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The arrogance of being president while being black (http://www.dailykos.com/hotlist/add/2010/2/27/7523/18225/displaystory//) by _blackwaterdog_ (http://blackwaterdog.dailykos.com/) Sat Feb 27, 2010 at 09:21:51 AM PST

Hello I hesitated a lot whether to open this can, but I can’t stay silent anymore, so…

I don’t think anyone was under some real illusion that the election of Barack Obama actually means the end of racism in America. I’m pretty sure that the president-elect knew it better than anyone. After all, he saw it every day, from the moment he announced his candidacy. To some degree, he saw it within his own party during the primaries. And he saw it in all ugliness during the general election. For half of this country, he was “That One”. No matter how big and clear his victory was. No matter how smart he is. No matter how decent he is. No matter what a true patriot he is. No matter how optimistic and positive his vision for America was. All that didn’t matter. Because at the end of the day, he was still black. I’m quite old. I remember, vaguely, where my parents been on November 22, 1963. I’ve seen so many presidents. Some were feared, some were hated, some were adored, some popular and some not. But all of them, without exception, were treated with the highest respect deserve to the office of the president of the United States. That is until a black man won the right to occupy this office. It’s been 13 months now, and in the eyes of so many, Barack Obama is still that one. He is being disrespected and at the same time being held to the highest standard of any president I’ve ever seen – and not just by the Republican side. He has to perform three times better than any president in history, and even that may not be enough. For the media, he is many more times just “Obama” than “President Obama”. They create scandals out of nothing issues. It took them at least 6 years to start giving Bush a small part of the shit he deserved. It took them 6 months to begin crap all over Obama because he’s yet to fix the catastrophe that was left for him. They use a condescending tone when they talk about him, and only mildly less condescending when they talk TO him. With anyone else, CNN wouldn’t dare go to commercials every time the president speaks, like they did during that summit on Thursday. They wouldn’t dare counting how many minutes George Bush or Bill Clinton were talking. Chris Mathews wouldn’t dare making an issue out of Ronald Regan calling members of congress by their first name, like he is not actually the freaking president. They fully cooperate with the Right-Wing smear machine when it comes to president Obama’s national security performance – even if almost every independent and military expert actually thinks that he’s a terrific Commander in Chief. You’ll never see them on TV, and virtually no one from the Left, in congress and outside, defend the president on this matter. I don’t care about the Far-Right. They’re just crazy ignorant Neanderthals. It’s the way the beltway and the mainstream treats this president that is shocking. On Thursday, almost every Republican had no trouble interrupting him in the middle of a sentence. They looked like they’re going to vomit every time they had to say “Mr. president”. They all had this Eric-Cantor-Smirk whenever he spoke. Then they went out and started to spit their stupid talking points, to the delight of the media. Sarah Palin, a woman who can hardly read, thinks that he was “arrogant” towards John McCain, and somehow this is an important news. Because you see, “Obama’s Arrogance” is the talking point of the day. Oh, those talking points. He is arrogant (because he knows the facts better than all of them combined). He is an elitist (because he uses big words that they don’t understand). He is weak on national security (because he actually thinks about the consequences). He divides the country (well, he did that the day he had the audacity to win the election). Worst of all, he actually thinks that he’s the president. He even dared to say so on Thursday. How arrogant of him. You’d think that previous presidents didn’t have any ego. Somehow it turned out that the one president who treats even his biggest opponents with the utmost respect – is the arrogant one. I wonder why. I expected that his winning the Presidency would bring out some ugliness, but it’s been far worse than i imagined. The racism coming from the Right is obviously clear and shameless, but there’s also some hidden and maybe subconscious and disturbing underline tone behind some of the things that I read here and throughout the Left blogosphere, even before the end of Obama’s first year – ‘He’s weak, he’s spineless, he’s got no balls, primary him in 2012′. It’ll be dishonest to deny that. The fact is that for millions in America, Barack Obama is this uppity black man (Not even a “real” black), who received good education only due to affirmative action, and has no right to litter the sacred Oval Office with his skin color. They just can’t accept the fact that the president is a black man, who unlike his predecessor, was actually legally elected. But what’s really sad is that it’s not just the fringe, its deep deep in mainstream America. Barack Obama’s ability to remain above all this slob, to keep his optimism and his strange and mostly unjustified faith in people, while continuing to gracefully deal with an endless shitstorm – is one of the most inspiring displays of human quality I have ever seen. And i can only hope that the Cosmos are on his side.

Kaluma This is simple if they eat you ,you also eat them!! I’m told that during the civil war in USA a battalion comprising of Ethiopians used it to scare off the enemy although it was later proven that it was raw beef. All in all cannibals exist in almost all ethnicities world wide, that should not shock you,even your neighbour at home could be practising that servage habit the only difference he does it in secrecy/ cover of darkness. How should this habit be stopped? I don’t know it appears to be hereditary and it exists in most animals. I was told that women after delivery suffered some insanity called ,” Amakilo,” and eat their new born babies but I don’t know how true this was you can research and report your findings.

Dear friends,

kino kikulejje!!

christine Kaluma

Dear Friends,

We would like to establish the truth of this eating of black-man. Is it possible to send it to every head of African State. Remember allegedly, a Uganda team of players disappeared when they visited one of these countries. Is it possible that they were eaten. How can we have a dialogue with these people and also make our people know the dangers of being eaten up!! Omujega afa alaba!!! Chrisstine J. N. Kaluma

CC: christinekaluma@live.com

Dear friends,

kino kikulejje!!

christine Kaluma

Dear Friends,

We would like to establish the truth of this eating of black-man. Is it possible to send it to every head of African State. Remember allegedly, a Uganda team of players disappeared when they visited one of these countries. Is it possible that they were eaten. How can we have a dialogue with these people and also make our people know the dangers of being eaten up!! Omujega afa alaba!!! Chrisstine J. N. Kaluma

CC: christinekaluma@live.com

What If Sarah Palin Were Black? By Chauncey DeVega, We Are Respectable Negroes Posted on February 14, 2010, Printed on February 15, 2010 http://www.alternet.org/story/145670/

The impenetrable stupidity of Sarah Palin knows no boundaries. She wallows in _mediocrity_ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nokTjEdaUGg) . Palin is the queen bee of a _cult of personality_ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwhbWHYaaBo) where to be _anti-intellectual_ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbQwAFobQxQ&feature=PlayList&p=7FA2D16C454FEC52&index=0) is a trait to be rewarded. Ultimately, she presides over a _confederacy of dunces_ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w270lAyEvEU) . People of color have many a shared experience that comes from being racially marked in a White society. One of my favorite examples of this social reality is the moment when a crime is announced on the evening news and we collectively grimace with the thought, “I hope he or she isn’t black/brown/yellow/or red.” I must also imagine that in a post 9/11 world, my Arab-American brothers and sisters likewise have a similar moment where they hold their collective breath in dread upon the announcement of some act of terrorism (real or imagined, in any part of the world). Question: Do white people lower their heads in collective shame when they listen to Sarah Palin? Is there a moment where white folks shake their heads in mass and say to themselves, “Lord, I wish she weren’t white?” To be White is to be “normal,” “invisible,” and quintessentially “American.” It is also the freedom to be an individual. When crazy white people bomb buildings, kill cops in the name of radical right wing politics, go on shooting rampages, or more generally just act like fools, it is never framed as a “White” problem. I would suggest that these actions are rarely, if ever, interrogated for what they reveal about Whiteness and/or white folk at large. In short, there is no “I hope that person isn’t white” moment. Why? Because a given white person’s actions are usually a reflection of their individual shortcomings, not a commentary on white people as a whole. Efforts to communicate the essence of white privilege in American society are often made difficult because of the denial, fear, and vulnerability that comes from self-reflection about power. Moreover, in a time of economic calamity, white Americans are probably (and quite understandably) resistant to hearing about some “unearned privilege” when they are fighting for their financial lives. Surely, this is a time when conversations about the deep linkages between race, wealth, and white supremacy in the United States are an increasingly hard sell, even in so far as they remain especially true (as the old saying goes, “When White America gets a cold, Black America gets the flu…or worse”). Nevertheless, the need to discuss how race structures life opportunities remains necessary–and perhaps even more so–during our Great Recession. As opposed to the heavy theory and abstractions often favored by academics, scholars, and public intellectuals, I prefer practical common sense examples to prove my point. To that end, Sarah Palin is a perfect object lesson. So, let’s play a game of fill in the blanks. I will start:

(http://www.newsweek.com/)

Black Helicopters Over Nashville Never mind Sarah Palin and the tricornered hats. The tea-party movement is dominated by conspiracist kooks.

By Jonathan Kay | Newsweek Web Exclusive Feb 9, 2010

The tea-party movement has no leader. But it does have a face: William Temple of Brunswick, Ga. For months, the amiable middle-aged activist has been criss-crossing America, appearing at tea-party events dressed in his trademark three-cornered hat and Revolutionary garb. When journalists interview him (which is often—his outfit draws them in like a magnet), he presents himself as a human bridge between the founders’ era and our own. “We fought the British over a 3 percent tea tax. We might as well bring the British back,” he told NPR during a recent protest outside the Capitol. It’s a charming act, which makes the tea-party movement seem no more unnerving than the people who spend their weekends reenacting the Civil War. But the 18th-century getups mask something disturbing. After I spent the weekend at the Tea Party National Convention in Nashville, Tenn., it has become clear to me that the movement is dominated by people whose vision of the government is conspiratorial and dangerously detached from reality. It’s more John Birch than John Adams.

Like all populists, tea partiers are suspicious of power and influence, and anyone who wields them. Their villain list includes the big banks; bailed-out corporations; James Cameron, whose Avatar is seen as a veiled denunciation of the U.S. military; Republican Party institutional figures they feel ignored by, such as chairman Michael Steele; colleges and universities (the more prestigious, the more evil); TheWashington Post; Anderson Cooper; and even FOX News pundits, such as Bill O’Reilly, who have heaped scorn on the tea-party movement’s more militant oddballs. One of the most bizarre moments of the recent tea-party convention came when blogger Andrew Breitbart delivered a particularly vicious fulmination against the mainstream media, prompting everyone to get up, turn toward the media section at the back of the conference room, and scream, “USA! USA! USA!” But the tea partiers’ well-documented obsession with President Obama has hardly been diffused by their knack for finding new enemies. Steve Malloy, author of _Green Hell: How Environmentalists Plan to Ruin Your Life_ (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1433275856/?tag=nwswk-20) , kicked off the first full day of conference proceedings by warning that Obama and his minions are conspiring to control every aspect of Americans’ lives—the colors of their cars, the kind of toilet paper they use, how much time they spend in the shower, the temperature of their homes—all under the guise of U.N. greenhouse-gas-reduction schemes. “Obama isn’t a U.S. socialist,” Malloy thundered. “He’s an international socialist. He envisions a one-world government.” I consider myself a conservative and arrived at this conference as a paid-up, rank-and-file attendee, not one of the bemused New York Times types with a media pass. But I also happen to be writing a book for HarperCollins that focuses on 9/11 conspiracy theories, so I have a pretty good idea where the various screws and nuts can be found in the great toolbox of American political life. Within a few hours in Nashville, I could tell that what I was hearing wasn’t just random rhetorical mortar fire being launched at Obama and his political allies: the salvos followed the established script of New World Order conspiracy theories, which have suffused the dubious right-wing fringes of American politics since the days of the John Birch Society. This world view’s modern-day prophets include Texas radio host Alex Jones, whose documentary, The Obama Deception, _claims_ (http://www.obamadeception.net/#) Obama’s candidacy was a plot by the leaders of the New World Order to “con the Amercican people into accepting global slavery”; Christian evangelist Pat Robertson; and the rightward strain of the aforementioned “9/11 Truth” movement. According to this dark vision, America’s 21st-century traumas signal the coming of a great political cataclysm, in which a false prophet such as Barack Obama will upend American sovereignty and render the country into a godless, one-world socialist dictatorship run by the United Nations from its offices in Manhattan. Sure enough, in Nashville, Judge Roy Moore warned, among other things, of “a U.N. guard stationed in every house.” On the conference floor, it was taken for granted that Obama was seeking to destroy America’s place in the world and sell Israel out to the Arabs for some undefined nefarious purpose. The names Jeremiah Wright and William Ayers popped up all the time, the idea being that they were the real brains behind this presidency, and Obama himself was simply some sort of manchurian candidate. A software engineer from Clearwater, Fla., told me that Washington, D.C., liberals had engineered the financial crash so they could destroy the value of the U.S. dollar, pay off America’s debts with worthless paper, and then create a new currency called the Amero that would be used in a newly created “North American Currency Union” with Canada and Mexico. I rolled my eyes at this one-off kook. But then, hours later, the conference organizers showed a movie to the meeting hall, Generation Zero, whose thesis was only slightly less bizarre: that the financial meltdown was the handiwork of superannuated flower children seeking to destroy capitalism. And then, of course, there is the double-whopper of all anti-Obama conspiracy theories, the “birther” claim that America’s president might actually be an illegal alien who’s constitutionally ineligible to occupy the White House. This point was made by birther extraordinaire and Christian warrior Joseph Farah, who told the crowd the circumstances of Obama’s birth were more mysterious than those of Jesus Christ. (Apparently comparing Obama to a messiah is only blasphemous if you’re doing so in a complimentary vein.) To applause, he declared, “My dream is that if Barack Obama seeks reelection in 2012 that he won’t be able to go to any city, any city, any town in America without seeing signs that ask, ‘Where’s the birth certificate?’” Many of the tea-party organizers I spoke with at this conference described the event as a critical step in their ascendancy to the status of mainstream political movement. Yet with rare exceptions, such as blogger Breitbart, who was _reportedly_ (http://washingtonindependent.com/75949/birther-speaker-takes-heat-at-tea-party-convention) overheard protesting Farah’s birther propaganda, none of them seems to realize how off-putting the toxic fantasies being spewed from the podium were. Perhaps the most distressing part of all is that few media observers bothered to catalog these bizarre, conspiracist outbursts, and instead fixated on Sarah Palin’s Saturday night keynote address. It is as if, in the current overheated political atmosphere, we all simply have come to expect that radicalized conservatives will behave like unhinged paranoiacs when they collect in the same room. That doesn’t say much for the state of the right in America. The tea partiers’ tricornered hat is supposed to be a symbol of patriotism and constitutional first principles. But when you take a closer look, all you find is a helmet made of tin foil. Jonathan Kay is the managing editor for comment at Canada’s National Post newspaper. His book, Among the Truthers: 9/11 Conspiracy Theories and the People Who Believe Them, will be published by HarperCollins in 2011. Contact him at _jkay@nationalpost.com_ (mailto:jkay@nationalpost.com) .

Find this article at _http://www.newsweek.com/id/233331_ (http://www.newsweek.com/id/233331) © 2010

1945: Black Sea talks plan defeat of Germany Plans are being drawn up by London, Washington and Moscow for the final phase of the war against Germany.

Leaders of the three countries, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, US President Franklin D Roosevelt and Marshal Joseph Stalin, have been meeting at a secret location in the Black Sea area.

The Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/7/newsid_3517000/3517236.stm

Oh boy!

“This is the same White Man’s ‘God’ that you are calling upon to save you from the White Man – the same ‘God’ that Botha is calling upon too?!

I guarantee you, if you always lose in the here and now, you will also lose over there too in ‘heaven’ – if indeed there is a ‘heaven’ – because you are a LOSER who does not know how to win and who is not used to winning.”

I like that!

The problem is blacks never grow up! They are always, politically and intellectually, kids for ever! Religions, whiteman’s &c, are their refuge! I get sick to the bone when everytime I meet a black person, and all he/she talks to me about is going to some church!

Why don’t you talk to me about how we can begin to own and control stuffs, of value – our natural resource endowments – not some abstruct notions we have no clue about?

OpaA

CC: babytonia62@yahoo.com

“May God give each of us the opportunity to look back at things we have done in the past…” – Noyo Edem babytonia62@yahoo.com

Please! Not this ‘God-Palaver’ again! The only ANSWER the African has to EVERYTHING!

What if there is no ‘God’ waitin anywhere to judge anyhting?

What if this ‘God’ doe not grant you “the opportunity to look back at things”?

And this your ‘God’ does give you “the opportunity to look back at things, but not the possibility to “amend our mistakes in Jesus name”

Still ‘Amen’?

Ms Noyo Edem, sorry o, you miss road bad! With women who think like you, Africa is indeed DOOMED!

And sadly, “Botha’s speech still evident in our Black / African life today”!

How old are you? You sound rather NAIVE and very CHILDISH!

Botha’s Speech has nothing to do with any “God giving each of us the opportunity to look back at things we have done in the past”, nor does it have anything to do with “amend our mistakes in Jesus name, Amen”!

But it has EVERYTHING to do with REALPOLITIK – the REALITY of human existence in the HERE and NOW! And what Botha and many White people think of you and your people!

This is not about PRAYER, the Black woman’s only weapon!

Botha was also calling on the same Jesus to whonmyou are calling to save you from Botha:

“If God wanted us to be equal to the Blacks, hewould have created us all of a uniform colour andintellect. But he created us differently: Whites,Blacks, Yellow, Rulers and the ruled. Intellectually,we are superior to the Blacks; that has been provenbeyond any reasonable doubt over the years. I believethat the Afrikaner is an honest, God fearing person,who has demonstrated practically the right way ofbeing”!

“It is our strong conviction therefore, that the Black is the rawmaterial for the White man. So Brothers and Sisters,let us join hands together to fight this Black devil.I appeal to all Afrikaners to come out with anycreative means of fighting this war. Surely God cannotforsake his own people whom we are”!

This is the same White Man’s ‘God’ that you are calling upon to save you from the White Man – the same ‘God’ that Botha is calling upon too?!

I guarantee you, if you always lose in the here and now, you will also lose over there too in ‘heaven’ – if indeed there is a ‘heaven’ – because you are a LOSER who does not know how to win and who is not used to winning.

You can take that to the bank!

Dr. Valentine Ojo Tall Timbers, MD

On Sat 02/06/10 3:49 PM , Noyo Edem babytonia62@yahoo.com sent:

Where is this intelligent and Superior Botha today? I hope he is still alive to read his 1985 speech. What he knows about human beings today should provide him with a more informed knowledge to review and rewrite his speech. If he is no longer alive, then it is so unfortunate that this speech will judge him for an eternity. May God give each of us the opportunity to look back at things we have done in the past and amend our mistakes in Jesus name, Amen.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/feb/04/justice-ig-cant-probe-panther-case-dismissal/print/

February 4, 2010, updated 03:32 p.m., February 4, 2010 Justice inspector stripped of probe power

Jerry Seper

In a terse letter to a Republican lawmaker who requested an investigation of the dismissal of complaints against the New Black Panther Party, Justice Department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine said he should be able to do so, but was powerless because Congress had stripped him of that authority.

In a four-page response to Rep. Frank R. Wolf of Virginia, who had requested that the IG’s office investigate what he called the complaint’s “unfounded dismissal,” Mr. Fine said that unlike all other inspectors general who have unlimited jurisdiction to investigate all claims of wrongdoing inside their agencies, his office does not.

Mr. Fine said in the letter, a copy of which was obtained by The Washington Times, that he understood Mr. Wolf’s desire to have his office review the matter “because of our independence.”

But while Mr. Fine had advocated expanding his jurisdiction to allow him to investigate all suspected wrongdoing within the department, Congress had not seen fit to do so.

“Unfortunately, unlike all other OIGs which have unlimited jurisdiction to investigate all allegations of waste, fraud or abuse within their agencies, the Department of Justice OIG does not,” he wrote. “For several years, I have expressed my position that Congress should change this jurisdiction.

“I have raised various arguments for this change including … the independence issues that arise because OPR reports to the attorney general,” he said.

In requesting that Mr. Fine’s office investigate the handling of the New Black Panther Party case, Mr. Wolf had challenged the independence of the Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), which has been reviewing the dismissal for the past seven months.

Mr. Wolf noted that OPR reports directly to the attorney general, saying he did not think the office was “capable of conducting an unbiased and independent review of this case, given that it reports to a political appointee.”

The OPR probe has focused, in part, on accusations that political appointees within the Obama administration’s Justice Department made the decision to dismiss the civil complaint, which accused the New Black Panther Party and three of its members of intimidating voters during the November 2008 elections.

“When Congress most recently considered this issue in its deliberation on the IG Reform Act, which was enacted in 2008, I again advocated for a change in the jurisdiction between OPR and OIG, to allow us to investigate all matters within the department” Mr. Fine said.

“However, Congress did not include this change in the IG Reform Act. Therefore, the jurisdiction to investigate department attorneys’ legal and litigation decisions, such as the DOJ attorneys’ litigation and legal actions related to the handling of the New Black Panther Party, remains with OPR,” he said.

The letter said that during his congressional testimony in 2008, Mr. Fine noted that his office “unfortunately” lacked jurisdiction to investigate Justice Department attorneys in the exercise of their legal duty.

“I hope that Congress will do something about that because I believe the inspector general’s office ought to have unlimited jurisdiction in the Department of Justice,” he told the Senate Judiciary Committee in July 2008. “We’re independent, we’re transparent, and there’s no conflict of interest. So I think that ought to be changed.”

The letter also noted that he told the House Judiciary Committee in October 2008 that his office “does not have the authority to investigate prosecutive decisions made by DOJ attorneys: Congress would have to amend this carve out to our jurisdiction, and I have suggested that it be amended.”

Noting his long-standing opposition to his limited jurisdiction, Mr. Fine said in the letter that he also told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee in July 2007 that the current limitation on his jurisdiction “should be changed because it assigns jurisdiction to OPR, which is not statutorily independent and reports directly to the attorney general and the deputy attorney general.”

He told the committee at the time that this arrangement created a “conflict of interest and contravenes the rationale for establishing independent inspectors general.”

The order giving jurisdiction to investigate the actions of attorneys in the exercise of their legal authority – up to and including the attorney general – was first issued by Attorney General Janet Reno during the Clinton administration. The order was reissued by Attorney General John Ashcroft during President George W. Bush’s administration.

Because the order was later codified by Congress, it would require congressional action to change.

Mr. Wolf had told Mr. Fine that he was “disappointed” in his “reluctance to investigate the unfounded dismissal of an important voter intimidation case,” adding that despite repeated requests for information by members of Congress, the press and the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, the Justice Department “continues to stonewall all efforts to obtain information regarding the case’s abrupt dismissal.”

“This obstruction should be of great concern to you and merit an immediate investigation,” Mr. Wolf said. “Given that neither the Congress nor the commission can obtain critical information from the department, your authority as inspector general is the only way to learn whether the department has engaged in improper conduct with regard to the dismissal of this case and its hostility to the commission’s statutory authorities and responsibilities.”

Mr. Fine explained, however, that he referred the matter to OPR because, by statute, it had jurisdiction in the case. He said his office had been “expressly excluded” by statute.

“The issues you raised regarding the New Black Panther Party case involved the exercise by department attorneys of their authority to litigate and make legal decisions, and whether those decisions were based on improper considerations, such as political influence,” he said. “That is why we referred the matter to OPR for investigation.”

Mr. Fine also said that in response to the Wolf letter, he inquired into the status of the OPR investigation, adding that it was ongoing and that numerous documents had been collected and several interviews had been completed or were scheduled.

He also said OPR had included in its investigation accusations of whether any improper political influence affected the department’s handling of the case and whether department officials were in contact with the White House concerning the case.

The civil complaint was filed in January accusing the New Black Panther Party and two of its members of intimidating voters with racial insults, slurs and a nightstick. A third party member was accused of directing and endorsing their behavior. The incident was captured on videotape and gained national attention after it was shown on YouTube.com.

The charges were dismissed against the party, its chairman, Malik Zulu Shabazz, and Jerry Jackson, a Philadelphia party member. Justice later sought an injunction against Minister King Samir Shabazz, who carried the nightstick, barring him from displaying weapons at polling places until 2012.

The New Black Panther Party has not returned e-mails or telephone messages seeking comment.

WE ARE ALL GODSCREATION, ASK THE  WEAVER BIRDS AOUT THE COLOUR OF THEIR FEATHERS, ASK THE DOGS RACE ,ASK THE RATS RACE AND WHEN U GET THE ANSWER DONT ASK AGAIN SUCH A SIMPLE QUESTION.