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Last week's AFRO.com poll question concerning Sen. Hilary Clinton's remark that the House of Representatives closely resembles a plantation elicited many more responses than the weekly norm. The poll question received more than a 150 percent increase in voter participation, with almost 90 percent voting the same way. This unusually high number of responses, and the actual voting pattern raised some questions with the publisher. A full investigation, however; was issued after reading the response of one anonymous voter, "your poll is being hacked by freerepublic.com so the results shouldn't be taken too seriously." AFRO staff quickly went to www.freerepublic.com,...

The latest installment in the Democratic Party’s attempt to divide the country came this week when their favorite daughter, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D – NY), used the occasion of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day to stem the decline of Black people voting for their candidates. Democrats are justifiably frightened over the fact that in 2004 President Bush received between 12 to 16 percent support from African-American voters in battleground states such as Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Speaking this week at Harlem’s Canaan Baptist Church of Christ, Mrs. Clinton stated, “When you look at the way the House of...

(Being with deep apologies to songmeister Crewe and diverse others as legal requirements may in fact warrant anywhere.) This is the story of how Lady Marmalade, a.k.a. Hillary Clinton, met her Mocha Choco Latta Mayor down in "old New Orleans." That, of course, is exactly the mentality of a slave master.

Sources close to New York civil rights leader Rev Al Sharpton tell me that Hillary used his annual Martin Luther King Day forum to liken the House Republican majority's conduct of the House of Representatives to a "plantation" because she fears a Sharpton challenge in the 2008 Democratic Presidential Primary. Hillary also fears that if Sharpton were to challenge her, it could weaken her in a possible contest against Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in the fall, if Rice were to be the GOP nominee. "She is afraid of Condi," one of Sharpton's key people said. "She did not attend...