Are the Signs Targeting Obama or YOU? White People Put Up Racist Signs Allegedly to Support Mittens Campaign

From [HERE] In the small town of Hanson, Mass., two large anti-Obama signs are stirring up controversy, the Enterprise reports. Both signs contain harsh language and imagery, which have been met with mixed reactions by people in the area. One features a pouting little girl shown giving the middle finger, presumably to President Barack Obama for his alleged fiscal recklessness. The other sign stands outside a motorcycle shop owned by Robert Sullivan, the man responsible for both signs.

While the retread of a commonly used birther slogan has upset some and amused others, according to the Enterprise, the larger problem with it, as well as the other billboard, appears to be that Sullivan never got the permits necessary to install them.

Eric Folsom, a father from a neighboring town, told the Enterprise of Hanson that the sign with the white girl could put him in a tough spot when he passes by with his 6-year-old daughter.

“If she saw that, she’d say ‘Why is that little girl doing that? What does that mean?’” he said. “How do I explain that?

Robert P. Curran, Hanson building commissioner and zoning enforcement officer, told the Enterprise that the signs put Sullivan in "violation of general bylaws."

Curran has since informed Sullivan of the infraction, and though an attorney for the businessman has claimed that the matter has already been resolved with a different town official, no appeal has yet been filed. The Enterprise reports that Sullivan has until early next month to file the proper paperwork, or risk being taken to court over the placement of the signs.

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Despite Court Ruling, Racist Texas Congressional Maps Likely to Remain in Place Until after Election

From [HERE] The federal district court that drew the interim maps under which Texas congressional and state legislative candidates will seek office this November announced Thursday that those districts will likely remain unchanged for the 2012 elections, despite a federal court ruling earlier this week that the state legislature's maps -- on which those interim districts were based -- did not comply with federal law.

The U.S. District Court in San Antonio granted petitioners a status meeting for Friday on the case, according to a copy of the order posted on the website txredistricting.org. But U.S. District Court judge Orlando Garcia wrote that the 2012 election "is proceeding and will be conducted in accordance with this court's interim plans."

A separate district court in Washington, D.C. ruled Tuesday that the map drawn by the state legislature and signed by Republican Gov. Rick Perry violated the Voting Rights Act because it was crafted with the purpose -- and had the effect -- of denying minorities proportional representation.

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The Most Dishonest Convention Speech ... Ever? Paul Ryan is a Professional Liar

From [HERE] At least five times, Ryan misrepresented the facts. And while none of the statements were new, the context was. It’s one thing to hear them on a thirty-second television spot or even in a stump speech before a small crowd. It’s something else entirely to hear them in prime time address, as a vice presidential nominee is accepting his party’s nomination and speaking to the entire country.

Here are the five statements that deserve serious scrutiny:

1) About the GM plant in Janesville.

Ryan’s home district includes a shuttered General Motors plant. Here’s what happened, according to Ryan:

A lot of guys I went to high school with worked at that GM plant. Right there at that plant, candidate Obama said: “I believe that if our government is there to support you … this plant will be here for another hundred years.” That’s what he said in 2008.

Well, as it turned out, that plant didn’t last another year. It is locked up and empty to this day. And that’s how it is in so many towns today, where the recovery that was promised is nowhere in sight.

It’s true: The plant shut down. But it shut down in 2008—before Obama became president. 

By the way, nobody questions that, if not for the Obama Administration’s decision to rescue Chrysler and GM, the domestic auto industry would have crumbled. Credible estimates suggested that the rescue saved more than a million jobs. Unemployment in Michigan and Ohio, the two states with the most auto jobs, have declined precipitously.

2) About Medicare.

Ryan attacked Obama for “raiding” Medicare. Again, Ryan has no standing whatsoever to make this attack, because his own budget called for taking the same amount of money from Medicare. Twice. The only difference is that Ryan’s budget used those savings to finance Ryan’s priorities, which include a massive tax cut that benefits the wealthy disproportionately.

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Six Black teens in Ohio indicted for Assault on white man - whites/media on edge about run of the mill assault case

From [HERE] Six black teenagers accused of beating a white man because they were bored were indicted Thursday and could face a harsh penalty if convicted. A grand jury indicted the group of 13- and 14-year-old boys on one count each of felonious assault and aggravated rioting.

The Hamilton County Prosecutor’s Office is recommending to the court that the boys be designated as “serious youthful offenders,” meaning that if convicted, they could be subject to time in adult prison if they aren’t successful in the juvenile system. “It is a very serious case and we thought it was appropriate to seek this possible sanction,” said Julie Wilson, a spokeswoman with the prosecutor’s office.

The boys are charged with beating 45-year-old Pat Mahaney on Aug. 11 in the Cincinnati suburb of North College Hill. Witnesses stopped the beating and called police. The teens told police they attacked Mahaney unprovoked because they were bored and looking for something to do, said North College Hill Chief Gary Foust. Mahaney was hospitalized for four days.

The teens’ next court appearance is Tuesday, when a trial date is expected to be set. Two of the teens posted bond, while four of them remain in custody.

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Mittens Hits a Snag: Federal court rules against Texas voter ID law - says it would have "strict, unforgiving burdens on the poor"

Opinion [HERE]. "Even the most committed citizen, we think, would agree that a 200- to 250-mile round trip — especially for would-be voters having no driver's license — constitutes a substantial burden on the right to vote," Judge David Tatel said in the unanimous opinion.

From [HERE] and [HERE] A federal court has ruled for the first time that a strict photo identification law discriminates against poor and minority voters in violation of the Voting Rights Act, barring Texas from enforcing its new requirement at polling places this fall. A three-judge panel in the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Thursday unanimously rejected a Texas law requiring voters to present photo identification to election officials before casting their ballots. The judges concluded that the law [SB 14 text] is "the most stringent [of the photo ID laws] in the country," and would "almost certainly have a retrogressive effect," namely "strict, unforgiving burdens on the poor." According to the judges, this finding of a retrogressive effect within the law necessarily invalidated it under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) [text, PDF]. In light of the decision, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced plans to appeal [press release] the ruling to the US Supreme Court, though the matter will not be taken up before this November's elections.

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Voting Rights Act: The State of Section 5

From [HERE] A single provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 has been playing a key role on the election front this year. Section 5 has blocked photo voter-ID laws, prohibited reduced early-voting periods in parts of Florida and just Tuesday barred new redistricting maps in Texas. 

It's the reason South Carolina is in federal court this week to try to convince a three-judge panel its photo voter-ID law will not disenfranchise minorities. It's the reason that Texas went to trial on the same issue last month — and on Thursday, lost. Not surprisingly, then, Section 5 is increasingly the target of attack by those who say it is outdated, discriminatory against Southern states and unconstitutional.

Under the provision, certain states and localities with a history of anti-minority election practices must obtain federal approval or "preclearance" before making changes to voting laws. In present day, that requirement is burdensome, "needlessly aggressive" and based on outdated coverage criteria, two petitions filed in July with the U.S. Supreme Court argue.

Section 5 applies to nine states — Texas, South Carolina, Arizona, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Virginia and Alaska — and currently to parts of Florida, California, New York, North Carolina, South Dakota, Michigan and New Hampshire. The original coverage formula looked at whether states imposed unfair devices like literacy tests in November 1964, whether less than 50 percent of the voting-age population was registered to vote as of that date, or if less than 50 percent of eligible voters voted in the November 1964 presidential election. In 1975, the formula expanded to include jurisdictions that provided election materials only in English when members of a language minority made up more than 5 percent of voting-age citizens.

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Who are the Animals? The White Party throws Red Meat to its Base (Why and How Mittens is Playing the Race Card)

Thanks to Romney, they see minorities grabbing at their way of life every day and all day in the inaccurate welfare ad. It opens with a picture of Bill Clinton (a man obsessed with Macomb County and Reagan Democrats) signing the 1996 welfare reform act, which shifted the benefits from indefinite government assistance to one pushing people into employment and self-reliance.

A leather-gloved white laborer wipes sweat from his forehead. “But on July 12,” the ad intones,” President Obama quietly announced a plan to gut welfare reform by dropping work requirements. Under Obama’s plan, you wouldn’t have to work and wouldn’t have to train for a job. They just send your welfare check and “welfare to work” goes back to being plain old welfare.”

Translation:

Sweaty White Laborer = That’s Me!

“You Wouldn’t Have to Work” = Blacks Wouldn’t Have to Work

“They Just Send Your Welfare Check …” = They Just Give Your Pay Away to Lazy Blacks

“Plain Old Welfare” = Remember Those Welfare Queens? They’re Back.

Before explaining why these tactics work (and why Romney’s team knows, or should know, they are playing the race card), let’s quickly deal with this fact: The ad is wrong. As countless impartial fact-checkers have noted, the Obama administration memo cited by the Romney team actually gives states flexibility to find better ways of getting welfare recipients into jobs.

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Looking for Smoking Gun Evidence of Racism, During Trial Author Of South Carolina Voter ID Law Acknowledges Racist Emails

South Carolina is suing the Justice Department in an effort to reinstate the law — which the administration struck down for violating the Voting Rights Act — even though state officials could not show any examples of actual in-person voter impersonation fraud and have conceded that requiring a photo identification to vote would not actually prevent a determined voter impersonator from voting as someone else.

During Tuesday’s trial, critics who charge that voter ID is designed to disenfranchise minority voters appeared to have scored an important victory when they presented the law’s author state Rep. Alan Clemmons (R), with racist emails he received while drafting the legislation:

Garrard Beeney, who represented the civil rights groups, presented emails sent to and from Clemmons’ personal account between 2009 and 2011, when he was working on the law.

One, from a man named Ed Koziol, used racially charged rhetoric to denounce the idea that poor, black voters might lack transportation or other resources necessary to obtain photo ID. If the legislature offered a reward for identification cards, “it would be like a swarm of bees going after a watermelon,” Koziol wrote.

Beeney asked Clemmons how he had replied to this email. Clemmons hesitated a moment before answering, “It was a poorly considered response when I said, ‘Amen, Ed, thank you for your support.’”

Clemmons also claimed that he did not a remember giving out packets of peanuts with cards that said “Stop Obama’s nutty agenda and support voter ID,” but Beeney asserted that the lawmaker had testified in June that he had done so.

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Sh*t White People Say

White people often refer to international cuisine as “ethnic,” as if white people don’t have ethnicities, otherizing everything that isn’t “American.” But even this term furthers racism — obviously the United States isn’t a white nation, and America technically refers to two continents, where most of the inhabit-ants are people of color.

Sometimes people are so aware that what they’re saying is offensive that they preface their remarks. It’s like when somebody starts by saying, “Not to be rude but…” and follows with something obnoxious. I was talking to someone a few months ago who told me, “Not to be racist, but I really wanted to rent the house to a white family.”

He went on to defend himself when I questioned his motives by saying the neighbors were racist and he merely wanted to shield a tenant, adding that a black woman was actually going to be renting it from him and then telling me how cool her “baby daddy” was. He added that they bonded, trying to rack up antiracist cool points for being tight with this black man.

I’m not automatically anti-racist because I have a black roommate or have dated someone of Southeast Asian descent. I’m not cooler because I got along with a black coworker, because I’ve been to Central America, was obsessed with Michael Jordan or find Michelle Rodriguez attractive. Oh if only it worked that way. I deal with internalized racism too, and it’s because I’m a white person socialized in a racist society.

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The White Party's Only Message: Yaaaaaaaay! Look at Us. We're White Like You - All Aboard the Cracker Bay!

The White Party now depends upon 90% of the white vote to win presidential elections. It represents the shrinking majority of the US population.[more]  (A little known fact of this race game is that the entire world is less than 10% white.) As stated [HERE] the Republican party is a racial identity party. It is designed to appeal to white people as white people... not as union-members or as unemployed people or as home-owners... as white people. 

It is a crude racial-identity party and the numbers bear that out. It is an almost exclusively white party. Many white people vote Democratic, but the Republican party is pretty close to all white. (A fact that is soft-pedaled in out national dialog because it makes the modern Republican party sound like a racist institution, which it is.  And many millions of white people vote Republican, against all real self-interest, because they perceive it as "the white thing to do." Because the Republican party presents itself as "the white thing to do."  That is not a critique, it is a fact of contemporary political life. [MORE]

A premise of white supremacy is the fear of genetic annihilation through genetic assimilation with non-whites. Whites  are genetic recessive in terms of skin coloration—meaning, White can be genetically annihilated. White plus Black equals Colored. White plus Brown equals Colored. White plus Yellow equals Colored. Racism is a strategy or behavioral system for their survival. What the White Collective is doing on the planet is engaging in behaviors—in economics, education, entertainment, labor, law, politics, religion, sex and more—in order for them to survive on the planet, by any means necessary. Racism is the fundamental motivation of the folks in Tampa at the convention, all of them. And their fear is on full display to see if you are looking for it.

Romney Party Yacht Flies Cayman Islands Flag aboard the "Cracker Bay" (a Cayman Islands-registered yacht)

Gov. Mitt Romney's campaign toasted its top donors Wednesday aboard a 150-foot yacht flying the flag of the Cayman Islands. The floating party, hosted by a Florida developer on his yacht "Cracker Bay," was one of a dozen exclusive events meant to nurture those who have raised more than $1 million for Romney's bid. "I think it's ironic they do this aboard a yacht that doesn't even pay its taxes," said a woman who lives aboard a much smaller boat moored at the St. Petersburg Municipal Marina. [MORE] and [MORE] Could Obama do that - ride a yacht with another flag on it?

White Party Circus Patrons Heckle Puerto Rican Delegate for Having Accent

The white audience reacted to Zoraida Fonalledas, a Puerto Rican delegate and chairwoman of the Committee on Permanent Organization, took the stage. As soon as the crowd heard her begin to speak in accented English, some of the delegates began to shout her down by chanting, "USA! USA! USA!"

This went on for nearly a minute, although it has been recorded for eternity on YouTube. By the time it was finally stopped by RNC chairman Reince Priebus, the damage had already been done. A large sub-section of the GOP delegates had just exposed their racism to the world. The (white) media, meanwhile, decided that this wasn't headline news. [MORE] 

RNC Attendees Tossed After Heckling Black Camerawoman

Here's a story from last night's GOP convention that Republicans could no doubt live without as they make their pitch to the American public this week. CNN reports:

"Two people were removed from the Republican National Convention Tuesday after they threw nuts at an African-American CNN camera operator and said, 'This is how we feed animals.' "Multiple witnesses observed the exchange and RNC security and police immediately removed the two people from the Tampa Bay Times Forum." The cable news network isn't giving the story a lot of play this morning, and only posted an item on it after Talking Points Memo first reported the news last night. Nonetheless, it is probably worth pointing out that the CNN post makes no effort to soften its lede with "allegedly" or anything similar. [MORE] 

At Republican Convention, Mike Huckabee Suggests Obama Is Lying About His Religion

 (Speaking of animals, this guy really might have a tail and walk around on all fours when no one is looking) In his speech at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday night, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee tried to cast doubt about President Barack Obama’s faith, hinting that he might be lying or misleading Americans about his religion.

Huckabee labeled President Obama a “self-professed evangelical” — an assertion that is, first and foremost, incorrect, but one that nevertheless seems imply that Obama’s profession is different than the truth. The line that was not off-the-cuff, but in his prepared remarks:

Let me clear the air about whether guys like me would only support an evangelical. Of the four people on the two tickets, the only self-professed evangelical is Barack Obama, and he supports changing the definition of marriage, believes that human life is disposable and expendable at any time in the womb or even beyond the womb, and tells people of faith that they must bow their knees to the god of government and violate their faith and conscience in order to comply with what he calls health care. [MORE] 

Oops Mic was on! Yahoo News Chief Fired for saying "Mitt Romney and his wife were happy to have a party with black people drowning.”

The crazy things white folks do (like Rodney King) and say when they think no one is watching or listening! -- Yahoo News has fired its Washington bureau chief after he was caught on a microphone saying Mitt Romney and his wife were “happy to have a party with black people drowning.”

Company spokeswoman Anne Espiritu said Wednesday that David Chalian’s remark was inappropriate and does not represent Yahoo’s views. She says Yahoo is apologizing to the Republican presidential candidate and his supporters, and has reached out to the campaign to convey the message.

Chalian made the remark during a moment before Yahoo began its live coverage of the Republican convention on Tuesday evening. [MORE] 

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Court Throws Out Texas Congressional Map: Plan was Created with Discriminatory Purpose" Against Latinos

From [HERE] In a lengthy, sweeping decision, a federal court in Washington on Tuesday unanimously struck down Texas' new congressional map, ruling that the plan was enacted with "discriminatory purpose" against Hispanics protected under the Voting Rights Act. The ruling will not affect this year's elections, but barring successful appeal, Texas would have to redraw its maps before 2014.

The three-judge panel ruled that Texas legislators drew a map that intentionally denied fair representation to Hispanic voters during the state's decennial redistricting process. On a narrower, 2-1 basis, the court also ruled that the new map "does not entitle minorities to proportional representation."

The court ruled that, even though Texas gained four congressional seats in redistricting, it did not gain any Hispanic "ability districts," seats where Hispanic voters have the power in numbers to elect a preferred candidate. What's more, the court found "discriminatory purpose" in the plan, writing that the maps were crafted with the purpose of diluting minority voting power.

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White couple admits to plot to kill federal judge and others

Reuters

An Alaska couple pleaded guilty on Monday to charges of conspiring to kill a federal judge in what prosecutors said was a revenge plot over income-tax rulings against them.

Lonnie and Karen Vernon, followers of jailed Alaska militia leader Schaeffer Cox, reached a deal with prosecutors to avoid the need for a trial that had been set to begin next month.

It Probably Would be a Big Deal if Four Black Soldiers Plotted to Kill a White President

I suppose the killers chose the wrong news cycle to get caught in their assassination attempt to kill the 1st Black President - with Neil Armstrong dying and the White Party Circus going on. From [HERE] A U.S. soldier laid out an elaborate plot by a group of active and former military members to overthrow the government, telling a southeast Georgia court Monday that he was part of what prosecutors called an "an anarchist group and militia."

Dressed in his Army uniform, Pfc. Michael Burnett spoke in a Long County court about the group of Army soldiers and its role in the December deaths of a former soldier Michael Roark and his teenage girlfriend Tiffany York. Roark, he said, was killed because he allegedly took money from the group and planned to leave. "I don't know how it got to the point where two people got murdered," Burnett said in court.

Burnett talked about how he and three others accused -- Pvt. Isaac Aguigui, Sgt. Anthony Peden and Pvt. Christopher Salmon -- had first begun getting together "just going out shooting guns, just guy stuff."

"And then Aguigui introduced me to 'the manuscript,' that's what he called it, a book about true patriots," the soldier said. The four men became part of a group that aimed "to give the government back to the people," according to Burnett, who admitted that revolution was its goal. They called it FEAR -- Forever Enduring Always Ready, and spent thousands buying guns and bomb parts.

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White Teacher Fired for displaying Image of Obama 'with bullet hole in his head' Wants Job Back

‘I did not see the element of racism,’ social studies teacher Mark Selzer told CNN. From [HERE] and [MORE] With all the racist images of the Obama family (not withstanding the Muslim-garbed fist-bump New Yorker cover and picture of Curious George holding a banana with ‘Obama In ’08′ written underneath) running rampant, is it any surprise that kids are now getting in on the frenzy?

After getting fired for displaying students’ offensive pictures of Barack Obama, including one with a bullethole (pictured) and another implying it’s “Obama Hunting Season,” former junior high school teacher Robert Duncan (in bottom photo - middle) is fighting to get his job back after losing it earlier this month.

The drawings originated from a lesson Duncan was giving on political cartoons. When a worried parent noticed them hanging in the classroom, she snapped photos of them and sent them to media outlets.

Secret Service agents soon visited with two of the students behind the images and Louisiana’s Boyet Junior High School placed Duncan on administrative leave for six months. On August 6th, St. Tammany Parish public school superintendent Trey Folse terminated Duncan, ending his 13-year tenure at the school, according to Daily Mail.com

Now Duncan is fighting back. At a wrongful termination hearing last Wednesday, many of his colleagues argued the cartoons served a political purpose. Social Studies teacher Mark Seltzer claimed the cartoons carried no racial intent, arguing that he “saw political points of view being expressed, whether pro-Obama or anti-Obama, and that’s what the lesson was designed to do.”

Duncan’s lawyers also noted that St.Tammany’s School Board Parish promoted the use of political cartoons in classrooms.

In regards to the bullet hole, Duncan said it wasn’t there when he initially displayed it in the hallway outside his classroom, a defense seven other Boyet teachers supported.

That mark was not on that poster; I swear to God. Nobody could have missed that. There would have been hundreds of students saying things about that,’ long-time Boyet teacher Beth Kurz tearfully testified.

However, the amateur artist responsible for the poster claimed that the alleged entry wound in the president’s right temple was the result of a marker that had been inadvertently dropped.

The mishap took place the night before the assignment was due, and she had no time to fix it, the unnamed eighth-grader wrote in a letter read during the hearing, so she submitted it as is.

The last day of the three-day hearing was re-scheduled Monday as a pre-caution against the impending Tropical Storm Issac.

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Racist NYPD Stop & Frisk Case set for 2013 trial date

NY Daily News

A 2008 Federal civil rights lawsuit stemming from alleged racial bias in the NYPD’s controversial stop-and-frisk policy is finally going to trial.

Manhattan Federal Court Judge Shira Scheindlin Monday set a March 18, 2013, trial date for the hot-button case which alleges racial profiling in the way the NYPD conducts the stop-and-frisk tactic.

“It’s really time to bring this case to some resolution,” Scheindlin said at conference with lawyers for the city and the Center for Constitutional Rights, which brought the lawsuit.

She said jury selection would begin a week earlier on March 11, but a lawyer for the plaintiffs Darius Charney said he might ask for a non-jury trial.

City attorney Heidi Grossman said the city would not waive its right to a jury.