Posts Tagged ‘race-card’

The difference between “dark ages” and “black ages”?

September 23rd, 2009 | No Comments

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed doesn’t particularly like being a prisoner in Guantanamo.  Call it Gitmo if you wish.  For about eight years, he had tons of supporters that didn’t want him in Gitmo either.  Problem was, once Bush was out of office and Obama said he’d close it down, everyone forgot all about Gitmo.  Once forgotten [...]

Representative Hank Johnson sees racial overtones in the Kanye West slurs

September 15th, 2009 | 5 Comments

Not sure if I got this exactly right.  Let me take another stab at it.  Kanye West, who is black, ripped the microphone from the hands of Taylor Swift, who is white, to assert the fact that Beyonce, who is black, should have won.  Beyonce did indeed win the best video of the year.  Kanye [...]

Mumia is still alive and complaining

March 24th, 2009 | No Comments

In December 2006 I wrote about Mumia Abu-Jamal.  He shot a cop in the back and face in 1981 and killed him.  That part is not in dispute.  Now, in March 2009, it’s still in court.  He has been found guilty a few times.  However, for some reason, his case keeps getting appealed and keeps [...]