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Sarah Palin Hates Blacks and Jews

by La Shawn on September 25, 2008

in Comedy, Liberals, Lunacy

Alcee HastingsSo implied Congressman Alcee Hastings, an impeached former federal judge, to an audience of Jewish liberals yesterday.

According to CNN (also see this link), his exact words were (bad grammar included) “anybody toting guns and stripping moose don’t care too much about what they do with Jews and blacks…If Sarah Palin isn’t enough of a reason for you to get over whatever your problem is with Barack Obama, then you damn well had better pay attention.”

I’m no Sarah Palin apologist, but what Hastings’s said was race-baitingly foul, obviously. I wonder if anyone called him on it or at the very least, asked what the heck he meant. If I’d been there…It’s a strange thing to say. People who exercise their right to carry a gun and who hunt animals are racist?

Imagine a white Republican saying something similar about a black liberal candidate. Mainstream media would cover it morning, noon, and night. There’d be widespread calls for an apology and/or resignation. But they’ll treat what Hastings said as a curious news item, forgotten by day’s end.

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J.C. Watts and the Skin Color Network

by La Shawn on June 12, 2008

in Conservatives, Media Bias

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J.C. Watts and Colin PowellRace, race, race, race, race, race, race, race, race, race, race, race, race, race, race, race, race, race, race, race, race, race, race, race, race, race, race, race, race. Are you as tired of talking, hearing, and reading about it as I am?

This post is about race. Sorry. :?

Mainstream media are obsessed with it. Once our future biracial president moves into the White House, they’ll be even more obsessed. It’s going to get sickeningly worse.

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Mammary Breaks

by La Shawn on September 13, 2007

in Lunacy, Sex Preferences

Rosie the RiveterNow see, this is why I have problems with women who have newborns and go back to work.

I’ve got the inside scoop. When some people say they want “equal treatment,” they’re not being truthful. Take it from a “double minority.” I know what I’m talking about. What they want is accommodation and special treatment. Like this woman.

She’s taking a medical licensing exam, which allows a total of 45 minutes for breaks. This chick, nursing her four-month-old, is suing the National Board of Medical Examiners for extra time to feed the kid and pump milk. This woman has already received special treatment. She’s allowed to take the test over two days, while everybody else gets only one day. Now she wants to expand break time.

*Sigh* Silly girls wearing stethoscopes. :?

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George Lopez, Ungrateful and Unfunny

by La Shawn on May 15, 2007

in Comedy

Wednesday, May 16: Ken Shepherd at NewsBusters plays on the Geico caveman slogan with a swipe at George Lopez – Pulling the Race Card: So Easy a Comedian Can Do It.
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The “Chicano” comedian George Lopez is being excoriated in the comment section of this story. After a five-year run, his series, “The George Lopez Show,” was canceled.

He said, “TV just became really, really white again.”

Hardy-har-har! That’s funny stuff, man. (Imagine a white basketball player released from a team saying, “The NBA just became really, really black again.”) Instead of being grateful that his show made it to TV in the first place and survived for five years — and he made a ton of money — Lopez plays that tired, worn, dingy old race card. He wasn’t explicit, but he gets the point across. From the story:

Lopez said he attributed the cancellation in part to the fact that the show is produced by Warner Bros. Television, and not ABC Television Studios. Using some colorful language that cannot be printed in a family newspaper, Lopez scoffed in particular at another ABC pickup: “Cavemen,” about two brothers and one best friend, described as sophisticated cave dudes living in modern-day Atlanta, who will continually find themselves at odds with contemporary society.

“I get kicked out for a…caveman and shows that I out-performed because I’m not owned by [ABC Television Studios]…So a…Chicano can’t be on TV but a…caveman can?” Lopez said. “And a Chicano with an audience already? You know when you get in this that shows do not last forever, but this was an important show and to go unceremoniously like this hurts. One hundred seventy people lost their jobs.”

It’s sad that certain people just can’t see past their own skin color. As a commenter on the story noted, while some minorities blame racism for a show’s cancellation, who or what is to “blame” for their shows getting picked up in the first place? Do minorities take all the credit for the good things but blame others for the bad?

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Don Imus, Booker T., and XM Radio

by La Shawn on April 13, 2007

in BC Wisdom, Faith

Update II (4/20): Last Friday, I participated on a panel organized and sponsored by the Booker T. Washington Society. Ron Court and Reggie Jones started the organization last year to commemorate the 150th birthday of Booker T. Washington, former slave, educator, public speaker, and writer.

The Booker T. Washington Society is committed to educating students about Washington and providing high school students with $1000 college scholarships. The Society also treats scholarship recipients to a few days in the Washington D.C., area to see historic sites and attend workshops, where they hear from black entrepreneurs and others. Last year, the panel I participated on focused on economics. This year, the group was smaller and the panel discussion was more intimate.

More importantly, all the panelists — me, Rev. Jesse Peterson, and Reggie Jones — are Christians. Court, who was moderating, is a Christian, too. Rather than beginning the discussion with Hurricane Katrina (the students were from New Orleans), each of us shared our personal testimonies and our ascent from the abyss, so to speak. Two of us currently own businesses, and one used to own a business. Jesse Peterson, who built a janitorial service from nothing, sold it and started an organization called Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny (BOND). The motto is “Rebuilding the family by rebuilding the man.”

Peterson operates a home for mostly black boys, where they must work to earn their keep and learn how to be responsible, decent men. Most of the boys, like many black children in this country, are not being raised by their fathers. Often vilified by ignorant blacks who can’t tolerate another black person who doesn’t blame whites for problems, Peterson truly cares about blacks, unlike so-called leaders in the professional civil rights industry.

Back to faith. The focus of the panel discussion was personal stories of faith and how that faith gave us the courage to clean up our lives and reach for our dreams. Afterward, I was pleasantly surprised that so many people thanked me for sharing my testimony. Unless otherwise indicated, I always assume most people in a group are not Christians. My assumption was wrong this time. :)

The group, which included students, a few teachers and parents, wanted suggestions on what to do about rising crime rates in New Orleans and how to reach black boys growing up without fathers. Peterson gave some “tough love” advice about helping boys to confront and forgive their absent fathers, to stop considering themselves victims of white racism, and to take responsibility for their children and for themselves as men. He also said they should stop listening to civil rights charlatans, who are in the business of keeping blacks angry.

Again, last year’s discussion centered around economic issues. This year, it was faith based. Economics won’t save these lost boys. Only Christ can do that, and it was a wonderful experience being surrounded by people who feel exactly the way I do.

Read about the changed life of a man who lived in Peterson’s group home as a teen.
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Don Imus

To all the people who keep e-mailing me about Don Imus, STOP. To those who intend to, DON’T.

Here’s my obligatory statement: I’m embarrassed by the way some blacks have reacted to Imus’s remarks and thoroughly disgusted by their white enablers. As a multiracial society, America is rife with double standards. There’s one standard of acceptable behavior for whites, and another, much lower standard of acceptable behavior for blacks (of all socioeconomic classes). It’s shameful. Everybody knows it, but few will publicly admit it.

If black Americans in 2007 are this delicate and overreact to the slightest insults with this much unrighteous indignation, it’s pretty safe to say black people are not made the way they used to be, of stronger stuff, able to withstand truly demeaning and criminal treatment at the hands of true oppressors. It’s sad to know that the children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren of people who faced actual oppression are so much weaker, much less discerning, and much more undignified.

People like Jason Whitlock and John McWhorter and Michelle Malkin have expressed my own sentiments about the matter very well. I won’t be posting anything else about this subject, and there will be no discussions on this blog about it. If I decide to cover it in an op-ed, I’ll link to it. Moving on…

[Update 2:47 p.m.: This dumb Imus discussion has gone on for what...over a week? I've stayed out of it until this morning, adding my obligatory statement to the fray in the hopes that people will leave me alone about it...and Slate picks up the statement. "Power of the blogs," I guess.]

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Nifong Hits the Circuit; Unusual Leftist Recommendations

by La Shawn on February 26, 2007

in Duke Rape Case

NifongWednesday, February 28: Response Day for Nifong. I hear the best defense is a good offense. I can’t wait to find out what he has to say…

Later…In standard “mistakes were made” fashion, Nifong says he didn’t intentionally violate ethics rules. (Response in macromedia - anybody have a PDF copy?)

Even later… Nevermind. PDF copies available here.

Tuesday, February 27 @ 3:20 p.m.: The bloggers are buzzing about a new motion filed in the Duke sexual offense and kidnapping case. We know that DNA lab dud dude Brian Meehan testified that he and Mike Nifong conspired to withhold exculpatory evidence. Among the 1,800 pages of discovery, defense has uncovered more info.

In Addendum to Motion to Compel Discovery; Expert DNA Analysis (PDF) filed today, defense contends that Meehan failed to disclose that DNA found in the accuser’s rectum didn’t match the lacrosse players indicted for the crime or any other male tested. (Pardon me, but yuck) The DNA of at least two males was found inside the accuser, and 11 of the 22 rape kit DNA extractions were from males other than the accused lacrosse players. According to the motion, the defense is still waiting for more data from Meehan’s lab. Defense believes there’s a “statistical likelihood” that the missing information will prove even more exculpatory.

In other words, the accuser was loaded with DNA from men other than the ones she claims raped, sodomized, strangled, and beat her, but Nifong and Meehan didn’t think the defense needed to know all that.

I sure hate it. :?

Sources and blogger reactions: KC Johnson, John in Carolina…

Earlier…I’d love to have been a fly on the wall during this conversation. Hopefully, all charges against Finnerty, Seligmann, and Evans soon will be dismissed, and the stripper-accuser will be charged with making a false police report, lying to officials, and whatever else they’ve got…

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Get Rid of Race Preferences!

by La Shawn on February 23, 2007

in Race Preferences, Rants

Since November 2003, I’ve documented on this blog all the reasons why race preferences have got to go. Here is one more. Instead of simply hiring the most qualified job candidates, a private prison firm doing business with the government rejected candidates based on race and hired others based on race. Qualified blacks, Asians, whites, and American Indians (Thank you for not calling them Native Americans!) were passed over for hispanics.

According to the Department of Labor, the issue is not that “affirmative action” is inherently unfair to all candidates, but that it wasn’t properly applied in this situation.

What is going on? The Civil Rights of 1964 was supposed to end the government skin game. But 43 years after people were killed and injured in the name of justice, and paid with blood, sweat, and tears for the right to be judged without regard to their skin color, our government is still judging citizens as members of racial groups instead of as individuals with equality before the law.

I can’t tell you how frustrating this crap is. I am tired of hearing and reading stories about people suing because the government didn’t discriminate in favor of them and listening to pea-brains defend the government’s use of race. What was the Civil Rights movement all about, for crying out loud? Our parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents killed Jim Crow so their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren could breathe life back into him? Why would any citizen want to give government the authority to judge us based on race? Well, as long as “our” race is the one receiving the benefits of the skin game, what does it matter?

Absolutely disgusting. If I wanted to stoop as low as my detractors, I’d call them self-haters for not having the decency even to be a little embarrassed for defending lowered standards for blacks. I mean, what’s more self-hating than that???

But I don’t, so I won’t. The things I’d say to such people if I weren’t a Christian…

I blog about this topic so much because race preferences are foul and demeaning, and liberals need to know that not all blacks want or need such patronizing policies. No amount of historical wrongs or present-day grievances — zero — will ever justify the odious practice.

My eyeAt a time like this, I have to remember a line (with the smilie next to it) from a similar post. [Double secret coded message] Indeed! Have a restful weekend, readers.

(Hat tip: Discriminations)

NYT’s Duke DNA Double Standard

by La Shawn on February 2, 2007

in Duke Rape Case

hate crimeUnrelated Update (2/3): I may blog more about the Long Beach hate crime beating trial next week. A group of black teenagers brutally beat three white women on Halloween Night — merely because they were white. I read that one of the women has to have surgery to realign an eye socket. Good grief.

This LA Weekly story is rather interesting.

Feel free to discuss the case on this thread. More later…

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Has ‘White Guilt’ Run Its Course?

by La Shawn on January 30, 2007

in Race Preferences

Thursday, February 8: Ward Connerly responds to commenters’ accusations of hypocrisy.
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Note: How could I have forgotten to link to Heather Mac Donald’s must-read article, “Elites to Anti-Affirmative-Action Voters: Drop Dead”? She writes:

After Prop. 209’s passage, UC Berkeley, like the rest of the UC system, “went through a depression figuring out what to do,” says Robert Laird, Berkeley’s pro-preferences admissions director from 1993 to 1999. The system’s despair was understandable. It had relied on wildly unequal double standards to achieve its smattering of “underrepresented minorities,” especially at Berkeley and UCLA, the most competitive campuses. The median SAT score of blacks and Hispanics in Berkeley’s liberal arts programs was 250 points lower (on a 1,600-point scale) than that of whites and Asians. This test-score gap was hard to miss in the classroom. Renowned Berkeley philosophy professor John Searle, who judges affirmative action “a disaster,” recounts that “they admitted people who could barely read.”

The downward trajectory of those students was inevitable, Searle says. “You’d be delighted to find that your introductory philosophy class looked like the United Nations, but that salt-and-pepper effect was lost after six to eight weeks,” he recalls. “There was a huge dropout rate of affirmative-action admits in my classes by mid-terms. No one had taught them the need to go to class. So we started introducing BS majors, in an effort to make the university ready for them, rather than making them ready for the university.” Searle recalls a black studies class before his that was “as segregated as Mississippi in the 1950s.” One day, Searle recounts, the professor had written on the blackboard that a particular tribe in Africa “wore colorful clothing.”

Read it all, and applaud measures like Proposition 209 and Proposal 2.

Roger Clegg of the Center for Equal Opportunity put in a freedom of information request and found out what’s really going on at the government-supported University of Michigan.

Yes! Ban racial profiling…including racial profiling in government hiring and admissions. (Hat tip: Discriminations)

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Hispanic-on-Black Violence: Protestors, Where Are You?

by La Shawn on January 3, 2007

in Comedy, Illegal Aliens, Rants

violenceUpdate: Good news about black folks! The man’s a hero. That was a totally selfless act.
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Warning: Rant below.

This post is categorized under “Comedy” not because violence is a laughing matter. I just find it humorous that so-called civil rights groups and various race hustling camera-hogs are transparently absent and deafeningly silent about hispanic-on-black crime in California.

Reading yet another story about hispanic-on-black gang violence (free reg. req.), I thought about the stunning lack of blanket news coverage on network or cable TV or a “national debate.” An excerpt:

Two weeks ago, Lovett’s 14-year-old daughter, Cheryl Green, was standing with a group of friends on Harvard Boulevard, just south of 206th Street, when two men approached them in broad daylight. Without saying a word, one suspect pulled a gun and opened fire, killing Green and wounding three others, witnesses and police said.

Ernesto Alcarez, 20, was later arrested and charged with first-degree murder and a hate crime because the Dec. 15 shooting is believed to have been racially motivated. The other suspect, Jonathan Fajardo, 18, is still at large. Both are members of the 204th Street gang, authorities say.

Such a brazen act of violence has highlighted the racial tensions that have held this working-class neighborhood in a state of fear for years, residents and city officials said.

Where are the “African American” summits and protests and loud calls for an end to the violence? As I wrote yesterday in “Selective Outrage Over Black Crime Victims,” such protesting and shouting is not profitable or satisfying. Rage against perceived slights by whites commands a lot more time and energy in the black community.

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Racial Double Standards, Part 201

by La Shawn on November 27, 2006

in Comedy

Michael Irvin, mugshot Not that I really care what former football player Michael Irvin said, but apparently he’s going to get away with what would get a white man fired and/or ostracized.

Last week Irvin said that Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo, who is white, must have some “black” in him because he’s a good athlete. I won’t quote the rest. Suffice it to say, Irvin could use a few lessons in diction.

Tony Romo Normally, this would be a compliment (for blacks), would it not? I mean, how many among us don’t believe blacks are genetically superior athletes? I believe they are, and I also believe that physical abilities aren’t the only abilities heavily influenced by genetics. Mental abilities…well, I won’t go there today.

That’s not to say that Romo has some “black” in him or that whites aren’t good athletes. But generally speaking, blacks just do certain things better, like sprinting, for instance.

In his own ineloquent way, Irvin expressed what most people know but don’t talk about in public. I don’t think he should be fired or made to apologize, but I’d be remiss on this Monday morning if I didn’t point out the dirty double standards.

(Writing about double standards is a specialty of mine.)

You may recall that Rush Limbaugh was fired from his sportscasting gig for implying that Donovan McNabb, black quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles, was hyped up as a great quarterback because he was black.

I agreed with Limbaugh and wrote a post last year making fun of the NAACP for chastising one of its members for agreeing with Limbaugh. If I could care any less than I do about this whole mess, it would be criminal. :?

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Welcome Back, Trent Lott!

by La Shawn on November 20, 2006

in Columns, Comedy

Trent LottTuesday, November 21: I need to share a secret. I get a kind of perverse pleasure from receiving e-mails in which people tell me how or what I ought to think, write, or blog because of the color of my skin. The pleasure comes from knowing I’ll continue thinking, writing, and blogging as I damn well please. In fact, such e-mail fuels my determination even more.

Although the intent of such e-mail is to upset me, the unintended consequence (for the sender) is that stereotypes I hold for certain people prove true over and over. Some people don’t have or won’t use critical thinking skills, not even if doing so would save their lives. Reading comprehension skills and common sense would be helpful as well.

As for me, I intend to make the most of this new medium and whatever writing abilities and intellect God gave me. For reasons I’m not fully aware of, I don’t think the way many people of my race do. While we have a shared history in this country and a subculture to which I belong, I just don’t see the world the way they do, and that sets me apart. Some are intrigued by it; others are disgusted.

Either way, I’m here to stay.

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Christians Parking Illegally

by La Shawn on November 12, 2006

in Faith, Justice

illegal parking

Photo: A news crew films a segment about illegally parked churchgoers.

The tension between white “newcomers” and illegally parking black churchgoers is so high in Washington, D.C., that the city abandoned its plan to crackdown on double-parkers to come up with a “solution” to the problem.

In my experience, getting a parking ticket was always enough of a solution for me, but that’s me…

Before I delve into black churchgoers who park illegally, I’ll lay the foundation. There is a lot of racial and class tension in D.C. over “gentrifying” neighborhoods, affluent folks moving in, renovating formerly gutted out houses and opening upscale businesses in formerly blighted and/or low-income neighborhoods, raising property values and rents. People who’ve lived in the neighborhoods for decades can’t afford the high rent or property taxes, and they can’t afford to shop there.

Given what you know about the demographics of most urban areas, it’s not difficult to figure out the race of the “gentrifiers” and the race of the low income, long-time residents, is it?

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University of Michigan’s Skin Color Preference Scheme

by La Shawn on October 19, 2006

in Lunacy, Race Preferences

scales of justiceUpdate: In response to critics who question why I blog about race so frequently, I wrote a post titled Race Blogger.

Do You Hate Black People? is also responsive.

Don’t like it? Millions of other bloggers out there…

Later…My post on the battle for “preferred minority” status was reprinted at CNSNEWS.com.
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If you have an SAT score of 1240 and a grade-point average of 3.2, your chances of being admitted to the University of Michigan undergraduate school are 9 out of 10.

If you’re black.

White or Asian? One in 10.

The Center for Equal Opportunity (CEO) has the goods on the University of Michigan (U-M), just in time for the November 7 election.

On that day, Michigan voters get to decide whether their state government will continue using skin color preferences to hire and admit blacks and hispanics, or use fair and consistent standards for everyone, without regard for the color of their skin, an idea that was the heart and soul of this nation’s so-called Civil Rights struggle.

If passed, the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative will put a serious damper on U-M’s skin game.

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What About ‘White Community Conversation’?

by La Shawn on October 5, 2006

in Comedy, Race Preferences

St. Paul Public Schools flyer

Monday, October 9: This post is closed to commenting, but you may resume the discussion in this thread.
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David Downing of Downing World tipped me off to recent developments in his community. The new school superintendent for St. Paul Public Schools, Dr. Meria Carstarphen, is holding a series of “community conversions” with various ethnic groups. He received a flyer in the mail (PDF).

Events are: African American Community Conversation, Somali Community Conversation, Waa Lagu Martiqaaday, La Kulanka-something, Latino Community Conversation, and Hmong Community Conversation. Anyone missing?

David says the population of St. Paul schools is about 30 percent Asian, 29 percent black, 28 percent white, 11 percent Hispanic, 1 percent American Indian, and 1 percent other. He learned that the meetings supposedly were organized because members of those communities requested them.

I’m wondering the same thing David’s wondering. If whites requested a government school district-sponsored “White Community Conversation,” would Dr. Carstarphen and the school district be “down”?

The question is rhetorical. I just wanted to show you another example of insidious racial double standards. I won’t elaborate; if you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you know where I stand.

Somewhat related: Training the Bush-hating generation

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