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Republicans And Blacks
If Senator John McCain needed to prove that he is a real Republican, he did it when he continued an old Republican tradition of utterly inept attempts to appeal to black voters.

Senator McCain was booed at a recent memorial on the anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. In typical Republican fashion, he tried to apologize but the audience was not buying it and let him know it. That is essentially what has been happening to the Republicans, as far as the black vote is concerned, for decades on end. Someone once said that a method which fails repeatedly may possibly be wrong. more

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(As if you might be interested) :- my personal musings follow:
 
I had not heard about the Imus remarks until about a week later, when Rutgers was beginning its Press Conference Tuesday morning. I became quite depressed that day, so it was good that I had not learned about it five days earlier. Personally, I've no problem identifying with my tightly curled hair. Hence I do not find the term "nappy head" to be offensive. Needless to say, however, using the derivative of whore or prostitute as a descriptive of student-athletes in particular, or women in general is/was un-acceptable. I watched the Rutgers' Press Conference in its entirety, and I was very proud of the Coach's verbalization of the hurt, the young women as they spoke of their accomplishments as students & athletes, and the manner in which the Rutgers' Administration supported its own.
 
Hopefully, the term "nappy head" was not a factor in the hurt experienced. Nevertheless, one could not miss the fact that nine of the ten black women all had long, (chemically) straightened hair. Only one of the nine sisters wore, a style akin to the natural(i.e., braids). Seems a significant number of black women (especially Celebrities) nowadays choose hairstyles that are mo' straight, mo' long, and sometimes mo' blond than ever before. Of course, just as India Arie sings I am not my hair . . . neither are these young sisters. However, it does appear that the desire to identify with the "acceptable" norm relative to the Eurocentric definition of beauty still has mighty strong hold on some.
 
I deem myself truly fortunate to have experienced the "Black is Beautiful" movement of the 1960's . . . nappy headed Afro and all. Racism has deep psychological consequences for Humankind in general, but black folk in particular. Perhaps the saddest example of such is Michael Jackson. Now, it is also sad that stupidity & insensitivity facilitated an individual's job lost (if only temporarily). Nevertheless, given the choice made by the Sponsors, MSNBC, and CBS, I'm feeling better about the evolution of Humankind albeit via tiny, tiny steps.
 
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Rove On the Outs?

"The rumors that chief White House political architect Karl Rove will leave sometime next year are being bolstered with new insider reports that his partisan style is a hurdle to President Bush’s new push for bipartisanship," reports Think Progress.
An advisor "said that Rove is aware of the situation and that a departure might come in 'weeks, not months.'"
 
Say What Obama!!!!!
 
Many people know that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's father was from Kenya and his mother from Kansas.
 
But an intriguing sliver of his family history has received almost no attention until now: It appears that forebears of his white mother owned slaves, according to genealogical research and census records. say what? more
 
John and John too!!!
 Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona and former Democratic Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina, as descendants of slave owners. Three of McCain's great-great-grandfathers in Mississippi owned slaves, including one who owned 52 in 1860. Two ancestors of Edwards owned one slave each in Georgia in 1860. more
 
Say What JOE!!!!!
Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut fired a shot across the bow of the Senate's Democratic majority, warning them he may bolt the party and join the GOP if Congress votes to withhold funding for the war in Iraq.
The move would give Republicans control of the Senate, since Democrats hold the majority by one vote.
Lieberman, who calls himself an "independent Democrat," has been among the strongest supporters of the war on terror and President Bush's plan for a troop surge in Iraq.
"I have no desire to change parties," Lieberman said in an interview published Thursday on politico.com. "If that ever happens, it is because I feel the majority of Democrats have gone in a direction that I don't feel comfortable with."
Lieberman cited the upcoming showdown over new funding for the war could be a deciding factor that would lure him to the GOP. Several Democrats, led by Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy, have been agitating for a funding cut-off.
"I hope we don't get to that point," he said. "That's about all I will say on it today. That would hurt."

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