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It is like peeling an onion, the deeper you go, the more it smells and stings your eyes.

WEDNESDAY, FEB 3, 2010 09:04 EST James O’Keefe’s race problem A photo of the righty stuntman at a white-nationalist confab illustrates a career marked by racial resentment BY MAX BLUMENTHAL

Photo by Isis/Salon composite James O’Keefe, photographed at a white nationalist conference by One People’s Project. Many of the conservatives who gleefully promoted James O’Keefe’s past political stunts are feigning shock at his arrest on charges that he and three associates planned to tamper with Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu’s phone lines. Once upon a time, right-wing pundits hailed the 25-year-old O’Keefe as a creative genius and model of journalistic ethics. Andrew Breitbart, who has paid O’Keefe, called him one of the all-time “great journalists” and said he deserved a Pulitzer for his undercover ACORN video. Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly declared he should have earned a “congressional medal.”

His right-wing admirers don’t seem to mind that O’Keefe’s short but storied career has been defined by a series of political stunts shot through with racial resentment. Now an activist organization that monitors hate groups has produced a photo of O’Keefe at a 2006 conference on “Race and Conservatism” that featured leading white nationalists. The photo, first published Jan. 30 on the Web site of the anti-racism group One People’s Project, shows O’Keefe at the gathering, which was so controversial even the ultra-right Leadership Institute, which employed O’Keefe at the time, withdrew its backing. But O’Keefe and fellow young conservative provocateur Marcus Epstein soldiered on to give anti-Semites, professional racists and proponents of Aryanism an opportunity to share their grievances and plans to make inroads in the GOP.

According to One People’s Project founder Daryle Jenkins, O’Keefe was manning the literature table at the gathering that brought together anti-Semites, professional racists and proponents of Aryanism. OPP covered the event at the time, sending a freelance photographer to document the gathering. Jenkins told me the table was filled with tracts from the white supremacist right, including two pseudo-academic publications that have called blacks and Latinos genetically inferior to whites: American Renaissance and the Occidental Quarterly. The leading speaker was Jared Taylor, founder of the white nationalist group American Renaissance. “We can say for certain that James O’Keefe was at the 2006 meeting with Jared Taylor. He has absolutely no way of denying that,” Jenkins said. O’Keefe’s attorney did not respond to a request for comment on his client’s role in the conference.

O’Keefe’s racial issues can be seen in many of his prior stunts, of course. The notorious ACORN videos highlighted images of himself dressed as a pimp, deceptively edited through hidden camera footage as he baited African-American office workers into making statements that could be perceived as incriminating. There were also lesser-known but equally inflammatory spectacles like the “affirmative action bake sale” O’Keefe and his conservative comrades held when they were students at Rutgers University. During the event, O’Keefe stood at a table in the center of campus offering baked goods at reduced prices to Latinos and African-Americans while whites were forced to pay exorbitant amounts. (Native Americans, he announced, would eat free.)

By O’Keefe’s own account, his racial troubles became acute when he entered the multicultural atmosphere of Rutgers University’s dormitory system. In an online diary that has since been scrubbed from the Web (but not before being captured on Daily Kos), he wrote that he was forced to live on an all-black dormitory floor after refusing to live with the gay roommate he was initially assigned. O’Keefe claimed his next roommate was “an Indian midget … who smelled like shit.” The roommate left, however, and was replaced by “a greek kid.” The new roommate complained to a residential administrator that O’Keefe had called his neighbors “niggers,” prompting the school to expel him from the dorm. He rejected the accusation as a “complete lie,” writing, “I was lead out of the room crying and screaming at him and my situation, no friends, no one one [sic] to talk to, forced to go in front of a black man, Dean Tolbert, to defend myself and help explain that I did not call anyone any names.”

The following year, despite this record, O’Keefe secured a dream job in the conservative movement, employed by the Leadership Institute, a Northern Virginia-based outfit that serves as the movement’s most prolific youth training operation. There, O’Keefe met Marcus Epstein, a fellow ideologue who as editor of a conservative publication at the College of William and Mary assailed Martin Luther King Jr. for “philandering and plagiarism” and challenged his patriotism and Christianity.

Together, O’Keefe and Epstein planned an event in August 2006 that would wed their extreme views on race with their ambitions. Epstein invited white nationalist Jared Taylor and homophobic white- grievance peddler John Derbyshire of the National Review to speak at the Leadership Institute’s Northern Virginia headquarters, at a mock symposium called “Race and Conservatism.”

According to a post on the white supremacist Web site Stormfront, Taylor and Derbyshire debate “the role of race in policy decisions and the racial future of the Republican party.”

When the Southern Poverty Law Center denounced Taylor’s participation in the event, sparking damaging publicity for the Institute, Epstein shifted it across the street, where he played host under the auspices of a “traditionalist” group he founded called the Robert A. Taft Club. O’Keefe joined him after the last-minute move. A speaker from the right-wing black front group Project 21, founded by white conservative David Almasi to shill for corporate clients and provide cover for conservative politicians, was added at the last minute.

According to One People’s Project, which dispatched an undercover reporter to the event, about 40 people attended the event, including several white supremacists. They included Michael Hart, a Jewish astrophysicist and advocate of racially partitioning the U.S., who once clashed with David Duke at a conference over the Ku Klux Klan leader’s anti-Semitism.

The event’s headline speaker, Jared Taylor, is the publisher of one of the white supremacist movement’s foremost journals, American Renaissance, which seeks to apply an academic gloss to the racialist screeds contained on its pages. According to a report on the conference published in Taylor’s magazine, Taylor argued that a taboo against discussing the alleged criminal behavior and lower intelligence of blacks and Latinos twisted political discourse, and he advocated a strong white nationalism to counter it. Derbyshire denounced “this whole rickety apparatus of affirmative action, discrimination lawsuits, corporate shakedowns, profiling protests and ’speech codes.’” But the National Review editor expressed doubt that a sufficiently large white nationalist movement could be mustered to do much about it.

Epstein and O’Keefe moved on from the “Race and Conservatism” conference to better things. After graduating from the Leadership Institute, Epstein held jobs as executive director of both former Republican Rep. Tom Tancredo’s Team America PAC and Pat Buchanan’s American Cause. He also started a group called Youth for Western Civilization that dedicated itself to “defending the West on campus.” An essay featured on the group’s Web site complaining that “largely Jewish intellectual elites have utterly transformed American social and political discourse” suggested that Epstein’s outfit was only his latest attempt to push white nationalism and anti-Semitism into the conservative mainstream.

Epstein’s career unraveled in June 2009, when a violent racial assault he committed two years earlier was disclosed. According to a court affidavit, Epstein had karate-chopped a random African-American woman in the face and called her a “nigger” during a drunken late-night romp bar-hopping on Washington’s M Street in 2007, leading to his arrest by an off-duty Secret Service agent. He signed a plea bargain requiring him to attend alcohol rehabilitation courses and donate $1,000 to the United Negro College Fund as a token of his contrition.

Meanwhile, O’Keefe lost his job at the Leadership Institute in 2008 for a prank call he made to an Ohio-based Planned Parenthood clinic. During the call, O’Keefe offered a donation to the clinic on the condition that it would be earmarked to pay for aborting African- American fetuses. “Because there’s definitely way too many black people in Ohio,” O’Keefe remarked to the receptionist. “So, I’m just trying to do my part.”

O’Keefe’s termination by the Leadership Institute hardly ended his career as a conservative activist. Right-wing online publicist Andrew Breitbart, hearing of the merry prankster’s exploits, hired him to carry out the ACORN operation that would make him famous. Since his arrest, however, some of O’Keefe’s former associates are scrambling to save face. “I am shocked by the reports of this behavior,” declared O’Keefe’s collaborator on the ACORN operation, Hannah Giles. (Giles had tarted up as a prostitute for the stunt.)

O’Keefe has now hired a defense attorney and is waging a high publicity battle against charges that could land him in prison for nearly a year. Some of his old allies, like Breitbart, remain in his corner. Fox News’ Sean Hannity hosted O’Keefe for a sympathetic sitdown Feb. 1, where the young right-winger played victim, claiming he was being persecuted by “flat-out slandering” and “journalistic malpractice.”

On Feb 3, 7:09 pm, Rogue wrote:

Friday, January 22, 2010

Good Morning Folks,

I thought I would share the story below with you, however, I only included a paragraph or two, to explain what the story is all about. I found this article to be worth reading and I hope you will as well. Please take the time to read this story and pass it along if you desire. I think it is very impressive what some young children and teens are doing and it makes me proud to read an article of this nature.

Thank You, Larry Kibby – l.kibby@frontier.com Reznews List Owner

Students run to remember By Jodi Rave, Today correspondent Story Published: Jan 22, 2010

LAME DEER, Mont. – After a five-day journey through four states, youth runners from the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in Montana completed a 400-mile journey Jan. 15 in commemoration of their relatives who escaped from a military fort in Nebraska in January 1879.

Earlier this month, 97 runners from the Northern Cheyenne Reservation, mostly grade school and high school students, participated in the Fort Robinson Outbreak Spiritual Run. About 30 more supporters followed them to cook, drive and offer support as one highway mile marker eventually blurred into hundreds through Nebraska, South Dakota, Wyoming and finally the southeastern corner of Montana. Many runners and supporters shared stories about how the run changed their life

In order to read the rest of the article, please click on this link: http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/plains/82379557.html

*”In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends” * * * *”I have decided to stick with love, hate is too great a burden to bear”* * * *”We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools”* * * *”Everything we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see”* * * *”Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter”* * * *”Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘what are you ding for others?’”* * * *”Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a permanent attitude”* * * *”Darkness can not drive out darkness, only light can do that; hate can not drive out hate, only love can do that”* * * *”Of all forms of inequality, injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and inhumane”* * * *”Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase”* * * *”He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who actively perpetrates it”* *All quotes: Martin Luther King, Jr.* * *

of whom the Left decried as a paid propagandist for the WH — and blaming Bush for using public funds to promote its partisan position??? Well, Obama did this Jonathan Gruber in a far mor corruptable fashion… WHERE IS YOUR OUTRAGE now???

This story was in the RW blogs for weeks… Now the HuffPost prints it, it must be true, right LW-trashers of Fox??? Again Obama action is NOT transparent…

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-hamsher/how-the-white-house-used_b_421549.html

>>> Far more troubling, however, is the lack of disclosure on the part of the White House, the Senate, the DNC and other Democratic leaders who distributed Gruber’s work and cited it as independent validation of their proposals, orchestrating the appearance of broad consensus when in fact it was all part of the same effort.

The White House is placing a giant collective bet on Gruber’s “assumptions” to justify key portions of the Senate bill such as the “Cadillac tax,” which they allowed people to believe was independent verification. Now that we know that Gruber’s work was not that of an independent analyst but rather work performed as a contractor to the White House and paid for by taxpayers, and economists like Larry Mishel are raising serious questions about its validity, it should be made publicly available so others can judge its merits.

Okumu,

It’s not an attack. It’s a reality. Have you heard of reality checks??

Omukulu Allan Ssempebwa

Very good words very good words in deed. However I cannot respond to your statement, of whether Akena Adoko the scholar Uganda lost masterminded the Obote’s government to give the Langis reputable positions for I simply do not know that to be a fact. I remember to have got an office messenger that was a Langi as well as a ministry driver that was a Langi. If to you those were reputable positions in the ministry it can only be believed by a man in Makerere University of Yoweri Museveni. I take an offense too in your standing today and you call Obote one government a regime, to that I will add that how better did you want that government to work to gain your respect? Some times Baganda reason in a very interesting manner that those of us that are critical thinkers thank God for punishing you to have this government, for you simply never get it and talk faaaaa over and over.

But if your lie is true, if Akena Adoko masterminded the plan to employ all Langis in reputable positions, so what? Aren’t they Ugandans? Isn’t it better than General Katumba that commands the entire land force in Uganda yet he has done squat to all the Baganda soldiers? Isn’t that better than Mayanja Nkangi a Muganda that has up lifted no single Muganda? Who do you want me to list for you that is a usefull Muganda in this government? Gilbert Bukenya or the late Samson Kisekks? Who do you have that has up lifted Baganda? Or you prefer Nabakyaala that has decided to call on Baganda to bring their children to Katikamu SDA at a cost of 16,000 Shillings a head? And I say if the Langis were up lifted by this man good for him. It is even interesting that you believe that Akena Adoko masterminded the Lango master plan, but you do not agree that Dr Kiiza Besigye is responsible for writing the Movement policies as a national political commissar. To reason in that manner, one must own a head of a Muganda and must be in today’s Makerere University.

But let me take this opportunity to educate you as well. If you cared to read what I posted, I never stated that Akena Adoko must be remembered for he did beautifully things for Uganda only, but I stated that we must remember him for all things he did. Allan Ssempebwa if this man never did any thing for you and your irks, remember him for that ignorance of you and your irks. If what he did for Uganda was great for me allow me to remember him for that. It is the ignoring of the fact that Akena Adoko made Uganda a different country that really bothers me. This man was and has been a torch to many Ugandans in UK let us remember him for that, but he has not reached your expectations as set by you, let us remember him too for that fact. But let us remember him by creating an institution in Uganda for the future generations to look at and know that yes there was a man in Uganda history called Akena Adoko.

Allan Ssempebwa I committed my first amount to kick start this good mission, a commitment of 1,000 Canadian dollars, how much are you adding on sir?

EM Kampala

Thé Mulindwas Communication Group “With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy” Groupe de communication Mulindwas “avec Yoweri Museveni, l’Ouganda est dans l’anarchie”

Allan Ssempebwa > > > > > > > > > > > Is this the man who masterminded the Lango master plan under obote 1 > regime meant to give the Langis reputable positions? (AND INDEED WERE) >   > Anyway ,to dust we shall all return > May God comfort the bereavd. >   > Allan Ssempebwa > Makerere Univ. > > — On Sat, 1/9/10, rehema uganda wrote: > > > From: rehema uganda > Subject: Re: {UAH}: BUT HOW WILL YOU REMEMBER AKENA ADOKO !!!!!!! > To: ugandans-at-heart@googlegroups.com > Date: Saturday, January 9, 2010, 8:10 PM > > > Aken looks like late dr.sulaiman kiggundu in this photo.Akena Adoko > research centre for past uganda murders is not a bad suggestion > considering that UPC are murderers > > RIP: Dr Akena Adoko (File Photo) > > > > On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Monsieur Edward Mulindwa > wrote: > > Ugandans > > These are men that we all as Ugandans must raise up and we build memorials > to remind us how nationalistic they were.  And I will use this moment to > urge the Abbey Ssemuwembas and Rehemas Uganda to compel all Ugandans to > put our money where our mouth is. Can you imagine a research center on > Makerere University named The Akena Adoko research center !! A center > where all Uganda kids, including Baganda Bacholi Langi Karamojongs and all > can go and do their research. A center that you will join for you have > only one requirement, a God damn brain. For in all time I knew Akena > Adoko, that was his modus operand, he never minded who you were, what is > your tribe but are you a Ugandan !!!! > > And I challenge you, on how will you as a Ugandan respect and remember > this man? For in all nationalists that have died or will die in Uganda, > AMO is just too closely followed by this man. A man that did not steal > from his country as Suleiman  Kigundu. A man that much hated but always > had a single lawyer to defend him, his reputation and his being straight > forward. But a man that loved all Ugandans to enjoy the fruits of their > country. And as the Suleiman Kigundus were building personal wealth, Akena > but your country and my country. As the Kigundus were stealing money from > Ugandans by building policies where you take 100 shillings in the bank and > they offer you a percentage, Akena Adoko wondered why we still have a > Ugandan with out an access to power when we generate it from the Jinja > waters. > > So this challenge is to you as a Ugandan, and in a more extended manner to > you the UPC party this man served , how will you remember Akena Adoko? > This is the time we need to raise all up and create something in our > country with a name of this man.  Let our children study from this man’s > center, let the women have babies in a ward named after him, let a > research and development center be built in remembrance to him. You see it > is not about his death that bothers me, for Akena Adoko had to die, the > man was really old, but what is it to you as a Ugandan? How do you exploit > his energy and nationalism to build a forward front for your country. > > The death of Akena is a great challenge to all of us for we love our > country but we will never pass a single fraction of this man’s love. So as > I made a commitment on the death of AMO I will make this commitment too, > that some body out there has to stand up and start an arrangement of > building a memory for Akena Adoko, and if that individual gets organized > and starts it, let my 1,000 dollars Canadian be known to be on the table > as a start. > > We can either build these institutions to educate our children where we > are coming from, or we all become cowards as Abbey Ssemuwemba who preaches > the destruction of Uganda house. Take your pick. You are either with those > to build a better future Uganda as Akena Adoko or against them as Abbey > Ssemuwemba. > > EM > Kampala > > Thé Mulindwas Communication Group > “With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy” >            Groupe de communication Mulindwas > “avec Yoweri Museveni, l’Ouganda est dans l’anarchie” > > > > > — > You received this message because you are subscribed to the forum > “Ugandans at Heart”(UAH) with the motto:’Justice is when U get exactly > what you deserve”. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > Ugandans-at-Heart-unsubscribe@googlegroups.com or > abbeysemuwemba@googlemail..com.For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/Ugandans-at-Heart?hl=en > Abusive language not accepted on this forum. Also visit the ‘UAH’ Blog at: > http://ugandansatheart.wordpress.com/ > > > > — > When the boot of government is on your neck,it doesn’t matter if it’s left > or right. Today is Buganda, tomorrow is some one else. > > > — > You received this message because you are subscribed to the forum > “Ugandans at Heart”(UAH) with the motto:’Justice is when U get exactly > what you deserve”. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > Ugandans-at-Heart-unsubscribe@googlegroups.com or > abbeysemuwemba@googlemail..com.For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/Ugandans-at-Heart?hl=en > Abusive language not accepted on this forum. 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Is this the man who masterminded the Lango master plan under obote 1 regime meant to give the Langis reputable positions? (AND INDEED WERE)   Anyway ,to dust we shall all return May God comfort the bereavd.   Allan Ssempebwa Makerere Univ.