What’s Really Ailing America.. could it be RACISM
Posted on January 5, 2009 - Filed Under BadGalsRadio, Go-Obama, Jesus Take The Wheel, Monday Mornin News, PSA, Politics, Urban Renewal, blog4action, minorities, urban affairs, why ? | Leave a Comment
Take a moment and look at the actions and opinions from across America, today. this is the official first Monday of the New Year. A lot of important decisions get made on this day, every year.
We’re Wondering Honestly - How does America really feel now, since we’ve supposedly gone through this Catharsis ?
Apparently, Not Too Good - What Do You Think ?
Liberal Whites’ Ignorance and lack of Action Against White Racist the Real Problem to Race Relations
(Knowledge For Life)
One of the main problems with race relations is not racist whites but ‘liberal’ whites that are ignorant of and underestimate how ingrained racism is among their people.
The presidential race and victory of President Elect Barack Obama has brought the sickness of white supremacy to the forefront. From conservative white radio host to white elected officials to their own FAUX News network; the hatred, fear and ignorance of white America is once again rearing it’s ugly head.
Question is, do whites have the desire to face their demons and the fortitude to destroy them or, in this age of economic hard-times, give into their demons and bringing about the worst event in American history - Race War.
If the history of the white man is any indication to the future of race relations, Black people, brace yourself for the worst.
While many would like to hide their head in the sand and ignore the very real issue of what happens when the water hole sinks and survival of the fittest begins. I would gather face the challenge head on.
Scapegoating and placing the blame on the minority and weak occures when those in power and control don’t want to face their own sins and shortcomings. Combine that with the shrinking of resources, jobs and necessities of life and you are looking at a powder keg ready to explode.
Now facts have surfaced that whites where killing Blacks in the after math of Hurricane Katrina. But the manifest hatred toward Blacks did start with the residents of Algiers Point, the mainstream media labeled Black refugees, Blacks were abandoned by their own government for weeks without water or food. They were rescued only to find themselves in toxic mobile homes and the story goes on and on.
That was only a sign of white America’s disdain for Black Americans. We saw it in the first OJ trial and Jena 6. We see it when it comes to reporting missing Black children and white corporate crime (ie Madoff) compared to Black street crime.
The real evidence of the sickness of white supremacy came out during PE Obama’s run for President and continues till this very hour. None of the darker races are immune form the sickness, as seen with the genocide in Palestine (illegally called Israel), the unjust embargoes toward Cuba, the neglect in Haiti and Africa, the war in Afghanistan and Iraq, the militant posture toward North Korea and Iran and the story goes on.
If we can not get alone together in peace, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said, Separation is The Answer. It may not seem sensible or feasible now (nor did the Exodus to the Children of Israel) but give it time, if ‘liberal’ whites don’t make a firm stand against the hate speech on conservative radio and TV America is headed toward a deep, dark pit.
Take it or let it alone.
MLK Web Site Is Really a Racist Trap
One of the highest ranked Web sites on Dr. Martin Luther King is one run by a White-supremacist group whose goal is to convince youths that the slain civil rights leader was much less than a hero, scholar and peacemaker.
On “martinlutherking.org” there are downloadable fliers “to pass out at your school.” One of those “educational” fliers asks: “Which holiday honors a philanderer, a drunk, a liar, a plagiarist, and a cheater?” The answer: “Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.”
The operators of the site are members of a group called Stormfront, which the Southern Poverty Law Center describes as the largest “hate group” online. Stormfront has been co-opting King’s name for its Web address for the past decade, and it is the third most popular site that pops up when Martin Luther King is Googled, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.
Mark Potok, of the hate-crime-fighting law center, told the Journal-Constitution that Stormfront has about 154,000 members, an 82,000-member increase from two years ago.
Don Black, the leader of Stormfront, has said that wants his Web site to reach high school students “who are forced to parrot the liberal party line about King being a great leader.” He said, too, that “The United States was traditionally a White nation, and we have the right to preserve it. If that makes me a racist, I am.” But Black’s steady stream of hate-talk, no matter how distasteful, isn’t necessarily illegal.
The civil rights leader’s nephew, Isaac Newton Farris Jr., who heads the nonprofit King Center in Atlanta, said he has decided against challenging Stormfront in court.
“You can’t stop people from having opinions,” he said. “If people think my uncle was adulterous and didn’t have a Ph.D., we can’t do anything about that. The only thing we can do is stop them from using his name.”
Pete Wellborn, an Atlanta lawyer who specializes in Internet law, told the Journal-Constitution, “As vile, reprehensible, ignorant and horrible as that Web site is, one could argue that it’s political comment.” The Kings could succeed in a suit, he said, if they could prove that Stormfront is making money off King’s name.
Sentencing Law and Policy: Noticing different legislative reactions to meth and crack
The June 5th edition of Congressional Quarterly Weekly (which is not available on-line) includes a terrific cover story by Seth Stern entitled “Meth vs. Crack: Different Legislative Approaches.” As the title suggests, the article explores the noticeable difference between the legislative reaction to the “crack epidemic” 20 years ago and the “meth epidemic” today. Here are just a few snippets of a long and very informative article [update: that can now be accessed here]:
When Rep. Elijah E. Cummings visits rural communities in the Midwest that have been ravaged by methamphetamine use, he hears stories of despair and damage not unlike those he heard during the crack epidemic of the 1980s…. The similarities exist despite fundamental differences between the populations affected by the two drugs. Meth is used mostly by white people in rural areas, while the epicenters of the crack epidemic were the African-American communities of the inner cities. “If you were to close your eyes and listen to how they talk about the effect on communities, how it breaks up families and drives down property values, you would swear they were in any urban community” during crack’s heyday, Cummings says.
What’s different this time are the solutions that his congressional colleagues are promoting. The first comprehensive federal anti-meth law, enacted this year, focuses on cutting off the supply of the chemical ingredients used to make the drug — not on toughening punishments for dealers or users. “There seems to be more of an emphasis on shutting down these meth labs and trying to figure out ways to treat these addicts and then get them back into flow of society,” says Cummings, a Maryland Democrat. “We don’t get for crack or heroin that kind of support for prevention, treatment and rehabilitation.”…
Lawmakers in both parties consistently characterize meth addicts in more sympathetic terms than they describe crack addicts, and they are showing far less enthusiasm for imprisoning users than at the height of the crack problem two decades ago…. Although lawmakers almost always rebut the notion, their own rhetoric suggests that race is an essential — albeit, perhaps subconscious — reason they are treating the two drug epidemics differently.
Some sociologists and criminologists say the racial component is obvious. “The difference is, meth is a white drug,” says Daniel F. Wilhelm of the Vera Institute of Justice, a New York nonprofit organization that seeks to reduce racially disparate prosecutions. “You don’t see any pictures of young black men and women described as the face of meth,” said Marc Mauer of the Sentencing Project, which advocates for overhauling sentencing law — a reference to the before-and-after mug shots that sheriffs’ offices and lawmakers often display to highlight the physical toll of meth addiction.
[L]istening to the way members of Congress talk about meth users and the images they invoke to portray the problem leaves observers such as Craig Reinarman, a sociology professor at the University of California Santa Cruz convinced that many lawmakers at least talk about drug users differently when they’re “drawn from the good old boy segment of our society, the us rather than the them.”…
Mid-South Black males in state of emergency
(Know For Life / Topix.com)
For decades, data about the condition of Black men and boys in America has shown that they fared far worse than their White counterparts in areas such as economics, education, and health.
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‘The election of a Black President is a good step in the right direction but it will not change the fact that Black males are suffering in the South and can no longer be overlooked.’ —Christopher Crothers |
With the rise of the country’s first Black President-Elect, many have said such research is no longer needed and the conversation should cease to take place entering into the year 2009 and beyond.
The Foundation for the Mid South disagrees and wants to take action.
“The election of a Black President is a good step in the right direction but it will not change the fact that Black males are suffering in the South and can no longer be overlooked,” said Christopher Crothers to The Final Call.
The foundation released a report showing that Black males in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi, or the Mid South, are more likely to lack quality health insurance, lose their lives in a homicide or drop out of school.
“Many people, especially Whites and the middle-class, have told us they are tired of seeing these numbers and hearing about racism. They want us to stop bringing this plight to the forefront as if everything is fine now,” said Mr. Crothers, who serves as the foundation’s communications director.
The report, titled “Black Male: Why the Mid South Cannot Afford to Ignore The Disparities Facing Its Black Men and Boys,” was released in early December with a focus on men and boys ages 16 to 44. The idea was born out of forums attended by the foundation that brought together others to discuss the state of Black men and boys both nationally and in the South. It was also to call leaders and philanthropic organizations to get involved with their resources.
“A lot of these conversations are being held on a national landscape, but not in our region,” said Mr. Crothers. “There is a lot of data out there but we don’t have initiatives that specifically focus on Black males. We feel that there should be a field that’s developed around these issues because it’s serious.”
The Mid South is home to nearly 10 million people—roughly 3.3 percent of the U.S. population. The three states, although majority White, possess a high concentration of counties and parishes where Blacks comprise over 50 percent or more of the population.
Poverty was the leading indicator of disparities in the region with a 17.3 percent poverty rate. In just Louisiana and Mississippi alone, non-White households’ average net worth is $5,100. That’s 14 times less than Whites, according to the report.
“I think some of us are under the illusion that just because (Barack) Obama is in office that magically our problems as Black men will just fade away,” said James Brooks, a resident of Jackson, Miss., to The Final Call. “I got laid off this past year, lost a son to violence and have no health insurance. Capitol Hill can’t help me, we need to unite in our own region.”
Brenda Charles, a resident of Little Rock, said to The Final Call, “Our Black boys are on the road to death on a daily basis. Unprotected sex among our young people is out of control. There are no jobs for them so they turn to dealing drugs only to enter the prison system. We already know the statistics. Where is the help from those with the money?”
In Mississippi, 46.9 percent of Black males are uninsured, compared with 25.3 percent of White males. And, 23.5 percent of Black males in the three-state region don’t have a high school diploma. Citing U.S. Bureau of Justice statistics, the report says that Black male homicide rates were 8.3 times higher than White males. Black on Black offenses accounted for 94 percent of the homicides between 1976 and 2005.
Who will stand up for the South?
Mr. Crothers cited organizations such as the New York-based 21st Century Foundation, as a model of what can be done in the Mid South to address the problem. The 21st Century Foundation provides grants for strategies and programs geared toward issues affecting Black males.
“Where is the outrage? It seems like we are ‘raged-out.’ The crisis facing Black men and boys is becoming a part of the culture,” said Rev. Alfonso Wyatt, 21st Century board member. Over the next five years, 21st Century plans to fund and/or incubate Black Men and Boys research and action.
Sedrick Muham-mad mentors Black boys in New Orleans through his Models for Success program. “There is a lack of consistent and effective programs for our young men in the South due in part to lack of funding. Without being connected to resources, programs decline because there aren’t a lot of high industries in this area to feed the initiatives.”
“The indicators of disparity are sounding an alarm,” said Dr. Naccaman Williams, in the foreword of the report.
“We recommend more investment in research and data, an increase in public knowledge, the convening of state advocacy institutions around local policies, and that leaders work together. Action is needed,” said Mr. Crothers.
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Look Who’s Chain Got Snatched Now - Soulja Bwoy !
Posted on January 5, 2009 - Filed Under BadGalsRadio, Cheap Trick, Entertainment Suss, Jesus Take The Wheel, Monday Mornin News, Skrate Liar, bafoonery, busta, children, thief, video | 1 Comment
That Lil Nikkuh Soulja Bwoy got Told the otha nite at his crib. Broke ass lil moufy mouse. they took that Superman Chain (shown in the photo below the video) and apparently only got 5 large in paper; from this so called baller. What a Joke - this is the video, the story follows. This some Real Balla Stuff Rite Here Nikkuh
Soulja Boy Assaulted In Georgia
I think this if funny what happen to the gangsta big boy talk on the youtube videos.
A
representative for teen sensation
Soulja Boy has confirmed the young entertainer was assaulted last week. Unconfirmed reports began circulating on New Year’s Eve that that
Soulja Boy and several of his close friends were ambushed and robbed at gunpoint on Tuesday night (December 30) after six men invaded the rapper’s home.
Allegedly, Soulja Boy’s friend Jbar was nearly taken hostage during the robbery. The following day (December 31), a video surfaced of two masked men claiming responsibility for the crime.
In the clip, the duo boasted of stalking
Soulja Boy before the attack by attending his album release party and subsequently tailing the rapper to his home. The alleged thieves further described the robbery in detail. They disputed initial reports of there being six assailants armed with pistols and Ak-47s.
Instead, the alleged robbers claimed the crime was completed between them with one weapon. Due to the two minute video’s over the top content, the clip was initially met with skepticism by fans and media alike.
However, a
representative for
Soulja Boy has confirmed with AllHipHop.com that an incident did take place, but the rep refused to provide any concrete details, stating only that the crime is “a serious situation.”Soulja Boy released his sophomore album iSouljaBoyTellem on December 16.
Earlier this week, the teen rapper again sparked controversy by releasing a Youtube video accusing legendary lyricist Nas of killing Hip-Hop and destroying economic opportunities of other emcees. AllHipHop.com will continue to cover this story as more details emerge.
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Laaawddd, It’s Black Jesus - and he’s pissed..
Posted on January 4, 2009 - Filed Under BadGalsRadio, Bolitics, Chuuch, Hero/Shero, Hot Mess, Jesus Take The Wheel, PSA, Urban Renewal, What The ?, bafoonery, video | Leave a Comment
This is Sunday and since it’s the First Sunday, of the New Year - we give you a taste of Black Jesus and the White Man.. Uh Huh. Chuuch Up In The Mug.
remember this is who y’all be callin on -
For those of you who’ve never seen him, but you always callin his name
today we give you
Black Jesus ..
and if that isn’t enough, we know how y’all love to hear a White Man tell y’all bout Jesus - so this one is for ya Back Up Barrell
George Carlin - Religion Is Bullshit.
Had Enough ?
Quit Readin This Damn Blog and Go To Chuuch Then,
Ebony, Jet and Essence Will Have a White House Presence - HA !
Posted on January 4, 2009 - Filed Under BadGalsRadio, Bolitics, DO the Damn Thang, Go-Obama, Mama ASID, Politics, Stylin, Urban Renewal, minorities | Leave a Comment
For Us What’s Most Important about this story is that finally the White House Press Corps will include people who will report from the viewpoint of African Americans; in large enough numbers that They Will Get Notice. They’ll be seen when they ask about Congo, Sudan and Poverty - as they didn’t receive any notice, or weren’t as visible to previous administrations.
Can You Imagine, the Ebony or Jet folks rushing to ask the press sec what Mr. Obama thinks on Frederick Douglass Day - which for those of you who don’t know - is also the forth of July. Now That will really be something I want to see. an acknowlegement of All Of Americas’ History - From The White House.
Finally a Black Fashion Reporter to show us what’s really HOT, from inside the Pressure Cooker of the Beltway. We want to know What does the White House Refrigerator Have In There ? do they use Scott or Charmin in the Executive Powder Room ? how bout those grocery bags, are they paper or plastic ?
Surely some of you will see this as frivolity; but as a member of the Black Journalist Corps - I must say that I feel exceptionally Proud that Finally We’ll be able to File Our Own Stories, from Our Viewpoint of the Story - Not AP or some other third party.
This is Truly another First in the line of Many to Follow. All Across America People are saying - “Hurry Up January 20th, we can hardly wait to see you“..
Obama’s win brings firsts for black press - Politico
Barack Obama’s election as president is prompting major changes in the nation’s black press, ushering in a series of firsts that editors say will reshape print, Internet, radio and television coverage aimed at African-American audiences.
Essence, the top-selling magazine among black women, will have a full-time White House reporter for the first time. Ebony magazine will add a White House reporter, either full time or as needed. Its sister publication, Jet magazine, will have a weekly two-page Washington report in every issue.
And Black Entertainment Television is scrapping its usual fare of videos and sitcoms for a four-hour live broadcast of Obama’s swearing-in — just as the leading cable network in black households did for both party conventions last summer, and on Election Day. TV One will do the same, airing 21 hours of inauguration coverage throughout the day.
In some ways, the moves mark a return to a time when the black press — particularly magazines — were newsier. Jet first published photos of the battered and swollen body of Emmett Till in 1955, sparking outrage and galvanizing a still-young civil rights movement.
“Who we are is really evolving right now, in this post-civil rights era,” said Bryan Monroe, vice president and editorial director of Ebony and Jet. “Our readers really need the black press.”
April Ryan, who has been covering the White House for American Urban Radio Networks for 11 years, wonders what took so long.
“Katrina happened under Bush, and Rwanda happened under Clinton,” said Ryan, who was one of a handful of black reporters in the White House press corps during that time. “If more reporters of color were here, maybe those issues would have garnered more attention, and it could have made a difference.”
She said that the addition of black reporters could mean more focus on the urban agenda — failing schools, crime, job loss, poor health care.
“I am five generations removed from a slave. I was here the night [Obama won], and I had goose bumps,” Ryan said. “Yes, we pause for the history of a black president — but it’s not the reason to be here. There’s real work to be done.”
The press as a whole has faced charges of pro-Obama bias — including respected names like PBS’ Gwen Ifill, who is black — but the magazine editors say they know they must provide balanced coverage to their readers.
Yet, if what happened to Tavis Smiley, a popular guest on the “Tom Joyner Morning Show” and host of his own PBS show, is any guide, serious questioning of Barack Obama might not always sit right with black audiences.
Smiley ended up leaving his post as a commentator after he was roundly criticized for taking a harsh stance on Obama — his point, he said, was that black folks should kick the tires before getting on board.
“A whole bunch of black people turned on me in the blogosphere, and they called me everything but a child of God,” Smiley said. “They thought I was hating on Barack Obama.”
The latest issue of Essence, which reaches 8.5 million readers a month, has two different covers — Barack or Michelle — and features famous African-Americans, ruminating on the moment. Ebony named a person of the year for the first time in its 63-year history, dedicating its entire January issue to the president-elect.
But all the coverage won’t be like that, one editor said.
“We’ll be asking what he is going to do on specific issues that African-Americans are interested in — unemployment, AIDS, housing, health we are going to be following all of those things,” said Tatsha Robertson of Essence. “It is historic but we are going to take him to task.”
Robertson said Essence will use its website to break news, and its Obama watch section is one of the most popular features on the website.
The moves are also an indication of the deep ties Obama formed with the black press — and by extension, the black community — over the course of the campaign. Black support for the president-elect was 95 percent, a record.
“We did do a very good job of fostering strong relationships during campaign … and the community had unprecedented access,” said Corey Ealons, the campaign’s director of African-American media. On weekly conference calls during the general election, Ealons said he would put the campaign’s core issues — heath care, joblessness, education — in the context of the black community.
“It was just a matter of spelling it out and making it plain — that the unemployment rate in our community is double the national average, that 95 percent of black children go to public schools — so they could report it back to the community,” Ealons said. “And they did so. The desire now is to maintain and sustain that.”
For Ebony, the nation’s oldest black magazine with a monthly readership of 12 million, the coverage paid off — the Chicago-based magazine landed Obama’s first post-election interview.
The newsier turn is due, at least in part, to the black brain drain from mainstream publications because of massive industry buyouts and layoffs. And black publications like Ebony and Essence have reaped the rewards, landing reporters and editors from such top newspapers as the Baltimore Sun, Newsday and the Boston Globe and such organizations as the former Knight Ridder chain.
“There is a sense of going to back to the roots of where we used to get our news,” said Barbara Ciara, president of the National Association of Black Journalists. “When we first learned of something that was going to happen in our community, it hit the black press long before it hit the mainstream.”
BET, which will host an inaugural ball for the first time in the network’s history, ran 10 hours of Election Night coverage and reached 10.7 million viewers, topping CNBC’s coverage. Correspondents, who were spread out in cities across the country, were expected to reflect on the moment as well as to report the news.
“We made the decision that we needed to cover the visceral aspects of the election as well,” said Keith Brown, senior vice president of news. “Reporters had a responsibility to give the information but also say what it felt like and what it meant to our community. They were our storytellers and not just reporters.”
BET, long criticized for running too many booty-shaking music videos, is in the process of expanding its news coverage beyond the current 25 hours a month. But don’t expect “Meet the Press” or a nightly news-style broadcast.
“People are demanding change and accountability and they want to know what’s happening and they want people who they trust to break it down and help them understand it,” Brown said. “And we have a very key role in doing that. Sometimes the most traditional way isn’t the most effective, but it’s going to be grounded in solid reporting.”
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