Robert F. Williams

This is someone your history teacher forgot to tell you about.

THE PHILOSOPHY OF ROBERT F. WILLIAMS PROVIDED THE INTELLECTUAL FOUNDATION FOR AMERICA'S MOST MILITANT ADVOCATES OF RACIAL AND SOCIAL JUSTICE. FROM HIS ACTIONS, SPEECHES, AND WRITINGS EMERGED THE FOUNDATION FOR THE BLACK POWER MOVEMENT.

His most influential years were lived in exile in first Cuba and then China. His communications were suppressed by the CIA and the United States postal service.

Two books to check out: Negroes with Guns – by Robert F. Williams and Radio Free Dixie – by Timothy Tyson

Vote Early. . .Vote Now. . .Make History

Early voting trends are favoring Barack Obama.

How Many Fits Will $150,000 Buy???

The Republican Party spent $150,000 in designer stores for Sarah Palin. Another $5,000 was spent at Atelier, a classy men's boutique, for Todd, commonly known in Alaska as "The First Dude."

Ms. Palin to appears in at least one, and sometimes two or three, new outfits per day. Well you know if your clothes are on hit the hair and face have to match, the Reps also spent nearly $5,000 on hair and makeup for Sarah Palin.

So what catagory do you list the "necesseties" in for reporting purposes? How about "campaign accessories"?

It appears that the former beauty queen contestant has not been photographed in the same outfit twice. Some of the outfits 'white tops with black skirts' should not have been worn at all since they made her look like a coffee shop waitress.

There were reports earlier this month that she had been working with a team of stylists and a voice coach. What did not emerge until today was the scale of Ms. Palins' packaging. This makes women look bad. She is campaigning for God's sake. Not selling a Hollywood picture.

We have jumped all over male candidates, i.e. John Edwards's $400 haircuts and Mr McCain's $500 Ferragamo shoes, for much less.

"The campaign does not comment on strategic decisions regarding how financial resources available to the campaign are spent," said Ms Comella, in a statement to the US political website Politico which first noticed the coyly named entry in the Republicans' accounts.

The Reverse Bradley Effect???

People seem really concerned about the Bradley effect in this years’ presidential election. Well what about those whites who will not admit to voting for a Black man? Monday's Washington Post-ABC tracking poll showed Obama winning 22 percent of conservatives and getting 12 percent support among Republicans.

The so-called Bradley Effect, meaning that whites lie to pollsters about their support for a Black candidate, is cited as the reason Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley lost to George Deukmejian in the 1982 California governor's race despite polls showing him up seven points. I know some of you have had conversations with coworkers or friends that went along the lines of, “Well I can talk to you, but I wouldn’t want anyone else to find out…” Once a person enters the voting booth unconscious motivations and buried prejudices may or may not come out. And since this is where it counts, polls cannot be as accurate as we may hope and believe.

Only time will tell.

Iraq For sale

MOVIE PREVIEW: Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers This 2006 documentary about the ongoing Iraq War and the behavior of companies with no-bid contracts working within Iraq gives detailed information on four major contractors who over-bill the government (and by extension, the American public)and are doing substandard work while endangering the lives of American soldiers as well as private citizens. The documentary contends these companies are composed of ex-military and ex-government workers who unethically help their companies get and keep enormous contracts and milk the American taxpayer. - Free Documentaries

This is information the Bush Administration has tried to cover up. The Republicans have sacrificed American lives for profits. One of the most interesting clips is of Bush taking questions. . .of course he doesn't know the answers and says he will have to make a call. Halliburton fails to provide their employees with safe drinking and bathing water, and charges the United States government $100 per bag of laundry. Employees who do not like the fact that their laundry is returned dirtier then when they sent it and chose to wash their items in the sink are told that they must participate in Halliburton’s laundry service.

Halliburton operates under a no bid, cost plus contract. That means that the contract was just handed to Halliburton and no other company bid on it and that the more they charge our government the more they make. They rented Ford vehicles for $250,000, intentionally ordered wrong equipment, destroyed items that broke instead of having the item repaired, ran empty trucks on envoys and charged the United States government for it all, overcharging in excess of 1billion dollars. Please remember that Dick Chaney was once the CEO of Halliburton and that the Vice Presidents office coordinated their contracts. You can see the full video at
http://www.freedocumentaries.org/theatre.php?filmid=130&id=926&wh=1000x720

Way Too Little Too Late

John McCain was a little more effective and coherent tonight than in the previous two debates. Unfortunately, for him, he spent the evening seemingly very angry. This was not a game changing performance. OBAMA wins again.

"Senator Obama, I am not President Bush. If you wanted to run against President Bush, you should have run four years ago," McCain said. What a ridiculous statement. Obama can easily be forgiven for mistaking McCain's policies for Bush's "because on the core economic issues that matter to the American people ... you have been a vigorous supporter of President Bush." Obama responded.

Are you as sick of Joe the plumber as I am??? Come to find out his name isn't Joe and he isn't even a plumber. He was simply trying to trip Obama up with his ill thought out question.

You've Got To Be Kidding Me

The best rapper alive is. . . Eminem??? Now don't get me wrong. I have a couple of his CD's and I saw 8 Mile. But the best rapper alive??? According to VIBE the winner of their 1st annual Best Rapper Alive tournament is Eminem. Next year more African Americans need to actually vote. I realize urban white kids probably spend much more time playing around on the computer but we gotta vote too.

Donna Brazile

This is an awesome woman. You have seen her all over CNN and the networks this and every election season. She was Al Gore's campaign manager in his 2000 bid for the White House. She is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and a senior lecturer at the University of Maryland. I read her biography back in 2004. Get yourself a copy of Cooking with Grease. This is a woman who isn't afraid to speak her mind.

McCain's Temper

THIS IS NOT SOMEONE THAT WE NEED RUNNING OUR COUNTRY

FREE Mumia Abu Jamal

Check out http://www.mumia.org//freedom.now/
A three-judge panel of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia has shot down all three claims by death row prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal challenging his conviction for the 1981 murder of Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner. This man is a prisoner of war. There are many Black Panthers still in jail.

As part of his defense, Abu-Jamal has argued he was denied a fair trial in 1982 because the prosecution barred 10 qualified African-Americans from sitting on the jury, which in the end consisted of 10 whites and two blacks. This is a crime that another man has confessed to.

Abu-Jamal was serving as the president of the Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists at the time of his arrest. He was a founding member of the Philadelphia Chapter of the Black Panther Party as a teenager. Check out the website for rallys and marches in your area.

Check out http://www.mumia.org//freedom.now/