Don't You DARE Blame the Protests

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Monday December 22, 2014 · 3:35 PM PST

2014/12/22 · 15:35

So I see that has-beens Rudy Giuliani and former New York Governor George Pataki have joined New York Patrolman's Benevolent Association head Patrick Lynch and the rest of the hate-filled chorus of blind police supporters in blaming the stop-killing-unarmed-black-people wing of humanity for the horrifying murders of two NYPD officers on Saturday.

I'm looking at you too, Police Commissioner Bratton, who claims the killing of the two officers was a "spinoff of the issues of these protests."

I am so furious, I can barely spit these words out through my keyboard.

My first thought to Giuliani and the rest of the crew is: how motherfuckin' DARE YOU.

tgnyc

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Tuesday January 08, 2013 · 12:06 PM PST

2013/01/08 · 12:06

Link

A conservative coalition has scheduled the first-ever "Gun Appreciation Day," calling on gun activists around the nation to rally in support of the right to bear arms.

Gun Appreciation Day is set for Jan. 19. Gun activists are asked to turn “out en masse at gun stores, ranges and shows from coast to coast" in an effort to rally against President Barack Obama's “post-Sandy Hook assault on gun rights," according to a press release on the group's website.

"On 01.19.13 go to your local gun store, gun range or gun show with your Constitution, American flags and your 'Hands Off My Guns' sign to send a loud and clear message to Congress and President Barack Obama," the site's landing page urges visitors.

tgnyc

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Wednesday December 08, 2010 · 3:09 PM PST

2010/12/08 · 15:09

In defending the deal he cut with Republicans on taxes yesterday, President Obama reminded us that, "This country was founded on compromise."

Now I think a strong argument can be made that this contry was also founded on Revolution, but I take his point. And his words reminded me of some of those major compromises critical to the founding and early maintanence of the United States of America. Like:

tgnyc

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Friday March 05, 2010 · 1:01 PM PST

2010/03/05 · 13:01

As a black New Yorker, I watched with a mix of embarrassment, confusion, and frustration Thursday night as a collection of current and former black New York elected officials and community leaders emerged from a hastily-called meeting in Harlemto declare that they were of the opinion that Governor Paterson should not resign from office at this time. It was a fascinating stance this group had taken. They didn't come out and state that they wanted him to complete his term; they merely stated that they would not ask him to resign at this time. While I get the distinction, I can guarantee that most Americans -- especially most nonblack non Democrats -- will not. What they will see is blacks protecting their own even when he gets caught in the act.

What are these people doing? I thought to myself.

tgnyc

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Wednesday August 27, 2008 · 11:45 AM PDT

2008/08/27 · 11:45

Obama's lightning-strike response to charges he lacks the experience to be president is, in essence, 'At least I have more wisdom than my opponent(s).'

The signature exhibit in his case is the vote on the Iraq War. He spoke out against it before entering the senate. Hillary, like McCain, voted for it. As the war has proven to be a blunder of epic proportions, the logic goes, all the years of experience of his colleagues ain't worth but a fraction of his native wisdom. As an Obama surrogate put it in a public memo:

Barack Obama has a very simple case. On the most important commander in chief test of our generation, he got it right, and Senator Clinton got it wrong.

So what does Obama say about Biden's vote for the Iraq War? And does Obama value Biden's experience?

tgnyc

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Sunday July 13, 2008 · 9:35 AM PDT

2008/07/13 · 09:35

I feel Jesse Jackson’s pain.

He finds himself in hot water for recent comments he made, thinking they were off the record, stating he wanted to castrate Barack Obama for "talking down to black people" in addressing his plans for expanding the Bush faith-based social services initiative.

Jackson’s words were, of course, disgusting and unacceptable, and he has – rightly – apologized. I think, though, I understand from where his fury is derived, and it goes way beyond anything Obama may have said regarding faith-based initiatives.

tgnyc

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Tuesday January 15, 2008 · 9:51 AM PST

2008/01/15 · 09:51

"Dr. Obama, I’ve been stabbed in the arm by this guy from across town who I’ve been fighting with for years. He robbed 50 bucks from my wallet this time. Look at the size of that gash! Can you help me?"

"Of course, I can. Just because I’m black doesn’t mean my medical degree is a fairy tale!"

"Huh...?"

"Let me see that. You know, it’s time for you and this guy to move past the divisions of the old. It’s time for change in your relationship."

"You know, I agree with you. But right now, I really need help with this wound..."

"It’s time to heal the wounds of the past! Here, let me just apply some gauzy bandaging to that. Now join me in expressing hope for the future! After all, there is more about your body that is healthy than is injured! Let’s celebrate what you and your attacker have in common – for example you’re both homo sapiens!"

"Is this bandage gonna heal that gash – "

"That wound has a long way to go, but it as already healed a great deal! Trust me; I can negotiate a truce between you and your attacker. I have a history of reaching out to people like him, working with people like him, and bringing people like him and like you together..."

tgnyc

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Saturday January 05, 2008 · 8:56 AM PST

2008/01/05 · 08:56

After two decades of the GOP wreaking havoc on the political process and driving wedges between various groups in our society, America was ready for someone who could bridge divides, heal wounds, and bring disparate groups together. The image of such a president was so attractive then, that George W. Bush managed to con more than a few people who should have known better to vote for him when he packaged it as being a "uniter, not a divider." So hypnotic was this kind of talk that Bush managed to Svengali more than a few voters -- and most of the national news media -- into not noticing the more than ample evidence that the man was a doofus.

In 2000, what the country was looking for most of all was a soothing caretaker. I would have been happy with that, as long as s/he also had plans for moving the nation steadily in a progressive direction. I would have been all over Obama if he had come out in that election.

But that was then. This is now.

tgnyc

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Thursday April 12, 2007 · 10:23 AM PDT

2007/04/12 · 10:23

Don Imus, or contributors to his radio program, have done the following things on his radio show and on television over the course of many years:

*referred to Venus and Serena Williams as animals
*referred to the black wife of the former Secretary of Defense as a big-haired ho
*referred to Gloria Estefan as a chihuahua-looking ho
*reffered to a predominantly black collegiate basketball team as nappy-headed ho's
*referred to a black New York Times journalist as a quota hire
*referred to a black presidential candidate as a colored fella
*referred to residents of Harlem as moolignans
*referred to jewish executives of his employer as money-grubbing
*suggested a white presidential candidate will try to appeal to black voters by flashing street gang hand signals
suggesting that a popular national television quiz show lacks black participants because the producers failed to recruit in prisons
*admitting to hiring a producer to do nigger jokes

Many more similar examples exist.

tgnyc

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Monday April 09, 2007 · 9:03 AM PDT

2007/04/09 · 09:03

So, the latest in a long line of racist filfth to emerge from the geniuses behind the Imus in the Morning Show was directed at the players on the Rutgers University women's basketball team. "Nappy-headed ho's" he called them.

WFAN Radio and MSNBC, Imus's radio and TV broadcast homebases, have issued the usual expressions of shock, and have promised to put Imus on a tighter leash going forward.

As an African-American who has had to put up with shit like this from Imus and others of his ilk over the years, I say, "Too. Fucking. Late."

I agree with the National Association of Black Journalists; Imus must go.

tgnyc

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Friday December 01, 2006 · 1:39 PM PST

2006/12/01 · 13:39

Given the re-emergence of Obamamania, I offer thoughts from a post I had on mydd earlier this year. My basic point is essentially in line with David Sirota's, if with less virulence and hopelessness attached: Obama has hardly done anything to warrant the level of excitement that his potential '08 presidential run has generated.

Further, I'd say the reason most Americans ever started going gaga over Obama is that in his highest-profile performance ever, at the '04 Democratic National Convention, he went out of his way deny the racial divide that exists in America. When a black politician does that, white Independents get moist. And as an African-American, I am particularly sensitive to, and frustrated by, such maneuvers.

Unfair? Really? Well, Bill Clinton has always been smart, articulate, charismatic, but at no time during his first campaign -- or pre-campaign -- did the country go ape-shit over him the way it is currently behaving toward Obama. Why? The racial component is the key.

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Thursday September 28, 2006 · 10:49 AM PDT

2006/09/28 · 10:49

George Allen, Republican, US Senator from Virginia.

As recently as two months ago, he had been considered a leading contender for the Republican nomination for the US Presidency in 2008.

Today he is in the fight of his career just to retain his Sentate seat.

Even more exciting, he is officially the leading contender for 2006 Strommy Award, recognizing the elected official displaying the most distressingly backwards attitudes and behaviors on matters of race for the year. The award is named after Strom Thurmond, the late US Senator from South Carolina who set the American record for Senate filibusters of 24 hours, 18 minutes in an effort to block passage of a 1957 civil rights bill. Previous winners have included Trent Lott, John Ashcroft, and George W. Bush.
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