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MIAMI (CBS4) ; A local Republican running for office in November is already involved in controversy. Corey Poitier, who is running for a congressional seat, is taking heat for comments he made that have been interpreted as racist against President Barack Obama. "They are portraying me in the media as I should have a white hood on," said Poitier, to CBS4's Jorge Estevez at a coffee shop in Miami-Dade. Poitier is accused of racism for comments made surrounding President Obama's new health care plan. "Since it started in the Senate, to me, it is unconstitutional," said Poitier, referring to the...

State Representative District 51 40 of 40 Precincts 100% Joe Harrison 4,338 57% Carla Dartez (I) 3,276 43% (I) denotes incumbent candidate

HOUMA - State Rep. Carla Dartez, D-Morgan City, said she is mulling withdrawl from the Nov. 17 runoff race after NAACP president Jerome Boykin says she referred to his mother as "Buckwheat."

BERKELEY – A petite pink flower that hasn't been seen in 70 years has been rediscovered on the flanks of Mount Diablo in Contra Costa County by a University of California, Berkeley, graduate student. The Mount Diablo buckwheat, Eriogonum truncatum, "has been a Holy Grail in the East Bay for several decades," according to UC Berkeley botanist Barbara Ertter, who confirmed the identification in the field on Friday. Last reported in 1936, the flower was presumed extinct, she said, because its habitat has been overrun by introduced grasses. It is one of only three plants, all of them rare,...

"OUR GANG" Whatever happened to these people? Well, here is is.....the "rest of the story" of Our Gang/center> ALFALFA Carl Switzer was shot to death at age 31. CHUBBY 300-pound Norman Chaney died at age 22 following an operation. BUCKWHEAT William Thomas died at age 49 of a heart attack. DARLA HOOD The Our Gang leading lady contracted hepatitis and died at age 47. BRISBANE Kendall McCormas, known as Breezy Brisbane, committed suicide at age 64. MICKEY DANIELS He died of liver disease at 55. STYMIE Mathew Bear led a life of crime and drugs. He died of a stroke...

Remember Saturday Night Live, when Eddie Murphy did the "Buckwheat Sings" routine? Now it's Dan Rather's turn. Let's never forget Dan Rather's ugly remark. He said to Imus on-air: "What happened was they got the willies, they got the Buckwheats. Their knees wobbled and we gave it up." [referring to CBS management]. The Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, a civil rights leader, chastised Rather for the remark, as reported by Newsmax: http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/7/22/190650.shtml There is another aspect to this. Yeah, Rather can still brag about not getting wobbly knees. When I heard that quote of him, I thought immediately about Solomon's warning...

A year ago, on March 15, 2003, about 120 people gathered in the rain at Sharon Amity and Randolph roads to protest the war in Iraq. Among them were Craig and Cindy Corrie, then of Charlotte. The next morning, the Corries received a call from their son-in-law in Washington state, telling them that their 23-year-old daughter, Rachel, had been killed in the Gaza Strip, the long-disputed Palestinian territory in the Middle East. Rachel Corrie, an activist and "human shield," had been crushed by an Israeli bulldozer as she tried to keep a Palestinian pharmacist's house from being razed. The Corries...