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Cress Welsing: The Definition of Racism White Supremacy

Dr. Blynd: The Definition of Racism

Anon: What is Racism/White Supremacy?

Dr. Bobby Wright: The Psychopathic Racial Personality

The Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation and Racism (White Supremacy)

What is the First Step in Counter Racism?

Genocide: a system of white survival

The Creation of the Negro

The Mysteries of Melanin

'Racism is a behavioral system for survival'

Fear of annihilation drives white racism

Dr. Blynd: The Definition of Caucasian

Where are all the Black Jurors? 

The War Against Black Males: Black on Black Violence Caused by White Supremacy/Racism

Brazen Police Officers and the Forfeiture of Freedom

White Domination, Black Criminality

Fear of a Colored Planet Fuels Racism: Global White Population Shrinking, Less than 10%

Race is Not Real but Racism is

The True Size of Africa

What is a Nigger? 

MLK and Imaginary Freedom: Chains, Plantations, Segregation, No Longer Necessary ['Our Condition is Getting Worse']

Chomsky on "Reserving the Right to Bomb Niggers." 

A Goal of the Media is to Make White Dominance and Control Over Everything Seem Natural

"TV is reversing the evolution of the human brain." Propaganda: How You Are Being Mind Controlled And Don't Know It.

Spike Lee's Mike Tyson and Don King

"Zapsters" - Keeping what real? "Non-white People are Actors. The Most Unrealistic People on the Planet"

Black Power in a White Supremacy System

Neely Fuller Jr.: "If you don't understand racism/white supremacy, everything else that you think you understand will only confuse you"

The Image and the Christian Concept of God as a White Man

'In order for this system to work, We have to feel most free and independent when we are most enslaved, in fact we have to take our enslavement as the ultimate sign of freedom'

Why do White Americans need to criminalize significant segments of the African American population?

Who Told You that you were Black or Latino or Hispanic or Asian? White People Did

Malcolm X: "We Have a Common Enemy"

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Tuesday
Feb222011

Racist Mississippi Governor Defends Record on Race - Huckabee Defends him

From [The Hotline] and [HERE]and [HEREGov. Haley Barbour of Mississippi has signaled that he does not believe past flaps over race would cause him many problems should he decide to seek the Republican nomination for president. 

The AP (2/21, Glover) reports though he's "faced some criticism on such matters, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour says he carries no political baggage because of his positions onracial issues." The issue "flared as recently as last week, when Barbour declined to denounce an effort by a group pushing for a license plate in honor of confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, a leader of the Ku Klux Klan. Barbour says the proposal was never going anywhere," and he "denounces the Klan, but was asked to denounce a specific person." Barbour was in Iowa "meeting GOP activists as he tests the waters for seeking the Republican presidential nomination." 

Last year he also came under some fire after saying in a Weekly Standard profile late last year that he did not remember the civil rights era “being that bad” in his hometown. 

The Hill (2/22, Becker) reports Barbour "asserted that Mississippi has advanced quite a bit over the last half-century or so." Barbour said, "I think there's less regionalism in America than there's been in my lifetime. I think it's obvious to everyone that he different parts of America are becoming more alike and this has been an evolutionary thing since the end of World War II at least." The Hill adds Barbour was "in Iowa to meet with top Republican activists in the Hawkeye State and has said he won't make a decision on whether to seek the White House until April."

Politico (2/22, Hunt,) reports under "pressure to address racial issues swirling around a potential presidential bid, Haley Barbour said on Monday for the first time that he wouldn't sign legislation in Mississippi to honor a former Ku Klux Klan leader with a state-issued license plate." Barbour said, "The bureaucracy denied it, the legislature won't pass it and if the legislature passes it, it won't become law because I won't sign it."

Huckabee Defends Barbour On Race Issues.

CNN (2/21, Hamby) reported in its "Political Ticker" blog that during "a conference call with reporters to promote his new book, 'A Simple Government,'" Mike Huckabee yesterday "defended" Barbour "from recent criticism that he has been insensitive to issues of race and civil rights," saying that the Mississippi Republican "is 'a person of impeccable integrity when it comes to issues of race.' 'I'm not going to criticize Haley,' said Huckabee, who called Barbour a friend and labeled him 'the smartest political mind in America today' and 'a sheer genius of political strategy.'"

Politico (2/22, Summers) reports, "Barbour restated his plan to wait until Mississippi's legislature adjourns in April before making a final decision on a White House bid.

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