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Old 05-09-2011, 08:22 PM
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Check out this black poet invited by Michelle Obama to the White House.

Remember....this man will perform in the residence of the President of the United States. Under our first African American President the USA has officially achieved the same cultural and intellectual level as Haiti.

http://www.breitbart.tv/this-guy-has...ichelle-obama/

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Old 05-10-2011, 04:12 AM
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Ya think that invitee is culturally high. _ He is !

Just listen to Katt Williams: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qazuw...eature=related
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Old 05-10-2011, 06:30 AM
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I want to remind that generally we are not a forum that delves into racially explicit issues unless they quite well fit into our agenda. We understand your concerns about this, but there are more suitable forums to discuss these issues than this one.
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Old 05-10-2011, 07:25 AM
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I want to remind that generally we are not a forum that delves into racially explicit issues unless they quite well fit into our agenda. We understand your concerns about this, but there are more suitable forums to discuss these issues than this one.
This idiot is the President of the United States. He is a fair object of comment and criticism. He was shoved down our throats as "the first African American President." He wrote a book about racial identity and extolled the "Black Value System." See Dreams From My Father. Now we have the Black Value System in action. This is fair criticism and fair comment about a news story that has been publicly published and is undisputed.
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Old 05-10-2011, 08:28 AM
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This idiot is the President of the United States. He is a fair object of comment and criticism. He was shoved down our throats as "the first African American President." He wrote a book about racial identity and extolled the "Black Value System." See Dreams From My Father. Now we have the Black Value System in action. This is fair criticism and fair comment about a news story that has been publicly published and is undisputed.
My job is to keep this forum bent towards our agenda. That doesn't mean we prohibit everything else, however many racially based subjects start infringing on our rules and guidelines. When in doubt; Ask yourself whether it will promote our agenda while complying with our rules and guidelines. We're saying this in regards to topics that start brushing up against our rules and guidelines

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Old 05-10-2011, 09:32 AM
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Default Don: from a friend.

Don:

Whenever I have a couple of glasses of wine I usually loosen up and say things that are somewhat risque. Like now!

Please, drop it. Zip, it up. Don't respond any more.

I've been kicked off of many websites. Take it from an old salt. Never, ever engage in an argument with the administrator/owner. It is a foregone conclusion that you will lose.

I think you are level and a valuable contributor. Truth be known that I agree with you. In our democracy peope are completely entitled to their likes, dislikes and yes even racism. But these websites are not democratic.

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Old 05-10-2011, 01:05 PM
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Don:

Whenever I have a couple of glasses of wine I usually loosen up and say things that are somewhat risque. Like now!

Please, drop it. Zip, it up. Don't respond any more.

I've been kicked off of many websites. Take it from an old salt. Never, ever engage in an argument with the administrator/owner. It is a foregone conclusion that you will lose.

I think you are level and a valuable contributor. Truth be known that I agree with you. In our democracy peope are completely entitled to their likes, dislikes and yes even racism. But these websites are not democratic.

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Bill, when it comes to race there's no right or no wrong. Each side of the issue has a point. But what has happened is race has been used as a weapon and no matter how or who approaches the subject, it will be distorted by someone either reading it or writing it.

That does not mean it should not be discussed, but to keep it within our guidelines we try to keep it to a minimum. Because no matter what is said, someone will be offended. Discussing it is a loser for both the person writing and the person reading. This is not because what is being said is not the truth, but because there is often so much to be said to the contrary, and it is up to the reader or writer to view it with the experience they've had.

I could tell you of many Blacks, Hispanics and Asians that are so level headed and understand exactly how race is being exploited to justify so many wrongs. Do I paint with a wide brush and include them when I speak against this exploitation? It is a hard balancing act when talking about race, and as I've often said, the written word is often misunderstood simply by how it is read.
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Old 05-11-2011, 10:36 AM
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Thanks. I understand.

Practicing what I preach I am also zipping it up.

BTW - burp - hick, I'm presently sipping a California Chablis. It's Goooooo-d !!!!!!
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Old 05-11-2011, 12:35 PM
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White House Defends Invite of Political Rapper to Poetry Event
The White House on Wednesday defended the invitation sent by first lady Michelle Obama to rapper and actor Common to attend a poetry event amid backlash over some of his lyrics that critics say promote violence.
Common, whose real name is Lonnie Rashid Lynn, Jr., is not considered a gangsta rapper, but some of his songs and poems feature violent imagery.
In one poem, he called for the metaphorical burning of President George W. Bush -- a "burning Bush." And in a song, he praised convicted cop-killer and former Black Panther Assata Shakur.
"While the president doesn't support the kind of lyrics raised here, we do think some of the reports distort what Mr. Lynn stands for more broadly in order to stoke controversy," White House spokesman Jay Carney said Wednesday.
"He is within the genre of hip hop and rap in what's known as a conscious rapper," he said, adding that President Obama appreciates the way Common tries to get children to focus on poetry, "as opposed to some of the negative influences of life on the street."
Carney added that he did not know whether the White House vetted the poetry to be recited at the reading Wednesday night.
"The fact is, Mr. Lynn has participated in other events in the past, including lighting the Christmas tree. I believe he's a multi-Grammy award winning artist and he's been invited to this event about poetry," Carney said.
Some conservatives have howled in protest over Common's invite.
"Oh lovely, White House," Sarah Palin said sarcastically in a tweet.
Karl Rove, a former Bush senior adviser, called Common a "thug."
"President Obama last week said he wanted to recapture that special moment we had after 9/11 and here a week later we have an example of how the White House thinks it can recapture that moment by inviting a thug to the White House -- a man who called for the death of President Obama's predecessor," Rove told Fox News.
Common shrugged off the criticism.
"Politics is politics and everyone is entitled to their own opinion, I respect that," he said in a tweet. "The one thing that shouldn't be questioned is my support for the police officers and troops that protect us every day."
In a 2007 poem entitled "A Letter to the Law," Common railed against the U.S. invasion of Iraq invasion while urban areas were being neglected.
"Seeing a fiend being hung/With that happening, why they messing with Saddam?
"Burn a Bush cos' for peace he no push no button/Killing over oil and grease/no weapons of destruction."
In 2000, Common released an album that included the song, "A Song for Assata," in which he portrayed Shakur, formerly known as Joanne Chesimard, as standing up to an abusive and lawless police force.
"Your power and pride is beautiful," he raps. "May God bless your soul."
Shakur was convicted in the 1973 murder of New Jersey state trooper Werner Foerster. She escaped prison six years later and is now living under political asylum in Cuba.
Former New Jersey state trooper Sal Maggio, who is the vice president of the Former Troopers Association, told Fox News that he opposes the White House invite to Common on the same week that law enforcement officers are honoring their fallen comrades.
"He shouldn't be let into the White House," he said. "I don't think any time is right for a man like this who proposes violence toward police."
But Maggio said he thinks that the president and the first lady didn't know about the lyrics to this song.
Common has also defended the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the pastor at the Obamas' church in Chicago who then-candidate Obama cut ties with after videos of his explosive sermons surfaced during the 2008 presidential campaign.
In the sermons, Wright accused the U.S. government of racism and in the days after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. "America's chickens are coming home to roost" after it dropped atomic bombs on Japan and "supported state terrorism against Palestinians and black South Africans," Wright said at the time.
"He never really was against white people or another race," Common told Electronic Urban Report in 2008. "It was more against an establishment that was oppressing people. I think we all can see that this country has problems and a lot of it starts in the political system."
Common said during the 2008 presidential race that Wright's sermons were filled with love, not hate.
"What I picked up from the pews…was messages of love," he said. "Anything that was going on against that love he would acknowledge and expose. He's been a preacher that's helped raise one of the greatest political figures in the world, and hopefully, the next president. He's also raised one of the greatest rappers in the world."

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011...#ixzz1M4rwBJDx
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Old 05-12-2011, 07:55 AM
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No one finds it at all unusual or objectionable that of the two rap poets invited to the white house, BOTH strenuously object to interracial marriage.
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