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A civil war is breaking out within the left of the Democratic Party pitting the Congressional Black Caucus against the first African-American president. The battle began when California Rep. Maxine Waters complained publicly about the administration's failure to do more to help minority-owned businesses in the current recession. (Translation: In the new stimulus of "jobs" bill making its way through Congress, they want a larger take.) It continued yesterday when 10 members of the Black Caucus refused to participate in a meeting of the House Banking Committee that was considering the bill to restructure financial regulations, forcing Chairman Barney Frank...

Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) members on Wednesday criticized the Obama administration for not doing enough to help African-Americans through the bleak economy. Soon after withholding their votes on a wide-ranging financial services bill, 10 CBC members said they are pressuring the White House to do more. The House Financial Services Committee voted 31-27 in favor of the bill, but the lawmakers’ boycott came on a major financial measure the administration wants to see Congress pass this month. “We have not been forceful enough in our efforts to protect the most vulnerable of our population,” said Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), who...

Decrying Barack Obama as "white power in black face," hundreds of African-Americans marched on the White House Saturday to protest policies of the first black US president, and demand that he bring US troops home. More than 200 people gathered for the first public demonstration by African Americans against the Obama administration since his historic inauguration in January, and slammed the president for continuing what they described as Washington's "imperialist" agenda around the world. "We recognize that Barack Hussein Obama is white power in black face," civil rights activist Omali Yeshitela, chairman of the Black is Back coalition which arranged...

Take a look at the verse on the cover. The LORD God is saying this verse. With O's face on it, the connection can be made that O said this verse, instead of God Himself. Wow.

Limbaugh: Obama's presidency worsening relations between races By Jordan Fabian - 10/12/09 08:30 AM ET In a rare interview, conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh said that President Barack Obama's election has worsened racial problems, not helped solve them. Limbaugh claimed that critics of Obama's policies are quickly labeled racist, creating a toxic environment for political discourse. "I'll be honest with you, I predicted to you it was going to exacerbate racial problems, and it has," he told NBC in an interview that aired this morning. "Any criticism of President Obama is going to be said to be racism. And...

Prayer was mixed with a dose of politics at Passaic’s largest black church on Sunday as congregants donned Obama T-shirts in a show of support for a president they say has been unfairly criticized after only eight months in office. The Union Baptist Church held a “Support Obama Sunday,” asking members to “turn the script” on the “wicked and nasty” reaction Obama has received in some quarters as he pushes for health-care reform. The church’s pastor, Rev. Ronald W. Johnson, said he rarely brings politics into the church but was moved to do so because he is concerned that some...

My Good Freepers, Please help me locate all Black History Month videos featuring children singing the praises of any noted conservative. Just one, please. I'll sit here and hold my breath.

The video, lyrics and an explanation of how the video came to be were posted on YouTube, September 7th, 2009, by user misterbee2009: The Obama Song (”Proud American”) By Mr. B and the students of Room 8 February 2009 Obama is the President! First African America in history 44th president of the United States The ground has shifted The world has changed! CHORUS: Oooo Im a proud American Oooo yes yes yes yes YES WE CAN! Im going to study really hard just like Barack

"He said we must be fair today Equal work means equal pay Mmm, mmm, mm! Barack Hussein Obama" "He said that we must take a stand To make sure everyone gets a chance Mmm, mmm, mm! Barack Hussein Obama"

Here is video of President Obama appearing on the David Letterman Show, which will air tonight. In this clip, Obama talks with Letterman about what "his day" is like as President. Letterman also asked Obama if he thought Jimmy Carter was right that opposition to Obama at Town Hall Meetings is a result of "racism." Obama said, "It's important to realize that I was actually black before the election." Obama once again compared himself to FDR, pointing out that he was called a "socialist," even as Obama is being called a socialist. . . . (VIDEO)

Diane Watson: "They are spreading fear and they're trying to see that the first president who looks like me -- fails."

Rep. Diane Watson (D-CA): "They are spreading fear and they are trying to see that the first President who looks like me fails. Now, just understand what is at the bottom line."

Love this man !

Reporting from Tallahassee, Fla. - After decades of exposure to all of those stereotypes -- the Aunt Jemimas and the gangsta rappers, the Willie Hortons and TV drug dealers -- this just wasn't supposed to be happening. The test results baffled Florida State University psychologist Ashby Plant. She checked and rechecked the figures. Something must be wrong, she told herself. Plant and her colleagues had just administered a racial Implicit Association Test to 74 white college students. A common tool in psychology lab work, the IAT purports to measure the kinds of biases people may not admit or even know...

President Barack Obama recently met over beer with Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Sgt. James Crowley, hoping to diffuse tense debates over racial profiling and racial bias triggered by the arrest of the Harvard University scholar by the Cambridge, Mass., police department officer. Though that racially charged conversation may be over, vicious attacks on the first Black President of the United States are not. Analysts say don't expect the attacks to end anytime soon. The most outrageous charges may have come from radio and TV talk show host Glenn Beck. “I'm not saying that he doesn't like people I'm...

The Lack of a Black Agenda By Erin Aubry Kaplan August 1, 2009 Barack Obama finally showed up. On the centennial anniversary of the NAACP last month, the president took the microphone at the organization's convention in New York and, for the first time since his inauguration, spoke directly to black Americans. Noting that it was "good to be among friends," he went on to deliver a clear, sometimes informal and impassioned speech on the state of the race -- his race. He unselfconsciously used the terms "us" and "we." He charted the victories of the black past and described...

Oops, President Obama did it again. He thoughtlessly, carelessly and offensively whipped out the race card.Some people — not just black — voted for Obama because of his race. Many expected an Obama election to (a) improve "race relations" and (b) make a profound statement about America's inclusiveness. Obama's election would show how close we've come to Dr. Martin Luther King's vision of a society that judges people by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin. He seemed so uplifting. A biracial candidate (white mom, black dad), he refreshingly responded to Steve Kroft's "60 Minutes"...

Of course we knew this all along, Colin Powell a decorated General, Veteran of Vietnam, votes for an inexperienced radical who was best friends with a guy who bombed his place of employment(Pentagon), over a Vietnam Veteran who spent 5 years in a prison camp for his country getting his arms broken behind his back......H/T to Rush Limbaugh, you were right all along...

Just six months into his Presidency; facing the worst economic downturn since the great depression and with America at war on two fronts (with two more possibly lurking - North Korea and Iran), Barack Obama is finding out rather quickly what black achievers in positions of "power" and "influence" have known for a while now. It does not matter what the challenges and obstacles are that you face, when you are black, just get it done and oh by the way, don't expect to have too much "on-boarding" time either. There are some, who after reading this article, will proceed...

With two phone calls and a surprise appearance in the White House briefing room Friday, President Obama attempted to recast his role in the debate over last week’s arrest of Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. by the Cambridge, Mass., Police Department. Obama phoned both Gates and James Crowley, the police sergeant who arrested Gates, inviting them to the White House for what could be a made-for-television event advancing a narrative of racial reconciliation. And in remarks to the White House press corps, the president responded to outcry over his charge that Cambridge police had “acted stupidly” in their handling...