I Forgot Obama Was Black
“I Forgot Obama Was Black” – Chris Matthews
Why are we Prejudice? A Google search, finds that racial prejudice is a social disease, rearing its ugly head in fear, intolerance & hatred, underlying cause, ignorance.
(Possible Enlightenment)
Long ago humans evolved in different parts of the world, once the giant leap was made from primitive brain to a critical thinking one. Some say animal to human brain. If that were the case and it happened in a moment’s time… Some human-like creature probably shouted “HEY, IT JUST HIT ME, I AIN’T AN ANIMAL NO MORE!” Today, some of us won’t accept that we are part of the animal kingdom,
BUT WE ARE!
(Unless we evolve into veggies, good possibility for some.)
Back to my point, since human evolution occurred in different places on our Earth, climate was the main factor on appearance. Cold climates beget light skin (sun far away – less pigment melanin). Hot climates, you get the point. It’s a simplification of people’s differences, but since I started thinking this way, I see people’s outer diversity, in terms of places their heritage evolved. Really helps with the “Intolerance Thing”. Now, if I could only find a way to be tolerant towards… THOSE HUMANS WHO REFUSE TO THINK? thinkingblue
JON STEWART WEIGHS IN ON “I forgot Obama was black”
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Matthews’ remark exposes complexity of ‘transcending race’
AP – Hardball host ‘forgets’ Obama is black
Mixed reaction to Obama’s speech Reuters AP – by JESSE WASHINGTON, Thu Jan 28, 5:09 pm ET
Five little words — “I forgot he was black” — have exposed a contradiction in
the idea of a post-racial nation.
The comment came from MSNBC host Chris Matthews after President
Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech Wednesday.
“He is post-racial, by all appearances,” the liberal
host said on the air. “I forgot he was black tonight for an
hour. You know, he’s gone a long way to become a leader of this
country, and past so much history, in just a year or two. I mean,
it’s something we don’t even think about.”
The staunch Obama supporter meant it as praise, but it caused a
rapid furor, with many calling the quote a troubling sign that
blackness is viewed — perhaps unconsciously — as a
handicap that still needs to be overcome.
Apparently, Matthews forgot to ask black people if they WANT to be de-raced.
“As a black American I want people to remember who I am and
where I come from without attaching assumptions about deficiency
to it,” said Dr. Imani Perry, a professor at Princeton’s
Center for African American Studies.
Although she thought Matthews was well-intentioned, she found his
statement troubling, because “it suggests that if he had
remembered Obama’s blackness, that awareness would be a barrier
to seeing him as a competent or able leader.”
“The ideal is to be able to see and acknowledge everything
that person is, including the history that he or she comes from,
as well as his or her competencies and qualities, and respect all
of those things,” Perry said.
That’s a very different vision of “transcending race”
— a consistent theme of Obama’s political history —
than one in which race has disappeared altogether.
“It’s important for us to remember that everyone has a
race,” Blair L.M. Kelley, an associate professor of history
at North Carolina State University. “When you say we’re
going to transcend race, are white people called on to transcend their whiteness?”
Corporation To Make A Run For Congress
When I saw this, Murray Hill Inc. Becomes The First Corporate Person To Run For Congress.
I thought… IT’S GOTTA BE A JOKE. Guess what? NO JOKE! (or is it 
)
Thom Hartmann Interviews Eric Hensal
WHADDAYATHINK? I hope it’s not a joke… I would certainly like to see how our laws will handle this one. Below is the first campaign ad from a corporation-personhood who is trying to become a congressional representative for the state of Maryland in the good old UNITED CORPORATIONS OF AMERICA. Thanks again Supremos… like WE THE PEOPLE didn’t have enough against us!
PS: I wonder how you would address a US Representative that is a corporation.
The Honorable Dunkin’ Donuts or maybe The Honorable Bed Bath & Beyond or … Here’s a vision of future congressional sessions:
“Will the Republican Congressmen Bed Bath & Beyond, Dunkin’ Donuts, Domino’s Pizza and Absolut Vodka please cast your votes on HR-F.U.C.K.T.H.E.P.E.O.P.L.E. as soon as possible. We need to go on to more important business!” thinkingblue
NEVER GIVE A SUCKER AN EVEN BREAK
Credit-Card Issuers Find Creative Ways to Skirt New Law
We, the masses of this United Corporations of America, will never get a break from the Credit Card Industry… Even with the credit-card rules going into effect, February 22, 2010, this industry is busy (the greedy little dears) finding more (LEGAL) ways to fleece the hell out of us. It’s never going to end there’s just too much money to be made off us saps. So the next time you swipe your coveted plastic card through a retailer’s credit card machine, to buy some piece of crap imported from China, listen to that awful sucking sound… IT’S MUSIC TO THE CREDIT CARD INDUSTRY’S EARS!
THE END
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Credit-Card Issuers Find Creative Ways to Skirt New Law
Between now and Feb. 22 when the new credit-card rules go into effect, you’ll see a lot of excited media types talking about all of the good to come out of those regulations, but as a consumer you should worry about what’s still on the menu. The card issuers have been cooking up all kinds of new things that their bottom line will find appetizing,
he Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure Act, known as the CARD Act, aims to help consumers deal with card issuers’ more troubling policies, but by the time this reform is fully in place, the industry will have moved on to new ways to skin the customer, ways that have become evident over the last few months as the first provisions of the law came into play and financial-services businesses scrambled to squeeze through loopholes.
“The provisions of the CARD act were excellent and they addressed key problems but because card issuers are in the business to make money, you had to think they would find other ways to make up for the revenue they were losing because of the law,” said Bill Hardekopf of LowCards.com. “Now they are instituting a number of other practices — perfectly legal even after the new law — to make up for lost revenue, and consumers now have some new things to worry about.”
The new law was designed to defeat several bad practices. For example, starting in February, due dates for monthly payments must be the same each month. Any payment amount beyond the minimum must be applied to the highest-rate debt on the account. Rate hikes on existing balances on fixed-rate cards are prohibited under most conditions. Card issuers can’t charge additional fees when consumers pay by mail, electronic transfer, online or phone unless the customer requests an expedited payment to avoid a late fee. Other practices, like “double-cycle billing” — where the issuer adds finance charges for previous billing cycles to an account that was paid off because there was an average daily balance until the debt was paid — are off the menu too.
Out With the Bad, in With the Worse
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Representative Alan Grayson in his quest to overturn the recent Supreme Court’s sellout to Corporate America. The ramifications of this ruling will destroy our democracy. We should not be silent even if it seems hopeless. The GOP appears to be bent on destroying our country for reasons that aren’t quite clear and do not make sense. I know their interests are completely devoted to Big Business but they need “we the people” to keep commerce flourishing. So, Common Sense dictates that there’s “Something rotten in the state of Denmark”. Our lives are ruled by decisions others at the top make, Bad Decisions. They harm us in ways that are not always readily
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The United States of Corporate
America: From democracy to plutocracy
Supreme Court Sanctioned Murder Of
Democracy!
Keith Olbermann Special Comment pt.1
Supreme Court Sanctioned Murder
Of Democracy!
Keith Olbermann Special Comment pt.2
Let’s keep our heads, while we continue to
watch THE
THEATER OF THE ABSURD!!! thinkingblue
Grrrrrr, The Bullshitsaflying – HERE WE GO AGAIN
I received this forward from a friend with this question:
THINKINGBLUE, Please check this out, and let me know what your opinion is, My son sent this to me, do you think this is true? A friend
FORWARD BELOW:
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GRRRRRRRRRR……!
I’m MAD AND YOU WILL BE TOO!
Your U.S. House & Senate have voted themselves $4,700 and $5,300 raises.
1.They voted to not give you a S.S. cost of living raise in 2010 and 2011.
2. Your Medicaid premiums will go up $285.60 for the 2-years and you will not get the 3% COLA: $660/yr. Your total 2-yr loss and cost is -$1,600 or -$3,200 for HUSBAND AND WIFE.
3. Over 2-yrsThe House & Senate each get $10,000 raises
4. Do you feel SCREWED?
5. WILL your cost of drugs – doctor fees – local taxes – food, etc., increase? You better believe they will!
WILL THEIRS…NO WAY . They have a raise and better benefits. Why care about you? You never did anything about it in the past.
You’re obviously too stupid or don’t care
No offense; just making a point!
Do you really think that Nancy, Harry, Chris, Charlie, Barnie, et al, care about you?
SEND THE MESSAGE– You’re FIRED
IN 2010 YOU WILL HAVE A CHANCE TO GET RID OF THE SITTING CONGRESS AND
Up to 1/3 OF THE SENATE, AND 100% OF THE HOUSE .
MAKE SURE YOU’RE STILL MAD IN NOVEMBER 2010 AND TELL THEIR REPLACEMENTS NOT TO SCREW UP.
It is ok to forward this to your sphere of influence if you are finally tired of the abuse.
Maybe it’s time for the…….. Amendment 28(CLICK HERE FOR THE TRUTH – thinkingblue)
“Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators or Representatives, and Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators or Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States .”
Let’s get this passed around, folks – these people in Washington have brought this upon themselves!!! It’s time for retribution. Let’s take back America .
If you don’t forward this to all your friends you’re just part of the problem of national apathy.
IT’S TIME!!!!!!!
JUST DO IT!
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Here is what I wrote back:
OMG FRIEND, I can’t believe your son sent this to you… HE MUST BE EITHER NOT VERY WELL INFORMED OR A REPUBLICAN… This propaganda comes out every election time… IT MAKES ME SICK!
First of all, who are they telling you to vote out? DEMOCRATS THAT’S WHO…! Like it was the Dems that got us into this pile of SHIT in the first place… AND THEN THEY GOT THE BALLS TO TELL YOU TO VOTE THE REPUBLICANS BACK INTO THE MAJORITY… Look at the crap we are still getting from a republican majority… CORPORATIONS ARE NOW DEEMED PEOPLE ACCORDING TO THE REPUBLICAN SUPREME COURT JUDGES, THE ONES BUSH APPOINTED TO THE COURT… The last couple of days I was busy blogging about this DISGUSTING NEWS FROM THE SUPREMOS…
http://www.thethinkingblue.com/unitedcorporations.html
Please don’t let these shysters pull the wool over your eyes as they have done to so many (particularly, LOW INFORMATIONAL TYPE PEOPLE) … Their propaganda stinks and anyone with some common sense should see right through it… We live in a land of dopey people and it’s a CRYING shame, especially in these days of technology where anyone can do a google search if they can spend a little cash on a used computer (or take an old fashion walk to the library).
Below I researched it and found some information from this site:
http://www.factcheck.org/2010/01/retribution-fabrication/
which states it is…
TOTALLY FABRICATED!
Please send the link, back to your son so he can OPEN HIS EYES TO THE LYING BULLSHIT THE REPUBLICANS THROW OUR WAY!!!
Your Friend thinkingblue
PS: In all the days of computing I HAVE YET, TO GET ONE PIECE OF PROPAGANDA (BS) FORWARD, FROM DEMOCRATS…….. Hmmmmm, I wonder why that is? Could it be because the GRAND OLD PARTIERS are the meanest most hateful lot this side of HOGWASH MOUNTAIN! THEY HAVE NO SHAME! WINNING AND WINNING IS ALL THEY CARE ABOUT! NO MATTER WHO GETS HURT!
JUST DO IT… JOIN ALAN GRAYSON TO FIGHT THIS ABSURD RULING AND SAVE DEMOCRACY
Now Watch Thom Hartmann try to make a Libertarian THINK
Strategic Defauts – It’s Time To Just Walk Away.
Strategic Defaults and the Foreclosure Crisis
Nearly a year after the Obama administration unveiled its ambitious housing rescue program, foreclosure tallies continue to break records. Foreclosure filings were reported on more than 2.8 million properties in 2009, up 21 percent from the previous year and 120 percent from 2007, according to RealtyTrac. MORE HERE
Very interesting, The Financial Experts agree that people should walk away from the burden of paying a mortgage on a house that’s not worth the dirt it was built upon. I’m glad to hear murmurings from the “EXPERTS” like… HEY GUYS, IT’S OK TO DEFAULT. IT’S OK TO GO BANKRUPT. IT’S OK TO ASK FOR HELP. For too long, social safety-nets were only respectable for Corporations. For the rest of us this need was touted as shameful. The GOP and BLUEDOGS, since Reagan, have been quite vocal in suggesting that not having enough income to make ends meet is, FAILURE. Of course, not enough income (or Capital) for a business was excused as something outside a corporation’s own doing, in other words NOT THEIR FAULT. Welfare reform won approval and was passed by a Republican in Democrat’s clothing. The upshot from this little humdinger made it almost a crime to ask for help, unless of course, you were, YOU GUESSED IT, A CORPORATION. Since SCOTUS deemed corporations, people… they should be subject to the same SHAME as the rest of us “PEOPLE” who have succumbed to hard times. thinkingblue]
PS: TALK ABOUT A HUMDINGER GET A LOAD OF THIS: SCOTUS Overturns Ban on Corporate Political Expenditures Now China et al can have a say in… WHO THE HELL WILL BE OUR LEADERS HERE IN THE GOOD OLE USA. HUH?
More Teens – Homeless and Invisible
U.S.: When No One’s Looking – nytimes.com/
http://video.nytimes.com/video/2009/10/25/us/1247465360380/when-no-ones-looking.html?emc=eta1
This is so sad… Teens trying to survive on the streets… Too many low-income people are invisible… The ole USA has become (FOR SOME LENGTH OF TIME!) a BANANA REPUBLIC…
Features of a banana republic – collusion between the overweening state and certain favored monopolistic concerns, whereby the profits can be privatized and the DEBTS SOCIALIZED. Devalued paper currency in the international community. Kleptocracy (a government or state in which those in power exploit national resources and steal; rule by a thief or thieves.) – those in positions of influence use their time in office to maximize their own gains, always ensuring that any shortfall is made up by those unfortunates whose daily life involves earning money rather than making it. There must be no principle of accountability within the government so that the political corruption by which the banana republic operates is left unchecked. The members of the national legislature will be (a) largely for sale and (b) consulted only for ceremonial and rubber-stamp purposes some time after all the truly important decisions have already been made elsewhere….a money class fleeces the banking system while the very trunk of the national tree is permitted to rot and crash… MORE HERE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_republic
SOUND FAMILIAR? YOU BET YOUR LIFE IT DOES!!! WELCOME TO THE GOP! thinkingblue
What Earthquakes Can Dredge Up
What Earthquakes Can Dredge Up
THE HAITI EARTHQUAKE OF JANUARY 12, 2010
Something horrific has happened to the people who live in Haiti.
It’s not just the suffering which is so horrendous no one could
accurately report it, that I wish to mention. It’s also about
those who are so desensitized they can explain such agony away as some sort of “punishment from God” or sort of, kind of,
befitting a low life group of beings. There are too many
sociopaths breathing into our airwaves and everyone should take
note of their extreme psychopathic cruelty and not under any
circumstance, tolerate it. I’m talking to YOU, Pat Robertson and
Rush Limbaugh!
thinkingblue on youtube
A BRIEF HISTORY OF HAITI
THIS NEXT VIDEO IS UNBELIEVABLE.
I cannot understand why anyone listens, views or gives money to A
Hateful Screwball like Pat Robertson. thinkingblue
Bill O’Reilly takes it even further to the whacko right; claiming the Haitian people, lazy and need a Nanny to take care of them. This conservative bullshit appears to never get old to the worshippers of hate. Fox Noise Lovers, keep on watching and you will have
mush for brains sooner or later. Oops, too late the DITTO DOUGH BRAINS are too far gone, and that my friends is sad! Watch Below:
BELOW IS RAW FOOTAGE OF THE DEVASTATION AND SUFFERING THE PEOPLE OF HAITI ARE EXPERIENCING. THE VERY PEOPLE, O’REILLY AND ROBERTSON REFER TO AS UNIMPORTANT AND DESERVING THEIR FATE. I hate to wish adversity on anyone, but if there was justice on Earth the two of them and their ilk would encounter an equal apocalypse.
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Thank Goodness, Keith Olbermann has stepped in with a
VOICE OF REASON!
I just gave $20 to the Haiti Relief Fund through this website: http://www.imcworldwide.org/Page.aspx?pid=183
I found it on the Thom Hartmann site: http://www.thomhartmann.com/2010/01/13/haiti-earthquake-relief-how-you-can-help/
You can give as little as $5 to help the unfortunate people of
Haiti. I hope all the… Banksters are digging deep into their
bonuses to help. Haiti’s people have suffered for so long and
there is never a light at the end of the tunnel for them. It
seems only disaster, devastation and greed visits this small
island. It is beyond gloom and very sad. thinkingblue
Haiti’s Hardest Hit Areas
RPT-UPDATE 3-US airlines suspend Haiti travel, start aid efforts
* Airlines unsure when commercial service will resume
If you can, Please Give As Much As You Are Able, to help lessen some of the suffering in Haiti. thinkingblue
Let’s keep our heads, while we continue to
watch THE
THEATER OF THE ABSURD!!! thinkingblue
Avatar Racist! Claim Conservatives!
“AVATAR”
Does it matter that many conservatives are riled by what they call liberal environmental and anti-military messages?
Some see racist theme in alien adventure ‘Avatar’ (AP)
- Near the end of the hit film “Avatar,” the villain snarls at the hero, “How does it feel to betray your own race?” Both men are white — although the hero is inhabiting a blue-skinned, 9-foot-tall, long-tailed alien.
Strange as it may seem for a film that pits greedy, immoral humans against noble denizens of a faraway moon, “Avatar” is being criticized by a small but vocal group of people who allege it contains racist themes — the white hero once again saving the primitive natives.
Since the film opened to widespread critical acclaim three weeks ago, hundreds of blog posts, newspaper articles, tweets and YouTube videos have said things such as the film is “a fantasy about race told from the point of view of white people” and that it reinforces “the white Messiah fable.”
The film’s writer and director, James Cameron, says the real theme is about respecting others’ differences. MORE HERE
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Avatar Racist! Claim Conservatives!
So what’s new? Whenever there’s anything that comes to light exposing the evils of greed and the exaltation of Nature, out come the Conservative Gormandizers to stamp it out. It’s as though they can only view life as a mercenary deal and Nature a commodity.
“Avatar” was one of those rare movies laying message that maybe there is a better way to live life. The theme, to me anyhow, was to feel all life as one, interconnected and only as strong as its weakest point. If we could think all life adjoined it would make our Earth experience so superior.
But unfortunately “Avatar” is fantasy. Our living planet is violent and the food chain quite harsh with most life forms enslaved by instincts. Humans could lift themselves from the instinct to kill (mainly for profit) but HOLY CONSERVATIVE, BATMAN, there’s no lucre in that. So a bitter road we travel. But once in awhile an entertainment piece comes out that lifts us from this burdensome quandary, momentarily. AND THE GREEDY BASTARDS STOMP TO PUT IT DOWN! thinkingblue
What A Job, 45 Minutes Of Bulling, Nets $900
10 Ways Debt Collectors Break The Law
Please read this article:
Buffalo’s debt collectors accused of bullying
Debt Collectors are sub-human, they have no empathy and they will resort to the nastiest strong-arm tactics to get blood from a stone. When people fall into financial peril through no fault of their own… A loss of a job, an illness, or just a plain hitting the wall after using credit to pay for basic needs… These vultures are waiting for the last financially healthy breath from their prey. They don’t even care if they’ve cornered the right person… They’re geared to strike at anyone… They are bullies and have bullied most of their lives; they enjoy it, it’s a rush, a high. But for the naive it’s unnerving and humiliating. They’ve been conditioned to believe that if they play by the rules… THE RULES will protect them. There was a time when this was true but since the “Party of No” have ruled, all of us have become $$ signs and nothing else. Check out this site for tips, know your rights: http://www.privacyrights.org/fs/fs27-debtcoll.htm It could happen to you, best be prepared. thinkingblue.blogspot.com
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The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (aka FDCPA), 15 U.S.C. § 1692 et seq., is a United States statute added in 1978 as Title VIII of the Consumer Credit Protection Act. Its purposes are to eliminate abusive practices in the collection of consumer debts, to promote fair debt collection and to provide consumers with an avenue for disputing and obtaining validation of debt information in order to ensure the information’s accuracy. The Act creates guidelines under which debt collectors may conduct business, defines rights of consumers involved with debt collectors, and prescribes penalties and remedies for violations of the Act. It is sometimes used in conjunction with the Fair Credit Reporting Act. MORE HERE
Let’s keep our heads, while we continue to watch THE
THEATER OF THE ABSURD!!! thinkingblue
