Womanist Musings: For Machine Gun Kelly, Apparently Black Girls Give the Best Head
This should rank right up with John Mayer's rant against Black women.
Wednesday, August 08, 2012
Mitt Romney Swallowed The Dog Whistle!
Don't act like the Republicans and their allies in the conservative movement aren't playing the "race card"!
They're playing every card from the bottom of the deck and this time they're playing even more dirtier than normal.
With the first Black (ahem, biracial) president, isn't obvious that the Republicans are trying to win the White vote. After all Mitt Romney overwhelmingly has the White vote locked up. He leads 56% - 42% in White registered voters.
Nearly everything Mitt Romney's done is appeal to the "real Americans" who are suffering under an European style "socialist" utopia that President Barack Obama is rendering! None of that is true!
They're riled up over an Obama surrogate who spoke on a local radio station saying that Romney is intentionally dog whistling White voters with political rhetoric that comes off as racist!
The Romney campaign hits President Barack Obama over the issue of early voting in Ohio. Republican state legislators and Ohio governor John Kasich passed a law that requires early voting to end three days earlier before an election except for military.
The Obama campaign believes that this law is designed to keep minority voters and veterans from the ballot boxes. The president believes that all Ohioans deserve early voting rights. Mitt Romney thinks that the president wants to deny voting rights to military. They've been squandering over this issue for a while now. The tax returns are hurting Romney, so some of his supporters are going to demand the president show his birth certificate and college transcripts.
Okay, let's look at the newest ad rolling out in the swing states. In the ad by Mitt Romney and the Republican National Committee, they're using Romney's former foe and Obama's biggest ally in a claim that advocates political dog whistle. The key word: WELFARE.
| Louise Lucas, Virginia State Senator condemns Romney's campaign |
What I am saying to you is Mitt Romney, he’s speaking to a segment of the population, who does not like to see people other than a White man in a White House or any other elected position.
Let’s be real clear about it… let’s be real clear Mitt Romney is speaking to a group of people out there who don’t like folks like Barack Obama in any elected or leadership position. We know what’s going on here and some people may be afraid to say it but I am not. I am not afraid to say it.
He’s speaking to that fringe out there who do not want to see anybody other than a white person in a leadership position. Senator Miller said it before she died and I agreed with her. They don’t want President Barack Obama in office as President and for all the reasons that you and I and alot of other people understand.Okay, we have a Obama surrogate (delegate) talking about Mitt Romney pandering to the conservative White male. For example, if you're a White conservative male, you're likely to hold bigoted views towards someone's race, gender, sexuality, nationality, religion, political and economic standings.
A person who resents President Barack Obama over issues such as his race, policies and political affiliation.
A person who reacts to issues such as 9/11 and harbors resentment towards American Muslims who condemn this attack as well.
A person who reacts to issues of gay marriage negatively, even though they may have a family member, co-worker, friend, or even themselves are gay.
A person who feels like the illegal aliens are coming over into the United States in droves taking hard working patriots jobs and send tax free dollars back to Mexico or China.
A person who reacts to a Black person committing a crime upon a White person over an isolated dispute.
A person who thinks the United States should lead the way in how things are done whether right or wrong.
These examples represents Mitt Romney's base! Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul and Rick Santorum tried this stuff during the Republican debates and primaries. They ended up losing! But to be clear, they deserve some of the credit for losing. Most Americans never took them seriously to begin with.
But the matter of why Republicans are dog whistling the election. They know that White males are more pessimistic about the economy than any other race, gender or nationality. They know that if they can talk about issues like welfare or the president's allies complaining about unfairness based on race, they can make five more angry White male voters support Mitt Romney.
Things have gotten better! Not the way of the economic forecasters, but much better than five years ago.
But Republicans would rather see the economy fail so they can get back into power. It was said by Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky, Minority Leader), our goal is to see President Barack Obama serve one term.
That's proof positive that Republicans are cheering for failure and screaming at success. And the dog whistle is blowing like the wind.
Tuesday, August 07, 2012
Big Snoop Raging Lion!
| Snoop Dogg becomes Snoop Lion for his newest album release. |
Soon Snoop Dogg will be admitted to the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame legends in the coming years. In the meantime, the 40-year old rapper is planning on revamping his gangsta image. He's going Rastafarian.
Calvin Broadus, aka Snoop Dogg has remodeled himself as Snoop Lion, a reggae star. The legendary rapper is now looking forward to release a reggae album under this new moniker.
The rapper has been in the news lately for his charity work as well as his criminal history. He was recently busted in Texas for having an ounce of the good. And also banned from Norway for the next two years.
These controversies hasn't stopped the legend from making the news.
The rapper has advocated for legalizing marijuana consumption.
The rapper has taken rounds with country music, rock music and jazz. Reggae is the newest venue.
Snoop Dogg emerged on the scene after appearing on Dr. Dre's debut album The Chronic, a masterpiece of gangsta funk and raw hip-hop. In 1994, Snoop Dogg released Doggystyle, his first album under the hardcore rap label Death Row. Snoop Dogg is a former Crip gang member.
Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Tha Dogg Pound, Lady of Rage, and later Tupac Shakur made Death Row Records and its founder Suge Knight very successful.
Alas, Dr. Dre leaving the production table and label, the death of Tupac Shakur, internal conflict within the label and its ties to the infamous Bloods street gang has ruined Death Row. Suge Knight lost his label in 2010.
Snoop Dogg worked with No Limit Records founder and actor Percy Miller (known then as Master P).
Snoop Dogg left the label and established his own label called Doggystyle Records.
Snoop Dogg collaborated with rappers Warren G and the late Nate Dogg to form the group 2-1-3.
Snoop Dogg reunited with Dr. Dre and Ice Cube to reform N.W.A. and Westside Connection with rapper WC and Mack 10.
Snoop Dogg also aligned himself with hip-hop producers The Neptunes to release two albums under their Star Trak label.
Snoop Dogg has collaborated many artists. Some notable ones include: Katy Perry, 50 Cent, Eminem, Wiz Khalifa, Nelly, Ludacris, Jay-Z, The Game, Lil' Wayne, Xzibit, Diddy, Busta Rhymes, Bow Wow, Chris Brown, Kid Rock, R. Kelly, and Willie Nelson.
According to Fox News, the artist said at a news conference Monday in New York that he was "born again" during a visit to Jamaica in February and is ready to make music that his "kids and grandparents can listen to."
The former gangster rapper is releasing a reggae album called "Reincarnated" in the fall. He said that in Jamaica, he connected with Bob Marley's spirit and is now "Bob Marley reincarnated."
Bob Marley's son Rohan attended the conference and gave Snoop his blessing.
"I feel like I've always been Rastafarian," Snoop said of the spiritual Jamaican movement. While there, he said, he visited a temple, was renamed Snoop Lion and was also given the Ethiopian name Berhane, meaning "light of the world."
Snoop didn't explain why he was switching from "Dogg" to "Lion," but it's likely a reference to the Lion of Judah, a religious symbol popular in Rastafarian and Ethiopian culture.
Later, he played five songs for a small crowd, including one called "No Guns Allowed." It features his daughter and includes the lyrics, "No guns allowed in here tonight, we're going to have a free for all, no fights."
"It's so tragic that people are doing stupid things with guns," he said.
Snoop, best known for hits like "Gin and Juice" and "Drop It Like It's Hot," is an avid supporter of marijuana rights and has been banned from entering Norway for two years after trying to enter the country with a small amount last month.
He said that in Jamaica, where he stayed for 35 days, he grew closer to his wife, who saw his transition. He added that he's excited to perform music that his family and children can listen to.
"As a 40-year-old man ... I've got to give them something," he said. "That's what you do when you're wise."
Snoop Dogg said he's not completely retiring from hip-hop but is "tired" of the genre because it is no longer challenging.
"Reggae was calling ... it's a breath of fresh air," he said. "Rap isn't challenging; it's not appealing."
The album was produced by Diplo and will feature Snoop singing. It will be released on Vice Records.
The album will be followed with a documentary of the same name, also produced by Vice. It features Snoop making music and will include some personal elements of his life, a producer of the film said. It will debut at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.
A coffee table book about Snoop's rebirth is also in the works.
"It feels like I'm 19 or 20 years old again," he said.
Snoop Dogg (known also as Snoop Lion) appears on Doggystyle Records/Priority Records.
Those Who Hate!
| Wade Page the Sikh Temple shooter has ties to Neo-Nazi rock bands and chanted off White supremacist rhetoric! |
The recent shooting at the Sikh Temple in Wisconsin have brought forth the issue of right wing extremism.
Wade Page is the shooter and his views of society are the reasons for this tragedy to happen.
According to Talking Points Memo, Wade Page was nothing if not a relentless promoter of hate and the style of music he loved.
He found a nexus of both in the world of white power rock, where racist skinheads play their own brand of crunchy, loud punk and metal infused with lyrics trashing Jews, blacks, immigrants and anything else bothering them at the moment.
It didn’t take long to uncover a trail of Page’s postings on various white supremacist message boards, where he constantly promoted the white power bands he played in and knew.
| Three's the hard way! Wade Page is on the right! |
While music was usually his main focus, the postings made clear Page was also deeply involved with the Hammerskins organization. While he was living in North Carolina last year, he posted multiple messages encouraging people to come to “meet and greet” gatherings for the group near the city of Rocky Mount.
The person using the alias occasionally posted similar messages on the well known white supremacist site Stormfront.org, but he appeared to favorite the Hammerskin message boards at crew38.com. The latter website showed he posted 250 times since joining in March 2010.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks extremism in the U.S., documented Page’s ties to the white supremacist music scene on its own website early Monday. Senior fellow Mark Potok wrote that Page was the leader of a band that shared the name of his message board alias, End Apathy. In interviews later in the day, researchers with the SPLC said they had tracked Page for at least a decade.
Page presented a dangerous theme.
White supremacists are motivated by the hate music, the internet, and the first Black president. The Republicans riling up White voters with controversies such as Operation Fast & Furious, the president's birth certificate, undocumented workers, and a struggling economy. These things are going through mind of the White conservative male. This regurgitation of misinformation has driven White supremacists to the internet to promote views that you'll find when you read the comment section.
Once again, Fox News, The Drudge Report, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly Michael Savage, Sean Hannity, Bill Cunningham, Michelle Malkin, World Net Daily, and Sarah Palin are riling up extremism.
They can't help themselves. They rather deflect the harsh rhetoric solely on those who criticize them!
Sunday, August 05, 2012
Blame Game: Sikh Temple Shooting Tragedy!
| A Sikh worshiper wipes away tears after a gunman opened fire on his temple killing six people. |
WADE MICHAEL PAGE IS THE SIKH TEMPLE SHOOTER!
He is a 40 year old former military specialist veteran who may of had ties to White supremacist groups.
According to law enforcement officers speaking on condition of anonymity, the apparent shooter has tattoos that may represent activity in hate groups.
The Sunday shooting of the Oak Creek, Wisconsin Sikh Temple has the nation coping with another domestic terrorist attack upon innocent Americans who worship.
When they release the name of the person, the blame game begins. Conservatives would love to distance themselves from the tragedy by claiming that the individual was either a "Democrat" or "liberal" activist. Conservatives hate when the mainstream media focuses on the individual's race or political affiliation when it comes to a suburban mass shooting. They figure that the individual would be a White male who stockpiled firearms and magazines and harbored an apparent bigotry towards a person or group. The White conservative male is one of the most reactionary human being in this country. They're wrapped around the American flag shielding bigotry. These people are harboring bigoted views towards race, gender, sexuality, nationality, religion, political and economic standings.
| Michael Savage is a conservative agitator who rails against Islam. He is known by his firebrand version of conservatism that could inspire an individual commit an act of violence. He wrote numerous books denouncing liberalism, Islam and President Barack Obama. |
Before we get to the tragedy, we want to first talk about the 2009 declassified report about the rise of right wing extremism. Conservative talk radio, bloggers, the Republican Party and Fox News were crowing about Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Attorney General Eric Holder profiling the Tea Party and those in the conservative movement. The conservatives were thinking that President Barack Obama wanted to stifle "freedom of speech" and "take the guns" from patriots.
The Department of Homeland Security’s Extremism and Radicalization Branch, Homeland Environment Threat Analysis Division warned about the rise of extremism because of shifting demographics, the first Black president, a struggling economy, and high unemployment. These are the core driving forces to bringing forth an extremist. The Department of Homeland Security has coordinated with the FBI in apprehending those who are likely to carry an act of domestic terrorism in the name of conservatism.
| Frank Gaffney is a notorious right wing extremist. He is an Islamophobic individual who allies with Pam Geller, a former beauty queen turned extremist. They both promote anti-Muslim and anti-Sikh propaganda. |
ABC News reported the right wing extremist memos attracted heat in the conservative bloggosphere, from Newt Gingrich, Michelle Malkin, Powerline, and elsewhere.
The report states that while DHS "has no specific information that domestic rightwing terrorists are currently planning acts of violence…rightwing extremists may be gaining new recruits by playing on their fears about several emergent issues."
DHS defines "rightwing" as "broadly divided into those groups, movements, and adherents that are primarily hate-oriented (based on hatred of particular religious, racial or ethnic groups), and those that are mainly anti-government, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or rejecting government authority entirely. It may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration."
The "emergent issues," the DHS report states, include both "the election of the first African American president" and "a prolonged economic downturn—including real estate foreclosures, unemployment, and an inability to obtain credit," which DHS says "present unique drivers for rightwing radicalization and recruitment."
"A recent example of the potential violence associated with a rise in rightwing extremism may be found in the shooting deaths of three police officers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on 4 April 2009," the report states. "The alleged gunman’s reaction reportedly was influenced by his racist ideology and belief in antigovernment conspiracy theories related to gun confiscations, citizen detention camps, and a Jewish-controlled ‘one world government.’"
| Pam Geller promotes anti-Muslim and anti-Sikh propaganda with Frank Gaffney. |
"Over the past five years, various rightwing extremists, including militias and white supremacists, have adopted the immigration issue as a call to action, rallying point, and recruiting tool," the report states.
"Debates over appropriate immigration levels and enforcement policy generally fall within the realm of protected political speech under the First Amendment, but in some cases, anti-immigration or strident pro-enforcement fervor has been directed against specific groups and has the potential to turn violent."
"After Operation Desert Shield/Storm in 1990-1991, some returning military veterans—including Timothy McVeigh—joined or associated with rightwing extremist groups," the report states. "A prominent civil rights organization reported in 2006 that ‘large numbers of potentially violent neo-Nazis, skinheads, and other white supremacists are now learning the art of warfare in the [U.S.] armed forces. The FBI noted in a 2008 report on the white supremacist movement that some returning military veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have joined extremist groups."
| Alex Jones the founder of PrisonPlanet and InfoWars leads a movement of conspiracy themed stories that could inspire lone wolf domestic terrorism. His involvement in conspiracy theories attract right wing extremism. |
Sean Hannity and Dr. James Dobson chatted about this report on Fox News last night, which Hannity interpreted as targeting "people who think maybe we’re not controlling our borders" and "people who have pro-life bumper stickers."
“What do you think of that interpretation, especially coming from a guy that started his political career in the home of an unrepentant terrorist who bombed our Pentagon and Capitol and sat in Reverend Wright’s church for 20 years?” Hannity asked.
Dobson said "there are no Timothy McVeighs out there right now. They’re making a big deal out of something that hasn’t happened and may not happen."
Notorious conservative agitators and instigators include Bill O'Reilly Alex Jones, Frank Gaffney, Pam Geller, Michael Savage, Andrew Breitbart, Sean Hannity, Pat Robertson, James Dobson, Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh. These individuals have inspired a deranged individual to commit an act of domestic terrorism. Yet they deny they're responsible. They believe that if the person had mental issues, they should blame the medical field for the individual.
This will get the National Rifle Association a rally call to get fundraising from their supporters. This will bring forth liberal Democrats and the Brady Campaigns calls to having reasonable gun control. This will be a political hot potato for both President Barack Obama and the Republican nominee Mitt Romney.
Both candidates are considered soft on guns according to the NRA. But this issue will be once again front and center again. President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney will avoid talking about gun control. They fear that if they mention reasonable gun control, they may lose the election.
The Los Angeles Times is reporting that the individual is a White male in his 40s and acted alone. Contrary to multiple panicked reports from the scene, officials say they believe there was only one shooter.
Oak Creek police handed control of the investigation to the FBI on Sunday afternoon.
Federal officials cautioned against thinking that a concrete link to a domestic terrorism group or hate group had been established.
“The investigation will have to continue to see and determine the motive,” said a federal law enforcement official who had been briefed on the early planning for the case. “We don’t know much about the motive at this point.”
A federal official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media refused to say whether the gunman was thought to belong to a hate group or some other violent group because the investigation was still unfolding.
Officials said it took a long time to clear the scene with SWAT teams because of conflicting reports about multiple shooters. Police later said they think there was only one gunman, who has been described as white, with a large build and in his 30s.
“The city of Oak Creek is outraged by the senseless act of violence that happened in our city today,” Mayor Steve Scaffidi said at a news briefing.
In a statement, President Obama said he was “deeply saddened” by the news. “As we mourn this loss, which took place at a house of worship, we are reminded how much our country has been enriched by Sikhs, who are a part of our broader American family,” he said.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney called the shooting “a senseless act of violence and a tragedy that should never befall any house of worship.”
The Sikh faith originated in India in the 15th century. Male followers wear turbans and women wear head scarves. In the U.S., Sikhs occasionally have been mistaken for Muslims. They have also been victims of hate crimes.
It’s the area’s second mass shooting involving a religious community in the past seven years. In 2005, a gunman killed seven and then committed suicide at a church meeting in Brookfield, Wisconsin.
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