Black world conference loses its audience

Washington Times ^ | Saturday, December 1, 2001 | Steve Miller

[JohnHuang2]

Quote of the Day by Hillary 666

[exmoor]

ATLANTA — The State of the Black World Conference was experiencing serious attendance problems...where their jails filled ?

[xm177e2]

"This country can't find a guy who comes out every two weeks to cut a video, and then you challenge us to stand under one flag," Mr. Sharpton said.

What a world-class jerk. And Mark Green was accused of being a racist because he (rightfully) accused Ferrer of sucking up to Sharpton. Pathetic.

[backhoe]

"Cuba is right there, ready to build solidarity for the revolution," Mr. Torres promised. "The Negroes of Cuba day after day make the dream of their ancestors a reality."

Castro, the Carribean, and Terrorism

[monocle]

Was Mugabe the main sponsor of this event?

[brat]

"The reason there are not many people there is because black people are sick of hearing all of this rhetoric.".....Amen! The rest of us are sick of hearing it too!

[butter pecan fan]

It was a far cry from the thunderous atmosphere of Thursday evening, when Mr. Sharpton exhorted an audience of 700 cheering people of all ages to focus on the concerns of black America instead of flying a U.S. flag.

"This country can't find a guy who comes out every two weeks to cut a video, and then you challenge us to stand under one flag," Mr. Sharpton said.

I disagree sharply with the poster who called Sharpton a world-class jerk.

He's not a world-class anything.

The trouble is that they have no solutions to the problems besetting blacks around the world, said Kevin L. Martin, advisor to Project 21, a black Republican advocacy group.

Mr. Martin is angry that black Republicans were left off an invitation list that is remarkable more for its no-shows than the number of those who agreed to come.

"Black conservatives were not invited to the event and they want to call this the state of the black world," Mr. Martin said. "The reason there are not many people there is because black people are sick of hearing all of this rhetoric."

Why don't Black conservatives come up with their own huge conference, call it "The Conference of Black America," invite all the conservatives, and tell Al Sharpton and The "Reverend" Jesse Jackson to go to hell?

Before the opening session ended, Cosme Torres, deputy ambassador to the United Nations for Cuba, praised his communist country's civil rights record.

This just simply defies comment.

[AmericanVictory]

Can you spell marginal?

And the worst part is that it did not have to be that way.

Millions of deserving black Americans have been given no voice while these characters lead everyone down the Rosie path, entranced with their celebrity and their hearts filled with 1930's Marxism in an age of increasingly dispersed decision making, like Robeson off to the USSR while Stalin killed whole nations and ethnic groups at an increasing pace.

[exmoor]

Good post...ps My favorite is Butter Pecan. I love it so much, I have to sneak it.

[Stallone]

Racist B@stards! Every one of them!

[Trueblackman]

We Black Conservatives do have something in the works. I am hoping to bring Project21 BOND BAMPAC The New Black Leadership Council and other black conservative groups together in the next two months to offer solutions and not excuse for black Americans.

[IronJack]

"The reason there are not many people there is because black people are sick of hearing all of this rhetoric."

I think that sums it up nicely.

[IronJack]

Anything we can do to help, just knock.

[Trueblackman]

Thank you for the offer of help and we will take any we can get. I have plans to ask Dr. Rice and Rod Paige to attend our forum as well.

[Godfollow]

'"Cuba is right there, ready to build solidarity for the revolution," Mr. Torres promised. "The Negroes of Cuba day after day make the dream of their ancestors a reality."'

Uh, if you mean revolution as in "revolution", then I don't think you understand America. Go to Cuba, if it's so great, and stay there!

[TomServo]

What are we going to do next?"

Get jobs?

[Trueblackman]

I recently met with a group of Afro-Cubans at The National Headquarters of Project21 after they met with Congressional Leaders much to the dismay of The Congressional Black Causas. Tom Delay he put this together and these Afro-Cuban spoke of the racism that goes on in Cuba.

[denydenydeny]

"Cuba now has a school of medicine with people attending from 24 countries,"

But no medicine.

He noted that the United States has "millions of people without health care."

And their people manage to live longer lifespans than Cubans do. Imagine.

[denydenydeny]

In Cuba, Old Racial Attitudes Prevail

[IronJack]

I assume you've already talked with Rev. Jesse Peterson? Luis Gonzales is in touch with the S. Fla. Cuban community. They might have some comment on the wonderful, open society under Castro's velvet hand. In fact, Luis could probably put you in touch with Donato Dalrymple, Elian Gonzalez' uncle. We used to have some pretty solid contacts within the Alan Keyes organization as well.

I'd like to see Clarence Thomas, Thomas Sowell, JC Watts, Condoleeza Rice, and a handful of others slap down the Sharpton/Jackson/Farrakhan crowd once and for all. Ain't gonna happen, but it would a great way to announce that the door is open, and blacks are free to leave the plantation.