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White House Watermelon Patch, Nappy Hair, Big Lips, Big Black Asses, and The New York Post Racist Obama Cartoon.

What do all of these have in common. As you look down through

history, racists have always made fun of and exaggerated the

physical differences of people of African decent as inferior.

From slavery, when we were considered three-fifths of a man,

until today, our intelligence and intellectual ability are always

in doubt and our physical and athletic prowess is attributed

to our supposed slower or lower evolutionary development

and our obsessive sex drive.

 

Many white racists believed in the past and do so now, that

the white man is on a higher evolutionary scale, otherwise,

they postulate, how can you explain, the reason why so many 

black teens tend to score lower than whites on standardized

tests like the SAT’s. They never consider the disparity in

school and teacher quality and the amount of money spend

to educate an inner city black child compared to that of his

white suburban counter part.

 

By the way,  Asians are outscoring whites today by as much as 25%,

but that's not talked about.

 

So to have the most powerful man in the free world,

the President Of The United States be of  African decent,

highly educated, who speaks the kings english better than

the king, is counter to their whole false belief system.

 

Take a look and you don’t see much difference in the racists cartoons

of the past and the New York Post recent cartoon.

 

 

 

 

 

New York Post 2009

 

As for today on the internet, words like nappy hair, big lips,

big black asses are typed in hundreds of thousands times a month.

As much as some things have changed in America when it comes

to race relations, a lot hasn’t.  Hypocrites like Pat Buchannan,

who claim to be offended and upset because newly appointed Attorney

General Eric Holder calls Americans cowards when it comes to

race relations, need to stop the false pretense, they are only 

fooling themselves.

 

 

Below Is More Of The Racism That We Are Seeing Starting

To Surface Since President Obama Has Taken Office.

Fortunately It Is Far Less Tolerated And Condoned By

The Majority Of Whites, Than 25 Years Ago.

 

 

Monkeys, watermelons and......

Black People!!!!

By

Mary Mitchell

 

 

U.S. Attorney Eric Holder stepped on some toes when he said we need to talk more. But he was absolutely right.

Within short span, we have two examples of racial ignorance----one from the nation's largest city and another from a city that is only 2-1/4 square miles.

Let's start with the mayor of Los Alamitos, CA., a tiny town in Orange County. Mayor Dean Grose was forced to apologize after it was reported he sent an e-mail out to colleagues and business people--including a black woman who serves on a committee with the mayor--that depicts the White House lawn planted with watermelons.

I'm not sure how Grose expected people to respond, but African Americans don't find watermelon jokes funny. All you have to do is research racial stereotypes to understand why. The smiling "darkey" eating watermelon was a popular image during America's racist past, and was the one of the stereotypes used by Obama-haters during the presidential campaign .

Grose claims he was "unaware of the stereotype that black people like watermelon," and didn't mean to "offend" African Americans. But you don't have to be from a small town to be ignorant about offensive stereotypes.

New York Post owner Rupert Murdoch was forced to give a rare apology after a racially offensive political cartoon sparked daily protests outside the newspaper's offices. The cartoon depicted two New York cops shooting a chimpanzee. The cartoonist linked the rampage of a chimp that tore off a woman's face to the creation of the stimulus package.

Murdoch and the cartoonist both claimed not to know the monkey has long been used as to disparage the intellect and humanity of African-Americans.

Just about any black person on the street could have told these white males they were about to set off a firestorm.

Is Jesus Black? Some Times Humor Can Bring Home A Point Much Better Than Angry Conversation

Daily Show comedian Larry Wilmore reads an excerpt from his book, I'd Rather We Got Casinos, on the likelihood of Jesus being Black.

Larry Wilmore talks about I'd Rather We Got Casinos: And Other Black Thoughts. Senior correspondent to The Daily Show, Wilmore presents his hilarious and edgy musings, revelations, and ruminations on race, and what he calls his Black Thoughts.

Larry Wilmore started his career as an actor and stand-up comic before transitioning to television writing and producing in the early 90's. He's written for shows such as In Living Color, The Fresh Prince of Bel Air and The Jamie Foxx Show. He co-created the animated show The PJs with Eddie Murphy and a few years later created "The Bernie Mac Show" starring Bernie Mac. Most recently he was a consulting producer on NBC's "The Office." "The Daily Show" has marked a return to performing for Wilmore and he is currently developing a sitcom for himself at HBO. He also wrote his first book entitled I'd Rather We Got Casinos and Other Black Thoughts from Hyperion Books. Wilmore has been nominated and received numerous awards including an Emmy, a Peabody, Humanitas, TV Critics and NAACP Image Award.

Black Organ Donors Needed In A Hurry!!!

I personally watched a close relative in need or a kidney

transplant  slowly start to wither away as she waited for

over  4 years for her  name to be called from the two

kidney transplant lists that she was on. The dialysis was

taking its toll. Fortunately she was lucky to get a kidney

before it was to late. But there are so many others who die

every day waiting.

 

Five year old Jasmina, has leukemia and needs a bone marrow transplant. Please take the time to watch this video, visit http://oneforjasmina.com, join the bone marrow registry if eligible, upload the "Pass the Pod" link to your Facebook and MySpace pages, blog or website, and send this link to everyone you know. Jasmina's story was on the cover of PeopleMagazine.com on 2/7. The headline read "Rihanna helps 5 year old fan find a bone marrow donor." You can help too. Thank you.

Black Organ Doners Are Hard To Find

Dr. Dorian Wilson spent a lot of time with physicians as a child — in the emergency room of Jersey City Medical Center. An overactive boy, he often found himself in the ER nursing a broken limb or waiting for stitches.

It was during those visits that he became interested in a medical career, even though as a youth he never believed he’d make it through college, much less become a doctor. “I didn’t think when I was growing up in Jersey City throwing rocks off the 440 bridge that I would be walking in the shoes I am today,” he said.

Not only did Wilson become a doctor and a surgeon, he became a liver transplant specialist at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. He is a Dartmouth graduate with a medical degree from UMDNJ. He is also one of only 19 African-Americans in the nation who are transplant surgeons.

Several weeks ago, 18 members of this elite group met at UMDNJ to discuss their work, encourage minorities to pursue careers in health care and talk about the importance of becoming an organ donor. They were honored by the New Jersey Sharing Network, which brought the doctors together to highlight the importance of organ donation.

Finding African-American organ donors is a critical problem. Nationwide, blacks make up more than 30 percent of all organ donor recipients but only 20 percent of all donors (15 percent in New Jersey). “They have one of the highest needs for transplants but one of the lowest percentage of donors,” said Joseph Roth, president and CEO of the Sharing Network, an organ and tissues service that matches donors to patients. Roth said that only 34 percent of eligible blacks in New Jersey consented to donate their organs, as opposed to 63 percent of eligible whites and 59 percent of eligible Hispanics.

High-profile response Organ donation became headline news when former New Jersey Nets center Alonzo Mourning announced he was retiring from basketball because he needed a kidney transplant. Mourning suffered from focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, a disease that affects the ability of the kidney to remove toxins from blood. Mourning’s plight prompted dozens of fans to offer up their kidneys.

He received a transplant in December from a relative. Race can be an important factor in matching organs, especially for kidneys, Wilson said. Kidneys are the most transplanted organ, and African-Americans like Mourning comprise a third of kidney transplant patients. They also have to wait the longest for an organ.

Blood type is the biggest factor in matching organs, and certain blood types are more common among African-Americans than whites, said Bill Reitsma, director of clinical services for the Sharing Network. For example, only 11 percent of whites have Type B blood, as opposed to 20 percent of African-Americans.

Because there are so few African-American donors, blacks waiting for organs have to wait longer for a match because there are fewer willing donors whose blood type matches theirs. “It compounds their waiting time,” Reitsma said. Nationwide, more than 80,000 are waiting for an organ transplant, half of them minorities. About 17 die each day waiting for an organ.

The disparity between African-American and white organ donation is rooted in the historical distrust of the medical establishment by African-Americans and the disparity in health care between minorities and whites, doctors say. Dr. Devon John, a black surgeon at New York University Medical Center who specializes in transplanting the pancreas, blames the mystique surrounding the process of organ donation.

Many minorities fear that they won’t get the best health care if they sign an organ donor card, or physicians won’t revive them if they are ill because they want their organs, he said. “There’s certainly a lot of distrust and misconception within the African-American community,” John said. A lot of that wariness is the result of the history of discrimination in health care.

In 1932, the U.S. Department of Public Health began the Tuskegee experiment. For 40 years, doctors withheld treatment from more than 600 African-American men suffering from syphilis to study the long-term effects of the disease. Cultural awareness Doctors also say the lack of diversity in the medical field feeds mistrust.

African-Americans make up only 3.75 percent of all doctors in the United States, according to the National Medical Association, an African-American doctor’s group. That figure has not changed in nearly two decades, and many doctors of all races don’t learn how to deal with people from different cultures, John said. “(Doctors) need to be more culturally competent,” said Dr. Charles Modlin Jr., an African-American transplant surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. “There’s a reason for this distrust in the African-American community.”

The overwhelmingly white medical field is also a difficult terrain for black medical students to navigate, the doctors said. Many of the African-American surgeons at the meeting said they believe that the way to help black patients is to combine the appeal for donors with education about living healthy lives and getting regular examinations from doctors.

Blacks are nearly twice as likely as whites to suffer from diabetes and hypertension, which can lead to the need for an organ transplant if not properly treated. Blacks make up 40 percent of all cases of renal failure in the United States, the leading cause of kidney transplants, but in 2003 received only about 20 percent of all available kidneys, while whites received 64 percent. Whites are also more likely to get a kidney from a living donor or a relative. Hispanics received about 12 percent.

“Our patients often don’t link up with a primary care physician” to get proper preventive care, said Dr. David Kountz, an associate professor and general practitioner at UMDNJ. Internists can spot the need for a transplant early and find a donor, he said. His father, Dr. Samuel Lee Kountz, was the first African-American transplant surgeon.

Wilson said it is important for everyone to let family members know their wishes about organ donation. This will make it easier for them to choose whether to donate a loved one’s organ if that time ever comes.

“This is a terribly, terribly important responsibility,” Wilson said. “This is a responsibility we all share regardless of your age, the color of your skin or the place where you were born.”

Is Disney's "Princess And The Frog" Film Racist?

Other than Fat Albert, can you name any other Black cartoon character? When you think of cartoon animation, Disney Productions is thought of as the world's best in overall quality. When my kids were little I'd rent Disney DVD's as a form of good, somewhat educational entertainment. But Disney has never had a Black leading character until now. 

I call this another positive example of the Obama effect, waking corporations up to the need for diversity in their product appeal  and finally coming to terms with the fact that most of the world is comprised of people of color. But when you fail to have Black people and other minorities involved in the creative process, sometimes this attempt at cross over appeal can back fire, especially when those bias tendencies and preferences remain in place.

 

Disney in a fix for mixing it up in black princess tale

by JO STEELE

 

Disney probably thought it would be applauded for starring its first black princess in its latest fairy tale.

But its choice of supporting hero has created quite a stir on the internet - her dashing man is white.

Prince Naveen of Maldonia, voiced by Brazilian actor Bruno Campos, is meant to be of Middle Eastern heritage but bloggers say he simply looks white.

Disney has missed a chance to give a black couple the happily ever after treatment in upcoming film The Princess And The Frog, said others.

'It's saying that black love isn't good enough and that black men could never be princes,' said one woman. 'Disney had the perfect chance to make its first black prince but instead it decided to go the controversial route.'

Some complained the evil voodoo villain - who turns the prince into a frog - is black and voiced by a black actor.

Disney defended its choice, saying it wanted a multi-cultural cast featuring a 'prince from a far-away land'. It added: 'Many high-profile leaders from the African American community have applauded our efforts on this film.'

The film also became embroiled in a race row in July after it emerged Disney had wanted the heroine to be a chambermaid working for a spoilt white débutante in 1920s New Orleans.

It sparked a backlash from critics who felt it reinforced prejudice and demeaned black people.

The Princess and the Frog is due out in cinemas in February next year.

Watch the teaser trailer below:

Is Disney insensitive by not pairing a Black Cinderella with a Black Prince or is this another example of Black people over reacting? How do you think people would react if it had been a white Cinderella with a black prince? What do you think?

Pioneer Black historian John Hope Franklin gave meaning to the past and refused to yield to the bias of his time

The renowned historian died Wednesday at the age 94.

March 26, 2009

BY MARY MITCHELL Sun-Times Columnist

 

 

The "Africana" -- an encyclopedia of African and African-American culture -- credits John Hope Franklin with establishing African-American history as a "respected academic discipline."

While others were marching and protesting, Franklin was involved in a different kind of agitation.

He was compiling the scholarship needed to tell the African-American story.

The renowned historian died Wednesday at the age 94.

Of his many books, it is From Slavery to Freedom: A History of American Negroes that I have returned to most often during my career.

Unfortunately, during the '60s, '70s, and even the '80s, it was still possible to live and to be schooled in a predominantly black environment and not know that scholars like Franklin existed.

I didn't encounter Franklin's work until 1990, when I took a course that was being taught by Professor Glennon Graham at Columbia College Chicago.

President Bill Clinton introduced Franklin to the nation in 1997, when he asked him to chair a seven-member panel to tackle the thorny issue of racial strife in America.

At the time, Franklin was 82 years old.

When I am under attack for pointing out the racial inequities that still exist in this country, a well-known Franklin quote often comes to mind:

"If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past," he said.

Broke color barrier in '56

John Hope Franklin was born to a lawyer and a schoolteacher in the all-black Oklahoma town known as Rentiesville in 1915.

When he was 11 years old, his family moved to Tulsa, Okla. He received his B.A. from Fisk University in Nashville and earned a doctorate from Harvard University.

Franklin spent the early part of his academic career teaching at historically black colleges.

But in 1956, he broke a color barrier when he became the chairman of the all-white history department at Brooklyn College.

The appointment was not necessarily an indication that times were a-changing.

Despite his credentials, Franklin was repeatedly refused service by real estate agents in New York, and banks would not lend him the money to buy a house in a "white neighborhood."

Nearly 30 years later, when Franklin was in New York City to receive a prestigious honor, he and his wife were unable to hail a taxi.

Ten years after that, while Franklin was hosting a party at a Washington social club to celebrate receiving the presidential Medal of Freedom, a white woman mistakenly took him for a coatroom attendant.

"He politely told the woman that any of the uniformed attendants would be happy to assist her," according to an Associated Press obituary.

100 honorary degrees

Franklin had witnessed blatant racism in his parents' lives as well. Once, his mother, Mollie, was kicked off a train because she refused to obey the Jim Crow seating rules.

Without a doubt, the racism that some complain about today is nothing compared with what people of Franklin's generation faced.

Indeed, there is a valuable lesson that can be taken from Franklin's life:

He did not allow the bias of his time to determine his future.

Franklin's intellect could have been smothered underneath the weight of discrimination.

But like other African Americans who managed to obtain greatness against great odds, Franklin focused on a higher goal.

The higher goal was educating America about its past.

For that, Franklin has been the recipient of more than 100 honorary degrees. He has held counsel with presidents and world leaders. And he has received the nation's highest honors.

When Barack Obama became president, Franklin was one of the chosen who saw the fruits of their labors.

"It is one of the most historic, if not the most historic moment in the history of this country," Franklin told an interviewer.

As a youngster, the idea of a black president seemed so "far-fetched, so incredible that we used to really have fun just saying it," Franklin said.

We are blessed that this historian lived a life of purpose.

John Hope Franklin Speaks About The Obama Presidency And What It Means To America.

White Blue Eyed People Are To Blame Says, The President Of Brazil

The President of Brazil Blames White Blue Eyed People For The World's Financial Crisis.

Brazil's president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva blamed "white people with blue eyes" for the world economic crisis and said it was wrong that developing countries should pay for mistakes made in richer countries. President Da Silva grew up in poverty and through Brazil democratic process has been able to asend as President in a country that is over 50% Black.

What Your Opinion? Do You Think The President Of Brazil Is Corrrect?