17 year old kid killed at Six Flags (Georgia)..sad.

By YOLANDA RODRIGUEZ
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 07/01/08

Funeral services for the South Carolina teenager killed last week at Six Flags Over Georgia are scheduled for Saturday.

Asia L. Ferguson, 17, died after he and his 19-year-old cousin scaled two fences in restricted areas to get to Batman The Ride. Ferguson was decapitated when he was hit by the ride last Saturday.

The funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at the teenager's church, Oakey Spring Baptist Church in Springfield, S.C. He will be buried in the church's cemetery.

There will be a viewing on Friday from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the Bostick & Tompkins Funeral Home, 2930 Colonial Drive, Columbia, S.C.

Memorial donations may be made to the church, at Post Office Box 550, Springfield, S.C. 29146.

The roller coaster re-opened on Wednesday after state investigators went over the site.

Although fencing and signs around the park meet state standards, the state Labor Department is now requiring Six Flags to increase the number and size of warning signs.

The message on these signs should include the words "extreme danger" and must be erected within 10 days of the ride's reopening

The park must also enhance its fencing within 120 days. Whether that means higher fences or a different type of barrier will be left up to the park, said Labor Commissioner Michael Thurmond.

source - http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/cobb/stories/2008/07/03/asia_ferguson_funeral.html?cxntlid=homepage_tab_newstab

Obama talking white, distorting the bible, and listening to Jay-Z

These are the latest Obama stories and these are some of the most ridiculous comments we have heard to date about Obama, comments the Obama reps call "disappointing" and "ridiculous".

How is a black politician who actually knows wtf he's talking about talking "white" and wtf is "talking white" anyway? One who ain't saying "aye shawtey" "whaddup cuz", or "what the business is my nigga?" is talking white annunciating your words and speaking with caution and purpose instead of babbling incoherently and yelling, talking loud about nothing in particular? Now, if you got a problem with nigga-chatter whether you a darkie or cracker you need to step out of your limited mindset and understand the influence of the environment in these ghetto neighborhoods and streets. It ain't about how you say it, its about what the person is communicating with their message, if a nigga say to a white man friend, "what's good my nigga" its the same as "good day sir" because "my nigga" is a term of endearment, a term of on-level respect for the person its directed at. Anyway, Obama has never ever used the term "my nigga" but i just wanna know exactly what this "talking white" is, peep the story:
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source - http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/06/25/nader-obama-talking-white/

(CNN) — Ralph Nader's presidential candidacy has received little media attention, but his latest critique of Barack Obama has come under fire for it's seemingly racial overtones.

Speaking with Colorado's Rocky Mountain News, Nader accused Obama of attempting to both "talk white" and appeal to "white guilt" in his quest to win the White House.

"There's only one thing different about Barack Obama when it comes to being a Democratic presidential candidate. He's half African-American," Nader told the paper in comments published Tuesday. "Whether that will make any difference, I don't know. I haven't heard him have a strong crackdown on economic exploitation in the ghettos. Payday loans, predatory lending, asbestos, lead. What's keeping him from doing that? Is it because he wants to talk white? He doesn't want to appear like Jesse Jackson? We'll see all that play out in the next few months and if he gets elected afterwards."

Obama's presidential campaign called those comments disappointing.

Nader, the longtime consumer advocate who was blamed by many Democrats for Al Gore’s loss in the 2000 presidential election, said Obama's top issue should be poverty in America, given his racial heritage.

Watch: Why is Nader running for president

"I mean, first of all, the number one thing that a black American politician aspiring to the presidency should be is to candidly describe the plight of the poor, especially in the inner cities and the rural areas, and have a very detailed platform about how the poor is going to be defended by the law, is going to be protected by the law, and is going to be liberated by the law," he said. "Haven't heard a thing."

Nader also said Obama is making a concerted effort not to be "another politically threatening African-American politician."

"He wants to appeal to white guilt. You appeal to white guilt not by coming on as black is beautiful, black is powerful. Basically he's coming on as someone who is not going to threaten the white power structure, whether it's corporate or whether it's simply oligarchic. And they love it. Whites just eat it up."

Nader formally entered the presidential race last spring, expressing disappointment with both remaining Democratic candidates at that time.

"They are both enthralled to the corporate powers," he told CNN of both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. "They've completely ignored the presidential pattern of illegality and accountability, they've ignored the out of control waste-fruad military expenditures, they hardly ever mention the diversion of hundreds of billions of dollars to corporate subsidies, handouts, and giveaways, and they don't talk about a living wage."

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Obama is not distorting the Bible, people, and for the people that think he is, they have a hard time understanding simple analogies. Peep the story:

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source - http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/06/24/evangelical.vote/index.html

(CNN)— Sen. Barack Obama said Tuesday night evangelical leader James Dobson was “making stuff up,” when he accused the Illinois senator of distorting the Bible and taking a "fruitcake interpretation" of the U.S. Constitution.

“Any notion that I was distorting the Bible in that speech, I think anyone would be hard pressed to make that argument,” Obama told reporters on board his press plane Tuesday night.

Obama's past comments came front and center Tuesday when Dobson criticized the presumptive Democratic nominee’s June 2006 speech on his Focus on the Family radio show.

Watch: Schneider reports on Obama v. Dobson

In the speech, Obama suggested that it would be impractical to govern based solely on the word of the Bible, noting that some passages suggest slavery is permissible and eating shellfish is disgraceful.

Earlier: Evangelist accuses Obama of 'distorting' Bible

"Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy?" Obama asked in the speech. "Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is an abomination? Or we could go with Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith? Or should we just stick to the Sermon on the Mount — a passage that is so radical that it's doubtful that our own Defense Department would survive its application?"

Obama responded Tuesday saying the speech underscored the notion he is a man of faith and highlighted the importance that people like him who find faith important “try to translate our concerns in a universal language so that we can have open and vigorous debate.”

UPDATE: Responding to the comments, Tom Minnery, senior vice president of Focus Action, said "There is no need to 'make stuff up' as it relates to Sen. Obama's interpretation of Scripture and the role of religion in the public square."

"His statements and record make clear his questionable perception of both. To argue that the Sermon on the Mount invalidates the Defense Department — as if Jesus Himself didn't have anything to say about the existence of good and evil and the need to combat evil — is about as deep as anyone needs to go to understand where the senator is coming from," Minnery also said. "He is editing God's word to fit his liberal worldview, and the more exposure his views on these matters get, the more obvious this will become to American Christians."

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Obama sure has eclectic taste in music though, if he likes rap music at all, i wonder how he feels about the "best rapper alive" Lil' Wayne. I'm sure Obama doesn't appreciate his 9 and 7 year old daughters singing "she say she wanna li-li-li-li-lick me like a lollipop" or "call me so i can make it juicy for ya". But Jay-Z is good, Ludacris is good, Bruce Springsteen is good, John Coltrane, Miles Davis is GREAT, Bob Dylan..Yo-Yo Ma is good, but Sheryl Crow? Man, we gotta get this nigga some Outkast, Lupe Fiasco, Wyclef Jean, some Chris Brown, Robin Thicke, some Young Jeezy, no Kanye West though, people already think Obama's arrogant, he don't need that influence.

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Bob Dylan. Yo-Yo Ma. Sheryl Crow. Jay-Z. These aren't musical acts in a summer concert series: They're artists featured on Barack Obama's iPod.

"I have pretty eclectic tastes," the Democratic presidential contender said in an interview to be published in Friday's issue of Rolling Stone.

Growing up in the '70s, Obama said, he listened to the Rolling Stones, Elton John and Earth, Wind & Fire. Stevie Wonder is his musical hero from the era. The Stones' "Gimme Shelter" tops his favorites from the band.

The Illinois senator's playlist contains these musicians, along with about 30 songs from Dylan and the singer's "Blood on the Tracks" album. Jazz legends Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Charlie Parker are also in the mix.

"Actually, one of my favorites during the political season is 'Maggie's Farm,' " Obama said of one of Dylan's tracks. "It speaks to me as I listen to some of the political rhetoric."

In the song, Dylan sings about trying be himself, "but everybody wants you to be just like them."

Several musicians on Obama's iPod support his bid for the White House, including Bruce Springsteen. Earlier this month, Dylan told a British newspaper that he believes Obama is redefining politics in the United States and could deliver change to a nation in upheaval.

"I've got to say, having both Dylan and Bruce Springsteen say kind words about you is pretty remarkable," Obama said. "Those guys are icons."

Obama said he hasn't met Springsteen, but the two have talked over the phone.

"Not only do I love Bruce's music, but I just love him as a person," Obama said. "He is a guy who has never lost track of his roots, who knows who he is, who has never put on a front."

And did he address him as the Boss?

"You've got to," the candidate said.

Asked what he thought of rap, Obama said the genre has broken down barriers within the music world, though he's concerned about his daughters -- Malia, 9, and Sasha, 7 -- listening to it.

"I am troubled sometimes by the misogyny and materialism of a lot of rap lyrics," he said, "but I think the genius of the art form has shifted the culture and helped to desegregate music."

He said hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons and rappers Jay-Z and Ludacris were "great talents and great businessmen."

"It would be nice if I could have my daughters listen to their music without me worrying that they were getting bad images of themselves," he added.

Obama appears on the cover of the magazine, which endorsed him for president in March.

Don Imus at it again...why can't we get this crusty old cracker off the air?

Imus, who lost his job last year after comments on the Rutgers University women's basketball team, said the latest controversy is fueled by people who are out to get him.

"No man has more discussions about race than I have," he said. "Why not report on that? I know some people want to get me, but this is ridiculous."

Imus pointed out that his show has a black producer and two black co-hosts.

Jones, a Dallas Cowboys defensive back who has had run-ins with the law and is serving a suspension from the National Football League, recently announced he wanted to be known by his real name, Adam or Mr. Jones, rather than his nickname.

Jones said his decision is an attempt to disassociate himself with his well-chronicled history of trouble.

The Imus controversy erupted Monday morning when sportscaster Warner Wolf told Imus that Jones wanted to swap monikers.

"He's been arrested six times since being drafted by Tennessee in 2005," Wolf said.

"What color is he?" Imus asked.

"He's African-American," Wolf responded.

"Well, there you go," Imus said. "Now we know."

During his Tuesday morning show, the radio host said Jones was arrested six times because police were "picking on him."

"He's a football player. He is a lovely kid. He was out there having fun," Imus said

Imus said he was defending blacks with his Monday remarks.

"What people should be outraged about is that they arrest blacks for no reason, and I mean there's no reason to arrest this kid six times," he said. "They shoot blacks for no reason."

WABC and Citadel Broadcasting Corp. Vice President Phil Boyce told The New York Times it was unlikely Imus would face disciplinary action.

The Rev. Al Sharpton, who last year called for Imus' firing over the Rutgers comments, said Tuesday that "I hope he meant what he said," referring to Imus' explanation.

But he said it would be "less than responsible for civil rights groups not to question Imus."

"I thought, given Imus' background and his track record, [Monday's remarks were] disturbing. Clearly, he did not clarify what he meant. He left it out there," the civil rights leader said.

The NFL suspended Jones in April 2007, weeks after an incident at a Law Vegas, Nevada, strip club in which Jones allegedly got into an altercation with a exotic dancer and security guard. Witnesses said a member of Jones' entourage later returned to the club and fired a gun into the crowd.

In addition to Jones' six arrests, The Associated Press reported that he has been involved in 12 incidents requiring police intervention since 2005.

The Tennessee Titans traded Jones to the Dallas Cowboys earlier this year, and the defensive back is waiting to hear if he'll be reinstated to the NFL.

Known for decades for his outspoken comments and off-color humor, Imus was fired by CBS Radio over his comments about the Rutgers women's basketball team in April 2007.

He called the Scarlet Knights "tough girls" and "nappy-headed 'hos" during a national broadcast a day after the team lost the NCAA championship to the University of Tennessee Lady Volunteers.

General Electric-owned cable network MSNBC, which simulcast the show, also canceled the program. Imus later apologized to the Rutgers team, which voted to accept his apology.

In August, Imus and his former employer reached a settlement over his dismissal, with both sides announcing they had "mutually agreed to settle claims that each had against the other." They did not disclose details of the settlement.

Imus' present morning radio show is broadcast from Citadel Broadcasting's WABC-AM in New York, syndicated by ABC Radio Network and simulcast on RFD-TV. 

source - http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/06/24/imus/index.html

young teen brutally beats a man on the bus for his iPhone...sigh.Niggas.

im sorry for this lil nigga, young thug cannot contain his desire, hasn't he ever heard of Thou Shalt Not Covet - want what another man has? Get your own lil' nigga, even if you have to trap for it. It might be too late for that, but Don't Get Caught.

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Barack Obama gives important and moving speech on Father's Day to the black community

Father's Day was this weekend. Presidential candidate Barack Obama spent the holiday with his family. On this occasion, Sen. Obama made a speech in Chicago's Apostolic Church of God. In this speech, he addressed a problem he sees within the African American community.

"They have abandoned their responsibilities, acting like boys instead of men. And the foundations of our families are weaker because of it," he said in the speech.

In the piece, he recounted his own story, growing up without a father and benefiting from having grandparents who were there to help raise him. Still, he mentioned that other children are not as lucky and do not have grandparents who assist single mothers.

"A lot of children don't get those chances. There is no margin for error in their lives. I resolved many years ago that it was my obligation to break the cycle -- that if I could be anything in life, I would be a good father to my girls," he noted.

While admitting that the government has played a role in hurting the black community, he went further to urge fathers to raise their children without excuses.

"We can't simply write these problems off to past injustices. Those injustices are real. There's a reason our families are in disrepair ... but we can't keep using that as an excuse."

Legendary R&B singer R.KELLY AQUITTED of all charges of child pornography case

CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- A Chicago jury has acquitted R. Kelly on all counts at his child pornography trial

The verdict came six years after the R&B superstar was first charged with videotaping himself having sex with a young girl. Prosecutors had said she was as young as 13 at the time.

The Grammy award-winning singer dabbed his face with a handkerchief and hugged each of his four attorneys after the verdict was read. The singer had faced 15 years in prison if convicted.

Minutes later, surrounded by bodyguards, he left the courthouse without comment. Dozens of fans screamed and cheered as he climbed into a waiting SUV.

Both Kelly and the now 23-year-old alleged victim had denied they were the ones appearing on the tape, which was played for the jury at the beginning and end of the trial.

The prosecution's star witness was a woman who said she engaged in three-way sex with Kelly and the girl from the video. Defense attorneys argued the man on the tape didn't have a large mole on his back, as Kelly does.

The jury of nine men and three women included the wife of a Baptist preacher from Kelly's Chicago-area hometown, as well as a compliance officer for a Chicago investment firm and a man in his 60s who emigrated from then-Communist Romania nearly 40 years ago. Eight jurors were white and four were black

Jurors took the sex tape at the center of the trial with them, and a monitor was set up in the jury room in case they wanted to review it.

Kelly was charged with 14 counts of videotaping himself having sex with an underage girl, who prosecutors say was as young as 13.

The 41-year-old superstar's trial was repeatedly delayed, once because the judge seriously injured himself falling off a ladder and another time because Kelly had emergency surgery to remove his appendix.

Despite his legal troubles, Kelly -- who rose from poverty on Chicago's South Side to become a star singer, songwriter and producer -- still retains a huge following, and his popularity has arguably grown in recent years.

The singer has released more than half a dozen albums, most of them selling over a million copies. He's also had a multitude of hits and gone on tours. Kelly has a new song, "Hair Braider," out now, and is due to release a new album in July.

Kelly, always meticulously dressed in a suit and tie, appeared tense at times during the trial, furrowing his brow. He seemed particularly ill at ease when prosecutors played the sex tape in open court after opening arguments.

In the video, entered into evidence as "People's Exhibit No. 1," a man has sex with a young female, who is naked for most of the recording. She is often blank-faced. The man speaks to her in a hushed voice, and she calls him "Daddy."

In one scene, alluded to in one count of the indictment, the man urinates on the female.

The issue of whether there was or wasn't a fingernail-sized mole on the man's lower back was a subject of hours of testimony. A defense witness told jurors there was no mole on his back, proving it's not Kelly, who has such a mole. But a prosecution witness displayed freeze frames of the video where a dark spot seemed to appear as the man turns to take off his pants.

One surreal moment came when a defense expert played a segment of the tape he doctored showing two headless bodies engaging in sex. The defense said that backed their argument that Kelly's likeness could have been computer-generated.

Cross examination was often heated. Several witnesses cried on the stand.

The star prosecution witness, Lisa Van Allen, became teary eyed as she told jurors she engaged in several three-way sexual encounters with Kelly and the alleged victim, including once on a basketball court. Kelly videotaped the trysts, she said.

Van Allen also claimed Kelly used to carry a duffel bag stuffed full of his homemade sex tapes.

The defense called several witnesses in a bid to discredit Van Allen, accusing her of trying to extort money from Kelly. Under cross-examination, Van Allen admitted she once stole Kelly's $20,000 diamond-studded watch from a hotel.

source - http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/06/13/rkelly.closings.ap/index.html

LOL Street-Sweeping Truck sucks up, kills dog on leash LOL

i hope this doesn't make me evil, but i laughed and cried at the visual of this actually occuring.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

NEW YORK(AP) -- A street-sweeping truck roared down a bronx street and sucked up a dog and killed her as the owner held on to the leash.

Robert Machin said he had just finished walking his two Boston terriers and was about to put them into his car when the truck appeared Thursday morning. The retired transit worker said he was suddenly whipped around and saw one of the dogs, Ginger, being swallowed by the sweeper's round bristles.

"I went berserk at that moment because I couldn't believe what had occurred," he said Saturday.

Machin said he yelled at the driver to stop, but the truck kept going. He and friends chased the truck for 2 ½ blocks before catching up with it. Ginger's slight body was later pulled from the sweeper.

The city Department of Sanitation called the death "a rare and unfortunate accident."

A heartbroken Machin questioned whether the driver was observing proper procedures, saying the truck seemed to barreling through the street at an unsafe speed.

The heartbroken Machin, 57, choked up as he described losing Ginger. With his children grown, he said, "These two dogs, they're my life."

source - http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/06/15/dog.swept.away.ap/index.html

YAY! A NASCAR Lawsuit! Of course NASCAR has always been racist, congratulations for doing something about it!

As an aspiring racing official, Mauricia Grant had grown used to working in a man's world.

When she finally made it into NASCAR, Grant was appalled at the way she was treated beginning from her first day on the job until her firing last October.

Now she's suing NASCAR for $225 million, alleging racial and sexual discrimination, sexual harassment and wrongful termination.

"I loved it. It was a great, exciting, adrenaline-filled job where I worked with fast cars and the best drivers in the world," Grant told The Associated Press. "But there was an ongoing daily pattern [of harassment]. It was the nature of the people I worked with, the people who ran it, it trickled down from the top.

"It's just the way things are in the garage," she said.

The 32-year-old Grant, who is black, worked as a technical inspector responsible for certifying cars in NASCAR's second-tier Nationwide Series from January 2005 until her termination. In the lawsuit, she alleged she was referred to as "Nappy Headed Mo" and "Queen Sheba" by co-workers, was often told she worked on "colored people time" and was frightened by one official who routinely made references to the Ku Klux Klan.

In addition, Grant said she was subjected to sexual advances from male co-workers, two of whom allegedly exposed themselves to her, and graphic and lewd jokes.

The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, lists 23 specific incidents of alleged sexual harassment and 34 specific incidents of alleged racial and gender discrimination beginning when she was hired in January 2005 through her October 2007 firing.

NASCAR spokesman Ramsey Poston said the organization had not yet reviewed the suit.

"As an equal opportunity employer, NASCAR is fully committed to the spirit and letter of affirmative action law," Poston said, adding NASCAR has a zero tolerance policy for harassment.

In the lawsuit, Grant said she complained numerous times to her supervisors about how she was treated, to no avail. On one occasion, Grant said Nationwide Series director Joe Balash, her immediate supervisor, was dismissive of her complaints, explaining her co-workers were "former military guys" with a rough sense of humor.

"You just have to deal with it," she says Balash told her.

On another occasion, she alleged Balash participated in the harassment.

"Does your workout include an urban obstacle course with a flat-screen TV on your back?" she claimed Balash asked her during the week of July 28, 2007, while working in Indianapolis.

Grant told the AP her two younger sisters witnessed racial discrimination against the official while visiting her at Daytona International Speedway in 2006 and encouraged her to document every incident going forward.

The lawsuit details a series of those alleged incidents:

• Grant was forced to work outside more often than the white male officials because her supervisors believed she couldn't sunburn because she was black.

• While riding in the backseat of her car pool at Talladega Superspeedway, co-workers told her to duck as they passed race fans. "I don't want to start a riot when these fans see a black woman in my car," she claims one official said.

• When packing up a dark garage at Texas Motor Speedway an official told Grant: "Keep smiling and pop your eyes out 'cause we can't see you."

• When she ignored advances from co-workers, Grant was accused of being gay. She also claimed co-workers questioned the sexual orientation of two other female officials.

After her termination, Grant said she went over her notes and recognized "a pattern of retaliation and discrimination."

"It didn't diminish my love for the sport of auto racing, but the job wasn't always the easiest thing to go to every day," she said.

Grant's attorney, Benedict P. Morelli of Morelli Ratner PC, compared her fight to that of former New York Knicks executive Anucha Browne Sanders, who got $11.5 million in a sexual harassment case against Madison Square Garden and former Knicks coach Isiah Thomas.

"When you try and combat a force that huge, that wealthy and that powerful -- it takes a lot of courage to take that on," Morelli said of Grant. "It only takes one woman to stand up and expose what is really happening behind the scenes."

Grant said she routinely complained to her supervisors. Two weeks after her final complaint, Grant said she was warned during the week of Aug. 18, 2007, at Michigan International Speedway that she had engaged in "conduct unbecoming of a NASCAR representative" and would be fired unless she changed her behavior. She said the warning stemmed from a confrontation with a track official who stopped her as she passed through a gate to use the restroom.

Roughly two months later, Grant was fired, and NASCAR cited a poor work performance in ending her employment. The lawsuit claims other than a previous warning for using "street" language, Grant had never been disciplined for job performance and routinely received positive reviews.

In addition, the suit claims official Heather Gambino was fired in 2006 for complaining about a sexually hostile work environment. The suit also claims former official Dean Duckett, who is black, was reprimanded and ultimately fired last November for using "aggressive language toward a white co-worker."

Among those identified in Grant's suit are Balash, assistant series director Mike Dolan, supervisors Alan Shephard and Dennis Dillon, NASCAR's senior manager for business relations, the human resources director and 17 of Grant's fellow officials. All of the defendants are white.

Grant says she continues to suffer from severe emotional distress, including depression, anxiety, nightmares, sleep disturbance, crying jags, headaches and gastrointestinal distress since her firing. She's been unemployed since.

"My supervisors all praised me. I was hanging in there with the guys," she said. "I am an athletic person. I went over the wall and faced malicious crews and competitive crew chiefs, and I was right there and held it down and was never lazy about it.

"And I knew that once I was terminated, there wasn't going to be an opportunity for me to find another industry like NASCAR to practice my craft," she said.

Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press

Life without Niggers...a real-funny story

this is just a little story i found, its cool, check it out
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Life Without Black People!!!

A very humorous and revealing story is told about a group of white people who were fed up with NIGGERS, so they joined together and wished themselves away. They passed through a deep dark tunnel and emerged in sort of a twilight zone where there is an America without black people.

At first these white people breathed a sigh of relief. "At last!", they said, "No more crime, drugs, violence and welfare." All of the niggers have gone!" Then suddenly, reality set in. The "NEW AMERICA" is not America at all-only a barren land

1. There are very few crops that have flourished because the nation was built on a slave-supported system.

2. There are no cities with tall skyscrapers because Alexander Mils, a black man, invented the elevator, and without it, one finds great difficulty reaching higher floors.

3. There are few if any cars because Richard Spikes, a black man, invented the automatic gearshift, Joseph Gambol, also black, invented the Super Charge System for Internal Combustion Engines, and Garrett A. Morgan, a black man, invented the traffic signals.

4. Furthermore, one could not use the rapid transit system because its procurer was the electric trolley, which was invented by another black man, Albert R. Robinson.

5. Even if there were streets on which cars and a rapid transit system could operate, they were cluttered with paper because an African American, Charles Brooks, invented the street sweeper.

6. There were few if any newspapers, magazines and books because John Love invented the pencil sharpener, William Purveys invented the fountain pen, and Lee Barrage invented the Type Writing Machine and W. A. Love invented the Advanced Printing Press. They were all, you guessed it, Black.

7. Even if Americans could write their letters, articles and books, they would not have been transported by mail because William Barry invented the Postmarking and Canceling Machine, William Purveys invented the Hand Stamp and Philip Downing invented the Letter Drop.

8. The lawns were brown and wilted because Joseph Smith invented the Lawn Sprinkler and John Burr the Lawn Mower.

9. When they entered their homes, they found them to be poorly ventilated and poorly heated. You see, Frederick Jones invented the Air Conditioner and Alice Parker the Heating Furnace. Their homes were also dim. But of course, Lewis Lattimer later invented the Electric Lamp, Michael Harvey invented the lantern and Granville T. Woods invented the Automatic Cut off Switch.
Their homes were also filthy because Thomas W. Steward invented the Mop & Lloyd P. Ray the Dust Pan.

10. Their children met them at the door-barefooted, shabby, motley and unkempt. BuT what could one expect? Jan E. Matzelinger invented the Shoe Machine, Walter Sammons invented the Comb, Sarah Boone invented the Ironing Board and George T. Samon invented the Clothes Dryer.

11. Finally, they were resigned to at least have dinner amidst all of this turmoil. But here again, the food had spoiled because another Black Man, John Standard invented the refrigerator.

Now, isn't that something? What would this country be like without the contributions of Blacks, as African-Americans?

Barack Obama had BETTER NOT choose Hillary as VP in the general election, he can win without her!

John Edwards.

Bill Richardson.

ANYBODY but Clinton should be the running mate and vice-presidental nominee in this general election. Why should a winner through the toughest adversaries and obstacles, through racism and polical-stragedy name attacking, through the re-division of CHURCH and politics, why would that man need to go back and employ the woman who was just trying to kill him? Barack Obama can win the presidential nominination without Hillary Clinton, and he needs to prove that in order to be the strong black man first president this country has ever seen. Hillary is a decieving, caniving, fake-fronting SNAKE who will do anything to get in that oval office, and in her mind, if she's got to kill a nigger to get there, she just might do that. No, seriously, just because i voted for Obama doesn't mean i'm against Clinton, but i think we all know that Clinton herself is NOT for Obama, she will not be satisfied taking a position below a black man, and if she gets that position, she will seek to make her history another way.

On another note, why are there so many Obama haters? how could people see the political-intelligence, the purpose driven mindset to succeed in this man, and believe he is not the right candidate? I can only think those people are closed-minded, foolish, and racist themselves. This whole thing is so much bigger than any one person's foolish opinion though, its a symbolism of how far we as a society have come, how we, the majority, have finally moved past the racist bigotry to choose the best presidential candidate this term.

"I'm the more entitled to be the first woman president, and if that means i have to kill me a nigger to get that title then so be it. Make me vice-president Obama, and see what happens to you."

This is also a scapegoat to those racist fools who think Barack Obama owes Clinton the VP role something, those same induviduals who are clamouring for Clinton as VP were just DISRESPECTING Obama and his entire campaign less than 2 weeks ago! Let's be real here, there's really NO WAY that joint ticket could/will happen, Obama knows better, he's laughing at all his enemies that are trying to join him now that they are beaten.

Now look at this COON ANTIPODE HOUSE NIGGER: Robert L. Johnson

You got the guy who started Black Entertainment Television for money and power, and he sold it to the white powers that be in Viacomm Network Television, now he is an active hater and opposer to the first and only black presidential candidate of all time, somebody assassinate this fool, please.

All in all, Barack Obama will defeat John McCain in the general election this fall, but only without Hillary Clinton.

Barack Obama makes United States of American History as the first black major political party nominee for president...More to come

Mark your calendar men and women of the United States, today on Tuesday, June 3, 2008, this marks the beginning of the election of the first black president of the United States of America. That little battle, skirmish, lil' Hillary Clinton was just target practice, that was just a test, and Obama passed with a flying red, white, and black flag, lol. No, seriously, these politics are a serious game, its more aggressive than an angry Boston fan when the Celtics lose to the Lakers in the finals this year, its more competitive than a game of H.O.R.S.E with Kobe Bryant, and its really more serious than that Sean Bell shit, and we Americans KNOW, that if any president can focus a little on the African-American community to fix some of our problems, if anyone will try to undo a LITTLE of the suffering Ronald Reagan did to minorities by law and by nature back in '84, it'll be Barack Obama.

So from this post forward, i will closely follow the mind and message of Barack Obama, and see his journey to the White House. And we are still painting that b*tch black, we don't care what nobody say.