Showing posts with label Barack Obama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Barack Obama. Show all posts

Monday, January 11, 2010

Black White House Party Crasher Maintains He Was Invited... But Do We REALLY Believe Him?

Carlos Allen Goes On GMA To Defend Himself
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Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Are People Really Arguing Over Whether "Avatar" Is a Racist Movie???

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Monday, December 21, 2009

Black Quadruplets Headed To Yale University

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Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Join Kevin Ross on His Online Radio Show Tonight To Discuss Tiger Woods & Barack Obama


Healthcare, Afghanistan, and Affairs -- Oh My!

Sports and politics may not mix, but these two biracial men are grabbing headlines of late so we have to discuss what the whole world is talking about.

Golf superstar Tiger Woods and our President, with the plummeting poll numbers, are on the menu. But be forewarned. This will be a spicy dish.

Join Kevin Ross, the former judge and KABC talk radio host, as he dissects what's really going on. We'll see you at 7pm PST on Blogtalkradio. The call in number is (347) 945-5939. Don't miss it!
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Monday, September 14, 2009

Are Anti-Obama Protestors One Step Away From Calling The President A N-Word?


The Water Line Keeps Rising, And All We’re Doing Is Standing There

by Erin Aubry Kaplan

Worst thing first: the loosely confederated but commonly paranoid, almost proudly malevolent anti-America forces that pass for a conservative movement in this country is about two seconds away from calling our shining President Obama a nigger.

But that’s not the worst thing—actually, it may be best thing.

My husband is an American history teacher who’s been arguing for years that the racism that’s supposed to be such a thing of the national past has always stewed just below our surface, give or take an inch or two. The virulent resistance to Obama’s health-care reform efforts—and increasingly to Obama himself-- exposes this inconvenient truth more effectively than any argument that my husband or anybody else could make.

The big conservative march on Washington this past weekend paraded a grab-bag of grievances that all reduced down to one thing: Obama is an Other who doesn’t think like Us.

I wish this was so much political theater staged solely for the benefit of Fox News, et al, but I’m afraid it’s more than that. How else is it possible that the very centrist senator from Illinois, momentarily demonized as a liberal, was very quickly made into a socialist/fascist dictator with an oily smile and even oilier words who was trying to sneak Big Brother government past the loyal watchdogs of liberty and individual rights?

For many true and overwhelmingly white believers, Obama is Hitler meets the mythical black trickster Br’er Rabbit, a dread colored Communist who must be kept from power at all costs, because of course Negroes were most in need of social and economic redress, and must always be barred from the inner sanctums of capitalism.

Electing Obama was one thing, realizing we all must now follow the path he defines, whether we like it or agree with it or not, is entirely another.

The panic is setting in. Even the white folks who voted for him are rethinking their position, wondering seven months into this experiment if it was such a good idea.

It reminds me of a dynamic that black people know all too well—you get hired for a job in a burst of white generosity, but as soon as the going gets tough, you’re the first to be let go. Except that in the case of the President, he can’t be fired, at least not right away. So a certain segment of the population, including certain members of Congress, are trying to neutralize Obama with panic and character assassination.

I should have known this was coming, and I did. But I’m disheartened nonetheless.

I hardly agree with all that Obama’s doing, starting with ramping up the war in Afghanistan; I’m one of those disaffected progressives that he still calls friends. But to see him not even being treated like a president, when so much unearned respect was accorded George W. Bush for so long, is painful. It’s personal.

And it’s not just Republicans and conservatives colluding on the diss, it’s Obama’s fellow weak-kneed Democrats who either are blue dogs or who have no stomach for racial matters, and therefore say nothing; in not regularly calling out the bullshit of the opposition, they are standing with them.

Alas, President Obama looks as isolated right now as black people in high places have always been—isolation is the price of their success. The irony is that a president is elected to lead, not to be the prominent but innocuous face of affirmative action.

That’s the change Obama assumed came with the mandate of his election.

He was wrong.

ERIN AUBRY KAPLAN is the first African American in history to be a weekly op-ed columnist for the Los Angeles Times. Her musings continue to appear in the Times, Essence magazine, and on the blog 3 Brothers and A Sister. Among her many projects, Kaplan is currently working on her much anticipated book.
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Wednesday, September 9, 2009

The Kevin Ross Show Takes On The "Evil" Barack Obama, The "Strange" Van Jones, The "Disturbed" Maia Campbell and The "Bizarre" Kinsey Collection


NOT!

Although now that we have your attention, make sure you tune in Wednesday 09-09-09 as Boss Ross talks all about the controversial issues everyone's buzzing over.

What's your reaction to the insanity surrounding Barack Obama? What's next for Van Jones? How is Maia Campbell doing after the video tape looking not quite herself went viral.

Plus, we'll take you inside The Kinsey Collection, debuting this week at the Mary Brogan Musuem in Tallahassee, Florida. That's 7:00pm PST tonight, only on Blogtalkradio.
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Sunday, September 6, 2009

Chris Brown Doesn't Heart Oprah, But It's Hollywood That Still Has Some 'Esplainin To Do

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Glenn Beck 1, Van Jones 0 as The Obama White House Strikes Out In The Game of Hardball Politics!


Black Environmental Czar Done After Beck Boycott, "A-hole" Uproar

Van Jones, a newly minted policy adviser who specialized in "green jobs", has called it quits after a crescendo of criticism over his previous affiliation with a September 11 conspiracy group. But was that the real reason the brotha was "swiftboated"? Well, calling Republicans "assholes" didn't help.

After weeks of being embroiled in what Jones himself termed a "vicious smear campaign," concerning past inflammatory statements, the San Francisco based author and lecturer relinquished the desirable DC gig just as President Obama fights to regain his campaign swagger on the contentious health care debate that has even Democrats failing to get in lock step.

Jones, appointed as special adviser at the White House Council on Environmental Quality in March of this year, apologized earlier after digital content of him "keeping it real" in describing Republicans went viral. Marry to a Caucasian woman, Jones has been very outspoken nevertheless on environmental race issues that many believe have caused urban areas with a large concentration of Blacks and Latinos to suffer at the hands of eco-friendly Whites.

Adding gasoline to the blazing controversy were subsequent revelations that Jones had the audacity to signed a petition suggesting that the U.S. government was involved in the 2001 attacks in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington.

"On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me," Jones said in his resignation letter. "I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future," he wrote.

But did this character assassination of Jones, 40, really have more to do with the pounding Fox cable talk show host Glenn Beck has been receiving from the Color of Change organization concerning statements that Obama was racist?

In all likelihood, yes, especially since Color of Change was co-founded by Jones and to date, they have successfully convinced 57 companies to not advertise on Beck's show. Not that the polarizing media figure's ratings have suffered because of the issue. In fact, their soaring!

And now that Beck has one scalp that he can put on his mantle, things are just starting to heat up.

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Saturday, August 22, 2009

Jay-Z's Rocawear Line Still So Fresh And So Clean-Clean A Decade Later!

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Monday, July 13, 2009

Obama Gives Nod To Black Woman As Next Surgeon General


With Dr. Regina Benjamin, POTUS Makes Good On Diversity Promise

President Barack Obama has selected Dr. Regina Benjamin, an Alabama family physician, as the U.S. surgeon general. Obama is to announce Benjamin as the top authority on U.S. medical matters at a Rose Garden ceremony today.

A graduate of Xavier and the Morehouse School of Medicine, expect this dynamic African American woman to be in the news on a regular basis given the pervasiveness of the global Swine Flu epidemic. She would be the second black woman to hold the post behind Dr. Jocelyn Elders, appointed by President Bill Clinton, who created controversy for her blunt and candid conversations about sex.

A biography of her by the MacArthur Foundation said Benjamin is a "rural family physician forging an inspiring model of compassionate and effective medical care in one of the most underserved regions of the United States."

It said that in 1990, she founded the Bayou La Batre Rural Health Clinic to serve the Gulf Coast fishing community of Bayou La Batre, Alabama, a village of approximately 2,500 people devastated twice in the past decade by Hurricanes Georges, in 1998, and Katrina, in 2005.
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Monday, March 2, 2009

Why Did Blacks Cry When Obama Won? This Powerful Piece Answers The Question


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Saturday, February 28, 2009

Live Blogging At Tavis Smiley's State of The Black Union


Who's Accountable For Black America 10 Years Later

I'm here in Los Angeles for the 10th Annual State of the Black Union and it's getting ready to officially start. Tavis Smiley and Tom Joyner kicked it off.

Host Raymond Brown leads the discussion with Congressman Maxine Waters, Law Professor Charles Ogletree, Journalist Stephanine Robinson, Prosectot Peter Harvey, Columnist Michelle Singletary, Urban League President Marc Morial, Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, Rev. Dr. Iyanla Vanzant, Motivational Speaker Les Brown, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Dr. Tricia Rhodes are the morning panelists.

Everyone talks about how post-racial America is now that we have an African American president. While Barack Obama is the Commander-in-Chief, we still have this issue of post-racial versus post racist.

Per NY Times columnist Maureen Dowd, Attorney General Eric Holder and Rev. Jesse Jackson are living in some distant past.

Michael Eric Dyson just stated he doesn't want to stop being black.

Here we go!!!
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Saturday, February 14, 2009

Obama White House Concert And Award For Stevie Wonder

The White House is planning a concert this month to honor Stevie Wonder, whose music provided part of President Obama's campaign soundtrack. The White House says the president and first lady Michelle Obama will present Wonder with a Library of Congress award on Feb. 25. The concert will be broadcast the next day on PBS as part of its Performance at the White House series.
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Thursday, January 8, 2009

Obama Meets Four Former Presidents For Historic Hand-Off As Burris Inserts Himself Into The Picture

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Monday, January 5, 2009

Ann Coulter Targets The Wrong Sistah, Barack Sends Kids To School While Travolta Buries One of His

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Sunday, December 21, 2008

Aaliyah Biopic Joins Biggie Smalls As African American Hip Hop Artists Get Their Due In 09

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Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Obama Staffer Turns Down Blagojevich On Senate Seat Sale


President-Elect Barack Obama claims he knew nothing of Democratic Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich desire to sell his vacated U.S. Senate Seat to the highest bidder. In fact the F.B.I. has on recorded tape Governor Blagojevich reaction to someone in the Obama camp who turned down his request for money if Obama wanted to name his own replacement. The FBI recording goes something like this, "F... Obama and F... all his people if they don't want to pay up..." So to me it is clear someone from the Obama camp was turning down Governor Blagojevich or his people who were soliciting the bribe on his behalf. But a big question should be asked. Did the Obama representative inform police or the FBI that this illegal activity was going on?

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Friday, November 21, 2008

Sean Carter & Sasha Fierce Are Holding It Down As America Goes Belly-Up!

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Thursday, November 20, 2008

Brandy's Stunning Admission And A Black South Carolina Teen's Inspiring Story

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Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Obamas Meet The Bushes... Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?







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