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Trisha Cummings <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 24 Nov 2003 08:23:06 -0500
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Hi Ken,

  As usual - you nailed it - its the sheep thing!!! 

    Bless you 
       Trisha


> anybody that molest kids should be dealt with. i was
> only refering to this case with eariler remarks. i
> will say that jacksom may be being extorred. being
> blak is not what made him such a target, his past
> actions and statements would mean he had to take extra
> care not to be in a no win situations.
> now. as to kobe, he may be in a setup. that will be
> determined by a jury. as to oj, i'll defer to the
> jury. some anger was set up by a trial by new media.
> as to rodney king and the 4 cops, the jury said there
> was lots of other evidence than the 2-3 minute vidio
> clip, so again i defer to the jury. as to senteces in
> drug cases, any sentences white or black is terrible.
> i think drugs should be legalized.
> 
> as to a remark that a black person can't make it in
> this country, i have too manmy black friends that are
> better off than i am. i know them personally and i
> know where they came from. they maybe are not
> millionaires or fameous, but, they have made it. i
> dismiss out of hand that it cannot be done, while i'll
> give it this, it was not easy.
> 
> as to a remark that bush admin was anti black, i think
> a history lesson is in order. ike ordered troops into
> arkansas to enforce the desegregation while democratic
> governors were "standing in the school house door."
> 
> in the early 60's it took republican votes in the
> house and especially the senate to pass the civil
> rights act becouse southern democratic senators like
> fulbrite in arkansas and gore in tenn. were voteing
> against it. yes, that is al gores father and bill
> clintons mentor and hero. again with the voting rights
> act. same senario.
>   if women mean anything reagan nominated the first
> woman to the supream court.
>   bush 41 nominated the first black man for the
> supream court. the democrats "borked" him. he did hang
> in there and got confirmed. also bush 41 signed into
> law the ADA.
>   clinton did put ron brouwn into the commerce dept
> head in the cabinate, a 2nd tear seat at the table.
>   bush 43 has black in two of the most powerful seats
> at the table, sec of state and national security
> advisor (a black woman origionally from birmingham
> ala.) and has a latino in the cabinate too i think. he
> has now nominated a black woman to the second most
> powerful court in the country. the DC circuit is well
> known as a springboard to the supream court. she is
> being block by a unprecidented fillibuster, using a
> senate procedure rule to in effect change the
> constitutional requirements for concent by the senate.
> this is being organised by ted kennedy and robert kkk
> byrd. hey guys i thought the democrats cared for you
> guys. you consistantly give them 95 % of your vote,
> looks like you are being stabbed in the back. most
> certainly being short changed.
>   we want poor black children to do well in school
> but, the education scores have dropped every year
> since the federal dept of education was formed even
> though spending has increased every year. need i say
> more here.
>    also when the number 1 money spending school system
> in the u.s.(DC spending 13,000 per student a year) is
> finishing dead last in the rankings and the parents
> asking for vouchers so they can send their kids to the
> same schools that the DC teachers sends their kids to,
> the compasionate democrats blocks that becouse the
> national teachers union is more important than these
> black kids.
>    i will also bring up a non issue issue of the state
> of south carolina's flying the confederate flag. a
> south carolina senator put it there when he was
> govenor. i say this just to show the hypocracy.
> 
>   i could say more, but, you decide which party is
> really anti black.
> 
>    as to a coming battle in this country, i have been
> predicting a battle in this country since i was in my> 
> 20's. not between the blacks and the whites, but,
> rather the population against an oppressive
> government. i have changed that now, becouse we have
> too many sheep in our population.
>    now, i probably have missed a few comments, but,
> the one that says we don't get it. i think i get it
> pretty well. there have been injustices, but, it is
> not as bad as it was in the past. let's not dwell on
> the past to the point that we are blind to the present
> and the future. lets learn from it and move forward.
> lets give credit where it is due, and demand justice
> from those whom are withholding it still.
> 
> --- kat <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > I agree with Anthony.  Many cases of abuse aren't
> > reported because they are
> > too embarrassed, too scared, or are in denial.  I
> > have a lot of respect for
> > those who do speak out because it takes a lot of
> > guts to do so.
> >
> > Kat
> >
> > On Saturday 22 November 2003 03:29 pm, you wrote:
> > > I know that the parents in this case are very
> > questionable themselves
> > > and what they're after, but this is like those
> > priest sexual abuse
> > > cases, people tend to build those figures up,
> > believing they're goody
> > > goody two shoes who does nothing bad.  If the
> > individual like the priest
> > > and the pop star do bad to somebody, that victim
> > is usually too
> > > embarrassed to tell that powerful figure isn't all
> > they publicly appear
> > > to be.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Anthony
> > >
> > > Visit me at http://www.anthonyarnold.net/
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: St. John's University Cerebral Palsy List
> > > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
> > Of BG Greer, PhD
> > > Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 2:49 PM
> > > To: [log in to unmask]
> > > Subject: Re: this is not a joke
> > >
> > > Michael Jackson is being judged by some for the
> > same reason people judge
> > > persons witth disabilities when they are accused.
> > They assume a
> > > "difference" makes
> > > one prone to deviant behavior. However, the fact
> > that he himself stated
> > > he
> > > liked sleeping with young children does not help
> > his case. The motives
> > > of the
> > > parents are questionable in this case. Why did
> > they wait almost one year
> > > before
> > > bringing this too light? I just object to persons
> > bringing race into it.
> > > What
> > > about Woody Allen? I can't stand Allen for what he
> > did. As for O.J.,
> > > I'll go
> > > with Chris Rock who states "OJ hasn't been black
> > since he won the
> > > Heisman
> > > Trophy!"
> > >
> > > Bobby
> 
> 
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