Wow, talk about "sour grapes". As I mentioned a few weeks ago, Glen Beckkk was kicked off the radio here in Philly. Well, as is to be expected from folks like Mr. Beckkk, my man is not going quietly. He took some shots at my beloved city while yapping it up with his side kicks today.
"While talking about Camden’s massive police layoffs on his radio show Tuesday, controversial commentator Glenn Beck inexplicably decided to take some pot shots at the city across the river.
Beck calls the area around Philadelphia's Independence Hall “the killing streets” and challenges his executive producer Steve “Stu” Burguiere to wear a hidden camera and walk around Independence Hall at the extremely dangerous time of 6 p.m.
While Burguiere disagrees with Beck’s bizarre assessment of Old City’s danger level, Beck keeps pushing his groundless opinion.
“The killing streets known as right there in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia -- you know how Philadelphia is not a place you want to be,” Beck says.
“You feel really comfortable,” he says in a sarcastic tone of voice.
Burguiere continues to say that he’s never felt like he was in danger around Independence Hall or “downtown” Philadelphia.
“Don’t listen to Stu. Philadelphia sucks,” Beck says.
According to The Philly Post, Beck unleashed this tirade a day after his radio program stopped being broadcast in Philadelphia and New York City. "
Poor Glenn, I actually feel sorry for the guy. Don't worry Glenn, at some point in our lives we have all been there: The girl who dumped us in high school wasn't all that pretty to begin with. It's called "sour grapes", and you happen to have a mouth full of it.
Sorry to break it to you Glenn, but I have lived and traveled all over the world; and Philly is right there with all of your -so called- world class cities. Great arts and culture? Check. Great access to places like New York and D.C.? Check. Access to the beach? Check. (Just an hour) Access to the mountains and skiing? Check. World class international airport? Check. Affordable housing? Check. Sport teams? Check. Great restaurants? Check......I could go on, but I think you get the idea.
Does Philly have its warts such as crime and all the other urban ills that plagues a major city? Of course it does. But so does London, Paris, New York, Madrid, and Los Angeles.
Yes I rip Philly for our murders, but I am allowed; I live here. Glenn you haven't earned the right to say s&*t about my city.--- Even though, if I am not mistaken, you got your big breakthrough in radio here. And your special needs child was given great care by our medical professionals in this city that you say "suck" while you lived here.--- But that's OK, enjoy your move to Texas. I just hope that all of your fans here remember how you gave them your ass to kiss on your way out the door. Good riddance! And may you fall off a steer and break your neck.
It's nice to see that the national media is finally catching up to the Phylicia Barnes story. (See my sidebar) She was featured on NBC World News tonight and it's about time. Phylicia is an honor student from North Carolina who went missing in Baltimore, recently. -Hmmmm, let's trade Baltimore for Aruba and we have some similarities to another case that grabbed the nations attention.- Unfortunately, the police suspect foul play, but we are all hoping that her story has a happy ending.
All I can say is thank goodness for Anthony Guglielmi of the Baltimore PD who says that race might have been a factor in the Phylicia Barnes case not getting the publicity it deserves. Better you say it than me Mr. Guglielmi. I am just a racism chaser, what do I know?
Finally, speaking of racism chasing; I see that some folks up in the great Northwest had their own little celebration planned for MLK Day:
"SPOKANE, Wash. — A backpack discovered along the route of the Martin Luther King Jr. march in Spokane contained a bomb "capable of inflicting multiple casualties," the FBI said Tuesday.
The FBI said a suspicious backpack was found about 9:25 a.m. PST on Monday on a bench at the northeast corner of North Washington Street and West Main Avenue in downtown Spokane.
A bomb disposal unit was called in and neutralized the device. The FBI said in a statement on Tuesday that "the backpack contained a potentially deadly destructive device, likely capable of inflicting multiple casualties."
The FBI has refused to discuss how the bomb was constructed.
'Suffice it to say it was of grave concern,' Frank Harrill, special agent in the charge of the Spokane FBI office, told NBC News.
"You could describe it as an improvised destructive device ... or improvised explosive device," Harrill said.
Area workers initially reported the suspicious package to Spokane police. The march was slightly re-routed and delayed because of the bomb scare.
'The three contract workers in the area who were there are unsung heroes,' the FBI spokesman said. " [Source]
"While talking about Camden’s massive police layoffs on his radio show Tuesday, controversial commentator Glenn Beck inexplicably decided to take some pot shots at the city across the river.
Beck calls the area around Philadelphia's Independence Hall “the killing streets” and challenges his executive producer Steve “Stu” Burguiere to wear a hidden camera and walk around Independence Hall at the extremely dangerous time of 6 p.m.
While Burguiere disagrees with Beck’s bizarre assessment of Old City’s danger level, Beck keeps pushing his groundless opinion.
“The killing streets known as right there in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia -- you know how Philadelphia is not a place you want to be,” Beck says.
“You feel really comfortable,” he says in a sarcastic tone of voice.
Burguiere continues to say that he’s never felt like he was in danger around Independence Hall or “downtown” Philadelphia.
“Don’t listen to Stu. Philadelphia sucks,” Beck says.
According to The Philly Post, Beck unleashed this tirade a day after his radio program stopped being broadcast in Philadelphia and New York City. "
Poor Glenn, I actually feel sorry for the guy. Don't worry Glenn, at some point in our lives we have all been there: The girl who dumped us in high school wasn't all that pretty to begin with. It's called "sour grapes", and you happen to have a mouth full of it.
Sorry to break it to you Glenn, but I have lived and traveled all over the world; and Philly is right there with all of your -so called- world class cities. Great arts and culture? Check. Great access to places like New York and D.C.? Check. Access to the beach? Check. (Just an hour) Access to the mountains and skiing? Check. World class international airport? Check. Affordable housing? Check. Sport teams? Check. Great restaurants? Check......I could go on, but I think you get the idea.
Does Philly have its warts such as crime and all the other urban ills that plagues a major city? Of course it does. But so does London, Paris, New York, Madrid, and Los Angeles.
Yes I rip Philly for our murders, but I am allowed; I live here. Glenn you haven't earned the right to say s&*t about my city.--- Even though, if I am not mistaken, you got your big breakthrough in radio here. And your special needs child was given great care by our medical professionals in this city that you say "suck" while you lived here.--- But that's OK, enjoy your move to Texas. I just hope that all of your fans here remember how you gave them your ass to kiss on your way out the door. Good riddance! And may you fall off a steer and break your neck.
It's nice to see that the national media is finally catching up to the Phylicia Barnes story. (See my sidebar) She was featured on NBC World News tonight and it's about time. Phylicia is an honor student from North Carolina who went missing in Baltimore, recently. -Hmmmm, let's trade Baltimore for Aruba and we have some similarities to another case that grabbed the nations attention.- Unfortunately, the police suspect foul play, but we are all hoping that her story has a happy ending.
All I can say is thank goodness for Anthony Guglielmi of the Baltimore PD who says that race might have been a factor in the Phylicia Barnes case not getting the publicity it deserves. Better you say it than me Mr. Guglielmi. I am just a racism chaser, what do I know?
Finally, speaking of racism chasing; I see that some folks up in the great Northwest had their own little celebration planned for MLK Day:
"SPOKANE, Wash. — A backpack discovered along the route of the Martin Luther King Jr. march in Spokane contained a bomb "capable of inflicting multiple casualties," the FBI said Tuesday.
The FBI said a suspicious backpack was found about 9:25 a.m. PST on Monday on a bench at the northeast corner of North Washington Street and West Main Avenue in downtown Spokane.
A bomb disposal unit was called in and neutralized the device. The FBI said in a statement on Tuesday that "the backpack contained a potentially deadly destructive device, likely capable of inflicting multiple casualties."
The FBI has refused to discuss how the bomb was constructed.
'Suffice it to say it was of grave concern,' Frank Harrill, special agent in the charge of the Spokane FBI office, told NBC News.
"You could describe it as an improvised destructive device ... or improvised explosive device," Harrill said.
Area workers initially reported the suspicious package to Spokane police. The march was slightly re-routed and delayed because of the bomb scare.
'The three contract workers in the area who were there are unsung heroes,' the FBI spokesman said. " [Source]
I know, I know Sarah, it isn't political.
Hey, isn't Glen Beckkk from Spokane?
141 comments:
Great commentary on Glenn Beck. It is poetic justice to see his fame and fortune taking a nosedive.
re: Phylicia Barnes --- thank you for continuing to raise awareness of her missing person case with your blog readers.
peace, Villager
Hello, the woman that went missing in Aruba wasn't even an honor student.
I just wonder what you mean by "mountains." On the East Coast? Where? (Sorry, couldn't resist.) I think the closest mountains to you may be in Colorado.
Don't mention her name and she might go away. She needs to be like the movie "The Village" sje whose name we do not speak of. Her 15 minutes were up a long time ago.
My favorite news story is that the wingnuts want to recall the AZ sheriff that said tone down the rhetoric. No sheriff, you tone down your rhetoric! Ha!
Don't worry Field - your adopted home of Philly had the good sense to dump this clown while my hometown in Connecticut still carries his racist nonsense.
Yeah, but don't you know that if you own a gun for protection, you are now racist, because everyone knows POC commit crimes. Thats what Micheal Moore (fat) says. Lefties are really depraved and diseased of the mind aren't they!!
Beck is more of a "west cost" thing and his time slot replacement is just a local conservative that might be in the long run better for the Phila area, you know "local" radio. Even with HD radio, the internet and the Glenn Beck home page itself if you want your Beck then you can get it however before you all start giggling with glee you can still pick up Beck with in the Phila area however if your west of the Mississippi you turn on AM radio between 0900 to 1200 its most like going to be Beck (and at 1800 to 2100 you'll get Savage)
"I just wonder what you mean by "mountains." On the East Coast? Where? (Sorry, couldn't resist.) I think the closest mountains to you may be in Colorado."
Okaaay. No, but you are right; the Poconos are more like hills. :)
La~Coincidental, I think he is selling his home in Ct. and moving to Texas, so your hometown will be alright soon.
Philly does suck donkey balls.
Villager, "Great commentary on Glenn Beck. It is poetic justice to see his fame and fortune taking a nosedive."
Not so fast there...Beck's fortune is not in a nose dive. He is much greater than some station in small town Philly.
You sure this isn't more white flight?
Field, "Sorry to break it to you Glenn, but I have lived and traveled all over the world; and Philly is right there with all of your -so called- world class cities."
FYI: Philly isn't close to being a world class city. That is simply bullshit that you are trying to feed people who don't know.
I lived in Philly for years when the most ruthless depraved Police Chief EVER! killed, maimed, and mistreated as many Blacks as he could- and got away with it. NO ONE, and I mean NOBODY, stopped him from such abuse. AND, because he was so good at torturing, abusing and terrorizing Blacks, the Jews and Whites later elected him Mayor! His name is famous in Philly and across the nation: RIZZO.
Philadelphia is an ugly town with ugly racists combined with a sorry lot of Blacks who won't stand up for themselves politically, and as human beings deserving of respect.
The City of Brotherly Love is for Jews and Whites only, and you know it. For Blacks, it is the City of Hate and Fear.
Beck is right. That town you live in SUCKS-especially for Blacks.
But if you come from Jamaica, maybe any town in A-merry-ca looks world class to you?
Beck is doing just fine; I'll bet he's back on the air in Philly before long. If you're lucky, that is.
Field to LAC, "La~Coincidental, I think he is selling his home in Ct. and moving to Texas, so your hometown will be alright soon."
Isn't Rush Limbaugh buying Beck's house?
Isn't Rush Limbaugh buying Beck's house?
I guess this means your section 8 vouchers cant touch the house then??
"I guess this means your section 8 vouchers cant touch the house then??"
Meanwhile, you had to take out a subprime loan on your double-wide trailer.
Meanwhile, you had to take out a subprime loan on your double-wide trailer.
Yup. But I own it, while you continue to rent from the korean family that just got here. How incompetent.
"Yup. But I own it, while you continue to rent from the korean family that just got here. How incompetent."
Sorry kid. Until you finish paying the $2500 house note on it for the next 15 years or so, you don't own that house. The mortgage company does.
Civil war among the anons? This is geting good.
Sophia said...
I just wonder what you mean by "mountains." On the East Coast? Where? (Sorry, couldn't resist.) I think the closest mountains to you may be in Colorado...
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I got this Field..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_Mountains
The range is mostly located in the United States but extends into southeastern Canada, forming a zone from 100 to 300 miles (160 to 480 km) wide, running from the island of Newfoundland 1,500 miles (2,400 km) south-westward to central Alabama in the United States. The system is divided into a series of ranges, with the individual mountains averaging around 3,000 ft (900 m). The highest of the group is Mount Mitchell in North Carolina at 6,684 feet (2,037 m), which is the highest point in the United States east of the Mississippi River.
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Welcome to the East Coast.
I've been to the Smokey Mountains (largely on the TN side) and if those aren't mountains, then what are they? Huge molehills? Gotta love that West Coast elitism :)
Mack Lyons said...
I've been to the Smokey Mountains (largely on the TN side) and if those aren't mountains, then what are they? Huge molehills? Gotta love that West Coast elitism :)
Somehow I get the feelin that you have heard "squeal for me boy" once or twice in your own backyard.
"Beck is right. That town you live in SUCKS-especially for Blacks.
But if you come from Jamaica, maybe any town in A-merry-ca looks world class to you?"
This from someone who only leaves his basement to go to the mailbox to get his disability check.
Have you ever been to my house in Jamaica?
FYI, Philly is one of the best cities in the world. World class universities and research centers; world class medical facilities; diverse culture...ahhh never mind. You only care about your local Wal-Mart. Carry on.
BTW, the fact that folks like you left is why Philly is a much better place now than it ever was. ;)
"Philadelphia is an ugly town with ugly racists combined with a sorry lot of Blacks who won't stand up for themselves politically, and as human beings deserving of respect.
The City of Brotherly Love is for Jews and Whites only, and you know it. For Blacks, it is the City of Hate and Fear."
Yes, I know. The Mayor is...wait for it... wait for it...BLACK.
The police chief is...wait for it...wait for it...BLACK. The District Attorney is....wait for it.....BLACK.
Not to mention my accountant, my doctor, my dentist, and my broker.
Yes "the man" is really keeping black folks down in Philly. Where do you live? Dope!
Sorry folks, I had to swat that troll.
Carry on.
This change is clearly driven by radio economics. The replacements cost less than Hannity and Beck, but they also produce less ad revenue than Hannity and Beck.
Will the new arrangement at The Big Talker work? Time will tell. But most likely this move is nothing more than an attempt to forestall the sale of the station to a national network.
Meanwhile, if Philadelpia's radio market is ripe enough, Hannity and Beck will reappear on another station. That's radio.
Philadelphia's 'Big Talker' Drops Beck and Hannity for More Local Focus
WPHT/Philadelphia - The Big Talker 1210 AM - has announced a major shakeup in its programming day. The syndicated Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck officially lose their place in the station's lineup as of January 3rd.
1210 AM is importing Chris Stigall from a news-talk station in Kansas City (KCMO-AM) to do mornings from 5:30 - 9:00 a.m.
Michael Smerconish is leaving mornings to focus on his own syndicated show but will be heard later in the day.
Dom Giordano will be on from 9:00 a.m. - 12 Noon followed by Rush Limbaugh, Noon until 3 p.m.
Maria should move to philly, so much black men.
Philly, lets be honest... I love this place but it is absolutely filthy. I compare it to a geode, ugly hard rock that if cracked open reveals a crystal.
We have great things to offer, but we are knee deep in corruption, crime, and trash.
Of course we are on the right track now that our airwaves are a little cleaner.
Rizzo was loved by many...not so much by Perps.
Philly is world-class. It just sits between the economic snobbery of NYC and the Village Versailles of DC.
Mold
Phylicia was last heard from Dec.28 via Facebook when she posted a note saying she was at her sister's apartment with her sister's boyfriend.
Case closed.
Congressmen Elijah Cummings of Maryland and Larry Kissell of North Carolina issued a joint statement Friday asking the public to contact Baltimore police immediately with any information about Barnes' whereabouts.
field, I thought you said the effort to find her was falling short?
"I (her mother) encouraged her to go on Facebook to look for them because she hadn't heard from that side of her family, from her father, in over eight years. And I, as a mother, didn't want my daughter not knowing who her other side of her DNA is.
Mom of the year.
I didn't want her going from man to man looking for her father in relationships, so I encouraged her to look for her half-sisters online and maybe she could find her father that way because she had't heard from him in over eight years," said Sallis.
Ah. One black woman's perspective on the impact of fatherlessness.
Her father, Russell Barnes... “I’m not ever gonna stop until I find my child,” he said. “This is the work of the devil, so we know we want the devil to release our child and bring her back to our family, and when I say our family I mean everyone, all the community.”
It takes a village...
Search for teen now includes I-95 billboards
Authorities are taking the search for a missing Monroe teen to a major interstate highway, posting the girl's photo on billboards along a heavily traveled corridor along the East Coast.
field, I thought you said there was no effort underway to find this girl?
Police say billboards on Interstate 95 between Baltimore and New York City will display a photo of Phylicia Barnes
The FBI has joined the search for a 16-year-old girl who went missing while visiting family in Baltimore, police said Tuesday.
Is there any agency NOT looking for this girl?
field, you wrote:
Yes, I know. The Mayor is...wait for it... wait for it...BLACK.
The police chief is...wait for it...wait for it...BLACK. The District Attorney is....wait for it.....BLACK.
Yes, New York City went through that phase. Dinkins was mayor and Lee Brown was police commissioner during the worst years of NY City's murder spike. Ben Ward was police commissioner before Brown.
No slappy
You're lying again fool and I never get tired of exposing you.
The crime rate reached a peak under Koch and actually started to decline under Dinkins.
As a matter of fact a white Mayor with Dinkins accomplishments would have been reelected easily but Giuliani was able to demogogue the Crown Hts riots and scare white NY into voting for him..
"The facts are that New York homicide rates soared in the sixties from 5 per 100,000 to a peak of 30 per 100,000 in 1990. This was a upward sloping graph which had nothing to do with Dinkins. From 1960 through 1972/3 the homicide rate in New York City increased every year when Robert Wagner (1954 - 1965) and John Lindsay (1966 - 1973) were mayors, from 5 to approximately 23 per 100,000. During Mayor
Abraham Beame's term (1974 - 1977) the rate stabilised, fell slightly and rose to the levels of
his first term. But it was under Mayor Ed Koch (1978 - 1989) that the rate ran up to 26, fell back below
20, and then took off like a rocket up to 30 per 100,000 in 1990. In effect Dinkins, (1990 to 1993)
inherited a rapidly rising homocide rate and turned it around in less than one year."
http://www.jamaicans.com/articles/primecomments/giulianijamaican~print.shtml
field, you posted:
All I can say is thank goodness for Anthony Guglielmi of the Baltimore PD who says that race might have been a factor in the Phylicia Barnes case not getting the publicity it deserves.
Seems you misunderstood the meaning of his comment.
What's the connection between this crime and publicity? Let's pretend for a moment that there are no billboards along I-95, that two Congressmen made no public pleas, that the FBI is ignoring the case and the local law enforcement was occupied with other matters. Let's pretend. Then what?
The chief suspect is the half- sister's "boyfriend". Where is he? Why were they alone together?
This case looks like the standard murder case stemming from a fight with the "boyfriend" over sex. She refused and he killed her. Where did he dump the body? Good question.
Does anyone, including the police, believe she ran away by herself and is hiding somewhere far from home? Or that she ran off with the "boyfriend" and they are together someewhere? Or that she was abducted by a total stranger and is alive and being held against her will in some dingy basement?
Did "publicity" have any impact on the Natalie Hollaway case? She was dead hours after meeting her killer and her body has never been found. But her murderer is locked up, all as a result of police work made more complicated by the fact that her murder occurred outside the US. The fact that Hollaway's case was in the news had no bearing on the capture, prosecution and incaceration of her killer.
Meanwhile, publicity for Barnes means ONLY that the public will get another story of a young black person person murdered by another young black person.
And when the black killer is caught, the black community will ignore the latest addition to black murder statistics.
uptownstever, you posted:
In effect Dinkins, (1990 to 1993) inherited a rapidly rising homocide rate and turned it around in less than one year.
In 1990, murders in NY City peaked at 2,250, the first year of the Dinkins administration. The numbers began to drop in 1991.
If you want to claim Dinkins bears no responsibility for murders occurring on his watch, then no mayor is responsible for anything that happens while he's in office.
But let's get serious. The crime rate in NY City was driven down by a big expansion of the NYC police force and the appointments of two tough police commissioners -- Bill Bratton and Ray Kelly.
If you want to argue that Dinkins took a step in the right direction, well, okay.
But, no matter what, those of us who deal in the facts of crime know that over 90% of violent crime in NY City is committed by blacks and hispanics.
Therefore the biggest beneficiaries of lower crime rates are blacks and hispanics.
No slappz
Most of the poor in NYC are black and hispanic.
Whern Jews were the inner city poor in NYC, they were the preponderance of the street criminals.
"Somehow I get the feelin that you have heard "squeal for me boy" once or twice in your own backyard."
Anons got jokes today. And what's with this talk of civil war? I thought the Anon, Inc. workplace was a bit more...unified, than that.
My dear Slappo, your forte is taking facts and fucking with them to match your own desired outcome. Rebutting most of the garbage you put out would take page upon page to do. I'd rather have my morning coffee.
"Did "publicity" have any impact on the Natalie Hollaway case? She was dead hours after meeting her killer and her body has never been found. But her murderer is locked up, all as a result of police work made more complicated by the fact that her murder occurred outside the US. The fact that Hollaway's case was in the news had no bearing on the capture, prosecution and incaceration of her killer."
Seriously, Slappo?
A well-to-do, photogenic young blonde-haired white girl goes missing in an exotic locale. The media lept on that and clung on for dear life. Nancy Grace milked Holloway's disappearance for all it was worth. People all over the U.S. learned her name and saw her face.
Years earlier, Jon Benet Ramsey. Photogenic young white girl with well-to-do parents goes missing. Combine that with the added urgency of her falling prey to a sex offender and the media had a ratings bonanza. People all over the U.S. learned her name and saw her face.
Phylicia Barnes, a young black woman, goes missing. I bet you 85% to 95% of the country did not know who the fuck she is or that she's missing. The media wasn't interested in jumping on the story until the blogosphere kept putting it out there little by little.
If your kid happens to be a photogenic young white girl who's missing, your chances of her picture hitting the big media outlets goes up 100-fold. If your kid happens to be black, well...unless the story is particularly heinous or if the kid happens to appear "white" enough to pass muster on the "photogenic" end, you can forget about it.
You must be a wealthy man selling all that fertilizer, Slappo, because the only thing that comes out of your mouth is bullshit.
no city in america is safe
but the killings in all fields have only just begun...
wait until the states' budget cuts spark more outrage and starvation in every city in america...
i respect the truth from any source...even a bona fide genetic psycho racist boozer like glen beck can tell painful truths
he just did not tell enough...
"Most of the poor in NYC are black and hispanic.
Whern Jews were the inner city poor in NYC, they were the preponderance of the street criminals."
Hold on....I thought Blacks and Hispanics' "lack of moral character" was responsible for their preponderance of criminal activity, not poverty or lack of opportunity.
The poor are supposed to be pious, law abiding and proud of their privations, even as they are being fucked socioeconomically by the wealthy elite, aren't they?
ie
i pity every real parent and and student seeking an education in detroit....shame!!!
http://www.letsredu.com/2011/01/half-of-detroits-schools-may-close/#fbid=JQui4xUTm7x&wom=false
"Philadelphia is an ugly town with ugly racists combined with a sorry lot of Blacks who won't stand up for themselves politically, and as human beings deserving of respect."
You hear the same story when people talk about my old stomping grounds (Birmingham). Then again, the people who talk this way about the Magic City are bitter bigots who hail from the surrounding exurbs along the edge of and outside the county. Whatever projects the city wants to undertake have to be done in spite of naysaying morons who'd rather see Birmingham go back to a pre-1960s state of being, complete with an all-White government, just as it was back in the "good ol' days".
Fuck those people.
"But if you come from Jamaica, maybe any town in A-merry-ca looks world class to you?"
Claws are out on this one, eh? At any rate, I'd rather be in Jamaica than wherever you are right now. Hell, I'll even send you some photos and a postcard or two.
kunt breaf coohole stank buceta breaf banks shut up!
mack lyons,
Natalie Hollaway was dead before anyone knew she was missing. Unless you believe "publicity" can raise the dead, your obsession with this meaningless aftermath of the crime is dumb, even for you.
Like we know OJ killed his ex-wife and Ron Goldman, we also know someone in Jon Benet Ramsay's family killed her. Either her mother or her brother. The police investigation did not eliminate them as possible killers.
In fact, in that case, if "publicity" had any impact, its impact was that it got in the way of a thorough investigation. The police were tripping over themselves dealing with the national media, a complication that benefited the killer.
The crime scene was compromised by the father who moved the girl's body. Thus, I have no doubt he knows who killed his daughter, and he had a motive to protect the two most obvious suspects.
no slappz
White folks watched a damn video tape of four cops beating and brutalizing Rodney King and aqcuitted them anyway.
ditto!!!
patsy ramsey killed jonbenet by accident and then panicked and penned that silly ransom letter etc...
she was beating jb about bedwetting and she may have fatally/accidentally bashed jb's head against a porcelain sink...
there is also sexual molestation and a kiddie porn ring involved that includes john/boulder police...
someday her brother burke may speak up
the 911 call proved that they lied about him being asleep...
so
how creepy it is that john ramsey is now wed to natalies' mom???
http://webspace.webring.com/people/rm/monicasass/jonbenet.htm
http://www.amazon.com/JonBenet-Steve-Thomas/dp/0312978618/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1295453108&sr=1-1
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=5&ved=0CDUQFjAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.people.com%2Fpeople%2Farticle%2F0%2C%2C20041390%2C00.html&ei=vQw3TeT_MoWSgQfB34zvAw&usg=AFQjCNFE9AfiqEuZXsLsf0TSK6zbUpxNMw
http://www.aolnews.com/2010/09/29/police-reportedly-hope-jonbenet-ramseys-brother-may-provide-clu/
uptownsteve, you wrote:
Whern Jews were the inner city poor in NYC, they were the preponderance of the street criminals.
Inasmuch as there have always been some Jewish criminals, we can say there were a few around when Jews were the leading occupants of the Lower East Side.
However, as usual, you do your Boy Scout best to prove you are determined to live in ignorance.
For whatever it's worth my paternal great-grandfather was one of those Lower East Side Jews. As informed people know, the violent crime problems within the Irish and Italian communities of NY City in the late 1800s were serious. Among Jews -- not serious.
Meanwhile, the Irish had cut a path into civil service, which included getting the teaching jobs in the city. Jews picked up on that opportunity in a hurry, going in that direction rather than into the Fire and Police departments.
Have you ever noticed there are no black graduates of NY City public schools who are today recognized as leading academics?
Anyway, inasmuch as you're desperate to find some bad Jews, you should look into the US history for a few examples.
What will you find? Murderers? A handful. Financial schemers? A bunch.
IN any case, when you argue about current issues but all the facts put you in a losing position, you do the usual black thing of getting in your time machine so you can say "Yeah, well, your guys were the bad guys 125 years ago."
oj simpson committed the sloppiest, most pre-announced and most pre-meditated double murder in history...
he is free ONLY because dumber cops tried to frame a dumb guilty man
http://aliciabanks.xanga.com
OJ = OBSOLETE JESTER
Mack Lyons said...
"Philadelphia is an ugly town with ugly racists combined with a sorry lot of Blacks who won't stand up for themselves politically, and as human beings deserving of respect."
You hear the same story when people talk about my old stomping grounds (Birmingham). Then again, the people who talk this way about the Magic City are bitter bigots who hail from the surrounding exurbs along the edge of and outside the county. Whatever projects the city wants to undertake have to be done in spite of naysaying morons who'd rather see Birmingham go back to a pre-1960s state of being, complete with an all-White government, just as it was back in the "good ol' days".
Ahh. Birmingham, Another classic example of what happens to a city when Blacks are the majority and become leaders.
Birmingham is a city that once had a thriving business sector, though almost all Fortune 500 companies have moved their company headquarters out of the town. The city school system, nearly 100 percent Black, faces a $30 million budget shortfall.
The Civil Rights victory signaled the abandonment of Birmingham to the victors. The spoils were short lived.
http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2011/01/martyrs-civil-rights-and-quenette.html
needs slaps:
u r a racist liar like hobama!
ie
race is no arbiter of intellect
there is a sci to breeding children...ie the vdlr and her brood of cyclical genetic defects prove that...
yet
geniuses are INCREASINGLY rare in all races
ie
myron rolle
he is a flawless black male
example of beauty/brains/brawn etc
Myron Rolle graduated from Florida State in two and a half years with a 3.75 GPA. While he showed true talent on the football field, and recently became a sixth-round draft pick, it's the athlete's academic prowess that is also winning him praise.
Rolle belongs to a very elite group, especially for African Americans. He's a Rhodes Scholar -- an intellectual standout who has performed at the highest academic level.
Rolle's dream is to practice medicine. He was so devoted to this goal that he spent the 2009 football season studying overseas. (The handful of young men and women selected each year to become Rhodes Scholars receive a scholarship to go to England and study at Oxford University).
http://www.bvonmoney.com/2010/04/27/nfl-athlete-myron-rolle-rhodes-scholar/
uptownsteve, you wrote:
White folks watched a damn video tape of four cops beating and brutalizing Rodney King and aqcuitted them anyway.
And despite the fact that Rodney's injuries were relatively minor (broken nose and other non-serious injuries) blacks went into a full-scale riot and destroyed South Central, a rampage that led to a number of deaths and the near-fatal beating of Reginald Denny.
How many deaths occurred in that riot? 10? 20? 30? I don't recall.
So, yeah, it all makes sense. Especially after Rodney was made a millionaire for his role as the loser in that non-title fight.
I sometimes wonder if other morons like Rodney get the idea that they too might win at Cop Lotto. Take a punch. Collect $3 million.
there are millions of gifted black children whom racists like needs slaps ignore...
The Crouches’ perfect batting average represents a first for Yale — the first time in anyone’s memory that it has offered admission to quadruplets. It is also, of course, no small milestone for the siblings, who were born more than two months premature. (Ray was the last to be released from the neonatal unit, more than four months later.)
They made up for that rough start. Their class rankings range from 13 out of a class of 632 (Kenny) to 46 (Martina) — and they have sky-high SAT scores (including Carol’s perfect 800 on the verbal part of that exam).
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/19/education/19yale.html?_r=2
OJ only guilty if you beleeve. Time frame was off...city driving and all. What about Ron G's 'friends' in the drug biz? How did a very injured NFL star take out two adults? OJ was the meal ticket for the wife's family...and some reports indicated that free money was soon to end.
Why must it be the butler/Jew/AfAm that is guilty?
UTS, the jury looked at evidence and acquitted. Maybe it was Rodney's driving...or his resisting arrest...or that the entire recording was shown.
Hollaway's killer didn't have daddykins to cover up the evidence anymore.
Ramsey case makes me think of the creep who kidnapped the 14 yo child and then faked crazy to avoid punishment.
MOld
coke head oj taught a 17 waitress to do drugs
a bogus time line was off by johnny c to make oj look inncocent...the real time line gave him ample time to do all....
yes
oj reported nicole to the irs ...
so nicole cut him off and made plans to move out of his condo and buy her own hm in malibu
nicole also sexed up marcus allen anew
both final acts of defiance cost her life via that insecure control freak with a knife...
oj may be gay like his own dad and marcus allen may be the one love of his life other than himself
alicia banks writes:
there are millions of gifted black children whom racists like needs slaps ignore...
You've identified five smart black kids. Hardly matters. And Yale, like every Ivy League school, can admit students on any basis it likes, which means the school can decide to get cutely whimsical and admit all four of the the quadruplets because it knows the act will remain in the public sphere forever.
The issue with blacks and formal education is the fact that so few blacks get one.
You're like every other nitwit who claims that four blacks going to Yale is as significant as every black graduating from high school. Actually, your concern for this aberration suggests you think it's MORE important than the academic fortunes of all other blacks.
Hate to tell you but lots of folks used coke, back in the day. And most thought as harmless as coffee...at first. As far as leading astray...Akon.
Umm...the time line was mine...done from personal experience with LA traffic. I never accept a version without checking.
Have to agree with Slappy about the riots. Seems more that scums and dirtbags wanted cover for theft and violence. But then, I would have used live ammo on the college dreck that rioted in PA.
Mold
"UTS, the jury looked at evidence and acquitted. Maybe it was Rodney's driving...or his resisting arrest...or that the entire recording was shown."
Correct me if I'm wrong but the "evidence" was a beating on videotape.
Somehow we didn't hear shit about "jury nullification" or "white solidarity" with the Simi Valley jury.
"And despite the fact that Rodney's injuries were relatively minor (broken nose and other non-serious injuries) blacks went into a full-scale riot and destroyed South Central, a rampage that led to a number of deaths and the near-fatal beating of Reginald Denny."
Lying AGAIN slappy.
More latinos were arrested for the 1992 riots than blacks.
http://blogs.dickinson.edu/span231-spr10/2010/05/05/l-a-riots-in-1992/
And Reginald Denny's attackers went right to jail.
"Have you ever noticed there are no black graduates of NY City public schools who are today recognized as leading academics?"
You mean Colin Powell, Basil Patterson, Countee Cullen, and James Baldwin don't count?
Damn, you're dumb.
needs slaps and a better tally system:
5 or 5 million make 0 difference to blind racist fools in deeeeeeep denial like you
and you clearly have no superior counter
every racist lie you tell becomes more glaring with each post
fyi
My fave theory is that Ron or Nicole hired a wackaloon to make it look like they were roughed up by OJ and cash in...ooops...they hired the wrong slasher.
Ivy League gave LegacyDiplomas to bush. That might be of more import than the lack of academic achievement among AfAms.
Mold
no slappz
"For whatever it's worth my paternal great-grandfather was one of those Lower East Side Jews. As informed people know, the violent crime problems within the Irish and Italian communities of NY City in the late 1800s were serious. Among Jews -- not serious."
That's an out and out lie.
In the early 1900s Jews were 25% of NYC population but over 50% of the convicted criminals.
Prostitutes, muggers, shakedown artists, murderers and theives.
The link is currently unavailable but I will provide as soon as it's up.
ron was just in the wrong place with her mom's glasses at the wrong time...he was never a target..just a hero
hey needs slaps:
+1!!!
Khadijah Williams stepped into chemistry class and instantly tuned out the commotion.
She walked past students laughing, gossiping, napping and combing one another's hair. Past a cellphone blaring rap songs. And past a substitute teacher sitting in a near-daze.
Quietly, the 18-year-old settled into an empty table, flipped open her physics book and focused. Nothing mattered now except homework.
"No wonder you're going to Harvard," a girl teased her.
Around here, Khadijah is known as "Harvard girl," the "smart girl" and the girl with the contagious smile who landed at Jefferson High School only 18 months ago.
What students don't know is that she is also a homeless girl.
http://articles.latimes.com/2009/jun/20/local/me-harvard20
hey need slaps:
got a white calculator??????
http://www.hbasonline.org/
"uptownsteve said...
Lying AGAIN slappy.
More latinos were arrested for the 1992 riots than blacks."
Well, like, DUH!
Everybody knows blacks can run faster than latinos.
11:41 AM
hey needs bruising slaps:
got a white adding machine???????
Harvard University
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W.E.B DuBois, educator, writer, co-founder of NAACP
Yale University
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Paul Robeson, singer, actor, activist
Ben Carson, neurosurgeon
Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court Justice
Anita Hill, attorney, professor
Angela Bassett, actress
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., author, Chair of African Studies, Harvard University
http://www.blackexcel.org/disting.htm
alicia banks said...
hey needs bruising slaps:
got a white adding machine???????
Harvard University
AB, dont you get it? You have to keep pulling out exceptions to the rule. Of course with millions of U.S. advantaged Blacks, some will get an education and few tokens who "act white" and study, make it.
What I find ridiculous and even sadder testimony to the state of Blacks in the U.S, is how with all the programs and funding and hedged points and admittance waivers, there aren't more and more educated Blacks. Well, unfortunately a HS dropout rate ranging from 40-52% in some cases will cut short an educational run.
When one of these Blacks actually turns into a leader and revives one of the cities that became decrepit once handed over to Black Run Leadership. Then I will be impressed. Until then, we continue to have decline wherever Blacks become the majority. That is a fact.
UTS, the Rodney King tape showed a person resisting arrest. Just because the MSM did an edit job that pretended he was getting a 'beat down' is no reason to assume the Simi Valley jury gave the police a pass on violence.
The MSM tape looks like the police pulled a DWB motorist over and began beating him. The entire tape shows another story.
Oh, I have seen the police use wire-wrapped truncheons on white college boys...so it isn't 'a Black thing'.
Slappy, there is this cute movie called "Gangs of New York". It has enough historical accuracy to make it fun. If you are interested, there is a ton of material on how the Irish are subhuman and yucky and smelly and don't have civilized attributes. You might find it familiar.
Until new evidence surfaces, I can't find OJ guilty.
Mold
Paul Robeson, singer, actor, activist
Ben Carson, neurosurgeon
Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court Justice
Anita Hill, attorney, professor
Angela Bassett, actress
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., author, Chair of African Studies, Harvard University
AB: Did you notice that among all of the examples you list, there are many buck dancing, uncle tom negroes as you call them? I guess that culture of learnin and actin white got them ahead instead of held them down like the Black community so eagerly promotes.
I mean really, what other race calls someone a race traitor for trying to improve their life? I guess misery loves company and don't you dare get uppity.
Slappy, there is this cute movie called "Gangs of New York". It has enough historical accuracy to make it fun. If you are interested, there is a ton of material on how the Irish are subhuman and yucky and smelly and don't have civilized attributes. You might find it familiar.
Until new evidence surfaces, I can't find OJ guilty.
Mold
Oh but Moldy, maybe you should look at the book O.J wrote telling how he didnt really do it...snicker...but when he did this is how it happened.
I am so wee todd did.
You are testimony to racist Blacks. Facts don't matter.
foolish assnon:
you are arrogantly ignorant.
each scholar listed is a rebel.
and you are the unique fool for flaunting your complete ignorance of their rebel bios...
ha!
ie
smart people know that refusing to be an uncle tom cost paul r his career and life...
Did the movie scare you? It is, after all, only entertainment. I simply pointed it out as it was a easy access to the conditions of Irish in 'Merica. Saves you the effort of reading.
OJ had to do something and the audience for the book was there. Both you and I read it. I still don't assume his guilt.
Mold
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110119/ap_on_re_us/us_abortion_clinic_investigation
i'm no beck supporter, but this is the most horrible story i've read in a long time...happened in philly.
anonymous
"What I find ridiculous and even sadder testimony to the state of Blacks in the U.S, is how with all the programs and funding and hedged points and admittance waivers, there aren't more and more educated Blacks."
Identify these programs, funding and admittance schemes please.
I called you out on this bull$hit a couple of days ago and you just crawled back under the floorboards like the cockroach you are.
Let's see the proof.
Another point.
I'll bet a limb that EVERY black on this board is better educated and better salaried than you.
White losers like you cling to supremacist theories simply to make you feel better about your own sorry existance.
It's sad but funny.
blind assnon:
the rule is that you ignore millions of gifted blacks as you spin racist aademic fantasies.
period.
there is no exception to your denials...
"person resisting arrest. Just because the MSM did an edit job that pretended he was getting a 'beat down' is no reason to assume the Simi Valley jury gave the police a pass on violence."
That's a pile of $hit.
Numerous times on cable channels and the web the entire video was shown and the cops continued to stomp and beat King after he was handcuffed and subdued.
Simi Valley just revealed what every black urban dweller knows.
The white citizens feel that cops have every right to beator kill black men, whether criminals or innocent.
"White folks watched a damn video tape of four cops beating and brutalizing Rodney King and aqcuitted them anyway.'
Rodney King deserved that beating, plain and simple. Run from the cops and resist arrest, get your ass beat. End of story.
And Mold, anyone who actually could believe OJ didn't kill his wife is capable of making themselves believe anything.
"Yes, I know. The Mayor is...wait for it... wait for it...BLACK.
The police chief is...wait for it...wait for it...BLACK. The District Attorney is....wait for it.....BLACK. "
Go figure. Anything controled by black males will always go to shit at the expense of white people, black females and black children. Look at Africa, all the whites, black females, black girls and young black boys under the age of 5 need to run far from black male brutes in order survive.
That's not what your mama says Son.
Barack, is that you?
Nah, it's the Big Dipper calling from the grave.
20,000 white skeezers can't be wrong!
I'll bet a limb that EVERY black on this board is better educated and better salaried than you.
Well then you would not only be dimwitted you would then be unarmed. Do you really think a key accounts manager is the pinnacle of professionalism? They are a dime a dozen and I hire several in every location I own. For whites we call them customer service agents. To give guys like you a hand up we call them key account managers.
Anyways, if you are doing so well. Then help your own and stop blaming whitey, hypocrite.
"Whitey's Black Daddy said...
That's not what your mama says Son."
That's all there is to you brutes, having sex with white girls, you keep your brain in your pants, no wonder your race is behind and your women and children have to suffer.
Hey Wilt, heard this one:
How is rape like HIV?
Neither one affects you if you play guard for the Lakers.
Too bad you was a center.
Anonymous said...
"I'll bet a limb that EVERY black on this board is better educated and better salaried than you"
You a brave negro to bet your 3 inches of man meat on the premise that Mold is employed or that someone actually pays AB anything. Damn.
Looks like I touched a nerve!
LMAO!!!!
Or computer time on the cellblock must be coming to a close.
BTW ass-non
Still waiting on that evidence of the black programs, funding, and bonus points.
And waiting, and waiting, and waiting................
uptownsteve said...
Looks like I touched a nerve!
LMAO!!!!
Or computer time on the cellblock must be coming to a close.
1:52 PM
Illogical to the end. Now you know damn well most of those in prison are Blacks and Hispanics so the odds are against you. The Blacks in prison though are all innocent and did not commit those crimes, they are just victims of those White judges. We know, we know. Do you even believe half of the nonsense you have to create to falsify Black reality?
@ uptownsteve: Good thing you some much free time at your affirmative action job to keep waiting, waiting, waiting....
LMAO!!!!
uptownsteve, you wrote:
In the early 1900s Jews were 25% of NYC population...
True.
but over 50% of the convicted criminals. Prostitutes, muggers, shakedown artists, murderers and theives.
The link is currently unavailable but I will provide as soon as it's up.
I think you'll find the link on the Nation of Islam website.
uptownsteve, I wrote:
Have you ever noticed there are no black graduates of NY City public schools who are today recognized as leading ACADEMICS?
You responded:
You mean Colin Powell, Basil Patterson, Countee Cullen, and James Baldwin don't count?
Hey bonehead, no one on your list is an ACADEMIC.
resident white peasant assnon:
i am certain that all of the blacks herein are smarter and work harder than you do...
retirement is a relic for all
races
and even white trust fund babies are being frugal in 2011
i have toiled at many jobs since i was 12...u???
http://aliciabanks.xanga.com/profile
"Hey bonehead, no one on your list is an ACADEMIC."
Nor are most of the people in America.
What's your point gooberwitz?
Obviously, uptown is no academic.
i am certain that all of the blacks herein are smarter and work harder than you do...
Sure AB, Sure. Does your boss know you aren't doing anything right now? I bet he is a white guy who gives you a pass for being a black lesbian and the rest of your co-workers hate you for having to pick up the slack.
that one left a mark....
anon
Did it ever dawn on your psychotic ass that you are here more than ANYONE else???
Posting under numerous tags in a pathetic attempt to appear to represent a consensus.
Not only are all the blacks here smarter and more successful than you but Jared Loughner is probably better adjusted than you.
envious trash pleeb assnon:
i am a salaried techie admin..
i set my own schedule and live online 24/7
i am also a private tutor/my own boss
u r glaringly uneducated and far too ignorant to have ever supervised a soul or owned any business of your own as i do...
so
i bet you punch a dusty clock and use a pc at the trailer pk's community "center"/unit...no?
i also work in 2 states...
bet that trumps the 2 blocks your pick up covers as u haul junk in your trailer pk...
no?
alicia banks said...
"i am a salaried techie admin.."
translation: I get paid to sit in front of a computer
"i set my own schedule and live online 24/7"
translation: I am underemployed and have nothing to do.
i am also a private tutor/my own boss:
translation: I am a babysitter.
stupid hidden assnon:
your envy is far more powerful than your comedy.
browncowsteve said..."Not only are all the blacks here smarter and more successful than you but Jared Loughner is probably better adjusted than you."
I'll give you Jared Loughner part.
alicia banks said...
envious trash pleeb assnon:
i am a salaried techie admin..
i set my own schedule and live online 24/7
i am also a private tutor/my own boss
u r glaringly uneducated and far too ignorant to have ever supervised a soul or owned any business of your own as i do...
So, then I guess when your business fails because it is to "slow" obviously, then you will have that finger aimed and pointed.
By this I take it you got fired from your employer and now think you are haughty taughty as you are sub contracting to no one.
As for Supervising and owning a business. Please honey, how do you think I figured you out so easily and I say this with all modesty as a half wit entry level lead, not even a supervisor can see your game a mile off.
Oh and Uptown steve, there is no conspiracy. I am not using tags at all and would it be possible that there is just more then one person who thinks you are an asshole? I am sure you can identify with that logic.
Have you always been this light in the loafers or did it happen gradually as you let your wife become the boss and primary breadwinner.
Now go answer the phone and be a good customer service agent. Or should I say, glorified receptionist.
hater pauper assnon:
the saddest thing about unemployed uneducated morons with no lives
like you....is that you cannot even fathom the real lives you will never earn or have...tragic!!!
you are too much of a peasant to even dream the life i actually live...
shame!
cursed clueless assnon:
there is no safe business in america today.
and fyi
being "slow" has nothing to do with outsourcing/downsizing/obamacare etc
i am blessed to be involved in 2 of the most successful as a tech admin & educator though...
u??
i'm glad you have work, but i can't imagine for the life of me why anyone would hire a crazy lesbian to babysit their kids.
fertile foolish assnon:
you are flaunting your illiteracy again.
and
most useless breeders like u cannot find anyone to babysit their bad dumb kids...
and fyi
being "slow" has nothing to do with outsourcing/downsizing/obamacare etc
YOU would certainly know this better then me. Have you been "slow" your whole life or is it just creeping up on you with more of that stanky cat you eat?
Make sure those big fat white biker bitches let you breathe when they sit on your face, lack of oxygen and all that.
Remember, if she sits on your face and you can't hear the stereo, she is too fat and tell her to lift a cheek so you can breathe. We wouldnt want you to get any "slower" and watch out for the smegma, its toxic.
dyslexic racist hallucinating assnon:
your lack of reading retention is typical of uneducated inbred illiterates...
ie
"slow" as in the lie you told about about layoffs...
i am happily married to a gorgeous educated black queen who also defines u as the white trash that u are.
you clearly have me confused with your gross swirled fellow swingers at the trailer pk...
tmi bubba hefner!!!
vulgar sow swinging assnon:
why are u peasants so nasty???
the vdlr is audibly in your toxic woodpile.
filthy lard assed voyeur assnon:
the playboy trailer trolls trump the playboy mansion tramps!!!
ICK!!!!!!!
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-01-04/hugh-hefner-newly-engaged-responds-to-complaints-from-ex-playboy-bunny/
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dbooks&field-keywords=bunny+tales
alicia banks said...
vulgar sow swinging assnon:
why are u peasants so nasty???
the vdlr is audibly in your toxic woodpile.
Remember...if it smells like fish, don't eat it.
Or
Once you get past the smell you got it licked.
Your choice.
Lu Lu the Lesbian speaketh with forked toungue...it split from too much of that wiry black snatch hair lickin...ewwwwwww.
Glad you have a pardner cowgirl, for today 1 in 3 Black women have aids. No wonder why no one wants to sex you up.....
juvenile joker assnon:
your "comedy" is slipping faster than the collective credit ratings at your trailer camp.
fix that along with one of those rusty old cars in your dirt "yard" asap!
Someone earlier said: "Look at Africa, all the whites, black females, black girls and young black boys under the age of 5 need to run far from black male brutes in order survive."
If you substitute Europe for Africa and black for white you would get how afraid the dark world was of Europeans in the 16th through 19th centuries and in the US in the 17th through 20 th century.
All human beings and ethnic groups and so-called races especially the ones infused by the greed of class society have acted shamefully at some point in history or another.
Ok Lu Lu, whatever helps float your boat and keep you from going insane with out facing reality.
What up Field you know I really like Philly for some of the reasons you mentioned. But my praise for any US city or city under Imperialism is tempered by the conditions of the poor in those cities.
From what I can tell there are two Phillys a poor one and a middle class to upper class one. And there are two black Phillys the one where you live and where many Blacks flourish and the neighborhoods where folks aren't doing so well and where you can get shot for a dollar or disrespecting some poor cat who feels like respect is all he has in the world.
Field I am reading some amazing history about the Sharecroppers Union and the Souther Tenant Farmers Union. This history tells of how poor black and white sharecroppers tried to organize to better their conditions.
Check out the "Elaine Massacre" in Arkansas (they are still embarassed about this one) and the Claude Neal incident in Marianna Florida around 1919. Just google them its guaranteed to make your hair stand on end. These pieces of US history are just horrific.
The terror and hatred visited upon both groups is a documented but well hidden history. Workers were murdered for union organizing. Sometimes workers who tried to strike were locked up for vagrancy or even lead back into the fields at gun point.
What we know as modern America was bought at a horrific and bloody price. And that continues to some extent to this day in the relationship of the undeveloped(physically,economically) and the developed (physically, econcomically) world.
And whoever keeps saying that the history of workers and blacks is told in history books is just lying. I have looked at many and they seldom tell the story of the re-enslavement of blacks at the turn of the 19th century and early 20th century and the attempts to enslave white sharecroppers and farmers.
mell: "All human beings and ethnic groups and so-called races especially the ones infused by the greed of class society have acted shamefully at some point in history or another"
Yes, but has anyone ever caused as much embarassment as uptownsteve?
mellaneous said: "And whoever keeps saying that the history of workers and blacks is told in history books is just lying."
The only books uptownsteve ever read were "The Kareem Abdul Jabbar Story" and the instruction manual for his Piston Pump Penis enlarger.
Steve you probably figured out that arguing with folks who think that you and everyone who looks like you is a waste of time, and time is precious my friend.
In an earlier thread you tried unsuccessfully to point out that the way Jews were able to escape the extreme hatred that many American whites had for them was by pretending to be white.
The Jewish fella played you off but you were exactly right many Jews changed their sir names and many others simply denied their heritage when they could and found it convenient to check the white box.
Truth is most folks don't know a Jew from a Caucasion. I noticed that many black folks definitely don't distinguish because unfortunately too many of them are indifferent to the plight of black folks and other people of color and some of them actively discriminate and denigrate blacks and people of color.
Anyway Steve you got to read "How the Irish became White by Noel Ignatiev. It explains how every immigrant group escaped its second class status by joining in with anti-black prejudice.
This book puts to rest many of the silly and misguided conversations that occur on this blog.
And David Roedigers, "Working toward Whiteness;HOw America's Immigrants became White:The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs" will also blow your mind.
Anyone who wants real answers about how their particular European immigrant group escaped second class status and prejudice has to read this book.
It also helps one understand why capitalism has to have racism or scapegoats.
Yeah Steve it ain't all about race its also about class. That's another discussion.
"Anyway Steve you got to read "How the Irish became White by Noel Ignatiev. It explains how every immigrant group escaped its second class status by joining in with anti-black prejudice."
Already did, about 10 years ago.
You should also read "When Affirmative Action was White" and "Broken Rear Windows" which detail how the white urban ethnic and the southern white had their skids greased by the US Government to middle class status with 0% interest housing and education loans after WWII that were unavailable to black folks.
mell and uts:
ditto!
2 more great books
http://www.amazon.com/How-Jews-Became-White-Folks/dp/081352590X/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1295475355&sr=1-2
http://www.amazon.com/History-White-People-Irvin-Painter/dp/0393049345/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1295475430&sr=1-1
another classic look at the fluidity of race/tenuous semitism etc
http://www.amazon.com/Cosmic-Slop-VHS-Jorge-Ameer/dp/B00000JWWJ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=video&qid=1295476351&sr=1-1
"It explains how every immigrant group escaped its second class status by joining in with anti-black prejudice"
Every immigrant group escaped second class status by joining in the larger culture. Even though blacks had a large part in creating that culture, they were denied full membership until the 1960's.
What are the barriers today? Yes there are still whites who don't want to be around blacks, but there is also a strong negative influence from liberal multiculturalism and black separatism that encourages blacks to hold back. There is a very strong cultural insularity in American blacks. Once blacks internalize the concept that they are Americans of African descent instead of African Americans, the self-imposed barriers will fall away.
weaved witless weevil in the woodpile of bubba heffner/vdlr:
as always, like hobama, u lie
u r the anti-cheerleader...your retarded rah rahs always signal victory for the sane herein
u r late and lame and lost as u never have anything to contribute to any convo...
u r a ghetto ghost...boo-ring!!!
jim:
black skin is a barrier that no hair dye and name change ever alters...(just ask the fried dyed bleached out bald headed vulgar-vdlr!)
and malcolm x said it better:
when a cat has kittens in an oven
they are not biscuits
u too are a hyphenated squatter like the rest of us unless u are a native american!
ie:
what is "self imposed" about redlining/racist banking/loan practices/killer cops...etc???
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he is still visibly black!
ditto for mj/s sosa/lil kim/latoya j etc
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mellaneous, you wrote:
In an earlier thread you tried unsuccessfully to point out that the way Jews were able to escape the extreme hatred that many American whites had for them was by pretending to be white.
Yeah. You guessed it.
The Jewish fella played you off but you were exactly right many Jews changed their sir names and many others simply denied their heritage when they could and found it convenient to check the white box.
Yeah. You're a genius.
Truth is most folks don't know a Jew from a Caucasion.
What are the signs? How can you tell a Jew from a Caucasion?
Good question Jim but as a person who sees himself as Black long before I identify myself as an American I have done quite well for myself as have many of my Black friends and family. This whole trying to mainstream Black people or paint us as other has been going on for years. We act as though all whites are PhD's with six fugure salaries. See the example our resident troll created as if there are no academics from the NYC public school system. None? i'm sure a call or google search would produce evidence of such.
Sorry Jim but your hypothesis contains some obvious flaws. Black people have been in the mainstream of Amerikkka for years and many of our efforts have been damaged by institutional racism. Google reconstruction and the Tulsa riots for evidence of such actions and also look at Steve's post that outlines the 0% interest loans and government help given to whites and with held from people of color and we still made progress despite these obstacles. We have to ask ourselves where would this country be if white's had the same resistance we faced and if we faced the same benelovence white people got in the past.
For examples of Black scholarship we need only to look at the thousands of Black college grads every year. Our HBCU's and non-HBCU's produce doctors, lawyers, engineers, teachers, pilots, ect. We only see what we focus on. If someone doesn't want to see Black achievement they won't plain and simply.
"Hey, isn't Glen Beckkk from Spokane?"
No. Fuck no. He grew up in Mount Vernon, a nice little(ish) town between Seattle and Bellingham. Spokane's on the other side of the state, near the Idaho border. We "dry sider's" (i.e. east of the Cascade Mountains, aka redneckistan) have enough to contend with and certainly make no claim to that no talent ass clown.
@ Steve, I have to check out those books. It is important that we understand what influence white AA has had on this country. In my industry it was abundantly clear how this game worked, for decades people of color were excluded from certain jobs while only white males were hired. This meant that 100% of white males were hired while 100% of people of color and women were excluded. Fast forward a few decades when there was a push to encourage more diversity but 85% of people being hired were white males and they screamed bloody murder that somehow they were being somehow discriminated against. That is some real hutzpah (sp?.
The Baltimore Police spokesperson also stated that he and the homicide commander were set to go on Nancy Grace and then were bumped off the show for an hour long report on the white cheerleader in Texas who is missing. I decided to check the transcripts of Nancy Graces show and she did no less than seven reports on the same Texas teen and did not reschedule anyone to discuss Phylicia Barnes who is from my neck of the woods in North Carolina.
You know slappy, you really crack me up.
I should'nt allow myself to get into these Jews vs black spats with you because growing up most of my white friends were Jewish.
They were generally the coolest and most non racist white folks I knew.
But guys like you are the ones who give Farrakhan and Quannell X fodder for their anti-semitic diatribes.
You are obviously trying to get your "white guy" card punched with you incessant demonization of blacks.
The Jews I knew and befriend identified with being unfairly stereotyped because of their history.
You run away from that nobility by being a petty racist.
Shame.
Steve, don't feed the trolls;-)
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