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Brazil's president says "gringos" should pay Amazon nations to prevent deforestation, insisting rich Western nations have caused much more past environmental destruction than the loggers and farmers who cut and burn trees in the world's largest tropical rain forest. "I don't want any gringo asking us to let an Amazon resident die of hunger under a tree," Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said ahead of an Amazon summit. "We want to preserve, but they will have to pay the price for this preservation because we never destroyed our forest like they mowed theirs down a century

Rupert Murdoch defends Glenn Beck's accusation that the president was a racist in his long interview with Sky News Australia.

South Carolina's Legislative Black Caucus wants to make sure that minorities have a fair and equal shot at the new jobs Boeing Co. is bringing to the Lowcountry, according to letter obtained by The Post and Courier Monday. Sen. Robert Ford, a Charleston Democrat and chairman of the caucus' Civil Rights and Affirmative Action Committee, wrote Boeing's president Jim McNerney Oct. 30 to ask for information about the company's hiring practices. Ford, who is running for governor, represents Senate District 42, where Boeing's newly announced Dreamliner production line will be located. He included in the letter the racial makeup of...

WASHINGTON -- House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., both sons of the segregated South, grew up in parts of South Carolina that were much farther apart than the mere 175 miles between them. Thursday, the two men - a black Democrat and a white Republican - will share an honor that the Jim Crow laws of their youth would have prohibited. The Columbia Urban League will present to Clyburn and Graham its annual Whitney M. Young Award in recognition of their efforts to advance race relations in South Carolina.

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WASHINGTON (CNN) – For the first time since he took over in the White House, Americans don't see eye to eye with President Barack Obama on the important issues, according to a new national poll. But the CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey does indicate that a majority approve of how Obama's handling his duties as president. According to the poll, which was released Tuesday, 48 percent of people questioned say that they agree with Obama on the issues that matter most to them, with 51 percent saying no. That's a switch from April, when 57 percent said they agreed with the...

On Today's Show... October 14, 2009   The Bloods and Crips Quote Explained: It Was All About Love of the Game Rush restates his respect for the game and its players. (Rush 24/7 Members:  Listen) » January 19, 2007 Rush Limbaugh Show: Original Transcript   Transcript: Smear Campaign Against Rush is an Attempt to Discredit Conservatism It's not about Rush or the Rams. It's an assault on American values. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen)   » Sam Mellinger in the Kansas City Star: Limbaugh Blitzed in Bid for Rams   The Truth About Jackson, Sharpton, and CNN's Rick "DUI" Sanchez (With Sources) » NY...

I have been a faithful Rush Limbaugh radio show listener for almost 20 years. I have never heard Rush make one racist comment. As a matter of fact, I am a black man who has been inspired and encouraged by Rush on numerous occasions. Rush is part of a partnership bidding to purchase an NFL football team. I am highly offended watching the liberal media's all out assault on this great American. In their efforts to block Rush from ownership of a team, the liberal media and the Left are attempting to brand Rush as a racist. The media's charges...

October 11, 2009 Obama and the end of white guiltBy Jeff Lukens Barack Obama portrayed himself as America's first "post-racial" president, yet he and his supporters continue to play the race card against ordinary Americans who oppose him. Despite a big election victory, Obama is unable to understand that ordinary Americans do not like being bullied. Nor does he understand that they do not like being called racists for political disagreements. The Obama agenda is desperate and out of ideas. In their desperation, they deal from the bottom of the deck. The race card has never failed them before, and...

Mathias Kiwanuka loves his former defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo, but the Giants' defensive end says he will never play for Spagnuolo's Rams if Rush Limbaugh purchases the team. Kiwanuka and the Jets' Bart Scott made it clear Thursday that they would never play for the Rams or any team owned by the controversial conservative radio host. "All I know is from the last comment I heard, he said in (President) Obama's America, white kids are getting beat up on the bus while black kids are chanting 'right on,'" Kiwanuka told The Daily News. "I mean, I don't want anything to...

I alerted Atlas readers that Islamists organizing and leading the "Islam on the Capital" mass prayer on September 25th had disturbing backgrounds and had made outrageous statements. I blogged on three of the leading players calling thousands of Muslims in prayer: Sheik Muhammad Jebril and Sheik Ahmed Dewidar, two Egyptians (home base to the Muslim Brotherhood); and prayer organizer Hassen Abdellah is a lawyer for terrorists.

October 02, 2009, 4:00 a.m. The Obsolescence of a SlurCriticisms of Obama are increasingly met by cries of “Racist!” Are his critics racists? By Victor Davis Hanson The charge of racism has been leveled against critics of President Obama’s health-care reform by everyone from New York Times columnists, racial activists, and Democratic legislators to senior statesmen like Jimmy Carter (“It’s a racist attitude�), Bill Clinton (“some . . . are racially prejudiced�), and Walter Mondale (“I don’t want to pick a person [and] say, ‘He’s a racist,’ but I do think the way they’re piling on Obama . . . I think I...

There's a blog post that's making its way around facebook tonight. Full of leftist elitism, it should make you sick. Titled "The Illiteracy of Teabaggers and 9/12 Protesters," the blog pokes fun at a handful of people who make (gasp!) spelling errors on their signs that they carried at the protests. There is a not-too-subtle message there that, because 11 of the hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of protesters who attended these rallies misspelled a few words, it is clear evidence that conservatives are stupid. The fact that there was a wealth of thought-provoking and well-made signs at the...

HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — Four men were arrested and a fifth is being sought in connection with the campus gang rape of an 18-year-old female Hofstra University student. The four suspects — only one of whom is a student at the school — were arrested on Long Island, N.Y., on Monday; a fifth is still at large. ... Police say 19-year-old Jesus Ortiz and 21-year-old Rondell Bedward, both of the Bronx, were arraigned on rape charges Monday. The other two, 19-year-old Stalin Felipe, of the Bronx, and 20-year-old Kevin Taveras, of Brentwood, are to be arraigned Tuesday in Hempstead. Police didn't...

I mean this in partial jest. Only black people can call each other the N word. Now, the only epithet that I'm aware of that is close to being on the same level of the N word is the C word for women. Don't ever use either word. However, the media's propaganda has gotten so over the top, and the politicians' pandering has too gotten over the top, that it's getting to the point to where "racist" is the epithet for conservatives.

There are many groups of political crazies out there, you have the "truthers" those who believe that 9/11 was created by George Bush like former Green Jobs Czar, Van Jones, then you have the birthers, those people who believe that they can have the POTUS removed from office because they believe he was born in another country. Probably the most destructive of the three are the sick minds that believe that everybody who disagrees with President Obama is a racist, they are called "racers." Charlie Rangel, for example is a Racer. Last week at a town hall in Washington Heights...

A traditional West African drum troupe played at the opening assembly, and students, parents and teachers sang both the Canadian national anthem and Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing , also known as the black national anthem. Maryann Scott enrolled her two youngest children, a son who started junior kindergarten, and a daughter who started Grade 4 yesterday. Ms. Scott has two teenaged children who went through the public school system. “It failed them, and I knew right away this would be a good thing for my younger two,” she said. “I think it's important that students know their history, and...

The middle-of-the-night resignation Sunday of longtime Bay Area activist Van Jones as a White House environmental adviser left many progressives angry at the Obama administration for buckling to conservative criticism of Jones' controversial past comments and actions. The administration is losing not only one of the nation's leading environmentalists, progressives say, but one of the few liberal voices with President Obama's ear. Jones resigned amid a furor over his signature on a 2004 petition questioning the government's actions around the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Supporters say the administration surely knew his background when they appointed Jones, the first African American...

The Easton, PA branch of the NAACP has asked the State Theatre to cancel an appearance from Glenn Beck, a conservative TV and radio personality who called President Barack Obama racist. NAACP Branch President Merrill Fennel asked the theater in a letter dated Aug. 24 to cancel Beck's January appearance. The letter cites Beck's accusation that Obama, whose mother is white, has a "deep-seated hatred" for white people. In a letter dated today, State Theatre President Shelley Brown said the theater won't cancel Beck's show. Beck is scheduled to appear Jan. 9 at the State Theatre.

The campaign for mayor of this city, which has long promoted its racial tolerance, veered into controversy Thursday with the release of a memo urging black voters to unite around an African-American candidate and block the election of a white mayor. A local group known as the Black Leadership Forum called for African-Americans to consolidate their support around Lisa Borders, president of the Atlanta City Council and one of several African-American candidates, according to a memo circulated on the Web and to local media. The group said Ms. Borders had the best chance of winning support from white business leaders...

MARION, Ala. — Two Alabama families that had been fighting for years turned their feud into a full-scale riot Monday outside a small-town city hall, with up to 150 screaming people hurling tire irons and wielding baseball bats. Eight people were arrested, and at least four were hurt, Trooper John Reese said. Two were taken to hospitals. The town's police chief was hit in the head with a crowbar but was OK. The two- or three-year-old feud apparently prompted a fight earlier in the day at a high school, after a window was shot out of a home Sunday night....

MARION, Ala. – Two Alabama families that had been fighting for years turned their feud into a full-scale riot Monday outside a small-town city hall, with up to 150 screaming people hurling tire irons and wielding baseball bats. Eight people were arrested, and at least four were hurt, Trooper John Reese said. Two were taken to hospitals. The town's police chief was hit in the head with a crowbar but was OK. The two- or three-year-old feud apparently prompted a fight earlier in the day at a high school, after a window was shot out of a home Sunday night....

Amid the orchestrated phony protests over President Barack Obama’s health care reform efforts, a new report by the Southern Poverty Law Center, SPLC, documents another threat to the health of the Black community and the nation’s stability: rising racism within right-wing militias. In its report entitled “Return of the Militias,” the Southern Poverty Law Center points out that the militia movement, that faded in the 1990s, is back and that “One big difference from the militia movement of the 1990s is that the face of the federal government — the enemy that almost all parts of the extreme right see...

Last year, when Michelle Obama declared, "America is a mean country," I disagreed. As the white mom of multi-racial children, I knew our country had its share of race problems, but I never would have called America "mean." Apparently, Michelle's "mean America" comment was simply premonitory. Last year, I was a sweet, naïve, middle class, white Italian-American businesswoman and single mother. This year, I'm a racist, Brooks-Brothers'-suit-wearing, rabid, Nazi, right-wing, political terrorist wacko. How did that happen? And when did owning a Brooks Brothers' suit become a bad thing? I am a 52-year-old white single mom of Italian immigrant descendants,...

August 10, 2009 Figures... Leftists Hurl Racist Insults at Black Man After Horrible Beating On Thursday night, Kenneth Gladney was beaten, kicked and called racist names by Russ Carnahan's SEIU supporters after a town hall meeting in Mehlville, Missouri. Now, the Left is mocking him. The racists at Fire Dog Lake lead the charge with this racist photo of Kenneth the silly black man in a wheelchair: [Pic in URL: Warning] The title of their post says it all: Kenneth the Teabagging Drama Queen (Updated) Not only do these racists mock Kenneth's fragile condition after the beating he endured from...

Why of course that many protestors are racists, says Cynthia Tucker of the Atlanta-Journal Constitution. Mark Finkelstein at Newsbusters has this exchange between Tucker and Crissy Matthews on Hardball (video here -- http://media.eyeblast.org/newsbusters/static/2009/08/209-08-07MSNBCHBTucker.wmv ): CHRIS MATTHEWS: Put 100 of these people in a room. Strap them into gurneys. Inject them with sodium pentathol. How many of them would say "I don't like the idea of having a black president"? What percentage? CYNTHIA TUCKER: Oh, I'm just guessing. This is just off the cuff. I think 45 to 65% of the people who appear at these groups are people who will...

I will not link to his site but the slimeball Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs IS BLAMING AMERICAN CITIZENS FOR VIOLENCE BEING PERPETRATED AGAINST THEM. This racist bigot has posted hateful things about arabs & muslims for years (not just terrorists but all muslims). Violence is wrong! Now surprise surprise when a black man is beaten & hospitalized in St. Louis by SEIU thugs and a cancer patient and business man are assaulted in Tampa by SEIU thugs it's their own fault. This man has a DEFECT and it's sick that any conservative EVER listened to him just because...

Noted magical race healer doesn’t bother to check if his friend, Professor Gates, who needs a cane to walk, can make it down the steps okay.

Soon-to-be-Justice Sonia Sotomayor has called herself "a product of affirmative action" who was "accepted rather readily into Princeton" despite test scores that were lower than those of more privileged classmates due to "cultural biases built into testing." Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., capitalizing on the avalanche of publicity he touched off by attributing to racism his July 16 arrest at his home by a white police officer, has declared that America is "racist" and "classist" and that "there haven't been fundamental structural changes in America.... The only black people who truly live in a post-racial world in America all...

Although the reporter involved denies she coordinated with the White House, speculation abounds over the genesis of the press conference inquiry last week by Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun-Times, whose question about Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. prompted a national race scandal involving President Obama.

Barbara Boxer, the far left U.S. Senator from California, was given a stern face-to-face reprimand by the president of the National Black Chamber of Commerce, Harry Alford, for trying to pit one black group against another instead of addressing issues on their merits. (Snip) In this case, instead of dealing substantively with Mr. Alford’s criticisms of the current Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade energy bill, Ms. Boxer tried to discredit Alford by pointing out how black groups such as the NAACP and “100 Black Men of Atlanta” were allegedly supporting the bill. (Snip) Mr. Alford scolded her for her divisive, racially charged tactics:...

Sen. Susan Collins announced Tuesday that she would become the fourth Senate Republican to support Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court. The support from the Maine centrist is the latest sign that Sotomayor will be confirmed by a comfortable majority before the Senate adjourns for its summer recess on Aug. 7. "Judge Sotomayor has impressive legal experience, has excelled throughout her life and is a tremendously accomplished person," Collins said. "And based on my review of her record, my assessment of her character and my analysis of her adherence to precedent, Judge Sotomayor warrants confirmation to the high court."

I'll tell you what. The dozen or so insults made by about a half-dozen anonymous members of the general public on an Internet forum were disgraceful. So we pulled them. But they're really a disgrace to insults in general and to the professional race-baiters of our main stream media that hurl them on a daily basis. Our guys don't hold a candle to the professionals that have spent the last ten years or so pummeling the Bush and Cheney families with thousands of insults every damned day in every newspaper, magazine and TV network broadcasting to the public. Even the...

Why Are Liberals Surprised To Learn Their Heroes Are Racists? By Doug Patton July 13, 2009 The left has convinced many Americans that all political evil is on the right. Liberals revere their favorite socialists, past and present -- Mao, Che, Hugo, Fidel and others -- never labeling them for what they are and never associating them with leaders like Barack Obama. Meanwhile, they vilify tyrants like Mussolini and Hitler as "fascist" or "right-wing" and compare them to George Bush, Dick Cheney or Sarah Palin. Liberals point to the Holocaust as if it were the greatest mass slaughter in...

From This Day Forth To Be "Parry'd" Will Mean.... "Posting inflamatory or slanderous comments on a blog under an a false identity or handle in order to then have someone point out the blog is full of posters who are racist or horrible people." To be "Parry'd" or as if to have Chris Parry posting horrible and vile posts and then to write an article about those posts you yourself posted under a false identiy. Jim Robinson and Freerepublic are often "Parry'd" by Daily Kosters who then use these posts to righteous proclaim Freerepublic is full of racists.

LONDON (AP) — Retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu says that President Barack Obama's background and race will help him influence African leaders. The anti-apartheid icon says Obama would be freer to make demands on African politicians because he can tell them: "Look here you guys, I am one of you, don't let me down." "They can't accuse him of being a neocolonialist," Tutu said during a visit to London Thursday. "Complexion helps."

The selection of Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court has opened a new battle in the fight over affirmative action and other race-conscious remedies for patterns of inequality, with each side invoking the election of the first black president in support of its cause. Judge Sotomayor, whose parents moved to New York from Puerto Rico, has championed the importance of considering race and ethnicity in admissions, hiring and even judicial selection at almost every stage of her career — as a student activist at Princeton and at Yale Law School, as a board member of left-leaning Hispanic advocacy groups...

W.H. concedes Sotomayor misspoke By: Carol E. Lee May 29, 2009 03:50 PM EST White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs sought to tamp down criticism over controversial comments Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor made in 2001, regarding whether a Latino judge might render “better” rulings than a white judge, saying the judge would choose different words if she could give her speech all over again. “I think she’d say that her word choice in 2001 was poor,” Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters. “She was simply making the point that personal experiences are relevant to the process of judging, that...

Tancredo: La Raza is "Latino KKK" Anti-immigration crusader and former Colorado Republican Rep. Tom Tancredo was on CNN this afternoon whacking Sonia Sotomayor for her association with the National Council of La Raza, which was listed in a 2000 American Bar Association bio of the judge. "If you belong to an organization called La Raza, in this case... which is from my point of of view any way... nothing more than a ... Latino KKK without the hoods or the nooses. If you belong to something like that in a way that's going to convince me and a lot of...

President Obama’s selection of Judge Sonia Sotomayor for a seat on the Supreme Court has put the Republican Party in a bind, forcing it to weigh the cost of aggressively opposing the first Hispanic named to the court against its struggle to appeal to Hispanic voters. The Republican Party has been embroiled in a public argument over whether to tend to the ideological interests of its conservative base or to expand its appeal to a wider variety of voters to regain its strength after the defeats of 2008. Many conservative activists and political strategists came out fiercely against Judge Sotomayor...

White House (CNSNews.com) - Critics of President Barack Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court should be careful how they conduct the debate, warned White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on Wednesday, as he struggled to explain a 2001 comment by Judge Sonia Sotomayor. Obama nominated Sotomayor on Tuesday to fill the vacancy of retiring Associate Justice David Souter. Among the controversies surrounding Sotomayor is a comment she made during a speech at the University of California-Berkeley School of Law in October 2001. In that speech, she said, “I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her...

The Omaha suspension of a white high-school student originally from South Africa is sending shock waves across America as debate rages over who can claim rights to the term "African-American." South African native Trevor Richards suspended over African-American campaign The case centers on Trevor Richards, a junior at Westside High School, who moved from Johannesburg to Nebraska six years ago. Richards and his classmates, 16-year-old twins Paul and Scott Rambo, were booted from classes last week after distributing posters touting Trevor as a candidate for Westside High's "Distinguished African-American Student" award on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. "The posters were...

"Everybody I saw at that tea party are racist."

This is the first official video from The Black Sphere Productions, LLC. I hope you enjoy it, and appreciate it as our freshman effort. We hope to offer these to you every couple of weeks, with a few "teasers" in between! Thanks should go to Flaming Fiddle Productions, aka Ms. Jodi Pfferkorn, and Dave Perkins, post-production extraordinaire. It is our hope that you guys will view this video, spread the word and make it viral, as the TRUTH needs to be told about racist Democrats, past and present! http://theblacksphere.blogspot.com/2009/04/great-moments-in-democrat-racist.html

The next shoe is dropping in an effort to end what is described as decades of persistent and systemic bias at the agencies that create, buy and place television commercials and other forms of media advertising. The N.A.A.C.P. is calling on the nation’s 25 biggest advertisers — on TV and in other media — to require that their agencies use racially diverse teams of employees in creative and account-management posts. The first letter in the initiative is to be sent to Procter & Gamble, the No. 1 advertiser in the United States with ad spending last year, according to the...

When House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn insinuated that fellow South Carolinian leader, Governor Mark Sanford was racist, an examination of Clyburn's statement - and the term "racist" - was in order.

American Vision received a phone call from an NPR station yesterday (3.3.2009) asking me to appear on one of their shows to answer the charge by the Southern Poverty Law Center that our organization is a “hate group.” (For the record, I don’t do interviews with media outlets that are subsidized by tax dollars.) The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has listed American Vision as a “hate group” under the “other” category on their website because we are “anti-gay.’[1] I guess the majority of people in California who voted to outlaw homosexual marriage are also “haters.” Of course they are....

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The religion of "peace' has attracted another celebrity musician. Snoop Dog now joins ranks with Michael Jackson as honorary members of Islam.

Ok folks, question time: Which is the REAL party of hate? Ten seconds... Ding! Time's up! Read the excerpted comments below (screen names withheld to protect the idiots) and you decide. "Black man said it to the White man The White Man snitched it to the the Boss man The Boss man slapped down the Black man..." "How pathetic. How many conservative politicians are gonna apologize to this guy? Rush is a bigot, a racist, a drug addict, a liar and a college drop out. Why in the world would you care what he thinks about you? Why would you...