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 ...
To remedy the problem of racial profiling in Illinois, the ACLU is endorsing a proposal, Senate Bill 1324 filed last week by state Senator Barack Obama (D-Chicago), requiring all law enforcement agencies in the state to gather and report data about the race and ethnicity of all motorists they stop for traffic violations - whether police issue a citation or warning. The information about traffic stops would be collected at the county level and reported to the Illinois Secretary of State, whose office will analyze the data for trends and make a report about evidence of racial profiling to the General Assembly.
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Leader inspires black community
1/19/98
From Correspondent Lisa Price CHICAGO (CNN) -- Barack Obama is many things. He's a state senator, a professor of civil rights law at the University of Chicago, an attorney, a community activist, and an author. "I think that I got a wonderful opportunity," he said, "here to work with a whole range of people, and try to make for a better country."
Obama is the son of a Kenyan father and midwestern mother, and wants to rebuild leadership in the African American community, but he believes the challenge must be shouldered by many, not just a few. He said, "I think there's a sense that unless there is a Messiah out there for African Americans, that somehow we can't solve our problems and I think that's actually a mistake."
Obama says leadership responsibilities fall upon every member of the community. "I also believe the mother who is working full time but still makes, still takes the time to go to a school, pick up a report card, make sure her child is doing homework, she's exhibiting leadership." Obama says he's made it his life's work to help lead those in his community, into a position where they themselves can lead others, and he's only 35 years old. "I think my job," he said, "as one leader among many, is to encourage, and train, and facilitate that kind of leadership among ordinary people."
I'd love nothing more than a huge spotlight on everything we know about this man - but we both know the media is doing everything they can to cover his ass....
Chicago Reporter, December 1996: Votor Turnout Low, Tune Out High"We've got to overthrow capitalism. The system can't work for us," a young .... Barack Obama, a South Side Democrat, said that black voters can still shape ... http://www.chicagoreporter.com/1996/12-96/1296Voter%20Turnout%20Low,%20Tune%20Out%20High.htm - View old version on the Internet Archive
This thread is much ado about nothing and I don’t think it matches the thread headline. Further, Obama’s muslim statement on the Stephanopolus show has been discussed ad nauseum on other threads and I believe it was a nuanced statement taken out of context.
Like I said....when you total it all up, Obama's personal history stinks.
Of course you know this stuff......nearly 80% of FReeper's know it. It's the sheeple that don't know much of anything about Barack Hussein Obama.........
Not much here:
The Chicago Reporter
December 1996
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Voter Turnout Low, Tune Out High
By Johnathon E. Briggs
“Don’t vote! Overthrow the system!,” read the flyer passed out on Election Day by members of the Progressive Labor Party.
“We’ve got to overthrow capitalism. The system can’t work for us,” a young black man told commuters at the Chicago Transit Authority el station at 87th Street and the Dan Ryan Expressway. “Don’t vote for anyone who doesn’t have your best interest at heart!”
Two-and-a-half miles to the east, in Jesse Owens Park, the 8th Ward’s 4th Precinct polling place was open for business. A woman walked briskly toward the entrance with her 4-year old daughter.
“Good morning,” said poll watcher Fernando Ellis. ‘Is she voting too?” The woman replied with an enthusiastic “Yes!”
By 8 a.m., black voters were lining up inside the park’s fieldhouse. “Black folks are coming out of the woodwork,” said Ellis, as he handed out leaflets and palm cards urging voters to “Punch 10!”
But across Chicago and the nation, black voters didn’t come out of the woodwork, and neither did anyone else.
Turnout for the 1996 presidential election, as measured by the percentage of registered voters who cast ballots, was 63.2 percent, according to the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners. But a more accurate measure of political participation-the percentage of eligible voters who cast ballots-shows that only 43.7 percent of Chicago citizens of voting age went to the polls Nov. 5, according to an analysis by The Chicago Reporter
Experts and polls suggest that many Americans have ‘turned off” to the political process, convinced that government and politicians no longer are able or willing to solve their problems.
Andre Wilkins, 36, a registered voter from the West Side, said he saw no point in voting unless it produced something tangible, such as a full-time job.
“I haven’t voted for anyone in my entire life, because I see no reason to vote,” said Wilkins, who spent the holidays working part-time on a Loop street comer collecting donations for the Salvation Army.
Wilkins’ view is echoed by Elizabeth Haseltine, a Polish-born U.S. citizen who, along with her husband, operates Accent on Greenery Inc., a flower shop at 3409 N. Harlem Ave.
Haseltine has been eligible to vote for nearly a decade, but said she’s too busy running her two businesses to ‘waste’ her time voting “I don’t vote. I leave it to my husband,” she said. ‘It can’t change anything In the neighborhood anyway.”
The Reporter analyzed votes by precinct for the Nov. 5 election and 10 years of ward results to determine why, after 18 elections In a decade, electoral politics may no longer hold sway in a city that made famous the slogan, “Vote Early and Often.”
Last summer, a nationwide poll conducted by Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism found that non-voters cross all racial and income lines. They include those who are otherwise active in their communities as well as people alienated from the political process.
The Reporter and Medill graduate students teamed up to look at middle-class neighborhoods In three wards: in the predominantly African American 8th Ward on the South Side; the white 36th Ward on the Northwest Side; and the Latino 22nd Ward on the Southwest Side.
Among the findings:
Turnout among black and white voters follows a similar pattern, though these voters go to the polls for different reasons. Popular black candidates spur black turnout, while whites appear to be motivated by having more choices on the ballot.
Black participation in mayoral elections has plummeted since 1987, even though viable black candidates continue to seek the office.
Black and Latino voters are more loyal to the Democratic Party than whites, casting a higher percentage of straight Democratic ballots.
Black voters have turned off to politics because their representatives lost their independence from City Hall, said political strategist and activist Richard Barnett.
“I think some folks are disaffected because a lot of the people who used to be independent have aU of sudden now sold out to [Mayor Richard M.] Daley,” he said.
Voting Habits
The day after Election Day at the 87th Street el station, no non-voters were to be found, at least none willing to admit it
When asked if he had voted, one black man promptly said yes. But when asked when and where he voted, the man couldn’t remember and refused to give his name.
“That’s what’s wrong with the world,” said a black woman who saw the exchange. “People complain, but don’t do anything because they thinks it makes no difference,” she said, proudly displaying her voter stub.
Stephanie Federic, 26, a longtime 8th Ward resident who had not voted since the 1992 presidential election said, ‘You don’t know who to trust anymore. All politicians will tell you one thing, but when they get into office, they do something else.’
But as a black woman “walking the Christian line,” she decided to vote this time because black leaders had sacrificed to give her that right
In Chicago’s black wards, the decision to vote is driven in part by the presence of a popular black candidate on the ballot. During the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson’s presidential bid in 1988, for example, black voters cast 337,201 ballots in the Illinois Democratic Primary, compared to 284,900 ballots from whites, the Reporter’s analysis shows.
Over the last decade, black voter participation has never been higher than in 1987, when Mayor Harold Washington won re-election with the help of 461,216 votes in black wards, the analysis shows.
“Harold Washington was our Camelot,” said Heddy L. Roberts, 46, who has lived in the 8th Ward since 1974. “When he ran I was very excited... and the fact that he was black just made it more so.”
But the black vote in mayoral contests has been dropping ever since. By 1995, the percentage of eligible voters casting ballots was nearly half of what it was in 1987.
Only Carol Moseley-Braun’s successful U.S. Senate run in 1992 brought out black voters in force, when they cast 459,797 votes, just 1,419 shy of their 1987 totals.
And although precinct workers and community activists credit increased voter turnout in minority areas to Republican attacks on welfare, immigration and affirmative action, the Nov. 5 tallies still fell short of the 1987 totals by 101,758 votes.
Split Ballots
Pauline Olbrisch, 89, has lived in the 8th Precinct of the 36th Ward for 46 years.
After decades of splitting her ballot (voting Democratic in municipal elections and Republican in presidential contests), she is now inclined to just stay home.
“It’s not only the Democrats, it’s the Republicans, too,” she said. “Things are going wrong everywhere, especially here.”
“Here” refers to a neighborhood that is still about 96 percent white, but with a growing Latino and Asian American presence, according to 1995 census estimates by the Reporter. The signs on the doors of most businesses near Belmont and Harlem avenues now announce that proprietors “habla Polish, Italian and Espanola.”
“Residents used to see [kids named] Brian, Guido, Tom and Vito,” said Chicago Police Lt John Finnegan, a volunteer for Alderman William J.P. Banks’ 36th Ward organization. “Now they’re seeing the shaved heads and baggy pants of Juan and Julio hanging out in the same places.”
The Reporter’s analysis of ballots cast reveals that whites tend to split their tickets more than blacks.
In the Nov. 5 election, voters in precincts that are at least 90 percent white cast just 58 percent of their votes for President Bill Clinton, while voters in 90 percent black districts cast 96 percent for Clinton, the Reporter’s analysis shows.
White voters also were equally divided in the race for Cook County State’s Attorney, casting 50.1 percent of their votes for Republican incumbent Jack O’Malley and 48.2 percent for Democrat Richard Devine. Despite the presence of two black candidates, black voters delivered 58.4 percent of their ballots for Devine, who won the contest in an upset
Banks said that voters in his ward have been “very apt” to split their ballots. And although Democratic precinct captains would seem to be frustrated by such behavior, “they don’t mind that these people are voting Republican,” said Paul Kleppner director of the Office for Social Policy Research at Northern Illinois University.
Black voters are not perceived to be as “reliable” as their white counterparts, said Kleppner, an expert in voting analysis.
Yet more blacks than whites responded to the Democratic Party’s “Punch 10” campaign, which promoted a straight Democratic ticket. In the black precincts, 40 percent of voters chose the straight Democratic ticket, compared to 25 percent in white precincts, the Reporter found.
When asked why blacks are more loyal Democrats, political activist Barnett said, “That’s the Republicans’ fault “They always put up these mean-spirited people who try to use blacks as a whipping post in order to gain votes from the white community.”
Electoral Barriers
Alberto Hernandez, 18, and his brother, Andres, 19, carne to the 22nd Ward’s Little Village neighborhood from Mexico seven years ago. But despite their interest in politics and social issues, they couldn’t vote Nov. 5 because they are not citizens.
Their situation is typical of many Hispanic Chicagoans. Voters in predominantly latino wards cast 66,233 ballots in the Nov. 5 election, 7.4 percent of the citywide vote. Only 16.2 percent of eligible Latino voters voted Nov. 5, the Reporter’s analysis shows.
For some Latino voters, language is a barrier to political participation. Thomas Sedlacek, a 22nd Ward election judge who doesn’t speak Spanish, said he accepted a ballot from a woman on Election Day, tore off the receipt and put it in the box. Only then did the woman approach a Spanish-speaking volunteer to explain that she had not yet voted, Sedlacek said.
Juan Andrade Jr., president of the Midwest Northeast Voter Registration and Education Project said minor incidents like these keep many Latinos from the polls.
“People are scared to death about going to vote without their little [registration] card. They think they can’t vote without it,” he said.
Still, Andrade calls 1996 “The Year of the Latino.” Hispanic turnout was at its highest level since the 1992 election, the Reporter found. The turnout was spurted by Republican “scapegoating” of Hispanics on issues ranging from bilingual education to immigration reform, Andrade said.
“They just totally underestimated the character of the Latino vote,” he said.
Hypnotic State
Since 1972, the number of non-voters has increased among the poorest 25 percent of the population, while voting among the middle 50 percent and the top 25 percent has increased, Kleppner said.
“That’s a rational response. Who’s articulating the interests of lower income voters? No one,” he said.
In Chicago, that statement has been taken to its gloomiest conclusion by Lu Palmer, founder and chairman of Chicago Black United Communities: ‘I think the situation has gotten so bad that [we’ve reached] the point of no return,” he said.
But freshman state Sen. Barack Obama, a South Side Democrat, said that black voters can still shape the political agenda in Chicago. Young people must get involved with community organizations, block clubs and other organizations that will lead them back to the political process.
“The starting point is for people to feel that they can actually have an impact on the system,” Obama said. “And if you start simply by encouraging people to vote on Election Day, then you’re starting too late.”
To encourage turnout, Election Day should be a holiday or held on the weekend, so that church officials could lead their congregations to the polls, said the Rev. Willie T. Barrow, chairman of Operation PUSH. Pictorial ballots similar to those used in South Africa would help voters identify candidates, she said.
But R. Eugene Pincham, the Justice Party candidate for state’s attorney, worries that an emphasis on political slogans and images can prevent voters from considering the issues or a candidate’s qualifications. The Punch 10 campaign “proved again that the public does what the media tells them to do,” Pincham said.
“All people wanted to know was the number for [straight Democratic ticket]. It’s like a hypnosis,” Palmer agreed.
That may have been the strategy of 36th Ward precinct workers, who admitted that they pushed Punch 10 on uncertain voters.
“Their eyesight is going bad and they don’t like to read small print,” said political worker Finnegan, referring to the ward’s elderly citizens. “This way, they don’t have to remember a lot of names.”
Joe Losacco, who runs the ward’s 15th Precinct, said he used the same approach with Latino voters. “We have a lot of Hispanics and its tough to communicate,” he said. “It’s hard to get them to vote, because they don’t understand. We kept pointing to the number 10.”
Contributing. Eric Chandler, Tim Craig, Elena Carla Eboh, Josh Goldberg, Kerry Hall, Michelle Holcenberg, Siobhan Hughes, Ellen McCarty, Sridhar Pappu, Michelle Silver, Kristen Simpson and Carol Wang. Interns Mary E. Guest and Robert P Musker helped research this article.
http://www.mikefrancesa.com/wordpress/?p=1536
Thank you, that’s pretty interesting. Short and simple...people might actually understand it.
“Senate Sponsors:
OBAMA.
Short description:
11/1/97-ISLAMIC COMMUNITY DAY
Synopsis of Bill as introduced:
Declares November 1, 1997 to be South Shore Islamic Community
Center Day.”
BUMP.
“To remedy the problem of racial profiling in Illinois, the ACLU is endorsing a proposal, Senate Bill 1324 filed last week by state Senator Barack Obama (D-Chicago), requiring all law enforcement agencies in the state to gather and report data about the race and ethnicity of all motorists they stop for traffic violations - whether police issue a citation or warning. The information about traffic stops would be collected at the county level and reported to the Illinois Secretary of State, whose office will analyze the data for trends and make a report about evidence of racial profiling to the General Assembly. “
Hmmmmm....
ping for later...
What pissed me off was the question regarding Lampson was something about all the relief he organized for Hurricane Ike - was this favorable or not favorable? The "Pete Olson" (repub challenger) question was something about how he voted in two locations, breaking federal law, blah blah" I didn't even hear the remainder of the question because I tore into the idiot caller! I said this wasn't a poll, it was an ad for Lamspon and he could forget it - I was voting straight Republican ticket and wouldn't finish the poll. He tried to argue and I said something very unladylike about someplace he could kiss.....
Welcome to the College Virtual Mailroom... SHOW AND SKIT) Muslim Student Association presents: 10th Annual Ramadan ...
and participate in a reflection session led by State Senator Barack Obama. ...
http://www3-college.uchicago.edu/mailroom/messages/messagedisplay.asp?-messageid=134&source=weeklycalendar.asp - View old version on the Internet Archive
This is the one I wish were there... Barack Obama leading a reflection session for the Student Muslim Association.
You go!!
big bump
It looks like it was an old CNN article which has since been scrubbed:
http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q=obama+Leader+inspires+black+communityDid you save a copy of it?
If not, then could you look for it in your cache?
On most Microsoft systems, the cache is in a directory which looks like
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5If you right click on that directory, then you can search all files for one which contains a string like "a Messiah out there for African Americans".
Then once you find the file, you can copy it over to somewhere like "My Documents" so that you have a permanent copy of it.
But I would really like to see an original copy of that file.
Apologies if you’ve already been pinged... This is a good one. :)
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