Racial Intolerance

'Black national anthem' stirs controversy for city

NBC Channel 9 News in Denver

DENVER - Mayor John Hickenlooper's annual State of the City address may get more attention for what wasn't included than what was. At the start of the event Tuesday morning, City Council President Michael Hancock introduced singer Rene Marie to perform the national anthem. Instead, she performed the song "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing," which is also known as the "black national anthem." When she finished, the audience responded with mild applause. The national anthem was never performed. Marie told 9NEWS she kept her plans to switch songs quiet until the very last moment. She says only she, her husband and a friend knew she was going to sing something other than the "Star-Spangled Banner."

Former screen siren Bardot convicted in race case

Yahoo News

PARIS - Brigitte Bardot was convicted Tuesday of provoking discrimination and racial hatred for writing that Muslims are destroying France. A Paris court also handed down a $23,325 fine against the former screen siren and animal rights campaigner. The court also ordered Bardot to pay $1,555 in damages to MRAP. Bardot's lawyer, Francois-Xavier Kelidjian, said he would talk to her about the possibility of an appeal. A leading French anti-racism group known as MRAP filed a lawsuit last year over a letter she sent to then-Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy. The remarks were published in her foundation's quarterly journal. In the December 2006 letter to Sarkozy, now the president, Bardot said France is "tired of being led by the nose by this population that is destroying us, destroying our country by imposing its acts." Bardot, 73, was referring to the Muslim feast of Aid el-Kebir, celebrated by slaughtering sheep. French anti-racism laws prevent inciting hatred and discrimination on racial or religious or racial grounds. Bardot had been convicted four times previously for inciting racial hatred.

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MORE HOLY MESS FOR OBAMA

New York Post

May 30, 2008 -- A Chicago pastor and spiritual adviser of Barack Obama mocked Hillary Rodham Clinton from the pulpit of the Illinois senator's church - saying her famous tearing-up moment was fueled by self-pitying feelings of "I'm white! I'm entitled! There's a black man stealing my show." The Rev. Michael Pfleger, a longtime Obama ally and political supporter, made the shocking remarks from the pulpit of Trinity United Church of Christ Sunday. That's the former base of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama's ex-pastor, whose statements blasting the United States and calling AIDS a government plot have caused headaches for the candidate.

Protesters to decry black-on-black violence

USA Today

When demonstrators rally on the steps of the U.S. Justice Department Friday to protest the government's handling of hate crimes, blogger-turned-activist Shane Johnson will be waiting for them with a protest of his own. Johnson and a modest band of supporters are pushing back against the outpouring of black support for black male offenders, such as the Jena 6, saying it comes at the expense of female victims of black-on-black crime.

University to students: 'All whites are racist'

WorldNetDaily

A mandatory University of Delaware program requires residence hall students to acknowledge that "all whites are racist" and offers them "treatment" for any incorrect attitudes regarding class, gender, religion, culture or sexuality they might hold upon entering the school, according to a civil rights group. "Somehow, the University of Delaware seems terrifyingly unaware that a state-sponsored institution of higher education in the United States does not have the legal right to engage in a program of systematic thought reform. The First Amendment protects the right to freedom of conscience – the right to keep our innermost thoughts free from governmental intrusion. It also protects the right to be free from compelled speech," said a letter from Samantha Harris, director of legal and public advocacy for The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education to university President Patrick Harker. The organization cited excerpts from the university's Office of Residence Life Diversity Education Training documents, including the statement: "A RACIST: A racist is one who is both privileged and socialized on the basis of race by a white supremacist (racist) system. 'The term applies to all white people (i.e., people of European descent) living in the United States, regardless of class, gender, religion, culture or sexuality. By this definition, people of color cannot be racists, because as peoples within the U.S. system, they do not have the power to back up their prejudices, hostilities, or acts of discrimination….'"

Backlash to Jena Racial Tensions?

ABC News

In the wake of the largest civil rights protest in decades in Jena, La., Thursday, authorities are investigating the hanging of nooses and other possible hate-fueled incidents. The FBI is now investigating a white supremacist Web site that disclosed what it claimed are addresses and phone numbers for black Jena teenagers who allegedly assaulted a white youth. The posting was titled "Addresses of Jena 6 N****** In Case Anyone Wants To Deliver Justice." A separate posting on the Web site quoted a Virginia man, William A. White: "We'll mail directions to [the six black teenagers'] homes to every white man in Louisiana if we have to in order to find someone willing to deliver justice." New Orleans-based FBI Agent Sheila Thorne said that the FBI was investigating the Web site "for possible violations under our jurisdiction, and would seek a prosecutive opinion at the appropriate time."

Black Americans die while their leaders fiddle

BOND

Have you heard that black Americans are under attack by Hispanic gangs from coast to coast? If you did hear it, you didn't hear it from a black leader. A string of killings – including the recent execution-style murder of three black teenagers in Newark, N.J., allegedly at the hands of six Hispanics – and increased attacks on blacks by Hispanic gangs in California are a wake up call to black Americans. Newark is a "sanctuary city." Mayor Cory Booker says he's not concerned with the immigration status of criminals like Jose Carranza, an illegal from Peru, and the alleged ringleader in the Newark murders. Carranza was able to commit the heinous crime because he'd posted bail on charges that included 31 counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child for repeatedly raping a 5-year old girl. The ethnic cleansing of blacks from lower-income neighborhoods by Hispanic gangs and illegal aliens is a growing phenomenon.

Death knell for 'n-word'

Washington Times

The "n-word" is dead according to the NAACP, which staged a mock funeral for the racial slur during its annual convention in Detroit yesterday, complete with a horse-drawn caisson, black roses and a plywood casket. "Today, we're not just burying the n-word, we're taking it out of our spirit," Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick told hundreds of enthusiastic mourners, who slowly marched in the quarter-mile-long procession downtown.

Imus firing back at CBS

CNN.com

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Former radio talk show host Don Imus has hired one of the country's top trial lawyers to sue CBS Radio following his dismissal last month for making racial and sexual on-air comments about members of the Rutgers University women's basketball team. Attorney Martin Garbus told CNN Wednesday that he has agreed to represent Imus in a wrongful breach of contract suit against his former employer. Garbus would not disclose when he was retained by Imus but said he plans to file an action against CBS in the near future. Calls made to Imus by CNN were not returned.

Rutgers team skips Clinton meeting

Newsday.com

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton finally dropped by Rutgers to meet with the school's women's basketball coach -- but the players themselves skipped the half-hour meeting, citing their studies and Imus fatigue. Clinton had been scheduled to meet with Scarlet Knight coach C. Vivian Stringer and an assistant, and possibly some of the players, Monday to talk with them about Don Imus's "nappy-headed ho" comments. But that sit-down was postponed due to weather and because the story seemed far less significant after the Virginia Tech killings.

Don Imus' Longtime Producer Fired

FoxNews.com

NEW YORK — The longtime producer for Don Imus' syndicated radio show joined his boss on the unemployment line one week after the disgraced broadcaster was booted from the airwaves for racist and sexist comments about the Rutgers women's basketball team. Bernard McGuirk, who joined the "Imus in the Morning Show" as producer in 1987, was let go late Thursday by WFAN-AM for his role in the ugly incident, CBS Radio spokeswoman Karen Mateo said Friday. CBS Inc. (CBS), the parent company for WFAN, pulled Imus off the air on April 12.

A lot to discuss in wake of Imus

Baltimore Sun

WASHINGTON // And now, as Mick Jagger might say, let's hear a little sympathy for the devil: Don Imus lost his national CBS Radio show after describing the Rutgers women's basketball team as "nappy-headed hos." He also stirred up the sort of intriguing national argument that this country has had from time to time about hip-hop, free speech, second chances and how men treat women.

Obama compares rappers to Imus

Yahoo News

FLORENCE, S.C. - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama (news, bio, voting record) on Friday questioned the way some rappers talk about women in songs, saying the lyrics are similar to the derogatory language used by embattled radio host Don Imus. They are "degrading their sisters. That doesn't inspire me," Obama said of some hip-hop artists when a man in a crowd of about 1,000 questioned him. The Illinois senator was responding to a question of what inspired him, and said God and civil rights activists.

Don Imus Loses CBS Job in Stunning Fall

ABC News

NEW YORK Apr 13, 2007 (AP)— The chief of CBS Corp. said the furor over Don Imus' racist remarks had become about more than the talk show host. But it was Imus who ultimately paid the price. CBS abruptly fired Imus Thursday from the radio show that he has hosted for nearly 30 years, a day after MSNBC said it would no longer televise it. Imus' description of the Rutgers women's basketball team as "nappy-headed hos" set off a national debate about taste and tolerance.

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