Conservative Outrage Over Obama Speaking At Historically Black College!

No duh!

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President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama are attending college and high school commencements. Their presence excites the people graduating, pisses off the conservatives whenever they tell the students the hard truth of life outside the high school or college walls.

Comedian and liberal talk radio agitator Stephanie Miller along with her producer Chris Levoie were talking about the conservative outrage from the likes of That Guy Who Throws Shit To The Wall. They were commenting about the latest outrage from the conservative agitators on talk radio. The anger was over President Obama doing a commencement speech at the Morehouse College, a historically Black predominately men's college in Atlanta.

The president delivers his speech to the next generation of African American leaders. Just in case, you didn't know, the president is Black. And he's talking to a Black audience about the struggles to success.

First Lady Michelle Obama delivers a commencement speech at Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Magnet School in Nashville. The school is named after a Black religious and cultural icon, and I am guessing the student body is Black. And she's talking to a Black and Hispanic audience about the struggles to success.

Okay, That Guy Who Helped Obama Win. Miller predicted that he would cover this. Sure enough he did.

Here's the videos of both the Obamas speaking to the future generations.


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As usual, the conservative agitators can't stomach the president telling "us Black folk" about the racism that we'll face in the institutional world.

The Weekly Standard (aka Nothing Standard) goes into the usual word vomit about the president using a "Black voice" when he talks in front of a Black crowd.

Psst, the president is Black.

In a commencement address at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, President Barack Obama recalls Jim Crow laws and racism of the 1940s and 1950s. Morehouse College is a historically black college.

In the rain, Black graduates listen to President Obama deliver a speech about how to achieve success.

"Dr. King was just 15 years old when he enrolled here at Morehouse.  He was an unknown, undersized, unassuming young freshman who lived at home with his parents.  I think it’s fair to say he wasn’t the coolest kid on campus; for the suits he wore, his classmates called him 'Tweed.'  But his education at Morehouse helped to forge the intellect, the soul force, the disciple and compassion that would transform America.  It was here that he was introduced to the writings of Gandhi, and Thoreau, and the theory of civil disobedience.  It was here that professors encouraged him to look past the world as it was and fight for the world as it should be," Obama will say, according to text provided by the White House.

What pisses off the conservatives is the "Barack Obama telling the Black crowd, there's such thing as racism in America!"

In the conservative's mind, racism doesn't exist. It's a product of Black leaders causing trouble. It's a product of liberalism which keeps "us Black folk" poor, ignorant, dependent on "gubmint" and not willing to stand up for personal responsibility.

So your experiences give you special insight that today’s leaders need.  If you tap into that experience, it should endow you with empathy – the understanding of what it’s like to walk in somebody else’s shoes.  It should give you an ability to connect.  It should give you a sense of what it means to overcome barriers.

Whatever success I achieved, whatever positions of leadership I’ve held, have depended less on Ivy League degrees or SAT scores or GPAs, and have instead been due to that sense of empathy and connection – the special obligation I felt, as a black man like you, to help those who needed it most; people who didn’t have the opportunities that I had, because but for the grace of God, I might be in their shoes.  So it’s up to you to widen your circle of your concern – to create greater justice both in your own community, but also across our country.  To make sure everyone has a voice; everyone gets a seat at the table; to make sure that everyone – no matter what they look like or where they come from, or who they love – gets a chance to walk through those doors of opportunity if they want it bad enough. 

Accepting an honorary degree, President Barack Obama talks to the class of 2013.

Okay, is this the outrage the conservatives have with President Barack Obama?

Really.

The junk food media reports that the constant obsession with the Obama "scandals" will get old soon.

The Republicans and the conservative agitators are almost giddy about these scandals. There are some calling for impeachment because of this. Again making the mistake of overplaying into something.

Republicans have continued to stall bureaucracy nominees, federal judges, and legislation.

Just this week, Republicans balked at immigration reform. It's likely Republicans won't support the full package no matter what the immigration reform has. They don't want any inserts of LGBT immigrants or "amnesty". So the Democrats quickly stripped it out of session and the immigration bill continues to move forward.

The Republicans are ignoring the polls. A Public Policy Polling survey released last week found that a majority of voters said Congress had better things to do, like pass immigration reform and gun background check bills, than continue focusing on Benghazi. And that was even after a much-ballyhooed "whistle-blower" hearing into the matter.

That Guy Who Helped Obama Win continues on this fixation with the president speech to the Black community. His motives are to spook the White audience of his radio and television programs. And on occasions his Black conservative audience too.

So the president tells a Black college about the struggles of the world. He tells them that if you're to achieve the goals of success, you have to work twice as hard. The first lady says the same. With a congress wasting their time on Benghazi, the IRS and the Associated Press, instead of jobs, unemployment and infrastructure, then there's a reason for the president to tell a Black college to work extra hard. Extra hard to get the U.S. Congress to do something to help the American people.

Conservatives are screaming that the president is being "racist" for "telling us Black folk" about conservatives  being those evil "white racists".

The Guy Who Helped Obama Win is on a never-ending whinefest about the "anointed one" being hurtful to Black leaders.

No matter what President Barack Obama does, this guy, the Republican Party and the conservative agitators will complain, whine and even goes as far to saying racial slurs to show their dissatisfaction with him.

Death Of The King! [NSFW]

45 years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on his way to lunch and protest march was gunned down by an assassin. The death of King brought to the nation to the grips of racial unrest.

King was the prominent leader of the African-American civil rights movement and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who became known for his advancement of civil rights by using civil disobedience. He was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968, at the age of 39. King was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 7:05PM that evening.

James Earl Ray, a fugitive from the Missouri State Penitentiary, was arrested in London at Heathrow Airport, extradited to the United States, and charged with the crime. On March 10, 1969, Ray entered a plea of guilty and was sentenced to 99 years in the Tennessee state penitentiary. Ray later made many attempts to withdraw his guilty plea and be tried by a jury, but was unsuccessful; he died in prison on April 23, 1998, at the age of 70.

King was booked in room 306 at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, owned by businessman Walter Bailey (and named after his wife). King's close friend and colleague Reverend Ralph David Abernathy, who was King's roommate in the motel room the day of the assassination, told the House Select Committee on Assassinations that King and his entourage stayed in room 306 at the Lorraine Motel so often that it was known as the "King-Abernathy Suite."

According to biographer Taylor Branch, King's last words were to musician Ben Branch, who was scheduled to perform that night at an event King was going to attend: "Ben, make sure you play 'Take My Hand, Precious Lord' in the meeting tonight. Play it real pretty.

At 6:01 p.m. on Thursday, April 4, 1968, while he was standing on the motel's second floor balcony, King was struck by a single .30 bullet fired from a Remington 760 Gamemaster.

The bullet entered through his right cheek, breaking his jaw, neck and several vertebrae as it travelled down his spinal cord, severing the jugular vein and major arteries in the process before lodging in his shoulder. By the force of the blast, King's necktie was ripped completely off his shirt. He fell violently backwards onto the balcony unconscious. Shortly after the shot was fired, witnesses saw James Earl Ray fleeing from a rooming house across the street from the Lorraine Motel where he was renting a room.

A package was dumped close to the site that included a rifle and binoculars with Ray's fingerprints on them. The rifle had been purchased by Ray under an alias six days before. A worldwide manhunt was triggered that culminated in the arrest of Ray at London Heathrow Airport two months later.

Abernathy heard the shot from inside the motel room and ran to the balcony to find King on the floor. King was bleeding profusely from the wound in his cheek. His SCLC colleague Andrew Young believed he was dead, though King still had a pulse.

The pictures are disturbing!

In some of these pictures will be Coretta Scott King, his children, Ralph David Abernathy, Jesse Jackson and James Earl Ray.

The Mountain Top!

45 years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. "I've Been The To The Mountaintop" was the last speech he made while he preach calm during the Memphis sanitation strike.

Before we mark another year of the tragic killing of Dr. Martin Luther King, we listen to the speech.

King spoke on April 3, 1968, at the Mason Temple (Church of God in Christ Headquarters) in Memphis, Tennessee. On the next day, King was assassinated.

The speech primarily concerns the Memphis Sanitation Strike. King calls for unity, economic actions, boycotts, and nonviolent protest, while challenging the United States to live up to its ideals. At the end of the speech, he discusses the possibility of an untimely death.

The most notable quote:

And then I got to Memphis. And some began to say the threats, or talk about the threats that were out. What would happen to me from some of our sick white brothers? ... Well, I don't know what will happen now. We've got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn't really matter with me now. Because I've been to the mountaintop. I don't mind. Like anybody, I would like to live - a long life; longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land. So I'm happy, tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.

Black Commentators Square Off Over Ben Carson's Remarks!

Los Angeles talk radio host Leo Terrell goes into another combative interview with "That Guy Who Helped Obama Win" on Fox News to discuss the controversial comments by Dr. Benjamin Carson.

I don't know why Los Angeles talk radio host and civil rights activist Leo Terrell keeps going on to Fox News to debate the country's most annoying conservative agitator!

Why would he waste his time with that guy? That guy just needs people like Terrell for scapegoating! That guy is so Obama-obsessed it's unbelievable.

That guy goes completely batshit over the left's attacks on Dr. Benjamin Carson. Yet, he manages to take his time to attack the first Black president!

If one thing was said about this guy and his network, it's pretty clear that Phil Griffin wants to take that guy down. I predicted that Rachel Maddow will surpass that guy in late 2013. People will eventually tune out the word vomit coming from the likes of that guy, Michelle Malkin,  Brent Bozell, Jesse Lee Peterson, Juan Williams, Bob Beckel and Ann Coulter.

Niger Innis of CORE/Project 21, a conservative civil rights group takes on Leo Terrell on "That Guy Who Helped Obama Win's" television program. That Guy is all upset over MSNBC's Toure calling Dr. Benjamin Caron a "token".

This debate over Dr. Benjamin Carson comes to light after two months of conservatives propping this "nobody" up to the national spotlight. The neurosurgeon who retiring from the John Hopkins Hospital rose to fame after he insulted the president at the National Prayer's Breakfast.

Dr. Benjamin Carson.

He made a passionate speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference. Then after that, he made an appearance on that guy's show to say that gay marriage is equivalent to animal sex. That lit up the internet and many students at John Hopkins University are protesting his commencement speech.

That guy invites Terrell and Congress Of Racial Equality's Niger Innis to debate over the Carson debacle.

It's heated and it's controversial.

The good ole' day of CORE. It was started as a Black nationalist group. They were promoting the Black power movement. It aligned its group around the Black Panthers, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and warned the media of arming Blacks to take on the racist South.

Niger's father Roy Innis.

Roy Innis defends reality star Dog The Bounty Hunter after he was caught saying racial slurs about his son's Black girlfriend. The realty television star was defended by Roy and his son Niger Innis. "That Guy Who Helped Obama Win" was one of the biggest defenders of people who attack the Black community.

Innis is the current chairman of CORE. If you're an old school type of person, you know that Roy Innis was a member of the King team back during the Civil Rights movement. He was part of the Freedom Rides, the March on Washington and many student sit-ins.

Since 1970, the roots of Black nationalism decline and the organization became more conservative. It went on to support Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and the Bush family. Roy Innis best was known for socking Al Sharpton on Mort Downey's program. And the infamous fight that involve the Neo-Nazis and Innis was on Geraldo Rivera's program known during the mid-1990s. He's a member of the National Rifle Association.

A Rainbow That's All White!

Reince Priebus hoping to save what's left of a fractured GOP.

Reince Priebus is depressed. I mean he managed to help the Republicans retain the House of Representatives and many governorships. But he failed at retaining the U.S. Senate and the presidency.

Where Michael Steele managed to swept the Republicans back into the House of Representatives and bring forth Republicans to the state house and governorships. Republicans managed to obtain the power to redraw the congressional lines in which it gave them a stronger advantage.

But today, the Republican chairman is looking through the woods and hoping he'll find the rainbow of gold.

The Republican diversity tour is an utter disaster. The Black and Hispanic community detest the Republican Party. This year alone, Republicans have isolated themselves to be a party of "OLD WHITE IGNORANT MEN!"

Sean Hannity and Ann Coulter. Two conservative agitators who said some pretty ignorant things about President Barack Obama and his allies in the progressive movement.

Perhaps we should call the Republicans, the party of cocaine! I mean they're on some powerful stuff. They're acting like junkies. Snorting the crap that dope peddlers in the conservative media selling them!

Cocaine is 90% WHITE and 10% OTHER. Just like the Republican Party.

This rebranding effort isn't going to save the Republicans. The party is too extreme. They fear the onslaught of retaliation by Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, Sarah Palin and the National Rifle Association.

They've engaged in this ongoing culture war against everyone including themselves. The Republicans don't know who to trust right now!

All they got left is pretty much the blame going to Barack Obama and the media for their continuous failures.

I got so many suggestions for the Republican Party, but I just couldn't contain myself from delivering my honest opinion about the rebranding of the national party. Here are some healthy and yet obvious suggestion to the ailing party.

1) Drop Fox News as a source of information.

2) Quit allowing conservative agitators (i.e. Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, Michael Savage, Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity and others) rally a base of ignorance and idiocy. Their rhetoric helped Barack Obama win reelection.

3) Quit reading stuff from The Drudge Report, WorldNetDaily, InfoWars, Michelle Malkin, Hot Air, Free Republic, The Fox Nation, The Blaze, Newsbusters, The Daily Caller, and Breitbart. Half of the crap that comes from the conservative media is half-truths and misinformation.

4) Quit saying Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican.

5) Quit making comments about Black/Hispanics and other people of color being on welfare.

6) Quit screaming about the government being too big!

7) Drop the Ronald Reagan quotes, nostalgia and comparisons of past and present presidents. We're in the 21st Century. Reagan, Nixon, Ford were of the past century. Lincoln was two centuries ago. You got be in the present time.

8) Quit acting like your the party that favors "liberty", "freedom", and "patriotism". The Democrats are just like you in the "patriotic slogans". They believe in a society just like Republicans.

9) Compromise with the president and the Democratic Party on issues that matter.

10) Quit stalling the president's nominees. Never in American history has one president had such gridlock. The minority party has filibustered over a 100 of President Barack Obama's nominees. The recent filibuster by Rand Paul was the tipping point. All this ranting by Paul was over conspiracy theories. That's enough to have filibuster reform passed.

11) Don't undermine the moderate Republicans. They are the key to pulling in independents. If you knock Chris Christie, Rob Portman, Jon Huntsman, Susan Collins, Paul Kirk, and Dan Coates, they'll leave the party. They're the moderate Republicans who can help pass legislation that favors Republicans. They can negotiate with Democrats. Avoid purging the moderates.

The Republicans are searching for more than the white color in the rainbow.

12) Quit calling the president a "MUSLIM", "SOCIALIST", "COMMUNIST","MULATTO", "KENYAN", "NIGGER" and any other word vomit.

13) Quit blaming the media for the outrageous comments by those in the Republican Party.

14) Quit calling people who voted for President Barack Obama "misinformed", "low information voters" and "zombies".

15) Quit supporting losers like Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, Paul Ryan, Ron Paul, Benjamin Carson, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, John McCain and whoever else you pull out the toilet. Pick candidates who can appeal to independents and Democrats. Don't waste your time on a presidential candidate who wants to stand in the limelight. That's probably why these fools were likely losers straight out the gate.

16) Give the LGBT community their right to marriage. Gay marriage isn't hurting anyone. They want to live their lives in union. Republicans drop the act of DOMA. Let the LGBT community have the right to marry.

17) Stop running on that silly narrative the president is doing a perceived harm upon this country. You can visit the White House website to find out policies, speeches and proposals. The president's agenda is public record as is his original birth certificate.

18) Stop pandering to religious extremists, white supremacists, racists, survivalists, and conspiracy kooks.

Sarah Palin makes Republicans look like idiots!

19) Get over the fact you've lost the election. There's nothing worse than being a sore loser! We understand the plight of being a loser. Democrats had Al Gore and John Kerry. They sucked. It's not Barack Obama's fault you lined up two perennial candidates who failed at winning the Republican nomination and presidency.

20) Stop being the party that's prehistoric. What the hell are you lining up? You lined up candidates who say it's "god's will to be raped!" You have candidates who refuse to acknowledge growth in the economy. You have candidates who think about guns more than the lives of innocent children. You have candidates who believe global warming is just voodoo science.

21) Quit telling Blacks that the Republicans freed the slaves. The Black voters of the present generation aren't going to take kindly to a fat White guy telling them: "You owe us for freeing you!"

22) Talk to young voters. Understand their needs. Don't call young voters, parasites, sugar babies and dependents on the government because they want student loans. Most young voters don't have trust funds and rich parents to help them get into a fancy university or college.

23) Quit acting like parents. You're not parents. You're a political party that favors center-right policies that advocate on limited government, strong defense, low taxes and free enterprise. Put this stuff in common sense and not that jargon that sounds like a professor, or a condescending bigot (i.e. Rush Limbaugh).

24) Admit that Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush were responsible for most of the mess we're in! They've raised the debt ceiling higher than any president before Barack Obama took office. They are the reason why our debt is so high and they didn't care about deficits and budgets. The Republicans followed them like a boy and his dog.

Sarah Palin and Karl Rove are feuding with one another over the direction of the Republican Party.

25) Stop using tokens as your saviors. Sure you may have Michael Steele, Tim Scott, Allen West, Mia Love, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Raul Labrador, Bobby Jindal, Nikki Haley and even Benjamin Carson in the Republican Party, but they don't speak to a general base of voters. They're tokens. They're used only when its a shield to protect racists and extremists within the Republican Party. You will need smart, intelligent and resourceful women and people of color to run the Republican Party. The Democratic Party has bragging rights to having the first Black president. The Democrats had the first woman to be the Speaker of the House. They managed to win a majority of women and young voters. The Hispanic vote is nearly secured by the Democrats. When will the Republicans take their heads out of their asses and get some of the action?

Rush Limbaugh wasn't real helpful to the Republicans this last election.

Here's what I'll do if the Republicans want my vote!

The Republicans must stop this culture war against everyone! If they do so, I'll stop calling them racist.

I'll stop calling them bigots if they refuse to allow anyone within their party to hate a person's race, gender, sexuality, nationality, religion, educational, political and economic standings.

I'll stop blaming them for all the mass shootings in a suburban school or shopping center.

I'll stop blaming them if they can separate themselves from all the White supremacist rhetoric we've seen through channels such as The Drudge Report.

I'll vote for a Republican for president if the person can deliver a plan to help everyone. Not a select few.

I'll vote for a Republican if they stop acting like a bunch of idiots!

Does Black America Hate The Republican Party?

Buzzfeed tracks the most viral things happening across the world. The website leans liberal.

Today, what caught my attention was the Republicans struggles with Black and Hispanic voters. Tales of the failed minority outreach made by Republican chairman Reince Pribeus and the perennial loser Mitt Romney may have doomed the national party.

What has me thinking about the situation is pretty simple. Sure ignorance!

The very fact that many conservatives love to twist history in order to make condescending points to "why Blacks voter overwhelmingly Democratic" is a dead giveaway to the deficit you'll find in the Republican Party.

Basically a White conservative wants to talk us Black folk down!

For one thing, I've said it before and I'll say it again! The Republican Party is like cocaine. It contains 90% White, 10% other. The Republican Party in my opinion favors the White Evangelical men. It tends to favor the well off, the rich, the elite, and is extremely conservative.

The Republican Party caters to racism through a broad coalition of groups determined to keep a segment of the United States from intervening in the nation's affairs. Conservatives rally around the Republicans because the party caters to their single issue ideas and principles.

Conservatives are reactionary bigots who have a hatred of someone's race, gender, sexuality, nationality, education, religion, economic and political standings.

If you tell a Republican or a conservative how you feel about the party in general, they'll give a reactionary defense against being called a racist.

The conservatives will gin up the notion that they were the ones responsible for civil rights in America.

After all who would go around claiming Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican while slamming Congressman John Lewis (D-Georgia), the NAACP, the Southern Poverty Law Center, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Joesph Lowery and Benjamin Jealous? 

Republicans love to take credit in saying they've ended slavery, Jim Crow and helping pass the Civil Rights Laws. 

They forgot the Democratic Party is the first to nominate the first Black candidate for president.

If it wasn't for Democratic presidents Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, Blacks wouldn't have all the opportunities for education, health care, voting rights and fair housing.

Yeah, I can credit moderate Republicans like Theodore Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower and Abraham Lincoln for being popular among Black voters. 

But they surely forgotten that it was Republicans who also ran every dirty trick in this past election to keep Blacks from voting. They're the ones who want to build gated communities to sovereign themselves from the Black community. Republicans keep Blacks away from their private establishments through the barrel of a gun.

Some of the most recent comments from conservatives show a strong dislike towards the Black community, the continent of Africa, hip-hop music and President Barack Obama.

They love to create websites that promote hate of Blacks. There's probably over 100 websites devoted to trashing the president, me, you and other Blacks.

Yet, let there be one Black person who creates one website that trashes White people. It's on the conservative blogs, Fox News or talk radio the next day!

White conservatives hate being called racist. All hell breaks loose and conservatives rally a reactionary defense! They'll say that "it's not us, but them!"

Yet, they want no political correctness. The conservatives would love to say NIGGER to a Black person's face, but they fear they may lose their job or get attacked by us. In the white conservative's mind, we're looked upon as "savages" and "gubmint dependents".

They rally a bunch of extremists with rhetoric painting Blacks as an enemy.

These individuals then in turn call the Black community with labels such as "monkeys", "inferior", "lazy", "low-intelligence", "sex-crazed" "animals" or "monsters".

Any comment section linked through WorldNetDaily, InfoWars, The Drudge Report, Twitchy, The Daily Caller, Fox Nation, social networking websites (i.e. Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Instagram) will have word vomit of racial slurs, Obama name dropping, faulty statistics of crime in Black/White areas, themes of rape and off tangent arguments to why they hate being labeled racist.

Black Republicans love to rush to the camera whenever there's an opportunity to trash President Barack Obama, Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton. In turn they'll spin this nonsense about urban areas are in decline because of Democratic politicans and Black leaders. They blame them over the bad parent or teenager who fails in society.

Senator Tim Scott (R-South Carolina), Allen West, Herman Cain, Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, Alan Keyes, Jesse Lee Peterson, Alveda King, Armstrong Williams, Juan Williams, James Manning love to rally the White conservatives. They know if they can say something racist about Black people, they're not racist! They're just telling the truth only to a crowd of mostly White people.

Yet, we get mad at these individuals and call them "UNCLE TOMS", "TOKENS" and "SELL-OUTS" for speaking out against Black leaders.

Reince Prebius is trying to add flavor to the all White seasoning of Republican elites.

We praise the Black liberal entertainers and politicians like the president, Bill Cosby or Jay-Z telling us the very same thing. We think of these individuals as heroes, truth-tellers and all knowing.

I can tell you that the Republican Party inclusiveness will be their undoing. They've purged the moderates.

They've taken the side of conspiracy kook Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky). So they're now in the tank of a politician who believes the Civil Rights Act of 1965 was unconstitutional because it bothered the White owners who had a right to serve whomever they wanted.

With Mitt Romney about to appear at CPAC, many politicos in Washington wonder what went wrong with Romney. He lost every key demographic except for the White married family who lives in the suburbs or rural communities.

So the Republicans need a couple of tokens?

McKay Coppins of Buzzfeed wrote that Republican National Committee leader Reince Priebus used a Monday afternoon press conference to preach inclusion, outreach, and political redemption for his struggling party.

But too many of the people in the predominantly black, low-income neighborhood surrounding the church, the Republican Party was not yet done atoning for its 2012 sins.

Priebus came to the Christian Cultural Center — an evangelical church in East New York that boasts 29,000 members, and is headed by prominent black Republican Rev. A.R. Bernard — to participate in what a press release called an "African-American engagement and listening session." It was the latest stop in a national tour for the RNC chief, ostensibly intended to gather advice before the party releases its official campaign post-mortem next week.

Complimenting the church as a "beautiful, successful place of renewal and revival," Priebus quipped, "We're hoping to get a little bit of that at the Republican National Committee."

To pull off a Republican resurrection, Priebus said, the party would have to work hard to "make the sale" to African-American voters, who left the Republican Party in large amid the civil rights battles of the 1960s, and who President Barack Obama won with 93 percent in 2012.

Blacks come to see the GOP as the party of Romney.

Most Blacks believe that Republicans only cared about rich people. Those in Brooklyn never heard of Reince Priebus — but they had all heard of Mitt Romney.

And for most of them, Romney's candidacy was reason enough to steer clear of the Republican Party for the foreseeable future.

Maybe they should have keep that jive turkey Michael Steele!

Obama Unveils Rosa Parks Memorial!

President Barack Obama and members of Congress introduce the statue of famed civil rights icon Rosa Parks. For one moment in history, you see our leaders actually agree on one thing: Rosa Parks did something that changed the nation.

December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order that she give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger, after the white section was filled.

Parks' act of defiance and the Montgomery Bus Boycott became important symbols of the modern Civil Rights Movement. She became an international icon of resistance to racial segregation. She organized and collaborated with civil rights leaders, including Edgar Nixon, president of the local chapter of the NAACP; and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a new minister in town who gained national prominence in the civil rights movement.

At the time, Parks was secretary of the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP. She had recently attended the Highlander Folk School, a Tennessee center for training activists for workers' rights and racial equality. She acted as a private citizen "tired of giving in". Although widely honored in later years, she also suffered for her act; she was fired from her job as a seamstress in a local department store.

Her fight for equal rights motivated King to prominence.

The president unveiled the Rosa Parks memorial at the hub of the National Statuary Hall. This is a chamber in the United States Capitol devoted to sculptures of prominent Americans. The hall, also known as the Old Hall of the House, is a large, two-story, semicircular room with a second story gallery along the curved perimeter.

For one day the Washington lawmakers had a brief moment of clarity.


President Obama and members of Congress are so far apart on issues. The Republicans want to wreck the economy because they're sore losers. And the public is feeling it. Many Black and Hispanic workers fear that if the Congress fails at solving the fiscal crisis, they'll suffer.

There is a major lawsuit on the dockets of the Supreme Court of the United States. The Shelby County v. Holder is at the whims of a partisan court. The Supreme Court will make a landmark (5-4) decision on due process. The Court granted certiorari on the limited question of "whether Congress' decision in 2006 to reauthorize section 5 of the Voting Rights Act under the pre-existing coverage formula of Section 4(b) [sic] of the Voting Rights Act exceeded its authority under the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments and thus violated the Tenth Amendment and Article IV of the United States Constitution."

If the Court strikes down any portion of the Voting Rights Act it's going to unravel all the hard work done by the Democrats during the "hot summer of 1965".

Republicans already gerrymandered districts to give their party a 2-1 advantage in general elections. Many state governors are trying to make electoral votes separate count. Pennsylvania governor Tom Corbett is likely going to sign a law that breaks up the "winner takes all" strategy. It makes all the rural and suburban (likely Republican strongholds) a single vote for the candidate who pulls the most votes.

Republicans are going to make it harder for Democrats to win elections. Even though they've tried with voter suppression, voter identification laws and false cries of voter fraud, Republicans are devoted to stop progress in the name of extremism (not conservatism).

Essie Mae Washington-Williams Passes Away!

Civil Rights activist Essie Mae Washington-Williams died in Columbia, South Carolina. It was confirmed by her family.

Black History Month is a part of American history. Today we learned that the "love child" of 1948 United States presidential candidate and formerly devout segregationist Strom Thurmond passed away today! It's been about 10 years since the death of the South Carolina senator who rose to fame as the southern politician who had a hate of integration and Civil Rights leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

James Strom Thurmond was born on December 5, 1902 in the Edgefield, South Carolina. He was an American politician who served for 48 years as a United States Senator. He also ran for the Presidency of the United States in 1948 as the segregationist States Rights Democratic Party (Dixiecrat) candidate, receiving 2.4% of the popular vote and 39 electoral votes. He was the 103rd governor of the state of South Carolina.

Thurmond represented South Carolina in the United States Senate from 1954 until 2003. Originally he started as a Democrat. After the Democratic Party supported the landmark Civil Rights Act, Thurmond conversion to Republican came. He switched because of his opposition to the 1964 Civil Rights Act, disaffection with the national party, and support for the conservatism of the Republican presidential candidate and Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater. 

He left office as the only senator to reach the age of 100 while still in office and as the oldest-serving and longest-serving senator in U.S. history (although he was later surpassed in length of service by Robert Byrd and Daniel Inouye).

Thurmond holds the record at 14 years as the longest-serving Dean of the United States Senate in U.S. history.

In opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957, he conducted the longest filibuster ever by a lone senator, at 24 hours and 18 minutes in length, nonstop. 

In the 1960s, he opposed the civil rights legislation of 1964 and 1965 to end segregation and enforce the voting rights of African-American citizens. He always insisted he had never been a racist, but was opposed to excessive federal authority. 

He notably was quoted as saying that "all the laws of Washington and all the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, into our schools, our churches and our places of recreation and amusement."

He attributed the movement for integration to Communist agitators.

Essie Mae Washington-Williams meets with people.

Starting in the 1970s, he moderated his position on race, but continued to defend his early segregationist campaigns on the basis of states' rights in the context of Southern society at the time, never fully renouncing his earlier viewpoints.

Six months after Thurmond's death in 2003, it was revealed that at age 22, he had fathered a mixed-race daughter, Essie Mae Washington-Williams, with his family's maid, Carrie Butler, a 16-year-old black girl. 

Although Thurmond never publicly acknowledged Essie Mae, he paid for her education at a historically black college and passed other money to her for some time. His children by his marriage eventually acknowledged their father bore a child outside of marriage.

TPM reports that Essie Mae Washington-Williams, the biracial daughter of the former presidential candidate who ran on the segregationist platform of the Dixiecrat Party. The Dixiecrats were conservative based group of Democrats who supported Jim Crow legislation to keep separate facilities for Whites and non-White citizens.

Washington was the natural daughter of Carrie Butler, who was 16 when her daughter was born, and Strom Thurmond, then 22. Butler worked for his parents as a domestic servant. She sent her daughter from South Carolina to her older sister Mary and her husband John Henry Washington to be raised in Coatesville, Pennsylvania. 

She was named Essie after another of Carrie's sisters, who fostered her briefly as an infant. Growing up, Essie Mae lived with a cousin seven years older than she, who she believed was her half-brother. 

Washington was unaware of the identity of her biological parents until 1941, when she was 16, when her mother told her and took her to meet Thurmond in person.

Washington-Williams and her mother met infrequently with Thurmond after that, although they had some contact for years.

Strom Thurmond

After high school, Washington-Williams worked as a nurse at Harlem Hospital in New York City, and took a course in business education at New York University.

She did not live in the segregated South until 1942, when she started college at South Carolina State University (SCSU), a historically black college. Thurmond paid for her college education. After having grown up in Pennsylvania, Washington was shocked by the racial restrictions of the South. She graduated from SCSU around 1946 with a degree in business.

When Washington-Williams announced her family connection, it was acknowledged by the Thurmond family. 

In 2004 the state legislature approved the addition of her name to the list of Thurmond children on a monument for Senator Thurmond on the South Carolina Statehouse grounds.

Washington-Williams said she would apply for membership in the United Daughters of the Confederacy, based on her heritage through Thurmond to ancestors who fought as Confederate soldiers. She encouraged other African Americans to do so as well, in the interests of exploring their heritage and promoting a more inclusive view of Southern history among lineage societies. She said,

"It is important for all Americans to have the opportunity to know and understand their bloodline. Through my father's line, I am fortunate to trace my heritage back to the birth of our nation and beyond. On my mother's side, like most African-Americans, my history is broken by the course of human events."

The lineage society is for female descendants of Confederate veterans of the American Civil War. As her father Thurmond had been a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, she could use his completed genealogical documentation of links to participating ancestor(s). She also intended to join the Daughters of the American Revolution.

In 2005, Washington-Williams was awarded an honorary Ph.D. in education from South Carolina State University at Orangeburg when she was invited to speak at their commencement ceremony. That year she had published a memoir, Dear Senator: A Memoir by the Daughter of Strom Thurmond (2005), written with William Stadiem. It explored her sense of dislocation based on her mixed heritage, as well as going to college in the segregated South after having grown up in Pennsylvania.

It was nominated for both a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize.

Washington-Williams said that she intended to be active on behalf of the Black Patriots Foundation, which was raising funds to build a monument on the National Mall in Washington D.C. to honor American blacks who served in the American Revolutionary War.

Her death brought forth a legacy shattered by the notion of a colorblind society. Even though Strom Thurmond legacy was marred with controversy, I guess before he had died, he had a change of heart!

He voted in favor for the national recognition of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of National Service.

He voted for the James Brady Law in which it banned semi-automatic firearms.

He went on to hire his first Black staffer in 1971. 

Thurmond still supported state's rights but toned down his rhetoric in later years. He was a big contributor to Ronald Reagan's electoral victory over Jimmy Carter, the incumbent president of the late 1970s. Thurmond was friends with late senators Ted Kennedy, Daniel Inouye, and Robert Byrd.   

In 2002, then U.S. Majority Leader Trent Lott, the Republican from Mississippi caused a firestorm. While he attended the birthday of Thurmond. He fell from power after praising Strom Thurmond's 1948 segregationist Dixiecrat presidential bid. Lott said: "When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We’re proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over the years, either.

That was the last controversy for Thurmond before he died later into 2003.

Essie Mae Washington-Williams didn't want to ruin her father's legacy as a decent man! She give him the opportunity to change his ways before he would have died. And today, I think her father would have been proud to have to see her help people of color succeed in America.

Today the United States has the first Black president and two members* of the United States senate who are Black. Ceiling are broken and legacies will be born!

We here at Journal de la Reyna send our condolences to the family of Essie Mae Williams-Washington.

Sidenote:

Democrat Barack Obama is the current President of The United States. He was elected to become the president in 2008. Previously Obama was previously elected as a United States senator from Illinois. Obama successfully won reelection in 2012 and is the first Black president. He was born by an African man and American white woman.

*Republican Senator Tim Scott was appointed to represent South Carolina after Jim DeMint resigned to become the president of the Heritage Foundation.

*Democrat Senator Mo Cowan was appointed to represent Massachusetts after John Kerry resigned to become the Secretary of State.

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The liberal wing of the Democratic Party continues to be at odds with the conservative wing of the party. 

As we continue into modern politics, the Democrats from the South, Midwest and Mountains West are scared shitless. The conservative U.S. Senate Democrats from North Carolina, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Montana, Alaska, Nevada, Louisiana, Arkansas, Colorado, North Dakota and South Dakota are scared of the vindictive National Rifle Assocation over firearm regulations.

This week alone we have seen incidents that involved firearms. Many Americans lose their lives due to unregistered firearms in the hands of people who have mental issues.

From the comments on social networks to the guy holed up in the bunker, the gun nuts are out! The Republican, the NRA and conservatives relish in this paranoid fantasy that President Barack Obama is mounting a full-scale war against the Second Amendment.

They can't even accept the fact the president shoots a firearm. The Republicans and their conservative allies continue to waste their time and energy fighting a culture war. As the president keeps laying out traps, as expected they'll fall through them.

How many more people must lose their lives?

Is your firearm more important than your life?

How many Americans died at the hands of a gun?

Haters Gonna Hate!

President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama are the real winners!

They keep the media on their toes.

Conservative bloggers such as Michelle Malkin, Matt Drudge, the Newsbusters and World Net Daily crowd found some outrage over the inauguration events.

The sore losers of the conservative media ablazed over the "rolling eyes" of First Lady Michelle Obama at House Speaker Weeper John Boehner (R-Ohio).

Real Clear Politics got the video and the WHITE CONSERVATIVE EXTREMISTS are vomiting their word salad on the websites.

Dr. Cornel West, famed Black activist whines on the radio and television about the president taking oath of office on the bibles of President Abraham Lincoln and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.. Both were slain by extremists.

First Lady Michelle Obama was caught rolling her eyes at John Bohener, Ohio Republican congressman who is the current Speaker of the House of Representatives.

To those who relish in the divisive hate of President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, their children, Vice President Joe Biden, the Black community, the Hispanic community and anyone of color:

Without you, there wouldn't be Barack Obama! Haters gonna hate!

It's the reasons why [Republicans] lost these elections. You won the House of Representatives on the whims of gerrymandering. The current Congress job approval is low. President Barack Obama found a crack in the armor of the Republican Party.

The Tea Party.

Since the introduction of the Tea Party, Republicans moved further to the right on issues. They've worshiped the ground of Rush Limbaugh, Karl Rove, Fox News, the NRA, and Grover Norquist. Each of these figures are either exposed a frauds or self-glorifying morons. You want to bring new and fresh faces into the party.

Yet, Republicans keep nominating OLD, WHITE, TIRED LOOKING, IGNORANT, BIGOTS as their leaders.

Conservatives obsess with calling those who supported the president, low information voters and uninformed!

It seems like this last election informed millions of Americans to vote against the Republican nominee, the perennial loser Mitt Romney. It didn't help Republicans win the Senate. It only gave Republicans a small majority in the House of Representatives.

If you consider Americans low information voters and the like: 

Get use to losing because it's not us that's uninformed!

It's likely you!

Feels Like A Winner!

President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden take their formal oath of office again! This time the setting is huge and it's on the steps of the nation's capitol. The president and vice president will assume power for the next four years. And despite all the controversy and rancor from the ney sayers in the Republican Party, the country was happy that President Barack Obama won and their nominee the perennial loser Mitt Romney lost.

President Barack Obama lays out the groundwork for his second term. In his inauguration speech, the president lays his groundwork for his second term.

Vice President Biden, Mr. Chief Justice, Members of the United States Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow citizens:

Each time we gather to inaugurate a president, we bear witness to the enduring strength of our Constitution.  We affirm the promise of our democracy.  We recall that what binds this nation together is not the colors of our skin or the tenets of our faith or the origins of our names.  What makes us exceptional – what makes us American – is our allegiance to an idea, articulated in a declaration made more than two centuries ago:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Today we continue a never-ending journey, to bridge the meaning of those words with the realities of our time.  For history tells us that while these truths may be self-evident, they have never been self-executing; that while freedom is a gift from God, it must be secured by His people here on Earth.  The patriots of 1776 did not fight to replace the tyranny of a king with the privileges of a few or the rule of a mob.  They gave to us a Republic, a government of, and by, and for the people, entrusting each generation to keep safe our founding creed.


For more than two hundred years, we have.

Through blood drawn by lash and blood drawn by sword, we learned that no union founded on the principles of liberty and equality could survive half-slave and half-free.  We made ourselves anew, and vowed to move forward together.

Together, we determined that a modern economy requires railroads and highways to speed travel and commerce; schools and colleges to train our workers.

Together, we discovered that a free market only thrives when there are rules to ensure competition and fair play.

Together, we resolved that a great nation must care for the vulnerable, and protect its people from life’s worst hazards and misfortune.

Through it all, we have never relinquished our skepticism of central authority, nor have we succumbed to the fiction that all society’s ills can be cured through government alone.  Our celebration of initiative and enterprise; our insistence on hard work and personal responsibility, these are constants in our character.

But we have always understood that when times change, so must we; that fidelity to our founding principles requires new responses to new challenges; that preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires collective action.  For the American people can no more meet the demands of today’s world by acting alone than American soldiers could have met the forces of fascism or communism with muskets and militias.  No single person can train all the math and science teachers we’ll need to equip our children for the future, or build the roads and networks and research labs that will bring new jobs and businesses to our shores.  Now, more than ever, we must do these things together, as one nation, and one people.

Beyonce sings the National Anthem.

This generation of Americans has been tested by crises that steeled our resolve and proved our resilience.  A decade of war is now ending.  An economic recovery has begun.  America’s possibilities are limitless, for we possess all the qualities that this world without boundaries demands:  youth and drive; diversity and openness; an endless capacity for risk and a gift for reinvention.  My fellow Americans, we are made for this moment, and we will seize it – so long as we seize it together.

For we, the people, understand that our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it.  We believe that America’s prosperity must rest upon the broad shoulders of a rising middle class.  We know that America thrives when every person can find independence and pride in their work; when the wages of honest labor liberate families from the brink of hardship.  We are true to our creed when a little girl born into the bleakest poverty knows that she has the same chance to succeed as anybody else, because she is an American, she is free, and she is equal, not just in the eyes of God but also in our own.

We understand that outworn programs are inadequate to the needs of our time.  We must harness new ideas and technology to remake our government, revamp our tax code, reform our schools, and empower our citizens with the skills they need to work harder, learn more, reach higher.  But while the means will change, our purpose endures:  a nation that rewards the effort and determination of every single American.  That is what this moment requires.  That is what will give real meaning to our creed.

We, the people, still believe that every citizen deserves a basic measure of security and dignity.  We must make the hard choices to reduce the cost of health care and the size of our deficit.  But we reject the belief that America must choose between caring for the generation that built this country and investing in the generation that will build its future.  For we remember the lessons of our past, when twilight years were spent in poverty, and parents of a child with a disability had nowhere to turn.  We do not believe that in this country, freedom is reserved for the lucky, or happiness for the few.  We recognize that no matter how responsibly we live our lives, any one of us, at any time, may face a job loss, or a sudden illness, or a home swept away in a terrible storm. The commitments we make to each other – through Medicare, and Medicaid, and Social Security – these things do not sap our initiative; they strengthen us.  They do not make us a nation of takers; they free us to take the risks that make this country great.

We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity.  We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations.  Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires, and crippling drought, and more powerful storms.  The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult.  But America cannot resist this transition; we must lead it.  We cannot cede to other nations the technology that will power new jobs and new industries – we must claim its promise.  That is how we will maintain our economic vitality and our national treasure – our forests and waterways; our croplands and snowcapped peaks.  That is how we will preserve our planet, commanded to our care by God.  That’s what will lend meaning to the creed our fathers once declared.

Kelly Clarkson performs at President Barack Obama's inauguration ceremony. She sings My Country 'Tis Of Thee!

We, the people, still believe that enduring security and lasting peace do not require perpetual war.  Our brave men and women in uniform, tempered by the flames of battle, are unmatched in skill and courage.  Our citizens, seared by the memory of those we have lost, know too well the price that is paid for liberty.  The knowledge of their sacrifice will keep us forever vigilant against those who would do us harm.  But we are also heirs to those who won the peace and not just the war, who turned sworn enemies into the surest of friends, and we must carry those lessons into this time as well.

We will defend our people and uphold our values through strength of arms and rule of law.  We will show the courage to try and resolve our differences with other nations peacefully – not because we are naïve about the dangers we face, but because engagement can more durably lift suspicion and fear. America will remain the anchor of strong alliances in every corner of the globe; and we will renew those institutions that extend our capacity to manage crisis abroad, for no one has a greater stake in a peaceful world than its most powerful nation.  We will support democracy from Asia to Africa; from the Americas to the Middle East, because our interests and our conscience compel us to act on behalf of those who long for freedom.  And we must be a source of hope to the poor, the sick, the marginalized, the victims of prejudice – not out of mere charity, but because peace in our time requires the constant advance of those principles that our common creed describes:  tolerance and opportunity; human dignity and justice.

We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths – that all of us are created equal – is the star that guides us still; just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall; just as it guided all those men and women, sung and unsung, who left footprints along this great Mall, to hear a preacher say that we cannot walk alone; to hear a King proclaim that our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on Earth.

It is now our generation’s task to carry on what those pioneers began.  For our journey is not complete until our wives, our mothers, and daughters can earn a living equal to their efforts.  Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law – for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.  Our journey is not complete until no citizen is forced to wait for hours to exercise the right to vote.  Our journey is not complete until we find a better way to welcome the striving, hopeful immigrants who still see America as a land of opportunity; until bright young students and engineers are enlisted in our workforce rather than expelled from our country.  Our journey is not complete until all our children, from the streets of Detroit to the hills of Appalachia to the quiet lanes of Newtown, know that they are cared for, and cherished, and always safe from harm.

That is our generation’s task – to make these words, these rights, these values – of Life, and Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness – real for every American.  Being true to our founding documents does not require us to agree on every contour of life; it does not mean we will all define liberty in exactly the same way, or follow the same precise path to happiness.  Progress does not compel us to settle centuries-long debates about the role of government for all time – but it does require us to act in our time.

For now decisions are upon us, and we cannot afford delay.  We cannot mistake absolutism for principle, or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling as reasoned debate. We must act, we must act knowing that our work will be imperfect. We must act, knowing that today’s victories will be only partial, and that it will be up to those who stand here in four years, and forty years, and four hundred years hence to advance the timeless spirit once conferred to us in a spare Philadelphia hall.

My fellow Americans, the oath I have sworn before you today, like the one recited by others who serve in this Capitol, was an oath to God and country, not party or faction – and we must faithfully execute that pledge during the duration of our service.  But the words I spoke today are not so different from the oath that is taken each time a soldier signs up for duty, or an immigrant realizes her dream.  My oath is not so different from the pledge we all make to the flag that waves above and that fills our hearts with pride.

Rock legend James Taylor sings America The Beautiful.

They are the words of citizens, and they represent our greatest hope.

You and I, as citizens, have the power to set this country’s course.

You and I, as citizens, have the obligation to shape the debates of our time – not only with the votes we cast, but with the voices we lift in defense of our most ancient values and enduring ideals.

Let us each of us now embrace, with solemn duty and awesome joy, what is our lasting birthright.  With common effort and common purpose, with passion and dedication, let us answer the call of history, and carry into an uncertain future that precious light of freedom.

Thank you, God Bless you, and may He forever bless these United States of America.

GOP Reach Out To Minorities At A Virginia Plantation!

And you wonder why it's harder for the Republicans to win over minorities. Of course, you can't tell that to the online extremists who continue to harp about the Republicans being the party of "civil rights".

If anything, the Republicans are like cocaine, 94% WHITE and 6% OTHER.

An interesting video from The Daily Show's Jon Stewart. He hammers Republicans for their overreaction towards the president's executive orders to curbing gun violence. Many Republicans and conservative media figures were pushing the notion that the president is acting like a tyrant or dictator because he wants to ban semi-automatic weapons. Stewart dismiss this as another phony outrage to gin up fears of a government gun grab.

The dog whistle is being blown once again by calling an elected leader a "KING", "TYRANT", or "ELITIST". They seem to be still fixated on the very thought of losing an election. They complained about the president using children in the press conference. It's a part of ridiculousness of Republican Party. They're becoming unhinged.

Then of course, the Republicans head for the hills. The annual retreat is going to be in Virginia at the Kingsmill Resort on the campus of the Burwell Plantation. In fact, the room is named after the Burwell Family, a wealthy family that owned many slaves in 18th century Southern Virginia. Records pertaining to the families owning of slaves is well-documented by the city of Williamsburg on their website.

The Republicans have a huge problem reaching out to Blacks, Hispanics and women. Thus they have little fanfare with Black leaders. One thing they pull is the "race card". They have one Black member who is rising in the party. The only member of Republican fold is Senator Tim Scott (R-South Carolina).

Scott came into the senate after being picked to represent the state after Jim DeMint resigned.

This is not helping! This comic here makes the case to paint President Barack Obama as an "enslaver" to the Black community. This was done by a Black Republican group. The National Black Republican Association peaks around the time of the King celebration. Every year the NBRA and Black Republicans go full stream into the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. being a Republican talking points. They continue to piss off the Black community with condescending rhetoric that goes against King's philosophies of social justice, equal rights, union rights, and anti-war.

The Republicans have no Black members in the House of Representatives.

The Democrats have no Black members in the U.S. Senate since 2010. The last one was Roland Burris who retired from the senate because of a federal investigation on him. Barack Obama was the last elected member of the U.S. Senate. He was elected to be the President of the United States. He is the current president.

Yet, these online extremists will "shuck and jive" this excuse that Republicans are the party that freed the slaves, passed the Voting Rights Act and Civil Rights Act of the 1960s. They'll rabble rouse on about how the famed civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican. Not even providing proof that it ever existed that King voted for a candidate without facing the very same issues such as the infamous poll tax. The very same Republicans who would attack Jesse Jackson, Joesph Lowry and the NAACP but say there's not racist and they believe in King's dream.

The Republicans being at this retreat are trying to figure out what went wrong!

They tried to pass legislation that required identification at the ballot box (to prevent voter fraud). That didn't work. People working for Republicans were caught throwing away ballots, publishing the wrong dates on election mailers, and trying to sign up only first time Republicans. Then some Republican will bring a camera to an event in Ohio, Florida and Colorado to scope out the Black or Hispanic person. They'll use the ignorant Black or Hispanic person to represent the mindset of likely Democratic voters as "gubmint" dependents.

They tried to end early voting. Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin wanted to end early voting because they didn't like the advantage it gave President Barack Obama. So they wanted to keep the lines long and keep people from voting. It's didn't work. It rallied many civil rights groups and progressive agitators to push on! It help the president win Ohio and later Florida, two states that determine an election.

The Republican state leaders are bragging about gerrymandering districts that make it harder for Democrat or other political party member to win. They may have lost the presidency and a chance to retake the U.S. Senate, but they'll have the power in the House of Representatives for years to come. Despite the Republican having a slim majority in the House and tougher fight in the Senate, they will try to undermine the general public because of their stupid "principles".

Los Angeles Times comic satires diversity in the Republican Party.

They can't accept the first Black president. They can't accept the notion of the United States becoming a "browner" nation. They can't accept the fact that the American people want progress!

Currently, the House Democratic caucus is made up of nearly half minorities (47 percent), versus a GOP House caucus that is 90 percent white men. (The Senate is more problematic for both parties, with just one black Senator — Republican Tim Scott of South Carolina.) When it comes to women, the calculus is much the same: more than 30 percent of the House Democratic caucus is female, versus less than 10 percent of the Republican House membership.

And while there are 41 black Democrats in the House, with Tim Scott of South Carolina getting a promotion to the Senate by his state’s governor, and Allen West losing his seat in the last election, there are no black Republicans in the House — and thus, there will be none at the plantation on Friday.

Back in 2009, when Democrats sojourned at the former home of the Burwells and their slaves, their caucus had much the same makeup. For many black Americans, being able to go to a former plantation as a paying guest is something of a psychic triumph. Even better when the guest is the first black president of the United States.

Meanwhile the Republican National Committee, which in December launched an initiative to increase party diversity, (which did include an African-American committeeman from South Carolina and two women — including a Latina — among its six members,) has come under criticism from its former chairman, Michael Steele, who accused the current chairman of all but shutting down efforts he launched to reach out to minorities.

And then there’s the matter of policies like voter ID laws and billboards that cropped up in RNC chairman Reince Priebus’ home state of Wisconsin as well as in Ohio, that seemed aimed at frightening minorities away from the polls. Throw in harsh messaging on immigration, and you begin to see that the party’s problems won’t be solved at a retreat — unless the result of the retreat is a dramatic course correction.

That course correction could still happen — and African-Americans, Latinos and women would surely welcome it.

But for now, optics matter, and they are a combination of place and personnel. It’s not that Republicans can’t hold their retreat anywhere they like — it’s that they shouldn’t be surprised when the picture that’s painted — of a diversity-challenged party choosing that particular location to talk about minority outreach — draws a few jeers.

ZERO! ROMNEY: NO BLACK SUPPORT!

No kidding. Black voters aren't supporting Mitt Romney.

According to the NBC/Wall Street Journal Poll, the Romney/Ryan ticket has finally cracked a milestone. They have managed to keep less than 2% of African American vote. To make this clear, Mitt Romney has zero support from the Black community.

That's not good. President Barack Obama has 94% of the support with 6% undecided.

So I am guessing that Jesse Lee Peterson, Angela McGlowan, Congressman Tim Scott (R-South Carolina), Congressman Allen West (R-Florida), and many Black Republicans cover only .0001% of the Black vote.

No, it's not about racism. It's about Mitt Romney not appealing to voters on issues that affect the Black community.

So don't bother us about the overwhelming support of President Barack Obama. Why the Black community isn't into the Republican Party?

And don't try to rehash that false argument that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican. You may lose more support.

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Insane Niece Calls Trayvon Martin A "Late Abortion"!

Mediaite: Alveda King Calls Trayvon Martin’s Death A ‘Late Abortion’ On Fox News

by Noah Rothman

On Thursday, Dr. Alveda King, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s niece and director of African American outreach for the pro-life group Priests for Life, appeared on Fox News Channel’s America’s Newsroom with Martha MacCallum where she called the recently slain Trayvon Martin a “late abortion.”

King was reacting to a clip of MSNBC host Rev. Al Sharpton at a recent rally for Martin where he called for the immediate arrest of alleged shooter George Zimmerman. “Lock him up,” demanded Sharpton.

King, a conservative and pro-life activist, took issue with the tone of Sharpton’s rally. “I’m asking that we remember that Trayvon Martin’s family is grieving right now. And in the midst of their grieving, they don’t need a lot of anger and fear surrounding that. Certainly, Trayvon Martin – a young man cut down in his prime – I would say because of my ministry ‘aborted late.’ A late abortion.”

“America’s youth are now an endangered species,” said King. “And so we must answer this non-violently. Not with rage and not with anger. Not by playing the race card.”

“If my uncle, Dr. Martin Luther King were here today, or my dad, Dr. A.D. King, they would ask us to seek justice but to temper that with mercy,” said King. “I’m asking Rev. [Jesse] Jackson, Rev. Sharpton to remember Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. To remember non-violence.”



Alveda King is the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. But since the death of his widow, Coretta Scott King, out of the woodwork, this person comes forth with the claims her "Uncle Martin" was a lifelong Republican. This narrative of Martin Luther King, Jr. being a Republican is the new theme of conservatives. They ignore the teaching of King but yet claim him as one of their own. I am guessing after the death of Yolanda King, the eldest daughter of the Martin Luther King, Jr. her three surviving cousins are feuding over control of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Alveda King moves to the front of the line with her experiences as a member of the legendary family. But her presence in the Civil Rights movment is no way the teaching of Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Republicans would love to say that King was a "communist" if he was alive. Republicans settled for the first Black president, Barack Obama. If people like Joseph McCarthy was alive today, he would be getting top booking on either Sean Hannity's programs or airtime with Glenn Beck. Alveda is standing in for him. She was brought to presence at the Restore Honor event in August 2010 when Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin were the featured speakers as well as sponsors of the event. While Alveda speaks on her pro-life, anti-gay, and anti-Black stances her cousin Martin Luther King, III is with the family of Trayvon Martin seeking justice. 

This woman is a panderer to the most extreme of human beings. She wrapped her name around a legacy to promote herself as the counter-savior to "Civil Rights leaders" like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.

Since she's single and all why don't she hook up with Jesse Lee Peterson and they can live in hate together. They are the Black versions of conservatives who masquerade under the shield of Civil Rights. These guys are no different than those firebrands who wrap their asses and eventually their necks around the American flag in defense of these ridiculous culture wars.

Alveda King shares the same bigoted views of someone's race, gender, sexuality, nationality, religion, political and economic standings. But she's supposed to get a pass for being a "Black woman" who happens to be conservative?

She plays the race card and gender card only when it's a luxury to her.