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Seven Most Famous Black Republicans Today

Sure, there are more Democrats in the African-American demographic than there are Republicans , but a quick review of who’s Republican just might surprise you. Some of these names sure surprised us! Take a look and see who’s repping for that Elephant at MadameNoire.com

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Rush Limbaugh & His Clown Caller Attack Michelle Obama! [Video]

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SMH: Racist Signs Found At University Of Kentucky Calling Obama N-Word

So much for that post-racial America Obama was supposed to usher in. An anonymous vandal in Kentucky has been littering the University of Kentucky with elaborate, yet crude signs calling the President a ni**er. University of Kentucky officials are investigating two incidents in which someone hung signs that called President Barack Obama a racial epithet. On March 15, a professor noticed one such sign hanging on a door to the UK School of Law on South Limestone. He turned it in to campus police, who are investigating, said spokesman Jay Blanton. Early Thursday morning, third year law student Ches Clark said he found a sign affixed to a bus shelter on South Lime near Maxwelton Court. The sign said “How Do You Spell Ni**er? OBAMA.” The letters looked to be cut out of a menu, glued to another piece of paper and photocopied, Clark said. UK police could charge whoever posted the signs with third degree criminal mischief, Blanton said. It’s not clear whether anyone from UK was involved, but police are investigating because the first sign was on UK property, he said. Clark took the sign to his law-school class on racism and criminal law and posted a copy of it on his Facebook page. His law professor, Roberta Harding, said the sign looked juvenile, yet someone had gone to a lot of trouble to make it. The general sentiment in class was that whoever posted the sign should “get over” Obama being president, Harding said. “I think people were upset in a positive way,” she said. We’d never have imagined racists or rednecks in a place like Kentucky! SMH. Sadly enough, this is not the first time something like this has happened at the University of Kentucky. In 2008, two college-age men were arrested after hanging an effigy of Obama from a tree on the UK campus with a noose around its neck. Horrible. Source

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Can African Americans Change The World Like We Once Did? [Video]

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Child Support Rears It’s Ugly Head: ‘Do-Gooder’ City Councilman Wanted For Over $20k In Back Payments

Now, this here is just embarrassing. City councilman Ruben Wills boasts an impressive do-gooder resume: founding a basketball league for neighborhood youth, running a nonprofit group to help single mothers. What he doesn’t mention is that he has two outstanding arrest warrants for pending criminal cases, a Daily News investigation has found. Or that he’s a deadbeat dad who faces a civil warrant for nonpayment of child support. State tax officials said as of Feb.7, he owed $27,493. Saturday, Wills admitted he was aware of the two outstanding criminal bench warrants on cases in Manhattan and Long Island that date back several years, and apologized for not addressing them before being elected to serve his district. “There is no excuse,” he wrote in an email response to the News. “While these events are more than 10 years old, I take full responsibility and I have taken steps to remedy the situation.” Last fall, Wills, 39, beat out a crowded field to win the office held by the late Thomas White, which represents a large working-class swath of Jamaica, Queens. On his Council website biography, he says he became an “entrepreneur” at 21, starting “a home contracting business which became a center of opportunity for young adults, the formerly incarcerated, and other at-risk residents of the community to acquire the job skills necessary to escape the vicious cycle of poverty and prison.” Wills’ home contracting work appears to be where he ran into trouble with the law, a review of court and other records found. In both cases, law enforcement officials said, Wills could turn himself in and resolve his pending charges. They also point out none of the charges is a felony. It’s also remarkable that the existence of the arrest warrants has never been discovered before, given that Wills used to work for the state Senate and was the subject of a recent glowing profile in The New York Times. Yesterday, Wills declined to discuss details of the arrests, instead issuing a statement through his campaign spokeswoman, Lupe Todd. “These misdemeanor cases stem from business disputes years ago and I am regretful that I did not properly address them when they occurred. This was truly an oversight as it was my belief that these matters had been finalized. Nevertheless this was poor judgment on my part in failing to follow up on the full disposition of these matters.” Regarding the child support he owes, Todd said the civil warrant regarding the $27,000 refers to back payments Wills is contesting in court. She said Wills has been making regular payments starting with the date paternity was established. Wills “pays the monthly requirement of approximately $346 plus an additional $250 which goes against the arrears which are currently in litigation,” she said. SMH. Source

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US/UN Military Action In Libya Could Start As Early As Sunday

Now that Moammar Gadhafi has closed off the airspace around Libya and threatened to hit the people with a “final assault,” the U.N. has voted to take “all necessary means” to protect the people of Libya. The U.N. Security Council resolution was approved late Thursday with the backing of the United States, France and Britain, hours after Gadhafi vowed to launch a final assault and crush the nearly 5-week-old rebellion against him. President Barack Obama telephoned the leaders of Britain and France after the vote, the White House said. U.S. officials speaking after a closed-door briefing in Congress said the attempt to ground Gadhafi’s air force could begin by Sunday or Monday with the use of jet fighters, bombers and surveillance aircraft. The British Cabinet held an emergency meeting as British planes were expected to take part in the international military action. NATO envoys in Brussels also were considering next steps. Military experts cautioned that the consequences of such action are unpredictable. The former head of the British army, Richard Dannatt, said it was crucial to proceed cautiously “so we don’t get into the kind of situation that we got into in Iraq by not having a Plan B for the morning after.” But the Western powers faced pressure to act urgently after weeks spent deliberation over what to do about Gadhafi as his regime gained momentum. Gadhafi, calling in to Libyan television on Thursday, said his forces would “rescue” the people of Benghazi, the eastern Mediterranean port city that has become the de-facto rebel capital and staging ground. For those who resist, Gadhafi said, there would be “no mercy or compassion.” “This is your happy day, we will destroy your enemies,” he said, warning the people of Benghazi not to stand alongside the opposition. “Prepare for this moment to get rid of the traitors. Tomorrow we will show the world, to see if the city is one of traitors or heroes.” Gadhafi also pledged to respond harshly to U.N.-sponsored attacks in an interview with Portuguese television broadcast just before the vote. “If the world is crazy,” he said, “we will be crazy, too.” That should end any doubt you might have as to whether or not this dude is a nutjob. Libyan Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Kaim struck a more conciliatory tone, offering to negotiate a cease-fire with the rebels. He welcomed the Security Council’s concern for the people of Libya but called on the world not to allow them to receive weapons. “If any countries do that, they will be inviting Libyans to kill each other,” he said. The civil unrest in Libya started a little over a month ago. And the death toll is somewhere between 150 or over 1,000 people, depending on whether you ask Gadhafi or the rebels. Source

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Bolitics As Usual: Donald Trump Talks His Uninformed Sh*t About President Obama’s Foreign Policy

C’mon man, you’ve got millions of dollars stop with the publicity stunts and go sitcho a** down somewhere! Potential presidential candidate Donald Trump says he’s already better at foreign policy than President Barack Obama – and he’s not even in the White House yet! Last week in an exclusive ENQUIRER interview, The Donald blasted Obama for not having sent troops to Libya to prevent killings at the hands of madman Moammar Gadhafi. In a blistering new attack, Trump tells The ENQUIRER that Obama is “clearly in over his head” and says he grades him nothing better than a “D+” in his dealings with foreign governments. And the billionaire real estate mogul has backed up his words with actions. On March 10, Trump welcomed President Mikheil Saakashvili of the Republic of Georgia to Manhattan’s Trump Tower to formally ink a deal that calls for the building of two new Trump properties in the Eurasian country. The Celebrity Apprentice boss is investing $300 million to build a residential tower and a luxury hotel as part of Georgia’s effort to bring tourists and businesses to the former communist country. Trump, 64, told The ENQUIRER: “You see what’s happened with the Republic of Georgia and you see what’s happening to our country. You see what can be done with proper leadership. “We don’t have that leadership – we’re being badly decimated in this country. “We’re like a whipping post!” B*tch please. Source

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Blake Griffin Hypes Up Jordan Cameron For USC As (Mars Blackmon Spike Lee) “Mars Blakeman” [Video]

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A “Lil Positivity”: Ambassador Susan Rice Speaks To Young Women’s Leadership School In Harlem

Ambassador Susan Rice, the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, marked the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day on March 8 in East Harlem, New York. There she urged tomorrow’s strong woman leaders, the 11th- and 12th-grade classes of The Young Women’s Leadership School (TYWLS) of East Harlem, to continue to win their future through education. Ambassador Susan Rice speaks to roughly 120 students and staff from The Young Women’s Leadership School of East Harlem on March 8, 2011 These young women, primarily low-income students of color, have a remarkable legacy to uphold: for ten straight years, every single senior at TYWLS of East Harlem has been accepted to college with significant financial aid. Ambassador Rice spoke to roughly 120 students and teachers who gathered in the school’s multi-purpose gymnasium on 106th Street. “There is no greater source of empowerment and success,” she said, “than to have, and to insist upon getting the best education.” After the event, Ambassador Rice met and snapped photographs with Jo’Nella Queen Ellerbe, Marjana Chowdhury, and Tiara Kittrell, seniors who have been accepted to prestigious universities and who delivered introductory and closing remarks on Tuesday. Together with their classmates, these young women carry on with their “most important asset,” as Ambassador Rice called it: “the education that you are getting, and the education that you will continue to get when you leave this great school.” Source

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A Lil Positivity: Uncle BDR Becomes Muslim For A Day To Teach Tolerance

Russell Simmons did his peaceful Hip-Hop guru thing on Sunday as part of a rally against an upcoming Congressional hearing that he and others say would basically study terrorism and Islam as one and the same. Some 300 people gathered in Times Square on Sunday to speak out against a planned congressional hearing on Muslim terrorism, criticizing it as xenophobic and saying that singling out Muslims, rather than extremists, is unfair. Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons and the imam who had led an effort to build an Islamic center near the World Trade Center site were among those who addressed the crowd. “Our real enemy is not Islam or Muslims,” said the imam, Feisal Abdul Rauf. “The enemy is extremism and radicalism and radical ideology.” The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, Rep. Peter King, has said that affiliates of al-Qaeda are radicalizing some American Muslims. He’s planned hearings starting Thursday on the threat he says they pose. King, a Republican from New York’s Long Island, told CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday that he sees an international movement with elements in the United States of Muslims becoming more radical and identifying with terrorists. Speakers at the cold and drizzly Times Square rally said King was targeting Muslims unfairly. “American Muslims are as fully American as any other faith community,” said Rabbi Marc Schneier, founder of The Foundation for Ethnic Understanding. Singling out Muslim Americans “as the source of homegrown terrorism” is an injustice, he said. Democratic Congressman Andre Carson of Indiana, one of two Muslims in Congress, said he wanted to say “to the Peter Kings of the world: We will not take your xenophobic behavior.” Imam Shamsi Ali, the leader of the Islamic Cultural Center on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, said, “We are here today because we love this country. We are here today because we want to see America remain the most powerful and the most beautiful country in the world.” Simmons promised “to make sure that this rally is taken to the next generation and to a new age” by enlisting entertainers and sports figures to tweet about it, including Kim Kardashian, who tweeted Sunday that she stood with Simmons in “promoting love and compassion.” A smaller group rallied a few blocks away in support of King’s hearings. Which side of this debate are you on? Is it time to stop linking terrorism in America to Muslim Americans? Source

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