So far the GOP convention has become petty with no substance. Palin has just spoken and I am trying to figure her out. What are her policy positions that are important to Americans? The whole time she is reacting to what the media is supposively said about her. She is reacting to what the political pundits questioned about her.
Please tell me Governor Palin, what is your answer to the economy? How will you work with Senator McCain regarding healthcare and HIV and AIDS? Womens issues? Education? What is your position on energy sufficiency and the environment?
The Republicans have attacked Obama like playing the dozens. It is reactionary and not proactive. They came out swinging defensively. JABS, JABS, JABS. Again, no subtsance.
When I watched the Democratic convention, this did not happen. Dems talked about how they disagreed with McCain's policies and what to expect from a Obama administration.
I know that this is day three of the convention...but this is so bad. I do not know what else to say.
Monday, September 1, 2008
Friday, August 29, 2008
McCain Are You Kidding Me?
So I am back for moment to comment on John McCain's choice for his VP running mate. No, I did not post anything about the Dems convention. I may post something on the Republican's convention, well maybe.... Too much going on on the home front to deal with at this point,but i had to say something today.
John McCain's choice was a poor one and will not get him any further than what he has been with Obama. First of all, there are several women he could have chosen to be his running mate who could have gave the Obama campaign a cause for concern. You have Maine US Senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins and the awesome Kay Bailey Hutchison from Texas. I am not a Republican but I know that Hutchison is a powerhouse and she could give Biden a run for his money in the debates, especially foreign policy. And we can not forget Elizabeth Dole from North Carolina! If he could have picked anyone of these ladies, we would have pause to worry, seriously. But he picks this women. So as usual McCain played the defense. A weak one.
Sad to say, but when the debates happen between Biden and Palin, he is going to eat her alive and rip a new one on her.
This here is a classic case of McCain taking the women's vote for granted. Women voters are not going to support another women because she is a women. She will be supported if she has our issues and concerns in mind. Palin does not, but the other's do. Just go look at their voting record. They have align themselves with Hillary Clinton on several legislations.
So what does McCain do? He picks someone to be his running mate who is even younger than Barack Obama and has less experience. He picks someone to thumb his nose at Obama. Are you for real?!
And in quoting from CNN's commentator Jack Cafferty, "Sara Palin is 44 – Obama is 47. Sara Palin is in her first term as governor of Alaska, a state that has 13 people and some caribou. Obama is a member of the United States Senate from Illinois." Now who has better experience the McCain keeps egging Obama about? You get the picture.
McCain's pick was a big fat joke. Instead of offense, he takes defense. It makes no political sense and it is a contradiction to what he has been giving over the last several months.
Have a good Labor Day weekend.
Sunday, July 6, 2008
Obama Speaks at the 2008 African Methodist Episcopal Church General Conference
Yesterday, Presidential Candidate Barack Obama spoke to the AME Church General Conference in St. Louis, MO. What a powerful speech about how the Black community can control our destiny. Take a look.
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Supreme Court Overturns DC Gun Ban - This is Appalling
Those of you who live in the Washington, DC metropolitan area know the increase of gun violence this past year. Majority of those of African Americans. Specifically, this past month DC has seen a number of shootings and homicides, including ten earlier this month alone. This outrageous ruling by the Supreme Court may have increase that number. The 5 to 4 ruling opinion asserts that individuals had the right to own guns for self-defense and for hunting.
Washington Post's reported that DC Mayor Adrian Fenty "Expresses dismay about the ruling and "more handguns will lead to more handgun violence." And I agree.
While the ruling is geared toward guns in the homes and not out in the street, the ruling seems to open doors for more African Americans being killed. I understand the Second Amendment in the US Constitution giving Americans the right to bear arms, however, since the Amendment gives little interpretation this is what we get. An absolute disaster.
What does this have to do with African American women lives? Well most of the victims and criminals are children, spouses, nieces/nephews, cousins, siblings of Black women. They will have to pick up where their deceased or jailed relatives have left off. They have to take care of their children, they have to take time off work to deal with the courts and thye lawyers. They have to go and with deal the funerals. They have to mourn, grieve, and cry. Many will go into depression, they will have to sacrifice, bail someone out when funds are already low.
I wonder what the rest of the Summer is going to be like. Hmmm. You know the answer.
Washington Post's reported that DC Mayor Adrian Fenty "Expresses dismay about the ruling and "more handguns will lead to more handgun violence." And I agree.
While the ruling is geared toward guns in the homes and not out in the street, the ruling seems to open doors for more African Americans being killed. I understand the Second Amendment in the US Constitution giving Americans the right to bear arms, however, since the Amendment gives little interpretation this is what we get. An absolute disaster.
What does this have to do with African American women lives? Well most of the victims and criminals are children, spouses, nieces/nephews, cousins, siblings of Black women. They will have to pick up where their deceased or jailed relatives have left off. They have to take care of their children, they have to take time off work to deal with the courts and thye lawyers. They have to go and with deal the funerals. They have to mourn, grieve, and cry. Many will go into depression, they will have to sacrifice, bail someone out when funds are already low.
I wonder what the rest of the Summer is going to be like. Hmmm. You know the answer.
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
New McCain Ad on Energy Security
McCain released a new ad on his energy policy. Very interesting position. TAKE A LOOK.
Do you think his policy is better than Obama's?
Do you think his policy is better than Obama's?
Commentary on the Whole Gloucester Pregnancy Issue
By: Tonyaa Weathersbee, BlackAmericaWeb.com
Commentary: Black Girls Get Pregnant and Get Scorned; Why Do the Gloucester Girls Get Tea and Sympathy?
Date: Tuesday, June 24, 2008
By now, another racial stereotype ought to be biting some big-time dust.
It seems that in Gloucester, Massachusetts, a fishing town described as white, Catholic and blue collar, students who walk the halls of the local high school this fall may find themselves bumping into classmates who will be returning with their own bump. Seventeen girls at Gloucester High School are pregnant -- more than four times the number of pregnancies that the school of 1,200 has had in a year.
Time magazine recently reported that the pregnancies may have been part of a pact that the girls entered into to give birth to and raise their children together. But the principal of the school, Joseph Sullivan, has been silent since making that assertion -- possibly to quench the media firestorm ignited by that sordid tale. The mayor of the town, Carolyn Kirk, is vigorously denying that there was any pregnancy pact -- saying that Sullivan now claims his memory of the details is foggy.
Me, I believe Sullivan’s memory is just fine. It’s his courage that has lapsed.
But Kirk and others needn’t worry too much about the town’s reputation because ultimately, the Gloucester girls will receive more of society’s sympathy than its scorn. The fact that the media is focusing on whether there was a pact and whether the girls are victims of a celebrity culture that spawns movies like “Juno” and “Knocked Up,” says that when white kids do something that smacks of antisocial behavior, people are quick to dig for explanations.
When black kids do antisocial things, people think that all they need are sermons.
By now, everyone should know that becoming pregnant isn’t a wise career move for any teenager. Despite anecdotes of how some teenage mothers, like the singer Fantasia and others, grow up to become successful, studies too numerous to name here show that children who are born to teenage mothers are several times likely to grow up in poverty -- and to suffer all the problems that come with that package.
Yet it seems that over the years, as black teenage births continued to grow, many people seemed content to treat it as some kind of inner moral deficit; as part of blacks’ inability to control their sexual urges. As a columnist at a daily newspaper, I can’t begin to tell you about the numerous calls I get from whites -- racists who have found a new best friend in Bill Cosby -- who are convinced that black immorality is the sole reason for our teenage pregnancy epidemic.
One caller, who claimed to be a middle school teacher, once left a rambling message on my voice mail about how disgusted she gets with all the little black girls in her class who gleefully share pictures of their sonograms with each other.
I wonder if she’s as disgusted by what the Gloucester girls did.
Chances are she isn’t. Because chances are sociologists, psychologists and all other manner of experts will be trying to explain why those girls happened to get pregnant at the same time. They’ll talk about the influence of popular culture, which brought us Jamie Lynn Spears, and phrases like “baby bump.” It’s a culture which treats the public and vulnerable girls to aisles full of magazine racks with covers of the latest, unwed celebrity mom-to-be.
They’ll probably even coin this debacle as “The Gloucester Syndrome,” when it’s imitated at other, mostly-white high schools. It’ll be treated as a trend, not as a depravity.
Hopefully, at some point, the talk will turn to the truths behind teenage pregnancy. One truth is that teenage girls, regardless of race, will make a baby if it they think it means love and acceptance.
Another truth is that they tend to get love and esteem in stable families; families whose influence is a buffer against all the silliness that they absorb from their peers and popular culture. Another truth is that economic instability, such as the type that has hit Gloucester and that has plagued black, inner-city neighborhoods for decades, makes growing stable families difficult.
Maybe then, that talk will force more people to see that black girls in inner-city schools wind up pregnant for many of the same reasons that the Gloucester girls did. They do it to follow their peers and the culture that they’re left to work with, not because they are immoral or stupid.
Or beyond redemption.
Commentary: Black Girls Get Pregnant and Get Scorned; Why Do the Gloucester Girls Get Tea and Sympathy?
Date: Tuesday, June 24, 2008
By now, another racial stereotype ought to be biting some big-time dust.
It seems that in Gloucester, Massachusetts, a fishing town described as white, Catholic and blue collar, students who walk the halls of the local high school this fall may find themselves bumping into classmates who will be returning with their own bump. Seventeen girls at Gloucester High School are pregnant -- more than four times the number of pregnancies that the school of 1,200 has had in a year.
Time magazine recently reported that the pregnancies may have been part of a pact that the girls entered into to give birth to and raise their children together. But the principal of the school, Joseph Sullivan, has been silent since making that assertion -- possibly to quench the media firestorm ignited by that sordid tale. The mayor of the town, Carolyn Kirk, is vigorously denying that there was any pregnancy pact -- saying that Sullivan now claims his memory of the details is foggy.
Me, I believe Sullivan’s memory is just fine. It’s his courage that has lapsed.
But Kirk and others needn’t worry too much about the town’s reputation because ultimately, the Gloucester girls will receive more of society’s sympathy than its scorn. The fact that the media is focusing on whether there was a pact and whether the girls are victims of a celebrity culture that spawns movies like “Juno” and “Knocked Up,” says that when white kids do something that smacks of antisocial behavior, people are quick to dig for explanations.
When black kids do antisocial things, people think that all they need are sermons.
By now, everyone should know that becoming pregnant isn’t a wise career move for any teenager. Despite anecdotes of how some teenage mothers, like the singer Fantasia and others, grow up to become successful, studies too numerous to name here show that children who are born to teenage mothers are several times likely to grow up in poverty -- and to suffer all the problems that come with that package.
Yet it seems that over the years, as black teenage births continued to grow, many people seemed content to treat it as some kind of inner moral deficit; as part of blacks’ inability to control their sexual urges. As a columnist at a daily newspaper, I can’t begin to tell you about the numerous calls I get from whites -- racists who have found a new best friend in Bill Cosby -- who are convinced that black immorality is the sole reason for our teenage pregnancy epidemic.
One caller, who claimed to be a middle school teacher, once left a rambling message on my voice mail about how disgusted she gets with all the little black girls in her class who gleefully share pictures of their sonograms with each other.
I wonder if she’s as disgusted by what the Gloucester girls did.
Chances are she isn’t. Because chances are sociologists, psychologists and all other manner of experts will be trying to explain why those girls happened to get pregnant at the same time. They’ll talk about the influence of popular culture, which brought us Jamie Lynn Spears, and phrases like “baby bump.” It’s a culture which treats the public and vulnerable girls to aisles full of magazine racks with covers of the latest, unwed celebrity mom-to-be.
They’ll probably even coin this debacle as “The Gloucester Syndrome,” when it’s imitated at other, mostly-white high schools. It’ll be treated as a trend, not as a depravity.
Hopefully, at some point, the talk will turn to the truths behind teenage pregnancy. One truth is that teenage girls, regardless of race, will make a baby if it they think it means love and acceptance.
Another truth is that they tend to get love and esteem in stable families; families whose influence is a buffer against all the silliness that they absorb from their peers and popular culture. Another truth is that economic instability, such as the type that has hit Gloucester and that has plagued black, inner-city neighborhoods for decades, makes growing stable families difficult.
Maybe then, that talk will force more people to see that black girls in inner-city schools wind up pregnant for many of the same reasons that the Gloucester girls did. They do it to follow their peers and the culture that they’re left to work with, not because they are immoral or stupid.
Or beyond redemption.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Obama held a discussion with working women in Albuquerque, NM on June 23, 2008.
Obama made a strong appeal to working women as part of his economy tour. Yesterday, Obama was in New Mexico where he told an audience of majority women that he supports legislation to ensure equal pay for women, expanding family and medical leave as well as the tax credit for children and dependents and his plans to offer more after-school and early education programs. Obama supported legislation by co-sponsoring a bill -- the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act -- that would have reversed a Supreme Court decision last year that made it harder for women to challenge pay discrimination.
To hear his speech, please see video below. What is your position? Do you think both McCain and Obama will have what it takes to ensure equal pay for equal work among working women?
To hear his speech, please see video below. What is your position? Do you think both McCain and Obama will have what it takes to ensure equal pay for equal work among working women?
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