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Teacher Suspended for 'Racially charged' Comments About Obama
A Marianna middle-school teacher has been suspended for 10 days without pay after he wrote a racially charged interpretation of a commonly used phrase in the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama.
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While some parents and community activists were outraged by the actions of Greg Howard, Jackson County NAACP officials want to gather more facts before the group considers taking action. But some parents feel Howard should be fired. A Marianna middle-school teacher has been suspended for 10 days without pay after he wrote a racially charged interpretation of a comm... more -
Tillie Black Bear Sings Directions prayer at Northern Michigan University 2008 UNI...
Tillie Black Bear is the Ex. Dir. and a founder (31 years ago) of the White Buffalo Calf Woman Society, Inc. (WBCWS) serving the Lakota Sioux Rosebud Reservation in Mission, SD
She spoke to the Northern Michigan University 2008 Uniting Neighbors in the Experience of Diversity (UNITED) Conference on Sept. 23, 2008.
With traditional sage burning, Black Bear sings as she and the crowd face the four directions - West, North, East, South and honor the Sky and Earth. Her visit was coordinated by the NMU Center for Native American Studies and the non-profit Turtle Island Project (TIP) in Munising, MI. The TIP has held several concerts and other events to raises funds for the WBCWS. TIP Dir. Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard travels several times a year to the Rosebud Reservation. Black Bear was greeted by Dr. Judith Puncochar, NMU Professor & an organizer of the annual UNITED Conference. Tillie Black Bear was introduced by Grace Chaillier, an NMU Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Center for Native American Studies and registered member of the Sicangu Lakota band of the Rosebud Sioux.
Black Bear is a member of the Sicangu Lakota Nation/Rosebud Sioux Tribe and a leading expert on violence against women and children. She's a founding mother of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV) and a founder of the South Dakota Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault (SDCADV&SA). She's the first woman of color to chair NCADV and is on the SDCADV&SA Board of Directors.
Black Bear is on the advisory board of National Sexual Assault Resource Center, Pennsylvania and a past member of the professional advisory board of the National Domestic Violence Hotline, Austin, TX. Black Bear received the 1988 U.S. Department of Justice award for work with crime victims and is one of President Bush’s 1989 “Points of Light”.
Black Bear is one of 10 people recognized as a founder of the domestic violence movement in the U.S. at the 1999 Millennium Conference on Domestic Violence in Chicago, IL; received an Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award in 2000 by President Clinton and was a recipient of the first annual LifeTime Achievement Award from LifeTime Television. She is one of 21 Leaders for the 21st Century award by Women’s eNews in 2004. She received a 2005 award from NOW & is retired from Sinte Gleska University as a part-time instructor in Human Services; Casey Foundation as a licensed foster parent. She's a teacher of 13 years including a course on cross-cultural ministry at Catholic Theological Union through Shalom Ministries in Chicago, IL. Black Bear and colleague Sally Roesch Wagner, Ph.D. have completed a poster series on Lakota women elders on each of the nine Dakota/Lakota Nations in South Dakota entitled: Lakota Women – Keepers of the Nation. She organizes workshops on issues of Racism and Cultural Diversity, is a therapist, certified school counselor, administrator, college instructor and comptroller. She holds a Master of Art (1974) from the University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD; Bachelor of Science (1971), Northern State University, Aberdeen, SD. She has served on the St. Francis Indian School Board of Directors, St. Francis, SD; and Sinte Gleska University Board of Regents, Mission, SD. Black Bear is single mother of 3 girls, grandmother of thirteen and survivor of domestic violence.
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Georgia's Governor Delayed Asking For Gas Shortage Help, Goes to Europe!
Perdue Delayed Asking For Gas Shortage Help
Governor Is In Europe On Week-Long Trip
ATLANTA -- While other southeastern states were asking for help with gas shortages, Gov. Sonny Perdue waited a week before requesting a waiver freeing up extra gas for Georgia.
Officials in Kentucky asked on Monday, Sept. 15, for a waiver from the Environmental Protection Agency to lift restrictions requiring special gas. It was granted the following day.
Virginia and Tennessee also asked for similar waivers after Hurricanes Gustav and Ike struck the Gulf Coast, knocking out oil refineries.
On Sept. 22, a week after Kentucky's request, Gov. Perdue sent a letter to the EPA. The agency granted the waiver for Georgia the next day.
The waiver from the EPA lifts restrictions requiring gas stations to sell reformulated gas in metro Atlanta and other areas of Georgia.
Critics said more gas would be flowing into Georgia if Perdue had acted faster.
“By not managing this, by not reacting, not working steadily with the EPA, not having this relationship, not maintaining it, it drags until there’s another crisis and who gets hurt are the working people,” said Rep. Dubose Porter, (D) House Minority Leader.
Distributors Channel 2 talked with said they gave Perdue’s office a heads up three weeks ago that the crisis would likely happen because of a one-two punch from Hurricanes Gustav and Ike. Add to that the fact supplies are normally low this time of year as refineries switch from a summer to winter gas formula.
“This is the same pattern we’ve seen of waiting too long. There’s got to be that leadership whether it’s transportation, education or here in a gas crisis,” said Porter.
“The people who would criticize that, they don’t understand the way we’re working with the EPA. We were talking with them everyday and timing the request so we could get a positive response,” said Perdue’s press secretary Bert Brantley.
Gov. Perdue left Saturday on a week-long economic development mission to Spain, Portugal and Italy. Perdue Delayed Asking For Gas Shortage Help Governor Is In Europe On Week-Long Trip ... more -
Mayor 'just curious' if Obama is antichrist
Fort Mill, S.C. Mayor Danny Funderburk says he was “just curious” when he forwarded a chain e-mail suggesting Democratic Presidential Candidate Barack Obama is the biblical antichrist. “I was just curious if there was any validity to it,” Funderburk said in a telephone interview. “I was trying to get documentation if there was any scripture to back it up. Fort Mill, S.C. Mayor Danny Funderburk says he was “just curious” when he forwarded a chain e-mail suggesting Democratic Presidential ... more
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Birmingham Teens Talk About Life in the Rural South
On September 6, the Marguerite Casey Foundation's Equal Voice for America's Families Campaign culminated with as many as 16,000 family delegates attending conventions in three cities to talk about issues they want to put on the national radar as the country prepares for the presidential election. In Birmingham, Alabama youth and their families came to talk about the issues that affect their lives, including violence, teen pregnancy, life in the rural south, and jobs. The youth shared their thoughts and feelings in short video logs (vlogs) or by writing blogs. Below is an edited version of their vlogs. On September 6, the Marguerite Casey Foundation's Equal Voice for America's Families Campaign culminated with as many as 16,... more
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The Best College Football Players come from the South
The first college football game was played 139 years ago in New Jersey, between Rutgers and Princeton, and the sport was dominated by Northeastern schools such as Yale and Harvard in its infancy.
By the middle of the last century the South had risen in college football, and these days there’s no question: If you want to win a national championship, it’s best to play in places where sunscreen is more important than snow boots, and the grits are better than the bagels.
Why? Simple. Because that’s where the best players are.
Since the Bowl Championship Series started crowning a national champion in 1998, Ohio State and Oklahoma are the only schools that play in cold weather to have won a championship. And it’s important to point out that Oklahoma borders Texas, which has more high school football players than any other state. The first college football game was played 139 years ago in New Jersey, between Rutgers and Princeton, and the sport was dominated by ... more -
Toby Keith's Pro-Lynching Publicity Tour Hits Colbert, CBS and More
I don't know what to think about this just yet. Some of the lyrics in his song "Beer for my Horses" play out as this:
Grandpappy told my pappy back in my day, son
A man had to answer for the wicked that he'd done
Take all the rope in Texas
Find a tall oak tree, round up all of them bad boys
Hang them high in the street
For all the people to see
It doesn't necessarily talk about race but it is terrible to bring up a form of punishment that was used against Blacks and of course, with the Leo Frank incident, against a Jew. What do you think? A non-issue? No meaning in the song? Or is there something hateful in all this? I don't know what to think about this just yet. Some of the lyrics in his song "Beer for my Horses" play out as this: ... more -
Report warns of AIDS ‘crisis’ across South
AIDS specialists are calling for a fundamental rethinking of HIV policy after a new report showed that infection with the virus was rising dramatically in the South even as it dropped everywhere else in the country.
The warning, issued this week by the Southern AIDS Coalition, a nonprofit partnership of government and private-sector programs based in Birmingham, Ala., concluded that AIDS was creating a health disaster in the South.
AIDS deaths fell or held steady in other parts of the country from 2001 to 2006, the last year for which complete figures were available, but they rose by more than 10 percent in the South, according to the report, titled “Southern States Manifesto 2008.”
The report, an update to a landmark 2002 report that identified the disproportionate impact of HIV and AIDS in the South, was based on data compiled by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, state health departments and academic researchers. It defined the region as Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia and Washington, D.C.
Among the findings:
* Although the covered area is home to only 36 percent of the nation’s population, half of all U.S. AIDS deaths in 2005 were in the South, and more than half of all Americans with HIV lived in the region in 2006.
* Nine of the 15 states with the highest HIV diagnosis rates are in the South.
* More than 40 percent of all new infections are in the South.
* Of the 20 metropolitan areas with the highest rates of AIDS cases in 2006, 16 were in the South.
“The South is faced with a crisis of having to provide medical and support care for increasing numbers of infected individuals without adequate funding,” especially among the young and among minority Southern communities, the report concluded.
“African-American women are 83 percent of all [new] cases that we can document,” said Bambi Gaddist, executive director of the South Carolina HIV/AIDS Council and a member of the AIDS Coalition board of directors. “And the new epidemic is young people. They’re between 22 and 24.”
***article continues, click link to read*** AIDS specialists are calling for a fundamental rethinking of HIV policy after a new report showed that infection with the virus was ri... more -
Anti-gay slurs painted on houses and cars in South Florida's gayest neighborh...
"Three homes and five vehicles were sprayed with anti-gay slogans in the 2800 block of NW 7th Ave in Wilton Manors early Friday morning.
One resident was using soap and water to wash out the anti-gay messages sprayed on his property that said "fag".
He explained to CBS4 Reporter Ted Scouten that he's not gay, which is all the more worrying why he was a target.
Another resident, Ron Helfrich, said his home and car were defaced, "They wrote gay on the door, in the living room, and on the couch."
''There's no reason for this to happen,'' Aaron Challancin said. ``We didn't do anything to anyone. We're normal people trying to live normal lives.
The incidents are being investigated by the Wilton Manors police department." "Three homes and five vehicles were sprayed with anti-gay slogans in the 2800 block of NW 7th Ave in Wilton Manors early Friday m... more -
South Carolina - not 'so gay' after all
An advertising campaign launched on the London Underground during gay pride week earlier this month has caused a political storm in South Carolina.
Posters, displayed at Leicester Square and Covent Garden tube stations in the two-week period surrounding the festival, were designed to promote a gay tour operator and to increase tourism to various US destinations noted for being gay-friendly.
News of the campaign and a poster with the tagline "South Carolina is so gay" reached the state late last week where it was condemned by Senator David Thomas. The state employee who approved the campaign has since resigned and Senator Thomas is calling for an audit of the tourism department's advertising budget, which this year runs in excess of $10m. The tourism department has also refused to pay the $5,000 fee for appearing in the campaign and has asked that the advertising be removed.
"South Carolinians will be irate when they learn their hard earned tax dollars are being spent to advertise our state as 'so gay,'" said Senator Thomas.
However, Ian Johnson, chief executive officer of Out Now, the gay marketing agency that created the campaign, claimed that the South Carolina Parks, Recreation and Tourism Department (SCPRT), "chased us to be included in the campaign late on. We had to buy extra panels at Covent Garden to include South Carolina. In addition, SCPRT flew Andrew Roberts, the CEO of Amro, out to South Carolina so that he could check that there were sufficient gay-friendly aspects to the destination before including it in the campaign. Places like Charleston and Myrtle Beach have quite strong gay and lesbian communities."
Armo Worldwide said they took the idea for the campaign to "several US tourism boards" late last year and "received a very positive response". They say the individual boards paid a cut-price fee to be featured, while they covered all other costs in a cooperative-style marketing campaign.
Other US destinations featured in Amro Worldwide's campaign - including Washington DC, Las Vegas, Boston and Atlanta – have not reported any such backlash. The Boston poster, which picked up on its status as capital of the first US state to legalise same-sex marriage, is thought to be expecting a huge gay-tourism boost if a ruling goes ahead to allow out-of-state gay marriages there as well.
Amro claim the adverts are enhancing the positive associations with the word "gay". "The expression 'That is so gay" [is often used] as a form of put down, not of gay and lesbian people directly, but rather as a general way to suggest that for something to be "gay" is negative or bad … This campaign will 'reclaim' the term 'so gay'," says their website.
South Carolinians, however, remain unconvinced. "We're so gay?" asked one baffled resident when the story was put to him by a local television journalist. "Nah, wrong state. Go to California." An advertising campaign launched on the London Underground during gay pride week earlier this month has caused a political storm in So... more -
Volkswagen's First US Assembly Plant Will Be In Chattanooga, Tennessee
VW to build plant in Chattanooga
By: Mike Pare
Volkswagen AG will build its first United States assembly plant in Chattanooga, officials said today.
Europe’s biggest automaker said it will put a nearly $1 billion investment in Chattanooga’s Enterprise South Industrial Park.
The plant is expected to create 2,000 jobs. It is expected to open in 2011.
“The U.S. market is an important part of our volume strategy, and we are now very resolutely accessing that market,” said Martin Winterkorn, chief executive of Volkswagen.
Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen said he is “enormously pleased” by the announcement.
Mr. Bredesen and other officials including Volkswagen of America’s chief executive, were slated to be at Hunter Museum of American Art at 11:30 a.m. for an announcement.
“I believe Volkswagen chose Tennessee because of our shared values, our commitment to innovation and our strong respect for the environment,” he said.
Matt Kisber, commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development, said he could not be more pleased in the partnership between the state, VW and Chattanooga and Hamilton County government.
Hamilton County Mayor Claude Ramsey said he has worked with four different city mayors and other officials with a vision of transforming the Volunteer Army Ammunition Plant site.
Chattanooga Mayor Ron Littlefield said VW and Chattanooga have a lot in common.
“Both are serious about environmental sustainability and 21st century manufacturing,” he said.
U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., said the community has maintained its focus
Officials at the Wolfsburg-based company said the surging euro has pushed plans for a production facility forward. The 15-nation currency has hit record highs recently against the U.S. dollar, making goods exported from Germany more expensive in the United States.
Volkswagen recently moved its North American headquarters from suburban Detroit to Herndon, Va., outside Washington, to bring it closer to its East Coast customer base.
Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen, who landed in Chattanooga early today, said he is “enormously pleased” with the facility coming to Southeast Tennessee.
Erich Merkle, vice president of forecasting auto industry forecaster IRN Inc., said suppliers will build facilities to support the assembly plant.
Chattanooga beat out bids by Alabama and Michigan for the plant.
The announcement came Tuesday from Lower Saxony Minister President Christian Wulff, who sits on the supervisory board of Europe's largest automaker. VW to build plant in Chattanooga By: Mike Pare ... more -
Whats The Worst Song Of All Time??
I know its been a minute since the last post but I been doing recording alot of new music lately so I havent had the time BUT I got a lil time and there is something I HAD to share with yall. Even though I hate wack shit, I think one of my hobbies is listening to extremely bad shit or just plain infamous ass shit. Shit like Shawty Lo's line 'How you laughing? like HA HA HA' or anything off the hilariously classic and quotable 'Controversy' album by the legend Willie D (Bald Head Hoes is beyond a classic). But the song I found isnt by any of the usual suspects or anyone you know and if you do know these dudes you should of stopped them a LONG time ago. They are called Young Spuset and these niggas are the Bentley's in wack music. Off beat rhymes, terrible harmonies and bad execution. Everything that could of went wrong, did go wrong.
Now I love how music can make you want to make music but sometimes music aint for all of us. Then again if you stay at it you can get better, cause I would have never guess Wayne would be where he was if you asked me back when the Block is Hot came out. So here is the WACKEST MOST FUCKED UP SONG ADD-2 HAS HEARD PERIOD.... Young Spuset's 'Lets Stay Together'. If you can make it thru the whole song I tips my hat to you...
Do you have an opinion on who has the worst song of all time....Click here....
http://www.hiphopdx.com/blogs/add2/2008/07/08 I know its been a minute since the last post but I been doing recording alot of new music lately so I havent had the time BUT I got a ... more -
David Banner Discusses New Movies & Album Details
During the past year, many have asked where Mr. Mississippi has been [click to read]. Well, David Banner has been working. The rapper turned actor has a couple of high-profile movies on the way and he's got a new album to promote. With all of this coming up soon, he's got his eyes on the release of his first project in line, his new album The Greatest Story Ever Told.2
For his latest single, "Shawty Say," which features a samples Lil Wayne line for its chorus, Banner takes time to speak for the ladies.
Read more here.....
http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.7281 During the past year, many have asked where Mr. Mississippi has been [click to read]. Well, David Banner has been working. The rapper ... more -
John Lewis Deserves Americans Support in Atlanta Congressional Race
John R. Lewis, the son of Alabama sharecroppers, was born February 21, 1940, just outside of Troy, Alabama. He grew up in a time when African Americans in the South were subjected to a humiliating segregation in education and all public facilities, and were effectively prevented from voting by systematic discrimination and intimidation. While attending segregated public schools in Pike County, Lewis was compelled into action. The message came by radio broadcast. It was the voice of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr._ calling all to boycott the Montgomery Bus system following the arrest of Rosa Parks. The Montgomery Bus Boycott has been written into history as the major pivotal point in the Civil Rights Movement by means of non-violence.
As John Lewis began to hear his calling clearer and clearer he furthered his education by attending the American Baptist Theological Seminary in Nashville, Tennessee and later earned a Bachelor's Degree in Religion and Philosophy from Fisk University. As a student, he undertook a systematic study of the techniques and philosophy of nonviolence, and with his fellow students, prepared thoroughly for their first actions. Lewis, unwavering dynamic influence over his peers allowed him the opportunity to start organizing students and others to join the Civil Rights Movement following the direction of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. As the movement continued to gain momentum John Lewis joined the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) that would forefront the student action effort against Jim Crow across America.
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Read more at link above on Congressman John Lewis - D. Atlanta, Georgia
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From TouchArt.net and OneEarthBlog.blogspot.com John R. Lewis, the son of Alabama sharecroppers, was born February 21, 1940, just outside of Troy, Alabama. He grew up in a time when ... more -
Lil Wayne signs digital deal for Carter III
After a week in which he has gone back and forth due to his comments about mixtape deejays in Foundation Magazine, Lil Wayne quietly signed a deal to sell digital copies of Tha Carter III directly to his fans. Wayne is partnering with the digital distribution company Musicane to sell his upcoming album through his website, social networking pages and an official blog. Musicane will use a viral online player much like MySpace and iMeem to offer DRM free MP3s of individual songs as well as the whole album.
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http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.7072 After a week in which he has gone back and forth due to his comments about mixtape deejays in Foundation Magazine, Lil Wayne quietly s... more -
Trick Daddy: Thug Life
Now that R&B singers are using it to define themselves, it’s pretty safe to assume the word “thug” has lost its original meaning. In 1997, roughly a year after Tupac Shakur passed away, Trick Daddy Dollars placed his image on a food stamp and took it upon himself to try and cater to an audience clamoring for a representation of thug life. The digital era may have ushered in the EBT card in place of the food stamp, and he’s dropped the “dollars” from the end of his name, but Trick Daddy still holds himself responsible for representing the thugs of the world.
After over a decade at the house he helped build, Trick is about to introduce a new generation of Miami artists to the game via his Dunk Ryders label. The true definition of a thug remains as hard to define as it was when Tupac shouted it out for everyone to hear. If it involves parenting, community outreach, mentoring newer artists and broadening your original goals while the money keeps coming in, then it’s hard to imagine ‘Pac would be mad.
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http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/features/id.1140 Now that R&B singers are using it to define themselves, it’s pretty safe to assume the word “thug” has lost its original meaning. ... more -
Doo Wop airs new video against Lil Wayne's remarks
After last week's touted video made by New York veteran deejay Doo Wop [click to view], the legend heard Lil Wayne's reaction on DJ Drama's show [click to read], and still has an axe to grind.
Doo Wop explained to HipHopDX, "The first time he said that foul shit about mixtape deejays , it pissed me off, but my reaction was more like, 'This cat is really buggin'. So i was said, 'Okay, let me just have a little fun and put together a video on behalf of the 'mixtape deejay so the public could see how his own bosses credit the deejay for making Lil Wayne.'
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http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.7054 After last week's touted video made by New York veteran deejay Doo Wop [click to view], the legend heard Lil Wayne's reactio... more -
Lil Flip In Car Accident, Rapper Hospitalized
Late last night (June 3), Houston rapper Lil Flip was in an automobile accident in the Southwest section of the city. As a result, the rapper's car has been totaled, and he was sent to a nearby hospital with wrist and neck injuries.
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http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.7057 Late last night (June 3), Houston rapper Lil Flip was in an automobile accident in the Southwest section of the city. As a result, the... more -
Jermaine Dupri: Back In Business
Since the early '90s, Jermaine Dupri has never been out of business. Whether dancing, rapping, producing or running boutique labels to the most powerful imprints of the past and future, JD remains at the top of his game with an inventive ear and a groundbreaking business acumen.
Now with his TAG Records shattering the status-quo, the face of So So Def takes it one step further. HipHopDX pauses to revisit the makings of a man that made so many classics both in the background and foreground. With corporations investing in urban music at a crippling time too, Dupri provides the answers to keep the culture forward-moving, and remind us to be patient. The game don't wait, but as he carries the torch, Jermaine Dupri reminds us that he hasn't forgot where it comes from, and you can trust him.
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http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/features/id.1135 Since the early '90s, Jermaine Dupri has never been out of business. Whether dancing, rapping, producing or running boutique labe... more -
Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III (Snippets)
Wanna hear snippets from Lil Wayne's The Carter III???
Who Doesnt?
Click Here to listen.....
http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/mixtape/id.435 Wanna hear snippets from Lil Wayne's The Carter III??? Who Doesnt? Click Here to listen..... ... more
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