Category: Society

Can you imagine what would happen if roles were reversed in this situation? This is Shirley Sherrod, the Agriculture Department’s Georgia director of Rural Development at the NAACP convention last week;

According to Fox News, she’s been fired, but you have to ask yourself, who created a climate in which people think they can speak like this in public? It’s certainly not the election of a Black President that did it.

Now, I was told once, loudly, on a bus full of black people during my nightly commute, that “I don’t like white people on my bus.” I chalked it up to one ignorant fuck – but then here’s a room full of them. But the ignorant fuck in the video was playing with a man’s livelihood.

Is that what the Civil Rights movement was about?

Yeah, who would want to investigate a guy standing outside a polling station with a club who articulates his civil rights views like this;

“I hate white people. All of them. Every last iota of a cracker I hate him, because we’re still in this condition.”

“There’s too much serious business going on in the Black community to be out here… with white, dirty, cracker whore [expletive]s on our arm.”

“We keep begging white people for freedom. No wonder we’re not free. Your enemy cannot make you free, fool. You want freedom? You’re gonna have to kill some crackers. You’re gonna have to kill some of they [sic] babies. Let us get our act together. It’s time to wake up, clean up, and stand up.”

“I can’t wait for the day that they’re all dead. I won’t be completely happy until I see our people free and Whitey dead.”

“When you have 10 brothers in uniform, suited and booted and ready for war, white folks know these niggas ain’t their niggas. We kick white folks asses. We take it right to the cracker.”

“We’re going to keep putting our foot up the white man’s ass until they understand completely. We want freedom, justice and mutha[expletive]’ equality. Period. If you ain’t gonna give it to us, mutha[expletive], we’re gonna take it, in the name of freedom.”

So, where the hell is Mark Potok on this mutha[expletive].

I wrote about deceased Norbett Schmidt whose ashes were stolen while his family took him to Arlington to be interred last November. Well, Matt sends us a link to yet another veteran’s ashes that were stolen from the family’s car;

Her niece’s Coach brand purse lay beneath the passenger’s seat with a return ticket to Massachusetts, the teen’s identification and bank card, and the small cardboard box containing her father’s ashes inside, Postell said.

Charlene said her nephew went out to the car first and came back into the deli to tell them what had happened. They waited about an hour for police to respond, and in that time Charlene called local media to get a message out.

“We need everything back in the purse, but we are most concerned for the ashes,” Charlene Postell said. “We’d take it back, no questions asked, but without the ashes, I can’t bury my father.”

Postell served in World War II, Korea and Vietnam.

I wonder what goes through a thief’s mind when they find the ashes in their pile of booty and they don’t make an effort to return the remains to the family.

Goodbye, Gary Coleman. I hope you find the peace you’ve been looking for.

More than a few people sent me a link to this story about a rental management company which has ordered a veteran and his wife to take down the flag in their window after memorial Day. Apparently the flag has hung there since the young soldier returned from his tour in Iraq;

Charlie Price, 28, served tours of duty as a combat engineer in Iraq and Kosovo, his wife said. To honor his eight years of service, she began decorating their apartment during Veterans Day in November. An American flag topped off the display, she said.

“I knew it made Charlie really proud to see that,” she said. “And this isn’t something new. This has been up for quite some time now.”

Veterans’ groups were furious at the realtors’ refusal to allow the flag to fly.

“As a veteran, it sickens me that the Dawn and Charlie Price’s building management company would imply that the American flag could be construed as offensive by their residents,” said Ryan Gallucci, a spokesman for AmVets.

Now, I’m not as outraged as I’d be if the flag was on the price’s own property, but a flag in the window clearly isn’t hurting anyone;

“This policy was developed to insure that we are fair to everyone as we have many residents from diverse backgrounds,” the statement read. “By having a blanket policy of neutrality we have found that we are less likely to offend anyone and the aesthetic qualities of our apartment communities
are maintained.”

Why…do they have apartments that are in other countries? That’s just ridiculous – that’s not a policy of neutrality. It’s a policy of capitulation. I’ll grant them that it’s their property, so they can do what they want, but at least base the policy on the possession of some balls.

So according to what I’m hearing, today is “Everybody Draw Mohammad Day”, a day of support for the First Amendment in reaction to censoring of the South Park creators who were prevented from drawing the prophet Mohammad by their employers at Comedy Central last month.

According to Fox News, opponents of the day are boycotting Facebook because of the social media’s inaction to shut down the organizing going on there.

A Facebook spokesman told FoxNews.com it has no plans to censor any of the pages associated with the campaign or the counter-campaign, though threats will be removed.

Our buddy, El Marko, has a quick history of the issue with photos and narrative.

Another of our blogging friends, Zombie, has a very long post at Pajamas Media celebrating “The New Free Speech Movement“.

Me? I’ll be drawing Mohammad all day between blogging and the paying job. Any Jihadists willing to scale my mountain and cross through the interlocking fields of fire are welcome to protest and threaten me.

A couple of you have sent me some stories about teachers and the American flag in the last few days and i’m wondering what is being taught in Education Departments these days.

From ClickOrlando, FL;

From KSBW, Salinas, CA;

Tracy Hathaway said her art teacher at Gavilan View Middle School told her daughter she couldn’t draw the American flag, calling the picture offensive.

Kids getting kicked out of school for wearing flag T-shirts and chastised for drawing an American flag? It seems to me that teachers are more preoccupied with making political statements than teaching these days.