Pipeline No Good!

Small victory for the Standing Rock Sioux tribe.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers blocked the Dakota Access Pipeline. It is a small victory for the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. The decision essentially halts the construction of the 1,172-mile oil pipeline about a half a mile south of the reservation.

This has been a huge story that's been ignored by the junk food media. It was brutal for the people who were there protesting the oil pipeline. The state's governor and county sheriff were using force to move the protesters.

The Army Corps says it intends to issue an Environmental Impact Statement with "full public input and analysis."

Now it's giving Energy Transfer Partners a grace period to find an alternative route that doesn't impact the land or water supply.

This decision halts the construction and it's a huge victory for the protesters.

Energy Transfer Partner's proposed route cuts through Wide River and Standing Rock. 

President Barack Obama's impact on this is will short-lived. The incoming asshole supports the pipeline. He could reverse the decision when he takes office.

Sunday's announcement comes nearly three months after the Corps said that it would review the project and engage in further talks with the Standing Rock Sioux to hear the tribe's concerns.

Energy Transfer Partners said that the Army Corps granted approval for the reservoir crossing in July.

Dave Archambault II, the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, thanks the Obama administration for what he called a historic decision. At the same time, he asked the chief executive of the Energy Transfer, the governor of North Dakota and the incoming asshole to respect the decision.

Ace Hardware Spits On Standing Rock Protest!

Ace Hardware refuse to sell items to Standing Rock protesters.

Conservatives are boycotting Kellogg's for not sponsoring websites like Breitbart. The white extremist website was crucial to that controversial billionaire/racist/sexist/pussy grabbing/reality television star. He will be is your next president. They promoted stories that many consider anti-Black, anti-Muslim, anti-LGBT, anti-Native American and anti-immigrant.

Kellogg's promotes diversity and they don't want to be associated with hate and they along with other venues cut ties to Breitbart. Now the white extremist are mad an they are throwing their cereals and snacks in the toilet.

Now, Ace Hardware is facing the wrath of the consumer. Now progressives are boycotting the hardware company for supporting the crucial treatment of Native Americans protesting a pipeline that could inflict harm on the water supply in the Midwest.

Keep fighting.

The hardware company said that it will support its affiliates refusal to sale items to Standing Rock Protesters. The company said it will not sell "incendiary" products in the vicinity of Standing Rock pipeline.

The refusal to sell propane to thousands of Native Americans and their allie who are now camped in blizzard conditions. These are the people who are defending the Missouri River and burial places from Dakota Access Pipeline. This is the latest in a campaign of total disregard for human life by North Dakota governor Jack Dalrymple and Morton County sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier.

The Standing Rock protest is ignored by the junk food media. For nearly a year, the Standing Rock Native American reservation and its allies have protested the Dakota Access Pipeline. The pipeline could threaten the water supply and their spiritual grounds.

Protests began in March and it's been ongoing ever since. The junk food media has ignored the brutal police encounters with protesters. Morton County's sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier has been in the crosshairs of the protesters, He has demanded they be removed by order of the court.

Some of the protesters were injured by the police dogs. Some were injured by police projectiles and pepper spray. This is being ignored.

This issue is ongoing and President Barack Obama and the incoming dictator haven't mentioned much about it.

Energy Transfer Partners is hoping to built this pipeline and they're hopeful the dictator could get the ball rolling.

White Extremist Militia Walk!

White extremists get off federal charges.

Definition of irony moment.

Ammon Bundy and his merry band of White extremists were acquitted in federal court. Last year's standoff at a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon was covered heavily in the junk food media.

Strong comparison to the protesters in North Dakota who were forcefully removed from land this week. Native Americans are pissed over an oil pipeline that could put some grave impact on the land.

The Dakota Access Pipeline is being built on private land. It will impact the Standing Rock Sioux tribe. They are calling upon the president, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump to stop this.

The Bundys boastful calling the protesters a bunch of savages.

The Bundys are a far right militia group. Bundy's father, Cliven became a hero to the right after his stand off against federal agents at his Nevada ranch.

Sean "Softball" Hannity was a big supporter of the Bundys. It was his way to get at President Barack Obama for big the so called big government liberal. When Cliven Bundy said racially ignorant comments, the softball backed away from him.

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump ignored DAPL. Most of the junk food media has ignored it.

What Happened To Renee Davis?

Washington state mom was killed by the law. Renee Davis, a Native American mom of three was bucked by King County sheriff's deputies after they did a "welfare check" on her.

Once again another person of color is killed by law enforcement. The King County sheriff's department had to put two deputies on ice after they fatally shot and killed Renee Davis inside her own home.

They entered the home on a "wellness check" and found Renee was in her room. They saw her armed with a firearm. Both deputies fired at her and striking her in the head. They said they rendered help but she and her unborn child both died at the scene.

This happened at the Muckleshoot Reservation in Washington state.

The family called the law because they thought that she was suffering from a nervous breakdown.

Law enforcement claimed that Renee was suicidal.

Renee was the mother of three with one expecting. 

King County Sheriff investigates police fatal shooting of pregnant woman.

The death of this young Native American woman is heartbreaking. Given that she was a hard-working single mom, the law saw a criminal with a gun. Even though they entered her home on suspicion. They didn't even knock on the door or make a phone call. 

Renee was a receptionist at the Muckleshoot Health and Wellness Center. She also taught as at the Muckleshoot Child Development Center.

Renee grew up in a foster home with two of her biological sisters. She was an avid lover of the outdoors, her children and participated in fisheries training programs. She was a hunter.

She hunted for food and shared the kills with neighbors.

When will it stop?

Say her name: Renee Davis.

A young woman of color who was pregnant who had a legal right to defend her home. Two men who wore the badge didn't identify themselves or handled the situation properly. The family said that she was depressed.

How long will it take before the junk food media say she was a criminal?

How long will it take before they look for some evidence of her doing something illegal on social media?

How long will it take before they claim that she is an "out-of-wedlock" mother who had lived on the government?

How long will it take before the junk food media release the name of the officers involved in this?

How long will it take before we peak their social media habits?

I'm at a loss for words. It's unimaginable for a young woman to lose her life in her own home in front of her children.

California Teacher Punishes Teen For Refusing To Pledge Loyalty To The Country!

Teen faced death threats and a lowering of her grades because she refused to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.

Conservatives have long criticized Black America for not getting over slavery. They believe that racism is over in the United States. They don't seem to understand that it's not just Black America getting fed up with the way things are going, but those who are Brown as well.

Native Americans have long faced oppression. They are often struggling to maintain the land that they've owned before the colonial rule.

Colin Kaepernick started a movement. Ever since he decided to not stand for the national anthem, many others decided to find a seat. Many others refuse to stand for the national anthem and pledge because of the country's oppression of people of color.

A young teen had her grades lowered because she refused to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance at a Lower Lake, California school.

Leilani Thomas won't say the Pledge of Allegiance to the American flag. She is Native American and argues the stars and stripes aren't hers.

"It's the reason, because of the history that happened her. On my land. My people's land," said Thomas in an interview with a local news agitator. "So I'm not going to stand for the people who did this to my people".

Leilani and her friend have used their right to protest since school has started. They refuse to stand for the pledge.

When the girls got their grades Friday, their participation scores were docked from a five to a three because they refuse to stand. Leilani recorded her teacher's explanation in class.

"Here's the deal. If you really, really have an argument and feel so strongly about, then I need to see it written out -- your argument -- in an essay form," the teacher is heard saying. "Like, why? Why, because her'es the thing; those people, they're not alive anymore. Your ancestors."

The Lake County school district superintendent said that Leilani and her friend have a right to protest.

The superintendent said that, "they shouldn't lose their First Amendment rights when they walk in the door. We are dealing with the teacher on this."

What repercussions the teacher will have after this matter?

Will conservatives rally around the teacher and boycott the school?

Will the teacher get an interview on Fox News or an agitator's program?

Obviously, the teens will get death threats and taunts of being a "traitor" and part of a "murder movement". They often call #BlackLivesMatter, anti-cop, anti-White and a murder group.

Blood On The Range!

There's a huge controversy going on in North Dakota. There's a major protest in the state over a proposed pipeline that's slated to go through land that Native Americans claim is very sacred land.

The state's Republican governor Jack Dalrymple called the national guard and state police to stop protesters from accessing water being dirtied from Dakota Access, the company that's proposing a pipeline from North Dakota to Illinois. Some of the security force used pepper spray and dogs on the protesters.

The fight has drawn attention to the plight of Native Americans. It even got a presidential candidate's attention. Dr. Jill Stein, the Green Party nominee is under a slew of controversy after she defaced the equipment. Now she will likely turn herself in and face charges for vandalism.

Dakota Access pipeline route. 

This pipeline has gotten the White House involved. President Barack Obama heard the concerns and ordered an immediate halt to the construction of the pipeline. Until the company disclose the issues that of that pipeline, they have to halt construction.

The Hill reports that this controversy is far from over.

The Obama administration said it would not authorize construction on a critical stretch of the Dakota Access pipeline, handing a significant victory to the Indian tribe fighting the project the same day the group lost a court battle.

The administration said construction would halt until it can do more environmental assessments.

The Department of Justice, the Army and the Interior Department jointly announced that construction would pause on the pipeline near North Dakota's Lake Oahe, a major water source on the Missouri River for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.

The agencies will now decide whether they need to reconsider permitting decisions for the pipeline under the National Environmental Policy Act. 

"The Army will move expeditiously to make this determination, as everyone involved — including the pipeline company and its workers — deserves a clear and timely resolution," the agencies said in a statement. "In the interim, we request that the pipeline company voluntarily pause all construction activity within 20 miles east or west of Lake Oahe."

Oil is more scared to Sen. John Hoeven (R-ND) and Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND). These two are inept members of the Senate. The Democratic senator supports Republicans 85% of the time.

The Lake Oahe crossing was a major concern for the tribe, which worries about the impact a leak in the pipeline would have on the lake. 

A federal judge Friday denied the tribe's request to halt construction on the 1,170-mile pipeline. The administration's decision came shortly after that decision. 

The tribe had sued over the Army Corps' approval of the project under a historic preservation law, but the judge ruled that regulators had acted properly when issuing permitting for the project. 

Despite the ruling, the agencies said, "important issues raised by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and other tribal nations and their members regarding the Dakota Access pipeline specifically, and pipeline-related decision-making generally, remain." 

The Army Corps has permitted pipeline construction near Lake Oahe. But, as of last month, federal agencies had not yet issued the easements necessary for construction to begin there. 

Dave Archambault II, the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, hailed the decision, and vowed to continue fighting against the project. 

“I want to take a moment and reflect on this historic moment in Indian Country,” Archambault said in a statement. “But I know that our work is not done. We need to to permanently protect our sacred sites and our water. There are areas on the construction route that do not fall within federal jurisdiction, so we will continue to fight.” 

Republican governor Jack Dalrymple with John Hoeven and Heidi Heitkamp.

Dakota Access developers had no comment on the decision, but the Midwest Alliance for Infrastructure Now, a group supporting the pipeline, said it was “deeply troubling and could have a long-lasting chilling effect on private infrastructure development in the United States.”   

“This is a historic, unprecedented, and overdue move by the Administration that is reflective of the brave and principled stand by the Standing Rock Sioux,” Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune said in a statement. 

“The Tribe has stood up to combat the oppression and injustice they and Native Americans throughout our country have faced for generations, and the administration was right to recognize it.

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You go, ladies!

Junk Food Media Release Oklahoma Beheading Victim's Pictures!

Colleen (right) with her husband KC, daughter Kelli and granddaughter Riley. Woman was a victim of heartless attack by a crazed Muslim extremist who was her former worker. The suspect claims he wanted to be like the Islamic State.

We here at Journal de la Reyna send our condolences to the family of Colleen Hufford. The 54-year woman was stabbed and later decapitated by this crazed man. This crazed man is Muslim convert who is perennial inductee of the iron college.

The racist right is having a field day with this.

Two things that agitates the racist right: a Black man and a Muslim. What more could they ask for?

Guaranteed the mentions of Ferguson, Trayvon Martin, Muslims, and Barack Obama are going to be poured down the comment section. The word vomit is always plentiful for the living. Always got to be a blame game for the incidents.

Instead of blaming the criminal, we blame Obama, the junk food media, agitators (from the left and the right) and politics for this incident.

The conservative agitators of the junk food media are saying that this is their "I TOLD YOU SO MOMENT!"

Just about a few days ago, a Muslim convert extremist named Alton Nolen was fired from Vaughn Foods processing plant. He went on this extremist style killing spree. He killed fellow co-worker Hufford after he crashed his vehicle into the building.

He also went to stabbing Terri Johnson before the co-founder Mark Vaughn (a part time deputy) put a bullet in Nolan's stomach.

Nolen is recovering from his wounds. This opens the investigation to how a man snapped like that!

The Daily Mail chronicles the lives of both Hufford and Nolen.

FBI is looking into this criminal's background. Some claim that the finger pose is similar to Islamic State.

Hufford was a mother, grandmother and survivor of the devastating tornadoes of last year. Family created a Facebook page to help aid in getting her a proper funeral.

The mother of Nolen tells the junk food media that her son is a idiot. She knows her son took the wrong path ever since he was inducted into the Oklahoma iron college.

The FBI is looking into his background from his days of criminal activity.

When released from the hospital, Nolen will be charged with capital murder and he will likely get the gas house for this incident.

That annoying conservative agitator was going on and on about ISIS, radical Islam and dropping Obama's name in every freaking sentence.

I want you to understand that crime happens in America. And if you're a smart person, you would realize that the more these agitators crow about Muslims, the likely a White extremist will commit a hate crime towards one.

No one would imagine this could happen!

Americans must be vigilant when their friends, family or a complete stranger does things that may merit either law enforcement or health professional involvement.

It's considered a coin flip. Some do the right thing and others don't.

Jon Stewart Takes The Daily Show To FedEX Field!

Jason Jones (center) heads to FedEx Field to confront die hard Washington Redskin fans over the controversy of the name.

Comedian Jon Stewart is probably one of the most gifted talents to ever walk this earth. His satire based The Daily Show has often proven a point one too many times.

The Daily Show's crack team of writers have often go into a situation and bring the laughter and figuratively speaking seriousness of what's going on in the world.

Stewart has picked up on the controversy with the naming of the Washington Redskins, NFC franchise.

Many Native Americans are frustrated with the naming of some of America's professional teams.

Two come to mind, the Washington Redskins and Cleveland Indians. These two franchises have often displayed stereotypical and negative depictions of the American Indian.

Controversy continues with the naming of the team.

Comedian Jason Jones along with some Native American activist go to Landover to meet some of the fans. Yes, it's going to be uncomfortable.

Jones and his "Daily Show" producers interviewed the group of die hard fans, then brought them face-to-face with a group of Native Americans activists who fiercely oppose the team's name and logo.

The segment also featured an interview with team owner Daniel Snyder, who reiterated his stance that the name Redskins isn't offensive. "The name of our team is the name of our team," he told Jones. "It represents honor, it represents pride, it represents respect."

The outcry is strong and hopefully the NFL despite all the controversy from its players attacking women make one good decision this year.

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Failed Porn Gig Led To Woman Killing Herself!

A young woman pulls the trigger on herself after she failed to get a XXX-deal.

The Atlanta Constitution-Journal reports that a Las Vegas woman managed to pull the trigger on herself after she couldn't score a gig in the porn industry. I mean how desperation turned to a death sentence.

You're beautiful and because of a rejection this young woman would kill herself.

We here at Journal de la Reyna send our condolences to the family of Alyssa Funke.

Beautiful and young, Alyssa Funke went to Las Vegas and “auditioned” for a porn movie via a website.

After the video went public, the former straight-A student's old classmates in Stillwater, Minnesota, began sending her messages.

Some were surprised, some negative, and others supportive. She answered a few with social media posts of her own, including “Pornstar status” and “FAMOUS for dayzzzzz.”

However, it all took a toll, and the young woman bought a shotgun and drove to her family’s boat, where she killed herself.

KMSP-TV reports Funke’s family confirmed she had a history of depression. Her father is in prison, and her mother has been charged with dealing drugs. They say Alyssa also had struggles with money.

Funke's family blame her death, in part, on online bullying. But the sheriff’s office said the messages she was sent did not amount to criminal harassment.

Alyssa’s family said they are talking about her death now because they want to keep other girls from making the same mistake. They want young women to understand the pressure that comes from social media and the stigma porn carries.

They also said they would like to bring attention to bullying and the effect it can have on somebody.

Under the name Stella Ann, she would have sex with a man. The former students of Stillwater High School in Minnesota were taunting her and sending harassing comments. This took a toll.

The cyberbullying drove her to death.

Once you post something online that could be embarrassing, it's there forever!

With cyberbullying, I want to make this clear: MEN ARE LIKELY THE ONES WHO ENGAGE IN THIS BEHAVIOR!

The cyberbully/cyberstalker creates emotional distress. The individual can ruin your reputation and cost you your job. Having someone posting your personal address and phone number in a fake profile is the ultimate insult. The cyberbully/cyberstalker invite problems by harassing you with personal threats and unwanted advances.

It's only funny, until someone gets hurt. And believe me it's getting worse.

Before Richard Cohen, Bob Dumas had a Problem with Interracial, Intercultural, and Interethnic Relationships

Before Richard Cohen, there's another despicable guy had a problem with interracial/inter ethnic relationships.


This is the hateful and racist commentary from Raleigh's G105 DJ Bob Dumas commentary about a then-upcoming wedding of one of their interns who is married to a Lumbee Indian  back in 2008:

Rush Limbaugh Clone Bob Dumas

Bob Dumas April 2008:

"Did you tell your parents, 'hey, at least he's not black?'" Dumas asked during the broadcast. "After you guys get married are you going to have a tee-pee warming party? A tee-pee warming party? I hear Pottery Barn is making great stuff for tee-pees."-

Bob Dumas of Bob and the Show gram, G105, Raleigh, N.C., back in 2008.
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Here's more despicable racism of Bob Dumas:

By Lorraine Ahearn
Staff Columnist 
Friday, Apr. 11, 2008 3:00 am 


How could this be OK?

That was the fundamental question when a Lumbee friend called last week, outraged, after her high school-age daughter heard a trio of shock jocks trashing the tribe on Raleigh’s WDCG (105 FM).

Now, the first thing that might come to mind is last year’s April fool, Don Imus, and the "nappy-headed hos" remark that earned him a you-know-what-storm and cost him his CBS Radio show.

But if you listened to last week’s "Bob & the Showgram" segment — which remained up on the G-105 Web site for several days until cooler heads prevailed — some differences became apparent.

First, Imus’ callous comments:

a) Were in passing, off the cuff.

b) Lasted less than a minute.

c) Forced Imus off the air despite several profuse apologies from Imus (who admitted his words were "racist and abhorrent"), a meeting with the Rutgers women and an appearance on the Rev. Al Sharpton’s show.

In contrast, the G-105 comments:

a) Were a clearly planned segment, with prepared background sound effects and traditional Native American music, in which the three white morning hosts derided an intern they called "White Girl" about her upcoming wedding to her Lumbee fiance.

b) Lasted 14 minutes, 33 seconds.

c) Brought a vague apology from the station manager "to any listener that may have found remarks or recordings played Tuesday, April 1st, 2008, during Bob and the Showgram to be offensive, derogatory or insensitive," and, a week later, resulted in a three-day suspension for the hosts.

So what, exactly, did they say, in remarks that Ruth Revels, founder of the Guilford Native American Association, called "the worst I’ve heard in all my years" of involvement?

The segment, led by DJ Bob Dumas, began as banter with a departing station intern who said she was leaving to get married. After the unnamed intern mentioned that she was marrying a Lumbee, stock sound effects such as fake "woo-woo-woo" Indian chants played in the background.

Dumas and his co-hosts quizzed the intern at length about her fiance, asking whether he was "full-blooded" and whether the couple planned to have a "teepee warming" after the wedding and suggesting she tell her parents, "At least he’s not black."

After making fun of the intern, who laughed along, Dumas and his co-hosts ridiculed Indians in general as "lazy" and Lumbees specifically as "inbred."

It was only after Greg Richardson, executive director of the N.C. Commission of Indian Affairs, on Wednesday demanded the hosts be fired that the station announced the suspension — eight days after the show aired.

But back to the original question from my friend, who was so angry at what her daughter heard that she was practically in tears: How could this be OK? And why was the reaction so lukewarm compared to Imus?

One reason, of course, is that Imus is national. Even though the Rutgers players don’t listen to his show, they soon got wind of it. But there’s a more fundamental difference: Lumbees are a minority’s minority.

True, they are the largest tribe east of the Mississippi, but there are only 50,000 of them in the state and only about 5,000 here in Guilford County. They have been invisible, easy to ignore. Which, incidentally, explains why they are still waiting for federal recognition after 120 years.

It also explains why someone such as Bob Dumas felt safe saying the things he said — statements he would never dare insert the word "black" into, at least not on the air.

Then again, cowards never pick on anyone their own size.

Contact Lorraine Ahearn at 373-7334 or lorraine.ahearn@news-record.com

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More of his racist misogyny against American Indians and White women who date/marry outside of their race:

Shock jock comments about Lumbees labeled racist

By Michael Futch
Staff writer
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The N.C. Commission of Indian Affairs has demanded that a Raleigh radio
station fire the hosts and producer of a morning show over “racially
charged comments” made on the air.

The station — WDCG, “G105” — posted an online apology Friday for anyone
who was offended by the remarks, which singled out Lumbees and called
American Indians “lazy” and “in-bred.”

Members of the Lumbee and other tribes in the state have expressed outrage over the comments made Tuesday during “Bob and the Showgram.” The popular morning program is hosted by longtime Triangle radio air personality Bob Dumas.

Derogatory references were made on the air about the names of Pocahontas and Sacajawea. Traditional American Indian music played in the background as the “Showgram” team laughed at their own jokes.

“I think simply, it’s very sad that you would have a radio (station) like
that putting that kind of information out on the air,” said Greg
Richardson, executive director of the N.C. Commission of Indian Affairs.
“It’s inflammatory. I wonder if they understand how inflammatory those
remarks can be.”

Richardson, who belongs to the Haliwa-Saponi tribe, said Friday that his
office had been “absolutely bombarded” by e-mails and calls complaining
about the comments. Recordings of the show have circulated this week by
e-mail.

“I’ve never encountered anything like that before,” he said. “I thought we
were beyond that. This is 2008. I think people should have more respect
than to get involved in a discussion like that on the air.”

Dick Harlow, general manager of WDCG, said he would not comment Friday. He said Dumas would be unavailable for interviews, too.

On Friday afternoon, a statement was posted on the Web site for the radio
program, bobandtheshowgram.com.

“WDCG apologizes to any listener that may have found remarks or recordings played Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 during Bob and the Showgram to be offensive, derogatory or insensitive. WDCG does not condone inappropriate behavior, language or insensitive remarks.”

The N.C. Commission on Indian Affairs — established by the General
Assembly as an advocacy agency for the state’s Indian population — also
called for the Federal Communications Commission to investigate station
owner Clear Channel Communications Corp.

The state commission also wants the FCC to examine the company’s “history, tolerance, and promotion of this type of inflammatory and reprehensible programming.”

In a statement, the Commission of Indian Affairs Chairman Paul Brooks
said, “Such statements are further indicative of these individuals’
insensitivity, gross ignorance, and blatant bigotry against American
Indians across this great nation,”

The Lumbee tribe, in particular, was singled out in the 15-minute segment
that opened Tuesday’s show.

“This is the God’s honest truth,” Dumas said on the air. “You can look at
the statistics — Indians are lazy.”

The on-air exchange began when a white intern at the station — Chelsea
Pryor, who has attended the University of North Carolina at Pembroke —
told Dumas and his co-hosts that she was marrying a Lumbee.

“Hey, white girl. After you get married, are you going to have a
teepee-warming party?” someone quipped. “I could give you a pelt or
something.”

Morgan Brittany Hunt, a Lumbee who works with the tribe by talking with
teens about the consequences of smoking, called the comments racist.

“We have doctors, we have lawyers, we have businessmen,” she said. “We may have people who don’t have their four-year degree, but who get up and work hard to provide for their family. I was really upset.”

Hunt said the show is a hot topic in Pembroke.

“Everybody’s in an uproar,” she said. “It’s slander and racism. (Don) Imus
was fired for a lot less than what aired” on G105.

Nearly a year ago, MSNBC and CBS Radio fired Imus, a talk show host, after he made a slur about the mostly black Rutgers women’s basketball team. The Rev. Al Sharpton became the leading voice in opposition to Imus, calling for his dismissal.

Rebekah Revels, the former Miss North Carolina from Robeson County, was referred to as “the naked girl” during the show. Revels won the pageant in 2002 but was forced to give up the crown after her ex-boyfriend threatened to publicize topless photos of her.

“My situation was an ordeal I went through with my family that was
painful,” Revels said Friday. “I have learned to cope and deal with those
emotions. I was attacked publicly. Now they’re attacking my tribe. It’s
not about me. It’s about an ethnic culture that I love. Now it’s about
standing up for my people.”

Revels said the cast and crew of the “Showgram” and station owner Clear
Channel should be held accountable. “It’s unnecessary, uncalled for and
hurtful,” she said.

Earlier remarks

Dumas, who has been with WDCG for nearly 16 years, is not a newcomer to controversy.

In 2004, a Durham minister started an online petition to oust Dumas for
what the minister called “racially incendiary” comments about “American
Idol” winner Fantasia Barrino, who is black. Dumas used the terms “ghetto” and “low class” during the show to describe Barrino.

Five years ago, he drew the wrath of bicycling enthusiasts in the Triangle
for finding humor in motorists who assault cyclists or run them down with
their vehicles.

Staff writer Michael Futch can be reached at futchm@fayobserver.com or
486-3529.

Dumas' bigoted view of Asian women:

"Popular morning radio host Bob Dumas angered another constituency this month when he declared Asian-American women unattractive.

Dumas, who infuriated bicyclists last year with a broadcast that included jokes about running cyclists off the road, has sparked another crusade, this time by local Asian-Americans, to persuade advertisers to drop WDCG's "The Bob & Madison Showgram." The local UPN affiliate has pulled its sponsorship of the show.

A number of Asian-Americans in the Triangle heard about the Feb. 10 broadcast through a widely circulated e-mail calling Dumas' comments racist and asking advertisers to stop supporting the show.

Dumas encouraged listeners to send in pictures of Asian women, and predicted that none of them would be attractive.

"If he just wanted to get attention from the listeners, he succeeded, but unfortunately, it's in a negative way," said Rachel Chao, who lives in Cary and works in contract financing. "If he really thinks Asian-Americans are not attractive, then he has not seen enough or he has vision problems."

Raising hackles appears to be in Dumas' job description. In September, local bicyclists accused WDCG (better known as G105) and its owner, Clear Channel Communications, of encouraging violence against bicyclists. Two sponsors canceled their advertising on the show in protest, and station officials apologized and agreed to broadcast announcements about bicycle safety.This time, G105 backed up Dumas."
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Despicable "closet racist" Richard Cohen

Richard Cohen November 2012:

"Today’s GOP is not racist, as Harry Belafonte alleged about the tea party, but it is deeply troubled — about the expansion of government, about immigration, about secularism, about the mainstreaming of what used to be the avant-garde. People with conventional views must repress a gag reflex when considering the mayor-elect of New York — a white man married to a black woman and with two biracial children. (Should I mention that Bill De Blasio’s wife, Chirlane McCray, used to be a lesbian?) This family represents the cultural changes that have enveloped parts — but not all — of America. To cultural conservatives, this doesn’t look like their country at all."-

Richard Cohen, Washington Post Columnist

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Here's more about his abysmal record on race and gender from Think Progress:

Tuesday’s Richard Cohen column, where the long-time Washington Post writer asserts that “conventional” Americans “gag” at interracial couples, has managed to unite the entire political world against him.

But the offending bit shouldn’t have been much of a surprise. Cohen’s piece, which managed to take bizarre swipes at both African-Americans and lesbians, represents something of an apotheosis for Cohen’s career, the past few years has been spent in something of an arms race with itself, stockpiling an ever-increasing stack of offensive comments about blacks, women, and LGBT Americans.

Cohen’s race problem dates back to 1986, when he defended store owners banning black boys from their places of business. For fear of crime, you see. The black community launched a massive wave of protests, the Post’s executive editor apologized, and even Cohen later admitted his critics were “mostly right.”

Fast forward to 2013, when Cohen used the same argument to defend George Zimmerman. Zimmerman was “understandably” suspicious of Trayvon Martin, because he was black, young and “wearing a uniform we all recognize.” Cohen concluded these musings with an argument for racial profiling based on a laughably basic statistical fallacy.

But lest you think Richard Cohen is blind to racism, never fear. He’s all over racism against white people — or, as it’s more commonly known, affirmative action. Because “for most Americans, race has become supremely irrelevant” (tell that to defender of profiling Richard Cohen), “it was not racists who were punished [by affirmative action] but all whites.”

In Cohenland, it’s not only whites who are victims of political correctness run amok, but also accused rapists. In his column defending Roman Polanski, he refers the 13 year old girl who the filmmaker raped after deliberately getting drunk as a “victim” (his quotes). Cohen concluded that there was “something stale about the case” and that he “dearly wishes the whole thing would go away.”

The Steubenville rape case was a “so-called” rape and more a matter of “decency” than criminality. It was also Miley Cyrus’ fault.

Cohen’s writing on gender in general is similarly horrifying. He bemoaned the rise of the use of smart phones for news consumption because print newspapers allowed “the first lady [to] adhere to gender orthodoxy and read the softer sections” while “just as in the old movies, papa could explain things, like what’s the purpose of NATO anymore.” He squealed over Daniel Craig’s “rippling muscle,” complaining that the expectation that the modern male beauty ideal exemplified by Our Bond made experience unsexy, especially to 23 year old girls. Totally coincidentally, Cohen had been accused of telling a 23 year old Post staffer to “stand up and turn around.”

Cohen grumbled that “every 20 years or so, some woman surfaces to accuse [Clarence Thomas] of being a male chauvinist pig — to resurrect an old term from the tie-dyed era — but falls frustratingly short of making a case for true sexual harassment.” Like, say, “stand up and turn around?” Cohen finds “the level of sexism applied” to Monica Lewinsky appalling, but wonders “where is the man for her?” He has worried about too many female acquaintances trying to kiss him. Richard Cohen does not like that.

Sexual orientation is a less-common subject of Cohen’s, but his writing on it isn’t much better. In 2005, his column blamed the spread of AIDS on “not only reckless but just plain disgusting” behavior by gay men. “It is the determination of some gays,” Richard Cohen determined, “to disregard all the rules for safe sex because being gay, they think, means you don’t have to follow any rules at all.”

Anticipating the charge of victim-blaming, Cohen wrote that “sometimes the victim needed to be blamed. This is the case now with gays when their behavior is both stupid and reckless.” No other causes of the spread of the plague beyond the perfidy of gays go mentioned in the piece.

It’s that deep simple-mindedness, that total incuriosity about a changing world that makes Cohen uniquely odious. There are talented, insightful critics of left-liberal positions on gender and race — Ross Douthat and John McWhorter immediately come to mind. But Cohen isn’t a culturally conservative intellectual; he’s just someone who passes off lazy stereotypes as profound insights.

There’s no better example of this than his 2009 column on Obamacare, which isn’t about health care reform so much as how much health care reform bores Richard Cohen. “For me, health-care reform is Missiles Redux — specifically the Reagan-era disputes over SS-20s and such.” Cohen complains about being “expected to know something about such matters, being a Washington columnist and all, but I could never keep the damn terms and numbers straight.” So he just throws up his hands: “The Soviet Union collapsed anyway.”

Richard Cohen doesn’t care to learn any more about missiles or health care than he knows about race, gender, or sexual orientation. But while he chooses not to write about the former, the latter appear to fascinate him. So his column becomes an evidence-free font of prejudice, the Platonic ideal of a useless old media dinosaur.

Another racist post from R. Cohen:

Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen is getting, and this is not racist, horse-whipped over a new column in which he seems to suggest that gagging at the thought of interracial marriage is not racist, but merely “conventional.”

But all the haters really ought to ease up on Cohen, who, as of last week, realized that American slavery wasn’t “a benign institution in which mostly benevolent whites owned innocent and grateful blacks.”

That’s gotta count for something, right?

This epiphany came to Cohen as he watched the new film 12 Years a Slave, which forced Cohen to “unlearn” the following:

• slavery was not a benign institution in which mostly benevolent whites owned innocent and grateful blacks.
• slavery was wrong, yes, that it was evil, no doubt, but really, that many blacks were sort of content.
• Slave owners were mostly nice people — fellow Americans, after all

Cohen says he learned all of this in school, but you’d be hard-pressed to produce a list like that from someone who was home-schooled by the banjo kid from Deliverance. If it’s even possible, the lessons he took from 12 Years a Slave are even weirder:

• “slavery was not only incomprehensibly cruel — it had to have had consequences.” – Sure, but like a butterfly flapping its wings in the Amazon, who could ever begin to guess at what those consequences could be without a movie to untangle them?
• “Families are broken up — not just like that, with a casual statement of fact, but with a rending of garments and an awful pain and a tearing of the soul.” – So it wasn’t all like “Hey, I’ll never see my kids again. BT dubs, I think they’re putting sage in this gruel, are you going to finish that?”
• “12 Years a Slave has finally rendered Gone with the Wind irrevocably silly and utterly tasteless, a cinematic bodice-ripper.” – Yes, who could have known the realities of slavery before last week, let alone in 1939?
• “(Solomon Northrup) goes from being a human being to a blotted entry on a ledger. We can all connect to that. At the same time, we connect less with the slaves he left behind when he was freed. He is restored to the life he once had. They remain with the life they have always had.” – Even with a really great movie as your guide, empathy has its limits.

Stay tuned for Richard Cohen’s next column, about how Birth of a Nation went kinda easy on the Ku Klux Klan.

For all of his racial insularity, though (and it is considerable), at least Cohen is a few steps ahead of Sarah Palin.

The Washington Post’s Richard Cohen Isn’t The Only Columnist Confused By The De Blasio-McCray Marriage

The Washington Post’s Richard Cohen made headlines this morning in a column, ostensibly about New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s presidential chances, that took a strange turn when he began to discuss the racial attitudes of the kinds of voters Christie and Sen. Ted Cruz will have to win over. “People with conventional views must repress a gag reflex when considering the mayor-elect of New York — a white man married to a black woman and with two biracial children. (Should I mention that Bill de Blasio’s wife, Chirlane McCray, used to be a lesbian?),” Cohen wrote. “This family represents the cultural changes that have enveloped parts — but not all — of America. To cultural conservatives, this doesn’t look like their country at all.”

Cohen’s phrasing here makes it somewhat difficult to figure out which disagreeable sentiment he’s expressing. Does he mean to say that De Blasio and McCray’s marriage is confusing to Americans on the grounds that he is white and she is black? In Gallup’s Minority Rights and Relations poll conducted earlier this year, 87 percent of respondents said they approved of marriages between African-Americans and Caucasians, a figure that would suggest that it’s not even close to conventional to have a gag reflex triggered by the sight of an interracial couple like the one that will be inaugurated as New York City’s First Family. Did Cohen mean to say that the conventional thing to do these days, the polite thing, is to suppress any lingering concerns or uncomfortable reactions one might have about couples who don’t resemble one’s own family? That’s a more charitable reading of Cohen, and one that would serve to marginalize the remaining Americans who both are repulsed by interracial couples and more than willing to express those sentiments publicly.

But the fact remains that Cohen seems to have seized on De Blasio and McCray as a locus of anxiety about cultural change, rather than treating them as a positive symbol of a new New York. And while a Change.org petition has, predictably, already sprung up demanding Cohen’s firing, he isn’t alone in treating De Blasio and McCray as exotic not just for reasons of race but of sexuality. The couple, it seems, has become a useful litmus test less for imaginary conservative voters in the forthcoming Republican primaries, than for prominent columnists at significant American publicans.

In an August column on De Blasio and McCray, Maureen Dowd lingered at even greater length on the fact that McCray used to identify as a lesbian, and that she’d treated questions about her sexual orientation from Essence as if they were fussy and old-fashioned. Then, Dowd went on to compare McCray and Christine Quinn’s wife to Anthony Weiner’s sexual escapades, suggesting that they were all part of an atmosphere of sexual strangeness that had engulfed the race.

“Besides the woman who wants to be the first first lady who used to be a lesbian, there is also Kim Catullo, the wife of Quinn, who would be the first first lady who is a married lesbian,” Dowd wrote. “Then there is the perverse Carlos Danger who wants to be the first mayor who plastered pictures of his privates online. The summer has been so drenched with the unthinkable and the unorthodox that the de Blasios, married for 19 years, seem quite conventional by comparison.”

The idea that sexual orientation is fluid, that a woman who believed herself to be exclusively attracted to women might fall in love with, marry, and have children with a man, does seem to be genuinely confusing to Dowd and to Cohen. To a certain extent, that might be the result of one of the great successes of the LGBT rights movement, making the argument that sexual orientation is innate and immutable. That idea is critical to everything from the push for legal protections for LGBT people, to pushback against so-called conversion therapy that claims to be able to change people’s sexual orientations and gender identities. But it’s not necessarily an idea that encompasses the entirety of every person’s lived experiences, whether they’ve lived a heterosexual life before falling in love with someone of the same gender, or they’re a self-identified lesbian who decides she wants to be with the man who would become Mayor of New York. The Kinsey Scale, which expresses sexual orientation as a continuum, does a better job of capturing that range of relationships and identities, but it’s a more sophisticated–and as a result, difficult–foundation on which to build legal and social change.

It doesn’t help that there’s lingering confusion about bisexuality, the possibility that a person might be attracted to people of more than one gender. The idea that bisexuality is non-existent or a transitional phase on the way to a more stable identity as a gay or straight person, is still deeply embedded in American culture. Glee, to name just one example, a show that’s been much more broadly inclusive of gay couples and transgender characters, has treated bisexuality with considerable skepticism.

It’s disappointing to see publications like the Washington Post and New York Times give column space to the idea that De Blasio and McCray’s marriage is some sort of revealing abnormality, even if they’re doing it in a rather back-door way by treating New York’s embrace of the couple of evidence of changing attitudes, or suggesting that it would be rude to treat them poorly. Bill De Blasio and Chirlane McCray, and the two children they’ve raised together, may not be a familiar sight for all Americans. Not even, as it turns out, people who are card-carrying members of the theoretically sophisticated coastal elite. But that doesn’t make their marriage and family unconventional. Instead, the reactions to them in some of the most rarified perches of the commentariat are a reminder of the unfortunate power of outdated ideas, and how little value we ought to place on certain so-called conventions.

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Bob and Richard had made racist, sexist comments during the past 10-30 years in the media. They've been given a pass from the mainstream media during the same amount of time.  All they did were apologize, pay a fine, then repeat.  That's the beauty of white privilege. They're currently on the payrolls of both WaPo and Clear Channel and are staying put.  The same could be applied Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Bill Maher, Don Imus, Matthew Drudge, Ann Coulter, etc.  They continue to spew hateful views concerning people of Color, working class/poor people, immigrants/foreigners, women in general, feminists in particular, interracial/inter ethnic relationships, etc.

For bonus reading concerning those two bigots:

http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/11/22/2499420/g-105-apologizes-for-parade-float.html

http://americablog.com/2013/11/conventional-racism-richard-cohen.html

http://mediaconfidential.blogspot.com/2013/10/raleigh-radio-paris-rants-about-bob.html

http://www.popehat.com/2008/04/07/radio-host-calls-native-americans-lazy-jokes-about-reservations/

http://woodlandindians.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=3861

http://www.newraleigh.com/articles/archive/racist-dj-outrages-nc-native-americans/

http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/11/22/2499420/g-105-apologizes-for-parade-float.html

http://www.southernstudies.org/2008/04/nc-clear-channel-station-tries-to-make-nice-with-indians-but-takes-aim-at-mexicans.html

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/11/richard-cohen-just-the-worst

https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/blog/richard-cohen-acting-out-again

http://mediamatters.org/tags/richard-cohen