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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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CPAC Minority Outreach Panel Participant Says Slavery Gave ‘Food and Shelter’ to Blacks

March 15, 2013 by Leave a Comment

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CPAC Minority Outreach Panel Participant Says Slavery Gave ‘Food and Shelter’ to Blacks [Frederick Douglass] (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

CPAC MINORITY OUTREACH DISASTER: The Republican Party will always have a problem with blacks and Latinos racist rhetoric they spew. During a panel discussion   on “minority outreach,” a  CPAC participant defended slavery, saying it gave ‘food and shelter’ to blacks. I can’t help but wonder if this participant, whose name is reportedly Scott Terry, was a troll.

A panel at the Conservative Political Action Committee on Republican minority outreach exploded into controversy on Friday afternoon, after an audience member defended slavery as good for African-Americans.

The exchange occurred after an audience member from North Carolina, 30-year-old Scott Terry, asked whether Republicans could endorse races remaining separate but equal. After the presenter, K. Carl Smith of Frederick Douglass Republicans, answered by referencing a letter by Frederick Douglass forgiving his former master, the audience member said “For what? For feeding him and housing him?”

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When asked by ThinkProgress if he’d accept a society where African-Americans were permanently subservient to whites, he said “I’d be fine with that.” He also claimed that African-Americans “should be allowed to vote in Africa,” and that “all the Tea Parties” were concerned with the same racial problems that he was.

At one point, a woman challenged him on the Republican Party’s roots, to which Terry responded, “I didn’t know the legacy of the Republican Party included women correcting men in public.”

Talking Points Memo:  ”Scott Terry of North Carolina, accompanied by a Confederate-flag-clad attendee, Matthew Heimbach, rose to say he took offense to the event’s take on slavery. (Heimbach founded the White Students Union at Towson University and is described as a “white nationalist” by the Southern Poverty Law Center.)”

What do you expect from CPAC when Donald Trump, the granddaddy of the birther movement, was given a prominent role to spew more venom? The Republicans had better wake up and quickly. The CPAC minority outreach was a disaster, plain and simple.

CPAC Minority Outreach Panel Participant Says Slavery Gave Food and Shelter to Blacks
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Ret. Gen. Colin Powell Says Republican Party has a “Dark Vein of Intolerance”

January 13, 2013 by Leave a Comment
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Ret. Gen. Colin Powell Slams GOP has a “Dark Vein of Intolerance”. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Ret. Gen. Colin Powell slammed the GOP Sunday’s “Meet the Press,” saying that “there’s also a dark vein of intolerance in some parts of the party. What do I mean by that? What I mean by that is they still sort of look down on minorities.” Colin Powell pointed to a number of statements directed at President Obama as evidence that there is still racism within the Republican Party.

He singled out former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s “shuck and jive” comment aimed at President Obama’s response to the attacks in Libya:  ”When I see a former governor say that the president is ‘shuckin’ and jivin’.’ That’s a racial-era slave term,” he said.

He also took aim at former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu, a Romney surrogate, who called the president “lazy” after the first debate. I might also add Sununu also said the president needed to learn how to be an American and that Colin Powell only endorsed him because he’s black. Here’s what Gen. Powell had to say about John Sununu: ”He didn’t say he was slow, he was tired, he didn’t do well; he said he was ‘lazy.’ Now, it may not mean anything to most Americans, but to those of us who are African Americans, the second word is “shiftless,” and then there’s a third word that goes along with it.”

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Ret. Gen. Colin Powell Says Republican Party has a Dark Vein of Intolerance
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Marine Joshua Boston Pens Letter to Sen. Dianne Feinstein: “I Am Not Your Peasant” Over Assault Weapons Bill

January 4, 2013 by 4 Comments
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Marine Joshua Boston Pens Letter to Sen. Dianne Feinstein: “I Am Not Your Peasant” Over Assault Weapons Bill

Newtown School Shooting: US Marine Corporal Joshua Boston wrote the following letter to Sen. Dianne Feinstein over her upcoming assault weapons bill. Um, seems to me he shouldn’t be allowed near a gun. Here’s the letter Joshua Boston wrote to Sen. Feinstein:

Senator Dianne Feinstein,

I will not register my weapons should this bill be passed, as I do not believe it is the government’s right to know what I own. Nor do I think it prudent to tell you what I own so that it may be taken from me by a group of people who enjoy armed protection yet decry me having the same a crime.

You ma’am have overstepped a line that is not your domain. I am a Marine Corps Veteran of 8 years, and I will not have some woman who proclaims the evil of an inanimate object, yet carries one, tell me I may not have one.

I am not your subject. I am the man who keeps you free. I am not your servant. I am the person whom you serve. I am not your peasant. I am the flesh and blood of America.

I am the man who fought for my country. I am the man who learned. I am an American. You will not tell me that I must register my semi-automatic AR-15 because of the actions of some evil man.
I will not be disarmed to suit the fear that has been established by the media and your misinformation campaign against the American public.

We, the people, deserve better than you.

Respectfully Submitted,
Joshua Boston
Cpl, United States Marine Corps
2004-2012

This nuttiness comes as Marion Hammer, the former president of the National Rifle Association equated the attempts to ban guns to racism during an NRA news show The Daily News on Wednesday.

“And they even admit this is about banning the ugliest guns, it’s about cosmetics and it has nothing to do about how a firearm works,” host Ginny Simone said toward the end of the segment.

“Well, you know, banning people and things because of the way they look went out a long time ago,” Hammer responded. “But here they are again. The color of a gun. The way it looks. It’s just bad politics.” Source

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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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N-Word Used 109 Times in Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained,” Starring Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington

December 12, 2012 by 2 Comments
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N-Word Used 109 Times in Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained,” Starring Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington

Do you plan on seeing Jamie Foxx and Leonardo DiCaprio in Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained” set to hit the theaters on Christmas Day? Personally, I can’t stand to watch any movie that uses the N-word repeatedly, as is the case in this movie — 109 times. Here’s a review from Variety:

True to its spaghetti-Western roots, the pic reveals most of its stoic hero’s unspoken motivations through garishly colored flashbacks, though Tarantino and editor Fred Raskin (stepping in for the late Sally Menke) seem to realize that limited glimpses of such white-on-black sadism go a long way. Filmmakers who choose to portray this shameful chapter of America’s past bear a certain responsibility not to sanitize it. But here, even as it lays the groundwork for “Django’s” vengeance, dwelling on such brutality can verge on exploitation. To wit, the film problematically features no fewer than 109 instances of the “N word,” most of them deployed either for laughs or alliteration.

While good taste doesn’t necessarily apply, comedy seems to be the key that distinguishes “Django Unchained” from a risible film like “Mandingo.” Both take a certain horror-pleasure in watching bare-chested black men wrestle to the death — the sick sport at which Candie prides himself an expert — but what better way to inoculate the power of a Klan rally than by turning it into a Mel Brooks routine, reducing bigots to buffoons as they argue about their ill-fitting white hoods?

Spike Lee had some choice words for Quentin Tarantino in 1997 about “Jackie Brown:”

The word “nigger” is used 38 times in Quentin Tarantino’s “Jackie Brown,” sez Spike Lee – and he doesn’t like it. And neither do I. In Daily Variety‘s review of the pic on Dec. 16, Todd McCarthy points out, “nearly every phrase (spoken by Samuel L. Jackson’s character) contains the n-word.” Lee admits, “I’m not against the word,” (though I am) “and I use it, but not excessively. And some people speak that way. But, Quentin is infatuated with that word. What does he want to be made – an honorary black man?” Lee says he has spoken to Miramax’s Harvey Weinstein and the film’s producer, Lawrence Bender, about the excessive use of the word. Lee would like to find out from Tarantino why he used it so frequently in this film “and he uses it in all his pictures: ‘Pulp Fiction’ and ‘Reservoir Dogs…’ I want Quentin to know that all African-Americans do not think that word is trendy or slick.” Lee admits, “I don’t expect them to change (the prints now out), but I want him (Tarantino) to know about it for future reference.”

At some point you cross the line from retelling history to just being plain disgusting. Somehow I don’t think Quentin Tarantino had to overdo it with the n-word in his movie. He seems to have a penchant for this kind of thing. What could have been an otherwise good movie, will now be ripped to shreds because of this word.

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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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Comedian Chris Rock Tweets “Happy White Peoples Independence Day, the Slaves Weren’t Free”

July 4, 2012 by Leave a Comment

Comedian Chris Rock tweets “happy white peoples independence day” and conservative Michelle Malkin’s Twitchy site takes offense. Um, Chris Rock could care less what Republicans think. Still, come on Chris, do we always have to drag race in every dogfight? Didn’t Fredrick Douglass make a similar statement decades ago?

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Comedian Chris Rock Tweets “Happy White Peoples Independence Day,” Frederick Douglass was Skeptical of Independence Day too.

Tweets about Frederick Douglass:

Excerpt of Frederick Douglass’ speech about July 4th:

What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy — a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour.

Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the Old World, travel through South America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival….

Read the entire speech: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2927t.html

Reaction to Chris Rock’s tweet:

There were some tweets in support of Chris Rock’s comments:

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DeKalb County GA Exec Gary Cornell Under Fire for “Barrel of Monkeys” Comment About Rundown Apartment Complex

June 27, 2012 by 2 Comments

Gary Cornell, DeKalb County, Ga., interim planning director, is under fire over a comment in an email chain in which he comparing some blighted properties to “a barrel full of monkeys.” He was referring to a rundown apartment complex off North Hairston Road.

Many are calling for his termination. Cornell apologized for using the racial slur, but told WSB-TV that “there have been over 200 fire calls since 2003 at that location, and Public Safety says there is something like five murders that have taken place there.”

Some people who read the email, despite his clarification as to why he used that poor choice of words, are convinced he was referring to the residents of DeKalb County.

Gary Cornell apologized at a commission meeting saying, ”clearly, I had no intent to be racially discriminatory to anybody, and I apologize for offense it would have created. That was certainly not in my heart or my mind,” WSB-TV reports.

Maybe Gary Cornell’s choice of words were insensitive, but if anyone has driven by that area you will know that what this man says is true. Where are the so-called civil rights and community leaders in the Stone Mountain area? I would also add that there are many buildings on Memorial Drive that should be demolished because they are an eye sore.

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DeKalb County GA Employee Gary Cornell Under Fire for “Monkey Comment” About Rundown Apartment Complex (WSB-TV)

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University of Minnesota-Duluth Sponsors Un-Fair Campaign to Raise Awareness of “White Privilege”

June 21, 2012 by 2 Comments
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University of Minnesota-Duluth Sponsors Un-Fair Campaign to Raise Awareness of “White Privilege”

The University of Minnesota Duluth is reportedly sponsoring the Un-Fair ad-campaign designed to attain racial justice by raising awareness of “white privilege.” Yes, “white privilege.” The main gist of the project is to show that “society was set up for [whites],” which is “unfair,” Campus Reform reports.  The ads feature whites confessing their guilt for the “white privilege” they are afforded because of their skin. Wow, what better time to hatch this campaign up than in an election year. It’s divisive and counter-productive. Shame on the University of Minnesota-Duluth, NAACP and the YWCA for playing with fire.

I am sure the Un-Fair campaign will have critics and supporters.  White privilege is why groups like The Ku Klux Klan flourished during the Jim Crow era in America. Other white nationalist groups want to get ahead by this so-called “white privilege” and eradicate all other races from American soil because they are the “chosen people.” It was white privilege that helped many in American history get ahead at the expense of other races.

Some people say there’s no white privilege, but we see that playing out everyday in many areas such as in corporate boardrooms, executive offices and in Congress. It was white privilege that led an all-white jury to convicting Emmett Till for murder. It was white privilege that forced blacks to sit at the back of the bus, leading to the Montgomery bus boycott. It was white privilege that led to slaves being counted as three-fifths of a person.  I will preface this by saying that there are many, many whites who have gotten ahead through hard work, determination and dedication, which is why I am troubled by the term white privilege and its connotations in today’s society.

The Un-Fair Campaign, is sponsored and supported by the University of Minnesota – Duluth and several liberal organizations including the NAACP, YWCA, and The League of Woman Voters.

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