LEAVE MY PRESIDENT ALONE

[Ikalean Wilkerson]

Tavis, you don't like President Obama, you never have and you will find ANYTHING to bring him down.  Your mother is a preacher, I can only imagine she can see through your ruse to bring the President down.  You will find any thing to do just that.  You say it is because he is not doing anything for black people.  Well what about the Health Care program.  What about the tax incentive.  Now the Republicans want to repeal that.  Why don't you put your efforts into that.  Listen Tavis, you need to back off.  Take up your cause for Black people and DO something.  Your conventions aren't doing a darn thing but a lot of talking and NO action.  I have put more things into place in my community and I have a mentee who is still on the right path.  There are other young Black people who are accomplishing fantastic things.  STOP trying to get the President to do your job...YOU DO IT!  I am tired of your stuff.  LEAVE MY PRESIDENT ALONE!!!

[Ricardo Jones]

We need to take a hard look at the presidents appointee's. The three to EEOC are all Harvard Law school conservatives like the president. So the EEOC now has a conservative agenda towards civil rights for Black people!!!

[MISCHELLE]

It is true, we must take a look at the appointee's, "BUT"....the finger points back to the person that appointed each person to those positions, and that person is the president. A decision can make or break you.

YOU SEE AT THE END OF THE DAY THE PRESIDENT WILL TELL YOU THAT THE "FINAL DECISION" WAS HIS.

Thanks,

M

[Ricardo Jones]

Judgement is the issue! We still can question judgement. This is a democracy not a dictatorship. The people can question their elected officials to include the president and in the election chose to remove them and/or him.

MISCHELLE said:

It is true, we must take a look at the appointee's, "BUT"....the finger points back to the person that appointed each person to those positions, and that person is the president. A decision can make or break you.

YOU SEE AT THE END OF THE DAY THE PRESIDENT WILL TELL YOU THAT THE "FINAL DECISION" WAS HIS.

Thanks,

M

[Pianki]

@Ricardo Jones:

This is some very well compilation on James Brown listening his civil rights activity and well footnoted. Also ever read the bio on Jim Brown, After a benefactor paid for him to attend Syracuse University - he did not receive a scholarship offer - Brown became an All-American in both football and lacrosse (although due to racism - he was the only black on the squad and only allowed to play football in his senior year). Very much an activist for his people.

http://www.sporthaven.com/players/jim-brown/
 http://www.alex-haley.com/alex_haley_jim_brown_interview.htm

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On James Brown. This article does not mention the time he was in Zaire for the Rumble in the Jungle. Wonder why plans have not been made to create a Graceland Style facility for James Brown?

Civil unrest and self-empowerment.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Brown

James Brown shakes the hand of the painter Groover, who gave him a picture during his tour in Guadeloupe in the 1980s.

During the late 1960s and early 1970s, James Brown was renowned for his social activism. In 1966, he released the single "Don't Be a Drop-Out" as a lesson to young students who had thoughts of dropping out. He later made public speeches in front of dozens of children and advocated the importance of education in school. In 1967, he issued a patriotic single, "America is My Home", which was a "rap" about how he felt people, particularly in the African-American community, were neglecting the country that he said "could give (them) opportunities" explaining how at one time he was shining shoes and the next, he was greeting the President of the United States as he did when President Lyndon B. Johnson thanked him for donating money to school drop-out prevention programs.

In 1968 after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., Brown released "Say It Loud – I'm Black and I'm Proud"^[34] following pressure from fans to take a stance on the civil rights movement, an issue he had avoided up until this point. It became an anthem of the civil rights movement. Brown later said of it in his 1986 autobiography “The song is obsolete now... But it was necessary to teach pride then, and I think the song did a lot of good for a lot of people... People called "Black and Proud" militant and angry – maybe because of the line about dying on your feet instead of living on your knees. But really, if you listen to it, it sounds like a children's song. That's why I had children in it, so children who heard it could grow up feeling pride... The song cost me a lot of my crossover audience. The racial makeup at my concerts was mostly black after that. I don't regret it, though, even if it was misunderstood.”

He performed in front of a televised audience in Boston the day after Dr. King's death.^[34] Brown is often given credit for preventing rioting with the performance.^[51] Mayor Kevin White strongly restrained the Boston Police from cracking down on minor violence and protests after the assassination,^[51] and Boston religious and community leaders worked to keep tempers from flaring.^[51] Also, White arranged to have the Brown performance broadcast multiple times on Boston's public television station, WGBH, thus keeping many potential rioters off the streets, watching the concert for free. Brown demanded $60,000 for "gate" fees (money he thought would be lost from ticket sales on account of the concert being broadcast for free), and then threatened to go public about the secret arrangement when the city balked at paying up after the concert, news of which would have been a political death-blow to White, and possibly sparked riots on its own.^[51] White successfully lobbied the behind-the-scenes power-brokering group known as "The Vault" to come up with money for Brown's gate fee and other social programs; The Vault contributed $100,000 to such programs, and Brown received $15,000 from them via the city. White persuaded management at the Boston Garden to give up their share of receipts to make up the difference.^[51] The story is documented in the PBS film "The Night James Brown Saved Boston".

Afterwards, President Johnson urged Brown to visit Washington, D.C. to greet inner-city residents there performing at a benefit concert there and expressed the notion that violence "wasn't the way to go". Many in the black community felt that Brown was speaking out to them more than some major leaders in the country, a sentiment that was strengthened with the release of his groundbreaking landmark single, "Say It Loud – I'm Black and I'm Proud".

Brown continued performing benefit concerts for various civil rights organizations including Jesse Jackson's PUSH and The Black Panther Party's Breakfast program throughout the early-1970s. Brown also continued to release socially conscious singles such as "I Don't Want Nobody To Give Me Nothing (Open Up the Door, I'll Get It Myself)" (1969), "Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved" (1971), "Talking Loud and Saying Nothing" (1972), "King Heroin" (1972), "Funky President (People It's Bad)" (1974) and "Reality" (1975). The week before his death, Brown took time to give Christmas presents to an orphanage in Atlanta.

Pianki said:

I don't agree with you on those assertions Jimmy. But as I said and I know you agree, that one wiki page list a whole lot of things people have been helped with. Jimmy lets admit it we need a 1000 Sharptons and Jimmy Pratts and others like yourself. Back in 2004 Sharpton came to St Louis and help lead a Interstate Highway shutdown. Due to the white contractors coming thru the 99% black areas and not hiring as they should. Out of the the community got a training center (Met Center), I was asked to do two bridges where the crews were at less 70% black males, and so on. Ironiclly it was the Black Clergy Colliation that tried to stop it (Rev. B.T Rice) at the request of Governor Carnahan. Another point your leaders and politicians "sell out" because someone else is paying for their services.

jimmy pratt said:

With Al doing such a fine job, you would think that the other civil rights leaders would have died of. Instead, they are creating civil rights groups like churches. I have one thing Al and Jesse can’t claim, victories, success.  Help me out. Name one civil rights victory in the last 30 years. My friend Black folks have grown far to use to crumbs.

Black folks are far too easily mislead too. Consider this. Black people faced real obstacle, like death and Klansmen, to vote. Now imagine if all they had to do back then was get an ID card to vote. Black people will do anything to keep being victims of the White man. AIDS is worse among Black women than in some third world countries; the prisons are full of Black people; our children are about to wipe each other off the face of the earth and Al Jesse wants to lead marches to protest profiling.  Why don’t they just ask the President to cut off federal aid to police departments that profile? Al and the civil rights industry are not in the business of solving problems. If they were they would protest budget cuts and abuses at the EEOC.  We have all of these law makers and instead of making laws, we choose to march.

Pianki said:

But given a long enough time even the greatest will fault. After all baseball great Ted Williams was successful 4 out of 10 times. I have heard some Blacks down the Tuskegee Airman. Blacks in Goldsboro Fla. armed themselves and turned the Klan back also during a time when thge courts never would have been in their favor while in Platt's time it did. It was decades of activity like the activism of Sharpton and others that made changes which led to other changes following them. I often wonder why James Brown song "I'm Black and I'm Proud" and "Open up the Door". Most entertainers today, other than Kayne West, want open their mouths to such issues.

Ricardo Jones said:

Pianki all due respect to you, but you don't know about James Brown who is not an authority on civil rights he was just an entertainer. This is where we make our bigest mistakes as Black people. We believe in the wrong people at the wrong time. I'm not a big Lincoln (president) supporter that said. You can fool some of the people some of the time. You can fool most of the people most the time. But you can't fool all the people all the time. This was said by Abraham Lincoln. James Brown was a great entertainer but he as many others of the times became used by Bigots to influence Black people against there interests. I'm not going to try to give a Black history class.

Today many of our leaders/entertainers/athlete's of the past and present along with educated people who suffered very little based on Race discrimination have sold-out for their self interests. Jimmy Pratt fought the KLAN (KKK) and won in North Carolina with many others. Many civil rights so called leaders went down to NC and took pay-off's from the KLAN and its supporters. Jimmy Pratt was there and saw what happened. I was't there so please attempt to contact Mr. Pratt directly for more info. That said I did deal with Rev. Al presently and he let me and the Black community down. Many members of our community have done good in the past but sellout today. My point is don't judge a Black person by the color of there skin, education or any badge of status. Judge us all by our actions not intent or talk. Money talks and BS walks.  

[Ricardo Jones]

We don't understand that there are good sides to all and bad sides. None of us are perfect. But, reference to Soul Brother number one (James Brown) he indorsed the Bauckey decision which started reverse discrimination. President (obama) as James Brown may not be concerned about the long range affect of selling out on our community. Both are entertainers of people who want a good show. Maybe obama should have been an actor like his friend from Harvard Law school, Hill Harper. Maybe he's like Regan just reading a script. Many in Augusta GA and SC know more about Brother Brown than US. Maybe many in Chicago know more about obama and are not saying anything about who or what he is or isn't also. Kennady and Johnson had to be made to further civil rights for Black people. Obama must be made to address Race and reform civil rights for US Black people not remove civil rights as he's doing which affects Black people the most. Some of us have forgotten how to fight back against those who are leading us back to JIM CROW. Maybe the white side of obama is stronger than the African Black side?

[Ricardo Jones]

The Presidents appointee Jacqueline Berrien chair of EEOC is supporting “JIM-CROW II LAWS” at the Rogue EEOC. Black people are not equally qualified for employment by the non-enforcement of the CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964 as amended by the EEOC. This is what Ms. Berrien has brought to the EEOC nation wide. Ms. Berrien has required the dismissal of a additional 50 complaint per investigator at all EEOC office. If any investigator refuses to dismiss the additional 50 complaints they with be disciplined.

[jimmy pratt]

    Prior to the 1980s, Black people could belong to any political party and no one gave it a second thought; Dr. King, Malcolm X, Roy Wilkins, Nikki Giovanni, the Panthers and many others along with the Civil Rights Movement, the Black Power Movement and the Black Arts Movement all represented the respect Black people had for intellectual diversity at that time.

   Then from under a rock came Al, Jesse, the Black bourgeois and the rise of Black ignorance and Black exploitation. As of today we are yet to recover. For some reason Black people abandon a working formula, join forces with the Devil and politicize racism. It is no longer the Klan; it’s the Republicans; it’s the Tea Party; it’s the Conservatives; it’s everyone, except us and the people we elect. WE are the biggest incarcerators, the biggest murderers and the biggest pimps of Black people and the Prison/welfare/funeral Industrial Complex proves it. Look around, we do not have a single ally in our made up struggle that’s designed to prop up corrupt politicians and a civil rights industry that should have evolved to enforcement of rights. “Wake up “Ns”or we’re all through.

[Ricardo Jones]

Sad thing is we are blinded by a faults sense of pride in an illusion of power and change. So many of US have axes to grind. The question is what price will our grand children and great grand children pay for this mistake in judgements. We forget this isn't a third world dictatorship just out from under colonial rule. Going to Harvard Law school doesn't prepare anyone for leadership. Being a member of the Daly corrupt political mechine of chicago corruption doesn't prepares anyone to be president. You dance with who brought you to the party. A country run by one school of thought is a serious mistake and/or problem. There's a bad movie about a territory run by all Harvard Grads called "Heavens Gate".

[Pianki]

I don't expect anything concerning civil rights from Obama. If more Blacks and black African-Americnas had greater business aspirations then that ethnic group could better use Obama office for expanding them like everone else is doing.

Ricardo Jones said:

We don't understand that there are good sides to all and bad sides. None of us are perfect. But, reference to Soul Brother number one (James Brown) he indorsed the Bauckey decision which started reverse discrimination. President (obama) as James Brown may not be concerned about the long range affect of selling out on our community. Both are entertainers of people who want a good show. Maybe obama should have been an actor like his friend from Harvard Law school, Hill Harper. Maybe he's like Regan just reading a script. Many in Augusta GA and SC know more about Brother Brown than US. Maybe many in Chicago know more about obama and are not saying anything about who or what he is or isn't also. Kennady and Johnson had to be made to further civil rights for Black people. Obama must be made to address Race and reform civil rights for US Black people not remove civil rights as he's doing which affects Black people the most. Some of us have forgotten how to fight back against those who are leading us back to JIM CROW. Maybe the white side of obama is stronger than the African Black side?

[Ricardo Jones]

If we had money we could buy the president because thats how it works. Rent a politician? Please watch this video about why we dont have business opportunities:

 

http://youtu.be/z2ghdirLe7w    

We accept the corruption by our corrupt Black looking politician. God have mercy on US. Is this what we have become?

Pianki said:

I don't expect anything concerning civil rights from Obama. If more Blacks and black African-Americnas had greater business aspirations then that ethnic group could better use Obama office for expanding them like everone else is doing.

Ricardo Jones said:

We don't understand that there are good sides to all and bad sides. None of us are perfect. But, reference to Soul Brother number one (James Brown) he indorsed the Bauckey decision which started reverse discrimination. President (obama) as James Brown may not be concerned about the long range affect of selling out on our community. Both are entertainers of people who want a good show. Maybe obama should have been an actor like his friend from Harvard Law school, Hill Harper. Maybe he's like Regan just reading a script. Many in Augusta GA and SC know more about Brother Brown than US. Maybe many in Chicago know more about obama and are not saying anything about who or what he is or isn't also. Kennady and Johnson had to be made to further civil rights for Black people. Obama must be made to address Race and reform civil rights for US Black people not remove civil rights as he's doing which affects Black people the most. Some of us have forgotten how to fight back against those who are leading us back to JIM CROW. Maybe the white side of obama is stronger than the African Black side?

[Pianki]

I first saw Tim Wiese about 20 years ago. He is still making money off the emotional amazment that Blacks get when they hear a white man speaking about how white use their privillege to get ahead, Well thats what they are suppose to do and I don't blame them. Question is if you know someone or something has it out to get you then why participate in the process to no avail?

Ricardo Jones said:

If we had money we could buy the president because thats how it works. Rent a politician? Please watch this video about why we dont have business opportunities:

 

http://youtu.be/z2ghdirLe7w    

We accept the corruption by our corrupt Black looking politician. God have mercy on US. Is this what we have become?

Pianki said:

I don't expect anything concerning civil rights from Obama. If more Blacks and black African-Americnas had greater business aspirations then that ethnic group could better use Obama office for expanding them like everone else is doing.

Ricardo Jones said:

We don't understand that there are good sides to all and bad sides. None of us are perfect. But, reference to Soul Brother number one (James Brown) he indorsed the Bauckey decision which started reverse discrimination. President (obama) as James Brown may not be concerned about the long range affect of selling out on our community. Both are entertainers of people who want a good show. Maybe obama should have been an actor like his friend from Harvard Law school, Hill Harper. Maybe he's like Regan just reading a script. Many in Augusta GA and SC know more about Brother Brown than US. Maybe many in Chicago know more about obama and are not saying anything about who or what he is or isn't also. Kennady and Johnson had to be made to further civil rights for Black people. Obama must be made to address Race and reform civil rights for US Black people not remove civil rights as he's doing which affects Black people the most. Some of us have forgotten how to fight back against those who are leading us back to JIM CROW. Maybe the white side of obama is stronger than the African Black side?

[Ricardo Jones]

So we should be as corrupt as our oppressors. We now oppress ourselves. What good is it to gain the world and lose your soul. We nolonger have the moral high ground. Climbing the ladder is our only goal for some of US. Which direction are we climbing to?