "Black bloggers who conditionally or unconditionally support the Obama administration are gaining DNC and White House conversation."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">First there was the meeting of black bloggers with DNC Chairman Kaine (<a href="http://mydd.com/users/aappundit/posts/dnc-meets-wi">which I attended</a>), then there was there was a "black online summit" at the White House Monday as part of an outreach to African American journalists and bloggers before the midterm elections. </span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">According to reports from the <a href="http://mije.org/richardprince/obama-courts-black-journalists-bloggers">Maynard Institute</a>, even <b>President Obama</b> stopped by a "black online summit" at the White House Monday as part of an outreach to African American journalists and bloggers before the midterm elections, an effort that includes the Democratic National Committee spending what it calls an unprecedented $3 million to reach the most loyal part of Obama's base, African American voters.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"I thought the meeting was great in that it showed that President Obama and his administration are taking black new media and our growing influence seriously," <b>David A. Wilson</b>, managing editor of theGrio.com, told Journal-isms via e-mail.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"They outlined how the administration's policies have had a positive effect on the African-American community and they invited us to make suggestions on how they could work better with us and provide us with more access to the White House.</span> </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">However, <b>Leutisha Stills</b>, who blogs at Jack & Jill Politics, cautioned, "The summit was a good one and very comprehensive, but we made it known that if we really have 'influence,' we are going to test drive it and see how many more invites we get from the White House."</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Columbus Day session lasted from 9:15 a.m. until 1:30 p.m., with senior adviser <b>Valerie Jarrett</b> present along with specialists from various parts of the administration, including the first lady's office. Among the 20 African Americans working on the Web were representatives of theRoot.com, Black Entertainment Television, Essence, Jack & Jill Politics, City Limits, Concrete Loop, AOL Black Voices, Black America Web and even the gossipy MediaTakeOut.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Monday's session is to be followed Friday by a presidential meeting with 10 members of<a class="ext" href="http://www.trottergroup.org/" title="the Trotter Group"> the Trotter Group</a> of African American columnists. Moreover, six or seven African American bloggers were credentialed for <a class="ext" href="http://www.philly.com/inquirer/home_top_stories/20101011_Obama_rallies_for_Democrats_at_Germantown_event.html" title="Obama's rally in Philadelphia last Sunday">Obama's rally in Philadelphia last Sunday</a>, although invitations were extended to about 20.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">AAP says: I was one of the 20 African American bloggers who was extended an invitation to be credentialed for <a class="ext" href="http://www.philly.com/inquirer/home_top_stories/20101011_Obama_rallies_for_Democrats_at_Germantown_event.html" title="Obama's rally in Philadelphia last Sunday">Obama's rally in Philadelphia last Sunday</a>, unfortunately because of schedule conflicts, I was not able to attend the President's rally. </span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The DNC and White House outreach effort with African American bloggers are noteworthy. The folks at Jack and Jill Politics in partnership with Kevin S. Lewis , </span>director, African American media for the White House is awesome. The work of senior DNC staffers, including Clyde E. Williams, Political Director for the DNC, along with Derrick L. Plummer, Regional Press Secretary, and Jamiah Adams, New Media Constituency Manager at the DNC is equally as noteworthy. I can only wonder out loud if this effort is to just gain black blogger support for the mid-terms only? I understand this is a political town. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Is the White House and the DNC reading the content of black blogger concerns regarding our economy and the need for the Obama administration to aggressively enforce of Federal contracting requirements, while establishing new programs in the Department of Commerce, and labor to address the need for job training and small business/micro business "grants" not loans, for low-income urban dwellers?</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I hope the DNC and The White House will continue to expand the working group to other progressive African American bloggers, such as </span><a href="http://afronetizen.blogs.com/" rel="nofollow">Afro-Netizen</a>, <a href="http://www.blackcommentator.com/" rel="nofollow">Black Commentator</a>, <a href="http://www.blackagendareport.net/" rel="nofollow">Black Agenda Report</a>, <a href="http://field-negro.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">Field Negro,</a> <span style="font-size: small;">Faye Anderson, </span><a href="http://www.oliverwillis.com/" rel="nofollow">Oliver Willis</a>, <a href="http://www.prometheus6.org/" rel="nofollow">Prometheus 6</a>, <a href="http://www.republicoft.com/" rel="nofollow">Republic of T</a>, <a href="http://skepticalbrotha.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow">Skeptical Brotha</a>,<span style="font-size: small;"> and so many others, who may have other observations and thoughts regarding what the administration can do </span>to "really" address issues like jobs, the economy, health care, education, community capacity-building, and investment in our communities. I'm hopeful that the DNC and the White House is not, what some may consider the <a href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2010/09/pimping-of-or-influence-of-black-bloggers/">pimping the growing influence of black bloggers</a> Only smart work and <a href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2010/10/african-american-online-summit-at-the-white-house/">full engagement</a> on the part of all parties, and time will tell... </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">As a black Independent voter and blogger, I remain cautiously hopeful.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Cross posted on <a href="http://africanamericanpundit.blogspot.com/">African American Pundit</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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It was great to see bloggers like Leutisha Stills aka "The Christian Progressive Liberal from <a href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/">Jack and Jill Politics</a>, Black Snob's <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_398008558">Danielle.Belton</a>, Blogger Jeneba Jalloh "JJ" Ghatt, and a number of other bloggers at the meeting with the DNC Chairman. "<span style="font-size: small;">The conversation revolved around the <span class="il">DNC</span>’s efforts to inform, engage and empower voters – especially African American voters- to participate in the upcoming elections. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The DNC senior staff have said if President Obama is to continue moving our country forward our community has to be informed. Moreover, he needs allies in Congress and in order for him to have allies in Congress we need people to come to the polls and vote.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The conversation with Chairman Kaine took place today at the DNC headquarters in Washington, DC with a conference call-in number for black bloggers who were not be able to attend in person. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Bloggers like Villager publisher of <a href="http://electronicvillage.blogspot.com/2010/09/conversation-with-democratic-national.html">Electronic Village</a> attended via teleconference. There were background discussions with senior <span class="il">DNC</span> staffers, including Clyde E. Williams, Political Director for the DNC, along with Derrick L. Plummer, Regional Press Secretary, and Jamiah Adams, </span><span style="font-size: small;">New Media Constituency Manager</span><span style="font-size: small;"> at the DNC. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bloggers in attendance got a real opportunity to discuss the <span class="il">DNC</span>’s detailed plan to engage voters and how the DNC can be a resource to members of the African American Political blogger community. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">This meeting in many ways appeared to serve as a DNC coordinated follow-up to an earlier high level meeting between black bloggers and the Obama administration. </span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">Regarding the meeting with the DNC Chairman Kaine it was organized by </span><span style="font-size: small;">DNC Regional Press Secretary </span><span style="font-size: small;">Derrick L. Plummer, along with Jamiah Adams, New Media Constituency Manager with the <span class="il">DNC.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="il"> </span></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal">During the meeting we learned from the DNC Chairman that the DNC will provide an unprecedented amount of resources with a special emphasis on base turnout — youth, African-Americans, Latinos and first-time voters. I found the DNC Chairman to be thoughtful, candid, and willing to listen to ways to improve DNC communication to African American voters and African American bloggers.<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://africanamericanpundit.blogspot.com/">This Pundit</a> asked whether there would be any special emphasis for the DNC to <a href="http://www.republicoft.com/2007/03/30/blogging-while-brown-part-iii/">advertise on black political blogs</a>. Something that has been a concern of mine and other black bloggers for <a href="http://www.republicoft.com/2007/03/30/blogging-while-brown-part-iii/">some time</a>. We will be asking that question again, and will inform our readers of the final answer. Show me the money!<br />
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<a href="http://www.republicoft.com/2007/03/30/blogging-while-brown-part-iii/">As I said back in 2007</a>, more black voters will be reading these black bloggers views and opinions. There are progressive black political bloggers such <a href="http://jackandjillpolitics.blogspot.com/" target="_top">Jack and Jill Politics</a>, <a href="http://afronetizen.blogs.com/">Afro-Netizen</a>,<a href="http://www.blackcommentator.com/">Black Commentator</a>, <a href="http://www.blackagendareport.net/">Black Agenda Report</a>, <a href="http://www.blackprof.com/">Black Races</a>,<a href="http://www.blackpolls.blogspot.com/"> BlackProf</a>, <a href="http://brownfemipower.com/">BrownFemiPower</a>, <a href="http://www.blackelectorate.com/">Black electorate</a>, <a href="http://field-negro.blogspot.com/">Field Negro,</a> <a href="http://mirroronamerica.blogspot.com/index.html">Mirror on America</a>, <a href="http://www.negroplease.com/">Negro Please</a>, <a href="http://www.negrophile.com/">NegroPhile</a>, <a href="http://www.oliverwillis.com/">Oliver Willis</a>, <a href="http://www.prometheus6.org/">Prometheus 6</a>, <a href="http://www.republicoft.com/">Republic of T</a>, <a href="http://skepticalbrotha.wordpress.com/">Skeptical Brotha</a>,<a href="http://www.whereistheoutrage.net/wordpress/">Where Is The Outrage?</a>,<a href="http://francislholland.blogspot.com/">Francis Holland</a>, and so many others, (don’t forget the <a href="http://angryindian.blogspot.com/">Angry Indian – Voice of a Native Son)</a> who just may be interested in advertising and the DNC's advertising dollar.<br />
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During the discussion with DNC Chairman, Tim Kaine the former Virginia governor says given all the challenges his party's faced since the 2008 election, and despite the poll numbers, he's believes the Democrats can pull off victories in some races that will surprise people. <b> </b><span style="font-size: small;">He pointed out Democrats need help </span><span style="font-size: small;">from all segments to inform, engage and empower voters – especially African American voters- to participate in the upcoming elections. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">AAP says: "I know I want my President to be successful. Do you? It's about rebuilding our nation, our communities our neighborhoods. Although I am not a Democrat, I believe it's time to rally with the President and his party around issues we agree upon. I believe progressive black political bloggers should support the President and the DNC... even when we disagree. Just remember to hold the DNC and the President accountable, if they don't address issues like high unemployment, poverty reduction and other issues important to our communities."</span></div></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK-E5KEntkG8P992YfmC0OPFEajivKVlHrLWry3OovfE2hlHdvUWiHPvF1Pie6nzKHsP33vxSHei3tOZ0YWF_Bj9Wj4Coq3B2rj54gtA7wrz2oFxH7IrgTp1krGfV8ruG9JGGcc0L8akw2/s1600/pregnant-woman1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" bx="true" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK-E5KEntkG8P992YfmC0OPFEajivKVlHrLWry3OovfE2hlHdvUWiHPvF1Pie6nzKHsP33vxSHei3tOZ0YWF_Bj9Wj4Coq3B2rj54gtA7wrz2oFxH7IrgTp1krGfV8ruG9JGGcc0L8akw2/s200/pregnant-woman1.jpg" width="133" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><strong style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">Tanisha Black was seven months pregnant.</strong><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> I don't imagine that she ever thought that she would feel 50,000 volts of electricity being shot through her body. Tanisha learned a lesson that was already taught to </span><a href="http://electronicvillage.blogspot.com/search/label/Valreca%20Redden" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Valreca Redden</a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">.</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /> <br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /> <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> Tanisha Black of Union City and her 3-year old son were pulled over by a CHP officer. [</span><a href="http://cbs5.com/local/pregnant.woman.taser.2.1784202.html" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">SOURCE</a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">]</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /> <br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /> </span> <blockquote style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"<i>He says I am pulling you over because you were on your cell phone</i>," Black recalled</span></blockquote><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">.But that wasn't all. Unbeknownst to her she said her driver's license had been suspended because she missed a court appearance on <leo_highlight id="leoHighlights_Underline_2" leohighlights_keywords="traffic" leohighlights_underline="true" leohighlights_url_bottom="http%3A//shortcuts.thebrowserhighlighter.com/leonardo/plugin/highlights/3_2/tbh_highlightsBottom.jsp?keywords%3Dtraffic%26domain%3Delectronicvillage.blogspot.com" leohighlights_url_top="http%3A//shortcuts.thebrowserhighlighter.com/leonardo/plugin/highlights/3_2/tbh_highlightsTop.jsp?keywords%3Dtraffic%26domain%3Delectronicvillage.blogspot.com" onclick="leoHighlightsHandleClick('leoHighlights_Underline_2')" onmouseout="leoHighlightsHandleMouseOut('leoHighlights_Underline_2')" onmouseover="leoHighlightsHandleMouseOver('leoHighlights_Underline_2')" style="-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(255, 255, 150); cursor: pointer; display: inline;">traffic</leo_highlight> tickets. And so, Black said the officer told her, "<em>I am going to tow the vehicle because your license is suspended as well and I need your keys</em>." <a href="http://electronicvillage.blogspot.com/2010/08/would-you-use-taser-on-pregant-woman.html">More HERE</a></span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.whataboutourdaughters.com/waod/2010/7/23/naacp-legal-goons-invade-waod-comments-section-following-cal.html">Black bloggers</a> and Black Journalist may even be called anti-black. </span><a href="http://field-negro.blogspot.com/2010/07/just-another-post-from.html"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Read the attack on Jack and Jill Politics in the comments section</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> of Field Negroes blog. These die hard colored extremist shock me every day! Then they get mad if I call them colored. when the organization the are <leo_highlight id="leoHighlights_Underline_0" leohighlights_keywords="die%20hard" leohighlights_underline="true" leohighlights_url_bottom="http%3A//shortcuts.thebrowserhighlighter.com/leonardo/plugin/highlights/3_2/tbh_highlightsBottom.jsp?keywords%3Ddie%2520hard%26domain%3Ddraft.blogger.com" leohighlights_url_top="http%3A//shortcuts.thebrowserhighlighter.com/leonardo/plugin/highlights/3_2/tbh_highlightsTop.jsp?keywords%3Ddie%2520hard%26domain%3Ddraft.blogger.com" onclick="leoHighlightsHandleClick('leoHighlights_Underline_0')" onmouseout="leoHighlightsHandleMouseOut('leoHighlights_Underline_0')" onmouseover="leoHighlightsHandleMouseOver('leoHighlights_Underline_0')" style="-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(255, 255, 150); cursor: pointer; display: inline;">die hard</leo_highlight> supporters that call themselves colored - The NAA of Colored People.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Now when white Journalist say Obama does not have enough black on their staff, or </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/opinion/25dowd.html"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The Obama White House is too white</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> - not a problem. When a </span><a href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2010/07/black-bloggers-lash-out-at-naacp-over-shirley-sherrod/"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">black blogger</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> or </span><a href="http://aapoliticalopinion.blogspot.com/2010/07/naacp-still-hasnt-atoned-for-sherrod.html"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Journalist </span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">says the same thing, your anti-black.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">What is truly another disgrace is these <leo_highlight id="leoHighlights_Underline_1" leohighlights_keywords="die%20hard" leohighlights_underline="true" leohighlights_url_bottom="http%3A//shortcuts.thebrowserhighlighter.com/leonardo/plugin/highlights/3_2/tbh_highlightsBottom.jsp?keywords%3Ddie%2520hard%26domain%3Ddraft.blogger.com" leohighlights_url_top="http%3A//shortcuts.thebrowserhighlighter.com/leonardo/plugin/highlights/3_2/tbh_highlightsTop.jsp?keywords%3Ddie%2520hard%26domain%3Ddraft.blogger.com" onclick="leoHighlightsHandleClick('leoHighlights_Underline_1')" onmouseout="leoHighlightsHandleMouseOut('leoHighlights_Underline_1')" onmouseover="leoHighlightsHandleMouseOver('leoHighlights_Underline_1')" style="-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(255, 255, 150); cursor: pointer; display: inline;">die hard</leo_highlight> NAACP and Obama supporters who <a href="http://www.whataboutourdaughters.com/waod/2010/7/23/naacp-legal-goons-invade-waod-comments-section-following-cal.html">don't like black folks speaking their minds</a>, as we question the NAACP or the Obama administration. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Yes, I admit I said the National President of the NAACP is disgrace and a sell-out and should consider resigning as President of the NAACP. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Yes, I admit that I said he is part of the new crew of colored people advancing their own agenda, not a black empowerment or capacity building agenda. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Now why do I have to be attacked for having my own opinion by Kevin M., a Branch President of the NAACP on my <leo_highlight id="leoHighlights_Underline_1" leohighlights_keywords="facebook" leohighlights_underline="true" leohighlights_url_bottom="http%3A//shortcuts.thebrowserhighlighter.com/leonardo/plugin/highlights/3_2/tbh_highlightsBottom.jsp?keywords%3Dfacebook%26domain%3Ddraft.blogger.com" leohighlights_url_top="http%3A//shortcuts.thebrowserhighlighter.com/leonardo/plugin/highlights/3_2/tbh_highlightsTop.jsp?keywords%3Dfacebook%26domain%3Ddraft.blogger.com" onclick="leoHighlightsHandleClick('leoHighlights_Underline_1')" onmouseout="leoHighlightsHandleMouseOut('leoHighlights_Underline_1')" onmouseover="leoHighlightsHandleMouseOver('leoHighlights_Underline_1')" style="-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(255, 255, 150); cursor: pointer; display: inline;">Facebook</leo_highlight> Page. Check out the interaction:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Kevin said:</b> "AAPP, it IS certainly your right to do so and I for one would not insult you for being critical. However, when you continuously return to the meme "what has the NAACP done since the 60's?", I for one question whether you are as...king a real question or just being intentionally inflammatory.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>AAPP: @Kevin:</b> <b>I have no reason on earth to be intonally inflamatory. I am not the only one asking real questions about the National Office of the NAACP and it's lack of leadership. Infact, one would have to wonder why the President of the NAACP was intentionally inflammatory, in order to get it's name in the news by electronically lynching a black women - <i>Shirley Sherrod...</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Kevin Said:</b> What have we done? Really? I will just speak for my little band of folks out here in Kansas when I say that in just the last 2 years we've registered around 700 voters, wrote a couple state laws, blocked a bill designed to block health care reform, pushed for changes to <leo_highlight id="leoHighlights_Underline_2" leohighlights_keywords="the%20state" leohighlights_underline="true" leohighlights_url_bottom="http%3A//shortcuts.thebrowserhighlighter.com/leonardo/plugin/highlights/3_2/tbh_highlightsBottom.jsp?keywords%3Dthe%2520state%26domain%3Ddraft.blogger.com" leohighlights_url_top="http%3A//shortcuts.thebrowserhighlighter.com/leonardo/plugin/highlights/3_2/tbh_highlightsTop.jsp?keywords%3Dthe%2520state%26domain%3Ddraft.blogger.com" onclick="leoHighlightsHandleClick('leoHighlights_Underline_2')" onmouseout="leoHighlightsHandleMouseOut('leoHighlights_Underline_2')" onmouseover="leoHighlightsHandleMouseOver('leoHighlights_Underline_2')" style="-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(255, 255, 150); cursor: pointer; display: inline;">the State</leo_highlight> voter registration system, helped countless folks with their census forms, spoke to hundreds of school children about leadership, built a world-class debate and oratory program for neighborhood kids, pushed to have our district locate <leo_highlight id="leoHighlights_Underline_3" leohighlights_keywords="the%20state" leohighlights_underline="true" leohighlights_url_bottom="http%3A//shortcuts.thebrowserhighlighter.com/leonardo/plugin/highlights/3_2/tbh_highlightsBottom.jsp?keywords%3Dthe%2520state%26domain%3Ddraft.blogger.com" leohighlights_url_top="http%3A//shortcuts.thebrowserhighlighter.com/leonardo/plugin/highlights/3_2/tbh_highlightsTop.jsp?keywords%3Dthe%2520state%26domain%3Ddraft.blogger.com" onclick="leoHighlightsHandleClick('leoHighlights_Underline_3')" onmouseout="leoHighlightsHandleMouseOut('leoHighlights_Underline_3')" onmouseover="leoHighlightsHandleMouseOver('leoHighlights_Underline_3')" style="-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(255, 255, 150); cursor: pointer; display: inline;">the state</leo_highlight>'s only elementary IB program right in the HEART of our community, investigated more than a hundred discrimination cases, developed our own rehabilitation program for children in Juvenile detention, and brought together 35 community organizations to pool our talents and resources and solve our own community problems, among other things...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>AAPP@ Kevin:</b> <b>I salute the great work of a number of local branches who do great work and are able to to show outcomes for their collective efforts. Now I read you don't want my congratulations - so be it. Not a problem, there are real community builders in my local community to congratulate and support. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Kevin said:</b> Now yes AAPP, it IS certainly your right as an American citizen to continue to call us fools, disgraceful, ignorant, worthless and all the other names you like to banty about on your blog... But just know that those responses you're receiving are coming from folks who are ALSO exercising THEIR rights as Americans to question you as to what have you actually done besides call black people who are volunteering in their communities a bunch of names on the internet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>AAPP@ Kevin:</b> <b>I have no problem with folks asking what I have done lately. My record in community development and community capacity building throughout the country is an open book, if people want to know, just hit my up privately and we can discuss my body of work in community development. I have been in the trenches, even before many of these so called activist were born.</b> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Kevin:</b> Here's the part where you usually make the distinction between the local and National office... But you know what - you shouldn't.. The NAACP is an Association of 2,200 branches just like mine. Sometimes awesome, and sometimes awful... but we are a network of 400,000 folks who are volunteering our own time and resources to make our communities better. And we are all coming together and saying goodbye to our past divisions.. So if you are talking about "our" President, "our" chairman, "our" national Board, or "our" national staff, please don't single me out for any type of singular appreciation - I don't want it.</span><br />
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<b><a href="mailto:AAPP@Kevin"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">AAPP@Kevin</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> <b>Yes, you have a network of 400,000 but the national office cant even put together a blog, or an internet networking vehicle to do grassroot organizing. How pathetic!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Kevin:</b> Now I know calling us a bunch of names is still good for building your readership - I ain't mad at ya... do your thing. But just know as a community, we seem to be reaching a 'tipping point'. I'm out in the community every day and I can tell you that a lot of us are simply getting weary of the "Let me demonstrate my independence by attacking Black people" routine... Pretty soon my brother, you're going to have to get a new gig.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>AAPP@ Kevin: I would expect nothing less of you, as a NAACP Chapter President to support everything that the national office does. I'm not the only one seeing the National Office of the NAACP for what it is.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>By the way, I'm not the only one who thinks the NAACP has been a failure for over 40 years.</b> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Please read Dewayne Wickman'sBlackChristianNews.com</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Yes, Kevin, Your right we seem to be reaching a Tipping Point. and the NAACP may just go the way of F.W. Woolworth's. Yes, your right there are some that need new gigs. The current President of the NAACP is the one that needs to </b></span><a href="http://www.whataboutourdaughters.com/waod/2010/7/21/ben-jealous-should-resign-ben-jealous-roland-s-martin-white.html"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>get the new gig</b></span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>. He is the one that attacked a black woman, </b></span><a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/northwestvoices/2012431441_theshamefultreatmentofshirleysherrod.html"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Shirley Sherrod</b></span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>... without cause... </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>But I guess you have not been following current events...</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>The national office of the NAACP has no credability! Now it sends out it's goof balls to attack me. Read what the NAACP had to say about <leo_highlight id="leoHighlights_Underline_4" leohighlights_keywords="george%20wallace" leohighlights_underline="true" leohighlights_url_bottom="http%3A//shortcuts.thebrowserhighlighter.com/leonardo/plugin/highlights/3_2/tbh_highlightsBottom.jsp?keywords%3Dgeorge%2520wallace%26domain%3Ddraft.blogger.com" leohighlights_url_top="http%3A//shortcuts.thebrowserhighlighter.com/leonardo/plugin/highlights/3_2/tbh_highlightsTop.jsp?keywords%3Dgeorge%2520wallace%26domain%3Ddraft.blogger.com" onclick="leoHighlightsHandleClick('leoHighlights_Underline_4')" onmouseout="leoHighlightsHandleMouseOut('leoHighlights_Underline_4')" onmouseover="leoHighlightsHandleMouseOver('leoHighlights_Underline_4')" style="-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(255, 255, 150); cursor: pointer; display: inline;">George Wallace</leo_highlight>, Robert Byrd and other bigots who have destroyed the lifes of countless black folks and how they were snookered by of all people FOX News.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>These have to be some real stupid bastards at the national office to watch Fox News and believe it.</b> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The NAACP also has long championed and embraced transformation by people who have moved beyond racial bias. Most notably, we have done so for late <leo_highlight id="leoHighlights_Underline_5" leohighlights_keywords="alabama" leohighlights_underline="false" leohighlights_url_bottom="http%3A//shortcuts.thebrowserhighlighter.com/leonardo/plugin/highlights/3_2/tbh_highlightsBottom.jsp?keywords%3Dalabama%26domain%3Ddraft.blogger.com" leohighlights_url_top="http%3A//shortcuts.thebrowserhighlighter.com/leonardo/plugin/highlights/3_2/tbh_highlightsTop.jsp?keywords%3Dalabama%26domain%3Ddraft.blogger.com" onclick="leoHighlightsHandleClick('leoHighlights_Underline_5')" onmouseout="leoHighlightsHandleMouseOut('leoHighlights_Underline_5')" onmouseover="leoHighlightsHandleMouseOver('leoHighlights_Underline_5')" style="-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; display: inline;">Alabama</leo_highlight> Governor <leo_highlight id="leoHighlights_Underline_6" leohighlights_keywords="george%20wallace" leohighlights_underline="false" leohighlights_url_bottom="http%3A//shortcuts.thebrowserhighlighter.com/leonardo/plugin/highlights/3_2/tbh_highlightsBottom.jsp?keywords%3Dgeorge%2520wallace%26domain%3Ddraft.blogger.com" leohighlights_url_top="http%3A//shortcuts.thebrowserhighlighter.com/leonardo/plugin/highlights/3_2/tbh_highlightsTop.jsp?keywords%3Dgeorge%2520wallace%26domain%3Ddraft.blogger.com" onclick="leoHighlightsHandleClick('leoHighlights_Underline_6')" onmouseout="leoHighlightsHandleMouseOut('leoHighlights_Underline_6')" onmouseover="leoHighlightsHandleMouseOver('leoHighlights_Underline_6')" style="-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; display: inline;">George Wallace</leo_highlight> and late US Senator Robert Byrd -- each a man who had associated with and supported white supremacists and their cause before embracing civil rights for all. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">With regard to the initial media coverage of the resignation of <leo_highlight id="leoHighlights_Underline_7" leohighlights_keywords="usda" leohighlights_underline="false" leohighlights_url_bottom="http%3A//shortcuts.thebrowserhighlighter.com/leonardo/plugin/highlights/3_2/tbh_highlightsBottom.jsp?keywords%3Dusda%26domain%3Ddraft.blogger.com" leohighlights_url_top="http%3A//shortcuts.thebrowserhighlighter.com/leonardo/plugin/highlights/3_2/tbh_highlightsTop.jsp?keywords%3Dusda%26domain%3Ddraft.blogger.com" onclick="leoHighlightsHandleClick('leoHighlights_Underline_7')" onmouseout="leoHighlightsHandleMouseOut('leoHighlights_Underline_7')" onmouseover="leoHighlightsHandleMouseOver('leoHighlights_Underline_7')" style="-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; display: inline;">USDA</leo_highlight> Official Shirley Sherrod, we have come to the conclusion we were snookered by Fox News and Tea Party Activist Andrew Breitbart into believing she had harmed white farmers because of racial bias.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">AAPP: Pathetic! Robert Bird? <leo_highlight id="leoHighlights_Underline_8" leohighlights_keywords="george%20wallace" leohighlights_underline="false" leohighlights_url_bottom="http%3A//shortcuts.thebrowserhighlighter.com/leonardo/plugin/highlights/3_2/tbh_highlightsBottom.jsp?keywords%3Dgeorge%2520wallace%26domain%3Ddraft.blogger.com" leohighlights_url_top="http%3A//shortcuts.thebrowserhighlighter.com/leonardo/plugin/highlights/3_2/tbh_highlightsTop.jsp?keywords%3Dgeorge%2520wallace%26domain%3Ddraft.blogger.com" onclick="leoHighlightsHandleClick('leoHighlights_Underline_8')" onmouseout="leoHighlightsHandleMouseOut('leoHighlights_Underline_8')" onmouseover="leoHighlightsHandleMouseOver('leoHighlights_Underline_8')" style="-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; display: inline;">George Wallace</leo_highlight>? Transformed? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This NAACP National Office is so... Pathetic... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">No wonder <a href="http://thecurvature.com/2008/03/24/al-sharpton-and-the-naacp-support-dunbar-village-rapists/">so many people believe the NAACP</a> has <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/opinions/1997/03/04/1997-03-04_ben_chavis_hits_a_new_low__b.html">lost it's way</a>. The national NAACP has been so <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7711144">disorganized</a> <a href="http://articles.baltimoresun.com/keyword/naacp-executive-director">for years</a>. How long will this new young and inexperienced NAACP President last? Hopefully not for long. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The last NAACP President <a href="http://www.blacknews.com/pr/bruce_gordon_resigns101.html">only lasted 19 months.</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The fact of the matter is the relatatively new President of the NAACP brought shame to the NAACP, yet it gratuitously uses the occasion to bash black bloggers for calling them out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Robert Bird? <leo_highlight id="leoHighlights_Underline_9" leohighlights_keywords="george%20wallace" leohighlights_underline="false" leohighlights_url_bottom="http%3A//shortcuts.thebrowserhighlighter.com/leonardo/plugin/highlights/3_2/tbh_highlightsBottom.jsp?keywords%3Dgeorge%2520wallace%26domain%3Ddraft.blogger.com" leohighlights_url_top="http%3A//shortcuts.thebrowserhighlighter.com/leonardo/plugin/highlights/3_2/tbh_highlightsTop.jsp?keywords%3Dgeorge%2520wallace%26domain%3Ddraft.blogger.com" onclick="leoHighlightsHandleClick('leoHighlights_Underline_9')" onmouseout="leoHighlightsHandleMouseOut('leoHighlights_Underline_9')" onmouseover="leoHighlightsHandleMouseOver('leoHighlights_Underline_9')" style="-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; display: inline;">George Wallace</leo_highlight>? Transformed? Whatever. </span><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Robert Bird was a recruiter for the Klan while in his 20s and 30s, rising to the title of Kleagle and Exalted Cyclops of his local chapter. After leaving the group, Byrd spoke in favor of the Klan during his early political career. Though he claimed to have left the organization in 1943, Byrd wrote a letter in 1946 to the group's Imperial Wizard stating "The Klan is needed today as never before, and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia." Byrd defended the Klan in his 1958 U.S. Senate campaign when he was 41 years old.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Despite being the only Senator to vote against both African American U.S. Supreme Court nominees (liberal Thurgood Marshall and conservative Clarence Thomas and filibustering the Civilm Rights Act of 1964, the NAACP supported this man who would lynch black men, women and children. Byrd has since said joining the Klan was his "greatest mistake" and the NAACP gave him a 100% rating on their issues.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The National NAACP needs to transform itself and back it's attack dogs off of this blogger. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Oh, that's right, the NAACP attack dog (Kevin M) recently lost a bid to become a member of the board, and will take any action he can to show he is worthy of a seat in the future.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">As Kevin said on his <a href="http://www.wichitanaacpblog.com/2010/07/kansas-state-and-wichita-branch.html">NAACP Chapter blog</a>, "Sometimes success comes in stages and this was just the first stage of my road onto the board. ;)" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I'm coming back bigger and stronger than ever!" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">AAPP says: I guess that "bigger and stronger" can be accomplished by attacking me and other black bloggers bro Kevin? In the name of getting an NAACP Board seat, let me attack a fellow afrospear blogger. Following in the Footsteps of Ben Jealous? Attack when you don't know the facts? Or attack to those who say the NAACP is out of step with the needs of the black community.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Well Mr. NAACP Kevin M you won't be able to attack me on my own <leo_highlight id="leoHighlights_Underline_10" leohighlights_keywords="facebook" leohighlights_underline="false" leohighlights_url_bottom="http%3A//shortcuts.thebrowserhighlighter.com/leonardo/plugin/highlights/3_2/tbh_highlightsBottom.jsp?keywords%3Dfacebook%26domain%3Ddraft.blogger.com" leohighlights_url_top="http%3A//shortcuts.thebrowserhighlighter.com/leonardo/plugin/highlights/3_2/tbh_highlightsTop.jsp?keywords%3Dfacebook%26domain%3Ddraft.blogger.com" onclick="leoHighlightsHandleClick('leoHighlights_Underline_10')" onmouseout="leoHighlightsHandleMouseOut('leoHighlights_Underline_10')" onmouseover="leoHighlightsHandleMouseOver('leoHighlights_Underline_10')" style="-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; display: inline;">Facebook</leo_highlight> page anymore. You have been banned!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>UPDATE:</b> As reported by another black blogger, <a href="http://www.whataboutourdaughters.com/waod/2010/7/23/naacp-legal-goons-invade-waod-comments-section-following-cal.html">Gina, at What About Our Daughters</a>, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">See, and knew I was not the only person under attack by the NAACP and thier represenatatives.</span><br />
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var LEO_HIGHLIGHTS_IFRAME_BOTTOM_EXPANDED_HEIGHT = 371;
var LEO_HIGHLIGHTS_SHOW_DELAY_MS = 300;
var LEO_HIGHLIGHTS_HIDE_DELAY_MS = 750;
var LEO_HIGHLIGHTS_SHOW_DELAY_NO_UNDER_MS = 850;
var LEO_HIGHLIGHTS_BACKGROUND_STYLE_DEFAULT = "transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%";
var LEO_HIGHLIGHTS_BACKGROUND_STYLE_HOVER = "rgb(245, 245, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%";
var LEO_HIGHLIGHTS_ROVER_TAG = "711-36858-13496-14";
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<span style="font-size: small;">A New Orleans TV station, <a href="http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2010/07/report-nephew-of-justice-thomas-punched-tasered-in-new-orleans-hospital/1">USA Today</a>, <a class="l" href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/07/abc26-wgno-clarence-thomass-ne.html" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','','9','AFQjCNH7szn6QQDphhY3vqIojW9i8Ryoug','JG7xDFNoHOj6UOE5c4oT0A','0CD4QFjAI')">The Washington Post</a>, <a class="l" href="http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4458634" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','','20','AFQjCNEEoBH4u1w_xt2vzH5z5ydRkAq_mg','o_YbsQdR01z2gp51c4bylw','0CDoQFjAJOAo')">Democratic Underground</a>, <a class="l" href="http://www.taserednation.com/" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','','28','AFQjCNHfRE0868slCB7Na55kpgWZZCOlkg','ad8J2Xz7bcrXZ7tOE5M96g','0CDMQFjAHOBQ')"><i>Tasered</i> Nation</a> along with alternative news outlets are reporting that hospital security beat down <a class="l" href="http://gawker.com/5583457/clarence-thomas-suicidal-epileptic-nephew-punched-tasered-in-hospital" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','','1','AFQjCNHu7NgxM5lnUbj4MnzJHXnyo1UYWA','SHyueHL6F3ouoaYpdlJCNA','0CCAQmAEwAA')"><i>Clarence Thomas</i>' Suicidal, Epileptic Nephew.</a></span> Ouch!</div><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The nephew, Derek Thomas, is epileptic and suffered a seizure after being stunned, his family <a href="http://%20www.abc26.com/news/local/wgno-news-derek-thomas-tazed,0,5113332.story">told ABC-affiliate WGNO</a>.</span></div><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">He was taken to West Jefferson Medical Center in Marrero after a possible suicide attempt yesterday. His family said that after he refused to put on a gown, guards punched him in the lip, grabbed his hair and shocked him.</span></div><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The family said doctors knew Thomas is epileptic but directed that he be stunned to restrain him. No comment from the hospital so far.</span></div><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The station says Justice Thomas is expected to travel to New Orleans "as soon as possible." </span></div><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">OMG, maybe the tasering of Americans will get some attention now that nephew of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been tortured with a taser. </span></div><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Bloggers such as, <a class="l" href="http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/14353/stop-taser-torture-blogging-for-justice-day" onmousedown="return clk(this.href,'','','','5','dzgv3v9xl1TIP1y2PJ1Wag','0CCsQFjAE')">Pam's House Blend</a>, The <a class="l" href="http://afrospear.com/2009/04/24/a-day-of-blogging-for-justice-standing-up-against-the-pre-trial-electrocution/" onmousedown="return clk(this.href,'','','','14','BIQ_MTE7Zx3h3rXbWcPbOA','0CCIQFjADOAo')"><i></i>Afrospear</a>, <a href="http://police-brutality-blog.blogspot.com/">The Police Brutality Blog</a>, <a href="http://taseredwhileblack.blogspot.com/">Tasered While Black</a>, <a class="l" href="http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/clarence-thomass-nephew-tasered-for.html" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','','15','AFQjCNGnl3WNYv3CPFmRMr2eujepyFNScA','MuU8yGljd2GNCiIat5U3Tw','0CCYQFjAEOAo')">Hullabaloo</a>, <a class="l" href="http://www.taserednation.com/" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','','28','AFQjCNHfRE0868slCB7Na55kpgWZZCOlkg','ad8J2Xz7bcrXZ7tOE5M96g','0CDMQFjAHOBQ')"><i>Tasered</i> Nation</a>, <a class="l vst" href="http://electronicvillage.blogspot.com/2009/05/taser-related-deaths-in-united-states.html" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','','6','AFQjCNFjNXWHzvhoaM_a5jJ42Yn3kB563g','wasnKyRZJBm6q8xGKm5s4Q','0CC8QFjAF')">Electronic Village<i></i></a>,<a class="l vst" href="http://wonkette.com/416584/security-guards-punch-and-tase-and-pull-out-dreadlocks-of-clarence-thomas-nephew" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','','9','AFQjCNFnIIwg0DVEMCteeq8i8L7rsrAtqA','CF3t3HQUXZochecUIn_ngg','0CDwQFjAI')">Wonkette</a>,<a class="l" href="http://blog.blackwomenineurope.com/2009/12/04/stop-taser-torture-blogging-for-justice/" onmousedown="return clk(this.href,'','','','7','wWS0oCC8MGyFiwGCfSlzOg','0CDQQFjAG')"><i></i><i></i> Black Women in Europe™ <i>Blog</i></a>, <a class="l" href="http://www.rippdemup.com/2009/12/blogging-for-justice-stop-taser-torture.html" onmousedown="return clk(this.href,'','','','8','z67u7ARf6zEcVuEGLRIkBw','0CDkQFjAH')">THE INTERSECTION | MADNESS & REALITY<i></i></a>,<a class="l" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2009/11/cops-taser-man-with-his-hands-already-on-police-car-what-you-can-do-about-it/" onmousedown="return clk(this.href,'','','','13','7jneZh0M5eLjivLsgx9FBg','0CB0QFjACOAo')">Jack and Jill Politics</a>, <a href="http://draft.blogger.com/Electrocuted%20While%20Black:%20%22Naming%22%20it%20%22Police%20Pre-Trial%20...">Electrocuted While Black</a>, and a number of other bloggers have been paying close attention to the issue of Taser Torture. It's too bad Clarence Thomas was not concerned , until now... </span></div><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">When I tried to get the conversation about taser abuse going at the so-called liberal blog, the </span><a class="l" href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/7/9/882015/--SCOTUS-nephew-tasered" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','','16','AFQjCNFVdn2YXDATEIgmIDX7CfG-w34LhQ','WcOebVVqHeeMmincXRGgnQ','0CCoQFjAFOAo')" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Daily Kos.. there was limited concern until the nephew of Clarence Thomas got <i>tasered.</i></a></span><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> I guess it news worthy now. </span></span></i><br />
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<div id="refHTML"></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773346863658978712.post-71925785243347582162010-01-09T20:47:00.000-05:002010-01-10T16:36:09.650-05:00NEGRO: Obama “light-skinned” and has “no Negro dialect" that's why he is President.<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Special Post: So is Harry Reid a color aroused bigot? Did he say "code words" which we would expect out of <a href="http://www.brutallyhonest.org/brutally_honest/2010/01/did-harry-reid-have-a-macaca-moment.html">Republicans</a>, skinheads, and <a href="http://open.salon.com/blog/rogerf1953/2009/07/21/racist_birthers_refuse_to_accept_a_black_president">birthers</a>? Is he bringing up</span> memories of Jim Crow and <a href="http://abolition.nypl.org/content/docs/text/Act_of_1819.pdf">slavery</a>? Why is he using the word "<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2010/01/06/2010-01-06_census_negro_issue_use_of_word_on_forms_raises_hackles_memories_of_jim_crow.html">Negro</a></span></span>" ? Why is the word negro becoming in vogue by whites, and the Obama administration. <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Read more <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2010/01/06/2010-01-06_census_negro_issue_use_of_word_on_forms_raises_hackles_memories_of_jim_crow.html">HERE</a> </span></span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">No Harry Reid didn't say, Obama “light-skinned” and has “no Negro dialect" that's why he could be President. </span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Damn, did the Senate President just call the President of the United States, a light skinned house negro, who knows how to talk with whites? Did the president of the United States, just say, "that's OK Boss." ?<br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Now we have a former black man, who some blacks consider the next generation "uncle tom," in the name of <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2010/01/09/reid-apologizes-for-questioning-obamas-racial-authenticity/">Al Sharpton - who is now standing with Reid</a>. I guess "</span>The <b>magical negro</b><span style="font-size: small;">" is the <a href="http://thedailyvoice.com/voice/2010/01/harry-reid-apologizes-to-obama-002482.php">operative word</a> in 2010.<br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/us/politics/10reidweb.html?hp">NY Times</a>, <a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/senate/harry-reid-apologizes-for-ligh.html?wprss=thefix">Washington Post</a>, <a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0110/Reid_apologizes_for_Negro_remark.html">Politico</a>, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/09/harry-reid-negro-comment-_n_417406.html">Huffington Post</a>, <a href="http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/1982349,harry-reid-obama-negro-comment-010910.article">Chicago Sun Times</a> are reporting that Senator <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/r/harry_reid/index.html?inline=nyt-per" linkindex="40" title="More articles about Harry Reid.">Harry Reid</a> of Nevada, the majority leader, apologized on Saturday for saying that he believed <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/o/barack_obama/index.html?inline=nyt-per" linkindex="41" title="More articles about Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> could become the country’s first black president because he was “light-skinned” and had the advantage of carrying “no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.” <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/us/politics/10reidweb.html?hp">More HERE</a></span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Get this, as reported by the NY Times, the apology was prompted by the release of a new book on the 2008 presidential campaign, which reported that Mr. Reid privately urged Mr. Obama to seek the presidency more than three years ago despite his limited experience and the historical obstacles to making a successful bid for the White House.</span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I deeply regret using such a poor choice of words,” Mr. Reid said in a statement. “I sincerely apologize for offending any and all Americans, especially African Americans for my improper comments.”</span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> The remarks from Mr. Reid were the latest in a long-running series of statements that several political figures have made about Mr. Obama, which have underscored the uneasy evolution of race and politics in the United States. Mr. Reid telephoned Mr. Obama on Saturday to apologize.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="http://africanamericanpoliticalpundit.com/">AAPP</a>: </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> "<b>That apology is not accepted</b>, not by this <b>African American Political Pundit</b> (</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="http://africanamericanpoliticalpundit.com/">AAPP</a>)</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">. You should resign Senator Reid. What are you saying, black folks that are dark skin should not be President? Black Folks who have dark skin should pass the harry reid "bag test?" </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">And what is this word "<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2010/01/06/2010-01-06_census_negro_issue_use_of_word_on_forms_raises_hackles_memories_of_jim_crow.html">Negro</a>" and "Negro dialect."</span></span><br />
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</div><div class="art_img_lrg"><div class="art_img_lrg_txt" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Question No. 9 on this year's census form asks about race, with one of the answers listed as "black, African-Am. or Negro."</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Read more: <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2010/01/06/2010-01-06_census_negro_issue_use_of_word_on_forms_raises_hackles_memories_of_jim_crow.html#ixzz0cAGXQcNI" linkindex="220">HERE</a></span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But, President Barack Obama has accepted Harry Reid's comments saying:</span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“I accepted Harry’s apology without question because I’ve known him for years, I’ve seen the passionate leadership he’s shown on issues of social justice and I know what’s in his heart,” Mr. Obama said in a statement released by the White House. “As far as I am concerned, the book is closed.”</span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://africanamericanpoliticalpundit.com/">AAPP</a>: "Ouch! Mr. President, with all due respect, “As far as I am concerned, the book is not closed for the African American community.” - “You have accepted Harry’s apology without question because you have known him for years." Well Mr. President, you have known a bigot for years. This man, Harry Reid <a href="http://michaellonkouski.newsvine.com/_news/2010/01/09/3734693-sen-harry-reid-must-resign-over-racist-remarks">needs to resign</a>." He is part of a culture in America that should be alarming to all reasonable people in America. I urge you to watch this video and then ask the qurestion, does Mr. Reid add fuel to the fire of these bigots: </span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> NOTE: Harry Reid's comments about Barack Obama are contained in <a href="http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/09/2008-campaign-all-over-again-in-new-book/" linkindex="50" title="Caucus blog post about book.">a passage of the book “Game Change</a>,” by political journalists John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, which is set to be released by Harper on Monday.</span><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773346863658978712.post-16580182488228071252010-01-06T08:29:00.000-05:002010-01-06T08:29:06.341-05:00New 'Miranda Rights' against taser abuse,"<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>"These are new 'Miranda Rights' against taser abuse," <br />
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There's been a ground-breaking decision by the <b><a href="http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/" target="_blank">9th Circuit US Federal Court of Appeals</a></b> against taser abuse, entitled<b><a href="http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2009/12/28/08-55622.pdf" target="_blank"> Bryan v. McPherson</a></b>. This decision was announced on December 29th, between Christmas and New Years holidays but it deserves our immediate attention and dissemination via our <b><a href="http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/federal-appeals-court-limits-taser-use" target="_blank">EasyWidgets</a></b>:<br />
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The decision writes into federal caselaw many of the arguments and advocacy that we afrosphere bloggers have been making at our <b><a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Day+of+Blogging+for+Justice%22+taser&btnG=Search&aq=f&oq=&aqi=" target="_blank">Days (months and years) of Blogging for Justice Against Police Pre-Trial, Extra-Judicial "Taser" Shock, Electrocution and Execution devices. </a></b> The Easy-Widget HTML code below enables us to educate the public of their newly announced rights.<br />
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The 9th Circuit Federal Court of Appeals agreed with us that:<br />
</span> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span lang="EN-US">". . . we must “balance the amount of force applied against the need for that force.”</span></b><b> <a href="http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2009/12/28/08-55622.pdf" target="_blank">Bryan v. McPherson, 9th Cir. Fd. Ct. App., December 29, 2009.</a></b><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></b></span><br />
</div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"> This decision has direct legal effect throughout the 9th Circuit, consisting of populous California, Alaska, Washington, Montana, Oregon, Idaho, Arizona, Hawaii and Guam, and influential in other parts of the country. Nearly 20% of America's population is within<b> <a href="http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/content/view.php?pk_id=0000000135" target="_blank">the jurisdiction of the 9th Circuit.</a></b> The Court announced what we have long insisted:<br />
</span> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span lang="EN-US">"A reasonable police officer . . . would have foreseen these physical injuries when confronting a shirtless individual standing on asphalt. We have held that <span>force can be unreasonable even without physical blows or injuries."</span></span></b><b> </b><b><a href="http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2009/12/28/08-55622.pdf" target="_blank">Bryan v. McPherson</a></b></span><br />
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</div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"> We've got <a href="http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/stop-the-electrocutions-and-executions-175px" target="_blank"><b>widgets up at 123 afrosphere blogs</b></a> telling the public that, in many cases, when "Tasers" are used, <a href="http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/stop-the-electrocutions-and-executions-175px" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold;">"The price is too high"</span></a>. Now, lets post Easy-Widgets to inform the public that </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Cscript%20type=%22text/javascript%22%20src=%22http://cdn.widgetserver.com/syndication/subscriber/InsertWidget.js%22%3E%3C/script%3E%3Cscript%3Eif%20%28WIDGETBOX%29%20WIDGETBOX.renderWidget%28%278069ec42-5c08-4b96-8153-38181453cd8f%27%29;%3C/script%3E%3Cnoscript%3EGet%20the%20%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/tasered-while-black-opposes-taser-torture%22%3ETasered%20While%20Black%20Opposes%20Taser%20Torture%3C/a%3E%20widget%20and%20many%20other%20%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.widgetbox.com/%22%3Egreat%20free%20widgets%3C/a%3E%20at%20%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.widgetbox.com%22%3EWidgetbox%3C/a%3E%21%20Not%20seeing%20a%20widget?%20%28%3Ca%20href=%22http://docs.widgetbox.com/using-widgets/installing-widgets/why-cant-i-see-my-widget/%22%3EMore%20info%3C/a%3E%29%3C/noscript%3E" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">one of the most influential </a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Cscript%20type=%22text/javascript%22%20src=%22http://cdn.widgetserver.com/syndication/subscriber/InsertWidget.js%22%3E%3C/script%3E%3Cscript%3Eif%20%28WIDGETBOX%29%20WIDGETBOX.renderWidget%28%278069ec42-5c08-4b96-8153-38181453cd8f%27%29;%3C/script%3E%3Cnoscript%3EGet%20the%20%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/tasered-while-black-opposes-taser-torture%22%3ETasered%20While%20Black%20Opposes%20Taser%20Torture%3C/a%3E%20widget%20and%20many%20other%20%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.widgetbox.com/%22%3Egreat%20free%20widgets%3C/a%3E%20at%20%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.widgetbox.com%22%3EWidgetbox%3C/a%3E%21%20Not%20seeing%20a%20widget?%20%28%3Ca%20href=%22http://docs.widgetbox.com/using-widgets/installing-widgets/why-cant-i-see-my-widget/%22%3EMore%20info%3C/a%3E%29%3C/noscript%3E" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold;">federal circuit courts </span></a></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Cscript%20type=%22text/javascript%22%20src=%22http://cdn.widgetserver.com/syndication/subscriber/InsertWidget.js%22%3E%3C/script%3E%3Cscript%3Eif%20%28WIDGETBOX%29%20WIDGETBOX.renderWidget%28%278069ec42-5c08-4b96-8153-38181453cd8f%27%29;%3C/script%3E%3Cnoscript%3EGet%20the%20%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/tasered-while-black-opposes-taser-torture%22%3ETasered%20While%20Black%20Opposes%20Taser%20Torture%3C/a%3E%20widget%20and%20many%20other%20%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.widgetbox.com/%22%3Egreat%20free%20widgets%3C/a%3E%20at%20%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.widgetbox.com%22%3EWidgetbox%3C/a%3E%21%20Not%20seeing%20a%20widget?%20%28%3Ca%20href=%22http://docs.widgetbox.com/using-widgets/installing-widgets/why-cant-i-see-my-widget/%22%3EMore%20info%3C/a%3E%29%3C/noscript%3E" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;"></span></a><span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Cscript%20type=%22text/javascript%22%20src=%22http://cdn.widgetserver.com/syndication/subscriber/InsertWidget.js%22%3E%3C/script%3E%3Cscript%3Eif%20%28WIDGETBOX%29%20WIDGETBOX.renderWidget%28%278069ec42-5c08-4b96-8153-38181453cd8f%27%29;%3C/script%3E%3Cnoscript%3EGet%20the%20%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/tasered-while-black-opposes-taser-torture%22%3ETasered%20While%20Black%20Opposes%20Taser%20Torture%3C/a%3E%20widget%20and%20many%20other%20%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.widgetbox.com/%22%3Egreat%20free%20widgets%3C/a%3E%20at%20%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.widgetbox.com%22%3EWidgetbox%3C/a%3E%21%20Not%20seeing%20a%20widget?%20%28%3Ca%20href=%22http://docs.widgetbox.com/using-widgets/installing-widgets/why-cant-i-see-my-widget/%22%3EMore%20info%3C/a%3E%29%3C/noscript%3E" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold;">of appeal </span></a></span><span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Cscript%20type=%22text/javascript%22%20src=%22http://cdn.widgetserver.com/syndication/subscriber/InsertWidget.js%22%3E%3C/script%3E%3Cscript%3Eif%20%28WIDGETBOX%29%20WIDGETBOX.renderWidget%28%278069ec42-5c08-4b96-8153-38181453cd8f%27%29;%3C/script%3E%3Cnoscript%3EGet%20the%20%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/tasered-while-black-opposes-taser-torture%22%3ETasered%20While%20Black%20Opposes%20Taser%20Torture%3C/a%3E%20widget%20and%20many%20other%20%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.widgetbox.com/%22%3Egreat%20free%20widgets%3C/a%3E%20at%20%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.widgetbox.com%22%3EWidgetbox%3C/a%3E%21%20Not%20seeing%20a%20widget?%20%28%3Ca%20href=%22http://docs.widgetbox.com/using-widgets/installing-widgets/why-cant-i-see-my-widget/%22%3EMore%20info%3C/a%3E%29%3C/noscript%3E" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold;">in the country agrees with us that:</span></a></span><br />
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</span> <div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-left: 40px;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><b>"The presence of non-minor physical injuries like those suffered by </b><b>Bryan</b><b>, however, is certainly relevant in evaluating the degree of the Fourth Amendment intrusion.</b><b>" </b><b><a href="http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2009/12/28/08-55622.pdf" target="_blank">Bryan v. McPherson</a></b></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
Let's celebrate! Here's a new EasyWidget that takes readers to our anti-electrocution blogs. This Easy-Widget HTML (immediately below) links to <b><a href="http://electrocutedwhileblack.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-easy-widget-informs-bloggers-public.html" target="_blank">Electrocuted While Black</a></b>, but there are visibly identical widgets below that lead to <a href="http://taseredwhileblack.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><b>Tasered While Black</b></a> and the <b><a href="http://police-brutality-blog.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Police Brutality Blog</a>.</b><br />
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</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">The result is better than that for which many of us had hoped. Instead of arguing locally for changes to voluntarily enforced police taser policy, Bryan's lawyers in this case, and bloggers making similar arguments, convinced the 9th Circuit Federal Appeals Court to write these requirements and limitations into Federal caselaw, which is probably faster, better and politically safer than having the restrictions enacted into law by the US Congress. <br />
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Afrosphere bloggers and the Ninth Circuit encourage other circuits to follow this example by observing that:<br />
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</div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"> Not everyone -- blogger or reader -- has had a chance to read the whole <b><a href="http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2009/12/28/08-55622.pdf" target="_blank">Bryan v. McPherson</a></b> case. So, <a href="http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/federal-appeals-court-limits-taser-use" target="_blank"><b>the Easy-Widget quotes the most powerful language of the decision</b></a> and links to our afrosphere blogs for more information.<br />
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In <b><a href="http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2009/12/28/08-55622.pdf" target="_blank">Bryan v. McPherson</a></b>, the 9th Circuit Federal Appeals Court basically wrote into federal caselaw many of the arguments that we taser opponents have been arguing. But this is better than what many of us had sought, because instead of it being a change in local optionally enforced "guidelines," it's a change in obligatorily obeyed federal case law for the states in the 9th Circuit, and also, as the decision alludes, the 9th Circuit has enormous influence on other "sister" circuits courts.<br />
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I'm glad to note that there will be a <strong>annual <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">December 4th</span></strong><strong> blogging event</strong> called, <strong>“<span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);">Stop Taser Torture, blogging for Justice</span>.”</strong></span> </p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:85%;">The goal is to unite the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day – <strong>Taser Torture </strong>in America, Canada and throughout the world.</span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:85%;">Amnesty International says that between 2001 and August 2008, <a href="http://www.amnesty.ca/resource_centre/news/view.php?load=arcview&article=4543&c=Resource+Centre+News">334 Americans</a> died after Taser shocks. The stun gun was deemed to have caused or contributed to at least 50 of those deaths, Amnesty says, citing medical examiners and coroners. Most suspects were unarmed, and many were subjected to repeated or prolonged shocks, according to Amnesty. The human rights group has called for governments to limit the use of stun guns or suspend their use. In November 2007, the UN Committee Against Torture released a statement saying “use of Taser X26 weapons, provoking extreme pain, constituted a form of torture, and… in certain cases, it could also cause death.”</span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:85%;">Join in on <strong>December 4th</strong>. <strong>“Stop Taser Torture, blogging for Justice.” </strong>as we raise awareness and trigger a global discussion.</span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:85%;">Contact us at: <a href="mailto:StopTaserTorture@gmail.com" target="_blank">StopTaserTorture@gmail.com</a> to register your blog.</span></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Visit: <a href="http://stoptasertorture.wordpress.com/about/">Stop Taser Torture</a></span></p><p face="trebuchet ms" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><br /></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773346863658978712.post-4210682448999556532009-10-24T13:47:00.000-04:002009-10-24T13:48:35.015-04:00Post -Racial Tasering Policy?<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >Here is another Post-Racial moment. Well it looks like Taser International has said </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><a style="color: blue;" href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.saysuncle.com/2009/10/22/taser-acknowledges-their-product-may-cause-cardiac-arrest/&ct=ga&cd=yzr9gU-3reM&usg=AFQjCNFLGlR0febSgGGlfOfubqgGHAxQGg" target="_blank">Uncle.</a></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" > The </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><a style="color: blue;" href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://abclocal.go.com/wjrt/story%3Fsection%3Dnews/local%26id%3D7080269&ct=ga&cd=vS7rhGBC0n4&usg=AFQjCNEVIspRnKhgtlnPww2u4Rmq9hUm4w" target="_blank">Makers of <b>TASER</b> devices say don't aim at chest</a></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >. As reported by many bloggers, including the <a href="http://electronicvillage.blogspot.com/2009/10/taser-advisory-to-cops-our-guns-may.html">Electronic Village</a>, <a href="http://www.ajc.com/news/taser-company-issues-heart-169951.html">news outlets</a> and </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><a realurl="http://rawstory.com/2009/10/fire-tasers-chest/" linkindex="72" done="done" href="http://rawstory.com/2009/10/fire-tasers-chest/" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','12','AFQjCNF-4TPO3SyGeWuEjyUbsWw-ryaeRA','&sig2=wouWn4j2o4C2S9z1P4pobQ','0CDAQFjAL')">internet <em></em></a></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" > <a href="http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/oct/22/taser-warns-of-risk-to-heart/">sources</a>, Taser maker Taser International is advising police agencies across the nation to avoid aiming the devices at a suspect’s chest. The Arizona-based company says such action poses an “extremely low” risk of an “adverse cardiac event.” The Atlanta Journal reports that Law enforcement in Atlanta, Gwinnett and <a href="http://g.ajc.com/r/Cd/">Clayton County</a> said they are in the process of scheduling training for their officers who carry Tasers.<br /></span> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:100%;">“It won’t be a huge change. It’s a difference of a few inches,” said Sgt. Tony Kessler, a training officer for the <a href="http://g.ajc.com/r/Cd/">Clayton County</a> Sheriff. “We still have the back and other parts of the body.”</span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:100%;">Gwinnett Police spokesman Cpl. David Schiralli said the Taser manufacturer only “recommended aiming lower towards the abdominal region,” but said the 279 officers who have Tasers will be retrained.</span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://g.ajc.com/r/Ch/">Cobb County</a> Police are already ahead of the game, spokesman Officer Joe Hernandez said. Cobb’s 100 Tasers are carried by only veteran patrol officers, the Tactical Team, Burglary Apprehension Team and robbery interdiction squad. <a href="http://www.ajc.com/news/taser-company-issues-heart-169951.html">More HERE</a></span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:100%;">The advisory, issued in an Oct. 12 training bulletin, marks the first time that Taser has suggested any risk of ill effects on the heart from the use of its 50,000-volt stun guns. <a href="http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/oct/22/taser-warns-of-risk-to-heart/">More HERE</a></span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" > <span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://electronicvillage.blogspot.com/2009/10/taser-advisory-to-cops-our-guns-may.html">Electronic Village</a> reports, <a linkindex="356" href="http://www.taser.com/">Taser International</a>, the maker of taser guns is advising police officers to avoid <a href="http://eddiegriffinbasg.blogspot.com/2009/08/towards-closure-and-resolution-in-taser.html">shooting suspects</a> in the chest with the 50,000-volt weapon, saying that it could pose an extremely low risk of an "<em>adverse cardiac event</em>."</span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><strong>The advisory, issued in an <a linkindex="357" href="http://www.policeone.com/policeone/data/pdfs/TASER_Media_Bulletin.pdf">Oct. 12 training bulletin</a>, marks the first time that Taser has suggested any risk of ill effects on the heart from the use of its 50,000-volt taser guns</strong>.<br /><br /><a href="http://electronicvillage.blogspot.com/2009/10/taser-advisory-to-cops-our-guns-may.html">Electronic Village</a> goes on to report that <a href="http://taseredwhileblack.blogspot.com/">critics</a>, including civil-rights lawyers and human-rights advocates, called the training bulletin an admission by Taser that its guns could cause cardiac arrest. For years, Taser officials have said in interviews, court cases and government hearings that the stun gun is <strong>incapable</strong> of inducing ventricular fibrillation, the chaotic heart rhythm characteristic of a heart attack. <a href="http://electronicvillage.blogspot.com/2009/10/taser-advisory-to-cops-our-guns-may.html">More HERE</a> There have been more than 400 deaths in the U.S. and 26 in Canada since 2001, according to a study by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Tasers have contributed to more than 30 of those deaths, according to medical examiners.</span> </p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:100%;">Three of those occurred in the <a href="http://g.ajc.com/r/Cm/">Gwinnett County</a> jail after deputies used a Taser on combative inmates. Autopsies showed two of those deaths were the result of heart attacks, but did not cite what caused the cardiac arrest. The other death was ruled the result of “excited delirium” – a combination of cocaine, alcohol and physical exertion that excited his heart too much, according to the medical examiner.</span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:100%;">A spokeswoman for the Gwinnett sheriff said Taser International's training bulletin has already been sent out to all of the deputies who carry Tasers. </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://electronicvillage.blogspot.com/2009/10/taser-advisory-to-cops-our-guns-may.html">More HERE</a></span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:100%;">"All future training will have it incorporated too," sheriff's spokeswoman Stacey Bourbonnais said Thursday.</span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:100%;">The Publisher of the </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="641" href="http://taseredwhileblack.blogspot.com/">Tasered While Black</a></span><span style="font-size:100%;"> Blog said: "Well it looks like this announcement by Taser International is having major impact on law enforcement standard operating procedures. Let's see if it make any difference on the</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> streets of Amderica, or will cops actually aim at the chest in the future, as a way of killing people." </span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span></p> <h3 style="clear: left; padding-top: 10px; font-weight: normal; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="r"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a realurl="http://www.kdvr.com/news/kdvr-tasers-heart-attacks-102109,0,2494988.story" linkindex="46" done="done" href="http://www.kdvr.com/news/kdvr-tasers-heart-attacks-102109,0,2494988.story" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','5','AFQjCNFJpZ8I1QrksUp17uLjmNxQ5-psYw','&sig2=hO468uJDAx9GbryN6YrKwA','0CBsQFjAE')">Boulder, Colorado ACLU wants <em>Tasers</em> holstered<br /></a></span></h3> <span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><a style="color: blue;" href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.koat.com/news/21398138/detail.html&ct=ga&cd=HIY3C7pHuhk&usg=AFQjCNHWBzFAj-LDF8kb4xgg2J4EmfnEow" target="_blank">New Guidelines For APD On Taser Gun Use - Albuquerque News Story</a><br /><br /><a style="color: blue;" href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.wlky.com/news/21405874/detail.html&ct=ga&cd=ZHT4VlJI1Q0&usg=AFQjCNEnsgBn9PUpzLE_ZJqVjReL8_NMSQ" target="_blank">Metro <b>Police</b> Change <b>Taser</b> Policy</a><br /><br /><a style="color: blue;" href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.kansascity.com/115/story/1526571.html&ct=ga&cd=vazlMVsX_IQ&usg=AFQjCNHwZDShCreIzijlUVoZskm2ZWC97Q" target="_blank"> <b>Police</b> rethink stun-gun policy</a><br /></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><br />Read more on tasering at the following blogs.<br /><br /></span><br /><ul style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="39" href="http://police-brutality-blog.blogspot.com/">Police Brutality Blog</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://electronicvillage.blogspot.com/2009/10/taser-advisory-to-cops-our-guns-may.html">Electronic Village</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="616" href="http://www.cameronward.com/">a. cameron ward & company, barristers and solicitors</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="617" href="http://www.civilrightsmovement.ca/">canadian civil rights movement</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="618" href="http://www.cbc.ca/national/blog/special_feature/a_deadly_landing/">cbc - a deadly landing</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="619" href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/interactives/tasers/">cbc - taser database</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="620" href="http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/12/04/taser-tests.html?ref=rss">cbc - taser tests</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="621" href="http://www.cbc.ca/national/blog/special_feature/the_truth_about_tasers/">cbc - the truth about tasers</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="622" href="http://www.charlydmiller.com/LIB07/2006TaserCollection.html">charly miller - tasers</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="623" href="http://creekside1.blogspot.com/search/label/TASER%E2%84%A2">creekside</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="624" href="http://www.thumperwatch.org/dont.tase.me.bro/">don't tase me bro</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="625" href="http://educate-yourself.org/pnt/index.shtml">educate-yourself</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="626" href="http://electronicvillage.blogspot.com/search?q=taser">electronic village</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="627" href="http://www.evidunce.com/">evidunce (new)</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="628" href="http://excited-delirium.blogspot.com/">excited-delirium</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="629" href="http://feralcops.blogspot.com/">feral cops (new)</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="630" href="http://abbink.blogspot.com/search?q=taser">getting it right</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="631" href="http://nateo.blogspot.com/">it all goes here</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="632" href="http://nomoretasers.com/">no more tasers</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="633" href="http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/ban-tasers-from-police">petition - outlaw law enforcement use of tasers</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="635" href="http://www.preventdangerousharm.com/index.html">prevent dangerous harm</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="636" href="http://www.raidh.org/">RAIDH (France)</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="637" href="http://settingcommissionerfantinostraight.blogspot.com/">setting fantino straight</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="638" href="http://stoptasers.org/">stat - stop taser abuse today</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="639" href="http://tasernation.wordpress.com/">taser nation</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="640" href="http://www.taser.org.uk/">taser org uk</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="641" href="http://taseredwhileblack.blogspot.com/">tasered while black</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="642" href="http://taseredwhilelatino.blogspot.com/">tasered while latino (new)</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="643" href="http://taserfilm.blogspot.com/">taserfilm (new)</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="644" href="http://taserwatch.newsvine.com/">taserwatch</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="645" href="http://theduckshoot.com/blog/category/taser-watch/">the duck shoot - taser-watch (new)</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="646" href="http://taserdeaths.org/">the taser deaths blog</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="40" href="http://taseroftheday.blogspot.com/">Taser of The Day/</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="41" href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/taser">Gizmodo</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="42" href="http://truthnottasers.blogspot.com/">Truth Not Tasers</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="43" href="http://taserwatch.newsvine.com/">Taser Watch</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="44" href="http://excited-delirium.blogspot.com/">Excited-Delirium</a></span></li></ul> <span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://taseredwhileblack.blogspot.com/"><br /></a><a href="http://taseredwhileblack.blogspot.com/"> </a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773346863658978712.post-60993861936778256812009-10-09T10:52:00.000-04:002009-10-09T10:53:27.448-04:00The First Race Card Nobel Peace Prize<span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >The <a href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2009/10/president-barack-obama-awarded-2009-nobel-peace-prize/" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','1','AFQjCNEf6suJ587b_a0EDoPituyauFD4ug','&sig2=QyxSY0XRNSQ3sqZvXVqi0Q')">headlines</a> <a href="http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/1815618,barack-obama-nobel-peace-prize-100909.article">say it all</a>.<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8298787.stm" target="_self" class="usg-AFQjCNEixBeqhmzULZFGwc4LimGO5B8VcQ sig2-g53AjAFHBsEbjKZ7EqiGlQ"><b> Obama</b> gets reward for world view</a> - <span class="source">BBC News,</span> <a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2009/10/obama_strikes_gold_in_scandana.html?hpid=opinionsbox1" target="_self" class="usg-AFQjCNHWlkQQgj1TzdXasYbJ9S_HioumcQ sig2-52TFkac85681WmNTlgkuCg"><b>Obama</b> Strikes Gold</a> <span class="source">- The Washington Post, </span><a target="_self" class="usg-AFQjCNExgTkdpRlsYT6lSTnqOhU36nP7Cw sig2-HlSI5K10hm2kWZxO2oSEsg" href="http://blogs.wsj.com/capitaljournal/2009/10/09/the-nobel-prize-and-europeans-views-of-america/">The Nobel Prize, and Europeans' Views of America.<br /></a></span> <div style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="additional-article"><div class="aa-inner"> </div></div> <div style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="additional-article"><div class="aa-inner"> </div></div> <span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><br /><a target="_self" class="usg-AFQjCNGI7sA-J5mZSn41loEKZSHlZDnVzA sig2-mhmEh7Mij_09L9EAXp4InQ" href="http://wonkette.com/411531/your-2009-nobel-peace-prize-winner-is-american-president-barack-obama">President Barack Obama </a>won the 2009 <a target="_self" class="usg-AFQjCNElYl5nGT-9Ia1J_OxRBvs_YTNLkw sig2-YoupJKHEE7f8KP23rcAOzg" href="http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/10/09/obama-won-the-what/">Nobel Peace Prize</a> on Friday for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples," the Norwegian Nobel Committee said, citing his outreach to the Muslim world and attempts to curb nuclear proliferation.<br /><br />AAPP: I'm with so many Americans on this one. <span style="font-weight: bold;">I'm wondering what did President Barack Obama do to win the Nobel Prize.</span> What did he really do? Did he really win because he is the first black to win the Presidency of the United States? If so, this will be the first "Race Card-Nobel Prize." Barack has not solved the color arousal problem in America, Stopped the War on Afghanistan, or brought Peace to the Middle East, So... <span style="font-weight: bold;">What did Obama do to get the Nobel Peace Prize?</span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><br /><strong></strong></span> <div class="entry" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> <p><span style="font-size:100%;"><img style="width: 202px; height: 187px;" src="http://www.popfi.com/wp-content/uploads/nobel-peace-prize.JPG" alt="nobel-peace-prize.JPG" align="right" /></span></p></div> <span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >As reported by the Huffington post, The stunning choice made Obama the third sitting U.S. president to win the <a href="http://www.popfi.com/2009/10/09/obama-wins-nobel-peace-prize/">Nobel Peace Prize</a> and shocked Nobel observers because Obama took office less than two weeks before the Feb. 1 nomination deadline. Obama's name had been mentioned in speculation before the award but many Nobel watchers believed it was too early to award the president. <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/09/obama-wins-nobel-peace-pr_n_314907.html">More HERE</a><br /><br />The <a target="_self" class="usg-AFQjCNE9F7DWvXd71d5aMH1gAbA3zp_ddQ sig2-WYxb3gx2jtm9CPcyE7EWiw" href="http://www.blueoregon.com/2009/10/barack-obama-wins-the-nobel-peace-prize.html">bloggers</a> <a href="http://thisblksistaspage.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/president-barack-obama-nobel-laureate/" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','9','AFQjCNG9InWuj1L4Z4u8GuF63iauCkFDLQ','&sig2=Hl8ksaAVDRn6l2wbqQnsOQ')">are going<em></em><em></em></a> <a href="http://blackpoliticalthought.blogspot.com/2009/10/president-barack-obama-wins-2009-nobel.html" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','5','AFQjCNE7Esd9k5LQbPxun9raP6hpomu3NA','&sig2=FcSz38K1HUgKdJeG7E2NLg')">off the chain</a> <a href="http://electronicvillage.blogspot.com/2009/10/barack-obama-wins-nobel-peace-prize-for.html" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','1','AFQjCNHTYKFoC6RuK_nC-zW9d3a7RPOHHQ','&sig2=0PF8hv3C0278VVbbX-L1ZA')">reporting<em></em><em></em></a> on how <a target="_self" class="usg-AFQjCNGB0rZ6sl_IkN9SswAhzUdqVByLHw sig2-3H-wIt6TnLT9kMd0uFu7jQ" href="http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2009/10/09/obamas-nobel-win-stuns-even-at-white-house/">Obama's Nobel win stuns even the White House</a> as <a href="http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/13417/obama-wins-the-nobel-peace-prize-rightwingers-not-happy" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','4','AFQjCNFH-JSv5StohlSDDnNxFa78Wm939Q','&sig2=c_5fyvshVs_HIdLQzx38WQ')"><em>President Barack Obama</em></a> follows <a target="_self" class="usg-AFQjCNEgSgKW3FcWKYzkH8-tUqQjTVSWMw sig2-5KQumJFZtXWR_TlJgs39cg" href="http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2009/10/09/make-room-al-gore-obamas-nobel-prize-is-also-for-climate-change/">Al Gore by obtaining this high honor.</a><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /><br /></span>OK, Don't hate me for saying this, and I know <a href="http://blackpoliticsontheweb.com/2009/10/09/archbishop-desmond-tutu%E2%80%99s-statement-following-the-announcement-of-president-barack-obama-winning-the-nobel-peace-prize/" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','7','AFQjCNFq-6kGaaIpkEfByD4s3N6qVBHLaw','&sig2=DX_iGJ7Lu8M215DIAcgAqw')">Archbishop Desmond Tutu</a> and <a href="http://www.wichitanaacpblog.com/2009/10/statement-of-archbishop-desmond-tutu-on.html" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','12','AFQjCNEiRhn-XPzfXmaJsBiuokArMIn_mg','&sig2=u8LPGdPsCFxFenNW1lgdTg')">many others</a> may <a href="http://slanttruth.com/2008/09/08/in-honor-of-community-organizing/" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','18','AFQjCNGKPufVFSt33lPl-z28KprtEP2HAw','&sig2=lhbnYcOKl-yvV0ST0XcIOw')">disagree</a> with me, but I don't get why he received the Nobel prize, but I'm not going to join the idiots and <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2009/10/09/even-mainstream-media-stunned-skeptical-over-nobel-peace-prize/">right wingers</a> who an <a target="_self" class="usg-AFQjCNHuAqmkB0KD7nOP_Zhj68sl-8X1Tw sig2-s0JHCKNB4NpkTG-ZYhOLBQ" href="http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2009/10/09/online-petition-protests-obamas-nobel-win/">online petition that protests Obama's Nobel win</a>.<br /><br />Yes, there are many bloggers, including black bloggers like <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=8&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.averagebro.com%2F2009%2F10%2Fpeace-out.html&ei=9ELPSqPRNNXR8Aa5zK3uAw&usg=AFQjCNEuInPdE_hivh2M0zuzBoqIjRrVFQ&sig2=CWFAT-ZBbQvVL8EVL5ITeA" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','8','AFQjCNEuInPdE_hivh2M0zuzBoqIjRrVFQ','&sig2=CWFAT-ZBbQvVL8EVL5ITeA')">AverageBro.com<em></em></a> who wonder why <a target="_self" class="usg-AFQjCNG4WgPZNoTEC5VkI3blWzhZKcWPKg sig2-8wZ2nN4-MlGByx7c_ZhROg" href="http://blogs.wsj.com/iainmartin/2009/10/09/barack-obama-wins-nobel-peace-prize-for-what/">Barack Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize?</a> Some are wondering if Barack Obama received a<a target="_self" class="usg-AFQjCNGjckEO6_6EHgLDOqvKQCeJRECMww sig2-qb1DvyfmaVigLdoSaXRBsA _tracked" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct2=us%2F0_0_s_16_0_t&usg=AFQjCNGjckEO6_6EHgLDOqvKQCeJRECMww&sig2=qb1DvyfmaVigLdoSaXRBsA&cid=1448227439&ei=JjrPSojrE4vVlQeZz6uMAw&rt=STORY&vm=STANDARD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbaracksteleprompter.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F10%2Fthats-nobel-prize-winning-teleprompter.html"> Nobel-Prize for his teleprompter skills?</a> Candidly I don't think <a target="_self" class="usg-AFQjCNFqxU6iMEKmYbzmcbK1DOU-tEbuqg sig2-2tac2RFmfISdJ-rJx0WsBg" href="http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/dennis-byrne-barbershop/2009/10/obamas-tarnished-dangerous-peace-prize.html">Obama's Nobel Prize is tarnished as some right wingers think.</a><br /><br />I salute and congratulate our President for winning the Nobel Peace prize, I just wonder out loud why he received the prize for his outreach to the Muslim world and attempts to curb nuclear proliferation.<br /></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><br />As the <a href="http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/2009/10/what-is-the-point-of-the-nobel-peace-prize/">Financial Times</a> points out— “It is hard to point to a single place where Obama’s efforts have actually brought about peace.”<br /><br />The <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6867711.ece">Times of London</a>, is right! The Nobel committee has made a mockery of the award.</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><br />Candidly, I would like to see our President outreach into communities like New Orleans here in the US of A and attempt to curb black on black gun violence, tasering of Americans by police and gun proliferation in America, particularly in the African American communities. Then he would be a Nobel Peace Prize winner of the caliber of Martin Luther King, Jr.<br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Until then, This Prize is nothing more than the first "Race-Card Nobel Peace Prize."</span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><br /><br />That's my opinion... and I could be right.<br /><br /></span> <div style="text-align: center;"><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://aapoliticalpundit.blogspot.com/">African American Political Pundit</a> is a regular contributor to this blog.<br /><br /></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773346863658978712.post-61626901592628744002009-09-21T13:21:00.000-04:002009-09-21T15:25:28.531-04:00Police taser unarmed, legless black man in a wheelchair<span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><br />Yes, you read it --- California police in Merced California have used a taser on unarmed, leggless black man in wheelchair.<br /><br />The <a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/nation/story/75729.html">Huffington Post</a>, The </span><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" linkindex="29" target="_self" class="usg-AFQjCNEZ6V0TaIqT7TQb5YsVcfhlOmr-Tg sig2-1myAzJNqFV17LzjwhXTTXg" href="http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/09/legless-man-cops-tasered/">Raw Story</a><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >, </span><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" linkindex="45" href="http://newsone.com/nation/two-white-cops-allegedly-taser-black-wheelchair-bound-amputee-twice/" id="p-5:OJV88UIvF9dqK11Pd5I-0A">News One</a><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" > and other </span><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" linkindex="35" target="_self" class="usg-AFQjCNFtwJJidP0g7B3QIX1CCZhSFdZsSw sig2-8sBjvPYwUQDZIAcZqT4JjA" href="http://www.bostonherald.com/news/national/west/view/20090921did_california_police_use_a_taser_on_an_unarmed_legless_man_in_a_wheelchair/srvc=home&position=recent">news outlets</a><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" > and </span><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" realurl="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/9/21/784734/-Black-Double-Amputee-Tased-in-Wheelchair" linkindex="60" done="done" href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/9/21/784734/-Black-Double-Amputee-Tased-in-Wheelchair" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','9','AFQjCNG9rbp6VmD_Sx16B2KybqupoxRITQ','&sig2=52GY230uxFMkPWZIZMWeug')">bloggers</a><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" > are <a href="http://hiphopwired.com/10162/black-wheelchair-bound-amputee-tasered-by-police/">reporting</a> on the </span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><a realurl="http://www.mercedsunstar.com/167/story/1068479.html" linkindex="33" done="done" href="http://www.mercedsunstar.com/167/story/1068479.html" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','1','AFQjCNEAqxq7isxdaIBhUYEDhjU7yLg6lg','&sig2=8v0tJt4D_UN51NFGQZljOQ')">Tasing of a black male amputee in wheelchair by 2 white officers.</a></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" > Victoria A Patton of the Mercedes Sun Star </span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >reports that the man who was Tasered, Gregory Williams, 40, a double-leg amputee, spent six days in jail on suspicion of domestic violence and resisting arrest, but the Merced County District Attorney's office hasn't filed any charges. <a href="http://videos.mercedsunstar.com/vmix_hosted_apps/p/media?id=6260947&item_index=1&all=1&sort=NULL">Watch the video of his tasering/arrest HERE</a><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><a linkindex="91" href="http://videos.mercedsunstar.com/vmix_hosted_apps/p/media?id=6260947&item_index=1&all=1&sort=NULL" class="thickbox" title="SUN-STAR PHOTO BY LISA JAMES Greg Williams, a disabled double amputee who was Tasered by Merced Police Officers on Sept. 11th, recounts the incident to a Merced Sun-Star reporter last Friday at Williams' K Street apartment where the incident occurred. September 18th, 2009" alt="SUN-STAR PHOTO BY LISA JAMES Greg Williams, a disabled double amputee who was Tasered by Merced Police Officers on Sept. 11th, recounts the incident to a Merced Sun-Star reporter last Friday at Williams' K Street apartment where the incident occurred. September 18th, 2009" rel="story-images"> <img class="imageCycle" src="http://media.mercedsunstar.com/smedia/2009/09/20/19/Merced-Race-Taser_1.embedded.prod_affiliate.111.jpg" alt="Merced Tasing" /> </a><br /></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-size:85%;">Photo </span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >Source: Lisa Jane Merced Sun Star</span><br /><br />Williams is black, and the two main arresting officers are white, but it's unknown whether race played any role in the incident.<br /><br />Williams, who was released from jail on Friday, said he was manhandled and Tasered by police, even though he said he was never physically aggressive toward the officers and didn't resist arrest.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Williams said he was humiliated after his pants fell down during the incident. The officers allegedly left him outdoors in broad daylight, handcuffed on the pavement, nude below the waist.</span> Williams said the Sept. 11 arrest also left him with an injured shoulder, limiting his mobility in his wheelchair.<br /><br />A handful of residents in Williams' apartment complex said they witnessed the incident and supported Williams' charges. A short video clip, shot by a neighbor and obtained by the Sun-Star, shows Williams sitting on the pavement with his pants down, his hands cuffed behind his back.<br /><br />A Merced police report, written by the responding officers, says that police tried to reason with Williams before the arrest, to no avail. The officers wrote that Williams was uncooperative and refused to turn his 2-year-old daughter over to Merced County Child Protective Services, among other allegations.<br /><br />In the report, police also say a hostile crowd gathered as the officers tried to perform their duties.<br /><br />The Merced Police Department spokesman declined to comment on the matter, saying he can't discuss it because the investigation is internal. Both the officers remain on duty. </span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.mercedsunstar.com/167/story/1068479-p2.html">Read the excellent report on how this all happened HERE </a><a linkindex="91" href="http://www.mercedsunstar.com/167/story/1068479-p2.html" class="thickbox" title="SUN-STAR PHOTO BY LISA JAMES Greg Williams, a disabled double amputee who was Tasered by Merced Police Officers on Sept. 11th, recounts the incident to a Merced Sun-Star reporter last Friday at Williams' K Street apartment where the incident occurred. September 18th, 2009" alt="SUN-STAR PHOTO BY LISA JAMES Greg Williams, a disabled double amputee who was Tasered by Merced Police Officers on Sept. 11th, recounts the incident to a Merced Sun-Star reporter last Friday at Williams' K Street apartment where the incident occurred. September 18th, 2009" rel="story-images"> </a></span><br /><br /> <span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >Tasered While Black publisher says: "Let's see if President Barack Obama says anything about this! Our president was quick to support the black elite from police abuse, lets see if he is as quick to denounce this situation. by-the-way who is running the Civil Rights division at the justice department? It time for the U.S. Justice department to take the gloves off and stop the continued pre-trial electrocution of black folks in America."<br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">The </span></span><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" linkindex="36" href="http://aapoliticalpundit.blogspot.com/2009/09/naacp-joins-fight-for-federal-taser.html" id="p-1:DkpgGNguONChXcISNshAfQ">NAACP has joined the fight against tasers abuse.</a><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" > </span><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" linkindex="43" href="http://www.raveneye.org/?p=451" id="p-3:eS5sqVKsl7omNr8uNoiSmg">Black Bloggers have called for '<b>Congressional Taser</b> Torture <b>Hearings</b>.</a><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" > There are many bloggers who are concerned about </span><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" linkindex="56" href="http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/12444/its-a-taserhappy-police-state" id="p-8:1cUxAzZNC30AeH_clcGtPA">the growing <b>taser</b>-happy police state</a><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" > we find ourselves in. It's great to know that some cities are saying </span><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" linkindex="60" href="http://electronicvillage.blogspot.com/2009/09/city-of-memphis-says-no-to-taser-guns.html" id="p-9:S2uxobe_WuRfftYlTc3LmQ">'No' to <b>Taser</b> Guns</a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">. Let's get the congressional hearings going.</span><br /> <span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">It would be great if you would <a href="http://www.petition2congress.com/2/1822/taser-torture-in-america-call-congressional-hearings/">sign the petition calling for Congressional Hearing on Taser use in our country. </a></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span><br />Thank You,<br />TWB Publisher<br /><a href="http://aapoliticalpundit.blogspot.com/">African American Political Pundit</a><br /><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773346863658978712.post-52273119564878864992009-09-18T06:06:00.000-04:002009-09-18T06:07:03.711-04:00Obama, Jimmy Carter, Colorism, Racism and Color Arousal<div style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">As reported by <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/">MSNBC</a>, We’ve seen this play before.<a itxtdid="12752099" target="_blank" href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32895021/ns/politics-cq_politics/#" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted darkgreen ! important; font-weight: normal ! important; font-size: 100% ! important; text-decoration: none ! important; padding-bottom: 0px ! important; color: darkgreen ! important; background-color: transparent ! important; background-image: none; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt;" classname="iAs" class="iAs"><nobr style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 100%; color: darkgreen;" id="itxt_nobr_1_0"></nobr></a> Democrats accuses Republicans of racism. Republicans fire back. Democrats retreat. So it went Wednesday, when former President <a itxtdid="12448871" target="_blank" href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32895021/ns/politics-cq_politics/#" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted darkgreen ! important; font-weight: normal ! important; font-size: 100% ! important; text-decoration: none ! important; padding-bottom: 0px ! important; color: darkgreen ! important; background-color: transparent ! important; background-image: none; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt;" classname="iAs" class="iAs"><nobr style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 100%; color: darkgreen;" id="itxt_nobr_2_0"></nobr></a>Jimmy Carter, 84, fingered racism for fueling the hysterical tone of many of President Obama’s critics. <span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32895021/ns/politics-cq_politics/">More HERE</a><br /><br />AAPP: Candidly, I have a few concerns regarding President Barack Obama and his enabling of many white Americans to be color aroused bigots.<br /><br />Let's take a look back at the past few days...<br /><br />Why is it that Barack Obama does not see the <a realurl="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1213788/You-lie-outburst-Obama-racist-says-president-Jimmy-Carter.html" linkindex="60" done="done" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1213788/You-lie-outburst-Obama-racist-says-president-Jimmy-Carter.html" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','19','AFQjCNF2E-SzFua1USCM3RmXdhn232JznA','&sig2=NkfRW4A7CYnqqav6e55nJQ')">'You lie' outburst as <em></em>color aroused bigotry? yet, a former 'good ol boy' Democrat like former President Jimmy Carter can tell it like it is.</a><br /><a realurl="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1213788/You-lie-outburst-Obama-racist-says-president-Jimmy-Carter.html" linkindex="60" done="done" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1213788/You-lie-outburst-Obama-racist-says-president-Jimmy-Carter.html" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','19','AFQjCNF2E-SzFua1USCM3RmXdhn232JznA','&sig2=NkfRW4A7CYnqqav6e55nJQ')"><em></em></a><br />Why did Barack Obama <a href="http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2009/09/jimmy_carter_says_obama_victim.html">distance himself from former president Jimmy Carter</a>, rather than just taking care of the bigger economic problems of our nation? Speaking of bigger problems, Why d</span><span style="font-size:100%;">id President Barack Obama really need to call Kanye West out of his name, and call him a Jackass? For that matter, why does President Barack Obama call out black folks but refuse to <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2009/09/17/jimmy-carter-racism-expert/">call out</a> <a href="http://www.barking-moonbat.com/">these</a> <a href="http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/09/jimmy-carter-calls-barack-obama-this.html">white wing bigots</a> when they subject all Americans too their collective color aroused <a href="http://www.barking-moonbat.com/">bigotry</a>?<br /></span><p><span style="font-size:100%;">OK Yes, Barack Obama is President and he is human with human opinions, but he is also suppose to be a role model for kids.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:100%;">Mr. President, thanks for calling Kanye West a jackass. As if we already didn't know... I expect more of our President. I would expect this type of Sister Soldier moment from Bill Clinton or for that matter George W. Bush, not Barack Obama. </span></p><div class="slideshow"> <div style="display: block;" class="ssImg"> <span style="font-size:100%;"><img style="width: 311px; height: 195px;" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01481/west_1481725c.jpg" alt="Kayne West and Taylor Swift: Barack Obama calls Kanye West as a 'jackass'" /><br /><br /></span> <div class="imageExtras" style="width: 460px;"> <span style="font-size:100%;"><span class="caption">Kayne West (L) jumps onstage after Taylor Swift </span><span class="credit">Photo: GETTY</span></span> </div> </div> </div> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">Candidly the one the Ptresident should have really called a Jack Ass is the one who called him a Liar in front of millions of Americans -</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >Joe Wilson.</span></p><p><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >Now he is a real jackass!</span></p><div> </div><span style="font-size:100%;">Now Barack Obama through his spokesman, are publicly disagreeing with<a href="http://www.theroot.com/views/jimmy-carter-true-son-south-hits-nail-head"> former President Jimmy Carters assessment regarding racism, colorism, or color arousal</a>. You see <a href="http://www.theroot.com/views/uppity-negro-syndrome">President Carter recently said</a>, "I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President <a linkindex="50" href="http://www.reuters.com/news/globalcoverage/barackobama" title="Full coverage of President Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> is based on the fact that he is a black man," Carter told NBC News. Read: </span><a linkindex="152" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2009/09/16/VI2009091600785.html">Carter: Wilson Comments 'Based on Racism' </a><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><object width="445" height="419"><param name="movie" value="http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/eyeblast.swf?v=e4nzSUnzuz"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/eyeblast.swf?v=e4nzSUnzuz" allowfullscreen="true" width="445" height="419"></embed></object><br /></span><p><span style="font-size:100%;"><img style="border: 1px solid ;" src="http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:EU4wwK5JaW_nqM:http://www.weird-encyclopedia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/obama-joker.jpg" width="97" height="130" /></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;"><img src="http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/waffles_phixr.jpg" class="imgright" alt="waffles_phixr.jpg" /></span></p><p><img style="border: 1px solid ;" src="http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:wUgDja4nrlHDsM:http://brotherpeacemaker.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/too-racist.jpg" width="130" height="95" /></p><span style="font-size:100%;">AAPP says: Jimmy Carter was right when he said, "racism inclination still exists. And I think it's bubbled up to the surface because of the belief among many white people, not just in the South but around the country, that African-Americans are not qualified to lead this great country. It's an abominable circumstance, and it grieves me and concerns me very deeply."<br /><br /><div><iframe src="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22425001/vp/32867107#32867107" scrolling="no" width="425" frameborder="0" height="339"></iframe><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; font-size: 11px; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); margin-top: 5px; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; text-align: center; width: 425px;">Visit msnbc.com for <a style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(153, 153, 153) ! important; text-decoration: none ! important; font-weight: normal ! important; height: 13px; color: rgb(87, 153, 219) ! important;" href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/">Breaking News</a>, <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032507" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(153, 153, 153) ! important; text-decoration: none ! important; font-weight: normal ! important; height: 13px; color: rgb(87, 153, 219) ! important;">World News</a>, and <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032072" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(153, 153, 153) ! important; text-decoration: none ! important; font-weight: normal ! important; height: 13px; color: rgb(87, 153, 219) ! important;">News about the Economy</a></p></div><br /><br /><img style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 3px 7px; padding: 3px;" alt="Picture" title="Picture" src="http://www4.pictures.zimbio.com/img/eb98/JJ/3593s.jpg" border="0" /><br /></span> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">Now it looks like Barack obama and </span><a href="http://rippdemup.blogspot.com/2009/09/michael-steele-signifying-monkey-dance.html" target="_blank">Michael Steele, who blogger riPPA calls the Signifying Monkey</a><span style="font-size:100%;"> are the apologist for white color arousal, bigotry or what some call racism. Let's call them "the racism enablers"<br /></span></p><div class="slideshow_img_cont"> <span style="font-size:100%;"><img style="width: 396px; height: 288px;" id="slide_1398" src="http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gadgets/slideshows/1398/slide_1398_20072_large.jpg" onload="document.getElementById('slide_loading_spinner_1398').style.display = 'none';" /></span> </div> <span style="display: none;"><div id="new_selection_block0.6360796842464365" style="border: medium none ; overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><br /><br />Read more at: <a linkindex="358" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/16/10-most-offensive-tea-par_n_187554.html" target="_blank_">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/16/10-most-offensive-tea-par_n_187554.html</a></div></span><p><span style="font-size:100%;">Get this, as reported by <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE58F5NX20090916">Reuters</a>, Carter's remark also drew the condemnation of Michael Steele, the first African-American to become chairman of the Republican National Committee.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:100%;"><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/kkpRDOA_xO4&hl=en&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/kkpRDOA_xO4&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">"President Carter is flat out wrong. This isn't about race. It is about policy," he said in a statement. "This is a pathetic distraction by Democrats to shift attention away from the president's wildly unpopular government-run healthcare plan that the American people simply oppose."</span></p></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img style="width: 292px; height: 227px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEire3f_gLQtaxKSVBf_xm2ERMjLCSLuiUv8-sqWPwk9d9RhIciEOI81HQiDUWwoBe1W28v4MBkOgaeoM2JPTBZrooKEJM87HsC6vHnqKXET-SuDLp8icaUswmUgw1opabwzvGFXdws7rUo/s400-r/racistbf5.png" border="0" /></span></span></div><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><br />I guess Barack Obama and other national leaders will continue to play this myth that racism is not playing out 'big time' in America since Barack Obama was elected. But we don't have to listen to Barack Obama or his spokesman, lets see how its' playing out in America.</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /><a href="http://rippdemup.blogspot.com/2009/09/how-dare-jimmy-carter-say-that-racism.html">Read what one progressive black blogger has to say</a> about all of this. Also listen to some of America's real black voices rather than the voices of</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" > bozos like Newt Gingrich or Michael Steele.<br /></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/africanamericanpoliticalpundit/2009/09/15/African-American-Political-SlugFest-LIVE-Tonight-at-1000-PM">Listen to the African American Political Slugfest HERE</a><br /><br /></span><br /><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773346863658978712.post-88067483163003711192009-09-18T05:58:00.000-04:002009-09-18T05:59:30.148-04:00NAACP Joins Fight For Federal Taser Standards<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >The Publisher of </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><a realurl="http://taseredwhileblack.blogspot.com/" linkindex="30" done="done" href="http://taseredwhileblack.blogspot.com/" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','1','AFQjCNG2ZASLf5-_nGhgnUbaqlSnAh5NzA','&sig2=ZVEy9FvpF70PXccnoflUEA')"><em>Tasered While Black</em></a><span style="display: inline-block;"></span><span class="m"> </span></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >says: Finally the National Office of the NAACP is discussing the issue of Black folks getting </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><a realurl="http://taseredwhileblack.blogspot.com/" linkindex="30" done="done" href="http://taseredwhileblack.blogspot.com/" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','1','AFQjCNG2ZASLf5-_nGhgnUbaqlSnAh5NzA','&sig2=ZVEy9FvpF70PXccnoflUEA')"><em>Tasered While Black</em></a><span style="display: inline-block;"></span><span class="m"></span></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >. We salute the fact that Ben Jealous has joined in this fight. I hope that the National office of the NAACP's new involvement is sincere, and is not just another PR effort that they have been famous for in the past.<br /><br />Let's see if the NAACP will join the already established effort of the Afrospear and </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><a realurl="http://taseredwhileblack.blogspot.com/" linkindex="30" done="done" href="http://taseredwhileblack.blogspot.com/" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','1','AFQjCNG2ZASLf5-_nGhgnUbaqlSnAh5NzA','&sig2=ZVEy9FvpF70PXccnoflUEA')"><em>Tasered While Black</em></a><span style="display: inline-block;"></span><span class="m"> </span></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >to gain a </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><a realurl="http://taserhearings.blogspot.com/" linkindex="41" done="done" href="http://taserhearings.blogspot.com/" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','1','AFQjCNHHf8RrSiDFhgcuFdUJlCWvYVz99g','&sig2=OLuGVt0WrZJ5pA09v3Pt6Q')">Congressional <em>Taser Hearings</em></a></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"> or will they go it alone, and establish a new effort for PR purposes... Only time will tell. </span><br /><br /></span> <p><span style="font-size:85%;color:#000000;"> <table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" width="157" height="198"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top"> <div><span style="font-size:78%;"><img alt="" src="http://www.afro.com/Portals/1/people/naacp-jealous.jpg" width="141" height="175" /></span></div> <span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >Benjamin Jealous<br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table></span></p> <span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >As reported on the NAACP Website and the Afro Newspaper in Baltimore Maryland, </span><span id="dnn_ctr1619_ContentPane" class="DNNAlignleft"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >(September 17, 2009) - The NAACP is renewing a push for federal standards on police use of force after the shooting of an unarmed Black man by two White police officers inside a church while day care children watched, the Associated Press reported.<br /><br /> According to witnesses, the man was surrendering but officials in Rockford, Ill., deny this description of events, saying Mark Anthony Barmore attempted to grab an officer's gun after they cornered him in the church.<br /><br /> However, both sides agree Barmore ran when officers approached him in the church parking lot, highlighting the suspicion and fear that can poison relationships between police and minority communities across the country.<br /><br /> "There are no national standards for the use of force (or) training for use of force," Benjamin Todd Jealous, president and CEO of the NAACP, said Sept. 11. <a href="http://www.afro.com/tabId/551/itemId/4704/NAACP-Cites-Foul-Play-in-Police-Shooting-of-Unarme.aspx">MORE HERE</a><br /><br /><br /></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773346863658978712.post-60615198776958553212009-09-12T18:45:00.000-04:002009-09-12T18:47:59.509-04:00White, Anti Post Racial, Anti -Obama Movement, Guns and Black Folk<div style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="cnnT1Img"><span style="font-size:100%;"><img src="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2009/POLITICS/09/12/tea.party.rally/t1home.tea.party.gi.jpg" alt="Tea party demonstrators gather at U.S. Capitol" border="0" vspace="0" width="265" height="239" hspace="0" /></span></div> <h4 style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><script type="text/javascript">document.write(cnnRenderT1TimeStamp(1252782298294));</script></h4> <div style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="cnnT1Blurb"><span style="font-size:100%;">Let's call it, like it is. A anti-post racial, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/12/AR2009091200971.html?nav=hcmoduletmv">99.9 % White Anti Obama movement</a> marched to the U.S. Capitol today to protest Obama health care reform, higher taxes and what they see as out-of-control government spending. One has to wonder <a href="http://field-negro.blogspot.com/2009/09/hip-hop-mike-at-howard.html">where these folks were</a> for eight years when George W. Bush was detroying America? I guess <a linkindex="45" href="http://aapoliticalpundit.blogspot.com/2009/08/castro-says-right-wingers-hate-obama.html" id="p-4:eNGEafMslEDUM8YDw4DIoA">Castro is right.</a><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;">The conservative advocacy group made its way from California, hosting rallies in about 30 cities. <a linkindex="28" href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/12/tea.party.rally/index.html">CNN has full Coverage.</a><br /><br /></span></div> <span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><br /><img src="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2009/POLITICS/09/12/tea.party.express/art.obama.sign.cnn.jpg" alt="A protester uses a Nazi swastika to make a point at a Tea Party Express stop in Dallas, Texas." vspace="0" width="292" height="219" hspace="0" /><br /><br /></span> <!--startclickprintexclude--> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"> "Obamacare Condense Cream of Crap soup" reads a sign in Sparks, Nevada. In Dallas, Texas, a darker mood prevails. A homemade sign with "Obama Lies" features a bold, black swastika. </span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"> As the tour moves on, Nazi imagery becomes more prominent -- and sometimes confused. One sign at the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas, has Obama's portrait sandwiched between pictures of <a linkindex="37" href="http://topics.cnn.com/topics/Adolf_Hitler" class="cnnInlineTopic">Adolf Hitler</a> and communist philosopher Karl Marx. In Canton,Ohio, Obama and Hitler adorn a sign reading "Hitler made great speeches, too."<br /></span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:100%;">As reported by CNN, The Tea Party Express tour has been free of violence, but occasional outbursts of vitriolic hatred toward the president combined with some menacing outward appearances often overshadow the more moderate tea partyers. <a linkindex="40" href="http://www.ireport.com/tags/health_care">iReport.com: Weigh in on health care</a></span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"> In Louisville, Kentucky, two young men in camouflage fatigues roamed the crowd trying to recruit new members for their militia called the <a href="http://ovfreedomfighters.com/">Ohio Valley Freedom Fighters</a>. They bear signs reading "AK-47s: today's pitchfork" and "Quit worrying. Start your militia training today." </span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"> In Jackson, Michigan, a young man didn't need a sign. He was carrying the real thing: A loaded AK-47 assault rifle and two loaded handguns. </span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"> "I don't want a revolution. I don't want a civil war," he said. "But it is a possibility. It's there as an option, as a last resort." <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/12/tea.party.express/index.html">More HERE</a><br /></span></p> <span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/sunsLde_ZWY&hl=en&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/sunsLde_ZWY&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />AAPP: I wonder when President Obama and his administration will take a bolder stance on these fools carrying guns at these so called peaceful rallies? It's time for the Justice Department to stop these reckless fools. But that is just one African American Political Pundit's opinion. Then again, check out the recommended arms that white groups are stock piling against black folks. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Maybe, just maybe </span><a href="http://ovfreedomfighters.com/ohio_valley_freedom_fighters_008.htm">black folks should start arming ourselves - JUST IN CASE</a>.<br /><br />What is your opinion?<br /><br />This whole situation is so disgusting its laughable. I wonder what <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtlDVi_1JMg">Richard Pryor</a> would say about <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/health/policy/13plan.html?_r=1">public option health care</a> and guns? We can get a sense of that </span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtlDVi_1JMg">HERE.</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >----</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://aapoliticalpundit.blogspot.com/">African American Political Pundit</a><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" > is a 2008 DNCC </span><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.demconvention.com/credentialed-blogs/">Credentialed Democratic National Convention Blogger</a><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >. He is also a BlackTalk Radio and </span><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/africanamericanpoliticalpundit">BlogTalkRadio</a><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" > host, who shares this blog platform with others interested in candid, honest, reciprocal conversation about political and social issues impacting our diverse American communities.</span><p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"> </p><center style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/africanamericanpoliticalpundit"><img style="border: 1px solid ;" src="http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:ncnQp19rmymILM:http://www.blogtalkradio.com/pics/stationpics/no_image.jpg" width="116" height="116" /></a><center></center></center><center style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"></center><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Join in on the conversation every Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday at 10:00 PM EST on African American Political Pundit's "</span><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/africanamericanpoliticalpundit">Political Slugfest Show</a><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >."<br /><br /></span><center><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">If you can handle the truth!</span></span></center></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773346863658978712.post-75643078255381676302009-08-24T00:30:00.000-04:002009-08-24T00:35:57.869-04:00Black Woman Tased In Back - While on Her Knees<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >Another American Post-Racial Moment<br /><br />This one out of Cincinnati.<br /><br />Cincinnati police say the preliminary investigations says Officer Anthony Plummer's actions were not in compliance with Cincinnati Police Departments policies and procedures. Also, the tasing investigation has been recommended to be conducted by the internal investigation section.<br /><br />Cincinnati police arrested and used a Taser on Celeste Thomas, the daughter of Cincinnati city councilman Cecil Thomas, early Sunday morning.<br /><br />Her arrest report indicates that Thomas had marks on her upper back from the Taser's barbs.<br /><br />"It is my understanding that she was on her knees when she was Tased in the back," said Cecil Thomas.<br /><br /><script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="http://wcpo.img.entriq.net/dayportcore/dpm/DayPortPlayers.js"></script><script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">DayPortPlayer.newPlayer({articleID:"37456",bannerAdObjectID:"null",videoAdObjectID:"null",videoAdConDefID:"2",playerInstanceID:"24FAD9E0-DC70-2532-414F-7E6F051C4C2F",domain:"wcpo.dayport.com",rootCategory:"null",categoryID:"23",accPos:"CCTVI.NEWS.LOCAL",accSite:"WCPO"});</script><br /><br />Official comment from the Cincinnati Police Department was not immediately forthcoming. Councilman Thomas, however, said that in a phone call with a senior officer early Sunday morning he was told that police would be reviewing the incident.<br /><br />A source with knowledge of the incident tells 9News that the officer who used the Taser is Anthony Plummer.<br /><br />Plummer was investigated by the Cincinnati’s Citizen Complaint Authority in a 2006 complaint stemming from another Tasing incident in which use of excessive force was alleged. In that incident, Plummer was found to have used excessive force.<br /><br />Additionally, sources tell 9News that Plummer was terminated for issues related to excessive force but reinstated last year after arbitration. <a href="http://www.wcpo.com/news/local/story/Councilmans-Daughter-Tased-Use-Of-Force-Questioned/0QYk7WaHsE2ZbMOkIlrK-g.cspx">More HERE</a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773346863658978712.post-18715344107231149172009-08-23T17:30:00.000-04:002009-08-23T17:49:40.859-04:00SCLC Fort Worth calls for FBI federal investigation into the taser death of Michael Patrick Jacobs<span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >On August 22, 2009, Rev. Kyev Tatum, President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference - Fort Worth Chapter wrote a letter to President Barack Obama requesting a FBI federal investigation into the taser death of Michael Patrick Jacobs while in custody of the Fort Worth Police Department.</span><img src="file:///C:/Users/LB44F%7E1.ROC/AppData/Local/Temp/moz-screenshot.jpg" alt="" /><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><br />Rev. Tatum noted that the death was caused because of excessive deadly force to a mentally challenge African-American young man. He also noted that the crime was a hate crime because the officers, which were all white refused to assist this young man by providing CPR when he was unconscious. The officers also threaten the young man's mother with deadly force when she reached out to assist her son. Read the letter sent to President Obama below.<br /><br /></span><img alt="What We Think About Taser Abuse" id="Image2_img" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqtvMoTSdM8rGXGUrvJD59dyDG3gMwDRtXNBioVw7uWvUppN1JFRreoJSI1T7ytbW62dz7GB8IHc-7yNa5VfHkkF0lhyIKzvHHFpabydEXlb2J5uB5jrBk7vY3AKiO8ZqewrQaNDpNFKw/s240/Tasered+While+Black+Final.jpg" height="102" width="138" /><br /><a href="http://africanamericanpoliticalpundit.com/"><br /></a><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://africanamericanpoliticalpundit.com/">This blogger</a>, who is also publisher of the blog <a href="http://taseredwhileblack.blogspot.com/">Tasered While Black</a> supports Rev. Tatum's efforts and urges all readers of this blog to send letters to the President and to the U.S. Attorney General to investigate this case.<br /><br />We also urge you to <a href="http://www.petition2congress.com/2/1822/taser-torture-in-america-call-congressional-hearings/">sign the petition to hold Congressional Hearings</a> into Taser Use and Abuse in America.<br /><br />Here is the letter from Rev. Kyev Tatum, President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference - Fort Worth Chapter written to President Barack Obama:<br /><br /><br />Dear Mr. President:<br /><br />The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) Fort Worth Chapter is requesting a FBI federal investigation into the taser death of Michael Patrick Jacobs while in custody of the Fort Worth Police Department.<br /><br />We believe the death was caused because of excessive deadly force to a mentally challenge African-American young man.<br /><br />This crime was a hate crime because the officers, which were all white refused to assist this young man by providing CPR when he was unconscious. The officers also threaten the young man's mother with deadly force when she reached out to assist her son. One white male officer put his hand on his gun and told her "she better get back."<br /><br />Supportive News Story:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.star-telegram.com/news/story/1550263.html" target="_blank">http://www.star-telegram.com/<wbr>news/story/1550263.html</a><br /><br />It appears the Mayor and other city officers are trying to cover up the facts in this cause.<br /><br />We are requesting an immediate investigation of this case.<br /><br />I can be reached at 817-966-7625.<br /><br />Sincerely,<br /><br />Rev. Kyev Tatum,<br />President<br />Southern Christian Leadership Conference - Fort Worth Chapter<br />7510 John T White Road<br />Fort Worth, Texas 76120<br />817-966-7625<br /><br />Cc: SCLC National Office<br />Afrosphere<br />Dallas South<br /><br />AAPP says: <a href="http://www.petition2congress.com/2/1822/taser-torture-in-america-call-congressional-hearings/">Sign the petition to hold Congressional Taser Hearings into Taser Torture today</a>!<br /><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773346863658978712.post-9900947235339084522009-08-15T21:40:00.001-04:002009-08-15T22:11:47.466-04:00Govt' Goes Post-Racial Want Blacks To Go Camping<span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">I plan to go camping next week.</span> Not just because the United States <a href="http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/08/09/Park-official-seeking-more-black-visitors/UPI-98691249845419/">Government is going post racial and wants black folks to camp</a>. The fact is, I was a regular camper back in the day. Yet, I haven't gone camping in years. I haven't been following my little brothers footsteps. He has been camping for years. he got me actively involved in camping many years ago. Speaking of camping, there is a great new black blogger and a website that I have been following as they talk about the black camping experience.<br /><br />Both are great sites, both are looking at the black camping experience in differing yet positive directions. One of the best new blogs is <a href="http://campingincolor.blogspot.com/">Camping In Color.</a><br /><br />It's new black blogger who have created a black camping blog and have begun to provide a basic Camping 101. This husband and wife blogging duo are a African American couple, with over thirty years of family camping experience.</span> <script type="text/javascript"> var skin = {}; skin['FACE_SIZE'] = '32'; skin['HEIGHT'] = "260"; skin['TITLE'] = "Followers"; skin['BORDER_COLOR'] = "transparent"; skin['ENDCAP_BG_COLOR'] = "transparent"; skin['ENDCAP_TEXT_COLOR'] = "#000000"; skin['ENDCAP_LINK_COLOR'] = "#000000"; skin['ALTERNATE_BG_COLOR'] = "transparent"; skin['CONTENT_BG_COLOR'] = "transparent"; skin['CONTENT_LINK_COLOR'] = "#000000"; skin['CONTENT_TEXT_COLOR'] = "#000000"; skin['CONTENT_SECONDARY_LINK_COLOR'] = "#ffffff"; skin['CONTENT_SECONDARY_TEXT_COLOR'] = "#000000"; skin['CONTENT_HEADLINE_COLOR'] = "#000000"; skin['FONT_FACE'] = "normal normal 97% \x27Trebuchet MS\x27,Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif"; google.friendconnect.container.setParentUrl("/"); google.friendconnect.container["renderMembersGadget"]( { id: "div-kgfor6lkaf2w", height: 260, site: "18067239619309795881", locale: 'en' }, skin); </script><span class="widget-item-control"><span class="item-control blog-admin"><a linkindex="82" class="quickedit" href="http://www.blogger.com/rearrange?blogID=1401570936852250362&widgetType=Followers&widgetId=Followers1&action=editWidget" onclick="'return" target="configFollowers1" title="Edit"> </a></span></span><br /><br /><img style="width: 123px; height: 91px;" alt="" id="Image1_img" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpV7lNoQ6e3RMgGdXPFJqawufFNRo25Ktc05vPWwK_XDEwsdzll-yH19a1O-Bk8e2PfkYgerYVDZ7wpkzLE8u4hRpzoF6_9TvS3U9pRCVW-nkS66UiJ3aE6jJWNmye9AlzUESZlEz6rJE/s240/PICT0364.JPG" /><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br />The Camping In Color</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >Camping Consultants</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><br />The Camping in color duo say; Back in the 70's we began camping as young adults. We became hooked! While we were reminded of our childhood experiences, this was different. It became our cabin in the woods, but without the mortgage. They also point out that their family would pack up after work on Friday and head to the lake. We would swim, fish, and ride bikes together, and my favorite the campfire. Check this out, new blogging couple went home each weekend feeling refreshed, and with great memories of the time we spent together.<br /><br />The publishers of the blog, <a href="http://campingincolor.blogspot.com/">Camping in Color,</a> would soon bring others, nieces, nephews, friends and other family. All of whom still camp today and take their own families. They say their blogs goal is about infusing the American family, particular the black American family with the appreciation of nature. They want to awaken our senses and motivate us to Camp in Color. They have done it successfully with this African American Political Pundit. I can't wait to read more of their upcoming post. Read More about the blog <a href="http://campingincolor.blogspot.com/">Camping in Color HERE<br /></a><br /><br />There is also another website called <a href="http://www.outdoorafro.com/">Out Door Afro</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">.<br /><br /></span></span><img style="width: 87px; height: 92px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9DfAoHyOfg7GX9XBKqSSQBbalL6k7jUsbdQJYQ6KcvhtBiKPrIKlID5Ez3cT0RFqZKY1tZ3Bt7vjuWpcXCFvQEz1RmifilynLhOZr5HVvdmDaSGMmDKzSD45eUu8FeAdfGZsndXlqePg/s220/blogpic.jpg" alt="[blogpic.jpg]" border="0" /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Rue<br />Publisher<br />Out Door Afro</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><br />Rue who is creator of this website says: It's simple: I want more African Americans out of the gym; off the couch and into the Great Outdoors to try activities incorrectly perceived to be “something other people do”, such as bicycling, skiing, camping, and hiking.<br /><br />Rue says she is a 30-something African American woman who has enjoyed a lifetime of outdoor sports and fun all over California and want to share the secret of how affordable, healthful, and gratifying these lesser-explored activities are. I recognize some black people do head out into the sun, snow, and mountains, but most times I venture out, I see very few people who look like me. So come out and join me for fitness, lasting memories, and inspiration through nature! <a href="http://www.outdoorafro.com/">Read More HERE</a></span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >OK, I'm ready to go <a href="http://campingincolor.blogspot.com/">Camping In Color. </a>It's an </span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.outdoorafro.com/">Out Door Afro</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span>thang.<br /><br /></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773346863658978712.post-62497770312081374142009-08-15T21:40:00.000-04:002009-08-15T21:42:08.792-04:00Govt' Goes Post-Racial Want's Black To Camp<span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">I plan to go camping next week.</span> Not just because the United States <a href="http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/08/09/Park-official-seeking-more-black-visitors/UPI-98691249845419/">Government is going post racial and wants black folks to camp</a>. The fact is, I was a regular camper back in the day. Yet, I haven't gone camping in years. I haven't been following my little brothers footsteps. He has been camping for years. he got me actively involved in camping many years ago. Speaking of camping, there is a great new black blogger and a website that I have been following as they talk about the black camping experience.<br /><br />Both are great sites, both are looking at the black camping experience in differing yet positive directions. One of the best new blogs is <a href="http://campingincolor.blogspot.com/">Camping In Color.</a><br /><br />It's new black blogger who have created a black camping blog and have begun to provide a basic Camping 101. This husband and wife blogging duo are a African American couple, with over thirty years of family camping experience.</span> <script type="text/javascript"> var skin = {}; skin['FACE_SIZE'] = '32'; skin['HEIGHT'] = "260"; skin['TITLE'] = "Followers"; skin['BORDER_COLOR'] = "transparent"; skin['ENDCAP_BG_COLOR'] = "transparent"; skin['ENDCAP_TEXT_COLOR'] = "#000000"; skin['ENDCAP_LINK_COLOR'] = "#000000"; skin['ALTERNATE_BG_COLOR'] = "transparent"; skin['CONTENT_BG_COLOR'] = "transparent"; skin['CONTENT_LINK_COLOR'] = "#000000"; skin['CONTENT_TEXT_COLOR'] = "#000000"; skin['CONTENT_SECONDARY_LINK_COLOR'] = "#ffffff"; skin['CONTENT_SECONDARY_TEXT_COLOR'] = "#000000"; skin['CONTENT_HEADLINE_COLOR'] = "#000000"; skin['FONT_FACE'] = "normal normal 97% \x27Trebuchet MS\x27,Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif"; google.friendconnect.container.setParentUrl("/"); google.friendconnect.container["renderMembersGadget"]( { id: "div-kgfor6lkaf2w", height: 260, site: "18067239619309795881", locale: 'en' }, skin); </script><span class="widget-item-control"><span class="item-control blog-admin"><a linkindex="82" class="quickedit" href="rearrange?blogID=1401570936852250362&widgetType=Followers&widgetId=Followers1&action=editWidget" onclick="'return" target="configFollowers1" title="Edit"> </a></span></span><br /><br /><img style="width: 123px; height: 91px;" alt="" id="Image1_img" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpV7lNoQ6e3RMgGdXPFJqawufFNRo25Ktc05vPWwK_XDEwsdzll-yH19a1O-Bk8e2PfkYgerYVDZ7wpkzLE8u4hRpzoF6_9TvS3U9pRCVW-nkS66UiJ3aE6jJWNmye9AlzUESZlEz6rJE/s240/PICT0364.JPG" /><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br />The Camping In Color</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >Camping Consultants</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><br />The Camping in color duo say; Back in the 70's we began camping as young adults. We became hooked! While we were reminded of our childhood experiences, this was different. It became our cabin in the woods, but without the mortgage. They also point out that their family would pack up after work on Friday and head to the lake. We would swim, fish, and ride bikes together, and my favorite the campfire. Check this out, new blogging couple went home each weekend feeling refreshed, and with great memories of the time we spent together.<br /><br />The publishers of the blog, <a href="http://campingincolor.blogspot.com/">Camping in Color,</a> would soon bring others, nieces, nephews, friends and other family. All of whom still camp today and take their own families. They say their blogs goal is about infusing the American family, particular the black American family with the appreciation of nature. They want to awaken our senses and motivate us to Camp in Color. They have done it successfully with this African American Political Pundit. I can't wait to read more of their upcoming post. Read More about the blog <a href="http://campingincolor.blogspot.com/">Camping in Color HERE<br /></a><br /><br />There is also another website called <a href="http://www.outdoorafro.com/">Out Door Afro</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">.<br /><br /></span></span><img style="width: 87px; height: 92px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9DfAoHyOfg7GX9XBKqSSQBbalL6k7jUsbdQJYQ6KcvhtBiKPrIKlID5Ez3cT0RFqZKY1tZ3Bt7vjuWpcXCFvQEz1RmifilynLhOZr5HVvdmDaSGMmDKzSD45eUu8FeAdfGZsndXlqePg/s220/blogpic.jpg" alt="[blogpic.jpg]" border="0" /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Rue<br />Publisher<br />Out Door Afro</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><br />Rue who is creator of this website says: It's simple: I want more African Americans out of the gym; off the couch and into the Great Outdoors to try activities incorrectly perceived to be “something other people do”, such as bicycling, skiing, camping, and hiking.<br /><br />Rue says she is a 30-something African American woman who has enjoyed a lifetime of outdoor sports and fun all over California and want to share the secret of how affordable, healthful, and gratifying these lesser-explored activities are. I recognize some black people do head out into the sun, snow, and mountains, but most times I venture out, I see very few people who look like me. So come out and join me for fitness, lasting memories, and inspiration through nature! <a href="http://www.outdoorafro.com/">Read More HERE</a></span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >OK, I'm ready to go <a href="http://campingincolor.blogspot.com/">Camping In Color. </a>It's an </span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.outdoorafro.com/">Out Door Afro</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span>thang.<br /><br /></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773346863658978712.post-6182349721577009872009-08-14T12:30:00.000-04:002009-08-14T12:32:38.560-04:00Inmates in the US - Tasered While Handcuffed or Restrained<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >No Post Racial prison in the US.<br /><br /><img style="border: 1px solid ;" src="http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:5bsEBAnFZAONeM:http://images.watoday.com.au/2009/03/24/430258/Taser-gun-420x0.jpg" width="125" height="89" /></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >Another reason for </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><a realurl="http://www.petition2congress.com/2/1822/taser-torture-in-america-call-congressional-hearings/" linkindex="30" done="done" href="http://www.petition2congress.com/2/1822/taser-torture-in-america-call-congressional-hearings/" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','1','AFQjCNHLkMs5vVSWGIkiypcXhfCSEewo1g','&sig2=pamJuHmW_qNlE21MKD-4Fw')"><em>congressional hearings on Taser </em>Torture In America - A Call For <em>Congressional Hearings</em>.</a></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><br /><br />As reported by <span class="toolSet" style="width: 332px;"><span class="byline">By <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-oc-jails-investigation14-2009aug14,0,910769.story">Tami Abdollah at </a></span></span><a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-oc-jails-investigation14-2009aug14,0,910769.story">the LA Times</a>, The U.S. Department of Justice is conducting an investigation into Orange County's troubled jail system, examining a decade's worth of allegations that deputies mistreated inmates and used excessive force to keep control.<br /><br /><img style="width: 294px; height: 176px;" src="http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2009-08/48645815.jpg" alt="Orange County jail" border="0" /><br /><br />Officials from the department's Civil Rights Division are seeking to determine whether incidents of violence by jail personnel amount to a pattern of violating inmates' rights, the Sheriff's Department confirmed.<br /><br />The Orange County district attorney criticized deputies earlier this year for a "code of silence" that he said hampered prosecutors' ability to investigate possible criminal activities.<br /><br />Among recent cases: An inmate was stomped to death by fellow prisoners after a deputy allegedly told them falsely that the man was a child molester. A county grand jury later criticized the Sheriff's Department for trying to impede the investigation into the death and concluded that there was evidence of rampant abuse at the Theo Lacy Jail in Orange.<br /><br />The department has also been criticized for using Taser stun guns on handcuffed or restrained inmates. <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-oc-jails-investigation14-2009aug14,0,910769.story">More HERE</a></span> <span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="small"> <span style="font-size:100%;"><span class="credit">Yet another reason why </span><a realurl="http://www.raveneye.org/?p=451" linkindex="42" done="done" href="http://www.raveneye.org/?p=451" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','4','AFQjCNHvuOKbwKJnvpYmYAAIcbLEsPHbSw','&sig2=rZBDF-KclegiSxvWcQQxJQ')">black bloggers have called for '<em>Congressional Taser</em> Torture <em>Hearings</em></a>. Visit the<a realurl="http://electronicvillage.blogspot.com/2009/07/taser-lawsuit-jarrell-gray-frederick.html" linkindex="29" done="done" href="http://electronicvillage.blogspot.com/2009/07/taser-lawsuit-jarrell-gray-frederick.html" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','1','AFQjCNGFtsrXf_8I89GgMgwrLFlEMnE1YQ','&sig2=TgP_O-9HAcWQiiNgCgdKQg')"><em> Electronic Village</em><em></em></a></span><span style="font-size:100%;">, <a realurl="http://afrospear.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/call-to-sign-the-petition-to-request-congressional-hearings-on-tasers/" linkindex="65" done="done" href="http://afrospear.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/call-to-sign-the-petition-to-request-congressional-hearings-on-tasers/" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','10','AFQjCNEF5ew5TioVMlJreQ_xOo7wywYnAw','&sig2=p3bKLhVZIJRb3SbCtj30BA')">afrospear<span style="font-style: italic;"> blog,</span></a></span><span style="font-size:100%;"> <a realurl="http://newsone.com/nation/new-houston-epidemic-tasered-while-black/" linkindex="49" done="done" href="http://newsone.com/nation/new-houston-epidemic-tasered-while-black/" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','6','AFQjCNGNJ3ln2eu2_iowWMHc9ZjvLWhuyg','&sig2=-3N57zj8oMzx8Jm2YS96Dw')">NewsOne</a></span><span style="font-size:100%;">, <a realurl="http://newsone.com/nation/new-houston-epidemic-tasered-while-black/" linkindex="49" done="done" href="http://newsone.com/nation/new-houston-epidemic-tasered-while-black/" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','6','AFQjCNGNJ3ln2eu2_iowWMHc9ZjvLWhuyg','&sig2=-3N57zj8oMzx8Jm2YS96Dw')">Electrocuted <em>While Black,</em></a></span><span style="font-size:100%;"> <a realurl="http://taseredwhileblack.blogspot.com/" linkindex="29" done="done" href="http://taseredwhileblack.blogspot.com/" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','1','AFQjCNG2ZASLf5-_nGhgnUbaqlSnAh5NzA','&sig2=H9nz9Q87QyE1maBVu_Kong')"><em>Tasered While Black</em></a></span><span style="font-size:100%;"> and <a realurl="http://aapoliticalpundit.blogspot.com/2009/07/assault-of-black-women-tasered-while.html" linkindex="45" done="done" href="http://aapoliticalpundit.blogspot.com/2009/07/assault-of-black-women-tasered-while.html" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','5','AFQjCNF679L5OV1_4xvgHuW7YADRPHwKMg','&sig2=uIB6ZwMbKCGvQswerXwIsA')">this blog</a></span><span style="font-size:100%;"> for more insight into the <a href="http://www.thesuperspade.com/a-day-of-blogging-for-justice-against-extra-judicial-electrocution-tasers/">tasing of black folks</a> in America. As tasers turn out to be America's<a realurl="http://www.bvblackspin.com/2008/07/15/taser-deaths/" linkindex="65" done="done" href="http://www.bvblackspin.com/2008/07/15/taser-deaths/" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','10','AFQjCNGatLBhBI2fturl8V7qfNp-fyBX2A','&sig2=4edj4RXtmVLUp5QpDww6sQ')"> 21st Century whips of terror.<em></em></a></span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="small"><span style="font-size:100%;">Don't forget to s</span><span style=";font-size:100%;" >ign the petition </span><span style="font-size:100%;">against <a realurl="http://www.petition2congress.com/2/1822/taser-torture-in-america-call-congressional-hearings/" linkindex="30" done="done" href="http://www.petition2congress.com/2/1822/taser-torture-in-america-call-congressional-hearings/" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','1','AFQjCNHLkMs5vVSWGIkiypcXhfCSEewo1g','&sig2=pamJuHmW_qNlE21MKD-4Fw')"><em>Taser</em> Torture In America.</a></span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="small"><span style="font-size:100%;">Visit <a realurl="http://taseredwhileblack.blogspot.com/" linkindex="29" done="done" href="http://taseredwhileblack.blogspot.com/" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','1','AFQjCNG2ZASLf5-_nGhgnUbaqlSnAh5NzA','&sig2=H9nz9Q87QyE1maBVu_Kong')"><em>Tasered While Black</em></a></span><span style="font-size:100%;"> and <a realurl="http://aapoliticalpundit.blogspot.com/2009/07/assault-of-black-women-tasered-while.html" linkindex="45" done="done" href="http://aapoliticalpundit.blogspot.com/2009/07/assault-of-black-women-tasered-while.html" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','5','AFQjCNF679L5OV1_4xvgHuW7YADRPHwKMg','&sig2=uIB6ZwMbKCGvQswerXwIsA')">this blog often.</a></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0