Oprah: Racists Have to Die for Racism to End

Oprah Winfrey, one of the wealthiest people in the world, is throwing the race card again.
During an interview with the BBC Friday, she not only said that President Obama is treated with disrespect because he’s black, but also that entire generations of racists are going to have to die for racism to end (video follows with transcript and commentary):

WILL GOMPERTZ, BBC: The issue of the civil rights movement, and the way that black people around the world are treated, particularly I suppose in, around the world…
OPRAH WINFREY: Around the world.
GOMPERTZ: Around the world. Look at place like Russia, it’s, you know…
WINFREY: Around the world.
GOMPERTZ: So is this, is this, I suppose from a movie point of view, what the movie and the messages hold and the other movies we were discussing, and “Scottsboro Boys,” are these historical comments or are we still looking at a contemporary issue?
WINFREY: Good question. Well phrased. Good job. It would be foolish to not recognize that we have evolved in that we’re not still facing the same kind of terrorism against black people en masse as was displayed with the Scottsboro boys. It’s gotten better. Are there still places where people are terrorized because of the color of their skin, because of the color of their black skin? Yes. But there are laws that have allowed us to progress beyond what we saw in the Scottsboro boys and beyond the even the prejudice we see in “The Butler.”

Notice that Winfrey added "color of their black skin." Why not just leave it as "color of their skin?"
Why do folks such as her only see racism through the prism of how blacks are treated? By looking at the problem so narrowly, doesn't it make matters worse?
We are by far the most diverse nation in the world containing more ethnic and religious groups than any other on the planet.
Likely each of them has at times rightly or wrongly felt mistreated for the color of their skin or their religious beliefs.
When we as a nation look at this problem more honestly and not just as it pertains to one group, racism will have a chance of being solved.
Unfortunately, Winfrey has another solution:

GOMPERTZ: Are you saying problem solved?
WINFREY: I’m saying problem not solved. I’m saying that, you know, that’s the beauty of a film like “The Butler,” and it’s the beauty of a film like “12 Years a Slave,” and it’s the beauty of what we’re seeing on stage with “Scottsboro Boys” is that it allows people to see where the root of the problem started. It allows people to see, “Oh, that’s where it all started, this is how far we’ve come, and now this is how much farther we need to go.” Of course problem is not solved. You know, as long as people can be judged by the color of their skin, problem’s not solved. As long as there are people who still, there’s a whole generation – I say this, you know, I said this, you know, for apartheid South Africa, I said this for my own, you know, community in the south - there are still generations of people, older people, who were born and bred and marinated in it, in that prejudice and racism, and they just have to die.

So in Winfrey's view, it's older white people that are the problem, and once they die, racism ends.
Yet three months ago, she said of the George Zimmerman verdict, "It's ridiculous to look at that case and not to think that race was involved."
Zimmerman's only 30 years old and is Hispanic.
It is patently absurd to suggest that racism is caused by old white people when racism and religious bigotry cut across all generations and ethnicities.
But folks such as Winfrey don't want to look at it that way, for they have a different agenda:

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GOMPERTZ: Do you think, has it ever crossed your mind that some of the treatment of Obama and the challenges he’s faced and some of the reporting he’s received is because he’s an African-American, and if he wasn’t an African-American, if he was a white guy, those wouldn’t have happened, he wouldn’t have been treated in quite the same way, he wouldn’t have to deal with quite the same confrontations?

Some question, huh? You'd think Obama was the first president to ever have challenges and confrontations. Was Gompertz on another planet when George W. Bush was regularly being attacked by his opponents?
With the race card nicely placed on the tee, Winfrey predictably hit it a long way:

WINFREY: Has it ever crossed my mind? It’s crossed my mind probably as many times as it’s crossed your mind. Probably it’s crossed my mind more times than it’s crossed your mind. Just the level of disrespect. When the Senator yelled out, “You’re a liar.” Remember that? Yeah, I think that there is a level of disrespect for the office that occurs, and that occurs in some cases and maybe even many cases because he’s African-American.

What Winfrey conveniently ignores is that she endorsed and campaigned for Obama BECAUSE he was an African-American. He wouldn't have gotten her support or been elected if he wasn't.
More importantly, if he was just some white guy from Chicago that nobody had ever heard of, he never would have beaten Hillary Clinton in 2008.
How sad that she forgets that.
But that's not the saddest part about folks like Winfrey throwing the race card this way.
What's sadder is that as an African-American woman that has attained a level of success and notoriety greater than 99.99 percent of the people that have or ever will walk on this planet, she could be a positive role model concerning racism rather than helping to fuel it.
Why doesn't someone of Winfrey's obvious intellectual prowess understand that?
Imagine how much better it would have been for all Americans including blacks if she answered Gompertz's racially charged question this way:

Is some of the treatment of Obama because he's an African-American? Maybe some. But I think that's exaggerated. The President of the United States is the most powerful person on the planet receiving greater scrutiny than any other. As a result, he's challenged by people on both sides of the aisle, and that's a good thing because it acts to prevent him or her from becoming too powerful.

Unlike other nations, our President is not a king or dictator, and although many claim the treatment of Obama is harsher because he's black, I would say that for the most part, he isn't being treated any differently than George W. Bush before him or Bill Clinton before him. In fact, I would make the case that because he's black, he's been treated far better by most of the media than any President in my lifetime.

So let's not be so quick to throw the race card all because Obama has his critics. That comes with the territory, and if you don't have big enough shoulders to take the hits, you should have never campaigned for the job.

Imagine the headlines and the positive example Winfrey could have set by telling people the truth.
Is that just too difficult for her? Doesn't she know that every time she dishonestly throws the race card, she's undermining a solution?
Oh. That's right. Her solution is that generations of racists have to die to solve the problem.
Unfortunately, with folks like her out there fanning the fires of discontent, they're inculcating new generations with racist thoughts thereby making it necessary for A LOT of generations to die off before this problem ever gets solved.
How truly unfortunate for our nation.

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2013/11/15/oprah-racists-have-die-racism-end#ixzz2krt4wrST

Imprisoned Golden Dawn leader Nikos Michaloliakos: “Even behind the prison walls I am free!”

GOLDEN DAWN NEW YORK EXCLUSIVE TRANSLATION:


The Greek newspaper “Acropolis”, now hosts the letter of our General Secretary, Nikolaos Michaloliakos to the persecutors of Golden Dawn.
“This document is addressed to all those both inside and outside of Greece, who wanted us currently in jail, naively if not stupidly believing, that this will bend the Nationalist Movement, or that it will stop the Golden Dawn, or will cause the other persecuted comrades and myself to give up fighting for the flag of our race!
To all who believe that a cabal with the mud slinging media channels of “pimps” will drive the healthy parts of our society to forsake us.
Already, just more than a month after the miserable ” theatrical show” with all those handcuffs and vultures of disinformation, bosses of the mainstream media won’t dare to publish a single poll. They believed that this dark conspiracy, which proves more and more with every day that goes by to be nothing more than BIG FIASCO, they believed that they would exterminate us politically, that it would make me bend, that it will stop the just struggle of the Golden Dawn for Fatherland and Freedom, for nationalism and the Great Idea of Nation! Their treasured case is turning into a lump of coal, vanished now are the fairy tales of “illegal money” and the alleged arsenal of the Golden Dawn.
They still keep in prison the head of the third largest party in the country and two deputies without evidence, based on political animosity and false witnesses, who if put in front of a judge, should instead of being believed, be immidiately prosecuted for perjury.
But you have to admit: They are absolutely correct to keep us in jail those who have decided what they decided. The various lobbies in the U.S. and Europe who want Greece as their protectorate HAVE to jail those who fight for a free land, one totally free and independent, and not a puppet state drowning in colonizers debts.
They are absolutely correct to keep us in jail those who seek to destroy the NATIONAL STATE of the Greeks, because we are fighting for a Greece that will belong only to the Greeks and not to foreign criminals, either loan sharks or illegal immigrant theives and murderers.
All those who want Greece to be a simple dot on the nightmarish map of globalization are right to want us in prison. But we know that their lies and mud are not going to stand up against the dawning Sun of justice and truth. A Sun of NATIONAL DESTINY wanting to shine and shine!
So a message to my captors: YOU ARE THE SLAVES, I AM FREE EVEN INSIDE THE PRISON WALLS“
NG Michaloliakos

http://xaameriki.wordpress.com/ 

Brooklyn Rabbi: Gang Of Teens Playing Disturbing Game Of ‘Knock Out The Jew’

Activists, Victims' Families Say 8 Incidents Not About Robbery, But About Hate

November 12, 2013 6:28 PM

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — The NYPD is looking into a series of attacks on Jews in Brooklyn. At least one attack was caught on surveillance tape.

Some of the assaults may be part of a disturbing game, CBS 2’s John Slattery reported on Tuesday.
Police have yet to connect all the incidents, but released surveillance video that shows one group attacking a Jewish man. The video shows from a few different angles the victim, a man in a hooded jacket, getting punched.
One man who didn’t want to be identified told Slattery his 12-year-old son was attacked in the same way.
“It’s clearly anti-Semitism,” the man said.
The 64-year-old said his son, who was dressed in traditional Jewish clothing, was attacked last Wednesday afternoon on President Street.
“One, full strength with his fist, whacked him, punched him, on the side of the face, full force,” the man said.
The child went to the ground as he heard the group of five to six teens yell out.
“A hysterical, happy shout, ‘We got him,’” the man said.
Video also shows a 19-year-old Jewish man being sucker-punched.
“He was actually holding an expensive camera. And they punched him and nothing was stolen,” Rabbi Yaacov Behrman said.
Brooklyn Assemblyman Dov Hikind said the attacks are not muggings. It’s not about money. He said the victims are being attacked because they are Jews.
Behrman said he believes the assaults are part of a disturbing game by some African-American teens.
“And they’re playing a game: ‘knockout.’ ‘Knock out the Jew,’ maybe. And they’re going around the neighborhood punching Jews,” Behrman said.
He said that in the last two months there have been assaults and three incidents of graffiti, incidents the police have confirmed, Slattery reported.
“I think there have been a total of eight since September, middle of September,” Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said, referring to the total number of incidents.
The attacks and vandalism are being investigated by the NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force. The hope is that the suspects in the pictures will be identified.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/11/12/brooklyn-rabbi-gang-of-teens-playing-disturbing-game-of-knock-out-the-jew/

NWN: A touch of irony ?

John Lennon supporting the marxist IRA

David Cameron gave a speech at a banquet calling for permanent austerity.

Speaking at the Lord Mayor's Banquet in the City of London.

David Cameron has suggested that public spending should continue to be squeezed in a "fundamental culture change" that would leave the British public sector "permanently" slimmed down.

Speaking at the Lord Mayor's Banquet in the City of London, he said the best way to keep the cost of living down was to take "difficult decisions on public spending" to leave "a state we can afford".

What everyone is talking about though is the photo of Cameron making this call for lower spending.

Among the items featured in the photo:



A huge gold throne.
A gold speech stand.
Several expensive looking glasses and chalices filled with wine.
A random silver horse.
A huge necklace on the lady sitting on the throne.
Tuxes with white ties.

Hooray for austerity!


http://www.businessinsider.com/picture-of-david-cameron-calling-for-austerity-2013-11

Former Wren to ex-minister: You Sir are a disgrace

Former Royal navy engineer Fiona Laing embarrasses Sir Nick Harvey after Remembrance Day service

A Royal British Legion worker approached a former Armed Forces minister following a Remembrance Day service and 'reimbursed' him for £7.20 in expenses he claimed after attending a previous ceremony.

Fiona Laing, 45, marched up to Sir Nick Harvey, 52, in front of other dignitaries, officials and members of the public, and gave him an envelope containing the money.

_{Fiona Laing's card containing £7.20 (ARCHANT)}

In a card she wrote:

"To Sir Nick Harvey, I have taken the liberty of enclosing £7.20 to cover your expenses in attending this parade to show your supposed support for Armed Forces past and present.
"As a veteran I am disgusted at your claim.
"You Sir are a disgrace.
"A Former Wren."
The mother-of-three acted after the Liberal Democrat MP for North Devon caused anger by claiming £7.20 expenses to attend Armistice Day ceremonies in 2011.
Ms Laing, of Barnstaple, Devon, handed the MP the cash sealed in a Royal British Legion card.

_{Fiona Laing marched up to Sir Nick Harvey (ARCHANT)}
The ex-Royal Navy aircraft mechanic said it was "an insult to those who had died" that Sir Nick had claimed the petrol money to attend.
She said he should have "attended out of moral duty, not financial".
Ms Laing waited until the end of the parade before approaching Sir Nick and telling him she found it distasteful that he had filed the claim to cover his petrol.
She posted a video of the incident on her Facebook page, which has already been widely shared.
Ms Laing, events co-ordinator for the Royal British Legion in Barnstaple, said: "I never expected it would go viral like this - and I've had so many messages of support since doing it.
"I know the expenses claim was in November 2011, but this is the first time I have had a chance to confront him about it and I felt it should be done."
Sir Nick, who can be seen taking the envelope in the film, said he wished to return it to Ms Laing for her to donate to a charity of her choice.

_{Fiona made history as the first female driver to take part in Rally for Heroes in August 2012 (ARCHANT)}
The MP said: "Two years ago my monthly travel claim for November inadvertently included the mileage cost for attending the Act of Remembrance.
"Had I spotted that individual item I would not have claimed for it, even though it was permissible within the rules.
"Unfortunately I did not notice it: we are all capable of human error and regrettably this was one on my part.
"When the matter was subsequently drawn to my attention I apologised immediately and paid the sum in question (and rather more) to a veterans' charity collection.
"I certainly had not intended the slightest disrespect to our service personnel and veterans.
"The matter was extensively aired in the media some 18 months ago. As far as I am concerned, once I realised what had happened I acknowledged my mistake, apologised and made reparation.
"If Ms Laing supplies me with a postal address I would like to return the £7 to her to donate to a veterans' charity as she sees fit."
It emerged that the MP had claimed Remembrance Day expenses in May 2012.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/10441802/Former-Wren-to-ex-minister-You-Sir-are-a-disgrace.html