Okay, all the hatin' over the BET Awards show is really getting silly. Don't like BET? Then work on changing the culture FIRST. If you can change the culture, you will decrease demand for what you feel misrepresents Black folks. Do it the other way around, and more "BETs" will pop up. Need an example? Some of y'all may remember back in the day when local churches would stage protests in front of local porn shops. Did they manage to get a few of them shut down? Sure did. But how did the porn industry respond to meet demand? They moved ...
I think many of us knew that it would not take long for folks to suddenly act as if they have been ardent Michael Jackson supporters for years. Jackson was hammered repeatedly by critics for allegedly being ashamed of being Black due to all the plastic surgery and the mysterious lightening of his skin. Black folks slammed him on this and White folks were given full and complete license to also question his racial identity and joke about it. Then I remember what Jamie Foxx said the other day at the BET Awards show: "Michael Jackson was a black ...
I think a lot of us saw that coming from a mile away. From AdAge.com RushmoreDrive.com, the first black search engine, recently shut down only a year after its launch. This raised the question about whether there is a market for a black version of Google. Rushmore Drive was the brainchild of Barry Diller's IAC, which just reported a "first-quarter net loss of $28.4 million compared to a profit of $52.8 million in the same quarter a year ago." Too bad. Rushmore's failure is not only another negative statistic from the fallout of the economic downturn, but also from questionable planning. (more...) Kevin Walker, ...
From townhall.com "Frank Lombard is the associate director of Duke’s Center for Health Policy. The university administrator was recently arrested by the FBI and charged with offering up his adopted 5-year-old son for sex. I tried to contact Frank Lombard over the weekend to probe his expertise regarding the health benefits of raping small children. So far, he’s declined to comment. University administrator Lombard is accused of logging on to a chat room online and describing himself as a “perv dad for fun.” The detective who wisely looked into the suspicious screen name says that Lombard admitted to molesting his own adopted ...
Ever since the uprising in Iran over their recent elections, Americans have been somewhat mixed over if President Obama should move beyond his rather light and empty rhetoric over the situation. Some have insisted that the cry for democracy in Iran is none of our business and that the US should stop "meddling" in the affairs of another country, like Bush did. Apparently Somalia wasn't included in that memo. U.S. Has Sent 40 Tons of Munitions to Aid Somali Government washingtonpost.com The U.S. government has provided about 40 tons of weapons and ammunition to shore up the besieged government of Somalia in the past ...
For all of my ‘24′ fans out there, this was just an observation. If you want to get an idea of what happens to a nation at war under a president who was elected for other reasons besides experience, watch this show (specifically, the first two episodes for this season)
January 16th, 2007 at 7:14 pm
There is no way anyone can have experience to be president of the U.S. unless they have already served a term as president of the U.S., and even then they still may not be prepared.
In other words, I think the “experience” factor for President of the United States is a canard.
I’m serious.
January 16th, 2007 at 8:28 pm
What sort of experience would a potential president need in order to be considered qualified?
America is a place for new ideas and new people – Obama is exactly right !
January 16th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
Here is where relativism come into play.
So when you two gentlemen were hired with your present employer, is it safe for me to assume that you were hired based on how well you spoke alone? 99% of the talk that I hear regarding Obama has to do with how well he communicates. Anytime I ask what he has actually done to seriously be considered for the presidency, I get nothing but the sound of crickets.
While I am not a Democrat, I can at least appreciate the fact that the last two Democratic presidents had experience on a governorship level along with the experience of working within DC politics. Looking at Obama’s record, uhh…brotha has yet to author a single bill AND he is still a freshman senator. Sorry, but Obama is a media construct. To me, he is a Black John Edwards.
If he is gonna tell a reporter that he is putting her on notice for talking about his ears (because he used to be teased about that in his childhood) and wants to lead a nation during wartime…you can fill in the rest.
DS, you can’t be defending this guy
. You gonna run out of room fast, man.
January 17th, 2007 at 11:34 am
Call me crazy but I want my president to have a stellar resume. I would be willing to elect him mayor or possibly governor but not president.
January 17th, 2007 at 8:07 pm
I’m not defending him. I don’t know squat about him.
Pres. Bush had governing experience but people like Bob Novak have said that his team has been inept in the legislative process. Bush has signed laws that, in his own “signing statement” he said he tought it was unconstitutional. Then there is the idea of the “signing statement” itself. If I remember correctly, Bush bragged he hadn’t been overseas and had to get a crash course from Condi Rice, who, for good reason, had learned alot about Russia and Europe. And the creation of Homeland Security…. Even I knew that was a horrible idea. But his supporters said Bush was qualified.
Now look at the Middle East. Who would have experience in that region? In my view, if you don’t have experience there, then chances are you are not going to be a good president.
You are right, Obama IS a media construct of sorts.
September 25th, 2008 at 11:19 am
I really don’t know how people can still be undecided as to who to vote for. A man who served his country and almost died doing it 40 years ago, who has been in D.C. over 20 years and made no significant changes for the good of all Americans (only the wealthy), graduated from the Naval Academy second to last out of his class, low family values, computer challenged, with a vice who has NO D.C. political experience or foreign national experice, low family values. OR do you vote for a man who graduated top of his Harvard class, the highest family values, the deepest love and care for this country and it’s people, who represents all of us, not just a select (top 2 percent wealthy) few, with a vice who has D.C. political experience and has fought for the common American people his whole career after enduring drastic family tragedies? There is no contest here. Obama will win!!