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 ...
Some of y'all know that I have quoted former communist conspirator Manning Johnson on this site various times in the past. Well, I just got an e-mail from someone who created a website centered around this important historical figure (go to manningjohnson.org). There you will find a copy of Johnson's book "Color, Communism and Common Sense" and the audio of Johnson's last public speech. Here is just a portion of his speech. "They (NAACP) don’t spend a cent for classes in personal hygiene and sanitation, care and upkeep of property, combating crime and juvenile delinquency. They’ll point to juvenile delinquency and ...
"According to U.S. Census Bureau data, in an analysis performed by the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, African immigrants here were more likely to be college educated than any other immigrant group. Not only that, but African immigrants are also more highly educated than any other native-born ethnic group including white Americans. (Gasp) The 48.9% of all African immigrants that have earned a college degree is slightly ...More
'Memba that during the elections?
Washington, DC (BlackNews.com) - African Americans in Washington, DC, are twice as optimistic as the general U.S. population that their financial situation will improve over the next year. However, most say they don't have a financial game plan and many don't know where to start, according to a new survey commissioned by The Smiley Group and Nationwide Insurance. To help people plan for a brighter future, ...More
Turn on any nature show on television and you will hear fascinated voice of a narrator explaining how a certain species of animal or insect learns to adapt to various situations in the wild. Why, it almost seems like they really know what they are doing. AAAAAMMMMAAAAZING!
When this outlook on the animal kingdom gets projected on the Black race, I get upset to say the least.
Days after Obama's victory in ...More
I was reminded again about yesterday's post on how experienced teachers tend to avoid schools with heavy Black populations when I came across the following article.
First-year teachers work in schools with high numbers of low-income students
And as we all know, schools located in low-income areas tend to deal with behavior issues more than schools not located in these areas. This is the open secret very few will ever acknowledge.
Like anybody ...More
Here are six nuggets picked from around the web. Find your own dippin' sauce!
Cobb county, Georgia adopts the "everybody's a winner" grading system.
Some Cobb County parents plan to plead with the school board Thursday night to scuttle a move to standards-based report cards for third-graders, arguing that a 3-2-1 grading scale promotes mediocrity.
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The traditional A, B, C and F grading system still applies in Cobb’s fourth through 12th grades, but ...More
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University of Chicago Press Journals
Study: Teachers choose schools according to student race
A study forthcoming in the Journal of Labor Economics suggests that high-quality teachers tend to leave schools that experience inflows of black students. According to the study's author, C. Kirabo Jackson (Cornell University), ...More
Look at this video. You will not see the Federal Reserve the same ever again.
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I'll add more later.Never mind. The video covers it well. More
When government does not get its way, the most vulnerable get targeted
The people of the state of California yesterday to crush propositions that would have raised state taxes. Led by Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, this was a last ditch attempt to put taxpayers on the hook for a state bureaucracy that is still growing despite being in the middle of a recession.
Despite freeze, state hired 33,000 workers (2003)
Despite budget shortfall, ...More
