Posted on 10/15/2008 2:10:07 PM PDT by itsthejourney
As you may know, Google is celebrating its tenth anniversary and is allowing people to search Google as it was in 2001, enabling you to get all the results available back then... It's available at Google.com/search2001.html until the end of the month... a search under the 2001 Google and found this item, which shows Barack Obama is listed on a Chicago Black community organizing website under "Organizing and Islam" and is grouped along with a number of shady Nation of Islam figures. You know what they say about "the company you keep". That's with whom Barack Hussein Obama was keeping company back in 2001.
(Excerpt) Read more at debbieschlussel.com ...
Priceless. Somebody save that because it could disappear from the net.
Debbie usually gets it right PING!!
bump.
Google will scrub all references by tonight.
Lots of nuggets(and bad spelling) here:
ORGANIZING AND ISLAM
“Organizing in neighborhoods has taken two paths that reflect historic dichotomy between integrationist and nationalist strategies. Many top conununity leaders collaborate on urban issues through city’s grasgroots network, forging multi-racial coalitions, while others take black nationalist approach, looking only within the African-American community for leadership and resources.
In first category are Ani Russell of community policing network, 312-461-0444; Jacky Grimshaw, former strategist for Harold Washington now working an community transportation issues; 773-278-4800, ext. 133; and Barack Obama, 773-684-4809, whose work to empower blacks has included his law practice, community organizing, philanthropy and most recently electoral politics: he is a candidate for state senate. A quiet leader with broad vision of empowerment and redevelopment in the Grand Boulevard neighborhood is Sokoni Karanja, 773-373-5700, whose nonprofit Centers for New Horizons provides social services, youth programs, education and child care.
Chicago is national center of black nationalist thought and organization. Head of the nation’s largest secular black-nationalist organization, the National Black United Front, Conrad Worrill, 773-268-5658, is a professor at Northeastern Illinois University’s Center for Inner City Studies and was prominent speaker at last year’s Million Man Man March. Another Northeastern professor, Robert Starks, 773-268-7500, heads local Task Force for Political Empowerment, along with Worrill was major organizer in Harold Washington campaigns. Radio commentator and former newspaper columnist and publisher, Lu Palmer, 773-624-0242, holds forth two nights a week on a WVON-1450AM political talk show. He founded the Black Independent Political Orgization and Chicago Black United Communities. Eddie Read, 773-663-0704, is president of both organizations mentioned above; CBUC members have shut down construction sites where blacks don’t get fair share of jobs. Salim Muwakkil, 773-643-3730, is senior editor of In These Times and contributing columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times. He has done extensive coverage of black activism and the black nationalist movement.
Chicago is home base for African-American Muslim organizations. Muslims have been visible forces for organizing and stability in many neighborhoods, only some of them aligned with controversial leader Louis Farrakhan and his Nation of Islam. Organizer Kublai Toure, 773-538-7217, is a member of Jim Brown’s Amer-I-Can youth organization, with projects ranging from helping arrange gang traces to trips to Chicago Cubs baseball Sitines for public housing youth. Mikail Bilal, 773-721-6588, is chek of the Muslim addiction-prevention group Millati Wami, with twice-weekly meetings on South Drexel St. for recovering substance abusers. Abdul Rashid Akbar is the Muslim chaplin at Cook County jail, 773-721-6588, where many incarcerated African-Americans convert to Islam. The Nation of Islam’s contact point for the media and editor-chief of The Final Call newspaper is James Muhammad, 773-602-1230. Ayesha Mustafaa reports on the larger Muslim community as editor of The Muslim Journal, 312-243-7600.”
Indeed. Save what you find.
ORGANIZING AND ISLAM
Organizing in neighborhoods has taken two paths that reflect historic dichotomy between integrationist and nationalist strategies. Many top conununity leaders collaborate on urban issues through city’s grasgroots network, forging multi-racial coalitions, while others take black nationalist approach, looking only within the African-American community for leadership and resources.
In first category are Ani Russell of community policing network, 312-461-0444; Jacky Grimshaw, former strategist for Harold Washington now working an community transportation issues; 773-278-4800, ext. 133; and Barack Obama, 773-684-4809, whose work to empower blacks has included his law practice, community organizing, philanthropy and most recently electoral politics: he is a candidate for state senate. A quiet leader with broad vision of empowerment and redevelopment in the Grand Boulevard neighborhood is Sokoni Karanja, 773-373-5700, whose nonprofit Centers for New Horizons provides social services, youth programs, education and child care.
And it’s great that everyone who’s already decided to vote against Obama will see this. I doubt anyone else will.
One ray of hope is I have a liberal friend from New Jersey...voted for Gore and Kerry, hates Obama with a passion.
Unless I have a reading comprehension problem, this article does not claim Obam is a muslim - it says he was an organizer, and not even the black nationalist type!
It needs a screen shot save.
Here’s our favorite minister, Rev. Wright.
“COMMUNITY LIFE
Segregated physically and emotionally from other Chicagoans, blacks created institutions as backbones of community life. From early migrant support groups and churches grew political and cultural organizations, plus a musical tradition so powerful that Langston Hughes - describing the South State Street “Stroll” in 1918 - proclaimed that ff you held a trumpet up at night it would play itself, such was the activity at the jazz clubs.
Many churches have played dual role of spiritual anchor and center of activism. Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Trinity Church, 773-962-5650, is active on Southern Africa struggles, supports linking local and international issues. Rev. Clay Evans, Fellowship Baptist Church, 773-924-3732, was once the only major church to welcome Dr. Martin Luther King to Chicago during civil rights movement. Rev. Al Sampson, 773-445-7125, works on the Million Man March Metropolitan Area Planning Corp., maintaining networks developed during the Washington, D.C. march.
Mass migration from the South prompted creation of support groups that today have a family-reunion flavor: ViEthel Wills, 773-224-8758, rallies old-timers in the Greenville (Mississippi) Club; Grace Bowers, 773-533-9435, runs the Mississippi Culture Club. More issue-oriented are legal and other support groups such as the African-American Patrolman’s League, working on racial bias issues in the police department, Patricia Hill, 773-779-8226. Attorney James Chapman of the Prison Action Committee, 312-408-0330, focuses on prison reforms through advocacy, education and legislation. Linda Mills, 8CO-602-5640, is an attorney and lobbyist working on poverty issues.
Cultural maven Dr. Margaret Burroughs, 773-947-0600, is founder of DuSable Museum of African American History and long-time supporter of black Chicago artists. Willie Dixon, 773-846-0837, is radio host and keeper of much oral history of the black community. Archie Motley, 312-642-4600, is son of famous black painter and curator at the Chicago Historical Society.”
Obama bio
Barack Obama
State Senator
Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, P.C.
Chicago, IL
Barack Obama received his B.A. in Political Science from Columbia University. He spent five years working as a community organizer, first in Harlem, then in Chicago.
In 1988, Obama enrolled in Harvard Law School. There he served as the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review and was a member of the Executive Board of the Black Law Students Association. He graduated Magna Cum Laude.
In 1992, Obama served as Illinois Executive Director of Project Vote!, an effort that added over 100,000 newly registered voters.
In 1993, Obama was named by Crain’s Chicago Business as one of “40 under 40” outstanding young leaders in the city of Chicago. He is the recipient of the 1995 Legal Eagle Award from IVI-IPO for his work in bringing Illinois into compliance with the National Voter Registration Act (Motor Vote). His commentaries have been heard on National Public Radio and his memoir, “Dreams of My Father,” was published by Random House in August, 1995.
Obama works as a civil rights attorney with the firm Davis, Miner, Barnhill and Galland. He specializes in employment discrimination, fair housing and voting rights litigation. He also lectures at the University of Chicago Law School, where he teaches civil rights law and related subjects.
In addition, Obama serves on the boards of several organizations: including the Chicago Annenberg Center Challenge (Chairman), the Joyce Foundation, the Woods Fund of Chicago, the Center for Neighborhood Technology, the Chicago Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law and Public Allies. He is a member of the Cook County Bar Association.
“Barack Obama, 773-684-4809”
The number you have reached is disconnected or not in service...
I tried...
It has I tried to access the link and it is dead now, for the BO story.
Here’s Valerie Jarrett again, too.
Phone numbers marked out, not that they’re still accurate.
“MAKING A LIVING
Blacks were often last hired and first fired - at bottom of Chicago’s economic ladder. Tune and persistence have helped a core gain middle- or upper-income status, but lack of education and capital mean many still toil at low pay - or remain unemployed.
Hard labor in steel mills and packing houses - or domestic work for women - was the economic entry point for most Chicago blacks. They became a key constituent in the labor movement, rising to leadership positions. Charles Hayes, 773-783-6209, was a vp in United Packinghouse Workers and later a U.S. Congressman, always a voice for the working poor. The late Jacqueline Vaughn was president of Chicago Teachers Union. Eric Amesen at University of Illinois at Chicago, 312-996-xxxx, is an expert on blacks in the labor movement.
Government jobs played key role in development of black middle class, starting with federal jobs and spreading into city and state, plus agencies such as Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), Board of Education. Former City Hall official Valerie Jarrett, 312-527-xxxx, can comment on black role in government; she is now chair of CTA and vice president of Habitat Co., private developer that oversees Chicago Housing Authority scattered site program.
Entrepreneurship thrived in the Black Belt as neighbors served neighbors in the trades, retail, insurance and other industries. That tradition faltered somewhat as business-minded blacks joined corporate America and inner-city retailing became dominated by immigrants. Chicago has proven fertile for a small cadre of black entrepreneurs. Consuelo Pope, president and CEO of the Cosmopolitan Chamber of Commerce, 312-786-xxxx, focuses on building business networks among entrepreneurs. Paul King, 312-939-xxxx, chairman of city’s largest black-owned construction firm, UBM Inc., wrote recent piece in Chicago Tribune about need for businesses and institutions to mentor young black men, as his firm has done. Princeton University graduate John Rogers, 312-726-0140, founded mutual fund firm Ariel Capital Management in 1983, is now president of Chicago Park District, overseeing major effort to boost use of parks citywide.
Historian and businessman Dempsey Travis, 773-994-xxxx, builds new housing for middle-class blacks when not writing books about music and Chicago politics. Buyers of his homes in solid South Side neighborhoods include many who have risen through corporate ranks, a population tracked by sociology professor Sharon M. Collins at University of Illinois at Chicago, 312-996-xxxx. Collins interviewed 76 Chicago executives at the director level and above in 1986 and again in 1990s, finding .stagnatiorv and frustrations that spurred some to create their oayn businesses. Another UIC expert, Cedrick Herring, 312-413-xxxx, recently convened black intellectuals to discuss the state of black America; he can provide a broad perspective And additional sources, as can Barbara Ransby of DePaul University’s African-American studies department, 773-325-xxxx.”
Ping!
Thanks. Schlussel is always diggin around for things like this.
http://web.archive.org/web/20010124111600/www.catalyst-chicago.org/10-99/109prom.htm
John Ayers (Bill’s Brother) and Michelle Obama work together and play together.
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