February 2007

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February 28, 2007

Al Gore Revisited….Go Home Al!!! Go Home!!!!We Don’t Want You!!!

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Word has it that Al Gore is wanting to run for President, and it pisses me off to no end.

I’m reprinting a column I wrote about Al in 2000. Nothing has changed and I don’t care about his oscar or his environmental gibberish. Go away Al.. Go Away!!!

Al Gore has got to be the most chameleon-like man I have ever heard. One day he is bashing businesses like mad, and at the same time Ole Joe Liberman is trotting over to tell business people not to take him serious; it’s just politics. Gore rants and raves about the entertainment industry and then gets hush-hush when he attends their megabucks fundraisers and laps and sucks at their troughs of ready cash. Folks, if this guy is elected, you can bet that the “Lincoln Bedroom” will be up for rental and you and I need not apply.

Al claims to be a pseudo-intellectual, but he doesn’t know that Black people don’t care much for intellectuals. We prefer a gusty, lying, hip guy like Bill Clinton.  Now Ole Al flat out stretched the truth about his mother-in-law, Margaret Ann Atecheson(”With a name like that, she should be charged extra, paying $108 a month for the arthritis drug Lodine, while his dog Shiloh gets the drug under another name for $27.00 a month. Folks, please..A dog named Shiloh.. What we have here is a failure to communicate. What Ole Al failed to tell us was that the human dose is much higher than the animal dose. Also the patent has expired and a generic version costs about a quarter of the branded version. Al, we all know a Lexus cost more than a Ford, even though both will get you to the store. Al has a history about embellishing facts about himself and issues. Next thing you know he’ll be taking credit for creating the names Jamal and Hotisha and Tyrone.

Black voters, wake up. Ole Al is more concerned about winning back the Reagan Democrats and Blue-Collar workers in America.They can’t win the average white voter, by business bashing, they have to talk about individuals and appeal to the middle class rather than the poor. We all know that the middle class is so large, the rich so few, and benefits are so expensive; the rich won’t pay for it, so you have a higher premium (tax) for Medicare. Now folks that is clever, but reeks of slick Willie doing the James Brown.

The tax increase hits all Medicare recipients, not just those who need it. As usual, the middle class will be soaked and will pay it, because they can look down their noses at their poorer brethren and sneer and playa-hate on their rich friends. Al should tell you, black people, that poor people can’t pay for things, hell, they have no money in the first place and wouldn’t let the government take their money anyway. Have you ever heard of lawyers and accountants, that’s what rich people  have. Middle class people have what OLE Al really likes, “Steady Paychecks” and as that great American, Don King would say..Only in America..Only in America. AL GO HOME!!!

 

February 23, 2007

Open Forum: NC/SC, Will It Be Hillary or Obama?

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It is a known fact that to win the south, where a large majority of African-Americans voters live, Candidates Hillary and Obama must do well. For Obama to win, it is imperative that he get 80-90 of the Black Vote. What do you think? You can leave your comments or go to http://www.politicalblack.com/nc_sc.html and vote.

 

February 20, 2007

It Is On: Clinton and Obama Goes Toe To Toe In SC

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More than three thousand people gathered to see New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton make her first presidential campaign stop in South Carolina The overflowing audience packed an auditorium at Allen University, a historically black college, to hear Clinton speak in a town hall-style setting.
Over the weekend, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois drew a crowd approaching five thousand at historically black Claflin College.
HBCU’s are a must-visit in this early voting state where half the Democratic primary voters are black.

 

February 16, 2007

TV’S DUMBEST and Silliest SITCOM CHARACTERS!!

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Something new for the weekend, nothing serious.

Who was the Dumbest and Silliest Sitcom Characters?

 

February 11, 2007

Obama Announces Presidential Candidacy

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I am watching Senator Barack ’s announcement of his Presidential candidacy on C-Span. He is so smart, so sensible, so articulate, so clean(no puns intended) so easy to listen to … and so impressive! I’m a little  bored –had a bit too much politics in my live lately — but I want to see history unfolding.But, as a Black American, I thought I would get excited … and I didn’t excited. (I didn’t get to excited in 2004 when Obama spoke at the Democratic Convention, either.) like I did when Jesse Jackson announced his candidacy in 1984.

The music played by U2 put me to sleep. Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now that followed woke me up.

Obama does not wish to be seen as the Black candidate for President, but as the Presidential candidate who happens to be Black. We all know why that is; race is the ultimate litmus test of politics today  and don’t let anyone tell you different. In the end, however, what is good for Black America is good for all of America  And no matter how a campaign spins it, Obama is the first Black candidate in the 2008 Presidential sweepstakes.Then I heard  “Shout” playing in the background. Fun song, but permanently associated with rowdy white frat boys from “Animal House.” Bad choice, particularly in the aftermath of the Duke debacle. Someone needs to remind political consultants to use common sense sometimes.

There has been alot of media questioning Obama’s support in the African American communities. Some Black observers say Obama is popular with whites because he is “safe.” They can now point as well to the fact that launching a campaign with Lincolnesque overtones from Springfield sends a mixed message to African American voters. Some Black observers have specifically stated that the Senator’s life does not “share” the American Black experience and that Obama is not a “genuine” American of African descent. I guess they didn’t get excited, either.

In all honesty, I don’t question Colin Powell’s understanding of what it is to be Black, nor do I question the mindset of Condoleeza Rice. I just don’t like their political friends, but they are indeed Black.Whether you like Obama’s politics or not — and I have not taken a position  on the Presidential contest — you cannot say that Obama is not Black enough and you cannot say that he is any less qualified to be President of these United States than any other candidate past or present for that office. I am looking for the person who can incorporate all the wisdom, strength, blend it with a sense of faith, realizing the urgency, and get busy. I am looking for the strategist who can do something about world affairs. I am looking for the one who is genuine and fresh yet who has all the tools and credentials to look after my domestic issues and keep me safe. His friends gives me cause for concern

If that’s Barack Obama, it’ll be okay. If it’s someone else, let them be heard.

What are your thoughts?

 

February 6, 2007

Black Women Who Was Sterilized By The State of NC

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Well Folks… Its Black History Month and I’ve been receiving some serious emails from folks, Black, White and Hispanic accusing us of never discussing anything other than stuff for entertainment values. I would like for anyone interesting in some serious dialogue,so let us know what is on your mind during this month. Is the State of NC finally ready to give compensation to the remaining victims, over 7000 (all females) sterilized in this state from 1929 through 1974?

 

February 5, 2007

Black History

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 Living in Modern America and Celebrating Black History MonthAs Black History Month approaches, Rev. Wayne Perryman, a Republican minister from God knows where keeps insisting that America’s problem is white folks being discriminated against by Blacks, and he continues to attack Jesse Jackson, which seems personal.  It doesn’t help us Republicans in our quest for more Black voters. Being a Republican, I’m constantly asked my opinion about this guy, and I’m sick of him and wish he would shut the hell up.

Wayne Perryman is one reason that young and old African Americans should never take their hard-won rights for granted. His outlook is also a wake-up call to anyone who understands the perils of slavery.

America has nothing I want in the way of an apology for slavery or reparation for that matter. But I’m not getting over slavery.

There’s nothing quite as daunting as going to a county office building down in Clinton, NC, and finding evidence of your family’s bondage. I did that last December. There’s little information about my great, great grandfather other than he was a slave in Sampson County, but my great grandfather, Alford Oates, died in 1905.  Land records confirmed the story I had heard since I was a young boy: that my late great grandmother’s name was Frances, and she often spoke of “Old Master”. She told about all the family being sold, her mother and all the other children, but the “Old Master” kept her to tend to the babies. After slavery, later in life, she became a midwife and served her community and surrounding areas faithfully, earning the respect of all, as there were few doctors in those days. Records show that in 1900 my great grandfather bought a farm located in the Westbrook Township, a few miles from Newton Grove, consisting of twenty-seven and one half acres and moved his family there. Listening to my grandfather tell these stories always fascinated me.   Like farm equipment, livestock and things of other value, my relatives were considered legal property, listed by name, with assigned monetary value by their owners. I don’t know of a living soul who had anything to do with slavery, but our country’s shameful history on race is not limited to slavery. People of my generation were alive when Jim Crow was a way of life in North Carolina. There’s lots of folks around who saw these statures passed: Miscegenation was declared a felony in 1921; in 1931 the State Libraries separated; in 1947 laws called for racial restrictions for the burial of the dead in cemeteries(for Christ sakes!)..; in 1952, all Black Troops were to be under control of whites; and in 1957, No child was forced to attend school with children of a different race, even after Brown vs. Board of Education. I remember the bricks being thrown at school buses caring my sisters and brothers during integration. I was around when there was massive resistance to the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown decision desegregating public schools. I remember, Feb. 2, 1960, when students from the historically Black A&T College occupied luncheon counter seats, without being served,(they stayed all day) at downtown F.W. Woolworth Co. Store.   For all the things said about Jesse Jackson, I remember that in 1963, when he was student body President at A&T, Jackson led demonstrations downtown in an attempt to integrate the theaters there and the old Mayfair and S&W cafeterias.  I also remember in my early childhood riding by a school located three(3) miles from my house to a school located 20 miles away.   Today, things have changed.  A Black man is running for President and he is not my choice.  We also use the same libraries, we no longer ride in the back of buses, even though modern day kids prefer riding in the back. Yes, things have changed, but not without lawsuits, civil rights demonstrations by the likes of Franklin McClain and Joseph McNeil who were active in the 1960 sit-ins at F.W.Woolworth in Greensboro, and the goodwill of many white citizens who believed in fairness.    Contrary to what Rev. Jesse Peterson and others want to believe, our state’s legacy of segregation and discrimination in education and employment has harmed many Black North Carolinians, depriving them of the tangible benefits enjoyed by their white counterparts. Bias and discrimination always benefits someone, and many people of my generation have benefited from it, so let’s stop pretending that things never happened. Today, Black on Black Crime, gangs, uneducated Black youths, and predator lending practices contribute to all of the above also. Our present day leaders, Black and White, should be held accountable.   Even as the end of the Civil War freed Blacks in North Carolina, Jim Crow played a vital role in the lives of most of the people of my generation. Reparation is not worth the trouble, but one must know, and remember their history to move on, but forget, NO!!!. Being a Republican is a personal choice, which doesn’t stop me from belonging to the NAACP, supporting HBCU’s, respecting what Jesse Jackson did, liking Rudy Gualiana, or criticizing  Spendthrift Democrats, Slick Republicans and that crowd in DC who continues to mess up our government.   What better way than to celebrate Black History Month than Blacks, Whites, Hispanics and others to know our history?