tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81842564127868359102024-03-13T10:34:15.562-04:00Black Accountability ProjectA "WatchBlog" working to hold Black American leadership, opinion makers, public officials and institutions accountable.BAP Publisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00291766891478005849noreply@blogger.comBlogger178125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184256412786835910.post-44094509807148753252011-08-29T19:34:00.001-04:002011-08-29T19:38:19.389-04:00Is the American Diabetes Association Research Foundation Excluding HBCU’s From Research?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":1}" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}">It's a shame the the American Diabetes Association refuses to award research grants to HBCU's, when 3.7 Million African American have Diabetes. I always thought they were a good organization, until I dug deep into their finances. </span>Check out the article posted in the Atlanta Post </span></h6><br />
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<h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":1}" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">by L.N. Rock</span></h6><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> Source:<a href="http://atlantapost.com/2011/08/29/is-the-american-diabetes-association-research-foundation-excluding-hbcus-from-research/" rel="bookmark" target="_top" title="Permanent Link to Is the American Diabetes Association Research Foundation Excluding HBCU’s From Research?"> Atlanta Post</a> </span></h6><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":1}" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">According to the American Diabetes Association, African Americans are disproportionately affected by diabetes as 3.7 million or 14.7 percent of all African Americans aged 20 years or older have diabetes. In addition:</span></h6><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">-African Americans are 1.8 times more likely to have diabetes as non Hispanic whites</span></div><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">-25 percent of African Americans between the ages of 65 and 74 have diabetes.</span></div><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">-1 in 4 African American women over 55 years of age has diabetes.</span></div><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The American Diabetes Association (the Association) is a not-for-profit voluntary health agency that works to prevent and cure diabetes and to improve the lives of all people affected by diabetes. In October 1994, the Association’s Board of Directors established the American Diabetes Association Research Foundation, Inc. (the Foundation), as a subsidiary of the Association. The objective of the Foundation is to fund diabetes-related research leading to the prevention and cure of diabetes, the prevention and cure of the complications of diabetes, and new and improved therapies for individuals affected by diabetes.</span></div><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Get this, the Foundation is exempt from income taxes under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code (the Code) and charitable contributions to the Foundation qualify for charitable tax deductions as described in the code. The Foundation has been classified as an organization that is not a private foundation under Section 509(a) of the code. Even though they appear to have a bias against HBCU’s and black researchers. More on this later…</span></div><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Research grants awarded by the Foundation generally extend over a period of one to three years, subject to renewal on an annual basis.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Upon investigation and review of the financial reports and records, this writer has found that Historically Black Colleges and Universities have been totally left out of the American Diabetes Association Research Foundation, Inc award process as selected grantees.</span></div><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Compared to the general population, African American researchers and HBCU’s are not receiving grant research dollars from the American Diabetes Association Research Foundation.</span></div><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">As an example, the Foundation <a href="http://main.diabetes.org/dorg/PDFs/Financial/ADA-2010-Research-Foundation-Financials.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">provided over $33 million in research grants in 2010 without one gong to a HBCU.</span></a> If one looks at their annual reports for <a href="http://www.diabetes.org/assets/pdfs/2009-ada-research-foundation.pdf" target="_blank" title="ADA 2009 Audited Research Foundation Financials"><span style="color: blue;">ADA 2009 Research Foundation Financials</span></a> and <a href="http://www.diabetes.org/assets/pdfs/2009-irs-form-990.pdf" target="_blank" title="2009 IRS Form 990"><span style="color: blue;">2009 IRS Form 990</span></a> you will see the same challenge in the <a href="http://www.diabetes.org/assets/pdfs/2008-990.pdf" target="_blank" title="2008-990.pdf"><span style="color: blue;">2008 IRS Form 990</span></a>, (check out the <a href="http://www.diabetes.org/news-research/research/research-database/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">grantee database</span></a> for information on ADA-funded research grant awardees), <a href="http://www.diabetes.org/assets/pdfs/irs-form-9902007.pdf" target="_blank" title="IRS-form-9902007.pdf"><span style="color: blue;">2007 IRS Form 990</span></a> and <a href="http://www.diabetes.org/assets/pdfs/2006-990.pdf" target="_blank" title="2006-990.pdf"><span style="color: blue;">2006 IRS Form 990</span></a>, no black awardees, no HBCU's researchers</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">. Read the full article, <b><a href="http://atlantapost.com/2011/08/29/is-the-american-diabetes-association-research-foundation-excluding-hbcus-from-research/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Is the American Diabetes Association Research Foundation Excluding HBCU’s From Research? </a></b></span></div><br />
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<i>L. N. Rock is a management consultant, Democratic strategist, and 2008 credentialed blogger at the Democratic National Convention. He blogs at African American Pundit</i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184256412786835910.post-39810728028343304622011-07-27T06:26:00.003-04:002011-07-27T06:27:11.306-04:00Justice Department Probe of Wells Fargo - Did NAACP Get "Kick Backs" from Wells fargo?<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Well look at this, According to published reports, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/26/wells-fargo-justice-department-probe_n_910425.html" onmousedown="UntrustedLink.bootstrap($(this), "JAQC2U_WF", event, bagof(null));" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Wells Fargo </a> who happens to be the NAACP's favorite predatory lender, donor and <a href="http://andersonatlarge.typepad.com/andersonlarge/2010/04/naacp-wells-fargo-measuring-the-movement.html" target="_blank">“Lead Sponsor”</a> of the NAACP’s 101st annual convention </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">is the Target Of Justice Department Probe. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Get this, The NAACP which appeared to get "promotional kick back money" after mysteriously dropping it's lawsuit against Wells Fargo, the nation's largest home mortgage lender, for allegedly preying upon African American borrowers during the housing bubble and steering them into high-cost subprime loans.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This is not the first bad news for the NAACP's lead sponsor, Wells Fargo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As reported by Faye Anderson over at <a href="http://andersonatlarge.typepad.com/">Anderson at Large</a>, On Wednesday, the </span><a href="http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/press/enforcement/20110720a.htm" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Federal Reserve Board</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> ordered Wells Fargo to pay an $85 million fine for steering borrowers with good credit into subprime loans. </span><br />
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<blockquote><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The $85 million civil money penalty is the largest the Board has assessed in a consumer-protection enforcement action and is the first formal enforcement action taken by a federal bank regulatory agency to address alleged steering of borrowers into high-cost, subprime loans. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">[…]</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The order addresses allegations that Wells Fargo Financial sales personnel steered borrowers who were potentially eligible for prime interest rate loans into loans at higher, subprime interest rates, resulting in greater costs to borrowers. The order also addresses separate allegations that Wells Fargo Financial sales personnel falsified information about borrowers’ incomes to make it appear that the borrowers qualified for loans when they would not have qualified based on their actual incomes.</span></blockquote><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">There is more... In 2007, the </span><a href="http://naacpriverside.wordpress.com/2007/07/14/today-the-naacp-filed-an-historic-lawsuit-against-mortgage-lenders-alleging-racial-discrimination/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">NAACP filed a class action lawsuit</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> against 15 of the nation’s largest subprime lenders for “systematic, institutionalized racism in sub-prime home mortgage lending.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">One of the defendants included Wells Fargo Bank & Company.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As Faye Anderson reported in her </span><a href="http://andersonatlarge.typepad.com/andersonlarge/2010/04/naacp-wells-fargo-measuring-the-movement.html"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">blog post dated April 28, 2010</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">, "The NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Jealous was an outspoken critic of Wells Fargo. So you can imagine my surprise when earlier this month, I read the </span><a href="http://www.naacp.org/news/press/2010-04-08/index.htm" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">NAACP dropped its lawsuit against the predatory lender</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">." </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">So what did the NAACP get? As Citizen Journalist Faye Anderson ask in the same article.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Easy answer, that the Justice Department needs to probe. The </span><a href="http://andersonatlarge.typepad.com/andersonlarge/2010/04/naacp-wells-fargo-measuring-the-movement.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">NAACP</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> in my humble observations accepted Wells Fargo’s tainted money as a "kick-back" for dropping the lawsuit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">AAP says: "Forget all the black celebrities that kiss the NAACP's ring in order to get an Image Award. Average black Americans who are <a href="http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/ideas/2011/07/072611.html">hurting</a> and facing depression-like <a href="http://thyblackman.com/2011/07/26/dr-boyce-watkins-racial-wealth-gap-worse-than-its-been-in-25-years/">unemployment levels</a> </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">have questioned for years the integrity and credibility of the National office of the NAACP.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Average black Americans have wondered for years if the NAACP represented them of the interest of big banks and corporate kickbacks. Well again, here is the smoking gun. Let's hope the <strong><a __untrusted="true" href="http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2F2011%2F07%2F26%2Fwells-fargo-justice-department-probe_n_910425.html&h=JAQC2U_WF" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3b5998;">Justice Department probe</span></a> includes </strong>the "corporate kickbacks" from Wells Fargo to the national office of the NAACP."</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184256412786835910.post-91122196016287044702011-05-01T11:12:00.000-04:002011-05-01T11:12:57.480-04:00The Root (WAPO) and The Grio (NBC) Moving to Control Black American Politics<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Yes, I said it. And yes, I am wondering out loud, if <strong>Corporate black blogs</strong> like <span class="tl"><a class="l noline" href="http://www.theroot.com/" kobi="1" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','','1','AFQjCNGl4Nw14buq6zFCTNEPYxvYZ9JR3w','sD0ejUfIJzDjRc-jt_vj4Q','0CBoQFjAA')"><span style="color: #2200c1;">The Root</span></a></span><span style="color: maroon;"> and </span><span class="tl"><a class="l vst" href="http://www.thegrio.com/" kobi="1" onmousedown="return clk(this.href,'','','','1','Am07x6E1Zr-rZrE8BE5HUw','0CB8QFjAA')"><span style="color: #551a8b;">The Grio</span></a></span> <a href="http://blacknewsjunkie.com/stories/479584/Coporate_Black_Blogs_Control_Black_Political_Thought.html">are working to <em>control black political thought</em></a> in America? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">AAP says: "Move over grassroots black political bloggers, NBC and The Washington Post have hatched a scheme to take over black political thought over the internet. They are like ATT taking over the smaller telephone companies. They are buying co-opting as many black bloggers as possible, and unfortunately it just may be working." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Now the question is, on the immediate political front, whether both of these corporate media giants (WaPo and NBC) are doing nothing more than being under-cover operatives for getting President Barack Obama elected in 2012? </span><br />
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<span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As I said in my <a href="http://africanamericanpundit.blogspot.com/2011/05/obama-black-america-black.html">earlier post</a>, It get's under my black skin, that so-called black bloggers at (white controlled) corporate black blogs like <span class="tl"><a class="l noline" href="http://www.theroot.com/" kobi="1" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','','1','AFQjCNGl4Nw14buq6zFCTNEPYxvYZ9JR3w','sD0ejUfIJzDjRc-jt_vj4Q','0CBoQFjAA')"><span style="color: #2200c1;">The Root</span></a></span>, owned by the Washington Post, and the <span class="tl"><a class="l vst" href="http://www.thegrio.com/" kobi="1" onmousedown="return clk(this.href,'','','','1','Am07x6E1Zr-rZrE8BE5HUw','0CB8QFjAA')"><span style="color: #551a8b;">The Grio</span></a></span>, owned by <a class="yschttl spt" data-bk="5107.1" dirtyhref="http://search.yahoo.com/r/_ylt=A0oG7l4UG71N8xMAyaBXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTEyNjJkdDRrBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDNQRjb2xvA2FjMgR2dGlkA0RGUjVfODk-/SIG=13147ovnb/EXP=1304260468/**http%3a//www.hustleknockin.com/hustleknockin/2009/09/another-grio-is-comin.html" href="http://www.hustleknockin.com/hustleknockin/2009/09/another-grio-is-comin.html"><span style="color: #0000de; font-size: medium;">NBC</span></a>, are nothing more than a group of organized Obama loyalist who seem to <span class="tl"><a class="l" href="http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=sub_prime_as_a_black_catastrophe" kobi="3" onmousedown="return clk(this.href,'','','','3','L7AXblRGF4qLEA3vKcP27A','0CCkQFjAC')"><span style="color: #2200c1;">never report</span></a></span> on how <span style="color: black;"><strong>blacks</strong> will <strong>lose</strong> $194 <strong>billion</strong> in wealth through 2012, or <span class="tl"><a class="l" href="http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/2010/10/housing_crisis.php" kobi="2" onmousedown="return clk(this.href,'','','','2','l6LnxAIpUR62cHB5-pVYNA','0CCMQFjAB')"><span style="color: #2200c1;">how the housing crisis continues to hits blacks the hardest</span></a></span> and how President Obama (as </span><span class="tl"><a class="l" href="http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/and-the-ordinary-people-said/2011/04/russell-simmons-letter-to-president-barack-obama-dont-forget-the-poor.html" kobi="10" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','','10','AFQjCNE4Bj4Hvop6P3fwLuPROks9A9LnTA','u7TSF2UagttMPKbxse47gA','0CFoQFjAJ')"><span style="color: #2200c1;">Russell Simmons recently pointed out in his Open Letter To President Barack Obama</span></a></span>) has all but </span><a href="http://thepinehillsnews.com/wp/2009/07/30/obama-ignores-black-unemployment/"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">ignored the plight of black America</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">I remember when I learned that <a class="yschttl spt" data-bk="5159.1" dirtyhref="http://search.yahoo.com/r/_ylt=A0oG7mP7Hr1NXkwANy9XNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTEzdmU0ZnVnBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMTgEY29sbwNhYzIEdnRpZANERlI1Xzg5/SIG=13ajn8si2/EXP=1304261467/**http%3a//socialtimes.com/nbc-news-launches-an-african-american-news-site_b49877%3fred=wn" href="http://socialtimes.com/nbc-news-launches-an-african-american-news-site_b49877?red=wn"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0000de;"><b>NBC</b> would launch a African American news site</span></span></a></span><br />
<span style="color: maroon; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">and The <a class="yschttl spt" data-bk="5052.1" dirtyhref="http://search.yahoo.com/r/_ylt=A0oG7mjGH71NYGkAtChXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTEya2FmMzYzBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMgRjb2xvA2FjMgR2dGlkA0RGUjVfODk-/SIG=12vae6dvr/EXP=1304261670/**http%3a//www.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/2008-01-28-washington-post-root_N.htm" href="http://www.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/2008-01-28-washington-post-root_N.htm"><span style="color: #0000de;"><b>Washington</b> <b>Post</b> was planning to launch '<b>The <wbr>Root</b>'</span></a>, my gut reaction was, "there they go, white corporate America moving to "<a class="yschttl spt" data-bk="5129.1" dirtyhref="http://search.yahoo.com/r/_ylt=A0oG7m56Ir1NlHEADV1XNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTEzZGIxODllBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDNDcEY29sbwNhYzIEdnRpZANERlI1Xzg5/SIG=145okrht6/EXP=1304262362/**http%3a//www.nytimes.com/2008/01/28/business/media/28post.html%3fex=1201669200%26en=8ca5d2819ff79125%26ei=5087%250A" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/28/business/media/28post.html?ex=1201669200&en=8ca5d2819ff79125&ei=5087%0A"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0000de;"><b>takeover</b></span></span></a>" black political and social opinion over the internet." </span><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">I knew that folks at the Washington Post and NBC were getting concerned that black bloggers groups like the afrospear/afrosphere were getting too organized. I also felt in my gut that white media outlets, may have even sent its own operatives into the afrospear/afrosphere group to spread discontent. </span><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As I noted previously on this blog, there was a time when a group of black bloggers called the afrospear/afrosphere began to organize and became a force in the black America. </span><span style="color: maroon; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Unfortunately, the Afrospear/Afrosphere has seemed to 'step aside' as a group, and allow corporate black blogs like the Washington Post's <a class="l noline" href="http://www.theroot.com/" kobi="1" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','','1','AFQjCNGl4Nw14buq6zFCTNEPYxvYZ9JR3w','sD0ejUfIJzDjRc-jt_vj4Q','0CBoQFjAA')"><span style="color: #2200c1;">The Root</span></a><span style="color: maroon;"> </span>(<span style="color: black;"><b>owned</b> by <b>the Washington Post</b> Company through its online subsidiary, <b>Washington</b> <b>Post</b>-Newsweek Interactive) </span>and NBC's <a class="yschttl spt" data-bk="5096.1" dirtyhref="http://search.yahoo.com/r/_ylt=A0oG7nA1Hb1NImYAsz5XNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTEzZHNicXJpBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMTUEY29sbwNhYzIEdnRpZANERlI1Xzg5/SIG=13l1s1p01/EXP=1304261013/**http%3a//weeseeyou.com/2010/06/15/where-the-fck-are-the-people-of-color-on-the-cable-news-networks/" href="http://weeseeyou.com/2010/06/15/where-the-fck-are-the-people-of-color-on-the-cable-news-networks/"><span style="color: #0000de; font-size: medium;">The Grio</span></a>, to <strong>jump in feet first</strong>, and act as though they are <strong>the voice of on-line Black America</strong>. </span><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I guess the with big bucks from <a class="yschttl spt" data-bk="5162.1" data-bns="API.YAlgo" dirtyhref="http://search.yahoo.com/r/_ylt=A0oG7kkjIr1NpnMA7MVXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTEzbDVycmc3BHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMzgEY29sbwNhYzIEdnRpZANERlI1Xzg5/SIG=1334m1ena/EXP=1304262275/**http%3a//www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/the-root-names-new-managing-editor_b13142" href="http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/the-root-names-new-managing-editor_b13142"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0000de;"><b>The Washngton Post</b></span></span></a> and NBC, (<span class="tl"><a class="l noline" href="http://www.theroot.com/" kobi="1" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','','1','AFQjCNGl4Nw14buq6zFCTNEPYxvYZ9JR3w','sD0ejUfIJzDjRc-jt_vj4Q','0CBoQFjAA')"><span style="color: #2200c1;">The Root</span></a></span> and <span class="tl"><a class="l vst" href="http://www.thegrio.com/" kobi="1" onmousedown="return clk(this.href,'','','','1','Am07x6E1Zr-rZrE8BE5HUw','0CB8QFjAA')"><span style="color: #551a8b;">The Grio</span></a></span>) have just about become campaign organizations for President Obama's 2012 Campaign. </span><span style="color: maroon; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Candidly, Both of these black corporate blogs or so-called black news outlets should be required to file with the Federal Election authorities as part of the Obama organization. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Will </span><a class="l noline" href="http://www.theroot.com/" kobi="1" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','','1','AFQjCNGl4Nw14buq6zFCTNEPYxvYZ9JR3w','sD0ejUfIJzDjRc-jt_vj4Q','0CBoQFjAA')"><span style="color: #2200c1; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The Root</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: maroon;"> and </span><span class="tl"><a class="l vst" href="http://www.thegrio.com/" kobi="1" onmousedown="return clk(this.href,'','','','1','Am07x6E1Zr-rZrE8BE5HUw','0CB8QFjAA')"><span style="color: #551a8b;">The Grio</span></a></span> become the electronic voice of Black America? I don't think so... the voice of the black blogging community continues to grow. It will take more than NBC and The Washington Post to control black political thought in this country... But they sure are trying...</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Cross Posted on <a href="http://black%20news%20junkie.com/">black news junkie.com</a>, African American Political Opinion, MYDD, and Black Accountability Project</span></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184256412786835910.post-79633999821071540112011-04-11T07:17:00.000-04:002011-04-11T07:17:01.887-04:00Al Sharpton is not “the president” of Black America<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">OMG, now the folks at Politico.com are saying that Al Sharpton is emerging as “the president” of black America. Read more at </span><a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/52679.html#ixzz1JBOELYuE" rel="nofollow"><strong><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">politico.com</span></strong></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Yes, there is a lot of conversation on the internet about </span><a href="http://www.google.com/url?url=http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2011/0406/Obama-s-nod-to-Al-Sharpton-asset-or-liability-for-2012-reelection-bid&rct=j&sa=X&ei=00miTevyN4HTgQeKtdHkBQ&ved=0CCcQ-AsoADAA&q=al+sharpton&usg=AFQjCNHhs9pJmF9Ebl-pHvdva8BtyGqMSw" rel="nofollow"><strong><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Al Sharpton</span></strong></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> and Barack </span><a href="http://www.google.com/url?url=http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/04/obama_was_in_new_york_last_nig.html&rct=j&sa=X&ei=00miTevyN4HTgQeKtdHkBQ&ved=0CCgQ-AsoATAA&q=al+sharpton&usg=AFQjCNHWOZx7Dw4IQsSeamZL_59s18gGjQ" rel="nofollow"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Obama.</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> The conversation is about how </span><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2011/04/07/2011-04-07_barack_obama_and_al_sharpton_a_depressing_duo.html" rel="nofollow"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">President</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/url?url=http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/04/obama_was_in_new_york_last_nig.html&rct=j&sa=X&ei=00miTevyN4HTgQeKtdHkBQ&ved=0CCgQ-AsoATAA&q=al+sharpton&usg=AFQjCNHWOZx7Dw4IQsSeamZL_59s18gGjQ" rel="nofollow"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Obama was in New York last night supporting <strong>Al Sharpton</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">. Candidly, I don't get how President </span><a href="http://www.google.com/url?url=http://feeds.abcnews.com/click.phdo%3Fi%3D67a61d60cd4fb95a04149b07b8c56356&rct=j&sa=X&ei=00miTevyN4HTgQeKtdHkBQ&ved=0CCkQ-AsoAjAA&q=al+sharpton&usg=AFQjCNFJaVVY4eUU6DbV5vwSGYl-4Gbqsg" rel="nofollow"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Obama is making a pitch to <strong>Al Sharpton's</strong> Group</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> when he knows full well about Al Sharpton's history, particularly with regards to his lack of respect for black women. As an example, </span><a href="http://thecurvature.com/2008/03/24/al-sharpton-and-the-naacp-support-dunbar-village-rapists/" rel="nofollow"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>Al</strong> <strong>Sharpton</strong> and the NAACP <strong>Support</strong> Dunbar Village Rapists</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">. Yes, just in case you never heard about </span><a href="http://hellonegro.com/2007/08/22/dunbar-village-gang-rape-black-on-black-crime-ignored-by-the-media-and-black-leaders/" rel="nofollow"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Dunbar Village</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Here are the <strong>basics of the story</strong> from <strong><a href="http://www.blackamericaweb.com/site.aspx/sayitloud/kane726" rel="nofollow">Black America Web</a></strong>:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">“The incident occurred at a public housing project called Dunbar Village in West Palm Beach, Florida.“After dark on June 18, the police say, as many as 10 armed assailants repeatedly raped a Haitian immigrant in her apartment complex at Dunbar Village … They took cell phone pictures of their acts. They burned the woman’s skin and (her 12-year-old son’s) eyes with cleaning fluid, forced them to lie naked together in the bathtub, hit them with a broom and a gun and threatened to set them on fire.”<br />
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As despicable as that sounds, it wasn’t the worst of it. The worst of it was when these vermin, according to <em>Times</em> writer Amy Goodnough, “forc(ed) (the woman) to perform oral sex on her 12-year-old son.”<br />
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Now we learn that the President of the United States is supporting, </span><a href="http://thecurvature.com/2008/03/24/al-sharpton-and-the-naacp-support-dunbar-village-rapists/" rel="nofollow"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>Al</strong> <strong>Sharpton, you know Al Shapton</strong> the same guy who <strong>supported</strong> the Dunbar Village rapists</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">. The blog, </span><a href="http://whataboutourdaughters.blogspot.com/2007/08/dunbar-village-posts.html" rel="nofollow"><strong><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">What About Our Daughters</span></strong></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> covered this issue a number of years ago. I guess our President supports the madness of <strong><a href="http://whataboutourdaughters.blogspot.com/2007/08/dunbar-village-posts.html" rel="nofollow">Al Sharpton</a>. Read more on the </strong></span><a href="http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2007/08/22/s1b_dunbar_0822.html" rel="nofollow"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">untold details of horror at Dunbar Village.</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Maybe the President does not remember </span><a href="http://slanttruth.com/2008/03/28/al-sharpton-naacp-and-dunbar-village/" rel="nofollow"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>Al</strong> <strong>Sharpton</strong>, the NAACP, and <strong>Dunbar</strong> <strong>Village</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> like black and other progressive </span><a href="http://dunbarvillage.blogspot.com/2008/03/dont-believe-lies-al-sharptons.html" rel="nofollow"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">bloggers do.</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> We remember how Al </span><a href="http://www.wpbf.com/news/15573721/detail.html" rel="nofollow"><strong><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Sharpton defended</span></strong></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> the scum bags who “forc(ed) (the woman) to perform oral sex on her 12-year-old son.”<br />
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If that is the type of people the </span><a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/04/06/president-obama-to-speak-at-sharpton-event-in-midtown-traffic-gridlock-expected/" rel="nofollow"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">President wants to hang out with</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">, fine. It's not the type of person I would want near me. I hope </span><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_obama_and_sharpton" rel="nofollow"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>Obama</strong> is not courting black votes with <strong>Sharpton</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> as some reports are saying.<br />
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Oh, and by the way, </span><a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/52679.html#ixzz1JBOELYuE" rel="nofollow"><strong><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">politico.com</span></strong></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">, Al Sharpton (the supporter of rapist) is no emerging "president” of black America. Black America has the same President as white America, "President Barack Obama." It looks like </span><a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/52679.html#ixzz1JBOELYuE" rel="nofollow"><strong><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">politico.com</span></strong></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> needs black political writers/reporters.</span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Cross posted on </span><a href="http://blacknewsjunkie.com/stories/460013/Al_Sharpton_is_not_8220the_president8221_of_black_America.html" rel="nofollow"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">black news junkie.com</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> and </span><a href="http://africanamericanpundit.blogspot.com/2011/04/al-sharpton-barack-obama-and-dunbar.html" rel="nofollow"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">African American Pundit</span></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184256412786835910.post-79601913376102646242011-02-26T12:37:00.000-05:002011-02-26T12:37:57.591-05:00Billey Joe Johnson and 21st Century Mississippi Justice<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Why are black bloggers, the afrospear, the afrosphere, black news outlets, black media, Lawyers Committee on Civil Rights, Progressive White Bloggers, Black Journalist, Black Investigative Reporters, Old School Civil Rights Icons, Black Activist, The National office of the NAACP and yes, major news outlets not talking about or investigating the death of Billey Joe Johnson, Jr.? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Why is the U.S. Department of justice not investigating this 21st century Civil Rights Crime or better yet, human rights crime? Maybe if the family of Billey Joe Johnson had an open casket, and Jet Magazine had a copy of the photo in its magazine people would have been outraged. Yes, maybe a public funeral service with an open casket to show the world the brutality of the killing would have worked. But that didn't happen, there was not tens of thousands attending Billey Joe Johnson's funeral or viewing his casket and images of his mutilated body were not published in black magazines, black blogs and black newspapers. No, no rallying black support and white sympathy across the US for Billey Joe Johnson.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">OK, well act like this picture is a picture of Billey Joe Johnson and not Emitt Till. But it's not 1955, this happened, yes, again in Mississippi in 2009. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This gruesome photo of Emmett Till helped spark the civil rights movement. It demonstrated the brutality of southern violence towards African-Americans, and created outrage across the nation. Emmett's mother, Mamie, insisted at his funeral that he be given an open-casket, so others could see what they had done to her boy.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Today in Lucedale, Mississippi, <a href="http://louisianajusticeinstitute.blogspot.com/2011/02/mississippi-activists-plan-rally.html">hundreds of concerned citizens and community advocates rallied</a> at the George County Courthouse to echo calls for the Department of Justice to bring charges in the death of Billey Joe Johnson, Jr. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">You remember the case of Billey Joe Johnson, Jr. <strong>REWIND</strong> Feb 13, 2009, I<strong> <span class="tl"><a class="l noline" href="http://aapoliticalpundit.blogspot.com/2009/02/billy-joe-johnson-foul-play-killing-of.html" onmousedown="return clk(this.href,'','','','1','','0CBQQFjAA')"><span style="color: #551a8b;">reported about the case of Billy Joe Johnson</span></a></span> on this blog.</strong> Here is what I reported back in 2009:</span><br />
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<h3 class="post-title entry-title">Billy Joe Johnson - A Foul Play? The Killing of Billy Joe Johnson in Mississippi </h3><div class="post-header"><div class="post-header-line-1"></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">UPDATE:</span> The Killing of Billey Joe Johnson in Mississippi<br />
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You remember the story about Billy Joe Johnson, star running back for George County High, Mississippi, who died on a December morning in deep Mississippi alleged by a "self-inflicted" gunshot wound during a traffic stop.<br />
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<div class="post" id="1395015"><a href="http://ncaafootball.fanhouse.com/tag/BilleyJoeJohnson/" linkindex="49" set="yes" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><img align="right" alt="Billey Joe Johnson" border="1" hspace="4" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/ncaafootball.fanhouse.com/media/2008/12/johnson.jpg" vspace="4" /></span></a><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As reported by </span></span><a href="http://ncaafootball.fanhouse.com/2008/12/08/billey-joe-johnson-top-high-school-football-recruit-dies-in-po/" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: #004387; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">NCAA Foot Ball Fan House</span></a><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span></span><a href="http://ncaafootball.fanhouse.com/tag/BilleyJoeJohnson/" linkindex="49" set="yes" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: #004387; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Billy Joe Johnson</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"> was considered one of the top high school football recruits in Mississippi, as well as the country, until his shocking death early Monday morning. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Johnson, hailing from Jackson, Miss., rushed for more than 1,500 yards his last season, totaling over 4,000 for his career, and received scholarship offers from a number of major schools including Alabama, LSU and Mississippi as a top-rated recruit by both </span></span><a href="http://oregon.scout.com/a.z?s=128&p=8&c=1&nid=2878168" linkindex="50" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: #004387; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Scout</span></a><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> and </span></span><a href="http://footballrecruiting.rivals.com/viewprospect.asp?Sport=1&pr_key=75791" linkindex="51" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: #004387; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Rivals</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Johnson </span></span><a href="http://news.aol.com/story?id=n20081208153809990047" linkindex="52" set="yes" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: #004387; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">died of a (possibly self-inflicted) gun wound</span></a><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> early Monday after being pulled by a sheriff's deputy. (UPDATE: The NCAAP, in an independent investigation, </span></span><a href="http://ncaafootball.fanhouse.com/2008/12/17/naacp-rules-out-suicide-in-billey-joe-johnsons-tragic-and-myste/" linkindex="53" set="yes" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: #004387; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">has ruled out suicide as the cause of death</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">.)</span></span><br />
<blockquote style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">It's not clear why 17-year-old Billey Joe Johnson was stopped in Lucedale, but authorities say the junior tailback shot himself with a shotgun after the deputy walked back to the patrol car to run a license check.<br />
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"The deputy was sitting in his patrol vehicle ... when he heard a gunshot and saw the victim laying on the ground by the driver's side door of the vehicle that Johnson was driving. A shotgun was lying on the victim," according to a statement from the George County Sheriff's Department.<br />
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Authorities would not immediately say whether they believed the shooting was a suicide or an accident.</span></blockquote><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">The last portion of that quote is particularly perplexing, because it is hard to believe that Johnson would have attempted to pull a shotgun on police officers ...although equally confounding is the notion that Johnson would kill himself at what, according to all current reports, appears to be a basic traffic stop.</span><br />
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<strong style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"></strong><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Nothing is ever certain, but this story appears to be so odd, at least in the manner of death, that it would be even more shocking if further details didn't at least emerge as to why the young man apparently panicked and pulled a gun that resulted in the tragic and early end to his life. </span></span><a href="http://ncaafootball.fanhouse.com/2008/12/08/billey-joe-johnson-top-high-school-football-recruit-dies-in-po/" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: #004387; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">More MORE</span></a></div><div class="post-body entry-content"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Many in the black community suspect foul play. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span class="goog_qs-tidbit goog_qs-tidbit-0">Billey Joe Johnson Sr. has a difficult time accepting the police department’s</span> explanation of his son’s death. “They must have tortured my baby,” he says. </span></span></span></div><div align="left" class="post-body entry-content" style="color: #999999; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 8pt/12pt trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">(Dan Wetzel/Yahoo! Sports)</span></span></div><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"></span></span><br />
<div class="post-body entry-content" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As reported by </span><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/top/news?slug=ys-johnson020509&prov=yhoo&type=lgns"><span style="color: #004387; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">yahoo sports</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> local authorities stopped Billey Joe for a traffic violation on the morning of Dec. 8, and they say the truck is simply the site of a terrible tragedy. But to the elder Johnson, it’s a crime scene. Nearly two months later, only one fact is certain: Instead of running out of George County as a football hero, Billey Joe was buried beneath it at the age of 17. </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<hr align="left" style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-size: 78%; height: 3px;" width="20%" /></div><div class="post-body entry-content" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The George County Sheriff’s Department claims that on that fateful morning, Billey Joe attempted to break into the home of an on-again, off-again girlfriend in the nearby city of Lucedale. According to the sheriff’s department, he left the scene and ran a red light at 5:34 a.m. After a 1½-mile pursuit, Billey Joe got out of his truck, met sheriff’s deputy Joe Sullivan and handed over his license. Then Billey Joe returned to his truck, put a 12-gauge shotgun he used to target deer to his head and committed suicide. It was 5:40 a.m. </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Sullivan’s patrol car was not equipped with a camera, and his is the only account of the event. Billey Joe’s friends and family don’t believe the story. </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><br />
</div><div class="post-body entry-content" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Billey Joe was black. Sullivan is white. The case, as such, is shrouded by race in this small community in the Deep South. Everyone wants answers. No one is getting them. The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation and the local district attorney – the two bodies in charge of the case – have issued neither a ruling nor many pertinent details. </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><br />
</div><div class="post-body entry-content" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Tony Lawrence, the district attorney running the state’s investigation, met with the family Dec. 19 and urged patience. </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><br />
</div><div class="post-body entry-content" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">“I have said from the beginning that this investigation will be exhaustive and not based on any timeline other than that which leads to the truth,” Lawrence said at the time. His office declined further comment this week. </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><br />
</div><div class="post-body entry-content" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">With no answers and a state investigation that is dragging on, the region has descended into a cauldron of speculation, suspicion and conspiracy. Theories are easy to find, the truth all but impossible. </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><br />
</div><div class="post-body entry-content" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Johnson fixates on the truck that is stained with what is left of his son. The day after the incident, police returned it to the family as is. Rather than wash it, junk it or sell it, Johnson keeps it in a garage, driving it out to re-examine. He stares at it. He imagines his son. </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><br />
</div><div class="post-body entry-content" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">He’s convinced someone forced Billey Joe on his knees, shoved the shotgun barrel in his mouth and pulled the trigger. </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><br />
</div><div class="post-body entry-content" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">“They must’ve tortured my baby,” Johnson says. </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<hr align="left" style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-size: 78%; height: 3px;" width="20%" /></div><div class="post-body entry-content" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Here is what the police say about Billey Joe’s death: During a routine traffic stop, Billey Joe Johnson Jr. shot himself in the head. </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><br />
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</div><div class="post-body entry-content" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Billey Joe’s truck had notes from multiple female admirers, and his friends said he enjoyed the attention offered to a star athlete. He’d already run for 4,000 yards in his high school career and helped make George County a state powerhouse. Everyone knew him. Many wanted to be with him. </span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" face="trebuchet ms"><br />
</div><div class="post-body entry-content" face="trebuchet ms"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">One girl, whom Yahoo! Sports will not name since she is a minor, had been around the longest. It was a typical high school relationship – “they’d break up every day and then get back together,” said one of his friends, Drew Bradley. The fact that she was white bothered some people.</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" face="trebuchet ms"><br />
</div><div class="post-body entry-content" face="trebuchet ms"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">“It’s George County, it’s a little Southern town,” said Bradley, who is white. “You’ve got a bunch of racist people down here. You have people who hated on them because it was black and white.”</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-size: 1.4em; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 4px;"></div><div class="post-body entry-content" style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-size: 1.4em; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 4px;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Timeline</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The alleged timeline of events on Monday, Dec. 8, 2008, leading up to the death of Billey Joe Johnson:</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content"><table style="font-family: trebuchet ms; width: 300px;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="border-bottom: rgb(153,153,153) 1px solid; font-size: 0.92em; line-height: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><b>4:30 a.m.</b> – Billey Joe Johnson Sr. hears his son showering and preparing to leave the family’s Benndale, Miss. residence. He believes his son plans to go hunting before heading to school.</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border-bottom: rgb(153,153,153) 1px solid; font-size: 0.92em; line-height: 1.4em; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><b>5:34 a.m.</b> – George County Sheriff’s Deputy Joe Sullivan witnesses Billey Joe Johnson’s maroon Chevy Silverado run a red light at the corner of Church Street and Winter Street. He pursues the truck with his blue lights flashing and witnesses the truck running a stop sign at the 4-way stop of Winter Street and Old Highway 63.</span></span></td></tr>
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</tbody></table></div><div class="post-body entry-content" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/top/news?slug=ys-johnson020509&prov=yhoo&type=lgns"><span style="color: #004387; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">More HERE </span></a></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content"></div><div class="post-body entry-content"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">UPDATE: <strong>Get this, </strong>A grand jury has ruled that his death </span><a href="http://backporch.fanhouse.com/2009/02/12/billey-joe-johnsons-death-ruled-accidental-by-grand-jury/" linkindex="54" set="yes"><span style="color: #004387; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">was accidental</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"> </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-size: 100%;">Many in the black community, including this AAPP still suspect foul play. <span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-weight: bold;">What do you think?</span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">AAP: That was then, thisis now: FAST FORWARD TO TODAY, Family members rallied hoping to encourage witnesses to come forward with evidence and testimony. Billey Joe Johnson, Jr. was the highly recruited football star from Benndale, MS who was mysteriously killed during a traffic stop with a George County Sheriff’s deputy on December 8, 2008. Even after independent investigations raised serious questions about the plausibility of Johnson’s wounds being self-inflicted, the local justice system ruled this incident an accident and charges have yet to be brought. READ MORE HERE<br />
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Community members are renewing their efforts because Johnson’s death and subsequent investigations leave more questions than answers. Given the long history of corruption and cover-ups in George County law enforcement, many community members feel law enforcement and the District Attorney’s office colluded to execute a wide spread cover-up. Community members also point to what they call a pattern of racial profiling and the use of fear and intimidation on behalf of law enforcement. “Law enforcement’s investigation left a lot of holes and many of us believe there was foul play. Because of the amount of discrimination we experience every day, we have little faith in the local justice system,” said Mr. Bobby Perryman of Immaculate Heart Community Development Corporation.<br />
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Johnson’s family calls on the Lucedale community to come forward with information about the case and believe many have stayed quiet for fear of retribution or being shunned by friends and family members. “Nobody wants to tell on their neighbor, but the fact is that a young man was killed and his family and this community need closure,” said Pastor Garrett of Prince Garrett Ministries. George County is a very small community and is still very segregated. A few large families and their extended networks own most of the businesses and play influential roles in city and county government. George County, where the incident occurred, is 89% white with very few Black residents. “We know there are good folks in George County who have knowledge about the incident. We know you are afraid but we need you to come forward. Black or white - none of us are free when there is a suspicion of murder,” Garrett added. <br />
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“We are tired of the corruption, the cover-ups and the abuse we suffer at the hands of police,” said Ms. Lucy Wilson, President of the Human Rights Taskforce of George County. The Human Rights Taskforce is one of key local organizations calling for the event. It was established as a result of the travesty of justice felt by many around the Johnson case as well as growing tensions between the Black community and law enforcement. The event is co- sponsored by George County Human Rights Taskforce, Immaculate Heart Community Development Corporation, George County NAACP, and American Civil Liberties Union of Mississippi.<br />
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Caravans of concerned citizens traveled from Atlanta, Jackson, Mobile and New Orleans. Speakers at the event include Ms. Nsombi Lambright, Executive Director of the ACLU-MS, Ms. Lucy Wilson, President of the George County Human Rights Taskforce and a spokesperson for Billey Joe Johnson, Jr.’s family. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">AAP says: I'm glad the family is taking a stand. Don't you think it's time America did? It's time for the Justice Department to get involved. That's my thought. Write the U.S. Attorney General and President Barack Obama, and let them both know how you feel. </span><br />
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<div align="justify"></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184256412786835910.post-47723113401798235752011-01-23T06:26:00.000-05:002011-01-23T06:26:15.152-05:00NAACP, Ben Jealous, Lumumba snookering and pimping the Scott sisters.<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I want to discuss with you two old negro Civil Rights groups that have lost their way. First SCLC. They are becoming more and more irrelevant. We need to hold them accountable!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As reported by </span><a href="http://www.wctv.tv/news/headlines/Daughter_of_Martin_Luther_King_Jr_Wont_Lead_SCLC_114401924.html?ref=924"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">wctv.tv</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> for more than a year, the daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. has declined to serve as president in a group her father co-founded. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Now Reverend Bernice King doesn't want the job at all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Reverend King says she's decided to abandon the Southern Christian Leadership Conference because the once proud organization has struggled to stay relevant.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">She says the group has split in two different directions and had its finances scrutinized. </span><a href="http://www.theroot.com/buzz/former-sclc-chair-indicted-fraud-grand-theft"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The former chairman was also indicted on theft charges last week</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">. .</span><br />
<div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The former national chairman of an Atlanta-based civil rights organization was indicted Wednesday in Ohio on 51 charges that include grand theft, forgery and tampering with government records.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The Rev. Raleigh Trammell, 73, was indicted by a Montgomery County grand jury in Dayton, where he lives and also headed a local chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Trammell was indicted on one count of grand theft and 25 counts each of forgery and tampering with government records. </span><a href="http://blackchristiannews.com/news/2011/01/former-chairman-of-sclc-indicted-on-theft-and-forgery-charges.html"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Read more HERE</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> Also read more about this story at </span><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/12/AR2011011204826.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">the Washington Post</span></a></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Martin Luther King, III says, "I think she was in an awkward position and she prays a whole lot, so I think as a result she was led to no longer want to accept the position."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The SCLC led the movement to end segregation in public facilities and earned more rights for million of black Americans today. </span><a href="http://www.wctv.tv/news/headlines/Daughter_of_Martin_Luther_King_Jr_Wont_Lead_SCLC_114401924.html?ref=924"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">More HERE</span></a><br />
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<div class="article_connect"><ul class="article_connect_icons"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span class="credit"><em>Southern Christian Leadership Conference leader </em></span><span class="credit"><em>Rev. Raleigh Trammell is escorted from the <span class="caps">SCLC,</span> </em></span><span class="credit"><em>Dayton, Ohio chapter office </em></span><span class="credit"><em>by an <span class="caps">FBI </span>agent Thursday, Feb. 11, 2009. </em></span><span class="credit"><em>(AP Photo/Dayton Daily News, Jan Underwood)</em></span> <span class="credit"></span>AAP says: </span><a href="http://www.thegrio.com/news/ex-chair-of-civil-rights-group-indicted-in-ohio.php"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The SCLC is no longer relevant</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> just like NAACP national office is no longer relevant. Speaking of the NAACP here is an interesting UPDATE: Word on the street is the NAACP is preparing to pimp the the Scott sisters. There is also word on the street that the national office of the NAACP may be creating conflict between the Scott sisters and the Scott sisters family. The blogosphere and blog talk raio is a buzz with Scott Sisters family members talking about the national office of the NAACP and Attorney Chokwe Lumumba are causing friction and conflict within the family. </span><a href="http://www.theroot.com/views/scorched-spotlight-instant-fame?page=0,1"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The Root's E.R. Shipp</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> may just be right when in rights in </span><a href="http://www.theroot.com/views/scorched-spotlight-instant-fame?page=0,1"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The Root</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> about how black folks get scorched by the spotlight of instant fame. In the article he talks about how Ted "Golden Voice" Williams isn't the only person to have his 15 minutes of fame before crashing to earth. Remember the subway hero? And what will come of the Scott sisters?</span></ul><ul class="article_connect_icons"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyA_6Ke2XEKxLTGF0MTqN84Tv5YzB1up9cmplW3mulTPbNLO2PCH_cKxR5_AgtUrvtYid-QdWaaSi2hzJCmlwMUBlhKm6zzZrsmqRpAMBxNOPiQNVNsIlzoEGMbyK3Po5UcsLu3oFQpdFP/s320/15+min+fame.gif" width="320" /></span></ul><ul class="article_connect_icons"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">It's a must read article. Here is a bit of what is said: "I think of Wesley Autry, who threw himself atop a man who had fallen onto a New York City subway track and saved him. He was honored by President George W. Bush at the 2007 State of the Union address and by other politicians in New York. Donald Trump gave him $10,000; he was given a Jeep and sports tickets. He was all over national television. And on and on.</span></ul><ul class="article_connect_icons"><div sizcache="1" sizset="34"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">But months later, when he still hoping for lucrative movie and book deals, he was passing out business cards identifying himself as "Wesley Autry Sr. -- Subway Hero." Terrie Williams says she saw him at one event carrying around some of his awards and "pulled his coat" to tell him that was not a good thing. He and an early team of managers ended up in conflict over their insistence on taking 50 percent of any income that Autry earned from the subway incident, but eventually </span><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/11/06/2007-11-06_subway_hero_wesley_autrey_settles_lawsui.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">settled out of court</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">. </span></div><div sizcache="1" sizset="34"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span></div><div sizcache="1" sizset="35"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">When it comes to prisoners -- from men and women freed as a result of DNA evidence brought to light through the efforts of </span><a href="http://www.innocenceproject.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">the Innocence Project</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> to the </span><a href="http://www.theroot.com/views/scott-sisters-freed"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Scott sisters</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> released from a Mississippi prison earlier this month after 16 years for a robbery that may have netted $11 -- there is often a rush of publicity and invitations to tell their stories. Then everything is expected to be normal. </span></div><div sizcache="1" sizset="35"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span></div><div sizcache="1" sizset="37"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The Scott sisters' story became international in part because of outrage that a condition of their release was that one donate a kidney to the other. They have relocated to Florida, where they have family, but the </span><a href="http://weallbe.blogspot.com/2011/01/root-scorched-by-spotlight-of-instant.html"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Mississippi NAACP</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> is more or less continuing to advocate for them, according to </span><a href="http://www.naacpms.org/presidentbio.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Derrick Johnson</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">, the state conference president. It will convene a meeting in coming days to coordinate their medical and transportation needs and to identify a facility to perform tests to determine if Gladys Scott is a match for her sister, Jamie." </span><a href="http://www.theroot.com/views/scorched-spotlight-instant-fame?page=0,1"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">More HERE</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span></div><div sizcache="1" sizset="37"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span></div><div sizcache="1" sizset="37"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">AAP says: As I said earlier, word on the street is the national office of the NAACP is creating </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/earl-ofari-hutchinson/barbours-release-of-scott_b_803249.html"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">a bunch of mess</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> with the Scott Sisters and their family. <img alt="" border="1" hspace="4" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.bvonmoney.com/media/2011/01/benjealous.jpg" vspace="4" /> </span>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">NAACP President Ben Jealous </span><a href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2011/01/naacp-scott-sisters-and-haley-barbour/"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The NAACP</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> and Atty Chokwe Lumumba are talking it up with the Scott sisters, telling them that they too can get lucrative movie and book deals. the only problem is, the real heroes are </span><a href="http://www.baystatebanner.com/natl17-2011-01-20"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">the mother, Nancy Lockhart</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">, black bloggers, blogtalkradio, black radio, blacktalkradio, and other activist. Yes, the NAACP will have the Scott sisters on the NAACP Image Awards, and probably won't ask the mother or Nancy Lockhart to attend. AAP says: lets remember folks, this is "</span><a href="http://blackpoliticalthought.blogspot.com/2010/07/naacp-ceo-president-ben-jealous-decries.html"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Ben Jealous</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">, he is the same guy who issued a statement decrying shirley Sherrod's so-called abhorrent statements she made during an address to members of the NAACP at a banquet, about denying a white farmer as much help as she could because of the color of his skin. Then to cover his self he said the NAACP was “snookered” into </span><a href="http://blackpoliticalthought.blogspot.com/2010/07/naacp-ceo-president-ben-jealous-decries.html"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">condemning</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> former Agriculture Department official </span><a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0710/39961.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #004276; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Shirley Sherrod</span></strong></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">. Now Ben jealous and Chokwe Lumumba are </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/africanamericanpoliticalpundit/2011/01/23/naacp-pimp-scott-sisters" peppycount="102" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">snookering</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> the Scott Sisters." Unfortunately the national office of the NAACP and Atty Chokwe Lumumba are now selling the Scott sisters another Jena 6 dream, now the question is whether the Scott sisters will be passing out business cards identifying themselves as "the Scott Sisters. -- former prisoners of the Mississippi prisons, new prisoners of Chokwe Lumumba and the NAACP." Listen and join in the conversation on my blog talk radio show. We will discuss how the NAACP and Chokwe Lumumba are snookering and </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/africanamericanpoliticalpundit/2011/01/23/naacp-pimp-scott-sisters" peppycount="102" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">pimping the Scott sisters</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">. Tonight on Blog Talk Radio. "If you can handle the truth." Let's hold them accountable!</span></div></ul></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184256412786835910.post-63471852405440776952010-12-30T05:18:00.002-05:002010-12-30T05:18:10.056-05:00The Scott Sisters, Nancy Lockhart and the Politics of Freedom<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><a href="http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20101230/NEWS/12300346/Scott+sisters+to+be+freed+"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Newspapers</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">, national radio programs, bloggers and politicos are all talking about how Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour on Dec. 29 suspended the life sentences of two sisters jailed for an armed robbery that netted just $11—but the release of one sister will require her to donate a kidney to the other. As reported in </span><a href="http://www.afro.com/sections/news/national/story.htm?storyid=3653"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Afro American</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> Newspaper today, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour on Dec. 29 suspended the life sentences, saying:<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />“To date, the sisters have served 16 years of their sentences and are eligible for parole in 2014. Jamie Scott requires regular dialysis, and her sister has offered to donate one of her kidneys to her,” Barbour said in a prepared statement, according to </span><em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Hattiesburg American</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">. “The Mississippi Department of Corrections believes the sisters no longer pose a threat to society. Their incarceration is no longer necessary for public safety or rehabilitation, and Jamie Scott’s medical condition creates a substantial cost to the State of Mississippi.”</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><img alt="" border="0" height="202" src="http://www.afro.com/multimedia/photos/3653/Jamie%20and%20Gladys%20Scott.jpg" style="cursor: move; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="320" /></span></span></span></div><div class="photoCaptionWide" style="color: #9b9b9c; height: 28px; line-height: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 350px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Jamie (left) and Gladys Scott were convicted of robbery in 1993 and given double life sentences. (Courtesy Photo)</span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />According to </span><em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The American</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">, in 1993 the sisters lured two men down a road where they were robbed by three teens. The Scott sisters were convicted of robbery with a deadly weapon in the incident and each received reportedly unusual double life prison sentences. The teenagers who allegedly carried out the robbery only served two years in prison.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Barbour’s statement said that he asked the Mississippi Parole Board to review the Scott’s case, and that they supported his decision to suspend their sentences. <br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />According to the </span><em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Associated Press</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">, the sisters have received support from national groups including the NAACP. A march for them earlier this year drew hundreds of people. <br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />A release date for the sisters has not been decided, and will be set by the Mississippi Department of Corrections, according to Jackson, Miss. NBC affiliate WLBT.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">AAP says: But with all the grandstanding that is about to happen, groups like the national office of the NAACP, Al Sharpton and the rest of the slick poverty pimp hustlers need to move over, and salute one of the key people that fought the up hill battle to get these women free. A true black woman freedom fighter who deserves accolades and support from America and America's African American community, </span><a href="http://freethescottsisters.blogspot.com/2009/08/jamie-scott-nancy-lockhart-interview-on_19.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Ms. Nancy Lockhart</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">, who for years, through the strategic use of the Internet, and her <a href="http://freethescottsisters.blogspot.com/">Free the Scott Sisters Blog</a>, along with Internet BlogTalkRadio shows began a grassroots effort to free the Scott sisters. Without Nancy Lockhart who has proven to be a modern day, 21st Century, Harriet Tubman like, African American women working on the outside, the Scott sisters may not be looking at Freedom. Of course we have to include the recent color aroused political blunders by Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, as the emphasis for the his true interest in reducing the life sentences of two black American sisters jailed for an armed robbery that netted just $11. </span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Ms. Nancy Lockhart, who has worked closely with grass root groups and individuals like Jerry Robinson, a sharp mouthed grass root community organizer, political activist, and national President of the <a href="http://www.poorpeoplescampaignppc.org/default.html">Chicago based Poor People's Campaign</a> has worked with Nancy Lockhart in her efforts to engage grass-root Internet activist, bloggers, and community groups from across the nation to support the Scott Sisters quest for freedom. Let the truth be told, it was not the national NAACP that lead the effort to free the Scott Sisters, it was Nancy Lockhart through her use of grassroots Internet organizing, with the support of people like Jerry Robinson of the Poor People's Campaign, Black left Internet groups like the afrospear, Black Agenda Report, and black bloggers like Electronic Village, Jack and Jill Politics, Francis L. Holland Blog, along with many dozens of Internet <a href="http://blogtalkradio.com/">blogtalkradio</a> host, such as Black Achievement USA, Black Talk Radio, JWriter, Justice4Us, Duchess of Wisdom, AANation, PPC, Kala Nation, Joli Ali, BostonAnt, Pumpkin13, Madison Media, Antoinette former co-host of African American Pundit's SlugFest Program, along with Antionette Harrell, One Black Mans View, Scotty, and so many others, who were able to create a band of national Internet activist who worked with Nancy Lockhart to get the word out to the larger blogosphere, afrosphere, black radio and national media, that caused the Scott Sisters to be of interest to groups like the NAACP and because of recent color aroused political blunders by <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/29/AR2010122905093.html?hpid=topnews">Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour</a>, caused him to look at the Scott Sisters case as a political opportunity to make himself look good, as part of his potential Presidential ambitions. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">As noted in The Washington Post, Barbour, who is weighing a run for president, announced the pardon a week after he ran afoul of civil rights advocates. Last week, </span><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/21/AR2010122103767.html" style="color: #0c4790; text-decoration: underline;" target=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Barbour backtracked</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> on comments he made about the civil rights era in Mississippi. <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/29/AR2010122905093.html?hpid=topnews">More HERE</a></span></span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="http://africanamericanpundit.blogspot.com/">AAP</a> says: All that being said, America, particularly Black America should salute and thank Nancy Lockhart for a job well done! She has taught us a new lesson for the 21st Century, "grassroot Internet organizing can work for America, particularly black America, if we put your mind, heart and soul into it." </span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><br />
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</span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184256412786835910.post-72132545805449736372010-11-16T23:08:00.000-05:002010-11-16T23:08:15.285-05:00Black Caucus May Not Back Nancy Pelosi<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Could the Congressional Black Caucus finally be showing some guts? Well, we will have to wait and see if they stand up to Nancy Pelosi <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/11/16/pelosi.democrats/">like other Democrats</a> who blamed Pelosi for their losses and suggested she step aside as leader. <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/11/16/pelosi.democrats/">More HERE</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The CBC has a bit of a history of <a href="http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/260567">flexing for a few days</a>, then wimping out and getting <a href="http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=a686b3d78159af09d803699d3fde0c26">nothing but promises</a> without real outcomes for black folks. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">They don't have much of a history of showing guts for the long term. They backed down when George W. Bush gave away the U.S. treasury to the banks, mortgage companies and Wall Street. What makes it any different this time?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">According to Krissah Thompson of at <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1776624713">The </a></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/16/AR2010111603977.html">Washington Post</a> a compromise designed to end a nasty political fight in the </span><a href="http://projects.washingtonpost.com/politicsglossary/party-affiliated/Democratic-Party/" target=""><span style="color: #0c4790; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Democratic Party</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> has left an important contingent dissatisfied - the </span><a href="http://projects.washingtonpost.com/politicsglossary/general/Congressional-Black-Caucus/" target=""><span style="color: #0c4790; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Congressional Black Caucus</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">. </span><br />
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<div></div><div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As you remember from <a href="http://africanamericanpundit.blogspot.com/2010/11/clyburn-supports-pelosi-proposal.html">my previous post</a> I reported that </span><a href="http://www.whorunsgov.com/Profiles/Nancy_Pelosi" target=""><span style="color: #0c4790; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Speaker Nancy Pelosi</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> had developed </span><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/13/AR2010111302672.html" target=""><span style="color: #0c4790; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">a tentative deal</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> in which she would remain the party's leader in the House when Democrats become the minority in the next Congress. The Washington post had reported that </span><a href="http://www.whorunsgov.com/Profiles/Steny_H._Hoyer" target=""><span style="color: #0c4790; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> (Md.) would take the No. 2 spot, and </span><a href="http://www.whorunsgov.com/Profiles/James_E._Clyburn" target=""><span style="color: #0c4790; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Majority Whip James E. Clyburn</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> (S.C.) would move down to the third-ranking position, which Pelosi has called "assistant leader." </span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As <a href="http://africanamericanpundit.blogspot.com/2010/11/clyburn-supports-pelosi-proposal.html">I noted in my previous post</a>, I was surprised that Clyburn accepted the position. Now we learn from <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/16/AR2010111603977.html">Krissah Thompson</a> that he is discussing what his new role will entail. </span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">OK, I don't get this. Why would someone as smart as Rep. Clyburn take a position, then after accepting the position discuss what his new role will be? Sounds kind of ass backwards to me.</span></div><div></div><div><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Get this, Krissah Thompson also reports that after meeting with other members of the CBC on Monday night, he told reporters, "We're still working on it." Get this, The Washington Post reports several </span><a href="http://projects.washingtonpost.com/politicsglossary/Congressional/caucus/" target=""><span style="color: #0c4790; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">caucus</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> members have suggested that they will withhold their votes from Pelosi (Calif.) if more details are not provided about Clyburn's responsibilities or that the caucus could go along with a bloc of moderate Democrats in the </span><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/15/AR2010111506462.html" target=""><span style="color: #0c4790; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Blue Dog caucus</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> and vote to limit Pelosi's authority as </span><a href="http://projects.washingtonpost.com/politicsglossary/Congressional/minority-leader/" target=""><span style="color: #0c4790; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">minority leader</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">. </span></div><div></div><div id="article_body" style="padding-left: 10px;"><div id="body_after_content_column"><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">"We had a full discussion about this, and we actually wanted to look at the portfolio that is being developed with Mr. Clyburn's input, and we wanted to see what that portfolio would be," said the CBC chairman, </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1yT6pvpF6U&feature=player_embedded" target=""><span style="color: #0c4790; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Rep. Barbara Lee</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> (D-Calif.), explaining the decision to withhold support for Pelosi's plan. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">AAP: "What new structure? It's the same old leadership that lost the mid-term elections, no change as far as this pundit is concerned." Nothing has changed, and the American people, particularly Democrats and independents such as myself don't get this musical chairs effort that does nothing but pat the current leadership on the back for losing the U.S. House of Representatives to the Republicans.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><a href="http://mydd.com/dna/posts/72195">Cross posted on MyDD</a> and <a href="http://africanamericanpundit.blogspot.com/">African American Pundit</a></span></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184256412786835910.post-2442595056738592682010-10-12T20:39:00.000-04:002010-10-12T20:39:22.617-04:00Black Bloggers Gain Influence In Washington.DC<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Well it looks like black bloggers are gaining opportunities for conversations at the highest levels of government in Washington, D.C. </span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">OK, let me re-state in a different way: "Black bloggers who conditionally or unconditionally support the Obama administration are gaining DNC and White House conversation."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">First there was the meeting of black bloggers with DNC Chairman Kaine (<a href="http://mydd.com/users/aappundit/posts/dnc-meets-wi">which I attended</a>), then there was there was a "black online summit" at the White House Monday as part of an outreach to African American journalists and bloggers before the midterm elections. </span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">According to reports from the <a href="http://mije.org/richardprince/obama-courts-black-journalists-bloggers">Maynard Institute</a>, even <b>President Obama</b> stopped by a "black online summit" at the White House Monday as part of an outreach to African American journalists and bloggers before the midterm elections, an effort that includes the Democratic National Committee spending what it calls an unprecedented $3 million to reach the most loyal part of Obama's base, African American voters.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"I thought the meeting was great in that it showed that President Obama and his administration are taking black new media and our growing influence seriously," <b>David A. Wilson</b>, managing editor of theGrio.com, told Journal-isms via e-mail.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"They outlined how the administration's policies have had a positive effect on the African-American community and they invited us to make suggestions on how they could work better with us and provide us with more access to the White House.</span> </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">However, <b>Leutisha Stills</b>, who blogs at Jack & Jill Politics, cautioned, "The summit was a good one and very comprehensive, but we made it known that if we really have 'influence,' we are going to test drive it and see how many more invites we get from the White House."</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Columbus Day session lasted from 9:15 a.m. until 1:30 p.m., with senior adviser <b>Valerie Jarrett</b> present along with specialists from various parts of the administration, including the first lady's office. Among the 20 African Americans working on the Web were representatives of theRoot.com, Black Entertainment Television, Essence, Jack & Jill Politics, City Limits, Concrete Loop, AOL Black Voices, Black America Web and even the gossipy MediaTakeOut.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Monday's session is to be followed Friday by a presidential meeting with 10 members of<a class="ext" href="http://www.trottergroup.org/" title="the Trotter Group"> the Trotter Group</a> of African American columnists. Moreover, six or seven African American bloggers were credentialed for <a class="ext" href="http://www.philly.com/inquirer/home_top_stories/20101011_Obama_rallies_for_Democrats_at_Germantown_event.html" title="Obama's rally in Philadelphia last Sunday">Obama's rally in Philadelphia last Sunday</a>, although invitations were extended to about 20.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">AAP says: I was one of the 20 African American bloggers who was extended an invitation to be credentialed for <a class="ext" href="http://www.philly.com/inquirer/home_top_stories/20101011_Obama_rallies_for_Democrats_at_Germantown_event.html" title="Obama's rally in Philadelphia last Sunday">Obama's rally in Philadelphia last Sunday</a>, unfortunately because of schedule conflicts, I was not able to attend the President's rally. </span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The DNC and White House outreach effort with African American bloggers are noteworthy. The folks at Jack and Jill Politics in partnership with Kevin S. Lewis , </span>director, African American media for the White House is awesome. The work of senior DNC staffers, including Clyde E. Williams, Political Director for the DNC, along with Derrick L. Plummer, Regional Press Secretary, and Jamiah Adams, New Media Constituency Manager at the DNC is equally as noteworthy. I can only wonder out loud if this effort is to just gain black blogger support for the mid-terms only? I understand this is a political town. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Is the White House and the DNC reading the content of black blogger concerns regarding our economy and the need for the Obama administration to aggressively enforce of Federal contracting requirements, while establishing new programs in the Department of Commerce, and labor to address the need for job training and small business/micro business "grants" not loans, for low-income urban dwellers?</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I hope the DNC and The White House will continue to expand the working group to other progressive African American bloggers, such as </span><a href="http://afronetizen.blogs.com/" rel="nofollow">Afro-Netizen</a>, <a href="http://www.blackcommentator.com/" rel="nofollow">Black Commentator</a>, <a href="http://www.blackagendareport.net/" rel="nofollow">Black Agenda Report</a>, <a href="http://field-negro.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">Field Negro,</a> <span style="font-size: small;">Faye Anderson, </span><a href="http://www.oliverwillis.com/" rel="nofollow">Oliver Willis</a>, <a href="http://www.prometheus6.org/" rel="nofollow">Prometheus 6</a>, <a href="http://www.republicoft.com/" rel="nofollow">Republic of T</a>, <a href="http://skepticalbrotha.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow">Skeptical Brotha</a>,<span style="font-size: small;"> and so many others, who may have other observations and thoughts regarding what the administration can do </span>to "really" address issues like jobs, the economy, health care, education, community capacity-building, and investment in our communities. I'm hopeful that the DNC and the White House is not, what some may consider the <a href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2010/09/pimping-of-or-influence-of-black-bloggers/">pimping the growing influence of black bloggers</a> Only smart work and <a href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2010/10/african-american-online-summit-at-the-white-house/">full engagement</a> on the part of all parties, and time will tell... </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">As a black Independent voter and blogger, I remain cautiously hopeful.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Cross posted on <a href="http://africanamericanpundit.blogspot.com/">African American Pundit</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184256412786835910.post-32805015606099988232010-09-17T10:05:00.000-04:002010-09-17T10:05:45.332-04:00DNC Chairman Meets with Black Political and Social Action Bloggers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMuNpvcckXluXmTSLQ52Vawi1yWyAdQQ3WSXPuTC0nSvmj9vMBEQvvFd52ENJ7GzEqqjTS_8MMcnYBZPQ7smA2DpGlHcMpquElOp-ihHWfT4UO-LjA712d5K3F4dSD5aAEFYUL6-i88jY/s1600/Tim+Kaine+DNC+meeting.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMuNpvcckXluXmTSLQ52Vawi1yWyAdQQ3WSXPuTC0nSvmj9vMBEQvvFd52ENJ7GzEqqjTS_8MMcnYBZPQ7smA2DpGlHcMpquElOp-ihHWfT4UO-LjA712d5K3F4dSD5aAEFYUL6-i88jY/s320/Tim+Kaine+DNC+meeting.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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It was great to see bloggers like Leutisha Stills aka "The Christian Progressive Liberal from <a href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/">Jack and Jill Politics</a>, Black Snob's <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_398008558">Danielle.Belton</a>, Blogger Jeneba Jalloh "JJ" Ghatt, and a number of other bloggers at the meeting with the DNC Chairman. "<span style="font-size: small;">The conversation revolved around the <span class="il">DNC</span>’s efforts to inform, engage and empower voters – especially African American voters- to participate in the upcoming elections. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The DNC senior staff have said if President Obama is to continue moving our country forward our community has to be informed. Moreover, he needs allies in Congress and in order for him to have allies in Congress we need people to come to the polls and vote.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The conversation with Chairman Kaine took place today at the DNC headquarters in Washington, DC with a conference call-in number for black bloggers who were not be able to attend in person. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Bloggers like Villager publisher of <a href="http://electronicvillage.blogspot.com/2010/09/conversation-with-democratic-national.html">Electronic Village</a> attended via teleconference. There were background discussions with senior <span class="il">DNC</span> staffers, including Clyde E. Williams, Political Director for the DNC, along with Derrick L. Plummer, Regional Press Secretary, and Jamiah Adams, </span><span style="font-size: small;">New Media Constituency Manager</span><span style="font-size: small;"> at the DNC. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bloggers in attendance got a real opportunity to discuss the <span class="il">DNC</span>’s detailed plan to engage voters and how the DNC can be a resource to members of the African American Political blogger community. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">This meeting in many ways appeared to serve as a DNC coordinated follow-up to an earlier high level meeting between black bloggers and the Obama administration. </span><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As reported by </span><span class="post-info" style="font-size: small;"> <a href="http://newsone.com/author/casey-gane-mccalla/" title="Posts by Casey Gane-McCalla">Casey Gane-McCalla</a> over at <a href="http://newsone.com/nation/casey-gane-mccalla/black-bloggers-visit-the-white-house/">NewsOne</a>, </span><span style="font-size: small;"> President Obama's staff has been reaching out to an array of new black opinion-makers ---- black political bloggers and <a href="http://africanamericanpundit.blogspot.com/">Pundits</a>. As reported by Casey Gane-McCalla, </span><span style="font-size: small;">the White House meeting was brokered by Cheryl Contee of the blog Jack & Jill Politics, and was several months in the making. As reported by NewsOne, It also offered the bloggers a chance to connect with the administration and find ways to gain more White House access. Over 60 bloggers met in June with Jesse Lee, director of the White House’s Online Programs, and Corey Ealons, White House director of African American Media, while in the DC for Blogging While Brown conference. <a href="http://newsone.com/nation/casey-gane-mccalla/black-bloggers-visit-the-white-house/">More HERE</a></span></div><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">Regarding the meeting with the DNC Chairman Kaine it was organized by </span><span style="font-size: small;">DNC Regional Press Secretary </span><span style="font-size: small;">Derrick L. Plummer, along with Jamiah Adams, New Media Constituency Manager with the <span class="il">DNC.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="il"> </span></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal">During the meeting we learned from the DNC Chairman that the DNC will provide an unprecedented amount of resources with a special emphasis on base turnout — youth, African-Americans, Latinos and first-time voters. I found the DNC Chairman to be thoughtful, candid, and willing to listen to ways to improve DNC communication to African American voters and African American bloggers.<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://africanamericanpundit.blogspot.com/">This Pundit</a> asked whether there would be any special emphasis for the DNC to <a href="http://www.republicoft.com/2007/03/30/blogging-while-brown-part-iii/">advertise on black political blogs</a>. Something that has been a concern of mine and other black bloggers for <a href="http://www.republicoft.com/2007/03/30/blogging-while-brown-part-iii/">some time</a>. We will be asking that question again, and will inform our readers of the final answer. Show me the money!<br />
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<a href="http://www.republicoft.com/2007/03/30/blogging-while-brown-part-iii/">As I said back in 2007</a>, more black voters will be reading these black bloggers views and opinions. There are progressive black political bloggers such <a href="http://jackandjillpolitics.blogspot.com/" target="_top">Jack and Jill Politics</a>, <a href="http://afronetizen.blogs.com/">Afro-Netizen</a>,<a href="http://www.blackcommentator.com/">Black Commentator</a>, <a href="http://www.blackagendareport.net/">Black Agenda Report</a>, <a href="http://www.blackprof.com/">Black Races</a>,<a href="http://www.blackpolls.blogspot.com/"> BlackProf</a>, <a href="http://brownfemipower.com/">BrownFemiPower</a>, <a href="http://www.blackelectorate.com/">Black electorate</a>, <a href="http://field-negro.blogspot.com/">Field Negro,</a> <a href="http://mirroronamerica.blogspot.com/index.html">Mirror on America</a>, <a href="http://www.negroplease.com/">Negro Please</a>, <a href="http://www.negrophile.com/">NegroPhile</a>, <a href="http://www.oliverwillis.com/">Oliver Willis</a>, <a href="http://www.prometheus6.org/">Prometheus 6</a>, <a href="http://www.republicoft.com/">Republic of T</a>, <a href="http://skepticalbrotha.wordpress.com/">Skeptical Brotha</a>,<a href="http://www.whereistheoutrage.net/wordpress/">Where Is The Outrage?</a>,<a href="http://francislholland.blogspot.com/">Francis Holland</a>, and so many others, (don’t forget the <a href="http://angryindian.blogspot.com/">Angry Indian – Voice of a Native Son)</a> who just may be interested in advertising and the DNC's advertising dollar.<br />
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During the discussion with DNC Chairman, Tim Kaine the former Virginia governor says given all the challenges his party's faced since the 2008 election, and despite the poll numbers, he's believes the Democrats can pull off victories in some races that will surprise people. <b> </b><span style="font-size: small;">He pointed out Democrats need help </span><span style="font-size: small;">from all segments to inform, engage and empower voters – especially African American voters- to participate in the upcoming elections. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">AAP says: "I know I want my President to be successful. Do you? It's about rebuilding our nation, our communities our neighborhoods. Although I am not a Democrat, I believe it's time to rally with the President and his party around issues we agree upon. I believe progressive black political bloggers should support the President and the DNC... even when we disagree. Just remember to hold the DNC and the President accountable, if they don't address issues like high unemployment, poverty reduction and other issues important to our communities."</span></div></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Now when white Journalist say Obama does not have enough black on their staff, or </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/opinion/25dowd.html"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The Obama White House is too white</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> - not a problem. When a </span><a href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2010/07/black-bloggers-lash-out-at-naacp-over-shirley-sherrod/"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">black blogger</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> or </span><a href="http://aapoliticalopinion.blogspot.com/2010/07/naacp-still-hasnt-atoned-for-sherrod.html"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Journalist </span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">says the same thing, your anti-black.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">What is truly another disgrace is these <leo_highlight id="leoHighlights_Underline_1" leohighlights_keywords="die%20hard" leohighlights_underline="true" leohighlights_url_bottom="http%3A//shortcuts.thebrowserhighlighter.com/leonardo/plugin/highlights/3_2/tbh_highlightsBottom.jsp?keywords%3Ddie%2520hard%26domain%3Ddraft.blogger.com" leohighlights_url_top="http%3A//shortcuts.thebrowserhighlighter.com/leonardo/plugin/highlights/3_2/tbh_highlightsTop.jsp?keywords%3Ddie%2520hard%26domain%3Ddraft.blogger.com" onclick="leoHighlightsHandleClick('leoHighlights_Underline_1')" onmouseout="leoHighlightsHandleMouseOut('leoHighlights_Underline_1')" onmouseover="leoHighlightsHandleMouseOver('leoHighlights_Underline_1')" style="-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(255, 255, 150); cursor: pointer; display: inline;">die hard</leo_highlight> NAACP and Obama supporters who <a href="http://www.whataboutourdaughters.com/waod/2010/7/23/naacp-legal-goons-invade-waod-comments-section-following-cal.html">don't like black folks speaking their minds</a>, as we question the NAACP or the Obama administration. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Yes, I admit I said the National President of the NAACP is disgrace and a sell-out and should consider resigning as President of the NAACP. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Yes, I admit that I said he is part of the new crew of colored people advancing their own agenda, not a black empowerment or capacity building agenda. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Now why do I have to be attacked for having my own opinion by Kevin M., a Branch President of the NAACP on my <leo_highlight id="leoHighlights_Underline_1" leohighlights_keywords="facebook" leohighlights_underline="true" leohighlights_url_bottom="http%3A//shortcuts.thebrowserhighlighter.com/leonardo/plugin/highlights/3_2/tbh_highlightsBottom.jsp?keywords%3Dfacebook%26domain%3Ddraft.blogger.com" leohighlights_url_top="http%3A//shortcuts.thebrowserhighlighter.com/leonardo/plugin/highlights/3_2/tbh_highlightsTop.jsp?keywords%3Dfacebook%26domain%3Ddraft.blogger.com" onclick="leoHighlightsHandleClick('leoHighlights_Underline_1')" onmouseout="leoHighlightsHandleMouseOut('leoHighlights_Underline_1')" onmouseover="leoHighlightsHandleMouseOver('leoHighlights_Underline_1')" style="-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(255, 255, 150); cursor: pointer; display: inline;">Facebook</leo_highlight> Page. Check out the interaction:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Kevin said:</b> "AAPP, it IS certainly your right to do so and I for one would not insult you for being critical. However, when you continuously return to the meme "what has the NAACP done since the 60's?", I for one question whether you are as...king a real question or just being intentionally inflammatory.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>AAPP: @Kevin:</b> <b>I have no reason on earth to be intonally inflamatory. I am not the only one asking real questions about the National Office of the NAACP and it's lack of leadership. Infact, one would have to wonder why the President of the NAACP was intentionally inflammatory, in order to get it's name in the news by electronically lynching a black women - <i>Shirley Sherrod...</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Kevin Said:</b> What have we done? Really? I will just speak for my little band of folks out here in Kansas when I say that in just the last 2 years we've registered around 700 voters, wrote a couple state laws, blocked a bill designed to block health care reform, pushed for changes to <leo_highlight id="leoHighlights_Underline_2" leohighlights_keywords="the%20state" leohighlights_underline="true" leohighlights_url_bottom="http%3A//shortcuts.thebrowserhighlighter.com/leonardo/plugin/highlights/3_2/tbh_highlightsBottom.jsp?keywords%3Dthe%2520state%26domain%3Ddraft.blogger.com" leohighlights_url_top="http%3A//shortcuts.thebrowserhighlighter.com/leonardo/plugin/highlights/3_2/tbh_highlightsTop.jsp?keywords%3Dthe%2520state%26domain%3Ddraft.blogger.com" onclick="leoHighlightsHandleClick('leoHighlights_Underline_2')" onmouseout="leoHighlightsHandleMouseOut('leoHighlights_Underline_2')" onmouseover="leoHighlightsHandleMouseOver('leoHighlights_Underline_2')" style="-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(255, 255, 150); cursor: pointer; display: inline;">the State</leo_highlight> voter registration system, helped countless folks with their census forms, spoke to hundreds of school children about leadership, built a world-class debate and oratory program for neighborhood kids, pushed to have our district locate <leo_highlight id="leoHighlights_Underline_3" leohighlights_keywords="the%20state" leohighlights_underline="true" leohighlights_url_bottom="http%3A//shortcuts.thebrowserhighlighter.com/leonardo/plugin/highlights/3_2/tbh_highlightsBottom.jsp?keywords%3Dthe%2520state%26domain%3Ddraft.blogger.com" leohighlights_url_top="http%3A//shortcuts.thebrowserhighlighter.com/leonardo/plugin/highlights/3_2/tbh_highlightsTop.jsp?keywords%3Dthe%2520state%26domain%3Ddraft.blogger.com" onclick="leoHighlightsHandleClick('leoHighlights_Underline_3')" onmouseout="leoHighlightsHandleMouseOut('leoHighlights_Underline_3')" onmouseover="leoHighlightsHandleMouseOver('leoHighlights_Underline_3')" style="-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(255, 255, 150); cursor: pointer; display: inline;">the state</leo_highlight>'s only elementary IB program right in the HEART of our community, investigated more than a hundred discrimination cases, developed our own rehabilitation program for children in Juvenile detention, and brought together 35 community organizations to pool our talents and resources and solve our own community problems, among other things...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>AAPP@ Kevin:</b> <b>I salute the great work of a number of local branches who do great work and are able to to show outcomes for their collective efforts. Now I read you don't want my congratulations - so be it. Not a problem, there are real community builders in my local community to congratulate and support. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Kevin said:</b> Now yes AAPP, it IS certainly your right as an American citizen to continue to call us fools, disgraceful, ignorant, worthless and all the other names you like to banty about on your blog... But just know that those responses you're receiving are coming from folks who are ALSO exercising THEIR rights as Americans to question you as to what have you actually done besides call black people who are volunteering in their communities a bunch of names on the internet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>AAPP@ Kevin:</b> <b>I have no problem with folks asking what I have done lately. My record in community development and community capacity building throughout the country is an open book, if people want to know, just hit my up privately and we can discuss my body of work in community development. I have been in the trenches, even before many of these so called activist were born.</b> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Kevin:</b> Here's the part where you usually make the distinction between the local and National office... But you know what - you shouldn't.. The NAACP is an Association of 2,200 branches just like mine. Sometimes awesome, and sometimes awful... but we are a network of 400,000 folks who are volunteering our own time and resources to make our communities better. And we are all coming together and saying goodbye to our past divisions.. So if you are talking about "our" President, "our" chairman, "our" national Board, or "our" national staff, please don't single me out for any type of singular appreciation - I don't want it.</span><br />
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<b><a href="mailto:AAPP@Kevin"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">AAPP@Kevin</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> <b>Yes, you have a network of 400,000 but the national office cant even put together a blog, or an internet networking vehicle to do grassroot organizing. How pathetic!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Kevin:</b> Now I know calling us a bunch of names is still good for building your readership - I ain't mad at ya... do your thing. But just know as a community, we seem to be reaching a 'tipping point'. I'm out in the community every day and I can tell you that a lot of us are simply getting weary of the "Let me demonstrate my independence by attacking Black people" routine... Pretty soon my brother, you're going to have to get a new gig.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>AAPP@ Kevin: I would expect nothing less of you, as a NAACP Chapter President to support everything that the national office does. I'm not the only one seeing the National Office of the NAACP for what it is.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>By the way, I'm not the only one who thinks the NAACP has been a failure for over 40 years.</b> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Please read Dewayne Wickman'sBlackChristianNews.com</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Yes, Kevin, Your right we seem to be reaching a Tipping Point. and the NAACP may just go the way of F.W. Woolworth's. Yes, your right there are some that need new gigs. The current President of the NAACP is the one that needs to </b></span><a href="http://www.whataboutourdaughters.com/waod/2010/7/21/ben-jealous-should-resign-ben-jealous-roland-s-martin-white.html"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>get the new gig</b></span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>. He is the one that attacked a black woman, </b></span><a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/northwestvoices/2012431441_theshamefultreatmentofshirleysherrod.html"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Shirley Sherrod</b></span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>... without cause... </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>But I guess you have not been following current events...</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>The national office of the NAACP has no credability! Now it sends out it's goof balls to attack me. Read what the NAACP had to say about <leo_highlight id="leoHighlights_Underline_4" leohighlights_keywords="george%20wallace" leohighlights_underline="true" leohighlights_url_bottom="http%3A//shortcuts.thebrowserhighlighter.com/leonardo/plugin/highlights/3_2/tbh_highlightsBottom.jsp?keywords%3Dgeorge%2520wallace%26domain%3Ddraft.blogger.com" leohighlights_url_top="http%3A//shortcuts.thebrowserhighlighter.com/leonardo/plugin/highlights/3_2/tbh_highlightsTop.jsp?keywords%3Dgeorge%2520wallace%26domain%3Ddraft.blogger.com" onclick="leoHighlightsHandleClick('leoHighlights_Underline_4')" onmouseout="leoHighlightsHandleMouseOut('leoHighlights_Underline_4')" onmouseover="leoHighlightsHandleMouseOver('leoHighlights_Underline_4')" style="-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(255, 255, 150); cursor: pointer; display: inline;">George Wallace</leo_highlight>, Robert Byrd and other bigots who have destroyed the lifes of countless black folks and how they were snookered by of all people FOX News.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>These have to be some real stupid bastards at the national office to watch Fox News and believe it.</b> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">With regard to the initial media coverage of the resignation of <leo_highlight id="leoHighlights_Underline_7" leohighlights_keywords="usda" leohighlights_underline="false" leohighlights_url_bottom="http%3A//shortcuts.thebrowserhighlighter.com/leonardo/plugin/highlights/3_2/tbh_highlightsBottom.jsp?keywords%3Dusda%26domain%3Ddraft.blogger.com" leohighlights_url_top="http%3A//shortcuts.thebrowserhighlighter.com/leonardo/plugin/highlights/3_2/tbh_highlightsTop.jsp?keywords%3Dusda%26domain%3Ddraft.blogger.com" onclick="leoHighlightsHandleClick('leoHighlights_Underline_7')" onmouseout="leoHighlightsHandleMouseOut('leoHighlights_Underline_7')" onmouseover="leoHighlightsHandleMouseOver('leoHighlights_Underline_7')" style="-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; display: inline;">USDA</leo_highlight> Official Shirley Sherrod, we have come to the conclusion we were snookered by Fox News and Tea Party Activist Andrew Breitbart into believing she had harmed white farmers because of racial bias.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">AAPP: Pathetic! Robert Bird? <leo_highlight id="leoHighlights_Underline_8" leohighlights_keywords="george%20wallace" leohighlights_underline="false" leohighlights_url_bottom="http%3A//shortcuts.thebrowserhighlighter.com/leonardo/plugin/highlights/3_2/tbh_highlightsBottom.jsp?keywords%3Dgeorge%2520wallace%26domain%3Ddraft.blogger.com" leohighlights_url_top="http%3A//shortcuts.thebrowserhighlighter.com/leonardo/plugin/highlights/3_2/tbh_highlightsTop.jsp?keywords%3Dgeorge%2520wallace%26domain%3Ddraft.blogger.com" onclick="leoHighlightsHandleClick('leoHighlights_Underline_8')" onmouseout="leoHighlightsHandleMouseOut('leoHighlights_Underline_8')" onmouseover="leoHighlightsHandleMouseOver('leoHighlights_Underline_8')" style="-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; display: inline;">George Wallace</leo_highlight>? Transformed? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This NAACP National Office is so... Pathetic... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">No wonder <a href="http://thecurvature.com/2008/03/24/al-sharpton-and-the-naacp-support-dunbar-village-rapists/">so many people believe the NAACP</a> has <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/opinions/1997/03/04/1997-03-04_ben_chavis_hits_a_new_low__b.html">lost it's way</a>. The national NAACP has been so <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7711144">disorganized</a> <a href="http://articles.baltimoresun.com/keyword/naacp-executive-director">for years</a>. How long will this new young and inexperienced NAACP President last? Hopefully not for long. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The last NAACP President <a href="http://www.blacknews.com/pr/bruce_gordon_resigns101.html">only lasted 19 months.</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The fact of the matter is the relatatively new President of the NAACP brought shame to the NAACP, yet it gratuitously uses the occasion to bash black bloggers for calling them out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Robert Bird? <leo_highlight id="leoHighlights_Underline_9" leohighlights_keywords="george%20wallace" leohighlights_underline="false" leohighlights_url_bottom="http%3A//shortcuts.thebrowserhighlighter.com/leonardo/plugin/highlights/3_2/tbh_highlightsBottom.jsp?keywords%3Dgeorge%2520wallace%26domain%3Ddraft.blogger.com" leohighlights_url_top="http%3A//shortcuts.thebrowserhighlighter.com/leonardo/plugin/highlights/3_2/tbh_highlightsTop.jsp?keywords%3Dgeorge%2520wallace%26domain%3Ddraft.blogger.com" onclick="leoHighlightsHandleClick('leoHighlights_Underline_9')" onmouseout="leoHighlightsHandleMouseOut('leoHighlights_Underline_9')" onmouseover="leoHighlightsHandleMouseOver('leoHighlights_Underline_9')" style="-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; display: inline;">George Wallace</leo_highlight>? Transformed? Whatever. </span><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Robert Bird was a recruiter for the Klan while in his 20s and 30s, rising to the title of Kleagle and Exalted Cyclops of his local chapter. After leaving the group, Byrd spoke in favor of the Klan during his early political career. Though he claimed to have left the organization in 1943, Byrd wrote a letter in 1946 to the group's Imperial Wizard stating "The Klan is needed today as never before, and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia." Byrd defended the Klan in his 1958 U.S. Senate campaign when he was 41 years old.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Despite being the only Senator to vote against both African American U.S. Supreme Court nominees (liberal Thurgood Marshall and conservative Clarence Thomas and filibustering the Civilm Rights Act of 1964, the NAACP supported this man who would lynch black men, women and children. Byrd has since said joining the Klan was his "greatest mistake" and the NAACP gave him a 100% rating on their issues.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The National NAACP needs to transform itself and back it's attack dogs off of this blogger. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Oh, that's right, the NAACP attack dog (Kevin M) recently lost a bid to become a member of the board, and will take any action he can to show he is worthy of a seat in the future.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">As Kevin said on his <a href="http://www.wichitanaacpblog.com/2010/07/kansas-state-and-wichita-branch.html">NAACP Chapter blog</a>, "Sometimes success comes in stages and this was just the first stage of my road onto the board. ;)" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I'm coming back bigger and stronger than ever!" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">AAPP says: I guess that "bigger and stronger" can be accomplished by attacking me and other black bloggers bro Kevin? In the name of getting an NAACP Board seat, let me attack a fellow afrospear blogger. Following in the Footsteps of Ben Jealous? Attack when you don't know the facts? Or attack to those who say the NAACP is out of step with the needs of the black community.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Well Mr. NAACP Kevin M you won't be able to attack me on my own <leo_highlight id="leoHighlights_Underline_10" leohighlights_keywords="facebook" leohighlights_underline="false" leohighlights_url_bottom="http%3A//shortcuts.thebrowserhighlighter.com/leonardo/plugin/highlights/3_2/tbh_highlightsBottom.jsp?keywords%3Dfacebook%26domain%3Ddraft.blogger.com" leohighlights_url_top="http%3A//shortcuts.thebrowserhighlighter.com/leonardo/plugin/highlights/3_2/tbh_highlightsTop.jsp?keywords%3Dfacebook%26domain%3Ddraft.blogger.com" onclick="leoHighlightsHandleClick('leoHighlights_Underline_10')" onmouseout="leoHighlightsHandleMouseOut('leoHighlights_Underline_10')" onmouseover="leoHighlightsHandleMouseOver('leoHighlights_Underline_10')" style="-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; display: inline;">Facebook</leo_highlight> page anymore. You have been banned!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>UPDATE:</b> As reported by another black blogger, <a href="http://www.whataboutourdaughters.com/waod/2010/7/23/naacp-legal-goons-invade-waod-comments-section-following-cal.html">Gina, at What About Our Daughters</a>, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">the NAACP Legal Goons have Invaded WAOD comments section following calls for Jealous to resign. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">See, and knew I was not the only person under attack by the NAACP and their represenatatives.</span><br />
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var LEO_HIGHLIGHTS_IFRAME_BOTTOM_EXPANDED_HEIGHT = 371;
var LEO_HIGHLIGHTS_SHOW_DELAY_MS = 300;
var LEO_HIGHLIGHTS_HIDE_DELAY_MS = 750;
var LEO_HIGHLIGHTS_SHOW_DELAY_NO_UNDER_MS = 850;
var LEO_HIGHLIGHTS_BACKGROUND_STYLE_DEFAULT = "transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%";
var LEO_HIGHLIGHTS_BACKGROUND_STYLE_HOVER = "rgb(245, 245, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%";
var LEO_HIGHLIGHTS_ROVER_TAG = "711-36858-13496-14";
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<span style="font-size: small;">A New Orleans TV station, <a href="http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2010/07/report-nephew-of-justice-thomas-punched-tasered-in-new-orleans-hospital/1">USA Today</a>, <a class="l" href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/07/abc26-wgno-clarence-thomass-ne.html" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','','9','AFQjCNH7szn6QQDphhY3vqIojW9i8Ryoug','JG7xDFNoHOj6UOE5c4oT0A','0CD4QFjAI')">The Washington Post</a>, <a class="l" href="http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4458634" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','','20','AFQjCNEEoBH4u1w_xt2vzH5z5ydRkAq_mg','o_YbsQdR01z2gp51c4bylw','0CDoQFjAJOAo')">Democratic Underground</a>, <a class="l" href="http://www.taserednation.com/" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','','28','AFQjCNHfRE0868slCB7Na55kpgWZZCOlkg','ad8J2Xz7bcrXZ7tOE5M96g','0CDMQFjAHOBQ')"><i>Tasered</i> Nation</a> along with alternative news outlets are reporting that hospital security beat down <a class="l" href="http://gawker.com/5583457/clarence-thomas-suicidal-epileptic-nephew-punched-tasered-in-hospital" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','','1','AFQjCNHu7NgxM5lnUbj4MnzJHXnyo1UYWA','SHyueHL6F3ouoaYpdlJCNA','0CCAQmAEwAA')"><i>Clarence Thomas</i>' Suicidal, Epileptic Nephew.</a></span> Ouch!</div><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The nephew, Derek Thomas, is epileptic and suffered a seizure after being stunned, his family <a href="http://%20www.abc26.com/news/local/wgno-news-derek-thomas-tazed,0,5113332.story">told ABC-affiliate WGNO</a>.</span></div><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">He was taken to West Jefferson Medical Center in Marrero after a possible suicide attempt yesterday. His family said that after he refused to put on a gown, guards punched him in the lip, grabbed his hair and shocked him.</span></div><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The family said doctors knew Thomas is epileptic but directed that he be stunned to restrain him. No comment from the hospital so far.</span></div><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">OMG, maybe the tasering of Americans will get some attention now that nephew of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been tortured with a taser. </span></div><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Bloggers such as, <a class="l" href="http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/14353/stop-taser-torture-blogging-for-justice-day" onmousedown="return clk(this.href,'','','','5','dzgv3v9xl1TIP1y2PJ1Wag','0CCsQFjAE')">Pam's House Blend</a>, The <a class="l" href="http://afrospear.com/2009/04/24/a-day-of-blogging-for-justice-standing-up-against-the-pre-trial-electrocution/" onmousedown="return clk(this.href,'','','','14','BIQ_MTE7Zx3h3rXbWcPbOA','0CCIQFjADOAo')"><i></i>Afrospear</a>, <a href="http://police-brutality-blog.blogspot.com/">The Police Brutality Blog</a>, <a href="http://taseredwhileblack.blogspot.com/">Tasered While Black</a>, <a class="l" href="http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/clarence-thomass-nephew-tasered-for.html" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','','15','AFQjCNGnl3WNYv3CPFmRMr2eujepyFNScA','MuU8yGljd2GNCiIat5U3Tw','0CCYQFjAEOAo')">Hullabaloo</a>, <a class="l" href="http://www.taserednation.com/" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','','28','AFQjCNHfRE0868slCB7Na55kpgWZZCOlkg','ad8J2Xz7bcrXZ7tOE5M96g','0CDMQFjAHOBQ')"><i>Tasered</i> Nation</a>, <a class="l vst" href="http://electronicvillage.blogspot.com/2009/05/taser-related-deaths-in-united-states.html" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','','6','AFQjCNFjNXWHzvhoaM_a5jJ42Yn3kB563g','wasnKyRZJBm6q8xGKm5s4Q','0CC8QFjAF')">Electronic Village<i></i></a>,<a class="l vst" href="http://wonkette.com/416584/security-guards-punch-and-tase-and-pull-out-dreadlocks-of-clarence-thomas-nephew" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','','9','AFQjCNFnIIwg0DVEMCteeq8i8L7rsrAtqA','CF3t3HQUXZochecUIn_ngg','0CDwQFjAI')">Wonkette</a>,<a class="l" href="http://blog.blackwomenineurope.com/2009/12/04/stop-taser-torture-blogging-for-justice/" onmousedown="return clk(this.href,'','','','7','wWS0oCC8MGyFiwGCfSlzOg','0CDQQFjAG')"><i></i><i></i> Black Women in Europe™ <i>Blog</i></a>, <a class="l" href="http://www.rippdemup.com/2009/12/blogging-for-justice-stop-taser-torture.html" onmousedown="return clk(this.href,'','','','8','z67u7ARf6zEcVuEGLRIkBw','0CDkQFjAH')">THE INTERSECTION | MADNESS & REALITY<i></i></a>,<a class="l" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2009/11/cops-taser-man-with-his-hands-already-on-police-car-what-you-can-do-about-it/" onmousedown="return clk(this.href,'','','','13','7jneZh0M5eLjivLsgx9FBg','0CB0QFjACOAo')">Jack and Jill Politics</a>, <a href="http://draft.blogger.com/Electrocuted%20While%20Black:%20%22Naming%22%20it%20%22Police%20Pre-Trial%20...">Electrocuted While Black</a>, and a number of other bloggers have been paying close attention to the issue of Taser Torture. It's too bad Clarence Thomas was not concerned , until now... </span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></div><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">When I tried to get the conversation about taser abuse going at the so-called liberal blog, the </span><a class="l" href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/7/9/882015/--SCOTUS-nephew-tasered" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','','16','AFQjCNFVdn2YXDATEIgmIDX7CfG-w34LhQ','WcOebVVqHeeMmincXRGgnQ','0CCoQFjAFOAo')" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Daily Kos.. there was limited concern until the nephew of Clarence Thomas got <i>tasered.</i></a></span><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> I guess it news worthy now. </span></span></i><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Yes, I said it, many of these black</span><span style="color: darkturquoise; font-size: small;"> <span style="color: black;">cretin </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><a class="kLink" href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/africanamericanpoliticalpundit/2010/03/07/black-politicians-are-idiots#" id="KonaLink0" onclick="adlinkMouseClick(event,this,0);" oncontextmenu="return false;" onmouseout="adlinkMouseOut(event,this,0);" onmouseover="adlinkMouseOver(event,this,0);" style="position: static; text-decoration: underline ! important;" target="_top"><span style="color: rgb(0, 206, 209) ! important; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 400; position: static;"><span class="kLink" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(0, 206, 209); color: rgb(0, 206, 209) ! important; font-weight: 400; position: relative;"></span></span></a>politicians are half wit, imbeciles and idiots ... this past week is a case study in why so many black politicians are idiots, and why so many people, particularly black folks are so angry with black politicians and the practice of politics in black communities. </span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Let's talk about how black politicians are idiots, and how their counterparts are just as stupid. <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/06/AR2010030601231.html">The Washington Post</a> has a great report on some of this black political idiots. How about once highly respected <a href="http://www.whorunsgov.com/Profiles/Charles_B._Rangel" target="">Rep. Charles Rangel</a> (D-N.Y.), one of the longest-serving and most powerful members of Congress, who was <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/03/AR2010030300949.html" target="">forced to give up the chairmanship</a> of the House Ways and Means Committee (a leave of absence, he caMany black politicians are cretin and need to be called outlled it). As <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/06/AR2010030601231.html">WaPo</a> reports, he was caught in a swirl of allegations involving unpaid taxes and accepting company-underwritten trips, Rangel finally stepped aside to avoid a potentially embarrassing vote against him by his colleagues. His case is far from over.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </div><div id="body_after_content_column"> <div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">According to <a href="http://freep.com/article/20100308/NEWS01/100308037/1318/Conyers-recommended-sentence-46-57-months">The Detriot Free Press</a>, Federal prosecutors have recommended that former Detroit City Council President Monica Conyers receive at least 46-57 months in prison for her role in the Synagro sludge-hauling scandal. get this, Conyers, who also sat on a city <a class="iAs" classname="iAs" href="http://freep.com/article/20100308/NEWS01/100308037/1318/Conyers-recommended-sentence-46-57-months#" itxtdid="18418572" style="background-color: transparent ! important; background-image: none; border-bottom: 1px dotted darkgreen ! important; color: darkgreen ! important; font-weight: normal ! important; padding-bottom: 0px ! important; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none ! important;" target="_blank"><nobr id="itxt_nobr_1_0" style="color: darkgreen; font-weight: normal;">pension </nobr></a>board, is scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday by U.S. District Court Judge Avern Cohn. She faces up to five years in prison as part of her guilty plea. <a href="http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20100221/SUB01/302219973">Voters may be ready for real change in Washington</a>....<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">But she is not the only black politician disgarcing black folks recently. How about Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford (D-AL) who as arrested on December 1, 2008 by the FBI on a 101 count indictment alleging conspiracy, bribery, fraud, money laundering, and filing false tax returns in connection with a long-running bribery scheme. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Her former chief of staff, <a class="iAs" classname="iAs" href="http://freep.com/article/20100308/NEWS01/100308037/1318/Conyers-recommended-sentence-46-57-months#" itxtdid="18421573" style="background-color: transparent ! important; background-image: none; border-bottom: 1px dotted darkgreen ! important; color: darkgreen ! important; font-weight: normal ! important; padding-bottom: 0px ! important; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none ! important;" target="_blank">Sam <nobr id="itxt_nobr_2_0" style="color: darkgreen; font-weight: normal;">Riddle</nobr></a>, went to trial last month in connection with the Synagro allegations and other alleged bribery and extortion schemes. During the trial, which ended in a hung jury, prosecutors played many intercepted phone calls of conversations between Conyers and Riddle and Conyers and Detroit businessman Rayford Jackson, who is serving five years in prison. Conyers cast the tiebreaking vote on city council for a $1.2-billion contract with Synagro in November 2007. <a href="http://freep.com/article/20100308/NEWS01/100308037/1318/Conyers-recommended-sentence-46-57-months">Read more HERE</a><br />
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Prosecutors then asked the judge to send Langford to prison immediately instead of giving him 30 days to report to prison because, "Langford showed no remorse." Judge Coogler decided against that recommendation and gave Langford 30 days to report to prison (April 5th.) However, in the interim, Langford will be required to wear an electronic monitoring anklet, must report to his probation officer twice a week, and cannot go outside of Jefferson County. Federal prosecutors had asked Judge Coogler to sentence Langford to between 24 and 30 years in prison. Langford's attorney, Michael Rasmussen, objected Friday morning, restating the opinions he filed Thursday and asking the judge for mercy. "Let Langford come out before he's 70 and overcome by health problems," Rasmussen said. "Don't let him rot in prison." <a href="http://www.myfoxal.com/global/story.asp?s=12090667">More HERE</a></span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Let's not forget about Baltimore Mayor Shelia Dixon (D-MD) was indicted on 12 counts of perjury, theft and misconduct in office (January 2009)</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Not to be out-done, remember Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick (D-MI) with his Chief-of-Staff Christine Beatty, fired two police officers for investigating claims that Kilpatrick had used his security unit to cover up their extramarital affair and lied about it under oath. Both pled guilty and were sentenced to 4 months in prison with 5 years probation. (2008)</span> </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Or how about in my home state of Massachusetts, former <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/africanamericanpoliticalpundit/blog/2008/10/30/diane-wilkerson-and-old-black-political-leaders-are-they-out-of-touch-">State Senator Diane Wilkerson</a> (D-MA) who was video taped by the <a href="http://aapoliticalopinion.blogspot.com/2008/10/diane-wilkerson-resignation-would-be.html">FBI stuffing bribe money into her bra</a>. Also charged with tax evasion (1997), ethics violations (2001) and perjury (2005). She resigned the Senate in November 2008, but still faces charges.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Or how about Georgia Congressman David Scott (D-GA) who has expended $52,000 to $344,000 to himself, friends, family and business from campaigns every election cycle since 2002. Shortly after the 2006 election, he was served with an IRS tax lien for over $153,000.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-179"><span></span></sup></span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Yes, It's time for black political bloggers and blogtalkradio host to <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/africanamericanpoliticalpundit/2010/03/07/black-politicians-are-idiots">start calling these "cretin" low-life black politicians out</a>. </span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Now that we learn that <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i_ASC3UbkEMU5PBn1mEeSphYzmkQD9E9VLU00">everyone is getting paid with taxpayer money except black folks</a>, maybe it's time to call a number of black politicans out. </span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But that's just my opinion what do you think?</span></div></div><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden" /><!--Session data--><input id="jsProxy" onclick="jsCall();" type="hidden" /><div id="refHTML"></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184256412786835910.post-22283047904810653122010-01-06T08:26:00.001-05:002010-01-06T08:26:02.825-05:00New 'Miranda Rights' against taser abuse,"<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>"These are new 'Miranda Rights' against taser abuse," <br />
says Atty. Francis L. Holland</b><br />
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There's been a ground-breaking decision by the <b><a href="http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/" target="_blank">9th Circuit US Federal Court of Appeals</a></b> against taser abuse, entitled<b><a href="http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2009/12/28/08-55622.pdf" target="_blank"> Bryan v. McPherson</a></b>. This decision was announced on December 29th, between Christmas and New Years holidays but it deserves our immediate attention and dissemination via our <b><a href="http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/federal-appeals-court-limits-taser-use" target="_blank">EasyWidgets</a></b>:<br />
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The decision writes into federal caselaw many of the arguments and advocacy that we afrosphere bloggers have been making at our <b><a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Day+of+Blogging+for+Justice%22+taser&btnG=Search&aq=f&oq=&aqi=" target="_blank">Days (months and years) of Blogging for Justice Against Police Pre-Trial, Extra-Judicial "Taser" Shock, Electrocution and Execution devices. </a></b> The Easy-Widget HTML code below enables us to educate the public of their newly announced rights.<br />
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The 9th Circuit Federal Court of Appeals agreed with us that:<br />
</span> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span lang="EN-US">". . . we must “balance the amount of force applied against the need for that force.”</span></b><b> <a href="http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2009/12/28/08-55622.pdf" target="_blank">Bryan v. McPherson, 9th Cir. Fd. Ct. App., December 29, 2009.</a></b><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></b></span><br />
</div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"> This decision has direct legal effect throughout the 9th Circuit, consisting of populous California, Alaska, Washington, Montana, Oregon, Idaho, Arizona, Hawaii and Guam, and influential in other parts of the country. Nearly 20% of America's population is within<b> <a href="http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/content/view.php?pk_id=0000000135" target="_blank">the jurisdiction of the 9th Circuit.</a></b> The Court announced what we have long insisted:<br />
</span> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span lang="EN-US">"A reasonable police officer . . . would have foreseen these physical injuries when confronting a shirtless individual standing on asphalt. We have held that <span>force can be unreasonable even without physical blows or injuries."</span></span></b><b> </b><b><a href="http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2009/12/28/08-55622.pdf" target="_blank">Bryan v. McPherson</a></b></span><br />
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</div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"> We've got <a href="http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/stop-the-electrocutions-and-executions-175px" target="_blank"><b>widgets up at 123 afrosphere blogs</b></a> telling the public that, in many cases, when "Tasers" are used, <a href="http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/stop-the-electrocutions-and-executions-175px" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold;">"The price is too high"</span></a>. Now, lets post Easy-Widgets to inform the public that </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Cscript%20type=%22text/javascript%22%20src=%22http://cdn.widgetserver.com/syndication/subscriber/InsertWidget.js%22%3E%3C/script%3E%3Cscript%3Eif%20%28WIDGETBOX%29%20WIDGETBOX.renderWidget%28%278069ec42-5c08-4b96-8153-38181453cd8f%27%29;%3C/script%3E%3Cnoscript%3EGet%20the%20%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/tasered-while-black-opposes-taser-torture%22%3ETasered%20While%20Black%20Opposes%20Taser%20Torture%3C/a%3E%20widget%20and%20many%20other%20%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.widgetbox.com/%22%3Egreat%20free%20widgets%3C/a%3E%20at%20%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.widgetbox.com%22%3EWidgetbox%3C/a%3E%21%20Not%20seeing%20a%20widget?%20%28%3Ca%20href=%22http://docs.widgetbox.com/using-widgets/installing-widgets/why-cant-i-see-my-widget/%22%3EMore%20info%3C/a%3E%29%3C/noscript%3E" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">one of the most influential </a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Cscript%20type=%22text/javascript%22%20src=%22http://cdn.widgetserver.com/syndication/subscriber/InsertWidget.js%22%3E%3C/script%3E%3Cscript%3Eif%20%28WIDGETBOX%29%20WIDGETBOX.renderWidget%28%278069ec42-5c08-4b96-8153-38181453cd8f%27%29;%3C/script%3E%3Cnoscript%3EGet%20the%20%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/tasered-while-black-opposes-taser-torture%22%3ETasered%20While%20Black%20Opposes%20Taser%20Torture%3C/a%3E%20widget%20and%20many%20other%20%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.widgetbox.com/%22%3Egreat%20free%20widgets%3C/a%3E%20at%20%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.widgetbox.com%22%3EWidgetbox%3C/a%3E%21%20Not%20seeing%20a%20widget?%20%28%3Ca%20href=%22http://docs.widgetbox.com/using-widgets/installing-widgets/why-cant-i-see-my-widget/%22%3EMore%20info%3C/a%3E%29%3C/noscript%3E" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold;">federal circuit courts </span></a></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Cscript%20type=%22text/javascript%22%20src=%22http://cdn.widgetserver.com/syndication/subscriber/InsertWidget.js%22%3E%3C/script%3E%3Cscript%3Eif%20%28WIDGETBOX%29%20WIDGETBOX.renderWidget%28%278069ec42-5c08-4b96-8153-38181453cd8f%27%29;%3C/script%3E%3Cnoscript%3EGet%20the%20%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/tasered-while-black-opposes-taser-torture%22%3ETasered%20While%20Black%20Opposes%20Taser%20Torture%3C/a%3E%20widget%20and%20many%20other%20%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.widgetbox.com/%22%3Egreat%20free%20widgets%3C/a%3E%20at%20%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.widgetbox.com%22%3EWidgetbox%3C/a%3E%21%20Not%20seeing%20a%20widget?%20%28%3Ca%20href=%22http://docs.widgetbox.com/using-widgets/installing-widgets/why-cant-i-see-my-widget/%22%3EMore%20info%3C/a%3E%29%3C/noscript%3E" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;"></span></a><span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Cscript%20type=%22text/javascript%22%20src=%22http://cdn.widgetserver.com/syndication/subscriber/InsertWidget.js%22%3E%3C/script%3E%3Cscript%3Eif%20%28WIDGETBOX%29%20WIDGETBOX.renderWidget%28%278069ec42-5c08-4b96-8153-38181453cd8f%27%29;%3C/script%3E%3Cnoscript%3EGet%20the%20%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/tasered-while-black-opposes-taser-torture%22%3ETasered%20While%20Black%20Opposes%20Taser%20Torture%3C/a%3E%20widget%20and%20many%20other%20%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.widgetbox.com/%22%3Egreat%20free%20widgets%3C/a%3E%20at%20%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.widgetbox.com%22%3EWidgetbox%3C/a%3E%21%20Not%20seeing%20a%20widget?%20%28%3Ca%20href=%22http://docs.widgetbox.com/using-widgets/installing-widgets/why-cant-i-see-my-widget/%22%3EMore%20info%3C/a%3E%29%3C/noscript%3E" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold;">of appeal </span></a></span><span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Cscript%20type=%22text/javascript%22%20src=%22http://cdn.widgetserver.com/syndication/subscriber/InsertWidget.js%22%3E%3C/script%3E%3Cscript%3Eif%20%28WIDGETBOX%29%20WIDGETBOX.renderWidget%28%278069ec42-5c08-4b96-8153-38181453cd8f%27%29;%3C/script%3E%3Cnoscript%3EGet%20the%20%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/tasered-while-black-opposes-taser-torture%22%3ETasered%20While%20Black%20Opposes%20Taser%20Torture%3C/a%3E%20widget%20and%20many%20other%20%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.widgetbox.com/%22%3Egreat%20free%20widgets%3C/a%3E%20at%20%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.widgetbox.com%22%3EWidgetbox%3C/a%3E%21%20Not%20seeing%20a%20widget?%20%28%3Ca%20href=%22http://docs.widgetbox.com/using-widgets/installing-widgets/why-cant-i-see-my-widget/%22%3EMore%20info%3C/a%3E%29%3C/noscript%3E" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold;">in the country agrees with us that:</span></a></span><br />
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</span> <div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-left: 40px;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><b>"The presence of non-minor physical injuries like those suffered by </b><b>Bryan</b><b>, however, is certainly relevant in evaluating the degree of the Fourth Amendment intrusion.</b><b>" </b><b><a href="http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2009/12/28/08-55622.pdf" target="_blank">Bryan v. McPherson</a></b></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
Let's celebrate! Here's a new EasyWidget that takes readers to our anti-electrocution blogs. This Easy-Widget HTML (immediately below) links to <b><a href="http://electrocutedwhileblack.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-easy-widget-informs-bloggers-public.html" target="_blank">Electrocuted While Black</a></b>, but there are visibly identical widgets below that lead to <a href="http://taseredwhileblack.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><b>Tasered While Black</b></a> and the <b><a href="http://police-brutality-blog.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Police Brutality Blog</a>.</b><br />
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</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">The result is better than that for which many of us had hoped. Instead of arguing locally for changes to voluntarily enforced police taser policy, Bryan's lawyers in this case, and bloggers making similar arguments, convinced the 9th Circuit Federal Appeals Court to write these requirements and limitations into Federal caselaw, which is probably faster, better and politically safer than having the restrictions enacted into law by the US Congress. <br />
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Afrosphere bloggers and the Ninth Circuit encourage other circuits to follow this example by observing that:<br />
</span> <div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-left: 40px;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span lang="EN-US">"We, along with our sister circuits, have held that tasers and stun guns fall into the category of non-lethal force.<span> </span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US"><span> </span>Non-lethal, however, is not synonymous with non-excessive; all force—lethal and non-lethal—must be justified by the need for the specific level of force employed." </span></b><b><a href="http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2009/12/28/08-55622.pdf" target="_blank">Bryan v. McPherson</a></b></span><br />
</div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"> Not everyone -- blogger or reader -- has had a chance to read the whole <b><a href="http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2009/12/28/08-55622.pdf" target="_blank">Bryan v. McPherson</a></b> case. So, <a href="http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/federal-appeals-court-limits-taser-use" target="_blank"><b>the Easy-Widget quotes the most powerful language of the decision</b></a> and links to our afrosphere blogs for more information.<br />
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In <b><a href="http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2009/12/28/08-55622.pdf" target="_blank">Bryan v. McPherson</a></b>, the 9th Circuit Federal Appeals Court basically wrote into federal caselaw many of the arguments that we taser opponents have been arguing. But this is better than what many of us had sought, because instead of it being a change in local optionally enforced "guidelines," it's a change in obligatorily obeyed federal case law for the states in the 9th Circuit, and also, as the decision alludes, the 9th Circuit has enormous influence on other "sister" circuits courts.<br />
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Please <a href="http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/federal-appeals-court-limits-taser-use" target="_blank"><b>join Electrocuted While Black</b></a> in celebrating this decision by <b><a href="http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/federal-appeals-court-limits-taser-use" target="_blank">posting a widget that tells readers their rights</a></b> and takes them to a blog where they can learn more, be it Electrocuted While Black or the Police Brutality Blog. Installation of the Easy-Widget below is a quick and easy way to quote some of the best parts of the case for your readers.<span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Cscript%20type=%22text/javascript%22%20src=%22http://cdn.widgetserver.com/syndication/subscriber/InsertWidget.js%22%3E%3C/script%3E%3Cscript%3Eif%20%28WIDGETBOX%29%20WIDGETBOX.renderWidget%28%278069ec42-5c08-4b96-8153-38181453cd8f%27%29;%3C/script%3E%3Cnoscript%3EGet%20the%20%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/tasered-while-black-opposes-taser-torture%22%3ETasered%20While%20Black%20Opposes%20Taser%20Torture%3C/a%3E%20widget%20and%20many%20other%20%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.widgetbox.com/%22%3Egreat%20free%20widgets%3C/a%3E%20at%20%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.widgetbox.com%22%3EWidgetbox%3C/a%3E%21%20Not%20seeing%20a%20widget?%20%28%3Ca%20href=%22http://docs.widgetbox.com/using-widgets/installing-widgets/why-cant-i-see-my-widget/%22%3EMore%20info%3C/a%3E%29%3C/noscript%3E" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=taser+abuse&btnG=Google+Search" target="_blank"> </a><a href="http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/content/view.php?pk_id=0000000135" target="_blank">http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/<wbr></wbr>content/view.php?pk_id=<wbr></wbr>0000000135</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/14353/stop-taser-torture-blogging-for-justice-day" target="_blank">http://www.pamshouseblend.com/<wbr></wbr>diary/14353/stop-taser-<wbr></wbr>torture-blogging-for-justice-<wbr></wbr>day</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/13151/taser-abuse-how-many-have-to-die-before-something-is-done-about-it" target="_blank"> http://www.pamshouseblend.com/<wbr></wbr>diary/13151/taser-abuse-how-<wbr></wbr>many-have-to-die-before-<wbr></wbr>something-is-done-about-it</a><br />
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<a href="http://francislholland.blogspot.com/2009/12/important-taser-case-is-must-read-for.html" target="_blank">http://francislholland.<wbr></wbr>blogspot.com/2009/12/<wbr></wbr>important-taser-case-is-must-<wbr></wbr>read-for.html</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Tasered+While+Black%22&btnG=Search&aq=f&oq=&aqi=" target="_blank"> http://www.google.com/search?<wbr></wbr>hl=en&q=%22Tasered+While+<wbr></wbr>Black%22&btnG=Search&aq=f&oq=&<wbr></wbr>aqi=</a></b></span></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184256412786835910.post-44512911038506477122009-11-17T11:46:00.000-05:002009-11-17T11:46:11.009-05:00Police in Texas taser torture for low-level, non-violent misdemeanors like disruption of class or disorderly conduct<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">According to Cameron Langford at the <a href="http://www.courthousenews.com/2009/11/16/Watchdog_Wants_Info_On_Police_Use_of_Force_Against_Schoolkids.htm">Court House News Service</a>, Police in Texas public schools are increasingly using force against children, including Tasers and pepper spray, and the "overwhelming majority" of police "interventions" involve "low-level, non-violent misdemeanors like disruption of class or disorderly conduct," a public interest group says.<br />
Texas Appleseed claims the Spring Branch Independent School District is putting students at risk and violating the law by refusing to release its "use of force" policy. <br />
More than 75 percent of Spring Branch, a suburb northwest of Houston, is black or Latino. The school district claims its use of force policy is exempt from disclosure because of the exception for law enforcement.<br />
Texas Appleseed says it sent open records requests to 24 Texas school districts, seeking their police departments' use of force policies, and 11 produced the documents. The group say its investigation revealed accounts of police in Texas public schools using pepper spray and Tasers on students.<br />
"The public interest in ensuring full dialogue around policies relating to use force on Texas school children outweighs any risk to SBISD-PD's ability to affect arrests or engage in law enforcement on its campuses," Texas Appleseed says in its complaint in Harris County Court.<br />
Appleseed says that reports of Texas school police using pepper spray and Tasers on school children are becoming more common. It says the data its has received shows the "overwhelming majority of law enforcement interventions on Texas school campuses involve school-aged children cited or arrested for low-level, non-violent misdemeanors like disruption of class or disorderly conduct." <a href="http://www.courthousenews.com/2009/11/16/Watchdog_Wants_Info_On_Police_Use_of_Force_Against_Schoolkids.htm">Read More HERE</a></span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">TWB Publisher says: I'm glad to see that a watchdog group wants Info on Police Use of Force Against Schoolkids. It's time to stop the torture of school children in our public school system. Where is the U.S. Department of Justice when we need them to protect our children? Texas is not the only state torturing our children. </span><br />
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</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184256412786835910.post-55097917486336500092009-10-30T05:49:00.000-04:002009-10-30T05:50:31.321-04:00Congressional Black Caucus Members Under Investigation<img style="visibility: visible; width: 361px; height: 233px;" src="http://cdn.newsone.com/files/2009/06/cbcpic.jpg" id="imgPreview" /><br /><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/29/AR2009102904597.html?hpid=topnews">The Washington Post</a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> is reporting that House ethics investigators have been scrutinizing the activities of more than 30 lawmakers and several aides in inquiries about issues including defense lobbying and corporate influence peddling, according to a confidential House ethics committee report prepared in July.</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" linkindex="50" target="_self" class="usg-AFQjCNHL_77LDejkKeD8ip5WTroorV-lRg sig2-_9D_8Q3e4-d_vzmE0KCfsQ" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/29/AR2009102904597.html">Dozens in Congress under ethics inquiry</a><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><div id="byline"><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><a linkindex="156" href="http://projects.washingtonpost.com/staff/articles/ellen+nakashima+and+paul+kane/" title="Send an e-mail to Ellen Nakashima and Paul Kane">Ellen Nakashima and Paul Kane</a> staff writers with the Washington Post are reporting the a number of members of the Congressional Black Caucus are being investigated for defense lobbying and corporate influence peddling, according to a confidential House ethics committee report prepared in July.</span><br /><br /><div id="gallery_photo" class="gallery_pane active"><img style="width: 227px; height: 170px;" src="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/img/rangel_101509.jpg" alt="Rep. Charles Rangel is seen during a hearing of his Ways and Means Committee on Capitol Hill Oct. 15. (AP Photo)" /><p class="caption">Rep. Charles Rangel . (AP Photo)</p> </div><span style="font-size:100%;">The document also disclosed that ethics committee staff members have interviewed House Ways and Means Chairman <span class="aptureLink" id="apture_prvw3"><span style="background-position: right -347px;" class="aptureLinkIcon"> </span><a linkindex="306" class="aptureLink snap_noshots" href="http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/r000053">Charles B. Rangel</a></span> (D-N.Y.) about one element of the complex investigation of his personal finances, as well as the lawmaker's top aide and his son.<br /><br />Rangel said he spoke with ethics committee staff members regarding a conference that he and four other members of the Congressional Black Caucus attended last November in St. Martin. The trip initially was said to be sponsored by a nonprofit foundation run by a newspaper. But the three-day event, at a luxury resort, was underwritten by major corporations such as Citigroup, Pfizer and AT&T. Rules passed in 2007, shortly after Democrats reclaimed the majority following a wave of corruption cases against Republicans, bar private companies from paying for congressional travel. </span></div></span> <p face="trebuchet ms"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/29/AR2009102904597.html?hpid=topnews">According to Wapo </a>Rangel said he has not discussed other parts of the investigation of his finances with the committee. "I'm waiting for that, anxiously," he said.<br /></p><p face="trebuchet ms"><!--/group--> </p><dl style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="story-image"><dt><img src="http://images.politico.com/global/news/091029_waters_rich_ap_223.jpg" alt="Reps. Maxine Waters and Laura Richardson are seen." width="274" height="206" /></dt></dl><p face="trebuchet ms">There is more.. <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/29/AR2009102904597.html?hpid=topnews">According to Wapo</a>, <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1009/28912.html">Politico</a>, and <a linkindex="41" target="_self" class="usg-AFQjCNEeew3izBCyoUy6gHlYKx8ILR9C3Q sig2-vEsbFqfw7d6Fl7Ke_ol3uw" href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-richardson30-2009oct30,0,1633862.story">The LA Times</a>, the committee did not detail the two newly disclosed investigations. However, according to the July document, <span class="aptureLink" id="apture_prvw5"><span style="background-position: right -347px;" class="aptureLinkIcon"> </span><a linkindex="293" class="aptureLink snap_noshots" href="http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/w000187">Rep. Maxine Waters</a></span>, a high-ranking member of the House Financial Services Committee, came under scrutiny because of activities involving OneUnited Bank of Massachusetts, in which her husband owns at least $250,000 in stock. Waters arranged a September 2008 meeting at the Treasury Department where OneUnited executives asked for government money. In December, Treasury selected OneUnited as an early participant in the bank bailout program, injecting $12.1 million. </p><p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;">AAPP: </span><a linkindex="52" href="http://aapoliticalpundit.blogspot.com/2009/10/congressional-black-caucus-beginning-of.html" id="p-7:cJbOXpwJzFIO59PbhEz_mA">Voters</a><span style="font-size:100%;"> in their congressional districts need to take a hard look at these </span><a linkindex="41" href="http://www.conunderground.com/corrupt-congressional-black-caucus-part-i/" id="p-3:s5AX7_E-adhGnyn2oFCYzQ">Corrupt <b>Congressional Black Caucus</b></a><span style="font-size:100%;"> members. It just may be time to throw these folks out of office. I know if any of them were representing me, I would vote them out of office in a heartbeat. I guess </span><a linkindex="36" href="http://aaea-la.blogspot.com/2009/10/cathy-hughes-attack-congressional-black.html" id="p-1:wOGQBnPRaPjQbf27oUCiyQ">Cathy Hughes</a><span style="font-size:100%;"> would do the same thing. If I were </span><a linkindex="48" href="http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/10/obama-meeting-with-progressives-and-key-democratic-caucus-groups-on-health-care.php" id="p-6:oSjhWHhBCr-Hd_xNKVGBog">Obama I would not m</a><a linkindex="48" href="http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/10/obama-meeting-with-progressives-and-key-democratic-caucus-groups-on-health-care.php" id="p-6:oSjhWHhBCr-Hd_xNKVGBog">eet<span style="font-weight: bold;"> with the Congressional Black Caucus</span></a><span style="font-size:100%;"> until they stop </span><a style="color: orange;" linkindex="59" href="http://blogs.bet.com/news/newsyoushouldknow/congressional-black-caucus-stands-up-for-rangel/" id="p-10:4XhFKVRLm9KQKcLDbdzZ0w">standing up for crooks</a><span style="font-size:100%;">, get there act together and purged those who bring the group into disgrace.<br /></span></p><p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;">I'm also getting a bit tired of these <a linkindex="86" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/us/politics/18ethics.html" target="_self" class="usg-AFQjCNFF04PLBEsj2o42_cm0bgWQQSxGJA sig2-qKL_WQatzN6xQ3Y6quHkMw">Congressional ethics inquiries, that have been dragging on for sometime despite vows to end corruption</a><span class="source"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">.</span></span><br /></span> </p><p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;">I guess I can understand why <a linkindex="83" target="_self" class="usg-AFQjCNGBgkVSqtRb786gqQT9pxdV938kOg sig2-AcEttRqODJVpm8HblrGVFw" href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,568592,00.html">some democrats are worried that one of their own could cost them their jobs.</a></span></p><p><a linkindex="83" target="_self" class="usg-AFQjCNGBgkVSqtRb786gqQT9pxdV938kOg sig2-AcEttRqODJVpm8HblrGVFw" href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,568592,00.html"><br /></a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184256412786835910.post-90657924099621276382009-10-27T08:42:00.000-04:002009-10-27T08:43:52.479-04:00Stop Taser Torture - Blogging For Justice - Dec 4 2009<span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" id="mn_Global"><span id="mn_Article"><p><img alt="http://www.seattlepi.com/dayart/20041201/TaserDeaths1201.gif" src="http://www.seattlepi.com/dayart/20041201/TaserDeaths1201.gif" /></p></span></span><!-- by stoptasertorture --> <div class="entry" face="times new roman"> <div class="snap_preview"> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><img src="http://www.policeone.com/policeone/data/images/upload/ACFA738.gif" /></p><p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:85%;">Source: <a href="http://www.correntewire.com/tasers_saving_cops_literally_seconds_during_routine_traffic_stops">correntewire.com</a><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:85%;">The stats only tell part of the story. I'm glad to note that there will be a <strong>annual <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">December 4th</span></strong><strong> blogging event</strong> called, <strong>“<span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);">Stop Taser Torture, blogging for Justice</span>.”</strong></span> </p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:85%;">The goal is to unite the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day – <strong>Taser Torture </strong>in America, Canada and throughout the world.</span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:85%;">Amnesty International says that between 2001 and August 2008, <a href="http://www.amnesty.ca/resource_centre/news/view.php?load=arcview&article=4543&c=Resource+Centre+News">334 Americans</a> died after Taser shocks. The stun gun was deemed to have caused or contributed to at least 50 of those deaths, Amnesty says, citing medical examiners and coroners. Most suspects were unarmed, and many were subjected to repeated or prolonged shocks, according to Amnesty. The human rights group has called for governments to limit the use of stun guns or suspend their use. In November 2007, the UN Committee Against Torture released a statement saying “use of Taser X26 weapons, provoking extreme pain, constituted a form of torture, and… in certain cases, it could also cause death.”</span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:85%;">Join in on <strong>December 4th</strong>. <strong>“Stop Taser Torture, blogging for Justice.” </strong>as we raise awareness and trigger a global discussion.</span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:85%;">Contact us at: <a href="mailto:StopTaserTorture@gmail.com" target="_blank">StopTaserTorture@gmail.com</a> to register your blog.</span></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Visit: <a href="http://stoptasertorture.wordpress.com/about/">Stop Taser Torture</a></span></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" face="trebuchet ms"><br /></p> </div></div></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184256412786835910.post-85468890024246056612009-10-24T13:50:00.002-04:002009-10-24T13:51:25.785-04:00Tasers, Taser International and messages of the Heart<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >Well it looks like Taser International has said </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><a style="color: blue;" href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.saysuncle.com/2009/10/22/taser-acknowledges-their-product-may-cause-cardiac-arrest/&ct=ga&cd=yzr9gU-3reM&usg=AFQjCNFLGlR0febSgGGlfOfubqgGHAxQGg" target="_blank">Uncle.</a></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" > The </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><a style="color: blue;" href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://abclocal.go.com/wjrt/story%3Fsection%3Dnews/local%26id%3D7080269&ct=ga&cd=vS7rhGBC0n4&usg=AFQjCNEVIspRnKhgtlnPww2u4Rmq9hUm4w" target="_blank">Makers of <b>TASER</b> devices say don't aim at chest</a></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >. As reported by many bloggers, including the <a href="http://electronicvillage.blogspot.com/2009/10/taser-advisory-to-cops-our-guns-may.html">Electronic Village</a>, <a href="http://www.ajc.com/news/taser-company-issues-heart-169951.html">news outlets</a> and </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><a realurl="http://rawstory.com/2009/10/fire-tasers-chest/" linkindex="72" done="done" href="http://rawstory.com/2009/10/fire-tasers-chest/" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','12','AFQjCNF-4TPO3SyGeWuEjyUbsWw-ryaeRA','&sig2=wouWn4j2o4C2S9z1P4pobQ','0CDAQFjAL')">internet <em></em></a></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" > <a href="http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/oct/22/taser-warns-of-risk-to-heart/">sources</a>, Taser maker Taser International is advising police agencies across the nation to avoid aiming the devices at a suspect’s chest. The Arizona-based company says such action poses an “extremely low” risk of an “adverse cardiac event.” The Atlanta Journal reports that Law enforcement in Atlanta, Gwinnett and <a href="http://g.ajc.com/r/Cd/">Clayton County</a> said they are in the process of scheduling training for their officers who carry Tasers.<br /></span> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:100%;">“It won’t be a huge change. It’s a difference of a few inches,” said Sgt. Tony Kessler, a training officer for the <a href="http://g.ajc.com/r/Cd/">Clayton County</a> Sheriff. “We still have the back and other parts of the body.”</span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:100%;">Gwinnett Police spokesman Cpl. David Schiralli said the Taser manufacturer only “recommended aiming lower towards the abdominal region,” but said the 279 officers who have Tasers will be retrained.</span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://g.ajc.com/r/Ch/">Cobb County</a> Police are already ahead of the game, spokesman Officer Joe Hernandez said. Cobb’s 100 Tasers are carried by only veteran patrol officers, the Tactical Team, Burglary Apprehension Team and robbery interdiction squad. <a href="http://www.ajc.com/news/taser-company-issues-heart-169951.html">More HERE</a></span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:100%;">The advisory, issued in an Oct. 12 training bulletin, marks the first time that Taser has suggested any risk of ill effects on the heart from the use of its 50,000-volt stun guns. <a href="http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/oct/22/taser-warns-of-risk-to-heart/">More HERE</a></span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" > <span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://electronicvillage.blogspot.com/2009/10/taser-advisory-to-cops-our-guns-may.html">Electronic Village</a> reports, <a linkindex="356" href="http://www.taser.com/">Taser International</a>, the maker of taser guns is advising police officers to avoid <a href="http://eddiegriffinbasg.blogspot.com/2009/08/towards-closure-and-resolution-in-taser.html">shooting suspects</a> in the chest with the 50,000-volt weapon, saying that it could pose an extremely low risk of an "<em>adverse cardiac event</em>."</span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><strong>The advisory, issued in an <a linkindex="357" href="http://www.policeone.com/policeone/data/pdfs/TASER_Media_Bulletin.pdf">Oct. 12 training bulletin</a>, marks the first time that Taser has suggested any risk of ill effects on the heart from the use of its 50,000-volt taser guns</strong>.<br /><br /><a href="http://electronicvillage.blogspot.com/2009/10/taser-advisory-to-cops-our-guns-may.html">Electronic Village</a> goes on to report that <a href="http://taseredwhileblack.blogspot.com/">critics</a>, including civil-rights lawyers and human-rights advocates, called the training bulletin an admission by Taser that its guns could cause cardiac arrest. For years, Taser officials have said in interviews, court cases and government hearings that the stun gun is <strong>incapable</strong> of inducing ventricular fibrillation, the chaotic heart rhythm characteristic of a heart attack. <a href="http://electronicvillage.blogspot.com/2009/10/taser-advisory-to-cops-our-guns-may.html">More HERE</a> There have been more than 400 deaths in the U.S. and 26 in Canada since 2001, according to a study by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Tasers have contributed to more than 30 of those deaths, according to medical examiners.</span> </p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:100%;">Three of those occurred in the <a href="http://g.ajc.com/r/Cm/">Gwinnett County</a> jail after deputies used a Taser on combative inmates. Autopsies showed two of those deaths were the result of heart attacks, but did not cite what caused the cardiac arrest. The other death was ruled the result of “excited delirium” – a combination of cocaine, alcohol and physical exertion that excited his heart too much, according to the medical examiner.</span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:100%;">A spokeswoman for the Gwinnett sheriff said Taser International's training bulletin has already been sent out to all of the deputies who carry Tasers. </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://electronicvillage.blogspot.com/2009/10/taser-advisory-to-cops-our-guns-may.html">More HERE</a></span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:100%;">"All future training will have it incorporated too," sheriff's spokeswoman Stacey Bourbonnais said Thursday.</span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:100%;">The Publisher of the </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="641" href="http://taseredwhileblack.blogspot.com/">Tasered While Black</a></span><span style="font-size:100%;"> Blog said: "Well it looks like this announcement by Taser International is having major impact on law enforcement standard operating procedures. Let's see if it make any difference on the</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> streets of Amderica, or will cops actually aim at the chest in the future, as a way of killing people." </span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span></p> <h3 style="clear: left; padding-top: 10px; font-weight: normal; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="r"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a realurl="http://www.kdvr.com/news/kdvr-tasers-heart-attacks-102109,0,2494988.story" linkindex="46" done="done" href="http://www.kdvr.com/news/kdvr-tasers-heart-attacks-102109,0,2494988.story" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','5','AFQjCNFJpZ8I1QrksUp17uLjmNxQ5-psYw','&sig2=hO468uJDAx9GbryN6YrKwA','0CBsQFjAE')">Boulder, Colorado ACLU wants <em>Tasers</em> holstered<br /></a></span></h3> <span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><a style="color: blue;" href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.koat.com/news/21398138/detail.html&ct=ga&cd=HIY3C7pHuhk&usg=AFQjCNHWBzFAj-LDF8kb4xgg2J4EmfnEow" target="_blank">New Guidelines For APD On Taser Gun Use - Albuquerque News Story</a><br /><br /><a style="color: blue;" href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.wlky.com/news/21405874/detail.html&ct=ga&cd=ZHT4VlJI1Q0&usg=AFQjCNEnsgBn9PUpzLE_ZJqVjReL8_NMSQ" target="_blank">Metro <b>Police</b> Change <b>Taser</b> Policy</a><br /><br /><a style="color: blue;" href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.kansascity.com/115/story/1526571.html&ct=ga&cd=vazlMVsX_IQ&usg=AFQjCNHwZDShCreIzijlUVoZskm2ZWC97Q" target="_blank"> <b>Police</b> rethink stun-gun policy</a><br /></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><br />Read more on tasering at the following blogs.<br /><br /></span><br /> <ul style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="39" href="http://police-brutality-blog.blogspot.com/">Police Brutality Blog</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://electronicvillage.blogspot.com/2009/10/taser-advisory-to-cops-our-guns-may.html">Electronic Village</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="616" href="http://www.cameronward.com/">a. cameron ward & company, barristers and solicitors</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="617" href="http://www.civilrightsmovement.ca/">canadian civil rights movement</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="618" href="http://www.cbc.ca/national/blog/special_feature/a_deadly_landing/">cbc - a deadly landing</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="619" href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/interactives/tasers/">cbc - taser database</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="620" href="http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/12/04/taser-tests.html?ref=rss">cbc - taser tests</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="621" href="http://www.cbc.ca/national/blog/special_feature/the_truth_about_tasers/">cbc - the truth about tasers</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="622" href="http://www.charlydmiller.com/LIB07/2006TaserCollection.html">charly miller - tasers</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="623" href="http://creekside1.blogspot.com/search/label/TASER%E2%84%A2">creekside</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="624" href="http://www.thumperwatch.org/dont.tase.me.bro/">don't tase me bro</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="625" href="http://educate-yourself.org/pnt/index.shtml">educate-yourself</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="626" href="http://electronicvillage.blogspot.com/search?q=taser">electronic village</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="627" href="http://www.evidunce.com/">evidunce (new)</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="628" href="http://excited-delirium.blogspot.com/">excited-delirium</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="629" href="http://feralcops.blogspot.com/">feral cops (new)</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="630" href="http://abbink.blogspot.com/search?q=taser">getting it right</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="631" href="http://nateo.blogspot.com/">it all goes here</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="632" href="http://nomoretasers.com/">no more tasers</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="633" href="http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/ban-tasers-from-police">petition - outlaw law enforcement use of tasers</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="635" href="http://www.preventdangerousharm.com/index.html">prevent dangerous harm</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="636" href="http://www.raidh.org/">RAIDH (France)</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="637" href="http://settingcommissionerfantinostraight.blogspot.com/">setting fantino straight</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="638" href="http://stoptasers.org/">stat - stop taser abuse today</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="639" href="http://tasernation.wordpress.com/">taser nation</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="640" href="http://www.taser.org.uk/">taser org uk</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="641" href="http://taseredwhileblack.blogspot.com/">tasered while black</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="642" href="http://taseredwhilelatino.blogspot.com/">tasered while latino (new)</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="643" href="http://taserfilm.blogspot.com/">taserfilm (new)</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="644" href="http://taserwatch.newsvine.com/">taserwatch</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="645" href="http://theduckshoot.com/blog/category/taser-watch/">the duck shoot - taser-watch (new)</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="646" href="http://taserdeaths.org/">the taser deaths blog</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="40" href="http://taseroftheday.blogspot.com/">Taser of The Day/</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="41" href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/taser">Gizmodo</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="42" href="http://truthnottasers.blogspot.com/">Truth Not Tasers</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="43" href="http://taserwatch.newsvine.com/">Taser Watch</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="44" href="http://excited-delirium.blogspot.com/">Excited-Delirium</a></span></li></ul> <span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://taseredwhileblack.blogspot.com/"><br /></a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184256412786835910.post-53080457705790994622009-10-09T10:50:00.001-04:002009-10-09T10:52:40.079-04:00The First Race Card Nobel Peace Prize<span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >The <a href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2009/10/president-barack-obama-awarded-2009-nobel-peace-prize/" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','1','AFQjCNEf6suJ587b_a0EDoPituyauFD4ug','&sig2=QyxSY0XRNSQ3sqZvXVqi0Q')">headlines</a> <a href="http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/1815618,barack-obama-nobel-peace-prize-100909.article">say it all</a>.<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8298787.stm" target="_self" class="usg-AFQjCNEixBeqhmzULZFGwc4LimGO5B8VcQ sig2-g53AjAFHBsEbjKZ7EqiGlQ"><b> Obama</b> gets reward for world view</a> - <span class="source">BBC News,</span> <a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2009/10/obama_strikes_gold_in_scandana.html?hpid=opinionsbox1" target="_self" class="usg-AFQjCNHWlkQQgj1TzdXasYbJ9S_HioumcQ sig2-52TFkac85681WmNTlgkuCg"><b>Obama</b> Strikes Gold</a> <span class="source">- The Washington Post, </span><a target="_self" class="usg-AFQjCNExgTkdpRlsYT6lSTnqOhU36nP7Cw sig2-HlSI5K10hm2kWZxO2oSEsg" href="http://blogs.wsj.com/capitaljournal/2009/10/09/the-nobel-prize-and-europeans-views-of-america/">The Nobel Prize, and Europeans' Views of America.<br /></a></span><div style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="additional-article"><div class="aa-inner"> </div></div><div style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="additional-article"><div class="aa-inner"> </div></div><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><br /><a target="_self" class="usg-AFQjCNGI7sA-J5mZSn41loEKZSHlZDnVzA sig2-mhmEh7Mij_09L9EAXp4InQ" href="http://wonkette.com/411531/your-2009-nobel-peace-prize-winner-is-american-president-barack-obama">President Barack Obama </a>won the 2009 <a target="_self" class="usg-AFQjCNElYl5nGT-9Ia1J_OxRBvs_YTNLkw sig2-YoupJKHEE7f8KP23rcAOzg" href="http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/10/09/obama-won-the-what/">Nobel Peace Prize</a> on Friday for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples," the Norwegian Nobel Committee said, citing his outreach to the Muslim world and attempts to curb nuclear proliferation.<br /><br />AAPP: I'm with so many Americans on this one. <span style="font-weight: bold;">I'm wondering what did President Barack Obama do to win the Nobel Prize.</span> What did he really do? Did he really win because he is the first black to win the Presidency of the United States? If so, this will be the first "Race Card-Nobel Prize." Barack has not solved the color arousal problem in America, Stopped the War on Afghanistan, or brought Peace to the Middle East, So... <span style="font-weight: bold;">What did Obama do to get the Nobel Peace Prize?</span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><br /><strong></strong></span> <div class="entry" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> <p><span style="font-size:100%;"><img style="width: 202px; height: 187px;" src="http://www.popfi.com/wp-content/uploads/nobel-peace-prize.JPG" alt="nobel-peace-prize.JPG" align="right" /></span></p></div><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >As reported by the Huffington post, The stunning choice made Obama the third sitting U.S. president to win the <a href="http://www.popfi.com/2009/10/09/obama-wins-nobel-peace-prize/">Nobel Peace Prize</a> and shocked Nobel observers because Obama took office less than two weeks before the Feb. 1 nomination deadline. Obama's name had been mentioned in speculation before the award but many Nobel watchers believed it was too early to award the president. <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/09/obama-wins-nobel-peace-pr_n_314907.html">More HERE</a><br /><br />The <a target="_self" class="usg-AFQjCNE9F7DWvXd71d5aMH1gAbA3zp_ddQ sig2-WYxb3gx2jtm9CPcyE7EWiw" href="http://www.blueoregon.com/2009/10/barack-obama-wins-the-nobel-peace-prize.html">bloggers</a> <a href="http://thisblksistaspage.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/president-barack-obama-nobel-laureate/" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','9','AFQjCNG9InWuj1L4Z4u8GuF63iauCkFDLQ','&sig2=Hl8ksaAVDRn6l2wbqQnsOQ')">are going<em></em><em></em></a> <a href="http://blackpoliticalthought.blogspot.com/2009/10/president-barack-obama-wins-2009-nobel.html" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','5','AFQjCNE7Esd9k5LQbPxun9raP6hpomu3NA','&sig2=FcSz38K1HUgKdJeG7E2NLg')">off the chain</a> <a href="http://electronicvillage.blogspot.com/2009/10/barack-obama-wins-nobel-peace-prize-for.html" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','1','AFQjCNHTYKFoC6RuK_nC-zW9d3a7RPOHHQ','&sig2=0PF8hv3C0278VVbbX-L1ZA')">reporting<em></em><em></em></a> on how <a target="_self" class="usg-AFQjCNGB0rZ6sl_IkN9SswAhzUdqVByLHw sig2-3H-wIt6TnLT9kMd0uFu7jQ" href="http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2009/10/09/obamas-nobel-win-stuns-even-at-white-house/">Obama's Nobel win stuns even the White House</a> as <a href="http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/13417/obama-wins-the-nobel-peace-prize-rightwingers-not-happy" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','4','AFQjCNFH-JSv5StohlSDDnNxFa78Wm939Q','&sig2=c_5fyvshVs_HIdLQzx38WQ')"><em>President Barack Obama</em></a> follows <a target="_self" class="usg-AFQjCNEgSgKW3FcWKYzkH8-tUqQjTVSWMw sig2-5KQumJFZtXWR_TlJgs39cg" href="http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2009/10/09/make-room-al-gore-obamas-nobel-prize-is-also-for-climate-change/">Al Gore by obtaining this high honor.</a><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /><br /></span>OK, Don't hate me for saying this, and I know <a href="http://blackpoliticsontheweb.com/2009/10/09/archbishop-desmond-tutu%E2%80%99s-statement-following-the-announcement-of-president-barack-obama-winning-the-nobel-peace-prize/" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','7','AFQjCNFq-6kGaaIpkEfByD4s3N6qVBHLaw','&sig2=DX_iGJ7Lu8M215DIAcgAqw')">Archbishop Desmond Tutu</a> and <a href="http://www.wichitanaacpblog.com/2009/10/statement-of-archbishop-desmond-tutu-on.html" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','12','AFQjCNEiRhn-XPzfXmaJsBiuokArMIn_mg','&sig2=u8LPGdPsCFxFenNW1lgdTg')">many others</a> may <a href="http://slanttruth.com/2008/09/08/in-honor-of-community-organizing/" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','18','AFQjCNGKPufVFSt33lPl-z28KprtEP2HAw','&sig2=lhbnYcOKl-yvV0ST0XcIOw')">disagree</a> with me, but I don't get why he received the Nobel prize, but I'm not going to join the idiots and <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2009/10/09/even-mainstream-media-stunned-skeptical-over-nobel-peace-prize/">right wingers</a> who an <a target="_self" class="usg-AFQjCNHuAqmkB0KD7nOP_Zhj68sl-8X1Tw sig2-s0JHCKNB4NpkTG-ZYhOLBQ" href="http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2009/10/09/online-petition-protests-obamas-nobel-win/">online petition that protests Obama's Nobel win</a>.<br /><br />Yes, there are many bloggers, including black bloggers like <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=8&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.averagebro.com%2F2009%2F10%2Fpeace-out.html&ei=9ELPSqPRNNXR8Aa5zK3uAw&usg=AFQjCNEuInPdE_hivh2M0zuzBoqIjRrVFQ&sig2=CWFAT-ZBbQvVL8EVL5ITeA" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','8','AFQjCNEuInPdE_hivh2M0zuzBoqIjRrVFQ','&sig2=CWFAT-ZBbQvVL8EVL5ITeA')">AverageBro.com<em></em></a> who wonder why <a target="_self" class="usg-AFQjCNG4WgPZNoTEC5VkI3blWzhZKcWPKg sig2-8wZ2nN4-MlGByx7c_ZhROg" href="http://blogs.wsj.com/iainmartin/2009/10/09/barack-obama-wins-nobel-peace-prize-for-what/">Barack Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize?</a> Some are wondering if Barack Obama received a<a target="_self" class="usg-AFQjCNGjckEO6_6EHgLDOqvKQCeJRECMww sig2-qb1DvyfmaVigLdoSaXRBsA _tracked" href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct2=us%2F0_0_s_16_0_t&usg=AFQjCNGjckEO6_6EHgLDOqvKQCeJRECMww&sig2=qb1DvyfmaVigLdoSaXRBsA&cid=1448227439&ei=JjrPSojrE4vVlQeZz6uMAw&rt=STORY&vm=STANDARD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbaracksteleprompter.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F10%2Fthats-nobel-prize-winning-teleprompter.html"> Nobel-Prize for his teleprompter skills?</a> Candidly I don't think <a target="_self" class="usg-AFQjCNFqxU6iMEKmYbzmcbK1DOU-tEbuqg sig2-2tac2RFmfISdJ-rJx0WsBg" href="http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/dennis-byrne-barbershop/2009/10/obamas-tarnished-dangerous-peace-prize.html">Obama's Nobel Prize is tarnished as some right wingers think.</a><br /><br />I salute and congratulate our President for winning the Nobel Peace prize, I just wonder out loud why he received the prize for his outreach to the Muslim world and attempts to curb nuclear proliferation.<br /></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><br />As the <a href="http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/2009/10/what-is-the-point-of-the-nobel-peace-prize/">Financial Times</a> points out— “It is hard to point to a single place where Obama’s efforts have actually brought about peace.”<br /><br />The <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6867711.ece">Times of London</a>, is right! The Nobel committee has made a mockery of the award.</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><br />Candidly, I would like to see our President outreach into communities like New Orleans here in the US of A and attempt to curb black on black gun violence, tasering of Americans by police and gun proliferation in America, particularly in the African American communities. Then he would be a Nobel Peace Prize winner of the caliber of Martin Luther King, Jr.<br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Until then, This Prize is nothing more than the first "Race-Card Nobel Peace Prize."</span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><br /><br />That's my opinion... and I could be right.<br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://aapoliticalpundit.blogspot.com">African American Political Pundit</a> is a regular contributor to this blog.</span><br /></div><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184256412786835910.post-38471643247682695592009-09-18T05:57:00.000-04:002009-09-18T05:58:18.936-04:00NAACP Joins Fight For Federal Taser Standards<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >The Publisher of </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><a realurl="http://taseredwhileblack.blogspot.com/" linkindex="30" done="done" href="http://taseredwhileblack.blogspot.com/" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','1','AFQjCNG2ZASLf5-_nGhgnUbaqlSnAh5NzA','&sig2=ZVEy9FvpF70PXccnoflUEA')"><em>Tasered While Black</em></a><span style="display: inline-block;"></span><span class="m"> </span></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >says: Finally the National Office of the NAACP is discussing the issue of Black folks getting </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><a realurl="http://taseredwhileblack.blogspot.com/" linkindex="30" done="done" href="http://taseredwhileblack.blogspot.com/" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','1','AFQjCNG2ZASLf5-_nGhgnUbaqlSnAh5NzA','&sig2=ZVEy9FvpF70PXccnoflUEA')"><em>Tasered While Black</em></a><span style="display: inline-block;"></span><span class="m"></span></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >. We salute the fact that Ben Jealous has joined in this fight. I hope that the National office of the NAACP's new involvement is sincere, and is not just another PR effort that they have been famous for in the past.<br /><br />Let's see if the NAACP will join the already established effort of the Afrospear and </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><a realurl="http://taseredwhileblack.blogspot.com/" linkindex="30" done="done" href="http://taseredwhileblack.blogspot.com/" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','1','AFQjCNG2ZASLf5-_nGhgnUbaqlSnAh5NzA','&sig2=ZVEy9FvpF70PXccnoflUEA')"><em>Tasered While Black</em></a><span style="display: inline-block;"></span><span class="m"> </span></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >to gain a </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><a realurl="http://taserhearings.blogspot.com/" linkindex="41" done="done" href="http://taserhearings.blogspot.com/" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','1','AFQjCNHHf8RrSiDFhgcuFdUJlCWvYVz99g','&sig2=OLuGVt0WrZJ5pA09v3Pt6Q')">Congressional <em>Taser Hearings</em></a></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"> or will they go it alone, and establish a new effort for PR purposes... Only time will tell. </span><br /><br /></span> <p><span style="font-size:85%;color:#000000;"> <table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" width="157" height="198"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top"> <div><span style="font-size:78%;"><img alt="" src="http://www.afro.com/Portals/1/people/naacp-jealous.jpg" width="141" height="175" /></span></div> <span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >Benjamin Jealous<br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table></span></p> <span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >As reported on the NAACP Website and the Afro Newspaper in Baltimore Maryland, </span><span id="dnn_ctr1619_ContentPane" class="DNNAlignleft"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >(September 17, 2009) - The NAACP is renewing a push for federal standards on police use of force after the shooting of an unarmed Black man by two White police officers inside a church while day care children watched, the Associated Press reported.<br /><br /> According to witnesses, the man was surrendering but officials in Rockford, Ill., deny this description of events, saying Mark Anthony Barmore attempted to grab an officer's gun after they cornered him in the church.<br /><br /> However, both sides agree Barmore ran when officers approached him in the church parking lot, highlighting the suspicion and fear that can poison relationships between police and minority communities across the country.<br /><br /> "There are no national standards for the use of force (or) training for use of force," Benjamin Todd Jealous, president and CEO of the NAACP, said Sept. 11. <a href="http://www.afro.com/tabId/551/itemId/4704/NAACP-Cites-Foul-Play-in-Police-Shooting-of-Unarme.aspx">MORE HERE</a><br /><br /></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184256412786835910.post-52408823886188133752009-09-12T18:49:00.001-04:002009-09-12T18:50:56.083-04:00Anti-Post Racial - White, Anti-Barack Obama Rallies Across AmericaRace<div style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="cnnT1Img"><span style="font-size:100%;"><img src="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2009/POLITICS/09/12/tea.party.rally/t1home.tea.party.gi.jpg" alt="Tea party demonstrators gather at U.S. Capitol" border="0" vspace="0" width="265" height="239" hspace="0" /></span></div> <h4 style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><script type="text/javascript">document.write(cnnRenderT1TimeStamp(1252782298294));</script></h4> <div style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="cnnT1Blurb"><span style="font-size:100%;">Let's call it, like it is. A <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/12/AR2009091200971.html?nav=hcmoduletmv">99.9 % White Anti Obama movement</a> marched to the U.S. Capitol today to protest Obama health care reform, higher taxes and what they see as out-of-control government spending. One has to wonder <a href="http://field-negro.blogspot.com/2009/09/hip-hop-mike-at-howard.html">where these folks were</a> for eight years when George W. Bush was detroying America? I guess <a linkindex="45" href="http://aapoliticalpundit.blogspot.com/2009/08/castro-says-right-wingers-hate-obama.html" id="p-4:eNGEafMslEDUM8YDw4DIoA">Castro is right.</a><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;">The conservative advocacy group made its way from California, hosting rallies in about 30 cities. <a linkindex="28" href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/12/tea.party.rally/index.html">CNN has full Coverage.</a><br /><br /></span></div> <span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><br /><img src="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2009/POLITICS/09/12/tea.party.express/art.obama.sign.cnn.jpg" alt="A protester uses a Nazi swastika to make a point at a Tea Party Express stop in Dallas, Texas." vspace="0" width="292" height="219" hspace="0" /><br /><br /></span> <!--startclickprintexclude--> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"> "Obamacare Condense Cream of Crap soup" reads a sign in Sparks, Nevada. In Dallas, Texas, a darker mood prevails. A homemade sign with "Obama Lies" features a bold, black swastika. </span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"> As the tour moves on, Nazi imagery becomes more prominent -- and sometimes confused. One sign at the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas, has Obama's portrait sandwiched between pictures of <a linkindex="37" href="http://topics.cnn.com/topics/Adolf_Hitler" class="cnnInlineTopic">Adolf Hitler</a> and communist philosopher Karl Marx. In Canton,Ohio, Obama and Hitler adorn a sign reading "Hitler made great speeches, too."<br /></span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:100%;">As reported by CNN, The Tea Party Express tour has been free of violence, but occasional outbursts of vitriolic hatred toward the president combined with some menacing outward appearances often overshadow the more moderate tea partyers. <a linkindex="40" href="http://www.ireport.com/tags/health_care">iReport.com: Weigh in on health care</a></span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"> In Louisville, Kentucky, two young men in camouflage fatigues roamed the crowd trying to recruit new members for their militia called the <a href="http://ovfreedomfighters.com/">Ohio Valley Freedom Fighters</a>. They bear signs reading "AK-47s: today's pitchfork" and "Quit worrying. Start your militia training today." </span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"> In Jackson, Michigan, a young man didn't need a sign. He was carrying the real thing: A loaded AK-47 assault rifle and two loaded handguns. </span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"> "I don't want a revolution. I don't want a civil war," he said. "But it is a possibility. It's there as an option, as a last resort." <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/12/tea.party.express/index.html">More HERE</a><br /></span></p> <span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/sunsLde_ZWY&hl=en&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/sunsLde_ZWY&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />AAPP: I wonder when President Obama and his administration will take a bolder stance on these fools carrying guns at these so called peaceful rallies? It's time for the Justice Department to stop these reckless fools. But that is just one African American Political Pundit's opinion. Then again, check out the recommended arms that white groups are stock piling against black folks. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Maybe, just maybe </span><a href="http://ovfreedomfighters.com/ohio_valley_freedom_fighters_008.htm">black folks should start arming ourselves - JUST IN CASE</a>.<br /><br />What is your opinion?<br /><br />This whole situation is so disgusting its laughable. I wonder what <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtlDVi_1JMg">Richard Pryor</a> would say about <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/health/policy/13plan.html?_r=1">public option health care</a> and guns? We can get a sense of that </span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtlDVi_1JMg">HERE.</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >----</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://aapoliticalpundit.blogspot.com/">African American Political Pundit</a><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" > is a 2008 DNCC </span><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.demconvention.com/credentialed-blogs/">Credentialed Democratic National Convention Blogger</a><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >. He is also a BlackTalk Radio and </span><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/africanamericanpoliticalpundit">BlogTalkRadio</a><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" > host, who shares this blog platform with others interested in candid, honest, reciprocal conversation about political and social issues impacting our diverse American communities.</span><p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"> </p><center style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/africanamericanpoliticalpundit"><img style="border: 1px solid ;" src="http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:ncnQp19rmymILM:http://www.blogtalkradio.com/pics/stationpics/no_image.jpg" width="116" height="116" /></a><center></center></center><center style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"></center><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Join in on the conversation every Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday at 10:00 PM EST on African American Political Pundit's "</span><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/africanamericanpoliticalpundit">Political Slugfest Show</a><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >."<br /><br /></span><center><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">If you can handle the truth!<br /><br /></span></span></center></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184256412786835910.post-29530717271263304402009-08-23T17:34:00.001-04:002009-08-23T17:36:42.461-04:00SCLC Fort Worth calls for FBI federal investigation into the taser death of Michael Patrick Jacobs<span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >On August 22, 2009, Rev. Kyev Tatum, President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference - Fort Worth Chapter wrote a letter to President Barack Obama requesting a FBI federal investigation into the taser death of Michael Patrick Jacobs while in custody of the Fort Worth Police Department.<br /><br />Rev. Tatum noted that the death was caused because of excessive deadly force to a mentally challenge African-American young man. He also noted that the crime was a hate crime because the officers, which were all white refused to assist this young man by providing CPR when he was unconscious. The officers also threaten the young man's mother with deadly force when she reached out to assist her son. Read the letter sent to President Obama below.<br /><br /></span><img alt="What We Think About Taser Abuse" id="Image2_img" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3Nil8CWZzjVVy97vIWRoEBnevm8CssS-4Xfp2skclhLPhoosv-tGpdKI6yRKVr0aMNW-PJAqSCwuPlF6X2_s5L_03i2apX2Ad049YVYX16WXd2g-9-3jiATCj8rZw_ZYn7zWU5Xn-Zhk/s240/Tasered+While+Black+Final.jpg" height="102" width="138" /><br /><a href="http://africanamericanpoliticalpundit.com/"><br /></a><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://africanamericanpoliticalpundit.com/">This blogger</a>, who is also publisher of the blog <a href="http://taseredwhileblack.blogspot.com/">Tasered While Black</a> supports Rev. Tatum's efforts and urges all readers of this blog to send letters to the President and to the U.S. Attorney General to investigate this case.<br /><br />We also urge you to <a href="http://www.petition2congress.com/2/1822/taser-torture-in-america-call-congressional-hearings/">sign the petition to hold Congressional Hearings</a> into Taser Use and Abuse in America.<br /><br />Here is the letter from Rev. Kyev Tatum, President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference - Fort Worth Chapter written to President Barack Obama:<br /><br /><br />Dear Mr. President:<br /><br />The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) Fort Worth Chapter is requesting a FBI federal investigation into the taser death of Michael Patrick Jacobs while in custody of the Fort Worth Police Department.<br /><br />We believe the death was caused because of excessive deadly force to a mentally challenge African-American young man.<br /><br />This crime was a hate crime because the officers, which were all white refused to assist this young man by providing CPR when he was unconscious. The officers also threaten the young man's mother with deadly force when she reached out to assist her son. One white male officer put his hand on his gun and told her "she better get back."<br /><br />Supportive News Story:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.star-telegram.com/news/story/1550263.html" target="_blank">http://www.star-telegram.com/<wbr>news/story/1550263.html</a><br /><br />It appears the Mayor and other city officers are trying to cover up the facts in this cause.<br /><br />We are requesting an immediate investigation of this case.<br /><br />I can be reached at 817-966-7625.<br /><br />Sincerely,<br /><br />Rev. Kyev Tatum,<br />President<br />Southern Christian Leadership Conference - Fort Worth Chapter<br />7510 John T White Road<br />Fort Worth, Texas 76120<br />817-966-7625<br /><br />Cc: SCLC National Office<br />Afrosphere<br />Dallas South<br /><br />AAPP says: <a href="http://www.petition2congress.com/2/1822/taser-torture-in-america-call-congressional-hearings/">Sign the petition to hold Congressional Taser Hearings into Taser Torture today</a>!<br /><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184256412786835910.post-62899445967390260782009-08-14T12:42:00.001-04:002009-08-14T12:42:47.301-04:00Inmates in the US - Tasered While Handcuffed or Restrained<img style="border: 1px solid ;" src="http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:5bsEBAnFZAONeM:http://images.watoday.com.au/2009/03/24/430258/Taser-gun-420x0.jpg" width="125" height="89" /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >Another reason for </span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><a realurl="http://www.petition2congress.com/2/1822/taser-torture-in-america-call-congressional-hearings/" linkindex="30" done="done" href="http://www.petition2congress.com/2/1822/taser-torture-in-america-call-congressional-hearings/" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','1','AFQjCNHLkMs5vVSWGIkiypcXhfCSEewo1g','&sig2=pamJuHmW_qNlE21MKD-4Fw')"><em>congressional hearings on Taser </em>Torture In America - A Call For <em>Congressional Hearings</em>.</a></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><br /><br />As reported by <span class="toolSet" style="width: 332px;"><span class="byline">By <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-oc-jails-investigation14-2009aug14,0,910769.story">Tami Abdollah at </a></span></span><a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-oc-jails-investigation14-2009aug14,0,910769.story">the LA Times</a>, The U.S. Department of Justice is conducting an investigation into Orange County's troubled jail system, examining a decade's worth of allegations that deputies mistreated inmates and used excessive force to keep control.<br /><br /> <img style="width: 294px; height: 176px; font-family: trebuchet ms;" src="http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2009-08/48645815.jpg" alt="Orange County jail" border="0" /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Officials from the department's Civil Rights Division are seeking to determine whether incidents of violence by jail personnel amount to a pattern of violating inmates' rights, the Sheriff's Department confirmed.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">The Orange County district attorney criticized deputies earlier this year for a "code of silence" that he said hampered prosecutors' ability to investigate possible criminal activities.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Among recent cases: An inmate was stomped to death by fellow prisoners after a deputy allegedly told them falsely that the man was a child molester. A county grand jury later criticized the Sheriff's Department for trying to impede the investigation into the death and concluded that there was evidence of rampant abuse at the Theo Lacy Jail in Orange.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">The department has also been criticized for using Taser stun guns on handcuffed or restrained inmates. </span><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-oc-jails-investigation14-2009aug14,0,910769.story">More HERE</a></span> <span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="small"> <span style="font-size:100%;"><span class="credit">Yet another reason why </span><a realurl="http://www.raveneye.org/?p=451" linkindex="42" done="done" href="http://www.raveneye.org/?p=451" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','4','AFQjCNHvuOKbwKJnvpYmYAAIcbLEsPHbSw','&sig2=rZBDF-KclegiSxvWcQQxJQ')">black bloggers have called for '<em>Congressional Taser</em> Torture <em>Hearings</em></a>. Visit the</span><a realurl="http://electronicvillage.blogspot.com/2009/07/taser-lawsuit-jarrell-gray-frederick.html" linkindex="29" done="done" href="http://electronicvillage.blogspot.com/2009/07/taser-lawsuit-jarrell-gray-frederick.html" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','1','AFQjCNGFtsrXf_8I89GgMgwrLFlEMnE1YQ','&sig2=TgP_O-9HAcWQiiNgCgdKQg')"><em> Electronic Village</em><em></em></a><span style="font-size:100%;">, </span><a realurl="http://afrospear.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/call-to-sign-the-petition-to-request-congressional-hearings-on-tasers/" linkindex="65" done="done" href="http://afrospear.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/call-to-sign-the-petition-to-request-congressional-hearings-on-tasers/" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','10','AFQjCNEF5ew5TioVMlJreQ_xOo7wywYnAw','&sig2=p3bKLhVZIJRb3SbCtj30BA')">afrospear<span style="font-style: italic;"> blog,</span></a><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><a realurl="http://newsone.com/nation/new-houston-epidemic-tasered-while-black/" linkindex="49" done="done" href="http://newsone.com/nation/new-houston-epidemic-tasered-while-black/" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','6','AFQjCNGNJ3ln2eu2_iowWMHc9ZjvLWhuyg','&sig2=-3N57zj8oMzx8Jm2YS96Dw')">NewsOne</a><span style="font-size:100%;">, </span><a realurl="http://newsone.com/nation/new-houston-epidemic-tasered-while-black/" linkindex="49" done="done" href="http://newsone.com/nation/new-houston-epidemic-tasered-while-black/" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','6','AFQjCNGNJ3ln2eu2_iowWMHc9ZjvLWhuyg','&sig2=-3N57zj8oMzx8Jm2YS96Dw')">Electrocuted <em>While Black,</em></a><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><a realurl="http://taseredwhileblack.blogspot.com/" linkindex="29" done="done" href="http://taseredwhileblack.blogspot.com/" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','1','AFQjCNG2ZASLf5-_nGhgnUbaqlSnAh5NzA','&sig2=H9nz9Q87QyE1maBVu_Kong')"><em>Tasered While Black</em></a><span style="font-size:100%;"> and </span><a realurl="http://aapoliticalpundit.blogspot.com/2009/07/assault-of-black-women-tasered-while.html" linkindex="45" done="done" href="http://aapoliticalpundit.blogspot.com/2009/07/assault-of-black-women-tasered-while.html" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','5','AFQjCNF679L5OV1_4xvgHuW7YADRPHwKMg','&sig2=uIB6ZwMbKCGvQswerXwIsA')">this blog</a><span style="font-size:100%;"> for more insight into the <a href="http://www.thesuperspade.com/a-day-of-blogging-for-justice-against-extra-judicial-electrocution-tasers/">tasing of black folks</a> in America. As tasers turn out to be America's</span><a realurl="http://www.bvblackspin.com/2008/07/15/taser-deaths/" linkindex="65" done="done" href="http://www.bvblackspin.com/2008/07/15/taser-deaths/" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','10','AFQjCNGatLBhBI2fturl8V7qfNp-fyBX2A','&sig2=4edj4RXtmVLUp5QpDww6sQ')"> 21st Century whips of terror.<em></em></a></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="small"><span style="font-size:100%;">Don't forget to s</span><span style=";font-size:100%;" >ign the petition </span><span style="font-size:100%;">against <a realurl="http://www.petition2congress.com/2/1822/taser-torture-in-america-call-congressional-hearings/" linkindex="30" done="done" href="http://www.petition2congress.com/2/1822/taser-torture-in-america-call-congressional-hearings/" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','1','AFQjCNHLkMs5vVSWGIkiypcXhfCSEewo1g','&sig2=pamJuHmW_qNlE21MKD-4Fw')"><em>Taser</em> Torture In America.</a></span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="small"><span style="font-size:100%;">Visit </span><a realurl="http://taseredwhileblack.blogspot.com/" linkindex="29" done="done" href="http://taseredwhileblack.blogspot.com/" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','1','AFQjCNG2ZASLf5-_nGhgnUbaqlSnAh5NzA','&sig2=H9nz9Q87QyE1maBVu_Kong')"><em>Tasered While Black</em></a><span style="font-size:100%;"> and </span><a realurl="http://aapoliticalpundit.blogspot.com/2009/07/assault-of-black-women-tasered-while.html" linkindex="45" done="done" href="http://aapoliticalpundit.blogspot.com/2009/07/assault-of-black-women-tasered-while.html" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','5','AFQjCNF679L5OV1_4xvgHuW7YADRPHwKMg','&sig2=uIB6ZwMbKCGvQswerXwIsA')">African American Political Pundit often.</a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184256412786835910.post-26047320739579070232009-08-02T20:28:00.001-04:002009-08-02T20:39:54.947-04:00The lack of a "black agenda" in America<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">There is a great article in the LA Times regarding the </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The lack of a black agenda.<br /></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="orgurl"> </div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;" id="wrapper_500"> </div> <div class="storysubhead" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 15px ! important; color: rgb(0, 0, 0) ! important; font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br />The writer, Erin Aubry Kaplan writes about how <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-aubrykaplan1-2009aug01,0,2381307.story">Barack Obama finally showed up</a>.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br />Erin Aubry Kaplan writes; </span><span style="font-size:100%;">On the centennial anniversary of the NAACP last month, the president took the microphone at the organization's convention in New York and, for the first time since his inauguration, spoke directly to black Americans.<br /></span></div><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Noting that it was "good to be among friends," he went on to deliver a clear, sometimes informal and impassioned speech on the state of the race -- </span><i style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">his </i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">race. He unselfconsciously used the terms "us" and "we." He charted the victories of the black past and described the present as much more paradoxical: Civil rights was the battle of the previous generation, he said, but persistent inequality is the fight of the present one. He even said that American society suffers from "structural inequality," a phrase loathed by conservatives and plenty of liberals too. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The appreciative audience shouted amens and hooted with pride. It was in part because of the work of the NAACP, Obama acknowledged, that he was able to stand before the organization on its 100th birthday as the 44th president of the United States, an astonishing development. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">And yet, today, the fate of black folk is far from certain and is in some ways less secure than at any time in the last 100 years. Why? Blacks don't have an agenda. </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">They have no lobby. </span></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><a realurl="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-aubrykaplan1-2009aug01,0,2381307.story" linkindex="34" done="done" href="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-aubrykaplan1-2009aug01,0,2381307.story" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','2','AFQjCNGKH4bxMEmVFMoZN2BRuwsoDHzwQA','&sig2=UitDgzFjbIdwWBKn1pr_hA')"><em>More HERE</em></a><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">AAPP: </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> I have been talking about this issue on </span></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">my </span></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><a realurl="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/africanamericanpoliticalpundit" linkindex="43" done="done" href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/africanamericanpoliticalpundit" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','4','AFQjCNE46GabOgxRRFbc-Tkhsi2_SfuGSQ','&sig2=qzFTvPRCczje17QMmkhMiA')">Blog Talk Radio</a></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" > Program</span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> and on this blog for some time. But I'm not the only one. The </span></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><a realurl="http://www.blackagendareport.com/" linkindex="30" done="done" href="http://www.blackagendareport.com/" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','1','AFQjCNHKyQ5yqmSvX8-Gd4VhgP_iDcfsRw','&sig2=fjUSZRaO5-JLzPe7Lc1FnQ')"><em>Black Agenda Report</em></a></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> has been addressing the need for a Black Agenda for some time. I urge all of my readers to take</span></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" > visit and read <a realurl="http://www.blackagendareport.com/" linkindex="30" done="done" href="http://www.blackagendareport.com/" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','1','AFQjCNHKyQ5yqmSvX8-Gd4VhgP_iDcfsRw','&sig2=fjUSZRaO5-JLzPe7Lc1FnQ')"><em>The Black Agenda Report</em>.</a></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" > They address many of the issues, Erin Aubry Kaplan writes about in his article.</span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><br /><br />Check out these other articles:<br /></span><div style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" id="sphere_fromweb" class="sphereContent"><ul class="listSphereRelated" id="list_fromweb"><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="94" href="http://www.sphere.com/rdr?s=tribune_latimes_inline&q=fromweb&c=tribune_latimes_inline-fromweb&t=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.guardian.co.uk%2Fcommentisfree%2F2009%2Faug%2F01%2Fpost-racial-america-myth" target="_new" onmouseup="Sphere.Tracker.track(this, 'tribune_latimes_inline', 'fromweb', 'Around+the+Web')">Post-racial America? Dream on</a><span class="sphereDocsetSeparator">|</span><span class="sphereDocsetUrl">guardian.co.uk</span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="95" href="http://www.sphere.com/rdr?s=tribune_latimes_inline&q=fromweb&c=tribune_latimes_inline-fromweb&t=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2009%2FLIVING%2Fwayoflife%2F07%2F20%2Fwhat.matters.obama%2Findex.html%3Feref%3Drss_politics" target="_new" onmouseup="Sphere.Tracker.track(this, 'tribune_latimes_inline', 'fromweb', 'Around+the+Web')">President Obama on what black America needs</a><span class="sphereDocsetSeparator">|</span><span class="sphereDocsetUrl">cnn.com</span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a linkindex="96" href="http://www.sphere.com/rdr?s=tribune_latimes_inline&q=fromweb&c=tribune_latimes_inline-fromweb&t=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2F2009%2F07%2F19%2Fjackson-black-leaders-wan_n_240415.html" target="_new" onmouseup="Sphere.Tracker.track(this, 'tribune_latimes_inline', 'fromweb', 'Around+the+Web')">Jackson: Black Leaders Want To Engage More With Obama</a><span class="sphereDocsetSeparator">|</span><span class="sphereDocsetUrl">huffingtonpost.com</span></span></li></ul></div><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >Join <a realurl="http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/community/AfricanAmericanPoliticalPundit/" linkindex="68" done="done" href="http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/community/AfricanAmericanPoliticalPundit/" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','10','AFQjCNEj5vkeBhgr3bnPClELHaG0Sg3OKg','&sig2=F3wUUBFU0XPGt6fWMndnVg')"><em>African American Political Pundit's </em>BlogLog</a></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">You can always check out what I have to say about current political issues on my </span></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><a realurl="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/africanamericanpoliticalpundit" linkindex="43" done="done" href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/africanamericanpoliticalpundit" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','4','AFQjCNE46GabOgxRRFbc-Tkhsi2_SfuGSQ','&sig2=qzFTvPRCczje17QMmkhMiA')">Blog Talk Radio</a></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" > Program.</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184256412786835910.post-28567446159167721992009-07-24T12:51:00.002-04:002009-07-24T13:08:46.468-04:00Obama, Gates, Police and Black Folks<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >When the President ran for the Presidency he </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >invoked his dear white mother and grandparents to get into power. Threw his former pastor under the bus, and made no commitments to black Americans for their collective vote. Now the president </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >has pissed off the white cops. Instead of Barack Obama pissing them off for a good reason, like shooting black people in the back or <a href="http://taseredwhileblack.blogspot.com/">tasering black folks while black</a>, he had to say something about his Harvard Buddy.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><img style="width: 400px; height: 282px;" src="http://media1.suntimes.com/multimedia/072309obamagates_cst_feed_20090723_00_48_23_9165-282-400.imageContent" class="IMG" border="0" width="400" height="282" /><br /></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><br />As reported by <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32113088/ns/politics-white_house/?gt1=43001">MSNBC</a>, many police officers across the country have a message for President Barack Obama: Get all the facts before criticizing one of our own.</span><p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="textBodyBlack"><span style="font-size:100%;">Obama's public criticism that Cambridge officers "<a href="http://www.suntimes.com/news/sweet/1680818,w-obama-police-arrest-gates-07.article">acted stupidly</a>" when they arrested black Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. could make it harder for police to work with people of color, some officers said Thursday. It could even set back the progress in race relations that helped Obama become the nation's first African-American president, they said.</span></p><p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="textBodyBlack"><span style="font-size:100%;">"What we don't need is public safety officials across the country second-guessing themselves," said David Holway, president of the International Brotherhood of Police Officers, which represents 15,000 public safety officials around the country. "The president's alienated public safety officers across the country with his comments." <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32113088/ns/politics-white_house/?gt1=43001">More HERE</a><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="textBodyBlack"><span style="font-size:100%;">AAPP: Many in the Brotherhood of Police Officers have alienated and abused black folks for years. Whites have wanted to politically dig into Obama for some time, he has given them the opportunity with his support of Louis Gates over police in this issue. Here is what Barack obama had to say:</span></p><p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="textBodyBlack"><span style="font-size:100%;">Obama was asked about Gates' arrest at the end of a nationally televised news conference on health care Wednesday night and began his response by saying Gates was a friend and he didn't have all the facts.</span></p><p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="textBodyBlack"><span style="font-size:100%;">"But I think it's fair to say, No. 1, any of us would be pretty angry," Obama said. "No. 2, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home. And No. 3 — what I think we know separate and apart from this incident — is that there is a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately, and that's just a fact."</span></p><p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="textBodyBlack"><span style="font-size:100%;">AAPP: Why can't Barack Obama ever talk about </span><a linkindex="167" class="mpHead" href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-07-23-cop-gates_N.htm?poe=HFMostPopular">black people</a><span style="font-size:100%;">, without including some other group? Why don't Gates and Obama get it? Just because you have a Doctorate degree or Law degree from Harvard "your still black in America." Maybe, just maybe, <a href="http://taseredwhileblack.blogspot.com/2009/07/assault-of-black-women-tasered-while.html">The President should be supporting the "voiceless" blacks who have been abused</a>, shot, <a href="http://taseredwhileblack.blogspot.com/2009/04/black-bloggers-urge-congressional-us.html">tasered</a> and killed by police, rather than supporting a man who <span style="font-weight: bold;">already has a voice</span>, and get's paid well, to express his opinion on how he feels white police act towards black people. It's interesting how black elitist Louis Gates and President Barack Obama, are all of a sudden one of us common black folk.</span></p><p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="textBodyBlack"><img class="lede-photo" src="http://i.usatoday.net/news/_photos/2009/07/24/obama-gates-l.jpg" alt="The flap over the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, top left, by Cambridge Police Sgt. James Crowley, bottom left, has renewed attention to an ongoing question of whether the U.S. has moved past racism." border="0" width="334" height="218" /></p><p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="textBodyBlack"><span style="font-size:100%;">When do we begin to hold people accountable? Who should be held accountable? Should it be the </span><a linkindex="72" href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-07-23-cop-gates_N.htm">Police who are seeking an Obama apology?</a><span style="font-size:100%;"> I guess Obama's <a href="http://www.usnews.com/blogs/peter-roff/2009/07/21/obamas-sinking-approval-ratings-are-even-worse-than-they-look.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a41:g26:r2:c0.033580:b26593636:z0&s_cid=loomia:obamas-return-to-the-race-issue">honeymoon period</a> with <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/presidential-approval-tracker.htm">the American people</a> is over. What do you think?<br /></span></p><p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" face="trebuchet ms" class="textBodyBlack"><span style="font-size:100%;"> More about this issue on <a href="http://aapoliticalpundit.blogspot.com/">African American Political Pundit.com</a></span></p><p class="textBodyBlack" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1