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Dr. Andrew Manis: “When are we going to get over it?”

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The OP-Ed piece I am about to post was written December 12, 2008 but right now with all that is going on with Health Care Reform and the real issues that aren’t being discussed, I thought this was a great time to re-post this history professor’s opinion. It may anger some people but I hope not, he has valid insight into our collective psyche about race in this country and we should take heed and listen. Below are quotes from his Op-Ed.

For much of the last forty years, ever since America “fixed” its race problem in the Civil Rights and Voting dr_a_manisRights Acts, we white people have been impatient with African Americans who continued to blame race for their difficulties. Often we have heard whites ask, “When are African Americans finally going to get over it?

Now I want to ask:  “When are we White Americans going to get over our ridiculous obsession with skin color?

But elect a liberal who happens to be Black and we’re back in the sixties again. At this point in our history, we should be proud that we’ve proven what conservatives are always saying -that in America anything is possible, EVEN electing a black man as president.

How long until we white people will stop insisting that blacks exercise personal responsibility, build strong families, educate themselves enough to edit the Harvard Law Review, and work hard enough to become President of the United States, only to threaten to assassinate them when they do?

How long before we starting “living out the true meaning” of our creeds, both civil and religious, that all men and women are created equal and that “red and yellow, black and white” all are precious in God’s sight?

Read the entire commentrary here.

In the health care debates there seems to be so much hate in the air. I mean come on, you can disagree with the president as is our right, voice your opinion, but when it is taken so far that people can’t be civil to one another and violence becomes part of the conversation, then I think we all need to take a step back and figure out why all the vitriol. If frightens me and makes me so terribly sad for our country.

Okay, on a lighter note, the Doc is kinda cute. I may need to take a trip to Alabama. :)

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Legislative Aid says, “Oops, I Sent It To The WRONG LIST”

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The Dumbass Brigade strikes again. Sherri Goforth a legislative aid for Senator Diane Black (R-Gallatin) says that she sent this racist piece of crap to the wrong people.  She really meant to send it to her bigoted friends and she’s sorry to have made such a stupid mistake.  Woohoo Go Nashville!!

Are these people serious.

Most people wonder why black folks can come off angry sometimes, well it’s because of shit like this that has been happening in the dark for so long. Now these racists are so bold or are too dumb to understand technology that they are doing it in the light of day for everyone to see. I guess in a way this is a good thing because now we are not the only ones who know this all too familiar racism.

Sen Diane Black’s R-Gallatin legislative aid circulates racist email « Nashville Is Talking.

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Stem Cell Research = May Save Lives, Definitely Creates Jobs in California

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On Monday, President Obama abolished Bush’s limits on Stem Cell Research and the GOP and Religious Right are in a tizzy with their panties in a bunch. He’s doing exactly what he said he would do; don’t they get it. He’s true to his word, he wasn’t faking it.

Republican Congressman Eric Cantor displayed his idiocy here:

House Republican Whip Eric Cantor claims that rescinding Bush’s stem cell ban “distracts” us from the economy

HOW???? Is he on crack? It may “distract” the Republicans since they are not really participating in this recovery, except to be obstructionists. The Republicans need to shit or get off the pot and stop playing games.

WHY ARE THE RETHUGLIGANS SO AFRAID OF SCIENCE?

Also, here is a great article from our friends at Jack & Jill Politics

Stem Cell Research = New Jobs in CA

10 Mar 2009 Author: Jill Tubman

It’s funny — listening to people like Jim Cramer on the Today show this am, you’d think that Obama was wasting time and getting distracted by issues unrelated to the economy (but related to “special interests”) like re-opening stem cell research.

I live in the San Francisco/Oakland/San Jose Bay Area and if you look at the local news yesterday and today here (TV and newspaper), folks are pretty excited about the surge this will create for Bay Area biotech firms. Holding back this research has actually held back an important sector here. The news is all about training employees fast enough for the new jobs this can create here. They are good jobs too including young technicians. Stem cell research happens to be vital to the economy of California, which by the way, is one of the largest in the U.S. and the world.

Here’s the San Jose Merc:

Shares in California stem cell companies jumped and researchers rejoiced Monday after President Obama ended an eight-year limit on federal funding for studies of embryonic stem cells. [...]

The signing ceremony at the White House was heavily attended by scientific notables and officials from California, which has committed $3 billion to a taxpayer-funded stem cell research funding program to keep the state at the forefront of the field.

Supporters are hoping that the groundwork laid by the program will give California research centers the edge in winning federal grants under the new administration policy. Such basic research grants bring science to the point where private companies can invest, said Dr. Deepak Srivastava, director of UCSF’s Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease in San Francisco, a center of stem cell research.

“Until recently, most of the private capital has stayed on the sidelines due to the federal policy and the early stage of the work,” Srivastava said. “I think that will change because private industry will see that this whole field will be jump-started.”

By signing the order, the President is helping to ensure America’s continued global leadership in scientific discoveries and technological breakthroughs — essential not only for the country’s economic prosperity, but for the progress of all humanity. Sure, the research is controversial and I am excited personally about the promise adult stem cells hold. Still opening stem cell research completely will get us further faster to improve lives through better jobs and better healthcare. Furthermore, the majority of Americans – from across the political spectrum, and of all backgrounds and beliefs – agree with the scientific community that we should pursue this research. So those who say that stem cell research has nothing to do with the economy just doesn’t get it.

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Do I Need To Purchase A Gun???

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Let’s just get right to it; some white folks are buying guns by the barrel load and believe me they’re not all “gun enthusiasts” afraid that Obama is going to impose some outrageous gun control laws in his term as president. Some of these people are getting ready for some idiotic notion that there is an impending race war coming. It has made me think twice about possibly purchasing a gun and taking lessons so that I will be able to protect myself and my family. I have never owned a gun in my life nor have I ever thought it would be necessary for me to own a gun; but the incidents of violence happening around the country are a bit upsetting and frightening.

You’ve got people saying stupid stuff like this:

“He’s a gun-snatcher,” said Jim Pruett, owner of Jim Pruett’s Guns and Ammo in northwest Houston, which was packed with shoppers on Thursday.

“He wants to take our guns from us and create a socialist society policed by his own police force,”
Gun Sales Are Up

What kind of dumb shit is that. This man is a moron, but you have to take morons like this seriously. You never know when a group of angry white people will accost you, hook you up to the back of some pickup and drag you for miles…remember James Byrd. Unfortunately you have to think about your safety first and the idiocy of their logic second.

I’m still not sure it’s the way I want to go, but I am going to discuss it with my family and seriously consider purchasing a handgun…it even pains me to say it.

We are truly a nation of minorities now and folks need to recognize that fact and live up to our nations creed (you know, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness). Minorities now outnumber the majority and we just want to live and love in this country like everyone else. If the crazy southern/religious/conservative fringe want to start a race war, they are going to have more than black folks to fight. We are a nation of immigrants — ALL OF US.

White folks always like to say if you don’t like it here in America, take your black ass back to Africa; well, if you don’t like it here in America, I say “Take Your White Ass Back to Europe,” England in particular and see what kind of reception you get.

Or, we can all live in this country peacefully without all of this unnecessary animus and I can put my fear of you and possible need for a handgun purchase to rest.

In the famous words of Rodney King, “Can’t we all just get along.”

Hating and fearing each other gets us no where; hate, ignorance and the angry mob mentality got us Reginald Denny and that tragedy.

Here’s another article on the subject.
Gun Sales Thriving

Stop letting your ignorance and fear be your guide. Leave your 50s mob mentality behind and come along with the rest of us to change this country and make it better for ALL OF US, not just the fortunate few.

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And Lower… «Rashid Khalidi: Is A Semite, Not Anti-Semite

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Thursday, October 30, 2008 at 3:50 pm
And Lower…
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Here we have the McCain campaign’s execrable Michael Goldfarb slinging around accusations of anti-semitism–a favorite pastime, as we’ve seen this year, among Jewish neoconservatives. I’ve never met Rashid Khalidi, but he is (a) Palestinian and therefore (b) a semite, so the charge of anti-semitism is fatuous. Khalidi is also a respected academic, the sort of person who is involved in foundation work that John McCain, for one, was willing to support financially. I’d say that if we have a bigot here, it’s Mr. Goldfarb who, if he’s intent on calling people antisemitic–or any other epithet–should be required to provide chapter and verse, which he does not do on CNN. (I’d also like to know on what basis CNN’s Rick Sanchez can stipulate that Khalidi is antisemitic.)

Swampland – TIME.com » Blog Archive And Lower… «

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Ain’t No Line Too Damn Long…Get Your Ass In Line & Wait

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It is simply pathetic when I hear people say the lines are too long. They’re not too long when you’re standing in line to get into some silly ass music concert, they’re not too damn long when you’re trying to buy the next Harry Potter book. So come on people, stop being pussies and get your ass in line and wait your turn to vote in the most important election of this generation.

Right now I’m especially talking to Black Folks. Don’t fuck this up! Leave your dumb ass conspiracy theories at home and get your ass in line; leave your ignorance at home and get your ass in line; leave your fear at home and get your ass in line. Take your love, patriotism and pride and get your ass in line.

Normally, I don’t particularly care for anything Diddy has to say, I mean he is a brilliant business man but so what. But, this video below is well worth taking a listen.

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Obama Stays Cool About Assassination Plot

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Considering he was called a nigger yesterday by some whack job at a Palin rally, this man doesn’t flinch. He is not afraid of some idiot skinheads who are still living in the 50s and 60s. As he says, they are not our future and so their misguided hatred is irrelevant.

Video (caution: there will be a 15 second commercial before report)

“I think what has been striking in this campaign is the the degree to which these kind of hate groups have been marginalized,” he said. “That’s not who America is. That’s not who our future is.”

“What I’ve found is people here don’t care what color you are,” Obama said of Western Pennsylvania. “What they’re trying to figure out is who can deliver. It’s just like the Pittsburgh Steelers: they don’t care what color you are, they just want to figure out, can you make the plays?”

Ben Smith’s Blog: Obama addresses plot – Politico.com.

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Did Bush and the GOP Just Declare War on Syria?

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The GOP is willing to declare war on another sovereign nation again just to win this election.

When Did We Declare War on Syria? or Pakistan?

By: Siun Sunday October 26, 2008 6:00 pm

As Ian noted earlier, the news wires are abuzz with reports of an attack on a Syrian village near the Iraqi border:

Local residents in a Syrian border town said that American forces killed seven men in a helicopter-borne commando attack inside Syrian territory.

Doctors in the town of Al-Sukkariya, some eight kilometres from the Iraqi border, said seven corpses and four wounded had been delivered to a nearby clinic after the attack.

The eyewitness accounts said that four helicopters were involved in the operation, with two of the helicopters landing in the town and eight American soldiers disembarking. The eyewitnesses said that the seven killed men were supposedly construction workers.

Afterwards, the US helicopters then left Syrian airspace with all the soldiers again on board.

No explanation or comment yet from US forces though as more reports come in, the number of dead has been increased to 9 with 14 wounded.

When Did We Declare War on Syria? or Pakistan? .

Update: Death toll up to 20

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Barack the Vote!…or these crazy bastards will send us into a third war with the Middle East

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Did New Mexico GOP Lawyer Hire P.I. To Intimidate Minority Voters?

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The GOP will stop at nothing to suppress the minority vote in this election. GOP operative Pat Rogers needs his ass kicked and his private investigator Al Romero needs an ass whipping as well. They both should be thrown in jail.

Minority voters in New Mexico report to TPMmuckraker that a private investigator working with Republican party lawyer Pat Rogers has appeared in person at the homes of their family members, intimidating and confusing them about their right to vote in the general election.

TPMMuckraker | Talking Points Memo | Did New Mexico GOP Lawyer Hire P.I. To Intimidate Minority Voters?.

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