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To: joseffy who wrote (860558)	5/28/2015 10:13:54 PM
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KKK Really Afraid Of Picking Cotton The KKK is scared. Real scared. So scared that they want to hold a “First Amendment” rally later this summer in Laurel Mississippi, according to the Leader Call, to take a stand against the federal government over immigration and gay rights. [iframe width="336" height="280" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" vspace="0" hspace="0" allowtransparency="true" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="true" id="aswift_0" name="aswift_0" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px; border-style: initial; padding: 0px; max-width: 100%; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; border-radius: 0px !important;"][/iframe] What are they so afraid of? That they might end up picking cotton. No, I’m serious. The Imperial Wizard of the United Dixie White Knights of Mississippi, Brent Waller said, “All of us — black and white — need to wake up or we’ll all be picking cotton for the brown man.” Sounds serious and one can only assume that picking cotton has to be pretty horrible. Why else would it have been necessary to force brown people to do it all those years? The paper posted a teaser Monday on Facebook which appears to have been removed, but according to deepsouthdaily.com there was a “dishearteningly high number of residents cheering the Klan on.” You people are blind. Can’t you see they all — black and brown — [are] killing our race and mixing our young ones — making us almost extinct? Honestly, go to Walmart — go anywhere — and you all will see our race is coming to an end. I don’t understand how you can be so two face[d]. I know so many people who . . . behind closed doors talk ’bout what they believe in, but out in the open, oh, just hide who they are and just hide away and watch as this world falls apart. And according to Laurel native, Bill Elliot, sounding a lot like a teabagger said the Klan is, “no worse than Obama. Al Sharpton. Eric Holder. Jesse Jackson.” Why or how I’m not sure. Bill didn’t seem to elaborate on the similarities. Maybe their humanitarian efforts across the globe. So there you have it folks. Those browns and gays are mixin’ with our youngins over at the Walmart and soon, if we’re not careful, we’re going to be picking cotton for them. I for one want to know when this is going to happen and if there are still front row seats available.

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Egypt's Blockade of Gaza

by Khaled Abu Toameh • May 29, 2015 at 5:00 am

Since the beginning of this year, the Egyptians have opened the Rafah border crossing for five days only. The international community and media often talk about Israel's responsibility for the ongoing blockade of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, while ignoring that the Egyptians have been imposing severe travel restrictions on the 1.7 million Palestinians living there.

"We understand Egypt's security concerns in Sinai, but it's time for the Egyptians to reopen the border crossing on a permanent basis, especially in light of the historic relations between Egypt and Palestine." — Salah Abdel Ati, Palestinian human rights activist

It is shameful for the Egyptians and other Arabs that, while they are imposing various restrictions on Palestinians, Israel is helping patients from the Gaza Strip undergo surgery in Jerusalem. Ironically, the frustration and bitterness eventually translate into violence against Israel, not Egypt. The Palestinians are well aware that attacking Egypt would draw a very strong response from the Egyptian military.

Instead of pointing the finger of blame at Israel, it is time for the international media and community to put pressure on Egypt and other Arab countries to help their Palestinian brethren and to stop torturing and humiliating them.

The Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza, January 2009. (Source: International Transport Workers' Federation)

Yussra al-Najjar, a 65-year-old woman from the Gaza Strip, died this week while waiting to return from Egypt to the Gaza Strip. She and hundreds of Palestinians had been stranded on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing for the past few months.

Al-Najjar is the tenth Palestinian to die while waiting for the Egyptians to reopen the Rafah terminal. Her relatives said she lost consciousness while waiting inside the travelers' hall on the Egyptian side of the border and was rushed to an Egyptian hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

The story of the Palestinian woman who passed away after being banned from by the Egyptian authorities from returning home to the Gaza Strip is unlikely to make it to the pages of major Western newspapers. Her story would have won extensive media coverage had she been stranded on the Israeli side of the border for even one day.

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