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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- A local teenage politician caused controversy on Thursday in the party that he just joined. On Tuesday, the 19-year-old easily won a seat on the Republican Executive Committee in Palm Beach County. On Thursday, the committee kicked him off based on his family's notorious racial hate past. Derek Black, whose father is a former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, won his first election before getting kicked off his post. "Well, I don't know why he wants us," said Chairman Sid Dinerstein. "But for sure we don't want him, and we're not going to...

One of many sayings I remember from my grandmother is, "If the hiss doesn't tell you it's a snake, then the fact that it slithers on its belly in the dirt should." And to that point, if the company Barack Obama has kept (read the dirt he has aligned himself with) doesn't tell you he is a Marxist reparationist, then the words from his mouth, i.e., his hiss, certainly should. Obama repeatedly told the NAACP, "I've been working my entire adult life to help build an America where 'economic justice' is being served. And as president, we'll ensure that 'economic...

This story started back in early July with this article: http://www.columbiatribune.com/2008/Jul/20080729News003.asp

Crime in America has been climbing steadely over the past century. in the 1940s, there was one murder a week in New York City. That's 52 murders a year. In 1980s, there were 5000 murders a year in New York City. Why is our crime going up? Did we go wrong in raising the next generation? Could it be the images on TV? Secular Humanism? Our schools? The culprit is Liberals. For the past fifty years left wing policies have hampered law enforcement efforts to go after and prosecute criminals to the fullest extent, prevented law abiding citizens from defending...

I do want John McCain to win in November. Consider the alternative. I've personally been told to tread easy and not make the McCain Campaign mad, but there's certain things that need be said, and I'm proud of my tendency of saying things that need be said by those who don't want to make waves. John McCain's overtures to black groups like the NAACP, and now the Urban League may make for well-needed press, but at the same time, why do Republicans continue to ignore the one group of black folk they KNOW will vote for them: black Republicans?

Video: NAACP formally buries the "N" word at the 98th Annual NAACP Convention in Detroit July 9, 2007. On demand webcast of the entire content is available thanks to AT&T at naacpwebcast.com

MIAMI, FL - A civil rights group protested outside the offices of the National Hurricane Center today over what it claims is a disparity in the organization's storm naming process. The group staged the protest due to what it sees as "an elitist, bigoted practice that favors whites and Hispanics".

CNSNews.comNAACP Urged to Help De-Fund Planned ParenthoodThursday, July 17, 2008By Randy Hall, Staff Writer/Editor Dr. Alveda King (CNSNews.com) - Dozens of pastors and pro-life activists attending the 99th annual NAACP conference in Cincinnati this week are calling on that organization to help de-fund the nation’s largest abortion provider. “Racism lives at Planned Parenthood,” said Dr. Alveda King, pastoral associate of the group Priests for Life and niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., during a rally on Monday. “I say to my fellow NAACP members: It's time we tell the government to stop funding racism. "Planned Parenthood will gladly accept donations...

If someone wiped out the entire African-American population in Oakland, Atlanta, and Washington, D.C., the number still wouldn't equal the number of black babies lost to abortion in one year: 683,294. According to the Allan Guttmacher Institute, African-American women are nearly five times more likely than non-Hispanic white women to have an abortion. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, almost one in every two African-American pregnancies ends in abortion. These are facts, say pro-life blacks, that the NAACP can't afford to ignore. On July 14, the pro-lifers—including Alveda King (niece of Martin Luther King Jr.) and Clenard...

Governor Paterson, delivering a speech today at the NAACP's 99th annual convention at Cincinnati, suggested that the defeat of Senator Obama in the presidential election would be a victory for racism in America. Mr. Paterson, a former lieutenant governor whose sudden rise to power following the resignation of Eliot Spitzer has led the press to dub him the "accidental governor," said he is offended by the label and suggested that it was motivated by racism.

Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain (R-AZ) addresses supporters during a campaign stop at the NAACP National Convention in Cincinnati, Ohio, July 16, 2008.

Jesse Jackson's infamous "hot mic" remarks have raised to the surface tensions seen earlier within the black community. Only days have passed, and already the uproar over Brother Jesse's remarks have been superseded by yet another crisis, courtesy of Eustace Tilley. It can't be said that this is a dull campaign. But it'll pay us to linger awhile over the Reverend's street insult thrown the Senator's way for the offense of talking down to blacks. Most of the incident's context has been elided by the mass media, no doubt due to its involving touchy questions of race. But a closer...

Pro-life black leaders recently held a press conference in Cincinnati, Ohio and admonished the NAACP's support for pro-abortion candidates and pre-natal murder. ProLifeNews.tv was there to cover all the action. Video

CINCINNATI (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful John McCain praised Democrat Barack Obama on Wednesday in a speech to black leaders and outlined what he called honest differences with Obama over taxes, spending and education. "I am a candidate for president who seeks your vote and hopes to earn it," he told the NAACP, the country's oldest civil rights organization and one of its most influential. "But whether or not I win your support, I need your goodwill and counsel. And should I succeed, I'll need it all the more." Indeed, McCain told the NAACP that he thinks highly of Obama,...

Barack Obama received a prideful welcome from the annual NAACP convention Monday night, but in a stirring speech to the nation's oldest civil rights organization, he nonetheless insisted blacks must show greater responsibility for improving their own lives," the Associated Press reports from Cincinnati: The man who could become the first black president urged Washington to provide more education and economic assistance. He called on corporate America to exercise greater social responsibility. But he also received his most lusty applause as he urged blacks to demand more of themselves. "If we're serious about reclaiming that dream, we have to do...

he national NAACP has again said it will step up a campaign against South Carolina for flying the Confederate flag at the State House. The organization declared it would exert continued pressure to discourage NCAA sporting events and film production in South Carolina.“This is unfinished business,” said Lonnie Randolph, state NAACP president, echoing the message delivered Monday by NAACP interim president and CEO Dennis Hayes, at the organization’s 99th national convention in Cincinnati. Hayes told the Associated Press the organization is still working on its plan to discourage tourism and film production in the state. The National Association for the...

At the Good Counsel shelters for homeless pregnant women in New York, yesterday was business as usual: pregnant moms getting ready to deliver, other mothers feeding their children, still others going off to school or training for new jobs. There is a striking fact about these women: most are African-American. "These moms are attracted to Good Counsel because they know they will be in an environment where their baby is considered as beautiful and as worthy of life as any other," says Executive Director Chris Bell.

A Barack Obama presidency may be historic, but it wouldn't end the country's contentious history of race relations, says Julian Bond, chairman of the NAACP. "We know that Obama's electoral success, even if he should win the ultimate prize, won't signal an end to racial discrimination, but it does mark the high point of an interracial movement that dates back to the Underground Railroad," Bond said.

It has been 3 years since my last appearance on Fox News Channel, but I have been asked to appear on tomorrow morning's early edition of Fox and Friends concerning race, the election, the New Yorker and Barack H. Obama's Speech before the leftist NAACP.

NAACP: Obama Win Won't Fix Race Problems CINCINNATI, July 14, 2005(AP) Racial disparity will remain an issue in America, regardless of whether Barack Obama is elected as the nation's first black president, the chairman of the NAACP told the organization's national convention Sunday night. Julian Bond, a veteran civil rights leader, said Obama's candidacy doesn't "herald a post-civil rights America, any more than his victory in November will mean that race as an issue has been vanquished in America." But he drew loud applause when he said the country, and "all of us here," are taking pride in the success...

It's easy for opponents to ascribe motives to Sen. John McCain's decision to address the annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People on Wednesday in Cincinnati. “John McCain's campaign stop has everything to do with political tactics and nothing to do with genuinely reaching out to voters,” said Alex Goepfert, spokesman for the Ohio Democratic Party. Another high-ranking Democrat, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that appearing before a predominantly black audience from which the Republican presidential candidate has a scant chance of getting votes is designed to earn McCain points with moderate white voters....

WASHINGTON — Barack Obama and John McCain vie for African-American votes this week with appearances before the NAACP convention in Cincinnati, a stop with potential opportunities and pitfalls for both candidates.

Cincinnati, OH (LifeNews.com) -- Leading pro-life African Americans are finalizing their plans to protest abortion at the upcoming national convention of the NAACP. The black pro-life advocates say they plan to point out how the civil rights group is unwilling to discuss how abortion disproportionately affects the African-American community.As LifeNews.com reported exclusively last month, Rev. Clenard Childress, a New Jersey pastor, and a leader of the black pro-life group LEARN, says the protests will address the NAACP, abortion and Barack Obama.His group, with the help of several other pro-life organizations, will hold signs at the entrance to the Duke Energy...

WASHINGTON (Map, News) - District Heights Mayor James L. Walls, also an associate minister at a local church, will keep his jobs, for now, after being charged with soliciting a male prostitute in the District of Columbia early Thursday morning, his colleagues said. The 30-year-old fast-rising black political star — he holds positions with nationwide civic groups and the local NAACP chapter, among others — has been charged with solicitation for lewd and immoral purposes after he allegedly attempted to pick up an undercover District officer who was posing as a male prostitute around 12:30 a.m. at Sixth and F...

...‘‘We simply made a casual and affectionate observation one night, and a charming association between a candidate and a toy we had when we were little,’’ according to a statement issued Saturday by Sock Obama LLC. Jeanetta Williams, president of the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, called the toy ‘‘pure racism at its extreme.’’

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- To draw attention to the way abortion disproportionately affects the African-American community, black pro-life advocates will be protesting outside the upcoming annual meeting of the nation's largest organization representing blacks. The NAACP protest will also reach the Democratic presidential candidate. Rev. Clenard Childress, a New Jersey pastor, told LifeNews.com about the protest and said pro-abortion presidential candidate Barack Obama and former candidate Hillary Clinton will be at the convention.  "Because 2008 is an election year, the presidential candidates will undoubtedly speak at the convention. This gives us a national stage to make our case to the...

The Williamson County Regional Animal Shelter has halted a program to promote the adoption of black cats and dogs the week of June 14-20 after criticism that the event would have taken place the week of Juneteenth, Director Cheryl Schneider said today. “We apologize if our promotion to reduce fees on black dogs and cats offended anyone,” Schneider said in a statement. The shelter, which is located in Georgetown, had planned to reduce adoption fees for black-coated animals to $25 through its “Black is Beautiful” promotion. The normal fee for adoption is $85, Williamson County spokeswoman Connie Watson said. “Based...

Raleigh, N.C. — The North Carolina State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People sent an open letter to state lawmakers Friday objecting to anti-gang legislation being considered at the General Assembly. The group stated it wants to make sure the final gang bill includes prevention programs, not just punishment. The Street Gang Prevention Act would increase penalties for gang members convicted of crimes – actions that now are misdemeanors would become felonies, for example – and would make recruiting youths into gangs a crime in itself.

Myrtle Beach officials: No more biker ralliesPosted on Wed, May. 28, 2008 MYRTLE BEACH — Furious and frustrated after the weekend shooting death of a 20-year-old Coastal Carolina University student, Myrtle Beach City Council members said Tuesday that they do not want motorcycle rallies in the city any more. A group of local ministers and a bike-rally event promoter spoke to the council at a morning workshop Tuesday and implored the city to help them "do something" about the behavior they witnessed during the past weekend. Other groups have complained to city officials in previous years after the Atlantic Beach...

WASHINGTON - What a difference a nomination makes. Now that he's wrapped up the Republican nomination for president, Sen. John McCain has decided to attend the annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Cincinnati in July. A year ago when he was just one of a pack of GOP contenders, he turned down the civil rights group's invitation. McCain disclosed his plans in an interview with the African-American publication Essence, which was released Tuesday. Asked how he might reach out to the black community, McCain replied that he would "go to places and venues...

The NAACP board of directors has chosen Ben Jealous, a 35-year-old former news executive and lifelong activist, as the organization's next president and the youngest in its 99-year history. ADVERTISEMENT The 64-member board met and voted in Baltimore and plans to formally announce its decision on Saturday at a noon press conference. NAACP national spokesman Richard J. McIntire confirmed the vote with The Associated Press early Saturday after the 8-hour closed door meeting. Though he is not a politician, minister or civil rights icon, in Jealous the organization gets a young but connected leader familiar with black leadership and social...

Rev. Lainie Dowell -- On Faith -- The Rev. Otis Moss has taken over leadership of Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ. For those who think Moss will offer a change in philosophy to the much-maligned Rev. Jeremiah Wright, they are grossly mistaken. Moss preaches ...

Controversies Crop Up Around Commencement Speaker Selections by Jamal Watson May 5, 2008, 22:24 Earlier this year, NAACP chairman Julian Bond journeyed to the U.S. Supreme Court to interview Justice Clarence Thomas. The event was somewhat historic, in part because Bond — a staunch supporter of affirmative action and other social programs — has long been a critic of the policies and positions espoused by Thomas. But now, both of these historic figures in Black history are the subjects of much scrutiny as they prepare to deliver commencement speeches this month at two East Coast universities. A group of conservative...

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People… Can anyone tell me how embracing the wacky pseudo-scientific biological racial theories of cognitive learning espoused by the “biblical scholar” Jeremiah Wright advances the interests of colored people? How can the nation’s once premier civil rights organization that worked so valiantly and assiduously to end the practice of racial separation, not only embrace, but celebrate a quack who propounds the very same theories that were used by many segregationists in the deep South to deny African-Americans equal educational opportunities as well as social and cultural access to the mainstream of American civic...

WASHINGTON - Barack Obama's presidential campaign wants federal regulators to investigate fellow Democrats who are backing Hillary Rodham Clinton's candidacy, taking intraparty discord to a new level of confrontation. Obama's campaign lawyer, Robert Bauer, filed a complaint Wednesday with the Federal Election Commission, accusing the pro-Clinton American Leadership Project of violating campaign finance laws by running ads against Obama. The group is largely financed by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and is run by Democratic operatives, many of them based in California and who have past connections to Clinton or her husband. Its organizers say they...

Jeremiah Wright draws on a long line of Afrocentric charlatans. The list of Afrocentric “educators” whom Reverend Jeremiah Wright has invoked in his media escapades since this Sunday is a disturbing reminder that academia’s follies can enter the public world in harmful ways. Now the pressing question is whether they have entered presidential candidate Barack Obama’s worldview as well. Some in Wright’s crew of charlatans have already had their moments in the spotlight; others are less well known. They form part of the tragic academic project of justifying self-defeating underclass behavior as “authentically black.” That their ideas have ended up...

The New Underground Railroad started as the result of numerous conversations that have taken place with Black leaders from across the country. It was started with the goal of dispelling the Myth that Blacks are incapable of being success without government programs. It will expose the Democrat Party’s legacy of bigotry and hatred. Over time we have invited several likeminded black thinkers from across the nation to contribute to the discussion. Well, now the time has come for us to expand our reach and ask you, our loyal readers to join the fight to free our people from the...

On the heels of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's speech last night in Detroit, the happiest person in the country has to be Hillary Clinton. The Wright speech, over a half hour chock full of total buffoonery, is the best thing that could have happened for Hillary. Meanwhile, one can picture Barack Obama with hands over his face as Wright spouted nonsense about left and right brains along with poor impressions of JFK and LBJ along with his imitation of the Florida A&M marching band. For most of us it was high comedy laughing AT Wright but for Obama it must...

Before Sunday, John McCain hadn’t ventured into the controversy surrounding the comments made by Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., Barack Obama’s former pastor. Mr. McCain even asked Republicans in North Carolina not to broadcast an ad that questioned Mr. Obama’s connection to Reverend Wright.But Mr. McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, shifted his tone in Florida on Sunday, reports Michael Cooper of The New York Times. But Mr. McCain took a different approach at a news conference here when he criticized Mr. Wright for, as the senator paraphrased him, “comparing the United States Marine Corps with Roman legionnaires who were responsible...

Dr. Hale showed us that in comparing African-American children and European-American children in the field of education, we were comparing apples and rocks. And in so doing, we kept coming up with meaningless labels like EMH, educable mentally handicapped, TMH, trainable mentally handicapped, ADD, attention deficit disorder. And we were coming up with more meaningless solutions like reading, writing and Ritalin. Dr. Hale's research led her to stop comparing African-American children with European-American children and she started comparing the pedagogical methodologies of African-American children to African children and European-American children to European children. And bingo, she discovered that the two...

DETROIT (AP) - The former pastor of Barack Obama whose words have rallied many but offended others told an audience of 10,000 that his critics get it wrong when they call him divisive and polarizing. "I describe the conditions in this country," the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. said during the NAACP's 53rd annual Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner. "I'm not here for political reasons. I'm not a politician. I know that fact will surprise many of you because many in the corporate-owned media made it seem like I am running for the Oval Office," Wright said. "I am not running...

You knew this was destined to happen with the liberal black racist organization that is known as the NAACP. Take a truthful non-racist ad and turn it around and use the race card to neutralize it’s effect. This is just a stunt by the NC NAACP perpetuated by McCain’s actions condemning it and immediately publicized by the MSM. Problem is McCain never viewed the ad.

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., the former pastor of Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. acknowledges the audience at the Detroit NAACP's 53rd annual Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner Sunday, April 27, 2008.The Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., right, the former pastor of Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., laughs with Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, left, at the Detroit NAACP's 53rd annual Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner in Detroit, Sunday, April 27, 2008. Second right is the Rev. Wendell Anthony, president of the Detroit Branch of the NAACP.

Jeremiah Wright speaking live now. Fascinating. You can also get it live streaming from CNN

NAACP assails N.C. Republican adBy Mike Baker The Associated Press Published on Saturday, April 26, 2008 RALEIGH — The North Carolina branch of the NAACP said Friday a Republican advertisement that includes a clip of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s former pastor is racially divisive. NAACP leaders blasted the North Carolina GOP for producing an ad that shows footage of Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s fiery comments about the U.S. The group said the ad takes Wright’s words out of context in an effort to smear the black community and “prophetic ministers.” “It’s a fundamentally race-baiting ad,” said Rev. William Barber, state...

Pop culture asks, “What would Jesus do?” Regarding today's NAACP, I ask, “What would MLK do?” With catastrophic school dropout rates among blacks, the NAACP has chosen to defend black youths wearing their pants low with their underwear showing. The racist and America hating Rev. Jeremiah Wright will be the keynote speaker for the 2008 NAACP Detroit branch's 53rd annual Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner. The NAACP supports gay marriage. Despite the fact that Black women are three times more likely than white women to have an abortion and 1452 black children are aborted every day, the NAACP supports abortion....

DETROIT - The embattled former minister of Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama has been selected as the keynote speaker for the Detroit branch of the NAACP's 53rd Annual Fight for Freedom Fund dinner. The civil rights organization says Thursday the Rev. Jeremiah Wright will speak April 27 at the event, whose past speakers have included Obama, Sen. Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton. The Freedom Fund dinner draws about 10,000 people. Wright has been criticized for remarks about everything from race relations to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. He recently retired from Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ. Obama...

The Speech will be on April 20th. Just saw the broadcast announcement

Arizona blacks: Where's McCain? By JONATHAN MARTIN | 4/8/08 4:38 AM EST Text Size: Oscar Tillman heads the Phoenix area branch of the NAACP and is a former statewide president of the group. He has been a leader of Arizona’s small, tight-knit African-American community for decades. So it comes as something of a surprise to learn the name of one person, over all those years, with whom he has never spoken. It is the state’s senior senator better known these days as the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. John McCain, said Tillman, “has pretty well zero relationship with the African-American community...

The “Win Without War Coalition,” including 40 Religious Left groups and secular allies, is imploring Congressman John Murtha to slash funding for the U.S. presence in Iraq. Murtha chairs the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense.