Sunday, August 22, 2010
Video: 'Ground Zero Mosque' Developer Sharif El-Gamal Speaks!
About the mosque that's not actually a mosque and not actually being built on Ground Zero. Anti-Muslim bigots: listen closely at the 0:40 second mark to what he's saying!
Related:
Peter Beinart says America has disgraced itself over the Ground Zero mosque controversy. [Daily Beast]
New Poll: 1 in 5 Americans See Obama as 'Muslim.' *Smdh...* - sometimes the US is just an embarrassing place to be. [Voice of America]
Previously on The Kitchen:
President Obama defends plans for Ground Zero mosque.
Labels: Racism, US race relations, War on Terror
Saturday, August 14, 2010
News: President Obama defends plans for Ground Zero mosque
He's right! The anti-Muslim bigotry rearing its ugly head around the US is ridiculous and I say that as someone who lived in NY during the 9/11 attacks and who got woken up every cotdamn morning around 5:30 by the Call-to-prayer at the mosque on the corner of the block I lived on in Bed-Stuy during my last year in Brooklyn!
Read more via The Guardian and MSNBC.
Jon Stewart's Daily Show does a good job ripping apart this lunacy also.
Labels: Racism, Right Wing Nutjobs
Friday, August 13, 2010
Audio: Dr. Laura Schlessinger's N-word Rant on Her Radio Show
Listen to it above. Read more about it HERE.
[via Touré]
Labels: Racism, Right Wing Nutjobs, US race relations
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
More Riots Possible in Montreal Due to Rampant Racial Profiling Says Expert
The above video is a CBC news report from two years ago about the riot that occurred in Montreal after the fatal shooting of an unarmed, 18-year-old Freddy Alberto Villanueva by police. Two years almost to the date later comes this report:
"Some of the most extensive evidence yet suggesting racial profiling by its officers has been produced from within the Montreal Police Service, but the force is disavowing the internal study.
The report suggests that the number of young black men stopped and questioned by police in Montreal’s sensitive neighbourhoods is “much too high” and even amounts to “fishing expeditions.”
This “alarming” increase “touched primarily blacks” such that by 2006 and 2007 between 30 and 40 per cent of young black men in these areas faced police identity checks, compared to 5 to 6 per cent of whites.
Meanwhile, only about 5 per cent of the checks yielded arrests or infractions. “A large proportion of these checks,” study author Michel Charest concludes, “can be judged as arbitrary or malicious.”
Charest doesn’t mince words when it comes to the implications of the findings: another riot is possible if the population feels targeted — “profiled” — by police, and can be sparked by an identity check “that turns bad.”
“The probability of a second riot is not nil,” he warns, questioning whether the proportion of crimes committed by blacks warrants the mass control."
Click HERE to read the full article, "Racial profiling 'alarming' in Montreal" from the Toronto Star.
Labels: F-ck the Police, Its a Canada Thing, Racism
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Shirley Sherrod and the Race Issue Run Amok in the US (Again!)
Apparently the Right Wing Blogosphere went crazy yesterday when an edited version of the above video of USDA Georgia official, Shirley Sherrod addressing a local chapter of the NCAA purportedly showing her to be a 'racist' went viral.
Watch the video though, in particular around the 16:30 mark which is where you can watch the full unedited part of her words that were taken out of context by Andrew Breibart's Big Government blog. Of course, the reality of Sherrod's word was far less sinister (read: the total opposite of what was being alleged). Sadly though, even the NCAA, who hosted the event where this 'scandal' all kicked off in the first place, and allegedly the White House got caught up in the BS.
The Tea Party and wingnuts must have been doing a jig when this bogus-ass story broke and the spotlight was temporarily off their f-ckery though. Amazingly, they are now even attacking the NCAA for having joined in their witch-hunt condemning Sherrod's supposed bigotry. *Smdh...*
More:
USDA reconsiders firing of Ga. official over speech on race. [AJC]
Ousted USDA official: I'm not sure I'd take job back.... [MSNBC]
[video via NAACP]
Labels: Racism, Right Wing Nutjobs, US race relations, WTF
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Music Video: Jasiri X - What if the Tea Party was Black?
I posted a link to this the other day but thought it deserved its own post because it was so well done. Here's the back-story:
"A few months ago, Tim Wise wrote a widely circulated article called, "What if the Tea Party Were Black" which challenged America to take a close look at the hypocrisy of the Right Wing. Now Pittsburgh rapper, Jasiri X is accepting his challenge in true Hip-Hop form.
The Hip Hop artist says that he got the idea when Paradise, a member of the pro-black rap group X-Clan, forwarded him a copy of Wise's article. "I saw the article and I liked the concept," says the rapper. So Jasiri hit the studio with producer, Cynik Lethal while Paradise grabbed his video camera and they went on their mission to defeat the Right Wing propaganda machine."
Follow Jasiri X on twitter
Labels: Jasiri X, Racism, Right Wing Nutjobs, US race relations
Friday, July 16, 2010
Video: Keith Olbermann Looks at the Tea Party's Response to Being Accused of Racism
Read more....
NAACP condemns racism in tea party. [MSNBC]
RNC Chairman, Michael Steele condemns allegations of racism against the Tea Party. [The Hill]
Watch Jasiri X's "What if the Tea Party was Black?" video HERE
Labels: Keith Olbermann, Racism, Right Wing Nutjobs, US race relations, WTF
Friday, July 09, 2010
Oakland Transit Officer Johannes Mehserle Found Guilty of Involuntary Manslaughter in the Oscar Grant Murder Trial
This BART officer might only serve two years for shooting an unarmed and completely restrained Oscar Grant in the back! I guess the LA Times knew but what kind of justice is that, I ask??!!
I'm getting tired of wondering how many times I'm gonna have to read this book? And people wanna know why there's riots?? *Smdh....*
Read more on the trial previously on The Kitchen HERE and also via Color Lines HERE.
Labels: F-ck the Police, Oscar Grant, Racism, US race relations, WTF
Sunday, July 04, 2010
Happy 4th of July from Me and Public Enemy....
I think I post this video practically nearly every July 4th but it never stops being relevant, especially with the recent f-ckery in Arizona.
In a complete dishonoring of PE's sentiment at the top of this song on my part, I'm heading out to CT for the 4th but will try to post a couple things from the DMV artists who are gonna be a part of the Connoisseurs of Culture project, Independent's Day I mentioned the other day.....
Labels: Chuck D, Happy Holidays, Public Enemy, Racism, US race relations
Saturday, June 12, 2010
In Case You Missed it Pt. III: Recent Stuff from Asher Roth
And a new track:
Asher Roth - 'G.R.I.N.D. (Get Ready It's A New Day)' [mp3 audio stream]
If this kid didn't stay saying semi-idiotic, possibly offensive sh-t on twitter and elsewhere, I might be more inclined to give him a pass on his actually sometimes decent music....
[the "Muddy Swim Trunks" video above via TOFlo.com]
Labels: Asher Roth, Racism, US race relations
Wednesday, June 09, 2010
Music Video: Jasiri X - Just A Minstrel
Bamboozled again!
New video directed by Paradise Gray of X-Clan featuring Jasiri X, Isada Tariq and Living Proofe.
One quibble though - Jasiri, is it possible to actually 'dress nekkid'??
So are Gucci, Waka Flocka, Plies, Rick Ross, Wayne, T-Pain and 50 cent et al. modern-day minstrels in your opinion?
Labels: Coon Picnic, Humor, Racism, US race relations
Monday, May 24, 2010
AL Math Teacher Uses Barack Obama's Assassination as Example in Class
This disgrace of a teacher is named Gregory Harrison.
Smh at parent, Mia Hughes at the 1:05 mark in the video who didn't think it was 'any big deal!' Wonder if she was on her way to Tea Party Rally when she was interviewed?
Read more on this absolute f-ckery HERE.
Labels: Education, Racism, Right Wing Nutjobs, US race relations, WTF
Sunday, May 23, 2010
NFB Short Film: The Colour of Beauty
A look at the systemic racism in the modeling and fashion industry as Black Toronto model, Renee Thompson attempts to make her breakthrough. I feel for her but honestly she's seems too smart and too good for that cess pool.
[via 1LoveT.O.]
Labels: Fashion, Racism, US race relations
Monday, May 17, 2010
7 Year-Old Ayana Jones Killed During Detroit Police Raid
Why am I now doing one of these posts every other day?? You know, before I even clicked on any of the news story links, I knew this poor little girl was gonna be black!
Read more:
Police Raid that Killed Child Was "Flawed," Says Lawyer; Filming for TV Got Officers "Excited" - they were filming for an A&E crime show called First 48 and used a grenade to enter the house??!! WTF?? That means there should be footage of the entire f-ckery as it went down, no?? [CBS News]
State to Probe Police Killing of Girl in Detroit. [Wall Street Journal]
I'm sick to my stomach, seriously.....
Labels: F-ck the Police, Racism, US race relations
Sunday, May 09, 2010
Video: 'Los Suns' Take Stand on Arizona's New Immigration Law
Respect to Steve Nash and the Phoenix Suns! They should be exempt from the growing #BoycottArizona movement.
Suns’ stand on immigration law commendable. [Montreal Gazette]
Related:
Businesses in Arizona Under Fire for New Immigration Law. [AdAge.com]
Labels: NBA, Politics, Racism, Sports, Steve Nash, US race relations
Black Unemployment in the U.S.: So Bad the UN is Investigating
The jobs picture might be getting better, but not for Black folks! Read the story HERE.
Related:
Why a 16.5% Black unemployment rate is not news! [The Root]
[via Joey]
Is this Americans for Job Security TV Spot Racist?
More:
"Union says the 'Thank you, Bill Halter' Ads chiding Ark. Senate candidate for outsourcing jobs to India are ‘horribly racist.’"
Labels: Economy, GOP fearmongering, Racism, Right Wing Nutjobs
Sunday, May 02, 2010
Fox News Video: Arizona Immigration Outcry Has Congress' Ear
Fox news' Neil Cavuto interviews Rep. Xavier Becerra on the need for 'sensible' immigration reform. I'm cosigning Becerra 200% on this...
Related:
Shirin Sadeghi says, Hey Arizona: What About the Chinese and the Russians? [HuffPost]
Frank Rich Op-Ed: If Only Arizona Were the Real Problem. [NY Times]
Anger Over Ariz. Immigration Law Drives US Rallies. [ABC News]
GOP worried that new Arizona immigration law could hurt party. [Politico]
Labels: Racism, Right Wing Nutjobs, US race relations
White Thief Disguises Himself As a Black Man To Rob 6 Banks
No words....
Read more via the New York Daily News.
Labels: Coon Picnic, Racism, US race relations, WTF
CNN Video: Detroit Wants to Demolish One Third of the City's Houses
"This is what happens to a city when OTC Derivatives become more profitable to manufacture than automobiles.
Detroit Mayor Dave Bing this month began his ambitious plan to demolish 3,000 abandoned houses this year and as many as 10,000 during his four-year term using Federal Money.
While the first round of planned demolitions spares the remaining houses on Detroit's infamous "ghost street," there appears to be a clear method to the controlled mayhem.
The Detroit Free Press reports today that the first 1,000 houses targeted for demolition were selected not because of their condition, but because they stand in high-crime areas."
Rev. Horace Sheffield III: “It’s almost like a form of ethnic cleansing… I call it poor cleansing!”
This is unbelievable!
[via Steady Bloggin']
