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Category Archives: Blacks
Minority Journalists Applaud Barack Obama
Here’s the report: When Obama walked on stage at the McCormick Center, many journalists in the audience leapt to their feet and applauded enthusiastically after being told not to do so. During a two-minute break halfway through the event, which … Continue reading
Posted in Blacks, Journalism
Tagged cnn, cnn journalists, mccormick center, minority journalist, minority journalists, shills
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Luke Ford: Friend To The Black Man
Rodger Jacobs writes: In a posting titled I Hate Defending Myself, Luke Ford, former porn gossip blogger turned L.A. Jewish community blogger, recites a thrilling near hit-and-run incident while strolling across an intersection in the Pico-Robertson district — well, not … Continue reading
Posted in Blacks, Personal
Tagged Alexander Technique, chicken shit, insightful essay, luke ford, machismo, porn gossip
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Ghetto Bragging Rights
Is this website for real? Join the Ghetto Bragging Rights FAN CLUB! Are you qualified to compete in one of the Ghetto Bragging Rights competitions? ***Sexiest & Hardest Ghetto Black Male Felon Bragging Rights ***Unplugged Thug Bragging Rights ***Hallowed Rapper … Continue reading
Posted in Blacks
Tagged bragging rights, commissary, felon, ghetto, thug
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Is It Ok For A Jew To Sit In Starbucks?
Dr. Marc Shapiro reviews three recent books on Rav Ovadiah Yosef: "Since we live today in an era when some rabbis have declared that one should not sit in or buy coffee at a store like Starbucks that has no … Continue reading
Posted in Blacks, Marc B. Shapiro
Tagged arab music, coffeehouses, marc shapiro, recent books, some rabbis
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LA’s Wave & Independent Newspaper Chains In Financial Trouble
Last fall, they (Wave, Independent) missed a payroll for the first time in a decade. The owner Pluria Marshall Jr. told his employees their checks would be a month late. In 2002, the Wave moved into the Independent’s offices in … Continue reading
Posted in Blacks, Journalism, Los Angeles
Tagged american neighborhood, black enterprise magazine, black radio stations, chapter 11 bankruptcy, chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, community weeklies, financial trouble, independent chain, mid wilshire, national black media coalition, s wave
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Black – Jewish Tensions Running High In Lakewood, New Jersey
This is the natural order of things. The black and Jewish communities have little in common, despite all the rhetoric to the opposite. Jews who are immersed in Judaism have little interest in reaching out to blacks while almost all … Continue reading
Posted in Blacks, Lakewood, Race
Tagged baseball bat, center neptune, jersey shore university medical center, lakewood new jersey, university medical center, welsh farms
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Guilt By Association
Evan Gahr writes: The New York Times has turned Barack Obama’s denunciation of Jeremiah Wright into a racial injustice. The paper of record’s editorial today on Obama finally heeding calls to break with his race-baiting minister bitches that "African-Americans are … Continue reading
Posted in Blacks
Tagged americans for democratic action, anti semite, arthur schlesinger jr, black mayor, david dinkins, david duke, gahr, guilt by association, honorable men, Jeremiah Wright, john birch society, louisiana state representative, moral test, national gop, pat buchanan, president george h w bush, racial injustice, white supremacist, willful disregard, william f buckley jr
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What Are You Doing To Celebrate Black History Month?
Khunrum emails: "Booger Black History month….I’m fuming that Spielberg has dropped out of the Olympics because of the "suffering in Darfur" without mentioning the suffering in Burma where military thugs have been repressing Democracy for years. The missus, (Ms. SOpee) … Continue reading
Hating Blacks
I was reading Mickey Kaus: [M]any Latino voters don’t want to vote for Obama, not because they know Hillary better or because they are grateful to President Clinton for rescuing Mexico during the "Tequila crisis" of 1994 (Dick Morris’ explanation) … Continue reading
Black Columnist Larry Aubry
Jim Newton falls all over himself to praise "respected" Los Angeles Sentinel (a hysterical black newspaper) Larry Aubry in a 30-paragraph story that says nothing. It’s a complete waste of time. I read it carefully to look for one genuine … Continue reading
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