Derrick Ashong's Powerful EMOTIONAL Response To His Obama Interview (video)

cross-posted to goodCRIMETHINK

Last week, I posted a video of my friend Derrick Ashong getting interviewed about Obama and health care outside the LA debate between Clinton and Obama. That video has blown up, and Derrick has received thousands of comments and other responses.

Today, he explains how he came to be interviewed (not staged) and offers an extremely powerful emotional explanation of his support for Obama. This complements the intellectual perspective he dropped. Check it out, and share with others.

You can also read Derrick's original explanation of support for Obama here.

You should also find out more about his band, Soulfege.

They "Brought The Third World Here"

For those of you who think race isn't a factor in the immigration debate.




Yes. Since Affirmative Action was passed, white people just can't get into college.

Just so we're clear, because I think most people still don't know this, the biggest beneficiaries of Affirmative Action are white.

 La Raza (Spanish for "The Race, or The People) is not a Latino "supremacy group". The meaning and intent of the group gets lost in translation, since most people associate groups with names like "The Race" with white supremacy.

It's not very surprising that people who make the mistake of assuming La Raza is a racist group are themselves white supremacists. They're only thinking about what they would do.

It would essentially be like saying the NAACP is racist because they "only want to help colored people". But hey, people have been known to do that too.

It's a pretty amusing catch-22. Or it would be amusing if it didn't help ruin so many people's lives. Conservatives love to tell minorities how we need to get our shit together, but when we form organizations to do just that, they call us racist.

Self-determination is one of those things only white people are supposed to have, get it?

More Fear of A Brown Nation: USA Today

Over at BlackProf, Christopher Bracey has some interesting questions to ask about this CNN article all about how non-Hispanic whites are now a minority in one in ten counties in the United States.

A lot of brothers and sisters are ambivalent or are sitting on the sidelines when it comes to immigration. Some think this isn't their battle to fight, that it's not about them.

I wouldn't be so sure. USAToday actually ran 3 articles on the changing demographics in America today.


Hispanic growth extends eastward

Excerpt:

The increases in areas that experienced little diversity until this decade intensify the uproar over immigration. Forty-one states have enacted 171 laws this year aimed at illegal immigrants. About 100 communities have proposed similar ordinances; 40 have been enacted.

We're seeing new immigrant minorities coming in to areas that haven't had very much minority populations or immigrant populations," says William Frey, demographer at the Brookings Institution. "It put immigration on the front burner politically. It scared a lot of people."

More blacks going for suburbs, fast-growing locations

Excerpt:

Blacks and Hispanics are contributing a greater share to the growth of suburban and exurban counties in large metro areas, Frey says. In the 1990s, for example, blacks accounted for 12.4% of the growth in suburbs. That has jumped to 16.6% since 2000. Hispanics went from 18.9% to 24.5%.

And of course: Whites now minority in 1 in 10 counties

Excerpt:

Greg Letiecq recently helped form a group to fight illegal immigration in northern Virginia, called Help Save Manassas. The group is named for a city surrounded by Prince William County.

"It's not about ethnicity, it's not about race. It's about lawful behavior versus unlawful behavior," Letiecq said.

Still, he complained that many newcomers eschew American culture in favor of their Latino heritage.

"It's the folks who come in and try to maintain the culture of the country they came from," Letiecq said. "They don't seem to embrace the American culture, the English language, the social norms of American culture."

Do you see a pattern here in the alarmist undercurrent of these articles or is it just me? Never mind that the numbers could be interpreted that whites remain the majority in nine out of 10 counties. No, apparently there are some people that think something has to be done, that something will have to be done (like "Saving Manassas" -- saving what exactly in Manassas or whom) to stem the black and brown tide since according to the 3rd article:

[...] increased diversity, fueled by immigration and higher birth rates among blacks and Hispanics, is straining race relations and sparking a backlash against immigrants in many communities.

"There's some culture shock," said Mark Mather of the Population Reference Bureau, a Washington-based research agency. "But I think there is a momentum building, and it is going to continue."

Hmm. There are even interactive charts (shades of orange for Latino and purple for African-American, groan) to help you see more ahem, colorfully, the browning of once pristinely white counties.

We ignore the race-baiters like Pat "Third World Invasion" Buchanan and Bill O'Racist O'Reilly, no matter whom they target, at our own peril. Ordinances aimed at "cracking down" on immigrants will also be used to restrict others, especially that ever-expanding uppity black middle and upper class. It's dismantling affirmative action to save Manassas, Michigan and other places for privilege. It's racial profiling taken to a whole new societal level. It's enacting Jim Crow for the 21st century. Arguments over de-segregation actually involved racists saying things like: we must fight to preserve our way of life. And fight some of them did. How far are today's racists willing to go to "save their way of life" or Manassas or the border or whatever they're so afraid of losing control of.

Whatever happened to:

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

The Conservapedia has a Racist Agenda

Update: Welcome Blog Report Readers! I've gotten a lot of great comments from folks. A reader calling his/herself "No Note" found the cite for the Martin Luther King Jr quote below

The "nourished by ..." quote is from MLK's Letters from a Birmingham City Jail, April 16 1963.

Also, "Face" left a comment after looking up "judicial activism" in the Conservapedia:

If you search "judicial activism", as an example they offer "Brown v. Board of Ed".

They cast jud. activism in a very negative light, then list desegregation as an example of it? This would appear as though the author is pro-segregation, which is about as racist as one could be.

I looked it up too. They use Roe v. Wade as the classic example and then swing into Brown v Board of Education and Loving v Virginia -- the case that removed the bar for blacks and whites (and any other ethnicity) to marry one another legally. So that puts the Conservapedia squarely in the camp of those who believe America was better off when we kept the darkies in their place and disallowed racial mixing in public or private places. Classic KKK racism. Original post begins below.

The Conservapedia was recently launched as a rival to the Wikipedia. The Eagle Forum sponsors this repugnant trash. You know the Eagle Forum -- it's Phyllis Schlafly the anti-feminist ultra-conservative. She's against Title IX, against "judicial activism" (code word = nigger loving dismantlers of segregation) and pro-Mexican border fence. Here's a quote from one of her recent columns supporting Pat Buchanan's just-published book State of Emergency on immigration:

Today, our elites celebrate diversity rather than American ideals and identity. To justify the enormous numbers of foreign born entering the United States, legally and illegally, we are reminded ad nauseam that we are a nation of immigrants.

However, immigrants, legal and illegal, don't come to America because of our diversity of residents, but because we are a land of freedom and opportunity. Most of the creators of our unique land were not immigrants.

Of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, 48 were native-born Americans and two of the others came to this country as babies. Of the 39 signers of the U.S. Constitution, 32 were native-born Americans, and the few signers of both documents who were not native-born all came from Great Britain or British colonies.

The most diversity we had in the founding of America was that some came from big states like Massachusetts and some from small states like Delaware.

Buchanan's book lists all the obvious solutions: no amnesty, a border fence, eliminate birthright citizenship and taxpayer-paid social benefits, prohibit dual citizenship, require businesses to match employees' Social Security numbers, and time-out on legal immigration.

Right. So let's take a look at her alternative to the Wikipedia which supposedly provides, according to Conservapedia's homepage:

... an online resource and meeting place where we favor Christianity and America. Conservapedia has easy-to-use indexes to facilitate review of topics. You will much prefer using Conservapedia compared to Wikipedia if you want concise answers free of "political correctness".

1) In the Wikipedia there is an extensive and well-written entry on the term African-American which serves as an anchor pages for many other related topics on our history, culture, religions, political movements, civic organizations and more. In the Conservapedia, I could find no entry for African-American, Black or even Negro. There is however, a page there for "Mulatto". Just in time for Barack Obama's presidential campaign! That said, the Wikipedia entry for Mulatto could also use some work.

2) The Conservapedia entry for Baraminology which is supposedly an alternative to the "secular concept of species" has a few nuances that the Wikipedia entry on the subject does not share. Apparently creationist theory conveniently makes room to perpetuate discredited racist scientific theory. The terminology used below somehow implies that people of certain ethnicities are not the same biologically(an excerpt):

• Monobaramin: A monobaramin is a