Assata Shakur

[Sandy]

Oh, the Washington Times. Owned by the Unification Church.

I don't see a defense of Shakur here. The organization Assata's Daughters, to which Kaepernick gave $25,000, uses her name because they see her as a victim of injustice, not as a cop killer. One of their points in their educational program is the right to a fair trial by a jury of your peers, the point being that in a trial involving an African American defendant, peers would logically and reasonably be other African Americans. Shakur's conviction was made by an all-white jury, and is seen as an injustice in the black community, hence, this group's name. That also explains Kaepernick's support. He's given to a number of similar organizations for the same reason. That doesn't have anything to do with his credibility, or with cop killing. It has to do with their perspective of injustice.

Of course, if we apply your logic to the fact that you depend on The Washington Times for your information, that makes you a Moonie.

[KeithE]

[Rvaughn]

[Rvaughn]

[KeithE]

[Jim]

The MSM has been ecstatic over the black knee-knockers in the NFL who put down the flag and anthem, thus expressing their distaste/disdain for the country in which they become millionaires by simply bashing out each other's brains and breaking bones while mostly white onlookers watch with a certain fascination not to their credit...sorta like going ga-ga over boxers trying to kill each other for the money. The main-streamers haven't had so much fun since Dylan Roof, the white wing-nut, shot up the Charleston African-American church. Emanuel Kidega Samson, a black guy, shot up a Church of Christ congregation the other day, killing one white woman and wounding six others. He would have killed more but an usher put him down. The MSM made it a one-day story and it hasn't been heard from since. The former slaughter invoked protests and is still a prize story a la racism. The latter invoked no protesters and is now forgotten. Accusing a black of racism is a no-no and wouldn't be allowed even if he ground the flag under his shoes and graced it with warm spit. Only a white supremacist would write such trivia as this...right? The MSM duplicity is obvious but the same applies to MSM churches as well.

[Rvaughn]

[Sandy]

[Jim]

[Sandy]

[Jim]

[Sandy]

As I said, cite a non-right wing source to back up your claim. Find the support for anything you've claimed. It's common knowledge that President Obama's father was Muslim, that during his younger years he was an influence, and that he attended a Muslim school in Indonesia. There's nothing to indicate a strong, personal conviction about the Islamic faith in his life, however, since his Christian conversion experience took place before he entered any kind of public life. He never hid his involvement with Trinity, or with Wright, no reason to, since Wright was a successful, well accepted pastor within his own church and community. They were involved in community organizing in Chicago, given Wright's interest in that. Wright's highly publicized statement, taken in context, was nothing any more or less than Falwell or Pat Robertson's evaluation of America's spiritual condition, or their similar words on the subject. There's nothing, not a single thing, in Obama's personal or political life, or in his eight years in the Presidency, that even looks like it might have been an influence of Islam, though there would have been nothing wrong with that if there had been.

The bottom line here is that an African American man won a series of elections, including two rather significant Presidential re-elections, garnering more votes than anyone elected to office in the history of world democracy. He had two terms with some significant legislative accomplishments, and in spite of the stonewalling obstructionism that he faced, will go down in history as one of the more successful Presidents of the modern era. That irks and irritates you, to no end.

[Jim]

[Sandy]

[David Flick]