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I’ve never been first! Could it be possible?
Below is a link to a video showing the face of black racism in America. Black racism is something which most Americans would like to pretend doesn’t exist. Some clever black leaders take pains to redefine racism as being something only whites are guilty of. Alas the following video makes it clear blacks can be very racist. From YouTube…
http://youtube.com/watch?v=TbYvFbDlZaE
Well, first off Khalid Abdul Muhammad is dead. So this clip is kinda irrelevant. That being said, Khalid Abdul Muhammad isn’t the world’s “black Hitler”. He’s the world’s Khalid Abdul Muhammad. He’s a crackpot. He doesn’t speak for Black America. He doesn’t speak for Racist America. He speaks for Khalid Abdul Muhammad and as such, who cares? This guy fell off the face of the earth over a decade ago. The Khalid Abdul Muhammad problem was dealt with in American society. So my question is: why did someone care enough to bring back the rantings of a dead crackpot by posting him to YouTube yesterday?
Give me 30 minutes and a Google search and I’ll find you “The Racist (whatever you want to find.)” It doesn’t mean we should care about them.
Like the WBC link yesterday, KAM is crackpot who just wants your attention (and a dead one at that.) Don’t give it to them.
Ouch! what\’s the WBC link? if you refer to the Chris Rock bullet thing, I left that on Monday. Pesonally I think CR is one smart, poignant, hilarious comedian. Yesterday was Tuesday & all I put up was Buddha, who I also think is a hilarious comedian.
Only my friends call me crackpots & yes, I crave attention.
How can you crave attention if you\’re dead?
1. There is no such thing as death
2. We have ways to bring good things to life
3. Ask Buddha Boy, he\’s ALIVE!
Ha! By KAM I meant Khalid Abdul Muhammad. Not our Kam. You’re one of the good crackpots. :-p
And by WBC I meant this: Westboro Baptist Church to Protest The Funerals of Virginia Tech Students.
Thank\’s for clearing that up kc, I was hurt & confused & scratching my head about the \’dead one\’ I was ready to haunt you from my grave, you can call me a crackpot any time.
The racist sentiments he expresses are still prevalent in some urban areas, especially in areas where blacks have little or no contact with whites who aren’t cops.
Face of black racism my ass. Zach, you’re sounding more and more like you live in someone’s basement and emerge only to buy more canned chili and saltines.
And for god’s sake, you have to at least try to connect to the content of the show.
People like KAM are a dime a dozen in some neighborhoods. It’s just a fact.
So what? I could find you people in “some neighborhoods” who think blacks shold be forced to have abortions. It means nothing.
Incidentally, I note that the ratings for these missives have reversed rather markedly in recent hours. I suspect this is someone’s idea of a political action, as opposed to a real meter of the audience’s sentiments. Pity.
Incorrect. It does mean something, because black racism is the elephant in the living room that nobody is courageous enough to talk about. It is the chief cause of blacks’ being unable to make headway in many areas and will continue to be.
the chief cause? I disagree.
Leron,
Thanks for bringing some sense to this subtly racist mess on Comments. There are all kinds. But the serious lack of attention to poor black and latino communities is what is tragic in this country.
So, anyone who condemns the racism is a racist? By that logic, you’re a racist too.
I’m going to suggest that we end this thread here as it’s turned into a flame war.
On another note…
Well if John Edwards spends $400 per haircut every 2 weeks,
that’s 48 X $400 = $19,200 per year on haircuts.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0407/The_Hairs_Still_Perfect.html
Hmmmm….. I guess there’s a price to pay to look Pretty.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=2AE847UXu3Q
Guess he couldn’t do a good enough job himself.
Bon. Salut! a bientot.
Funny, the media have yet to report on what Laura Bush pays for her haircuts. I believe her stylist charges about twice that much.
From her husband’s campaign fund?
Well, I never said the guy was bright. This is the guy whose campaign hit up people for money who sent him sympathy emails, after all. He’s rich enough, and should be smart enough, to pay for stuff like this out of his own pocket.
But the angle the MSM and the right-wing toady chorus has seized on is not the abuse of campaign cash, but “here’s this so-called populist spending 25 times as much on a haircut as a REAL American.” That’s why it’s relevant, I think, to remember that our leaders — all of them — are accustomed to a lifestyle most of us will never know. Ask Dick Cheney how much his last hunting trip cost.
The Bushes can join the comedy circuit
when they leave the W.H.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQv0v3Xme0I
(Sorry Leron, couldn’t find a Laura Bush makeover video,
guess they’re classified. Only Jack Bauer has security clearance)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104×2984219
Laura Bush ? A whopping $700 per do
(ok now I can go on with my day…. zzzzzzzzzzzzz)
A $300 haircut leaves him looking like this.
Still, with hair like this he could win back the South for the Dems.
Ain’t that Ian?
Sorry to be a stickler on the math aspect of your post, but if you break up the year into 2-week intervals, you hardly arrive at 48. With 52 weeks in the year, there are 26 such 2-week intervals. Thus the math should be:
26 X $400 = $10,400.00 per year on haircuts. Hmmm. Still quite a bit.
You\’re right! What was I thinking?
That video always cracks me up…
Do I have to stay after school? Detention with Madame X ?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=4tb4irSs538
Half a trillion dollars? In the immortal words of Rodney Dangerfield, “You left out a whole bunch of stuff.” (only decent scene in the dreadful “Back to School,” except for Vonnegut’s cameo.)
Better estimates I have seen put the number well into the trillions.
For starters, we have sucked some of the best, bravest, most resourceful and most capable people out of virtually every community in America. Every soldier running the IED gauntlet could instead be working in our hospitals, our fire stations, our police forces, our small businesses, our factories. That’s a ton of lost earnings and lost social capital.
That thousands of them are not coming home, that tens of thousands more will come home deprived of a limb or their eyes or their ability to cope with stress, needs to be factored in too.
And don’t forget to add in the lost productivity for the thousands of families and extended families who have been scarred forever by the deaths of their loved ones. Depression really cuts into the ol’ bottom line.
Next let’s look at ways the lost money could have been spent to make our country richer, more secure and more productive. For starters, government audits have repeatedly shown that our nation’s school buildings are falling apart. Just fixing the leaky roofs and bad wiring and peeling paint and dangerous (or nonexistent) science and athletic equipm,ent would cost a staggering sum. Maybe $200 billion. Or, less than half of the conservative estimate of what we’ve spent on this stupid endless war.
Throw in another $100 billion to shore up school curricula and buy everyone the books they need, and you might actually make more students into productive citizens. That’s more social capital flushed down the toilet.
And that’s just the obvious stuff.
You make it sound as though all US soldiers were drafted. It would appear that “some of the best, bravest, most resourceful and most capable people out of virtually every community in America” have decided that protecting America is what they want to do.
By the way, has everyone forgotten that the US isn’t the only nation with soldiers in Iraq? Our government is not the only one that has seen the need to take some preemptive measures against threats to national–and global–security.
speak more French Joann, it’s heavenly…
Welcome back luv.
If the spit artist drew a cartoon, it’d be a ’spittoon’
Can’t get PG Tips here but I love the stuff.
If I sent you a diamond tiara you gotta promise to wear it all week.
Nothing in French makes sense to me, especially Michael Jackson.
oh, what about the 12 billion in shrink-wrapped $100 bills, weighing 363 tons, where’d that go ey?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2008189,00.html
later people
\”Future Lament of Samuel Johnson\”
http://www.ilovepoetry.com/viewpoem.asp?id=91867
Just how did the Geek Squad, Karl Rove and George W manage to to infuriate the spectre of an erudite Englishman dead for several centuries?
\”Steroid Age Mutant Baseball Players\”
http://www.ilovepoetry.com/viewpoem.asp?id=83382
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are just pale, paltry pretenders next to these guys - and their needles?
First the bees disappear (may be due to cell phones) now the elephants are going whacko!
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=552_1176845712
This video cost $1 million to make…
…and now the whales!!!! Drew, Joanne quick, grab a camera quick and head to Brooklyn, there’s a whale roaming the waters. Perhaps Joanne can get an exclusive interview. Spit on it gently JC. And don’t forget your whale whistle.
http://wcbstv.com/local/local_story_108092927.html
Stick out your tongue & say \”ahhh\” & while you\’re @ it, barf up some of that ambergris, I gotta make some perfume!
We should all stop paying taxes. It hurts to think that a percentage of my earned dollars goes directly to the \”war on terror\” without my consent!
You gave your consent. I assume you were born in the USA. As a natural born citizen, you are part of this representative republic. So, by voting (I hope you did, if you are of age) you have given your consent to your representatives to act on your behalf. If you are unhappy with the decisions they make, you can vote them out. It isn\’t perfect, but I don\’t think you can find a much better system.
Quel plaisir d’entendre Joane dans la langue de Molière.
Je crois que je vais me le repasser en boucle.
un fan … ;-)
What\’s the sense in senselessness?
The idea is to establish a democracy in the ME. Give people freedom to speak their mind, protect civil rights, set up independent courts, open press freedoms and possibly, just possibly, democracy can take hold. Once established and nurtured, the radical elements will be sidelined in the open arena of debated ideas. This will eliminate tyranny and will spread to other countries in the region. Looking at it that way, at the cost of $500B and 3-4,000 American lives this will be a good buy.
But this will never happen without the support of the American people and its allies. I have made my choice. I think the people of Iraq and the greater ME region deserve a chance for a better future. Our former policies of propping up dictators wasn\’t working. Recall LBJ\’s words … \”He may be an SOB, but he\’s our SOB\”. That way of thinking is what got us into this mess.
SAD NEWS….
Whale Spotted In Gowanus Bay Dies
(CBS/AP) BROOKLYN A young whale thrashed the water, beached itself at an oil depot dock and died suddenly on Wednesday after two days of swimming aimlessly in a small bay off an industrial section of Brooklyn.
Joanne, et al. You seem to be quite resourceful when you want to be. Why don\’t you try to find out where the money has really gone and report it?
As far as I\’m concerned, while all of this is going on, it should be expensive–that is, as long as the money is going towards making sure our troops come home in one piece.
The sense in finding sense in senselessness is the resulting creation of a denial mechanism for the sensible by which those with sensibility can feign to find sense in senselessness, thereby avoiding the bone marrow pain and terror of being surrounded by the senseless, not to mention avoiding the possibility of assault by the senseless for the crime of being sensible.