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		<title>Pentagon Shooter Was Part Of Ron Paul Think Tank Group</title>
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<p>Information is being released on John Patrick Bedell, the man who shot two police officers at the Pentagon before being killed. His internet postings reveal that he was a libertarian, conspiracy theorist and part of the Ludwig von Mises Facebook group. The Ludwig von Mises Institute is a think tank that has a working relationship with <strong></strong><strong>Ron Paul </strong>and is headed by Paul&#8217;s former chief of staff, Lou Rockwell.</p>
<p><a href="http://mediaelites.com/2010/03/05/john-patrick-bedells-gunfight-with-pentagon-cops-crazier-than-crazy-teabag-offshoot/" target="_blank">Source</a></p>
<p>Here&#8217;s What The Southern Poverty Law Center Said About the Lugwig von Mises Institute</p>
<blockquote><p>Headed up by Llewelyn Rockwell Jr., the Ludwig von Mises Institute is devoted to a radical libertarian view of government and economics inspired by the Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises, whom the institute says &#8220;showed that government intervention is always destructive.&#8221;</p>
<p>Indeed, the institute aims to &#8220;undermine statism in all its forms,&#8221; and its recent interest in neo-Confederate themes reflects that.</p>
<p>Rockwell recently argued that the Civil War &#8220;transformed the American regime from a federalist system based on freedom to a centralized state that circumscribed liberty in the name of public order.&#8221;</p>
<p>Desegregation in the civil rights era, he says, resulted in the &#8220;involuntary servitude&#8221; of (presumably white) business owners. In the past, Rockwell has praised the electoral success of European neofascists like Joerg Haider in Austria and Christoph Blocher in Switzerland.</p>
<p>Both Rockwell and institute research director Jeffrey Tucker are listed on the racist League of the South&#8217;s Web page as founding members — and both men deny their membership. Tucker has written for League publications, and many League members have taught at the institute&#8217;s seminars and given presentations at its conferences.</p>
<p>At the recent Austrian Scholars Conference, the F.A. Hayek Memorial Lecture was delivered by Donald Livingston, director of the League&#8217;s Summer Institute. In 1994, Thomas Fleming, a founding League member and the editor of Chronicles magazine, spoke on neo-Confederate ideas to an institute conference.</p>
<p>Rockwell, who is also vice president of the Center for Libertarian Studies, runs his own daily news Web site that often features articles by League members.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Two Cops Shot, Man Killed In Pentagon Shootout</title>
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<p>WASHINGTON – The gunman who shot two Pentagon police officers was heavily armed and spent weeks driving to the Capital area from the West Coast, authorities said Friday. Resentment of the U.S. government and suspicions over the 9/11 attacks have surfaced in writings by the Californian identified as the man fatally wounded in a hail of return fire.</p>
<p><strong>John Patrick Bedell</strong>, 36, of Hollister, Calif., was identified as the shooter and authorities said he&#8217;d had previous run-ins with the law.</p>
<p>Investigators have found no immediate connection to terrorism, and the attack at the massive Defense Department headquarters appears to be a case of &#8220;a single individual who had issues,&#8221; Richard Keevill, chief of Pentagon police, said in an early morning press conference.</p>
<p>Keevill described Bedell as &#8220;very well educated&#8221; and well-dressed, saying Bedell was wearing a suit, armed with two 9 millimeter semiautomatic weapons and carried &#8220;many magazines&#8221; of ammunition. There was more ammunition in Bedell&#8217;s car, which authorities found in a local parking garage, Keevill said.</p>
<p>Bedell, 36, died Thursday night from head wounds received in a volley of fire with police. Keevill said the two injured officers and another officer who came to their assistance fired upon Bedell at the subway entrance into the Pentagon building in Arlington, Va.</p>
<p>&#8220;He came here from California,&#8221; Keevill said. &#8220;We were able to identify certain locations that he spent that last several weeks making his way from the West coast to the East coast.&#8221;</p>
<p>Noting that Bedell was wearing a suit, Keevill said: &#8220;There was no indication based on the way he was dressed that he had hostile intent.&#8221;</p>
<p>The exchange of fire lasted less than a minute but, numerous shots were fired, Keevill said, adding that he didn&#8217;t know how many because investigators were &#8220;still counting.&#8221; Bedell was not wearing body armor, he added.</p>
<p>The two officers injured have been released from the hospital. One suffered a thigh wound and the other was hit in the shoulder. Keevill said both were superficial injuries.</p>
<p>Keevill said he did not know the shooter&#8217;s motive.</p>
<p>&#8220;I have no idea what his intentions were,&#8221; said Keevill, who had late Thursday described the attack in this way:</p>
<p>&#8220;He just reached in his pocket, pulled out a gun and started shooting&#8221; at point-blank range. &#8220;He walked up very cool. He had no real emotion on his face.&#8221;</p>
<p>Beverly Fields, chief of staff of the D.C. medical examiner&#8217;s office, confirmed the man&#8217;s death and said his body arrived at her office shortly after midnight.</p>
<p>Signs emerged that Bedell harbored ill feelings toward the government and the armed forces, and had questioned the circumstances behind the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.</p>
<p>In an Internet posting, a user by the name JPatrickBedell wrote that he was &#8220;determined to see that justice is served&#8221; in the death of Marine Col. James Sabow, who was found dead in the backyard of his California home in 1991. The death was ruled a suicide but the case has long been the source of theories of a cover up.</p>
<p>Keevill said Friday that authorities had not made &#8220;a final determination&#8221; that the shooter was the same Bedell.</p>
<p>The user named JPatrickBedell wrote the Sabow case was &#8220;a step toward establishing the truth of events such as the September 11 demolitions.&#8221;</p>
<p>That same posting railed against the government&#8217;s enforcement of marijuana laws and included links to the author&#8217;s 2006 court case in Orange County, Calif., for cultivating marijuana and resisting a police officer. Court records available online show the date of birth on the case mentioned by the user JPatrickBedell matches that of the John Patrick Bedell suspected in the shooting.</p>
<p>The assault at the very threshold of the Pentagon — the U.S. capital&#8217;s ground zero on Sept. 11, 2001 — came four months after a deadly attack on the Army&#8217;s Fort Hood, Texas, post allegedly by a U.S. Army psychiatrist with radical Islamic leanings.</p>
<p>Hatred of the government motivated a man in Texas last month to fly a small plane into a building housing Internal Revenue Service offices, killing an IRS employee and himself.</p>
<p>Whatever the motive of Thursday&#8217;s attack, the method resembled one in January in which a gunman walked up to the security entrance of a Las Vegas courthouse and opened fire with a shotgun, killing one officer and wounding another before being gunned down in a barrage of return fire.</p>
<p>President Barack Obama was getting FBI updates on the Pentagon shooting through his homeland security and counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, White House spokesman Nick Shapiro said.</p>
<p>The subway station is immediately adjacent to the Pentagon building, a five-sided northern Virginia colossus across the Potomac River from Washington. Since a redesign following the 2001 terrorist attack on the Pentagon, riders can no longer disembark directly into the building. Riders take a long escalator ride to the surface from the underground station, then pass through a security check outside the doors of the building, where further security awaits.</p>
<p>After the attack, all Pentagon entrances were secured, then all were reopened except one from the subway, said Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman.</p>
<p>Transit officials said the station would remain closed at least part of the day Friday while the FBI continued its investigation.</p>
<p>Keevill said the gunman gave no clue to the officers at the checkpoint about what he was going to do.</p>
<p>&#8220;There was no distress,&#8221; he said. &#8220;When he reached into his pocket, they assumed he was going to get a pass and he came up with a gun.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;He wasn&#8217;t pretending to be anyone. He was wearing a coat and walked up and just started shooting.&#8221;</p>
<p>Keevill added: &#8220;We have layers of security and it worked. He never got inside the building to hurt anyone.&#8221;</p>
<p>Ronald Domingues, 74, who lives next door to Bedell&#8217;s parents in a gated golf course community in Hollister, said he doesn&#8217;t know the family well. But he said Bedell sometimes lived with his parents and struck him &#8220;like a normal young man.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;He just seemed like a normal guy to me,&#8221; Domingues said. &#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t suspect he would be involved in anything like this.&#8221;</p>
<p>Domingues described the neighborhood as middle-class. He said the Bedells live in a one story southwestern-style stucco home. The house was dark Thursday night.</p>
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		<title>OPINION: Black Leaders Sell Out David Paterson</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:13:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Young</dc:creator>
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<p>The only time I&#8217;ve ever even heard of a mass act as suspiciously Tom-like as <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/03/04/2010-03-04_black_leaders_call_emergency_meet_in_harlem_to_decide_whether_gov_david_paterson.html">the group of Black leaders that got together last night</a> to discuss New York Governor David Paterson&#8217;s political future was the effrontery that took place when some fool decided to gather together a gang of Black athletes to &#8220;weigh in&#8221; on the mind state of one Muhammad Ali whom everyone had assumed was insane because he had refused induction into the United States Military.</p>
<p>Ali&#8217;s group included, among others, Jim Brown, Bill Russell and Lew Alcindor&#8211; ne Kareem Abdul Jabar, dudes that had to go extra heavy on their Blackness over the course of the next few years just to make up for this debacle.</p>
<p>David Paterson&#8217;s own group got together at <em>Sylvia&#8217;s</em> restaurant in Harlem last night to discuss whether or not Paterson should resign as governor of New York. Get this straight: David Paterson shouldn&#8217;t go anywhere.</p>
<p>And this isn&#8217;t even a case of Paterson doing what white politicians would have done. If Paterson had done what New York&#8217;s most recent white politicians had done, Manhattan&#8217;s skyline would probably be <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks">missing a few more tall buildings</a> right now and more <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_Dupr%C3%A9">former street-walkers</a> would be sex columnists for the New York Post.</p>
<p>The big deal(s) in David Paterson&#8217;s case are that he is accused of accepting <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2010/03/04/2010-03-04_what_happened_to_the_truth_governor.html">free tickets to a New York Yankees game</a> and he supposedly used his political influence to try to resolve <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2010/03/03/2010-03-03_paterson_aide_at_center_of_scandal_david_johnson_turns_to_exjon_gosselin_lawyer_.html">a domestic violence accusation </a>between David Johnson, who is one of Paterson&#8217;s aids and Sherr-una Booker, Johnson&#8217;s former live-in girlfriend.</p>
<p>If accepting Yankee tickets were anywhere near a punishable crime, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani would be currently under a jail.</p>
<p>And as for Paterson stepping in and trying to resolve things between his aid and the aid&#8217;s former girlfriend, this isn&#8217;t at all like the case where current New York mayor Mike Bloomberg intervened and prevented a criminal investigation in the aftermath of the <a href="http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/08/18/2-firefighters-are-dead-in-deutsche-bank-fire/">Deutsche Bank  fire</a>&#8211; a fire that killed two firemen.</p>
<p>Using your polticial influence to attempt to resolve an issue that might have been blown out of proportion while emotions were still running high and at the same time, trying to protect one of those in your employ and therefore, one of your own, isn&#8217;t doing anything unethical at all.</p>
<p>As a matter of fact, in politics, that&#8217;s called leadership.</p>
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		<title>Analysis: NY’s Paterson, Rangel Face the Music</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:56:10 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h1>Analysis: NY’s Paterson, Rangel Face the Music</h1>
<p>Date: Thursday, March 04, 2010<br />
By: Michael H. Cottman</p>
<p>This is a tough week for black men who are occupying elected seats of power.</p>
<p><strong>David Paterson</strong>, <strong>New York’s first African-American governor</strong>, is under investigation and sinking deeper into political quicksand.</p>
<p><strong>U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY),</strong> the raspy-voiced legislator from Harlem, stepped down temporarily Tuesday as chairman of the influential Ways and Means Committee after the House ethics committee admonished him last week for taking corporate-paid trips to the Caribbean, a violation of the government’s gift rules.</p>
<p>Washington D.C. Council member Marion Barry, who is no stranger to controversy, was stripped of his committee chairmanship after the D.C. Council voted to censure him on possible public corruption charges. The allegations stem from a conflict-of-interest investigation that alleges Barry took a cut of a $15,000 contract he awarded to his then-girlfriend, Donna Watts-Brighthaupt.</p>
<p>On Capitol Hill, some Republicans want Rangel to quit Congress immediately, and his abrupt decision to relinquish his chairmanship, even temporarily, could signal the beginning of the end for the 20-term congressman.</p>
<p>In New York, calls for Paterson’s resignation are also getting louder, the accusations against him are becoming more troubling, and New York’s first black governor may have to make some hard decisions in the days head: Resign or transfer power to the lieutenant governor.</p>
<p>Paterson is involved in a sordid scandal that involves a domestic violence case that would probably never reach the desk of a governor’s office. He is being accused of trying to cover up accusations that one of his top aides, David Johnson, who is African-American, was physically assaulting his girlfriend, Sherr-una Booker, who is also black. </p>
<p>For the record, Paterson denies any wrongdoing. Paterson and Rangel are like family; both men are products of the Harlem elite, and it’s ironic that they are now facing serious investigations that could end their historic political careers.</p>
<p>Rangel is a longtime mentor to Paterson, and the two embattled politicians share a storied history in Harlem, where Paterson grew up listening to back-room chatter about black political empowerment and watching black elected leaders – including his father &#8211; become part of a powerful Democratic dynasty.  </p>
<p>But it wasn’t supposed to go down like this.</p>
<p>Paterson, the son of legendary Harlem politician Basil Paterson, was hoping to be successful as New York’s first black governor and perhaps soar to higher political heights, while Rangel, the charismatic icon who replaced Adam Clayton Powell in the House of Representatives, would quietly end an extraordinary run after serving 39 years in Congress.    </p>
<p>Rangel was the lynchpin of the illustrious Harlem-based “Gang of Four” alongside Basil Paterson, who was a New York deputy mayor, a New York secretary of state, and ran for lieutenant governor in 1970; Percy Sutton, the former Manhattan borough president, who died last year; David Dinkins, who was Manhattan borough president and New York’s first black mayor. The four Democrats are hailed as heroes in New York, who helped build a black power base while encouraging many young blacks to seek elected office over the years.   </p>
<p>But today, even some supporters on Capitol Hill say privately that it’s time for Rangel, who is now 79 years old, to resign from Congress.</p>
<p>The House ethics panel is also investigating other serious allegations that Rangel failed to pay federal taxes on rental income from his villa in the Dominican Republic and his ownership of four rent-controlled apartments.</p>
<p>In New York, even amid calls for Paterson to resign, several black Democrats insist the allegations against Paterson smack of a racial double standard because the governor’s critics are prematurely calling for his resignation before a thorough investigation has been completed.</p>
<p>But here&#8217;s the deal: Sherr-una Booker had an order of protection against Johnson, Paterson’s top aide, and she once showed a judge several bruises she claimed were inflicted by Johnson.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is investigating whether Paterson committed a crime – possible witness tampering &#8211; by contacting Booker before she was to appear in court to tell her story about Johnson. She never made it to court on Feb. 8, and the case was dropped. </p>
<p>The days ahead will only get tougher for Barry, Paterson and Rangel. </p>
<p>Barry is a proven survivor who could come away from this latest scandal unscathed. He told a jam-packed Baptist church Tuesday night, “I have no intentions of going anywhere. They may take my committee chair. They can&#8217;t take my dignity.&#8221;</p>
<p>But Paterson and Rangel are different. They may now be considering similar options that would have been unthinkable one year ago: Jump – or wait to be pushed.<strong></strong></p>
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		<title>Black Pro-Lifers Should Stop the Scare Tactics</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<strong>These billboards are up in Atlanta, with the face of a black baby and the claim that black children are an endangered species.</strong>

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<p>Date: Wednesday, March 03, 2010<br />
By: Tonyaa Weathersbee</p>
<p>On one level, <strong>Catherine Davis</strong> is right.</p>
<p>Davis, who serves as minority outreach director for Georgia Right to Life, recently told the Los Angeles Times that too many black women’s pregnancies end in abortion.</p>
<p>According to the Centers for Disease Control, black women have 37 percent of all abortions. Davis told the Times that if 18,870,000 black babies hadn’t been aborted since Roe vs. Wade, black people “would be 59 million strong – over 19 percent of the population.”</p>
<p>It’s a tragedy that so many black women’s pregnancies end in abortion. But it’s an even worse tragedy that black people like Davis, as well as a growing number of black clerics and activists, are trying to frighten black people about abortion borrowing from the same playbook that Sarah Palin used to frighten old people about death panels.</p>
<p>They’re painting it as a racist conspiracy.</p>
<p>All over Atlanta, billboards have been appearing with the face of a black baby and the claim that black children are an endangered species. More black anti-abortion activists are saying that abortionists are targeting black women in order to keep the black population down.</p>
<p>I’d say that young black males, with the nation’s highest homicide rates, are doing a good enough job of that on their own.</p>
<p>But the black anti-abortion forces, it seems, believe they have found the right button to push to frighten black people into joining the fight to limit abortion rights and to ultimately overturn Roe.</p>
<p> <br />
They’ve taken to repeating pro-life talking points about Margaret Sanger, an early feminist and birth control advocate who advocated eugenics. In the 1920s, that often meant selective breeding and weeding out of undesirables, which often meant blacks.</p>
<p>But regardless of Sanger’s beliefs – and back then, she wasn’t alone – last I checked, no one was slapping undesirable stickers on pregnant black women and forcing them into cattle cars to be shipped off to abortion and sterilization camps.</p>
<p>Women who get abortions choose to do so – and it’s quite patronizing to believe that black women need to be protected from themselves.</p>
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<p>Besides that, Sanger’s prejudices are nothing compared to the racism that, for hundreds of years, denied black women control of their bodies – and would surely reemerge if Roe was overturned.</p>
<p>During slavery, black women were forced to be breeders so that their children could be sold for profit or worked to help the white masters make a profit. They were also forced to bear the children of white masters who had raped them.</p>
<p>Black women had to endure that when the government – in that case, a government that sanctioned slavery – had the last say in whether they would bear children.</p>
<p>Then, in the years after slavery and before legalized abortion, black women who were able to persuade a real doctor to perform one were often subjected to racist bargaining; i.e., they’d get a safe abortion in return for agreeing to be sterilized.</p>
<p>Countless others, however, died from botched abortions – a fact that Davis overlooks in assuming that all of those 18,870,000 black pregnancies would not have ended in back alleys.</p>
<p>But to stem the high black abortion rate, people like Davis ought to be working to see to it that more black women are blessed with the circumstances that would empower them to continue their pregnancies.</p>
<p>Things like health care, day care, jobs and education are the things that black people who dislike abortion ought to be fighting for – not giving political cover to a mostly-white movement whose purpose is, at the end of the day, not to save black babies as much as it is to preserve white advantage.</p>
<p>It’s too bad that the black anti-abortion racist conspiracy theorists don’t see that – and have instead allowed themselves to be duped into fighting for a cause that gives the state the ultimate say in a woman’s right to reproduce.</p>
<p>Especially since the last time that happened, for black women, it didn’t turn out too well.</p>
<p><strong>Source:Blackamericaweb.com</strong></p>
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		<title>Death Row Inmate Awarded $5.5M For Wrongful Conviction</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:36:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Young</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cook County Board today agreed to pay $525,000 to a former Death Row inmate already given $5.5 million by the city to settle a wrongful conviction lawsuit.]]></description>
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<p>This is not the first time an inmate set for execution has been found to be wrongfully convicted. With the advent of DNA technology, among other things, it seems the justice system has been able to correct itself somewhat. Still, the prison industrial complex keeps a disproportionate amount of Black men and women behind bars, unable to contribute to society or build lasting </p>
<p>From ChicagoTribune.com:</p>
<p>The Cook County Board today agreed to pay $525,000 to a former Death Row inmate already given $5.5 million by the city to settle a wrongful conviction lawsuit. The money due under the settlement approved by the board will be paid to Leroy Orange in five equal installments, the last of which is due in January 2014. He spent 19 years behind bars until former Gov. George Ryan pardoned him in 2003. Like several other former murder defendants, Orange alleged that former Chicago Police Cmdr. Jon Burge used torture to force his murder confession. Neither the city nor the county admitted wrongdoing in settling the cases.</p>
<p><a href="http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/clout_st/2010/03/county-pays-525000-to-former-death-row-inmate-in-wrongful-prosecution-case.html%22%3EClick">http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/clout_st/2010/03/county-pays-525000-to-former-death-row-inmate-in-wrongful-prosecution-case.html&#8221;&gt;Click</a> here to read more.</p>
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		<title>Maryland University Professor Fired After Using N-Word</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Young</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You would think that a professor teaching a class of diverse students might have a bit more prudence and sensitivity when using charged words like the N-word, in whatever context he may have meant it. Do you think this professor is racist or just misunderstood?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>You would think that a professor teaching a class of diverse students might have a bit more prudence and sensitivity when using charged words like the N-word, in whatever context he may have meant it. Do you think this professor is racist or just misunderstood?</em><em> <a href="http://newsone.com/nation/rk-byers/opinion-alabama-professor-amy-bishop-is-a-racist-murderer/">Click here</a> to read about professor actually fueled by racism.<strong> &#8211; NewsOne Staff</strong></em></p>
<p><strong>From TheTowerLight.com:</strong></p>
<p>A Towson adjunct faculty member was recently fired after using a racial slur in a class.<span id="more-710321"></span></p>
<p>Allen Zaruba was teaching his Visual Concepts class on Monday, Feb. 22, and discussing “Themes of Contemporary Art,” a textbook by Jean Robertson and Craig McDaniel, which Zaruba described as “very politically incorrect.”</p>
<p>While reviewing a chapter about identity and the body, Zaruba referred to himself as “a nigger on the corporate plantation.”</p>
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Zaruba said the phrase was not meant to be racist, but that he regretted it as soon as he said it.</p>
<p>“I am not a racist. I never have been. I&#8217;ve been raised overseas and in other cultures. It just absolutely kills me,” he said, later adding that he serves in the prison ministry, teaches Sunday school and that his stepfather was a black man and he “loved him dearly.”</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thetowerlight.com/adjunct-faculty-member-fired-following-racial-slur-1.2174910">Click here to read more.</a></p>
<p><strong>RELATED:</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://newsone.com/nation/rk-byers/opinion-alabama-professor-amy-bishop-is-a-racist-murderer/">OPINION: Alabama Professor Is A Racist Murderer</a></p>
<p><a href="http://newsone.com/nation/boycewatkins/opinion-the-most-racially-charged-stories-of-2009/">The Most Racially Charged Stories Of 2009</a></p>
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		<title>Minority Journalists: Media Does Poor Job Covering Race Issues</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Young</dc:creator>
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<p>While minority journalists view the historic election of the U.S.&#8217;s first Black president as a positive step for race relations, many believe that their own industry has fallen down on the job in its coverage of race relations, according to the 2010 Journalism in Color Survey on Race and the Media.<span id="more-710291"></span></p>
<p>The Journalism in Color Survey tracks the views of professional journalists of color on issues of race and media.   Commissioned by theLoop21.com, an Black economic and political news website, in collaboration with UNITY: Journalists of Color, Inc., the survey provides a unique perspective on racial coverage in the Age of Obama. The survey, conducted last month, received over 400 responses from a racially diverse group of media professionals.</p>
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<p>Journalists were surveyed on a variety of topics, including the quality of coverage of issues affecting African Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders and Native Americans following the 2008 Presidential campaign as well as their professional experiences in mainstream media, perception of opportunities for advancement in their news organizations and suggestions to improve and increase coverage of issues that are important to people of color.</p>
<p><em><strong>Among the findings:</strong></em><br />
- 95% of respondents did not think mainstream media adequately covered stories regarding racial issues in a multiracial society. Those who agreed with that assessment most often cited a lack of diversity in newsrooms and &#8220;lack of understanding by editors/producers” as reasons for the inadequacies.</p>
<p>- Speaking from personal experience, only 14% of survey respondents felt that their own producers or editors were very knowledgeable about the minority group that they were covering.</p>
<p>- Only 1 in 7 believed that coverage of racial issues by the mainstream media had improved U.S. race relations while nearly twice as many believed it had worsened race relations. And, with all the discussion of a post-racial society since the election, this year’s panel of journalists indicated that racial coverage by the mainstream media was just as likely to be “detrimental to the reality of a post-racial society” as it was to further that reality.</p>
<p>- A majority of respondents indicated that while “racial and cultural issues are more likely to be covered” the overwhelming majority do not believe that “journalists of color cover more high profile stories,” or that additional coverage translates into creating opportunities for newsroom advancement for journalists of color.  Similar views applied to women and gender issues.</p>
<p>“The persistent lack of confidence in the journalism industry is startling,” said Darrell L. Williams, PhD., publisher of theloop21.com. “At this critical juncture in U.S. race relations, there is a need for discussion of standards for unbiased racial coverage.  What decision-makers in media choose to report, how they report it, and what they choose to ignore affects racial perceptions.”</p>
<p>David C. Wilson, Ph.D., a political scientist and public opinion expert who worked on the project, noted that the inadequacy of the media&#8217;s coverage of race is not unique to the Obama era.</p>
<p>“It’s nothing new,” Wilson said, citing President Lyndon Johnson’s 1967 Kerner Commission. The commission, put together to determine the causes of the race riots that plagued major cities in the 1960s, reported that the mainstream media at the time failed to adequately cover issues of concern to Black Americans, instead maintaining a &#8220;white perspective&#8221; that failed to improve race relations.</p>
<p>Today, while a more diverse range of issues are more likely to be covered, Wilson said, “It’s possible that Americans, particularly African Americans, are generally fed up with the highly politicized and sensational nature of how racial issues are portrayed.”</p>
<p>Part of the problem may be the increasingly blurred lines between news and entertainment, fact and opinion.</p>
<p>&#8220;The entertainment line is kind of blurry now. Journalists tend to understand the difference, but the public doesn’t,&#8221; said Wilson. &#8220;And if the pub doesn’t, you lose control of the narrative, so you don’t know what’s fact and what’s not.&#8221;</p>
<p>As a result, media consumers are left with a choice between trusting the news they from increasingly polarized sources, or doing independent research to seek unbiased coverage. The former, Wilson says, is much easier and less-time consuming. However, he believes that if the public demands more from its news outlets, we may begin to see less politicized and more unbiased coverage of race relations in this country.</p>
<p>&#8220;I think it’s very important to hold the media accountable,&#8221; Wilson said. &#8220;It&#8217;s is a market-centered industry, and the public has to do the voting with their dollars.&#8221;</p>
<p>After all, as journalists of color indicated in the survey, poor coverage of diverse groups can actually be harmful to race relations.</p>
<p>Media images and language can prime subtle thoughts and beliefs related to stereotypes that can lead to bias and support faulty beliefs, Wilson said. Greater sensitivity through diversity of ideas among producers and editors is the key to improving the current situation.</p>
<p>“Diversity is not about ‘sheer numbers,’ it’s about highlighting the different takes on different issues,&#8221; he said. One of the goals of the survey was the give journalists of color a chance to join the discussion about how the media needs to move forward.</p>
<p><em><strong>Other findings from the survey:</strong></em><br />
- Journalists also rated news outlets and selected types of media regarding objectivity and trust to provide “fair and unbiased reporting” of racial and cultural issues. CNN was the most trusted news outlet by journalists of color to provide “fair and unbiased reporting on racial and cultural issues” with 69% indicating that they “somewhat trust” or “highly trust.”  FOX was the least trusted with only 3% indicating that they “somewhat trust” or “highly trust.  Ninety-one (91%) percent distrusted FOX to provide “fair and unbiased reporting on racial and cultural issues.”</p>
<p>- Public Radio is the most trusted media type to provide “fair and unbiased reporting on racial and cultural issues” with 80% of journalists of color surveyed indicating that they “somewhat trust” or “highly trust.”  Cable news (31%) and Internet bloggers (10%) were least trusted to provide “fair and unbiased reporting on racial and cultural issues.”</p>
<p><em>For more from the Journalism in Color Survey, click <a href="http://theloop21.com/news/slideshow-race-media-survey-results" target="_self">here</a>. </em></p>
<p><em>To make your own voice heard on these issues, vote in TheLoop21.com&#8217;s &#8220;Truth in Media&#8221; Poll <a href="http://www.theloop21.com/truthinmedia" target="_self">here</a>. </em></p>
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		<title>The Top 5 Reasons I Need To Start Dating</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:51:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Young</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve been on the shelf in my dating life for a little while now.  Not just me but a few of my closest friends as well.  But I&#8217;ve decided it&#8217;s time to get off of the shelf, dust off and get back out in the dating world.</p>
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<p>5.  I love my son more than anyone else in this world, but if I spend one more weekend watching Disney movies and playing Chutes and Ladders, I will probably lose my mind!  Let’s face it, there’s something not quite right about a grown woman who freaks out when she can’t figure out where she put the Disney movie “Cars”.  It’s even worse when she can quote all of the character Lightening McQueen’s lines.</p>
<p>4.  I think it’s time for someone else to pay for my weekend dinners other than me.  Now look before some of you get all deep and call me materialistic, I’ve been known to foot the bill.  And for those who know me, know that I have no problem doing so.  I just want a little chilvary in my life.  Is that too much to ask?  I’m not expecting a new car or diamonds.  I can wait for that.  LOL!  Just kidding!</p>
<p>3.  I don’t want anyone to think I can’t like, you know…get a date.  Okay so what things have been slow going.  I’m just in a bit of a drought right now.  I’d better fix this quick because my co-worker has literally decided she’s going to set me up on a date and she wants to do it all as a reality show.  I was okay with being set up until she decided she wanted to bring cameras into the mix.  But she didn’t stop there she started showing me pictures of some of the candidates and well ur ra ta…Let’s just say some of them looked awfully pimp like.  Guess I can’t be too choosey.  Shucks…Yes I can!</p>
<p>2.  I have to do more than work like a Hebrew slave and take care of my son.  Those two are very important…my work and my son but dang…there absolutely must be more to life.  I don’t think I’ll really know how to behave on a date after so much time but I will definitely have fun blogging about it and sharing it with all of you once I do actually go out.</p>
<p>1.  Deacon such and such at the church wants to talk to me a little too often after church.  I can’t really tell what the constant smile on his face is about.  Nor can I really tell why he pats his stomach every time he sees me.  No offense but I’m really not into men with processed hair.  Well let’s go ahead and call it a Jheri curl.  I’m also not into men who are like twenty years older than I am and drive a burgundy Cadilac with an 8 track tape system in it.  How do I know this?  Deacon such and such told me after church once.  Yeah….I think I’d better start dating before he’s my only option…Chile Please!</p>
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		<title>GOP Rep.: Abortion Worse than Slavery for Blacks</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<strong>Rep. Trent Franks likened black Americans' rate of legal abortions to the horrors of centuries of slavery in this country.</strong>


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<h1>GOP Rep.: Abortion Worse than Slavery for Blacks</h1>
<p>Date: Tuesday, March 02, 2010,<br />
By: Sean Yoes</p>
<p>Controversial <strong>GOP Rep. Trent Franks</strong> sparked another political firestorm recently when he likened black Americans&#8217; rate of legal abortions to the horrors of centuries of slavery in this country.</p>
<p>Said the Arizona lightning rod: “Far more of the African-American community is being devastated by the policies of today than were being devastated by the policies of slavery.”</p>
<p>Franks, who is rated as one of the most conservative members of Congress according to a recent ranking in the National Journal, made the comments during an interview last week with video blogger Mike Stark.</p>
<p>“Slavery is a crushing mark on America’s soul, yet today half of all black children are aborted. Half of all black children are aborted. Far more black children, far more of the African-American community is being devastated by the policies of today than were being devastated by the policies of slavery.”</p>
<p>The reality remains most Americans are pro-choice. However, Franks&#8217; comments don’t address the fact black Americans had no choice when it came to slavery.</p>
<p>In addition, Franks&#8217; comments – viewed as outrageous by many – fail to address the fact many abortions are the result of lack of adequate access to contraceptives mainly by low-income women. And the use of providing contraceptives to prevent pregnancy is an issue many conservative Republicans have historically opposed.</p>
<p>Progressives were quick to respond to Franks&#8217; comments.</p>
<p>&#8220;To compare the horrors and inhumane treatment of millions of African Americans during slavery as a better way of life for African Americans today is beyond repulsive,&#8221; Stephanie Young, a  Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee spokeswoman, said in a statement. &#8220;In 2010, during the 2nd year of our first African American president, it is astonishing that a thought such as this would come to mind, let alone be shared. The next time Congressman Franks wants to make assumptions about what policies are &#8216;best&#8217; for the African-American community, he should keep them to himself.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Ah yes, the good old days of slavery when black women could happily carry their masters’ rape-babies to term without any busybody white liberals pushing them to get abortions,&#8221; wrote Eli, a blogger on the liberal Web site Fire Dog Lake. &#8220;See how elegantly Franks combines the “Slavery wasn’t really all that bad” (not as devastating as abortion!) meme with the “Abortion is a genocidal liberal conspiracy OMG!” meme.  Breathtaking!&#8221;</p>
<p>Still, at least one black, female anti-abortion activist has come to Franks’ defense.</p>
<p>“Face it, America &#8211; he’s right. Abortion has exacted a greater toll on Blacks than slavery,” said Day Gardner, president of the National Black Pro-Life Union. Gardner made the comments during an interview with LifeNews.com, an anti-abortion media outlet.</p>
<p>“Our country brutally enslaved four million people, denying them their rights, their freedom and many times, their lives. Rep. Franks is simply comparing that horrific truth to another horrific truth, which is that abortion has killed more than 17 million Black people,” Gardner added.</p>
<p>The comments of Franks and Gardner seem to mimic a new anti-abortion campaign, which aims to erect 80 billboards in “urban areas,” with the message, “Black children are an endangered species.”</p>
<p>The campaign is being sponsored by Georgia Right to Life and the Radiance Foundation, an Atlanta-based organization, which encourages adoption.</p>
<p>According to a 2006 report published by the Centers for Disease Control, of the 37 states that report abortion data by race, Georgia, Mississippi, and Texas – three “red states” – are among the top five states with the highest percentage of abortions being performed on black women.</p>
<p>The comments connecting abortion to slavery are not the first time Franks – who some describe as an anti-abortion zealot – has made inflammatory remarks about U.S. abortion policy. During a conservative forum last year, he specifically took aim at President Barack Obama over the issue.</p>
<p>“Obama’s first act as president of any consequence, in the middle of a financial meltdown, was to send taxpayers’ money overseas to pay for the killing of unborn children in other countries,” Franks said during the “How to Take Back America” conference in St. Louis, Missouri in Sept. of 2009.</p>
<p>“Now, I got to tell you, if a president will do that, there’s almost nothing that you should be surprised at after that,” Franks said at the conference, which featured a range of extremist topics.</p>
<p>“We shouldn’t be shocked that he does all these insane things. A president that has lost his way that badly, that has no ability to see the image of God in these little fellow human beings, if he can’t do that right, then he has no place in any station of government, and we need to realize that he is an enemy of humanity,” Franks said.</p>
<p><strong>Source:BlackAmericaWeb.com</strong></p>
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