Media And Racial Profiling...

NBC – the editing of Zimmerman’s phone call

NBC apologizes for the editing of Zimmerman’s phone call, the effect of which was to make him look “racist”, but declines to remove their commentator Al Sharpton, who has been simultaneously using his MSNBC role as a pulpit for agitating on the Trayvon Martin case, while leading demonstrations against Zimmerman.

From the Globe and Mail:

Rev. Sharpton, who hosts MSNBC’s Politics Daily and offers regular commentary on the case, has also served as an advocate for the Martin family by leading rallies demanding Mr. Zimmerman’s arrest, appearing beside Mr. Martin’s anguished parents, and conducting closed door meetings with prosecutors and local officials on the Martin family’s behalf. A call to Rev. Sharpton for comment Saturday was not returned.

Externally, media critics including Howard Kurtz, host of CNN’s Reliable Sources and a columnist for The Daily Beast, have criticized the network for allowing Rev. Sharpton to play a dual role as both activist and commentator.

“Even commentators have to abide by certain rules,” Mr. Kurtz wrote last month. “And in this case, by playing both sides of the camera, Rev. Al has obliterated them.”

Alas! This Is Not The True Face Of Bigotry...

Racism Is Colour Blind And A Very Lucrative Cottage Industry...

You Can Find Racism Everywhere ... If You Insist Upon It
American radio talk show host, Dennis Prager, featured this column on his show this morning. Entitled "Black, Female and Single", it was written by a graduate student named Angela Stanley. It starts off quite harmlessly:
FEW things in life are more irritating than the unsolicited comments I get that black women, like me, are unlikely to marry. Family members ask, “Are you ever going to get married?” as if I am remaining single purposely to keep them from attending my wedding. Well-meaning married friends try to sell me on the idea that being single is liberating. And then there is my octogenarian aunt whom I love, but who also manages to unintentionally sucker punch me whenever I visit with the comment, “Maybe if you’d just straighten your hair you’d be able to find a man.”
Note that Ms. Stanley is mostly referring to the comments of her family members, especially her elderly aunt. One would naturally assume that these people are African-Americans.
A bit further down her column takes an insane left turn:
So why all of the negative attention on black women? It is part of a persistent historical and present-day attack on black people in America, with black men made into deviants and black women into problems.
Huh?!? How on earth did the comments of her Black relatives get transformed into a "persistent historical and present-day attack on black people in America" by Caucasians?!? The answer to this question may very well lie in Ms. Stanley's research interests: race, gender, American politics, and public policy.
This is Example #57,349 of how the brainwashing of the Religion of Leftism has replaced Logical Thinking throughout academia.
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Blacks Make A Mockery Of Mandela's Suffering...

Apartheid: was it all bad?


By Kathy Shaidle on Thursday, September 1st, 2011
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Shocker!

The South African government has spent a fortune trying to redistribute the country’s land wealth from the white minority to the black majority.
It has bought thousands of hectares of white owned farm land and either given it or sold it on to poor blacks.
But yesterday the country’s minister of land reform admitted that many of the new black farmers have simply resold the land back to the original owners.

First it Was Prized Black Cow And Oprah But Not To Be Outdone...

Monday, February 28, 2011

Australia: "Racist" Baa Baa Black Sheep put out to pasture

We read:

"Black sheep are on the endangered species list as some children in north Queensland learn to sing Baa Baa Rainbow Sheep.The English nursery rhyme may have survived for 200-plus years but political correctness could finally put it out to pasture. Some schools in Britain have banned the song for being racist, but Pelicans Innisfail Child Care allows children to sing about black sheep or rainbow sheep.

Director Pam McLaughlin said some teachers sang the changed lyrics, and some children already knew the changes. "We just go with whatever the children want," Ms McLaughlin said. "The kids are just singing and having fun. Some sing black sheep, some sing rainbow sheep. It's just a song. "We don't have anything that says, 'You have to sing it this way'."

Australian National University social psychologist Michael Platow said he doubted Baa Baa Black Sheep would teach racism. "I don't know why a child would associate a black sheep with a black man," he said.

Source

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Holy Cow! Md. GOPers Have a Beef With “Oprah” NBC Washington.

Black History Month

N-word wickedness Do kids of other minorities have to accept insults in the name of free speech?

By George Elliott Clarke

An English Prof in the “New South,” shy about uttering the N-word even in university, sought a remedy – and now a U.S. publisher will shortly release a new edition of the 1884 American classic Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), in which the word “slave” replaces “nigger” 219 times.

More...

...NO but if you really want to learn about history they will have to accept the facts something current day messiaha are oppossed to as it threatens funding of their cottage industry, Racial Harmony.

The N- word challenge


Local celebs weigh in

Surprise! Not What I Expected...

Drawn Off Topic

Elizabeth May on Huck Finn

Anthony Jenkins

...from a leftist save the world icon. Maybe I am spending too much time at Timmies in discussion with other old farts.

Some Thoughts On Making And Funding Social Issue Cottage Industries...

Thnk about it. Evaluate the performance and results of social in-activists in your neighborhood and decide whether you are receiving value for your tax $$$. Why would you expect positive results from people who would become unemployed if they solved the "problems" they champion?

To implement these principles, the City of Toronto's grants programs will ensure that:
(1) all organizations receiving City grants are non-discriminatory and promote the goals of anti-racism, access and equity;
(2) all organizations receiving City grants take reasonable steps to ensure their services, programs anddecision-making reflect the community they serve;
(3) the City of Toronto's grants programs are accessible to organizations from Toronto's diverse communities, including organizations representing equity-seeking communities; and
(4) all required documentation and conditions will be reasonable and grants will not be withheld if the applicant is taking reasonable steps to comply with City policy.
 
The State Against Blacks

'The welfare state has done to black Americans what slavery couldn't do. . . . And that is to destroy the black family.'

Source

Freedom Returning To USA! At Least In Maine...

Maine guv to NAACP: 'Kiss my butt'...

Playing Cards With A 53 Card Deck...

The new 'racism'? 'Running the KKK's asses out of town'


Thank God for the folks at HotAir for explaining to me why this is "racist" now. Cuz I read it twice and figured I just needed another coffee...

Dennis Prager is right: Simply talking about race is the new "racism." And that attitude is more dangerous to the social fabric -- and more prevalent -- than actual racism.
# Kathy Shaidle

Prior To Campbellford I Can't Recall...

...the last time I had thought about the KKK but thanks to the media, which now includes The Star everyone is taking to the streets,

James: City facing questions about KKK dress-up in Parkdale by Royson James

and I think there are more questions than answers when it comes to the charge that City Of Toronto employee's antics were similar and I wonder how long it will be before we see requests for more funding for social in-activists.

Police Services Under Scrutinty By THE STAR Again...

...but in retrospect they need to maintain their leftwing readers after their choice in the Toronto mayorality race got his ass kicked.

SIU cases: Unequal justice for the police
Fri Oct 29 2010
SIU investigators have been remarkably quick to clear suspected officers

Taking Al Sharpton To Task...

Speaking truth to race-hustlers

By Michelle Malkin  •  September 2, 2010 09:51 AM

Common Sense And Fairness Labelled By Leftists As Racism...

Paul Russell: Tamil migrants, Khadr & an editorial all get a cold shoulder

Paul Russell  August 15, 2010 – 9:00 am

We always receive a fair number of letters from readers in British Columbia. This week, the volume sharply increased. Almost all those notes focussed on the arrival of the MV Sun Sea to that province’s shores, with many scorning the way our government is dealing with the 500-or-so Tamil migrants on board. Here are two examples.
“What a charade and sad display by the Canadian government,” wrote Jim Francis of Surrey, B.C. “After an elaborate display of temporarily imprisoning the so-called refugees and a futile attempt to establish their true identities, all will eventually be released. When will we ever realize the long-term problems we are creating with our open-door [refugee and] immigration policy?”
“Countries such as Australia and Japan would send the migrants back,” agreed Bernard C. Barton, of Tsawwassen, B.C. “Patsy Canada, however, accommodates, feeds and finances them, and then will arrange for relatives to follow. It’s time for Canada to get tough, and show that we are not a convenient dumping ground for questionable illegal aliens.”
–  While many readers seem to agree with the positions of the National Post editorial board, dissent is not uncommon. For example, many expressed outrage over our Tuesday editorial titled “Bring Back Omar Kadhr.” The Post’s position that this “child soldier … has all the rights and privileges that go with citizenship” did not sit well with many readers.

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Playing With A 53 Card Deck...

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

An overused tactic?

I would like to think the comment below was correct but I do think that it is only partly so. The accusation still has some power to embarrass less cynical people

"It has come to the point where the term ‘racist’ has become so completely overused that it is losing its impact. There was a time when a person so accused would take great offense and spend much time demonstrating a lack of racist tendencies.

The typical response now is to sigh and accuse the other person of making the accusation due to having run out of actual arguments. The reason it was overused is because the person making the accusation typically did resort to it due to having run out of actual arguments.

Now an outside observer, hearing a progressive refer to someone else as a racist, hears ‘he’s saying that guy isn’t a progressive.’”

Source

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Discrimination Has Many Faces...

...and it seems like "whites" are the victims;

Race issues distract Obama's agenda

By PATRICIA ZENGERLE, Reuters

Many supporters of Barack Obama hoped his election as Americas's first black president might herald an era of post-racial politics, but race has been an issue his administration just can't seem to avoid.
  
White House apologizes to employee fired over racial comments

Feds to review race-based hiring policy

By BRIAN LILLEY, Parliamentary Bureau

The Harper government will ask for a review of hiring policies for government jobs after a QMI Agency report about race-based hiring policies.

...and now let's look at a really serious and on-going discrimination issue where drivers pay the freight and take the hit;

Jarvis a strait of confusion, cyclist says

By DON PEAT, Toronto Sun

The head of the Toronto Cyclists Union got two tickets for riding down the now-closed middle of Jarvis St. Wednesday.

Possibly More About NAACP Than Most People Want...

“Wake the F**k Up Michelle Malkin, You’re Black;” Update: NAACP grievance-palooza! Tea Party is “threat to the pursuit of justice” for all; NAACP shuts off webcast; Tea Party resolution passes

July 13, 2010 01:19 PM by Michelle Malkin
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Plus: Scenes from the NAACP grievance-fest.

IMHO in Poor Taste But...

Mandela autopsy painting condemned

...if I, as a white, Canadian Male, I had publicly condemned the painting I would have probably been labeled as a racist. It is called playing the 53rd card!

'Tan tax' prompts cries of racism...

Kate On Caribana...

People say 'racist prude' like it's a bad thing

I responded to a must-read post at NewsReal thusly:

Actually Jenn, here in Toronto we are obliged to pay for an annual festival called Caribbana, where, in between the gun shots and ear killing "music" we are also forced to watch mothers and daughters parade down the street in various stages of undress.

The 400 pound women in homemade bikinis and feathered headdresses are bad.
The little girls dressed likewise are worse.

But you guessed it: you are NOT allowed to comment because "it's their culture" and "you're racist." 

# Kathy Shaidle

Yellow And Red Cards Being Played During World Cup...

World Cup: Is South Africa's white town racist?

Nicolas Brulliard - June 21, 2010 05:59

Small all white Afrikaner town is not interested in soccer, which is viewed as a black man's sport

...the 53rd card, the black card, will return to it's prominence next week.