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On the Mother Jones website, writer David Corn writes an article about how Sen. John McCain has accepted an endorsement from Columbus, Ohio Reverend Rod Parsley. McCain called Parsley his “spiritual adviser”. Parsley has been known to be anti-islamic.
“In a chapter titled “Islam: The Deception of Allah,” Parsley warns there is a “war between Islam and Christian civilization.” He continues:
I cannot tell you how important it is that we understand the true nature of Islam, that we see it for what it really is. In fact, I will tell you this: I do not believe our country can truly fulfill its divine purpose until we understand our historical conflict with Islam. I know that this statement sounds extreme, but I do not shrink from its implications. The fact is that America was founded, in part, with the intention of seeing this false religion destroyed, and I believe September 11, 2001, was a generational call to arms that we can no longer ignore.”
From Mother Jones March 12, 2008
Writer Corn also noted that in the 2000 election McCain called Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell agents of intolerence but has now taken back the remark.
I’m not sure what got the heads of VH-1 to change their minds but they have finally decided to give a green light to the reality show where a white guy goes in search of his Black Queen.
No, it’s not a show for Tailor Made!
Check out his MySpace page and if you think he might be the man for you send an email to one of the following people along with your photos and videos detailing how you can be the Nubian Queen for this European King.
Email for casting:
jim.ackerman@vh1staff.com
jeff.olde@vh1staff.com
zuri.rice@vh1staff.com
sspence_something_new_ent@yahoo.com
VH-1 nixed the idea last summer because they felt the show wasn’t (rauchy enough) for their audience. It did have to contend with high class acts like Flava of Love and I Love New York.
On Keith Boykin’s new website The Daily Voice it has been reported that Senator Obama has let go of another staffer because of public remarks made against Senator Clinton.
In an email sent out by LGBT Leadership Council staffer Maxim Thorne he accused Clinton of lying and called her a disaster.
In response to her 3am tv commercial he questions, “At 3am, Hillary said she and Bill were in bed and she knows of all the calls a President gets at different times of the day and night. Really? So much involvement - so much togetherness. Where was she when Monica was having sex with Bill?”
He also writes, “35 years of experience? When he was intimidating Katherine Wiley and Paula Jones? Where was the judgment on the cattle futures and white water. Do we forget Mark and Denise Rich? This was an impeached President who lost his licence [sic] to practice law. He committed perjury. They settled with Paula Jones for the full amount of her lawsuit. I haven’t forgotten and none of us should.”
(insert cat growl, claws exposed)
I say we put Obama’s staff and H. Clinton’s staff on American Gladiator and let them go at each other. But props to Obama for dispatching the staffer quickly instead of waiting for people to demand it.
Maybe it’s because I’m not in school anymore but I don’t really pay much attention to months that are dedicated to different groups. Not even Black History Month, which has been reduced to trivia questions and spotlights on current entertainers as opposed to 21st century African American critical thinkers and activists.
Except for Obama… but then… well…
But today is Pi day (I can hear all the math nerds rattling off 3.14159… in their heads) which means we are basically halfway through with March and I don’t recall hearing too much hype about the fact it’s Women’s History Month.
Yep. Women’s History Month. Our month. Our history.
I think we need an anthem. Something that we have to learn the words to but hopefully easier to grasp than the Black National Anthem and especially better than the National Anthem (Oh, say can you see that I don’t know these words).
Here are my selections for a Woman’s Anthem:
But by far this one is my favorite:
If you are a woman with your own suggestions post them below.
So on the Stuff White People Like I agree with a lot of things and I got worried. Did that mean I’m a self-hating negro who aspires to be white?
But then I found Stuff Educated Black People Like and I calmed down. I like all the stuff on there, too, so it shows that it isn’t racial abnegation.
I’m just egregiously classist.
Carry on.
