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GOP Lt. Governor Nominee E. W. Jackson Called Three-Fifths Clause An ‘Anti-Slavery Amendment’

May 22, 2013 by 1 Comment
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VA GOP Lt. Gov. Nominee E. W. Jackson’s Three-Fifths Comment in Tradition of Stephen in Django Unchained

Thanks to the Republican nominee for lieutenant governor in Virginia, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe is having his best week as the wheels come of E. W. Jackson’s toy car. He has called the Constitution’s original clause to count blacks as three-fifths of a person, an “anti-slavery amendment.” Um, President Obama most of the black vote in Virginia, and Terry McAuliffe will too. No black voter in their right minds would cast a ballot for E. W. Jackson and it will have blowback on the Republican candidate, Ken Cuccinelli.

In an April 28, 2011 statement while he was a Senate candidate, conservative minister and lawyer E.W. Jackson held up the three-fifths clause as an “anti-slavery” measure. The context of his statement was to attack President Obama after a pastor at a church service he attended referred to the three-fifths clause as a historical marker of racism.

“Rev. [Charles Wallace] Smith must not have understood the 3/5ths clause was an anti-slavery amendment. Its purpose was to limit the voting power of slave holding states,” Jackson, an African-American, said in his statement.

This is a deeply misleading telling of American constitutional history.

The clause was demanded by Southern proponents of slavery as a way of enhancing their congressional representation. They wanted slaves to be counted as full persons but settled on three-fifths. People of African descent would have had no real rights either way. The inclusion of the clause greatly enhanced the South’s political power and made it harder to abolish slavery. The clause was effectively eliminated after the Civil War by the Thirteenth Amendment.

“Some of the compromises we can look back and be proud of; some of those compromises we can’t be very proud of. The three-fifths compromise, by which slaves were counted as three-fifths of a person, is not something any of us would applaud them for today,” said University of Pennsylvania historian Richard Beeman in a 2011 interview. Via Talking Points Memo

E. W. Jackson has nothing in common with the majority of the electorate in his state, much less black voters. Don’t think because he’s black he will automatically get the black vote. That couldn’t be further from the truth. The man is toxic and it will backfire on the entire ticket. Jackson made waves when he previously warned that President Obama is either an atheist or a Muslim, but was definitely an “evil presence.” He also compared Planned Parenthood to the Ku Klux Klan. Funny E. W. Jackson reminds me a lot of the character of Stephen in “Django Unchained,” played by Samuel L. Jackson.

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Drudge Report Race-Baiting, Falsely Attributes “I’m a Black Man” Quote to President Obama

May 19, 2013 by Leave a Comment

New right wing freak-out and despicable race-baiting from the Drudge Report over President Obama’s commencement speech at Morehouse University. Nowhere did President Obama say “I’m a black man,” but that didnt’ stop Matt Drudge from running with that. As usual, the usual chorus of “haterade-drinking” right wingnuts are freaking out. Um, I suppose his speech about empowering young black men didn’t mean a thing to them. So what if President Obama did say he was a black man? Oh, in the minds of the right wing, that would mean he hates white people.

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Matt Drudge Race-Baiting: Falsely Attributes “I am a Black Man” Quote to President Obama

If you really want the truth, read the transcript of President Obama’s Morehouse speech. As you will see, the words, “I’m a black man” don’t appear. That didn’t stop Matt Drudge or his flunkies from putting it in quotations. The Drudge Report links to a Washington Post article, which doesn’t mention words “I’m a black man” either.  Of course, truth is rarely on the side of people like Matt Drudge. A freak-out is what they are after.

So, where the right wing is concerned, President Obama is not allowed to speak to black men or even talk about his experience as a person of color. This latest race-baiting tactic comes after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell accused President Obama of engaging in “culture of intimidation.” Um, that’s really calling him a thug.

Listen to a part of President Obama’s Morehouse commencement speech:



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‘Geography of Hate’ Shows Racism and Homophobia Alive on Twitter

May 12, 2013 by Leave a Comment

Hate is alive and well on Twitter. If you don’t believe it, then check out the Geography of Hate created by students at Humboldt State University, which maps where homophobia and racism reside.

But a group of students and professors at research site Floating Sheep have built a comprehensive map of some of Twitter’s most distasteful content: the racist, homophobic, or ableist slurs that can proliferate online. Called Geography of Hate, the interactive map charts ten relatively common slurs across the continental US, either by general category or individually. Looking at the whole country, you’ll often see a mass of red or what the map’s creators call a “blue smog of hate.” Zooming in, however, patches appear over individual regions or cities; some may be predictable, while others are not.

The map builds on an earlier Floating Sheep project that showed where President Obama was referenced with racial slurs, but it’s far more comprehensive and well-constructed. Unlike many other studies, for example, the tweets weren’t collected and analyzed algorithmically — a method that could accidentally collect non-derogatory uses of these terms. Instead, the team first searched through a year’s worth of geotagged tweets for words, then had a group of students at Humboldt State University look at each one. Only tweets they found explicitly negative went on the map: a derogatory use of the word “dyke” would be added, for example, but one reclaiming the term for a gay pride parade would not. In total, the map charts about 150,000 negative, slur-filled tweets.

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‘Geography of Hate’ Shows Racism and Homophobia Alive on Twitter (Humboldt.edu)

As you can see from the map, hate is alive and well in Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Mississippi, Missouri, for example. I have seen some really ugly tweets and it’s a sad commentary that we are still in such dire straits where racism and homophobia are concerned. Shameful.

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Black Voter Turnout Significantly Higher Than White Turnout in 2012 Presidential Election

April 28, 2013 by Leave a Comment
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Black Voter Turnout Significantly Higher Than White Turnout in 2012 Presidential Election (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Black Americans turned out to vote in the 2012 presidential elections in higher numbers than whites, which reflects a deeply polarizing election in which blacks strongly favored incumbent President Barack Obama.

Census data and exit polling show that whites and blacks will remain the two largest racial groups of eligible voters for the next decade. Last year’s heavy black turnout came despite concerns about the effect of new voter-identification laws on minority voting, outweighed by the desire to re-elect the first black president.

William H. Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution, analyzed the 2012 elections for the AP using census data on eligible voters and turnout, along with November’s exit polling. He estimated total votes for Obama and Romney under a scenario where 2012 turnout rates for all racial groups matched those in 2004. Overall, 2012 voter turnout was roughly 58 percent, down from 62 percent in 2008 and 60 percent in 2004. Source

Black Voter Turnout Significantly Higher Than White Turnout in 2012 Presidential Election
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‘Scottsboro Boys’ to Get Posthumous Pardons 80 Years After Falsely Convicted for Raping Two White Women

April 6, 2013 by Leave a Comment
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‘Scottsboro Boys’ to Get Posthumous Pardons 80 Years After Falsely Convicted for Raping Two White Women. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

‘SCOTTSBORO BOYS’ TO GET POSTHUMOUS PARDONS: The Scottsboro Boys are set to get posthumous pardons more than 80 years after they were accused of raping two white women in Alabama in the early 1930s. With the exception of one teen, all were convicted by white juries and sentenced to death row on false allegations. They were eventually freed, their lives were snatched away from them because they missed out on may opportunities, such as getting an education and marriage.

The Alabama House and Senate have voted unanimously in favor of a bill to posthumously pardon the Scottsboro Boys and Gov. Robert Bentley is expected to sign it. The Bill, SB97, is dubbed the Scottsboro Boys Act.

Is it a little too late? That depends on who you ask. The NAACP said it’s a step in the right direction, but now we are grappling with the Supreme Court case brought by Shelby County challenging the Voting Rights Act.

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Ruby Bates and Victoria Price accused Scottsboro Boys of Rape

The names of the Scottsboro Boys are:  Olen Montgomery (age 17), Clarence Norris (age 19), Haywood Patterson (age 18), Ozie Powell (age 16), Willie Roberson (age 16), Charlie Weems (age 16), Eugene Williams (age 13), and brothers Andy (age 19) and Roy Wright (age 13). They were accused of raping Ruby Bates and Victoria Price.

 

Scottsboro Boys to Get Posthumous Pardons 80 Years After Falsely Convicted for Raping Two White Women
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Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson: President Obama Racist Against White People Because Mother Hated Being White

April 1, 2013 by Leave a Comment
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Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson:  President Obama Racist Against White People Because Mother Hated Being White (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

There are no limits to the stupidity coming from the right wing and conservative pastor Jesse Lee Peterson is no exception. He appeared on TruNews with Rick Wiles last week, arguing that President Obama is ‘racist’ against white people because he mother “hated being white.” Wiles added his two cents, claiming President Obama’s family had connections to the New World Order and Obama is “red inside; he’s a Communist, that the problem.” There was a time when dissing someone’s mother would end up really ugly.

Their hypocrisy and vitriol is amazing. I am guessing President Obama respected and adored his white grandparents who raised him. I recall him crying when his grandmother died. Um, I guess Jesse Lee Peterson believes those were crocodile tears and Obama couldn’t have possibly loved “white people.” I wonder how he would explain President Obama’s mostly white Cabinet and inner circle? Doesn’t seem like someone who hates whites. Here’s the exchange from Right Wing Watch:

Wiles: I voted for Alan Keyes years ago and I didn’t see the media going out there and whipping up guilt and telling white people: ‘you people should vote for Alan Keyes, he’s a black man.’ Alan Keyes is a real black man, okay? To be very precise, Barack Obama is not the first black president he is the first mixed-race president. He is fifty percent white and fifty percent black, there is nothing wrong with that and this is a wonderful thing that a mixed-race person was elected. But when I criticize him I just tell people, ‘I’m not criticizing his black half, I’m criticizing his white half.’ He was raised by white people and he was raised by white people who were connected to the New World Order. That man had a silver spoon in his mouth. He was not raised by a goat herder in Kenya, he was raised by his white family and they had connections to the New World Order and nobody wants to talk about this.

Peterson: I don’t think that Obama even identifies with the white aspect of himself. His mother, she hated her color, she hated being white and I’m thinking, I don’t have a whole lot of proof of this, but I do know she hated her color, hated being white. I think he may have been brought up not to accept that side of himself and that adds to him being a racist because he doesn’t really respect white folks.

Wiles: It has nothing to do with the color of his skin, it is because he is red inside; he is a Communist, that’s the problem.

Peterson: It’s all spiritual. I tell people all the time, our battle is a spiritual battle; a warfare between good and evil and Barack Obama is evil. The two also discussed the best ways to pray for Obama, which apparently means praying that Obama is forced out of office, sent to jail and finds God:

What’s so despicable about this exchange is that Ann Dunham isn’t even here to defend herself, if it’s even worthy of a response. Speaking ill of the dead is a no-no, but apparently right wing lunatics are no respecter of decency.

Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson: President Obama Racist Against White People Because Mother Hated Being White
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Roland Martin Blames CNN Firing on “White Male Executives” Not Enamored with Strong Minorities

March 29, 2013 by Leave a Comment

NABJ’s “Journalist of the Year,” Roland Martin, isn’t leaving without pulling the race card on CNN. He unleashed some sharp criticism at CNN on HuffPost Live today, telling Marc Lamont Hill that when he joined CNN he expected to have been rewarded with his own show. He noted that whenever he hosted specials for CNN, the ratings shot up.

“You have largely white male executives who are not necessarily enamored with the idea of having strong, confident minorities who say, ‘you know, I can do this. I am simply saying ‘give folks a shot,” Martin said. “We deliver, but we never get the big piece, the larger salary, to be able to get from here to there.”

Hey, Roland, I would venture to say your suspension after that anti-gay comment, factored into their decision to give you the boot. We all know his appearances on the network fell sharply in the aftermath of his Superbowl tweets. How would Roland Martin explain Soledad O’Brien’s termination? Seems to me her work and experience far exceed Roland Martin’s body of work. He should take the high road instead of coming across as arrogant and blaming his termination on “white male executives.”

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Roland Martin Under Fire for Alleged Anti-Gay Tweets About David Beckham Underwear During Super Bowl

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Rep. Don Young (R-AK) Refers to Latinos as “Wetbacks” Later Issues Apology

March 29, 2013 by Leave a Comment
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Rep. Don Young (R-AK) Refers to Latinos as “Wetbacks” Later Issues Apology

SHAMEFUL:  Republican Rep. Don Young (AK) referred to Latinos using the derogatory term “wetbacks” during an interview with KRBD.

Rep. Don Young: “My father had a ranch. We used to hire 50 or 60 wetbacks and — to pick tomatoes. You know, it takes two people to pick the same tomatoes now. It’s all done by machine.”

Washington Post reports Don Young later released a statement: “I used a term that was commonly used during my days growing up on a farm in central California. I know that this term is not used in the same way nowadays and I meant no disrespect.”

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FDNY EMS Lt. Timothy Dluhos Cries After NY Post Confronts Him About Racist, Anti-Semitic Tweets

March 24, 2013 by Leave a Comment
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FDNY EMS Lt. Timothy Dluhos Cries After NY Post Confronts Him About Racist, Anti-Semitic Tweets (MySpace)

Another FDNY firefighter is under fire for racist, anti-Semitic and anti-Asian tweets and cried when confronted. The New York Post reports EMS Lt. Timothy Dluhos, 34, used an image of Hitler for his profile photo and “Bad Lieutenant” as his online name as he spewed a barrage of racist, sexist, anti-Semitic and anti-Asian comments. Timothy Dluhos, who posed with Mayor Michael Bloomberg at a 2009 ceremony, called him “King Jew” and “King Heeb” on Twitter. This dirtbag works at EMS Station 57 in Bedford-Stuyvesant. This comes days after NYC Fire Commissioner’s son Joseph Cassano quit after being outed by NY Post for his racist rant on Twitter, calling blacks “shwoogs,” among other names.

Yet the 12-year EMS veteran, who was promoted to lieutenant in 2006, seemed to delight in these hateful Twitter diatribes:

* “I’m going to give up racial insults for Lent,” he tweeted Feb. 12. “Jesus that didn’t [last] too long. F–ken chinks can’t drive.”

* While giving what he called a “hood tour” of the Bedford-Stuyvesant area he serves, he posted photos of a housing project, fried-chicken joints and a strip club. “Real nasty place,” he tweeted Feb 23. “I’ve been there.”

* “Hahaha! I work with the coloreds,” he wrote in a Feb. 8 exchange. “For 12 years so that s–t just run off on me.”

* “Too bad he didn’t have rabies or AIDS and too bad he didn’t bite King Heeb’s face off,” he tweeted on Groundhog Day, Feb. 2, recalling when the groundhog Staten Island Chuck nipped Bloomberg at an event at the Staten Island Zoo.

* “That’s how King Jew sees it. Ban all guns & shootings will go down in NYC. But it’s the criminals w/the guns,” he ranted Jan. 30.

* A gold Nazi-era pin with a German U-boat and a swastika is “my most prized artifact,” he boasted on Jan. 30.

* “He was a good boy who never done NUFFIN wrong. Unf–kenreal. He was a perp & died like a perp. Oh well,” he tweeted March 14, mocking the grieving mother of Kimani Gray, the 16-year-old boy who was killed by cops in Brooklyn on March 9.

* He repeatedly Photoshopped an image of an unnamed black teen — putting a Hitler mustache on one photo and a surgical mask on another with the caption, “I’s be a doxter.”

* “My son thinks he’s one of ‘those people,’ ” Dluhos wrote in a caption for a Jan. 29 snapshot of his toddler son wearing pants that sagged below his underwear.

* “But at least I know my taxes go to the ‘undocumented’ citizens and lazy asses who do drugs all day,” Dluhos wrote March 15.

* “Got an extra shift at my second job. Think this will buy me a new gun,” he said, referring to his side gig for Richmond County Ambulance. Photos show a sniper rifle and other firearms stashed in his home.

EMS Lt. Timothy Dluhos isn’t the only member of the FDNY or even the NYPD that engages in such racist and hateful rhetoric. There are many more across this country who hide behind online names to spew racist venom because they are too coward to put show their true colors. At the very minimum, suspension shouldn’t be an option. Termination is the only alternative for people like EMS Lt. Timothy Dluhos.

 

 

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WV Newspaper Lincoln Journal Under Fire for Printing Reader Rant About N*ggers, Kikes and Wops

March 21, 2013 by Leave a Comment

The Lincoln Journal is under fire after printing a racist voice mail rant after a story about a gay teacher being fired.

“We were really glad to hear that School Board is getting rid of them queers,” the voice mail said. “The next thing is we need to get rid of all the n****rs, the spics, the kikes and the wops.”

“You know even them Catholics, they are wrong as baby eaters,” the reader continued. “We need to clear them people out and have good, white, God fearing Christians and everybody else needs to be put to death for their abominations.”

“We’ll keep Lincoln County white and right. Thank you.”

Raw Story is reporting the Lincoln County of Board of Education fired Kelli Burns from her job at Guyan Valley Middle School after she accused board officials of forcing students to write complaints that she tried to “turn them gay.”

 

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