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A state representative in Louisiana is under fire for racist remarks towards the mother of a civil rights leader over the phone:

A state representative in a runoff election infuriated civil rights leaders after she ended a conversation with the mother of the NAACP’s local president by saying, “Talk to you later, Buckwheat.”

State Rep. Carla Blanchard Dartez, of Morgan City, acknowledged she made the remark during a Thursday night telephone conversation with Hazel Boykin to thank her for driving voters to the polls.

Buckwheat, a black child character in the “Little Rascals” comedies of the 1930s and ’40s, is viewed as a racial stereotype demeaning to black people. Hazel Boykin’s son, Jerome, is the NAACP’s president in Terrebonne Parish. She is well-known as a 1960s civil rights activist, helping to desegregate restaurants and the parish school system.

What the hell is wrong with this racist and disrespectful slut? She needs something like a cell phone beating by Naomi Campbell real quick, something real proppa-like.

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The controversy over the accounting of millions of Jena 6 stacks is not going away. Some folks are forcing organizations and parents to account for all the money. A lawyer of one Jena 6 mother, Tina Jones, mother of defendant Purvis, still has $250K and her lawyer told her not to talk to anyone about the money:

“I think there are a lot of organizations out there collecting money on behalf of the Jena 6 that we didn’t give authorization for,” Jones said. “So when we’re called and asked, ‘Did you receive this money?’ and we know nothing about it, then it becomes a problem. The finger is being pointed at us. We’re not criticizing anybody. We’re just trying to get a handle on it.”

We have a feeling Jacob or a Sean Jean section in a store has seen some of that Jena 6 money. SMH.

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Senator Barack Obama is now apologizing for an attack memo on Hillary Clinton that was leaked from his camp:

Obama was working the apology phones today and planning a formal apology, distancing himself from the memo, which was headlined, “HILLARY CLINTON (D-PUNJAB)’S PERSONAL FINANCIAL AND POLITICAL TIES TO INDIA,” It was prepared by the campaign’s opposition research department and distributed to reporters last week in exchange for a promise that reporters not reveal the source. So much for trusting the reporters. The memo got out. How? A reporter showed it to the Clinton campaign, who showed it to more reporters without seeking anonymity. So the original source was outted.

“In sum, our campaign made a mistake. Although I was not aware of the contents of the memo prior to its distribution, I consider the entire campaign – and in particular myself – responsible for the mistake. We have taken appropriate action to prevent errors like this from happening in the future.”

It was an honest mistake…we’re still rolling with Barack.  He just needs to make sure he tightens up that staff a bit.

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Here is a clip of democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s special guest appearance on Saturday Night Live this past weekend.

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Barack Obama speaks at the MTV/Myspace forum:

“If I didn’t think I was the best president for the job, I wouldn’t be running. Your next president will believe in the Constitution, which you can’t say about your current president. Part of my job as president I think is to deliver a message that everybody is part of the American family. Not just some people. And obviously as somebody who is African-American — my mother is from Kansas, my father was from Kenya, I grew up in Indonesia, I have a sister who looks Spanish, I’ve got a brother in law who is Chinese-Canadian — I’m very sensitive to making sure that everybody feels a part of America. And that’s one of the things I think I can bring to this presidency. The day I’m inaugurated the country will look at itself differently and I think be more tolerant. Continue »

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Minister Louis Farrakhan’s views on T.I.’s situation:

“T.I. was set up and they are trying with Lil’ Wayne.”

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Niccas can be hoes too. Minister Louis Farrakhan recently spoke to Hip-Hop leaders in the ATL:

“What you really are is not boob or butt. Force men to respect you. Black women are not for sale.”

“As long as a women is a b***h and a hoe in your mind, you will never stand up for her.  A record contract cannot get you your virtue back.”

The cum bucket Superhead, who tells her dwindling fans to stay away from Bossip and who also made the cover of ‘Today’s Black Woman’ , should have been in the audience.

Quotes via the homie Illseed over at AHH

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This is why the smart folks over here at Bossip don’t support Negro causes “just because” we are told to. Here is a picture of Robert Bailey Jr., a member of the Jena 6. According to a video on Youtube, he was braggin’ about thuggin’ on his Myspace and was caught showing off what looks to be Jena 6 Defense Fund stacks. SMH.

This is worse than Blood Diamond Russ’ partner Ben Chavis spending NAACP donations to keep a sex deal quiet or Blood Diamond Russ defending blood diamonds in Africa while being on the payroll of the diamond industry.

The video with more disturbing pics is under the hood, check it out Continue »

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Barack Obama wants Justice Department official John Tanner fired for the following comments:

“Our society is such that minorities don’t become elderly the way white people do; they die first,” Tanner said. “There are inequities in health care,” Tanner continued. “There are a variety of inequities in this country. And so anything that disproportionately impacts the elderly has the opposite impact on minorities; just the math is such as that.”

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Bill Cosby recently hit up Oprah and discussed his speech in 2004 where he attacked Black parents for buying kids $500 pair of shoes vs. investing in education.

Multi-millionaire Bill Cosby should use all that time he spends talking and find some creative solutions for “ignorance” and poverty.

We are not the only one who thinks Bill Cosby is “out of touch”.

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Excerpts from Bill Cosby’s new book:

On criticism:

“Certain people tell us that we are picking on the poor. Many of those who accuse us are scholars and intellectuals, upset that we are not blaming everything on white people as they do. Well, only blaming the system keeps certain black people in the limelight but it also keeps the black poor wallowing in victimhood.”

On raising children:

“All black parents can do right by their children, and all black children can succeed. There is no reason why not.”

“Use standard English when you have your kids together, not Black English. They’ll hear enough of that in the streets…Watch the movie My Fair Lady. All cultures discriminate against people who have not mastered the standard language, and when race is involved, it is all that much harder for a nonstandard speaker to feel competent or even at home in the culture.”

On the media:

“Some of the most negative images of African Americans on TV and in the movies seem to be the most popular among young people—black and white. With both good and bad media out there, you have to help select media for kids that will support their successes and suppress their urge to give up or drop out.”

On black men:

“Gangsta rap makes our young people tough, but not so tough they can walk through prison walls. It can jazz them about sex, but it can’t begin to make them a good father. No matter how often, or how publicly they grab their crotches, crotch-grabbing isn’t even going to get them a bus ride downtown.”

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Since we love you guys, here are a couple snippets from the Hilary Clinton interview with Essence (even though we’re still ridin with Barack all day!):

On issues, relating to Black men:

“I reject the conversation about the failure of these young men,” she says. “These could be 1.4 million husbands, fathers and role models. When we squander their potential, we squander America’s potential. Ultimately then, the crisis of young men of color is a national crisis. ”

On her marriage:

“I know the truth of my life and of my marriage, my relationship and partnership, my deep abiding friendship with my husband. It’s been enormously supportive to me through most of my life. Now obviously we’ve had challenges as everybody in the world knows. “But I never doubted that it was a marriage worth investing in even in the midst of those challenges,” she says, “and I’m really happy that I made that decision. Again, not a decision for everybody. And I think it’s so important for women to stand up for the right of women to make a decision that is best for them.”

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Some racist college students in Louisiana dressed up in Black face and reenacted the Jena 6 beating.

Not funny, click here to read about this story and watch some video that was ganked off of Facebook.

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Senator and democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama sat down with Tyra and discussed many things from what he listens to in his iPod to parenting. When talking about his daughters he states when they are out of town his 9 year-old daughter Malia asks:

“This isn’t a Hilton hotel, is it?”

Looks like Michelle and Barack are raising their young ladies well. Good for her to disapprove of Paris Hilton and her herpes ho-bagging ways.  Those little Obama girls are adorable and on their way to taking over their mom’s title as the “Hottest Chick in the Game.”

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Presidential candidate John Edwards talking about Black kids getting caught up in violence:

“We start with the president of the United States saying to America, ‘we cannot build enough prisons to solve this problem. And the idea that we can keep incarcerating and keep incarcerating — pretty soon we’re not going to have a young African-American male population in America. They’re all going to be in prison or dead. One of the two.”

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