Please remember the Tawana Brawley case!

“According to Tawana, she was abducted by several white men shortly after she got off the bus; the men, one of whom wore a badge, took her to a wooded area and sexually abused her over a period of several days.

Interviewed at the hospital by a black officer from the Poughkeepsie Police Department, Tawana claimed she had been repeatedly raped by a group of white men but could provide no names or descriptions of her assailants.

She later told others that there had been no rape, only other kinds of sexual abuse.  Forensic tests found no evidence that a sexual assault of any kind had occurred.  Nor was there any evidence of exposure to elements, which would be expected in a victim held for several days in the woods at a time when the temperature dropped below freezing at night.”

White people are not the only ones who falsely accuse another race when making up a story!
That’s all I’m sayin’!

The other day I heard Whoopie talking about this on The View and I was surprised that no one mentioned that there are cases of the reverse of the Bonnie Sweeten and the Susan Smith cases!  If they did, my apologies!  The dogs bark really loudly when someone has the audacity to walk down the street!  I heard a whole lot of talk about how we white folk need to stop blaming black folk…

Have you ever tried to be completely color-blind?

When asked to describe someone, what is one of the first 5 things asked?  Color/Race!
When filling out forms, you are asked your race!
You get a new teacher, boss, coworker, friend, or are offended by or helped by someone, when you are describing the event or the person, their color comes up!

Of course racism is different.

Racism =

1. The belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others.
2. Discrimination or prejudice based on race.

It seems to me that we’re either over-using and abusing the term OR we’re going to change the definition like we are changing so many other things to suit the needs of some!
I’m just sayin’…

It’s obvious that Bonnie Sweeten got in over her head, hid some stuff and broke down.  Black is a common color of car and a common color of man!  Get over it!

EDITED 5/30:  Changed title

Shocking!  I know!

ElectionJournal.org CASE OVER: Members of New Black Panther Party carrying nightsticks stand outside a Philadelphia polling place.

You see, back on election day ‘08, New Black Panther Chairman Malik Zulu Shabazz, Minister King Samir Shabazz and Jerry Jackson dressed in “military-style uniforms, black berets, combat boots, battle-dress pants, black jackets with military-style insignias” and were armed with “a dangerous weapon”and used racial slurs and insults to scare would-be voters and those there to assist them at the Philadelphia polling location”!

I live about a half-hour from Philly!  This bothers me a lot for many reasons beyond the obvious faulted election!

A civil suit was filed on January 7th and an affidavit was obtained from Bartle Bull, a longtime civil rights activist and former aide to Sen. Robert F. Kennedy’s 1968 presidential campaign.

But mysteriously, the government did not enter the affidavit in the court case! Wow!  What an oversight!!

According to the Washington Times article:

Mr. Bull said the “clear purpose” of what the Panthers were doing was to “intimidate voters with whom they did not agree.” He also said he overheard one of the men tell a white poll watcher: “You are about to be ruled by the black man, cracker.“
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“Mr. Bull said in a sworn statement dated April 7 that he was serving in November as a credentialed poll watcher in Philadelphia when he saw the three uniformed Panthers confront and intimidate voters with a nightstick.”
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He called their conduct an “outrageous affront to American democracy and the rights of voters to participate in an election without fear.” He said it was a “racially motivated effort to limit both poll watchers aiding voters, as well as voters with whom the men did not agree.”

Over a 5 month period, the three “New Black Panthers” refused to appear in court to answer the suit!

As recent as May 5th the issue was still on the table and then…10 days later the Justice Dept. dismissed the case!

According to the Washington Times:

“A Justice Department spokesman on Thursday confirmed that the agency had dropped the case, dismissing two of the men from the lawsuit with no penalty and winning an order against the third man that simply prohibits him from bringing a weapon to a polling place in future elections.”

According to Fox News:

“A spokesman for the Department of Justice told FOX News, “The Justice Department was successful in obtaining an injunction that prohibits the defendant who brandished a weapon outside a Philadelphia polling place from doing so again. Claims were dismissed against the other defendants based on a careful assessment of the facts and the law. The department is committed to the vigorous prosecution of those who intimidate, threaten or coerce anyone exercising his or her sacred right to vote.”

WTH?! Obama is going to make sure that all of his friends get exactly what they want for making sure that he got what he wanted! Where the hell is the outrage?!

Is it that we are so inundated with blunders and slaps in the faces that we cannot concentrate on only one issue long enough to get our heads together before they blow apart?
AND
Can any of us feel safe when we go out to vote?
AND
Between this and the Acorn scandal, can’t we have a fair re-vote?

Remains found in Illinois are not Stacy Peterson

Bummer.  I was really hoping for some closure in the Peterson case.  Only because I am more familiar with that case and people like Drew Peterson disgust me!  He’s not a man!  He is a very sad excuse for a human-being who feels that he is entitled to decide everyone’s fate to suit his needs.  I’ve known people like him before.  High on power!  Charming in the outside world and an absolute dick behind closed doors!

The good news is that another family will find closure once the male is identified.  If the term “silver lining” could ever be attached to such a horrible, haunting event such as losing a loved one mysteriously, it is that one high profile case brings attention, sometimes inadvertently to other missing person cases.

New Jersey gets to decide who will run against Jon Corzine in the 2009 New Jersey Primary Election which will be held on June 3rd!

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