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Tweets About Obama at Newtown School Shooting Vigil: “Take That N**ger Off the TV, We Wanna Watch Football”

December 17, 2012 by Leave a Comment

DISGRACE:  It is a disgrace that in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting that left 26 dead, including 20 children, people would resort to racist denigration of President Obama by some television viewers over NBC preempting the first quarter Sunday night’s football game between the San Francisco 49ers vs. the New England Patriots to show his speech at the vigil. Deadspin editor Timothy Burke collected a lot of the racist tweets dissing President Obama’s speech.  The tweets also included one from North Alabama player Bradley Patterson. A later tweet by UNA Athletic Director Mark Linder states that Bradley Patterson is no longer a member of the team. Patterson’s Twitter account has since been closed. Here are some of those tweets:

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Tweets to President Obama at Newtown School Shooting Vigil: “Take That N**ger Off the TV, We Wanna Watch Football” (Photo credit: Twitter)

Here’s tweet from UNA Athletic Director:

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M-Word: Rep. Hank Johnson Apologizes for Using the Word “Midget” on House Floor

December 14, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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M-Word:  Rep. Hank Johnson Apologizes for Using the Word “Midget” on House Floor. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

So now we have the m-word? Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) learned the hard way that calling someone a “midget” wasn’t politically correct in 2012 and he has since apologized.

Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) today apologized for using what he terms “the m-word” during a speech the previous evening.

What is this shocking term? Midget.

The Georgia Democrat used the word — offensive to some, who prefer the term “little people” to describe those with dwarfism, he noted today — in a metaphor about the Michigan labor situation in which he made a point about an unfair matchup. “What happens when you put a giant with a midget in a cage fight?” he asked rhetorically.

Today, he said he has since learned that the language is “no longer socially acceptable,” much like the “n-word,” which he said used to be widely used but is no longer. “It was out of ignorance, not spite or hatred,” he said. “I will never use that term again.”

He called it a “learning moment.” Source

M Word: Rep. Hank Johnson Apologizes for Using the Word Midget on House Floor
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University of Texas Professor Lino Graglia Claims Black Students Failing Because Raised by Poor Single Women

December 11, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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University of Texas Professor Lino Graglia Claims Black Students Failing Because Raised by Poor Single Women

The University of Texas is in the news again. This time Law professor Lino Graglia claims black and Hispanic students are failing academically because they have been raised in single parent homes usually by females. Lino Graglia told BBC he could ‘hardly imagine a less beneficial or more deleterious experience than to be raised by a single parent, usually female, uneducated and without a lot of money.’ He also added that the average black performance on SAT test is 200 points lower than that for the average white student and that among the black population almost three quarters of children are now born outside of marriage.

 

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Long-Time Civil Rights Leader Lawrence Guyot Dies at Age 73

November 25, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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Long-Time Civil Rights Leader Lawrence Guyot Dies at Age 73 (Lawrence Guyot in early days)

LAWRENCE GUYOT DIES:  Longtime civil rights leader Lawrence Guyot died at age 73, sometime late Thursday or early Friday morning, his daughter, Julie Guyot-Diangone, said. Lawrence Guyot had dedicated his entire life fighting to empower the powerless and improve race relations in the U.S. In his struggle for racial equality, he was even beaten in his home state of Mississippi by law enforcement officers.

Washington Post:  A Mississippi native, Guyot (pronounced GHEE-ott) worked for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and served as director of the 1964 Freedom Summer Project, which brought thousands of young people to the state to register blacks to vote despite a history of violence and intimidation by authorities. He also chaired the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, which sought to have blacks included among the state’s delegates to the 1964 Democratic National Convention. The bid was rejected, but another civil rights activist, Fannie Lou Hamer, addressed the convention during a nationally televised appearance.

Guyot was severely beaten several times, including at the notorious Mississippi State Penitentiary known as Parchman Farm. He continued to speak on voting rights until his death, including encouraging people to cast ballots for President Barack Obama.

 

 

 

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South Laurel County HS Teacher Kendra Baker in Hot Water Over Politically-Charged Statement

November 24, 2012 by 6 Comments

UPDATED:  South Laurel County High School teacher Kendra Baker is in the hot seat after she posted a politically charged statement on a class whiteboard:  ’You can’t be a democrat and go to heaven’ during a classroom discussion about politics on November 13, one week after the presidential elections. South Laurel County High School is in Kentucky. It should be noted that a student made the statement and Kendra Baker agreed to put it on the board for everyone to see.

The class had been debating around Election Day, and Superintendent Doug Bennett says the psychology teacher, who has been identified as Kendra Baker, wrote a student’s comment on the board. ”The teacher regrets the incident, and has no intention of doing this again,” said Bennett.

Mary Gilbert says her daughter, Chelsea was ridiculed when she tried to stick up for other students in the class. She says Chelsea is choosing to be home schooled rather than go back. Source

I’m not sure if this rises to the level of pulling your child out of a school, but I believe the teacher shouldn’t have let her political views cloud her judgment.

***RETRACTION:  We posted the wrong photograph in reference to this incident. The photo we posted was of Kendra Hoskins-Baker who teaches at a different school in Kentucky. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. We have pulled the photograph from our site and would urge anyone else who has this Facebook photo to do the same. Apologies to Mrs. Kendra Hoskins-Baker.***

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University of Texas at Austin Professor Robert Jensen Calls Thanksgiving a “White Supremacist Holiday”

November 23, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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University of Texas at Austin Professor Robert Jensen Calls Thanksgiving a “White Supremacist Holiday”. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

University of Texas at Austin journalism professor Robert Jensen calls Thanksgiving a “white-supremacist holiday.” His opinion piece, “No Thanks for Thanksgiving“ appeared on George Soros-connected website Alternet on Wednesday. In his article, Jensen wrote how Native Americans suffered because of the “European invasion of the Americas.” He went compared the Founding Fathers to Nazi Germany, asking “how does a country deal with the fact that some of its most revered historical figures had certain moral values and political views virtually identical to Nazis?”

Robert Jensen claims Thanksgiving is “at the heart of U.S. myth-building. “But in the United States, this reluctance to acknowledge our original sin — the genocide of indigenous people — is of special importance today,” he explained.

Jensen claims that “not only is the thought of such a change in this white-supremacist holiday impossible to imagine, but the very mention of the idea sends most Americans into apoplectic fits — which speaks volumes about our historical hypocrisy and its relation to the contemporary politics of empire in the United States.”

Wow, this is pretty deep and I don’t believe for a minute that when most Americans think Thanksgiving, white supremacist comes to mind.

University of Texas at Austin Professor Robert Jensen Calls Thanksgiving a White Supremacist Holiday
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Maine GOP Chairman Charlie Webster Claims Hundreds of Unkown Black People Voted in Rural Towns

November 15, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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Maine GOP Chairman Charlie Webster Claims Hundreds of Unkown Black People Voted in Rural Towns

More race-baiting from the Republican Party:  Maine GOP chairman Charlie Webster is alleging possible voter fraud, saying that  groups of unknown black people showed up in some rural towns to vote on Election Day.

“In some parts of rural Maine, there were dozens, dozens of black people who came in and voted on Election Day,” he said. “Everybody has a right to vote, but nobody in (these) towns knows anyone who’s black. How did that happen? I don’t know. We’re going to find out.”

When asked about the issue in an interview Wednesday with the Portland Press Herald, Webster again refused to provide specifics. He said his point is not that the new voters were black, but that they were not recognized by town officials.

“I’m not talking about 15 or 20. I’m talking hundreds,” he said Wednesday. “I’m not politically correct and maybe I shouldn’t have said these voters were black, but anyone who suggests I have a bias toward any race or group, frankly, that’s sleazy.” Source

The Republicans tried to suppress the black and Hispanic vote and it backfired, now they are making up lies about black voter fraud. Give me a break. Guess what? Four more years of Obama. The Republican Party wants black and Hispanic votes, but is content to insult us as they hold their hands out.

Charlie Webster, another bitter Republican bitching over Mitt Romney’s loss:

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Throwback to the 1960s: Hampden-Sydney College Students Shout Racial Slurs After Obama’s Reelection

November 8, 2012 by 1 Comment
Throwback to the 1960s: Hampden Sydney College Students Shout Racial Slurs After Obamas Reelection

Throwback to the 1960s: Hampden-Sydney College Students Shout Racial Slurs After Obama’s Reelection (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The right wing must be really proud because protests over President Obama’s reelection erupted at another institution of higher learning — Hampden-Sydney College. According to the Huffington Post, about 40 students shouted racial slurs, threw bottles and set off fireworks outside the Minority Student Union hours after President Obama won the presidential election.

Hampden-Sydney College President Chris Howard said in an email to parents Thursday that the disturbance early Wednesday also included threats of physical violence.

Howard is the college’s first African-American president. He said in the email that he was disappointed in the “harmful, senseless episode” and that bigotry has no place on the campus of 1,080. About 9 percent are black. Source

Well, the same thing erupted at the University of Mississippi, that has had an ugly past of overt racism, that led to the National Guard coming out to ensure the safety of its first black student James Meredith.

Throwback to the 1960s: Hampden Sydney College Students Shout Racial Slurs After Obamas Reelection
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CT GOP Senate Candidate Linda McMahon Door Hangers in Black Neighborhoods Say Vote for President Obama and Me

November 4, 2012 by 1 Comment

Connecticut Republican Senate candidate Linda McMahon is tricking blacks into voting for her with her latest campaign door-hanger saying that it’s okay to vote for President Obama and her. The door hanger states: “Vote Barack Obama For President and Vote Linda McMahon For Senate.” The McMahon campaign says she’s still backing Mitt Romney.

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CT GOP Senate Candidate Linda McMahon Door Hangers: Vote for President Obama and Me (Photo credit: Talking Points Memo)

This is typical of the Republican Party, which is hellbent on suppressing the black vote in Ohio and Florida, but we have news for FL Gov. Rick Scott, who has the lowest approval rating of any Florida governor in recent years, and Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted. We are going to fight for our rights this time around.

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Poll: Slight Majority of Americans How Racist Views Towards Blacks, Anti-Black Sentiment Jumps to 56 Percent

October 27, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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Poll: Slight Majority of Americans How Racist Views Towards Blacks, Anti-Black Sentiment Jumps to 56 Percent. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

An AP Poll finds any hopes of President Obama’s election as the first black president heralding a post-racial America isn’t a likelihood since “a slight majority of Americans now express prejudice toward blacks whether they recognize those feelings or not.”

“In all, 51 percent of Americans now express explicit anti-black attitudes, compared with 48 percent in a similar 2008 survey. When measured by an implicit racial attitudes test, the number of Americans with anti-black sentiments jumped to 56 percent, up from 49 percent during the last presidential election. In both tests, the share of Americans expressing pro-black attitudes fell.”

Daily Beast’s Andrew Sullivan: “Close to 80 percent of Republican voters expressed ‘explicit racism.’ Maybe that’s why they are comfortable with a candidate from a church whose theology remains based on white supremacy and that barred African-Americans from full membership as recently as 1978.” Don’t be surprised that Mitt Romney hasn’t denounced the racist rhetoric from top surrogate John Sununu.

 

Poll: Slight Majority of Americans How Racist Views Towards Blacks, Anti Black Sentiment Jumps to 56 Percent
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