Jackson Flexing Mouth Muscle, Yet Again
Once again the Rev. Jackson is in the news, this time he is helping a family file a law suit because police had to use a taser gun when the alleged offender, possibly under the influence of drugs who died during the arrest. I can think of a lot of things the Reverend could battle other than police just doing their jobs. How about crime and escalating gang activity? Why not embrace and rally around those teenagers who were shot gangland style and advocate for finding the killers? How about creating a jobs campaign in the community and help get people off the streets? I know, now that Sharpton has come to town, maybe the Rev.Jackson is flexing his "mouth muscle" because he wants to show who's in power. Jackson is fighting the wrong battle, he needs to take a chill pill.
 Read the rest of this entry ... (340 words left) 2006/11/23Black & White- "Cracker" Comic Chris Rock and Michael RichardsThe blogs are filled with heated debate over the word used the other night by Richards who belted out the word forever caught on tape for the world to hear. I am not making excuses for Richards remarks as I believe they were wrong to have been shouted out in the first place. Recently, I attended a Chris Rock show and two thirds into the show we got up and left. I didn't like the fact that most of his jokes were very "racist" refering to white people as "Crackers" and other hard hitting words and phrases associated to his view of "White America". Read the rest of this entry ... (395 words left)
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