thats a shame that people can still act so ignorant

Everybody in Cleveland is praying for Stephanie Tubbs Jones’ family. Our city just lost a great leader.

horrible…..

Ignorance in its worse form, how are you going to be asked three times to take the noose down and refuse. Ridiculous…and as far as defacing God’s home…is beyond me.

—wow…… wtf..

******R.I.P. Mrs. Jones

What a horrible thing to do people like that need 2 stop being so ignorant. Shout 2 my baby sis Shakala leaving 4 college make me proud xoxo

Angel, you better not put my comment in moderation mode because what I have to say is very important.

I am really getting fed up with all of this. I feel hopeless. What can we do as a people, most importantly as a race to eliminate this type of hate towards us? I mean, we can sit here all day and blog our lives away voicing our disdain at this but we need action. We have to let it be known that his time of narrow-mindedness will not be tolerated on any level and I am not talking about “overcoming this hate with our capacity to love.” I am talking about confronting this evil. We have to learn to speak the language of hate and speak in the same tone to these dirt bags are accustomed to and let them know that black people, we mean business. I am not by any means advocating violence, but we as people have been lambs to be slaughtered for too long and it is time we band together to protect the flock. This unacceptable.

WIll racism ever cease to exist…we are pushn so hard to move on and uplift the beginning of Power for African Americans (Barack)….but just as much far as we try to go to build and empower ourselves there are even more that r determined to keep us “slave minded”….

Not b’n funny at all…real question…Why can’t we all just get along…seriously…we all have to dwell n this country together…y make it such a difficult tym…

and then to hang a noose n a Childrens Hospital…how insentitive, cold hearted, hating can u get…i mean that shows absolutely no respect for ANYONE>>>

i’m not gonna say black people are less racist…but it seems to me that white people are always keeping sh**t going and bold about it too! I try to keep an open mind but stuff like this will make you lose your mind. firing that man doesnt resolve anything he needs some diversity classes and a good a$$ whoopin!

**Dukesman2000-Im really feeling you because when I read this I could just feel
**the pain and fear that our aunty’s, uncles, and cousins must’ve felt living in those
**times, attitudes and actions that should be long gone are still there, right under
**the surface of kind smiles and how do you do’s? I think as a people that we don’t
**really take action, and we just accept what’s given and told to us, and we need
**to change that. So stay strong and encouraged and just ask God to make a way
**and to give you a course of action to take. I’ve never seen your name before so I
**don’t know if you normally blog but I’m glad you did, take care sweets.

I just met (and took a picture with) Ms. Tubbs Jones at the Delta National Convention in Orlando. She was so personable and friendly that our meeting was definitely a highlight of what was my very first convention and now, that she has passed so unexpectedly, a memory that I will treasure for the rest of my life. OOOOOO-Op Soror Jones!

To Tubbs Jones’ family and state, we mourn deeply with you, but pray that the Congresswoman went to a place of peace and reward.

In reference to the two incidents of racist blantanly displayed, I would advise our community to take them as examples that work and progress must continue to ensure love overpowers hate in America, and in the world, whether it be hate of skin color, religion, sexual orientation, gender or ancestry.

They shouldn’t be shocked at the church - because the devil is busy. People must understand that the devil NEVER takes a break. Same goes with the racist and the noose.

Rest in Paradise for respresentative Tubbs-Jones.. Job well done. Rest Easy.

For too long African Americans have put on the good face, smiled through the pain. Time for that to end! My husband thinks I’m nuts when I do this but I am very honest with my son’s school and I let them know that they (the all white women teaching staff) are being entrusted with my precious child and that I’ll be paying close attention to what is going on in the class regarding race relations. I let them know my expectations and what I think my son is capable of doing. Sometimes when certain teachers say “he’s only a little boy” I hear “he’s only a little black boy” and I ask them plainly if the white little boys do it. It gets uglier or nicer from there. We have to speak up. We have to fight for our rights or our children will be in the same state of complacency. We have to demand the best from ourselves and from others. If we feel slighted we need to call people on it. When we see nooses we need to take pictures , document, call names and send to blogs. How nice would it be to say “look at the shit I’m dealing with at work” and know that it will be responded to. For all the people out there dealing with injustices large and small don’t suffer in silence…. raise your voice.

man…
hearing about Jones, makes me want to get a scan done or something. aneurysm?! that’s scary. her family will be in my thoughts.

no comment on the racism. people are always trying to do their dirt in the safety of night. and props for that guy getting fired.

Lord, have mercy.

It’s seems like we are losing someone of notoriety everday! I’m praying for her family during this difficult time.

All I can do SMDH at the other nonsense and agree with DukesMan2000

***************************Just Wow, to it all*************************************

Rest In Peace Ms. Tubbs Jones.

People need to stop with the nooses and spray-painting racial slurs on buildings.

———@Dukesman

———Wait a minute brother. I thought you were gonna “Ba-Rock the vote”? I thought
———he was gonna change everything?

I’m 100 percent in agreeance with both dukesman and number 9 comment when is it enough these white folks are really out of control many of them of course. RIP stephanie tubbs

…..LoL @ Judah. You are too much.

R.I.P. Soror Tubbs Jones

….I’d just like to know why someone who hangs a noose has to be ASKED to take it
….down THREE times. Are they sure this happened in Killadelphia cause I think
….that White man would have been popped after the second request if really did..

R.I.P. Soror Tubbs Jones

wowwwww…i see anger..a call for justice and so forth and so on…but i bet this hurt and anger comes from the same people who are quick to holler out fag,queer,dyke…etc…except it doesnt quite feel the same when the shoe is on the other foot…..black people are the most two faced of us all….we want everyone to feel our pain but we have sympathy for no others…..live and let live…f people knew their and the worlds history they would better understand the present and future….a church…so what jewish synagogues were burned during the third reich ,,,mosques were burned during the crusades…so defacing a church is something new?…..get real

Rest in Peace Ms. Tubbs-Jones. You will be missed on the Hill. Your smile, your laughter, your no holds bars attitude when it came to getting the real questions heard during hearings…you will be missed.

@ Judah….

Why would you stoop to the cesspool level of trying to distort my numerous conversations with you? You know damn well, I have never expressed at any point that I believe Barack Obama is going to come in and wave a magic wand that’ll erase this country’s deep rooted biases. All I am saying is…I just don’t believe the white man is the answer to our problem, which is the race problem. Lincoln (a white man) signed the Emancipation Proclamation to solve the race problem and it is still. White liberals came out with the Supreme Court Desegregation Decision to solve the race problem and it is still here. Kennedy told all the black people what he was going to do for them if they voted for him and they did, 80%. He was elected to office and didn’t do a damn thing. Instead, when the police dogs were biting black women, black children and black babies in Alabama, Kennedy said there wasn’t anything he could do because no federal laws were violated. But when the black people erupted and started fucking up some white people, without batting an eye, Kennedy sent the troops to help the white people. So brother, black people have left the white man to his conscious to do something moral and correct the wrong his has done but he doesn’t have the moral capacity to do so. So why not put just a fraction of that trust same trust we have in the white man in one our own? Now you tell me, what is wrong with that?

@ judah…

Everytime we engage in a debate they always moderate my comment.

——–@27

——–No profanity brother, lol. Look, Obama will not stop our people from being
——–victims of this god forsaken place. He will not stop us from victimizing each
——–other. We will be forced to stand together. The ones that do not wish to stand
——–together will die. Simple as that.

I was shocked to hear of Rep Tubbs passing away. I know she was a strong Hillary supporter and represented her hometown of Cleveland for many years. She was no doubt a very passionate lady on certain political issues.

way to go, CHOP!

__Maybe all this blantant racism will help black people come together, like we did
__during the Civil Rights era? Black folks have a history of banning together in the
__face of oppression and racism..these episodes can help us to become motivated..

———-@29

———-The answer to that is easy. Obama is not one of our own.

I don’t know why some of you don’t get the memo about all of these events .

Good to see my comment got posted

@Judah…

Who do you consider our own? I am curious

Dukeman2000 and Judah, I think both of you are right on point with your opinion.

I believe we will never truly be free until we start loving and looking out for one another.

Racism will always exsist because just like all of us people (even racists) have opinions and choices…… new racists are born, bred and living amongst us everyday …

As long as we have racism and self-hatred amongst ourselves I’m not expecting any other race and/or ethinicity to NOT be racist…. this is the world we live in like or not….. doesn’t mean it’s right it just is….

R.I.P to Rep Tubbs

Is there not a symbol, sign or something that we can use as they have? Everyone says turn the other cheek, we have come a long way and it will end soon. I say lets go back to the “Farrakhan” days. Does anyone know if Farrakhan, has a successor. Is there some “BROTHA HOOD” out there that is willing to preach hate like they do? If so, let me know I would be the first to sign up. This may sound like the wrong way to approach the situation, but i think it’s worth a try. I do like them, in my house we have 2 girls (24&12) 1 son (19) and i raised them not to date outside their race especially, whites. I have talked against the white race for soooo many years you couldn’t pay them to even think about it. Forget the saying “you can’t help who you fall in luv with”, i promise you if you teach from birth it”ll carry till death. Let’s stop taking each other out and focuse on the real problem. Stop hurting people cause of the colors they wear, but for the color of their skin.

the hate is in white folks dna, it is in their bone marrow. they come first. barack is up and down leading in the polls because the white hate groups are letting the white people know that a vote for barack is a vote that will betray the white race. i’ve racked my brain trying to figure out why the white folks opress and despise blacks so. and i remembered back in high school my senior year. we had career day and a counseler spoke and shared his believe; and its was that the white my will always have and assume the power and money he will always run the show. it boiled down to losing the respect of his white mate or his white women is what he fears the most theis is why he oppreses me and don’t want me to suceed. and undemines my exsistence.

my condolences goes out to the Tubb fam…..ppl need to grow up!

….. thats not the first time he made a noose lol.. thats y im not going to get rid of ……….the n word because they come in all colors… so much hate in the world still …. R.I.P tubbs

Defacing a church ??

They must know that they are already going to hell . That is the only reason why a person would do something as stupid as that .

And the noose incident , I personally would have used it on him . It sickens me that people still resort back to the ignorant ways of the 1800’s to now . I say now because I don’t think any of us will be alive when it finally is over , THE WHOLE RACE ISSUE .

It will probably take another 400+ yrs. for people to let it go and start treating people as humans and not judge by the color of someone’s skin . They say history repeats itself but , this part of history never left .

I am disgusted by the ignorance of some very foolish people, like the ones who committed these sinful acts!!!

How am “I” going to get past my issues with racism if ish like this continues to happen?

I’m just asking.

Everytime I turn the other cheek one of these congeelie eatin mofo’s is hanging a noose on his truck, or putting up a dumb a** sign…”keep on” is all im gone say, and I leave it at that. For now.

———@Dukesman

———Our own are the people who were brought over here into this captivity on slave
———ships, and the brothers and sisters who were in the Americas already. Obama
———is what is known in the scriptures as a “Hamite”. Brother, go to any African
———and ask them what he thinks about black issues. I gurantee you that he/she
———will speak in the third person, not the first person.

I dont need you to go off in the deep end, please stick to the script. Who alive today, in our time do you consider our own? That is what I am interested in hearing from you.

———–@Dukesman

———-Brother, this is not rocket science. I just told you. The black Americans, West
———-Indians, Haitians, Latinos/Latinas (of native or negro descent), Native
———-American/Seminole Indians of North Central and South America.

Okay you guys wanna know what’s wrong with today’s society? What’s wrong with this picture? Lemme enlighten y’all. Go look at the Rhianna vs Dawn post. 140 something damn comments. And then here’s this one, only 49 comments. There you go. No one is “lifting their voice” or making big changes, cuz we’re all too obsessed with what’s coming out Rhianna or Beyonce’s crack. THERE I SAID IT. So until we all start focusing on what’s REALLY important, this world is going to hell in a hand basket and NO Obama isn’t going to save the day, when we can’t even save ourselves.

I feel that black people can elevate themselves by stop playing victim all the time. They don’t want equality, they want to continue being opressed so that they can have an excuse for all the failures, blame it on racism, we cant get jobs because we’re black, we cant do this, do that because we’re black. White people will continue to treat u like victims, because you call for it. LAWS OF ATTRACTION, whatever kind of energy u put out there, the universe will bring it back 2 u, twice as much, hence people who always have a negative mindsets or thoughts find only negative things happening to them & vice versa. We need 2 stop thinking of ourselves as minority, because were NOT! Native Americans are, but not black people. Elevate your minds & thoughts. Want to go out there & be better, believe that you ARE better and you’ll be successful. Stop using everything as a crutch & stand on ur own 2 feet. This shit will never stop, in real sense, because we r calling 4 it & asking 2 be victims all the time. Learn.

[...] Former US President Bill Clinton (L), Democratic New York Senator Hillary Clinton and US Democratic Presidential Candidate Senator Barack Obama attend funeral services for Ohio Representative Stephanie Tubbs Jones at the Cleveland Convention Center in Cleveland, Ohio, August 30, 2008. Tubbs Jones died August 20, at the age of 58 from a brain hemorrhage. [...]