Chicago Mayor Candidates: Only Black People Should Be Considered Minorities

Chicago Democrat: Only Blacks Should be Considered Minorities, Says Women, Asians, Hispanics Shouldnt Be Able to Use That Title
How very Racist of him… (Chicago Sun Times)-  Mayoral challenger James Meeks scrambled Thursday to put out a political fire touched off by his suggestion that only African-Americans should be eligible for city contracts set aside for Minorities and women. Meeks made the statement on Wednesday during an interview on WVON-AM (1690). It happened during a discussion of why African-American businesses got a 7 percent sliver of Chicago’s $1 billion spending pie through Aug. 31, down from 8...

Chicago Mayoral Candidate: Only Blacks Should Be Considered Minorities
Don't you just love it when the mask drops and these Racists expose themselves for all to see?Mayoral challenger James Meeks came under fire Thursday for suggesting that only African-Americans should be eligible for city contracts set aside for Minorities and women. Meeks made the statement on Wednesday during an interview on WVON Radio. It happened during a discussion of why African-American businesses got a 7 percent sliver of Chicago’s $1 billion spending pie through Aug. 31, down from 8 ...

Meeks says Hispanics, Asians, and White Women aren't Minorities
Chicago Mayoral Candidate the Rev. Sen. James Meeks said only African-Americans should be labeled Minorities and therefore the only ones who should be allowed to be Affirmative Action program participants.  He further clarified that he meant Hispanics, Asians, and women should be excluded from such federal programs.  Meeks says it isn’t fair that the share of city contracts going to African-American owned businesses has decreased in recent times.  He believes only people of...

Russia: Police fearing clashes detain 1,000 people
Moscow — Police say they have detained at least 1,000 people in central Moscow in an attempt to prevent ethnic clashes after weekend Rioting by Racist Hooligans fueled rumors that Minorities were planning to retaliate. Scuffles erupted Wednesday outside the Kievsky train station , which is popular with traders from the Caucasus, as hundreds of baton-wielding Riot Police in dark helmets rounded them up and detained young men and teenagers shouting Racist slogans. Some men who appeared to b...

Anti-Anti-Racism.
Political correctness and people who call things Racist are the greatest threats to free Speech, says Andrew Breitbart in this video from Reason (zoom ahead to 1:35): This is a nearly pure expression of conservative anti-anti-racism, or the idea that accusations of Racism (against White People) are far more harmful than actual incidents of Bigotry against Minorities (with the collorary that Minorities are guilty of tremendous Racism against White People). Smearing Shirley Sherrod is perfectly ok...

IS DEMOCRATIC OPPOSITION TO OBAMA ALSO RACIAL? Oh, absolutely. Racist, racist, racist. But I love
IS DEMOCRATIC OPPOSITION TO OBAMA ALSO RACIAL? Oh, absolutely. Racist, racist, racist. But I love this comment: “Calling Republicans ‘racist’ for opposing Democrats in general, or Obama specifically, is nothing more than a political tactic that we use to turn black people against Republicans. There’s nothing to be gained by using this tactic against Democrats.” Remember, comrades: We must distinguish between mere bourgeois truth, which is concerned with sterile fa...

Racial Politics in Chicago, of All Places
Chicago Mayoral Candidate James Meeks is unhappy with the fact that non-African-Americans are participating in the city’s Affirmative Action programs, such as municipal contracting set-asides. “I think that the word ‘minority,’ from our standpoint, should mean African-American,” Meeks said. “I don’t think women, Asians and Hispanics should be able to use that title. That’s why our numbers cannot improve, because we use women, Asians and Hispanics, ...

City contracts still white man's world, Liu charges
Companies owned by women or Minorities are getting just a tiny fraction of city contracts, according to city Controller John Liu. "The city is not doing enough to level the playing field," Liu said Thursday as he unveiled a new website that tracks the share of city work flowing to women and minorities. According to Liu, just 2.3% of city contracts are going to women or Minorities - $398 million, compared with $16.6 billion for companies controlled by white men. The $398 million consists of $12...

Russia: 1000 Detained to Prevent Ethnic Clashes
Xenophobia rising -  Slavic Russians versus people from the Southern Caucausus Muslims. (USA Today) — Fearing more clashes between Racist Hooligans and ethnic Minorities , Russian police detained 1,000 people in a standoff near a Moscow train station Wednesday, taking a strong stance against Far Right Extremists after weekend Rioting left dozens injured. Hundreds of Riot Police outside the Kievsky station hauled mostly young men and teenagers shouting Racist slogans into police vans.

Texas Republicans Fight About Immigration: Are Latinos a Menace, or Natural Allies Against Muslim Immigrant Invasion
Immigration hasn’t traditionally been a sharply partisan issue. The GOP presidential nominees in 2000, 2004, and 2008 all ran on pro-immigration platforms, as did their Democratic opponents. Conversely, many members of Congress from both parties were hostile to immigration. You saw more pro-immigration sentiment among Democrats, but strong pro-immigration and pro-immigrant political cultures existed inside the GOP, and especially in its Texas and Florida branches both of which had been p...

Is This Racist?
If I had a nickel for every time we’ve said that here I’d be rich!  Here, yet, is another pathetic story of your government dollars going to waste and how the white man can’t get ahead. -AG Fresno State has received a five-year, $3.1 million grant aimed at improving Hispanic graduation rates. The developmental grant is awarded by the U.S. Department of Education to Hispanic-Serving Institutions - universities with a 25% or more Hispanic enrollment. The grant will finan...

Poland's first black MP says colour no obstacle
WARSAW - Poland's first black lawmaker, John Godson, says the colour of his skin has helped him get ahead in his overwhelmingly white adopted country and he now wants to promote contacts between Poles and Africa. Nigerian-born Godson, a former Protestant pastor, took up his parliamentary seat this week as a member of Prime Minister Donald Tusk's ruling centre-right Civic Platform after replacing a colleague who became a city mayor in recent local Elections. "Being a black... has helped me in my ...

Catch of the Day
How about one for Jamelle Bouie, calling out Andrew Breitbart (OK, it's easy pickings, but still): This is a nearly pure expression of conservative anti-anti-racism, or the idea that accusations of Racism (against White People) are far more harmful than actual incidents of Bigotry against Minorities (with the collorary that Minorities are guilty of tremendous Racism against White People). Smearing Shirley Sherrod is perfectly okay, but calling out Breitbart's race-baiting is beyond the pale, an...

Fa-Ra-Ra-Ra-Ra-Ra-Ra-Ra-Ra, Ctd
A reader writes: I thought I should share with you a screen capture of your posts. The first post is about dealing with "Racist relatives over the Holidays" followed by "Fa Ra Ra Ra." Now I understand the latter post references the "classic" movie moment in The Christmas Story, but seeing the two posts back to back struck me. As a biracial Asian-American male that "classic" moment was my first realization of the long heard phrase "laughing AT you not WITH you." Growing up in suburban Virginia,...

How Do You Deal With Racist Relatives Over The Holidays?
A Feministe reader sparks a helpful discussion in the comments section. Rita's advice: I deal with this as well and I disagree with the “just don’t go” advice. I don’t get to see my family that often and they are VERY important to me, bigoted views or no. The older generation in particular just never learned any better (which I know is not an excuse for hatred, but I’m still not going to hate them back.) I want to see my family and when they are not being Racist/sexist/ge

Louisiana Senate Worker Given Month Suspension For Sending Racist Email Email Said Opposition to Obama Is Not Based on His Skin
Pretty clear to anyone with half-a-brain (guess that excludes the left) she was trying to make a point that people who oppose Obama would still feel the same way even if he was white… (SF Gate)- A Louisiana state Senate employee has been formally reprimanded and suspended for a month without pay because she sent an e-mail message to hundreds of government workers showing President Barack Obama as white. Senate President Joel Chaisson announced the punishment Tuesday for Senate researcher...

Why the answer is 'Generosity Unbound'
Partfour of a five-part series American Philanthropy is under threat. The current declines in municipal Real Estate alone might suggest to lawmakers to impose new taxes on endowments as a way of balancing depleted public budgets. But what a shortsighted idea! Private foundations are . . . private entities. And foundation endowments are private property held for the public benefit according to the Donor's intent. Tax Deductions for Charitable Donations were wisely established to provide an incen...

Inside the Fishbowl, does diversity of D.C. press corps pale?
by Richard Prince Published Dec. 17, 2010 9:57 am Updated Dec. 17, 2010 9:58 am Reading the Fishbowl blogs about the media — there are three of them, for New York, Washington and Los Angeles, all part of mediabistro.com — one sometimes gets the impression that media People of Color exist merely as window dressing. They rarely do anything collectively on their own. Earlier this month, the Washington City Paper ran a cover story on Betsy Rothstein, editor of the D.C. operation. &#...

Meeks claims Emanuel kept black leaders out of the White House - Attempts backtrack on affirmative action blowup
* This week’s WVON mayoral debate appearance by Sen. James Meeks is something of a racially charged goldmine. For instance, Meeks claimed during the debate that mayoral opponent Rahm Emanuel kept African-American leaders “out of the White House,” and said of Emanuel, “He’s never done anything for African-Americans.” There’s more, so watch… I asked the Meeks campaign twice yesterday to explain the White House allegation, but did not hear back. ...

Meeks: No set asides for white women
* Rev. Sen. James Meeks has a well-known mouth problem. The problem is he continually inserts his foot into his mouth, particularly on the subject of race. From Fox Chicago… On Wednesday, Chicago Mayoral Candidate James Meeks said that only African-Americans should be able to participate in Affirmative Action programs- and that Hispanics, Asians, and women should be excluded. Later, he tried to clarify his remarks. Speaking to a Candidates’ forum Wednesday on black-oriented WVON ...

African Americans Getting the Most out of Tweeting
African Americans appear to be one of the leading Ethnic Groups when it comes to use of the popular Social Networking site, Twitter.  According to the Pew Research Center, 8% of all Internet consumers use Twitter. While 5% of white Internet consumers use Twitter, 13% of African American Internet users engage in tweeting. Only Hispanic Americans, with a usage rate of 18%, outpaced African Americans. In addition, 11% of urban Internet consumers use Twitter while 8% of suburbanites send out tw...

Companies Run By White Men Dominate City Contracts
You see those tiny little lines on top of the big blue bars? Yeah, those are contracts awarded to companies not run by white guys. Just as the city is dealing with a Scandal involving four white contractors stealing money from city coffers, Comptroller John Liu has launched a website with some sobering figures about the city's contracts to companies run by ...

1,000 detained in Russia to prevent ethnic clashes (AP)
Moscow – Fearing more clashes between Racist Hooligans and mostly Muslim ethnic Minorities, police detained more than 1,000 people in Moscow and several other Russian cities Wednesday, after weekend Rioting in the capital left dozens injured. Hundreds of Riot Police outside the Kievsky station in central Moscow hauled into police vans mostly young men and teenagers who were shouting Racist slogans and raising their hands in Nazi salutes. Some were lined up against buses and searched by p...

Putin: Moscow riots show need for stronger order
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says violent rampages outside the Kremlin have highlighted the need to strengthen law and order and boost the prestige of the police. A weekend rally of 5,000 Racists and Hooligans left more than 30 people injured and raised doubts about the Kremlin's ability to stem a rising tide of xenophobia. Police on Wednesday prevented a replay of violence between Racists and mostly Muslim ethnic Minorities, detaining over 1,000 people in Moscow. Putin said during a call-in se...

Former Sen. Burris not running for Chicago mayor
CHICAGO (AP) — Former U.S. Sen. Roland Burris says he isn’t running for Chicago mayor, despite a petition by friends to draft him. The Democrat issued a statement Friday saying he isn’t interested in the mayor’s job. He thanked his supporters and said he looked forward to a “spirited” contest. Burris was appointed by former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich to fill the Senate seat vacated when Barack Obama was elected president. More than a dozen people are vying ...