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The Berkeley, California-based Greenlining Institute's politically correct approach to philanthropy now threatens to metastasize at the national level. The Wall Street Journal reports today that the shakedown artists at the Greenlining Institute, which played a major role in Wall Street's current problems, is taking its crusade to bring race-consciousness to philanthropy nationwide. Here's the top part of the op-ed: What if the Greenlining Institute held a shakedown and nobody paid up? The Berkeley-based outfit invited representatives from America's top 50 foundations to come to their offices two weeks ago for a chat on the urgent national priority of "diversity in...

Black Republican leader Frances Rice runs against the grain of most Democrats when she calls them racist. She doesn’t care. That is her belief and she isn’t backing down. Her “Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican” (Rice article on why MLK was a Republican) billboards angered many on both sides of the aisle. She is still waiting for the Democrats to prove her wrong on the MLK billboards without any challenge to the contrary yet. She is one woman I respect because she admits the truth about her race’s racist history and it’s connection to the Democrat Party without...

I don't know about you but I have had it with the legions of hustlers, grifters, drunks, junkies, pathics and drooling layabouts that keep waddling and teetering up to the public trough from that swamp of puke called New Orleans. The latest of an endless line of calls upon the kindness of strangers by these public-purse pimps is this little bit of chicanery: Katrina victim sues U.S. for $3 quadrillion Hurricane Katrina's victims have put a price tag on their suffering and it is staggering -- including one plaintiff seeking the unlikely sum of $3 quadrillion. The total number --...

New York State will sue the Bush administration unless the federal government grants the state a waiver to extend public health coverage to tens of thousands of more children who are not covered by Medicaid, Governor Spitzer said yesterday. A lawsuit would be a last resort for the Spitzer administration, which is angling for Congress to step in and override newly imposed federal guidelines that have derailed the governor's effort to expand the state's health coverage program for children. Lawmakers are expected to pass a reauthorization of the State Children's Health Insurance Program when they return from their summer recess...

NEW YORK - Thousands of protesters, counting in unison from one to 50 to mark the number of shots fired by police in the death of an unarmed Queens man last month, clogged Fifth Avenue on Saturday in a “Shopping for Justice” protest three weeks after the slaying and one week before the Christmas weekend. Trent Benefield, 23, one of the survivors of the Nov. 25 shooting that killed Sean Bell, led the marchers from his wheelchair as they headed south through midtown Manhattan. He was encircled by bodyguards, and followed by a group of clergy and elected officials on...

About 400 people marched in downtown Houston today in support of immigrant rights, part of a nationwide Labor Day effort in advance of this month's congressional debate on immigration legislation. Marchers said they don't want top politicians to think they've forgotten the cause since the rallies last spring that drew tens of thousands of people to the streets. This time, they carried American flags and signs that said "Today we march. Tomorrow we vote." Leaders said the demonstrators advocate permanent legal residency for immigrants who cross the border illegally, as well as a higher minimum wage and bans on racial...

The federal program that provides legal help to poor Americans turns away half of its applicants for lack of resources. But that hasn't stopped its executives from lavishing expensive meals, chauffeur-driven cars and foreign trips on themselves. Agency documents obtained by The Associated Press detail the luxuries that executives of the Legal Services Corp. have given themselves with federal money from $14 "Death by Chocolate" desserts to $400 chauffeured rides to locations within cab distance of their offices. The government-funded corporation also has a spacious headquarters in Washington's tony Georgetown district...

Kevin Brown's most feared opponent on the sandlot or basketball court while he was growing up wasn't another kid. It was the polluted air he breathed. "I would look outside and I would see him just leaning on a tree or leaning over a pole, gasping, gasping, trying to get some breath so he could go back to playing," recalls his mother, Lana Brown. Kevin suffered from asthma. His mother is convinced the factory air that covered their neighborhood triggered the son's attacks that sent them rushing to the emergency room week after week, his panic filling the car. "I...

Um, no one. Sorry to disappoint the moonbats and Mother Ship riders, but the flooding of New Orleans wasn't a Republican conspiracy to kill black people. Via Paul at Wizbang, Bob Marshall of the New Orleans Time-Picayune penned a summary yesterday of the real reasons for the failure of the 17th Street Canal levee in New Orleans: The floodwall on the 17th Street Canal levee was destined to fail long before it reached its maximum design load of 14 feet of water because the Army Corps of Engineers underestimated the weak soil layers 10 to 25 feet below the levee,...

Kanye West stirred all kinds of feelings when he recently told a live TV audience "George Bush doesn't care about black people." The first lady called those remarks "disgusting." Many people said West was a fool for going political at such an inappropriate moment. Others felt different. The rapper's vitriolic words captured the frustration and anger of so many people in this country. His words have become a catchphrase emblazoned on T-shirts and bumper stickers. Now an underground remix of West's song "Gold Digger" - which West was not involved in - is on the Internet, downloaded by tens of...

It's time to attack the Racism Industry

KANYE WEST some rapper punk or whoever was just on trying to get people to donate money to the red cross. He was on with Mike Myers (Wayne's World). Mike Myers asked people to donate...then Kanye West went on a tirade about Iraq, Mike Myers said something else, and then Kanye says "GEORGE BUSH DOESN'T CARE ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE!"WHAT A FREAKING OUTRAGE!!!!!!!!!

A featured speaker at Saturday's civil rights march in Atlanta said the Bush administration and Republican Party leaders are "thieves" who "need to be locked up" for stealing the past two presidential elections and presiding over federal budget deficits and the war in Iraq. "They all need to be locked up because they are all criminals and they are all thieves," said Judge Greg Mathis, the star of the syndicated television program "The Judge Mathis Show." Mathis made his remarks to an enthusiastic crowd assembled in Atlanta to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Participants...

NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) -- A black doctor has offered $50,000 to a Southern heritage group to buy the naming rights to a Vanderbilt University dormitory at the center of a legal fight over whether it should be called Confederate Memorial Hall.

Have you heard about the latest California crusade? It's called Proposition 54, and it's based on the utopian ideal that race doesn't matter. The proposition stipulates that state and local officials can't collect or use information regarding someone's race, ethnicity, color or national origin for the purpose of public education, public contracting, public employment or other government operations. The mastermind behind Prop. 54 is a mild-mannered man by the name of Ward Connerly. He also happens to be African-American. But people are warned not to use that term in his presence. As Connerly sees it, race isn't real. Well, in...

An elderly political activist, repeatedly portrayed by CBS News as a typical victim of the high cost of prescription drugs, now admits the network "probably" should have disclosed her lobbying interests. Viola Quirion, who favors the Medicare changes that would provide elderly Americans such as herself with a taxpayer-subsidized prescription drug plan, might not be considered a typical senior citizen to many people - given her extensive political lobbying background, which includes advocating on behalf of Alliance for Retired Persons. But that's the way she was portrayed by CBS News on at least three occasions since 1999, most recently in...

What Legacy from the Radical Internationalism of 1968? Max Elbaum Seattle used to be just a city. Since December 1999, it has become shorthand for grassroots protest against the injustices of global capitalism. This is hardly the first time a place-name has come to symbolize a watershed in opposition movements. There were a host of such markers in the huge wave of U.S. protests against racism and the Vietnam War during and after 1968: "Chicago" (referring to the 1968 Democratic Convention where police beat demonstrators as they chanted "the whole world is watching"); "San Francisco State" (where a 1968-69 strike...

How do you know if you're a Democrat? If you've ever met someone down on his or her luck, and you wanted to help, then you're a Democrat. If you have ever seen the look in a child's eyes of fear, of hunger, or of aspiration, and wanted to help, then you're a Democrat. If you have ever wanted leadership that had common sense, that cared about the future, and that wanted progress over partisanship, then you're a Democrat. If you believe that we are better off working together than apart, then you're a Democrat. If you believe in community,...

WASHINGTON - The number of people living in high poverty neighborhoods declined during the 1990s as the economic boom lifted incomes, studies by two liberal-leaning think tanks found. At decade's end, about 8 million people were in neighborhoods in which at least 40 percent of the residents lived in poverty, according to the Brookings Institution. That was 24 percent less than in 1990. People found better-paying jobs or those with higher incomes moved into the neighborhoods and reduced the poverty level, rolling back increases from the previous two decades. "This is a stunning reversal," Bruce Katz, head of the Center...

Memo to liberals: Black single mothers living in the inner city are people too. That's the message of a new study published in the journal Science magazine showing that single mothers forced from the public dole by the welfare reform of 1996 are supporting themselves with jobs and completely raising their children-a picture in stark contrast to the forecasts of doom made by welfare-reform opponents. Once off the rolls, welfare mothers were supposed to collaspe into a haze of laziness and incompetence, suffering from their incapicity for that most basic of human activities--work. Their children were supposed to be traumatized...