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Getbig Main Boards / Politics and Political Issues Board / Re: Racist in Chief Obama at it again: If you are black you have to work 2x as hard
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on: May 22, 2013, 05:06:08 PM
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Obama needs to stop lecturing predominantly black audiences, some supporters say
By Vanessa Williams, Published: May 20
Trevor Coleman thinks it’s time for President Obama to get a new speech for black audiences. The personal responsibility finger-wagging, delivered most recently Sunday at Morehouse College’s commencement, is getting old.
During the speech, Obama admonished black men to take care of their families and their communities and told the graduates that despite the lingering legacies of slavery and discrimination, “we’ve got no time for excuses.” Obama also used the occasion to talk about his own life, touching on the fact that he was raised by a single mother and that growing up he sometimes blamed some of his bad choices on “the world trying to keep a black man down.”
The half-hour speech in Atlanta drew a rousing response from those who had sat in pouring rain waiting for the president to speak.
Coleman, a former speechwriter for former Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm, said that although parts of the talk were strong and lofty, including passages honoring Morehouse graduate Martin Luther King Jr., he was disappointed that Obama almost always defaults to the clean-up-your-act message when talking to predominantly black audiences. First lady Michelle Obama issued a similar tongue-lashing last week at Bowie State University’s commencement ceremony. She told graduates at the historically black Maryland school that too many young people are “fantasizing about being a baller or a rapper.”
“The first couple of times, it was okay, but I and a lot of other people are beginning to grow weary of it,” said Coleman, adding that the message was particularly galling at Sunday’s event at the historically black Georgia school. “What made it so gratuitous was this was Morehouse College! In the African American community, the very definition of a Morehouse man is someone who is a leader, who is taught to go out and make a difference in his community.” (The White House declined comment.)
Obama has been making this point — and stirring controversy — since he was a candidate in 2008. Jesse Jackson Sr. was incensed by what he saw as Obama’s “talking down to black people,” yet it was Jackson who was criticized. Many in the black community believed that Obama’s chastisements were necessary to make himself politically palatable to white voters.
The president’s most recent such remarks — there were only a few Sunday, but they were widely reported — triggered a debate on blogs and social media that, in part, asked why Obama continued his lecturing.
Leola Johnson, an associate professor and chair of the Media and Cultural Studies Department at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn., said the Obamas’ speeches “are actually not aimed at black people.”
“They’re actually for white people, liberals especially,” she said. Liberal bloggers were brimming with praise for Obama after the Morehouse speech. “It’s the legacy of Daniel Patrick Moynihan and that whole group of white liberals who want to say it’s not just about structural problems that black people aren’t doing well, it’s about their own values.”
Kevin Powell, an activist based in New York who travels the country encouraging black men to take responsibility for their lives, said he has no problem with Obama challenging the black community, but . . .
“You also have to challenge the system, just as you challenge the people. It’s not an either/or,” said Powell, president and founder of BK Nation, an organization focused on education and civic engagement.
The Morehouse speech offered an instance of Obama discussing race, a topic he has been criticized for avoiding given his unique vantage point as the country’s first African American president. Some African Americans have been disappointed at Obama’s frequent refrain that he is president of all Americans when asked why he hasn’t specifically addressed problems that afflict many black communities, including chronic unemployment and failing schools.
On this front, A. Scott Bolden, a Washington lawyer and Morehouse graduate, and Coleman, the former speechwriter and Detroit-based writer, offered finger-wagging lectures of their own.
“It’s interesting that President Obama is always asking black people to take responsibility for themselves,” Bolden said. “It would be really nice if he’d take responsibility for black people in his second term.”
Coleman says he’ll find the president’s next commencement speech, scheduled for Friday at the U.S. Naval Academy, particularly instructive. “That will be interesting given the reports of sex harassment in the military,” Coleman said. “Is he going to chide those cadets about addressing the social pathologies in that population?”
Vanessa Williams? As in FORMER MS. AMERICA, Vanessa Williams? |
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Getbig Main Boards / Politics and Political Issues Board / Re: Racist in Chief Obama at it again: If you are black you have to work 2x as hard
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on: May 22, 2013, 05:04:50 PM
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Obama: "As An African American You Have To Work Twice As Hard As Anyone Else If You Want To Get By"
PRESIDENT OBAMA: You are the mantle of Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington and Ralph Bunche and Langston Hughes and George Washington Carver and Ralph Abernathy and Thurgood Marshall and, yes, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. These men were many things to many people and they knew full well the role that racism played in their life. But when it came to their own accomplishments and sense of purpose, they had no time for excuses. Every one of you has a grandma or an uncle or a parent whose told you at some point in life as an African American you have to work twice as hard as anyone else if you want to get by.
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If you think you can just get over in this economy just because you have a Morehouse degree, you're in for a rude awakening. But if you stay hungry, if you keep hustling, if you keep on your grind and get other folks to do the same, nobody can stop you. And I when I talk about pursuing excellence and setting an example, I am not just talking about in your professional life. (Morehouse College, May 19, 2013)
I graduated from an HBCU. Yet, the guest speaker wasn't talking like that whatsoever. Of course, you have certain "black liberation" professors on campus. But, they tend to be in history and philosophy classes. None were in my engineering classes. They had better things to do, like getting more black students in the engineering college, which my alma mater shared with a larger predominantly white university. BTW, who in their right mind would go to MOREHOUSE, an all-male HBCU? During the early 90s (when sisters were rockin' spandex biker shorts), I thought I'd died and gone to big booty heaven my freshman year.  |
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Getbig Main Boards / Politics and Political Issues Board / Re: Would You Believe The Administration Got Phone Records of The House Of Reps?
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on: May 15, 2013, 06:40:24 PM
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Would You Believe The Administration Got Phone Records of The House Of Representatives?
posted at 8:12 pm on May 15, 2013 by Duane Pattersonhttp://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2013/05/15/would-you-believe-the-administration-bugged-the-phones-in-the-house-of-representativesThat’s the revelation made by California Congressman Devin Nunes, who sits on the House Ways And Means Committee on Hugh Hewitt’s Show Wednesday night. Here’s the key part of that transcript: HH: The idea that this might be a Geithner-Axelrod plan, and by that, the sort of intimation, Henry II style, will no one rid me of this turbulent priest, will no one rid me of these turbulent Tea Parties, that might have just been a hint, a shift of an eyebrow, a change in the tone of voice. That’s going to take a long time to get to. I don’t trust the Department of Justice on this. Do you, Congressman Nunes? DN: No, I absolutely do not, especially after this wiretapping incident, essentially, of the House of Representative. I don’t think people are focusing on the right thing when they talk about going after the AP reporters. The big problem that I see is that they actually tapped right where I’m sitting right now, the Cloak Room. HH: Wait a minute, this is news to me. DN: The Cloak Room in the House of Representatives. HH: I have no idea what you’re talking about. DN: So when they went after the AP reporters, right? Went after all of their phone records, they went after the phone records, including right up here in the House Gallery, right up from where I’m sitting right now. So you have a real separation of powers issue that did this really rise to the level that you would have to get phone records that would, that would most likely include members of Congress, because as you know… HH: Wow. DN: …members of Congress talk to the press all the time. HH: I did not know that, and that is a stunner. DN: Now that is a separation of powers issue here, Hugh. HH: Sure. DN: And it’s a freedom of press issue. And now you’ve got the IRS going after people. So these things are starting to cascade one upon the other, and you have the White House pretending like they’re in the clouds like it’s not their issue somehow. Exit question: I’m sure mainstream media, and the other two branches of government, see no problem whatsoever in secret records searches between the two branches, right? No separation of powers issue here. Heh. Can’t wait to see if this gets picked up tomorrow. Update (Ed): Headline changed for accuracy. Also edited final paragraph for same reason. Yet, another "we told you so" moment!! BTW, I know I've been gone a while. Where's the "Nutrition & Supplements" Board? |
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Getbig Main Boards / Politics and Political Issues Board / Re: Chris Matthews: "Obama Admns' actions make me ashamed to be an American"
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on: May 15, 2013, 05:52:10 PM
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Obama's Response To Egypt Crisis Makes Chris Matthews "Ashamed As An American"
Glynnis MacNicol | Feb. 4, 2011, 11:58 AM | 1,435 | 17 After Glenn Beck's Egypt 'Explanation' The Other Night The Entire World Googled Caliphate"Severely Beaten" Fox News Reporters Were Accused Of Being Israeli Spies By Mubarak Supporters WATCH: Anderson Cooper's Secret Broadcast From An 'Undisclosed Location' In Cairo Every once in a while when Chris Matthews isn't idiotically railing on Michele Bachmann, and Sarah Palin, and lately Glenn Beck, says something interesting, or at least out of character. Case in point: This morning he popped up on Morning Joe for a Lent segment during which he strongly criticized America's reaction to the Egyptian uprising and Obama's treatment of Mubarak. Wasn't [Mubarak] our friend for 30 years? Are we denying that?...[After Sadat's assassination] we thought things might come apart over there and he held everything together. He was strong....and now we say it's time for the game...Well we should have prepared this 20, 30 years ago. Where is the State Dept.? Don't we have hundreds of people sitting over there in Foggy Bottom with no other job except to know what's going on in Egypt...what are they doing? That was just his warm-up. After this he started taking aim, sparing neither Hillary Clinton nor Obama, whom he accused of being "chillingly" transactional instead of relationship-y. I watch Sec. Clinton today. I don't get anything. I see anything more than two and two are four. I keep waiting for five. Show me you've done your jobs over there...I feel ashamed as an American at how we're doing this...what have we done as leaders and as friends? All we've done is watch. That "shame" is rooted in the fact that Matthews thinks of Mubarak as a friend of America. It's also rooted in a certain naivete over the role of the State Dept., namely to protect U.S. interests, not be "friendly" to dictators under siege from a nation tired of poverty and suppression. And backing Mubarak right now against a very young (population age-wise) nation presumably would leave America more vulnerable to attacks, not less. But his point about the State Dept. not seeing this coming is well made. What are all those people in Foggy Bottom doing? Presumably we'll have to wait for a future memoir on the subject. Video below. It's on the long side, but on the upside he doesn't once mention Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, or Michele Bachmann. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Tags: TV | Get Alerts for these topics » http://www.businessinsider.com/chris-matthews-morning-joe-egypt-mubarak-video-2011-2________________________ ________________________ ____________________ Ha ha ha ha !!!!!! Does this officially mean he no longer gets thrills up his leg? |
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Getbig Main Boards / Politics and Political Issues Board / The Firearms Statistics That Gun Control Advocates Don't Want To See
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on: May 07, 2013, 09:27:35 PM
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The Brady Campaign to prevent Gun Violence has a top 20 gun-control list. 17 of those 20 states are blue. However, those same 17 have the HIGHEST gun murder rates in the country. THE FIREARMS STATISTICS THAT GUN CONTROL ADVOCATES DON’T WANT TO SEE To accompany TheBlaze’s coverage of the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting in Houston, we figured it could be helpful to share some gun statistics pointed out to us by some of the NRA Convention attendees. Forget the talking points used by both sides in the gun control debate; we’re going to be talking about verified statistics.
Gun control advocates be advised, these are not the statistics you are looking for.
According to data from the FBI’s uniform crime reports, California had the highest number of gun murders in 2011 with 1,220 — which makes up 68 percent of all murders in the state that year and equates to 3.25 murders per 100,000 people.
The irony of such a grisly distinction is evident when you look at which state was named the state with the strongest gun control laws in 2011 by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. You guessed it — it was California.
“What is very unusual is that California also has a program by which we can remove guns, recover guns from people who have a gun and then subsequently become prohibited or dangerous,” Brady Campaign spokeswoman Amanda Wilcox said at the time.
It should be noted, though, that California is also one of the biggest states in the country, with a population of about about 37 million. Therefore, it might make sense that it would have a high number of murders but its murder rate is still high as gun control has had a seemingly inconsequential impact. In comparison, Texas has a population of about 25.6 million and saw 699 total gun murders in 2011 — nearly half that of California — and a firearms murder rate of 2.91 per 100,000.
But if you look at the data another way — murders per 100,000 people — another gun control haven tops the list.
The FBI data also notes that Washington, D.C. had the highest murder rate per 100,000 people. The nation’s capital saw 12 gun murders per 100,000 in 2011. DC also finished first in gun-related robberies per 100,000 people – with 242.56.
In 1976, the District of Columbia required all guns be registered, banned new handguns and required guns at home to be stored and dissembled or locked up. Unfortunately, the draconian measures — which lasted more than three decades — didn’t had the desired effect.
Journalist and attorney Jeffrey Scott Shapiro explains the not-so-surprising result in an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal on Jan. 15, 2013:
The gun ban had an unintended effect: It emboldened criminals because they knew that law-abiding District residents were unarmed and powerless to defend themselves. Violent crime increased after the law was enacted, with homicides rising to 369 in 1988, from 188 in 1976 when the ban started. By 1993, annual homicides had reached 454.
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Since the gun ban was struck down, murders in the District have steadily gone down, from 186 in 2008 to 88 in 2012, the lowest number since the law was enacted in 1976.
Though it should be noted that the gun murders started decreasing in 1994.
Today, Washington, D.C. still has some of the strictest gun laws in the nation. And yet again, the gun murder rate remains dramatically high, the highest in the United States in fact.
So, do the numbers indicate that gun control is the answer to gun violence? You decide.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/05/06/the-firearms-statistics-that-gun-control-advocates-dont-want-to-see/ |
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Getbig Main Boards / Politics and Political Issues Board / Re: Judge Pirro - NAILS IT
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on: May 05, 2013, 01:24:00 PM
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Her husband was such a scumbag.
I would have pounded her ginzo ass into submission 15 times a day until she was 80.
Evidently, he cheated on her with like 20 different women. He looked like Dominic Stauss Kahn. No surprise there.
Creeping on a judge? That doesn't sound all that bright! She looks like a black Hispanic woman. Whatever she is, she is bangin'. |
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Getbig Main Boards / Politics and Political Issues Board / Re: What is the purpose of Amnesty exactly?
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on: May 05, 2013, 09:45:29 AM
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I've always thought the social conservatives split up the vote so much that 1-2 RINOS ended up winning the nomination?
With 5-6 tea partiers and 1-2 moderates, the odds are stacked in bachmann, perry, cain, ron paul, santorum and the others splliting up 80% while mitt romney (with 75% of the party HATING HIM) ends up winning by default with one a quarter of the vote.
agreed?
Romney was the favorite, going into 2012; and, for the most part, he had the most experience. Romney's downfall was twofold: Not courting the social conservatives enough and not going for the throat against Obama. I recall Rush stating that he hoped Romney was as vicious with Obama, as he was with Perry, Santorum, Cain et. al. It turns out he was not. Of course, many were LIVID when Romney turned into a paraplegic sheep in the last debate, after completely dismembered Obama in the first one. Bottom line: Many of the social conservatives STAYED HOME. That's why Romney got beat, not because of the Hispanic vote. Did you ever think that Romney would not even be able to match McCain's numbers from 2008? |
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Getbig Main Boards / Politics and Political Issues Board / Re: What is the purpose of Amnesty exactly?
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on: May 05, 2013, 08:33:08 AM
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Romney lost because at least 3 million fewer REPUBLICANS showed up, pure and simple. Sucking up to Latinos, via amnesty, would have been a waste of time. One (as Rush puts it), the Dems aren't going to just give away a hunk of their voters. Two, Romney would have needed at least 73% of the Latino vote, to beat Obama for the presidency. The most any Republican ever gained was 44% (President Bush, 2004). Three, Latinos are unevenly distributed. Most of them live in states that are automatically red or automatically blue. In the swing states, Romney would have needed nearly ALL of the Hispanic vote to win. As I posted nearly a year ago, it was and still is all about the WHITE voters. Obama didn't get enough of them to win, as predicted (Heck, his campaign pretty much wrote them off). What shocked me and several others is that Romney didn't get enough of them to win. Too many of them just sat the 2012 election out. Even with Obama getting 73% of the Hispanic vote and 93% of the black vote, even with his so-called evolving on gay "marriage", all Romney had to do is just MATCH McCain's numbers with the GOP voters (especially the white ones) and he'd be in the White House. The reason Romney didn't get them: He didn't push the social conservative agenda, hard enough. THEY are the ones that stayed home. Without the social conservatives, no Republican is winning the White House. You can suck up to Latinos 'till the cows come home; you can pander to homos and support gay "marriage" all the live long day. It won't work! It's as I've always said: If you're a Republican, you MAY NOT win with the social conservatives; but you WILL NOT win without them. http://washingtonexaminer.com/byron-york-winning-hispanic-vote-would-not-be-enough-for-gop/article/2528730 |
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Getbig Main Boards / Politics and Political Issues Board / Re: Simple Boston Bomb Plot Hatched Without Foreign Help, Authorities Believe
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on: April 24, 2013, 07:16:47 PM
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The brothers were also self taught in commando tactics by watching Chuck Norris movies. And according to DHS, they learned how to carjack people, disarm police officers and throw bombs from moving cars from playing Grand Theft Auto on Playstation.  Do they really think the public is this fucking stupid? I don't give a fuck what that fat tub of shit Janet Napolitano says-- there is no way, I repeat, no way-- that these two miraculously pulled this off by themselves because they watched youtube and played video games. I guess they got Obama-bombs, to go with their Obamaphones. |
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Getbig Main Boards / Politics and Political Issues Board / Re: Financial Collapse of California Thread (Land of the Lunatics)
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on: April 24, 2013, 08:05:55 AM
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California has everything and it has the best of everything. Tallest mountain in the connected 48 states. World class ski and snowboard parks. Big wave surfing. World class universities, restaurants, golf courses, amusement parks, professional sports teams, etc.. All world class all in abundance. Then there's our economy, which if it was its own country would be one of the 10 most wealthiest on the country. Then you have the Yosemite national park. Mount shasta. Golden gate park. The beaches of southern California. Then we have Hollywood. And Disneyland. and...... The list goes on
Florida has just about all of those things, xcept for the mountains and the snow (which I don't like anyway). And, I have it on good authority that DisneyWORLD beats the pants of Disneyland. |
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