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POLITICS: obama back in the states; speaks at conference

Monday, July 28, 2008

Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) speaks to attendees at the UNITY: Journalists of Color conference at McCormick Place convention center on Sunday in Chicago, Illinois.

The event was Obama’s first since returning from a week-long overseas trip. He spoke on his recent trip abroad, the housing bill and housing situation in the US and how to move forward in Iraq and Afghanistan. Full video above..

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1.

JUST2DAMNCUTE

Monday, July 28, 2008 /

GO BARACK!

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Dame(Jazmine Sullivans' Lion, Tigers and Bears is 1 of the best song I've heard in a long time thanks CL)

Monday, July 28, 2008 /

Go Barack

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msmuffin_24

Monday, July 28, 2008 /

do ur thang Obama!

4.

*CALI BABY*

Monday, July 28, 2008 /

I’M GLAD OBAMA MADE IT BACK SAFE AND HE STILL HAS A GREAT ATTITUDE.HE’S WORKING HARD AND I ADMIRE HIS STRENGTH TO STAY DILIGENT.

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dukesman2000

Monday, July 28, 2008 /

@ Kent

What’s up with all these people coming on the blogs and posting bullshit dating websites? Go away, please.

Now on Obama…I watched the interview yesterday and it was very good to see Obama back states side ready to bitch slap McSame and his cohorts. One thing I don’t like with Obama (and I know what I am about to do is sacrilegious) when he talks as oppose to giving speeches there are too many umm’s and ahh’s and little stutters - you know, fillers. I know he has to think extra hard and be extra careful when he speaks, because so called pundits and Uncle Tom Negroes are just waiting for him to say something that they can misconstrue, so he takes time to think about his words. I think he needs to be more fluid with his words in impromptu speeches.

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THATCHICKL

Monday, July 28, 2008 /

I’m glad he made it home as well. I will watch the video later this week.

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andy

Monday, July 28, 2008 /

Obama claims he supports affirmative action for the children of slaves, but will he put TEETH into his beliefs by giving tax breaks to companies that hire, retain, and promote black descendants of slaves??? There are TONS of qualified EDUCATED unemployed black people displaced by UNQUALIFIED foreign workers who barely speak english, so the blacks need education lie needs to stop NOW!

Hispanics are SEVERELY uneducated but that doesn’t stop them from getting jobs. Not even their illegal alien status stops them from getting jobs.

Why does Barack support relieving irresponsible caribbeans, and africans of their huge billion dollar debts, but not willing to give the children of slaves reparations to compensate for the U.S. govt flip flop on our 40 acres and a mule, which would have allowed us full recovery from slavery?

Is Barack one of the supporters of reparations for South African blacks who were not nearly as robbed as Black america by U.S. corporations? Even Jamaicans are asking for reparations. Does he support them putting added burdens on U.S. companies eventhough they are not U.S. citizens?

Why does Barack have no plan to lift our boys out of the ghetto. Bill Cosby, Oprah Winfrey, and all the rest came from the ghetto. Will he do what the Clintons did to lift blacks out of poverty?

Will Barack call on the entire U.S. community to HIV test, and to be guinea pigs for toxic HIV meds, OR will he continue to allow only black americans to carry the brunt of this burden?

Will Barack continue the thrust to lock up and enslave black boys by the unjust criminal justice system, OR will he see to it they have something to do other than sell drugs? Will he appoint liberal QUALIFIED judges or just appoint his UNQUALIFIED cronies?

Will Barack force HUD to seriously address growing housing discrimination complaints by levying severe fines and penalties, OR will he continue to allow whites to polarize the country?

Will Barack address the “no child left behind” that is causing evildoers in the teaching profession to harrass and force out black boys who they think will affect the school’s test scores?

Will Barack make a strong stand for injustice and call for an end to discrimination as the Clinton’s tried hard to do???

Will Barack levy stiffer penalities for job discrimination for black american workers? He says he has a plan to end discrimination for gays. How about for black americans. What are his plans?

Jim Crow is fast returning in the South with the raising of confederate flags as a symbol of this intent. What will Barack do to prosecute white gangs and militia organizations who terrorize and threaten the security of black americans?

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andy

Monday, July 28, 2008 /

No Americans need apply: something for everyone - affirmative action
National Review, Nov 6, 1995 by James S. Robb
Mr. Robb is senior analyst of The Social Contract and author of the study, Affirmative Action for Immigrants: The Entitlement Nobody Wanted.

WHAT liberals wishing to save the affirmative-action system did not need was the growing realization that some of the biggest winners in race-preference schemes are not Americans at all. Consider: The prestigious University of Texas Law School maintains a minority set-aside admissions program for blacks and what it terms “Mexican- Americans.” However, because the school does not inquire about citizenship, “Mexican-American” in reality means anyone of Mexican heritage who is not in the U.S. illegally. “There’s no philosophical objection” to foreign nationals receiving the preference, said Stanley Johnson, who heads the schools’ admission committee.

As unlikely as it may sound, millions of immigrants and foreign visitors are eligible for — and many are actually using — affirmative-action benefits to get a head-start on U.S.-born minorities, not to mention white Americans. In effect, they are getting off the plane and moving right to the head of the line.

How is this possible? In the late 1960s, it simply never occurred to government planners that there would be so many aliens in the U.S. or that so many would be considered minorities.

The results can be startling. Take, for example, a company that has a goal to hire ten blacks. Nothing says these have to be African Americans, and they well may not be. All ten may be people who until now spent their entire lives in another country.

Whatever the long-term fate of affirmative action, Congress and the Administration should act now to put a stop to this bizarre extension of the program. A mere paragraph or two of legislation and a short executive order could end affirmative action for immigrants — the entitlement nobody planned and hardly anyone wants.

WILL BARACK ISSUE THE EXECUTIVE ORDER NEEDED TO REVERSE THIS TRAVESITY OF JUSTICE?

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why?

Monday, July 28, 2008 /

^get a grip.

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andy

Monday, July 28, 2008 /

Why you ask? Because those primaries and rascist news media reports that lie, that ALL black americans are Barack supporters are DEAD WRONG!!! The VAST MAJORITY of black people don’t even vote in primaries, but we DO VOTE in the national elections, and IF BARACK DOESN’T STEP UP AND ADDRESS OUR ISSUES WITH REAL CONCRETE PLANS AND RESOLUTIONS, all those black votes he THOUGHT he had are going to evaporate. I know many people who are REAL upset about what happened to Hillary and STILL have great love for the Clintons. Many say they won’t vote at all if Hillary is not VP.

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Godfrey

Monday, July 28, 2008 /

Florida Restores Rights to 115,000 Ex-Felons

Wednesday, June 18, 2008 1:03 PM

By: Rick Pedraza Article Font Size

A new state rule in Florida calls for more than 115,000 former felons who complete their sentences to be given back their civil rights, including the right to vote, hold public office, serve on a jury, and obtain state and local licenses for certain types of work.

The rule by the state’s Board of Executive Clemency ends a policy that, until now, required a panel to act individually on every restoration of rights requests.

Florida Governor Charlie Crist – attending a two-day summit of state officials, lawmakers, community activists, prison ministers and others brainstorming ideas for keeping former inmates from returning to crime after they are freed – says the decision to restore civil rights to ex-felons is based on fairness and being a part of a democratic society.

“Once somebody has truly paid their debt to society, we should recognize it,” explains Crist, a Republican who had initially pushed for a broader clemency program.

“We should welcome them back into society and give them that second chance,” he told a crowd of law enforcement officials and advocates for prisoners’ rights in Tallahassee. “Who doesn’t deserve a second chance?”

REPUBLICANS ARE DOING MORE FOR BLACKS THAN BARACK OBAMA. ALL THESE PEOPLE WILL VOTE REPUBLICAN.