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Did you catch last week’s episode of Washington Watch with Roland Martin on TV One? If you missed it, check out very own Smokey Fontaine talkinga bout what’s hot on the web right here!:

Tune in Sundays at 11 a.m./5 p.m. to watch the first news show ever to look at national politics through an African-American lens. Hosted by Roland Martin, the show has guests as distinguished as VP Joe Biden and covers topics ranging from the economy, healthcare, education and black on black crime.

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TEARDROP62
TEARDROP62

Female, 50, Virginia Beach, VA

Posted October 09, 2009


THE SCARY THING ABOUT RUSH LIMBAUGH IS THAT HE HAS MILLIONS OF FOLLOWERS WHO BELIEVE EVERYTHING THAT COMES OUT OF HIS MOUTH. ITS TRULY A SAD STATE OF AFFAIRS WHEN A RACIST, HATE-MONGERING LOUD MOUTH HAS THAT MUCH INFLUENCE OVER PEOPLE. ITS ALSO SAD THAT SO MANY PEOPLE ARE THAT EASILY INFLUENCED BY HATEFUL SPEECH IN THIS DAY AND AGE. RACISM IS ALIVE AND WELL IN AMERICA DESPITE US HAVING ELECTED OUR FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT.


MoorAmer
MoorAmer

Female, 45, Las Vegas, NV

Posted October 09, 2009


To "piggyback" from what you said, Teardrop," Rush has quite possibly millions of "fans" who listen to every word as if Biblical. However, these same people actually didn't need Rush as an influence. Limbaugh's followers are themselves part of a prejudice and racist movement that unfortunately has never ceased to exist in the U.S. To give ear to his political and personal views is a double-sided sword: 1. its good to know his agenda but listening gives power to his words.


ru4real8
ru4real8

Male, Age Private, Port Saint Lucie, FL

Posted October 09, 2009


The cry of reverse racism is the war cry for white supremacist recruiters like Limbaugh. We as African Americans should be vigilant in addressing events where our youth "may appear" guilty of jumping another fellow American simply because of their ethnic group though. That way we will snuff out the smoldering embers of possible racial injustice that people like a Limbaugh utilize as their tool to start the forest fires of racial tensions. We have to show we are a fair people who do not excuse bad behavior just because our ethnic group has been the perpetrator of a crime. We must show mercy and compassion for the victims of any form of violence, especially as public media. That will stamp out the remaining heat in those embers that race baiters and racist instigators like LImbaugh use to keep the fires of racial divisions and racial tensions alive in society. We can show all Americans and the world how honest US Citizens should behave as well as show all youth, regardless of their so called race, we care for the safety of ALL youth. The youth of the world need to see that adults can work and live together as civil human beings. Racism will be cold ashes in the hands of the race baiters and racist instigators who cry wolf about there being reverse racism.

Anyone studying the history of racism in America knows the TRUTH that African Americans have never collectively been about establishing the wicked kinds of racist policies against so called whites that were enforced as criminal Black Codes and Jim Crow over 200 years against us. The US Constitution forbid such practices among US Citizens, period. Nothing, including Affirmative Action, will ever come close to equating to white institutional racism and white terrorism of those centuries against many non whites. White supremacy victimized and still stigmatizes their own poor whites who may have tanner skin, curly hair, thick lips or a robust bottom. To white racists is anything that corrects those years of social, mental, educational and economic injury against African Americans is reverse racism because they hate the idea and reality of our human equality to them. So, they look for the kinds of non institutional acts of black on white crime to build their persistent delusions of reverse racism.

African Americans do NOT have any national policies that deny any US Citizen, including those calling themselves whites, their rights to life, liberty, and prosperity because of their race, religion, economic class, or gender. If we did, their accusations about reverse racism would be true, but since we do NOT have such, even in HBCU, they( the race baiters) are liars. We do not practice reverse racism. Affirmative Action was started by White Males like Pres John F Kennedy and Pres. Johnson in consistency with the LAW of the 14th Amendment. We have to articulate this in the media. The real criminals have been resisting and breaking the LAW for centuries. If they went after racists like they went after Michael Vick and others who break federal laws, we would see Civil War II because the evildoers have been stockpiling arms and weapons to resist the POWER and LAW of a JUST United States of America for all Citizens. They keep making so called Black look like the problem when the problem remains white supremacists and those who facilitate and sympathize with their evildoing.

Anyway, our goals are to help cultivate a Green Planet (Green being rooted in the existence of rich fertile Colored Earth), one with all people of all nationalities prospering in Love, Truth, and Peace by Grace and Mercy. I believe we are seeing the human family tire of the accusers. The way they cheered the failing of the US to host the Olympics and how they are disparaging President Obama after winning the Nobel Peace Prize is opening the eyes of the world to just how evil some Americans really are.

Never has such desire to see a president fail been ed for the world to see. All the good he has willed to be done for AMERICANS is jaw dropping, yet banks refuse to modify loans to help homeowners, many credit card companies refuse to stop charging fees, some even paid back the stimulus money without doing anything to help their own fellow US Citizens, all to make the President look bad. Yet, the hypocrites want to send young US Citizens to risk their lives and die in wars but banks will not cut US Citizens and their families a break. Media needs to educate the public. Things do not have to be bad. People are choosing to make it bad for others. When we start showing the public these things, they will see those fueling racial divide are facilitating the collapse of a great country where people of all backgrounds can realize life, liberty ,and prosperity.


amdevine
amdevine

Male, 56, Boston, MA

Posted October 09, 2009


ru4real8,

Well said. Let's ignore the naysayers today, and celebrate. They can sit on the other side of the window and look in at the joy we are expressing today. Somewhere deep inside, they will wish they had participated.


Go4Your_Dreams
Go4Your_...

Female, Age Private, Omaha, NE

Posted October 10, 2009


amdevine


Yes, I say, let's not only continue to celebrate but let's invite any naysayers who are tired of "naying" and being around others who find it easier to fan those old flames rather than igniting ones that our country needs especially now to rise up together. We need to tell them that the Civil War is over, to get over it, and that we are now the "United States of America".


MRSHurst1925
MRSHurst...

Female, Age Private, Grand Rapids, MI

Posted October 10, 2009


What university did Rush Limbaugh go to? He sound just plain ignorant most of the time. And it is terribly sad that he have a lot of followers some in white sheets and some are not. Be careful my people, black fist in the air.



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