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House to Assess State of the Black Union
rollcall.com ^ | July 23, 2013 | Warren Rojas

Posted on 07/23/2013 7:17:20 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe

Tracy Martin, father of Trayvon Martin, the African-American teen slain in Sanford, Fla., by acquitted gunman George Zimmerman, will address members of Congress on Wednesday, sharing his thoughts on the black experience in the United States at the inaugural meeting of the Congressional Caucus on Black Men and Boys.

The group discussion on “The Status of Black Males: Ensuring Our Boys Mature Into Strong Men” is scheduled to take place from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. in Room 2737 of the Rayburn House Office Building.

Ex-Rep. Kweisi Mfume, D-Md., Georgetown University sociology professor Dr. Michael Eric Dyson and Obama administration aide David J. Johns are also expected to weigh in on the challenges facing today’s young black males.

Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., couldn’t get away from the topic even at Comic-Con, alerting those assembled to hear him speak about “March,” the graphic novel detailing his own rites of passage in the segregationist South, that post-racial America is still a ways off.

“People said the election of Barack Obama is the fulfillment of [Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s] dream. And I said, ‘no.’ It’s just a down payment,” Lewis told HOH about the polarizing outcome of the Zimmerman case.

If anything, Lewis urged tomorrow’s leaders to remain ever vigilant.

“These [young] people, they’ve never seen signs saying ‘whites only’ and ‘colored only.’ But we have invisible signs today,” he said. “And the Supreme Court [Voting Rights Act] decision and what happened in Florida with this young man says that the struggle is ongoing.”


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1 posted on 07/23/2013 7:17:21 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Maybe he will talk about his membership in the Crips.


2 posted on 07/23/2013 7:20:21 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Any other Crips or Bloods gonna be there? How ‘bout the Black Gangster Disciples? Vice Lords? Black Panthers?


3 posted on 07/23/2013 7:20:31 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the mainland US There'd be a rifle behind each blade of grass.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

“These [young] people, they’ve never seen signs saying ‘whites only’ and ‘colored only.’ “

Right, because we got rid of them a long time ago.

“But we have invisible signs today,”

Only in your mind you racist pig.


4 posted on 07/23/2013 7:20:42 PM PDT by ZULU ((See: http://gatesofvienna.net/) Obama, do you hear me?)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Tracy Martin, father of Trayvon Martin, the African-American teen slain in Sanford, Fla., by acquitted gunman George Zimmerman, will address members of Congress on Wednesday, sharing his thoughts on the black experience in the United States at the inaugural meeting of the Congressional Caucus on Black Men and Boys.

The group discussion on “The Status of Black Males: Ensuring Our Boys Mature Into Strong Men” is scheduled to take place from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. in Room 2737 of the Rayburn House Office Building.

Here's a few suggestions:
- stop fathering children out of wedlock;
- get married FIRST, then have children;
- STAY married to your children's mother; (emphasis SINGULAR)
- be a FULL TIME DAD, not some part-time deadbeat who misses child support payments and only lets your son stay with you on weekends or when his MOTHER KICKS HIM OUT.

Oh, I'm sorry -- that must all be RACIST isn't it?

5 posted on 07/23/2013 7:20:51 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Tailgunner Joe

This will be good....They will dance all around the obvious truth and never dare to touch it. The truth is too painful and can never be uttered publicly for others to repeat.


6 posted on 07/23/2013 7:20:57 PM PDT by NCDave (AKA, "That idiot over there")
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To: Tailgunner Joe

So the keynote speaker is a gang banger who rarely saw his son, fathered 2 other kids w/different women, and called the jail first when he realized his son was missing the next day. They’re not serious about this and never will be.


7 posted on 07/23/2013 7:21:04 PM PDT by kevcol
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To: Tailgunner Joe
A little something for the **** for Brains Cauci.
8 posted on 07/23/2013 7:21:18 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Amnesty. The DemocRATS' payback for the 2010 elections.)
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To: RightGeek

and why his wife/ex-wife abandoned Trayvon


9 posted on 07/23/2013 7:22:17 PM PDT by molson209
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When do we have Congressional Hearings on the status of White, Christian, Heterosexual males from Father-and-Mother-in-the-home families?

Oh; that's not important at all, and would detract from the Black Experience Project now being conducted 24/7 for the Parasitic Black Voterbase.

10 posted on 07/23/2013 7:22:35 PM PDT by traditional1 (Amerika.....Providing public housing for the Mulatto Messiah)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

You hate to get personal, but, Trayvon’s grieving parents haven’t been raising him all these years. Other assorted relatives have stepped in, as they were unable or unwilling to do the job. They are not a couple anymore either.

And, it’s said that Trayvon’s dad is a gang member.

All in all, it’s clear that Trayvon was going down the wrong road. The jury concluded he threw the first punch. Perhaps because he wanted to show Zimmerman he was tough. Probably a ghetto thing. That Rachel girl said that Trayvon was giving him a whoop ass, which I assume also is some ghetto terminology meaning beating somebody up.


11 posted on 07/23/2013 7:23:15 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego (race)
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To: kevcol

both sabrina and her ex hubbie are now employed by the Trayvon Martin Foundation

they be livin large like Al and Jesse and I guarantee that Sabrina will run for public office.


12 posted on 07/23/2013 7:25:02 PM PDT by digger48
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To: molson209

Mommas don’t let your babies grow up to be thugs.


13 posted on 07/23/2013 7:26:19 PM PDT by TheDon (Inside Every Liberal is a Totalitarian Screaming to Get Out.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Politicians love dependents.

14 posted on 07/23/2013 7:26:55 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: usconservative
Here's a few suggestions:
- stop fathering children out of wedlock;
- get married FIRST, then have children;
- STAY married to your children's mother; (emphasis SINGULAR)
- be a FULL TIME DAD, not some part-time deadbeat who misses child support payments and only lets your son stay with you on weekends or when his MOTHER KICKS HIM OUT.

How do I know that not one of these suggestions will be mentioned by any of the "experts" called to this tax-funded gathering, starting with Trayvon's dad?

15 posted on 07/23/2013 7:27:09 PM PDT by madprof98
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Good lord,will this ever end?

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16 posted on 07/23/2013 7:29:47 PM PDT by Mears (F)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Can anybody guess what they will say??

Bwahahahahahahaha

Like we haven’t heard it a thousand times before.

A real meeting of the minds here.

All of these racist POS in the same place all at once.


17 posted on 07/23/2013 7:29:51 PM PDT by Venturer
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Let’s see if we can set race relations back the full Monty, instead of 60 years, let’s go the full boat, 150 years.

Let’s see if we can dial up the victimology routine another notch or two. Probably we can shuffle some taxpayer monies and get some of our consulting buddies to conduct studies costing millions of dollars to show what any rational person could observe if it isn’t obvious on its face. And then we can create programs and agencies to employ our buddies in cushy do-nothing no-responsibility government jobs to hand out grants and, while we’re at it, get every crack ho a $5 dollar bill so she’ll vote for us next time. Maybe we can establish a cabinet-level position with several hundred people on staff with a hundred million or so budget, to set goals, develop guidelines, create milestones, seek waypoints, modify diversity attainment levels, and in general, modify society according to how we all know it should be done.


18 posted on 07/23/2013 7:31:31 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Both parties are trying to elect a new PEOPLE.)
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“These [young] people, they’ve never seen signs saying ‘whites only’ and ‘colored only.’

Sure they have, there's a coloreds only sign hanging around the CBC.

19 posted on 07/23/2013 7:31:35 PM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

The biggest threat to young black men, is young black men.


20 posted on 07/23/2013 7:32:09 PM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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