NYC Tows Sharpton’s Jag

And won’t give it back until Big Al ponies up the $900 in arrears he is in with the city on traffic and parking tickets.  This means this poor, put-down discrimination victim not only has a Jaguar, but thought he could blow off tickets of an aggregate amount that is more than many people make in a week.

Now let’s wait and see how long before he starts whining about Michael Bloomberg and yelling “No Justice No Peace.”

40

The RFT marks the occasion by profiling James Earl Ray’s brother, John, who still lives in Alton.  John thinks that his brother was a patsy for black hat/black briefcase government insiders; even James himself continually made that insinuation.  However, the American FedGov in 1968 didn’t have a motive for knocking MLK off.  The Executive Branch was run by MLK-loving LBJ, the Congress passed most of the MLK agenda, and SCOTUS was still run by Earl Warren.

The RFT rehases the theory that the racial right-wing had MLK offed, but even the RFT stated that this theory was officially discredited.  And for good reason — MLK was the best thing that ever happened to the racial right.  Everywhere he went, blacks acted up, and whites joined the Citizens Councils and other similar orgs in droves.  I wish we had five more MLKs today.

The most credible theory in my mind is that someone of similar ideology to MLK had him offed, and James Earl Ray poodled along.  MLK was on the verge of being exposed for the depraved miscreant that he was, and a living but disgraced MLK would have eviscerated the Civil Rights Movement.  Better to off him and make him a martyr, so that his confederates can still hustle the “dream.”  They had an obvious motive.

Whatever the case, I do think that the official story isn’t the whole story.  After all, how does an escaped prison inmate who busts out of Jefferson City, Missouri, have the resources to make it to Memphis, rent a motel room that just happens to be in the same motel where MLK is staying, get a powerful rifle, then hop a plane to London Heathrow after the job?  (Remember, this was 1968, before dereg.  Domestic airline travel was expensive, and international flights cost an arm and a leg.)

The Post-Dispatch dead tree and ink edition leads above the fold with the anniversary, and below the fold on the front page, there’s a story about Robert Mugabe intimidating his political opposition.  The first person to fit those two stories together gets a gold star.

Yet Another Nail in the Coffin of the Tancredo/V-Dare Strategy

H/T Malkin:  The black and Hispanic civil rights industries seem to be merging, under the aegis of common cause.

Though I should add this — MLK Day was always “Race Day,” and was never anything but

New Orleans’s Bertha Gilkey

Only the biggest and best HDTV flat screens will do for their welfare-dependent community activists.

And Bill Clinton Saw All Those Black Churches in Arkansas Burn When He Was a Child

Romney has been caught in a similar lie.

Good and Bad News on Immigration

First, the good:  The New York State Senate, by more than a 2-to-1 margin, rejected Gov. Spitzer’s plan to give drivers’ licenses to illegal aliens.  Yesterday at the State Capital in Albany, there were “Impeach Spitzer” rallies.

Now, the bad:  Frances Semler was able to chase La Raza out of Kansas City, but not the NAACP.  The latter bunch of rabble-rousers have decided to convene in KC in 2010 anyway.

It’s a Ramp, For Pete’s Sake

The local news media are all beside themselves in joy because a ramp opened today.

This goes to show you how Highway 40-centric this city’s brain trust is.  When MoDOT was replacing the I-55/I-255/I-270 interchange in South County in 1992-6, and then the I-44/I-270 interchange in Southwest County in 1996-9, there wasn’t as much media publicity then, and certainly no daily fawning over a new ramp being opened.  In contrast, when 40 at 270 was replaced between 1988 and 1994, there was a lot of MSM hoopla then, too.

Reason?  Highway 40 traverses St. Louis’s big money zip codes, both old money and nouveau riche, for most of its route in St. Louis County.  Anyone who’s anyone in St. Louis lives close enough to it, and messing with it in any way is like fooling around with a person’s jugular vein.  Ask Eric Vickers about that — he and his band of civil rights agitators were able to get away with “shutting down” Interstate 70 in north St. Louis City in July 1999 (with the help of the then-black Police Chief of St. Louis who sympathized with their ideology), but when they wanted to run the same racket on Highway 40 in Richmond Heights and Ladue, this town’s liberal PC plutocrats who were cheering him on then laid the law down, literally.

The Hard Part

Though this is an old story in internet time, it’s still worth a comment.

WBAY-ABC-2 Green Bay:

KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) - A Kenosha County judge has ordered a teenager convicted in a racial attack to write essays about civil rights leaders.

Seventeen-year-old Archie Phillips was also sentenced to 60 days in jail for battery and misconduct.

Phillips, who’s black, was accused of using a racial slur before punching a white classmate at Bradford High School in Kenosha. The victim saw Phillips jumping on some other students and tried to intervene.

Judge [*****] asked Phillips is he was familiar with Medgar Evers or Frederick Douglas. [*****] says he was stunned to learn Phillips was not.

So he ordered Phillips to write three 150-word essays — one each about the assassinated Medgar Evers, his brother and Civil Rights activist Charles Evers and Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave-turned-abolitionist.

The judge says he chose the essay subjects because the men tried to improve race relations, whereas Phillips only tried to tear them down.

Three comments:

(1) Somehow, I doubt that any American public school (or most private schools) does not engage in exhaustive lessons about the Civil Rights Movement and the Abolitionist Movement. If Mr. Phillips did not know about the two Mr. Everses and Mr. Douglas, it is because he wasn’t paying attention.

(2) I disagree with this judge’s statement about how the two Mr. Everses and Mr. Douglas “tried to improve race relations” whereas Mr. Phillips “only tried to tear them down.” Leaving Frederick Douglas aside, the Civil Rights Movement, of which Medgar and Charles Evers were icons of, only let the genie of anti-white racism and hatred among blacks out of the bottle, resulting in crimes like those of Mr. Phillips today.

(3) I wonder which punishment Mr. Phillips will have a harder time with — the jail time, or the three essays. Smart money says the essays.

NAACP Approves of Violent Hate Crimes

Maybe they don’t actually approve, but that’s the message they’re communicating to the world when they organize a rally that might see as many as 60,000 people descend on Jena, Louisiana to oppose punishing the six black suspects who tried to beat 17-year old Justin Barker to death for racial motivations.

Look Who Finally Recognizes NAACP Treachery on Immigration

Yes, the same V-Dare that had none-too-nice words for this blogmeister awhile back, over Tancredogate.

How Tommy Got His Groove Back

NAACP-lover no more. Tancredo just whizzed all over one of their sacraments, that being the blank check the Federal government has written to the city of New Orleans for post-Katrina “rebuilding.”

Lead Us Not Into Temptation, But Deliver Us Some Evil

KHOU-CBS-11 Houston:

11 News exclusive: Inside the FBI’s secret files on Coretta Scott King

Oh good, does this mean we’re going to get sordid details on her life, and possibly her husband’s?

No dice. The story deals with how the evil sadistic racist J. Edgar Hoover could be so audacious as to have the FBI follow around the Wife of the Divine One. The closest we get to the substance of her life is this:

One agent even read and reviewed her 1969 book “My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr.” and made a point to say Scott King’s “selfless, magnanimous, decorous attitude is belied by.. (her) ..actual shrewd, calculating, businesslike activities.”

“Shrewd, calculating, businesslike activities.” You knew that already.

Dutcholyatry

What would you call an American President that would use American military and economic might to topple white governments on the African continent, make the Monday nearest Martin Luther King’s birthday a Federal holiday, and sign an amnesty for illegal aliens that forever cost his political party the state in which he made a living and was a two-term Governor?

Right. Now why do most of the Republicans running for President think they want to be his carbon copy, so much so that they’re toppling over each other to convince voters that they’re more the R-word than everyone else?

MLK Organization Spurns Vick

The Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC), the civil rights organization founded by, and most associated with, Martin Luther King, Jr., will not recognize Michael Vick, nor make his legal troubles part of their concerns.

And why not? According to Georgia State Rep. Tyrone Brooks:

…the SCLC should concentrate on such issues as violence and the incarceration of young black people across the country.

Okay, so the SCLC will only take up Mr. Vick’s cause only after he is sent up the river.

Be Careful What You Wish For

Tropical Storm Chantal has formed, but will not develop into a very big storm, as it is already 300 miles south of Nova Scotia, and is forecasted to hit Newfoundland with heavy rain and not much more.

The more curious part is this storm’s name: Chantal. A couple of years ago, black civil rights groups were bitching that hurricanes didn’t have black-sounding names. Obviously, if Hurricane Katrina would have been named Hurricane Shantee, the same civil rights groups would be bitching that devastating storms WERE given black-sounding names. Mark my words — if, for example, Hurricane Demetrius would become a Category 5 storm and slam right into New Orleans, we would never hear the end of that from the NAACP.

Then again, it seems like many American major cities have been devastated by Hurricane Demetrius and Hurricane Shantee.

The Best Speech He Never Made

Still.

He spurned the National Urban League. For outward consumption, the reason is scheduling conflicts, but his schedule was not a problem when he wanted to come to St. Louis and speak to them. I’m just naive and blissfully ignorant enough to think that he read the tea leaves. Still, I’m curious to know what he would have said.

***

As for other highlights from the NUL Presidential Candidates’ Forum, some of the notable quotes, some of which come from Antonio French’s liveblogging, and some from MSM coverage:

Edwards: (Pph): “We need to raise the minimum wage. It’s an important issue for blacks.”

I’m sure most NUL members and blacks in general are interested in working for far more than the minimum wage. You just told them and an entire race of people that their work is only worth the minimum wage.

Obama: (Pph): I would have called a press conference after that U.S. Supreme Court decision on the Louisville and Seattle school desegregation cases, and talked about how wrong this decision was.

And in effect, you would be advocating the assassination of the Supreme Court members who voted “the wrong way.” Remember, as Obama’s partisan cohorts have said in the past, disagreeing with a judge is the same as wanting to assassinate a judge.

Clinton: (Pph): We need universal pre-school. It’s important for the future of your children.

That’s the old “head start” argument, which has been rebuked.

Barack Obama: If I’m not the one to do this let me ask, “Who has the power to bring Mississippi into play?”

Certainly not you, if I know the whites in Mississippi like I do.

Barack Obama: What it takes to operate the Harlem Children’s Center for a year is roughly equal to four hours in Iraq.

What it takes to build all of the border wall is roughly equal to one week in Iraq. Gonna build that wall, Barry?

Barack Obama: I will crack down on predatory lenders.

What about predatory borrowers?

Barack Obama: If we created a world bank to help the poorest nations, why can’t we create an inner city bank?

Talk to your colleague Ted Kennedy. He helped spearhead a bill in 1977 that essentially means that most larger American banks are just that. Community Reinvestment Act, I think it is.

Barack Obama: We need to bring businesses back to inner cities.

But you have to get crime out of inner cities first.

Barack Obama: I will put in one billion dollars into innovative new jobs

And then H-1-B them out to non-Americans.

Barack Obama: When I’m president, I’ll give money to fathers who help raise their children and crack down on those who don’t.

But will you give fathers custody rights in divorces and non-marital situations?

Barack Obama: Why spend money imprisoning kids when we could spend less to help them early. We can find money to save the children of America.

Okay, just close all the prisons, and send all the inmates to head start. That way, they’ll become geniuses.

Barack Obama: No more subsidies for middlemen on college loans. Increase Pell Grants.

How about tweaking Federal policy such that colleges and universities don’t have blanket permission to raise tuition and fees like crazy?

Barack Obama: If we have sprawl, we need better public transportation.

And then the sprawl will sprawl further out, past the reach of the public transportation.

Barack Obama: I want to focus on a comprehensive plan I’ve put forward to lift up urban America.

But do they really want to be lifted?

Barack Obama: It makes a difference when parents turn off the TV, put away the video games and starts reading to their children.

How about doing the first two things, but then teaching your children to read using intense systematic phonics?

Barack Obama: We can retire the phrase working poor. If you’re working every day, you shouldn’t be poor.

But with amnesty, open borders and the Latinization of America, which Obama wants, and the resulting wage-scale depression, that will be more and more the case for white America.

Hillary Clinton: I have a ten point plan about how to help Katrina victims. We have to make it clear that what was a natural disaster was turned into a national disgrace. This administration shamed us as a nation.

New Orleans’s black population shamed us as a nation.

Hillary Clinton: We have to combat the impact of the brutal criminal justice system. I want to have a second chance program that focuses on keeping young people out of the criminal justice system and how we will rehabilitate them when they come out.

In other words, if you live in a black city, especially if you’re white, either sleep with your shotgun, or get out.

Hillary Clinton: I have a program that will create 50,000 jobs that can’t be outsourced.

What about the millions of others that were, and your amnesty and open borders and H-1-B plans that means that other American jobs that weren’t formally outsourced were really outsourced by insourcing?

Hillary Clinton: According to study at the University of Chicago, universal pre-kindergarten would close by 50% the education gap between white and black children.

Already explained above. The key word there is “children,” not teenagers or adults.

Hillary Clinton: When we squander those 1.4 million futures, we squander America’s future.

Wrong, when you squander the futures of truly worthy people, simply because they are white, and not in the affirmative action queue, you really do squander America’s future.  Also, a Federal education dollar is 3750 times more likely to be spent on the stupid than the smart.

Hillary Clinton: I reject the conversation about 1.4 million men being a threat. I reject the conversation about 1.4 million lost causes. It’s time for America to begin a new conversation about 1.4 million workers, taxpayers, entrepeneurs.

Hillary Clinton: I want to focus on just one aspect…the crisis of 1.4 million young men of color between the ages of 16 and 24.

I don’t know what this means, but if this has to do with black men in prison, then they’re there because they are a “threat,” and almost universally “lost causes.”

John Edwards: When minority entrepeneurs have contracts, they’re more likely to move to urban areas. They’re more likely to hire minorities.

And they’re more likely to screw up the project, and to steal, and abscond.

John Edwards: I will make sure my administration looks like America from the top to the bottom.

Where have we heard that before? How about making your massive North Carolina estate have square footage more like America? How about getting a haircut that costs more like America?

***

Sorry, V-Dare. I don’t see immigration discussed here. If the NUL was so interested in the issue, as you seem to want to think they are, you would think their members and officers would have pressured HRC, BHO and Breck Girl into talking about it.

One-Liner

Al Sharpton, on the fact that none of the “top tier” Republicans will attend the National Urban League convention’s Presidential candidates’ forum tomorrow here in St. Louis, according to the P-D:

“When I was in high school, I may not have gone to the prom with the girl I wanted, but with the girl I could get,” he said, suggesting Republicans leave black voters little choice but to vote for a Democrat.

What kind of girl would have gone with him to the prom?

Al Sharpton Advocates Open Borders, Amnesty, Hispanic Power

Are you paying attention, Tancredo, V-Dare? You didn’t win over Al Sharpton.

We Hate Gringos:

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. - The Rev. Al Sharpton and Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott became unlikely allies Tuesday in their call to revive immigration legislation, in speeches before the nation’s largest Hispanic civil rights organization. “Congress needs to pass a comprehensive immigration reform bill now,” said Scott, who heads the world’s largest retailer.

(snip)

Sharpton, a civil rights activist who has often railed against corporate America, went further in his support for a bill that would provide a path to legalization for many of the nation’s more than 12 million illegal immigrants. He denounced TV and radio shows that foster an “us against them” mentality.

“I want to say what a lot of people won’t say. The immigration debate is not simply about border security, it is a problem of America dealing with race,” Sharpton told the audience of more than 1,000 community, political and business leaders, at the National Council of La Raza’s annual conference.

“No one is calling for English-only tests when it comes to fighting in Iraq,” he added.

Black Americans must stand up for Hispanics because the issues they face are the same, Sharpton said.

This is another example of the merger between the diversity industry and corporate America. They share many common economic goals, and they both share a common desire to eliminate the white working middle class. And no matter how much practical damage Hispanics do to blacks, the latter will never be a reliable constituency for the anti-immigration movement, because they have more contempt for whites than fear of Hispanics. A hundred years from now, when the real estate known as the USA is a Hispanic country, and blacks are far worse than they are today, they’ll still be mad at white people, and blame their dilemma on “white racism.”

Bad News

After using several posts on this blog to oppose Tancredo’s NAACP pandering, it looks like my pony in the race, Duncan Hunter, is about to play monkey-see-monkey-do and suck up to the National Urban League this weekend in St. Louis. I’ll wait for my final analysis based on what he actually has to say to the NUL, but the odds are that I won’t like it very much. If I don’t, I’m withdrawing my personal endorsement of his campaign.

Emphasis Added

WSJ via Chicago AR:

[H]er connection to the local Minutemen chapter was made public by the daily Kansas City Star. The city’s National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Coalition of Hispanic Organizations, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the Jewish Community Relations Bureau held a news conference on June 14 to condemn the appointment. Later that day, the city council, voting 9 to 3, adopted a resolution calling for Mrs. Semler’s removal from the parks board.

The story concerns one Frances Selmer, a 73-year old member of the Kansas City (Mo.) Parks and Recreation Board, who is also active with a Minuteman group.

The emphasis was added by this blogmeister in the above blockquote, and added for the edification of a certain famous conservative anti-immigration website and blog that seems to think that we can and should make common cause with the hatemongering anti-white left.

Barry and Jesse Sittin’ In A Tree, P-R-A-Y-I-N-G

Barry Bonds prayed with Jesse Jackson when the Giants visited Chicago on Monday.

For what, Victor Conte to be forever silent?

Actually, we’re being set up for Bonds and Friends to play the race card, in order to keep from his upcoming career home run record from being “tainted” by steroids allegations.

Kansas City Here Comes Tom

Making his travel plans for 2010 already.

Who’s Your Anti-Immigration Daddy?

V-Dare took heed of my consternation over Tancredogate and their own fantasyland analysis, and whiffed.

The philosophical point I forgot to mention, but I will now, in light of V-Dare’s response, is that the most troubling part of the “we need blacks in common cause” mentality that V-Dare itself has endorsed for at least a year, and the one that Bay Buchanan has suckered Tom Tancredo into believing, is one that I’ll relate to something that happened almost a decade ago.

From December 1998 to about May 1999, the Council of Conservative Citizens received its first wave of MSM attention and scrutiny. The reason was that President Clinton was impeached for lying to a grand jury, and Clintonites and the MSM (inasmuch as one could tell them apart) were in a full court press to save him. Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard Law School Professor, somehow discovered that Bob Barr, then a U.S. House principal in the effort to impeach the President, was the keynote speaker at the CofCC National Conference in Charleston, S.C. in June 1998. This did not much please Mr. Dershowitz, so he opened his mouth, and it was off to the races.

During the hype, national radio talk show host Ken Hamblin, who, like Tancredo, lives in the Denver area, came to our defense. He had CofCC CEO Gordon Lee Baum, Esq., on as a guest four times during the aforementioned period, and one of those times was in a debate with Mark Potok, Director of Intelligence for the SPLC (in which Potok accused Hamblin of not being a real black man).

The next time the CofCC Board of Directors met, several of the directors thought it would be a nifty idea to bring Hamblin in as a speaker. Dr. Samuel Francis, The Bard, would have none of it. In the angriest voice I ever heard him muster, he said (pph):

“What’s the matter with you people? We don’t need permission from any non-white group to be for our people, and we don’t need permission from any non-Christian group to be for our faith. For you to say that we should have him as a speaker communicates the message that we do. I thought we were better than that.”

The V-Dare/Tancredo strategy does just that: It implies that whites can’t be anti-immigration (i.e. a racial issue) without the permission of some non-white group. It also implies that American whites are so politically impotent and incompetent that we can’t accomplish anything by ourselves.

I’m sure there are blacks, like Ken Hamblin, and a few others, that agree with us, and agree with white racialist opposition to open borders, for their own self interests. If they want to help row the boat, fine. But I think we can, and should, and will, row the boat without them. And certainly it doesn’t mean that we’re going to beg a virulently anti-white hate group like the NAACP to do most of the rowing.

V-Dare: If by some miracle Tancredo wins the Republican nomination, and gets more than 10% of the black vote against whatever Democrat wins their party’s nomination, then I will apologize to you personally.

Today’s Civil Rights News

(1) The Urban League will hold its National Convention in St. Louis later this month, and hold a Presidential Candidates’ Forum on July 27. So far, there are no Republican takers. Not even Tom Tancredo.

The NAACP is bad enough, but the National Urban League, for the entirety of its existence, has been devoted to the singular purpose of the forced integration of residential neighborhoods, which has provoked urban sprawl, and ruined the equity that the white working class had built in real estate.

Anybody, much less any Republican, that shows up to the Urban League is essentially saying, F-you white America.

(2) Speaking of the NAACP, Democrats running for President spoke there yesterday.

Breitbart/AP:

Obama derided President Bush’s commutation of former White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby’s prison term, noting black men routinely serve time.

“We know we have more work to do when Scooter Libby gets no prison time and a 21-year-old honor student, who hadn’t even committed a felony, gets 10 years in prison,” Obama said.

Aides said Obama was referring to Genarlow Wilson, a Georgia man serving a 10-year prison sentence for having consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old girl when he was 17. A judge last month ordered Wilson to be freed, but prosecutors are blocking the order.

Obama is a lawyer, so I know he knows better. While the conviction of Mr. Wilson was a genuine miscarriage of justice, the act he committed was a felony at the time he did it. Later, Georgia amended the law to where his act would not have been, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t at the time.

Ex post facto cuts both ways. If you do something on Tuesday, and the state makes it illegal on Wednesday, you can’t be prosecuted, because it wasn’t a crime on Tuesday. But on the other side of the coin, if you commit a crime on Tuesday, and the state repeals that law on Wednesday, that doesn’t mean that your conviction is wiped away. It will probably take a full gubernatorial pardon to expunge this conviction from Mr. Wilson’s record.

Any anger that NAACP members display because of Obama’s deliberate lies are Obama’s own fault. Also, everyone forgets that there is a white analogue to Mr. Wilson in Georgia.

Edwards’ call for felons’ voting rights to be restored also received loud cheers. Yet as a senator from North Carolina in 2002 he voted against a bill allowing felons the right to vote in federal elections.

Any organization that gives loud cheers to the concept of restoring voting rights to ex-cons is not a proper one for Presidential candidates to cavort with, or at least in a sane world, it wouldn’t be considered so. I wonder if Edwards would restore gun rights to ex-cons.

“The American people don’t feel that when they go vote their vote counts,” New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson said.

I feel that way a lot. When I vote for right-wing candidates who enact left-wing policies, or when whites in California and other states vote for immigration control measures that get knocked down by the courts, Richardson is justified in saying that Americans think that sometimes their vote is moot, and that “they” are going to do what “they” want anyway.

Voting, in many cases these days, is a procedurally effective, but substantively ineffective, method to enacting right-wing changes in public policy. In most instances, if John Smith gets more votes than Jane Doe, then John Smith wins the office, and vice-versa. (There are exceptions, and many cases of fraud). By “procedurally effective,” that’s what I mean. But if right-wing John Smith beats left-wing Jane Doe in the voting, but John Smith panders to the media and enacts left-wing policies while in office (an analogy reflected in reality all too much), then the voting is “substantively ineffective.”

Today’s NAACP News

NAACP wants an apology from Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory, because he said, according to the Charlotte Observer via Michelle Malkin:

…too many of our youth, primarily African American, are imitating and/or participating in a gangster type of dress, attitude, behavior and action.

This is the same NAACP that “buried” the N-word earlier this week, to protest how it its representative of a self-deprecating prison and ghetto culture. Evidently, some people can call out the emperor’s nudity, while others aren’t allowed to.

Bay Buchanan’s ravaging effects on a Presidential campaign are starting to eat away at Tom Tancredo. He spoke to the NAACP’s convention in Detroit, and got loud cheers from the audience when he detailed mass immigration’s effects on wages and salaries of black American workers.

V-Dare lauded Tancredo for doing so, and wondered why Duncan Hunter and Ron Paul didn’t follow suit.

This was a stupid thing for Tancredo to do, and a stupid thing for such a usually reliable source of information and opinion like V-Dare to praise, though V-Dare has a history of pandering to blacks on the immigration issue.

You figure, there are lots of white people in many places of the country that have not yet been afflicted by mass Mexicanization, but are heavily black. So most white people in places like Mississippi, or Cleveland, Ohio, or even here in St. Louis, who don’t understand the furor over immigration because they haven’t experienced its effect, do have first-hand experience with blacks.

I think it is more likely that a white person in the state of Mississippi or Alabama, or in Cleveland, or in St. Louis, has been a victim of black crime than a victim of Hispanic crime.

What Tancredo and V-Dare have just done is to flip the bird to white people who would be on their side on the immigration issue once they experience Mexicans and Latin Americans, by endorsing the NAACP and all the crime and violence committed by the racial minority that the NAACP represents, which such white people and voters are far more likely to have experienced.

Another reason why this is an insane strategy is that, in spite of the cheers Tancredo received, representative of superficial opposition to amnesty and open borders among American blacks, both the NAACP and the Congressional Black Caucus support amnesty, because an increasingly Mexican population and voter base will elect more Democrats, which will accrue to the political benefit of the NAACP and the CBC. Even beyond that, black voters’ opposition to amnesty and open borders won’t mean that they won’t vote in 99% lock step for the Democrat for President in 2008, who will assuredly be for open borders and amnesty. So even the opposition by “rank and file” blacks has to be taken with a grain of salt.

Ironically, Tancredo came out for the abolition of race-based Congressional cauci in January, and now he’s speaking to a race-based private equivalent in July.

Duncan Hunter and Ron Paul did a smart thing by staying away, sorry V-Dare. Tancredo’s losing it, and Ron Paul will eventually fade when people realize that he wants to take away their Social Security checks. Hunter’s primed for a big rise.

Al Sharpton’s New Crusade

…is defending Beyonce’s “honor.”

During the BET Awards on June 26, singer Beyonce Knowles wore this gitup, causing TMZ to call her “roboho,” or robotic whore.

Al Sharpton, fresh off his head of steam from his minor role in temporarily ending Don Imus’s radio career for the use of the word “ho,” is hopping mad. He wants an apology, and the Time-Warner libs that produce TMZ aren’t budging.

I think Sharpton has found an opponent he can’t overrun, even with his girth.

Former Employees: The Radio Station Can’t “Wesl” Out of Their Obligations So Easily

St. Louis American via STL Media:

Several former employees of WESL 1490 AM are expected to file a lawsuit against Simmons’s Media Group of Salt Lake City, Utah, the owners of the station, to protest their termination on Friday.

On Friday, without prior warning, station management fired all employees and locked the doors.

Willie Cotton, who most recently worked as the station’s program director, said four administrators and approximately 15 announcers and hosts had been fired.

Cotton also said he is leading the action against Simmons Media, the station’s current owner of record, although it is rumored in the industry that the station has been sold.

Cotton accuses the station of racial discrimination against its African-American employees, invasion of privacy, unfair labor practices and violation of several state and federal laws, among other allegations.

Of course, when the owner of a radio station changes format away from a black-interest theme to something else, there will be disparate impact to black on-air talent and station management.

St. Louis needs another sports talk station like it needs a hole in its head. In the absence of our kind of people having a radio show, the next best alternative is to have five Onion Hortons. Now, the real Onion Horton doesn’t have a show.

How to Cure Breast Cancer In African-American Women

Reuters:

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Black women who feel they’ve been victims of racial discrimination are more likely than their peers to develop breast cancer, a large study suggests.

The study, which followed 59,000 African-American women for six years, found that those who reported more incidents of racial discrimination had a higher risk of breast cancer.

(snip)

Past studies have suggested that over time, perceived racial discrimination can take a toll on a person’s health. A possible explanation is that unjust treatment serves as a source of chronic stress, which itself has been linked to poorer physical health.

In the current study, women were asked how often they faced “everyday” discrimination, like receiving poorer service than other people at stores, or feeling that people are “afraid” of them or act superior to them.

They were also asked whether they’d ever been treated unjustly on the job, in trying to get housing, or by the police — all considered examples of “major” discrimination.

This means that all that needs to happen for black women to reduce their risk of breast cancer is for the civil rights industry and mainstream media to stop promulgating the myth that there is currently any widespread, institutionalized racial discrimination against blacks. That way, the black women wouldn’t “perceive” it, and not get stressed out, and not develop breast cancer in earnest.

Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton cause breast tumors, I like the sound of that.

“Nobody Ever Sang Their Way to Freedom”

Onion Horton, who has been a talk show host on various radio stations in St. Louis, and currently on WESL-AM-1490 almost concurrently with Lizz Brown on WGNU (not for much longer), once said, in his unique, semi-charming, colloquial way, about the contention that black singers and musicians of the 1950s and 60s won the Civil Rights Revolution for their side, that “nobody ever sang their way to freedom.”

One could make a similar rejoinder to the notion that black athletes, like Jackie Robinson and Jesse Owens, somehow won the Civil Rights Revolution. Nobody ever won their “freedom” by hitting a ball.

In reality, the civil rights movement won because the other side had better political strategies, sundry fortunate turns of circumstance, a sympathetic mainstream news media, significant support among white voters outside the South, and most importantly after the mid-1960s, all the guns and might of the Federal government.

Keep that in mind while you read this, from the CSM:

The new Iraq that America’s “neocons” once dreamed of – undivided by sectarian animosities and proudly looking toward the future – was finally on display at a soccer match.

Flags waved amid a sea of Iraqis Saturday night. A middle-age Shiite shop-owner and the Rolex-wearing Sunni businessman sitting next to him joined the throng in the latest chant of “We’d give our blood so you can live, Iraq.”

Hamid Shukri, a doctor from Baghdad, leaned over to me when he realized I’m an American. “Don’t worry,” he shouted above the din, grinning ear to ear. “There are no terrorists here.”

I’m not worried, though not because I’m brave or a fool. Instead “here” is about 200 miles from the Iraqi border, in the Jordanian capital of Amman.

A soccer pitch in a foreign country is one of the few places that Iraqis can now find common ground and divert their attention from the relentless violence back home.

Once again, nobody ever kicked their way to peace and harmony. Some mighty internal or external force will be necessary to have them get along peacefully, if partition is not an option.

Jamala Rogers is a Kook

Though you knew that already, the latest nonsensical ramblings from the St. Louis American columnist states that the system of capital punishment in the state and country that means that whites who are convicted of first-degree murder are more likely to be executed than non-whites who are convicted of first-degree murder is an example of “the rule of white supremacy [remaining] stark.”

But on the flip side, she chides likely Democratic nominee for Governor in 2008 and current Attorney General Jay Nixon for filing motions for execution dates after the Federal courts ruled that Missouri’s method of lethal injection does not amount to cruel and unusual punishment.  This is representative of the lingering animus between Nixon and the black civil rights community in this state, which started after Nixon actually used the power of the state AG’s office to try to end school deseg (the only state politician who ever did anything substantial to try to end it, in contrast to all the others that merely talked about it in September and October of election years).

Nevertheless, even if a large percentage of black voters in Missouri don’t vote for him, I think Blunt is unpopular enough among Missouri white voters that Nixon will win in 2008.