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Barack Obama's campaign is flatly denying a story told by former Manhattan Borough President Percy Sutton, who cast an ex-Black Panther turned Muslim businessman and lecturer as a key Obama mentor but whose story seems off in at least one key detail. Sutton's story, told in what NY1 said was a March 25 interview, has been lighting up the conservative blogs for the last week. Sutton, now in his late 80s and mostly off the public stage, told NY1's Dominic Carter that he was asked to write a letter of recommendation to Harvard Law School on Obama's behalf by a...

Black women are less likely to get radiation, Houston study says The latest study showing a racial disparity in American breast cancer treatment found that black women are less likely than white women to receive radiation after surgery to remove the tumor, according to Houston scientists. University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center researchers found that about three-quarters of whites and two-thirds of blacks who have a lumpectomy also get the follow-up treatment considered the standard of care for early stage breast cancer. "These findings underscore that this is a problem across the United States," said Dr. Grace Li Smith,...

Subtract the subdued demeanor and the good tailoring, and how much difference is there between Brian Williams and Keith Olbermann? Take Williams' post-Palin speech analysis last night. The Nightly News anchor suggested that Palin's appeal is rooted in racism, then made a clarion call to his fellow MSMers to keep up the good fight against her. Have a look at the video, here. First is a clip of Ann Curry interviewing a woman delegate after the Palin speech, then Williams, then Joe Scarborough this morning. ANN CURRY: What was the most important message, do you think, that Governor Palin gave...

But the economy is not all; the GOP's last best hope remains identity politics. In a year when the Democrats have an African American presidential nominee, the Republicans now more than ever are the white folks' party, the party that delays the advent of our multicultural future, the party of the American past. Republican conventions have long been bastions of de facto Caucasian exclusivity, but coming right after the diversity of Denver, this year's GOP convention is almost shockingly -- un-Americanly -- white. Long term, this whiteness is a huge problem. This year, however, whiteness is the only way Republicans...

Rapper turned fashion mogul P. Diddy, aka Sean Combs, is apoplectic that Republican presidential nominee John McCain chose Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be his running mate. Diddy has decided to film a series of "Diddy-Obama Blogs" where he performs a soliloquy of sorts to Senator John McCain. The latest thing that has set off the rapper is Alaska. Diddy doesn't think there are any blacks in Alaska, and calls his decision to sign on Gov. Sarah Palin as "buggin' the f*** out." "She's a heart beat away...what in the HELL, Alaska?" he says. ...

Sen. Barack Obama's controversial former pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright re-surfaced yesterday, delivering a guest lecture at a Texas church in which he made racially, sexually charged comments regarding Obama's bid for the White House. "This ordinary boy just might be, come November the 4th, this ordinary boy from a single parent home with a daddy from Kenya and a mama from Kansas. This ordinary boy just might be the first president in the history of the United States to have a black woman sleeping at 1600 Pennsylvania, legally," Wright said at downtown Houston's Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church. According to the...

We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.-- Margaret Sanger You can read the complete text of the article here: The Negro Project - Margaret Sanger's Eugenic Plan for Black Americans Or cut and paste this URL into your browser: http://www.citizenreviewonline.org/special_issues/population/the_negro_project.htm

More racist remarks from Barack & Michelle Obama’s former religious mentor. Welcome back Jeremiah Wright.

When the Republicans mocked Barack Obama's decision to speak in an outdoor stadium with Greek columns as an opportunity for Obama to descend to speak to "mere mortals," Washington Post essayist and apparent psychic Philip Kennicott didn't see mockery of hubris. His mind-reading exposed white Republican racists resenting a black man appropriating Greek culture, with its "white temples, white statues, white marble."

Are PUMAs racist? The Washington Post's Colbert I. King seems to suggest so in his column of today, "A Suicidal Choice for Clinton Supporters." King delivers a laundry list of reasons why, in his opinion, it makes no sense for Hillary fans to support McCain. Since there is apparently no rational justification for good Dems to desert Obama, by process of elimination he suggests that a base motivation is in play. Here's King's punch line [emphasis added]: "So what's drawing Hillary Clinton's die-hard fans to John McCain? Is the attraction only skin-deep?

IF OBAMA LOSES was the headline of Jacob Weisberg's recent piece in Slate, and the subhead completed the thought: "Racism is the only reason McCain will beat him." More than just ugly - and worse, potentially inflammatory - such a claim is contradicted by the evidence. As Obama's poll numbers sank, it became common wisdom in left-liberal circles: an all-purpose explanation for the otherwise inexplicable failure of this most transcendent of candidates to ignite the universal approbation his fans regard as his due. Slate's editor isn't the only journalist to push the story line of a racist electorate as the...

Some “isms” are more egregious and horrific than others, apparently. Here I find myself in the embarrassing and unusual position of empathizing with Hillary Clinton. Folks from all over the political spectrum scoffed at her claims of misogyny. We chided her for “acting like a girl,” and told her to “get over it.” Hillary nutcrackers? Hilarious! Brilliant! (And they were.) But the road did not, in fact, go both ways. The geometry was a vector—uni-directional. We were certain that any mockery or criticism of Hillary had only to do with her Hillary-ness and not her sex; so certain that we...

Did anyone just notice the "blurred" faces of two black McCain supporters in the background behind McCain and his family on the podium??? I KNOW I saw it, in two seperate camera shots!!! RUN THE TAPE BACK & YOU WILL SEE IT!!!!!

How many times can the most important speech on race in America be made in one year? Probably one. Even though Barack Obama will accept the Democratic nomination for president on the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, and even though you can practically see the goose-bumps in the mainstream media’s stories about Obama’s “march into history,” tonight’s acceptance speech will largely not be about race in America. This is because Obama has already squandered his oratorical share of American racial history on a speech vouching for a delusional race-huckster from Chicago named Jeremiah...

With the possible exception of the mainstream media...who apparently believe that Barack Obama’s wealth is not newsworthy, but the number of homes owned by Cindy McCain’s is...there is much written these days about the dire economic circumstances of Obama’s 25-year-old half brother, George Hussein Onyango Obama. According to press reports, George Obama has been located by Italian Vanity Fair living in a 6 ft. by 9 ft. makeshift hut on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya, subsisting on less than $1 a month. He told reporters, “If anyone says anything about my surname, I say we are not related. I am...

<p>LAUREL, Miss. (AP) - A day after the largest single-workplace immigration raid in U.S. history, Elizabeth Alegria was too scared to send her son to school and worried about when she'd see her husband again.</p> <p>Nearly 600 immigrants suspected of being in the country illegally were detained, creating panic among dozens of families in this small southern Mississippi town.</p>

Things are supposed to be looking rosy for Democrats this November. But in case Barack Obama loses the Presidency, an excuse is all ready to go: America's too racist to elect a black man. Not even, in his Vice Presidential pick Joe Biden's inimitable description, one so "articulate and bright and clean." This narrative has gained traction with the Democratic Presidential candidate's recent setbacks in the polls. We hear it from the convention crowd in Denver and liberals in the press. The older, poorer, white, often Hillary voter who sounds ambivalent about the Obama coronation is an enticing scapegoat. Mr....

Jimmy Carter, ladies and gentlemen, last night on PBS special coverage. The anchor Jim Lehrer said, "And do you think that if it happens that Obama is elected, or even just being nominated, will send positive ripple effects throughout the country on the race issue?" CARTER: It already has sent a wave of approbation and admiration in many countries around the world just knowing that this black boy who grew up with just a loving mother and -- and grandparents and that was about all he had to start with, has now had a chance to become the nominee of...

DENVER — A prominent union leader on Tuesday blamed racism for Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-Ill.) failure to build a big lead over GOP rival Sen. John McCain. Gerald McEntee, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), said many workers are considering voting for McCain (R-Ariz.) because of his military service and status as a hero of the Vietnam War. McEntee said several union members had approached him, saying they could not vote for Obama because of his race. He also said some local union presidents have failed to support Obama out of fear. “There are...

Things are supposed to be looking rosy for Democrats this November. But in case Barack Obama loses the Presidency, an excuse is all ready to go: America's too racist to elect a black man. Not even, in his Vice Presidential pick Joe Biden's inimitable description, one so "articulate and bright and clean." This narrative has gained traction with the Democratic Presidential candidate's recent setbacks in the polls. We hear it from the convention crowd in Denver and liberals in the press. The older, poorer, white, often Hillary voter who sounds ambivalent about the Obama coronation is an enticing scapegoat. "Call...

Things are supposed to be looking rosy for Democrats this November. But in case Barack Obama loses the Presidency, an excuse is all ready to go: America's too racist to elect a black man. This narrative has gained traction with the Democratic Presidential candidate's recent setbacks in the polls. We hear it from the convention crowd in Denver and liberals in the press. The older, poorer, white, often Hillary voter who sounds ambivalent about the Obama coronation is an enticing scapegoat. ...There are Americans who judge politicians by their race, or gender, or religion; Mr. Obama will certainly carry the...

Am I Diverse Enough? by: Deborah Lambert, August 25, 2008 When Andrew Quinio graduated from Berkeley in May 2008, one of his proudest achievements had to be serving as editor-in-chief of the California Patriot, the conservative campus magazine. However, in a recent column on mindingthecampus.com, Andrew noted that it was impossible to reflect on his four years at Berkeley without thinking of the word “diversity.” While the goal was supposedly a climate of “cultural tolerance and understanding,” Berkeley “appeared to encourage a divisive culture of victimhood and entitlement.” For example, “housing students by race seemed . . . an odd...

A black delegate for Hillary Rodham Clinton says she was called an "Uncle Tom" by Illinois Senate President Emil Jones, 1 of Barack Obama's political mentors.

DENVER -- With Barack Obama poised to become the first black candidate nominated by a major party for president, Ohio's delegates to the Democratic National Convention this week say race is his biggest obstacle to being elected. Delegates also are concerned about what could be perceived as Obama's inexperience or an agenda that's too liberal, but race by far was the top worry of those who responded to a mail survey by The Dispatch.

Arab Racism According to the literal Arabic translation of Sura 3:106, 107, on Judgment Day, only people with white faces will be saved. People with black faces will be damned. http://www.bible.ca/islam/islam-koran-fairy-tales-dr-morey.htm  Arabs are the chosen people of Allah; Allah resembles an Arab.–ibn Sa’d, vol.1, p.2. Allah favours Arab racism—prophet is to be of Quraysh stock and of white complexion (ibn Sa’d, vol.1, p.95-96, Sahih Muslim, 20.4483. http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=2297E37D-87C3-492E-8E5D-1808AF77F703  The Quran and hadiths all say kill non muslims. Sura 8:12 says cut off the heads and Sura 9:1-30 says kill them. Sura 8:60 says Jews and Christians are apes and pigs....

Standing next to his street stall of glassware in downtown Denver, Jim Butcher was delighted that Barack Obama and the Democrats were holding their convention in his city this week.'I think, at the moment, I am going for [John] McCain,' he said. Asked if there was anything Obama could do this week to persuade him to change his mind, Butcher quickly replied: 'Not really. Not much chance of that.' The reason, he said, was Obama's lack of experience. When asked, he said his decision had nothing to do with the colour of the candidate's skin: 'I don't care about his...

With that in mind, as captured by C-SPAN, Senator Joe Biden (D-Delaware) recently made some comments concerning folks from India that were not at all flattering. As of yet, there appears to be no media outrage. Here’s what Biden said: “In Delaware, the largest growth of population is Indian Americans, moving from India. You cannot go to a 7/11 or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking.”

Let’s call a spade a spade (pardon the pun). Hmmm, I wonder if I will get called on the carpet for using this expression. I read recently that the expression black hole was spun as racist. The real issue is that a very vocal minority fights to continue to have race define us. Again, I wonder if I’ll get called on the carpet for using the word minority correctly. What this has done is perpetuate the idea that one group of people needs assistance in order to achieve equality with another group of people. There must be a distinction made...

I am simply compiling a list of definitions for racism. Please reply to this post with what your honest opinion is. In this nation we are bombarded with constant charges of racism but no one really ever defines what racism is. Please share your comments with me. I may use them in a later post. Thanks in advance for your thoughts.

For most of Jesse Jackson's life, his trademark declaration — "I am somebody!" — has been self-evident. But not so much anymore. The rise of Barack Obama and a surge of young leaders in the civil rights movement are raising questions about how big a somebody Jackson really is these days. It is a perplexing transition not just for Jackson but for the civil rights movement too. For both, the challenge will be to remain central to politics in this country even as Obama's nomination for president next week prompts many Americans to believe the major goals of the civil...

At the recent Forum on the Presidency, Pastor Rick Warren asked Barack Obama which Supreme Court justice he would not have nominated. Obama replied, “I would not have nominated Clarence Thomas. I don't think that he, I don't think that he was a strong enough jurist or legal thinker at the time for that elevation. Setting aside the fact that I profoundly disagree with his interpretation of a lot of the Constitution.” He then added that he also wouldn’t appoint Justice Scalia, but that there is no argument over his “legal brilliance.” In other words, the black guy is dumb....

Soyinka Links Darfur Crisis to Arab Racism, Slavery Written by Evan Mwangi: Afrika News Books and Arts Editor Wednesday, 25 April 2007 Nigerian author Wole Soyinka has linked the Darfur genocide to the history of Arabs enslaving Negroid Africans in Sudan, the Harvard Crimson has reported. The first African winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and a consistent critic of the Sudanese government asked the Arab section of Sudan to confront its enslaving past and acknowledge its current role in the violence in Darfur as racist instead of remaining in a “state of amnesia.” An articulate intellectual and dramatist,...

Canadian MP: Mahmoud Abbas Purveys Anti-Jewish Incitement ArutzSheva Israel ...He also met with PA officials and told them that "hate breeds hate." Saying that Hamas, with "their charter with its genocidal objective, anti-Semitic ... http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/127280

UN's Durban II Conference Against Racism? The Durban World Conference against Racism... in 2001, was driven by noble and just ideals... To the dismay of the many who shared the spirit of the conference's goal, the debate degenerated into a festival of overt bigotry. According to the Canadian government, it spiraled into "a circus of intolerance." And now, in anticipation of Durban II planned for 2009 in Geneva, human rights advocates and government officials alike predict it will be just more of the same. Some Background The first Durban conference's condemnation of Western European colonialism became tainted when it omitted...

Leave it to the liberal print media to find some way to kill everyone's Olympics buzz. For instance, did you know that the choice by the U.S. Olympic Committee to have Ralph Lauren stitch the threads for Team USA's opening ceremonies uniform was an unfortunate nod to racism and classism and a futile, nostalgic clinging to America's waning WASP empire? That according to Sameer Reddy (pictured at right, photo via Newsweek) in an August 20 online exclusive for Newsweek

Raleigh, N.C. – John McCain has expanded his lead over Barack Obama in Missouri, according to the newest survey from Public Policy Polling. McCain’s advantage is 50-40, a seven point increase from PPP’s July poll, which showed him leading by just three points. Obama’s biggest issue is with white voters, who support McCain by a 56-35 margin. “There aren’t enough black voters in Missouri for Barack Obama to win it if he can’t make things more competitive among white voters,” said Dean Debnam, President of Public Policy Polling. “That’s going to be his challenge if he wants to have any...

"I’m not offended," a Chinese friend told me today when I asked her about the controversial photos of Spanish and Argentinian Olympic teams making 'slit-eyed' gestures. "They can do what they want." she said laughingly as she used her fingers to try to make her eyes look more "Western."

That didn't take long. Tanned and rested on his first day back from vacation, Chris Matthews suggested on this evening's Hardball that under the guise of the "inexperience" charge, John McCain is handing out "permission slips" to racists to vote against Obama. Matthews put his poisonous point to Chicago Tribune columnist Clarence Page. CHRIS MATTHEWS: Let me ask you this. Isn't he [McCain] handing out permission slips to vote against Barack? "Inexperience" is my favorite. Because you could have all kinds of problems with Barack Obama: ethnically, politically, culturally, class—I don't know what the adjective is for class, but "classily."...

As more and more attention is paid to Barack Obama's failure to stake out a solid, sustained poll lead in the presidential race (as of Sunday, the Gallup daily tracking survey pegged the contest a flat-out tie), more and more attention focuses on the often unspoken -- race -- as a key factor. In a recent New York magazine piece, John Heilemann wrote: "Call me crazy, but isn't it possible, just possible, that Obama's lead is being inhibited by the fact that he is, you know, black? ... The desire to ignore the elephant in the room is easy to...

CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy — Pope Benedict on Sunday decried the rise of racism in some countries and urged Christians to help society combat intolerance toward foreigners."One of humanity's greatest conquests has been, precisely, the overcoming of racism," Benedict told pilgrims and tourists at his summer residence in Castel Gandolfo, near Rome."Unfortunately, however, in several countries new, worrisome displays" of racism are manifesting themselves, the pontiff said.Benedict said that while racism is "often tied to social and economic problems," those factors "can never justify contempt or racial discrimination."The Pope didn't cite any country by name. Instead, he urged Christians to help...

In his color-coded article, “The Color-Coded Campaign,” John Heilemann doesn’t just hint that racial prejudice will prevent Barack Obama from winning the White House. He states it directly and without equivocation. The reason America’s first black major party presumptive presidential nominee hasn’t blown out the intractably boring and uninspiring John McCain in the polls, given “surging” Democratic voter registration and voters’ disenchantment with Republicans, is his skin color. It wouldn’t have anything to do with Obama’s liberal beliefs, inexperience, gaffes, and inconsistencies, would it? No, it’s because he’s black, says Heilemann and other liberals...

As Democrats prepare to nominate Sen. Barack Obama to be the first black president, the Democratic National Committee and its chairman, Howard Dean, have whitewashed the party's horrific and lengthy record of racism. The omission is in the section of the DNC Web site that describes the party's history. The missing history raises the obvious question of whether the Democrats, unable or simply unwilling to put their party on record as taking direct responsibility for one of the worst racial crimes of the ages, will be able to run a campaign free of the racial animosities it has regularly brought...

Democratic Leaders Congressional Leaders Speaker of the House: Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) Nancy Pelosi made history this year, breaking the marble ceiling to become the first woman to serve as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. With Democrats returning to the majority for the first time in 12 years, Speaker Pelosi and her leadership team are addressing the challenging issues facing the American people after years of inaction. Under her leadership, the 110th Congress is working to make America safer, to restore the American Dream and to restore accountability to government. http://www.speaker.gov/ Senate Majority Leader: Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV)...

Republicans lashed out Friday night at Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean after he called their party the “white” party in a radio interview. The Democratic Party leader was discussing diversity in his own party during the interview, when he apparently slipped and referred to the rival party by color. “Our party has been a no-majority party for a long time. The fact is that the Democratic Party is made up of lots of different people,” Dean said. “If you look at folks of color, even women, they’re more successful in the Democratic Party than they are in the white...

Barack Obama has been fond of playing the race card in this campaign telling his enraptured audiences that Republicans will attack him because he's black, even though no GOP candidate or campaign has done so to date. But, Obama is a newcomer to the racemongering game when compared to Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean. True to form, in a recent interview Dean has once again called the GOP a "white party" attempting to make this campaign about race issues instead of candidates and platforms. This is the sort of cynical, hate-filled garbage that Democrats have universally parlayed as campaign...

It was supposedly a slip, but Dean has made the case before in even more blunt terms. "If you look at folks of color, even women, they're more successful in the Democratic party than they are in the white, uh, excuse me, in the [laughs] Republican party." I suppose Dean hasn't heard of Condi Rice and Colin Powell, the two highest-ranking blacks in American history. But what always strikes me as odd about comments like these, especially from a white guy who used to govern a state with seven black residents, is that this is somehow supposed to be an...

If you look at folks of color, even women, they're more successful in the Democratic party than they are in the white, uh, excuse me, in the [laughs] Republican party."

The Democrats are very, very worried over the lack of Obama's dominance in the polls. In fact, The Politico has this story, apparently this Jerome Corsi book that's been opening at number one on the New York Times list, the anti-Obama book, and they put John Kerry on the Swift Boat team now to rebut these attacks, because they said Kerry didn't do it fast enough, Obama is not doing it fast enough, they're not going to sit by and let happen to Obama what happened to John Kerry. This whole story features so much double-talk and pseudo action by...

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The Democratic Party and the mainstream media work together on behalf of terrorists. That fact has been extensively covered in this column. But that working combination does damage in many areas of national life, one of the most important being in the area of race relations and civil rights. The Democratic Party, the mainstream media and black leaders keep identifying racism as a central problem in our society and they thus manage to create a real and effective roadblock to ending any problems caused by past racism and improving the life and well-being of blacks and minority groups. The Democratic...