The Right On Wright!

Conservatives obsessed with Barack Obama and Jeremiah Wright

Once again, the fixation on Jeremiah Wright, Jr. the former pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ. It's been another week of unrest in Sanford, Florida, and the right wing media is once again flogging this canard.

In particular, one Sean Hannity, the controversial conservative agitator is once again beating this drum. It's been over four years and this commentator is still fixated on it. Hannity spent a majority of his programs name dropping this man every chance he gets. Hannity claims that the mainstream media failed at analyzing the controversy and felt that he deserved the credit for being this issue to light.

The conservatives are going to help President Barack Obama win reelection. Why?

Obama Derangement Syndrome. They're so obsessed with attacking President Barack Obama for every freaking event happening in America, they're going to overwhelmingly turn off independents. The Republicans have no major solutions to solve the problems facing the United States. They're cheering for the economy to fail and want global unrest. They've proven it by allowing some in the media and those in Congress advocating for the president to fail.

Once again, this is an election year. The Republicans are not as popular right now! They are obsessed with the culture wars.

Jeremiah Wright, Jr. has been on a speaking tour for many years. I guess once again a person used their camera phone to record the pastor's sermons. And as usual, the right wing media takes the bait.

Here's the article courtesy of The Blaze.

Rev. Wright Unleashed: ‘White Supremacy’ Drives ‘World Policy,’ Allah & Yahweh Are the ‘Same’…and Clarence Thomas Is Worshipping ‘Some Other God’

Billy Hallowell

• Rev. Jeremiah Wright delivered three fiery sermons about faith, race and politics at Metropolitan Baptist Church in Charleston, West Virginia
• Wright said Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas worships “some other God” outside of “Allah and Yahweh” (who are the “same” he says)
• Obama’s former pastor called Thomas Jefferson “a pedophile”
• He sees “white supremacy” driving “world policy”
• Wright condemned the U.S. military, saying, “fighting for peace is like raping for virginity”

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright became a household name during the 2008 presidential campaign. The fiery preacher, who was President Barack Obama’s pastor for two decades, has since retired from his position at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, Illinois. However, he’s still an active figure in geopolitical and faith movements, as his bizarre commentaries often offend detractors and inspire intense debate.

Last week, Wright spoke at Metropolitan Baptist Church in Charleston, West Virginia, as part of a week-long revival event. His controversial words took aim at Thomas Jefferson, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, the media and plenty of other targets.

He went on to speak about Jesus and Pontius Pilate in John 18 in the Bible, saying that they were speaking “two different languages.“ This sermon quickly delved into his belief that ”the Italian army — Roman soldiers“ were ”occupying Palestinian territory.”

Then, Wright found himself discussing U.S. operations in the Middle East, while also taking aim at FOX News personalities Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity.

“I was in the military six years and neither Hannity or O’Reilly was in the military,” he proclaimed. “Let me tell you one thing they taught us in the United States Marine Corps…fighting for peace is like raping for virginity. Those are oxymorons, but that’s what we do in the name of regime change.”

The controversial preacher also showed no love for Justice Thomas, as he told his audience that, though Thomas “looks like” them, he is “worshipping some other God.” He also made an intriguing comparison about the God of the Hebrew Bible and the Lord depicted in the Quran.

“The god of racists is not the God of righteousness. The god of the greedy is not the God of grace. The god of Wall Street is not the God of Main Street,” Wright proclaimed. “Those are two different gods and I ain’t talking about Allah and Yahweh. Those are the same names for the same God.”

He continued, taking a jab at Thomas and his Christian faith.

“And I’m not talking about black and white…some of ya‘ll think I’m talking about white folk,” he said. “There’s a whole lot of folk who look like you who are worshipping some other God — somebody shout Clarence Thomas. Hallelujah!”

Wright also tackled racial issues, while waging a bizarre accusation at Thomas Jefferson.

“There are politicians who are making decisions about you, about your life, about your future, about your family about your children — and the real tragedy is they live in a different world from your world all together,” he proclaimed. “There are people in power right now who have opinions about you based on their privilege of skin color.”

As he spoke about race, Wright’s rhetoric intensified.

“I am in the text. Pilate was European…Jesus was not European. They live in a world shaped by European standards of beauty, shaped by Moynihan studies, shaped by bell curves — they live in a different world from your world all together,” he told the audience. “They are ignorant and arrogant and these are graduates of Harvard and Yale setting policies over you based on the stupidity of David Hume…Voltaire, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Thomas Jefferson — a pedophile — Theodore Roosevelt and a racist Supreme Court.”

But he wasn’t done there.

“The ignorance and arrogance of white supremacy have the movers and shapers of world policy living in a different world from people of color all together,” Wright raged on. “And the sooner you realize that the better off you’re gonna be.”

Early on in this same address, while speaking about Luke 19, Wright took aim at conservatives, saying, ”You will not hear this passage of John 19 preached on Wall Street. You won’t hear this Luke 19 Scripture exegeted in the comfortable pews of the rich folk, the greedy folk or the Tea Party praisers.”

It is in this chapter that Zacchaeus, a tax collector, encounters Jesus and subsequently decides to change his ways, pledging to give half of his possessions away. Additionally, he offers to give back four times what he owes to anyone he has cheated. Clearly, the preacher sees conservatives as “greedy folks.”

“That is called restorative justice and theology – restore the stuff that the greedy stole from the needy,” Wright continued.

Watch comments cut together from all three of Wright’s speeches, below:

Again, President Barack Obama disavowed Wright and left his church. Is there anything else that matters to this? No. But it irks me that conservatives complain that they're being silenced. In the world of conservatives, anyone who disagrees with them is an enemy of the state. Anyone who speaks ills of the tragedies cause by American influence is a "traitor". Anyone who happens to speak up for injustices to people of color is "a race hustler". Anyone who supports the rights of the independent woman is "playing to the base".

Republicans and its allies in the conservative movement are wrapping their asses and eventually their necks around the American flag in preparedness of a culture war. They need an enemy. The lower class, the middle class, the working class, minorities, moderates, liberals, compassionate conservatives, [independent] women, single parents, GLBT, those who practice in Islam, and the many supporters of President Barack Obama are enemies of the Republican Party and its allies in the conservative movement.

Conservatives are all upset over Jeremiah Wright using his First Amendment right to criticize the United Sates government and the media, but rush to defend the U.S. Marine Gary Stein. In the next article, it describes Stein as U.S. Marine Sargent who is under fire for creating a Facebook page that attack President Barack Obama. And while he's entitled to speak his political views, it's against the policy of United States Military Code to speak against the commander and chief while in military uniform.

U.S. Marine faces dismissal over criticism of Obama on Facebook by Anne Sewell

U.S. Marine Gary Stein Under Fire For Anti-Obama Rant.

Camp Pendleton - U.S. Marine sergeant Gary Stein made the mistake of criticizing President Barack Obama on his Facebook page. That mistake may cause him to be dismissed in shame.

Stein superimposed images of President Obama's face on to a poster advertising the movie "Jackass". According to his lawyers, he had done nothing more than exercise his right to free speech.

Captain James Baehr, a defense lawyer representing Stein, said: "We are truly surprised and disappointed but it was an honor to fight for a hero like Sgt. Stein and every other marine's right to speak freely."


Baehr also stressed that Stein had, in fact, not broken any existing law.

Stein is a member of both The United States Justice Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union and these groups say that his First Amendment rights are being violated.

However the prosecution has said that Stein has repeatedly violated Pentagon policies and should be dismissed because he ignored a warning from his superiors about his various activities on the popular social media network.

Prosecutor Captain John Torresala claims that the marine's anti-Obama Facebook postings and comments could influence junior marines.

The policies of the Pentagon limit the freedom of speech of servicemen, including criticism of the country's commander-in-chief. Personnel in the military are not allowed to set up a political club, nor to openly support any political candidate or party on TV or in a public event.

As well as the Jackass image recently posted to his Facebook page, he has also referred to the "Armed Forces Tea Party" and had superimposed Obama's face on another movie poster, this one for "The Incredibles", which he renamed "The Horribles".

In the meantime Stein has insisted that all the comments and views posted on Facebook were his own, and not the military's and he has also placed a relevant disclaimer on the page.

After a one day hearing at Camp Pendleton for Sgt. Gary Stein, the board recommended that the marine be given an other-than-honorable discharge, meaning Stein would lose his benefits and also, should this come to pass, he will not be allowed on any military base.

In the meantime, until conclusions are reached in the matter, Stein has been removed from his position at the Marine Recruiting Depot in San Diego and has now been assigned a desk job with no computer access.

Could Racism Be A Factor To Easter Tulsa Shootings?

It's getting worse. The city of Tulsa, Oklahoma is relieved that the apparent racially-motivated shooters are held in custody. Is this the sign of more on the way? Since the shooting of Trayvon Martin, more incidents are occurring often and we're noticing! Once again, with the first Black president, Barack Obama, the conservatives are riled up and they're capable of becoming violent.

2 held in deadly Tulsa shooting rampage; no charge

By JUSTIN JUOZAPAVICIUS
Associated Press


TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- Police arrested two men suspected in a deadly shooting rampage that terrorized Tulsa's African-American community, and said online postings indicated one may have been trying to avenge his father's death.

Jake England, 19 (right), and Alvin Watts, 32 (left), were arrested early Sunday at a home in Turley, just north of Tulsa. Police identified both suspects as white, while all five victims in the early Friday shooting were black. England and Watts, who have not been charged, are expected in court Monday.

Police and the FBI cautioned that it was too early to say whether the attacks in Tulsa's predominantly black north side were racially motivated. Police spokesman Jason Willingham said that based on Facebook postings attributed to England, a wish to avenge the death of his father might have been a factor.

In a Facebook update Thursday that appeared to have been written by England, he blamed his father's death on a black man and used a racial slur. The posting said Thursday was the second anniversary of his father's death.

"It's hard not to go off," given the anniversary and the death of his fiancée earlier this year, the posting said.

"It's apparent from the posting on the Facebook page that he had an ax to grind, and that was possibly part of the motive," Willingham said. "If you read the Facebook post and see what he's accused of doing, you can see there's link between the two of them."

The Facebook page had been taken down by Sunday afternoon.

Jake England, 19 was arrested. Facebook page shows racial rant.

A family friend, Susan Sevenstar, told The Associated Press that England was "a good kid" and "a good, hard worker," who "was not in his right mind" after losing his father and the January suicide of his fiance, with whom he'd recently had a baby.

"If anybody is trying to say this is a racial situation, they've got things confused," said Sevenstar, who described England as Cherokee Indian. "He didn't care what your color was. It wasn't a racist thing."

The Tulsa World reported that England's father, Carl, was shot in the chest during a scuffle with a man who had tried to break into his daughter's apartment. England later died. The man charged in the shooting is serving a six-year sentence on a weapons charge, according to Department of Corrections records.

Acting on an anonymous tip and backed by a helicopter, police followed England and Watts from the home they shared in Turley and arrested them without incident, police said.

Authorities said they planned to charge them with murder and other offenses.

Task force commander Maj. Walter Evans said investigators recovered a weapon but that it was not clear who fired the shots. They also found a truck that had been burned.

It was not immediately known whether the suspects had lawyers.

The Rev. Warren Blakney Sr., president of the Tulsa NAACP, said the arrests came as a relief. Black community leaders met Friday night as fears mounted over the shootings - and the possibility of retaliatory attacks.

"The community once again can go about its business without fear of there being a shooter on the streets," Blakney said.

Police Chief Chuck Jordan said the gunmen appeared to have chosen their victims at random. Police identified those killed as Dannaer Fields, 49, Bobby Clark, 54, and William Allen, 31. Two men were wounded but were released from the hospital, Jordan said.

The shootings come at a fraught moment for black Americans. In late February, an unarmed black teen, Trayvon Martin, was fatally shot by a neighborhood watch volunteer in Sanford, Fla., raising questions about racial profiling and touching off protests across the nation.

While Tulsa police were reluctant to describe the shootings there as racially motivated, City Councilman Jack Henderson was not.

"Being an NAACP president for seven years, I think that somebody that committed these crimes (was) very upset with black people," Henderson said. "That person happened to be a white person, the people they happened to kill and shoot are black people. That fits the bill for me."



More controversy upon the Trayvon Martin incident. The rise of right wing extremism, proven by the Department of Homeland Security. And it's getting worse.

Metro Detroit drivers shocked by racial slur on roadside sign referring to Trayvon Martin

DEARBORN (WXYZ) - A roadside construction sign spotted on the border of Detroit and Dearborn shocked metro Detroit drivers.

Someone changed the electronic sign to read "Trayvon..." followed by a racial slur.

The sign was spotted Sunday night on westbound I-94 near Michigan Avenue.

Police were notified by drivers and the sign was quickly taken down. It was up for about an hour.

Trayvon Martin is the Florida teenager whose death sparked nationwide outrage when he was shot and killed by a neighborhood watch volunteer.

His shooter claims the shooting was in self defense.

Martin's death has prompted hundreds of rallies across the country, even some in metro Detroit.


Ohio State University: Long Live Zimmerman Spray Painted On Black Culture Center!


COLUMBUS, Ohio (CBS Cleveland/AP) — Officials say graffiti spray painted on the wall of a black cultural center at Ohio State University likely stems from the nationwide unrest over the fatal shooting of a black Florida teenager.

The graffiti painted early Thursday said “Long Live Zimmerman.” Columbus media outlets report that officials believe it’s a reference to George Zimmerman, the neighborhood-watch captain accused of killing 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla., in February.

Larry Williamson, executive director of The Frank W. Hale Black Cultural Center, wants the person that did this brought to justice.

“We want the person brought to trial, caught,” Williamson told WBNS-TV. “We want to make sure these kinds of things don’t happen.”

Ohio State President E. Gordon Gee says university police are “vigorously investigating.”

“I was really outraged by this on a university that takes great pride in civility and respect,” Gee told WBNS. The graffiti has been removed.

It was discovered the same day a campus rally was held for Martin and Shaima Alawadi, an Iraqi woman who was fatally beaten last month in her El Cajon, Calif., home

Zimmerman is white and Hispanic. His family insists he’s not racist.

Another Reason Why The Republicans Are Hated By The Black Community

Internet Responds To John Derbyshire’s Shockingly Racist ‘Non-Black Talk’ With Universal Disgust by Frances Martel

 John Derbyshire is likely best known as a contributor to National Review, though he became the target of intense revulsion this weekend for something he wrote elsewhere– at Taki Mag, Derbyshire decided to share the “talk” he had with his children about race. In short, his piece argues that all white children should be taught that black people are dangerous, unintelligent and to be avoided at all costs.

The idea of the piece is that many black people have written about something called “the talk”– the point at which they explain to their children how their skin color can put them in danger because non-black people can often assume that they are criminals, and that they must walk on eggshells when it comes to being stopped by police, carrying things in their pocket, and other seemingly innocuous activities. Derbyshire posits there is a “white version” of this talk, that involves the parent teaching their kids to be horrifically racist:

(10e) If you are at some public event at which the number of blacks suddenly swells, leave as quickly as possible.
(10f) Do not settle in a district or municipality run by black politicians.
(10g) Before voting for a black politician, scrutinize his/her character much more carefully than you would a white.
(10h) Do not act the Good Samaritan to blacks in apparent distress, e.g., on the highway.
(10i) If accosted by a strange black in the street, smile and say something polite but keep moving.
(11) The mean intelligence of blacks is much lower than for whites. The least intelligent ten percent of whites have IQs below 81; forty percent of blacks have IQs that low. Only one black in six is more intelligent than the average white; five whites out of six are more intelligent than the average black. These differences show in every test of general cognitive ability that anyone, of any race or nationality, has yet been able to devise. They are reflected in countless everyday situations. “Life is an IQ test.”

The remarkably long list of how to teach children to stay safe by avoiding black people goes on for two pages and Derbyshire contends is a true lifesaver. There is no irony or clarification that, perhaps, this is a joke, no matter how much you may want to find a disclaimer after you’re done reading.


The backlash has been so wide as to be as close to universal as a disjointed media can put together. 

Maureen O’Connor at Gawker fears she fell into some sort of time warp: “It’s baffling—how can such an ill-conceived work of unadultered racism exist in an ostensibly modern magazine? So racist it would make more sense at a Klan rally than in a publication funded by an eccentric cocaine-addicted socialite?” At Forbes, Josh Barro argues that, without firing Derbyshire, it is near impossible to take serious any of the National Review‘s commentary on race (he cites in particular an article by Rich Lowry), since they apparently think someone like Derbyshire is worth publishing. Elspeth Reeve at The Atlantic Wire tries to rationalize the fact that Derbyshire is a person with a career in writing things about the way the world works:


“The trick to pull off is how to give what those less enlightened readers want — and thereby secure their money either through subscriptions or contributions — while still maintaining an air of respectability. Think of how your PBS station always trots out the stars-of-the01970s concerts and River Dance whenever pledge drive comes around. That’s where Derbyshire comes in.” Dave Weigel responded with a dry post yesterday that he clarified today, that he was just as outraged as everyone else, but “if you’re going to have anti-black sentiment, would you rather have it dumb and exposed or would you rather have it subtle?”Matt Lewis writes in the Daily Caller, “In one fell swoop… he has done more harm to the conservative cause than any liberal ever could.”


And it hasn’t been only prominent people on the internet that have no ties to Derbyshire– a number of National Review colleagues have been unequivocal in denouncing the article, even though it did not appear in that publication. Senior Editor Ramesh Ponnuru answered simply “I know I don’t” to a Twitter user asking whether the National Review wanted to be associated with “racist trash” like Derbyshire’s article. Editor-at-Large Jonah Goldberg tweeted, “For the record, I find my colleague John Derbyshire’s piece fundamentally indefensible and offensive. I wish he hadn’t written it.” Editor Rich Lowry responded to the post on the National Review site: “Needless to say, no one at National Review shares Derb’s appalling view of what parents supposedly should tell their kids about blacks in this instantly notorious piece here.”


That makes the question not so much whether the National Review folks approve of this sort of overt and archaic racism– they go out of their way to state clearly that they don’t– but what they are going to do about it. This is not Derbyshire’s first infraction of the type, though it is the worst. And while, should he stay around and weather the storm, some of his previous questionable remarks don’t get the protection of being made in an obscure and often intentionally unsettling publication that has nothing to do with National Review. On that very site, Derbyshire mused that it was possible “some portion of America’s white elites welcome Hispanic immigration as a way of sticking it to American blacks. That portion, it is suggested, would prefer to have its lawns mowed by small, polite, brown people, rather than large, surly black ones, even if the price is the same in both cases.” This was an attempt to explain lax immigration laws. And then there are the things he has spoken rather than written, like “Among the hopes that I do not realistically nurse is the hope that female suffrage will be repealed.”


There are plenty of people on both the left and right– as far as opposing female suffrage goes, Ann Coulter quickly comes to mind– that say outrageous things for shock value or package what would otherwise be an intelligent and sensible opinion in a cable news-worthy soundbite. There is often a redeeming cultural quality to the way many of the media’s political titans jerk around the emotions of the masses like a yo-yo. One could argue that a good Lawrence O’Donnell rant is art. Derbyshire’s dangerously callous foray into racial polemic– one of many that have flopped, perhaps not so spectacularly– has no such value, only offense.


Aside from the Weigel argument that “dumb and exposed” racism is better than subtle and palatable racism, it is difficult to find anything redeeming about such writing. And that Derbyshire has the sort of platform to dominate a (granted, holiday) weekend with how embarrassing his perspective on life is should serve as a sign to reevaluate how much influence he has in developed in the political sphere.

A warning: This article contains offensive language and racial rhetoric. 

Racial Politics

The Talk: Nonblack Version

by John Derbyshire

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(8) These differences are magnified by the hostility many blacks feel toward whites. Thus, while black-on-black behavior is more antisocial in the average than is white-on-white behavior, average black-on-white behavior is a degree more antisocial yet.
(9) A small cohort of blacks—in my experience, around five percent—is ferociously hostile to whites and will go to great lengths to inconvenience or harm us. A much larger cohort of blacks—around half—will go along passively if the five percent take leadership in some event. They will do this out of racial solidarity, the natural willingness of most human beings to be led, and a vague feeling that whites have it coming.
(10) Thus, while always attentive to the particular qualities of individuals, on the many occasions where you have nothing to guide you but knowledge of those mean differences, use statistical common sense:
(10a) Avoid concentrations of blacks not all known to you personally.
(10b) Stay out of heavily black neighborhoods.
(10c) If planning a trip to a beach or amusement park at some date, find out whether it is likely to be swamped with blacks on that date (neglect of that one got me the closest I have ever gotten to death by gunshot).
(10d) Do not attend events likely to draw a lot of blacks.
(10e) If you are at some public event at which the number of blacks suddenly swells, leave as quickly as possible.
(10f) Do not settle in a district or municipality run by black politicians.
(10g) Before voting for a black politician, scrutinize his/her character much more carefully than you would a white.
(10h) Do not act the Good Samaritan to blacks in apparent distress, e.g., on the highway.
(10i) If accosted by a strange black in the street, smile and say something polite but keep moving.
(11) The mean intelligence of blacks is much lower than for whites. The least intelligent ten percent of whites have IQs below 81; forty percent of blacks have IQs that low. Only one black in six is more intelligent than the average white; five whites out of six are more intelligent than the average black. These differences show in every test of general cognitive ability that anyone, of any race or nationality, has yet been able to devise. They are reflected in countless everyday situations. “Life is an IQ test.”
(12) There is a magnifying effect here, too, caused by affirmative action. In a pure meritocracy there would be very low proportions of blacks in cognitively demanding jobs. Because of affirmative action, the proportions are higher. In government work, they are very high. Thus, in those encounters with strangers that involve cognitive engagement, ceteris paribus the black stranger will be less intelligent than the white. In such encounters, therefore—for example, at a government office—you will, on average, be dealt with more competently by a white than by a black. If that hostility-based magnifying effect (paragraph 8) is also in play, you will be dealt with more politely, too. “The DMV lady“ is a statistical truth, not a myth.
(13) In that pool of forty million, there are nonetheless many intelligent and well-socialized blacks. (I’ll use IWSB as an ad hoc abbreviation.) You should consciously seek opportunities to make friends with IWSBs. In addition to the ordinary pleasures of friendship, you will gain an amulet against potentially career-destroying accusations of prejudice.
(14) Be aware, however, that there is an issue of supply and demand here. Demand comes from organizations and businesses keen to display racial propriety by employing IWSBs, especially in positions at the interface with the general public—corporate sales reps, TV news presenters, press officers for government agencies, etc.—with corresponding depletion in less visible positions. There is also strong private demand from middle- and upper-class whites for personal bonds with IWSBs, for reasons given in the previous paragraph and also (next paragraph) as status markers.
(15) Unfortunately the demand is greater than the supply, so IWSBs are something of a luxury good, like antique furniture or corporate jets: boasted of by upper-class whites and wealthy organizations, coveted by the less prosperous. To be an IWSB in present-day US society is a height of felicity rarely before attained by any group of human beings in history. Try to curb your envy: it will be taken as prejudice (see paragraph 13).

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You don’t have to follow my version of the talk point for point; but if you are white or Asian and have kids, you owe it to them to give them some version of the talk. It will save them a lot of time and trouble spent figuring things out for themselves. It may save their lives.

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National Review Ends Relationship With John Derbyshire

by Noah Rothman
With outrage mounting after National Review contributor John Derbyshire penned a shockingly racially provocative and insensitive post in an unrelated web magazine, National Review announced on Saturday evening that they are terminating their relationship with Derbyshire.

Editor Rich Lowry released the statement on the National Review’s “Corner” section:

Anyone who has read Derb in our pages knows he’s a deeply literate, funny, and incisive writer. I direct anyone who doubts his talents to his delightful first novel, “Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream,” or any one of his “Straggler” columns in the books section of NR. Derb is also maddening, outrageous, cranky, and provocative. His latest provocation, in a webzine, lurches from the politically incorrect to the nasty and indefensible. We never would have published it, but the main reason that people noticed it is that it is by a National Review writer. Derb is effectively using our name to get more oxygen for views with which we’d never associate ourselves otherwise. So there has to be a parting of the ways. Derb has long danced around the line on these issues, but this column is so outlandish it constitutes a kind of letter of resignation. It’s a free country, and Derb can write whatever he wants, wherever he wants. Just not in the pages of NR or NRO, or as someone associated with NR any longer.

Derbyshire’s offending post was strictly beyond the respected bounds of appropriate dailouge — not to mention healthy thought — and National Review made the correct decision to sever any professional ties.
Frances Martel’s column on the internet reaction from National Review contributors and editors as well as commentators all across the political spectrum suggests that there has been nearly universal revulsion and condemnation of Derbyshire’s conduct. That is certainly appropriate.

Whatever possessed the writer to pen that racist screed, William F. Buckley’s legacy publication is certainly in damage control mode today. They made the right move to end their relationship with Derbyshire – that may not be enough, though, for many still outraged that anyone harboring such sentiments ever had a relationship with the publication in the first place.

As The Right Is Fixated On The New Black Panthers, Here Comes The Neo-Nazis To Start Trouble Too!

The shooting of Trayvon Martin sparks controversy.

Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and Fox News are obsessed with members of the New Black Panther Party for Self Justice protesting at the Trayvon Martin rallies. They are upset over the fact the Black nationalist group has put out a bounty on the shooter George Zimmerman. As the controversy continues down in Sanford, Florida, many are seeing the racial lines being drawn in this situation. More Blacks who are following this case have the assumption that George Zimmerman was reckless in his decision to use deadly force against an unarmed teenager who wore a hoodie and happen to be a Black person. Non-blacks (mostly conservative-leaning) felt that the case is tainted by the accounts presented by both the families of Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman. Conservatives believe that Martin attacking Zimmerman with blunt force was a contributing factor to the fatal shooting. Non-blacks (mostly-conservative-leaning), believe that Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and President Barack Obama turn a local issue into an international controversy.

Courtesy of The Christian Science Monitor and Black Voices/Huffington Post

Poll: Trayvon Martin case divides US by race, age, wealth, and politics

New polls show a distinct split in how Americans view the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. Some groups, including blacks, women, and Democrats, are more likely to see race as a key factor.  By Brad Knickerbocker, Staff writer / April 6, 2012

The New Black Panthers is a controversial Black extremist group

The Trayvon Martin case is dividing the country racially, generationally, politically, and by economic status.

That’s the finding of public opinion polls taken since the Feb. 26 killing of a black teenager by neighborhood-watch volunteer George Zimmerman in Sanford, Fla.

“How Americans perceive this case is divided on several variables,” says Raghavan Mayur, president of TechnoMetrica Market Intelligence, which conducted a recent Christian Science Monitor/TIPP poll. “A similar pattern emerges when asked if blacks should be concerned about racial profiling in predominantly white areas.”

For example, twice as many blacks and Hispanics as whites say race played a major role in the shooting death of Trayvon (73 to 36 percent). The Monitor/TIPP poll of 906 adults taken from March 30 to April 5 finds other disparities as well.

• Younger respondents are more likely to see race as playing a major role in the case than those of middle age (66 to 43 percent).
• Women more so than men (48 to 39 percent).
• Those of modest income more than the wealthy (51 to 37 percent).
• Democrats much more so than Republicans (64 to 32 percent).

Asked in this survey “to what extent should blacks be concerned about racial profiling by police or law enforcement in predominantly white areas,” 69 percent say to “a great” or “some” extent. Here too, younger respondents, women, blacks and Hispanics, and Democrats are more likely to see racial profiling as a problem.

A recent USA Today/Gallup poll finds similar results.

Given what’s known about the case, for example, blacks are more than twice as likely as nonblacks (72 to 32 percent) to believe that Mr. Zimmerman (who is white and Hispanic) is guilty of a crime in shooting Trayvon, according to an April 2-4 Gallup survey of 3,006 Americans.

“Blacks are paying much closer attention to the news of the incident; overwhelmingly believe that George Zimmerman … is guilty of a crime; believe that racial bias was a major factor in the events leading up to the shooting; and believe that Zimmerman would already have been arrested had the victim been white, not black,” writes Gallup editor in chief Frank Newport in an analysis of the findings.

The Pew Research Center finds similar racial and political differences in the extent to which Americans are paying attention to the unfolding story.

Blacks and Democrats are much more likely to be following the story than whites or Republicans, Pew finds, and whites and Republicans are much more likely to say there’s been too much coverage of Trayvon's death.

Some major corporations apparently are paying close attention to the Trayvon Martin story as well.

On Thursday, Kraft Foods Inc. joined Coca-Cola and Pepsico in pulling its membership from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).

The ALEC is a conservative nonprofit policy organization whose major funders include billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch. It’s been associated with laws like Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law (allowing citizens to use deadly force rather than retreat in the face of a potentially life-threatening encounter) as well as with efforts to restrict voter registration – neither of which has much to do with the organization’s stated probusiness agenda.

Gallup’s Mr. Newport finds similarities between the Trayvon Martin case and that of O.J. Simpson in Los Angeles in 1995.

“The situation in the Trayvon Martin case is different from the Simpson situation, however, because the victim, rather than the alleged perpetrator, is black,” writes Newport. “Still, both situations, even though 17 years apart, apparently tap into the same deeply felt views of the average black American that the criminal justice system in America is biased against blacks.”

Other observers see the split in public opinion over Trayvon's shooting death in a troubling context.

“Half the nation, generally younger and more minority, believes a grave injustice has been done. The other half, generally older and whiter, believes that a mob led by professional agitators is trying to railroad Zimmerman for their own political purposes,” writes broadcaster Geraldo Rivera on the Fox News Latino website. “The case has fractured the country along the undeniable racial fault line that is always there, but is most apparent in charged cases like this and Rodney King, Amadou Diallo, Ramarley Graham, Sean Bell and a hundred others.”

Trayvon Martin Case: Armed Neo-Nazis Patrolling Sanford

The Huffington Post  |  By Danielle Cadet

Far right fringe groups see this as a recruitment opportunity.

Since the Trayvon Martin story has received national attention, Sanford, Fla. has gone from a virtually unknown city to the center of the spotlight. Now, a group of neo-Nazis are patrolling the area, saying they are "prepared" for violence in case a race riot ensues, the Miami New Times reports.

The Detroit-based group said they are not advocating violence, but instead are responding to white residents' fear of a race riot.

"Whenever there is one of these racially charged events, Al Sharpton goes wherever blacks need him," Commander Jeff Schoep of the National Socialist Movement told the news outlet. "We do similar things. We are a white civil rights organization."

Schoep said that measures by groups like the New Black Panther Party, who offered a $10,000 bounty for the "capture" of George Zimmerman, are a sign of the "possibility of further racial violence."

"We don't wish for things like that," he said. "But there have been race riots in Detroit and L.A., so we know those types of things happen."

Schoep said the group's purpose is to show solidarity with the local white community, not to take sides in the case.

"That's for the courts to decide."

Sean Hannity Interviews George Zimmerman's Father!

Courtesy of The Grio and Mediaite.

Conservative agitator and serial name dropper Sean Hannity

SEAN HANNITY, A POMPOUS WINDBAG WHO HAS A SERIOUS CASE OF OBAMA DERANGEMENT SYNDROME. I GUESS CONSERVATIVES WILL BLAME SEAN HANNITY IF BARACK OBAMA WINS RELECTION.


Conservative Fox News host Sean Hannity claims that the media and lawmakers are exaggerating the Trayvon Martin case. On a recent episode of his show he questioned the reaction to the surveillance footage of George Zimmerman after he shot Trayvon. He also lambasted Reverend Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson's roles in the case. The Huffington Post.com reports:

Sean Hannity hit out at the media and lawmakers over Trayvon Martin on Wednesday, alleging that they were jumping to conclusions about the controversy.

Martin, an unarmed teenager, was shot by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman in late February. His death and the local police department's failure to arrest his shooter took the country by storm last week. On Wednesday, Hannity alleged that "left-wing personailities and even members of Congress" were using Martin's death to make "highly inflammatory rhetoric."

He took issue with ABC News for posting police surveillance video on the night of the shooting with the headline: "Trayvon Martin Video Shows No Blood or Bruises on George Zimmerman."

He wondered if the media was trying to "spin" the story in a panel with Williams and CL Bryant, a former NAACP leader who has been critical of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton's roles in the controversy.

George Zimmerman’s Father Tells Hannity Trayvon Martin Followed And Attacked His Son by Frances Martel

 George Zimmerman‘s father is still in hiding after the national media firestorm that began when his son shot Florida teenager Trayvon Martin, but he spoke out tonight on Hannity, explaining behind a veil of anonymity his son’s side of the story and insisting Zimmerman acted in self-defense. Zimmerman appeared alongside his son’s lawyers, Craig Sonner and Hal Uhrig, and argued Zimmerman did not follow Martin and only shot after he found his life in imminent danger. 

Host Sean Hannity asked the elder Zimmerman to relate the story of how his son ran into Trayvon Martin. “He had been texting his sister and said he was going to the grocery store,” Zimmerman narrated, “he saw somebody that did not live in the community wandering behind some town homes,” explaining that the town “has had a lot of problems with burglaries.” Zimmerman confirmed to Hannity that his son tutored minority children and had defended a minority child hit by a car in the neighborhood and accused Martin of following Zimmerman to a street corner. “Trayvon came from that area where the sidewalks meet, asked my son whether he had a problem… he said no, and Martin said, ‘well, you do now.’” 

Zimmerman also insisted the screamed on the 911 tape were his son, not Trayvon Martin. “George was there yelling for help for at least 40 seconds… there is absolutely no doubt it’s him on the tape,” he argued. “Neighbor said he was calling 911 and that’s what he went inside and did,” he told Hannity, adding that “me, my family, friends, everyone knows that’s absolutely George.”

The interview via Fox News below:

Independent Voters: Republicans Are REALLY Sabatoging President Obama!

From the Washington Post.
 

Independents and moderates agree: GOP deliberately sabotaging Obama’s jobs policies  By Greg Sargent

Ever since Obama began aggressively calling out the GOP for obstructing his jobs policies, insisting that Republicans are “putting party before country,” pundits have ominously warned that he risks alienating the middle of the country with such a stark, partisan and finger-pointing message.

But the new Post poll finds that independents and moderates essentially accept Obama’s diagnosis of what’s going on — majorities of both groups agree that Republicans are blocking Obama’s good faith efforts to fix the economy for political reasons.

As I noted below, the Post poll asks people to choose between two options. This: “President Obama is making a good faith effort to deal with the country’s economic problems, but the Republicans in Congress are playing politics by blocking his proposals and programs.” Or this: “President Obama has not provided leadership on the economy, and he is just blaming the Republicans in Congress as an excuse for not doing his job.”

The toplines: Americans agree with the first statement over the second one, 50-44. According to numbers sent my way by the Post polling team, this is more pronounced among moderates and independents:

* Independents favor statement one over statement two by 54-40.

* Moderates favor statement one over statement two by 57-37.

The overall number is lower, at 50 percent, because a hilarously meager nine percent of Republicans believe this to be the case.

I know I’m repeating myself here, but it turns out this voter awareness doesn’t necessarily benefit Obama. Voters who are inclined to believe the worst about Republicans might still conclude that Obama’s failure to get his policies passed shows he’s inffectual. Indeed, in the same Post poll, 53 percent of independents give Obama a negative rating on whether he’s a strong leader!

Steve Benen put it very well:

Voters’ understanding of the political process is severely limited, and many Americans likely fail to appreciate the role Congress must play in policymaking. There are no doubt plenty of voters thinking, “Sure, Republicans are sabotaging the economy, but why can’t Obama just go around them?” unaware of the fact that, on a grand scale, this isn’t an option.

And so, a question. We now know that Americans — particularly the middle of the road ones voters who are supposed to be alienated by this kind of talk — are receptive to the argument that Republicans are blocking Obama’s efforts at fixing the economy for political reasons. For all their very real disapproval of Obama, they think one party is acting in good faith to fix the economy, and the other isn’t. So when is the national political press going to start seriously covering this aspect of the debate?

It's Only Gun Rights For Whites! Gun Control For Blacks and Latinos! Because They're Shooting Each Other! Aren't They?

Once again, the National Rifle Association is scaring up fundraising. The gun rights organization already expects President Obama to win reelection and they're out to get more money from those Elmer Fudds who think that "Big Ear Jungle Bunny" is coming for their guns.



As a concealed carry firearm owner who is an American voter, I have to share my thoughts on the gun control rumors being spread by two gun lobbying groups. They are attempting to generate revenue off the fears of a liberal Black president's attempt to "take their guns!"

I am amazed about how the conservative media loves to justify the killing of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin to events that have nothing to do with the controversy in Florida. I am at the point where I almost demand President Barack Obama give his "A More Perfect Union" speech once again.

This leads to the National Rifle Association's attempt to scare up fundraising. The gun rights organization already expects President Obama to win reelection and they're out to get more money from those Elmer Fudds who think that "Big Ear Jungle Bunny" is coming for their guns.



But ever since Barack Obama won the 2008 U.S. Presidential Elections, many gun owners got the fear of the liberal Black man working behind the scenes to tear apart the Second Amendment of The U.S. Constitution. With sales of firearms up, many believe that a second term of Barack Obama is the potential doom of the average flag waving, gun totting, freedom fry eating patriot. With Americans more concerned with unemployment and the economy, guns and religion are taking a backseat. But in order to stay relevant, NRA president Wayne LaPierre wants to make sure that his members are afraid of Barack Obama. Again let me repeat myself on the issue. Gun sales are up. I mean there's more people getting concealed carry permits and the firearm industry is doing fine so far. Republicans are rallying the base. And another silly culture war over gun control will certainly get some votes.

U.S. Congress and even President Barack Obama continues to give the gun owners what they want. According to Time magazine, the President has also expanded gun rights by signing laws that allow the possession of firearms in national parks and on Amtrak. And yet, he can't get a nod from the National Rifle Association because those measures were tucked into broader bills the president liked. "He has a failing record when it comes to gun rights, and that's what our members and gun owners and hunters across the country know," says NRA public-affairs director Andrew Arulanandam. "I also think they don't trust him." 

The recent shooting in Oakland, California at Oikos University, the shooting of Trayvon Martin, the shooting at Chardon High School in Ohio, and the Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords shooting doesn't seem to budge Congress to vote for gun control. So I don't understand why they believe that President Barack Obama is coming for the guns? If he was to take their firearms, would these tragedies happen or be prevented?

So it brings me to the notion of why conservatives bring up Black-on-Black crime and Black-on-White crime. Every time a controversy involving a racial aspect arises, conservatives point fingers at President Barack Obama, Al Sharpton, and Jesse Jackson for fanning hate on White people and screaming "racist" at every conservative white person who doesn't agree with them. This is constantly played upon those who continue to fan their "grandiose" to be "patriotic".

Seeing this controversy is not going away, gun right advocates are going to make this another attempt to rile up their brainless supporters to give money to the NRA or Gun Owners Association. They know that riling up people who own guns is the key to get them out to vote. They've been very successful at it for thirty years.

President Barack Obama has more important things to worry about. The rising prices of fuel, the economy and unemployment are the things that keep the president's job approval low. Gun control is the least of the president's concerns. Even though his liberal base is advocating for stronger gun regulations, President Obama urges them to avoid the notion of guns (at least until his second term).

Most White conservative males are obsessed with firearms and kill in the name of a religion, politics, or unjustifiable events. When you see Blacks, Hispanics/Latinos, or even Muslims with firearms, you people scream at the top of your lungs about how it's our faults for most of America's crime and you want control over us, but never control over you!

The foresight of Republicans is basically to tear apart an enemy. That enemy is President Barack Obama. This crazy game of baseless ignorance solely lies within the Republican and its allies in the conservative movement. 

Once again this "Black on White, Hispanic/Latino on White, Muslim on White", "Obama is a Muslim Nigger Commie Socialist" theme is another example of the messed up culture war the Republican Party (or allied to the conservative movement) continue to bring upon those who tend to be rational. 

But after telling you more than once, it's not true, these people turn around and make more narratives that totally distract the real reason why this country is so screwed up in the first place!