A Week of Health Care Reform Discussions, Governor Rick Perry, Citizen's Rights, and Racial Tug of War

Week in Review:

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It's been an interesting, yet frustrating week for those of us who were watching the news and following the debates and discussions about health care reform, and then having to shift to discussions about race and police treatment of African American males and discussions about the pent up emotions and tensions that fester between the African American community and the police.

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THE HEALTH CARE MESS, REPUBLICAN OPPOSITION
AND MISUNDERSTANDINGS

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White House Post Discussion

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FRANK DISCUSSIONS ABOUT AFRICAN AMERICAN MALES AND RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE POLICE - CARLOS WATSON AND HAROLD FORD JR. WEIGH IN
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DYLAN RATIGAN WEIGHS IN AND TALKS ABOUT STATISTICS REGARDING UNEQUAL AND ABUSIVE TREATMENT OF AFRICAN AMERICANS BY POLICE AND OTHERS
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REGARDING PROFESSOR GATES:

Gates-Crowley Battle Not About Race, but Rather Citizens' Rights BY Ray Hanania
Posted: July 24, 2009 05:07 PM

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MY COMMENTS: Let's Be Honest About the Gates vs Crowley Matter

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ELIZABETH EDWARDS

MORE ON HEALTH CARE REFORM - JULY 22, 2009

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HEALTH CARE AND REPUBLICANS CLING TO STRATEGY
OF RACISM - JULY 23, 2009 - GUEST MELISSA HARRIS-LACEWELL, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR ON RACHEL'S SHOW

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AFTER THE STORM - JULY 24, 2009

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GOVERNOR RICK PERRY

THE REPUBLICAN PARTY: A PARTY ENGAGED IN TREASONOUS BEHAVIOR OR JUST A PARTY OF "NO IDEAS", RADICALS AND INSTIGATORS?

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The REPUBLICAN PARTY is still the Party of "NO"; the Party of CHENEY; the Party of RUSH; the Party of PALIN; the Party of BACHMANN; the Party of Rick Perry; and now the Party of "TEA", and where it has sunk (where it began with Nixon), the right-wing Party of Racists, radicals and dangerous people.

I could name a lot more "racist" or “demented” right-wing Republicans, but I don't want to spend my entire afternoon on Wikipedia and "Fixed" News (that's right, I said "Fixed"). I was going to name Bill O'Reilly ... but I really don't need him or his goons showing up at my door.

The Republican Party (whose current leadership is almost largely right-wing) was just about buried after the 2008 election.* What was never buried was the racist, hate-filled, conspiracy driven Republican playbook that was documented in Robert Parry’s February 25, 2009 article, “The GOP’s Anti-Obama Propaganda” (which I posted here on March 1, 2009)

Now racist people are in both the Republican and Democratic Party; however, one need only look at the Party membership to see that the Republican Party lacks diversity and inclusion. That kind of representation was ever prominent during the 2008 Republican campaign and convention.

After the election of President Obama, gun and ammunition sales exploded, and “hate-groups” went from 602 in year 2000 to 926 in 2008.**

Though the number of Republican Party members has dwindled, let us not take that group for granted.

Let’s fast forward to the “Tea Parties” and observe the context of those rallies. Very few if any people of color were at the “Tea Parties”.

There were radical, irrational rantings and signs about “socialism” [code for welfare] and President Obama’s citizenship [code for Muslim terrorist].

Since the President fulfilled his campaign promise to lower taxes for 95% of Americans, the Tea Party idea was always extremely suspect; and we need only look at the people pushing these “Tea parties” to see that it comes from the conservative right-wing who always vote Republican.

Further, we saw racist depictions of President Obama (on the Republican side) both before and after the election.

Rick Perry and other "so-called" prominent Texans want to secede from the United States which is absurd; and unlike “Armadillo Joe” who thinks we should let Texas secede; do we really want a bunch of radicals to go unchecked within our own borders? http://broadwaycarl.blogspot.com/2009/04/racism.html

See also article on Sarah Palin's husband , Todd: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26524024/

Maps of the 2008 US presidential election results:
*http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2008/

The Year in Hate: by David Holthouse:
**http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=1027
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http://clevelandssecretclub.blogspot.com/2009/01/other-day-i-sent-email-to-boehner-or.html

http://www.theonion.com/content/infograph/fox_news_racism_intentional

http://www.blackstarnews.com/?c=135&a=4676

http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2009/04/the-rotting-racist-underbelly-of-the-tea-party-protests/

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