"Tearful apology not needed" My Sentiments Exactly!

field negro: Tearful apology not needed, and the evolution deniers.

 The problem is that there is a basic hypocrisy in the media that allows the right to not be held accountable bad behavior. Not only is the right allowed to get away with worse things than the MHP segment on a daily basis, but no one on the left is ever cut the same slack.

"I have said this before and it is worth repeating: Nobody plays the victim card like these wingnuts. Sarah Palin has made a career out of it. (I see you Mr. Bashir). "

More on this later.

field negro: I guess having all these guns does have its advantages.

field negro: I guess having all these guns does have its advantages.

I don't always agree with Philadelphia Daily News columnist Jill Porter---if I remember correctly, she even ripped family court a time or two when I was an administrator there---.

But her article concerning guns, gun violence, and its disturbing and frightening effects on our community was right on point. And she raises some relevant economic issues that I didn't even consider.

Here is what she wrote:

I DON'T KNOW about you, but I'm going to spend my tax-refund incentive check to buy a gun.
Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that individuals - and not just members of militias - have the right to bear arms, it's the least we can do.
Really.

I was going to buy a dining-room rug, but that won't boost the economy nearly as much as having more guns in circulation.

Read on.

 I keep hoping A-merry-cans will wake up, but sadly, I know we won't. I mean if someone can execute a schoolhouse full of little Amish children and it doesn't get a rise out of the sick f#$ks at the NRA, I don't know what will. I mean a bunch of n***ers killing each other in the inner cities is fine. We all know those Negroes don't have anything better to do than take drugs and kill each other. But what about those good citizens [*wink wink*] in places like Kentucky and Virginia? Do they deserve to die? I don't know, call me crazy, but I bet if there were less guns there would be less killings.

Read often.

"Do you feel safer with a gun in the house? When you bring a gun into your home, you dramatically increase the risk of someone you love being injured by that gun. Research has shown that with each 1,000 gunshot victims that come to our hospitals, less than two victims are actually using a gun for self-defense at the time.(5) The majority of gunshots are due to suicide, homicide (due to escalated arguments between loved ones), and accidental firings than to self defense. In fact, more guns are fired in the United States in the act of suicide than for any other reason.(6) To put simply: suicides, homicides (due to arguments), and accidental firings would be much less likely if the gun were not in the house in the first place."

~~Physicians For Social Responsibility-Los Angeles~~

Pandering to the gun crowd is so not cool

 

What The Field Negro said all the damn way!

I don't like the imagery, O. Pandering to the gun nut crowd is not cool. A picture of you at Hadiya Pendelton's funeral would have been more like what I wanted to see. That, and a stirring eulogy along with a call for all of us in the black community to start taking responsibility for our children. You should be working overtime from the bully pulpit on that issue, but instead you are trying to prove to wingnuts that you actually shoot skeets every now and then. *scratching my very bald head*

Skeet shooting and bowling? Man the things you do to make some folks love you. 

Psst President Obama!  Who ever advised you to release a picture of you shooting a gun to pander to the Skeeters needs to see how it feels to be among the unemployed and the under employed.

They don't like you.

They will never like you.

The gun control debate is not about how well, or even if Obama can shoot. It's about all the fools running around with weapons of war in an alleged civilized society. That's all it's ever been. Except when it turns racial, like now, when the focus is on Obama's “manliness” or when Black Panthers were legally carrying weapons in public, back in the day. Talk about about faces, the NRA nearly gave itself whiplash back peddling on guns in public when black men took to the streets peacefully inside their own neighborhoods. The panthers didn't kill anybody, but the government declared open season and killed them.

It's not about YOU.  It's not about THEM.  It's about our COUNTRY.   The sooner you and your staff remember that, we ALL will be better off.

What we are witnessing in America's cities is what one mayor has called "slow motion mass murder." The response from the federal government to address the daily death toll must be comprehensive and, most importantly, must be backed up with local law enforcement resources so that parents in cities like Chicago bury less of their children every year.

RedEye tiptoeing away from the computer to go pray for little Ethan and his family.

RedEye's Week in Review

Fist Dap- What Would Jack Do. 

After wrenching President Obama's quotes out of context, Willard takes his misadventures on the road, proves himself to be an embarrassment ,but that OK,  he is going to restore Anglo Saxon relations with Britain,  and he's better than that guy.  Oh well, at least he's raising lots of money.

Fist Dap Legal Schnauzer

What a difference a Federal Judge makes.  U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson had the conscience, courage and conviction to release an opinion that shows the Siegleman defendants were wrongly convicted, (as if we didn't already know) as one of the defendants is released from from federal custody after six years, and another is probably headed to prison on August 3, 2012.

Wanted Alabama Democrats  with the courage and conviction to be the squeaky wheel, the future of the Alabama Democratic Party and Alabama's minorities are at stake. 

Governor Siegelman, you don't owe us an apology, we owe you one, for allowing this miscarriage of justice to take place.  Your only "crime" was being governor of ALL the people, not SOME of the people.

Fist Dap Politico

There is more than a whiff of hypocrisy.  All I am going to all the Righty's and some black church group, who have their knickers in knots because gay rights groups are blasting  Chick Filet because  the chain donated to an anti gay marriage group, is three words...The Dixie Chicks. 

Fist Dap The Daily Banter

Field Negro notes we are living in a violent world, but nobody notices unless it happens in a place where we least expect it. 

Artur Davis, I Hereby Revoke Your Black Card~Update

Regular readers know former Alabama Congress Critter Artur Davis ripped his drawers with me and showed his natural born ebony donkey  a long time ago.  I suspect my pointing out he was named the Field Negroes' House Negro for the day for voting against the Health Care Reform Act is partially responsible for my ebony donkey being booted off the front pages of Left in Alabama.

Attention Republicans, the mainstream media and other white folks!

Artur Davis has no credibility.
Artur Davis had no credibility.
Artur Davis will never have any credibility.

Stop playing the Artur Davis Card.

 End of story.

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Fattening Black Frogs For Corporate Snakes

A “small herd” of rightist Black politicians is seeking statewide office, further mangling Black politics in the process. In practice, this trend allows white voters “to decide which kinds of Black politicians rise to state and national prominence.” Among the latest entries is Congressman Artur Davis, running for governor of Alabama. Rep. Davis is consistently ranked among the worst members of the Congressional Black Caucus – which is the source of his white, corporate appeal.

OMG! OMG! Redeye's Front Page Blogspot has arrived!

Redeye's Frontpage is the Blog I'm Feeling Today at the Field Negro. Go over there and look to the right sidebar, there lot's of other neat stuff there too. Since my Field Negro Behavior is is partially responsible for my getting kicked off the front page of Left in Alabama I am particularly honored and indeed humbled. Welcome Field Negro readers and fans. This is why I blog.

Last stop on my way back up to the attic.. (0.00 / 0)
OP, you refer to them as "The traditional African American power brokers" we refer to them as Field Slaves/Negroes. I agree, Davis isn't "beholden to them", but should be, because without the "traditional African American power brokers" as you call them Artur Davis wouldn't be in the House. .

Grouped like dregs at the bottom of the Caucus barrel are five members whose conduct reveals them as tools for parties outside the Black community: Albert Wynn (MD) 55%, Artur Davis (AL) 40%, David Scott (GA) 35%, Sanford Bishop (GA) 32.5%, and Harold Ford Jr. (TN) 32.5.

In your culture House Slaves/Negroes would be called turncoats (Benedict Arnold).

In your culture Field Negroes would be called patriots (Patrick Henry).

Now before anyone gets offended by the terms Slaves, Negro, Field or House, its about the BEHAVIOR not the person. For example

Field Negro BEHAVIOR is;

(JULIUS H. HOLLIS) FOUNDER AND CEO OF THE ALLIANCE FOR DIGITAL EQUALITY.THIS BROTHER COULD HAVE STAYED IN PRIVATE INDUSTRY AND JUST WATCH HIS MONEY PILE UP. INSTEAD, HE STARTED THIS NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION TO HELP POOR PEOPLE AND PEOPLE OF COLOR GET EQUAL ACCESS TO TECHNOLOGY. NOW THAT'S FN BEHAVIOR. http://www.alliancefordigitalequality.org/about.php



*FN=Field Negro
House Negro BEHAVIOR is;

VOTING AGAINST THIS HEALTH INSURANCE REFORM BILL WHEN 27% OF YOUR CONSTITUENTS LIVE BELOW THE POVERTY LEVEL IS HN BEHAVIOR.

*HN=House Negro


On my way back to the attic now for real....



The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.~Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D. MA)