The NBA Plantation

I'm not one to follow sports, much less comment on it, but I felt the need this time. Apparently during a Pistons-Pacers game there were a couple of fights that involved fans. In particular, Ron Artest of the Pacers was suspended for the remainder of the season, because when a fan threw a beverage at him, he went into the stands and put his fist in the fans mouth. And the problem is? Benches cleared and multiple suspensions ensued. Let me state here that the fights "happened" to involve large, tall black men and short white men, a few of whome appeared overweight. But that's not important. The important thing here is the punishment in a sport with a high "negro quotient." See there's this game called Hockey. In that sport there is a low "negro quotient." That game also sees violence at every single game. In fact it is not only looked forward to, but makes the highlight reels with a 'wink, nod and outright approval" by most sports anchors. It was only temporarily, when a hockey player put another player into a coma did the tone change. It appears that when white men knock each other into walls, pull off their helmets and beat each other in retaliation, it's ok. Even when they use large wooden sticks as weapons, it's ok.

However; when negroes on the court get mad at each other for unneccessary checking it is grounds for immediate suspension. If a Negro, during a fight, get's up from the bench, regardless of intent, is fined and suspended. So back to the fight with the fan. So not only are negroes in such check in the NBA, apparently the fans feel they can say or do whatever they like because the negroes can't do anything but entertain them. So while Ron Artest is suspended for the remainder of the season, the NBA is "considering" action against the fans, some of whome were cought on tape throwing material at the players. My friends, that is assault. Each fan caught on tape or seen by officials throwing material at the players ought to be arrested and charged with assault.

The players, should wise up and realize that they are being given the plantation treatment. They ought to refuse from playing until each fan involved is charged with assault and that the NBA make it clear that fans are prohibited from throwing anything at the players and make abusive statements at their own risk.

Palast, Ohio and the Real Court Case Part II

Now lets look at this graphic showing how Democrats and republicans did in Franklin County:



note that there is a good amount of Franklin county where Kerry did less than 60% and a whole lot of Franklin County where Bush did over 60%. So remembering that Kerry would have to get 80% of the provisional and spoiled ballots to just break even, this doesn't look good for Kerry at all. Even so, looking at this map and looking at the spread of ballots across the counties, one can see that the provisional ballots in mostly white areas outnumber those in areas with large black populations, hence making Kerry's odds even slimmer. But all this is conjecture, with Ohio now having to recount their ballots including provisionals, spoiled and absentee (why weren't those counted already since they had them?) we will know the real numbers soon enough.

Let's look at what we know can sink the Republicans should a group with enough balls and money does it:


"In Franklin County, where Franklin County Board of Elections Director Matt Damschroder is also the former Executive Director of the county�s Republican Party, the county Board of Elections building looked like a bunker. Scores of city buses blocked parking spaces on the street outside, numerous concrete barricades surrounded the parking lot, and a metal detector was stationed at the only entrance. A phalanx of armed deputy sheriffs swarmed the only site where provisional voters could cast a guaranteed ballot. The Columbus Dispatch confirmed an Election Day Free Press story that far fewer voting machines were present in predominantly black Democratic inner-city voting wards than in the recent primary election and the 2000 presidential election, with their lighter turnouts. The reduced number of machines caused voters to wait up to seven hours and wait an average of approximately three hours. One Republican Central Committee member told the Free Press that Damschroder held back as many as 2000 machines and dispersed many of the other machines to affluent suburbs in Franklin County."--free press.org article



This, my friends is a smoking gun. Matt Damschroder should be deposed as well as the person who reported this action. I believe there is enough evidence to charge Mr. Damschroder and "black"well with voter disenfranchisement through the purposeful depopulating of voting machines in areas with projected high turnouts. I hope someone or some organization takes this challenge up.

Palast, Ohio, and the Real Court Case

Greg Palasts assertions that Kerry took Ohio (and New Mexico) have taken off on the blogospher and news programs. He has been a guest on Like It Ism with Gil Noble and has had his assertions repeated by many other writers. I have gone on record that I think that his assertion is simply a guess and we won't know the truth until or unless all the votes are counted. Anything else is mere speculation.

The Black Commentator ran a think piece that asseted, like many others that the exit polls were right and that their divergence from the official outcome is a sign of tampering. Let's address this:

1) When Douglas Wilder was running for governor of Virginia in 1989, Exit polls had Wilder up by 10%. He actually won by 1%.

2) When David Dinkins was running for Mayor of NYC against Guiliani, exit polls had him ahead by 8 points. In the end Dinkins won by 1%. another.

I could do like Greg palast and say that exit polls can be wrong by a stunning 900-800% . I could say that exit polls can be wrong by 8x-9x the actual outcome. It would stirr up all kinds of emotions but wouldn't address the real issue. Exit polls can be wrong. No exit poll can force people to actully participate or tell the truth. Thus those who repeatedly claim exit polls to be infallible also have bridges to sell.

Let's go back to the "missing votes." As indicated before Greg Palast and other say there are some 240,000 missing votes, 90,000+ of these would be spoiled ballots. that is they had hanging chads, dimples, multiple votes, or some other "Problem." ther remaining 154,000 were provisional ballots. here's what has been said about these:

Unofficial Ohio presidential results provided by the Secretary of State’s Office show 155,428 provisional ballots cast. Blackwell was all over the national news telling everyone who would listen that these ballots were randomly distributed and not disproportionately for Kerry. As former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani raved on national TV demanding Kerry’s concession, a basic analysis of the provisional ballots suggested that they were disproportionately for Kerry.

Historically, provisional ballots are far more likely to be cast by poor and minority voters, who live in the urban centers and move more often. Ohio has 88 counties, the vast majority of them rural. Kerry won 15 counties in Ohio, virtually all large urban centers. In those counties, 85,096 provisional ballots remain uncounted. Past elections point to the fact that these provisional ballots are hardly ever cast in the affluent, primarily Republican municipalities, but are overwhelmingly from the central city. Also, an additional 17,038 provisional ballots are from Hamilton County and Wood County. Bush won Hamilton with 53% of the vote and Wood County with 53.5%. Traditionally, the provisional ballots in Hamilton County come from Cincinnati and its poor central city areas. These are areas where John Kerry won handily on Election Day.

Thus, 102,134 of the provisional ballots, nearly two-thirds (65.7%) in all probability come from solidly pro-Kerry areas and are most likely cast by pro-Kerry supporters such as African Americans and the poor. These fit the same socio-economic demographics and racial profiles of voters targeted by the GOP for challenges in Ohio.

Palast also points to the 92,672 so-called “spoiled” ballots in Ohio that have yet to be counted, and may never be tallied. The most famous spoiled ballots were the 2000 Florida punch cards that could not be machine read, but when looked at manually the voter’s intent could be determined. Expert statisticians who investigated spoilage in the 2000 election in Florida found that 54% of these discarded ballots were cast by blacks. In Ohio, most of the spoiled votes were lost through punch card ballots in 2004.

The above was written by Bob Fitrakis of Columbus State Community College.

Let's take a look at some things here: Ohio has 88 counties or which Kerry won 15. It is claimed that these are all "large urban centers." Let's look at the 2000 census figures:

So here's the black population of areas with predominant (50% or more) black populations.


Bedford Heights city, Cuyahoga County: 67.4% black : 7666.75

Cleveland city, Cuyahoga County: 51% Black: 243685

East Cleveland city, Cuyahoga County 93.4% black :25420

Forest Park city, Hamilton County: 56.3% black: 10957.669

Fort McKinley CDP, Montgomery County: 53.2% black: 2122.148

Golf Manor village, Hamilton County: 63% black: 2519.37

Highland Hills village, Cuyahoga County: 65.1% black: 1053.318

Lincoln Heights village, Hamilton County: 98% black: 4030.74

Maplewood Park CDP, Trumbull County; 58.3% Black:187.143

North Randall village, Cuyahoga County: 71.7% black: 649.602

Oakwood village, Cuyahoga County: 56.2% black: 2060.854

Silverton city, Hamilton County: 50.3% black: 2604.534

Trotwood city, Montgomery County: 58.3% black :15985.86

Urbancrest village, Franklin County: 57.9% black: 502

Warrensville Heights city, Cuyahoga County: 90.4% black: 13658.536

Wilberforce CDP, Greene County: 84.2% black: 1329.518

Woodlawn village, Hamilton County: 68.4% black:1926.144

Woodmere village, Cuyahoga County 49.6% black (more blacks than whites by 10%) :410.688

Youngstown city:43.8% black (I've been there and it's a pretty big city for Ohio):35927

Only Cleveland has a huge black population and only 3 other counties have black populations that are over 10,000.

Let's also look at where the provisional ballots were cast (http://www.sos.state.oh.us/sos/results/index.html ):

Provisional Ballots cast by county (Percent of Total):
Cuyahoga: 24788 (16%)
Hamilton county: 14386:(9%)
Wood: 2655 (1.73%)
Trumbull: 2700 (1.7%)
Montgomery:9,227 (6%)
Greene 2127 (1.3%)
Franklin: 14446 (9%)

Total: 153,329


lets look at this table showing the total votes cast by county, the number of provisional ballots and the proportion of the black population for these counties:

County Name	Total Precincts	Total Registered Voters	Total Votes Cast	Percentage of Votes Cast	Provisional Ballots Issued	% Black Population (2000)	Projected Black vote Turnout based on Population and votes cast	Predicted White Vote
Adams	35	17,696	12,094	68.34	184	0.20%	24	12,070
Allen	139	68,174	48,121	70.59	1,374	12.20%	5,871	42,250
Ashland	65	34,847	25,171	72.23	629	0.80%	201	24,970
Ashtabula	127	62,926	45,474	72.27	1,142	3.20%	1,455	44,019
Athens	69	45,100	27,960	62	2,504	2.40%	671	27,289
Auglaize	39	33,094	22,528	68.07	647	0.20%	45	22,483
Belmont	83	44,452	33,452	75.25	1,067	3.60%	1,204	32,248
Brown	35	28,922	20,030	69.26	326	0.90%	180	19,850
Butler	289	238,117	163,668	68.73	5,793	5.30%	8,674	154,994
Carroll	26	20,076	14,172	70.59	304	0.50%	71	14,101
Champaign	29	25,376	18,564	73.16	555	2.30%	427	18,137
Clark	100	89,683	68,883	76.81	1,279	8.90%	6,131	62,752
Clermont	191	125,823	88,019	69.95	1,818	0.90%	792	87,227
Clinton	32	25,092	18,177	72.44	378	2.20%	400	17,777
Columbiana	103	78,536	49,249	62.71	1,085	2.20%	1,083	48,166
Coshocton	43	22,679	17,331	76.42	277	1.10%	191	17,140
Crawford	46	29,591	21,906	74.03	424	0.60%	131	21,775
Cuyahoga	1,436	1,005,807	665,334	66.15	24,788	27.40%	182,302	483,032
Darke	43	38,290	26,379	68.89	710	0.40%	106	26,273
Defiance	42	25,847	18,169	70.29	672	1.80%	327	17,842
Delaware	123	100,676	79,691	79.16	1,891	2.50%	1,992	77,699
Erie	62	55,517	39,690	71.49	972	8.60%	3,413	36,277
Fairfield	118	91,498	67,632	73.92	1,306	2.70%	1,826	65,806
Fayette	38	16,093	11,704	72.73	293	2.10%	246	11,458
Franklin	788	845,720	515,472	60.95	14,446	17.90%	92,269	423,203
Fulton	35	28,561	21,902	76.69	381	0.20%	44	21,858
Gallia	35	23,567	13,944	59.17	574	2.70%	376	13,568
Geauga	96	65,393	51,286	78.43	668	1.20%	615	50,671
Greene	142	105,079	77,830	74.07	2,127	6.40%	4,981	72,849
Guernsey	37	27,129	16,570	61.08	558	1.50%	249	16,321
Hamilton	1,013	573,612	418,001	72.87	14,386	23.40%	97,812	320,189
Hancock	62	49,607	35,087	70.73	791	1.10%	386	34,701
Hardin	38	18,921	13,146	69.48	349	0.70%	92	13,054
Harrison	24	11,769	8,410	71.46	89	2.20%	185	8,225
Henry	33	19,685	15,188	77.16	250	0.60%	91	15,097
Highland	31	28,243	18,323	64.88	494	1.50%	275	18,048
Hocking	32	18,378	13,258	72.14	251	0.90%	119	13,139
Holmes	19	18,089	11,542	63.81	170	0.30%	35	11,507
Huron	55	37,436	25,584	68.34	670	1.00%	256	25,328
Jackson	38	23,997	14,332	59.72	422	0.60%	86	14,246
Jefferson	91	49,655	36,528	73.56	650	5.70%	2,082	34,446
Knox	56	36,971	26,661	72.11	689	0.70%	187	26,474
Lake	217	160,165	119,657	74.71	1,975	2.00%	2,393	117,264
Lawrence	84	41,424	27,876	67.29	599	2.10%	585	27,291
Licking	122	111,387	78,876	70.81	1,565	2.10%	1,656	77,220
Logan	52	29,406	21,135	71.87	650	1.70%	359	20,776
Lorain	239	196,601	139,069	70.74	4,134	8.50%	11,821	127,248
Lucas	495	302,136	216,453	71.64	6,719	17.00%	36,797	179,656
Madison	44	23,477	17,451	74.33	392	6.20%	1,082	16,369
Mahoning	312	194,673	131,938	67.77	2,717	15.90%	20,978	110,960
Marion	84	43,323	28,762	66.39	928	5.70%	1,639	27,123
Medina	149	118,330	84,725	71.6	1,266	0.90%	763	83,962
Meigs	27	15,205	10,813	71.11	240	0.70%	76	10,737
Mercer	37	31,306	20,478	65.41	931	0.10%	20	20,458
Miami	82	72,169	50,562	70.06	1,609	2.00%	1,011	49,551
Monroe	29	10,350	7,857	75.91	132	0.30%	24	7,833
Montgomery	588	391,914	279,801	71.39	9,227	19.90%	55,680	224,121
Morgan	22	9,358	6,770	72.34	160	3.40%	230	6,540
Morrow	36	24,249	16,403	67.64	314	0.30%	49	16,354
Muskingum	85	51,552	38,817	75.3	871	4.00%	1,552	37,265
Noble	27	8,879	6,715	75.63	75	6.70%	450	6,265
Ottawa	78	30,251	23,052	76.2	469	0.60%	138	22,914
Paulding	30	14,226	9,881	69.46	243	1.00%	99	9,782
Perry	46	23,480	15,328	65.28	428	0.20%	31	15,297
Pickaway	53	30,045	22,579	75.15	553	6.40%	1,445	21,134
Pike	24	19,661	12,708	64.64	285	0.90%	114	12,594
Portage	129	109,565	76,306	69.64	1,445	3.20%	2,442	73,864
Preble	45	28,137	21,226	75.44	493	0.30%	64	21,162
Putnam	35	24,572	18,948	77.11	246	0.20%	38	18,910
Richland	126	95,359	61,907	64.92	1,357	9.40%	5,819	56,088
Ross	76	43,463	31,402	72.25	563	6.20%	1,946	29,456
Sandusky	72	39,408	32,433	82.3	760	2.70%	875	31,558
Scioto	106	48,012	35,317	73.56	867	2.70%	953	34,364
Seneca	54	37,974	27,148	71.49	494	1.80%	488	26,660
Shelby	35	28,460	22,688	79.72	791	1.50%	304	22,384
Stark	364	267,939	186,252	69.51	6,653	7.20%	13,410	172,842
Summit	475	368,858	275,551	74.7	5,932	13.20%	36,372	239,179
Trumbull	274	142,548	108,533	76.14	2,700	7.90%	8,574	99,959
Tuscarawas	81	55,656	42,871	77.03	987	0.70%	300	42,571
Union	46	30,200	22,515	74.55	436	9.40%	2,116	20,399
Van Wert	39	21,100	15,252	72.28	297	0.70%	107	15,145
Vinton	20	8,527	6,059	71.06	129	0.40%	24	6,035
Warren	157	125,919	93,321	74.11	1,465	2.70%	2,520	90,801
Washington	56	40,881	29,707	72.67	643	0.90%	267	29,440
Wayne	97	69,672	51,898	74.49	818	1.60%	830	51,068
Williams	44	26,772	18,324	68.44	694	0.70%	128	18,196
Wood	105	91,492	61,865	67.62	2,655	1.30%	804	61,061
Wyandot	24	15,834	10,785	68.11	138	0.10%	11	10,774
TOTAL	11,360	7,979,639	5,574,476	69.86	155,428		635,291

Onto Part II

Why we don't like Rice

You know, rice is brown. That's how it comes out the ground (water)> White rice, what most of us regard as "real" rice, is brown rice that has been processed and stripped. What we have left is a rice that is a shadow of itself. The same thing can be said of Condeleeza Rice. yes we know that she's rice, but she's not the original real deal and she's been whitewashed. Ever since the Black Commentator ran This cartoon featuring Condeleeza and Amiri Baraka poetically referred to Dr. Rice as a skeeza, Folks have been up in arms in the "name calling' that some of us have subjected Dr. Rice to. Now with the recent promotion of Dr. Rice to Secretary of State "conservative" Republicans have been trying to bait black leadership on a new spate of cartoons that accurately depict Dr. Rice as the House Negro she is.

Buchanan manages to find two more House Negroes to defend Dr. Rice:
CALLER: You know, I can't say how back I am taken at the New York Times and the article, the cartoon. I'm waiting for black leadership to stand up and say "Hey, you know what? This is wrong." I'm waiting to hear Jesse Jackson; I'm waiting to hear from the leaders of the Nation of Islam; I'm waiting to hear from Jesse Jackson, Jr.; I'm waiting to hear from Al Sharpton, but I'm waiting to hear from them. But you know what I'm going to hear, Rush? I'm going to hear silence. Do you know why? It's not, "Well, I'm up for the black man." They're more Democratic than they are black. That's the only way I can put it. They are more Democratic than they are black, and I have to say --
RUSH: No, hey, Gino, I must applaud you, sir. (applauding) You are exactly right. You know why? Because every name you mentioned gets a seat at the Democratic Party's power table in exchange for what you just said: Selling out their own people and interests in exchange for that position of power at the Democratic Party.

The Independent Womens' Forum released a press release showing thier dissapointment in the left, and specifically three cartoonists on their depiction of "Condi":


"The depiction of Dr. Condoleezza Rice by Jeff Danziger, Pat Oliphant and Garry Trudeau as an ebonics speaking, big lipped, black mammy who just loves her 'massa' is a disturbing trend in editorial cartoons," said Michelle D. Bernard, senior vice president of the Independent Women's Forum. "These cartoons take the racism of the liberals who profess respect and adoration for black Americans to a new level. It is revolting."

Danziger, Oliphant and Trudeau, whose editorial cartoons are very popular in the United States, also are renowned all over the world.

"The most powerful woman in the United States is young, gifted, and black. Given our nation's history of race-based slavery, the ensuing civil rights movement, and our continual battle against race and sex based discrimination, every citizen in our nation should take pride in Dr. Rice's accomplishments," said Bernard. "She is a representation of America's past and future all at once. One must ask where is the outrage of the nation's civil rights leadership, feminist organizations, and the so-called liberals who only seem to embrace black America in election years?"

Well lets address the probable reason why the "civil rights" organizations don't care for her: First most civil rights organizations are not supportive of the war in Iraq, Condeleeza by virtue of her close relationship with Bush et.al. means that she is on the wrong side of the civil rights agenda. So they are not going to support her. Since Bush also finds himself on the wrong side of the political agenda of Civil rights organizations and Condi is on Bush's side, then she is basically the "massas" handmaiden. Don't get mad when people call a spade a spade.

The second problem here is that these organizations and people think that somehow we don't recognize Dr. Rice as being an achiever. or as being intelligent. We do. We simply do not give our respects to those who misuse and abuse their god given talents to foment war. And there is no apologising for that.

In the end Dr. Rice has earned the ire of blacks who "know the deal." and that white cartoonists can see it too, is just a further condemnation of Dr. Rice. But we know that Condi could care less what these people or organizations think. See ultimately these organizations have very little power and defintely were not in a position to keep her from her current position, or Justice Thom(ass) for that matter. White men ( and women) continue to find blacks who will do what they want them to do, be they hoods in the 'hood or Degreed negroes.

Lastly; for those who think Condi should be judged on her own merits I suggest that at her hearing the following questions be asked:

1) As National Security Advisor, you missed vital signs of the impending terrorist attack on US soil? Why was that and how do we know such an oversight would not happen in this post?

2) Your position as National Security advisor required you to keep the president abreast of relevant and factual information regarding threats to the United States and it's interests. That clearly did not happen. Why not and given that mistake, why should you allowed to be Secretary of State?

The truthfull answers to this question would cast serious doubt on Conde's qualifications to be Secretary of State. It will happen anyway because we have an even more single party state now. But the real reason for this is to prep "Condi" for a possible presidential run against any woman that the Democrats may field. She would be used as a means to break off more of the black vote, which is a long term objective of the republicans who only need to split off some 30% to neuter the Democrats in that voting block.

Anywhoo..always be suspect when white men, especially those with known drug habits..ahem!!.. suddenly take up an interest in the depictions of black women.

Links:
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041117/dcw063_1.html
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041117/dcw063_1.htm

Bigger Brother

Until recently one had to either be on the internet, turn on a cell phone, get into one of m illions of cars with OnStar or sign up for Easy Pass in order to be watched by the state or corporation. Convenience was the lure. No more lines, targeted adverts. But now these agencies have realized what many social scientists already knew: Target the youth. The NY Times is reporting that Schools are now giving out id cards with embeded chips so that parents and "authorities" may know the location of children attending school. Of course the reason given is that children are victims of violence, kidnappings and that sort of thing so it is comforting to know that your child actually made it to school and if not, where they actually are.

I can't speak for my mother, but as a child kidnapping was the least thing I was worried about. I grew up in NYC. I rode the Q6 bus and the E trains all by myself. whilst in Elementary school I would walk from 14th street and 8th avenue to 23rd street and 7th. or 14th and 6th. Well either way I was alone and knew better than to get into anybody's car regardless of what was offered. Todays kids, especially those in suburbs do not deal with a huge metropolis or 2-3 hour commutes to and from school. Most get on Cheeze busses and thier biggest concern is remembering to get off at their stop. Perhaps this is one reason why I'm so independent.

Anyway, the issue here is that these schools have convinced the students that having a RFID chip on (and soon, in) them is ok because they need oversight. But beieve me, this is not for their own good. What this is is social engineering so that suchg surveliance is second nature to citizens. Many proponents of such surveliance ask:

well if you're not doing anything wrong then why worry?

Simple answer is I don't want to be surveilled. How about that? HOw about my whereabouts are my business so long as I don't break the law. And here's the rub, People don't understand that they are being cataloged for "law enforcement." Law Enforcement gets to keep tabs on you "just in case" you happen to commit a crime. the safety issues are secondary or even tertiary.
Bu thow effective are these cards? Right now there are computer issues with people being recorded as being somewhere when they weren't (not good if you get accused of a crime). But here's the rub, the card can be rendered useless byu encasing it in enough lead to stop the chip from broadcasting. I suggest that all persons concerned about their privacy but want convenience, should purchase a lead box to store thier little RF devices when not in use ( Easy Pass, Cell Phones, Cards...) This way your only on the map when you need to be and off the map when you don't need to be. NO doubt in the near future people will be contractually required to have their "ID" on at all times and who knows perhaps people will be arrested and fined for turning them off. Don't laugh, rental car companies already do it and when you recieve your drivers license you also agree to a whole string of things (searches, etc). Well, so much for "individual rights" soon it will be the right to do that which I allow you to do, where I allow you to do it.

Links:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/17/technology/17tag.html?oref=login&8hpib

"Thugz abound

"You can take the negro out the ghetto
but can't take the ghetto out the Negro
what makes you think you can take the ghetto out the ghetto?"
-Faraji Salim
Neo Millenium Negroes
Griot For The New Millenium

The passing of ODB (Old Dirty Bastard) of Wu-Tang fame has illicited articles that embraced his creativity and discussed his problems, which apparently were many. I wont go into them here 'cause if you know you know. But one thing that stood out to me was when he said, in a momment of sincere introspection, that he didn't know how to live life without drugs. My classist side wanted to rage on ODB about his problems, but my sensible side realized that had he been white he simply would be considered "essentric." But another side of me looks at ODB and realizes that he could have simply been a victim of ghetto life. And this so called ghetto lifestyle, glamourized and pushed by large white owned and black fronted corporations, continues to feed dumb behavior. Hence we have the violence at the VIBE awards this year. And it's not the first time that a fight happened at a Hip Hop award show and no, I don't particulary want to know about what goes on at rock concerts.
Supposedly Young Buck of the G-Unit of 50-cent fame, attempted to stab Dr. Dre after asking for an autograph. There are audio recordings of Suge Knight discussion not being a snitch, rat and some other nonsense. More "ghetto bullshit" if you ask me.

Let's be real here: G-Unit and Young Buck should be making some nice loot. Should have a good accountant setting them up for when they won't be on the charts themselves and when they will be busy producing new artists or, if miracles happen, set up a large corporate entity with distribution so that Hip Hop can be independent again. but no, instead (supposedly) Young Buck and most likely other Young Bucks that come after him will try to throw away success by trying to be "thugz." and no doubt there are some fans out there who are saying right now, just as was said about R-Kelly, how 'weak" Dr. Dre is because he may be cooperating with the police. Which brings me back to the ODB. People yucked it up when he pulled up to the welfare office in a limo to get his babymomma her welfare check ( or foodstamps, I can't remember which). But how many saw it as a part of the "ghetto fab" life that is snuffing potential? See when someone finds something funny that aint neccessarily so, then someone else takes that as license to take that extra step to "keep it real" and "keep it gully." How about we just be real and not accept violence at our shows? Let's honor ODB by learning from his mistakes that he himself admitted to.

links:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-vibe18nov17,1,3058281.story?coll=la-headlines-california

War Crimes in Falluja

We should call the Marine machine gunning of an Iraqi "insurgent" what it is: a War Crime. Briefly a US Marine was shown on film firing at an apparently injured (shot) Iraqi in a Mosque (more on that later). The Marine was shown as saying "He's faking" before he shot the man. One could suppose that order were to "take no prisoners" except that other video footage showed that the Marines were in deed taking prisoners. So when what was it that made the Marine kill an injured combatant? My immediate guess is that the Marine was operating in Video Game mode. I say that because in most video games you don't simply injure an enemy you kill them. For example in the Jedi Knight series One tactic for dealing with Storm Troopers is to 'use the force" and push them down or pull them down and then chop them up as they lay there. Never mind that in the game, once you pull the gun out of an enemy's hand he can't do anything else to you. Thus we have a generation of soldiers in the prime age group that games are targetted to who are used to "blowing the enemy away." But that's my psychological take on it. In reality what we saw was a war crime. An execution of a "combatant." But hey with 1600 estimated dead, what's another one?

Bye Bye Mr. Powell

I'll tell you this, I was not shocked or dismayed when word got to me that Powel was fired...I mean..was giving his resignation speech. Anyone who had been keeping up with the goings on of Powel know that he was a lame duck Secretary of State who was repeatedly at odds with Bush over his policy and was repeatedly and publicly embarrassed by Bush when he would reverse Powells statements on Israel and North Korea.

As my mother and many mothers have said to thier children as they marry the wrong people, or get involved with the wrong crowd, "you lay down with dogs you get up with fleas." Powells lasting impression from his stint as Secretary of State will be his outright lies and exagerations to the UN about Iraqs Nuclear weapons and his many trucks scattered all over Iraq that have HUGE cauldrons of biological and chemical weapons just waiting to be unleashed on "coalition" forces. All of which were IMHO, known to be wrong. The allegations were supported by some satelite photos showing nothing in particular and the words of a few Iraqi exiles looking for a quick buck.

Then we watched in recent interviews as Powell said he was wrong. How he was mistaken. Oh well.

70% of Americans who were asked approved of Powells performance. Many white Americans like that he 'speaks so well." To some African Americans he is an icon of the American dream. Not to me.

Mr. Powell was born of Jamaican parents. The man had so little pride in his home culture that he refused to correct people when they mispronounced his name (The manner in which it is said in the press is not the manner in which his parents or parents people pronounced it.) Powell latched onto the Military as his means to get ahead, attracted by the "level field" that he percieved there, and ran up the ranks. Powell, the good soldier was involved in the shamefull invasion of Grenada and has been quite mum on social topics even though rumor has it that he is more socially liberal than his republican peers. Would I place Powell in the same category as Justice Thom(ass) and Condeleeza Rice? Not at this time. I think those individuals are far worse than Powell, Yet and still General Powell needs to be examined for not only his personal accomplishments but for what he stood for and what he didn't stand for. Ultimately to me, he was "the good soldier" for an Imperial country. he did as he was told whether he agreed with it or not and today we are in need of consciencious soldiers who ask why and stand true to conviction and justice.

Arafat, the PLO and Israel

If anything is a clear example of the problems when Church and State mix, the State of Israel is it. The State of Israel exists only because the US allows it to exist through use of arms. Indeed the State of Israel exists only because Palestinians were removed from their property. Many a defender of Israel's "right to exist" attempt to point out that there was no "palestinian state" prior to the establishment of Israel and that the palestinians own neighbors were unwilling to give them land in thier own countrys. To those charges one should say "so what." But that answer is rarely given, especially by Americans. Americans don't give this answer because they are living in a country which was founded in a very similar manner. Americans killed or removed the natives and repeatedly broke "treaties" with so called "soveriegn" nations. What also motivates many Americans is the Christian Belief that the conflict in Israel will hasten the "Second Coming." The political leadership in Israel knows this and spends quite a bit of time endulging evangelicals in this idea in order to gain more influence in Washington, where Republican nor Democrat would dare challenge the Pro-Isreal lobby.

But having said all that, and knowing the history of settler-states, We know that any people wishing to survive a state hell bent on removing them, must take up arms. So that there are suicide bombers should not come as a surprise to those who are up against the best military equipment the US has to Offer. It could easily be said that the US is in a proxy war with Palestine, having the Israelis do the actual work for it. The problem is that the was has been sloppily handled by the PLO and other organizations. There seemed to be no discipline in the ranks of the various "brigades." The fact of this lack of discipline was on display when Arafat was laid to rest today, with millions of people simply clamoring to be close to the casket. Adoration some would call it, I call it "the fatal flaw." With the thousands of Palestinians who have died in fights with the Israeli Military, I was often struck by the lopsidedness of the body count. clearly the "militants" were not good generals. Of course that's the problem when your main tactic is suicide bombs. Since your "bomb" can't learn from it's mistake, you keep making the same mistakes. I often wondered why a group of militants never took over a tank that was rolling through their territory? There would definitely be body counts to do so, but ahy not the attempt?

Ultimately though, what has and will continue to stymie the PLO and the Palestinian people is their lack of an economy. That a large majority of palestinians had to depend on work in Israel to make a living is simply inviting failure. Ultimately Israel could afford to simply cut off economic ties with "Palestine" and simply watch them die off. I suspect that "the wall" is a part of that plan. When I was studying Nkrumah's and Fanon's writings I learned that it is not the struggle that is most important but the state one wishes to create. In ones struggle the group must put into practice that which is desired in the end result so that the people can see that the fight is not for the fight but for the life after the fight. In my admittedly limited understanding of this conflict, the PLO, Hammas et.al have been so focused of the removal of Israel ( which will not happen so long as the US is it's military benefactor), that they have not even considered a "plan b." A Palestinian state, however limited can legally purchase arms without legal interferance. a organization with the label "terrorists" cannot. a Palestinian State, however limited can demand that Israel remove illegal settlers. In fact even a limited Palestinian state could 'deport" any settler within it's borders.
The faster the PLO understands that this anti-colonial struggle is militarily unwinable, the faster it can move to "plan b." Hopefully a part of that 'plan b" is an India type move into information technology. Until then, Palestine will contine to be the playground of the Israeli Military and a testing ground for the US military with poor women and children being the primary victims as more prosperous Palestinians move to other countries and live relatively well.

I Just Want My Corners

Earlier I wrote about The Wire and it's sub-plot regarding the gangsta that wont wise up. I expressed the idea that such a mentality is not the sole domain of drug dealers but of other situations that black people find themselves in. For example let's loo at Haiti. The NY Times posted an article entitled: Haiti's Political Vacuum Stokes Flames of Gang Violence which discuses the actions of gangs in Haiti in which "having corners" is more important than say, ohhh, rebuilding society.

quote:
Cité-Soleil, the poorest slum in the poorest country in the hemisphere, is split in two by a gang war. Ms. Max Civil and her husband had the misfortune to live near the dividing line between two sections of gang turf - their neighborhood, Boston, and another, Route 9. A gang leader known as Labanière controls Boston. Dread Wilmé's gang holds sway over Route 9.

Crossing into the Route 9 area, three young men appear on a broken-down moped so bristling with guns it looks like a two-wheeled armored personnel carrier, replete with an AK-47, a Glock 9 millimeter and a .38 Special. Though the two visitors were identified as journalists, the men came running at them, pointing their guns at the visitors' heads and screaming, "Why are you coming from Boston? What were you doing there? Are you spying on us?" One, with a Glock, mirrored sunglasses and a Los Angeles Lakers jersey, bounced off the ground like a pogo stick while keeping his gun trained on the visitors.

The interpreter begged them not to shoot until he had a chance to show them something. He produced from his wallet a picture of Mr. Aristide, one that he keeps for such an occasion.

The men were somewhat placated and calmed further as he dropped the names of Tupac and Billie, two Cité-Soleil gang leaders that he has known since they were children. The police took Billie from the hospital after he was shot in the gang war. Tupac was buried last week.

A new Mitsubishi S.U.V. drove up. Inside were three senior gunmen with eyes like stones. They stared for a moment, nodded and drove away. The gunman with the Glock switched to flawless English with a southern drawl.

He spent his teenage years in Miami and goes by the street name of Yamoska. "Over there," he said, pointing to Boston, "they were Lavalas too, but since Aristide is gone, they're our enemy."

Oh and the "corners" in dispute?



I mean are they serious? Are we serious. Devastation everywhere and these kids got mopeds, AK's and not one bag of cement to build something? Let's get something clear here: Money did not always exist, poverty did not always exist. Humans have been on the planet with far less than what we have now. There is absolutely no excuse for this kind of behaviour. None.

Links:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/02/international/americas/02haiti.html?ex=1100403326&ei=1&en=86ed3659d7dcfc74

The Referendum Continues

The day after the election I posted an snippet of an article refering to this past election as a referendum on Neo-conservatism:


A second Bush administration will take office having had ample opportunity to learn from mistakes. But not only from mistakes. Also from its largely successful reorientation of security strategy to deal with a very serious new threat. George W. Bush may or may not win the election. If he does, it seems unlikely in the extreme that his critics, especially the most vociferous critics of the neoconservatives, will declare that they erred and that Bush's reelection constitutes vindication for the neoconservative position. They are too in love with their fear of monsters. But win or lose, the vindication of neoconservatism has already taken place, in that the Democratic candidate in 2004 has found it impossible to run for the Oval Office on a platform of its repudiation, but rather has embraced its central strategic insights.


As said by the author, now Nicholas Kristoff is basically walking dead into that trap:
quote:
So Democrats need to give a more prominent voice to Middle American, wheat-hugging, gun-shooting, Spanish-speaking, beer-guzzling, Bible-toting centrists. (They can tote The Times, too, in a plain brown wrapper.) For a nominee who could lead the Democrats to victory, think of John Edwards, Bill Richardson or Evan Bayh, or anyone who knows the difference between straw and hay.

I wish that winning were just a matter of presentation. But it's not. It involves compromising on principles. Bill Clinton won his credibility in the heartland partly by going home to Little Rock during the 1992 campaign to preside over the execution of a mentally disabled convict named Ricky Ray Rector...


For those of you who do not know who Ricky Ray Rector is, He was a mentaly ill Black inmate who when taking his "last mile" walk asked the guards to save his pie for when he was done.

So Kristoff advocates the death penalty and specifically thinks the killing of black mentaly ill inmates is a path that Democrats should take to "appeal" to "middle America." Oh yes Kristoff also believes that challenging states like Miss. And Ga. on their racist monuments is a no-no also. Now I'm not big on the confederae flag issue, but in this case Kristoff's statements are basically along the lines of "return of the Klan" mentality.

Oh how the true nature of our "friends" come to light.

Links:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/06/opinion/06kristof.html?hp

On the Subject of Exit Polls

Since some people insist on producing exit polls to prove that Kerry got robbed: Let's look at These from Counterpunch


African-Americans: 8% / 11%
Whites: 54% / 58%
Hispanic: 41% / 44%
Married: 53% / 56%
Not Married: 38% / 40%
Union Members: 37% / 40%
Gays: 25% / 23%
Gun Owners: 61% / 67%
Protestants: 63% / 59%
Jewish: 19% / 25%
Catholics: 45% / 52%
Republicans: 91% / 93%
Democrats: 10% / 11%
Men: 51% / 55%
Women: 43% / 48%
18-29 year olds: 46% / 45%
30-44 year olds: 49% / 53%
45-59 year olds: 49% / 51%
60+ 47% / 54%

Based on National Exit Polls.


AS predicted by yours truely, the numbers of intellectually challenged blacks who voted for Bush went up this time around. Unlike some other online publications who insist that the republicans will not make gains in the black community, I have said that the Republicans will only want to fracture off a portion of the black vote. Not only that, but they intend to do it slowly, so each and every point counts. In this election the percentage should have dropped but it did not.

Hispanics broke for Bush at 44%: As the largest growing "monority" group in America, they will replace blacks ( if they haven't already) as the most pandered to group by both dems and republicans. For some odd reason we blacks have been fed this line that hispanics are our natural allies. Yeah..sure..NO doubt there are many Hispanics that are down with us, but read the writing on the wall people.

Gays: the group that probably did the most to tank the Democrats in this election voted by 25% for republicans. They're less loyal than blacks but have more clout go figure.

Greg Palast: Liberal Whites Blinded

Liberal Whites are, as I write this, doing all they can do to prop up the idea that massive voter fraud against black voters was responsible for Kerry's loss. While I'm confident that black voters and democrats in general got the short end of the ballot, the sheer size of the electorate tells me that something else is responsible for Bush's victory. Over at Greg Palast's website Mr. Palast wants us to believe that exit polls are accurate.

For the uninitiated, exit polls are when some organization has someone stand outside a voting spot and asks voters exiting the poll who they voted for and they record the answers. Now in order for an exit poll to be 100% accurate, there would have to be a polster at each and every voting station.

There is not.

Each and every person would have to be asked and would have to answer truthfully.

They do not ask all persons and there is no way to guarantee that a person has answered truthfully.

So given the above, how can Greg Palast make the claim that exit polls are 100% accurate? That is simply untrue. When David Dinkins faced Guiliani for the mayorship of NYC, exit polls had Dinkins ahead of Guilinani. Dinkins lost. Why were the exit polls wrong? Because people lied. The general explanation given was that the voter being asked did not want to seem "racist" and /or possibly endure more questioning. So they lied.

How many people lied this time around?

During the primaries I studied the returns for Iowa or somewhere because I wanted to know how many black people voted, who they voted for and their demographics. Well the return listed 2 black voters which elsewhere in the document listed 4. OK. Catch my drift?


Let's look at something else Greg Palast wrote:

New Mexico reported in the last race a spoilage rate of 2.68 percent, votes lost almost entirely in Hispanic, Native American and poor precincts—Democratic turf. From Tuesday's vote, assuming the same ballot-loss rate, we can expect to see 18,000 ballots in the spoilage bin.

Spoilage has a very Democratic look in New Mexico. Hispanic voters in the Enchanted State, who voted more than two to one for Kerry, are five times as likely to have their vote spoil as a white voter. Counting these uncounted votes would easily overtake the Bush 'plurality.'

Ummm.. Hispanics broke 35% for Bush in the 2000 election and are expected to have gone UP this election. Do h ow does that fit with the assertion that "hispanics" are "democratic turf?


Over at TomPain.com They assert that the Cleveland Plain Dealer reporst 247,672 votes were not counted (96,672 voided, 155,000 provisional). Now I'd be interested in what those ballots were because the people ought to know. But lets "do the math":

Kerry supposedly lost Ohio by 136,483 votes. That would mean that out of the 155,000 provisional ballots, 88% of them would have to be Kerry votes.

Long shot.

Let's look at that Cleveland report: It says:

For the provisional ballots to make a difference in this year's presidential race, virtually all of them would have to be Kerry votes - and all of them would have to count. About 85,000 of these ballots, or more than half, were cast in the 15 counties where Kerry won a majority of the votes, according to unofficial results compiled by the secretary of state.

50% of the provisional ballot were cast in places where Kerry lost. so we could say that 50% of those could be Bush ballots. that's 35,000 ballots that would put the total number of Kerry ballots at under the 136,483 that Kerry would have needed to tie Bush in Ohio. But since Bush would have taken some of those 81,000, his lead would be larger than the 136,483 that he has now without the provisionals being added.

In other words white liberals are playing us for GOT-DAMN fools, knowing we will be too lazy to do the math for ourselves.

Let's look at the electoral numbers for a sec.
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/politics/2004_ELECTIONRESULTS_GRAPHIC/
Looking at the counties in Ohio you see that Bush averaged a 58.1% victory over Kerry in some places. Overall 70 counties had Bush up over 51%. Where Bush lost he lost big which given the segregated nature of Ohio residences means that these were Democratic areas. So even If there was voter fraud in these districts I don't see how it affected the overall outcome given they went to Kerry by a huge margin.
In 40 Districts (50%) Bush cleaned Kerry's Clock getting returns of over 60%. Believe me, the Kerry campaign did the math and regardless to what Greg Palast wants you to believe Kerry lost Ohio.

A Message to Michael Moore

Hello Mr Moore;
I enjoyed your film and encouraged everyone to watch it. I just read your 'open letter" to the voters of America and found the portion directed at me to be, well, insulting. you wrote:

To Non-Voters:

I understand why you stopped voting. Politicians suck. Nothing ever seems to change. You’re only one vote.
Yes, politicians suck. But so do car salesmen – and that hasn’t stopped you from buying a car. Politicians only respond to the threat of the angry mob also known as the voting public. If most people don’t vote, that’s good news for them ‘cause then they don’t have to answer to the majority.
Almost fifty percent of Americans don’t vote. That means you belong to the largest political party in America – the Non-Voting Party. That means you hold all the power to toss George W. Bush out of the Oval Office. How cool is that?
I believe that we are going to have the largest election turnout in our lifetime tomorrow. You don’t want to miss out on that. The lines at the polls are going to be long and raucous and fun. It is an historic election. You won’t want to say that you were the only one who wasn’t there. Promise me you’ll vote, just this one time.


Car salespersons? I mean is that the best you could come up with? First I don't give car salespeople jobs. Nor do I vote them in or out of their jobs. Secondly I choose to enter into a negotiation with a car dealer for a specified item. Should I not be satisfied with the item, price or service i may simply decline and move along. Ultimately I am in complete control of the process, Voting for president does not work that way. Not only is my personal vote liable to be thrown out without my knowledge, It can be nullified if I happen to live among people who do not agree with me. clearly the process of purchasing a vehicle is far more democratic than voting for a United States President.

But lets get to the point about being the largest political party in the US. We, well I can only speak for me, do not vote simply because we recognie the candidates and parties for what they are, two sides of the same coin. We refuse to even lend credence to the process by having our names associated with either party. Some of us are even more astute, we realize that like Corporations, there is really no need for us to participate. We just need to be in a position to benefit from whoever is in office. Just as Isreal knows it will continue to get arms and money regardless of who is in office, We learn how the tax code and other things work and position oursleves to benefit regardless and if things get too bad, like corporations we will simply up and move and take our assets with us. We are the non-whiners, we don't spend our time whining about what the government is doing or not doing. We don't spend our time whining about who's in office and we were not impressed by Clinton and aren't fooled by Jimmy Carter's "Altruism." We tell anyone who will listen how to organize themselves to protect thier interests.

if and when a decent candidate shows up, who is really "different" we'll be the first to vote (ie: Cynthia McKinney). Otherwise, we ain't interested. So let's be clear here, this isn't apathy. This isn't ignorance, this is an informed decision with full understaning of the consequences.

Your second point was:
To African Americans:

First of all, let’s just acknowledge what you already know: America is a country which still has a race problem, to put it nicely. Al Gore would be president today had thousands of African Americans not had their right to vote stolen from them in Florida in 2000.

Here is my commitment: I will do everything I can to make sure that this will not happen again. And I’m not the only one making this pledge. Thousands of volunteer lawyers are flying to Florida to act as poll watchers and intervene should there be any attempts to deny anyone their right to vote. They will NOT be messing around.

For my part, I have organized an army of 1,200 professional and amateur filmmakers who will be armed with video cameras throughout the states of Florida and Ohio. At the first sign of criminality, we will dispatch a camera crew to where the vote fraud is taking place and record what is going on. We will put a big public spotlight on any wrongdoing by Republican officials in those two states. They will not get away with this as they did in 2000.

In Ohio, the Republicans are sending almost 2,000 paid “poll challengers” into the black precincts of Cleveland in an attempt to stop African Americans from voting. This action is beyond despicable. Do not let this stop you from voting. I, and thousand of others, will be there to fight for you and protect you.

Ok Mr. Moore thanks for telling me soomething I already know. But let's not forget a few things, Al Gore is known for having a "low tolerance for negroes." Previous staffers have noted this. When the voter irregularities occured Al Gore was MIA. So I could really give a fart about him in 2000. What is even worse about the Democrats was, as you showed in your film, when the Black Congressiona Caucus asked for one single senator to certify their action to investigate the Florida vote, not a single Democratic senator would do it. So with "friends" like that, why should I stand in line to hand a Democrat my vote when they wouldn't vote with me? Why is Chuck Sxhumer getting 70% of the NY electorate? Why Will Hillary Clinton get similar support from blacks when neither of them supported us? As far as blacks are concerned, they should be seen as no different than Republicans.
So Mr. Moore, I could give a fart about how many video cameras were at the polls cause I would have personally put a fist in the mouth of someone who attempted to stop me from voting. I don't need a lawyer or a video camera to help me out.

Overall, your suggestions to me as both a non-voter and a Black American citizen are insulting. It assumes that I don't know why I refuse to vote and why I think Democrats should jump off the same cliff as Bush. I admire your films and as a white male, you are way better than many that I know, but please do not patronise me by insulting my intelligence.

Thank You

Why Bush Won and Why Blacks Need to Think Hard

As I thought would happen and as indicated by numerous postings here, Bush has won re-election. I don't know how people were saying it was "too close to call" but what I saw on ABC was anything but close. Check the maps. as indicated in the post on Friday Oct 22:

And for those who don't get it? That was explained to me in late 2002 by Mark McKinnon, a longtime senior media adviser to Bush, who now runs his own consulting firm and helps the president. He started by challenging me. ''You think he's an idiot, don't you?'' I said, no, I didn't. ''No, you do, all of you do, up and down the West Coast, the East Coast, a few blocks in southern Manhattan called Wall Street. Let me clue you in. We don't care. You see, you're outnumbered 2 to 1 by folks in the big, wide middle of America, busy working people who don't read The New York Times or Washington Post or The L.A. Times. And you know what they like? They like the way he walks and the way he points, the way he exudes confidence. They have faith in him. And when you attack him for his malaprops, his jumbled syntax, it's good for us. Because you know what those folks don't like? They don't like you!'' In this instance, the final ''you,'' of course, meant the entire reality-based community.

This is EXACTLY what happened. This time there will be no challenges, no black voter disenfranchisement to fall back on. Bush has even captured the popular vote.

The Democratic Party is a mess. Al Sharpton may want to "ride the donkey" but you'd be a fool to not see that the Donkey has 3 broken legs and probably ought to be shot. Black folks ought to sit down and think real hard about this "politcal game" they have been playing. No minority group in America has gotten anywhere without serious economic clout backing them up, or a strong mother nation. Blacks have neither and I said this at the very beginning of the blog on my post 'To Vote or Not To Vote: Using The Other Tool"

The NAACP, Black preachers and a bunch of other folks have sold the black masses a piece of fools gold. They pushed John Kerry on their followers because they claimed he could 'beat Bush." Well there you have it. They were dead wrong. Garvey's Ghost told you that Blacks were going to be counted out on both sides either by willful ignorance or by strategic planning and only be fielding their own candidate who could remain on the national scene to conter both Bush AND Kerry (or whomever) could black issues, and other worldview issues could be placed from and center and remain there.

And let's not overlook the fact that not only did Democrats lose this election they also lost seats in the house and senate. further dooming the country to a single party state.

Why did this happen? I'll give three reasons:
1) America is a white supremacist nation. You better get used to that idea quick. The fact that the new 'niggers' (arabs) are a percieved threat to the life, limb and property of whites will mobilise these individuals. They have all retreated to the Republican party if they "do" politics. If they don't "do" politics they are in militias. Either way White folks respond to threats from "wolves." and I believe that "wolves' ad. was a brilliant piece of Psy-ops on white America.

2) Religion gays, stem cells and abortion: Bush has been playing the religion card hard and heavy. The bright among us clearly understand that this is in contradiction to the constitution, but it works. Why? Americans, scared of "the heathen wolves" who are seeking to destroy "Gods country" respond to evangelical types. The perception of Democrats being 'Pro-Gay anything" makes it so that "conscientious" Christians will vote their morals rather than the constitution or their wallet. Similar ideas for Stem Cells and Abortion.

3) Democrats are weak: In this country, rightly or wrongly money wins. Period. I don't agree with it but it's true. Democrats are quickly becoming the party of the poor, artistic, relative moralizers and utopians: the very groups in society that generally have no money and therefore no power. Not only that, because these groups are philosophically opposed to "top down" or most other types of structured organizing, they are no match for efficient, message based organizations. In the face of an increasingly homogenized Republican machine, this "multi-cultural" democratic party is outmatched.

Let me end by linking to an article I read yesterday entitled The Referendum on Neoconservatism:

quote:
A second Bush administration will take office having had ample opportunity to learn from mistakes. But not only from mistakes. Also from its largely successful reorientation of security strategy to deal with a very serious new threat. George W. Bush may or may not win the election. If he does, it seems unlikely in the extreme that his critics, especially the most vociferous critics of the neoconservatives, will declare that they erred and that Bush's reelection constitutes vindication for the neoconservative position. They are too in love with their fear of monsters. But win or lose, the vindication of neoconservatism has already taken place, in that the Democratic candidate in 2004 has found it impossible to run for the Oval Office on a platform of its repudiation, but rather has embraced its central strategic insights.


Exactly. The Democrats got pushed.pulled to the right and Kerry basically talks the same as Bush and the smart voters know it.

The Garvey's Ghost Plan:
1) an immediate referendum on National Elections. Black should abstain from voting in any presidential election until the Electoral College system is dismantled as it knocks out black votes in the south and is generally unfair.

2) Immediate refrain from any political activity in churches during church services. Black folks should not be appealed to at a time when they are at their most emotional. Every psychological expert will tell you that when emotions are hight, it is the worst time to make decisions. the 'Black Electorate" must learn to remove political power from pastors to incorporated entities. This not only limits to the conflicts of church-state, but it opens up new avenues for organizing, employment and a plurality of messengers in the black community. (If I see another Like It Is program on politics where 3 of 4 experts are Reverends, I will throw the TV out the window. it is simply insulting that the only political experts that cna be found for blacks are reverends.

3) Drawing up and implementation of a Black economic plan with a strong psychological component to teach blacks the imporatance of economic strength. Black Entertainers, and other Million and Billionairs need to be involved and it needs to be "impressed upon them" the importance of creating black schools and being funding sources for black startup businesses. They should also form some type of group to buy up, key, profitable white owned businesses and real estate in white neighborhoods, with a portion of all profits directed to various projects in black communities. these "take overs" should be done with "white avatars" where neccessary as to not cause "white flight" from these businesses.

4) as a part of item 3, these black million and billionairs need to recognize that black music is probably the most profitable form of entertainment next to porn. They should through the group mentioned before set up distribution and new media tech in order to take control of that business. there is absolutely NO EXCUSE for blacks to not be the primary beneficiaries of black music (in a responsible manner).

There are a couple of other things I'd propose but that's for another post. i just leave you with this: The Gauntlet was thrown down in 2000, either get organized or get lost.

Links:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/004/825cpvzf.asp