Showing posts with label America. Show all posts
Showing posts with label America. Show all posts

Monday, May 2, 2011

Osama bin Laden on Twitter

May 1, 2011 - Tweeters fingers were at warp speed with news that Osama Bin Laden was dead. Cells phone and texting was primary everywhere - ball games, bars, restaurants, even sitting on the family watching breaking news. It was reported there were more than 4000 tweets per second.

Here are some of the late morning tweets from May 2, 2011 -

RT @brimamassie: Most GOP congratulate the forces and not the commander in chief Obama, when they do they include Bush as the one who lay the ground work.
RT @RES911CUE: US kills Osama bin Laden decade after 9/11 attacks: WASHINGTON     (AP) -- Osama bin Laden, the face of global ... http://apne.ws/kg6tBK
RT @ABitterMN: Now that Bin Laden is dead, the war is over . Right? #stribpol
RT @nytimes: Video: Mark Mazzetti's quick overview of how U.S. intelligence tracked Bin Laden and ultimately killed him. http://nyti.ms/mBkSd0
RT @BuzzEdition: Osama bin Laden shot in the head after he & his guards resisted U.S. http://wapo.st/k00DNy  by @washingtonpost
RT @RES911CUE: Video: Bin Laden death marks end of an era: NBC’s Andrea Mitchell reports on the life and death of the mos... http://on.msnbc.com/j19umc
RT @RES911CUE: Video: Will U.S. jubilation spark rage in the Arab world?: NBC’s Tom Brokaw and David Gregory, along with ... http://on.msnbc.com/jdkFxD
Pls retweet RT @UniBulCstSpprt: U.S. issues travel alert after bin Laden killing http://bit.ly/m8LvVL
RT @RES911CUE: Osama Bin Laden is dead Facebook Page goes viral: Within about two hours of reports first surfacing (and since c... http://bit.ly/mCSqGy 
RT @RES911CUE: Obama tells families of 9/11 victims that 'justice has been done': In direct and emotional terms, President Bara... http://bit.ly/lTUG4d
RT @mayhemstudios: I'm at On The Planet Osama Just Left (worldwide) w/ 2 others http://4sq.com/mw57Hf
RT @MyAgenda: Great morning, whew.. what a night! breaking news trending everywhere - Let's think of this as "beginning of peace" #usguys
RT @RES911CUE: Describing bin Laden's compound: Time's Omar Waraich describes the compound area in Pakistan where Osama bin Lad... http://bit.ly/lAW80N
RT @BuzzEdition: U.S. issues travel alert after Osama bin Laden killing http://bit.ly/mswwnP  via @cnnmoney
RT @Chriscarroll50: RT @idiplomats: Bush: 'America has sent an unmistakable message' http://bit.ly/ixnXzj
RT @davewiner: While the White House was planning the demise of Bin Laden, Republicans were plotting to shut down the US govt.  http://r2.ly/9mim
RT @davewiner: While White House was planning the demise of Bin Laden, Republicans were plotting to shut down the US govt  http://r2.ly/9mim
RT @TheNewsBlotter: Reuters Intl: CIA: al Qaeda will "almost certainly" try to avenge bin Laden http://bit.ly/jN9Xnh  #news


Thursday, April 14, 2011

Glenn Beck's Fox Show Ending - One Drop Rule

Glenn Beck will end his Fox News Channel talk show, which has sunk in the ratings and has suffered from an advertiser boycott. Fans found his conservative ranting entertaining, while Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert described Beck's "crank up the crazy and rip off the knob" moments. He was popular with Tea Party drinkers and gathered thousands of people to the National Mall in Washington last August for a "restoring honor" rally. Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media: The Return of the Nigger Breakers

Glenn Beck killed himself when he said, President Barack Obama had "a deep-seated hatred for white people," last summer. Beck is so stupid he actually thinks that "Advertisers who get weak-kneed because some idiot on a blog site writes to them and says we need to stifle speech, I get a little frustrated by that."  No Glenn Beck you are the idiot! Colorblind: The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity (City Lights Open Media)

President Obama has a "deep-seated hatred for white people!" Really? President Obama would be a very sick man with serious mental illness if that statement where true. For one thing, Obama is not a Black man! Earth shaking breaking news. The President is biracial and has a brown complexion.

Prejudice America has the One-Drop Rule. Historically, the United States designates a Black person as any person with any known African ancestry.  Legally the definition varied from state to state. Thomas Jefferson had slaves who were legally white (less than 25% Black) and legally slaves (50% Black). The  results of the one drop rule was uniting the African American community and preserving an African identity. Some of the most prominent civil rights activists were multiracial, and advocated equality for all.

Enters Barack Hussein Obama II born on August 4, 1961, at Kapiʻolani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital  in Honolulu, Hawaii. His mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, was born in Wichita, Kansas. Dunham was mostly of English descent. Her family traces to Germany and Ireland.  Obama's great-great-great grandfather was born in County Offaly, Republic of Ireland. His father, Barack Obama, Sr., was a Luo from Nyang'oma Kogelo, Nyanza Province, Kenya. So Barack Obama is 50% white, not just 50% Black.

Ann Dunham with her father and children
Deep-seated hatred of white people - that would mean he hated the white woman (his mother) that raised him. That would mean Obama hated his white maternal grandparents, Madelyn and Stanley Armour Dunham,who raised him when he went back to Hawaii. Obama Sr. remarried and returned to Kenya, visiting Barack in Hawaii only once, in 1971. That would make him ten years old. Not a lot of Black African influence! Don't believe the Dunhams lived in a Black neighborhood.

Therefore, if Glenn Beck is correct and President Obama has a "deep-seated hatred for white people" he learned it from his white relatives. Or he was so poorly treated by his white relatives, he developed a "deep-seated hatred for white people." Or even though his relatives were white, they had a deep-seated hatred for white people," and passed the prejudice to the child Obama. So what's the answer Glenn Beck? Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance