THE END OF THE WHITE MAN!

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CAUCASIAN MALE RULE IN AMERICA IS OVER

BLACKS, PUERTO RICANS, WOMEN TAKE OVER

Soon, It May Be Illegal To Be a White Guy!!!!!!

That's right, Hoss, you are now an official endangered species. The Chinese take-over of Budweiser has rendered you impotent and sterile thanks to the ancient Asian herbs now added to the brew. In many parts of the United States, you are already a minority. Special employment preferences, mandated by ACORN, now require that the best person for the job be hired, not the best white man. Soon all your bosses, landlords, lenders and public officials may be black, brown, red, yellow or purple. That's right, purple. Who did you think was behind all this? Those secret Chinese bases on the Moon were not built by the Chinese. They are alien outposts of an intergalactic interracial empire whose Death Stars are already on their way to Earth to force diversity on the entire population. In a few years, your children will be rappers.

That's right. Rappers.
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HATE IN THE ALOHA STATE

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AN ANNIVERSARY OF RACISM & "REVERSE-RACISM"

YOUTUBE: BROTHER NOLAND
"MR. SAN CHO LEE"
A musical compendium of Hawaii racism. A very popular song here in Honolulu. Prejudice sells.


RACISM IS RACISM, NO MATTER THE SOURCE, NO MATTER THE EXCUSE

Hawaii's Hypocritical Stance On Racial Violence

On the fiftieth anniversary of Hawaii's accession to Statehood, there were no official celebrations. It was feared that there would be violence, as there has been in the past. The fact that the perpetrators are a tiny and well-known minority of a minority has not led to any action by local law enforcement. This in itself is an indictment of the entire State: Deliberate official ignorance, avoidance and denial of frequent hate crimes is as bad or worse than the crimes themselves.

The centralized State school system tolerates and even allows the promotion of an annual "Kill Haole Day," when white students, "haole's," are physically and verbally attacked right inside of the public schools. Black students, or "popolo's," have also been subject to racial attacks, even including a school-sponsored and managed yearbook that featured pictures of black students with racist defacements and captions. The yearbook was edited & published by the school authorities with the racist material included. This has happened at least three times in the last ten years alone.

The fact that the State has been run almost exclusively by a local Japanese elite (who are in effect a minority within the largest minority in a population consisting entirely of minorities) for over fifty years now does nothing to ameliorate or share the collective guilt foisted upon innocent Caucasian children and adults for wrongs done, and continuing to be done, against the Native Hawaiian population. The exclusionary local elite Japanese-run State government has engineered programs since 1959 which have increasingly marginalized and hurt the health and well-being of Native Hawaiians, even as local elite Japanese politicians pander to "Local" hate-groups by blaming everything, including their own actions, on "da fahkin' howlees." Using whites as scapegoats helps to turn the attention away from the dominant local elite Japanese politicians, bureaucrats and businessmen & women and their deliberate and racist acts against the Native Hawaiians as well as "haole's" and others.

As long as Caucasians can be blamed for every problem, the local Japanese elite and their toadies in business & government can go on lining their own pockets at the expense of everyone else. As long as racism is the predominant political force here in the "Aloha State," nothing will ever change, and the problems of all the people of Hawaii, including "Locals" (local self-description of local but not Hawaiian non-white & [mainly] non-Asians) as well as Native Hawaiians.

The anemic local Republican Party and their owners & operators on the Mainland have tried to import their traditional conservative tactics of racial divide and conquer to Hawaii. The result has been a net loss for the Republicans, and a ratcheting-up of "Local" anti-white racism. The historical memory of the Overthrow, the Republic, the Annexation, the Territory, the white Ascendancy and Statehood, all Republican-engineered, will never dim as long as corporate racist Republicans from the Mainland continue trying to use Hawaii to fan flames of racial hatred and disharmony everywhere.

The despicable acts of the Republicans do not, however, excuse Hawaii's own racists. Divide and conquer along racial lines may have worked well for the local Democrats, but it is hurting the State in the long run. With an education system on a par with that of Mississippi, and a poverty-driven healthcare crisis that hits brown-skinned people hardest, only by uniting all ethnic groups can our reverse-Dixiecrats ever manage to lift Hawaii out of its' plantation-days cultural and economic slums.


SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: INTELLIGENCE REPORT
"Prejudice in Paradise: Hawaii Has a Racism Problem"
You'll never hear this here. It could get you lynched.

' With no known hate groups and a much-trumpeted spirit of aloha or tolerance, few people outside Hawaii realize the state has a racism issue. One reason: The tourism-dependent state barely acknowledges hate crimes. That makes it hard to know how often racial violence is directed at Caucasians, who comprise about 25% of the ethnically diverse state's 1.3 million residents. Those who identify themselves as Native Hawaiian — most residents are of mixed race — account for nearly 20%. Hawaii has collected hate crimes data since 2002 (most states began doing so a decade earlier). In the first six years, the state reported only 12 hate crimes, and half of those were in 2006. (All other things being equal, the state would be expected to have more than 800 such crimes annually, given the size of its population, according to a federal government study of hate crimes.) There was anti-white bias in eight of those incidents. But that doesn't begin to reflect the extent of racial rancor directed at non-Native Hawaiians in the Aloha State, especially in schools. "Here in Hawaii, there is no compulsion to speak out on racist attacks. There are all these hate crimes and violent things happening to white people and you don't hear sovereignty activists speaking out against it," says Conklin, who manages a massive website on Hawaiian issues. "The violence has been going on for years and it's always been hush-hush." '

USA TODAY
"Racial tensions are simmering in Hawaii's melting pot"
The world knows what Hawaii will not acknowledge.

' The current controversies are exposing racial tensions below the surface of a tropical paradise that Gov. Linda Lingle says is "a model for the world" in diversity and peaceful integration. Simmering divisions pit Hawaiians against other groups, and "locals" of all races against newcomers including immigrants and military members. At issue now is whether Hawaii will acknowledge and overcome these threats to its friendly reputation. Racial troubles in the islands usually don't get much public discussion. In a tourism-dependent state, talk about tensions is "like news about shark attacks," says Jon Van Dyke, a University of Hawaii law professor. "People are afraid they might lose customers." '

HONOLULU STAR BULLETIN
"Isles shape Obama’s racial identity "
It's even hard out here for a POTUS.

' White added in an e-mail interview that despite whatever "hapa street cred" Obama has in Hawaii, it doesn't displace the prejudice blacks find here. "Being of African descent is not valued in the same way that other ethnic backgrounds are valued here. In spite of the many positive aspects of multiethnic, multiracial and multicultural interaction in Hawaii, we still have to realize ... that being black continues to be negatively perceived in Hawaii," White said. In a 1999 essay written for Punahou's school alumni magazine, Obama recalls how his first perceptions of Hawaii as being "the world's mythical melting pot" changed that by the time he graduated from Punahou, his consciousness of race was much sharper. "As an African American teenager in a school with few African Americans, I probably questioned my identify a bit harder than most," Obama wrote. "As a kid from a broken home and family of relatively modest means, I nursed more resentments than my circumstances justified and didn't always channel those resentments in particularly constructive ways." '

HONOLULU STAR BULLETIN
"Waianae High recalls yearbooks containing racial slur"
Once is an accident. Three times is a policy.

' Hundreds of Waianae High School yearbooks are being recalled to replace a page with a photograph of what school officials call a "racially offensive" word spelled out in cards held by five students in the senior class on football field bleachers. The photograph, with the racial N-word slur, was overlooked during a review of the publication, state education officials said. State education spokeswoman Sandra Goya said the recall because of a racially insensitive photograph was a first at Waianae High, but similar problems have occurred at a couple of other public schools. Stickers were placed over a racially offensive caption in a yearbook at Kalaheo High School in 1997 and a racially offensive photograph at Castle High School in 1998, Goya said. '

FOX NEWS
"Hawaii Served as Melting Pot, Source of Racial Tension for Young Obama"
This was not at a public school This was at an "elite" private school here in Honolulu. This is the place that schools our elite. Is it any wonder that they have a problem coming to terms with racism, especially their own?

' Obama's experience in Hawaii is echoed by other blacks, including some of his schoolmates, and challenges the state's vaunted image of racial harmony. "A big joke amongst the brothers was you could be anything else but a brother and have free rein of the world in Hawaii," said Rik Smith, a black former schoolmate of Obama's at Punahou, an elite private school in Honolulu. "When it comes to people of color, black people, there's a huge amount of racism." In his memoir, "Dreams from My Father," Obama, who is half black and half white, recalled a seventh grader calling him a "coon" and a tennis pro who joked that his color might rub off. One person wanted to touch his hair, and he was asked whether his father, a native of Kenya, ate people. An assistant basketball coach used a racial epithet in referring to black players. '

HONOLULU ADVERTISER
"Hate crime not ruled out in Waikele assault"
Racism is so pervasive here that even prosecutors can't recognize an obvious hate crime. Especially not when they have political ambitions that require "Local" support. Carlisle is now running for Mayor of Honolulu.

' As debate continued over the assault on an Army couple in the parking lot of a Waikele shopping center, city Prosecutor Peter Carlisle yesterday said he had not ruled out handling the case as a hate crime. The assault remains under investigation, and the charges are up for evaluation, Carlisle said. Carlisle met with Andrew Dussell, a 26-year-old soldier, and his wife after they were allegedly beaten in the parking lot of the shopping center Feb. 19. The pair asked that their privacy be respected, and Andrew Dussell is under orders from the Army not to speak out about the case, Carlisle said. Both Andrew Dussell, who has served two tours of duty in Iraq, and his wife, Dawn Dussell, a 23-year-old nursing student at Hawai'i Pacific University, suffered broken noses, concussions and facial fractures. A police affidavit filed in court said the attack occurred after the Dussells' car collided with a vehicle while trying to pull into a parking stall. Gerald D. Paakaula, 44, and his son were arrested in connection with the assault. The father has been charged with second-degree assault; the son's case is being handled by the Family Court in confidential proceedings. The affidavit said the son was "extremely angry that his vehicle had been struck." "He began yelling obscenities toward Andrew Dussell, calling him a 'f------ haole' while kicking his driver side door," the document said. Paakaula was released after posting $20,000 bail. The police affidavit did not allege that he made any racial remarks. Much of the public debate was touched off by comments from two University of Hawai'i at Manoa professors. Jonathan Okamura, an ethnic studies professor, said he believed the alleged beating occurred or escalated as a result of racial considerations, based on the uttering of the phrase "f------ haole." But Jonathan Osorio, chairman of the Kamakakuokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies, said the case should not be classified as a hate crime and that Hawaiians should not be painted with a broad brush as a result of the incident. UH professors contacted yesterday said that while many residents see Hawai'i as a land of aloha, racial tension does exist. Many wondered if the public outcry would have been greater if a Hawaiian couple had been beaten by Caucasians, and suggested that such a circumstance would more likely have resulted in prosecutors charging the attackers with a hate crime. Carlisle said in response that race is relevant to an assault case only if it can be proven that a person selected a victim based on that person's race. '

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REPUBLICAN RACISTS CRY "RACISM"

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SUPREME COURT NOMINEE IS "TOO HISPANIC"

Imperial Republican Grand Dragon Rush Limbaugh Marches Off To Work

SLIMIEST RACE-BAITERS ON EARTH ATTACK NOMINEE FOR BEING LATINA
MSNBC
"Rachel Maddow Responds To Rush Limbaugh "Reverse Racist" Crack"

Rachel tells it like it is.


The Party Of Lincoln Is Now The Party Of The Confederacy

Ever since Richard "I Am Not A Crook" Nixon teamed up with George "I'll Never Be Out-'N*ggered'" Wallace to subvert our country's electoral process in 1968, the GOP has been the Party of hatred and racism. Their strategy has always been to divide and conquer America on behalf of wealthy traitors and multinational corporations. It has worked remarkably well: Republicans like Nixon, Ford, Reagan & Bush and Lite Republicans like Carter and Clinton have run the country into the ground for over forty years. The result is an economy in shambles, a standard of living in ruins, and a paradise for rich foreign paracites and their traitorous buddies here, like Limbaugh, Coulter, Malkin, Beck, Hannity, McConnell, Boehner, Rove, Gingrich and Cheney.

The fact that most Americans now reject their race-baiting doesn't faze them. With no coherent political philosophy, wildly unpopular Party policies, and nothing positive to offer Americans they have made to suffer with their failed strategies, race is all they have left. It still appeals to their mentally ill base in the South, and wherever sad losers gather elsewhere to share teabags. With enough electoral fraud and dirty tricks, Republican racist appeals might just succeed in limiting their losses in the next few elections and guaranteeing their survival. That will give them time to plan and execute or encourage acts like 9/11 and political assassinations. In chaos, there is opportunity.

How else could a few rich fat nasty old white guys get anybody to vote for their selfish bullsh*t? Even with all the help in the world from the tame corporate media, they can't hope to win fairly. So it's back to the racialist drawing board. And it's time to tune them out for good.


NY DAILY NEWS
"GOP Holy Trinity on Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor: She's a 'racist'
The pot-bellied calling the kettle a sp*c.

' Never ones to shy away from a fight -- even a losing one -- the Holy Trinity of the GOP -- Newt Gingrich, Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh -- have taken to calling the Supreme Court justice nominee Sonia Sotomayor a 'racist,' with Gingrich even going so far as to ask her to withdraw. Immediately after the announcement on Tuesday, Rush Limbaugh was the first to started banging the war drum by calling Sotomayor a "horrible choice" and "a racist ... or reverse racist." '

THE AMERICAN PROSPECT
"THE SOUTHERN STRATEGY AGAINST SONIA SOTOMAYOR."
Same old "conservative" racist bullsh*t.

' A case against Sotomayor based on her "credentials" or "intelligence" is false on its face--this is a kind of Southern Strategy all over again. By stoking white resentment over the rise of allegedly unqualified minorities getting prominent positions, the GOP is hoping to derail her nomination. It probably won't work, but it's another sign of how little the GOP learned from last year's election. '

SCOTUSBLOG.COM
"Judge Sotomayor’s Appellate Opinions in Civil Cases"
One thing about judges: Every word is on the official, permanent public record: These decisions are who she really is, as a judge.

' Judge Sonia Sotomayor is an obviously serious candidate to serve on the Supreme Court. We have been struck by how the amount of commentary about Judge Sotomayor has ignored the most accessible and valuable source of information: her opinions as an appellate judge. Last year, I directed a project in which a team of Akin Gump summer associates extensively reviewed Judge Sotomayor’s opinions. Amy Howe subsequently revised and expanded their work, with contributions by me. Here, we make our first effort at summarizing what we regard as Judge Sotomayor’s principal opinions in civil cases. Our only goal is to identify and summarize the opinions, not evaluate them. A summary of additional civil cases, as well as Judge Sotomayor’s leading criminal law opinions will follow. '

CNN
"Sotomayor's resume, record on notable cases"
The judge's actual resume: Not a member of Mecha (She's not Mexican, Rush...)

' (CNN) -- Here is a look at the resume and record of federal Judge Sonia Sotomayor, whom President Barack Obama has chosen as his nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court.• Age 54 (Born June 25, 1954, New York City) Judicial Career • U.S. Appeals Court judge, 2nd Circuit, 1998-present • U.S. District Court judge, 1992-1998 • Nominated to federal bench by Bush in 1991, Clinton in 1997 Government/Legal Career • Former N.Y. County Assistant District Attorney, 1979-1984 • Former private practice attorney, Pavia & Harcourt, New York, 1984-1992 Politics • Confirmed by Senate 67-29 in 1998 • Confirmation to current seat took over 1 year • Was opposed by majority of GOP senators • Was unopposed in 1991 confirmation process Historic Milestones If Nominated • Would be first Hispanic Supreme Court justice • Would be third female Supreme Court Justice (second on current Court) Education • J.D., Yale Law School, 1979 • B.A., Princeton, 1976 (summa cum laude) '

NY TIMES
"Lecture: ‘A Latina Judge’s Voice’ "
The entire "racist" statement, in context. Fair & balanced.

' Now Judge Cedarbaum expresses concern with any analysis of women and presumably again people of color on the bench, which begins and presumably ends with the conclusion that women or minorities are different from men generally. She sees danger in presuming that judging should be gender or anything else based. She rightly points out that the perception of the differences between men and women is what led to many paternalistic laws and to the denial to women of the right to vote because we were described then "as not capable of reasoning or thinking logically" but instead of "acting intuitively." I am quoting adjectives that were bandied around famously during the suffragettes' movement.

While recognizing the potential effect of individual experiences on perception, Judge Cedarbaum nevertheless believes that judges must transcend their personal sympathies and prejudices and aspire to achieve a greater degree of fairness and integrity based on the reason of law. Although I agree with and attempt to work toward Judge Cedarbaum's aspiration, I wonder whether achieving that goal is possible in all or even in most cases. And I wonder whether by ignoring our differences as women or men of color we do a disservice both to the law and society. Whatever the reasons why we may have different perspectives, either as some theorists suggest because of our cultural experiences or as others postulate because we have basic differences in logic and reasoning, are in many respects a small part of a larger practical question we as women and minority judges in society in general must address. I accept the thesis of a law school classmate, Professor Steven Carter of Yale Law School, in his affirmative action book that in any group of human beings there is a diversity of opinion because there is both a diversity of experiences and of thought. Thus, as noted by another Yale Law School Professor -- I did graduate from there and I am not really biased except that they seem to be doing a lot of writing in that area - Professor Judith Resnik says that there is not a single voice of feminism, not a feminist approach but many who are exploring the possible ways of being that are distinct from those structured in a world dominated by the power and words of men. Thus, feminist theories of judging are in the midst of creation and are not and perhaps will never aspire to be as solidified as the established legal doctrines of judging can sometimes appear to be.

That same point can be made with respect to people of color. No one person, judge or nominee will speak in a female or people of color voice. I need not remind you that Justice Clarence Thomas represents a part but not the whole of African-American thought on many subjects. Yet, because I accept the proposition that, as Judge Resnik describes it, "to judge is an exercise of power" and because as, another former law school classmate, Professor Martha Minnow of Harvard Law School, states "there is no objective stance but only a series of perspectives - no neutrality, no escape from choice in judging," I further accept that our experiences as women and people of color affect our decisions. The aspiration to impartiality is just that--it's an aspiration because it denies the fact that we are by our experiences making different choices than others. Not all women or people of color, in all or some circumstances or indeed in any particular case or circumstance but enough people of color in enough cases, will make a difference in the process of judging. The Minnesota Supreme Court has given an example of this. As reported by Judge Patricia Wald formerly of the D.C. Circuit Court, three women on the Minnesota Court with two men dissenting agreed to grant a protective order against a father's visitation rights when the father abused his child. The Judicature Journal has at least two excellent studies on how women on the courts of appeal and state supreme courts have tended to vote more often than their male counterpart to uphold women's claims in sex discrimination cases and criminal defendants' claims in search and seizure cases. As recognized by legal scholars, whatever the reason, not one woman or person of color in any one position but as a group we will have an effect on the development of the law and on judging.

In our private conversations, Judge Cedarbaum has pointed out to me that seminal decisions in race and sex discrimination cases have come from Supreme Courts composed exclusively of white males. I agree that this is significant but I also choose to emphasize that the people who argued those cases before the Supreme Court which changed the legal landscape ultimately were largely people of color and women. I recall that Justice Thurgood Marshall, Judge Connie Baker Motley, the first black woman appointed to the federal bench, and others of the NAACP argued Brown v. Board of Education. Similarly, Justice Ginsburg, with other women attorneys, was instrumental in advocating and convincing the Court that equality of work required equality in terms and conditions of employment.

Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences, a possibility I abhor less or discount less than my colleague Judge Cedarbaum, our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging. Justice O'Connor has often been cited as saying that a wise old man and wise old woman will reach the same conclusion in deciding cases. I am not so sure Justice O'Connor is the author of that line since Professor Resnik attributes that line to Supreme Court Justice Coyle. I am also not so sure that I agree with the statement. First, as Professor Martha Minnow has noted, there can never be a universal definition of wise. Second, I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.

Let us not forget that wise men like Oliver Wendell Holmes and Justice Cardozo voted on cases which upheld both sex and race discrimination in our society. Until 1972, no Supreme Court case ever upheld the claim of a woman in a gender discrimination case. I, like Professor Carter, believe that we should not be so myopic as to believe that others of different experiences or backgrounds are incapable of understanding the values and needs of people from a different group. Many are so capable. As Judge Cedarbaum pointed out to me, nine white men on the Supreme Court in the past have done so on many occasions and on many issues including Brown.

However, to understand takes time and effort, something that not all people are willing to give. For others, their experiences limit their ability to understand the experiences of others. Other simply do not care. Hence, one must accept the proposition that a difference there will be by the presence of women and people of color on the bench. Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see. My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage. '

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DOUBLE-BIAS ATTACK IN THE BOROUGH OF CHURCHES

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"GAY" ECUADORANS BRUTALLY BEATEN IN BROOKLYN BY ANTI-LATINO ANTI-GAY THUGS

BUSHWICK FAMILY STRICKEN AS THEY WITNESS UNPROVOKED ATTACK BY STRANGERS IN THEIR OWN NEIGHBORHOOD



Now, What Will Those Famous Churches Do About This?

Given the role of so many religious institutions in fear-mongering, scapegoating and focusing hatred on gays, one wonders what their reaction will be to the product of their labors. What, for God's sake, would Jesus do?

I'm no Biblical scholar, but I can't honestly recall any parables, epistles, sermons or psalms about gays, positive or negative. Maybe they were among the Apocrypha stricken out by post-Christ censors in Palestine, Greece, Rome or Byzantium. Maybe they skip over them today in Sunday school and catechism. Maybe those uncomfortable silences after children inquired about Mrs. Jesus or the lady apostles said it all. I'm not going to scour the bloody New Testament just to find out.

Christian attitudes toward sex and gender, sensuality and sexuality, love and friendship, marriage and divorce, abortion and birth control, women and gays, morality and individual rights, all pretty much turned me away from churches a long time ago. I've never felt any inclination to go back.

Lately though, I have begun to wonder what is going on in those curiously shaped buildings. We hear clerical boy-rapers squealing about "the homosexual agenda," mountain-man bigamists mounting campaigns to save "traditional" marriage, televangelist con-artists wishing hurricanes on gay paraders. Is the anti-Christ already here, under the assumed name of Billy-Bob? Or, in the case of Brooklyn, Vito, Shawn or Tyrone?

Is that a sign of my own prejudice? Maybe. But nobody's going to die for it. Somebody did just die for the same prejudices instilled and inflamed quite deliberately by "men of God," and "moral leaders." If there really were a God in Heaven, these people would have to answer, first among us, for all this hate. The irony is, neither victim in this case was actually gay. Just the perception that they were was enough to inspire a brutal attack. In fact, the two "gay" victims were brothers, and simply observing the custom common in most of the world, and among women even in this country, of walking arm-in-arm down the street. So, even if you are not gay, be very careful not to let anyone think you are. They might kill you.


NY1
"Police Investigate Hate Crime, Victim Remains On Life Support"
When crossing the street, look both ways. And then look straight.

' Police are calling an attack on a pair of Brooklyn brothers over the weekend a hate crime. Investigators said 31-year-old Jose Sucuzhanay was walking home with his brother Romel early Sunday morning when one of them stopped to give the other his coat at the intersection of Kossuth Place and Bushwick Avenue. That's when investigators said a group of men jumped out of an SUV and beat them with a glass bottle and baseball bat while yelling anti-gay and anti-Latino slurs. Romel was not seriously hurt, but Jose was taken to the hospital where he is on life support. "My brother is in critical condition. He has to go through brain surgery. He's okay there. But right now he's not moving, he's not talking, he's in very critical condition. And we hope he will recover," said Sucuzhanay. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said, "There's no indication that they had any previous contact with the victims. So it clearly appears to be a hate crime based on ethnicity and perceived sexual orientation." '

NY TIMES
"Family Keeps Vigil for Beaten Brooklyn Man "
Blacks attacking Hispanics because they think they are gay. Only in America, land of hate crimes of opportunity.

' Early Sunday, less than a mile from where Mr. Sucuzhanay worked, he and his brother Romel were set upon by men the police said they believed were strangers. The brothers were walking home from a bar, arms around each other, the police said. At the corner of Bushwick Avenue and Kossuth Place, three men riding in what a witness described as a maroon or red sport utility vehicle spied the brothers and shouted anti-gay and anti-Hispanic slurs. One of the men hit Jose over the head with a bottle, and the driver of the car swung an aluminum baseball bat at his head, the police said. He fell to the floor as the three attackers, who were black, continued kicking and punching him, the police said. The beating ended only when Romel held up his cellphone and said he was calling the police. On Tuesday, the police released a description of one of the men, saying he is 6 feet tall and thin, and wore a black leather jacket, boots, dark jeans and a dark baseball cap during the attack. The authorities said they did not have the license number of the car. The reward for information was set at $22,000. Julia Osman, who worked with Mr. Sucuzhanay, visited him at the hospital on Monday. His face was so swollen that she could not see his eyes, and his head was wrapped in bandages. “He was kind, and cared about everyone who worked with him,” she said. '

EL DIARIO NY
"Another victim of hate"
If you're going to target someone, make it an immigrant, or an undocumented alien. They won't dare report you. Especially if you kill them. Unfortunately for the criminals, this victim was a citizen.

' Jose Sucuzhanay, a Bushwick business owner, was with his brother Romel on Sunday when he was beaten by a group of men using a bat. He was reportedly declared brain dead yesterday. Romel had come from Ecuador to visit his brother, not bury him. Witnesses heard the cowardly attackers shout anti-gay and anti-Hispanic slurs at the brothers, according to police. They mistook Jose and Romel cozing up in the extreme cold as a sign that they were gay. This hate and violence is anything but isolated. In 2005, the FBI documented more than 1,200 hate crimes against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) persons. But this is a vast undercount, according to the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. On top of inaccurate data tracking, hate crimes overall are under-reported. Undocumented immigrants are the least likely of all victims to report these crimes. '

NY NEWSDAY
"Cops: Bias crime attack victim dies"
So, now it's murder.

' Police have released a sketch of one of three assailants of an Ecuadorean man left brain dead after a savage beating in Brooklyn, where attackers hurled anti-gay and anti-Hispanic slurs. At a news conference Tuesday afternoon, the family of Jose Sucuzhanay, 31, said they still held out hope. "He's not dead," Diego Sucuzhanay, one of his five brothers, said at Elmhurst Hospital Center in Queens, where Jose had been listed in critical condition yesterday after surgery. "There are some decisions that need to be taken," he continued. "We are brothers and we do not have the power to make that decision." Sucuzhanay's parents are in Ecuador. But a law enforcement source said the case is being investigated as a homicide and Sucuzhanay has been declared brain dead. The Associated Press said he had been taken off life support, according to a law enforcement source. Community leaders and city politicians called for the swift arrest of the attackers. Sucuzhanay suffered severe head trauma in the 3:30 a.m. beating Sunday in Bushwick. Police Tuesday asked for the public's help in locating one suspect, described as a male about 6 feet tall and between 18 and 20 years old, wearing a dark baseball cap, a black leather jacket, dark jeans and boots. A $22,000 reward is also being offered for information leading to the arrest of the attackers. Police asked the public to call 800-577-TIPS. '

[Cross-posted at CoffeeHouseStudio by cosanostradamus.]
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OBAMA & THE FUTURE OF RACE RELATIONS IN AMERICA

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LET THE BLOVIATIONS BEGIN!

WHAT A BLACK MAN'S ELECTION MEANS & DOESN'T MEAN

"Black" By Racist Classification, Obama Enjoyed Benefits Not Available To Most African-Americans

Everyone seems to be focusing on what the neo-Fascist Premier of Italy referred to as Obama's "tan:" As if it had anything much to do with his election, or his future policies & performance as President. Granted, many on the Left are assuming that the new President's African ancestry and hard-scrabble beginnings will translate into a progressive agenda, aggressively pursued. But what's hue got to do with it?

The fact is, Barack Obama is half white. He never knew his African-immigrant father, and he grew up among whites, Asians and Pacific Islanders here in Hawaii, not in the hood or the cotton fields. After initial struggles with his single Mom in Honolulu and Jakarta, little "Barry" was sent to live with his white Kansan grandparents back on Oahu. Gramps was a salesman and Gramma was a bank exec. They sent their grandson to Honolulu's elite Punahou School. The school styles itself the Choate or Exeter of the Pacific, although it is not in their league academically, socially or financially.

Some of Punahou's grads go on to run the State of Hawaii's local businesses and government for their own benefit, the public be damned. Punahou used to be the white prep-school, while Iolani was for Asians, and St. Louis and Kamehameha for "Locals." It costs more than the University of Hawaii, and it is therefore closed to most islanders. It was always meant to perpetuate the local upper classes. A good GPA from Punahou is considered a ticket to Harvard, Princeton or Yale.

This kind of elite education and family support are simply not available to most people anywhere; especially not to poor black children in rural or urban slums. If Obama's success means anything, it is that, by following the exact same path as the children of the white elite, you might have a shot at the brass ring even if you aren't white. It does not address the more abiding, and un-discussed issues of class. These are the issues that people are hoping, or fearing, that Obama will address.

"Socialism" was a shibboleth in the Obama election. Republicans tried to paint him red, but it didn't stick. Socialism, or some limited American form of it, may be the only answer to our issues of class. Economic inequality has mushroomed under a forty-year regime of right-wing "conservative" Republicans and "moderate" DINOs. Real wages continue to shrink, and the already-fading illusion of upward mobility and middle class security has now been shattered by recent developments on Wall Street and in Washington.

The idea that you can make it by simply working hard and playing by the rules has been thrown out the window by corrupt, incompetent bankers and brokers, who are STILL being generously rewarded for cataclysmic failures and deliberate malfeasance. After wrecking the economy with their schemes and scams, and robbing many Americans of their future, they are demanding and getting their usual big bonuses, special perq's and golden parachutes. Instead of going to prison, they are going to Disneyland. On your dime.

Obama has, like Bush, already surrounded himself with the old cronies of the financial mafia. Emmanuel Rahm was, up until recently a director of Fannie Mae, where the big money troubles started. Obama's "new" economic advisers and government appointees come exclusively from Wall Street and Washington, and are familiar faces. The argument will be made that there is no one else who understands the system so well as these "experts," despite all their failures, and prejudices in favor of the rich over the rest of us.

But that just says that the rest of us, including labor lawyers, consumer advocates, union leaders, academic experts, and business mavericks, are all nobodies, not entitled to a place at the table, even though we are the majority, and it is our money that is now being so grossly mismanaged, publicly & privately. "Experts"? A five-year old could guide the economy better by throwing darts at a decision board. But the Punahou boy will not likely give the five year old, or anybody else, a fair shot at that board.

We're supposed to give a new President one hundred days to get himself together and start implementing policy. I say we start that clock on 4 NOV 2008. By mid-February of 2009, we will all know where our new Administration is headed. There may still be time to change its' course at that point, if it seems to be bound for Bush or Clinton territory. That is what we voted against, decisively, in 2000 and 2008: Not a black face on the same old body of lies. What's hue got to do with it?
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MCCAIN CONCEDES GRACEFULLY

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MCCAIN SUPPORTERS REMAIN A HOWLING, DISRESPECTFUL MOB

COMPARED WITH OBAMA'S ORDERLY, RESPECTFUL, JOYOUS CROWD, IT WAS JUST SAD

YOUTUBE: MSNBC
"McCain Concession Speech"


McCain's Career In Politics Ends On A Bitter-Sweet Note

If John McCain on the campaign trail had only waxed this eloquent and been as noble as he was in his concession speech late last night, he might have won the Presidency. He hit all the right notes. It was a beautiful piece of rhetoric. The old John McCain, whom many of us used to admire, appeared briefly, and then was drowned out by the yahoos "energized" by the new John McCain and sicko Sarah Palin, who helped defeat him.

I couldn't understand the screams of the Republican rabble, but they were coarse and animalistic, violent and uncouth-sounding. As a background, and sometime foreground for McCain's final aria, it was genuinely painful. He brought it upon himself; it was ironic: In the end, the haters couldn't let McCain be McCain. They had to continue to superimpose their fascist vision on him, as he had been encouraging them to do all throughout his campaign. He bears full responsibility for their behavior.

Last night, McCain and Obama both called for healing and cooperation, putting country first in reality, not just in rhetoric. Based on the election results, most people are ready to do that. A new era may have dawned in many ways, including race relations. But the howling horde surrounding McCain at the end will not ever put country first. Sarah Palin and even worse elements in the extreme right wing of what is left of the Republican Party will head off for the backwoods, with their Bibles and their guns, and start evil-doing straightaway. We can only hope they don't graduate to actual armed conflict. But they are that crazy. Mark my words: You will be hearing from them, and you won't like it.

McCain tried to put that genie back in the bottle. But it wouldn't go. Now he only has himself to blame if a new strain of fanaticism has been developed and set in motion by his campaign. Rather than retire to his desert Mount Vernon, McCain should dedicate himself to reigning these nut-jobs in, before they do serious damage. He owes it to the nation, if he really wants to put "Country First."
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UH BECOMES GAME PRESERVE FOR CRIMINALS

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THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII LETS HOODS RUN WILD

BORN FREE, AS FREE AS THE WIND BLOWS, ALL YOUR STUFF IS FREE TO THEM, LA-LA LA-LA-LA LA-LAAAH!

That Would Include Your Sex And Your Life If They Want To Take It

Hawaii's only State university has no real security whatsoever. One of their rentacops was beaten and robbed right on his own post the other day. You can sail right through the college gates and cruise around all day with no question, unless you park illegally: Then they'll tow you, even if you're a student. If you're a violent criminal, eh, no probs, brah!

If you want to rob, assault, rape or kill someone, it's open season there all year round. The UH Manoa, in a wealthy section of Honolulu on the south shore of Oahu, has become the hunting ground of choice for Hawaii's crooks, the largest group of thieves in the nation. Bus lines run right around and through the wide-open campus day and night, carrying thugs from everywhere on the Main island right into the vulnerable institution of higher learning. The criminals know that there are virtually no patrols by either the Honolulu Police Department or the Hawaii State Sheriff's Department. It's a cop-free zone. Not that it matters.

Even off-campus, Hawaii has one of the highest rate of robberies and burglaries in the nation: Proportionally more than New York or Los Angeles, Newark or Oakland, Detroit or Houston, Miami or Chicago. Most of the property crimes victimize tourists, but locals are feeling the pain now too. The highest crime areas on Oahu, the most populous island in the chain, are the major hotel and shopping areas, and the wealthiest neighborhoods. "Haoles" and foreigners are targeted, students and Japanese tourists are easy prey. Law enforcement officers do little or nothing, criticizing victims for "being in the wrong place at the wrong time," "carrying valuable jewelry and electronics," and "tempting local people by having cash."

Crime reports are discouraged: "We're not gonna catch them now," "You're never gonna get your stuff back," "You'll be long gone before this ever comes to trial," "The courts' gonna let 'em go anyways," "They never do time," "They'll just target you if you testify," "The police cannot protect you 24/7," "Why are you reporting this," "Are you just trying to get someone in trouble," "Are you lying," "Would you be willing to take a lie detector test," "Do you have any warrants outstanding," "Gotta check up on you first," "Are you Local," "Do you have any proof like pictures or recordings," "Too busy to do the paperwork right now," "Paperwork takes hours," "You have to go downtown to file an official report," "You're in the wrong place," "We're closed," "No can."

The attitude of many "Local" people is that anything that isn't nailed down is fair game. If somebody has something you want, just take it, it's OK. If they have more than you to begin with, it's only fair, they probably deserve to get ripped off. Especially if they're black, white, from Asia, the Mainland, tourists or military. Not only do many "Locals" not care if these people get assaulted or robbed, some even applaud it. Is it any wonder the crime rate is so disproportionately high? Is it any surprise that the cops simply don't care? Nobody does. Just having something, anything, makes you a legitimate target. Eh, you asked for it, braddah! Be humbo no grumbo!

This apparently applies even to uppity "Locals" who show they "tink you betta dan me," the worst possible crime in "Local" society. You know, students, strivers, hard-working people struggling to better themselves, rocking the "Local" boat. The idea that anyone here might bust their ass for a better life, and then attempt to enjoy it, just infuriates many of these "Local" losers. It makes them feel like, well, losers, which is what they are. So it's totally OK to strike out at anybody who is doing better than you, even if they just look like they're doing better, you know, like, by going to college, having a good job or being a different color. That's our system of reverse-apartheid here in the Aloha State.

"Local," by the way, means "not white or black or oriental." Even if you're "Fresh Off the Boat," you're "Local" if your ass is the approved shade of brown: Not too light, not too dark. Doesn't matter if you're even from anywhere around the Pacific, or whether you speak English or any Polynesian language: You're brown, you're "Local," until proved otherwise: Mexican, Portuguese, Egyptian, Pakistani, Indonesian, or just really really tan. If you're not the approved shade, even if you're Hawaiian, born here, ancestors buried here, going back centuries, you can never be "Local," until you can prove it, by connection to someone who is the "right" color. Although you are welcome to put on your pidgin, wear a coconut hat, fake the hula and curse "da fockin haoles," for a few "Local" points; you'll still be judged by your skin color.

So, don't send your kids to college here. If you live here, send your kids someplace nice on the Mainland, where they can get a real education. If you leave them here, they will become human prey on any campus of the University of Hawaii system. And nobody cares.
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THAT OLD MAN SMELL

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IT'S THE STENCH OF DESPERATION

CORRUPT, INCOMPETENT PALIN HAS THAT ODOR NOW, TOO



It's Very Unpleasant, The Republican Aroma Of Abject Failure. It Smells Like . . . Bush.

As John Sidney "POW" McCain III slowly sinks into the political abyss, his overweaningly ambitious running mate makes one last frenzied attempt to claw her way to the top. Promised a virtual or actual Presidency if she can just salvage the wreck of McSame's campaign, airhead Sarah Palin is now resorting to outright smears based on bald-faced lies.

Still, McBush has already conceded Michigan, and Pennsylvania may be next: Poor old broke-down John "My Wife's A 'Cunt' " McCain has pulled out of the Republican-depressed Automobile State. The poor old guy went to hide in Iowa rather than show his cancerous face in the anxious blue-collar Steel State. He's trailing even in GOP-subverted Florida. McSame may lose formerly reliable-racist Republican Virginia. Can Indiana and Ohio be far behind?

The Repukelickin Party, terrified of losing its' death-grip on power, is going straight to its' last resort: The Party of Greed and Anger, is switching gears to its' old fallbacks, Hatred and Fear. "Obama is not like us" (he's black!), "Obama hates America" (HE'S BLACK!!), "Obama pals around with bad men from the Big City" (HE'S BLAAAAACK!!!). Did they mention that Barack is black? Not yet, not explicitly. They're cowardly little racist, race-baiting assholes; always have been. But their message has always been the same: "Law & order," "Welfare queens," "Willie Horton," et cetera, ad nauseum, always meant "We'll keep the niggers down for ya, Bubba!" and absolutely nothing more. It's code that even right-wing morons can understand.

This year, not without trepidation, the Democrats have shown the courage and strength of character to confront racism head on, and nominate a man of African ancestry to be our next President. The Republicans, meanwhile, have shown their true colors by nominating two extremely white people, both known for their anti-African-American sentiments. McCain played the "maverick" by opposing the institution of the Federal Holiday honoring martyred moderate black leader Dr. Martin Luthor King Jr. Sarah Palin was deliberately chosen, it is now obvious, for being the living embodiment of redneck ignorance, and white-State prejudice. (Oh, and the "c*nt vote." Since McCain thinks all women are "c*nts," he must figure having a real "c*nt" on the ticket will get their votes.)

The Repukelickin' candidates are cowardly and without a shred of real character. McCain betrayed his country by collaborating with the enemy in North Vietnamese communist propaganda during the Vietnam War. When he came home from Nam, McSame dumped the crippled wife who had waited faithfully for him for five long lonely years, and flitted off with a rich drug-addicted beer queen. McCain's new wife Cindy was then busted for stealing drugs from poor, sick children. McCain himself narrowly escaped indictment during the Savings & Loan scandal. What character!

Palin flies her whole family around the country at taxpayer expense, and collects thousands in per diem for sleeping in her own bed. She fired a respected Alaska State Police commander when he refused to fire her sister's ex-husband, a decorated State Trooper. Now she doesn't dare show her face in Alaska, and the national Republican Party organisation of John McBush is running Alaska in her absence, trying to supress the investigation of "Troopergate." Let's not even talk about her under-aged, unmarried, unsafe-sexually-active daughter, or the infant Governor Palin starved in her own womb, trying to hide her own recent pregnancy. The child was born retarded, and now she uses him to gain sympathy at every campaign stop. Doesn't she worry about his health at all? Or his dignity? Or ours?

As to hating America, and terrorism: Palin wants Alaska to secede from the Union, and break up our great nation. She keeps talking about the Russians, her "neighbors": Maybe she wants to join them? Unlike most Americans she's wallowing in oil money, overjoyed at the high prices. Maybe the Rooskies will offer her a better deal. Traitor? You be the judge.

McCain has voted against going after Osama Bin Laden, and has done nothing to protect us from 9/11's past, present or future. He's so rich and out of touch, he doesn't even know how many houses he owns. And, of course, he could be a "Manchurian Candidate," programmed by the Communists to destroy America from inside the Oval Office. And none dare call it treason?

I guess McPalin fears that all this will come out in the next few weeks. After all, that's how they play the game. So far, Obama has chosen to take the high road. But it's time for the rest of us to give the Repuke's a taste of their own foul medicine. In their case, the truth about them will suffice.
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UNCLE SAM'S MISGUIDED CHILDREN

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EVEN IN DEATH, A JARHEAD CAN'T HARDLY CATCH A BREAK

HAWAII HERO MARINE DENIED HIGHEST HONOR


Dubya Grabs Foto Op, Dumps "Wetback's" Body On Mom's Lawn

United States Marine Corps Sergeant Rafael Peralta, 25, of San Diego, California, with the Third Regiment, 1st Marine Division, Kaneohe, Hawaii, was denied the nation's highest honor today by George Dubya Bush, deserter, traitor and coward, and his minions in the Satanic Pentagon.

Mr. Peralta died in Falluja, Iraq, in 2004 after taking multiple gunshot wounds to the face and body, and then throwing himself on an enemy hand grenade to save his fellow Marines. He was successful in his last mission. By taking the initiative and sacrificing himself, he saved the lives of five other men. To those men, and their fellow Marines, and all their families, Sergeant of Marines Peralta will always be a hero, no matter what the Crotch says.

The Commanding General of the First Marine Division took the initiative, also. Rather than simply honor the sergeant, General Natonski had the bullets dug out of Peralta's body and forensically identified. Since some evidently came from "friendly fire" by other U.S. troops, Sergeant Peralta's sacrifice was downgraded by the top brass, Defense Secretary Robert Gates.

This may have had something to do with the fact that Peralta was, in effect, from the Halls of Montezuma. Peralta was born in Mexico, and moved to San Diego with his family as a child, without proper documentation. He was dark-skinned and had Indian features, and probably spoke English with an accent. He did not become a citizen until after enlisting in the Corps, and his mother and sister only followed his example much later. His mother still does not speak English. Not exactly a Republican poster boy. In any case, he didn't get the Medal of Honor.

Peralta's Mother was shocked and hurt by the deliberate humiliation of her dead son. After all, Dubya himself had called her to try to clinch a few Hispanic votes in the next election. But, since most Latino's, like most everyone in America, are trending Democratic, the "President" dropped the pretense, and spit in Mrs. Perata's grieving face instead. Rush Limbaugh would be proud.

What difference it makes that a man who covered a live grenade with his own body was first hit by accidental fire from his own side, only Satan knows. God Himself is flummoxed on this one. Speaking as a former gyrene myself, all I can say is "F*CK THE SUCK!!!"

Semper Fi, Peralta. Guard those streets of Heaven well, Marine.


MARINE CORPS TIMES
"Peralta to be given Navy Cross posthumously"

' Navy Secretary Donald C. Winter will award the Navy Cross medal — the nation’s second-highest combat award for valor in combat — to Sgt. Rafael Peralta, who pulled an enemy grenade to his body before it exploded, the Marine Corps announced Wednesday. Peralta, 25, died Nov. 15, 2004, while he and members of Alpha Company of 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, were in the second week of fighting in the Battle of Fallujah when he barged into a house with a rifle squad. They immediately came under fire from insurgents inside the house. “Peralta was caught in a deadly crossfire between insurgents and his Marines, leaving him mortally wounded,” officials said in an announcement released by I Marine Expeditionary Force at Camp Pendleton. “After the initial exchange of gunfire, the insurgents broke contact, throwing a fragmentation grenade as they fled the building.” The grenade stopped near Peralta’s head, they said, and “without hesitation and with complete disregard for his own safety, Peralta reached out and pulled the grenade to his body, absorbing the brunt of the blast and shielding fellow Marines only feet away. Peralta succumbed to his wounds.” '

YAHOO NEWS
"Marine praised by Bush won't get Medal of Honor "

' The family of Sgt. Rafael Peralta, who was posthumously nominated for the nation's highest military honor, told the North County Times of Escondido, Calif., they were disappointed he was not receiving the Medal of Honor. "I don't understand why if the president has been talking about him," his mother, Rosa Peralta, told the newspaper, which was the first to report the bestowing of the Navy Cross. Rosa Peralta said she was informed during a meeting with Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Richard Natonski that a committee could not agree on awarding the Medal of Honor to her son, who Marine Corps officials say was first wounded by friendly fire. She said the general mentioned the friendly fire aspect as part of her son's death during the discussion. '

USA TODAY
"Some upset Marine sergeant won't receive Medal of Honor"

' A rare decision by Defense Secretary Robert Gates to reject a Marine Corps recommendation that one of its heroes receive the Medal of Honor has angered Marines who say Sgt. Rafael Peralta sacrificed his life to save theirs. Peralta's family was notified of the decision Wednesday by Lt. Gen. Richard Natonski, a top Marine Corps commander. Col. David Lapan, a Marine spokesman, said he was unaware of any recent award nomination that was denied in this way. '

HONOLULU ADVERTISER
"Hawaii-based Marine who died in Iraq won't get Medal of Honor"

' On Memorial Day 2005, President Bush singled out Peralta for his valor, saying he "understood that America faces dangerous enemies, and he knew the sacrifices required to defeat them." Rosa Peralta previously said an undersecretary of the Navy had told her the Medal of Honor had been approved and needed the president's signature. "I don't want that medal," Rosa Peralta said yesterday, referring to the Navy Cross. "I won't accept it. It doesn't seem fair to me." The decision is "almost like somebody called me a liar," said Marine Sgt. Nicholas Jones, 25, who was with Peralta on the day of the firefight. Jones, a recruiter, said Peralta's actions have become part of Marine Corps lore, as drill sergeants and officer-candidate instructors repeat it to new Marines. "His name is definitely synonymous with valor," said Jones, who was wounded by shrapnel from the grenade blast. "My honest opinion (of the medal decision)? It's BS," said Robert Reynolds, a corrections officer and former Marine who credits Peralta with saving his life that day in Fallujah. "I was in that house. I was next to Sgt. Peralta," Reynolds, 31, said. "I saw him with my own eyes reach out and pull that damn grenade in." Peralta did exactly what other Marines did who have been awarded the Medal of Honor, Reynolds said. "You know honestly how I think it is (that he didn't receive the Medal of Honor)?" Reynolds asked. "I think it's because he's an immigrant. I think it's because he's from Mexico." Reynolds said the Corps never once called him to talk about his eyewitness account. "Last year, I got a call from Headquarters Marine Corps," Sabga said. "They were asking me, 'What's the immigration status of Mrs. Peralta and the rest of her family?' I thought it was kind of weird. Why would they be inquiring about that?" '

UNITED STATES MARINE BAND
"The Marines' Hymn"

' From the Halls of Montezuma
To the shores of Tripoli
We fight our country's battles
In the air, on land, and sea;
First to fight for right and freedom
And to keep our honor clean;
We are proud to claim the title
Of United States Marine.


Our flag's unfurled to every breeze
From dawn to setting sun;
We have fought in every clime and place
Where we could take a gun.
In the snow of far-off Northern lands
And in sunny tropic scenes;
You will find us always on the job --
The United States Marines.


Here's health to you and to our Corps
Which we are proud to serve;
In many a strife we've fought for life
And never lost our nerve.
If the Army and the Navy
Ever look on Heaven's scenes,
They will find the streets are guarded
By United States Marines.
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(Cross-posted at Out Of Iraq Bloggers Caucus & Democracy For California.)
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THE "N" WORD

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"NIGGER"

IT'S A BAD, BAD, BAD, BAD WORD

And By Bad, We Mean Bad. And By Bad, We Mean Funny, Motherf*cker

As long as you're not on the wrong side of it . . . Then, maybe not so funny.

"Lenny Bruce - Are There Any Niggers Here Tonight?"


"Richard Pryor on the N word"


"George Carlin - Euphemisms"



"Dave Chappelle - The word nigger"

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Obama Defines "Change"

Obama's speech this morning at Philadelphia's Constitution Center was - right time, right place - to me. An emblematic and prominent historic moment in most recent history. A call to drag out old demons and see them for what they really are and what they really do to us as a multiracial society and our destiny as a united nation...

Focusing on the Rev. Wright's recently extracted and overplayed remarks, his relationship with him and pointing out their differences in philosophies, Obama says that Wright's mistake was that he sees society as "stagnant" - unable to change - and we all know this is not so. Obama makes it plain that he believes differently.

He instead speaks of America's ability to change:

"But what we know -- what we have seen - is that America can change. That is true genius of this nation. What we have already achieved gives us hope - the audacity to hope - for what we can and must achieve tomorrow."

Just as Gandhi says: "You must be the change you want to see in the world." so Obama does.

Obama addresses racism head on and invites us to continue the dialog out in the open - instead of behind closed doors and in segregated company - where nothing will ever be solved, but instead worsened. Can America do that? I think the answer to that question is yes - we must if we are to move ahead and achieve what we all know is possible as a nation. He invites us to continue a debate that was initiated 221 years ago at the founding of our nation ..."at a room across the street."

For some more in depth I recommend reading:

• What's Wrong with Rev. Wright?

by Jim Fetzer
For an analytical breakdown of what Wright actually said in his speech.

• Obama, Seizing on Divisive Comments, Aims for Unity

by Susan Jones
For a short and spot on overview of Obama's speech this morning.

• Transcript: Obama's Speech On Race

"A More Perfect Union"


Crossposted

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KING FOR A DAY

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MLK DAY: WHAT ARE WHITE PEOPLE
SUPPOSED TO DO TODAY?

LYNCHING SEEMS INAPPROPRIATE, ANACHRONISTIC, UNCOOL

Likewise Blowing Up Churches, Shooting Civil Rights Leaders, Turning Dogs Loose On Black People

That sort of thing has fallen out of fashion among white people, for the most part, even in the Deep South. To celebrate the birthday of Martin Luther King today, I guess a few of us white folks could try a Freedom Ride. You know, hop a bus and go on down South to face down the Crackerocracy, at the risk of our lives. March down the streets of Montgomery or Selma or Birmingham, under police guns. Get beat up and thrown into jail cells and pray we'd get out alive. (But those days are over now, right?) Or, we could do what most of us did in the Sixties: Nothing.

Everybody in France after WWII used to like to say that they had fought the Nazi's. But, of course, only a few actually did so after they invaded, and before we did. Likewise, most Germans said they hadn't supported Hitler. But somebody voted him in. And, even though only a tiny minority was allowed into the Communist Party, most Russians supported the system, if only passively, or out of fear. How else could such systems survive?

Nobody actually voted for Nixon, either, to hear tell, though he won by an historic landslide in his 1972 Presidential re-election bid, and right in the middle of Watergate. Nobody supported the war in Vietnam, but we stayed there for nine years, somehow, until they actually kicked us out. And nobody in the South supported the Klan. But many white elected and appointed officials were Klan members, and quite open about their sympathies, if not their actual affiliations. Somebody elected them.

And who actually voted for Bush, or his unlawful, immoral, self-destructive, historic first-strike wars on civilian populations for the benefit of Big Oil? Nobody, right? Well, for once, that may be true. But who really tried to stop it? No, really?

So, I guess most of us were on the side of the angels most of the time, even if we didn't know which side that was, at the time. I guess we figured it out later. I guess that counts, for something. Not sure what. Being there and actually doing the right thing at the time surely does count for something. It counts for all the changes that came as a result. It counts for the world we live in today. It counts for a beginning of an end to things like racism and some of it's most evil manifestations. It counts.

It counted back then, too. In Little Rock and Baton Rouge. In Atlanta and Jackson. In Greensboro and Memphis. It counted enough to get you beaten and locked up, attacked by dogs and gassed by policemen, spat upon by white ladies and cursed at by white children, run off the road and shot in a ditch by white men, buried in an umarked grave by white "person or persons unknown". It counted, all right.

It counted when the most articulate man of his generation spoke out, knowing he was marking himself for death by doing so. It counted when a people listened who had no reason to believe that the America would ever do right by them, and believed what they heard Dr. King say. It counted when they rose up and peaceably brought about a change they had been awaiting for hundreds of years. It counted when America began to become the country it should have been all along.

It counted when hired gunmen, cowards and stooges, cut the man down who had dedicated his life to holding America to its' promises. It counted when a nation asleep finally woke up to the terrible reality of white racism and violence, black oppression and resistance, and let the changes come. It counted when millions of people with little hope in the world took inspiration from the brutal murder, and the transcendent life of one man among them. It still counts.

It'll count more if you remember what it was all about. And realize how much it means today, Martin Luther King Day. So, what you do today is, you remember. That's what national holidays are for, or used to be: Not sales or parades or picnics: Solemn remembrance. Official recognition and personal gratitude for the sacrifices that other men and women have made to make us all free. Don't forget, now: It counts.

It'll count even more if you actually get up and do something about the injustices in the world today. Because some day, history will call you to account.
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