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Black Students at Cornell Protest a Pro-Black Protest Led by White Students
Ashley Rae Goldenberg | 20 hours ago

An organized protest at Cornell University supporting racial equality has been canceled after a black student group complained about the “lack of people of color in the planning and attendance” of the event, which appears to have been organized by a white student.

The group also stated that “although” the members appreciate “the solidarity and interest of our allies,” the organization would like to address prejudice “in [their] own way.” They then suggested that individuals who would like to show support for black causes should ask in advance for the organization’s approval.

Thursday morning, a Facebook event was created for a #ConcernedStudent1950 protest that would take place on Friday at noon. People immediately expressed outrage at the event.

The event creator, who appears to be a white man on his Facebook profile, was accused of “mocking the struggles of our communities” and “creating an event to promote himself.”

Some Facebook commenters called the event creator a “troll.”

Cornell student and alleged Huffington Post writer Paola Muñoz wrote:

“Are you f**king kidding me? Being an ally is not about starting events because *now* it's actual racism — racism takes on different forms, such as through microaggressions, cultural appropriation, people wearing PoC caricatures for Halloween; bull sh*t that ultimately ‘others’ us that you and so many other folxs poked fun at.”

Muñoz went on to claim the event creator has posted “classist sh*t” and “use[s] humor to dilute our pain.” She called the event a “complete mockery.”

Muñoz requested the student group Black Students United at Cornell University post on the page and cancel the event.

Black Students United at Cornell University posted, “We, Black Students United, would like to point out the lack of people of color in the planning and attendance of this protest.”

The organization continued, “While we appreciate the solidarity and interest of our allies across campus, we would like to be able to address prejudice on this campus and campuses like it in our own way.”

Black Students United at Cornell University noted they would like individuals to ask their permission before creating events.

“In the future, please ask how you can support us before organizing on your own. With that in mind, we would appreciate the cancellation [sic] of this event.”

http://www.mrctv.org/blog/

Obama’s AG Vows to Prosecute Anyone Who Speaks Out Against Islam

Loretta Lynch Vows to Prosecute Anti-Muslim Speech, Calls San Bernardino 'Wonderful Momment'
http://www.teaparty.org/obamas-ag-vo...t-islam-132801





Right on que....watch the video and see for yourself, they are not trying to hide it.

Here’s the WORST INSULT you can give a black man…according to liberals

Written by Derrick Wilburn on January 5, 2016

When you’re an outspoken black conservative like I am, you grow accustomed to vile names, hate mail, disdainful attitudes, snide comments, and the like. For reasons unknown, Caucasians espousing conservative values are not sellouts to their fellow white folk, but blacks and Hispanics are. So people like me, Star Parker, Allen West, Kevin Jackson, Niger Innis, and others develop our own methods of coping with our bullseye cardigans. Whether just laughing it off, addressing it head-on, or ignoring it, we either develop a thick skin or don’t do what we do publicly.

Pretty much all of these personal attacks come from self-described open-minded, inclusive, minority-loving liberal types who cannot see the blatant hypocrisy of their own positions. Such is the case with an email I received on one of my social media pages not too long ago.

Little in life is more amusing than people who believe they are issuing an insult when in fact they’re doing the exact opposite. Examples of such ignorant lunacy populate our inboxes on a regular basis, but weeks ago, I received an email from a gentleman calling himself Kent that is a classic example of a comment intended as an insult but was in reality a compliment – in fact, very high praise. Kent’s email provides a unique teachable moment for those on the ideological left and right.

At the end of a hate-filled rant about “self-loathing,” “selling out my people,” “acting against my own self-interests” (how he has any idea what’s in my interest, I’ve no idea) and other such themes, Kent proceeded to – in very snide fashion – call me “Carlton,” a reference to the fictional cousin of Will Smith’s character, played brilliantly by Alfonso Ribeiro, on the 1990s situation comedy The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Along with many other Americans, Kent views Carlton as somehow “not black” because he does not “act black.”




Kent views calling me “Carlton” as an insult. It’s not. There are many things the Kents of the world do not realize.

It is patently racist to have expectations of behavior from people based solely upon skin color, as Kent does. I am black, Carlton Banks is black, thugs in prison are black, Denzel Washington is black. There are black homosexuals, Harley gang members, Army Rangers, chefs, flight attendants, drug sellers (both pharmacists and street pushers), realtors, priests, and poets. Kent believes that a person who is black is supposed to act a certain way – or more precisely, not act a certain way. That pre-judging itself makes Kent prejudiced (that’s why it’s called that, Kent).

Carlton, Condoleezza Rice, Ben Carson, James Golden and I do not have to behave in a certain way, speak with a certain dialect, live in a specific neighborhood, or do any of the things racists like Kent believe we ought to in order to “prove” our blackness. As Carlton’s character once told a “real brutha” in an episode, “black isn’t something I have to try to be. It’s what I am.”

I wish to heaven that far more young black men more closely resembled Carlton Banks. He was a role model we all should seek to mold our young black males after – much more so than Kanye, Snoop Dogg, or 50 Cent, or any of the other vulgarity-spewing media cretins whom many like Kent seem to assume we should act like.

Carlton Banks was a straight-A student at a very challenging (though fictitious, of course) private school (Bel-Air Academy). He was involved in student government, various clubs, and activities, and he ultimately was accepted to study law at Princeton University. The son of a two-parent family, he was the product of a loving household in which the parents married before having children and stayed together at least until his adulthood. This fact alone placed him light-years ahead of millions of other young black men in this nation.

Carlton’s parents were able to afford to send him, his siblings, and Will to an exclusive private school, (not unlike Sidwell Friends School, the exclusive private school the Obamas send their girls to and to which many poor black families in the D.C. area were able to send their children – right up until President Obama ended the program granting them that ability). They then were able to send Carlton on to Princeton because they were both educated, articulate, hard-working, successful professionals. Carlton’s father, Phillip, was a lawyer and partner in a thriving law firm, when he ran for office and won a judgeship – positions that not only provided his family a healthy income, but elevated his social status to one of the most respected members of his community.

Carlton’s mother was likewise an educated professional, having been a professor who earned her Ph.D. The family lived in a million-dollar home in a million-dollar neighborhood, were able to take family vacations the world over, dine in fine restaurants, and drive luxury European automobiles. Apparently they’d done a good job of managing money, preparing for their futures, and raising a family of five children into whom they placed principles, values, and moral compasses, and whom they instructed with love and necessary discipline.

To Kent (and many others), this is not “acting black.” Well, that’s the problem, Kent. It should be!

To the best of our knowledge Carlton did not do drugs, shoplift, consume alcohol, whore around, smoke cigarettes, or run with a crowd that did. Outside a few instances poor teenage judgment, as we all had, Carlton was an upstanding member of his school and community. The chances of Carlton having to check in with his parole officer while in and out of prison on a regular basis, impregnating multiple women then not sticking around to raise his children, wiling away in menial minimum-wage jobs well into his middle-age years, are virtually nonexistent.

So while Carlton may not have roamed the streets at all hours of the night with his hood rat buddies, dropped out of school, sold weed, and run afoul of the law the way Kent seems to think a “real” black kid ought to, that doesn’t make him “less black.”

The problem here isn’t Carlton or me; the problem is Kent and his thinking. Without realizing it, the Kents of the world are placing shackles on blacks. Characters on Fresh Prince were black Americans who obtained educations, sat on boards of directors, achieved financial freedom, traveled, and lived lives they chose to. Calling them nasty names is saying to aspiring blacks, “Don’t become like that.”

Excuse me? Don’t become like Phillip and Carlton Banks? Wrong. Become like them, as fast as you can. If you ask me, we need about five million more Carltons in the black community.



http://www.allenbwest.com/2016/01/he...g-to-liberals/

New statement about the picture book "A Birthday Cake for George Washington"
January 17th, 2016
(January 17, 2016) Scholastic is announcing today that we are stopping the distribution of the book entitled A Birthday Cake for George Washington, by Ramin Ganeshram and illustrated by Vanessa Brantley-Newton, and will accept all returns. While we have great respect for the integrity and scholarship of the author, illustrator, and editor, we believe that, without more historical background on the evils of slavery than this book for younger children can provide, the book may give a false impression of the reality of the lives of slaves and therefore should be withdrawn.

Scholastic has a long history of explaining complex and controversial issues to children at all ages and grade levels. We do not believe this title meets the standards of appropriate presentation of information to younger children, despite the positive intentions and beliefs of the author, editor, and illustrator.

Scholastic provides a wide variety of fiction and informational books and magazines which teachers, parents and children rely on, including many devoted to African American experience, history and culture. We are also committed to providing books, magazines, and educational materials that portray the experience of all children, including those from diverse communities and backgrounds, and we will continue to expand that commitment through our global publishing channels.

http://oomscholasticblog.com/post/ne...inkId=20436400

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Scholastic Pulls Children's Book Accused Of Sentimentalizing Slavery
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On January 5, Scholastic released A Birthday Cake For George Washington, written by Ramin Ganeshram and illustrated by Vanessa Brantley-Newton. On Sunday, January 17, the children’s publisher pulled the book for its sentimental depiction of slavery.

In a recent statement, Scholastic explained its reasoning:

“While we have great respect for the integrity and scholarship of the author, illustrator and editor, we believe that, without more historical background on the evils of slavery than this book for younger children can provide, the book may give a false impression of the reality of the lives of slaves and should therefore be withdrawn.”

The book tells the story of Washington’s slave Hercules and his daughter Delia, and their effort to make their master a birthday cake. Because the illustrations and general tone are as The Guardian reports, “upbeat,” it “has received more than 100 one-star reviews on Amazon.com. As of Sunday evening, only 12 reviews were positive.”

Kirkus Reviews referred to the book as “an incomplete, even dishonest treatment of slavery.”

Author Ramin Ganeshram defended her creative choices in a Scholastic blog post in early January in which she argued that “the story was based on historical research and was meant to honor the slaves’ resourcefulness.” Via The Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2...ve-controversy

“‘How could they smile? How could they be anything but unrelentingly miserable?’ Ganeshram wrote. ‘How could they be proud to bake a cake for George Washington?’

‘The answers to those questions are complex because human nature is complex. Bizarrely and yes, disturbingly, there were some enslaved people who had a better quality of life than others and ‘close’ relationships with those who enslaved them. But they were smart enough to use those ‘advantages’ to improve their lives.’

”


In the meantime, discussions regarding the content of the book have erupted across social media platforms, together with an ongoing critique of publishing’s significant lack of diversity.

http://jezebel.com/scholastic-pulls-...ali-1753522007


Is ‘A Birthday Cake For George Washington’ A True Depiction Of Slavery For Kids? — Debunked Part Three

Antonio J. Newell


January 16, 2016

Is A Birthday Cake for George Washington an appropriate depiction of slavery? Why would the authors attempt to teach kids a fabricated version of the story? As previously reported, essentially, George Washington supposedly treated Hercules like family.


However, to digress, you can see a lot of the A Birthday Cake for George Washington commentary in the following Facebook post.

Believe it or not, a new 2016 children's book from Scholastic features a story about "happy slaves" who are pleased to cook a cake for President George Washington. Read this important critique by librarian Edi Campbell, here: http://bit.ly/1l76ZFw Image is the back cover of the book, called "A Birthday Cake for George Washington." (Read a critique by Clarence Lusane of another book for children about George Washington "Master George’s People: George Washington, His Slaves, and His Revolutionary Transformation": http://bit.ly/1l77MGF)

So, while certainly George Washington probably enjoyed his birthday cake, that might have only been one scenario in former years. Regardless of the birthday cake or celebration, Washington’s enslaved Hercules didn’t appreciate how he was treated. History does record that he was favored, yes. However, it also records the fact that he was still in servitude and manipulated.

Moreover, contrary to the author and editor notes, Hercules didn’t seem too thrilled at George Washington and his overall deception. To have planned an escape on his owner’s birthday, it shows that there was possibly something more happening behind the scenes.

While Hercules might have enjoyed former birthdays with the president, higher income, finer clothes, it doesn’t make him a “coon” or an “Uncle Tom.” He was just looking out for his family as best that he could. That, the authors did get right.

What are your thoughts about A Birthday Cake for George Washington? Is it an age-appropriate book? Are parental concerns legit, as they pertain to “sugarcoating” slavery? Feel free to share your feelings in the comments.

http://www.inquisitr.com/2714143/is-...mVFYY6GLjR7.99

A Marine veteran was attempting to enjoy a meal at McDonald’s when a group of teenage hooligans began harassing him, asking him “Do you believe Black Lives Matter?”

The situation escalated quickly, resulting in the veteran being knocked out and robbed.

From The Blaze: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016...ings-together/

Christopher Marquez received the Bronze Star for valor after serving in the Iraq war.

“Do you believe black lives matter?” they asked him repeatedly. When Marquez ignored them, they began shouting that he was a racist.

After finishing his food, Marquez left the restaurant. As he was walking out to the parking lot, he allegedly sustained a blow to the back of his head, which knocked him unconscious.

The vet awoke to find his pants ripped and his wallet, which contained $400, three credit cards, his VA medical card, school identification, metro card and driver’s license, missing.

“I remember this group of teens harassing me while I was eating, they surrounded my table and kept on asking me ‘Do you believe black lives matter?’” Marquez told the Daily Caller. “Then they started calling me a racist. I can’t recall if they were saying anything else to me at this moment because the blow to my head really screwed up my memory.”

According to the Daily Caller, transactions made on Marquez’s stolen credit cards reveal that his attackers charged more than $115 at a liquor store, Five Guys and Walmart. Mason told Marquez that police had already been looking for the group of teens for a prior incident. On Saturday, Mason helped Marquez piece together the events leading up to the head blow.

“I believe this was a hate crime, and I was targeted because of my skin color,” Marquez told the Daily Caller. “Too many of these types of attacks have been happening against white people by members of the black community and the majority of the mainstream media refuses to report on it.”

And yet the left still tries to convince us the folks involved in BLM are fighting for racial equality, despite incidents like this.

I don’t doubt these individuals would still be committing crimes, wether or not the BLM existed, but the twisted message and ideology of the movement provides them with an “excuse” to justify their behavior.

After all, you can’t blame a bunch of angry teens who are tired of the systemic oppression they experience by all those silly, dumb, racist white people, right?

Look, racism is real, and it isn’t limited to white people. It’s a sinful condition that plagues all of mankind. There are racist white folk, black folk, Asian folk, you name it.

The problem is, we judge one another’s value based on skin color, rather than on the fact we’re all made in the image of God, the imago dei.

You see, every human being is valuable because we’re made in God’s image. No one race is superior. No one race is inferior. A person is not worth more because they are white and a person is not worth less because they are black.

BLM misses this point, and unfortunately, so do a lot of folk on the other side of the spectrum.

Hopefully one day this will be different, and we’ll all see each other as having the same value and worth, as we reflect the character of our Creator.


http://www.youngcons.com/teen-thugs-...-then-rob-him/

Originally Posted by Jolie Rouge

A Marine veteran was attempting to enjoy a meal at McDonald’s when a group of teenage hooligans began harassing him, asking him “Do you believe Black Lives Matter?”

The situation escalated quickly, resulting in the veteran being knocked out and robbed.

From The Blaze: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016...ings-together/

And yet the left still tries to convince us the folks involved in BLM are fighting for racial equality, despite incidents like this.

I don’t doubt these individuals would still be committing crimes, wether or not the BLM existed, but the twisted message and ideology of the movement provides them with an “excuse” to justify their behavior.

After all, you can’t blame a bunch of angry teens who are tired of the systemic oppression they experience by all those silly, dumb, racist white people, right?

Look, racism is real, and it isn’t limited to white people. It’s a sinful condition that plagues all of mankind. There are racist white folk, black folk, Asian folk, you name it.

The problem is, we judge one another’s value based on skin color, rather than on the fact we’re all made in the image of God, the imago dei.

You see, every human being is valuable because we’re made in God’s image. No one race is superior. No one race is inferior. A person is not worth more because they are white and a person is not worth less because they are black.

BLM misses this point, and unfortunately, so do a lot of folk on the other side of the spectrum.

Hopefully one day this will be different, and we’ll all see each other as having the same value and worth, as we reflect the character of our Creator.


http://www.youngcons.com/teen-thugs-...-then-rob-him/

The story we shared on this page yesterday about the Marine brutally assaulted by a group of black teens sparked an unbelievable outpouring of outrage that has gone mad viral. As of this writing, the story on our page alone has been shared nearly 43,000 times and garnered nearly 27,000 comments.

In case you missed it, Christopher Marquez — who received the Bronze Star for valor after serving in the Iraq war — was attempting to enjoy a meal at McDonald’s last week when a group of teenage thugs began harassing him, asking him “Do you believe Black Lives Matter?”

After the Marquez attempted to mind his own business and ignore the group, the situation escalated quickly, resulting in the veteran being knocked unconscious from the back and robbed of $400 cash plus the rest of the contents of his wallet, including IDs and credit cards. Marquez told the Daily Caller:

“I believe this was a hate crime, and I was targeted because of my skin color,” Marquez told the Daily Caller. “Too many of these types of attacks have been happening against white people by members of the black community and the majority of the mainstream media refuses to report on it.”

Apparently the police had already been looking for this group after a prior incident.

Hard to argue with the victim’s suggestion that this was a hate crime — that Marquez was targeted because of his skin color.

So, given the administration’s laser focus on racially-oriented altercations, President Obama and Attorney General Loretta Lynch must be ALL OVER this, right?

I mean, we all remember President Obama bending over backwards to send not just one, but three representatives to the funeral of one Michael Brown, who was killed in the line of — trying to rob a convenience store.

And Attorney General Loretta Lynch expressing her “greatest fear” in the immediate aftermath of the San Bernardino terror attacks — that killed 14 and terrorized many more — was anti-Muslim “rhetoric,” which she vowed to prosecute. Right before she then moved on to her next priority in the aftermath of that first terror attack on U.S. soil since 9/11 — which was, of course, meeting with representatives of the Black Lives Matter movement.

So where are President Obama and Attorney General Lynch now? Surely, it couldn’t be that Obama and Lynch don’t give a rat’s patootie about certain lives — like those who are white or “white Hispanic” (as no doubt the likes of Black Lives Matter would categorize an Hispanic). Or, God forbid, our distinguished military heroes?

Right? Riiiiiighhht.

Despicable.

And this is the man who’s considering this woman to be an arbiter of our Constitution on the Supreme Court. It’s abundantly clear by now that under the concept of “equal protection,” some people are “more equal” than others under the Obama administration.

http://www.allenbwest.com/2016/02/ob...is-despicable/

African Woman Destroys Black/Liberal Praise Of Muhammad Ali With 1 Question

Posted on June 6, 2016

After the recent death of famous champion heavyweight boxer Muhammad Ali, liberals, blacks, and even conservatives have flooded social media with praise for the sports legend. However, one African woman is wondering if blacks who are mourning his loss have lost their minds — and it’s all because of one thing most are too star-struck to realize.

Mona Walter is an ex-Muslim Somali activist who is determined to expose what her former religion has done for 1,400 years and is planning to do to Western countries. After immigrating to Sweden when she was 19, she was given the opportunity to read the Quran for the first time. It was discovering the violent passages and racially charged scriptures against blacks and Jews that prompted Mona to convert to Christianity and dedicate her life to exposing Islam. However, she not only sees this dangerous ideology infiltrating through mass Muslim migration but also being glamorized through celebrity gossip.

Because of Mona’s extensive knowledge of slavery in the Quran and hadith, including the Islamic Prophet Muhammad’s trade of black slaves, she wants to know why Muhammad, who claimed he was escaping “slavery” of the white Christianity, converted to a religion whose holy man enslaved blacks.

She goes on to explain that white people beat themselves up all the time for slavery in the West, while Muslims, who own over 14 million blacks to this day, have no apology for their bigotry and inhumanity. She points out the hypocrisy of blacks demanding reparations from whites since it was the white Christians who fought and died to abolish slavery in America.

“Do you know, the time Muhammad Ali converted to Islam, the black people were in chains like this in Saudi Arabia. In the 60s, Saudi Arabia had enslaved all the Middle East. The Muslim Arabs, they had slaves, black slaves like me, from Africa! They had black slaves in the 60s! And this man converted to Islam. Something is wrong with that. That is you are a traitor. You betrayed your African race.”

Mona expresses her disbelief that many don’t know that it was the Arabs who were raping and kidnapping millions of Africans long before they began selling them to the U.S. In fact, it was the Arabs and African Muslims who initiated the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, with many enslaving their own people because of their newfound religion.

After receiving her first introduction to Islamic text in early adulthood, Mona still can’t believe how any black person could willingly convert to Islam. According to the hadith, the Islamic Prophet Muhammad would trade 2 blacks for 1 Arab slave, reducing their worth by even more than they were already considered. Aside from this, he often pointed to his black slave, Nabtal, to describe how Satan looks.

Ishaq:243 “I heard the Apostle say: ‘Whoever wants to see Satan should look at Nabtal!’ He was a black man with long flowing hair, inflamed eyes, and dark ruddy cheeks…. Allah sent down concerning him: ‘To those who annoy the Prophet there is a painful doom.” [9:61] “Gabriel came to Muhammad and said, ‘If a black man comes to you his heart is more gross than a donkey’s.’”

Further building his Caliphate on racism and slavery, Muhammad ordered a black slave to build the pulpit from which he preached Allah’s commands. However, the most offensive scripture comes from Muhammad himself, who said that when Allah created black people, he meant for them all to go to hell.

Mona explains that when she read all of this, she knew she must warn her people of this deceptive ideology.

“I didn’t know what I was a part of. I didn’t know who Muhammad was. I didn’t know who Allah was. So, when I found out, I was upset. I was sad and I was disappointed,” she recalled. “It’s about hating and killing those who disagree with Islam. It’s about conquering. Muhammad, he was immoral. He was a bloodthirsty man. He was terrible man, and Muslims can read that in his biography — what he did to Jews, how he raped women, how he killed people. I mean, he killed everyone who didn’t agree with him.”

Unfortunately, millions of blacks will never listen to Mona or the racist scriptures within the Quran and hadith, as blacks continue to convert to Islam and ignorant Westerners praise those who do. In fact, Islam is the fastest growing religion in the U.S. and the world.

http://madworldnews.com/liberal-praise-muhammad-ali/