President Obama spoke on race again on Friday July 19^th in impromp­tu remarks from the Brady brief­ing room. Obama said that before becom­ing a sen­a­tor, he him­self expe­ri­enced walk­ing across the street and hear­ing the locks click on doors, among oth­er sim­i­lar sit­u­a­tions. It’s that set of expe­ri­ences, he said, that informs how many black Americans inter­pret what hap­pened in Sanford, Fla.

The President’s com­ment was par­tic­u­lar­ly reveal­ing , even as it was sin­cere. That the most pow­er­ful man on Planet Earth, the leader of the free world was not unscathed or un-scarred by America’s intrin­sic racism is telling. It brings into focus just how at risk black men are in America.

What the President for­got is the racism did not stop when he became a Senator.

1) It was Racism which made them demand his birth cer­tifi­cate. Despite his accom­plish­ments at Occidental College to Columbia University, and onto Harvard Law school, where he went on to becom­ing the President of the Prestigious Harvard Law Review. First black elect­ed to that posi­tion, the high­est stu­dent posi­tion at Harvard Law School. The igno­ra­mus­es who kept the non­sen­si­cal birther issue alive are noth­ing but present day show me your paper vig­i­lantes. Interestingly when they are all lined up their com­bined IQ amounts to that of a jackass.

2) It was race which made imbe­cile con­gress-man Joe Wilson of South Carolina infa­mous­ly shout, ‘You lie” as the the pres­i­dent deliv­ered the State of the Union address. A crass ‚uncouth act of dis­re­spect, nev­er before seen in that body when a sit­ting pres­i­dent vis­its to deliv­er the state of the union address.

The instances of dis­re­spect and racism hurled at this pres­i­dent should have been a wake up call to all men of col­or, yet as I point­ed out in the first arti­cle in this series, we have fall­en down on the job. There is an argu­ment being made on this issue of race, the cen­tral tenet of that dis­cus­sion is that whites are afraid of black peo­ple. Well I won­der why? Now if whites are afraid of blacks it bears exam­in­ing why they feel com­pelled to project their fears onto the sub­ject of their inse­cu­ri­ties. Are these ratio­nal fears Genised in 4 hun­dred years of geno­cide vis­it­ed on black peo­ple in the west­ern world? Or are these fears based on new and per­ceived emerg­ing threats from black men like our president?

Literally every day Police in these United States con­front black men with raw aggres­sion, aggres­sion born out of fear they assault and kill them and they are not held to account. Secret grand juries exon­er­ate cops , no trail, busi­ness as usu­al. A San Francisco Bay Area (BART) cop pulls his gun and sim­ply shoots and kill a hand-cuffed young African-America male sit­ting on the ground, pos­ing no threat to the cow­ard­ly mur­der­ers in uni­form. The cop’s sto­ry ? I thought I was pulling my taser. Even if that creep was to be believed , tas­ing a hand­cuffed per­son pos­ing no threat or risk is undue, exces­sive force, he took that young man’s life.

On November 5, 2010, the cop Johannes Mehserle was sen­tenced to two years, minus time served. He served his time in the Los Angeles County Jail, occu­py­ing a pri­vate cell away from oth­er pris­on­ers. That is the price of a black man’s life. He was released on June 13, 2011 and is now on parole.^[1Oscar Grant was mur­dered by a jack-boot­ed thug in uni­form.http://​www​.youtube​.com/​w​a​t​c​h​?​v​=​e​o​0​d​6​Q​4​R​Vno.

Trayvon Martin was just one of thou­sands of young men who are being killed in this coun­try, black men are killing each oth­er at alarm­ing rates, but the police remains one of the great­est threat to the lives of black men. Not just young black men, men of all ages are at risk . One may view hours upon hours of police abuse on YouTube. They are gen­er­al­ly nev­er held account­able, the sub­ject of their rage is almost always black men. That is hate.

Many on the Right Wing in America are hav­ing a disin­gen­u­ous con­ver­sa­tion on race, even as polls show they would rather not have a race conversation.

I under­stand how they would not want to face their conscience.

After all we have a black President,what more do these Negroes want?

What I find inter­est­ing, as they point the fin­ger at black crimes in America’s cities, they are com­plete­ly obliv­i­ous to the four fin­gers point­ing back at themselves.

Two right-wing hater mer­chants. Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity:

Listening to these brain-dead racists talk, you would think there are no black peo­ple in America’s jails. So for the record let me just quick­ly add my two cents to this debate. African Americans make up rough­ly 12% of the American pop­u­la­tion. Yes approx­i­mate­ly 12 out of every 100 peo­ple in America are black. Over 50% of America’s pris­on­ers are .….? Yes, right again, you guessed it , black. So more than half of all the peo­ple in America’s pris­ons are black.… So to the talk­ing head frauds who talk about black crimes, take a look at these num­bers when you talk about black crimes.

Blacks do not nec­es­sar­i­ly com­mit more crimes than whites. There are a pletho­ra of issues which must be con­sid­ered when we talk about black crime. 1) blacks gets pros­e­cut­ed expo­nen­tial­ly more for com­mit­ting the same offense as whites. 2) when con­vict­ed blacks are like­ly to get longer and harsh­er pun­ish­ment than whites who com­mit sim­i­lar offences. There is data to show that most crimes are com­mit­ted intra-racial­ly , mean­ing whites com­mit crimes against whites, blacks com­mit crimes against blacks, sel­dom does crim­i­nals cross racial lines. Also crime and crim­i­nal­i­ty are played up in black com­mu­ni­ties and down­played in white com­mu­ni­ties to give the impres­sion whites are not com­mit­ting crimes in cer­tain com­mu­ni­ties. Some mem­bers of the NYPD are now com­ing for­ward and speak­ing out about the depart­men­t’s tac­tics on stop and frisk, fudg­ing of num­bers and under­re­port­ing of crimes com­mit­ted in cer­tain white neigh­bor­hoods . If we believe there is insti­tu­tion­al­ized racist and abhor­rent prac­tices with­in the NYPD, what do you think is hap­pen­ing in some of the small­er town Police depart­ments all over the coun­try? Is it any won­der so many blacks and Latinos are either locked up, or, are in some way tied up in the crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem? This does not even begin to include the social and insti­tu­tion­al built-in ills, which are intrin­si­cal­ly a part of the sys­tem. No, this is not an excuse, it is a fact. So lets add some con­text to the con­ver­sa­tion, so we may move on to hav­ing a seri­ous debate on what hap­pened in Sanford Florida and all over America with black peo­ple and black men in particular.

JZ:

Now that we cleared the air on that, lets have a con­ver­sa­tion on race in America with­out the dis­trac­tions. I can­not let my white friends off the hook sim­ply because their sen­si­bil­i­ties are offend­ed. With that said, black America must take respon­si­bil­i­ty for it’s own plight, 37 mil­lion peo­ple is a whole lot of peo­ple, when you walk around with your pants hang­ing off your ass, using drugs, not going to school, yet father­ing chil­dren out of wed-lock with mul­ti­ple women, guess what?

They take your vot­ing rights because you don’t use it to keep them in line. They lock you away for crimes you haven’t com­mit­ted, when they chose not to kill you. They talk about you as if you are incon­se­quen­tial, because you actu­al­ly are. When they mar­ket to you sim­ply because you are a peo­ple who are only about con­sumerism . When you spend every last dime you have on cheap tacky shiny objects, mak­ing peo­ple who hate you rot­ten rich, mak­ing them even rich­er when they dis­re­spect and debase you , telling you they nev­er cre­at­ed their prod­uct for you, after you had already made them filthy rich beyond their wildest dreams.

Yes you are incon­se­quen­tial when you do not start busi­ness­es, you do not sup­port black busi­ness­es, you do not have pride of cit­i­zen­ship. No pride in your com­mu­ni­ty, do not demand equal ser­vices for the tax­es you pay. When you claim run-down neigh­bor­hoods as your own, even as they take your tax­es to the sub­urbs and exurbs to make schools, fire police and oth­er ser­vices bet­ter for those liv­ing there. Yes you make your­self incon­se­quen­tial when you do not take care of the chil­dren you par­ent, leav­ing them to the charge of the state and a bur­den to those who pay tax­es.(The lat­ter not con­fined sole­ly to blacks)

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Black America must make a change as the late Tupac Shakur said , and that change must begin with us, we can­not demand respect when we do not do the things which elic­it respect and awe. The prob­lems plagu­ing black America are not new, they have been here for hun­dreds of years. Many argue they are going away with each gen­er­a­tion, they say things are get­ting bet­ter. Are they real­ly get­ting bet­ter, are the actions of the Supreme Court in gut­ting the 1965 vot­ing Rights Act symp­to­matic of pos­i­tive change? Are the state actions aimed at vot­er sup­pres­sion rep­re­sen­ta­tive of pos­i­tive change? Are the con­tin­ued expan­sion of the prison indus­tri­al com­plex and the clos­ing of schools in black neigh­bor­hoods pos­i­tive and if so pos­i­tive for whom?

Some enter­tain­ers have now come for­ward and are let­ting their voic­es be heard, using their celebri­ty to bring atten­tion to the plight of black America. Rapper Sean Carter (JZ) had this to say.

“If you ask the ques­tions, ask your­self the ques­tions, ‘Didn’t Trayvon have the right to stand his ground?,’ ” he explains. “He was being chased. He fought back. He may have won. That does­n’t mean he’s a crim­i­nal. He won. If you chase me and you try to attack me and I defend myself, how can I be in the wrong? How is that right?” This guy went to get Skittles and go back and watch the All-Star game. He had plans,” the rap­per added. “He had no inten­tions of rob­bing any­one’s homes.”

I don’t know if the killing of young Trayvon Martin will awak­en black America to the per­ilous sit­u­a­tion it is in, time will tell.

The not guilty ver­dict in the mur­der of 17 year-old Trayvon Martin ‚ignit­ed a spark in the nation . I hope it will burn into a flame which will light a brush-fire of con­scious­ness in the way African-Americans see them­selves in America.

The par­ents of Trayvon have vowed to ensure their son’s life will be a cat­a­lyst of change for the African-American com­mu­ni­ty. Many point to the class and grace with which Tracy Martin and Sabrina Fulton has han­dled them­selves hav­ing lost their son in that man­ner. This cou­ple is bet­ter than me, giv­en sim­i­lar cir­cum­stances those would not be the adjec­tives used to describe me.

The death of Martin has sparked a debate about “stand your ground laws” in Florida and oth­er states, in some states they are actu­al­ly called “make my day laws” obvi­ous­ly ref­er­enc­ing the old Clint Eastwood movie line. Black lead­er­ship has latched onto “stand your ground” laws, as the rea­son George Zimmerman saw fit to pro­file and even­tu­al­ly kill Young Trayvon Martin.

Even as they argue among them­selves, there are oth­er cas­es which are just as egre­gious as the Trayvon Martin case, which are not gar­ner­ing sim­i­lar nation­al attention.

Jordan Davis:

Jordan Davis, an unarmed black teen the same age as Trayvon Martin. Davis, 17, was shot to death by Michael Dunn.Dunn told police that he asked Davis and three oth­er teens, who were parked next to him at a gas sta­tion, to turn down their music. Dunn claims he heard threats from the teens and saw a gun in their car. He says he feared for his own safe­ty, and that’s why he grabbed his gun and fired into the vehi­cle. Police say they found no guns inside the teens’ vehi­cle and that Dunn fired his gun eight or nine times.

A Port St. Joe, Florida man arrest­ed for shoot­ing his neigh­bor in the face alleged­ly admit­ted his crime to police, with a strange excuse.
Walter Henry Butler, 59, was arrest­ed by Gulf County Sheriffs deputies after shoot­ing Everett Gant, who is black. Gant was shot in the face after he con­front­ed Butler about using racial slurs to address chil­dren liv­ing in the apart­ment com­plex where the two men reside.Deputies said Butler admit­ted to shoot­ing the vic­tim, and even called 911 him­self to report it, after which he report­ed­ly went back to cook­ing his din­ner. According to reports, offi­cers on the scene said Butler seemed annoyed by the arrest and told offi­cers, “I only shot a ni — r.Butler was charged with attempt­ed mur­der and a hate crime. He is being held at the Gulf County Jail. Gant is said to be in sta­ble con­di­tion and is expect­ed to survive.

These are just two oth­er cas­es in the state of Florida, where dead­ly force has been used against African-Americans, by non-blacks. Where is the evi­dence that these shoot­ings and the accom­pa­ny­ing nar­ra­tive has any­thing to do with stand your ground laws? The African-American com­mu­ni­ty as always, is chas­ing after the pen­nies while the dol­lars flut­ter away.

There were no stand your ground laws dur­ing the civ­il rights wars of the six­ties, it was­n’t stand your ground laws which killed Emit Till, It was­n’t stand your ground laws which killed Doctor King, or Malcolm X.

HATE DID !

There is pal­pa­ble and overt hate com­ing out of the Political Right toward African-Americans, this is noth­ing new. It became more ampli­fied after Barack Obama was elect­ed President. The expressed and implied hatred they have for Barack Obama has been trans­ferred to peo­ple of col­or in America, and more so to African-Americans. The Republican right has decid­ed that it will not embrace a pol­i­cy of inclu­sion. They have employed a scorched earth pol­i­cy toward peo­ple whom they char­ac­ter­ize as “oth­er”.

Pundits and talk­ing heads argue that includes all non whites, I dis­agree. The Republican hate machine has gone after every demo­graph­ic which formed Barack Obama;s coali­tion. They went after women who vot­ed over­whelm­ing­ly for Obama with restric­tive laws at the state lev­els, lim­it­ing a wom­an’s abil­i­ty to chose or decide how she han­dles her repro­duc­tive rights.

They went after African-Americans with laws designed to sup­press and nul­li­fy their vote, with the help of the United States Supreme Court, which sav­aged the vot­ing rights act for absolute­ly no rea­son. This is not all they also have passed laws designed to lock-up and keep black men in prison. They have attacked blacks with food stamps, hous­ing, and in oth­er ways.

They have gone after Immigrants by erect­ing a cost­ly and pre­vi­ous­ly Un-American fence on the Nation’s south­ern bor­der, bely­ing every­thing America once stood for. They fol­lowed that up with refus­ing to help Obama pass a Comprehensive Immigration Bill which would allow the esti­mat­ed 15 mil­lion peo­ple liv­ing in the shad­ows, unable to ful­ly par­tic­i­pate in the American economy.

Immigrants made America great, fresh ideas, ener­gy, and ide­al­ism is what made America. They went after young peo­ple by refus­ing to low­er inter­ests on stu­dent loans. Many of the dam­age done by Republicans at the state lev­el are done because Democrats refuse to go out and vote in off-year elec­tions as well as ger­ry­man­dered con­gres­sion­al dis­tricts which wiped out Democratic dis­tricts and heav­i­ly padded oth­ers with white Republicans.

Republican strat­e­gy for deal­ing with their shrink­ing white-male base is to sup­press the black vote, toss out Immigrants put women back in the kitchen and lock up every­one else. They fun­da­men­tal­ly believe they do not have to com­pete for every­one’s vote, if they can pull of the aforementioned.

They do not want a mul­ti-cul­tur­al coun­try. Ever since Obama was elect­ed President they have been on a cru­sade to quote:” take their coun­try back”.

They believe they do not need to reach out to racial minori­ties. They fun­da­men­tal­ly believe in build­ing and main­tain­ing a homo­ge­neous white soci­ety. If you have any doubt, watch FOX tele­vi­sion or lis­ten to to right-wing talk radio.

What black America is expe­ri­enc­ing is hate, not just Barack Obama the man, but for Barack Obama the black-man who occu­py the most sacred place they believed impreg­nable, the last bas­tion of white exclu­siv­i­ty, the epit­o­me of white accom­plish­ment and suprema­cy, this is the back-lash.

Reuters pho­to:

The killing of African-Americans occur dai­ly. Police do it using laws and poli­cies that are inher­ent­ly slant­ed against blacks. The courts do not con­vict them, in may cas­es they are not even pros­e­cut­ed. School dis­tricts do it.

African-American kids are locked up when in sim­i­lar sit­u­a­tions white chil­dren are sent to the prin­ci­pal. Blacks are arrest­ed and pros­e­cut­ed dis­pro­por­tion­ate­ly more than whites for sim­i­lar offences.

When con­vict­ed for a crime blacks receive much more severe prison sen­tences than whites who com­mit sim­i­lar offences. Police offi­cers are much more like­ly to employ force, to include dead­ly force against blacks when they inter­act with them. In fact they approach black men afraid , tense and pre­pared to use force. In many cas­es they esca­late sim­ple sit­u­a­tions that nev­er war­rant­ed force , just so they may employ force with African-American men.

In many instance police depart­ments are more dan­ger­ous to black men than the Klan ever was. How do you defend your­self against some­one who come in the name of the law? The killing of Trayvon Martin did not hap­pen because of stand your ground laws, it hap­pened because of hatred.

The Black com­mu­ni­ty has failed dis­mal­ly it has fed into every stereo­typ­i­cal box they have been placed in.

(1 Refusing to get edu­cat­ed, going to school , mak­ing sure their kids are being edu­cat­ed properly.(2 Refusing to read , not stay­ing con­ver­sant with the issues.
(3 Not vot­ing in their num­bers, and with the fre­quen­cy they should.
(4 Not sav­ing and invest­ing in their chil­dren’s future.
(5 Not sup­port­ing busi­ness­es that have own­ers who look like them.
(6 Not build­ing and main­tain­ing com­mu­ni­ty Organizations to ser­vice their needs.
(7 Not sup­port­ing each other.
(8 Spending their hard earned cash on com­pa­nies with own­ers open­ly hos­tile to them.
(9 Allowing them­selves to be divid­ed and used against their own, in the fur­ther­ance of the agen­da of others.
(10 Committing crimes and then blam­ing oth­ers for putting them in jail.

Over fifty years after the strug­gles of the 60’s and the death of Dr. King and oth­er stal­warts, blacks have squan­dered the gains made on the blood of our heroes. Many are so stu­pid they allow their ene­mies to tell they who their lead­ers should be, they allow oth­ers to use them to tear down those ded­i­cat­ed to their up-liftment.

After awhile we will have no one to blame , that time is here.

People in this coun­try and all over the world are strug­gling with the insult­ing and demean­ing ver­dict of 6 women in Sanford Florida, five of whom self-iden­ti­fied as white. Some of us have whis­tled in the wind for years, that as a peo­ple we sim­ply are head­ing in the wrong direc­tion. I have per­son­al­ly argued that the elec­tion of Barack Obama to the high­est office in the coun­try, though a tremen­dous feat of accom­plish­ment and source of great pride, is also a dou­ble hedged sword for black America.

Let me be clear, there are white Americans who are incred­i­bly decent human beings. Throughout the strug­gles, spawn­ing slav­ery to the present fight for basic human rights and dig­ni­ty, there has been white peo­ple right along­side blacks. Even as peo­ple take to the streets in cities and towns all over the coun­try, to reg­is­ter their dis­gust with this ver­dict, that mosa­ic is very evi­dent. All through­out that peri­od white peo­ple have giv­en much in blood and trea­sure in the fight against the forces of evil.

There how­ev­er is a back­ward half of white America which still har­bors what I call a Southern men­tal­i­ty, not that they all reside in the South, far from it, just a mind­set which believes in white priv­i­lege and suprema­cy. There may be one liv­ing next door to you, in the open they say they are not racist but behind closed doors they latch onto pre­his­toric and nean­derthal con­cepts about race.

It is that mind­set which makes a white woman who sat on the jury, straight-away gave the ben­e­fit of the doubt to the accused mur­der­er. This is unprece­dent­ed, giv­en that the state of Florida tries chil­dren as adults for cer­tain crimes.

Johnathan Capehart: opin­ion writer for the Washington Post.

Juror B37, whose image was obscured dur­ing the inter­view with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, said she believes the neigh­bor­hood watch vol­un­teer was well-inten­tioned but became overzeal­ous because of a string of break-ins in his Sanford, Fla. neigh­bor­hood. The woman has lived in the Sanford, Fla., area for 18 years and has two daugh­ters – a 24-year-old pet groomer and a 27-year-old col­lege stu­dent. During jury selec­tion, she said she had been called for jury duty four times pre­vi­ous­ly but nev­er select­ed to sit on a case. Martin Literary Management announced Monday that it was rep­re­sent­ing B37 and her hus­band, who is an attor­ney. But agency head Sharlene Martin released a state­ment late Monday say­ing she was no longer rep­re­sent­ing the juror and that the juror had dropped the book idea.http://​usnews​.nbc​news​.com/​_​n​e​w​s​/​2​0​1​3​/​0​7​/​1​6​/​1​9​4​8​8​8​1​5​-​z​i​m​m​e​r​m​a​n​-​j​u​r​o​r​-​h​e​-​s​h​o​u​l​d​n​t​-​h​a​v​e​-​g​o​t​t​e​n​-​o​u​t​-​o​f​-​t​h​a​t​-​car. 

Johnathan Capehart opin­ion writer for the Washington Post spoke to the lack of empa­thy, that a teenag­er lost his life for doing absolute­ly noth­ing wrong. In fact Capehart argues her entire com­ments was all about George, this George that, it seemed to be the entire talk­ing points of the defense.

Since appear­ing on the Anderson Cooper show on CNN where she gave her inter­view, this juror seemed to have a had a come to Jesus moment, in the less than 24 hours since the inter­view juror B‑37 released a state­ment doing a walk-back of sorts from what appeared to be a pro-Zimmerman stance.

Rush Limbaugh:

We in the black com­mu­ni­ty and those who empathize with our sit­u­a­tion, must be aware that there is sys­tem­at­ic and entrenched racism still in the bow­els of this coun­try. There is a them against us men­tal­i­ty which re-emerged on the sur­face after the elec­tion of Barack Obama to the presidency.

Many includ­ing elect­ed mem­bers of the United States House and even in the sen­ate are guilty, both by co-mis­sion and omis­sion in con­tribut­ing to this wave of right wing mil­i­tan­cy, which has swept over the coun­try since the elec­tion of the first man of col­or to the presidency.

Michelle Malkin : Sean Hannity:
There is nur­tur­ing of racial hatred in America on a dai­ly basis, it is fed through right wing talk-radio, and Fox tele­vi­sion. It is not sim­ply dis­agree­ing with every­thing Obama, it has metas­ta­sized into much more incen­di­ary rhetoric, Ted Nugent, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity,Glen Beck, Michelle Malkin, Bill Reilly, Anne Coulter, are just a few of the race-baiters. This kind of race-bait­ing rhetoric does not fall on deaf ears, it is fer­til­iz­er and water, on fer­tile soil. Why would any­one be sur­prised when the seeds germinate?

US Rep. Andy Harris MD:

Maryland Congress-man Andy Harris had this to say:

“We’re hung up on this one case, where this one fel­low was, in fact, found not guilty by a jury. That’s the way the American law sys­tem works. Get over it,”“We missed the for­est through the trees to a large extent with all the huge issues going on in the world,” Harris said.

Clearly a black teenager’s life is incon­se­quen­tial to this moron, so those out­raged by the despi­ca­ble ver­dict, should just move on and accept it. It goes to the heart of what I believe is deep root­ed insti­tu­tion­al­ized racism that per­me­ates the entire sys­tem, includ­ing the coun­try’s leg­is­la­ture. If this is the men­tal­i­ty of those who make the laws, how can we expect this coun­try’s white major­i­ty to do the right thing for all Americans?

Since President Obama was elect­ed, whites in red states have made a mad rush on gun stores, buy­ing up guns and ammu­ni­tion. Those are the sane ones, oth­ers have devel­oped a bunker men­tal­i­ty, stock­ing up on food and sur­vival para­pher­na­lia, prepar­ing for a race war or what they con­clude is an immi­nent cat­a­clysmic event. We may laugh at the luna­cy of these imbe­ciles but the fact is they exist, they are igno­rant, and they are heav­i­ly armed.

This mil­i­ta­riza­tion is not only con­fined to these lunatics, we have seen the mil­i­ta­riza­tion of police depart­ments, America’s police depart­ments are vir­tu­al armies. In state hous­es all over the coun­try the right-wing passed passed laws which are designed to ensure that the will of the major­i­ty is cir­cum­vent­ed. Even the Country’s Supreme Court has deter­mined that the 1965 vot­ing rights act should not stand as con­sti­tut­ed, nev­er mind that it brings fideli­ty to the process.

This is Obama’s America, the Trayvon Martin case is a wake-up call for all Americans, more so for peo­ple of col­or. If you thought the idio­cy of racial suprema­cy was a thing of the past you are wrong. This case estab­lish­es that all men of col­or are sus­pects, not just young black men, all men. The mil­i­tan­cy that killed Trayvon Martin kill many and incar­cer­ate thou­sands of black men every year. Police depart­ments do it arbi­trar­i­ly and noth­ing is being done about it, if you don’t believe me look inside America’s pris­ons and jails.

Tomorrow we talk about per­son­al responsibility.

How can a so-called jus­tice sys­tem say to the par­ents of a mur­dered child who was on his way home,“the man who stalked, chased, con­front­ed and killed your son did noth­ing wrong”? That’s whats at the heart of the mat­ter in the Trayvon Martin mur­der case. That is what mat­tered, it tells black peo­ple exact­ly who or what they are, on the totem pole in their own coun­try, it’s that sim­ple. Black America may con­tin­ue to buy into obfus­ca­tion and the euphemism com­ing form even some of it’s own in intel­li­gentsia, to it’s per­il. Black intel­li­gentsia had nev­er real­ly been on the fore­front of the fight for racial jus­tice in America. So let’s call it as we see it from the streets.

Every day we pas­sion­ate­ly talk about the rule of law in these blogs. We espouse con­for­mi­ty with soci­etal estab­lished rules, we do so even as we fend off crit­ics who say the law many times can­not and in many cas­es should not be trust­ed. It is a tough posi­tion to play the cen­ter. Those who push-back against the rule of law ‚out of dis­gust for agents of said law, who abuse their trust, are no less impor­tant than those who hold fast to the adher­ence to said laws. We sim­ply have not come up with a bet­ter met­ric to gov­ern our lives. We live by rules, enact­ed by our rep­re­sen­ta­tives, it is a covenant between those who gov­ern and the gov­erned. The law works best when they are applied equal­ly across the board, with­out fear or favor mal­ice or ill will. That is the basis for the suc­cess of what we call democ­ra­cy, equal pro­tec­tion under the law, that’s it.

EQUAL PROTECTION UNDER THE LAW, HAS IT EVER INCLUDED BLACKS?

The negro has no rights a white man is firced to respect.

Separate but equal.

To present day, lets take a com­mon-sense look at race in America.

Would a young white male walk­ing in any neigh­bor­hood be pro­filed as a crim­i­nal and even­tu­al­ly killed?

If your answer is prob­a­bly, maybe, or yes, “would his killers be allowed to walk free with no crim­i­nal sanction”?

If you answer prob­a­bly ‚maybe, or yes then this con­ver­sa­tion is not for you, you are a liar and the truth is not in you.

Omara:

Mark Omara the crim­i­nal defense lawyer for George Zimmerman stood in front of a gag­gle of reporters and stat­ed ‚’ if George Zimmerman was black he would not even have been arrest­ed”. I felt Omara had a right to defend his client with every­thing he has, up to that state­ment. Omara said that tongue in cheek, he proved him­self a liar and a fraud.

What makes Mark Omara a lying fraud ?

According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, one in three black men can expect to go to prison in their life­time. Individuals of col­or have a dis­pro­por­tion­ate num­ber of encoun­ters with law enforce­ment, indi­cat­ing that racial pro­fil­ing con­tin­ues to be a prob­lem. A report by the Department of Justice found that blacks and Hispanics were approx­i­mate­ly three times more like­ly to be searched dur­ing a traf­fic stop than white motorists. African-Americans were twice as like­ly to be arrest­ed and almost four times as like­ly to expe­ri­ence the use of force dur­ing encoun­ters with the police.

. Students of col­or face harsh­er pun­ish­ments in school than their white peers, lead­ing to a high­er num­ber of youth of col­or incar­cer­at­ed. Black and Hispanic stu­dents rep­re­sent more than 70 per­cent of those involved in school-relat­ed arrests or refer­rals to law enforce­ment. Currently, African-Americans make up two-fifths and Hispanics one-fifth of con­fined youth today.

African-American youth have high­er rates of juve­nile incar­cer­a­tion and are more like­ly to be sen­tenced to adult prison. According to the Sentencing Project, even though African American juve­nile youth are about 16 per­cent of the youth pop­u­la­tion, 37 per­cent of their cas­es are moved to crim­i­nal court and 58 per­cent of African American youth are sent to adult . http://​www​.amer​i​can​progress​.org/​i​s​s​u​e​s​/​r​a​c​e​/​n​e​w​s​/​2​0​1​2​/​0​3​/​1​3​/​1​1​3​5​1​/​t​h​e​-​t​o​p​-​1​0​-​m​o​s​t​-​s​t​a​r​t​l​i​n​g​-​f​a​c​t​s​-​a​b​o​u​t​-​p​e​o​p​l​e​-​o​f​-​c​o​l​o​r​-​a​n​d​-​c​r​i​m​i​n​a​l​-​j​u​s​t​i​c​e​-​i​n​-​t​h​e​-​u​n​i​t​e​d​-​s​t​a​t​es/

I warned before the ver­dict was in that a jury of five white, gun-own­ing women in Florida would total­ly and unequiv­o­cal­ly exon­er­ate George Zimmerman. Why would Tracey Martin and Sabrina Fulton expect any­thing dif­fer­ent from a bunch of white women in a local­i­ty where some believe that peo­ple demon­strat­ing for a sim­ple arrest of this killer Zimmerman was a quote ” riot­ing mob” ? Never mind that all protest actions has been peaceful.

In a coun­ty where there is a large black pop­u­la­tion, how come the so-called jus­tice sys­tem could not find a sin­gle African-American to sit on that jury? What does that tell you? Every day there are vio­lent con­fronta­tions all over America between black men going about their busi­ness and over­ly aggres­sive cops, ful­ly mil­i­ta­rized to destroy the sub­ject of their fears dis-com­fort and envy, black men, using the laws as cover.

That does not mean all cops are bad , not by a long shot, it also does not mean that we should absolve our black men of respon­si­bil­i­ty if they engage in crim­i­nal behav­ior. That how­ev­er should not make any­one sec­ond class cit­i­zens in their own country.

Tears do not come easy for me, yet last night despite total­ly expect­ing that ver­dict, tears rolled down my cheeks, this killing hap­pened over a year ago, the ver­dict awoke an anger I nev­er believed still exist­ed in me. The ver­dict made me trem­ble with anger, as a father of four sons, I trem­bled out of fear, not fear of what could hap­pen to my sons, not fear of what could hap­pen to me, but out of fear of what I would do if some­one ever did that to one of my sons.

Black America can talk about being sad all they want, they may talk about being dis­s­a­point­ed all they want. You can­not con­tin­ue to pay homage to a sys­tem which kills you , locks up your chil­dren , your fathers, your daugh­ters dis­pro­por­tion­ate­ly and with devi­ous intentions.

Blacks must stop being ener­gized by vic­tim-hood, you can­not expect your oppres­sor to be your savior.

If a build­ing is struc­tural­ly unsound the thing to do is to shore it up as best you can, get the engi­neers in to do an assess­ment, then get to the task of solid­i­fy­ing the struc­tur­al imper­fec­tions of
that building.
That’s com­mon sense right?
Then why do you believe the United States Supreme Court did exact­ly the oppo­site of that com­mon sense principle?

Tampering with the Voting rights act!
What the Supreme court did in rav­aging the 1965 vot­ing rights act was exact­ly the oppo­site of what is com­mon sense.
They took out a fun­da­men­tal piece of the act which makes sure that the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment has over­sight of states which has had a his­to­ry of vot­er suppression.
What they did was effec­tive­ly said to the dys­func­tion­al Tea-Party con­trolled con­gress , ” You go ahead and fix vot­ing rights, but in the mean­time we will just go ahead and remove the effective
pro­tec­tions which have been in place for the past 48 years “.

Members of the Supreme Court
It is impor­tant to note that nei­ther Shelby coun­ty nor the State of Alabama has shown how the fed­er­al super­vi­sion of their activ­i­ties has affect­ed them negatively.
This must then lead to the con­clu­sion that the desire is to sup­press the vote.
The United States Supreme Court did not do this in a vac­u­um. This right-wing court, led by John Roberts knows exact­ly where it wants to take the coun­try. Roberts has been on a path to eras­ing vot­ing rights
since he served as a young lawyer in the Reagan Administration.
As I wrote a few days ago the court knew exact­ly what it was doing when it evis­cer­at­ed the vot­ing rights act just a day before it tore down the foun­da­tions of what most of us under­stood mar­riage to mean. It was a cal­lous and rep­re­hen­si­ble act of big­otry aimed at sub­ju­gat­ing peo­ple of col­or back to the trench­es of racial disenfranchisement.

They were patent­ly aware that their rul­ing evis­cer­at­ing The defense of mar­riage Act,would com­plete­ly over­shad­ow their cal­lous and craven act of the pre­vi­ous day.

Many states which had vot­er sup­pres­sion laws in the works are now run­ning to ensure that they are immide­al­ty insti­tut­ed. Nothing stands between them and their wish to make sure that black peo­ple can­not vote.
In States like Florida, black and brown vot­ers were forced to stand in line an aver­age of 20 min­utes longer than whites to exer­cise the same fran­chise. Many states cut the amount of days that pre­ced­ed vot­ing day, these ear­ly vot­ing days allowed peo­ple liv­ing in heav­i­ly pop­u­lat­ed areas the oppor­tu­ni­ty to vote.
Common sense right?
So we look at who lives in these areas of high pop­u­la­tion den­si­ty. The answer is blacks and Latinos. They have also lim­it­ed or elim­i­nat­ed elec­tion day reg­is­tra­tion of vot­ers. Most galling they have elim­i­nat­ed Sunday vot­ing in some states, this is the most brazen attempt aimed at African-Americans who used Sunday vot­ing, coin­ing the term “souls to the polls”
Former pres­i­dent Bill Clinton said the attempts he saw at vot­er sup­pres­sion the last nation­al cycle was the worse he had witnessed..

Georgia Rep: John Lewis.

African-Americans will have to fight the fights that were fought 50 years ago because they stopped the fight, they believed the bat­tles they won was the war. Looking at Georgia Congressman John Lewis brought tears to my eyes, as I watched him talk about the road he traveled.

African-Americans sat on their behinds and pre­tend­ed that all was well. Not get­ting edu­cat­ed, pants sag­ging, dope sell­ing Ebonics slang­ing, chil­dren after chil­dren out of wed­lock, refus­ing to read and avail them­selves to what is hap­pen­ing in their own country.

When you let oth­ers decide for you, they decide for them­selves, that’s exact­ly what they did. Are we to repeat the beat­ings John Lewis took, what about Medger Evers, Martin King, and Malcolm X ? Where will we find these men to sac­ri­fice once again? What about Emit Till, and all the Martyrs that who gave them­selves to the cause, where will Black America source these heroes once again?

A peo­ple who so quick­ly for­got what they went through was con­demned to find itself right back there, The next gen­er­a­tion if edu­cat­ed are too sold out and if not, are far too stu­pid. We have a problem.

I have four sons my eldest is now 26 years old, I guard­ed my sons like a Penguin guard it’s eggs, I nev­er acqui­esce to the argu­ment that moth­ers are more nur­tur­ing than men. I nur­ture my sons, I dis­ci­pline my sons, the two are not mutu­al­ly exclusive.

The Trayvon Martin cas­es com­menced in a Florida court-room today. I watched Tracey Martin use a piece of nap­kin to wipe tears from his eyes as pros­e­cu­tors and defense attor­neys talk about his son, nei­ther men knew Trayvon, yet they will explain to an all white female jury, who Trayvon Martin was. Some women from the very pool have expressed the view that George Zimmerman the defen­dant who killed Martin should go home because he is innocent.

One female juror referred to the peace­ful demon­stra­tion of inter­est­ed par­ties who demand­ed the arrest of Zimmerman as a riot.

Many argue women are kinder, gen­tler more con­sid­er­ate, so much for that, I guess they weren’t around for Margaret Thatcher, they have nev­er heard Michelle Bachman’s views, in essence race trumps gender.

Yet, despite all of this, Tracey Martin and Sabrina Fulton are forced to sit there and hope that the American crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem will do the right thing, the very jus­tice sys­tem which was unable to find a black man or woman , or a black judge to hear this case.

They will have to put their con­fi­dence in a sys­tem which did not arrest Zimmerman until there was nation­al out­cry and out­rage. One of the great­est chal­lenge fac­ing young black men in America is their exis­ten­tial fight for sur­vival. Interestingly the threat to their lives does not come from the Klu Kluk Klan as much any more, but from police offi­cers who see them as sus­pects sim­ply on the basis of being black.

It is an out­rage, the record­ings of George Zimmerman’s com­ments to the 911 dis­patch­er and what he mut­tered under his breadth, which the pros­e­cu­tor out­lined in open­ing argu­ments this morn­ing, goes to a deep­er mind­set among police in lit­er­al­ly ever cor­ner of America regard­ing young black men.

There are many who will argue that one of the great­est threats to young black men are, young black men, they will hear no argu­ments from me on that. However peo­ple should not live in fear of police offi­cers who are paid to pro­tect them.

Zimmerman was a vig­i­lante, he is a wannabe cop, like many who joined police depart­ments all over America, he had pre-con­ceived notions about cer­tain peo­ple. Even as Tracey and Sabrina are forced to sit and lis­ten to lying defense lawyers try to demo­nize their son, we must rec­og­nize the men­tal­i­ty which caused them to be sit­ting in that court-room.

It is a mind­set which sees young black men as sus­pects in their black skin.

Sheriff’s Deputies pulled young man over he had slight­ly dark­er than usu­al tint. Observe one cop still in the car , the kid had the dri­ver side win­dow down to speak to him , yet one cop is at the pas­sen­ger side win­dow demand­ing that he open that door, that amounts to a breach of this kids rights, it is an ille­gal search.

The young man is ordered out of his car and is lean­ing against the Patrol car with one cop talk­ing to him , he is bare­ly vis­i­ble, his view of what’s going on is blocked by the cop speak­ing to him while the first cop is now at the dri­ver’s side dig­ging through his car

Here’s one cop talk­ing to the young man now vis­i­ble, while the oth­er con­tin­ues to rum­mage through his car with­out his consent.

In the end what did they find? Nothing ille­gal, this whole episode hap­pened in my view as I clicked away, my doing so prob­a­bly saved him a whole lot of headache. As if the ille­gal search was not bad enough, they lost his Registration some­where between the seats in the vehi­cle they drove, they sim­ply shrugged and told him he will have to apply for another.

I saw him the next day he told me he called the Dutchess County Sheriff’s Office and was told that his reg­is­tra­tion was lost between the seats of the vehi­cle . They out­lined what it would take to retrieve it, and told him curt­ly, they were not about to do that. Just one more case of racial pro­fil­ing and egre­gious abuse by police offi­cers when it comes to young men of color.

There are nev­er any cries from Amnesty International, none from the Inter American com­mis­sion for human rights about these every-day occur­rences of abuse police vis­it on young African American and Latino dai­ly. They find them­selves in coun­tries like Jamaica where they grand­stand and pon­tif­i­cate about Human Rights

How does a Political Party ignore demographic trends and stay relevant? I’m asking you, because the truth is I don’t have a clue. As the world slowly pulls itself from a long and protracted recession, the biggest problem to America’s re-emergence to its place atop the heap, as the world’s dominant economic powerhouse, is the Republican Party. It is interesting that at this time in our history the Republican Party is practically eating itself. Parties win and lose elections but it seem that having endured 4 years of Obama, derangement syndrome has set into the DNA of Republicans. My grand parents taught me never to hate anyone. They told me if you spend your life trying to hold someone down you cannot soar as you normally would. A Jailer keeping others incarcerated is himself incarcerated. I can’t say that I learned the lesson of not hating anyone, I’m still working on myself , I’m not there yet. There are a few people who evoke very strong negative reactions in me when their names come up.

My point is that Republicans from top to bot­tom have demon­strat­ed such hatred for our President that it does seem that they are quite con­tent to wreck the coun­try and their par­ty in the process. If any­thing I’ve learned from that les­son of hatred, is that when you hate it seem to pro­pel the sub­ject of your hatred to big­ger things, high­er heights. President Obama argued some­time ago that Republicans would pro­pose leg­is­la­tion, he laments “I say yes I agree with this” and they say,“oh you agree, then we are against it” they would sim­ply back away from their own leg­is­la­tion because he agrees with it. This is luna­cy of the high­est order, it is ‚mad­ness born out of deep-seat­ed racism. make no mis­take, when the old cur­mud­geon from Kentucky Mitch McConnell said his num­ber one pri­or­i­ty was to make Obama a one-term pres­i­dent it was­n’t out of any­thing but racial hatred. When they select­ed Michael Steel to head the Republican National Committee that was racial cal­cu­la­tion to take down the first black president.

When Sarah Palin the igno­ra­mus from Alaska was unleashed on us by a reck­less and cyn­i­cal John McCain, the ran­cid bile which intrud­ed on our space, and cor­rod­ed our beings, the stench of which remains today, it was racism. When Joe Wilson the South Carolina Congress-man shout­ed “you lie as the President gave the State of the Union, it was racism When low-class Arizona’s Governor Jan Brewer wagged her scrag­gly fin­gers in the face of the President on that Tarmac in unprece­dent­ed poor taste, it was racism. The emer­gence of the Tea-Party was racism. The emer­gence of the most vile despi­ca­ble low-lives on our nation­al con­scious­ness, Trump, Sununu, Beck , Hannity, Fox News, it’s racism. Four years of Republican intran­si­gence in the House and Senate for absolute­ly no rea­son is racism. I could write a book on this sub­ject alone but I will stop here,those inter­est­ed may go back and read and decide for them­selves. The Republican Party which lost two pres­i­den­tial elec­tions in a row have decid­ed that to hell with the wish­es of the peo­ple, they are going to stick to their guns and obstruct every­thing that the pres­i­dent pro­pos­es aimed at help­ing the mid­dle class and the poor. It has become clear that they are will­ing to spite the pres­i­dent at any cost, they are deter­mined to stand in the way of the pres­i­den­t’s agen­da through the upcom­ing Sequestration. This will affect. . Less Air Traffic controllers,so longer lines at air­ports , greater delays and poten­tial­ly seri­ous risks to the trav­el­ling pub­lic. . Less meat inspec­tors, poten­tial­ly putting the pub­lic at risk for food borne diseases.

. FBI and oth­er Federal Agents fur­loughed includ­ing Border Agents, National Security impacted.

. Prosecutors hav­ing to let crim­i­nals walk for want of prosecution.

. Military readi­ness impacted.

. Meals for the sick and indi­gent reduced or eliminated.

. First Responders, laid off or see their hours cut, the list goes on and on.

The strat­e­gy for Republicans was to make Barack Obama a one term President, (à la), Mitch McConnell and oth­ers, when that did not work ‚the strat­e­gy shift­ed to one of absolute obstruc­tion, there­by cre­at­ing a con­tin­u­um of crises. These are the series of arti­fi­cial crises we have been wit­ness­ing , from the debt ceil­ing debate which saw America’s cred­it rat­ing down­grad­ed for the first time in his­to­ry to the present seques­tra­tion debate.

This ought to con­vince every­one that these are self-inflict­ed wounds designed to cre­ate uncer­tain­ty, which will have the coun­try lurch­ing as if it is lead­er­less, then they may pick up the pieces in 2014. Make no mis­take, these peo­ple are not fools, they cer­tain­ly don’t give a rats ass about coun­try. They are mas­ter con­nivers and of course they have an entire net­work ded­i­cat­ed to the dumb­ing-down of that sec­tor of the pop­u­la­tion which would like to go back to the days of slav­ery. The prob­lem with that is that the mind­less turds at FOX News and those lis­ten­ing to the oth­er cretins on talk radio are not the only ones being affect­ed by these reck­less actions. Clearly this par­ty is total­ly pop­u­lat­ed with deranged lunatics, how can any polit­i­cal par­ty be against every­thing that is in the inter­est of the very peo­ple they say they rep­re­sent? Simply put, Republicans are sab­o­tag­ing their own Government and coun­try to spite Barack Obama. The Speaker of the House John Boehner may not be a racist like some of the more deranged nuts, but he does not want to lose his speak­er-ship. John Boehner is inca­pable of han­dling the cau­cus he has been dealt, this does not absolve him of cul­pa­bil­i­ty as some are quick to sug­gest he should be. Boehner did not come from rich­es or plen­ty, sure­ly he under­stands the plight of the poor, he under­stands the chal­lenges of the work­ing man and woman, who gets up day in day out try­ing to feed their fam­i­lies and keep a roof over their heads.

Tragically Boehner like Marco Rubio, has decid­ed that they are over the wall, so they should now pull up the lad­der and pre­vent any­one else from climb­ing up. It is a trag­ic flaw in a man’s char­ac­ter, which makes him com­fort­able once he’s reached a cer­tain plateau to denounce and dis­en­fran­chise oth­ers not as for­tu­nate. Nowhere is this flaw more obvi­ous than in Florida’s rook­ie United States Senator Marco Rubio, had it not been for the benev­o­lence of this great nation he most assured­ly would be born in Cuba if at all, no one would know or care about a Cuban named Marco Rubio, yet on the sin­gu­lar most ger­mane issue of immi­gra­tion, Rubio is to the right of many Republicans. Watching Rachel Maddow , one of the best cable commentators,as it relates to the pre­sen­ta­tion of facts in my opin­ion last night, I was stunned to learn that Government has shrunk dras­ti­cal­ly under President Obama. There has been reces­sions under Reagan, Bush 42^nd, Clinton, Bush 43^rd, and now under Obama, the reces­sions Obama inher­it­ed has been arguably more severe than those under each of his pre­de­ces­sors. During all of those reces­sions Government hir­ing was cru­cial to pulling the coun­try out of the hole. This more severe reces­sion Obama inher­it­ed, has seen mas­sive pub­lic sec­tor lay-offs at every lev­el of Government, fur­ther com­pli­cat­ing and length­en­ing this recov­ery. So what that means is the labels of Communists, Marxists, Socialist that have been attached to Obama, are real­ly not teth­ered to any fac­tu­al rea­son­ing but more so because of Obama’s col­or. Barack Obama can­not come out and say it is because of his race, why this lev­el of obstruc­tion and dis­re­spect is being hurled his way. He can­not say that it is as a result of race why the Republican Congress, Jan Brewer, John Sununu, Joe Wilson, and the oth­er imbe­ciles are so dead set against him. Nah, there would be too many howls of con­dem­na­tion argu­ing that he got elect­ed twice in America. What they will not nev­er tell you, is that in most red States Obama lost the white vote by 80 to 90 per­cent­age points. By the way that’s racism.

Former Republican Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of America’s Military blast­ed his par­ty as intol­er­ant, as he won­dered how senior mem­bers of the par­ty could remain silent in the face of some of the things which have been said about President Obama the Nation’s first African-American President.

I think what the Republican Party needs to do now is to take a very hard look at itself” and at the atti­tude of some Republicans toward eth­nic minori­ties, he said, accus­ing unnamed Republicans of “intol­er­ance” and “(look­ing) down at minorities.”

Powell crit­i­cized – although did not iden­ti­fy by name — for­mer New Hampshire gov­er­nor John Sununu, who served as chief of staff for President George H. W Bush and as an aide to 2012 GOP nom­i­nee Mitt Romney, for call­ing Obama “lazy” after his first debate per­for­mance and 2008 GOP vice pres­i­den­tial can­di­date Sarah Palin for using the phrase “shuck and jive” in crit­i­ciz­ing Obama’s expla­na­tion of the administration’s response to attack on the U.S. diplo­mat­ic post in Benghazi.

Racial polar­iza­tion and hatred is noth­ing new in America, today Wednesday the 15^th of January marked the 84^th birth­day of Civil Rights Icon the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King. As we cel­e­brate the birth of Dr. King there are many who invoke the name of Doctor King out of one side of their mouths, even though they nev­er sup­port­ed any­thing he stood for whilst he lived.

Some of those who invoke his name did not even want a National hol­i­day in his hon­or. We all saw the dirty under­bel­ly of race in America after it start­ed to appear that Barack Obama could actu­al­ly become President in 2008. There were ugly visu­als in the fields of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Iowa rem­i­nis­cent of the images we saw in black and white pic­tures of what hap­pened in the 60’s in America, and those were so-called Democrats, as Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama duked it out for the Democratic Nomination.

The ven­omous vit­ri­olic hatred which greet­ed Martin Luther King as he trav­eled around the coun­try 50 plus years ago were no dif­fer­ent from some of what hap­pened in 2008 not in the south, but in the Mid West and north­ern tiers of this country.

Many argue that America is bet­ter now, There is a black fam­i­ly in the White House, Gays can get mar­ried in some States and can actu­al­ly serve open­ly in the mil­i­tary, and the seg­re­gat­ed drink­ing foun­tains of George Wallace’s Alabama are no more​.You will have to decide if the coun­try is bet­ter, have the hate dis­si­pat­ed or dis­ap­peared or has it sim­ply retreat­ed to a more com­fort­able place , just beneath the surface?

As the first African-American President Barack Obama has had to deal with the dis­re­spect which has been met­ed out to Jessie Owens, Jackie Robinson, and oth­er trail­blaz­ers who went before him. It is incom­pre­hen­si­ble to me that there can be so much hatred with­in one coun­try where the inhab­i­tants all call them­selves Americans.

How can a house so divid­ed stand? The great­ness of America did not occur because of the white­ness of America> The great­ness of America occurred because of the diverse nature of America, no sin­gle group owns America, this land belongs to all the peo­ple of America! Yet if you lis­ten to the tone and lan­guage of the peo­ple on the right you would think that all oth­er peo­ple are inter­lop­ers, even the peo­ple their ances­tors came and saw.

This nas­ti­ness is not new in American Politics, in fact, there is more than enough prece­dent for it, through­out this coun­try’s his­to­ry there have been incred­i­ble pas­sions, there have been seces­sion, and even a civ­il war.

The ide­al­is­tic notions of a more per­fect Union shared by some of us includ­ing the present occu­pant of the White House may be a pipe dream. It may be a bit naive to assume that because we have sur­vived to the year 2013 that some­how, igno­rance, big­otry, pet­ti­ness, and hatred have not fil­tered down to present day people.

The truth is, those char­ac­ter­is­tics are learned behav­ior pat­terns which igno­rant, big­ot­ed, pet­ty, hate­ful peo­ple pass on to their kids through their words and deeds.

The pas­sions which per­me­at­ed the soul of the very first patri­ots who pushed through swamp and forests, through the deserts and over moun­tains from the Atlantic to the Pacific did not die when Barack Obama took the oath of office, and they won’t die long after he’s gone.

What every­one will have to learn is how to live togeth­er, I’m sure Obama him­self is very con­ver­sant of this.

The nas­ti­ness which came to the fore in the General Elections of 2008 in the form of a not ready for prime time Alaska Governor, would be a cat­a­lyst for what many char­ac­ter­ized as the worst they had ever seen.

That nas­ti­ness cloaked in name-brand duds and masked in lip­stick, spread like wild­fire over the ter­rain of the Republican Party. It gave cov­er to many dor­mant Racists who were hith­er­to restrained from say­ing things many con­sid­ered were behind America before the emer­gence of Barack Obama.

But they weren’t, it took a semi-lit­er­ate igno­ra­mus dressed up in fan­cy clothes and a bright smile to ignite the embers of racial hatred which smol­dered bare­ly beneath the surface.

It does­n’t mat­ter that Obama is half white, or was raised by his white grand­par­ents. Rather than make Obama more palat­able to the swamp crea­tures who engage in racial pol­i­tics, it awak­ened them to cas­ti­gate his moth­er as some­thing oth­er than an accept­able white woman, dam­aged goods if you will.

Such is the destruc­tive nature of the igno­rance of racial supe­ri­or­i­ty, in actu­al­i­ty, they turned on their own. The Republican Party was not con­strained from engag­ing in a type of ran­cid racial behav­ior many thought died in the 60’s, they actu­al­ly turned on the mod­er­ate voic­es with­in the par­ty and forced them out.

Longtime Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, Richard Lugar of Indiana, Governor Charlie Crist of Florida, for­mer Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell were just a few of the casu­al­ties. Though Powell and oth­ers like Olympia Snowe of Maine, and Chuck Hagel of Nebraska con­tend that they are still Republicans, the par­ty has long passed them by.The new acronym for them is (RINO) Republicans in name only.

I will stop here before I bore you further.

I would like to uplift our heroes, Marcus Garvey, Martin Luther King, Bob Marley, Nelson Mandela, Malcolm X, Medgar Evers , Huey Newton, Eldridge Cleaver, Harry Belafonte, Myrlie Evers, Coretta Scott King, Betty Shabazz, Jessie Jackson, Al, Sharpton, Mohamed Ali and all of the oth­er fight­ers for free­dom and social jus­tice who have come and gone, each and every gen­er­a­tion must car­ry the torch, free­dom is nev­er free.

What do we look for in our elected leaders? Are political leaders role models? Are our children supposed to read about our Presidents, Senators, Congress-persons and other leaders with awe and aspiration?

I say you betcha (sic) our chil­dren not only look to these lead­ers with admi­ra­tion and awe but they look to peo­ple less deserv­ing, sports and rap stars, actors , their own peers ‚what­ev­er, why would we expect that our elect­ed polit­i­cal lead­ers are not viewed in the same light by our kids? Are we con­tent with the air brush­ing of his­to­ry? Is it hon­esty when we make his­to­ry, his sto­ry, rather than the real sto­ry? Or are we pre­pared to heap praise on those who were less than decent because it suits the nar­ra­tive we want to advance for posterity?

Which brings me to the upcom­ing elec­tions, many peo­ple ‚Republicans and Democrats will tell you frankly that most if not all politi­cians stretch­es the truth. In fact politi­cians with the best char­ac­ter will evade rather than tell the truth and suf­fer the con­se­quences. It is just not good pol­i­tics to always be truth­ful in that line of work.

So elec­torates in democ­ra­cies have baked that knowl­edge into how they view polit­i­cal aspi­rants, what that means is that they know that all politi­cians will stretch and or evade the truth, so they cut them some slack to a cer­tain degree. Electorates will also cut polit­i­cal aspi­rants some slack when they do not out­right con­demn sup­port­ers who say and or do sil­ly things, they under­stand how crit­i­cal each and every sup­port­er or group of sup­port­ers are, if the aspi­rant is to be elected.

Some Politicians have strate­gi­cal­ly denounced cer­tain sup­port­ers when it serves their inter­est, they cal­cu­late it gives them broad­er appeal or legit­i­ma­cy to a larg­er audi­ence, or a larg­er pool of voters.

Bill Clinton had his Sister moment.

The term orig­i­nat­ed in the 1992 pres­i­den­tial can­di­da­cy of Bill Clinton. In a Washington Post inter­view pub­lished on May 13, 1992, the hip-hop MC, author, and polit­i­cal activist Sister Souljah was quot­ed as say­ing, “If Black peo­ple kill Black peo­ple every day, why not have a week and kill white peo­ple?”^[3] The remark was part of a longer response to the 1992 Los Angeles riots. The quo­ta­tion result­ed in crit­i­cism. In June 1992, Clinton respond­ed both to that quo­ta­tion and to some­thing Souljah had said in the music video of her song “The Final Solution: Slavery’s back in Effect” (“If there are any good white peo­ple, I haven’t met them”)^[4] while giv­ing a speech to Jesse Jackson Sr.‘s Rainbow Coalition, say­ing, “If you took the words ‘white’ and ‘black,’ and you reversed them, you might think David Duke was giv­ing that speech.”(Wikipedia).

As a can­di­date for the Republican nom­i­na­tion for pres­i­dent in 2000, Texas Governor George W. Bush spoke before the con­ser­v­a­tive Manhattan Institute in October 1999 say­ing, “Too often, on social issues, my par­ty has paint­ed an image of America slouch­ing toward Gomorrah,” quot­ing the title of a book by con­ser­v­a­tive jurist Robert Bork. Bush’s com­ments were seen as a repu­di­a­tion of the reli­gious right and an attempt to appeal to mod­er­ate vot­ers; com­men­ta­tor Charles Krauthammer called it “an ever-so-sub­tle Sister Souljah on Robert Bork.”(Wikipedia).

Also in the 2000 cam­paign for the Republican nom­i­na­tion, Arizona Senator John McCain stat­ed, “Neither par­ty should be defined by pan­der­ing to the out­er reach­es of American pol­i­tics and the agents of intol­er­ance, whether they be Louis Farrakhan or Al Sharpton on the left or Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell on the right.” This was sim­i­lar­ly seen as a repu­di­a­tion of the reli­gious right; colum­nist Jacob Weisberg called it “a pun­gent Sister Souljah moment.”

During the 2008 United States pres­i­den­tial cam­paign, Democratic Party nom­i­nee Barack Obama received much crit­i­cism for his asso­ci­a­tion with his long­time Pastor Jeremiah Wright, and Wright’s pat­tern of provoca­tive state­ments. On April 29, Senator Obama dis­tanced him­self, in a well-received speech on racism, call­ing some of Wright’s state­ments “out­ra­geous” and “a bunch of rants that aren’t ground­ed in truth.”^[6][7] South Carolina Congressman James Clyburn said of the speech, “This, I think, offers Barack Obama his Sister Souljah moment”;^[7] the speech was also described as “more than a Sister Souljah moment” by colum­nist Maureen Dowd.^[8]

On July 10, 2008, pri­or to a tap­ing of Fox and Friends, civ­il-rights activist Jesse Jackson was unwit­ting­ly caught by an open micro­phone whis­per­ing to a fel­low inter­vie­wee, say­ing that then-can­di­date Barack Obama was talk­ing down to black peo­ple and that he, Jackson, want­ed to cut Obama’s “nuts off”.^[9] Jackson’s son, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. of Illinois — co-chair of Obama’s pres­i­den­tial cam­paign — pub­licly blast­ed his father’s com­ments. Dan Balz called the com­ments “acci­den­tal Sister Souljah moment” for Obama, since Jackson had dis­tanced him­self from the can­di­date, with­out Obama hav­ing to take a stand.^{[10](Wikipedia)}

^{Romney/​Ryan}

Not only had John McCain spo­ken out against the most stri­dent in both par­ties as he saw them, he also cor­rect­ed a woman at one of his cam­paign events dur­ing the 2008 cam­paign who accused then can­di­date Barack Obama of being an Arab, a Muslim and God knows what else.http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llef8ZRTWQo&feature=related.

These are just some of the instances I ref­er­enced, polit­i­cal expe­di­en­cy or char­ac­ter, you be the judge. With all that I have said it brings us to the present Republican Candidate for President Mitt Romney . I have writ­ten a lot of blogs crit­i­ciz­ing this guy, the truth is I don’t like him , that much is obvious.

I have a tremen­dous dis­like for Romney not because he is Republican, I like Chuck Hagel, I like Colin Powell, I like Steve Schmidt. I don’t dis­like Romney because of his race, many of our friends are white , and are tremen­dous­ly decent and nice peo­ple. I do not dis­like Romney because he is run­ning against the first black President, Barack Obama.

I have a tremen­dous dis­like for Mitt Romney because he is a patho­log­i­cal liar. I was raised to always tell the truth, I have suf­fered because of liars. That makes me very intol­er­ant of liars.

How does the American pub­lic rec­on­cile tol­er­at­ing a poten­tial pres­i­dent who lies the way Romney does, are the American peo­ple will­ing to trust this great exper­i­ment to a man who straight-faced lies about every­thing he does? Without the patho­log­i­cal men­dac­i­ty, Mitt Romney is already and still is a dan­ger­ous­ly flawed can­di­date, he has said he does­n’t care about the poor, most Americans are mid­dle class or poor. He said 47% of the American peo­ple are moochers who refus­es to take respon­si­bil­i­ty for their lives, these are the very peo­ple he is now ask­ing to elect him so he can car­ry out the wish­es of the 1%.

Are the American vot­ers will­ing to elect Mitt Romney and allow him to destroy the coun­try then seek to resus­ci­tate his image for pos­ter­i­ty? I am dumb­struck at the men­tal­i­ty of vot­ers, what does it say about the moral com­pass of a peo­ple who from poll to poll inti­mate through their sup­port for Romney, that they are will­ing to cast their vote for a man whose cam­paign mantra is “We will not allow fact-check­ers to decide the direc­tion of our campaign”.

If Mitt Romney is elect­ed what kind of pres­i­dent does the American peo­ple expect him to be? Does any­one expect him to be a leader who gov­ern with truth, integri­ty, honor,or dig­ni­ty, or will he sim­ply be anoth­er Richard Nixon? Why would elec­tors who cast their votes for a patho­log­i­cal liar expect a pres­i­dent who will hon­or their sacred trust? Doesn’t truth mat­ter? I say it does, we get the Government we deserve, we get the Government that rep­re­sents who we are.

If we are big­ot­ed igno­rant racists we will pre­tend that Barack Obama is a bad President, we will pre­tend that the deficit and par­ti­san­ship is his fault. We will act as though the ills that plague America are of his mak­ing, after all he’s black how could it not be his fault? You see the elec­tion of Obama did not show America to have grad­u­at­ed from hun­dreds of years of racial ani­mus, an ani­mus that has eat­en away at the inner core of American soci­ety through­out her history.

The ele­va­tion of Obama instead, revealed the deep igno­rant hatred, which exist in peo­ple gen­er­a­tions removed, from their ances­tral pur­vey­ors of the most vile type of racial big­otry, but who them­selves still har­bor the same unin­tel­li­gent stereo­typ­i­cal big­ot­ed animosity.

In many coun­ties in many States despite the out­pour­ing of love and admi­ra­tion for Obama in 2008 , he bare­ly received above sin­gle dig­its of the white vote, remem­ber­ing of course that he should at least have won the white vote in his own par­ty. Those sin­gle dig­it votes in those parts of this coun­try , means that Democrats vot­ed for John Mc Cain or elect­ed not to vote at all, rather than vote for a black candidate.

Many would rather see their coun­try fail rather than be saved by a black man, they have said so. Many would rather see Osama Bin Laden alive that know he was tak­en out by Barack Obama, the very pres­i­dent they label a Muslim an Arab and a ter­ror­ist sympathizer.

Led of course by the genius(sic) for­mer Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, the most igno­rant of ignoramuses.

On the ques­tion of Muslim or Arab, labels they use to deride Barack Obama, nei­ther of which he is, it is instruc­tive that the very Constitution they claim to love, the Bible of their very American exis­tence, lays out two sim­ple steps for some­one to be President of this beau­ti­ful land.

(1) The per­son must be native-born American.

(2) The per­son must have reached the age of thir­ty-five years old (35).

If the Constitution is as impor­tant to them as they say it is, if the words are sacro­sanct as they claim they are, how then can they deny a Muslim or Arab the Presidency, which the very same Constitution clear­ly does not?

And if they are will­ing to label an hon­est decent and upright man, Arabic and Muslim , which he clear­ly isn’t, does it not make sense that they will elect a soul-less liar who has cat­e­gor­i­cal­ly lied with­out fear, of con­se­quence? Where there is no vision the peo­ple per­ish, in their blind hatred the peo­ple demand­ed that Pontius Pilate release the mur­der­ing thief Barabas to them and cru­ci­fy the just and decent Jesus Christ, Barack Obama is not Jesus Christ , nei­ther is he Barabas,but as it was then, so is it today. Hatred is pal­pa­ble, it is con­ta­gious, it is dan­ger­ous, they killed Jesus based on a cam­paign of lies , false accu­sa­tions and defama­tion, they could not kill him with­out build­ing a case of lies, he was sin­less. Both Herod king of the Jews and Pilate the Roman Governor want­ed no part of the cha­rade, but the hate­ful throng would not have it any oth­er way, they would not allow truth to change their men­da­cious blood-lust.

Barack Obama is a decent man, one does not have to agree with his pol­i­tics, it’s ok to dis­agree, his record is there for all to see, it is one of ser­vice, always look­ing to change the lives of his fel­low-man for the bet­ter, they can­not jus­ti­fi­ably vote him out of office based on his record, so they have to change his record, and that’s what Mitt Romney set out to do.

Mitt Romney did not stop run­ning for pres­i­dent in 2008 after he endorsed John Mc Cain, he wrote a book titled “no apol­o­gy ‚the case for American great­ness” , he went around the coun­try try­ing to get repub­li­can can­di­dates elect­ed to office, in effect it was just a con­tin­u­a­tion of his failed run and a pre cur­sor to his present run. That run began with lies and dis­tor­tions, on Tuesday November 6^th we hope it will end in ash­es , a foot­note in the annals of his­to­ry, a tes­ta­ment that in the end men­dac­i­ty will nev­er be reward­ed with ulti­mate power.

Mitt Romney decid­ed he would run a cam­paign of lies, he knew he would have to build a case against Obama, he real­ized he could not do so against Obama the man, he would have to prove that. He cal­cu­lat­ed that for the racists and the truth deniers and there are many, he could turn pos­i­tives into neg­a­tives, that is what he has done , on the Auto bailout, on the stim­u­lus, on Obama-care, on the killing of Osama Bin Laden. On issue after issue Romney has twist­ed the facts, sup­port­ed and helped by a huge cadre of neo con­ser­v­a­tive hate mon­gers. Pair that with illit­er­ate, hate­ful, and unin­formed peo­ple and it’s clear to com­pre­hend why this elec­tion is close.

There is still time for vot­ers to take anoth­er look at Romney and not be fooled , vot­ers have a chance yet , not to fall for the sales pitch of a slick snake oil sales­man who will do any­thing for pow­er under the guise of fam­i­ly and reli­gion, while wrapped in the flag.

On Wednesday November 7^th, the entire world will see what America did on the 6^th, the deci­sion of vot­ers will tell them whether America is seri­ous about turn­ing the cor­ner , or whether she had vot­ed for a black man once, sim­ply to ease her bur­dened conscience.

Go out and exer­cise your right to vote , Republicans want to take it away from you, because it is the sin­gle most pow­er­ful tool you and you and you and you have to deter­mine your des­tiny, it is yours not theirs.

When you do not vote you empow­er them to fur­ther abuse you, take advan­tage of your right, many in the repub­li­can par­ty, par­tic­u­lar­ly white men believe your right to vote is a priv­i­lege, it isn’t , it becomes a priv­i­lege if you make it so.

Excercise your right, boot them all from office.

Republicans have poten­tial­ly robbed this coun­try of sig­nif­i­cant growth over the term of President Barack Obama out of spite , racial hatred, and politics.

Clearly there are eco­nom­ic head-winds which affect how the American econ­o­my behaves, after all we now live in a glob­al­ized econ­o­my where snif­fles in Asia caus­es coughs here in America, there is no way around these hur­dles any­more , we are becom­ing increas­ing­ly inter-depen­dent on each oth­er to sur­vive. How does that hap­pen you ask? Well, when me have orders of heavy machin­ery or oth­er Industrial equip­ment from coun­tries in Europe, American work­ers have jobs build­ing those machines , if con­di­tions in those European coun­tries are such that there is reduced or non-exis­tent demand for those machines , Americans have no jobs to go to. Conversely when we are with­out jobs and are unable to buy their prod­ucts their economies strug­gle . Wars and the threats of war affect eco­nom­ic activ­i­ty, as we have seen with oil prices when­ev­er the war­mon­gers ratch­et up talk of war the mar­ket gets skit­tish, investors do not like uncer­tain­ty . You would not put your hard-earned mon­ey into uncer­tain sit­u­a­tions would you? Well there you have it!

I wrote that entire pro­logue to get to the word (uncer­tain­ty). They under­stand the con­se­quences of uncertainty

Republican oppo­nents of Barack Obama under­stood this when he was elect­ed to the pres­i­den­cy , they under­stand it today.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell ® Kentucky and House Speaker John Boehner ® Ohio, these are the faces of obstruction.

Imagine where the econ­o­my would be if Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s pri­or­i­ty was to work toward the bet­ter­ment of the coun­try they all claim to love, and not as he put it, quote (“My first pri­or­i­ty is to ensure that Barack Obama is a one term pres­i­dent”) end quote.

Imagine where we would be if John Boehner had used the pow­ers he was giv­en for good. Boehner a man who cried when Republicans won the House in 2010 and he was ele­vat­ed to Speaker, Boehner talked then about his jour­ney from birth to the pow­er­ful job of Speaker of the American House of Representatives. One would have thought that if any­one under­stood the tri­als, tra­vails and jour­ney of the less priv­i­leged sure­ly Boehner would be that per­son. The sojourn of Barack Hussein Obama, from Hawaii, to Kenya, to Indonesia, to Chicago to 1600 Pennsylvania avenue, is not that dif­fer­ent from the less than ide­al cir­cum­stances of Boehner’s biography.

Boehner was born in Reading, Ohio, the son of Mary Anne (née Hall) and Earl Henry Boehner, the sec­ond of twelve chil­dren. His father was of German descent and his moth­er had German and Irish ances­try.^{[2][3][4][5][6]} He grew up in mod­est cir­cum­stances, hav­ing shared one bath­room with his eleven sib­lings in a two-bed­room house in Cincinnati. His par­ents slept on a pull-out couch.^[7] He start­ed work­ing at his fam­i­ly’s bar at age 8, a busi­ness found­ed by their grand­fa­ther Andy Boehner in 1938.^[7] He has lived in Southwest Ohio his entire life. All but two of his sib­lings still live with­in a few miles of each oth­er; two are unem­ployed and most of the oth­ers have blue-col­lar jobs.^[Wikipedia

Boehner is the first in his fam­i­ly to have attend­ed col­lege, it took him 7 years to earn his BA Degree in Business Administration from Xavier University, where he grad­u­at­ed in 1977, as he was forced to work to finance his col­lege education.

This sto­ry seems patent­ly sim­i­lar to the sto­ry of the guy who is now pres­i­dent, born to a black absen­tee father and a white moth­er, a moth­er who re-mar­ried, a man from Indonesia and took him there with her, then took him back to Hawaii and left him in the care of his all white grand par­ents. Yes the ingre­di­ent char­ac­ter­is­tics may be dis-sim­i­lar, but the strug­gles and deter­mi­na­tion inher­ent in both sto­ries are the hall-mark of what makes suc­cess ful­fill­ing, not just the des­ti­na­tion, more so the jour­ney, yes these two men’s sto­ries are vast­ly similar.

Yet the direc­tion both men have tak­en with the immense bless­ings God has bestowed on them, could not be fur­ther from each oth­er. As Obama spends his polit­i­cal cap­i­tal strug­gling for the cause of the dis­pos­sessed, pass­ing the Affordable care Act, keep­ing American work­ers employed by bail­ing out the Auto Industry , fight­ing for wom­en’s’ rights by sign­ing the Lilly Ledbetter Act into law, end­ing the Iraq war, end­ing don’t ask don’t tell, wind­ing down the war in Afghanistan, going after Osama Bin Laden sur­gi­cal­ly and remov­ing him from the equa­tion, tak­ing out the top-tiered lead­er­ship of the al-Qaeda net­work, and pre­vent­ed any fur­ther ter­ror attacks on American soil and a whole litany of oth­er suc­cess­es, where is John Boehner?

Boehner con­verse­ly, has hitched his wag­on to that of the most reac­tionary far right zealots in this coun­try who can­not rev­el in the fact that the coun­try they claim to love, has evolved so much so that it elect­ed some­one from a minor­i­ty group to the most pow­er­ful posi­tion in the country.

Does that make John Boehner a Racist ? I seri­ous­ly doubt that he is, what it makes John Boehner is a cow­ard.

Republican Newt Gingrich swept to pow­er dur­ing the ear­ly years of the Clinton Presidency on the so-called con­tract with America [sic] (more like the con­tract on America). Gingrich brought with him a whole fresh­man class loy­al to him, who did his bid­ding. Boehner did not bring the tea par­ty hacks to con­gress and they sure­ly are not answer­able to him. This is where the cow­ardice of Boehner is exposed, he wants to work with Obama to get things done but he knows that there are Eric Cantor and Paul Ryan wait­ing in the wings look­ing over his shoul­ders to see any sign of com­pro­mise in him, upon which they would hang him out to dry.

John Boehner does not want a mutiny aboard ship he would rather be a fig­ure-head Captain than dis­ci­pline the crew and be made to walk the plank.

As such, John Boehner’s Speakership/​captaincy will be an infa­mous stew­ard­ship, one which saw unprece­dent­ed attempts to over­turn the afford­able care act which is in effect help­ing Americans, a vote to hold the Attorney General of the United States Eric Holder in con­tempt of con­gress over triv­i­al­i­ties, tak­ing numer­ous votes to lim­it wom­en’s rights, and doing almost noth­ing to help gov­ern the Nation repub­li­cans were elect­ed to govern.

Boehner’s stew­ard­ship is an abject fail­ure, the approval rat­ings of the nation’s con­gress is in the sin­gle dig­its, that will be the lega­cy of John Boehner, a man who came from hum­ble begin­nings to attain the sweet taste of polit­i­cal pow­er, only to squan­der it on cheap polit­i­cal pos­tur­ing and ide­o­log­i­cal obstructionism.

John Boehner could have made a dif­fer­ence, he could have stood up to the far right pol­i­tics of those in his cau­cus and even though he does not have the life tenure of Supreme Court Justice John Roberts who clear­ly was mind­ful of his respon­si­bil­i­ties and maybe his lega­cy in his vote to uphold the Affordable Care Act, Boehener could have cho­sen to die on his feet rather than live on his knees.

It is nev­er a good idea to have the tail wag­ging the dog, The American House of Representatives is now a dys­func­tion­al joke that is doing noth­ing to aid strug­gling Americans, that will be the lega­cy of John Boehner.

The dif­fer­ence between the lead­er­ship of Barack Obama and John Boehner is the dif­fer­ence in this elec­tion com­ing up in November, that is the con­trast, not nec­es­sar­i­ly that between Obama and Romney. 

Boehner should look at Barack Obama and learn some lessons on lead­er­ship, to whom much is giv­en , much is expect­ed, on this John Boehner is woe­ful­ly lacking.

PS: To the birthers who con­tin­ue to argue that Barack Obama is a Muslim because of his time spent as a child in the Nation of Indonesia, I under­stand how you would feel that way , after all Netanyahu’s edu­ca­tion and time spent in the United States cer­tain­ly made him a Christian. 

One thing peo­ple under­stand is when you speak to them in sim­ple lan­guage. Republicans under­stand that. At every lev­el of the polit­i­cal debate Republicans talk to

peo­ple in sim­ple con­cise lan­guage, it mat­ters not that they may be lying. Working class peo­ple gen­er­al­ly do not care too much for elit­ists who talk in super­flu­ous lan­guage, seem­ing to lec­ture them.

This applies to peo­ple in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Iowa,and all across America in so-called work­ing-class neighbourhoods/​blue-col­lar neigh­bor­hoods where peo­ple get up go to work in fac­to­ries, on farms, and in small businesses.

Try telling that to Democrats.

I sim­ply can­not under­stand why those who clas­si­fy them­selves as democ­rats feel that they must show how smart they are by using dou­ble speak; we get it that you have mul­ti­ple degrees from wher­ev­er, but the aver­age vot­er in rur­al Pennsylvania needs to be able to relate to what you are selling.

On the very day he was being inau­gu­rat­ed, a super secre­tive group of right-wing oper­a­tives were meet­ing in an undis­closed loca­tion in Washington DC plot­ting the polit­i­cal demise of Obama.

It mat­tered not that this was a his­toric moment in American his­to­ry, which many would argue, every American should cel­e­brate, if not for Obama, at least for the coun­try they claim to love.

Senate Minority leader Mitch McConell sums up a repub­li­can strat­e­gy that was dis­cussed in that secre­tive DC meet­ing which nei­ther he nor John Boehner were priv­i­leged to attend. QUOTE ” “The sin­gle most impor­tant thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.” 

Republicans could not have select­ed a more rep­re­sen­ta­tive repli­ca to nar­rate the cen­tral tenet of their inten­tions, than the old cur­mud­geon from Kentucky.

In McConell’s face is every­thing that America seeks to move away from-hate, dys­func­tion, obstruc­tion, lies,deceit, racism etc.

So lets start with estab­lish­ing what no one wants to say, not even the pres­i­den­t’s sup­port­ers. I will say it however.

None of the dys­func­tion, grid­lock, nas­ti­ness, pet­ti­ness, name-calling,and the inabil­i­ty to get any­thing done in Washington DC is about par­ty polit­i­cal differences.

[The stark real­i­ty is that repub­li­cans wants to ensure that the pres­i­den­cy of Barack Obama is such a dis­mal fail­ure that this coun­try will not con­sid­er elect­ing anoth­er African-American for anoth­er century]

There ladies and gen­tle­men are the facts,and they do not care what harm they do to the coun­try or its inhab­i­tants in the process. John Boehner speak­er of the house , pow­er­less over his own cau­cus has allowed him­self to be a pawn of the lunatic hate fringe that has cat­a­pult­ed scores of so-called Tea-par­ty freaks into rep­re­sen­ta­tion­al politics.

The prob­lem with the vot­ers who vot­ed these lunatics into office is that they get noth­ing in return. None of these idiots are inter­est­ed in get­ting any­thing done except giv­ing tax-cuts to the rich­est of the rich.

All of the fis­cal pru­dence that has formed the foun­da­tion of the tea-par­ty wing-nuts argu­ments (and I dare­say their very exis­tence) was nowhere to be found a few months ear­li­er when Bush was in the White house, where have all of this fis­cal con­ser­vatism come from all of a sud­den? The strat­e­gy is to roll back even the afford­able care act which they them­selves dubbed “Obama-care”. They got out front of the afford­able care act demo­niz­ing it as rad­i­cal and bad for Americans. Many, includ­ing the pres­i­dent say the afford­able care act is not per­fect, still an oppo­si­tion which cares about peo­ple would work with the admin­is­tra­tion to fix it . Despite it’s per­ceived flaws, this leg­is­la­tion has tremen­dous pos­i­tive impact on the lives of tens of mil­lions of Americans.

How smart is a pop­u­la­tion real­ly if it may be manip­u­lat­ed into believ­ing that leg­is­la­tion which allows their chil­dren who are out of a job to stay on their health insur­ance until they are age 26 is some­how a bad thing?

How smart are a peo­ple who insur­ance com­pa­nies can no longer tell they will not insure them because they have pre-exist­ing con­di­tions? yet they beleive the lie that it is a bad thing?

How smart is a pop­u­la­tion if it may be manip­u­lat­ed into believ­ing that a law which does not allow Health Insurance com­pa­nies to refuse to cov­er ill­ness­es for peo­ple insured by them, a bad thing?

This is the bat­tle pres­i­dent Obama faces. Where else would a pres­i­dent who has accom­plished so much in such a short time be in a tight race? Much less be in a tight race with a guy whose par­ty has done noth­ing but stand in the way of eco­nom­ic recovery?

The mat­ter is sim­ply one of race. Republicans of all stripes, on every issue, whether it’s wom­en’s health, immi­gra­tion, enti­tle­ments, you name it, has stat­ed they want to return to the past. The fact is that America includ­ed, and ben­e­fit­ted only some. This dog-whis­tle to their base is lost on no one. When the play­ing field is lev­el all peo­ple ben­e­fit. Republicans wants to take the coun­try back to a time when only white men were afford­ed full cit­i­zen­ship; African-Americans and oth­er minori­ties, women and gays were not allowed to participate.

It is a seri­ous psy­cho­log­i­cal flaw on the part of those who feel they may only be able to com­pete when the odds are stacked in their favor. This coun­try can ill afford to go back to the age of exclu­sion, dis­crim­i­na­tion, recrim­i­na­tions, and exploita­tions. The intel­lec­tu­al élite must do a bet­ter job of com­mu­ni­cat­ing the ben­e­fits of inclu­sion to the blue-col­lar work­ers in the heart-land and those in the south who are still fight­ing the civ­il war, while it repu­di­ate and rub­bish exclu­sion. They must be taught that when one does bet­ter we all do better.

For hun­dreds of years many were allowed to make the rules, every­one else lived in their world and played by their rules. People of all stripes and per­sua­sion are now stand­ing and demand­ing their place in the sun. The pres­i­den­cy of Barack Obama will nev­er be removed from the his­to­ry books. The ascen­den­cy to high office by peo­ple like Eric Holder, Hillary Clinton , Hilda Solis, Susan Rice ‚and many more, blacks, women, those who are gay , straight, Asians, Hispanics, Americans all, rep­re­sents the ever-chang­ing face of the American landscape.

It behoves those who want to turn the clock back that they learn to com­pete with every­one else, this is the face of the future.

George Zimmerman is in cus­tody. Not because law enforce­ment in Sanford Florida thought that his killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin war­rant­ed an arrest. He is in cus­tody because of the right­eous indig­na­tion of mil­lions of peo­ple who decid­ed we are not going to take being ignored anymore.

Through the trou­bles and tra­vails of the civ­il rights strug­gle , broth­ers and sis­ters, black and white, jews and gen­tiles, yel­low and brown man has marched with us , in our quest for respect and recog­ni­tion. So too today peo­ple of all col­or came togeth­er to say this is unac­cept­able , we want answers why Trayvon Martin was killed and just ignored..

Decent peo­ple were out­raged when a hum­ble seam­stress was arrest­ed on a bus just because she chose to sit down. Decent peo­ple were out­raged about Trayvon today as they did back then. This came to light because a young white man knew about the case and felt out­rage, not because Trayvon was black and he is white but because a human being was killed under ques­tion­able cir­cum­stances and no one was being held accountable.

This was nev­er about black and white, it still isn’t, it’s about wrong and right, . Blacks and whites , Latinos and Asians , Jews and oth­ers marched , blogged , signed peti­tions and did what they could, and as Sabrina and Tracey said all they want­ed was an arrest. An arrest that would see the sys­tem play out, they want­ed their day in court.

The par­ents of Trayvon Martin nev­er sought vengeance, they nev­er sought a lynch­ing , all they asked for is that the fun­da­men­tal decen­cy afford­ed oth­ers be afford­ed their mur­dered son. That is not racism, that is not racial hatred that is called justice.

I don’t know whether George Zimmerman is a racist or not , see­ing him in court today , I could­n’t help feel­ing sym­pa­thy for him. Trayvon Martin is gone nev­er to return , but here is this young man going through life chang­ing , life alter­ing cir­cum­stances that will leave him scarred for life, what­ev­er that life has in store for him.

Yet one can­not ignore the lan­guage of sup­port­ers of George Zimmerman, the lan­guage and the strat­e­gy they chose has left a bit­ter taste in the mouths of well-mean­ing peo­ple the world over. The Race bait­ing, hate mon­gers at FOX mis­in­for­ma­tion nev­er grasped the con­cept that despite all of the noise, what real­ly hap­pened is that some­one died.

How much hate do these peo­ple have for African-Americans that they would unan­i­mous­ly back some­one blind­ly even though we are the aggriev­ed par­ty. From that twirp Sean Hannity , to the bul­ly Bill O’reilly to the loud mouth wind­bag Rush Limbaugh these mis­cre­ants jumped on the case blast­ing every­one from the pres­i­dent of the United States to the vic­tim with­out the com­mon human decen­cy to show empa­thy to the fam­i­ly of the deceased.

What kind of hate pos­sess­es these freaks of nature that they would devote their time in defense of some­one who chased down and mur­dered some­one in cold blood? As we strug­gle with try­ing to under­stand with­out pars­ing and ratio­nal­iz­ing , bot­tom feed­ing crus­taceans like Hannity , Limbaugh, O’Reilly and the oth­er gifts to human­i­ty at FOX make a racial spec­ta­cle out of this tragedy.

Bill O’reilly and Sean Hannity

Polls con­duced after this tragedy became pub­lic revealed a wide chasm between the way blacks and whites viewed what hap­pened , over­whelm­ing­ly African-Americans thought that Zimmerman killed Trayvon Martin with­out jus­ti­fi­ca­tion, con­verse­ly white Americans over­whelm­ing­ly stat­ed that they did not know enough to form an opin­ion. To some this may seem like a rea­soned and sober way to look at things , but when you are a part of the pop­u­la­tion that has been the vic­tim for cen­turies you don’t need any­more infor­ma­tion to con­clude that once again wrong has been done to us.

Like Ostriches many chose to bury their heads in the sand pre­tend­ing that there is no prob­lem of race in America. Some even ask “what more could you want we gave you your black pres­i­dent”? What nerve? Even some that share the same skin col­or as Trayvon, yet pur­port to share the same human­i­ty with the rest of us fail to get the pic­ture. One New England law pro­fes­sor assailed Reverend Sharpton and Jackson for the work they did bring­ing Trayvon’s case to the fore.

She cas­ti­gat­ed both gen­tle­men for dar­ing to sug­gest that oth­er black peo­ple wear hood­ies, argu­ing that the hood­ie feeds the stereo­type of black men as hood­lums. She went on to say that she lives in a pre­dom­i­nant­ly white neigh­bour­hood and her two sons have been tar­get­ed and trailed by the police who want­ed to know what they were doing in the neigh­bor­hood. The pro­fes­sor told how she raised her sons not to dress or act in cer­tain ways that would feed the stereo­type oth­ers have of them.

Bob Marley famous­ly said he was glad he was not edu­cat­ed or he would have been a total idiot. This pro­fes­sor is the per­son­i­fi­ca­tion of that quote from Marley. On that sub­ject I rest my case. My wife believes that slav­ery has done such a ter­ri­ble job on us , to the point that we believe we have to com­port our­selves in a man­ner con­sis­tent with the fear dri­ven norms oth­ers have imposed on us.

Irrespective of the out­come of this case Trayvon Martin will nev­er return to his par­ents, nei­ther will George Zimmerman be the same again. George Zimmerman a 28-year-old guy who seem to hate crime, so much so he want­ed to be a cop, when that did not work out he opt­ed to be a self-appoint­ed neigh­bor­hood watch cap­tain. He chose to pro­file and appre­hend Trayvon Martin even though he was warned to back off. We are left to won­der what drove this young man who hat­ed crime and want­ed to be a cop, to him­self run afoul of the laws when he com­mit­ted a case of domes­tic vio­lence, what caused him to com­mit two sep­a­rate cas­es of assault on police offi­cers , one with violence?

Are we to beleive that because he was not made to account in these cas­es we know about that he felt above the laws? Did he feel untouch­able because he was the son of a for­mer judge ? We don’t know the answers to these ques­tions, what­ev­er the truths. George Zimmerman felt enti­tled , he felt autho­rised, some­one made him feel that way.

What drove him to ignore the 911 oper­a­tor who told him we don’t need you to fol­low him?These are the ques­tions we must ask our­selves if we are to begin to under­stand what hap­pened that night which destroyed two lives one way or the oth­er and caused rip­ple effects through this coun­try and the world the likes of which we haven’t seen in a long time.

The reac­tion of mis­ter Zimmerman’s peo­ple was dis­re­spect­ful and wor­thy of a hard push­back. Sending a let­ter to the NAACP telling them that if any­thing hap­pened to Zimmerman blood would be on their hands and demand­ing they call off the dogs. The caus­tic nature of this let­ter as well as state­ments made by his father and broth­er does noth­ing to help heal the wounds of the Martin fam­i­ly, or the sim­mer­ing caul­dron of racial ani­mus bub­bling just beneath the sur­face in the country.

On Sunday March 7^th. 1965 hun­dreds of peace­ful Civil Right marchers were attacked by armed Troopers as they attempt­ed to march across the Edmund Pettus bridge from Selma to the State cap­i­tal of Montgomery. Voting rolls in the south were 99% White and 1% African-American. Many African-Americans suf­fered immense hard­ships sim­ply because they dared to want to vote . Today many African-Americans sim­ply do not both­er, or does­n’t even reg­is­ter to vote.

I am par­tic­u­lar­ly incensed by this because of the abuse that gen­er­a­tion suf­fered to give our gen­er­a­tion the right to vote, yet we treat that pre­cious gift with impuni­ty, dis­re­gard­ing the sac­ri­fices that were made so we can have that right. In that march was the rev­erend Dr. Martin Luther King, John Lewis , and many oth­er stal­warts of the civ­il rights move­ment. On that sun­day which we now refer to as bloody sun­day no one was spared the dogs, water hoses and blud­geon­ing, as the full force of south­ern racism came down on inno­cent peace­ful marchers who just want­ed to vote.

Edmund Pettus Bridge where peace­ful marchers were attacked by Alabama state troop­ers as they made their way from Selma to Montgomery.

Fast for­ward to 2012 there is a black pres­i­dent in the White House and there are moves afoot in many south­ern and mid-west­ern states to sup­press the votes of minori­ties through dra­con­ian vot­er ID laws that dis­en­fran­chis­es large­ly African-American and lati­no voters.

Just how far has blacks come in their own coun­try, when a sit­ting senior Federal Judge in the state of Montana can for­ward a despi­ca­ble email which sug­gests that the moth­er of the pres­i­dent of the United States had sex with a dog?

Federal judge Richard Cebull.

The repub­li­can par­ty has become a haven for some of the most vile racist peo­ple . Many liv­ing in this coun­try, includ­ing Democrats refuse to call it what it is. After the vot­ing rights bill was signed into law by pres­i­dent Lyndon Johnson many whites sought refuge in the repub­li­can par­ty, feel­ing betrayed by the demo­c­ra­t­ic par­ty they felt was tak­en over by lib­er­als from the North. I would like to point out that lit­er­al­ly every­one involved at the high­er lev­els of the strug­gle has ben assassinated.

President John F Kennedy, his broth­er the for­mer attor­ney gen­er­al of the United States Bobby Kennedy, Dr. Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and the list goes on and on all have been mur­dered. Today Republicans in an effort to ensure there will not be anoth­er black pres­i­dent no time soon, in many states are turn­ing back the clock on vot­ing rights.

ARE BLACK AMERICANS GOING TO STAND BY AND ALLOW OTHERS WHO HAVE NO MORE RIGHT TO THIS COUNTRY THAN THEY DO TAKE THEIR RIGHTS AWAY FROM THEM AGAIN?

This year, more than a dozen states enact­ed new vot­ing restric­tions. For exam­ple, eight — Alabama, Kansas, Mississippi, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin — imposed new laws requir­ing vot­ers to present state-issued pho­to iden­ti­fi­ca­tion cards. Previously vot­ers were able to use oth­er forms of iden­ti­fi­ca­tion, like bank state­ments, util­i­ty bills and Social Security cards. (new york time .com) 

ThE Reverend Al Sharpton has planned a march for Alabama on Sunday, not to com­mem­o­rate the vot­ing rights Act, but to high­light the seri­ous threat that repub­li­cans pose to the vot­ing rights of minori­ties in this coun­try. Republicans argue that the new laws are designed to erad­i­cate vot­er fraud. However the num­bers do not sup­port their argu­ments. In fact in most case where vot­er fraud are alleged, an elec­tion com­mis­sions are oblig­ed to inves­ti­gate, the find­ings revealed thus: Bad data match­ing , which revealed motor vehi­cle was wrong in assum­ing the vot­ers were dead, cas­es where vot­ers were alleged to have vot­ed , but nev­er did. A few cas­es of absen­tee bal­lots were cast by vot­ers who died before the elec­tions. The few votes left were cas­es where sig­na­tures were not rec­og­niz­able. This sug­gest the laws are a solu­tion look­ing for a prob­lem.(the new york times)

Why then are repub­li­cans look­ing to turn back the clock?

The elec­tion of Barack Obama to the pres­i­den­cy has exposed the dirty under­bel­ly of racism in America, many fool­ish­ly thought was a thing of the past. President Obama was elect­ed to the pres­i­den­cy with­out win­ning the major­i­ty of white votes. This real­i­ty scared the hell out of the wing nuts on the right and as soon as Obama was inau­gu­rat­ed they con­spired to destroy his pres­i­den­cy. Senate Minority Mitch McConnell stat­ed quote “Making Obama A One-Term President Is My Single Most Important Political Goal”(medi​aite​.com) They have attacked his pres­i­den­cy with a fer­vor not seen in mod­ern times. Their attack has sev­er­al fronts. In the con­gress he is not allowed any leg­isla­tive accom­plish­ments because of repub­li­can obstruc­tion­ism. They have launched all out wars on immi­grants from Alabama to Florida, and from Georgia to Arizona immi­grants are under assault from overzeal­ous state law enforce­ment to include rene­gade Arizona sher­iff Joe Arpaio, a mod­ern-day Bull O’Connor whom have been accused of seri­ous abuse of minori­ties. Joe Arpaio sher­iff of Maricopa coun­ty Arizona has been under fed­er­al inves­ti­ga­tions by the Obama jus­tice depart­ment for Human rights vio­la­tions. For his part Arpaio has alleged­ly launched his own inves­ti­ga­tions into the non­sen­si­cal birth cer­tifi­cate drib­ble , he has since announced that his inves­ti­ga­tions have con­clud­ed that the pres­i­den­t’s birth cer­tifi­cate is a forgery. This has fur­ther cement­ed what many believed that this old geezer is a loose can­non with a racist tinge.

Whether it is Joe Wilson a con­gress­man shout­ing “you lie” at the pres­i­dent as he deliv­ers the state of the union address, or an asso­ciate Justice of the Supreme court Samuel Alito shak­ing his head and mouthing “not true”,or it’s Arizona’s class­less gov­er­nor Jan Brewer wag­ging her fin­ger at the pres­i­dent on the tar­mac as he dis­em­barked from his plane, or that despi­ca­ble life form parad­ing as a fed­er­al judge, who for­ward­ed that email , or the count­less oth­er instances that has come to light we have seen these instances of the most vile form of racism that many seri­ous­ly believed they had left behind in the 60’s. 

Republican assault have not spared groups like Acorn, a group which has tra­di­tion­al­ly reg­is­tered minori­ties to vote. They have launched attacks on planned par­ent­hood, using sur­ro­gates like the Susan G Komen to do their dirty work. Komen is a can­cer char­i­ty which receives most of its funds from reg­u­lar donors, received a shock when it announced it would cut fund­ing for planned par­ent­hood. This was def­i­nite­ly a repub­li­can attack on planned par­ent­hood which to Komen’s sur­prised ini­ti­at­ed a tremen­dous blow-back which forced them to reverse that deci­sion. Komen is still reel­ing from that blow-back and has since hired a con­sult­ing firm to ass­es the dam­age done to their rep­u­ta­tion.(huff­in­g­ton post .com)

The jury is out on what this will all mean by the time the next elec­tion comes around, to my mind the next elec­tion is the least of our wor­ries. Republicans have sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly elect­ed  right-wing oper­a­tives to coun­ty leg­is­la­tures state leg­is­la­tures, gov­er­nor­ships, con­gres­sion­al dis­tricts and to the US Senate. They have passed rad­i­cal new laws that looks fright­en­ing­ly like laws that were around dur­ing jim crow. Have you ever won­dered why peo­ple who com­mit crimes and paid their debt to soci­ety are still not allowed to vote? Well dur­ing the six­ties African-Americans would be giv­en things like a jar of jel­ly beans when they turn up to vote, if they failed to guess how many beans were in the Jar they were turned away with­out being able to vote. Potential vot­ers were giv­en writ­ten tests that asked about archa­ic ordi­nances that the ques­tion­ers them­selves did not know the answers to. Today vot­er sup­pres­sion laws are being insti­tut­ed broad­ly through­out the south and mid­west as fears over the brown­ing of America grows. Architects and sup­port­ers of these laws will tell you they are about the rule of law, they will tell you they are for the integri­ty of the process. But as I told you before they are about not see­ing anoth­er black man in the White House.

In many cas­es these bills are being signed into law with the sup­port of democ­rats, some of whom are not hap­py about Barack Obama’s pres­i­den­cy. The Roy Blount Amendment which was recent­ly vot­ed down in the United States Senate had the sup­port of sev­er­al Democratic sen­a­tors whom have demon­strat­ed a cow­ard­ly craven inter­est for their own polit­i­cal sur­vival over principle.

Rich com­pa­nies pay lob­by­ists to wine and dine law makers,they get what they want. Every per­son, every group must demand that gov­ern­ment work for them. Blacks are tak­ing this assault on their very exis­tence rather light­ly it seem. Our peo­ple are being arrest­ed and incar­cer­at­ed at a rate that is way above oth­er eth­nic groups, over ²⁄₃ of our chil­dren are being born out-of-wed­lock, and I am yet to fig­ure out what it is that we are focused on as a peo­ple. Did African-Americans think the elec­tion of Barack Obama was going to mean a post racial America? It seem to me that his ascen­den­cy will actu­al­ly mean that the caus­es that are impor­tant to black peo­ple will be set back and made worse because of his rise. Some are unfair­ly blam­ing pres­i­dent Obama for some of the ills plagu­ing the black com­mu­ni­ty. They mean well, but they also lack a basic under­stand­ing of what a pres­i­dent can do, they also lack an under­stand­ing of what a first term black pres­i­dent, hat­ed by his ene­mies can accomplish.

There are about 40 mil­lion black peo­ple liv­ing in these United States. That is a very large coun­try with­in an even larg­er coun­try. There are between 5 and 6 mil­lion Jewish adher­ents liv­ing in the United States, not all of whom are reli­gious . However with the Jewish pop­u­la­tion a mere ¹⁄₈ of the black pop­u­la­tion, Jews in this coun­try wield sig­nif­i­cant clout and pow­er in get­ting their agen­da addressed both here and in the inter­est of the state of Israel. No politi­cian run­ning for office dare bad mouth Jews or their caus­es and hope to get elect­ed dog catch­er. Conversely any­one want­i­ng trac­tion in con­ser­v­a­tive cir­cles mere­ly have to dis­re­spect black Americans to become an instant hit.

As Netanyahu comes to the White House to tell Obama what he expects for the state of Israel, I won­der who speak for African-Americans in their own country?

In the week that Republican Candidate Newt Gingrich is expe­ri­enc­ing his sec­ond life in this cam­paign, and prob­a­bly lucky for him just before the South Carolina debates, his sec­ond wife Marianne told ABC news that Gingrich want­ed her to have an open mar­riage, a pro­pos­al she was not par­tic­u­lar­ly fond of. Gingrich has been mar­ried three times, he has been accused of infi­deli­ty and even have been said to have served one of his wives with divorce papers whilst she was sick in hospital.

Newt Gingrich:

It is rather inter­est­ing, the hypocrisy of Republicans and in par­tic­u­lar those in South Carolina who cheered rau­cous­ly when Gingrich launched into a sanc­ti­mo­nious attempt at faux out­rage at CNN’s John King who had the audac­i­ty to open the debates by ask­ing Gingrich about what his wife said about him. http://​Youtube​.com

King’s por­trait cour­tesy of face​book​.com

Newt Gingrich was at the tip of the spear seek­ing to sear President Clinton for hav­ing a sex­u­al dal­liance with a White House Intern dur­ing his time in office. It is rather hyp­o­crit­i­cal of Gingrich and the oth­er mem­bers of that Congress who made a humon­gous deal about what President Clinton did, almost plung­ing the coun­try into a con­sti­tu­tion­al cri­sis, yet the same peo­ple are quite will­ing to look away and make lame excus­es for what Gingrich is accused to have done to his pre­vi­ous wives, and the alle­ga­tions made against him about infi­deli­ty. There is no short­age of lying hyp­ocrites parad­ing as chris­t­ian evan­gel­i­cals who are on tele­vi­sion argu­ing that Gingrich’s ser­i­al infi­deli­ty as they are alleged, are sub­ject to God’s grace and for­give­ness, as of course they are. It is no won­der that these same peo­ple who speak about being chris­tians, and espouse the foun­da­tion­al prin­ci­ples of for­give­ness and grace did not have any for­give­ness for President Clinton. These same peo­ple who talk about being chris­tians and extol the sanc­ti­ty of life, will defend an embryo, they will defend a sperm but they will not defend a black or col­ored baby. What Christ are they talk­ing about, What God do they wor­ship? Every elec­tion cycle the media con­tin­ue the talk­ing points of these peo­ple by call­ing them evan­gel­i­cal chris­t­ian, is it any won­der that peo­ple are turned away from chris­tian­i­ty and reli­gion on a whole, when these are the faces of christianity.

Newt Gingrich was aware of the kind of peo­ple in that room in South Carolina, he was pre­pared for John King ask­ing him that ques­tion, he had that answer irre­spec­tive of the time King asked him about alle­ga­tions of his infi­deli­ty. Gingrich was equal­ly aware of the kind of audi­ence when he lam­bast­ed Juan Williams for dar­ing to ask him about con­tin­u­al­ly sug­gest­ing that poor minor­i­ty kids should be jan­i­tors. He was equal­ly aware when he allowed the woman at the cam­paign stop to com­pli­ment him for quote putting Juan Williams in his place..youtube​.com.

As despi­ca­ble as Gingrich’s racial pos­tur­ing is, the oth­er jok­ers com­pet­ing for the Republican nom­i­na­tion are just as excit­ed to release what seem to be pent-up racial ani­mos­i­ty toward black peo­ple and pres­i­dent Obama in par­tic­u­lar. Mitt Romney the media ele­vat­ed front-run­ner would not be out done in his attempt to show his con­ser­vatism. Seeking to impress the crowd Romney tells debate crowd hun­gry for blood he would stuff attacks down pres­i­dent Obama’s throat. In the all out attempt to dis­re­spect this pres­i­dent Gingrich told one man who said he want­ed Gingrich to bloody President Obama’s nose to which Gingrich stat­ed ‘I do not intend to bloody Barack Obama’s nose I intend to knock him out”.

This part gets my blood boil­ing because whether hypo­thet­i­cal­ly or lit­er­al­ly , nei­ther of these two are capa­ble of doing what they pro­fess to do to this black man so let’s get that out in the open, so both these jok­ers can stop with the non­sense. This elec­tion will be a knock down dragged out dirty one, President Obama will have to wage a cam­paign that exceeds the scope of the one he waged to win the pres­i­den­cy, if you thought Republicans were des­per­ate in 2007 , they will be even more so in 2012 , they will use all the dirty tricks, lies, dis­tor­tions and fab­ri­ca­tions at their dis­pos­al, not only will he have to deal with whomev­er wins the repub­li­can nom­i­na­tion , he will have to deal with the incred­i­bly wealthy, pow­er­ful peo­ple who want him gone so they can return to the days of no reg­u­la­tion and cor­po­rate wel­fare. They are capa­ble and all too will­ing to put tens of mil­lions of dol­lars into super pacs in an attempt to destroy this pres­i­dent and his record.

Two of the most pow­er­ful of the donors against Obama are the bil­lion­aire Koch Brothers who are some of the filthy rich who are bank rolling Tea Party cam­paign against work­ing peo­ple in this coun­try.It’s time that ordi­nary peo­ple push back against these mega rich peo­ple who are dis­dain­ful of ordi­nary work­ing peo­ple who con­sume their prod­ucts in our homes dai­ly with­out even real­iz­ing it.

SOME OF THE COMPANIES OWNED BY THE KOCH BROTHERS

Angel soft toi­let paper : Brawny paper tow­els : Dixie plates, bowls, nap­kins and cups :mar­di gras napkins:Quilted noth­ern toi­let paper: soft and gen­tle toi­let paper:Sparkle and van­i­ty fair napkins:Georgia pacif­ic paper products:Georgia pacif­ic lum­ber and build­ing prod­ucts: Stainmaster carpet:Lycra.

We have to take a stand, lets take advan­tage of the pow­er of our mon­ey, they are tak­ing advan­tage of the pow­er of their mon­ey, let us start with these prod­ucts and as we do our research let us hurt them where it mat­ters most , in their pock­et books, let’s tell them where to go with their products.

Tony Perkins President of the Family research Council and the entire length and breath of the Republican food chain has per­fect­ed the argu­ment of , ” DEFEATING BARACK OBAMA AND RESTORING AMERICA TO IT’S FOUNDING PRINCIPLES” Let’s talk about the cod­ed lan­guage being used in the elec­tion cam­paign, even as we cel­e­brate the life of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Newt Gingrich

The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

As a blog­ger and a news hound, I watch Television,(well most­ly lis­ten) as I am always busy, I vis­it web­sites, lis­ten to radio, and read blogs, all with a view of get­ting a feel for the essence of real­ly what’s hap­pen­ing in the world, and as much as pos­si­ble be able to free myself from the shack­les of the pack­aged prod­uct that pass­es for news the major media hous­es feeds us, under the assump­tion that we are unable to fig­ure things out for ourselves.

Cris Matthews host of MSNBC Hardball speak­ing to the issue of racial code words on Andrea Mitchell Reports on Tuesday January 17^th , Matthews said suc­cinct­ly “it’s not some­thing you can sen­si­tize some­one to, either you see it or you choose not to see it because you don’t want to” Matthews point­ed to a cou­ple of instance where it was done in pre­vi­ous elec­tion cycles and even though it was there , some argue that oth­ers who men­tioned it were mak­ing much ado about noth­ing. So the ques­tion to you my read­ers is this , Is there a cod­ed lan­guage that is being used by white can­di­dates when they speak to cer­tain sec­tions of the vot­ing pub­lic, usu­al­ly all white audi­ences like the Lilly white audi­ence in Myrtle Beach South Carolina?

Well let’s take a look, There is a com­mon thread that runs through all in the repub­li­can par­ty when they refer to President Obama They call him ‘Barack Obama” Now as Cris Matthews said, one can choose to ignore this and pre­tend that it is nor­mal or one could see it for what it real­ly is a means of de-legit­imis­ing the pres­i­den­cy of This pres­i­dent . This has caught on with even some in the media who have delved, some of them unwit­ting­ly, into the Barack Obama new speak, with­out real­iz­ing that is exact­ly what those who are still fight­ing the civ­il war wants. This is part of a cam­paign aimed at de-legit­imiz­ing the president.

CODE SPEAK .

(1)Barack Obama:

(2)Food stamp President:

(3)The issue of the President’s birth certificate: 

(4) Election is for the soul of America:

(5) European social­ist:

Opponents of this pres­i­dent speak about get­ting rid of Barack Obama and restor­ing America to it’s val­ues, what val­ues are they talk­ing about ? Are they refer­ring to the val­ues on dis­play in that crowd in South Carolina on Monday night? that shame­ful dis­play shows once and for all a State that still couch­es it’s racial hatred in codes and rau­cous applause when Newt Gingrich stat­ed that in New York a jan­i­tor could be fired and many kids hired to fill their space , he stat­ed it would put mon­ey in their pock­ets. Of course this nean­derthal makes no ref­er­ence to how these stu­dents would han­dle work­ing and going to school, or maybe he does­n’t feel that poor minor­i­ty chil­dren should go to school,maybe Gingrich is actu­al­ly try­ing to cre­ate a per­ma­nent class of jan­ti­tors . Wasn’t that the rea­son blacks were exe­cut­ed if they were caught read­ing or learn­ing to read dur­ing slav­ery?

What is instruc­tive about Republican crowds is that they want a gay sol­dier to die because he did not have any insur­ance, they want pris­on­ers on death row to be fried. The demeanor of the crowd in South Carolina was par­tic­u­lar­ly telling when Juan Williams asked Gingrich whether he was­n’t seek­ing to belit­tle peo­ple, ref­er­enc­ing the issue of Gingrich’s pro­posed pol­i­cy of mak­ing minor­i­ty kids jan­i­tors, he said first of all “Juan” then wait­ed for applause from the igno­rant racist crowd, before he pro­ceed­ed into his dia­tribe about Barack Obama being the food stamp pres­i­dent. He used William’s name the way they used the name Barack Hussein Obama in a con­text that is intend­ed to demean, telling their white sup­port­ers he is not one of us , he is “oth­er”. That first part of the sen­tence ” first of all Juan”,( code speak) then wait­ing for the applause from the crowd that says to him, “we get it , you put him in his place”

On the day that the nation cel­e­brat­ed the life and work of the great­est icon for social jus­tice in many life­times Martin Luther King Jr. Republican can­di­date for pres­i­dent Newt Gingrich sought to demean and belit­tle black peo­ple by being open­ly hos­tile and dis­mis­sive of a black Journalist in the State of South Carolina. Despite this trag­ic affront and the con­tin­u­a­tion of it there are still blacks in this coun­try who feel that they should be defend­ers of these repug­nant vile crea­tures that parade as human beings who con­tin­ue to spread this tox­ic brand of hatred. Republican strate­gist Ron Christie a black Republican who worked in for­mer vice pres­i­den­t’s Dick Cheney’s office char­ac­ter­ized Gingrich’s vile behav­ior as quote “a clum­sy attempt to explain some­thing that is true”

Republican strate­gist and for­mer Cheney deputy assis­tant Ron Christie:See blog titled black repub­li­can­ism about how we feel about the Ron Christie’s of this world. 

Republican can­di­dates for pres­i­dent are not restrained this cycle in using overt racism in their quest for polit­i­cal pow­er, they want to get rid of this Democratic pres­i­dent, how­ev­er they want to get rid of the black pres­i­dent much more. They have been pre­pared from the inau­gu­ra­tion of Barack Obama to use what­ev­er tac­tics they see fit to remove Obama from office. This is not all they are using, it is just one tool in their tool kit of dirty tricks, to include, fraud­u­lent argu­ments of vot­er fraud in order to enact leg­is­la­tion in sev­er­al states that makes it dif­fi­cult for minori­ties to vote . Santorum nailed Mitt Romney on the ques­tion of why peo­ple who have paid their debt to soci­ety should not being allowed to vote, Romney stat­ed he does­n’t believe that peo­ple who com­mit vio­lent crimes should be allowed to vote, this got Romney thun­der­ous applause from the Lilly white St Carolina crowd. Never mind that as Governor of Massachusetts Romney did noth­ing to stop peo­ple on parole from voting.

It is instruc­tive that as we cel­e­brat­ed the birth­day of Dr. King the Confederate flag still flies over the cap­i­tal rotun­da in South Carolina, and as the Confederate flag flies over the rotun­da, A crowd of racist seces­sion­ists booed a black jour­nal­ist as he sim­ply sought to do his job. 

Rather instruc­tive about where the soul of this repub­li­can par­ty real­ly is, as if there was ever any doubt.

UPDATE

A woman con­grat­u­lat­ed Newt Gingrich at a cam­paign stop in St. Carolina today,here’s what she said “Speaker Gingrich I would like to con­grat­u­late you for putting mis­ter Juan Williams in his place last night“the crowd erupt­ed into thun­der­ous applause while Gingrich basked in the glow and adu­la­tion from the crowd, after the applause died down Gingrich nod­ded his head and told the woman smil­ing­ly “thank you, thank you.

Never once did he repu­di­ate the lan­guage, nev­er once did he repu­di­ate the notion , nev­er once did he say it was nev­er his inten­tion to put Williams in his place. Perry, Santorum, Paul, and Romney stood on that stage in South Carolina as Newt Gingrich dem­a­gogue black peo­ple, and dis­missed a black Journalist to sus­tained and rau­cous laugh­ter and applause, not one of them stopped Gingrich or object­ed to his vile and dis­re­spect­ful brand of pos­tur­ing, as such the nom­i­nee of this par­ty should be held respon­si­ble for Gingrich’s actions.