In May 1968, the new community-controlled school board in the largely black Ocean-Hill Brownsville section of Brooklyn summarily dismissed 18 white teachers and administrators. The school board’s action led to a series of citywide teacher strikes that roiled a city already on edge and strained traditional alliances — pitting liberals against labor and blacks against Jews.

At the center of the storm was Albert Shanker, leader of New York City’s United Federation of Teachers. Over the previous decade, the junior high school teacher-turned-labor leader had played a key role in organizing New York City’s fractious teachers into a cohesive force and winning them the right to bargain collectively, finally taking the UFT’s reins in 1964.

Shanker took a tough line in demanding the reinstatement of the Ocean Hill-Brownsville educators. He led New York City teachers out on strike three times in the fall of 1968, shutting down the public schools for a total of 36 days. He won reinstatement for 79 teachers who had been transferred out of the district or walked in sympathy.[1] In the end, he emerged from the strike a figure of national prominence.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_teacher’s_strike_of_1968

“Dell” argued in his comments that Jews are responsible for affirmative action. In fact, affirmative action has been the reason for the Jewish-Black split. Without a doubt, black power was promoted by Jews prior to the late 1960s. Similarly without a doubt, the Jewish-Black relations (which exception of some radical liberals who never see blacks) has been extremely hostile.

I know a decent number of Jews well and none of them have anything good to say about the black community. When talking to blacks, I find that this feeling is mutual.

“We continue to remain troubled and somewhat at a loss to understand why African-Americans consistently have such strong anti-Semitic propensities,” opined Abe Foxman. About a third of blacks are “unquestionably anti-Semitic” and almost half of all blacks are borderline.

In all, the ADL believes that 4 out of 5 blacks are anti-Semitic, as compared to 1 in 3 whites. Even if they exaggerate the level of anti-Semitism (which I am sure they do), that blacks are so much more likely to give “incorrect” answers is not exactly a sign of Jewish-Black love.
When a Jewish politician ran for Congress in a Brooklyn district that’s majority-black, minority-Jewish, the outgoing black congressman called him a colonizer.

In 1967, the New York Times Magazine ran an article entitled “Negroes are Anti-Semitic Because They’re Anti-White”. I would say that blacks are more anti-Semitic than anti-White. I never heard any anti-Irish or anti-Polish ranting by blacks, but I heard plenty of anti-Jewish conspiracies and complaints. (Prior to seeing the far-right online, I never saw any hostile anti-Semitism coming from whites.)

Why? My answer would be that in the late 60s,  Jews “betrayed” blacks by turning on them over affirmative action.  What the Jews wanted was equal opportunity, for themselves and all others. What blacks wanted was equality of outcome. These are naturally going to come into conflict.

For Jews, equality of opportunity is great because they’ll wind up on top. For blacks, it’s terrible because they will wind up on the bottom.

The Jews thought, “look how nice I am, I want your son to have the same opportunity that my son has.”

But what blacks wanted was not the same opportunity, but the same car and the same house. Anything short of that and blacks felt cheated.

But this was completely unacceptable to the Jews, “What do you mean… your drug addict son gets accepted ahead of my straight-A student son?”

Because Jews are most likely to have the credentials to apply to top schools, affirmative action hits them hardest. For ex., if 30% of Jews have the SAT/GPA for the Ivy whereas 5% of the general population does, then they are 6 times more likely to get hit by affirmative action (which is not a
significant concern in lower-level schools).

So many Jews were hit by affirmative action that the program could not have possibly been popular with the Jews.

The AS response to it is that Jews are still over-represented. Who cares? That’s the same thing black nationalists say against whites.

A Jewish kid who got rejected by a school does not care that the school is 25% Jewish anyway. All that he cares about is that if admissions had been based on SAT+GPA, he’d be in, and now he’s out because of affirmative action.

To the AS, all Jews are one. To a Jewish 18-year-old, however, there’s no such thing as “Jews” in admission. There is just one thing that matters – his own admission. Nothing else matters. (I am sure the last three paragraphs will result in crazed blabbering from the AS who’ll ignore everything I just wrote and pretend that Ivy admission is a team sport.)

In the first landmark affirmative action case, all the major Jewish organizations submitted briefs in opposition to affirmative action. In the recent Michigan case, it was a more mixed bag with the ADL and AJCongress against and AJCommittee in favor.

Among regular people, Jews are in line with whites on affirmative action, even though generally they are much more liberal.

Incidentally, the person most responsible for affirmative action was Richard Nixon, who saw himself as the bulwark against Jewish Leftism.

Going back further, Anglo-Saxon elites should take the blame. They established affirmative action because the Jews were crowding them out in the Ivy League, as well as PhD, Law and Medical programs. This blew up in their face when blacks said, “hey, we are also under-represented.”

Without the rich folks, most of the Episcopalian persuasion, not started this whole thing, blacks would not even have any idea that they can demand it.

On the Jewish-Black front, affirmative action has been the dividing. More than anything, it is what split away the Jews from the Civil Rights movement. No Jewish organization can support affirmative action without alienating much of their constituency. Those organizations trying to establish themselves as being on the hard left can afford to do it.

However, those that are right wing or even centrist/big-tent have to oppose affirmative action. For blacks, however, affirmative action is responsible for the creation of the black middle class, and it absolutely cannot be sacrificed. Don’t look for black-Jewish relations to improve unless the average black IQ suddenly skyrockets.

 We stand on the brink, of a war between the black and white races,that most likely, will be world wide.It is a war very few whites desire,nor believe can happen.Far too many of us,are incredibly ignorant, when it comes to the hard ugly reality, of what the great majority of blacks, are like.It’s not a question of the skin color they have on the out side,it’s what they are, on the inside.basicly, to know them, is to dispise practicly everything about them. They are and have been pumping themselves up for this conflect, for at least the past 40 years,but you can see it manifest even back in the 1920’s.Back in the period between 1965 to 1968,as well in 1992,with the Rodney King trials riots,they learned that they can get away with burning and looting of many billions of dollars worth of property, as well as many thousands of brutal beatings, and who knows how many murders,and the man coughs up trillions to keep them from repeating the deeds. now basiclly, this is pretty much what Atalia the hun did to Rome,and they coughed up plenty to no avail, to likewise save themselves.Percentage wise, I think that a HUGE number of whites, are going to have to have their homes looted/burned to the ground, their women raped,their children savagly beaten,and at the VERY least, a million of us murdered in horrific ways by blacks, before like popeye, the masses say”that’s alls I’s can stands, I’s can’ts stands no more!”As is, if the war broke out tomorrow, we have a great percentage of whites, who would fight on the side of the blacks, and an equal number who would try to sit it out,and not get involved.Most whites are in, for a VERY shocking awakening.I fear it will be too few to late, who finally manage to see the truth about our situation, and that is a very grim fate planned for us indeed.

by Jonathan Hunt

Regina Benjamin, B. Obama

The Irish Savant

You’re looking to appoint the Surgeon General – the TOP Government MEDICAL post in the US.

Where do you look for a suitable candidate, one capable of inspiring a new generation of medical break-throughs? The Mayo Clinic? Harvard Medical School?

…OR an obscure backwoods practice lost somewhere in a Louisiana swamp?

If you’re part of Obama’s ‘colour-blind’ Administration, you’d go for the last option. Why? Because it’s one of the few places you’ll find a Black physician. And being Black seems to be the one and only qualification that Dr. Regina Benjamin – a 20 stone mountain of fat – seems to have.

Admittedly she ‘graduated’ from one of the country’s handful of Black medical schools. These ‘graduates’ are so poorly qualified that almost all end up in administrative roles on the government payroll. In those instances where they are let loose on the general public the results can be literally life-threatening, as in the case of the Martin Luther King Hospital in Los Angeles which had to be closed down to protect the public.

[...]

Blacks have a big problem in graduating from proper medical schools because, with their lower IQ levels they can’t handle the academic workload. It’s as simple as that. Wherever you see black PhDs you’ll note that they’re invariably in the soft subjects like ebonics, Black history, languages, racism reparation studies or other crap like that. Continue to FULL ARTICLE.

Royal T is, without doubt, one of the brightest Grime talents to emerge this year. His fast-paced productions contain a ferocious energy that brings the best out of MC’s and DJ’s alike. The 28th of December sees the digital release of his debut, the ‘1UP’ EP on No Hats No Hoods, and to celebrate, the Southampton producer is over the next 3 days uploading a handful of exclusives.

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Good Night; tomorrow is Christmas Day,

But I want to start now, wishing all of you peace, Joy and all success in your long life!

What’s not to hate about South Carolina’s black people? They’re poor, they’re unemployed, they’re really dragging the whole state down, and, you know, they’re black.

Shocking? No, just the reality that poor, pitiable South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham lives in.

In arguing why he was against health care reform, he recently stated: “I have 12 percent unemployment in South Carolina. My state’s on its knees. I have 31 percent African-American population in South Carolina.”

And everyone knows blacks don’t need health care! Or… something.

Here’s Rachel Maddow:

True colors: shown.

A state that is one third black is AWESOME and full of amazing potential. People of color know what they need from the South Carolina government. Maybe Senator Graham could listen to their voices and take their advice instead of cite them as a liability to his state’s standing.

The original Craigslist (CL) posting was made by a rip-off bigot, who it seems got the original posting from www.christianparty.net – and a transcript of which can be found on a solid sever – not to be deleted by a CL flagger – here – http://www.tddir.com/fitness-and-nutrition/article-1130.html

Now, cutting to the chase.

I have obviously embarked upon an endless battle because ignorance is exactly that.  But, I cannot stand those who would think that they are born to be above another person.  With that being said, I give you a retort to a Craigslist racist, I guess I would title it – the impact of imperialism.

http://desmoines.craigslist.org/rnr/1523420325.html

“To the OP – you’re obviously a bigot, and so it looks not a too intelligent bigot since this posting has been around for a while. Even if you are the original author, which I highly doubt, add something to make it your own, don’t just copy and paste it word for word from www.christianparty.net

The best thing about a person like you, is that even while you copy and paste facts like they are your own – what you do not understand is the history behind these facts. Technically speaking in terms of genetics there is no difference between a white man and a black man. The only true difference is the skin color pigment and where we originated from.

While it may seem so obvious to blame blacks for their strife, what you fail to realize is that the white race has been the sole beneficiary of the black struggle for the entire 400 years that you mention. Imperialism, as started by our European white brethren, is entirely based upon the spread of Christianity and the white race – as predicated by our religious leaders in a time when the world was still believed to be flat. It was started to spread Christianity, but it was funded by some certain folks who had a lot to gain, monetarily. When we found these indigenous non-white people guess what else we found… Items that would make us rich back in our home land.

From then until our civil war we engaged in a struggle to continue to enjoy the profit arising from our black brethren. To say that it totally ended with the 1960’s civil rights movement would be incorrect, but many scorned whites would love to have all of us believe as such. Many of the reasons for today’s educational, workplace and cultural inequalities find their roots in the subordinate places where we stuck our black brothers. Ghettos, low paying jobs and the idea that only a rapper or an athlete can be rich only begin to tip the iceberg. I haven’t even crested that hillside, but this country is based and founded on systems of racial control. Only now are these walls crumbling because we truly live in an information based time. There is no more hiding of racist actions in the 21st Century.

I know many of you will disagree with what I have said, but consider it and put thought into it. Everything is not always as it seems, and living in this world today should prove that to all of us. If you must wonder, I am a white man, employed, college educated, and just as fed up as everyone else. Our world is going to shit, but its because of horseshit we have to deal with on a daily basis and the out-the-ass taxes and restrictions we are forced to enjoy as American people. So hate me if you want to, just know that I do not harbor hateful feelings towards any of you – black or white. I do not believe us to all be the sons of God or Jesus, but we are all equal because we are all just creatures struggling for a place to survive. Thanks for reading this far if you have, regardless of how you feel.

I’ve existed through years where I thought and wrote that anarchy would be the route to save the world, and I’ve also wrote in later years that a military existence is the only way to true power. What I’ve come to realize after everything is that all we have is all we have. You can either work towards something better, or be a destructive and corrupting force than can only lead to a greater evil. Since a total migration of the black race is totally out of the question, you obviously long for the latter, and it is sad.

- KW -

PS – I know how to copy and paste too, so if you flag it, I’ll repost it.

PSS: I’m not anti-white race at all either. I think we need more white dudes in the NBA, and I agree that more could be done by black’s to further propagate their well-being, but it’s all relative – and that’s all I’m trying to say.”

Blacks Have Less ‘Bad Fat’ Than Whites

Blacks tend to carry around less of a particularly unhealthy type of abdominal fat than whites, even though they suffer more from obesity-linked illness, researchers report. “The study clearly shows we have these racial differences in body fat, not just in the type of body fat but where the fat is stored, and these are important differences,” said study author Peter Katzmarzyk, a professor of population science at Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, La. At a given body fat percentage, black men and women had lower visceral fat than white men and women. Conversely, blacks also tended to have higher subcutaneous fat than whites. Researchers controlled for age and smoking status, among other variables. Despite the tendency to have less visceral fat, black Americans are still at higher risk of dying from obesity-related diseases such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease. One explanation for this is that blacks have higher overall obesity rates overall, Katzmarzyk said.BMI is a calculation based on height and weight. While a high BMI tends to mean you also have a lot of body fat, BMI is not a direct measurement of fat composition. A very muscular person, for example, may have a high BMI but low body fat composition. “We are using BMI as a ‘gold standard,’ but it needs to be reassessed,” Bailey said. “It does not necessarily apply to each and every population in the same way. Our biology and genetic makeup is slightly different. African-Americans may be healthier at a different BMI compared to a European population. Biology aside, Bailey added, there is no question that obesity remains a serious issue in the black community. Poverty can make affording fresh fruits and vegetables and the healthiest cuts of meat more difficult, while unsafe neighborhoods discourages getting adequate exercise.”Many times, sociological, behavioral and cultural issues overrides the biological,” Bailey said. “One-third of African Americans are still in poverty, and that influences the types of foods you are able to eat. Researchers said it’s possible that other, more important obesity-related gene variants have yet to be identified. (health.com)

Glover , who has complained, out loud that Obama isn’t doing enough for blacks…..touched a nerve….

……which had Obama point out……”If you want me to line up all the black actors, for example, who support me and put them on one side of the room and a couple who are grumbling on the other, I’m happy to have that,” Obama said.

Obama never the less,  still will be on the spot with blacks, and the Congressional Black Caucus …..and will have to make some moves to address the problem before he run’s again in 2012……

Model minorities versus Black (reverse) racists: Blacks, Asian Americans, & South Philadelphia High

Tamara K. Nopper

December 18, 2009

As a resident of Philadelphia and an Asian American concerned with and engaged in research and writing about Black-Asian relations, I have been following Asian American students’ recent boycott of South Philadelphia High School after almost 30 of them were purportedly physically attacked by a group of Black and Asian students on December 3, 2009. The whole situation makes me sad.  Yet I’m concerned with how Black people are being implicated by some of the media reporting and political support for the students.  Specifically, I am concerned with how some are taking advantage of the situation to promote the all too popular and white supremacist charge of Black reverse racism, even when some of the alleged perpetrators have been identified as Asian American.  In the following I explore the image of Black reverse racism and how some non-Blacks have used this to marshal support for their causes.  I also consider how the Asian American students at South Philadelphia High are being depicted by some of the media and supporters as model minorities in opposition to Black criminals and reverse racists. 

African Americans as the face of reverse racism and corrupt state power

Working with the Philadelphia non-profit Asian Americans United (AAU), the “progressive” Asian American organization in the city (where I also worked for two years a while back), activist and writer Helen Gym has the following post on her blog: “Targeted because we’re Asian: South Philly students speak out about racial assaults.”  The article states,  “There’s no doubt that any time there’s violence between and among communities of color, there needs to be careful consideration of the situation involved. I do believe, though, that the reluctance about naming race has a lot to do with the District dragging its heels in collecting all the evidence in this situation.” 

Although I can only speculate, I am concerned that in the case of South Philadelphia High, the School District’s described “reluctance” may be posed or taken by some as a form of reverse racism perpetrated by an African American principal, LaGreta Brown, and an African American School District Chief, Arlene Ackerman.  As someone who is critical of color-blind racist approaches to dealing with the world, I can understand why we should be vigilant about the unwillingness of individuals and institutions to deal with racial inequality.  But I am concerned with the hidden transcript here, the one in which insinuations of reverse racism are being implicitly made against the District by those sympathetic to, but not necessarily working directly with, the Asian American students.  

Related, charges of reverse racism are often coupled with the suggestion that African Americans are now the face of state power and will use that power in corrupt ways to punish non-Blacks. The fear of a Black take-over in which whites will be dominated has informed whites’ perceptions of Black protest before the current period. This is evident in whites’ repression, through various techniques (including immigration), of slave uprisings and the fury they unleashed in response to the modest but important political and economic gains made by Blacks during Reconstruction.

Yet in the post-civil rights era, a growing number of multiracial and multinational efforts suggest that non-Blacks of all backgrounds are increasingly misinterpreting or misrepresenting Blacks as the face of state power and specifically, the face of corrupt state power in which Blacks distribute, whether through repression, negligence, or racial solidarity, institutional forms of violence against non-Black groups.  For example, Canada, in a case that had been widely criticized by Black South Africans, granted asylum to a white South African claiming he was the victim of Black racism.  In other words, his white status was in need of protection.  Additionally, I remember watching some Ugly Betty episodes in which the title character’s father, Ignacio, attempts to circumvent deportation to Mexico by putting up with black immigration official Constance Grady’s extremely aggressive sexual overtures.  Indeed, on IDMB, the description for a 2007 episode titled “Sophie’s Choice,” literally reads: “Betty’s dad Ignacio finds he can’t get out of the demands of mean black Immigration official Constance Grady, who will get him deported even after 30 years of total integration unless he satisfies her.”  And while I am not a fan of President Obama because he isn’t radical enough—partially by choice and mostly because of the dictates of running an empire—it is noticeable that studies suggest that for some Asian Americans, like whites and other non-Blacks, there was anxiety that a Black president would work against their interests, which makes me wonder how Asian American voters considered race in all of the previous elections for which we’ve been eligible to vote.  Moreover, studies show that in response to the 1992 Los Angeles Riots, in which Korean business owners lost almost half a billion dollars, several Koreans who had been registered Democrats crossed over to the Republican Party because they felt that the state had upheld Black interests by allowing their property to be damaged. 

I’ve also heard similar concerns from Asian Americans I’ve met.  For example, I remember when I taught a race course at Temple University, a young Asian American student mentioned to the class that she decided to get involved in activism in support of Asian Americans after becoming upset at footage of then mayor John Street, an African American, announce to an NAACP convention, “Let me tell you, the brothers and sisters are running the city,” a quote that was not forgotten by many non-Blacks.  Not surprisingly, the Asian American student tended to align herself with a fellow white student who was one of the most racist white students I ever dealt with, despite the fact, as she announced in class on the first day in response to a Black woman’s critique of her tone toward her, that she “lies in bed with a Black man every night.”  Indeed, I recall how eager the Asian American student who hated Street was to engage in a class “dialogue” about Black “reverse racism” initiated by this white woman and how she interrupted my transition to a new topic by saying she wanted to pursue this conversation.  Yet for some reason, this Asian American student never seemed too moved by any of the data or studies examining systematic violence inflicted on African Americans. 

While African Americans of all types are racistly and sexistly associated with corruption, it is noticeable how, as seen in the aforementioned description of the Ugly Betty episode,  African American women working in the public sector are increasingly viewed as the face of power-hungry reverse racists when it comes to the administering of public goods or forms of state assistance.  And given that charges about reverse racism are generally coupled with the myth of state excess on behalf of Black empowerment, it is unsurprising that Black women, who are racistly and sexistly perceived as the biological and cultural generator of dependency, are also vilified as recipients of excessive affirmative action, which purportedly, has helped make possible their presumed meteoric “rise” in spheres of influence where they then, supposedly, restrict or punish others.  Speaking to this point is a 2006 sociological study which argues that opposition to affirmative action, often derided as a form of reverse racism, is stronger when Black women are considered the beneficiaries.  The authors conclude:

Gender/racial prejudice towards Black women and Black men influences Whites’ opposition to affirmative action at different levels than negative attitudes towards Blacks as a group. Prejudice toward Black women has a larger effect on Whites’ policy preferences than does prejudice toward Black men or Blacks in general.

While we should always pay attention to how institutions, including the public education system and all of the other institutions involved in its operation, are managed, there are a couple of things to consider.  First, many African Americans, particularly women, are in positions that require them to serve as the interface between the state and the general public, such as public education and social welfare services, with one of the reasons being that the private sector has been harder to integrate.  Thus, many of the African Americans who have achieved middle-class status have done so by working in different levels of the government and public service industry in relatively unenviable positions where they are viewed as the sole controller of public resources.  Second, some of the people in these jobs are working in institutions that are underfunded, highly bureaucratic, and systematically neglected because the spaces or the services offered are associated with Black people even if those in or using them are not Black.  As such, while we can question some of the leadership practices of those in these institutional roles, we must also look at the conditions in which they are expected to lead.   Third, we must evaluate our expectations for leadership and whether the authority figure being Black means we have greater vigilance for how they handle racial matters, which is generally the case when it comes to African American administrators.  Related, we must ask if our expectations are humanly possible for one or two or three people of any race to meet.  Ackerman, as reported by the Philadelphia Public School Notebook, raised this point at a December 16 meeting, at which she formally apologized, an act that got wide attention in the media.  The story, written by Dale Mezzacappa, states, “She said the School District ‘has now been asked to singlehandedly solve the issue of violence and racial discord’ that is deeply rooted in history, and go far beyond the schools.”

Furthermore—and this point seems to elude those supporting the Asian American students—we must consider how the de-invested conditions of public schools with majority Black enrollment exist because of anti-Black racism and that Blacks have to endure these conditions just like their non-Black peers.  And they do so in a society where Black suffering is taken as a natural phenomenon instead of a political one.  As such, Blacks, unlike Asian Americans and Latinos, do not have access to morally recognized tropes that highlight their suffering whereas Asian American and Latino community leaders are often able to generate more widespread support—and at times, punitive responses, at least against Blacks—by highlighting their (immigrant) status as outsiders competing against Blacks for access to rights and quality services and living, working, and educational conditions.  Perhaps this is why supporters of the Asian American students at South Philadelphia High have fixated on Black perpetrators and in the process never mention the reported involvement of Asian Americans in the attacks.  In other words, they need the perpetrator to be Black in order to promote the narrative of Black-on-Asian American violence that is permeating the media and internet.  Further, different forms of violence (institutional, symbolic, and interpersonal) that non-Black people of color inflict on African Americans are often reduced to cultural differences (which only serves to highlight the sympathetic image of Asian Americans and Latinos as outsiders) and are generally not interpreted as a sign of the deficiencies of these groups and certainly do not receive multiracial condemnation.  Although the School District is also emphasizing cultural differences, the emphasis on this trope suggests that the structural dynamics that set up the context of interracial violence  can not or will not be named, although Ackerman’s mentioning of racial discord being rooted in history and violence was the closest thing I’ve seen to a structural analysis.  Also, I wonder what tropes are available for Black victims of violence or institutional racism that can simultaneously highlight their vulnerability without pathologizing Blacks and actually be taken seriously.  More, when violence happens to Blacks, it generally only gets attention after it can be blamed on other Blacks or universalized by being associated with the negative experiences of other racial groups—a strange reversal indeed since most non-Blacks  seem only to know how to articulate racial grievances by analogizing our degraded statuses as being treated like Blacks.  In the case of South Philadelphia High, school safety and violence in public schools are now viewed as a social or city problem now that the victims are not Black.  And the advocacy of Asian Americans is being viewed as the intervention that is finally happening, as if Black communities haven’t attempted to address school violence before the reported attacks. 

Asian American model minorities versus Black reverse racists and criminals

The idea that Blacks are not the victims of violence or state power but rather the perpetrators of it has helped to marshal support for the Asian American South Philadelphia High School students if not for Asian Americans in general.  Indeed, like the racists “shocked” (and delighted) by the recent news about Tiger Woods’ extramarital affairs, many are taking advantage of the situation to simply pathologize African Americans. 

This pathologization simultaneously depicts Blacks as reverse racists and behaviorally and culturally deficient and promotes the model minority myth, which valorizes immigrants and Asian Americans as more disciplined, hard-working, and thus more deserving of support, material rewards, and in this case, safety, than African Americans.  For example, in a news story run a day after the attacks, notably titled “Asian Students under attack at S. Phila High” (as opposed to being attacked), Dafney Tales writes:

Zhihua Tian traveled thousands of miles from his native China earlier this year to profit from the treasures of the American education system.

Unfortunately, he landed at South Philadelphia High School, where the number of violent incidents often overshadow student achievements.

In response to a news story that security measures have been increased at South Philadelphia High, “Anonymous” chimes in:

No wonder Rev Al and Jessie are no where to be found. Where is the outrage?–these werent priveleged white kids from the burbs that were victimized–they are the children of immigrants.  These are people of color who, like the earlier posting observed, will acheive great things in spite of all of this because they come form a background that stresses hard work and accountability. The perps come from a “Stop Snitchin’ culture that uses every excuse in the book to explain the failures of their group.  This group relishes government entitlement prgorams EXCEPT the one that can help them the most _ public education- presumably because it comes with strings attached– ya gotta show up and do some work! 

And “j davies,” responding to a post on the Asian American Movement Blog, titled “America’s Anti-Asian Racism in Black and White,” writes:

It is truly sad that productive Asian students are subjected to the behavior of sissy boy ghetto thugs who are basically cowards and only attack in packs. The Asian students should be transferred to a civilized school in the suburbs and leave the thugs to rot in their own filth and so called ‘culture.’

But mainstream media and its readers are not the only ones promoting the model minoritization of the Asian American students.  Such a depiction can be found on the blog of Angry Asian Man, a popular website among Asian American progressives, particularly college students.  In a story about the high school, the following comment is made:

Can you blame these students for taking refuge elsewhere? Many of these students actually moved to the United States from Asia for a chance at a better education, only to find themselves under constant threat of violence. It’s absolutely ridiculous that it’s come to this, that a school cannot protect its own students.

While I understand that no one wants to experience violence or to have it be part of their educational experience, the image of the hard-working immigrant coming from Asia who challenges their violation seems to easily gain moral legitimacy if the perpetrator is identified as Black or associated with Black people.  In some cases, Black perpetration overrides Black victimization, even when the latter is acknowledged.  For example, in her letter to Philadelphia Daily News regarding South Philadelphia High School, run on the website philly.com under the headline: “Letters: What’s Al Sharpton doing in this story?,” Jennifer Lisacek writes:

IHAVE some questions regarding the recent article about the school police officers allegedly holding down a student and beating him:

Why is the president of the Philadelphia chapter of the National Action Network and Al Sharpton getting involved?

Why is it that whenever something negative happens to a black person it is turned into a racial matter?

What about the poor Asian students who were physically and emotionally attacked by black students simply because they are Asian?

Jennifer Lisacek

Philadelphia

To be fair, those involved in the campaign to support the Asian American students have gone out of their way to stress that this isn’t an effort to demonize African Americans, and some, such as writer Christina Chen, who wrote a guest column for the blog “Race Wire,” sponsored by Colorlines, addresses the implications of punitive responses.  She states, “Let’s be real here: South Philadelphia High is 70 percent Black and 18 percent Asian. The  ‘disciplining’ of those involved in the attacks often translates into the further criminalization of youth of color.”  Despite the furor that her column generated for not overtly condemning African Americans, I am glad Chen emphasized this point and that it has also been intimated among those organizing with the Asian American students.  Unfortunately, there is little available evidence that Chen or others are, in their respective responses, actively working against the valorization of Asian immigrant youth and subsequent demonization of African Americans that’s generating some of the support for their cause.  It appears that the one part of the myth supporters are most interested in combating is the image of Asian Americans as passive victims who don’t defend themselves.  For example, regarding mainstream press coverage, Chen writes, “reports of anti-Asian violence often lapse into tired ‘model minority’ tropes.  In profiling Asian students as defenseless victims of these assaults, these articles overlook the brio by which these same students speak up and fight back.”  Chen goes on to quote Gym of AAU, who says, “Many of these immigrant students have become articulate and impassioned leaders for youth voices. They’ve written platforms about what they need from their principals and teachers. They need to be heard—and the recommendations they’ve made over the year taken seriously.”

I know from experience that non-Asians expect us to be passive and that responses when we’re not can range from shock and anger to shock and then liberal amusement (Margaret Cho, anyone?).  And as a scholar of Asian American studies, I have read and researched enough to know how assumptions about Asian American passivity have been and continues to be damaging for us on so many levels.  And I want Asian Americans to be politically cognizant, vocal, and active.  Yet I am concerned that in dealing with a situation at a school that is 70 percent Black and confronting two Black women administrators or educators in the process, the aspect of the model minority myth that Chen and Gym appear to be the most concerned about is not the anti-black racism inherent in the valorization of Asian immigrants, but rather that Asian immigrants may be mistakenly perceived as politically uninspired victims.  But we need to publicly challenge the demonization of African Americans that appears to guide some of the support for the Asian American students. 

Perhaps School District Chief Ackerman’s unwillingness to allow for the wholesale demonization of African American students at South Philadelphia is one of the reason why her leadership is being so strongly questioned.  Whatever the case, Ackerman has been condemned for pointing out that some of the racial conflict at the school may be related to the actions of Asian Americans, albeit not necessarily the ones who were assaulted.  For example, Ackerman was criticized for mentioning at a meeting held with the Asian American students, their families, and community leaders that reportedly, a few Asian American students attacked a disabled African American student on December 2, thereby suggesting the next day’s attacks may have been a form of retaliation, a point that has been  dismissed but never fully explored.  Overall, Ackerman has tried to defend Black students from being stereotyped, most noticeably at the widely covered December 16 meeting.  As the Philadelphia Public School Notebook  reports:

Ackerman said some students had told her they felt unfairly stereotyped by media coverage of the incident, which she termed ‘sensationalized.’ Ackerman characterized the violence that triggered the weeklong boycott of classes by a group of Asian students as being perpetrated by ‘a small group of students of multi-ethnic origins.’ She said South Philadelphia students told her that they believed the coverage ‘maligned some races and mischaracterized others,’ and that their stories had been told ‘unfairly.’

Some activists and journalists may point out that efforts are being taken to not demonize the Black students.  For example, a statement from students involved in the campaign stresses that they want a safe place for all students.  And a December 10 news article states, “A number of Asian students pointed out that they have African-American friends who have helped them with their English and have been nice to them.”  Another article has a photo with the caption: “Two Asian girls and an African-American friend embrace after seeing one another at the corner of Snyder Avenue and South Broad Street this morning as boycotting students returned to school. When asked, they said they were part of the boycott but declined to give their names.”  Similarly, on its website, AAU, under the heading “Citywide support for the Students of South Philly High: a show of unity and support for safe schools” posts a photo taken at Arch Street United Methodist Church, where a multiracial group of Asian American student supporters, including African Americans, gathered.  And in another article, Black students express both their concerns with being negatively perceived and are also quoted saying that they don’t have problems with Asian students.  Interestingly, this article, titled “Some black South Philly High students resent being lumped with attackers,” does not appear among the extensive list of news articles about the incident that appears on AAU’s website.  While it’s important to highlight aspects of Black-Asian solidarity and for multiracial communities to collectively protest violence in their institutions, it is curious that African American students, themselves dealing with the negative aspects of public school as well as the ways in which they are constantly criminalized, have to go out of their way to redeem Blacks by reassuring others that they don’t hate Asians because of the purported behavior of a few African American (and Asian American) students. 

Conclusion

It is becoming evident that some of the support for the Asian American students at South Philadelphia High is being generated by appeals to anti-Black racism, in which Asian American model minorities are viewed as unfairly stuck with presumably pathological African Americans or in conditions that are associated with Black people.  More, the hidden transcript of Black reverse racism seems to be marshaling some of the support for holding the School District (also racialized as Black) accountable, although many non-Blacks don’t seem too concerned with the activities of the School District when Black students experience violence.  Such gestures are consistent with other Asian American political efforts, in which emphasizing Black perpetration or being stuck with or in conditions associated with Black people is the basis for mobilizing support for our campaigns.  For example,  Asian Americans, against the backdrop of the U.S.’ growing imperial concerns regarding the future possible rise of Asia or ties with the region, worked to get white rights by claiming that they were unfairly being relegated to Black spaces such as segregated schools.  In contemporary times, Asian American organizations have demanded that Asian Americans who have experienced violence in housing projects from African Americans be relocated with little consideration for the institutional violence that informs the existence of housing projects and the experiences of African Americans within them.  And related to South Philadelphia High, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) recently announced that it will “file a complaint for civil rights violations with the U.S. Department of Justice against the Philadelphia School District for failing to address the rampant violence against Asian immigrant students at South Philadelphia High School (SPHS).”  This is most ironic since AALDEF, established in 1974, was modeled after the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, which was a major force working to legally desegregate the public school system. 

In closing, it is unclear what will be the outcome of local organizing efforts led by or in support of the Asian American students at South Philadelphia High School, especially as the School District initiates a 50-member “Task Force For Racial And Cultural Harmony,” which is tasked with “conducting a root-cause analysis” of tension and making recommendations to curb it.  Hopefully, those involved in the Task Force will find a way to explore what are very real racial tensions without succumbing to the demonization of African Americans that has plagued most of the coverage and debate regarding the attacks on Asian American students.  Doing so, however, will require more active efforts to challenge the hidden and not so hidden transcripts regarding Blacks and Asian Americans that appear to be motivating some of the support for the Asian immigrant youth.

Shorter Ben Nelson: Killing Indian Babies is Fine, Just Don’t Kill White Babies

RedState Blog: by Erick Erickson
Sunday, December 20th at 1:40PM EST

Poor Ben Nelson. He went on John King’s show today and told King, “[I]f you think it’s fun having both sides on an issue mad at you when you’re trying to do something in good faith, just think, it’s like going home and getting bit by the family dog. So how — who enjoys that?”

We all know the truth, however. The proof is in the pudding of Ben Nelson’s arrangements with Harry Reid.

Nelson said he was standing firm on pro-life issues, but in fact his compromise will not help him. His compromise authorizes federal funding of abortions on Indian Reservations, but will make it difficult for white Americans to have access to abortions during Republican administrations.

That is the key. Under Nelson’s compromise, abortion access will fluctuate based on who the President is. A pro-life President will have the power to make it more difficult. A pro-death President like Barack Obama will make it exceedingly easy. The only constant will be federal abortion funding for Indians.

I guess Ben Nelson has no problem with the multi-century history of the feds trying to exterminate Indian populations. Surely Ben Nelson knew what he was agreeing to. The issue with abortions on Indian reservations is related to the reauthorization of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, which is tied to the health care legislation and about which Nelson was fully aware of its implications.

What’s more, we should consider the rest of what Nelson got. Under Ben Nelson’s compromise, the citizens of the several states will now pay for medicaid cost overruns in Nebraska forever. That’s right. No other state gets the commitment Nebraska gets. From now on, your state taxes are going to be raised when medicaid costs go up in your state and your federal taxes are going to go up when medicaid costs go up in Nebraska.

The rest of the Democratic Senators have been taken for a ride by Ben Nelson, who has managed to put his state in a better financial position at the expense of every other state’s residents, all while ensuring the feds get to keep subsidizing the costs of exterminating Indian kids on Reservations. Poor Mary Landrieu really did turn out to be a cheap date.
Ben Nelson did not act in good faith. And the only thing biting him has got to be his conscience.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Erick Erickson is the managing editor of RedState.com, the largest online community of conservative activists and the most widely read right of center blog on Capitol Hill.

Should this surprise anyone- Abortion has been used as Eugenics against Blacks and the African American Community for many years. As proved in the documentary Maafa21 ( Clips Below)

The Sunday Editorial: Once You’ve Gone Black…

Sunday, December 20, 2009. This past week, I was on the elliptical machine at my health club, using the incline setting as if to metaphorically indicate that I’m fighting an uphill battle to prevent holiday fat gain. A buddy spotted me, and jumped onto the machine next to mine, and before even saying hello, began to talk to me about the Tiger Woods saga. He, like most people, would be willing to cut him some slack if he’d had one, maybe even two mistresses. But 7? 14? 21? How many times did Woods score off the golf course?

My friend is more upset by this than I am.

You see for me Woods is one of the five greatest golfers of all time, far and away the greatest since Jack Nicklaus. Like Nicklaus, and unlike any other golfer I’ve seen in my lifetime, he can concentrate like a laser on key shots. He will make an opponent wilt into pull hook hell with merely a steely glance. Phil Mickelson arguably is just as gifted, has a better short game, and hits the ball just as far as Woods. Vijay Singh is another with uncommon gifts. But these players come off as “soft” compared to Woods. Woods wins because he is more dedicated and focused. He practices longer, eats better, works out harder. In golf, he has unmatched will power. I’m perplexed as to how his personal life can be such the opposite. That’s what the recent twist in the “Story of Tiger” represents to me.

However, Woods’ infidelities create a much heavier burden for my pal.

My pal is black.

“When a guy like Tiger does something like this, or Kobe [Bryant], or some of these other black guys, it worries me that people think all black guys are like this, or most of them—you know?” he says.

“Yep—I know. It’s stereotyping. It’s frustrating.”

Being a man, I think I understand very well that this is not a “black” problem. Men are men. Their God-given desire to procreate with attractive women is quite strong, and I have not noticed blacks having any more difficulty controlling it than any other race.

Which brings us to another burden blacks must bear. Barack Obama was elected President at an historical crossroads when growing ranks of blacks are shedding the old stereotype that blacks must be Democrats. They’ve seen that the liberal band-aid approach to solving problems in America never works in the end. It’s just a lot of pandering to superficial, short-term desires, and is patronizing to blacks–more a hindrance to them than a boon. Many of these black Americans, at the fore of a burgeoning group of minorities who are Republicans and Independents, cite profound frustration as they witness in disbelief the far-left, social-manipulation policies of Obama, policies that cannot do anything but weaken an already-shaky America.

They’re wondering what whites are thinking now with this crazy president. I have spoken to them about this, and have read countless comments from blacks on news stories from sources like ONE.SIX. They worry that Obama has made it utterly impossible for another black man to be elected as President of the United States.

I think I speak for millions of whites when I say, “Don’t worry blacks—we whites aren’t that stupid.” True, there are always going to be some who can somehow judge a group of millions of people based on the actions of one or a few men. There are white bigots who are that stupid, who would not have given Obama a chance even had his policies been to the right of President Ronald Reagan’s.

I don’t believe that Obama will be the last black president. If Obama’s election did nothing else, it served as a sledge hammer through the walls of bigotry, causing the President’s residence to only literally be the “White” House.

I didn’t vote for Obama because I don’t believe liberal policies work, and I surmised his policies would bankrupt America. However, on election night, when Obama had won and I watched thousands of citizens from my home town of Chicago, many of them black, crying with incredulous gratitude that finally they had gained the respect and recognition they had fought for since they disembarked from slave boats in the Seventeenth Century, I got quite emotional and felt proud to be American–like when the U.S. wins a Gold Medal in the Olympics and the Star Spangled Banner is played. It sort of hit me in the back of the throat and I couldn’t have talked for a few minutes without crying a bit.

Blacks have battled too long to let the lasting memory of what a black president represents be Barack Obama, and Barack Obama only. Their struggles for equality have forged a strength like iron into their bones, and have caused them to become politically involved and prominent. They won’t let the courageous battles of heroes like Jackie Robinson, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King go wasted. Their door has been swung open, and blacks like Larry Elder, Niger Innis, Wallace Jefferson, Angela McGlowen, Rod Paige, Star Parker, Jesse Lee Peterson, Collin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Michael Steele, Shelby Steele, Clarence Thomas, J.C. Watts, Armstrong Williams, and thousands of others will continue to bulldoze that entryway wider so that black conservatives can get through it too.

Most white conservatives recognize that Obama has socialistic tendencies—not blacks in general. Look, for instance, at former presidential candidate Alan Keyes. Keyes, a black, has for years labeled Obama a communist. Most whites recognize that Obama wants to overspend to push his liberal folly—not blacks in general. Look, for instance, at Stanford University’s Thomas Sowell, a black, and perhaps the most prolific economics author of our day. Sowell has repeatedly decried the debacle of Obama’s fiscal and political myopia. The list could go on and on.

So, to my buddy at the health club, to other black Americans, I say this: The barrier has been smashed. Anybody with drive and ambition can become President of the United States, or become anything else for that matter. You’ve got too much dirt under fingernails, too much scar tissue, too much heartache, too much time and money invested, to let this progressive charlatan come in and rob your bounteous harvest.

–CB

UPDATE: This definitely went by me. While Chris Henry wasn’t necessarily known publicly for domestic abuse, his lover and fiancée who drove the F-150 truck was. From Bossip.com:

A source close to the situation has exclusively told Bossip that Henry’s fiancée, Loleini Tonga has a history of domestic violence and a severe drinking problem. The source states, “I knew the next time Chris would get in trouble it would be because of that girl. She drinks all the time, they get into fights, and she has even bragged about getting into disputes with former boyfriends.”

I agree, there are some women who love to scrap with boyfriends and husbands.  But these women are few and far between.  Chris Henry didn’t appear that heavy. Pass receivers don’t really have to bulk up all that much; they are built for speed.  Henry was strong, but wiry.

I wish I had been a fly on the wall to hear what was said that set them both off.  Henry was on medical leave from the Bengals with a broken arm that had a pin in it.  Somehow, with a great leap, he got on that truck.  Imagine the will that it took for Henry to do that.  The same kind of will that it took to catch pivotal plays.

Just what was he going to do with Loleini if he got her to stop the truck by suasion or force?

SMH.

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Chris Henry, Loleini Tonga, and their three children in happier days (Courtesy: USA Today)

Chris Henry was turning his life around, huh? Too late to take this back now. Either Henry jumped off or was thrown off the truck. No wonder the cops don’t have answers or they would be putting his woman in the slam.

In the last conscious moments of Chris Henry’s life, the Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver begged the woman who has been credited for helping turn his life around to stop so they could talk or he would kill himself, a witness said.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg (NC) police verified that a domestic dispute jump-started the turn of events that led to fatal injuries Henry sustained after falling from a moving pickup Wednesday. Henry, who had a troubled past, was on medical leave visiting with his fiancée Loleini Tonga’s family when the fight began Wednesday afternoon.

They were to be wed in March.

Henry, 26, tried to chase down his woman during the last fight, and when she went off in her F-150 truck after he implored her to stay, he managed to climb onto the back. He was pounding on the rear window and yelling; I have a feeling he was thinking that he could get her to stop and they would conclude whatever disagreement they were having. There were also reports that Henry was threatening to kill himself while on the truck. This wasn’t the movies, and there wasn’t a stunt performer. Henry went off the truck and landed hard–on his head. That’s when Loleini stopped the truck. He died from massive head trauma, the autopsy revealed Friday.

And according to TMZ, the fight may have been predicated on the high costs of the wedding run up by Loleini, 25. He had already made a scene at the wedding photographer’s. The Bengals controlled the money of the cash-strapped football pro; the team was determined to help him back to financial solvency, so the preparations may have been too much for Henry to consider. Previously, he had burned up all his money, nearly $1.75 million, mostly in legal fees and settlements.

This makes me think of an episode last year on Oprah in which she had several couples on the show who were having or had had high-priced weddings. Some who had already had these weddings then had to deal with the crushing debts. The debts nearly sent these new couples into divorce court or bankruptcy. Husbands were appalled at their wives’ spending; they thought that saw things eye to eye financially, but without too much discussion.

Of course, this happened before the Great Recession hit, but having big impressive weddings these days can also be a financial drain when what was needed was a reality check, counseling and a brake on the spending. The shrinks on the show were essentially saying, concentrate on the marriage to come, and not the wedding. Come to a reasonable consensus about can be achieved with the wedding, which is nothing but a great big show that happens only once. And Henry and Loleini already had three children to think about.

Loleini on her My Space page had already boasted about the rings she had bought. That she had fifteen bridesmaids and four matrons of honor. But the couple may not have owned their own home.

It occurs to me whether Chris Henry even had a will to provide for his children in case of an early demise. Those pretty baby boys. SMH.

As the family prepares for his funeral next week, it’s not yet known whether Tonga — the mother of two of Henry’s children — will face charges. Police have not yet cleared her name.

[Police spokesperson] Harrington said there was “no new info” in the case on Friday.

“I know people will say, ‘Why didn’t she stop?’” said the friend, Lori Williams, a teacher at West Charlotte High School. “We don’t know … but in the times that I knew Loleini — and I knew Loleini — she would not harm anyone.”

Greg Guthrie, general manager of the Alario Center in Westwego, La., confirmed Friday that a service for Henry, a native of Belle Chasse, La., is tentatively scheduled to be held there Tuesday.

The Bengals are expected to attend as a team after playing in San Diego against the Chargers on Sunday.

They’re also wearing his number 15 on their helmets today as they face the San Diego Chargers.

Chris Henry had had problems. He had a volatile temper. He had brushes with the law from gun possession, to drunk driving, to contributing to the delinquency of minors, to substance abuse, to assaulting people. This last one, which resulted in a second arrest in 2008, got him waived from the Bengals. And yet, Loleini is credited with turning his life around. Many Pacific Islander people are into building family, and they are a beautiful people. She had had two little boys for him. Perhaps it was high time for him to grow up.

Well, no person can turn their lives around unless they really, really want to. Another woman or a man has nothing to do with it. They can only offer encouragement and love, on her but sometimes, it’s a crutch. The other person cannot be responsible for everything. At the same time, there was a payback for all this emotional support. I’m sure there were financial pluses involved for Loleini to maintain their relationship. Chris Henry, unfortunately, kept doing anti-social stuff through their relationship until just recently. What isn’t said in these news reports is whether he had ever put his hands on her.

It doesn’t look like it.  It is evident, though, that they quarreled bitterly.  Quarreling and domestic abuse are two different things.

When police initially questioned Tonga at the scene, there were no marks or bruises or signs on her that she had been physically mistreated by her fiancé.  The couple were at her parents’ home before they rushed out.  If the parents were present, there would be no way the father or her brothers and other family living next door would have allowed abusive behavior from him.  The Tongas lived in a kind of compound of several houses on the same street, in an extended family situation that black folks can recognize and even appreciate, but is just as recognizable in the islands.

There are conflicting stories whether Henry will be memorialized in Westwego or Gretna. Both are suburbs of New Orleans.  Gretna and Westwego are in Jefferson Parish and are near Belle Chasse, where Henry first earned gridiron glory in high school.  At any rate, the team is chartering a jet to attend the funeral in his honor Tuesday.

As for the Tonga and Henry families, no response has been forthcoming to the press.  No doubt, everyone is in a state of shock; it will be sometime before there is a response from either side of the family. It’s very sad. Measured against the wedding rings, a wedding planner, fifteen bridesmaids’ outfits and an official photographer, etc., the death of the prospective groom is a heavy price to pay for a wedding.

http://thatsnotimportant.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/tiger-woods-condoms-not-that-important/

The above link to a comment, I wrote when I should have been in bed, should read as the comment below!
This is a media that lives well by telling us what they wanted us to know. Now they need a victory for the people that control advertising. Success is assured, when the person sin, or commit a crime and can be easily separated from the rest of the Pack. NOW, the people are growing tired of receiving unwanted news, and the media is failing and folding daily, and will continue until 75 percent is gone, over the next ten years.

Finally, today, now the media is focusing on Tiger woods and his performance on the golf course. His behavior, health, interaction with the fans and playing or not playing by the rules, covered in detail. All the rules, written and unwritten, requiring everyone to follow as we live our life, work and play. As I live by the rules to the best of my ability and receive, both, praise, and sometime criticism, from friends and foes alike. I have never had anyone said to me you get too much sex or you are not good in bed, or as one reporter asked a woman answering questions about Tiger Woods, and that question was about the size of his penis.
The media is “good at that,” know maybe, better yet, “bad at that” giving us the approved information, that conform with their goals and ongoing agenda. Tell us about the sex, tell about the failed relationships and the deals that went wrong never reporting about the deals that are successful and ongoing. However, if the media is aware of sex in a public place, reported it.  As I became aware, and would wonder why the news papers never gave the big headline, on the front page, at the top of the page, to the story about the boy who lived in the neighborhood from birth to high school graduation and never went to jail and never been suspension from school.  But when some students at that same school, cut, shoot or kill someone, it’s on all the news, starting on the front page of morning and evening papers.
In this country we are all capitalist (well most of us) and understand the need to earn a profit. Speaking for myself, the media, can earn a profit, as long as they don’t publish lies or information and images that offend the most. For instance, articles or pictures about sex, have no redeeming social value. The reason, everybody engages in some form of sex some time. And there is no reason for you to watch me and I have no need to watch you. The very reason, sex is private and not for public entertainment.

H/T to Jack and Jill Politics:

Some of this is damn hilarious.

And then some of it is really deep…

Some of these men may live very precariously on Harlem’s streets. I’ve seen them. Some are vets, retired, oldsters, youngsters. Guys ekeing out a little something something on the streets to sell like soap or incense or books or their own sculptures. Many don’t have a college education. What they have is who they are. And who they are is a lot. They know a lot.

However, fifty percent of black men in NYC do not have jobs. Real jobs. Tiger is in an enviable position that these men wish he would do a lot better with. But they don’t care about Tiger, because he never cared about them–some of whom who may even resemble his own late father.

It’s good to see 125th Street and Adam Clayton Powell, and the Theresa Hotel, and the Apollo again. Harlem is forever.

And who is Leigh Davenport, who filmed this mini-documentary?

I am glad for her. I hope her 15 minutes get extended into more fine work, not necessarily focusing on her heft. And as far as film roles go, heavy does not necessarily translate into poor or ignorant. The SAG Awards and the Golden Globes are a harbinger–an early prediction–of how the voting might go with the Oscars.

When the (SAG) nominees for movies were announced (today), cheers could be heard when first-time film actress Gabourey Sidibe, who stars in the current hit Precious was named among the actresses competing for Lead Actress. Her antagonistic co-star, Monique also received a nomination in the Supporting Actress category.

Looks like she’s a favorite, but she would have to knock off Sandra Bullock and Meryl Streep big time. That would be fcking fantastic if that happened, though. Mo’Nique (or Monique) has more of a chance; see what she has to say about this. Perhaps Mo’Nique is trying to focus on other things rather than bollixing her chances by dwelling on these blips on her screen. Or, perhaps she’s heard that her portrayal of Precious’ evil mom was just too real for some folks to deal with, thus feeding into a stereotype.

More from People Magazine. The child is so cute; she’s just a kid. A kid, glad to be in the world:

“Oh my God, Justin Timberlake just said my name,” the actress told PEOPLE of her reaction to her Golden Globes nomination, which was announced Tuesday morning by the handsome singer. “I’m so very excited to come into this because I’m usually on the other side. I’m a fangirl and I watch these things happen, but they don’t happen to me!”

Sidibe, a self-professed ‘N Sync fanatic, might be as excited about its delivery as the news itself. “I told my roommate, and I literally said, ‘Oh my God, Justin just said my name,’” she said. “He finally said my name.”

The actress, who will join Emily Blunt, Sandra Bullock, Carey Mulligan and Helen Mirren as a nominee for best actress in a motion picture (drama), said her family is revving up for the dream-come-true reality as well.

“I called my mom right away when I found out and she was really excited. She said that six people have called her already to congratulate her,” Sidibe said of Tuesday’s announcements. “My dad’s not really into this whole thing. He doesn’t really understand what all this is, it’s not his realm at all, but I’m going to tell him when I see him later today.”

I have more to talk about Gabourey’s nomination, as well as Aretha Franklin being on the cover of one of the tabloids this week, but I am at work, and of course, this must wait until much later.

List of all SAG nominees here.

List of all Golden Globe nominees here.