Showing posts with label Race Card. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Race Card. Show all posts

Friday, May 22, 2015

Race Card Alert!

May 22, 2015 Anita Bennett , Dr. Boyce D. Watkins 0 Comments
Jay Z Under Fire by Black Scholar for ‘Pulling Out the Race Card’ in Tidal Debate 

By Anita Bennett, May 21, 2105, The Wrap

Dr. Boyce D. Watkins tells TheWrap he takes issue with music mogul “invoking the names of Freddie Gray, Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown” in freestyle rap

Jay Z’s got 99 problems and his freestyle is one.

On Saturday at his closely-watched “B-sides” concert — which ran exclusively on the hip-hop mogul’s music streaming service Tidal — Jay Z responded to critics with a sharply-worded freestyle rap. During one verse, he connected Tidal’s troubles with the deaths of Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown and Freddie Gray — unarmed African-American men whose tragic deaths made international headlines.

“You know when I work, I ain’t your slave, right? You know I ain’t shucking and jiving and high-fiving, and you know this ain’t back in the days, right? Well I can’t tell how the way they killed Freddie Gray, right? Shot down Mike Brown how they did Tray, right?” the rap legend said.

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Thursday, April 2, 2015

Sen. Dick Durbin And The Race Card By Larry Elder

April 02, 2015 Articles by Larry Elder , Race Card 0 Comments
Sen. Dick Durbin
By Larry Elder, Apr. 2, 2015

Does Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., suffer from short, medium and long-term memory loss?

In criticizing Republicans for holding up the nomination of Loretta Lynch, Durbin said, "Loretta Lynch, the first African-American woman nominated to be attorney general, is asked to sit in the back of the bus when it comes to the Senate calendar." Race card alert!

Does Durbin not recall voting against Miguel Estrada and even participating in a filibuster against the man who would have been the first Hispanic on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit?

Estrada was born in Honduras. He immigrated to the United States when he was 17, arriving with a limited command of English. He graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a bachelor's degree from Columbia in 1983. He graduated magna cum laude in 1986 from Harvard Law School, where he became editor of the Harvard Law Review. After law school, Estrada served as a law clerk to Judge Amalya L. Kearse of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He then clerked for Justice Anthony M. Kennedy of the U.S. Supreme Court for two years.

From 1990 until 1992, Estrada served as assistant U.S. attorney and deputy chief of the Appellate Section, U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York. In 1992, he joined the United States Department of Justice as an assistant to the solicitor general for the George H. W. Bush administration, where he served with now-Chief Justice John G. Roberts. He has argued 22 cases before the United States Supreme Court.

But Estrada, after two years of waiting, finally withdrew his nomination for the Court of Appeals.

Does Durbin not recall voting against Alberto Gonzales, the first Hispanic U.S. attorney general?

Alberto Gonzales was born to a Catholic family in San Antonio, Texas, and raised in Houston. Of Mexican descent, he was one of eight children born to his stay-at-home mother and construction-worker father, who met each other when both were migrant workers. Gonzales and his family of 10 lived in a two-bedroom house with no running hot water and -- until Gonzales was in high school -- no phone, either.

A high school honor student, Gonzales enlisted and served in the U.S. Air Force after graduation. He received an appointment to the U.S. Air Force Academy, and later transferred to Rice University in Houston, where he earned a bachelor's degree with honors in political science in 1979. He got his law degree from Harvard in 1982, and began practicing law at a prestigious firm in Houston.

Does Durbin not recall voting against Janice Rogers Brown, the second black female on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit?

Born in Greenville, Alabama, Brown, a sharecropper's daughter, attended majority black schools as a child. Her family refused to enter businesses that segregated blacks. She earned her B.A. from California State University Sacramento in 1974 and her law degree from the UCLA School of Law in 1977.

Finally, does Durbin not recall voting against the confirmation of Condoleezza Rice, the first black female secretary of state?

Rice was born in Birmingham, Alabama, the only child of a schoolteacher/church organist and a football coach/Presbyterian minister. She grew up in the then-deeply segregated Jim Crow South. Rice knew two of the four little black girls killed while attending Sunday school during the tragic 1963 firebombing at Birmingham's Sixteenth Street Baptist Church.

Rice began piano lessons at the age of three. She studied French and Spanish, and became a competitive figure skater. Attending segregated schools, Rice excelled, skipping the first and seventh grades. She attended an integrated public school for the first time in the 10th grade, when her family moved to Denver, Colorado. She finished her last year of high school and her first year at the University of Denver at the same time, at the age of 15.

She earned her bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Denver in 1974; her master's from the University of Notre Dame in 1975; and her Ph.D. from the University of Denver's Graduate School of International Studies in 1981. That same year, she joined Stanford University as a political science professor. In 1993, Rice became the first woman and first African-American to serve as provost of Stanford University -- a post she held for six years.

To lefties like Durbin, a metamorphosis occurs to conservative women and people of color. Gloria Steinem, for example, once called Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison a "female impersonator." Conservative blacks cease being black. They're sellouts. Conservative Latinos are no longer Latino. They're "Tio Tacos." They are, you see, conservatives, a form of political subspecies. They are ideological doormats that Democrats can enthusiastically attack, and then -- with a straight face -- call Republicans "racist."

Astonishing.


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Friday, January 9, 2015

Race card—overdrawn

January 09, 2015 Jason DeWitt , Judgement 0 Comments
Judge Delivers Awesome Smackdown To Attorney For His Failed Race Card Attempt

Jason DeWitt, Jan. 8, 2015, Top Right News

“Don’t even go down that road,” Judge Hurley continued. “I’m not going to let you go down that road. That is so off base. We’ve got a young man — I don’t care what color he is — He’s in a neighborhood he doesn’t live in at 1:41 in the morning, hiding under someone’s dock in the water with a holster on, after a police officer had a shot taken at him. Don’t hand me this, ‘He’s a black man running from police brutality. Look, that is not appropriate in this case. That’s not there and I’m not going to let you poison this case with bringing in something that has nothing to do with it.”

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Monday, January 5, 2015

Jesse Jackson created the business model

January 05, 2015 Al Sharpton , Isabel Vincent 0 Comments
How Sharpton Gets Paid Not To Cry 'Racism' At Corporations

Isabel Vincent and Melissa Klein, Jan. 4, 2015, New York Post

Sharpton notably did not publicly assert his support for Pascal after the meeting — what observers say seems like a typical Sharpton “shakedown” in the making. Pay him in cash or power, critics say, and you buy his support or silence.

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Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Things are NOT getting worse in "race relations"

December 31, 2014 Interracial Marriage , Marriage 0 Comments
Intermarriage: A Real Measure Of Race Relations

Naomi Schaefer Reilly, Dec. 29, 2014, New York Post

Our liberal elites have plainly decided it’s better if we’re all convinced that our country had made no progress on race since 1960, that lying just beneath the surface of every white person is a gurgling volcano of racial epithets ready to spew forth at the slightest provocation.

The current trend toward chronicling “microaggressions” (bits of racism so small you might not even see them as racism) is, if anything, evidence of the lack of a problem

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