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Sunday, June 08, 2008

Oh Mr. Anonymous!!

Oh Mr. Anonymous!! How ignorant, how blind, how moronic!!

Pulling out of Iraq is going to mean that 3,500+ soldiers died in vain?

NEWSFLASH!! It's over 4,000 now. What's a number, right? They already died in vain for an immoral, illegal, unjustified war that has resulted in the murders of what is most likely millions of innocent Iraq men, women, and children. They didn't belong in Iraq. They died for no reason!! Pulling out now isn't going to change that fact!!

Mr. Obama "lets" his wife speak? Silly me, but I didn't realize that women have to get a man's permission to speak. We are not your bitches. We can speak whenever we damn well please. Having said that, I personally think that Michelle Obama is a bitch. She doesn't speak for me as a woman. She speaks for herself. But, let me ask this. What is there really to be proud of about America's history? Are we supposed to be proud that we dropped the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Oh yeah, that's really something to be proud of. Are we supposed to be proud that we allowed slavery in this country? Oh yeah, that's really something to be proud of. Are we supposed to be proud of all of the wars we got involved in, and murdered countless numbers of innocent people? Oh yeah, I'm so proud!! There is nothing to be proud of about America, and its history.

What is this shit about 30% black, and rubbing in his african americanism? You sound racist to me!! Barack Obama will not get my vote for several reasons, none of them having to do with his race. Barack Obama is bought and paid for by the corporations. He talks and talks, but has no ideas. Barack Obama has been portrayed as the fucking Messiah, and he has done nothing to change that portrayal. Barack Obama talks about change, but he isn't going to bring change. He's just like every politician. He's bought and paid for, and he's full of shit!!

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Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Obama Trashes Grandmother In Front Of The Whole World!!

What does Jeremiah Wright have on Obama? He has to have something because how else can you explain the fact that this man (and I use that term loosely) would rather trash his GRANDMOTHER on national television than kick his pastor to the curb!! She must be so fucking proud today!!

If you actually take the time to read reactions to his speech today, the stupidity of the commentors will blow your mind. That is of course if you haven't already been hoodwinked. They believe that his speech was amazing. It was so powerful. IT WAS SICKENING!!

Why can't he bring himself to call his pastor a racist? Why is it that he would rather treat his grandmother like shit than call his pastor a racist? He put his grandmother in the same category as this pig. By trashing his grandmother, he also spit on his dead mother!! How can anyone be proud of that? Barack Obama isn't a man. He's a pig just like his pastor. This is how he repays his grandmother for everything she has ever done for him? The whole world has seen his true colors today.

What I would really like to hear is his grandmother's side of the story. We don't even know that this is how she felt. Barack Obama has already been proven to be a liar, by his own admission. So, who is to say that this is not a lie too?

This is not just about race and racism. Obama has yet to denounce the fact that Wright thinks that this country deserved what it got on September 11th, regardless of who is to blame. Apparently Obama thinks the same!! This is not just about September 11th. This is about sexism. This is about bigotry. This is about everything!!

The only thing I find more disgusting than what he did to his grandmother today is the fact that these are the messages that he's sending to his children. The message is one of hatred for their heritage, and trying to win by any means necessary even if that means throwing your relatives under the fucking bus!!

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Tuesday, January 08, 2008

Barack Obama Puts Out Racist Memo

Barack Obama is an asshole to say the very least. I've been handed yet another reason why there is no way in hell that I will vote for him, even if that means that a Republican beats his ass in the general election. I wouldn't vote for this asshole if he were the last, best, greatest hope for saving the United States. He will never get my vote, EVER!!

This story actually came out in June yet we're first hearing about it now. Why is that? Could it be because the only person who had the balls to say something about it was Bill Clinton? Could it be because Barack Obama has become the darling of the media? I don't know, and it really doesn't matter.

The point is that his campaign sent out a memo that called Hillary Clinton the Senator from Punjab. What the fuck kind of racist remark is that? Would we dare refer to Barack Obama as the Senator from ___? Hell no!! Why? Because 1) Anything that fills the blank is racist!! 2) It's ignorant!! 3) It's rude and disrespectful!! 4) It's truly classless!! 5) It shows how much of an asshole you truly are!! So why exactly was his racist, ignorant, rude, disrespectful, classless, asshole-like comment ignored until now? Only the media can answer that question. But I suspect that they were afraid to attack his racist remark out of fear of being labeled RACIST themselves!!

I especially love the obvious attack against Indian Americans. As the spokesperson for South Asians for Obama pointed out, "the main thing people have a problem with is the implication that having ties to the Indian American community, that fundraising from Indian Americans in the United States, is a problem." So, it's wrong to have ties to the Indian American community? It's wrong to get money from Indian Americans for your campaign? If that is wrong, why is it perfectly acceptable to ship his wife off to London to raise money for his campaign? I don't give a shit if that money came from Americans that live in England or not. The point is, obviously there is a double standard here and it's racist in nature to boot!!

Barack Obama is not the Great Savior that is going to save the United States. Barack Obama is an asshole. To me, he's a racist. He's no better than the thugs that are in office now.

I can't wait for the dirt to start flying!! Bring it on BITCH!! I hope that they eat him alive. He may be the media darling right now. But they'll turn on him soon enough!!

Bring it on BITCH!! BRING IT ON!!

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Saturday, October 06, 2007

Deny!! Deny!! Deny!!

What the hell is wrong with people? Do they honestly believe that if they deny the truth, people will just forget about what happened? Apparently, the mayor of Jena thinks so!!

Jena mayor calls song inflammatory

JENA, La. - A video in which rapper-actor Mos Def asked students around the country to walk out Oct. 1 to support the "Jena Six" escaped comment by this town's mayor. But when John Mellencamp sang, "Jena, take your nooses down," he took issue.

"The town of Jena has for months been mischaracterized in the media and portrayed as the epicenter of hatred, racism and a place where justice is denied," Jena Mayor Murphy R. McMillin wrote in a statement on town letterhead faxed on Friday to The Associated Press.

He said he had previously stayed quiet, hoping that the town's courtesy to people who have visited over the past year would speak for itself. "However, the Mellencamp video is so inflammatory, so defamatory, that a line has been crossed and enough is enough."

Mellencamp could not comment immediately because he was on a plane from California to Indiana and had not heard about McMillin's comments, publicist Bob Merlis said late Friday.

A brief note from Mellencamp posted Thursday on his Web site says he is telling a story, not reporting. "The song is not written as an indictment of the people of Jena but, rather, as a condemnation of racism," it says.

Nooses hung briefly from a big oak tree outside Jena High School a year ago, after a black freshman asked whether black students could sit under it. A white student was beaten unconscious three months later, in December.

Six black students, four of them 17 years old and legally adults, were arrested. Five were initially charged with attempted murder, although that charge has been reduced to aggravated second-degree battery as four of the older youths have been arraigned. The only youth tried so far was convicted, but that conviction was overturned on appeal and the case was sent to juvenile court.

Mellencamp's song opens, "An all-white jury hides the executioner's face; See how we are, me and you?" As he sings, images of Jena, the high school and the tree are followed by video from the 1960s, including civil rights marchers, police beatings, and President John F. Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King speaking. Still images include one of a protest sign reading, "God demands segregation," a stylized drawing of people in Ku Klux Klan robes and an older image of a black man in shackles, begging.

"I do not want to diminish the impression that the hanging of the nooses has had on good people," McMillin wrote. "I do recognized that what happened is insulting and hurtful."

But, he said, "To put the incident in Jena in the same league as those who were murdered in the 1960s cheapens their sacrifice and insults their memory."

At McMillin's request, the Jena Town Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to create an interracial committee to study racial relations and suggest solutions to any problems.

What is so offensive about the truth? Mellencamp was simply telling the WORLD to take down their nooses. He may have said Jena. But he wasn't talking about Jena and only Jena.

I always love how someone points out what's happening, and all of a sudden it's the media's fault that people are paying attention. All of a sudden, what's happening is being "mischaracterized".

Nobody said that Jena was the epicenter of racism, hatred, and a place where justice is denied. But Jena does have racism, hatred, and justice WAS DENIED!! What else would you call an unfair system of justice if black people receive harsher charges and punishments than white people who commit the same crimes? Justice certainly isn't blind to the color of somebody's skin, and it's not just in Jena!! It's everywhere.

The mayor should stop pissing and moaning about Jena getting a bad rap, and do something to change that image. Ensure that every person in Jena is treated equally in the eyes of the law. Put an end to racism in Jena. Put an end to hatred in Jena. He can start with ending the denial that there's something wrong in Jena. There clearly is because otherwise nobody would know a damn thing about Jena!!

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Monday, September 24, 2007

Jena 6 Facts

Just to make you aware of the FACTS, here's a blow-by-blow of Mychal Bell's trial and other things pertaining to Jena.

* The ten student witnesses who testified at Mychal Bell’s trial were all white. In fact, most of them were part of a distinct minority within the high school’s white student population who attended all-white schools in the country surrounding Jena until High School. (More on this below)

* Justin Cooper was the only witness at trial to testify that Mychal Bell kicked Justin Barker as the victim lay unconscious on the ground. Since Justin Cooper was one of the boys who admitted to hanging the nooses at Jena High School at the beginning of the school year, he can hardly be seen as an objective or credible witness. Defense Attorney Blane Williams was apparently unaware of Cooper’s connection to the noose incident.

* Jessica Hooter was one of four trial witnesses who identified Mychal as the person who threw the first punch at Justin Barker. Two days after the assault occurred, Jessica was unable to identify the initial attacker. But as she explained at trial, “After I thought about it more, I remembered more.” In his closing remarks, Blane Williams never mentioned that she had embellished her earlier testimony. Perhaps he forgot.

* The single male juror graduated from High School with Justin Barker’s father. The tendency to sympathize with an old school buddy whose kid got punched and kicked in a one-sided assault is understandable. It also makes objectivity impossible.

* Midway through the trial, assault victim Justin Barker and his family were seen by ten witnesses (myself included) sharing a convivial meal with several of the students who had testified against Mychal Bell. This suggests that a number of “memory-enhancing” conversations about the incident have taken place between early December and late June. Jessica Hooter likely “remembered” that the unidentified attacker was Mychal Bell because this quickly became the orthodox story in the social circle she move in.

* Coach Benjy Lewis gave two statements immediately after the school incident in which he clearly states that Justin Barker was facing him when Malcolm Shaw (not Mychal Bell) struck Barker from behind. “I saw Malcolm Shaw hit Justin Barker with his right fist to the right side of Justin’s head, right around the temple,” Lewis wrote. “Justin went down face first, knocked out . . .” Most witnesses agree that a single punch knocked Barker out cold. The only adult who witnessed the punch says Mychal Bell didn’t throw it.

* In a signed statement given immediately after the altercation at the school, student Jesse Beard stated that moments after the assault Coach Manning asked him where Malcolm Shaw was.

* It isn’t hard to see why the prosecution didn’t call Lewis to the stand (his testimony would have devastated the state’s case); but how do we explain why defense attorney Blane Williams didn’t call the coach to testify?

* Two female students testified that the person who knocked Justin Barker cold was wearing a green jacket. Mychal Bell’s statement, given immediately after the incident, suggests that he was initially cleared of responsibility because he was wearing a black jacket. At trial, the “green jacket” witnesses were convinced that Mychal Bell was not the attacker-they knew Mychal and the guy in the green jacket was someone else.

* The “green jacket” identification means that we have at least three mutually contradictory eyewitness accounts of who struck Justin Barker: Mychal Bell, Malcolm Shaw, or an unidentified student in a green jacket.

* Both “green jacket” witnesses insist that Justin Barker was knocked cold, not by a punch to the temple, but by having his head slammed into a concrete bench. Coach Benjy Lewis says that Justin Barker was knocked cold from a punch from behind. Witnesses who name Mychal Bell as the attacker describe a face-to-face confrontation followed by a blow to the head that knocked Justin Barker out. Defense attorney Blane Williams never reflected on the evidence long enough to identify these obvious contradictions.

* In early September, the three white students responsible for hanging nooses in a tree in the school courtyard were punished with a few days of in-school suspension. The noose incident was dismissed as a childish prank. The following day, black students staged a spontaneous protest rally under the tree where the nooses had been discovered. Several black male athletes took the lead in this protest-the same students who were eventually accused of attacking Justin Barker.

* The decision to treat the noose incident as a childish prank sparked a brief firestorm of media attention in which Jena school officials were frequently accused of racism.

* In early September, District Attorney Reed Walters addressed an emergency school assembly called in response to the spontaneous student protest. With a dozen fully uniformed police officers in the auditorium, Walters warned protest organizers that with a stroke of his pen he could take their lives away. Walters has admitted under oath that he made this remark. His words were not aimed at the entire student body, nor at black students in general-he was speaking to the student athletes we now call the Jena 6. After the demonstration under the tree, Robert Bailey, Carwin Jones, Mychal Bell, Theodore Shaw, Jesse Beard and Bryant Ray Purvis became
notorious.

* Evidence suggests that some teachers and school administrators were empowered by Mr. Walters’ “stroke of my pen” remark. Defendants report that in the wake of the school assembly, several teachers became increasingly strict and adversarial in relation to the boys responsible for associating Jena High School with Jim Crow racism. It appears that some students responded to this change in attitude by withholding respect and acting out in ways that encouraged an even more authoritarian teacher response. Discipline referrals for the Jena 6 skyrocketed during the fall semester.

* In the period between Mr. Walter’s “stroke of my pen” threat in September and the assault on Justin Barker in early December, a series of physical altercations played out between the Jena 6 and the circle of boys who supported the hanging of the nooses. The white students had attended all-white schools in the countryside prior to coming to the integrated high school campus. They felt reassured by the segregated school courtyard and were intimidated by the suggestion that black students could sit wherever they wanted. Hence the nooses.

* The laughably light discipline handed down for this “childish prank” was perceived, correctly, as a triumph for students wishing to preserve a segregated school square.

* In signed statements, several white and black students mentioned a series of verbal altercations during the lunch hour preceding the attack on Justin Barker. The trash-talking was directly related to a fight at the Fair Barn three days earlier. On that occasion, Robert Bailey and a few of his friends were invited to an all-white student party by some of their white friends. When Robert entered the building he was punched in the face by a 22 year-old white male. In seconds, Robert was assaulted with beer bottles, punches and kicks in a virtual mirror image of the altercation at the high school three days later. The only differences were that the identify of the instigator in the Fair Barn incident was undisputed and that Robert remained conscious after the initial blow and was thus able to minimize the impact of the attack.

* The following morning, Robert Bailey and two of the friends who had come to his aid during the Fair Barn assault were leaving a local convenience store when they encountered one of the country white males who had jumped Robert the night before. Fearing retaliation, the boy retreated to his truck and pulled out a pump-action, pistol-grip shotgun that looks like something the Terminator might have fancied. When Robert and his friends wrestled the weapon away from their would-be assailant they were charged with assault and theft. Once again, Jena’s New Jim Crow regime was reinforced.

* It is not unusual for residents of rural LaSalle Parish to drive around with firearms in their trucks. On May 10, 2007, Justin Barker was arrested for bringing a rifle to school in his vehicle. A thorough search probably would have turned up several more illegal firearms in the school parking lot.

* The violent assault at the Fair Barn, the convenience store incident, and the assault at the school followed in the wake of a traumatic school fire in late Novermber. Everyone associated with the school was in a state of shock akin to post traumatic stress syndrome. Concerned by the wave of violence, several teachers asked administrators not to reopen the school the Monday morning of the assault.

* This spiral of action and reaction was initiated by the September decision of school administrators to treat the noose incident as a childish prank. When Reed Walters threatened the Jena 6 with life imprisonment if they didn’t relinquish their constitutional right to denounce injustice, the boys were left with no legitimate avenue of protest. In the end, immature white and black males were left to their own devices. The consequences were as predictable as they were tragic.

If this isn't a case for prosecutorial misconduct, I don't know what is. Where the hell does he get off threatening to "take their lives away with the stroke of his pen"? Talk about being on a power trip!! Second of all, where the hell does he get off threatening life imprisonment if the Jena 6 didn't "relinquish their constitutional right to denounce injustice"?

Two other things that caught my attention were very interesting, and it smelled foul!! The first thing was the fact that one of the jurors during Mychal Bell's trial went to school with the victim's father. Umm, can you say a conflict of interest? He should have never been on the jury. The second thing was the fact that the victim and his family ate with the prosecution witnesses during the trial. HELLO!! Influencing the witnesses?????????????????

I realize that there are some of you out there who feel that these teenagers should be locked up for life. Clearly, you don't know how the justice system works. This should have been tried in juvenile court, period!! You know damn well that these teenagers have been, are being, and will continue to be railroaded by a blatantly RACIST prosecutor who deserves to be out of a job!! When someone says that it has nothing to do with race, you know damn well that RACE is exactly what this is about. Notice when the prosecutor was threatening to take lives away with the stroke of his pen, he didn't direct his comments at EVERYONE. He didn't even direct his comments at the jackasses who hung the nooses. He directed them at the Jena 6, and they hadn't even done anything at this point. It's racism, pure and simple!!

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Friday, September 21, 2007

The KKK, Neo-Nazi Groups, And The Jena 6

I knew that this was coming.

Be warned!! It's disgusting!!

Jena Rally Sparks White Supremacist Rage, Lynching Threat

As tens of thousands of people were preparing to make their way to Jena, La., for today’s anti-racism rally, white supremacists were burning up the Internet with furious denunciations, bloody predictions, promises of future violence, and calls for lynching.

“The best crowd control for such a situation would be a squad of men armed with full automatics and preferably a machine gun as well,” is how one person put it on the Web forum hosted by the neo-Nazi Vanguard News Network. Added another hopeful VNN poster: “I’m not really that angry at the nogs [a recent variation on an ancient racial slur] — they are just soldiers in an undeclared race war. But any white that’s in that support rally I would like to … have them machine-gunned.”

As the rally began to unfold this morning, it became clear that it would attract huge numbers of people, perhaps even the 40,000 that some organizers had predicted. They came to protest the case of the “Jena 6,” black youths who were charged with serious crimes for an attack on a white youth not long after white teens who had targeted blacks were let off with a slap on the wrist. White supremacists reacted with a strange mixture of anger and admiration for the organizing behind the rally.

But the dominant response was violent rage. “I think a group of White men with AK rifles loaded with high capacity magazines should close in on the troop of howler monkeys from all sides and compress them into a tight group, and then White men in the buildings on both sides of the shitskinned hominids shall throw Molotov cocktails from above to cleanse the nigs by fire,” wrote “NS Cat” on VNN. Another poster fantasized about a terrorist attack in Jena today: “Wouldn’t that be sweet? Gosh darn, wouldn’t that be sweet? Good LORD wouldn’t THAT be SWeeeeEET? Boom, Boom, no more Coon! Well? A White man can dream can’t he?”

“If these blacks want a race war,” added a poster on Stormfront, another white supremacist Web forum, “they will get one. Bring it on.”

In Roanoke, Va., an especially virulent purveyor of race hate, neo-Nazi Bill White, this afternoon posted the home addresses and phone numbers of five of the six black youths who make up the Jena 6 under this headline: “Addresses of Jena 6 Niggers: In Case Anyone Wants to Deliver Justice.” White previously posted the home addresses of Southern Poverty Law Center president Richard Cohen and SPLC cooperating attorney James Boren.

White, the leader of the American National Socialist Workers Party, suggests that readers “get in touch and let them know justice is coming.” Another White posting on the matter doesn’t hold anything at all back: “Lynch the Jena 6.”

Robert Moore (right), a well-known neo-Nazi leader from Baton Rouge, La., apparently abandoned plans he had discussed on Stormfront Wednesday to protest the Jena rally, possibly while carrying guns. Instead, he wrote later, “If they DO start rioting and looting and burning and raze the town to the ground, White Pride Construction will be there the next day to help them rebuild.” In fact, Moore’s company, started in 2005, has done a great deal of post-Katrina rebuilding on the Gulf Coast — a truly remarkable thing, given that its name includes a widely known racist slogan.

These pigs are threatening to murder these kids, and it's like nobody gives a damn. It's so utterly disgusting!! The only news station that I heard talking about this was CNN.

In case you're wondering what the response was from Jena authorities, I've got the answer. When asked if they would be providing these kids and their families with protection due to the threats from the KKK and neo-Nazi groups, guess what the answer was!! NO!! They claim that they don't have the manpower, and besides, it doesn't warrant protection. Hmm, any "sheets" in the Jena police department? Nah!! Couldn't be!!

I'll be talking about this story and others relating to the Jena 6 tomorrow. For tonight, I will end with the hope that someone offers up protection to these kids, their families, and their friends. Their lives are being threatened, and nobody wants to do a damn thing about it. Nation of Islam, are you out there? Al Sharpton, are you out there? Jesse Jackson, are you out there? Someone, get these people some bodyguards!! Get these people some security!! And someone please lock these MOTHERFUCKING RACIST PIGS FROM THE KLAN AND NEO-NAZI GROUPS UP FOR TERRORISM!! Let's start calling these pigs what they truly are!! They're terrorists, and they deserve to rot in a cell for threatening to lynch these kids!!

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Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Racism Didn't Die!! It's Alive And Well In America!!

Whoever thinks that racism is dead and gone in this country is clearly delusional. It's alive and well in America. I know that for a fact.

Over the weekend I came across a website that was discussing the Jessie Davis case. In case you don't know what I'm talking about, Jessie Davis was the pregnant woman missing from Ohio who was found murdered on Saturday. After finding the website, I decided to make some comments. More comments followed. Then on Saturday after she was found and the man who did it was arrested, the racists decided to come out of the woodwork.

Comments ranged from "women with at least a few cells in their brain should take this as a lesson not to get involved with black people" to "she deserved what she got for mixing races." As I proceeded to take on these pigs, their attacks became more intense. As I checked out the site today, I came across personal attacks aimed directly at me.

Is it a crime to wish a heinous death upon someone? I don't know!! But, that's exactly what someone did. The woman started her post by calling me a ******-loving bitch. She then went on to declare that I deserve the same fate that befell Jessie Davis due to my ******-loving ways. I was tempted to respond with "What are you going to do, burn a cross on my lawn while wearing your white sheet?" But then I thought otherwise because she was clearly an ignorant, racist bitch that didn't deserve a comment in return.

If you think that racism is dead in this country, you're sadly mistaken. This woman didn't know Jessie Davis. Yet she felt the need to trash the deceased in the most disgusting way possible. This woman didn't know me. Yet she felt the need to wish the most heinous death possible upon me simply because I dared to tell the truth. Just like I stated that Bobbie Cutts doesn't represent the black population, this woman doesn't represent the white population. But she certainly represents the attitude that a certain group of people in this country have. I wonder if her HOOD was ironed this morning before she put it on!! I'll also be sure to be on the lookout for a cross burning on my lawn.

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