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Thursday, April 4, 2013 7:52 AM
NIKI2
Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...
Quote:See these four girls above? Two white, two black. They’re friends, good friends; been friends since the 4th grade. Nothing unusual about that, not in America, not in the 21st century… well, maybe, a little bit, in the deep south. In the state of Georgia. Because these four girls, close as they are, much as they do together, have not been able to do one particular thing as a group: dance together at a prom… ever. Their school hasn’t allowed it. Neither have their parents, their town, or their churches. Which is odd, given that it was back in 1954, long before these girls were even born, that the Supreme Court ruled racial segregation as unconstitutional. But despite that rather monumental blow to the cause of racism, the people of Rochelle, Georgia have turned a blind eye; decided they knew best who their kids should hang out with, date, dance with. Which meant when Wilcox County High School in Rochelle was integrated in 1983 (why’d it take that long??), instead of allowing integrated proms, these high-minded folks did the next best thing: they shut down the prom all together. No school proms. Nuh uh. No way. Not if we have to integrate the damn thing. Instead, parents organized “private dances” for their kids – called them proms, homecomings – but they made damn sure those dances were NOT integrated. Welcome to the pre-mid-20th century. And it’s been that way ever since. In fact, last year a biracial student had the audacity to try to attend an “all white” prom and the parents in charge did exactly what you’d expect… in Rochelle: they called the police and turned the student away. Somehow, in the midst of all this entrenched, regressive thinking, some of the students – young, accepting, and bravely color-blind in a segregated southern society – had had enough. They got organized, started with a Facebook page (aptly titled “Integrated Prom 2013?). Here’s their “About” section:Quote:“We live in rural south Georgia, where not too many things change. Well, as a group of adamant high school seniors, we want to make a difference in our community. For the first time in the history of our county, we plan to have an integrated prom.” And with that they got to work putting together their first EVER integrated prom, set for April 27. How easily they achieve their goal is yet to be seen but, so far, there have been some not unexpected bumps along the way. Though they’ve been raising money on their own, they’re getting no help from school officials, and other, less evolved, students have aggressive in their response to the idea:Quote:“I actually put up posters for the integrated prom and we’ve had people ripping them down at the school,” Keela Bloodworth, one of the organizers of the integrated prom, told local news station WSFA. [The Raw Story] And they tell us we’re a post-racial society. Apparently there are a few who fit somewhere in the middle, somewhere between Keela and her band of progressives (Stephanie Sinnot, Mareshia Rucker and Quanesha Wallace) and the racial Neanderthals tearing down posters and/or calling the police on prom attendees. From RT.com:Quote:This year, Wilcox High decided to elect only one pair of homecoming king and queen for the first time, despite there still being two racially segregated dances. But, according to Quanesha Wallace, who was elected homecoming queen this year, little changed as she was still not invited to the “White prom” – and thus the king and queen took separate pictures for the school’s yearbook. “White prom.” Kinda makes you feel all queasy and regressive inside, doesn’t it? The Integrated Prom girls find it “embarrassing.” Too bad their town, their parents, and their teachers don’t as well. So while the girls do try to “fix it,” the school, in a head-shaking move of sheer and unabashed social cowardice, “resolved” the issue this way:Quote:There will still be two proms this year. Neither proms are financed by or allowed to take place at Wilcox County High School. The students said that when they pushed for one prom, the school offered a resolution to permit an integrated prom that would allow all students to attend but not stop segregated proms. Someone in Rochelle will likely be throwing a “White prom” to keep with tradition and a continued disregard for the Constitution, but Keela, Stephanie, Mareshia and Quanesha are going to get dressed up, invite all their friends – race, creed or color notwithstanding – and throw a good old fashioned, all-inclusive prom. And as they do, they’ll be dragging their community, clearly kicking and screaming, somewhere closer to the 21st century. Let’s hope they get them there some day. Until then, the girls are moving in the right direction. As Keela put it: “If we don’t change it, nobody else will.” http://www.wsav.com/story/21866654/macon-students-fight-segregated-prom] Thank GAWD for the younger generation!
Quote:“We live in rural south Georgia, where not too many things change. Well, as a group of adamant high school seniors, we want to make a difference in our community. For the first time in the history of our county, we plan to have an integrated prom.”
Quote:“I actually put up posters for the integrated prom and we’ve had people ripping them down at the school,” Keela Bloodworth, one of the organizers of the integrated prom, told local news station WSFA. [The Raw Story]
Quote:This year, Wilcox High decided to elect only one pair of homecoming king and queen for the first time, despite there still being two racially segregated dances. But, according to Quanesha Wallace, who was elected homecoming queen this year, little changed as she was still not invited to the “White prom” – and thus the king and queen took separate pictures for the school’s yearbook.
Quote:There will still be two proms this year. Neither proms are financed by or allowed to take place at Wilcox County High School. The students said that when they pushed for one prom, the school offered a resolution to permit an integrated prom that would allow all students to attend but not stop segregated proms.
Thursday, April 4, 2013 2:50 PM
KWICKO
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)
Thursday, April 4, 2013 9:19 PM
FREMDFIRMA
Friday, April 5, 2013 12:06 PM
Monday, April 15, 2013 9:11 AM
Quote:Georgia Governor Derides Effort to End Whites-Only Prom In response to inquiries from Georgia news outlet 13 WMAZ about whether he supports efforts to end the segregated, whites-only prom that parents have organized in Wilcox County, the governor’s spokesman said: “This is a leftist front group and we're not going to lend a hand to their silly publicity stunt.” The “front group” referred to is Better Georgia, a group pushing for officials in the state “to publicly support the students of Wilcox County who are fighting to end a 'separate-but-equal' high school prom.” The practice of segregated proms in the Georgia county has garnered attention and controversy in recent days. A group of white and black friends who attend Wilcox County High School have organized against the segregated proms. The school is reportedly not violating civil rights laws since the high school does not organize the prom itself; instead, parents do. While the governor isn’t speaking out, other lawmakers are. Four Democrats and three Republicans from the state have supported Better Deal’s efforts. School officials say they will discuss the option of holding an official, integrated prom next year. http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/georgia-governor-derides-effort-end-whites-only-prom
Monday, April 15, 2013 11:57 AM
JONGSSTRAW
Monday, April 15, 2013 12:37 PM
1KIKI
Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 7:30 AM
Quote:Republican Apologizes For Saying ‘N*gger-Rigging,’ Claims To Have A Black Friend Another day, another racist gaffe from a Republican who uses a racist term from their youth that hasn’t been used for decades; apologizes only for offending people, not for using the offensive term; and then claims to have a friend in the offended group. David Pakman from the David Pakman Show reports that this time it happened during a county meeting when Jim Gile — A Republican County Commissioner from rural Kansas — used the n-word. The subject of hiring an architect came up, and Gile said “I want to hire a real architect, I don’t want anyone n*gger-rigging it.” When someone asked him what he meant by that, Gile dug himself in deeper by replying, “I mean Afro-Americanizing it.” Video at http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/04/16/republican-apologizes-for-saying-ngger-rigging-claims-to-have-a-black-friend-video/
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 4:26 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Niki2: Jong, reading your post made my heart heavier and heavier, then it got light at the end. Thank you for the story, about which I knew nothing. For me, 1971 seems like yesterday, but at the same time like the Middle Ages, and when I look around and see so much still happening, I'm NEVER fooled into thinking racism is dead in this country. It's a good story, what you wrote, I just hope someday--UNQUESTIONABLY not in my lifetime!--racism really WILL be so small people will at least be ashamed of it. It's coming, but not soon enough.
Wednesday, April 17, 2013 4:03 AM
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Thursday, May 2, 2013 9:07 AM
PIRATENEWS
John Lee, conspiracy therapist at Hollywood award-winner History Channel-mocked SNL-spoofed PirateNew.org wooHOO!!!!!!
Quote:“Just the Jews are humans, the Non-Jews are no humans, but cattle.” -Jewish Babylonian Talmud, Kerithuth 6b page 78, Jebhammoth 61a (goyim = human cattle) “The Non-Jews have been created to serve the Jews as slaves.” -Jewish Babylonian Talmud, Midrasch Talpioth 225 “The Non-Jews have to be avoided, even more than sick pigs.” -Jewish Babylonian Talmud, Orach Chaiim 57, 6a “Sexual intercourse with Non-Jews is like sexual intercourse with animals.” -Jewish Babylonian Talmud, Kethuboth 3b “The birth-rate of the Non-Jews has to be suppressed massively.” -Jewish Babylonian Talmud, Zohar II, 4b “Everywhere they (the Jews) come, they will be the princes of the lords.” -Jewish Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 104a “I (Jahveh) make you (the Jewry) the ancestor of the peoples, I make you the selected one amongst the peoples, I make you the king over the peoples, I make you the loved one amongst the peoples, I make you the best one amongst the peoples, I make you the trusted one amongst the peoples.” -Jewish Babylonian Talmud, Schabbat 105a “Jews always have to try to deceive Non-Jews.” -Jewish Babylonian Talmud, Zohar I, 168a “Every Jew is allowed to use lies and perjury to bring a Non-Jew to ruin.” -Jewish Babylonian Talmud, Babha Kama 113a “The possessions of the goyim are like an ownerless desert, and everybody (every Jew) who seizes it, has acquired it.” -Jewish Babylonian Talmud, IV/3/54b “When the Messiah comes, all will be slaves of the Jews.” -Jewish Babylonian Talmud, Erubin 43b Semite. 1 a : a member of any of a number of peoples of ancient southwestern Asia including the Akkadians, Phoenicians, Hebrews, and ARABS - b : a descendant of these peoples - 2 : a member of a modern people speaking a Semitic language. —Merriam Webster Dictionary "A 'Semite' is any person living in that area, including Arabs and Christians. It's time we start talking about 'The Other AntiSemitism'. A Semite is not a Jew living in America or Europe." —Ralph Nader (Arab-American from Lebannon), Indy presidential candidate 2008, Reform Party presidential nominee in 2004, Green Party presidential nominee in 2000, Arab-American Business conference, C-SPAN, 2003 "Our race is the Master Race. We are divine gods on this planet. We are as different from the inferior races, as they are from insects. In fact, compared to our race, other races are beasts and animals, cattle at best. Other races are considered as human excrement. Our destiny is to rule over the inferior races. Our earthly kingdom will be ruled by our leader with a rod of iron. The masses will lick our feet and serve us as our slaves." -Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, speech to Kenneset "We have a case of the Jew, a totally different species. The body of a Jewish person is of a totally different quality from the body of members of all other nations of the world. Bodies of the Gentiles are in vain. An even greater difference is in regard to the soul A non-Jewish soul comes from three satanic spheres, while the Jewish soul stems from holiness." -Rabbi Mendel Schneerson "“In any situation in which a non-Jew’s presence endangers Jewish lives, the non-Jew may be killed even if he is a righteous Gentile and not at all guilty for the situation that has been created…When a non-Jew assists a murderer of Jews and causes the death of one, he may be killed, and in any case where a non-Jew’s presence causes danger to Jews, the non-Jew may be killed…The [Din Rodef] dispensation applies even when the pursuer is not threatening to kill directly, but only indirectly…Even a civilian who assists combat fighters is considered a pursuer and may be killed. Anyone who assists the army of the wicked in any way is strengthening murderers and is considered a pursuer. A civilian who encourages the war gives the king and his soldiers the strength to continue. Therefore, any citizen of the state that opposes us who encourages the combat soldiers or expresses satisfaction over their actions is considered a pursuer and may be killed. Also, anyone who weakens our own state by word or similar action is considered a pursuer…Hindrances—babies are found many times in this situation. They block the way to rescue by their presence and do so completely by force. Nevertheless, they may be killed because their presence aids murder. There is justification for killing babies if it is clear that they will grow up to harm us, and in such a situation they may be harmed deliberately, and not only during combat with adults.”…In a chapter entitled “Deliberate harm to innocents,” the book explains that war is directled mainly against the pursuers, but those who belong to the enemy nation are also considered the enemy because they are assisting murderers." -The Complete Guide to Killing Non-Jews, by Rabbi Od Yosef Hai Yeshiva, 9 November 2009 http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/updated-version-of-the-complete-guide-to-killing-non-jews/ "The Law of Return is Israeli legislation, enacted in 1950, that gives Jews, those of Jewish ancestry, and their spouses the right to migrate to and settle in Israel and gain citizenship. The law gives the right of return to those born Jews (having a Jewish mother or maternal grandmother), those with Jewish ancestry (having a Jewish father or grandfather) and converts to Judaism (Orthodox, Reform, or Conservative denominations—not secular—though Reform and Conservative conversions must take place outside the state, similar to civil marriages). In the Law of Return, the State of Israel put into practice the Zionist movement's "credo" as pledged in Israel's Declaration of Independence and recognized by the League of Nations in 1922, when charging Britain with the duty of establishing a Jewish National Home, and by the United Nations within the Partition Plan of 1947 which provided for establishment of Israel as an independent Jewish state. Originally, the Law of Return was restricted to Jews only. A 1970 amendment, however, stated that, "The rights of a Jew under this Law and the rights of an oleh under the Nationality Law... are also vested in a child and a grandchild of a Jew, the spouse of a Jew, the spouse of a child of a Jew and the spouse of a grandchild of a Jew". The Law of Return also excludes any "person who has been a Jew and has voluntarily changed his religion." The Supreme Court of Israel ruled in 1989 that Messianic Judaism ["Christianity"] constituted another religion, and that people who had become Messianic Jews were not therefore eligible for Aliyah under the law." -Israeli Law of Return http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Return Israeli Law of Return only allows citizenship for jews http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Return The Life of an American Jew in Racist Marxist Israel Where Christianity Is a Felony http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/israel.htm “According to the Torah, Charlie’s a Jew. Not because his mother’s Jewish. But because CBS paid him $50 million and he still sued the network.” -Jew Jon Lovitz, Charlie Sheen Roast "I know a guy who kept whores and 12 losers around, and the jews crucified him too." -Jew William Shatner, Charlie Sheen Roast "Charlie, the crazy thing is that you thought you could keep your job after calling your boss a ‘Jew kike’. If people could keep their jobs after calling their boss a ‘Jew kike’, then everybody would do it.” -Jew Anthony Jeselnik, Charlie Sheen Roast “Charlie learned you can trash hotel rooms and do prostitutes. But don’t you dare call a Jewish guy by his real name.” -Seth "Family Guy" MacFarlane, Charlie Sheen Roast
Quote:According to the FBI, Jewish extremists commit more terror than Islamic extremists! Terrorism Is a Real Threat … But the Threat to the U.S. from Muslim Terrorists Has Been Exaggerated An FBI report shows that only a small percentage of terrorist attacks carried out on U.S. soil between 1980 and 2005 were perpetrated by Muslims. According to this data, there were more Jewish acts of terrorism within the United States than Islamic (7% vs 6%). These radical Jews committed acts of terrorism in the name of their religion. These were not terrorists who happened to be Jews; rather, they were extremist Jews who committed acts of terrorism based on their religious passions, just like Al-Qaeda and company. So let me see if I have this right. 6% of all acts of terror are by Muslims (or someone pretending to be Muslims) and the US Government wants total surveillance on them all. 42% of all acts of terror are committed by Latinos, and the US Government wants to make them all legal citizens? www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/05/muslims-only-carried-out-2-5-percent-of-terrorist-attacks-on-u-s-soil-between-1970-and-2012.html http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/non-muslims-carried-out-more-90-all-terrorist-attacks-us-soil
Quote:"'We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon, and the American struggle in Iraq,' Ma'ariv quoted the former prime minister as saying. He reportedly added that these events 'swung American public opinion in our favor.'" -Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Haaretz, Netanyahu says 9/11 terror attacks good for Israel, 16 April 2008 www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/975574.html "The FBI has issued a BOLO on suspected terrorists driving a white delivery van from New York City to the Mexican border. The suspects are using Israeli passports. They are armed and dangerous." -Knox County TN Emergency 911 Dispatch, Sept 11, 2001, 11am EST (KURZBERG v. ASHCROFT 619 F.3d 176 (2010)) http://september911surprise.com http://piratenews.org/911con.html http://www.911myths.com/index.php/Image:46173840-Police-Report.pdf "Newark later polygraphed two of the five detainees on an issue limited to whether either had used a video camera in filming the WTC explosions. Film obtained from the 35mm camera of one of the detainees was later developed and processed by the Newark Division. The photos clearly corroborate statements that the Israelis are visibly happy on nearly all of the photographs. Oddly XXX and XXX were stopped while traveling in the direction of the site of the hijacked plane that crashed outside of Pittsburg, PA. A former Urban Moving Systems employee later contacted the Newark Division with information indicating that he quit his employment with Urban Moving Systems due to the high amount of anti-American sentiment amonth Urban employees. The former employee stated that an Israeli employee of Urban had even once remarked, 'Give us 20 years and we'll take over your media and destroy your country.' Based on information provided by the Miami Division, Newark detained and interviewed four employees of Classic International Movers, a New Jersey based moving company which was believed by Miami to have been used by one of the 19 alleged hijackers involved in the terrorist attacks. All four employees, Israeli nationals, had served in the Israeli military, and entered the US from various locations in South America." -Federal Bureau of Investigation, Newark Division to National Security division, 9/15/2001 SECRET FBI REPORT DECLASSIFY ON 2030 (HEAVILY REDACTED): http://www.911myths.com/index.php/Image:62392807-1138796-001-303A-NK-105536-Section-1-944861.pdf http://www.911myths.com/index.php/Image:62393381-1138796-001-303A-NK-105536-Section-2-944876.pdf http://www.911myths.com/index.php/Image:62394063-1138796-001-303A-NK-105536-Section-3-944880.pdf http://www.911myths.com/index.php/Image:62394178-1138796-001-303A-NK-105536-Section-4-944881.pdf http://www.911myths.com/index.php/Image:62829048-62394321-1138796-001-303A-NK-105536-Section-5-944891.pdf http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0109/11/se.04.html http://libertyfight.com/2012/dancing_israelis_sued_the_govt_but_lost_in_court.html http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/23577/format/html/displaystory.html "In Sept of last year, Adam Gadahn [aka Adam Perlman], the son of Jewish parents, the son of Jewish grandparents [who are on the board of directors of Jewish ADL] in Southern California, who himself converted to Islam, went on to become Osama Bin Laden's spokesman." -Congresswoman Jane Harman (D-CA), Jewish chairman Homeland Security Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing, and Terrorism Risk Assessment CSPAN, Use of the Internet by Terrorists: Using the Web as a Weapon for 9/11 Truth, November 6, 2007 www.piratenews.org/flight93.html
Thursday, May 2, 2013 10:44 AM
HERO
Quote:Originally posted by Kwicko: ...but then I look around at part of Texas and feel deeply ashamed for my own state.
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 12:51 PM
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