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Hector Jackson (C), who impersonates the late US pop star Michael Jackson, gestures while he takes part in the "I do dance Thriller" event which attempts to break the Guinness World Record for the biggest mass "Thriller" dance, in Mexico City, on August 29. Up to 15,000 people are expected to take part in a potentially record breaking mass performance of Michael Jackson's famed "Thriller" dance on the day he would have turned 51.
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A long line of fire marches west towards the communities of Acton and Sunland-Tujanga on August 31 in Los Angeles, California. At least 18 homes were destroyed and 12,000 more homes and 500 commercial buildings are being threatened in the fire which already took two lives. The wildfire, which broke out Wednesday afternoon near a ranger station and the Angeles Crest Highway above La Canada Flintridge, has forced thousands of evacuations.
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Venus Williams of the United States reaches for a shot against Vera Dushevina of Russia during day one of the 2009 U.S. Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on August 31, in Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City.
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A Kenyan Muslim child reads verses from the Quran, Islam's holy book, on the fifth day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in a Madrassa (Religion School), in Nairobi, Kenya, Wednesday, Aug. 26. Muslims throughout the world are celebrating the holy month of Ramadan, where observants fast from dawn till dusk.
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Space Shuttle Discovery lifts off from launch pad 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center on August 28, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Discovery is scheduled for a 13-day mission to the International Space Station.
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Host Vanessa Williams performs with dancer Gilles Marini onstage at the 36th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards at The Orpheum Theatre on August 30, in Los Angeles, California.
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A girl plays with tomato pulp during the annual "Tomatina" tomato fight fiesta in the village of Bunol, near Valencia, Spain, Wednesday, Aug. 26. Bunol's town hall estimated more than 40,000 people, some from as far away as Japan and Australia, took up arms Wednesday with 100 tons of tomatoes in the yearly food fight known as the 'Tomatina' now in its 64th year.
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Tom Wainaina recounts the events that lead to his being burned over most of his upper body August 26 in the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya. Wainaina was burned by a group of men during post-election violence in Kenya's disputed 2007 presidential election. Ethnic-tribal violence left over 1,000 people dead. The non-governmental organization (NGO) Concern, in cooperation with local Kenyan groups, has launched a campaign to provide the urban poor with cash grants to start a business or get back on their feet after suffering disproportionately from post-election violence in 2007. The money is transferred to the recipients via a mobile phone which insures a safe and simple financial transaction to customers who don?t have bank accounts. Wainaina is one of dozens of Kibera residents to receive the assistance of a cash grant. Hairdressers, grocery stores and food vendors are just some of the businesses that have been financed through the program.
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People standing near the grave of Senator Robert F. Kennedy (D-NY) look at the grave of Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) at Arlington National Cemetery August 30, in Arlington, Virginia. Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) was buried yesterday next to his brothers President John F. Kennedy and Senator Robert F. Kennedy (D-NY) after he died of brain cancer on August 25.
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US President Barack Obama takes out his daughters Malia (R) and Sasha (2nd L) and niece Suhaila Ng (L) to shop in the Alleys general store on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, on August 30, 2009.
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By: Barbie on 1/23/2008 5:57PM
I cannot believe African Americans are sooooo easily persuaded by the smear campaign of the Clintons.
1. While there was great economic boom of the 90's, most can be attributed to the great mines of Alan Greenspan (economist), Bill Gates (Microsoft), Steve Jobs (Apple/McIntosh), all the great new dot.coms i.e. Amazon, Ebay, Yahoo, etc. We were in peacetime as well. However what is most important to remember is that Bill Clinton actually signed every piece of budget cut legislation that the Republican party sent up, including those that affected education (don't know why teacher unions are supporting Hillary Clinton), Social Services, etc. Poor people were locked out of the American Dream, those poor people whom many registered and voted for Clinton, whom he forgot once he was drunk with power. No Toni Morrison! Clinton wasn't the closest thing to a Black President, Lyndon Johnson was closer. Under Clinton, he and his Secretary of State Madeline Albright refused (and this is after pressure from the press) to call the terror in Rwanda a genocide. This is significant because if the President calls that kind of killing a genocide (millions were killed), then it pressures the UN Security to act. President Clinton refused even as the body count turned into millions. Keep in mind that while they were denying that a genocide was occuring in Rwanda, the United States government under Clinton was spending lots of money in Bosnia. We sent up our millitary and offered visas to Bosnians. We also joined the U.N. Security in hunting down S. Milosovich (sp). Process that, before you go calling Clinton that best thing that ever happened to people of color.
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By: alonzo snipes on 2/12/2008 4:40PM
I lived in chicago almost all of my life and one thing for certain is that chicago has to be the most racist city in the world.African americans are dying so viciously each and every day,and the poor is getting poorer.Sen.Obama should try and help fix the problems in the state he was elected to help,and the people whom elected him first before trying to save the entire country.Many african americans are leaving illnois to Iowa to work for tyson" meat market because illegal immigrants got the jobs they once had.
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By: alonzo snipes on 2/12/2008 4:39PM
Chicago has to be.... the most dangerous and prejudice city in the world. Most every black person that I know moved from there because they lost there jobs to illegal immigrants or because of the vicious murders which occur there each and everyday. Senator Obama and most eevery politician in chicago has there mind on one thing,rich, richer and the poor,poorer.Name one thing that Obama has done to help those poor living in illinois but help them loose every thing.
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By: I C Lotz on 1/30/2008 1:02PM
I think there is one major endorsement that Senator Obama could really use. And if he somehow got it, I think it would help his campaign immensely.
I wonder who Former Secretary of State General Colin Powell will endorse? He has been a brave man in all the battles he has faced so far. That's how he came to be a General, they don't just give those stars away.
Will he enjoin this battle and aid us in our bid to change America? So that never again will a Secretary of State have to resign, because he was lied to by a president. And consequently, was forced to carry a false message to the world in our name.
Lord knows, that was a low point in our history
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By: Revolutionist2008 on 3/30/2008 12:50PM
First of all anyone who is ashamed of his racial background and is running with the support of "Race Pimps" like the race hater Jessie Jackson and Ole Al who only feed ignorance to profit( from those same people)are not for unity. Second The Clintons are up to there usual crap. If anyone thinks they are so great need to check out this site-(http://www.uhuh.com/clinton/hrc-hits.htm)
If you think that ONLY black people where soooo mistreated for so long you really need to go back and study your history,Your spoon-feed guilt trip bullshit is getting on my last nerve. YOu should look up the history of the term "redneck" and do more research on immigration of that time frame not to mention the very very small amount of people who owned slaves.
To unit the Country for real equality.
1.The civil rights act needs to be abolished and a new EQUAL to All Not racial or gender specific Civil Act needs to be Implemented.
2.ALL-Racially specific Establishments need to be disbanded.
3.Racially Specific Holidays need to be Dishonorable.
4.Race or Gender should be removed from all required documents or recourse’s of any Establishment.
5.Equal Opportunity laws and Government agency's Funding, Resources, and need to be Non-biased,racial or sexually bias, to integration issues and focus more on the persons ability and eligibility qualifications.
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By: SA MCM on 1/14/2008 4:07PM
What a relief when Obama declared his candidacy...tremendous relief akin to the end of religious bigotry when Catholic Kennedy won his election.
How absolutely perfect to have a biracial candidate, especially since he was projecting himself a UNITY candidate?
A life long democrat, and having marched with King as a Roman Catholic Nun I could only feel relief that the dawn was upon a new America. This was reaffirmed by the Iowa vote. America is ready to move ahead!
Gradually creeping in now, most unfortunately, the RACE card again. Obama can nip this in the bud by publically asking all the "Namers" (mainly the media dominated by Rep Corporations/Individuals)to STOP referring to only part of his ancestry. He should tell them it is inapproipriate to identify him as an African American!!! We are electing an AMERICAN to our presidency, not a French American, Japanese American, English American, African American or Polish American, etc.
In summary, he carries the perfect, unifying heritage as an American candidate....we all can identify with him, especially since genetic researchers have shown that histirically, we ALL ARE MULTIRACIAL.
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By: Greg Jones on 1/14/2008 4:28PM
NEWS FLASH !
Hillary Was AGAINST the Civil Rights Act of 1964
While a Republican and "Goldwater Girl"
A March 12, 2007 article written by acclaimed Washington columnist Robert Novak sheds a very revealing light on the true sentiment of Hillary Clinton during the peak of the Civil Rights Movement. Clinton recently was found to have minimized the great and monumental strides taken by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by stating that it was Lyndon B. Johnson, then president, who should receive the credit for the civil rights progress including the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
In an attempt to attract black support Hillary Clinton regularly shares her 'civil rights experience' during every speech given to black audiences. Novak writes of one such speech at Selma's First Baptist Church on the 42nd anniversary of the "bloody Sunday" freedom march there, where Sen. Clinton declared: "As a young woman, I had the great privilege of hearing Dr. King speak in Chicago. The year was 1963. My youth minister from our church took a few of us down on a cold January night to hear [King]. . . . And he called on us, he challenged us that evening to stay awake during the great revolution that the civil rights pioneers were waging on behalf of a more perfect union." But Novak's article states that there's a big problem with her statement.
The fact is, in 1963, not only was Hillary Clinton a republican, but she was also a staunch supporter of republican Senator Barry Goldwater, well known as a segregationist and one of the most vocal senators adamently against the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which is why he lost in his presidential bid to Lyndon B. Johnson. Novak writes "...how then could she be a 'Goldwater Girl' in the next year's presidential election?" He continues, "...she described herself in her memoirs as 'an active Young Republican' and 'a Goldwater girl, right down to my cowgirl outfit.'
Novak adds, "As a politically attuned honor student, she must have known that Goldwater was one of only six Republican senators who joined Southern Democratic segregationists opposing the historic voting rights act of 1964 inspired by King. Hillary headed the Young Republicans at Wellesley College. The incompatibility of those two positions of 40 years ago was noted to me (Novak) by Democratic old-timers who were shocked by Sen. Clinton's temerity in pursuing her presidential candidacy." Novak adds, "What Hillary Clinton said at Selma is significant because it betrays her campaign's panicky reaction to the unexpected rise of Sen. Obama as a serious competitor for the Democratic nomination.
Clinton's plans were transformed by the advent of Obama, an African-American threatening the hard allegiance of black voters forged by Bill Clinton. On one hand, the Clinton campaign has attacked Obama and his supporters. On the other hand, she has sought to solidify her civil rights credentials.
While Clinton was re-inventing her past, her road to the White House is not going as planned. Instead of a steady procession to coronation at the Denver convention, she is involved in a real struggle against credible opponents led by Obama. No wonder she and her handlers were tempted to imply the existence long ago of a young lady in Chicago's suburbs who never really existed."
We greatly appreciate Mr. Novak's findings which bring one main thought to mind. Wake up Black America! DON'T BE FOOLED ! The fact is, despite her falsehoods, Hillary was AGAINST the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that Dr. Martin Luther King died for. As a 'Goldwater Girl' she was actually even against Lyndon B. Johnson, the very person she now gives the credit to for Dr. King getting to the mountaintop. She has worked extremely hard to hide many truths about her past, including ordering that her 92 page college thesis that she wrote at Wellesley College be 'sealed' and unavailable to the public, an order forced upon the college by Bill Clinton while president, although all senior thesis' at Wellesley have been available for public reading for over 100 years, except one....Hillary Rodham Clinton's.
Reports have stated that information in her 'secret thesis' could be the 'Swift Boat' ammo to be used by the Republican Party against her should she become the nominee. (read more about 'secret thesis' at MSNBC)
In addition to re-inventing her past, the most obvious new Billary Clinton strategy is to use 'Token Negroes' like BET Founder Bob Johnson, Tavis Smiley, and Magic Johnson to name a few, to attack and discredit Barack Obama, a tactic which many blacks find additionally offensive, calling these black Clinton cronies 'sell-outs'. Spread the word....share the facts. The Clinton's have been conning the black community for a long time and are NOT what they claim to be. I bet they go home at night, pour some expensive wine, kick their feet up and just laugh like crazy about what big black suckers we are. But now, it's time to prove them wrong !
By: Greg Jones
Visit: http://www.Blacks4Barack.homestead.com/
To Read Novak's original article simply Google ' Hillary, King, Goldwater '. His article is everywhere.
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By: HILTON HARRELL, JR on 1/14/2008 5:49PM
DEMOCRATS: THE PARTY OF JIM CROW.
As we look back in the annals of history to the shock of our amazement we will the discover that the democrat party is responsible for inventing and instituting all the Jim Crow Laws that restricted us african-americans. These laws were designed to restrict and oppress us to develop a mindset of limitation and disfunction. Regardless of the ethnic puppets the media displays before the public, BET is actully owned by caucasion (white) owned company!
I believe as more people become aware of the book, "Breaking the Curse of Willie Lynch: The Science Of Slave Psychology by Alvin Morrow," every American will be shocked how the democrats continue to not only be the party that oppresses the child in the womb but the party that inspired a slave mentality that created economic plantations of dependency for voters. Democrats are practicing the tactics of Willie Lynch point by point to keep Afro-Americans divided and misguided. As an afro-american, I consider myself just American because as Rev E.V. Hill said, "although we all got to America by different boats - we are in the same boat now."
I FOUND 25 REASONS WHY MIKE HUCKABEE WINS THE NOMINATION & THE PRESIDENCY. And YES I am VOTING FOR HIM BECAUSE HE WILL DO AND HAS DONE MORE TO HELP US THAN ANY OTHER CANDIDATE DEMOCRAT, INDEPENDENT, OR REPUBLICAN.
MIKE HUCKABEE has earned the respect of Afro-Americans and Hispanics since he was THE ONLY top ranked one who valued and respected them by attending the latest ethnic sponsored republican forum.
Also, Huckabee, as governor of Arkansas, did more to practically help the people of New Oreans, LA after Katrina than the Democrat governor of Louisiana because Huckabee's state government was so organized.
For MORE Facts check out my blog.
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By: Greg Jones on 1/14/2008 7:31PM
Hi Warriors:
Tomorrow night, MSNBC will air the Live Democratic Debate from Vegas at 9pm which will cover Black/Hispanic issues. You can ask a question of your choice by visiting http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22574335
We have a question that we'd love for 50 people to send in. It is.....
" Please ask Hillary (a former 'Goldwater Girl) how she could have been on the side of Civil Rights in 1963 as she claims in black church speeches, while simultaneously a staunch republican supporter of Sen. Barry Goldwater who was adamently against the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as exposed in a May 12, 2007 Robert Novak column. "
It would be great if she had to answer this question.
Keep Pushing !!!!
Greg J.
www.Blacks4Barack.homestead.com
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By: tory on 1/14/2008 8:25PM
People!People!Let's get free,The time is now and I mean right now.I am tired of people renting space in our minds for free.The reason race matters is because you can always count on a SELL-OUT to try and influence the masses.It is no coincidence that Bob Johnson came out publicly to denounce Obama.This is the old way of trying to divide and conquer us.Bob Johnson is a disgrace,not just to black people but to all people to insinuate that Obama was selling or dealing drugs in the "neighborhood".This is a diversion to keep our minds off the real issues and to make people think,especially white people that Obama is not worth being elected.I have never seen so many direct and indirect negative comments within a period of a weeks time towards a candidate,so what I am saying is that this is pure calculated by the Clintons and is designed to cloud our thoughts on should we vote for Obama.Don't believe the hype and know that Obama has definitely arrived. OBAMA '08
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