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To: POKERSAM who wrote (867476)	6/23/2015 9:10:35 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1583410

Baltimore Mayor Who Watched Her City Erupt Is Now ‘America’s Mayor’ (US Conference of Mayors) .......................................................................................... Cybercast News Service ^ \| June 23, 2015 \| 10:52 AM EDT \| Susan Jones (CNSNews.com) - Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, criticized for giving people too much space to protest during the recent rioting in her city, has an additional job: On Monday, she was sworn in as president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, a group that influences national urban policy. "She's been elected by her peers," said USCM CEO and Executive Director Tom Cochran. "It's one of the highest honors you can have as a mayor. For one year, she's America's mayor. It's a very powerful position." As conference president, Rawlings-Blake, a Democrat, will set the organization's agenda, appoint committee and task force chairs and serve as the national spokesperson for the one-year term that runs through June 2016. "At a time when women, and African-American women especially, still face many challenges, the honor of being a female president of this organization and the first African-American female president is not lost on me," Rawlings-Blake said in her inaugural speech. She talked about the problems in her own city, including the rioting and looting that erupted two months ago after a black man, Freddie Gray, died in police custody: "I can't tell you the heartbreak, seeing my city descend into that type of violence and unrest," Rawlings-Blake said. "To see the pain of the Gray family at the loss of their loved one, as well as the outrage of the community. To see some destroy their neighborhoods. To see others throw bricks and rocks at our first responders. To see businesses looted. To see the \|National Guard marching down the streets with automatic assault rifles. To see anyone harmed throughout that vey long two weeks. "I pray that you and your cities never have to go through it. But prayer won't be enough...Don't think it can't happen in any of your cities," she told her fellow mayors. At a news conference in late April, on the third day of the Baltimore unrest, Mayor Rawlings-Blake said she'd instructed police to "do everything that they could to make sure that the protesters were able to exercise their right to free speech. "It's a very delicate balancing act," she explained at the time, "because while we try to make sure that they were protected from the cars and the other, you know, things that were going on, we also gave those who wished to destroy space to do that as well. And we work very hard to keep that balance and to put ourselves in the best position to de-escalate, and that's what you saw." A few days later, amid criticism that she unduly restrained the police response to the looting and burning, Rawlings-Blake said her remarks about "space to destroy" were "mischaracterized." In her speech to the mayors on Monday, Rawlings-Blake said large segments of America's inner cities feel "disenfranchised, disaffected and disgusted. They don't see the positivity that occurs in other parts of town." She said it's an issue of opportunity, jobs and education as much as it is an issue of policing. The U.S. Conference of Mayors plans to hold its annual leadership meeting in Baltimore in September. "There, we will develop a multi-point plan that we will take to (presidential) candidates of both parties and their primaries," Rawlings-Blake said. "We will call this plan the Baltimore compact, after the name of the city in which it will be ratified."

To: POKERSAM who wrote (867476)	6/23/2015 9:19:23 PM
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Obama Compares Chapel Hill Muslim Shooting Victims to Charleston Church Massacre .............................................................................................. Breitbart - Big Government ^ \| 6-23-2015 \| Ben Shapiro On Monday evening, President Obama spoke at the White House annual Iftar dinner, where he continued the promulgate the unifying theme of his presidency: America is deeply racist and evil. Speaking to Muslims, he mentioned the racist terrorist attack by Dylann Storm Roof at a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina, then compared it with a highly-covered crime against Muslims: “When our values are threatened, we come together as one nation. When three young Muslim Americans were brutally murdered in Chapel Hill earlier this year, Americans of all faiths rallied around that community.” He then added, “As Americans, we insist that nobody should be targeted because of who they are, what they look like, who they love, how they worship. We stand united against these hateful acts.” By way of contrast, when President Obama hosted the White House Hanukkah dinner, he reportedly made no mention of anti-Semitic crimes. Instead, he stated that he was Jewish “in my soul.” Obama also made no statement with regard to the worldwide Islamist problem of targeting people because of who they are, what they look like and how they worship. Never mind that the police say the slaying of three young Muslims in North Carolina wasn’t a hate crime, but an argument over parking. The left insists that the killings represent America’s brutality toward Muslims, and no fact pattern will be allowed to demonstrate otherwise. President Obama’s decision to label a crime a hate crime – without any supporting evidence – follows hard on Obama’s decision to label America a continuing horror show of racism over the weekend: Racism, we are not cured of it. And it’s not just a matter of not being polite to say n**r in public. That’s not the measure of whether racism still exists or not. It’s not just a matter of overt discrimination. Societies don’t, overnight, completely erase everything that happened 200 to 300 years prior. Of course, nobody has argued that racism disappeared overnight in the United States. The fight against racism has been a long, 200 to 300 year slog, with hundreds of thousands of deaths along the way. But for Obama, none of that matters: slavery, Obama said, “casts a long shadow and that’s still part of our DNA that’s passed on.” Slavery is not part of our DNA in any meaningful sense: slavery, like racism, was a learned phenomenon, not a biological one. For the captain of the self-appointed Party of Science™ to embrace the Lamarckian notion that racism is socially created and then passed down generation-to-generation in a genetic process demonstrates the depth of his desire to perpetuate racial conflict. As thousands of Americans, black, white, and every other color came together in Charleston, South Carolina, once the heart of the slave-owning South, the president could have focused on how far we have come. Instead, he chose to polarize. That is what this president does, and that is what his administration does. The media and leftist politicians have done far more to promote modern racial discord and unrest than the Confederate flag. Which is why they swivel Americans’ attention from sympathy and grief for black victims to largely-mindless debates over the historic and social value of a symbol variously understood as representing racism and/or Southern heritage. It’s also why the media and President Obama generate controversy over the replacement of Alexander Hamilton on the $10 bill with a female player yet-to-be-named: Americans agree that women are wonderful, important, and ought to have equal rights, so the left promptly insults one of America’s most important founding fathers to create opposition they can label sexist. For President Obama and the media, America must be portrayed as evil consistently and relentlessly.** If Americans of all stripes were to realize just how wonderful and tolerant their neighbors are, why would we need the benevolent hand of an overbearing government to save us from each other?