... accusing him of being a "terrible student" who shouldn't have gotten into Columbia University or Harvard Law School. "How does a bad student go to Columbia and then to Harvard?"
The new president of the Review is Barack Obama, a 28-year-old graduate of Columbia University who spent four years heading a community development program for poor blacks on Chicago's South Side before enrolling in law school. His late father, Barack Obama, was a finance minister in Kenya and his mother, Ann Dunham, is an American anthropologist now doing fieldwork in Indonesia. Mr. Obama was born in Hawaii.
''The fact that I've been elected shows a lot of progress,'' Mr. Obama said today in an interview. ''It's encouraging.
''But it's important that stories like mine aren't used to say that everything is O.K. for blacks. You have to remember that for every one of me, there are hundreds or thousands of black students with at least equal talent who don't get a chance,'' (snip)
A President's Future
The president of the law review usually goes on to serve as a clerk for a judge on the Federal Court of Appeals for a year, and then as a clerk for an associate justice of the Supreme Court. Mr. Obama said he planned to spend two or three years in private law practice and then return to Chicago to re-enter community work, either in politics or in local organizing.
Since when did a peace sign on a little girl cause so much angst in this world? Over the weekend the website FreeRepublic got a lot of attention for allowing a thread to run about Malia Obama and her peace tee shirt. The Vancouver Sun wrote an article about it.“A typical street whore.” “A bunch of ghetto thugs.” “Ghetto street trash.” “Wonder when she will get her first abortion.”
These are a small selection of some of the racially-charged comments posted to the conservative ‘Free Republic’ blog Thursday, aimed at U.S. President Barack Obama’s 11-year-old daughter Malia after she was photographed wearing a t-shirt with a peace sign on the front.
David Schuster said that he will be covering the story today, on his afternoon show - to which FR responded with (Warning: the link is offensive) homophobia. That is right, they blamed the messenger when charged with racism by responding with homophobia. I will be the first to admit that FR is not exactly what some would call a bastion of typical conservatism. I refuse to buy the idea that we are in a post-racial world when we have neo-racists out there spewing this kind of hatred towards an 11 year old black child. Where is that fierce child advocate, Sarah Palin now? One would think she would speak out on behalf of Malia, right? Somehow, I don't think that will happen. Next, we will be told that it is just a message board. Well, it isn't.
In the meantime, the Young Republicans elected a new president of their organization: Audra Shay... This Audra Shay.(the image is too large to post here, but it's worth the click)
Shay now claims that she was only responding to Piker’s first comments, not having noticed the second. The eight-minute gap between the second post and her response strains the credibility of this defense.It didn’t take long for other posters on Shay’s page to do the math. First, Derek Moss wrote “What’s disheartening is the use of the word 'coon' in 2009. Wow… I’m usually outnumbered about 500-to-1 on Audra’s threads so go ahead, lemme have it, I deserve it.” He apparently expected to be criticized as among this crowd for calling out the racist comment.
Cassie Wallender, a national committeewoman from the Washington Young Republican Federation, then wrote: “Someone please help a naïve Seattle girl out, is Eric’s comment a racist slur?” She answered her own question one minute later: “Okay, why is this okay? I just looked it up. ‘It comes from a term baracoons (a cage) where they used to place Africans who were waiting to be sent to America to be slaves.’ THIS IS NOT OKAY AND IT’S NOT FUNNY.”
This was followed soon after by the chairman of the D.C. Young Republicans, Sean L. Conner, who wrote “I’m really saddened that you would support this type of racial language. ..wow! Thanks Cassie for standing up…”
They say we are now in a Post-Racialist Society; after learning about this, all I have to say is: Are you fucking kidding me? That is the new head of the Young Republicans. Sad state of affairs is this party and this country. There are people trying to dismantle the voting rights act using the excuse that we are in a Post-Racial world now that we elected a "Black President". Well I don't buy that crap. This party is becoming more and more polarized (as is the Country) because of sites like FR.
To these people, the rights in the constitution are selectable and only for a few privileged folk: Them. I might be more reluctant to call them out for what it looks like if they had been around for the past 8 years when we actually saw our civil liberties getting torn to shreds. They were nowhere to be found as our bill of rights was being disassembled. The silence was deafening right up until we elected a black man as President. I can't see it any other way. They were silent when the previous administration threw hundreds of billions of dollars into the banking industry with no oversight-- they said nothing. They were silent when their retirement funds dried up as the market went into a downward spin last year. They were silent when the previous administration gave the auto industry a 17 billion dollar loan and now they scream it's socialism. What else would explain it?
I believe one thing about these people. When they say 'they want their country back', they mean it. This I believe. What these people need to learn -- everyone of them from Rush, Steele, Beck & Hannity - to every marcher at the tea parties is how to share. It's not like people of color are going anywhere. They are here to stay in the United States. What they don't seem to understand is ALL Americans got the country back on January 20, 2009. Until they learn that this country does not belong exclusively to THEM, they look like a bunch of bigots and angry fools fanning the flames of hate. Ooh. I called them out. I guess that makes me a racist now too.
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Morning, comrades!
Pity much of the south doesn't believe in Global Climate Change.
Find your bootstraps and lift yourselves up, motherfuckers! Sorry, there's no tax dollars to help, maybe you could knock on the doors of whatever corporation runs your city now and beg for a handout? Good Luck, but if you can't recover without help, you're just lazy anyway.
{Note to Southern bloggers...stay safe out there, huh? We had our winter, looks like it's your turn now.)
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Trump would actually benefit with a full blown KKK hood, it would hide his horrifying hair!!
I was worried about Lawrence O'Donnell last night, thought he might have a heart attack, but I'm just grateful that Ms. Oily Taitz was not in studio..... she'd no doubt have been strangled. And I'd hate to see Larry in jail for her murder.
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Morning, comrades!
Pity much of the south doesn't believe in Global Climate Change.
Find your bootstraps and lift yourselves up, motherfuckers! Sorry, there's no tax dollars to help, maybe you could knock on the doors of whatever corporation runs your city now and beg for a handout? Good Luck, but if you can't recover without help, you're just lazy anyway.
{Note to Southern bloggers...stay safe out there, huh? We had our winter, looks like it's your turn now.)
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Trump would actually benefit with a full blown KKK hood, it would hide his horrifying hair!!
I was worried about Lawrence O'Donnell last night, thought he might have a heart attack, but I'm just grateful that Ms. Oily Taitz was not in studio..... she'd no doubt have been strangled. And I'd hate to see Larry in jail for her murder.![]()
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Trump would actually benefit with a full blown KKK hood, it would hide his horrifying hair!!
I was worried about Lawrence O'Donnell last night, thought he might have a heart attack, but I'm just grateful that Ms. Oily Taitz was not in studio..... she'd no doubt have been strangled. And I'd hate to see Larry in jail for her murder.![]()
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when he had the camerperson zoom in on her.
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I missed it. Did she look all squirmy and panicked? Was there flop sweat?
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Morning, comrades!
Pity much of the south doesn't believe in Global Climate Change.
Find your bootstraps and lift yourselves up, motherfuckers! Sorry, there's no tax dollars to help, maybe you could knock on the doors of whatever corporation runs your city now and beg for a handout? Good Luck, but if you can't recover without help, you're just lazy anyway.
{Note to Southern bloggers...stay safe out there, huh? We had our winter, looks like it's your turn now.)
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Just so we all understand, we all know that Orly is a dude, yes? I mean.............. come ON!!!
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Morning, comrades!
Pity much of the south doesn't believe in Global Climate Change.
Find your bootstraps and lift yourselves up, motherfuckers! Sorry, there's no tax dollars to help, maybe you could knock on the doors of whatever corporation runs your city now and beg for a handout? Good Luck, but if you can't recover without help, you're just lazy anyway.
{Note to Southern bloggers...stay safe out there, huh? We had our winter, looks like it's your turn now.)
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yep, I'm watching the clouds just wiz by and that wind is just crazy!
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Trump would actually benefit with a full blown KKK hood, it would hide his horrifying hair!!
I was worried about Lawrence O'Donnell last night, thought he might have a heart attack, but I'm just grateful that Ms. Oily Taitz was not in studio..... she'd no doubt have been strangled. And I'd hate to see Larry in jail for her murder.<3
when he had the camerperson zoom in on her.
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I missed it. Did she look all squirmy and panicked? Was there flop sweat?
Quote by Raine:WE have the NOAA radio suggest by the Lovely Velveeta, going.Quote by wickedpam:Quote by Raine:We are under a Tornado watch until 3 pm.Quote by TriSec:
Morning, comrades!
Pity much of the south doesn't believe in Global Climate Change.
Find your bootstraps and lift yourselves up, motherfuckers! Sorry, there's no tax dollars to help, maybe you could knock on the doors of whatever corporation runs your city now and beg for a handout? Good Luck, but if you can't recover without help, you're just lazy anyway.
{Note to Southern bloggers...stay safe out there, huh? We had our winter, looks like it's your turn now.)
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yep, I'm watching the clouds just wiz by and that wind is just crazy!
It's wierd, listening to WTOP, I can here they have a NOAA radio in the studio with them
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Trump would actually benefit with a full blown KKK hood, it would hide his horrifying hair!!
I was worried about Lawrence O'Donnell last night, thought he might have a heart attack, but I'm just grateful that Ms. Oily Taitz was not in studio..... she'd no doubt have been strangled. And I'd hate to see Larry in jail for her murder.<3
when he had the camerperson zoom in on her.
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I missed it. Did she look all squirmy and panicked? Was there flop sweat?
Somebody didn't read the blog...
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Morning, comrades!
Pity much of the south doesn't believe in Global Climate Change.
Find your bootstraps and lift yourselves up, motherfuckers! Sorry, there's no tax dollars to help, maybe you could knock on the doors of whatever corporation runs your city now and beg for a handout? Good Luck, but if you can't recover without help, you're just lazy anyway.
{Note to Southern bloggers...stay safe out there, huh? We had our winter, looks like it's your turn now.)
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yep, I'm watching the clouds just wiz by and that wind is just crazy!
It's wierd, listening to WTOP, I can here they have a NOAA radio in the studio with them
Our NOAA radio is in the attic with our hurricane box - keep me posted if you hear something
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Trump would actually benefit with a full blown KKK hood, it would hide his horrifying hair!!
I was worried about Lawrence O'Donnell last night, thought he might have a heart attack, but I'm just grateful that Ms. Oily Taitz was not in studio..... she'd no doubt have been strangled. And I'd hate to see Larry in jail for her murder.<3
when he had the camerperson zoom in on her.
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I missed it. Did she look all squirmy and panicked? Was there flop sweat?
Somebody didn't read the blog...
No, somebody skimed it. Didn't check any links.
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Got some hella pain goin' on today in my lower parts.. let's just say it's not a pleasant feeling at all and leave it at that.
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Trump would actually benefit with a full blown KKK hood, it would hide his horrifying hair!!
I was worried about Lawrence O'Donnell last night, thought he might have a heart attack, but I'm just grateful that Ms. Oily Taitz was not in studio..... she'd no doubt have been strangled. And I'd hate to see Larry in jail for her murder.<3
when he had the camerperson zoom in on her.
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I missed it. Did she look all squirmy and panicked? Was there flop sweat?
Somebody didn't read the blog...
No, somebody skimed it. Didn't check any links.
Is that what you used to tell your teachers when you failed a test?![]()
So, tears in my eyes, pain in my heart and rage in my soul, I composed this video message. More than written text, it comes close to expressing my full pain at witnessing a white man who was handed everything call the President of the United States (and me) a nigger.
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I walked away, Did I miss a RWLM?
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I walked away, Did I miss a RWLM?
Nope!
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What a damn fool, Ken is.
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What a damn fool, Ken is.
did I miss and idiot caller?
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What a damn fool, Ken is.
did I miss and idiot caller?
Quote by Raine:Well, We have one now!Quote by Mondobubba:Quote by Raine:
I walked away, Did I miss a RWLM?
Nope!
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Raine - there is a huge dark cloud rolling in ya'lls direction
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Mondo!
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<--- For Ken.
This controversy was constructed solely as a way to de-legitimize the presidency of a black man. Those who question the location of Barack Obama's birth are the very same people who would pack up and move out of the neighborhood if someone like me moved in next door.
When they say they want to take their country back, they mean from us.
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I'm really starting to believe that succession is the only answer. There are two Americas here, and they are mutually incompatible.
Sorry Thomas, Ben, George, Sam, John.....it was a noble experiment.
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WTH! Sorry but, it's a HuffPo link.
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Sounds like he wants to create a WWII-style 'ghetto' to me.
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This just in! I, Mondo am now a member of the Web.com family!
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Some far-off rumblings at lunch, but the main squall line is just hitting Western Mass right now.
Everybody still OK out there?
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Some far-off rumblings at lunch, but the main squall line is just hitting Western Mass right now.
Everybody still OK out there?
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Some far-off rumblings at lunch, but the main squall line is just hitting Western Mass right now.
Everybody still OK out there?
suns coming out our way as far as I know there's still a tornado watch till 3pm
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BTW, I'm supposed to be on Funk'd in the Head with Shane tonite!
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BTW, I'm supposed to be on Funk'd in the Head with Shane tonite!
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BTW, I'm supposed to be on Funk'd in the Head with Shane tonite!
8PM?
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What my brother and I are thinking of getting my dad for father's day.
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This just in, some cats done like to dance to James Brown.I know, right???
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What my brother and I are thinking of getting my dad for father's day.
That is a wonderful Idea!
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This just in, some cats done like to dance to James Brown.I know, right???
My cat likes to sleep with occasional jaunts outside to eat grass or frolic about.
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Our cats like Henry Rollins when they participate in Fight Club.
I know I broke the first rule...
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This just in, some cats done like to dance to James Brown.I know, right???
My cat likes to sleep with occasional jaunts outside to eat grass or frolic about.
Cleo will sleep in various places. Lucky will park himself beside where my wife sits and continually pester her. He knows who will give him treats.