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To: Alighieri who wrote (560289)	4/12/2010 12:37:50 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578133

>>>> Let me tell you, if there weren't widespread sentiments of resentment towards the civil war and lack of consideration for the slaves about which the war was fought the governor of VA would not have passed this resolution of his. I don't dispute you're entitled to that view. But I don't think there is any truth to it or support for that claim. Will you, one day, say that we ought not discuss the Vietnam era because we lost that war?

To: Alighieri who wrote (560289)	4/12/2010 12:44:44 PM
From: Brumar89	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578133

So, ‘Voicemails Expose Left’s Racism’… Where’s The MSM Been All This Time? by Bob Parks When I read Monica Crowley’s piece on Big Government, I must admit to being thoroughly disgusted. Not because she posted racial-slur laden voicemails sent to Dr. Christopher Metzler, Associate Dean of Continuing Studies at Georgetown University because of his opposition to ObamaCare. No, I am disgusted because for years the mainstream media has invited black conservatives on their radio and television programs to be an opposing voice to the black liberals who are often sought as the voice of black America. We’ve told them (off the record) of the response we normally get after our appearances. We know what the headlines would read if something were said to annoy Al Sharpton. But it took racist phonecalls to a dean to invoke outrage. I know many other black conservatives have endured the racial slurs from the left for decades, and the media has never had our backs. Where is the outrage for the insults Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas deals with to this day? When syndicated columnist Julianne Malveaux said that she hoped Justice Thomas’ wife serves him “lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease. Well, that’s how I feel.“, where was the media then? I guess that didn’t count because they didn’t “expose” it. black-and-right.com When Justice Janice Rogers Brown and Dr. Condoleeza Rice were the subject of racist caricatures by cartoonists working for major metropolitan newspapers, where was the media then? I guess that didn’t count because they didn’t “expose” it. When I appeared on CNN after Hurricane Katrina and criticized the media’s coverage of/and black people looting (when the world was coming together offering financial assistance), and received 200 emails an hour for the next three days containing vile racist slurs (many of which I published), where was the media then? I guess that didn’t count because they didn’t “expose” it. When Colin Powell was racially slurred (Uncle Tom Powell Stumps for Massah Bush) instead of celebrated as the first black Secretary of State, where was the media outrage? I guess that didn’t count because they didn’t “expose” it. When Ken Blackwell and Michael Steele respectively ran for statewide office and had Oreo cookies thrown at them, where was the media coverage and condemnation? I guess that didn’t count because they didn’t “expose” it. When California Regent Ward Connerly was racially slurred for wanting minorities to be held to the same college admission standard as everyone else (because he, as I, believe we are capable), where was the mainstream media then? I guess that didn’t count because they didn’t “expose” it. I can only speak for myself but when I receive racial attacks from the left, it’s because what I’m doing is effective. I remember first hearing the words of Shelby Steele on the radio while driving home from work in Los Angeles in the early 90s and being disgusted by the response of some of the liberal callers. But I also knew that I believe in the uncelebrated work fellow black conservatives do to this day (and endure) as racism is only allowed in our society when it’s aimed at us, and instead of turning tail and running, we keep on. I think we’ve shown more guts than any ratings-driven media pundits anyday. If the mainstream media really feels they’ve “exposed” the racism from the left, let’s hope this doesn’t become an “If it bleeds, it leads” situation that’ll be forgotten once the story outlives it’s usefulness. I know I shouldn’t write in anger, but the point I’m trying to make is that the media has never addressed the racism that comes daily from the left. We only hear about intolerance when a girls basketball team is insulted or a race huckster wants to make headlines. Racism is alive and well in America and it’s publicly displayed, and unfortunately it’s taken this long for someone in the mainstream media to take notice. biggovernment.com

To: Alighieri who wrote (560289)	4/12/2010 12:52:11 PM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1578133

Kennedys blame it on the black man, typical liberal Kennedy Cousin Loses Appeal in Murder Conviction By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: April 12, 2010 Prosecutors have said Bryant's claim was fabricated and that nobody saw him and his friends in the predominantly white, gated neighborhood the night of the murder. Bryant and one of the men he implicated are black; the other has been described as mixed race. NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel lost his bid for a new trial in the 1975 slaying of his 15-year-old neighbor when the state Supreme Court on Monday rejected his appeal that cited a claim implicating two other men. The court ruled 4-1 against Skakel's request, saying the evidence doesn't back up the alternate claim. Skakel -- a nephew of Robert Kennedy's widow, Ethel -- was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison in 2002 for fatally beating Martha Moxley with a golf club in 1975 in a wealthy Connecticut suburb. Monday's decision came after years of appeals and a campaign by Skakel's cousin, Robert Kennedy Jr. Skakel, 49, had asked for a new trial after Gitano ''Tony'' Bryant, who attended the same private school as Skakel, implicated his two friends in the killing. A judge turned that request down in 2007, and Skakel then appealed to the high court. Bryant gave a videotaped statement to an investigator hired by Skakel in which he said his two friends were in Greenwich the night Moxley was killed. He said they told him they got Moxley ''caveman style.'' Bryant has since invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. The two men he implicated have done the same. Prosecutors have said Bryant's claim was fabricated and that nobody saw him and his friends in the predominantly white, gated neighborhood the night of the murder. Bryant and one of the men he implicated are black; the other has been described as mixed race. The high court agreed with the trial judge and prosecutors that no one recalled seeing Bryant or his friends in the neighborhood on the night of the murder. ''There is no evidence, independent of Bryant, to corroborate any significant aspect of his account of the events of the night of Oct. 30, 1975, whereas there is a plethora of evidence to contradict his account,'' Justice Joette Katz wrote for the majority. In 2006, Skakel lost an appeal before the state Supreme Court in which he argued, among other things, that the statute of limitations had expired when he was charged in 2000. He still has an appeal pending in federal court.