The racism you won’t hear about
At the Al-Quds day rally in Washington D.C., a speaker named Afeef Khan made a crude racist* attack on Barack Obama for not destroying Israel:
“And that the head politician on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue – who of us has the courage to say to this politician that are you a regular house negro or are you the quintessential house negro? Who of us has the courage when we couch our presentation in suggesting that the problem can be solved by the dismemberment of the State of Israel and the support that state receives from the United States?”
Khan is an associate of terrorist supporter Imam Mohammed Al-Asi.
The Investigative Project on Terrorism has more on the event, including video here.
* I forgot what real racism was. For a while, I thought it was opposing Democrats.
In: Society · Tagged with: Barack Obama, Islam, racism
Who’s the racist in this picture?
Remember “Beerfest” with Barack Obama, his friend Professor Gates, and the Police Sergeant James Crowley? This may be old news, but I just came across this picture today. Obama marches on while his crippled friend has to be helped by the so-called “racist” Crowley.
White House Photographer Pete Souza
In: Politics · Tagged with: Barack Obama, racism
A fireman’s perspective on SCOTUS reversal of Ricci
The Supreme Court overturned Ricci v. DeStefano, the lawsuit brought against the city of New Haven, Connecticut by firefighters claiming the city had discriminated against them due to their race. SCOTUS once again decided along ideological lines 5-4 with Kennedy as the swing vote.
Obama Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor surely took a big hit today as SCOTUS reversed Sotomayor and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals’s decision that New Haven was acting within its obligations of the Civil Rights Act. How can Sotomayor be the best choice for a lifetime appointment to safeguard the Constitution when she has been overturned by the court she seeks to join? And if this ‘wise latina woman’ is wrong on this issue, what else will she be wrong on?
But with today reversal, it will be interesting is to watch the White House and their press corps spin the story. The press will surely use the race card, but the 100-year-plus struggle for civil rights in the U.S. is over and Americans won. Discrimination of any color violates our very founding. And when the city of New Haven decided that since more whites passed the officer exams than blacks or hispanics, that the test must be too hard for minorities and had to be thrown out.
As a firefighter myself, I say that New Haven’s decision is dangerously wrong. This decision isn’t isolated to city hall or the fire station: Decisions like these (picking firemen based on skin color, not ability) could cost people their lives. In America, and even Connecticut, it should be the best person for the job, not the best minority.
When it’s your house that’s on fire, you want the best firefighters going into the house and rescuing your children, not the best black or hispanic ones, right? You also aren’t likely to be too concerned whether or not the fire truck has a correct demographic representation of the local community, either.
According to our founding principles, Americans – not whites, blacks, and hispanics – are jumping off the firetruck to save your baby. The fact that New Haven made their decision not to promote white officers should be just as disgusting to each of us as the treatment of blacks in the 1960s.
In addition, and it seems this logic is lost on most: New Haven’s decision should have been an insult to the blacks and hispanics as apparently the city feels that the blacks and hispanics aren’t smart enough to . In my opinion, that’s where Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton should have been. New Haven told blacks that they weren’t as smart as the white people who took the test.
In: Politics · Tagged with: racism, SCOTUS, Sonia Sotomayor
Obama crowd: 1.8 million*
Obama wasn’t even sworn in yet, and we already had inflation.
While I could really care less how many people attended Barack Obama’s inauguration, there is an interesting story behind the head count, or rather, the lack thereof.
The National Park Service (NPS) conducted an estimate of Louis Farrakhan’s Million Man March in 1995 and found that the march actually came well under one million people. Naturally, organizers cried racism to Congress — who promptly banned the NPS from conducting further estimates.
So back to Obama’s inauguration: the NPS went ahead and did another estimate. After all, this is historic. But this time, it was a bit less scientific — they just went with the Washington Post’s figure of 1.8 million. Presto! The biggest event in Washington, D.C.’s history.
But satellite imagery may deflate Obama’s head count. Experts at Jane’s Information Group figure between 1.3 and 1.7 million, and George Mason University professor of tourism puts the figure at much closer to 1 million.
In: Politics · Tagged with: Barack Obama, baseball, racism
An Apology for the Democratic Party’s 150-year History of Racism
The National Black Republican Association crushes the Democratic party with the truth in this proclamation. An interview with the Chairman of the NBRA, Frances Rice can be heard here on Unto the Breach.
We, black American citizens of the United States and the National Black Republican Association, declare and assert:
WHEREAS, the healing of wounds begins with an apology, and the Democratic Party has never apologized for their horrific atrocities and racist practices against black Americans during the past 150 years, nor held accountable for the residual impact that those atrocities and practices are having on us today,
In: Society · Tagged with: Barack Obama, Democrats, racism
