Obama in His own Words

From Patterico’s Ponitifications:

The philosophy of nonviolence only makes sense if the powerful can be made to recognize themselves in the powerless. It only makes sense if the powerless can be made to recognize themselves in the powerful. You know, the principle of empathy gives broader meaning, by the way, to Dr. King’s philosophy of nonviolence. I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but rich people are all for nonviolence. Why wouldn’t they be? They’ve got what they want. They want to make sure people don’t take their stuff. But the principle of empathy recognizes that there are more subtle forms of violence to which we are answerable. The spirit of empathy condemns not only the use of firehoses and attack dogs to keep people down but also accountants and tax loopholes to keep people down. I’m not saying that what Enron executives did to their employees is the moral equivalent of what Bull Connor did to black folks, but I’ll tell you what, the employees at Enron feel violated. When a company town sees its plant closing because some distant executives made some decision despite the wage concessions, despite the tax breaks, and they see their entire economy collapsing, they feel violence . . .

Other clips are linked below. I was struck by the way that Obama portrayed those who commit crimes and become imprisoned are “caught up” in a “prison industrial complex” that would not be tolerated if white people didn’t think of blacks and Latinos as unlike them.

And the class warfare talk never ends.

What Obama really thought about the Clinton years. Quote: “Among African American males, one third to one fourth caught up in the criminal justice system, so that the number of young men incarcerated exceeded the number enrolled in colleges and universities. Throughout the nation inequality up, trust in mutuality down . . . the evidence was there if we cared to look.”

Obama on empathy, the powerful, and the prison industrial complex. Quote: “It’s hard to imagine that the powerful in our society would tolerate the burgeoning prison industrial complex if they imagined that the black men and Latino men that are being imprisoned were something like their sons.”

Local funding of schools is “fundamentally unjust.” Quote: “And Illinois, like many states in the country, has an education system that is funded  by property taxes. It is fundamentally unjust. So you have folks up in Winnetka, pupils who are getting five times as much money per student as students in the South Side of Chicago.”

The full clip on YouTube.

http://patterico.com/2012/10/03/newly-discoveredobama-video-rich-people-are-all-for-nonviolence-why-wouldnt-they-be-theyve-got-what-they-want/

Public School District Must Pay Teacher (on staff less than a year) For Not Allowing Her To Travel to Mecca Because School was in Session

A public school district in the U.S. must pay a Muslim teacher tens of thousands of dollars and establish a religious accommodation training program for refusing to let the instructor take three weeks off to make a pilgrimage to Mecca.

The settlement marks the conclusion of the first lawsuit filed by Obama’s Department of Justice (DOJ) as part of a pilot program designed to ensure “vigorous enforcement” of civil rights in the workplace. “Employees should not have to choose between practicing their religion and their jobs,” said Thomas Perez, the open borders advocate Obama appointed as Assistant Attorney General for the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division.  

The math teacher (Safoorah Khan) sued the Berkeley Illinois district when her middle school denied the leave request because she was the only math lab instructor and her absence would come at a crucial time right before exams. To further back its case, the district pointed out that the union contract did not allow that sort of leave for any teacher.

So Khan, who had worked at McArthur Middle School for barely a year, resigned and sued the district for religious discrimination. The DOJ’s bloated civil rights division quickly moved to help her. In a December lawsuit, the DOJ accuses the Berkeley School District of violating Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by failing to reasonably accommodate Khan’s religious practices. By denying Khan a “religious accommodation”, the district compelled Khan to choose between her job and her religious beliefs, the DOJ claimed.

for complete story: http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2011/oct/public-school-dist-pay-muslim-teacher-over-mecca-trip

From ZoNation: Herman Cain is Black, & He Don’t Smoke Crack

Allen West: “I am not a Black American, and African-American, I am AN AMERICAN– I Bleed Red White and Blue!!!

FLORIDA MUST ELECT THIS MAN !!

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signs Immigration Legislation to Require “Laws to be Enforced”

     Even as high school students abandoned their classes to protest the proposed immigration law in Arizona, Gov. Jan Brewer made her final decision, put pen to paper, and signed Arizona’ new immigration legislation.

     Gov. Brewer had requested that the federal government do more to secure our borders, but was rebuffed. Today’s new law will require law enforcement officials to enforce immigration laws; it calls for the arrest of those who cannot document their legal status in the United States.

Related:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100423/ap_on_re_us/us_immigration_enforcement;_ylt=AjrvAfXM3JQufsc3QpoGo8ms0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNxdTU3djN2BGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAwNDIzL3VzX2ltbWlncmF0aW9uX2VuZm9yY2VtZW50BGNjb2RlA21vc3Rwb3B1bGFyBGNwb3MDMQRwb3MDMgRwdANob21lX2Nva2UEc2VjA3luX3RvcF9zdG9yeQRzbGsDYXJpemdvdmVybm9y

Justice Won’t Investigate Voter Intimidation, But Goes on Civil Rights WitchHunt into Lending Practices

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department is beginning a major campaign against banks and mortgage brokers suspected of discriminating against minority applicants in lending, opening a new front in the Obama administration’s response to the foreclosure crisis.

Tom Perez, the assistant attorney general for the department’s Civil Rights Division, is expected to announce Thursday in New York that the administration is creating a new unit that will focus exclusively on unfair lending practices.

“We are looking at any and every practice in the industry,” Mr. Perez said in a recent interview.

As part of an expansion of the Civil Rights Division approved by Congress last year, the Justice Department is hiring at least four lawyers and an economist for the new unit, while about half a dozen current staff members will transfer into it.

Mr. Perez plans to formally announce the new unit at the “Wall Street Project” conference organized by the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow/PUSH Coalition. He characterized the effort as a major turnaround, and criticized the previous administration as failing to scrutinize lending practices amid the subprime mortgage boom.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/14/us/14justice.html

Note to Mr. Perez: Viewing lending practices through the prism of civil rights is what got us to this point of collapse. Whatever Barney Frank and Maxine Waters suggest, we must do the OPPOSITE.

Illinois School Teachers Sue for Reverse Discrimination

PEORIA —

A lawsuit alleging discrimination has been filed by a group of current and former white employees at Trewyn Middle School against Peoria School District 150 and retired Superintendent Ken Hinton.

The suit, filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court, names eight employees who allege the district had a policy of discrimination against white employees.

According to the suit, the administration “adopted policies, practices and plans to increase the number of black teachers and staff within District 150; avoid lawsuits by black employees and citizens; and appease a large black community with numerous complaints.”

The employees are Tammy Williams, a special education teacher; Patricia Schmidt, a physical education teacher; Richard Trau, a retired PE teacher; Bonnie Wilson, a language arts teacher; Cathy Behrll, a special education teacher; Kit Zinser, a retired language arts teacher; Geraldine Warner, a special education teacher; and Jennifer Dougherty, a secretary at Richwoods High School who formerly worked in the same capacity at Trewyn.

Full article at: http://www.pjstar.com/news/x1431157108/White-teachers-sue-District-150-for-alleged-discrimination

Anderson Cooper’s Liberal Journalism Called Out

“Anderson Cooper gets called out about his misguided and liberal love of government intervention by a young man who recognizes that problems can be solved only when we assume responsibility for them.”

http://www.darkskiesblog.com/2009/10/08/civil-rights-activists-need-to-focus-on-black-on-black-violence-and-not-call-on-the-govt-for-help-video/