While Hillary is fighting to become the first woman president, Tamar Manasseh is fighting just as hard to break another barrier for her race and her sex. She is studying to become one of the nations first black female Rabbis.
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The “editorial opinion” below was taken from the below link on craigslist.org. Apparently, though skewed opinion is floating around the internet and it is truly appalling to me. Being a black man married to a beautiful Nigerian woman of dark complexion and one who has been raised by a beautiful black American single mother and he who has 2 beautiful sisters find this testimonial to be false and extremely crass.
Unfortunately, due to the immense proportion of our sistren in the adult industry, the amount of single mothers in our culture and the amount of our brethren who date “outside” our culture, could there be any truth to this madness?
Here is the link and the quote. Please let me know what you think.
http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/nva/rnr/642308315.html
“There are very few attractive black women to begin with. I am talking about truly black, not red bone or Dalmatians. I mean 90% of the women are bald, have skin issues, have chicken legs with cottage cheese thighs. Very few black women actually look good with a fat ass. The average black woman has to work 10 times harder to look presentable. Otherwise they look like they got dipped into Crisco and just woke up. There is nothing special about a black woman, unless you have a fetish for them.
It may sound racist but even their own males don’t find them attractive. The common answer to that is well black woman are strong and don’t put up with shit. No the real answer is that black women are just not attractive to males, of any race.”
I saw this on NPR’s website and thought I should share. Sometimes *especially in this day and age* it’s nice to see GOOD NEWS for a change.
Julio Diaz has a daily routine. Every night, the 31-year-old social worker ends his hour-long subway commute to the Bronx one stop early, just so he can eat at his favorite diner.
But one night last month, as Diaz stepped off the No. 6 train and onto a nearly empty platform, his evening took an unexpected turn.
He was walking toward the stairs when a teenage boy approached and pulled out a knife.
“He wants my money, so I just gave him my wallet and told him, ‘Here you go,’” Diaz says.
As the teen began to walk away, Diaz told him, “Hey, wait a minute. You forgot something. If you’re going to be robbing people for the rest of the night, you might as well take my coat to keep you warm.”
The would-be robber looked at his would-be victim, “like what’s going on here?” Diaz says. “He asked me, ‘Why are you doing this?’”
Diaz replied: “If you’re willing to risk your freedom for a few dollars, then I guess you must really need the money. I mean, all I wanted to do was get dinner and if you really want to join me … hey, you’re more than welcome.
“You know, I just felt maybe he really needs help,” Diaz says.
Diaz says he and the teen went into the diner and sat in a booth.
“The manager comes by, the dishwashers come by, the waiters come by to say hi,” Diaz says. “The kid was like, ‘You know everybody here. Do you own this place?’”
“No, I just eat here a lot,” Diaz says he told the teen. “He says, ‘But you’re even nice to the dishwasher.’”
Diaz replied, “Well, haven’t you been taught you should be nice to everybody?”
“Yea, but I didn’t think people actually behaved that way,” the teen said.
Diaz asked him what he wanted out of life. “He just had almost a sad face,” Diaz says.
The teen couldn’t answer Diaz — or he didn’t want to.
When the bill arrived, Diaz told the teen, “Look, I guess you’re going to have to pay for this bill ’cause you have my money and I can’t pay for this. So if you give me my wallet back, I’ll gladly treat you.”
The teen “didn’t even think about it” and returned the wallet, Diaz says. “I gave him $20 … I figure maybe it’ll help him. I don’t know.”
Diaz says he asked for something in return — the teen’s knife — “and he gave it to me.”
Afterward, when Diaz told his mother what happened, she said, “You’re the type of kid that if someone asked you for the time, you gave them your watch.”
“I figure, you know, if you treat people right, you can only hope that they treat you right. It’s as simple as it gets in this complicated world.”
Produced for Morning Edition by Michael Garofalo.
Take heart, Mr. Spitzer, If Don Imus can get his job back after calling our sisters “Hoes”, then maybe you can get your job back after calling a Hoe…don’t laugh now, It could happen! Probably not as fast as it happened for Imus, but it could happen. Did you know that tomorrow will make it a year since Don Imus called the Rutgers Women’s basketball team “nappy-headed hos” on his radio show? Ironically, it also coincides with the 40th anniversary of the MLK assassination. At the time, it was decried as such a travesty,that he was fired by CBS, and all of his big time sponsors started dropping his show. I heard a lot of people talk about how he may never work on radio again, and the huge price that he was paying since he just signed a 10-million dollar per year contract extenstion.
But as usual it looks like the joke was on us…no sooner than Imus was fired, it seems like WABC was knocking down his door offering him a new radio contract, and Imus’ punishment amounted to no more than a eight month vacation. When it was officially announced in December that Imus was going back on the air, the WABC radio president was even quoted as saying “He is rested, fired up, and ready to do great radio.” Not too long after that, his big sponsors like Bigelow Tea and Net Jet started signing back on, taking him off the proverbial “naughty chair” and allowing him to come out and play again.
I know that people deserve a second chance, I mean hell, even that pitbull in a suit Al Sharpton said so, but I bet he didn’t expect for him to be back on the air just months later. So what did it all mean? He claims that his meeting with the Rutgers Ladies (during which he made an apology) was a “Life Changing” experience, but he also said at the time that “he was fighting for his life” since he lost his job. So did he really change in eight months? Did the attitude that allowed him to say those words and think it was funny magically disappear in that short period of time? Did his time in the “Time Out” corner, really show him the error of his ways? Maybe, but just like my two year old after time out, it’s probably only a matter of time before he gets caught with his hands in the cookie jar again…
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Part 2 in my continued effort to highlight history.
26. West Africa had walled towns and cities in the pre-colonial period. Winwood Reade, an English historian visited West Africa in the nineteenth century and commented that: “There are . . . thousands of large walled cities resembling those of Europe in the Middle Ages, or of ancient Greece.”
27. Lord Lugard, an English official, estimated in 1904 that there were 170 walled towns still in existence in the whole of just the Kano province of northern Nigeria.
28. Cheques are not quite as new an invention as we were led to believe. In the tenth century, an Arab geographer, Ibn Haukal, visited a fringe region of Ancient Ghana. Writing in 951 AD, he told of a cheque for 42,000 golden dinars written to a merchant in the city of Audoghast by his partner in Sidjilmessa.
29. Ibn Haukal, writing in 951 AD, informs us that the King of Ghana was “the richest king on the face of the earth” whose pre-eminence was due to the quantity of gold nuggets that had been amassed by the himself and by his predecessors.
30. The Nigerian city of Ile-Ife was paved in 1000 AD on the orders of a female ruler with decorations that originated in Ancient America. Naturally, no-one wants to explain how this took place approximately 500 years before the time of Christopher Columbus! Read More »
During last night’s edition of “Hardball” (Apr.1st) Chris Matthews asked his guest the following:
“Let me ask you about how he — how’s he connect with regular people? Does he? Or does he only appeal to people who come from the African-American community and from the people who have college or advanced degrees?”
At the beginning of the show he teased his Obama segement by saying the following:
“[C]an Obama woo more regular voters — you know, the ones who actually do know how to bowl?”
The night before he had this to say:
“[T]his gets very ethnic, but the fact that he’s good at basketball doesn’t surprise anybody, but the fact that he’s that terrible at bowling does make you wonder.”
What makes me wonder, is how he equates the sport of bowling with “regular people.” I guess that “regular people” don’t play basketball either…I also wonder if he is going to ask Barack about bowling tonight when he appears on his show? Hmmm…
Reference: MediaMatters (Includes video of the broadcast quoted)
In a radio interview given to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Missouri Rep. Emanuel Cleaver downplayed Barack Obama’s speaking ability, saying that compared to other African-American public speakers “he may not even measure up.” He told the interviewer that White Voters are drawn to Obama because they like the idea of a black man who “is articulate”, and they feel that by supporting him they can get the uncomfortable conversation of race off the table. Here’s a quote from Cleaver:
“I think for many white Americans, they are looking at Barack Obama and saying ‘This is our chance to demonstrate that we have been able to get this boogeyman called race behind us,’” Cleaver said. “And so they are going to vote for him, whether he has credentials or not, whether he has any experience — I think all that’s out the window.”
He went on to say that electing Obama as president would most likely harm efforts to stop racial injustice, because it would allow White people to dismiss racial concerns. He also said, despite being a Clinton supporter, that he would be surprised if Obama lost the election. Do you think that a President Obama would allow White People to dismiss the remaining racial concerns in America? Speak out!
Reference: AP
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