Given the nature of our Republic, states’ rights are fundamental, but have you ever noticed that throughout our history the people who dwell on, scream about, bleat, kvetch, moan and whine about states’ rights are always those most anxious to deny civil rights to others? From slavery, through Jim Crow to modern day racists and xenophobes, those who attach to states’ rights as a rallying cry are those we’d be blessed not to have in our Republic.

No doubt, my point will soon prove itself out on these very pages.

Al Sharpton is calling conservatives racist and Tommy Christopher is defending him.  Predictable would be an understatement.

Tommy, you talking about dog whistles is pretty funny. 

I’ll give you points for going into your hosts’ home and urinating on the living room carpet, but Michelle-in-Utah is still the Gold Medal Winner in this regard.

Shocking isn’t it

Tommy, send me the bill for carpet cleaning. I’ll pay it. All the Marys in Heaven know Michelle-in-Utah lacks the accountability to do so. But, in fairness, she does divert from the topic well. 

Speaking of diverting from the topic, Michelle-in-Utah, things aren’t looking good for your Mr. Jeffs, are they?

Does anyone know how to get rid of hissing cockroaches?

Isn’t there a glory hole somewhere with your name on it?

Sadly, Al Sharpton hasn’t the ability to read.

Blow a dog whistle !

Al Sharpton is a clown and people who defend him look just as foolish. Race baiting from this Con man is old news.

To blame or associate States Rights with racism is beyond dishonest.  Racists have used everything from the Bible to Biology to Psychology to spew hate.  People use and abuse functions of Government on every level to pass agendas.  

States rights is crucial to “progressive” States having the right to recognize gay marriage, medicinal marijuana, and environmental policies among many other things that are important to the left.

And if you think Breitbarts critique of Sharpton is somehow unfair,check out The New York Times’ take on MSNBC’s decision to hire Sharpton:
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/30/the-tv-watch-sharpton-brings-his-pulpit-to-msnbc/?smid=tw-nytimes&seid=auto

I wouldn’t give Kook my address if I were you, Tommy.

Raid. Kills bugs dead.

Have you ever noticed that the lunatic left has tried to hijack the idea of states’ rights and affix it only to racism, jim crow laws, etc?  Have you ever noticed Dimocrats screaming racism at everything?  Including, now, climate change?

Have you ever noticed that throughout our history those who have worked to deny TRUE states’ rights are the Marxists, communists’ useful idiots, died-in-the-wool statists and big government socialist ideologues, and unfortunately big government republicans?

The Federal government has increasingly overstepped it’s bounds since the early 20th century and impeded on what are true states’ rights. 

You’re disingenuous and completely partisan if you continue to deny this truth

You could do like your namesake; slit wrists and become blood brothers.

Election 2012: This Time It’s REALLY About Race

That’s all they’ve got, and by God, they’re gonna use it.

http://tinyurl.com/3dpllyv

With all the halting, erroneous emphasis, mangled words and incoherence.  I’m surprised that the content of his first show was intelligible to even Tommy’s dog whistle ears

He is disingenuous and completely partisan for many reasons.  And you can add vile and completely dishonest, not to mention he likes to stalk females young enough to be his daughter. 

You know royal flush – you stalk michelle and think it’s appropriate.  What is the matter with you – it’s creepy to say the least.  Then you go on your freaking rant about civil rights.  You’re the same idiot who wanted to shut down Fox, boycott Beck and you have the gall to talk about anyone’s rights?

You hypocritical dirt bag.  You are the only fool moaning and whining, bleating and kvetching endlessly.  

As for Sharpton – the race baiting fool found a good home.  Maybe he’ll hire you to be his bag man.  

Tammy is obviously fluent in ebonics.  That is the only way you can understand what Fat Albert is garbling.

I agree with your analysis as to the role between the progressive policies and states’ rights, but do you find that those who advance these policies routinely frame them as states’ rights issues? I don’t. On the contrary, I find they are most often framed as simply just. My point is that every racist and xenophobic scoundrel invariably frames his or her racist or xenophobic agenda as a matter of states’ rights.

Even the TV reviewer at the NYT thinks this bellowing buffoon is a bore .

  
“I’m not going to be a robotic host reading the teleprompter like a robot,” he said. “Nor am I going to come in here and do the James Brown and do the ‘electric slide’ to prove to you that I’m not stiff,” he added, waving his arms in a rough approximation of a dance move. “I’m going to say what I mean and mean what I say.”
And that may be the problem with Mr. Sharpton’s cable news pulpit: what he means to say is in lockstep with every other MSNBC evening program, making the stretch between 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. a nonstop lecture on liberal values and what is wrong with the Republican Party.”

   http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/30/the-tv-watch-sharpton-brings-his-pulpit-to-msnbc/?hp

Well said.

If Liberals want to play word association games, I’d gladly oblige them and go back to where the Democratic party stood in the 60′s on Civil Rights.

Grandaughter . 

Point 1: Abraham Lincoln was a Republican along with most of the Union Army.
Point 2: Lester Maddox was a Democrat along with most of the .segregationist.

This just in : 

   Illegal immigration to be vastly reduced in the US. as ICE begins rounding up Obama family members .

1. I don’t stalk. I flush out. I expose hypocrisy.
2. I never said I wanted to flush out FOX “News”. I don’t. I simply want it to be recognized for what it is. A network very, very short on news and very, very long on conservative advocacy journalism. I happen to think America ought to have a rightist media outlet. Just be honest about what it is.
3. The boycott was successful. I exercised my free speech rights. Millions of other Americans did. The advertisers exercised theirs. O’Beckerhead was canned as a result. America won. FOX “News” is better for it.
4. I don’t care for the Rev. Mr. Sharpton’s show. Not in the least. My interest in how unhinged he makes all of you radical rightists. It’s a source of great amusement to me.

Progressives don’t frame them that way, because they don’t understand the Constitution.  They live in a fantasy world where they imagine Central Planning as a way to make things equal for everybody.  They believe in a true majority rule Democracy.

That kind of thinking leads to a tyranny of the majority.  Could you imagine how long people black people would wait to get voting rights if it was up for a democratic vote?   

They understand the Constitution and its application very well indeed. They successfully used the Commerce Clause for decades to work towards a just and equal society. You confuse the power, the force of moral suasion with your so-called “Central Planning”.

I thought you had something to offer. I was mistaken.

Independents decide elections, not liberals or conservatives. Sharpton is the perfect guy to turn off Independent voters. Way to go, MSNBC. LOL.

 
Boy, Al is going to call all of your racist out and all you’re going to do is argue with him by being as racist as possible.

“What? Can you believe that muckety muck actually called us racist?”

I love how TC casts Sharpton as a victim, when TC himself targets voices on the right regularly. Sharpton himself has been a racist bomb thrower for decades. 

You’re being way too nice to this diseased old queen .

And he’s even worse in his ProObamaAgenda character .

Robert is obsessed with carpets because BFD , his domestic partner , is not housebroken and his boardinghouse room looks like the reception area at ACORN headquarters .

The only thing you expose is your ignorance.

I don’t care for you – not in the least.  As for Sharpton, you’re two of a kind – race baiting fools.

Now, grow up and I realize you’re lonely but leave Michelle the hell alone – she doesn’t like you.

You’re still on the Beck got fired – gives everyone an insight into your level of honesty.  Non freaking existent.  

The only thing that  kept you from going to University – High School.

I don’t think it counts as “dog whistle deaf” if they engage in dog whistle politics on a daily basis. They may claim deafness but they hear it louder than anyone

The constitution is a document of negative rights.  “Government shall pass no law….”

There are plenty of places in this world without a separation of powers who also promise positive rights. 

How to acquire milk in Venezuela: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhaWKnmvCwQ&feature=youtu.be

Socialismo…
 

Lincoln was also for bigger government, the creation of the income tax and various other issues that would be deemed quite liberal. The Republican Party of Abe Lincoln was vastly different from now. If you are going to use history to make claims then I suggest you actually learn it. back then Dems were conservatives and Reps were liberals.
As for lester Maddox the last time anyone heard from him was whe he endorsed Pat Buchanan for president

MSNBC will allow Al’s show to morph into a sitcom. Something like Reverend Al and the Man!

MSNBC will allow Al’s show to morph into a sitcom. Something like Reverend Al and the Man!

Al Sharpton ratings from last night for those who care Sharpton only had 519,000 total viewers in his debut.Which made him the least watched show of all cable news stations. Chris Matthews fill in even beat him. Good to see even Liberals aren’t going to watch this race hustler.

The more the left see’s their dream of control coming to an end, the louder they play the race card.

They didn’t learn from the 2010 elections…..it isn’t about racism, it’s the economy and the fact we have an incompetent person in WH!!

The more the left see’s their dream of control coming to an end, the louder they play the race card.

They didn’t learn from the 2010 elections…..it isn’t about racism, it’s the economy and the fact we have an incompetent person in WH!!

Rev Sharpton speaks the truth and many of you just can’t handle the truth when its right in front of you.  Racism is alive and well.  As a white person I know and see racism among white males especially.  Many hate black, hispanics, asians and women.  The melting pot is boiling over.

Isn’t the criticism leveled at MSNBC and Sharpton in that article in then TV section just as valid for some Fox news opinutainment shows. Especially,

Unfortunately, so is conflict. There is almost no real debate on any of
these evening shows: a conservative is brought on and put on the spot,
then in a different segment two people who agree with the host on a
given issue answer the host’s questions, usually, with words like
“you’re so right.”

   
We’re not pretending those shows are news are we?
Sharpton has a valid point. The debate of states rights vs federal jurisdiction is a pretty valid one and certainly relates to civil rights on many levels including SSM and abortion.  States are passing all kinds of laws to try and circumvent the ruling of Roe vs Wade.

It’s interesting that Perry, who originally supported NY’s gay marriage decision as a states rights issue, recently signed a pledge to support a Constitutional Amendment denying states that right.

I think the question Sharpton is raising is exactly what human, civil, individual rights, fall within the scope of the federal government to protect. An interesting and valid question.

Who told you that? I reject that progressives believe in true majority rule democracy. There are too many examples to the contrary.

Rand Paul was forced to backtrack after expressing a libertarian stance on Civil Rights.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/20/AR2010052003500.html

It is obvious that some on the right consider federal enforcement of civil liberties to be constitutional overreach… They are after all originalists… Hence the effort to recast the origins as much more antislavery than they were so as to soften the schism between their advocacy of a great leap backward and a modern federalism from which most Americans obtain great benefit.

RACE BAITING@6 RESIST WE MUCH!

Ha !!!

Crown Heights, Freddie’s Fashion Mart, Tawana Brawley, The Duke Lacrosse scandal. Everything Sharpton has been involved in and everything he talks about is all based on racial discrimination or slavery. Racism is the cornerstone of his program and his reason for living and he will connect it to each and every issue whether it is relevant to what is being discussed or not.

Just as the Democrats have always used blacks for political reasons, Sharpton has used and continues to use underprivileged whites, Hispanics, and even the gay community to advance his agenda of pro black issues. When he uses the word “we” or “us” they are obviously “code words” for blacks only.

Shamefully in their desperation to grab ratings points, MSNBC has given him a regular platform to spit out his vile hatred for the white community. 

Sharpton has said or alluded to worse things than “nappy headed ho” that is for sure, but that doesn’t seem to trouble MSNBC who continues to promote this miserable angry racist.

Sharpton is no Martin Luther King.

Negative rights? All the Saints in Heaven. The Constitution GRANTS rights to individuals. By contrast statutory law generally takes rights away, up to the Constitutional limit. That is the fundamental understanding of our system of laws. And, this is news to you?

In Texas, a US District Judge declared unConstitutional a statute passed by the state legislature and signed into law by Governor Tollbooth. The law is known as the Perry Forced Vaginal Penetration Law. It requires doctors to administer a sonogram, show it to the woman, and explain to the women what she was viewing and hearing. The Judge ruled that the law violated the First Amendment protections of the doctor and the mother by compelling them to engage in government-mandated speech. See, the Constitution granted the free speech right; Tollbooth’s law infringed upon that right (narrowed) the protection, the right; and the limitation was to such an extent that it was unConstitutional. Analytically, that is how these things ALWAYS work. How is it possible for you not to know this?

Of course, he also supported Hillary! Care before he was against it. All things, to all people, at all times!

The Heartbreak of Conservative Victimization Syndrome. Again. Alas, again!

What is so fascinating to me is that the mechanism for the protection and the enforcement for civil rights has long been the Commerce Clause. In other words, the original Constitution, not an amendment. How can that not appeal to originalists? I have the same problem with originalists I do with religious fundamentalists. They don’t understand their product, and they’re eager to share their ignorance.

Sharpton speaks the truth?  When did that start?  The man has never spoken the truth.  He’s agitated and baited and lied and stolen.  Suddenly you claim he speaks the truth?  Seriously, you can seen racism?   Perhaps you should pick better company.  

Sure, I concede your point that Fox’s evening shows are conservative opinion shows(although I wouldn’t consider Greta a conservative in the least)

You can say what you will about O’Reilly, but a huge part of why his show is successful is the heated debates he gets into with his guests.  He not only allows dissenting views, he relies on them.  Even Hannity has at least one liberal on his pannel every night.

MSNBC is a virtual echo chamber.

And as far as Sharpton is concerned, he’s not having a conversation on the merits of States rights.  He’s literally saying that Republicans want to bring our country back to segregation!!!  That’s a huge difference. 

>> The Real Royal Emperor: “From slavery, through Jim Crow to modern day racists and xenophobes,
those who attach to states’ rights as a rallying cry are those we’d be
blessed not to have in our Republic.”

Ah, the old Liberal “If you don’t agree with MY ideals and MY views on government, you’re (1) not smart (2) a racist/xenophobe and (3) you don’t even deserve to be an American” bit.

You know, normally, it takes a LITTLE bit of time before a Liberal plays the race card. Basically because it demonstrates a total lack of intellectual depth regarding any REAL issues at hand. Then again, no one likes to admit they’re out of their league right from the start. Which is why Liberals, in their trademark arrogance, will usually wait a little bit before resorting to their classic and iconic groan-inducing stance of last resort.

Which is why a Special Award of Speedy Achievement goes to the Emperor today.
Because he not only started this comment thread, but he IMMEDIATELY played the race card!

It sounds like “Tea Party” is the new codeword for the WHITE-HATING RACISTS of the Congressional Black Caucus – and their lapdog sympathizers in the Media!

Ask yourself where the call for civility is whenever left-wing RACISTS spew their venom?
Where is the “OUTRAGE” by the media?

I notice you left out the black racists.

They might claim that broad application (Commerce Clause) results from misinterpretation of original intent.  The reality, I believe, is that the intent was for application to evolve through careful deliberation.  The courts have done just that.  As the nature of federalism evolves to meet the needs of an emerging nation, it remains federalism.  The textual fanatic balks when reality diverges from magical imagination.

Had a run in with a conservative fellow the other day who believed the nation a confederacy.  He was certain I was equal measures mad and dull.

The fact that you don’t understand the importance of negative rights highlights my point about liberals unable to grasp the constitution.

The constitution doesn’t give you the right to free speech, it prevents the government from taking it from you.  That’s a big and THE most important difference.  We’re born with natural rights.

Anything that’s given to you is a privilege, and it can be taken away.  That’s why the constitution is written as a series of restrictions placed on the government, not people.

Comments section.

pepper spray or urine

Tommy: My “ire” is drawn over the fact that you legitimize this clown by giving him minute if your time. In case you have forgotten, Al Sharpton, a known charlatan, criminal and race hustler. Just another piece MSNBC garbage! Good journalism Tommy!

But, hey, Sharpton has made his FORTUNE this way!

I hope he asks Twana Brawley and the Duke Lacrosse team on his show!

Al Sharpton raws Conservative Ire!

Well there’s a surprise. 

I hope he can keep bringing up those awkward topical issues where they can be seen and discussed in a fair, open and spirited manner, much like those on this thread. 

The United States of America going from the past and entering the future. It will be exciting to witness the increasingly changing demographics of this country once again.

There might be an ancillary connection to Tawana getting his own show, but I’ll agree that’s a stretch! 

And, RRE has ALLEGED that he teaches law?  Hmmmmmm

And, his mother was “drafted” in WWII, too!

Liberals believe it is inconceivable that Liberals can be racists when in fact they are the biggest group of racists in the world, even against their own kind!!

Ratings don’t matter for Al’s show- Comcast/MSNBC canNOT fire him- he’ll be there until he chooses to leave!

Big Al is a race baiter, nothing more than that. Move on folks.

Can you possibly be any more of a moron?

Don’t vote for him.

But Jim Crow was implemented by Southern Dems.

Oh my!

Says a lib racist!

Alan West’s depiction hit the nail on the head!

As a liberal I agree.  I have a hard time deciding which skin color to spit at each day.  I usually resort to imploring brown skinned people to accept federal/ state/ local benefits and telling white people that they have ruined “everything”.  It’s as simple as that!

States Rights: the very foundation of liberty as espoused by the proto-Democrat Thomas Jefferson!

This is not even a dog whistle and you and Tommy can’t hear it.  You are deaf to the hate and bigotry you don’t want to hear. When this man (and all the other hate filled. volatile, violent rhetoric others in the CBC are spewing) incites someone with one of his speeches to kill… Will you (or Tommy) fell bad then?

http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2011/08/31/big-three-nets-ignore-rep-carsons-lynching-smear-tea-party

As a guilt ridden, self hating white person it is no wonder why you perceive those things.

I won’t get into a discussion of which opinutainment shows suck the least. I’d rather see them all disappear but I don’t expect that to happen soon.

I don’t think Sharpton is saying what you think he is. He’s pointing out that states rights was a tool used by segregationists in the past, just as it is being used now to undermine Roe vs Wade {see the laws recently struck down in Kansas and Texas} and other civil rights issues.
Although I probably don’t agree with him on every issue I see his point as a very relevant one considering what is going on and the current political discourse about limited federal involvement. It’s a discussion about where the lines should be drawn when it comes to the federal government protecting the rights of minorities and individuals. A huge part of our history has been about that.

“Back by popular demand: 

The “Sharpatron”; the Sharpatron attaches to your TV and instantly translates Al Sharpton’s words into standard English! 

And as a bonus, no matter what your command of Ebonics, slang, or “rap-tonics” may be, the Sharpatron has multiple settings that allows you to not only select “standard English,” but you can select the “Ebonics,” “slang, or “‘rap-tonics’” setting and have Al Sharpton’s words translated immediately!

The “Sharpatron” sells for only 10 dollars and will make watching Sharpton’s new show almost “watchable.”

Get your “Sharpaton” today! 

Call MSNBC today and tell them you want the “Sharpatron!” (Ask about the new solar powered version of the “Sharpatron.”)

Truthfully there is nothing wrong on one side to return to a pre-sixties mindset. Kids had full gym classes. America wasnt horrifically obese due to a lot of fast food BS. Education was important.. HAVING an education with great grades was important.. BUT the reality is, THE WORLD will not return to a time two decades past the last true war.. Japan, Germany, EUROPE was just waking up after being shelled to death in order to rid itself of a serious vermin and America was walking tall, unharmed physically… SOME of the ideas of yesterday were really great, like, NOT PREEMPTIVELY striking another nation, or sending our kids to fight in stupid wars.. BUT STILL.. ALL SHARPY HAIR is a mess and a relic so, uhh, can we move on and stop watching and reporting about his show?

Sharpton is no “Buckwheat”
The man is an idiot.
He can’t read or write or speak coherently.
Can anyone really watch that show for more than 5 minutes?
SERIOUSLY

Sharpton is right.  Just recently the racist Koch Brothers were able to stack a school board in the East and segegate the schools there. 
You can “move on” if you wish, but your post sounds more like YOU ARE THE RACIST.

If the racists want to move to Texas, the Governor there wants to secede from the union and that will leave 49 states of people who are willing to be good neighbors and work together to make our country a place where everyone can live in harmony – without the Tea Party racists.

Hell I saw where Griffin was yankin’ off about that hour being “UP 18%”
over Chunk!  lol
Phil, listen!
16% of nothin’ = nothin’

This one going to come back and bite Griffin in the ass,
BIGTIME!
Watch

This one going to come back and bite Griffin in the ass,
BIGTIME!
Watch

I agree with your post about negative rights and restrictions on the government. It’s an important and valid point. It’s also important to note how that applies. or doesn’t, to real world scenarios.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,
that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That
to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving
their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any
Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of
the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,
laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in
such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and
Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long
established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and
accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to
suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by
abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed

Note; Governments established to secure these rights, from the consent of the governed.

It is obvious we weren’t successful at granting the equality referred to when the country was formed. We have been struggling to better understand and define these unalienable rights ever since and it is the government, that helps to secure these rights based on the consent of the governed. It is also the government that can, if we don’t pay attention, take those rights away. It is our destiny and duty to explore and discuss what those rights are and how best to protect and enforce them.

I’ll also note that one of the most important concepts is we protect our own rights by defending that right for others. The majority should not get to declare they have rights that a minority or individual does not have. It is a great moral rule of thumb by which we gauge our laws.

Impossible!!

Not all blacks are racists but most racists are black!

Question:  Why do blacks hate whites for buying them to be slaves but not hate the Africans who kidnapped them and SOLD them to the whites to be slaves?

Can anyone give me an honest answer to that?

Fat Albert is a vile anti-semite who has called for the extermination of jews.  That speaks alot about people who support him (e.g. Obama).

How do you know African-Americans don’t also hate the African slave dealers who sold their ancestors to the Europeans?  Why are you assuming that they don’t?

sharpton playing the race card tommy, say it isn’t so

tommy only hears dog whistles in his LEFT ear lol

States’ rights are not the ‘foundation of liberty’ in the United States.  The foundation of liberty in the United States is the belief in equal rights under the Constitution.  Sometimes the folks in certain states have a hard time understanding that concept.  So the federal government has to re-educate them. What’s wrong with that?

Largely a figment of your lower colon.

Mr. Sharpton is a high school graduate. He attended Brooklyn College for two years before dropping out in 1975. He has no college degree and has not attended a seminary.

Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Does_the_Reverend_Al_Sharpton_have_a_degree_in_theology#ixzz1WdPGuKtR

1: Accounts of African slavery show that the practice, while in no way attractive or just, was dissimilar to the institution as it existed under European colonization.  

“Their food, cloathing, and lodging, were nearly the same as theirs, except that they were not permitted to eat with those who were free born; and there were scarce any other difference between them than a superior degree of importance which the head of a family possesses, in our state, and that authority which, as suen, he exercises over every part of his household. Some of these slaves have even slaves under them, as their own property, and for their own use.”- The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano

2:  The frequency of African enslavement increased through the incitement of European slavers.

“When a trader wants slaves, he applies to a chief for them, and tempts him with his wares. It is not extraordinary, if on this occasion he yields to the temptation with as little firmness, and accepts the price of his fellow creature’s liberty with as little reluctance, as the enlightened merchant. Accordingly, he falls on his neighbours, and a desperate battle ensues. £f he prevails, and takes prisoners, he gratifies his avarice by selling them…” 

3: American slavery soon distinguished itself by moving non-European labor into a special category of complete dependence.  

“All servants imported and brought into the Country. . . who were not Christians in their native Country. . . shall be accounted and be slaves. All Negro, mulatto and Indian slaves within this dominion. . . shall be held to be real estate. If any slave resists his master. . . correcting such slave, and shall happen to be killed in such correction. . . the master shall be free of all punishment. . . as if such accident never happened.” – Virginia General Assembly declaration, 1705

In sum, while Africans were in some cases complicit in enslavement, they neither originated, organized or perpetuated the global system of commodified humanity nor innovated in the wholesale debasement that became racial slavery in the Americas.

1: Accounts of African slavery show that the practice, while in no way attractive or just, was dissimilar to the institution as it existed under European colonization.  

“Their food, cloathing, and lodging, were nearly the same as theirs, except that they were not permitted to eat with those who were free born; and there were scarce any other difference between them than a superior degree of importance which the head of a family possesses, in our state, and that authority which, as suen, he exercises over every part of his household. Some of these slaves have even slaves under them, as their own property, and for their own use.”- The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano

2:  The frequency of African enslavement increased through the incitement of European slavers.

“When a trader wants slaves, he applies to a chief for them, and tempts him with his wares. It is not extraordinary, if on this occasion he yields to the temptation with as little firmness, and accepts the price of his fellow creature’s liberty with as little reluctance, as the enlightened merchant. Accordingly, he falls on his neighbours, and a desperate battle ensues. £f he prevails, and takes prisoners, he gratifies his avarice by selling them…” 

3: American slavery soon distinguished itself by moving non-European labor into a special category of complete dependence.  

“All servants imported and brought into the Country. . . who were not Christians in their native Country. . . shall be accounted and be slaves. All Negro, mulatto and Indian slaves within this dominion. . . shall be held to be real estate. If any slave resists his master. . . correcting such slave, and shall happen to be killed in such correction. . . the master shall be free of all punishment. . . as if such accident never happened.” – Virginia General Assembly declaration, 1705

In sum, while Africans were in some cases complicit in enslavement, they neither originated, organized or perpetuated the global system of commodified humanity nor innovated in the wholesale debasement that became racial slavery in the Americas.

Another lesson from “Brother Sharpton” in public speaking, diction, enunciation and the “English” language.

Hey all!

Will Tawana be condemning the RACIST rhetoric of the Congressional Black Caucus?

Will Tawana be asking if ”Tea Party” is the new Codeword for Black Racists In Congress?

Oh the racists will be out in droves on this thread… You seem to think that racism doesn’t exist. Just read the blurbs hear and you will see racism at its finest in the 21st century. Sure blacks are not being lynched although one was drug behind a truck in Rick Perry’s Texas a few years back. But now cries of reverse racism permiate the board here. Racism is so much more subtle now. It manifests itself in calls for “states rights” in gerry mandering congressional districts, in voter fraud charges, calls to end affirmative action programs along with countless other benign slights, inuendo and race based decisions done every day by countless millions. Your not as overt but your just as insidious in your hatred. (Your is the collective in this case.) Perhaps it worst for you will vote against your own self interest just to get the president out of office.

The more the Republicans and racist Tea Party want back in power to ruin our country – make it a mecca for their right wing religious nuts and corporate power – back to the days of slavery, the more they show their true racist colors.

Sorry you racist pig but after next Novvember only ” real ” Americans rights will be considerered and protected.

You un-American racist, bigotted libs can go to France or hell…your choice.

When will we be hearing from the PARTISAN PRESIDENT about the INCIVILITY of the Congressional Black Caucus, and their thinly-veiled HATRED toward WHITES (codeword “Tea Party”)?

heh-heh-heh

And yet, you flunked history.,  Or you would have told the complete story of how the racists who became known as the “Dixiecrats” were booted out of the Democrat party and became the leaders of the Republican Party.  See Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms.

because then they’d have to hate their own wouldn’t they?  It was a horrible time in history and Sharpton would be selling pencils on the corner if he couldn’t sell his racism..  It’s sad and to give him a pass black or white is pathetic.

Good to see your having a blessed day.  

I don’t know how big he is – isn’t he about 5’ tall?  Think he has “Napoleon Syndrome” along with his other attributes.  Just a fine specimen of a shyster.  

Because I have NEVER heard it mentioned.  Have you?

Your nuts sweets.  Just recently the racists?  The only racist on the horizon is Sharpton.  

You can find out the truth about your “stacked school board” or keep peddling trash.  Somehow I know which one appeals to you more.  Hell, the truth would be a pretty boring story wouldn’t it?  

Good God girl, how old are you?  Can you not separate fact from fiction?  Someone told you the Tea Party was racist and you bought it.  Now prove it!  

The only racist colors shown are by members of the Black Caucus and little Al – the kiddies pal. 

yeah those state rights and gay marriage…oops never mind

But calling a group of people you don’t know racists IS RACIST ITSELF!

Seems like you have company with the RACIST Congressional Black caucus!

Why do you all hate whites so much?

You mean when Lyndon Johnson pushed the Civil Rights Act through Congress and signed it?

Equal rights is most definitly an important founding principle, but do not underestimate States rights or the founders repeated warnings of the tyranny of the state;

“If ever time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in
Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.”– Samuel Adams”Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the
liberties of any people. When the people give way, their deceivers, betrayers, and destroyers press
upon them so fast, that there is no resisting afterwards. The nature of the encroachment upon the
American constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more encroaching. Like a cancer, it
eats faster and faster every hour. The revenue creates pensioners, and the pensioners urge for more revenue. The people grow less steady, spirited, and virtuous, the seekers more numerous and more corrupt, and every day increases the circles of their dependents and expectants, until virtue, integrity, public spirit, simplicity, and frugality, become the objects of ridicule and scorn, and vanity, luxury, foppery, selfishness, meanness, and downright venality swallow up the whole
society. “– John Adams”I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power. I am naturally very jealous for
the rights and liberties of my country, and the least encroachment of those invaluable privileges is
apt to make my blood boil.”– Ben Franklin”The greatest [calamity] which could befall [us would be] submission to a government of unlimited
powers.”– Thomas Jefferson”I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing
good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my
youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were
made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on thecontrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.”– Benjamin Franklin”I consider the foundation of the [Federal] Constitution as laid on this ground: That “all powers notdelegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States or to the people.” [10th Amendment] To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specifically drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless field ofpower, no longer susceptible of any definition.”delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States or to the people.” [10th Amendment] To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specifically drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless field ofpower, no longer susceptible of any definition.”– Thomas Jefferson”It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers to pretend to
watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expense…. They are themselves
always, and without any exception, the greatest spendthrifts in society. Let them look well after
their own expense, and they may safely trust private people with theirs.”– Adam Smith”There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent
encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. “– James Madison

Help us out with the history you say you know.

Could you name a few more of those Dixiecrats that got “kicked out” of the Democratic Party?   

In 1664 (Civil Rights Act) there were 114 Southern Democrat Senators and Congressmen.  By contrast there were 11 Southern Republican in both houses. 

How many of those 114 Dems went to and stayed on the Republican side?  How many were Democrats when the left Politics?

So- who were all these Democrats who were “booted” besides the two you named?  (and I will match them with Byrd and Al Gore Sr who were against the Civil Rights Act and not booted).

Then mention it yourself.  You’ve got a brain.  You’ve got a heart.  Mention it.

Remember the fugitive slave act?   Yes the federal one that forced northern States to send fugitive slaves back to their masters.   Didn’t think you did.

You mean when LBJ blocked the 1957 civil rights bill for purely political reasons?

Al is good comic relief. Gotta give him that.

You’re not worth talking to. 

(Let me be very clear.  I never said he was not worth talking to.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S38VioxnBaI Right there is proof you racists piece of white trash.

Yes I think millions of whites would love to return to the sixties. But for a while to 1866 when Blacks should have been returned to their beloved homeland

When I’m down & blue, I can always count on Al to pull me out. I watch him for 5 sec. And just can’t believe someone can be so stupid.

Reverend, my ass.

She’s not going to bang you and if she’s a tea bagger you’re probably better off.

The English language doesn’t require quotation marks around the noun modifier in your sentence.  So it looks to me, Brother Xpat, that, grammatically speaking, Brother Sharpton’s got you beat in spades.

I know and by “real” Americans you mean White you are the racist. Not to Al Sharpton isn’t just you are also and considering I can remember watching the news during the 1960′s and seeing how the slave states treated minorities Dogs, fire hoses, lynching, etc. I know you all have been comping at the bit to go back to those glory years.

Hey moron, here is a whole list of prominent racist democrats that left the Democrat party to take their racism to the Republican party. You’re an idiot.
early 1960s – Arthur Ravenel, Jr. of South Carolina, before running for the South Carolina Senate1960s – James F. Byrnes of South Carolina, after endorsing many Republicans in the 1950s and 1960s1961 – Charlton Lyons to run for Louisiana’s 4th congressional district seat1961 – Billy J. Guin of Shreveport, to support Charlton Lyons for Congress1962 – Dave Treen, later became U.S. Representative for Louisiana (1973-1980) and Governor of Louisiana (1980-1984)1962 – Jack M. Cox, to run for Governor of Texas; losing to later Republican convert John B. Connally, Jr.1962 – James D. Martin, to run for the U.S. Senate from Alabama1962 – Ronald Reagan of California, while an actor and former Screen Actors Guild president [43]1962 – Floyd Spence, while a South Carolina state Representative; ran for the House of Representatives as a Republican and lost, later elected to the state senate before making a successful run for the House1964 – Strom Thurmond, while U.S. senator from South Carolina switched to the Republican party on September 16, 1964.[2]1964 – Howard Callaway, in order to run successfully as U.S. Representative from Georgia.1965 – Albert Watson, while U.S. Representative from South Carolina (resigned before switching parties and re-won his seat in a special election)1965 – Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, while running for Philadelphia District Attorney; in 2009, he switched back to Democrat [44].1965 – Roderick Miller (LA) after unsuccessfully run for judgeship in 19641966 – Thomas A. Wofford, before write-in campaign for State Senator from South Carolina1966 – Len E. Blaylock, to support Winthrop Rockefeller for Governor of Arkansas1966 – Jerry Thomasson of Arkansas, switched from Democrat to Republican while an state Representative to run for Attorney General of Arkansas1966 – Henry Grover of Texas, switched from Democrat to Republican while a state Representative before successfully running for Texas Senate.1967 – William E. Dannemeyer, while serving as a superior court judge before returning to the California State Assembly1967 – Allison Kolb of Louisiana, while seeking a political comeback running unsuccessfully for state Treasurer, lost 1956 Democratic primary for state auditor1968 – William Reynolds Archer, Jr., while a member of the Texas House of Representatives1968 – Will Wilson, former Texas Attorney General switched to support Richard M. Nixon in the 1968 presidential election1968 – Comptroller General of Georgia James L. Bentley switched to Republican.
[edit] 1970s
1970 – Jesse Helms, two years before running for the U.S. Senate from North Carolina1970 – A. C. Clemons, while serving in the Louisiana Senate1970 – William Oswald Mills, before running for U.S. Representative from Maryland1970 – Bob Barr, was U.S. Representative from Georgia from 1995-2003.1971 – Tillie K. Fowler1972 – Robert R. Neall, before serving in the Maryland House of Delegates. He switched back to Democrat in 19991972 – Trent Lott, prior to running for the House of Representatives from Mississippi. He was administrative assistant to Rules Committee chairman William Colmer, who endorsed Lott as his successor despite Lott’s party switch.1973 – Mills E. Godwin Jr., Democratic governor of Virginia from 1966 to 1970, moved to the Republican Party and was reelected, serving as governor again from 1974 to 1978.1973 – Michele Bachmann, US Representative from Minnesota. She switched parties in her senior year of college1973 – Samuel I. Hayakawa, three years before running for the U.S. Senate from California1973 – John Connally, not then in office; six years before he sought the Republican presidential nomination1975 – Elizabeth Dole, while employed by the Federal Trade Commission1975 – John Jarman, while U.S. Representative from Oklahoma. He had served for 24 years in the House and said he was fed up with the Democratic party, which had been “taken over by liberals”. He retired in 1976.1977 – A. J. McNamara, while serving in the Louisiana House1977 – Lane Carson while serving in the Louisiana House1978 – Robert G. Jones, after leaving the Louisiana Senate1978 – Chris Smith, managed the unsuccessful 1976 New Jersey Senate primary campaign of Democrat, Steve Foley, switch parties to run for U.S. Rep. in 1978 (lost)/ran again 1980 (Won) still holds office [45].late 1970s – Thomas Bliley, after being Mayor of Richmond, Virginia, and before election to U.S. House of Representativeslate 1970s – Michael F. “Mike” Thompson, while serving in the Louisiana House1979 – Charles Grisbaum, Jr., member of the Louisiana House from Jefferson Parish1979 – Ed Scogin, member of the Louisiana House from St. Tammany Parish

Remember WAAAAAY back in 1864 when Utah and Wyoming gave women the right to vote and the federal government suceeded in taking that way?    Then women had to wait until 1920 to be able to vote.

“WHITE INTERLOPER”
Jewish “DIAMOND MERCHANTS”
“KILL THE JEW” - (out-of-work, rent-a-mob, government-dependent) supporters from Tawana’s Crown Heights Riot
- all courtesy of NBC’s newest host – TAWANA!

The biggest RACISTS in the country today are Democratic, White-Hating Black Racists.
Take a look at the Black Caucus – they use “Tea Party” as Codeword for “WHITES”!

Go to your bathroom. Look in the mirror and see the true face of stupidity.

How’s your campaign for Grand Wizard coming along?  

I do not see Sharpton as an unbiased pundit to host a show.  I see this as a mistake by MSNBC.  Sharpton would want to bring back the days of racial hatred and total divide between the races.  America is not going backwards.  We have bigger problems these days.  If Sharpton wants to be legitimate he needs to address the problems of today.  We are not returning to pre-1960, but that is the area Sharpton made his name from.  So he wants to bring it back so he can yell racisim.  Sharpton would need to be a host directing his attentions at today’s problems and not harken back to the days when he made a name for himself.  I still remember his fiasco in the Tawana Brawley case.  He sees racists behind every tree and could end up sending people to the most extreme of our population by thinking he speaks  for black people.  I doubt his show will be around for long.  Don’t know what the liberal channel will dig up next.  MSNBC should find people like Rachel Maddow.  At least her facts are correct, even if delivered from a liberal point of view.

It takes you 5 seconds to figure that out?

You didn’t like the truth?  You want Al’s version?  Go for it.

Let me be clear – what the hell are you talking about?

I am assuming you oppose all of the states that have a minimum wage that is higher than the federal one?

Do you have any clue at how primitive your obsession with tribal race-identity is?
It’s 5th Century Evolution – as well, no doubt, the BASE of the Democratic Party.

So, you see, we won’t be defeating Democrats next year just for the country, but for the evolution of the human race!

(You must be a Democrat, so it’ll probably be difficult to grasp.)

seeing as you like bringing up the past how about black churches being bombed, murder, white only restaurants, etc. Wait that’s the “real” America you want back.

Jesus, FedUp.  That’s a lot to read and digest.  But I did anyway, and frankly, I didn’t see anything in what these men wrote that argued against my claim.  In fact, I took most of it as supporting it.  

Ben Franklin, whom you quoted, sums it up nicely:  “I am naturally very jealous for the rights and liberties of my country, and the least encroachment of those invaluable privileges is apt to make my blood boil.”

That doesn’t sound like federalism to me.

So the KKK,Aryan brotherhood,The Order,AmericanNazi party and others are Black organizations and all those death threats that President Obama receives happen to come from Blacks.So most Blacks who have been lynched in the US have been lynched by blacks as well.Do you see how assinine your statement is:Not all Blacks are racist but most racist are Black.Assinine!
 

You “assume” a lot.  First of all, I am an independent and secondly I never said racism does not exist, just like sexism, it will always exist. You will just have to learn to live with it. 

There isn’t any such thing as “reverse racism”, racism is racism, but people like Sharpton like to stretch the definition of racism to include anyone who disagrees with him and anyone in the black community. 

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, racism can be practiced by all races:

“racism ~ discrimination against, or hostility towards other races”

Everything you mentioned, affirmative action programs and gerrymandering congressional districts, have been done by the Democrats at the behest of the NAACP and the ACLU and when they don’t get their way they resort to rioting and boycotts.

As you said, this is the 21st century, slavery has been over for 150 years, all the slave owners and slaves are dead, get over it. Everyone needs to take responsibility for their own lives and stop blaming their failures on other people no matter what race they belong to.

Al Sharpton-DemoKKKrat!

Maybe I misunderstood the intent of your post…

“Sometimes the folks in certain states have a hard time understanding that concept.  So the federal government has to re-educate them. What’s wrong with that?”

What I see in the current environment is an ever encroaching Federal government and bureaucracy, so when you talk about ” re-educate” I must have gotten the wrong idea.  Especially since there is such a tendency these days to confuse entitlements with human rights and civil rights. I agree with your assertion that liberty was the over-riding foundation for our Declaration of Independence as well as our constitution.  I also think that our modern government has done much that our founders warned that should never be done..  LOL that is just a sampling of their warnings.

UM!
 Yeah, I guess you could say that, but I might have phrased it a little differently .

You know I find you to be a very facinating individual. I would really like to know more about you. I want to have a deeper understanding of your thoughts and how your opinions were formed. So here goes… Are you embarrased by being so stupid and so proud of it? Do you speak this way when other people are around or do you just show your ignorance under the anonimity the web provides you? Do you have kids? Do they still speak to you? How many times have you been divorced? Do you have a job or are you a retired old coot with nothing else to do but to spew hatred and stupidity on a daily basis? At what grade level did you drop out or high school? Did you flunk government class? How many guns do you own? Would you shoot someone who didn’t believe the way you do? How many people of color do you actually know and speak to on a regular basis? Do you just have basic cable? How many times have you received unemployment benefits? Please get back to me right away with your answers and no glib one line remarks. I know these questions are tough but I am sure you can answer them if you put a little thought into it… Oh, yea thinking. I’m sorry I really can’t ask you to do something your unable to do.

You are so eloquent, Norbert and your altruism is just down right overwhelming. You can rationalize anything. Please give me your reasoning as to why Germany was right in its extermination of the Jews? I got to hand it to you. You are certainly the thought leader when it comes to  racism in the 21st century. Your mantra is deny it obssesively, accuse the oppressed with being racists, declare yourself the victim, stand above it as beig enlightened, subtly legislate it back into law, cry foul every day and declare states rights are really about states rights. I know your program you piece racist, Santorum. You will always be a victim – to yourself.

I wrote this further down the thread but I wanted t make sure you had the cance to read it… You are so eloquent, Norbert and your altruism is just down right overwhelming. You can rationalize anything. Please give me your reasoning as to why Germany was right in its extermination of the Jews? I got to hand it to you. You are certainly the thought leader when it comes to  racism in the 21st century. Your mantra is deny it obssesively, accuse the oppressed with being racists, declare yourself the victim, stand above it as beig enlightened, subtley legislate it back into law, cry foul every day and declare states rights are really about states rights. I know your program you racist piece of Santorum. You will always be a victim – to yourself.

Yeah, child- the federal govt. has to educate us! LMAO

Poor little baggers upset that their bs is being called out.

Sharpton is a lying black racist pig.
….and that’s all I have to say at this time.

“What I see in the current environment is an ever encroaching Federal government and bureaucracy”.

I don’t fear government, FedUp.  I fear corporate and political corruption in government.  I see this corruption, practiced by Republicans and Democrats alike, as the biggest threat to our country.  That’s how I see it.

I don’t fear government, FedUp.  I fear corporate and political corruption in government.  I see this corruption, practiced by Republicans and Democrats alike, as the biggest threat to our country.  That’s how I see it. You and I agree more than you know but the current direction our government is taking does not solve that problem, IMO it is hurting the middle and lower classes more than it is helping… I too are fed-up with what the corporations, banks, and wall street are doing, but an ever growing government is not the solution to these problems…  if the course of government is not changed we will see an even greater contraction in our economy.  That’s just my 2 cents. 

No, I have noticed people who uphold States rights denying civil rights to other. What State do you live in?

That’s good to hear. 

LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights of 1965 and the Fair Housing Act of 1966. Ronald Reagan opposed all three of those measures.

Which one was a Democrat, and which one was Republican?

–Cobra

I don’t fear government, FedUp.  I fear corporate and political
corruption in government.  I see this corruption, practiced by
Republicans and Democrats alike, as the biggest threat to our country. 
That’s how I see it.

Agreed. There are some great quotes in there but we must remember that the founders could not envision  a society as it is today.

Why were Reagan, Bush Sr. and Barry Goldwater against BOTH of them?

–Cobra

Was slavery a federal work program or a private property manifestation?

–Cobra

Really appreciate the quotes. Good food for thought.
I like the Franklin one that contained

I think the best way of doing
good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it

That’s why I favor workfare rather than welfare. If the goal is to lead or drive them out of it, that requires some place for them to go. For me that means jobs that provide a living wage.

Why were Black people (and women) denied voting rights in the first place?

–Cobra

This clown, Sharpton, advocates for a National government. The very thing our founding fathers were dead-set against. The Constitution is a contract between the States and a Federal government giving the Federal government only those rights the States deemed necessary. All other rights belong to the States or the people.
A National government is the buffoonery prevalent in the Obimbo-Progressive movement.  

Were you laughing your ass off when President Eisenhower sent in the National Guard to escort that little black girl to school that morning so you redneck apes wouldn’t beat her up?  Were you laughing then?

Oh, you can’t reply to a reply?
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@Liars,@6febaaa368288bf9c11907f7ec6c20c9:disqus 
We just passed another tree…what do You think is behind that one?

LOL!

And I, this:

@Liars,@undefined:disqus We just passed another tree…what do You think is behind that one?LOL!

That’s as dysfunctional as the New Black Panthers calling for the slaughter of white babies…the problem is that what you referenced was another world, what I referenced is TODAY!

“I too am fed-up with what the corporations, banks, and wall street are doing, but an ever growing government is not the solution to these problems… ”

Then what is the solution?   

Then what is the solution?

Flatten the tax codes, get rid of the loopholes, write tax laws the de-incentivise the gambling of Wall Street, means test for social securty….  all the things that we have been hearing…  Stop using regulatory powers to enact laws that congress would not pass…  get off this green economy crap it is not working…  Create an regulatory and tax structure environment that welcomes business investment, but not corporate greed….  Stop trying to buy votes with NRLB,  Stop choosing not to enforce existing federal law…  rebuild confidence in the country, stop sending the message that we are so far behind asian countries that we will never catch up…  Stop letting special interest groups destroy our educational systems..  send people to congress who will do the freaking work of the people… 

Pay a little attention to the constitution, it has never let us down before, but once trashed it will be gone forever… and we are doing a great job of trashing it…  if you don’t think so read it and read the thoughts of the founders who wrote it. 

I am no fan of the banking industry, or the large corporate fat cats… Our president pretty much is, he is much more friendly with these people than you would think, in the mean time he is destroying small and medium sized businesses with policy, regulation, and labor rulings…  you may not believe this but he is and I just don’t know where he thinks it will all lead to.  The green economy is not going to happen, for one thing our economy can not afford to make the transition as we are pretty much on life support already, and significantly higher energy and production costs will further suppress what little that is happening now in the economy.

Are you truly that ignorant?  You call that proof?  That has absolutely nothing to do with the Tea Party.   Some fool posts a video of racist signs that have nothing to do with the tea party – calls them teabaggers and you bought it?  

Are you freaking insane?   You would buy any bull shit.  The sign about Jews and Obama didn’t give you a heads up?????

That’s a good thing cause I’m not gay thanks.  I don’t know any tea baggers – perhaps you do.

Wrong answer.

A Republican sends in the National Guard, to protect a Black child.  I don’t think I was alive then – so not doing a lot of laughing.  Could be wrong…..

The Eisenhower administration declared racial discrimination a national security issue, meaning that the Communists around the world were using racial discrimination in the U.S. as a point of propaganda attack.[66] The day after the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in Brown v. Board of Education in which segregated (“separate but equal”) schools were ruled to be unconstitutional, Eisenhower told District of Columbia officials to make Washington a model for the rest of the country in integrating black and white public school children.[67][68] He proposed to Congress the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960 and signed those acts into law. T

You and others like you need to get a life. 

The Rev. Al is nothing more than a loud mouth racist, furthermore, when speaking, the illiterate fool is totally incomprehensible.   Either PMSNBC needs to caption his words or provide a live interpreter for us non Ebonics speakers.

Uh, that would be after republicans got the law passed, the democrats tried but failed to vote it down.  Al Gore’s pappy and Slick Willy’s mentor and hero Senator Fulbright fought it to the bitter end.

And just to refresh memories, in the civil war hundreds of thousands of  American (republicans) military members died in combat, and they were all killed by a democRAT.

Speaking of gays, Odumbo’s personal body man and valet is one Richie Love, how appropriate that name is for his job with Odumbo.

Even teleprompters, but of course neither does Obama the smartest (HA) man in the room./s

Al sharton is like his racist mentor Maxine Waters who said the (old White) Tea Party (people) can go straight to hell.
Waters and other Black democrats have been saying all along the Tea Party are just a bunch of old White people. Now we know how she and they really feel about old White people, they can just go straight to hell.

The civil rights push that was begun by Ike?  The one that LBJ famously commented on “We’ll have those n*****s voting Democrat for the next 100 years if we push this through”?  You mean that LBJ?

The New Deal and Great Society can only be considered progress if you’re in favor of the state running everything into the ground. Our current debt crisis and 100% of our unfunded liabilities are a result of programs instituted under FDR and LBJ.

The states that used the 10th amendment to justify segregation were all run and represented by Democrats at the time. The Civil Rights Act could have been passed nearly a decade earlier (1957) when it was being championed by President Eisenhower but it was stopped by a Senator Lyndon Johnson. I wonder if that was the same Lyndon Johnson who vetoed it as President when it first passed congress and landed on his desk. /sarc

What a completely irrelevant hack piece you’ve slapped together all to justify the ravings of a loon, Mr. Christopher. Does anyone actually believe that conservative states will revert to segregation, slavery and lynchings? Or is this vile rhetoric intended solely to scare black Americans who might consider voting against Obama based on his record of near-perfect incompetence?

Sharpton is an imbecile and a criminal. He should be getting out of jail about now for inciting the Crown Heights riots that resulted in the deaths of Gavin Cato and Yankel Rosenbaum. And he has yet to apologize for the Tawana Brawley incident.

He’s a joke.

He’ll fit right in at MSNBC.

Seems to most clear thinking people that it’s the left and Democrats who see racism in every thing.  You say many whites hate blacks and Hispanics.  IF that is true, do you think it could have anything to do with the constant whining and crying over how bad things are for them…NOT because of their own shortcomings, but because the white man won’t let them succeed?

Here is an article that shows the SHAMEFUL HATE SPEECH of the Congressional Black Caucus.

West vs. Carson — The New Civility is about to start any minute now, just as soon as folks like Andre Carson
and Maxine Waters get done throwing their temper tantrums. One of their
colleagues isn’t putting up with it, though, as TheDC’s Caroline May
reports: “In response to recent comments made by Indiana Democratic Rep. Andre Carson and California Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters that denigrate the tea party movement, Florida Republican Rep. Allen West — a
member of both the Congressional Black Caucus and the Tea Party Caucus —
sent a letter to CBC Chairman Emanuel Cleaver Wednesday requesting that
the body condemn such remarks. ‘As Chairman of the CBC, I believe it is
incumbent on you to both condemn these types of hate-filled comments,
and to disassociate the Congressional Black Caucus from these types of
remarks. Otherwise, I will have to seriously reconsider my membership
within the organization,’ West wrote. The freshman congressman declared,
‘It is unconscionable when a fellow CBC Member, Congressman Andre
Carson, comes to South Florida
and claims that some in the Tea Party would love to see black Americans
“hanging on a tree.” It is appalling to hear another CBC colleague,
Congresswoman Maxine Waters, say “The Tea Party can go straight to
hell…”‘ West reiterated that the movement is focused on fiscal
responsibility and American exceptionalism and wrote that the the CBC
should be working to end the ‘balkanisation’ of America.” And now it’ll
be Rep. West’s fault for condemning hate speech, not his esteemed
colleagues’ fault for spewing it.

I do not see Sharpton as an unbiased pundit to host a show.

I don’t watch his show because I just don’t think he’s very good at hosting. That said, of course he’s not unbiased. It’s not a straight news show, and it’s not meant to be.

Well, you’re certainly right in suggesting that the Tea Party isn’t synonymous with “all whites” (that is what you’re suggesting, right?). It’s not, thank goodness. Of course, you’re wrong in suggesting that the CBC is using “Tea Party” as a code word for “all whites”. 

Well, you’re certainly right in suggesting that the Tea Party isn’t synonymous with “all whites” (that is what you’re suggesting, right?). It’s not, thank goodness. Of course, you’re wrong in suggesting that the CBC is using “Tea Party” as a code word for “all whites”. 

send people to congress who will do the freaking work of the people… 

I agree with a lot of what you say, especially this. IMO, if we started from a place of honest fact based discussion, and debate, rather than political games we’d be doing better. The problem is the corruption is so rampant in both parties that a few changes in office won’t get us there.

IMO, the Tea Party, though well intentioned, seemed willing to elect fools and extremists and has been used as a pawn for fake PACs funded by the Koch brothers and others. I’d be interested in actually hearing what they were thinking during the debt ceiling debate.  We need to come together and make some serious changes to campaign financing. I’m pretty uncomfortable with this whole super congress thing. When we talk of shared sacrifice I think changing the corruption in DC will require a lot from average Americans because those with the money power and influence won’t surrender it willingly.

Too many people are willing to vote for sound bytes and campaign slogans. After 8 years of the Bush horror show I hoped that Obama represented a new direction. It hasn’t turned out that way. Replacing Bush with his clone won’t make things any better. Meanwhile a reasonable man like Huntsman is mocked and ridiculed. We’re getting lip service and smoke and mirrors, and superficial pandering, while few people are talking about campaign financing , and the very real corruption of mega corporations.

There’s a CNN contributor that talks about the great majority in the middle that is busy working and living and isn’t being heard while the media likes to amplify the extreme voices and controversy. Those are the people that need to be heard , without the insults and snark which serves no good purpose.

I appreciate your input. It’s the kind of rational dialogue that’s needed.

Yup…thats the LBHJ he was referring to…

Better off huh?…maybe we ought to do a comparisson yet again of the attractiveness of the most prominant conservative women versus the most prominat liberal ones…they we can talk about who’s “better off”

“In the segment, Sharpton ticks off a laundry list of the ways that
states’ rights has been used to allow conservatives to opt out of
progress over the years, from the New Deal, to the Civil Rights
movement, the Great Society, and today’s efforts by the GOP to dismantle
Medicare, Social Security, and health care reform, and to usurp the
federal government on issues like immigration.”

What a crock of shit. None of those things are “progress”, they’re all oppression. The New Deal wasted millions of dollars and transformed us into a Socialist welfare entitlement state, the Civil Rights movement infringes on individual liberty and is racist, the Great Society has created inner city warzones and further oppressed black people, Medicare is an unfunded compulsory government-run health insurance program that I can’t opt out of paying, Social Security is a ponzi scheme that would be illegal for any American to run, Obamacare is unconstitutional and infringes on my economic freedom, and federal immigrant agency infringe on state and local powers to manage their populations.

You have to be ass backwards to call any of that “progress”. But Tommy Christopher is ass backwards, so it’s not particularly surprising.

 No it’s not another world it’s just beneath the surface people may say they aren’t racists but as long as people scapegoat minorities, poor, the sick it’s just around the corner and BTW they still have segregated proms in the South.