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Re: Star Organizer Joins Obama’s “Operation Vote” To Rally Minorities
I don't get it. How come the President or his "handlers" don't want to "target" minorities (blacks) with POLICY, yet, its ok to target them to get their vote? In other words, the president believes its ok to target minorities (blacks) to HELP THE PRESIDENT, but the president does not believe its right to target minorities TO HELP THE MINORITIES (blacks). What the f'ck happened to the rising tide theory? His POLICY should raise the tide for everyone....meaning minorities (blacks) and whites...
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Re: Star Organizer Joins Obama’s “Operation Vote” To Rally Minorities
Originally Posted by Noah The African: I don't get it. How come the President or his "handlers" don't want to "target" minorities (blacks) with POLICY, yet, its ok to target them to get their vote? In other words, the president believes its ok to target minorities (blacks) to HELP THE PRESIDENT, but the president does not believe its right to target minorities TO HELP THE MINORITIES (blacks). What the f'ck happened to the rising tide theory? His POLICY should raise the tide for...
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Re: Obama's strategic edge: Cash to campaign everywhere
Originally Posted by sunnubian: Obama's strategic edge: Cash to campaign everywhere By theGrio 10:35 AM on 11/07/2011 Flush with more cash than all the Republican candidates combined , Obama's reelection campaign envisions an electoral map every bit as expansive as that of 2008, when he picked up a string of states that had been safe GOP territory for decades. Now that is interesting. Gotta wonder where the money came from. Xum
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Re: Obama's strategic edge: Cash to campaign everywhere
All I can say is.....Yay...Go Obama! But!
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Yeah, Koco, it doesn't matter how dirty or bloody the money is, huh?
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Considering that Republican money is less than pristine - and the blood and dirt on it mostly comes from the American people they leave slaughtered while collecting it .... I don't see why it should make a big difference!!
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Originally Posted by EbonyRose: Considering that Republican money is less than pristine - and the blood and dirt on it mostly comes from the American people they leave slaughtered while collecting it .... I don't see why it should make a big difference!! Yeah, the money for both sides probably came from the same place. So it may just be a matter of choosing the color of the puppet. Seeing what happened to Qadaffi all of the puppets work the same. Xum
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Re: Obama's strategic edge: Cash to campaign everywhere
Being that Obama said he would change the way fundraising operates, it should matter.
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Re: Obama's strategic edge: Cash to campaign everywhere
Considering that the President broke records in his 2008 campaign for raising money over the Internet from small individual donations and through grassroots efforts from individual Americans and supporters .... and is on pace to collect as much if not more in this upcoming election ... I would say that he HAS changed the way election fundraising happens. No other candidate had - or has since - received the kind of individual donor, non-corporate tainted money support that the President has.
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Re: Obama's strategic edge: Cash to campaign everywhere
If you believe that, then you are hopelessly lost
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All I can say is that I chose the wrong career path. I should have been a pimp....lol. I mean......I can smooth talk and don't do sh1T for you.....and have people essentially working for my benefit while I don't work for theirs. Politics is pimping. "You O'Ssssss got my votes"? "how bout my donations"?
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Re: Obama's strategic edge: Cash to campaign everywhere
Originally Posted by nuggyt: If you believe that, then you are hopelessly lost ========================== I don't have to believe it. It's the TRUTH!!
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It's the truth because Obama told you?
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Re: Obama's strategic edge: Cash to campaign everywhere
Against my better judgment I'm gonna fight the urge to call you an idiot right now.
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Wow! I leave ....and come back and the kiddies are at each other's throats? Bad Bad Bad kids. Why haven't yall did your homework and chores? Just kiddin'. Obama is hittin' a NERVE up in here. What is that called? Hummmmm Lemme see. Ooooh Ohhhhhh I know! Jealousy with a touch of hidden envy. That's what it's been all along. Brotha can't do nothing without other brothas hatin' on him. Tis Tis Tis typical hoodrat kneegrow behavior. Why didn't I see this before? That's what it REALLY...
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Re: Obama's strategic edge: Cash to campaign everywhere
Originally Posted by Kocolicious: If the O's fit...... . You will be at the polls with your fish nets, pumps, and fur scarf...no doubt
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Hey, fishnets stockings are back in vogue!
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Noah the African wrote: If the O's fit...... . You will be at the polls with your fish nets, pumps, and fur scarf...no doubt Hey Hey...whatcha talkin' bout? No pumps...platform shoes and no fur scarf....FUR coat. Imma expensive O's. If I'm gonna step out...step out RIGHT! No sense in freezing my buns off...now is there? Don't forget...I'm old school. I KNOW how to do it. But!
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Originally Posted by Kocolicious: Aint nothing wrong with having "CLASS" sister . If you going to be an O for a politician....do it with style and grace. You must be one of yo presidents "bottom O's". PS....I am just funning with you Miss Koco.....it's all metaphoric...no disrespect intended . Politicians are pimps...for the most part....any you got you a good one
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Noah the African wrote: Aint nothing wrong with having "CLASS" sister . If you going to be an O for a politician....do it with style and grace. You must be one of yo presidents "bottom O's". Bottom?!! Hey Hey no bottom. Never! Always the choice cut...top of the line O's. Cuz that's where the money and quality....is....my brotha PS....I am just funning with you Miss Koco.....it's all metaphoric...no disrespect intended I know this is ALL in good fun Noah. Otherwise....you know how I am. So...
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Not that it matters....but in pimp lingo....to be a pimps "Bottom B..." is to be his favorite or top girl. Its counterintuitive.
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Re: Obama's strategic edge: Cash to campaign everywhere
Well...see. That just mean I'm not an O's...after all. Cuz I definitely DON'T know the lingo. Hummmmm. How come you KNOW it sooooo well? But!
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Re: An Ugly, Ugly, Ugly Deal
That's a whole lot of speculation, supposition and innuendo in that commentary. He must belong to a "Liberal" organization. It really gets me that people like him who complain that the extension of unemployment benefits is next to nothing .... are always people who are working ... and not depending on that unemployment check for their or their family's survival. And the ones who say the same about the "working poor tax cuts" ... are never part of the "working poor." They always seem to have...
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Re: MSNBC's Todd, WSJ Cover For Romney's Misleading Ohio Jeep Ads
-->translation<-- the campaign would have never run such an ad if they'd known GM & Chrysler would've called romney out on his LIE . I knew there was something I hated about that chuck todd em-&-neffa. At least I can 'respect' a balant racist, but those trojan (whores) horses...like I alway's say, there's no LIE more destructive than a little 'white' one...just like chuck todd.
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Re: How to Leverage Trillion Dollar Black Spending Power
This is a great idea!! However .... it wont be easy to spend Black dollars with such a limited number of Black businesses to spend them in. Part of the initiative should definitely include the encouragement of building Black entrepreneurship within the community!!!!
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Re: How to Leverage Trillion Dollar Black Spending Power
Dr. Claud Anderson's Harvest Institute.... http://www.harvestinstitute.org/ Dr. Anderson putting in work for the Black community Economic development http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2oeUMwZf2A
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Re: How to Leverage Trillion Dollar Black Spending Power
When we had a chance to do something about this, we poo poo'ed it off. Now well with all that's going on.. we're just about toast.
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Re: How to Leverage Trillion Dollar Black Spending Power
Originally Posted by Yemaya: When we had a chance to do something about this, we poo poo'ed it off. Now well with all that's going on.. we're just about toast. Well ..... I'm hoping that we'll jump out of the fire ... right at about 'golden, biscuit brown' .... instead of after 'burnt to a crisp'!!
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Re: How to Leverage Trillion Dollar Black Spending Power
Originally Posted by EbonyRose: Originally Posted by Yemaya: When we had a chance to do something about this, we poo poo'ed it off. Now well with all that's going on.. we're just about toast. Well ..... I'm hoping that we'll jump out of the fire ... right at about 'golden, biscuit brown' .... instead of after 'burnt to a crisp'!! We are too satisfied with the status quo. And we have too much too lose, but wait until we don't have a gotdamn thing, which is coming sooner than we realize,...
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Re: How to Leverage Trillion Dollar Black Spending Power
What year did he say we'd become a permanent underclass?? 2013.. what's going on this year. Sequestration is in effect this year affecting the governmental sector which hires more Blacks than the private sector... this is just another death knell in all of the things he's talked about in the lecture posted here.
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The spirit of Black people needs a post-slavery/post jim crow overhaul. We simply have the keys to our own jail cell now. Why don't we spend money more Black-wards?? The hard reality is that most of us only spend money in Black businesses during a haircut or a hair-do....that's it!!! We must refocus our efforts to grow ourselves up. Too many of us are dependent on "others" to hire us for THEIR PROFIT!!!
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But! Hang on yall. It ain't over til the fat lady sings....even though we do have burnt edges. I just know we can't give up on our people because of a few of 'em that are azzwipes. We still gotta think of us as a group of deserving folks and think about our offsprings down the line...since this new generation of blacks are not thinking about no one but themselves-just SELFISH and IMMATURE. But! Somebody has to be BIGGER than their apparent EGOS. Cuz it real clear a lot of 'em are NOT wrapped...
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Re: How to Leverage Trillion Dollar Black Spending Power
Originally Posted by Kocolicious: But! Hang on yall. It ain't over til the fat lady sings....even though we do have burnt edges. I just know we can't give up on our people because of a few of 'em that are azzwipes. It is not just a few. Over the years I have talked to a number of Black IT professionals and every one of them has told me that they have had Black business men either rip them off or try to. One tried to steal some equipment from me and I had to go there with a friend of mine to...
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Re: How to Leverage Trillion Dollar Black Spending Power
Originally Posted by Yemaya: What year did he say we'd become a permanent underclass?? 2013.. what's going on this year. Sequestration is in effect this year affecting the governmental sector which hires more Blacks than the private sector... this is just another death knell in all of the things he's talked about in the lecture posted here. The "backdoor" tactic, [something you can't get Black people to understand for nothing in the world], although other groups in America may only have to...
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Re: How to Leverage Trillion Dollar Black Spending Power
One of the main problems that I see with African American economic independence is the fact that so many Black minds that think alike are so far away from each other, or often do not even know the other exists. Case-in-point, all of the members on this site, I think we are all from different states. If we all lived in the same state or the same city, maybe we could have implemented something by now. Another thing is, that there are so many out there telling us what needs to happen, without a...
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Re: How to Leverage Trillion Dollar Black Spending Power
IDEA: For example: Koco , can you write a k-12 curriculum? Xum , could you design a computer program that would incorporate the k-12 curriculum that Koco writes, that could be programmed into an inexpensive tablet, reader, or net-book?
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We need something like Amazon.com for Africans. Put all the stuff we like in one place, so we'll know where to buy. There aren't a lot of African businesses where I am. I'm like a fly in buttermilk here; in a Yankee State. Couple of cities where there are many Africans; I'm 50 miles from the nearest one and don't travel much. Where are the websites, and I'll purchase. I think all 43 million of us should open an African in America bank account, to which we all contribute so that the "race"...
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Sista Sunnubian wrote: For example: Koco , can you write a k-12 curriculum? Of course I can. It will take some time...but! It's not impossible to accomplish. This sounds sooooooooo exciting.
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Brotha Xum wrote: It is not just a few. I know I was just being "nice." Over the years I have talked to a number of Black IT professionals and every one of them has told me that they have had Black business men either rip them off or try to. One tried to steal some equipment from me and I had to go there with a friend of mine to get it back. One Black pro even told me he didn't try to do business with Black business men anymore. I don't blame him. And I totally understand....but! For me,...
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WOW!! What an interesting conversation!! You know .... about a month or so ago ... when I was chatting with MBM about allowing new members to join the site ... I told him that I (somehow) envisioned doing something BIG with the Board one day!! Of course, I had no idea at the time WHAT that "big" thing might be. Still don't!! But I told him that maybe one day we'd be able to get together and harness all the incredible talent and intellect we've always had through our core members. Seems to me...
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Re: How to Leverage Trillion Dollar Black Spending Power
And how about that National Recommended Reading List that Xum always speaks of? Do you think any of us could come up with a national [or international] Recommended Reading List for African American children [or Black children throughout the Diaspora]?
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Re: How to Leverage Trillion Dollar Black Spending Power
So hang on a minute, are we oppressed or a powerhouse??
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Originally Posted by nuggyt: So hang on a minute, are we oppressed or a powerhouse?? It is African American yoga. Lie on the floor. Put you foot on your neck and yell racism, racism. How often have any Black Americans told you about really informative book and you checked it out and it was great? I spent four months trying to get a Black librarian to stock a book on electronics. She looked at me like I was crazy. And that was before these White folks started talking this STEM junk.
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Originally Posted by sunnubian: IDEA: For example: Koco , can you write a k-12 curriculum? Xum , could you design a computer program that would incorporate the k-12 curriculum that Koco writes, that could be programmed into an inexpensive tablet, reader, or net-book? A curiculum that extensive would be really BIG. Each year would be larger than the previous year. The tablet should use a microSD. K-4 could be on one 5-7 on another. 8 and 9 on one. And then 10, 11 and 12 on one each. But are...
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http://pro.stansberryresearch....02PSIEOA1Y/PPSIP386/ 13 years ago: http://www.toxicdrums.com/econ...s-by-dal-timgar.html He talks about the Laws of Economics but not the Laws of Physics. In the 20th century consumers bought technology that was never possible before. Physics makes technology wear out. But we didn't make stuff that didn't last before 1900. The sewing machines made in the 1800s could last 100 years. They don't make cars like that. But our economists have ignored the...
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Re: How to Leverage Trillion Dollar Black Spending Power
Originally Posted by nuggyt: So hang on a minute, are we oppressed or a powerhouse?? Yes.
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Originally Posted by nuggyt: Not possible No .... not in your world, I'm sure! But, within the realm of reality ... they are separate issues. And BOTH can be - and are - possible.