Tagged With "The Murder of Tyshawn Lee"
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Re: Should Malvo Get The Death Penalty?
For those that believe he should be executed, how does the fact that he was a minor when the crimes were committed impact your thinking? Further, do you believe that he was influenced to commit these crimes by Muhammad? Does that relationship, and the influence that John had on Lee, at all mitigate your feelings about punishment for Malvo? There is no passion to be found playing small, in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. - Mandela
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Re: Should Malvo Get The Death Penalty?
His age doesn't have an impact on my thinking at all, these thugs want to act as adults give them all that comes with it as well. As far as his relationship, there are too many positive people and factors out and about so that crap that he was influenced doesn't set with me. He made the decision so he should reap the consequences. The only thing I regret for him and all the others that are convicted (or not) is that they will tie up the system; I say 30 days and pull the switch. Before I am...
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Re: Should Malvo Get The Death Penalty?
wtf! this dumbarzzes knew exactly what they were doing. how 'bout some justice for the young afro-american scholar-athlete sitting in prison in georgia on some trumped-up statutory rape charge that was maliciously needled by a racist proscecutor. the kid merely had consentual sex with a 16 yr old (white girl) a few weeks after his 18th birthday. the felt compelled to lie because of what her racist father and community (forsyth county, georgia) might have done if they had discovered she slept...
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Re: Terrorists = Black Men
You want to condone racial profiling? Alright let's start. We have 270 Million Arabs. Are we profiling Muslim Arabs? Christian Arabs? Jewish Arabs? Black Arabs? Brown Arabs? Or maybe White Arabs? Or maybe it's Islam you oppose? Cool, only 1.8 billion Muslims. Shall we profile American Muslims? European Muslims? Asian Muslims? Arab Muslims? Black Muslims? White Muslims? Canadian Muslims? Latin Muslims? Persian Muslims? Hmm... Who's 7th Cavalry entered Wounded Knee, South Dakota and savagely...
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Re: The Blues on PBS
In one of my "other lives", I was a "rocker" when that happened. When I heard what we did to B.B, I really felt ashamed of how African Americans tried, and tried hard, to throw the "Blues" away. We considered the "Blues" part of the "mud on our shoes," at least in "mixed" company. Shame on us. PEACE Jim Chester You are who you say you are. Your children are who you say you are.
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Re: An Afro Dominican view on racism
Yssys, the problem has always stem from the mulatto class in Haiti. They helped created the hatred against dark skinned Haitians. Don't forget it's the very same thing in this country. There are quite a few mulattos that comply in this very USA. I believe eras of the Harlem Renaissance and the Civil rights movement did away with most of this ridiculous notion of wanting to pass for white. No one has articulated this more than Spike Lee in his firsts few movies. So yes, while it is ignorant...
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Re: Russell Simmons Eyed As New NAACP Prez
I'll tell you what ... as much as I can't stand him either, I'd rather see SPIKE LEE in the president's chair than Simmons! At least he's not a (corporate/media) sell out!!
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Re: Russell Simmons Eyed As New NAACP Prez
ER, thank you! If there was an alternate choice besides Russell Simmons, it would be Spike Lee. Spike will definitely get in Hollywood's azz and get them to get more independent or black films with substance to become greenlighted. Maybe the Image Awards would get more credibility and reward shows with mostly black casts, because they are good shows, not because they were invited to the award ceremony or the show is on UPN . I have a HUGE problem with the Image Awards. First of all, the...
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Re: Russell Simmons Eyed As New NAACP Prez
MBM: AudioGuy: I have actually found out that Kimora Lee is half black. Her father is black, her mother, Japanese.
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Re: Russell Simmons Eyed As New NAACP Prez
If I was married to Mariah Carey would you say I was married to a Black woman??
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Re: Russell Simmons Eyed As New NAACP Prez
I asked the question because Kimora Lee does not look Black... I am probably safe in saying that Russell did not know that one of her parents was black when he first saw her. So for all intents and puposes, she was an asian woman that he was pursuing. I don't see a Black man who pursues women who are not Black, as being "committed to his people". Which was the point of my response. As far as Halle is concerned, she at least looks Black... so yes, I would consider her Black - Mariah &...
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Re: Russell Simmons Eyed As New NAACP Prez
You have me confused thinking your a black women! lol... Thats not an issue. Him justifying the filth in hip-hop is.
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Re: Ossie Davis
Speaking of Ossie Davis, Spike Lee mentioned him tonight at Fort Valley State University.
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Re: MY Way or Hell!
A quick follow up: 1. Creation does not need to be ex nihilo, i.e., it does not negate continuity. As I use it, it does mean, however, that a metamorphisis does take place once the African goes through the Middle Passage and lands on this continent. There is continuity, but it is fractured and fragmented. Thus African peoples in the United States, though informed by their history, also create and adapt to their new situation. 2. The issue of ancestors crying out is a difficult one for me to...
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Re: MY Way or Hell!
How the practices of the more recent ancestors, who were victimized by a process of dehumanization, negate thousands of years of other ancestors just doesn't make sense to me. When we know better we do better. And now we know better. These ancestors took lemons and made lemonade. But why do we have already sweet fruits and refuse them? We as a people now are CHOSING to stay almost comlpletely ignorant of African traditional practices and philosophies...that is ridiculous...and demonstrates a...
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Re: "Howard Dean's mouth" - Does he owe us an apology?
Was DNC Chair Howard Dean's "Hotel Staff" Barb Racist or Racial? Tuesday, March 01, 2005 By: Michael H. Cottman Black civil rights and congressional leaders said Tuesday that a recent joke made by former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, the recently-elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee, was not offensive and is being purposely exaggerated by the GOP to gain traction with blacks. During a meeting last month with black Democrats in Washington, D.C., Dean joked during a speech, "You...
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Re: L.A. Police Revise Car-Shooting Policy
Funny how the Black community, specifically ambulance chasing Attorney Johnny Cochran, Poverty Pimping Danny Bakewell, a barrage of Black elected leaders, etc., are in mass about the killing of a young underage Black male driver by the LAPD, yet in Black on Black criminal activity ambulance chasing Attorney Johnny Cochran, Poverty Pimping Danny Bakewell, the so-called Black elected leadership, the usual community activists are as silent as silent can get, more likely missing in inaction.
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Re: Perverted Trends of Gangster / Criminal Lifestyles are Ravaging Black Culture...
Wow, you are absolutely amazing! You really do have a "monumental" mind; the kind of mind Aldous Huxley had, broad and beathtaking. You know the phenomena of "Radio Al-night", Talk shows"? They generally start late at night, about 11:00 or 12:00 PM, and go on continuously for the next 4 or 5 hours? A fellow named Art Bell made his real popular all over the world(500+ Stations): www.coasttocoastam.com/ (hosted weekdays by George Noory) Well, up until about 3 years ago, there was a white woman...
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Re: Perverted Trends of Gangster / Criminal Lifestyles are Ravaging Black Culture...
LOL...I at least knew who the second chick you mentioned is...I guess "monumental" mind is a sarcastic insult from you for anyone who doesn't see the answers to all of our social problems as a people in a foreign cultures writings...and likes history. You are no better than the X-tian missionaries. How you seperate a religion from it's history...or it's holy books from the religion and culture is beyind me. But then again you think sarcasm is the way to respond to hitorical information that...
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Re: Famed Atty Johnnie Cochran Dies
"Integrity"? Nah, he was just another slick lawyer. If he had been white, almost nobody would be mourning his passing. As proof, watch what happens when F. Lee The Flea Bailey dies. Despite Cochran's positive accomplishments, his name will indelibly be associated with getting a murderering O.J. off scot-free. Then there's the matter of him having kept a mistress and child - whoops, I mean "second family" - in secret for many years until he was called out on it by the media. Seriously, I...
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Re: john legend
I like him. He's very refreshing and easy on the ears. He played Stevie Wonder on that American Stories show. Another interesting new voice and songwriter- Amos Lee.
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Re: TV's Byron Allen Bids $2.2 billion for Pax TV
I'm not surprised. I am surprised that Byron wasn't bumrushing the studio doors or ringing down the phone line trying to get in on some of that Blonde topless action. The Palm Beach post has a more in-depth article on his business proposition. It looks like he is still trying to get this $2.2 Billion in cash from a bank. The conspiracy theorist in me thinks maybe some ultra-conservative corporation has paid off Byron to release his bogus statement as a way of distracting everyone from what's...
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Re: Black News
Great site!! I scan online news resources pretty regularly, but I never came across the Sharpton article you linked to . That's some crazy talk!! I've GOT to find out more about Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson. I've never seen a Black man so concerned with/upset about Black-on-White crime. The ringing endorsement from FOX just seals the deal though.
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Re: Yet, Another Incident, Los Angeles County Sheriffs Shoot an Unarmed Black Male.......
...and Poverty Pimping Ambulance Chasing no good Reverend Jessie Jackson is going to have a difficult time proving that this is the act of racist Caucasican cops, or that this was in fact a hate crime, because three of the Los Angeles County Shefiffs Officers who fired a portion of the 120 rounds, some of which hit an unarmed Black man, are in fact Black police officers! ****************************** Jackson Seeks FBI Probe of Shooting From a Times Staff Writer May 16, 2005 The Rev. Jesse...
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Re: Smiley's Think Tank
Indeed this is true. Electricians, Plumbers, Machinists, etc., etc., in many instances earn as much money, if not more than those who possess that university degree. ************ County to Pay Woman Shot by Deputies The victim, who was struck 10 times and suffered nerve damage in the possible 'contagious fire' case, will get $200,000. By Jack Leonard Times Staff Writer May 18, 2005 Los Angeles County agreed Tuesday to pay $200,000 to an unarmed woman shot 10 times by sheriff's deputies who...
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Re: Ideal reparations.
Okay, Nmurinate, you want to play, you worthless, spineless, dickless, panty liner-wearing, sniveling, two-faced, talking out of both sides of your mouth, pseudo-intellectual, hard-headed, dim-witted, immature, shiftless, complacent, homosexual tendencies having, novelty store, Zulu warrior ass son of a bitch? Let's play. I tried to be nice and put and end to this worthless conversation but since you want to make this personal, I can do this, much better than your kente cloth diaper wearing...
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Re: Ideal reparations.
"I'm worried and concerned. I've been working hard all my life to promote the cause of integration. Now that integration is beginning to happen...have I led my people to join a sinking ship?" - MLK OKay. HOW?? You FUCKIN' DUMBASS!! Do you know what a STRAW MAN is? I've said nor have I suggested anything of the such: I said nothing about "Whitey" not being involved. I've merely stipulated to us having the foresight/vision to stipulate how "Whitey" should be involved instead of "Whitey"...
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Re: Was Emmit Till Actually Murdered At the End of WWII?
"family members and relatives, thats your only source, well my family members who actually lived in Mississippi quite well remember the murder. But then they are members of my family and not on the medications that obiviously you and your family are hooked on." by Jazzdog "Now it makes sense why the authorities have it in for your family, you all are a bunch of loons. The fact that Uncle Sam would go so far out of his way to hide a murder when the whole time frame of the country at that time...
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Re: Pseudo-Blackness
Hmmmm. By Faheem's judgement you would be "coping out" because "you can't hang with how we do things around here." First of all, what part of a third world country or the Milky Way Galaxy are you from? Secondly, even with your clinical description it doesn't eliminate the fact that billions of people of all races and cultures have always been subjected to racial epithets and always will. If that is the case then the rest of the world is ignorant too and you're the only naively enlightened...
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Re: Ideal REPARATIONS II
DUDE, you linked to a openly WHITE SUPREMACIST site. I linked to a site (referenced one) that happened to agree with REPARATIONS. How much you want to be the site you linked to is against it? Seems like you've defeated another one of your previous arguments about Whites who have been around and helped at major stages of Black progress. I know you don't like yourself very well, but damn beating yourself up in public is cruel and unusual. lol "In response to your embracing the notion of...
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Re: THEY HAVE A VERDICT!!!
"The content of your last post is far too selective and reductive, and does not represent a balanced viewpoint. For this, I have no answer. As Kevin41 has implied, statistically and factually the numbers just don't compute. Take care." by Chilewillow .....but the Democratic Party, through our own elected leadership has been large and in charge since the 60s, yet more Black men and women are in prison than ever, which is not the fault of the Bush Admininistration! ....and the statistics as...
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Re: THEY HAVE A VERDICT!!!
"I was right...you decided to return and showcase your stupidity once again. Kevin is right, Lofton. Give it up man, it only gets worse and you only get more ignorant from here." ....unlikely, more likely though these individuals days are numbered, numbered because they are truly incompetent, treasonous, deceitful beyond belief, and/or un-American. Either way demographic changes, and redistricting will remove this trash from elected office! ************************ Searching for Lessons in...
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Re: Clarence Thomas as Chief Justice
"You posted my question again......I was asking it to you...I do not need to read exactly what I wrote...this is an example of your dysfunctional communication style I was eluding to..." by Kevin41 "I wouldn't be caught dead in any Black church in this country! Before my family have to beg the corrupt Black church to give me a funeral, I'd rather be placed in a garbage bag and dumped in the nearest dumpster." by Sinclere Lee ....meaning that I'm not alone in such an assessment of our...
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Re: Attempt to revive reparations suit dismissed
"Attorneys for the slave descendants say they want to use any damages to create a fund that would be administered under court supervision to help correct problems in the black community." ....more malarkey Yah, right, who are they trying to fool..... .........Other than squander, play games, be deceitful, and treasonous many of these individuals, pertaining to our own Black leaders, attorneys, etc., etc., haven't done much with the resources they have at their disposal.
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Re: A Potential threat to Blacks?
Fraid I'm a bit of a wuss when it comes to schlock/horror. I do like suspence and drama and some sci-fi. My fave sci-fi flick is ExistenZ - Jennifer Jason Lee and Jude Law. Now THAT I would like to see remade with an all black cast. Yeah! Good luck with your projects - it's great you're doing something different.
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Re: Made In China
Fostering Goodwill With Jobs In South Carolina, a Chinese factory wins friends, a trend that is part of that country's efforts to boost its image in the United States. By Evelyn Iritani Times Staff Writer July 31, 2005 CAMDEN, S.C. "” This sleepy town of quaint colonial homes and Revolutionary War battle sites is an unlikely champion for China. It's the oldest inland city in South Carolina, a state devastated by competition from low-cost Chinese textiles. The state's most powerful...
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Re: Are Liberals Really All That Different From Conservatives?
Davey D House Rejects Net Neutrality The First Amendment of the Internet the governing principle of net neutrality, which prevents telecommunications corporations from rigging the web so it is easier to visit sites that pay for preferential treatment took a blow from the House of Representatives Thursday. Bowing to an intense lobbying campaign that spent tens of millions of dollars and held out the promise of hefty campaign contributions for those members who did the bidding of interested...
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Re: Black Music: White Artists
When you gonna add Paul Whiteman, Benny Goodman, Elvis Presley, Pat Boone, Jerry Lee Lewis, the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Hall and Oates, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Eric Clapton, etc.? The list goes on and on and on... "It it weren't for black music, we'd still be dancing to the minuet." -Ray Manzarek, keyboardist with The Doors -------------------------------------------------------------- Rock N Roll Mos Def Album: Black On Both Sides Year: 1999 [Mos Def] Make me wanna HOLLA..
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Re: So the secret is out....
THE 'BLACK HAIR' INTERVIEW WITH ARON RANEN: The white guy who uncovered the Korean domination of the black hair industry July 5, 2006 *Aron Ranen is a gifted filmmaker and professor who has received a litany of accolades for his groundbreaking documentaries, along with a couple of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. Here he talks about his latest opus, Black Hair, an incendiary expose' which is currently generating plenty of conversation in African-American communities all...
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Re: Personality Test
Your Type is ISFJ Introverted Sensing Feeling Judging Strength of the preferences % 56 1 12 33 ISFJ type description by D.Keirsey ISFJ type description by J. Butt and M.M. Heiss Qualitative analysis of your type formula You are: moderately expressed introvert slightly expressed sensing personality slightly expressed feeling personality moderately expressed judging personality The Portrait of the Protector Guardian (iSfJ) RATIONAL ARTISAN IDEALIST GUARDIAN Copyrighted © 1996-2006 Prometheus...
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Re: Castro will die soon, and a new democracy will be born
Cuban-Americans Wonder What Comes Next Tuesday, 01-Aug-2006 9:11AM Story from AP / ADRIAN SAINZ Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press (via ClariNet) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1-AUG-2006: Revelers clog the streets as they cruise Hialeah, Fla., in the early morning hours of Tuesday Aug. 1, 2006, after hearing the news about Fidel Castro's health. Cuban officials announced the head of Cuba had temporarily relinquished presidential power to...
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Re: My Conversation with Mike Dyson (Who Controls Hip Hop)?
Dr. Dyson said that Cathy Hughes was in studio with him today, so I decided to call in again to ask about her. This is what I said. He responded that people don't buy underground artists, so why support them. I did make a point to state that Spike Lee makes movies that focus on the issues he cares about, and is not driven by 'is ths going to sell or not'. He acknowledged this as true, but otherwise ignored that Radio One should do anything similar. I wish I could have had longer to talk,...
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Re: "We Don't Read or Listen"
The answer was already given at the beginning of the article. As far as I am concerned your opinions are always welcome! After reading your comments I decided my opening comments were best served here. The sad thing about this article is that the essence of it is true. The truth hurts. I just hope this sets more Black people in motion towards making real progress. Chris Rock, a Black comedian, even joked that Blacks don't read. For those of you who heard it, this is the article that DJ Dee...
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Re: Is stress getting to our sista politicians?
To go along with that train of through 5 females charged in spree Four women, 15-year-old girl arrested after chase in Swansea By CAROLINE SMITH casmith@thestate.com COURTESY TO THE STATE Keith Etheridge, 22, was found shot to death Friday in his idling car off Two Notch Road. About those arrested Four women and a 15-year-old girl have been linked to a string of violent crimes that includes the shooting death of a man during an attempted robbery last week, authorities said Tuesday. All five...
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Re: Does Jonh Brown = Osama Bin Laden?
CONSTRUCTIVE FEED~: Despite BEING ON THE WRONG THREAD (which may be a tolerable mistake...), you can't even get this shit right!! Like I said: "I'm getting tired of kickin' your ass!" But it's so damn fun!! Also... Southern (Confederate) Pride ... You are PARENTHETICALLY ILLITERATE!!
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Re: The Sin of Confederate Hero Worship
It is high time for the United States to remove statues of Confederate leaders. And for those who say that removing such statues would be an affront to free speech, I would respond, are there any statues of Benedict Arnold in the United States? And would anyone dare erect one? And yet Arnold's treachery against the United States was child's play compared to the damage caused by Davis, Lee, and Jackson. The great men of the Civil War were not the rebels, but those who fought to preserve the...
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Re: The Sin of Confederate Hero Worship
I, too had a problem with this article. It's almost pointless, is certainly thoughtless and in some ways dishonest. I believe that "hero worship" of a system and government that enslaved, murdered and dehumanized millions of people is ignorant, insensitive, and cruel. But the article is pointless because what can be done? And if we could do something about it, would we want to? Is Rabbi Boteach in favor of a law prohibiting the display of these artifacts, of violating the guarantees of the...
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Re: Magic versus Michael
In the 4 years prior to Magic's arrival, the Lakers were a little better than a .500 team... LOS ANGELES LAKERS » 1974-1975 » Head Coach Bill Sharman » Division Finish 5th Place Pacific » Conference Finish 9th Place Western » Overall Record 30-52 (.366) » Home 21-20 » Away 9-32 » Scoring Leader Gail Goodrich (22.6 ppg) » Assists Leader Gail Goodrich (5.8 apg) » Rebounding Leader Happy Hairston (12.80 rpg) PLAYOFFS Did Not Make Playoffs LOS ANGELES LAKERS » 1975-1976 » Team Stats: Regular...
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Re: And These Are Your BLACK REPUBLICANS
Okay RHETORIC MAN... let's see you do that. You will recall on the other thread you granted them Black Republicans a lot of unwarranted/unfounded lee-way by saying "if they can INFLUENCE the Republican Party." You not half as hot & heavy about their track record as you are for [Black] Democrats/Liberals. I mean, if their Mission Statement (so to speak) wasn't enough, the history of modern Black Republicans is extensive enough to say THEY HAVEN'T AND DON'T EVEN TRY (in any substantial...