JESUS CHRIST'S RACE NO LONGER MATTERS TO ME

JESUS CHRIST'S RACE NO LONGER MATTERS TO ME:

I HOPE HIS COLOR & RACE DOESN'T MATTER TO YOU EITHER.

Merry Christmas Everyone!

"For unto us a Child is Born, unto us a Son is given." Isaiah 9:6

On today December 25th we celebrate the Birth of JESUS CHRIST.

Even though JESUS was actually born in the month of SEPTEMBER, due to the Judeo-Christian calendar we celebrate his Birthday on December 25.

We all know JESUS was a real Human Being, born in the Middle East to JEWISH parents.

As a curious Christian, I used to be caught up in Foolish arguments about JESUS' race, his Skin color, Eye color and Hair texture.

But no more!

I no longer care what Color JESUS was because such arguments keep Human Beings divided and at odds about Race Relations.

I now only care about the Truth of JESUS' Birth, his Ministry on Earth, his Crucifixion, his Resurrection and Ascension into Heaven where he now sits beside his Heavenly Father GOD Almighty.

Hallejuah!

~ Insisting Jesus Was White Is Bad History and Bad Theology

In trying to police his depiction, Megyn Kelly is wrong on both the facts and the essential universality of the Christian message.

Fox News television host Megyn Kelly told viewers on her December 11 broadcast that Jesus and Santa are both white men.

"Just because it makes you feel uncomfortable doesn't mean it has to change," Kelly said. "Jesus was a white man, too. It's like we have, he's a historical figure that's a verifiable fact, as is Santa, I just want kids to know that. How do you revise it in the middle of the legacy in the story and change Santa from white to black?"

Setting aside the ridiculousness of creating rigidly racial depictions of a fictitious character that does not actually exist—sorry, kids—like Santa, Kelly has made a more serious error about Jesus.

The scholarly consensus is actually that Jesus was, like most first-century Jews, probably a dark-skinned man. If he were taking the red-eye flight from San Francisco to New York today, Jesus might be profiled for additional security screening by TSA.

The myth of a white Jesus is one with deep roots throughout Christian history. As early as the Middle Ages and particularly during the Renaissance, popular Western artists depicted Jesus as a white man, often with blue eyes and blondish hair.

Perhaps fueled by some Biblical verses correlating lightness with purity and righteousness and darkness with sin and evil, these images sought to craft a sterile Son of God.

The only problem was that the representations were historically inaccurate.

Modern Western Christians have carried these images over into their own depictions of Jesus. Pick up a one of those bright blue “Bible Story” books in a Sunday School classroom and you’ll find white Jesus waiting for you, rosy cheeks and all. Or you could survey the light-skinned Jesus in any number of modern TV or film portrayals, including History Channel’s hit series The Bible.

Interestingly, the Bible is far less descriptive on the matter of Jesus’ skin color than we are. Christian scriptures say very little about Jesus’ physical appearance. They do not comment on his nose, eye color, skin pigmentation, or hair.

The glaring exception is Isaiah 53:2, which prophesies that the messiah won’t be much to look at, another fact that places the Bible at odds with the “well-groomed surfer-dude Jesus” who's often put forth.

If the Bible is silent on the matter of Jesus’ skin color, does it really matter that Megyn Kelly says Jesus is white?

Yes, actually.

As some historians and theologians have posited, the silence of the Scriptures on the issue of Jesus’ skin color is critical to Christianity’s broad appeal with people of various ethnicities. In a world where race often divides communities and even churches, the Biblical depictions of God’s son positions him as one who can bridge those divides.

For this reason, one American Presbyterian minister in the 1880s warned his flock not to trust popular images of Christ:

If He were particularised and localised—if, for example, He were made a man with a pale face—then the man of the ebony face would feel that there was a greater distance between Christ and him than between Christ and his white brother.’ Instead, because the Bible refused to describe Jesus in terms of racial features, his gospel could appeal to all.

Only in this way could the Church be a place where the ‘Caucasian and Mongolian and African sit together at the Lord’s table, and we all think alike of Jesus, and we all feel that He is alike our brother’.

In Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Advice for Living” column for Ebony in 1957, the civil-rights leader was asked, “Why did God make Jesus white, when the majority of peoples in the world are non-white?” King replied, “The color of Jesus’ skin is of little or no consequence” because what made Jesus exceptional “His willingness to surrender His will to God’s will.”

His point, as historian Edward Blum has noted, is that Jesus transcends race.

Those warnings hold just as true for believers today. Within the church, eschewing a Jesus who looks more like a Scandinavian supermodel than the sinless Son of God in the scriptures is critical to maintaining a faith in which all can give praise to one who became like them in an effort to save them from sins like racism and prejudice.

It's important for Christians who want to expand the church, too, in allowing the creation of communities that are able to worship a Jesus who builds bridges rather than barriers.

And it is essential to enabling those who bear the name of Christ to look forward to that day when, according to the book of Revelation, those “from every nation, tribe, people, and language” can worship God together.

Until that day arrives, though, can someone please tell Megyn Kelly that Jesus is not white?

Sources: The Atlantic, Fox News, YouTube

HAPPY THANKSGIVING 2014: ENJOY A PEACEFUL, BLESSED, SAFE HOLIDAY

**ENJOY A BLESSED, PEACEFUL, SAFE THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY**

PSALM 107:1

"Oh give thanks to the Lord, for He is good!
For His mercy endures forever."


~~~Note:

After the Thanksgiving holiday, I will share with you why the BLACK Churches in FERGUSON and the Community's Older BLACK Leaders are More to blame for the RACE RIOTS and OPPRESSION in that region than DARREN WILSON & BOB MCCULLOCH.~


Article Source: Statesman Journal

New Black Panthers Newberry Rally Exposes Severe Racism In N.C. & S.C.

Praise God!

Thanks to the New Black Panthers Party now the entire nation knows that severe Racism in the form of Lynching is still alive in states likes North & South Carolina.

Even though for the most part South Carolina is more open to correcting Civil Rights disparities than North Carolina, Anthony Hill's recent dragging death proves South Carolina too needs more work in the area of Race Relations.

Just because North Carolina doesn't publicize its Hate crimes in the Media, doesn't mean it isn't happening because North Carolina is still one of the Racist states in America too.

Mission Accomplished!

Newberry, SC Law Enforcement officials have intentionally refused to charge the suspect (White) who shot Anthony Hill (Black, former U.S. Soldier) than dragged his body 10 miles down a road, with a Hate Crime because they don't want Feds "snooping" into their business.

Instead of standing with the New Black Panthers Party, local NAACP leaders are keeping their distance.

This is why I NO longer support the spineless NAACP organization.



At New Black Panthers Party Rally Hundreds Protest Handling Of Black Man's Slaying


Pumping fists in the air and hoisting signs that read, “Black Power” and “Justice for Anthony Hill,” a hundred or so demonstrators marched Saturday from a Newberry neighborhood park to the Newberry County Courthouse, rallying for a new day in race relations in this small town in central South Carolina.

Some came because, they say, local police pull black motorists over without cause, question black youths whenever they’re unsupervised and do not pursue crimes against blacks as vigorously as those against whites.

Others came because they believe the school system treats black students differently from white ones.

Still others came because of concerns over substandard conditions in the city’s public housing.

But all agreed the area’s racial tensions can no longer be ignored after a white man, Gregory Collins, was arrested in early June in the shooting death of his coworker Anthony Hill. Hill’s corpse had been dragged behind a truck for 11 miles, police said.

“Anybody who says prejudice is gone, I’m sorry but they’re wrong,” said Marquesia Abney of Newberry who demonstrated Saturday. “People need to wake up. I hear a lot of people around here say, ‘(This crime) has nothing to do with me.’ But if you live in this community, if you have kids, it does affect you. The message has to get out that people can’t do things like this.”

“It’s time people wake up,” added Abney’s friend Mike Raiford of Newberry. “Wake up and realize we get treated very poorly in this community.”

A group of local and national reporters worked the event while law enforcement officers from the city, county and state surrounded the peaceful event, some on foot, others in ATVs, on motorcycles or in vehicles.

The crowd, which included several demonstrators who came in from other states including Georgia and Texas, eventually swelled to several hundred at the courthouse to join in chants and prayers.

Police have Collins in custody, having arrested him a few hours after the incident.

That’s not enough, said Malik Zulu Shabazz, president of the New Black Panther Party, the primary speaker at Saturday’s event. He claimed during Saturday’s rally that Collins did not act alone and implied he should be put to death for the crime.

Instead, Shabazz said, law enforcement is sitting on its hands in an obvious hate crime.

“This case is an outrage. Gregory Collins has not even been indicted. That’s right. Over 40 days after (the) dragging and murder,” Shabazz yelled to the crowd through a megaphone on the court house steps. “When a man is dragged behind a pickup truck, that is a modern day lynching.”

But is it a hate crime, fueled by racial hatred?

Those interviewed in the crowd disagreed.

Some said the brutal nature of the crime is a undeniable echo of the South’s racially intolerant past when black men were lynched for failing to obey white men’s rules.

Others suspect that this was a crime of passion, the details of which have yet to be released to the public. Rumors swirl that Collins and Hill were at odds over a woman.

Others shrugged their shoulders in uncertainty over the true nature of the crime.

Newberry County Sheriff Lee Foster acknowledged Saturday that unsubstantiated rumors are making the rounds in town about a woman.

“But we have not received any credible information,” he said.

As for whether it’s a hate crime, Foster said it’s up to the U.S. Justice Department to make that decision. South Carolina has no hate crime statute.

As for other claims made by Shabazz including that Collins did not act alone, the sheriff said, “He’s obviously got information that we don’t have.”

Residents lined the route, watching as demonstrators marched by, chanting “I’m black. I’m beautiful” and “Long live Anthony Hill.”

“I don’t see the point of it,” said Ken Gunter, a white Newberry resident who watched the march from the sidelines. “I don’t see the hate crime.”

Gunter speculates it was a spur of the moment crime over private matters that had nothing to do with race.

Fellow watcher Paul Willis of Newberry agreed.

“I’ve talked to both blacks and whites and we don’t see what this has to do with race,” he said.







N.C. NAACP President Responds To Wake Co. School Board Meeting Ban


The President of the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP spoke out after he and three others were arrested during a Wake County School Board meeting last month.

Rev. William Barber and the others were charged with trespassing for disrupting the June 15 meeting. Following the arrests, officials sent a letter warning them to stay off school property or face legal action.

In response, Barber issued a statement Friday which said, "let them send us a thousand letters. What they need to do is send a letter of apology for wrecking the nationally acclaimed diversity policy and slowing the struggle to improve excellent educational opportunities for poor and minority children."

School officials said they can attend meetings if they provide written notice ahead of time and ask for permission

Meanwhile, Barber plans to hold a news conference before Tuesday's Wake County School Board meeting to make several demands from the board of education.

They include stopping segregation and promoting diversity, providing equity in funding, hiring and retaining high quality teachers, creating smaller class sizes, focusing on math, science, history and reading, promoting parent and community involvement and eliminating inequities in suspensions, graduation rates and performance.

The news conference is scheduled for Tuesday at 10 a.m. at the State Capitol building.




Large Crowd Expected For New Black Panther Rally


The New Black Panthers Party is planning to rally in Newberry Saturday in response to the murder of a man who was later dragged behind a truck for several miles..

Officials are expecting a large turnout and they're concerned about crowd control.

The group says they expect thousands of people to show up at the march.

The New Black Panthers say the murder and dragging of 30-year-old Anthony Hill, a black man, is an obvious hate crime. They've been demanding justice since the incident occurred in early June.

A suspect, 19-year-old Gregory Collins, was put behind bars without bond just hours after the murder.

Authorities continue their investigation, but say it's unclear as to whether it was a hate crime.






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Sources: FBI, Fox News, Midlandsconnect.com, Newsweek, The State, WXTL, Youtube, Google Maps

Elaine Marshall Uses The Race Card Against Cal Cunningham "White Male"

Elaine Marshall's Aide: "White Male Can't Win"


North Carolina Secretary of State Elaine Marshall's Senate campaign is raising questions about her leading Democratic primary opponent's viability, suggesting that former state Sen. Cal Cunningham wouldn't be on solid general election footing "because he's a white male."

"Marshall's going to be the only candidate who's going to be competitive. She's won statewide," Marshall consultant Thomas Mills told POLITICO, continuing sarcastically:

"[Cunningham] can't win because he's a white male. He's going to have a good solid base, right"?

"All those young white male guys? Is that who he's bringing? He doesn't have a base."

Mills predicted Cunningham would strike out with Black voters in the primary fight, calling that a bad omen for the general election.

"If he gets two percent of the vote in the African American community in the Primary, I'd be shocked," said Mills, referring to Cunningham. "And if African Americans don't vote at 20 percent in the general, Democrats can't win in this state anyhow."

Cunningham spokeswoman Angela Guyadeen wouldn't respond directly to the Marshall campaign's charge, but said in a statement: "Cal Cunningham's campaign is focused on the key issue facing North Carolina: creating jobs and restoring our economy."

The two Democrats are competing for their party's nomination with Ken Lewis, an African-American attorney. The three face off in a vote next Tuesday, and if no candidate takes 40 percent of the vote they'll move to a June 22 runoff.

A SurveyUSA poll released this week showed Marshall clinging to a narrow edge over Cunningham, leading 23 percent to 19 percent, with 10 percent of the vote going to Lewis. But Cunningham, the preferred candidate of national Democrats, has been chipping away at Marshall's name identification advantage with a wave of television ads and he's the only candidate in the race to go on the air so far.

That's about to change. Marshall's going on television starting on Thursday with a 30-second spot that describes her as "the only Democrat for Senate with the experience and the guts to clean up the mess in Washington." Marshall campaign manager A.J. Carillo said the ad would run "mostly statewide, except for a few smaller markets."


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Sources: Politico, Wikipedia, Google Maps

Is Sandra Bullock Also Racist Or A White Supremist?

Sandra Bullock's Husband's Neo-Nazi Friends


Jesse James' mistress did a sexy Nazi photo shoot and reportedly has White Power mementos on her skin and in her home. His ex-wife is married to a reported skinhead. How many neo-Nazis can you date without being one?

Michelle 'Bombshell' McGee denies being a white supremacist: Her sexy Nazi photo shoot was for fetishists, she says, and the W P tattooed on the backs of her thighs stands not for "white power" but the revolting-in-a-different-way.

She says, "Jesse and I had a conversation about it and he says a lot of his friends have the tattoo." (Is that an inside joke? That statement could use context, including an updated assessment on McGee's believability.

She has said she's Amish, as well as a third-generation French Canadian.

Is that even possible?) Suing for custody of their children, her ex-husband said she had "child block magnets on the refrigerator that spell out 'White Power'," and that her older son from a different relationship "is Jewish and she think it's funny that she makes the Nazi salute."

Then we have Jesse's ex-wife Janine Lindemulder, porn star and mother of his children. Her new husband is Jeremy Aikman, a multiple-time felon and reportedly "an admitted skinhead." Jesse and Sandra fought to revoke Lindemulder's custody, citing her marriage to Aikman as evidence of a negative environment for children. (Or, um, anyone.) So Jesse James has a degree of separation from these people—but why are there so many of them in the first place? How naive could he have been to his friends' racist and antisemitic ties and leanings?

Finally, Crushable notes concern over Jesse's West Coast Choppers logo resembling Germany's Iron Cross, which appears in Nazi memorabilia. (Albeit elsewhere, too.) Are we whipping ourselves into a paranoid frenzy, or is this guy uncomfortably close to the white supremacy movement? Way to harsh our racially harmonious Blind Side mellow, Jesse.




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Sources: Gawker, NY Post, TMZ, Fox News, Crushables, US Magazine, Huffington Post, Lionsgate Films, The Young Turks, Youtube, Google Maps

500+ Angry Comments On Charlotte Observer Website Expose City's Racism

Today 500+ angry comments were posted on the Charlotte Observer website following backlash from Wealthy White Citizens (Ballantyne) who refused to allow an Affordable Housing community to be constructed in their area of the city.

This helps to prove Charlotte is indeed one of America's most Racist cities.

Please don't let the recent election of Charlotte's Black Mayor Anthony Foxx (Democrat) fool you.

Anthony Foxx is a Token Black Politician thus the reason for his election.

Charlotte's White citizens knew he would do absolutely NOTHING to change things.

In fact Foxx was a lesser threat to changing Charlotte's "Good Ole' Boy" system than his White, Republican opposition John Lassiter.

That's why Anthony Foxx was elected!

While on the campaign trail Foxx promised to NO longer build all of Charlotte's Affordable Housing in Poverty Stricken areas, but after hearing backlash from Ballantyne's Wealthy White citizens (many of whom haven't seen a Tax Increase in 6 years while Blacks have!), Mayor Foxx and other Weak City Leaders decided to abort this plan.

Of course I couldn't copy and paste 500+ comments however, I wanted you to read some of the ones I included in this post.

The tone of those comments prove Charlotte-Mecklenburg, North Carolina has a long way to go in improving Race Relations and explain why Charlotte's Public Schools are extremely Segregated.

What are Charlotte's Black Leaders doing about this crisis?

NOTHING!

They are too afraid.

Which is why I NEVER vote for Charlotte's Black Politicians.

By the way since Democrats rule Charlotte you can blame them for all of this Racism.

If your Black or Hispanic DON'T MOVE TO CHARLOTTE, NC!

Unless your name is Barack Obama or Eric Holder, you won't be welcome.

"Blacks get back!"

Isn't this 2010? What a shame and disgrace.

Now Check out Anthony Foxx's lying Mayoral campaign video ("Fairness & Opportunity") and those controversial comments from the Charlotte Observer website below.









GeorgeJefferson wrote on 02/23/2010 02:48:47 PM:

Well, we're movin on back....to the crack
To a deluxe apartment in Double Oaks
Yeah, we're movin on back....to the crack
Somebody ate our piece of the pie.

Beans don't burn on the golf course
Beans don't burn at the club.
Ain't never gonna get a chance know
To eat at the Fox and Hounds Pub

Well, we're movin on back....to the crack
To a deluxe apartment in Double Oaks
Yeah, we're movin on back....to the crack
CHA ate our piece of the pie!!!!!!!!


kudzu wrote on 02/23/2010 12:15:17 PM:

Watch the "white flight"...LOL!!!


koufy wrote on 02/23/2010 12:13:32 PM:

Ballantyne 1 Section 8,Thugs,Ghetto 0


FoD wrote on 02/23/2010 12:24:40 PM:
Replying to Ribbit (02/23/2010 12:10:34 PM):
"Maybe I am misunderstanding your comment, but the picture above of the 300+ people who showed up for the meeting are by far NOT all white and I know some of them and can tell you they are not all wealthy. This community is a lot more than Ballantyne Country Club.":

89% of the residents of the area under discussion are White.

4% are Black, 4% are Asian and the rest are varied.


FoD wrote on 02/23/2010 02:48:41 PM:
Replying to peregrino (02/23/2010 02:25:18 PM):
"Impressive use of data; do you subscribe to Prizm? Of course, data hardly outmatch "Oh, yeah?!!" as a debating point in these fora.":

No - sure don't. Just found a site with very reliable data.

And you're certainly right - "Data" just doesn't run well in a head to head debate with "Oh, yeah"!


steelie69 wrote on 02/23/2010 02:48:27 PM:

Comon, people. Everyone knows that section 8 housing residents never attract or conduct criminal activity. That's just a myth. They are all hard-working god-fearing christians.


apoIIo21 wrote on 02/23/2010 02:47:17 PM:

I suppose you Yuppies and DINKS didn't like "us Westsiders" blocking the entrance your farce of a project, the Whitewater Center, you know, the NON_Profit that still owes the County and City over $7 million dollars? That joke of a project WE didn't want in our backyard but got it anyway?

Your pleas are falling on deaf ears over here and we're laughing our a sses off.


conas wrote on 02/23/2010 02:43:48 PM:
Replying to ebowman29 (02/23/2010 02:29:35 PM):
""It proves that 26 more housing units are not gonna cause the destruction of Ballantyne."

Except, its 86, not twenty six. And no one is saying this is the cause of destruction. What is does do is set a precedence for even MORE unnecessary development for this area, and an element of...":

What's wrong with a bus stop? Seems like it would be a benefit.


peregrino wrote on 02/23/2010 02:39:33 PM:

The whole point of a developer partnership is to get some federal guaranteed support for a development. I guess the local construction industry is doing fine without support.


peregrino wrote on 02/23/2010 02:38:53 PM:
Replying to ebowman29 (02/23/2010 02:29:35 PM):
""It proves that 26 more housing units are not gonna cause the destruction of Ballantyne."

Except, its 86, not twenty six. And no one is saying this is the cause of destruction. What is does do is set a precedence for even MORE unnecessary development for this area, and an element of...":

Read the article. Only 26 of the units were designated for <$20K (30% of the area's median income). "Affordable" is a misnomer. The rest of the property is designated for people earning 60% of the median income--which actually puts them close to the median income for Charlotte. The whole point of a developer partnership.


apoIIo21 wrote on 02/23/2010 02:35:15 PM:
Replying to ebowman29 (02/23/2010 02:29:35 PM):
""It proves that 26 more housing units are not gonna cause the destruction of Ballantyne."

Except, its 86, not twenty six. And no one is saying this is the cause of destruction. What is does do is set a precedence for even MORE unnecessary development for this area, and an element of...":

when you get the bus stop, low lifes, crime and fast food joints out of my neighborhood, we'll join your fight, otherwise, I say plop 'em down right at your front door.


ebowman29 wrote on 02/23/2010 02:29:35 PM:

"It proves that 26 more housing units are not gonna cause the destruction of Ballantyne."

Except, its 86, not twenty six. And no one is saying this is the cause of destruction. What is does do is set a precedence for even MORE unnecessary development for this area, and an element of neighborhood it brings in... extending the CATs line, throwing up more fast food restaurants, and even MORE housing. WE DON'T NEED IT. I don't want a freaking bus stop in front of my house.


peregrino wrote on 02/23/2010 02:25:18 PM:
Replying to FoD (02/23/2010 12:51:10 PM):
"Of the 33,905 residents of that area, 3.3% have income below the Poverty Level (four-person family unit with two children, the 2008 poverty threshold is $21,834).

That means Ballantyne ALREADY has 1,118 residents making less than poverty wages.

We're talking 86 housing...":

Impressive use of data; do you subscribe to Prizm? Of course, data hardly outmatch "Oh, yeah?!!" as a debating point in these fora.


david95 wrote on 02/23/2010 02:19:19 PM:

I hope GeoBusshh doesn't own a plane.


FoD wrote on 02/23/2010 02:01:48 PM:
Replying to Ribbit (02/23/2010 01:35:33 PM):
"No, not "the destruction of Ballantyne" but I don't think that is the true concern by the commumity. And the point is, there is affordable housing if you want to pay your OWN legally earned and taxed wages for it.":

What makes you think those 1,100 people are NOT getting some kind of assistance?

And the "reasons" given for "why not" in Ballantyne are as many and varied as were the "reasons" for the invasion of Iraq. This one gets blown out of the water, make up another one.

NIMBY - simple as that


BofAisSatan wrote on 02/23/2010 01:43:03 PM:

Hate..Hate..Hate..It bores me and takes up all of my time! I'd go back to Palm Springs if those damm Kardashians didn't take up all of my time when I go out there.

What's a devil to do for a little R&R around here. Oh, well off to Scorpios!!
Tootles-


BofAisSatan wrote on 02/23/2010 01:36:34 PM:

BofAisSatan's comment is abusive and has been removed.


david95 wrote on 02/23/2010 01:36:00 PM:
Replying to DidHeReallySayThat (02/23/2010 01:30:11 PM):
"The sad thing is GeoWBussh isn't wrong.":

Wouldn't know. His hatred is so far out there, I refuse to read it. If he had something to say, and actually wanted people to read it, he should approach it differently. He may be right, but does it matter if nobody reads it?


Ribbit wrote on 02/23/2010 01:35:33 PM:
Replying to FoD (02/23/2010 01:26:44 PM):
"It proves that 26 more housing units are not gonna cause the destruction of Ballantyne.":

No, not "the destruction of Ballantyne" but I don't think that is the true concern by the commumity. And the point is, there is affordable housing if you want to pay your OWN legally earned and taxed wages for it.


apoIIo21 wrote on 02/23/2010 01:27:51 PM:
Replying to JT_Lancer (02/23/2010 01:19:08 PM):
"In other words, the govt has a right to STEAL money from those who earned it (at the expense of the earner's families) in order to subsidize the housing of those who DIDN'T earn it?":

Do you post rhetorical questions just to read your own type?

You already know the answer to your own question. If not, you'll need to go back and take government 101 again.


DidHeReallySayThat wrote on 02/23/2010 01:26:47 PM:

I still would like to have seen the faces of the Ballantynians when this was first announced elbow29.

I'm still laughing.


FoD wrote on 02/23/2010 01:26:44 PM:
Replying to Ribbit (02/23/2010 01:02:11 PM):
"If there are already 1,118 residents making less than poverty wages living in the area and they can afford to live there without the government's monitary help, doesn't that prove that there is already affordable housing in the area?":

It proves that 26 more housing units are not gonna cause the destruction of Ballantyne.

ebowman29 wrote on 02/23/2010 01:23:36 PM:
Replying to DidHeReallySayThat (02/23/2010 01:20:55 PM):
"LMAO! I'll bet the CHA pulls out of the Ballantyne deal... hahahaha...

Imagine the uproar of property taxpayers... I'm glad I don't live in Charlotte!

I couldn't stop laughing for an hour after hearing this initially. I could only imagine the looks on the faces of the Ballantynians......":

Ummm... they already did, did you just ignore the headline and entire article so you could post that drivel? Get a life and maybe a be a little more concerned about your OWN city than ours.


JT_Lancer wrote on 02/23/2010 01:23:24 PM:

Why is it that stealing is OK when the government does it, but, somehow, its frowned upon when private citizens do the same exact thing?


ebowman29 wrote on 02/23/2010 01:20:59 PM:
Replying to Berewicker (02/23/2010 11:04:19 AM):
""There are too many people, and too few human beings". ~Robert Zend
There are too many rich people in Ballantyn, and too few human beings...IMAO
Somebody needs to give these Ballantyn folks a tour of the section 8 housing they don't know..please visit this section 8 apartment complex...":

Coming from a person who lives in Berewick (I assume), also a community that organized, pickted, and fought against (AND WON) a low-income devleopment in their neighbor JUST LAST YEAR??? Talk about hyprocritical. I'm not rich by any means and I live in Ballantyne. Just because I don't want government-subsidized housing.


DidHeReallySayThat wrote on 02/23/2010 01:20:55 PM:

LMAO! I'll bet the CHA pulls out of the Ballantyne deal... hahahaha...

Imagine the uproar of property taxpayers... I'm glad I don't live in Charlotte!

I couldn't stop laughing for an hour after hearing this initially. I could only imagine the looks on the faces of the Ballantynians... lol.


ChileG wrote on 02/23/2010 01:20:21 PM:

Robert Zend also said he has a problem for every solution.


JT_Lancer wrote on 02/23/2010 01:19:08 PM:
Replying to apoIIo21 (02/23/2010 01:17:14 PM):
"Ballentyne will be worse off if the developer puts "affordable housing " on the property vs. the government.

We all pay taxes, we all subsidize things we don't like and this is one of those some don't like.

Ballentyne is no different than any other part of the city/county.":

In other words, the govt has a right to STEAL money from those who earned it (at the expense of the earner's families) in order to subsidize the housing of those who DIDN'T earn it?


apoIIo21 wrote on 02/23/2010 01:17:14 PM:
Replying to JT_Lancer (02/23/2010 01:14:09 PM):
"In other words, the govt has a right to STEAL money from those who earned it (at the expense of the earner's families) in order to subsidize the housing of those who DIDN'T earn it.":

Ballentyne will be worse off if the developer puts "affordable housing " on the property vs. the government.

We all pay taxes, we all subsidize things we don't like and this is one of those some don't like.

Ballentyne is no different than any other part of the city/county.


JT_Lancer wrote on 02/23/2010 01:14:09 PM:
Replying to apoIIo21 (02/23/2010 01:08:19 PM):
"I'm an uanffiliated voter. Wouldn't be caught dead subscribing to either party.

Yes, YOU have a right to live where YOU want, but the government and developers also have a RIGHT to put low cost housing where THEY want.":

In other words, the govt has a right to STEAL money from those who earned it (at the expense of the earner's families) in order to subsidize the housing of those who DIDN'T earn it.


therestofthestory wrote on 02/23/2010 01:14:05 PM:
Replying to Berewicker (02/23/2010 11:04:19 AM):
""There are too many people, and too few human beings". ~Robert Zend
There are too many rich people in Ballantyn, and too few human beings...IMAO
Somebody needs to give these Ballantyn folks a tour of the section 8 housing they don't know..please visit this section 8 apartment complex...":

Hop over to the apartment ratings web site and it has a 17% rating. The comments are not too encouraging.


apoIIo21 wrote on 02/23/2010 01:08:19 PM:
Replying to sunshine_76 (02/23/2010 12:39:41 PM):
"No, I'm not any more special than anyone else, but I still have a right to live where I want to live - which is away from public housing! It seems like on these forums unless you're a raging liberal Democrat you are completely chastized - I can't even mention that I'm a Christian without other...":

I'm an uanffiliated voter. Wouldn't be caught dead subscribing to either party.

Yes, YOU have a right to live where YOU want, but the government and developers also have a RIGHT to put low cost housing where THEY want.


ChileG wrote on 02/23/2010 01:03:08 PM:
Replying to Pier1211 (02/23/2010 12:57:52 PM):
"Oh pleeeeeeze, give Ballentyne folks their share of section 8 housing. Pleeeeeeaaze!":

if we want instances of class warfare, here it is.


Ribbit wrote on 02/23/2010 01:02:11 PM:
Replying to FoD (02/23/2010 12:51:10 PM):
"Of the 33,905 residents of that area, 3.3% have income below the Poverty Level (four-person family unit with two children, the 2008 poverty threshold is $21,834).

That means Ballantyne ALREADY has 1,118 residents making less than poverty wages.

We're talking 86 housing...":

If there are already 1,118 residents making less than poverty wages living in the area and they can afford to live there without the government's monitary help, doesn't that prove that there is already affordable housing in the area?


Ribbit wrote on 02/23/2010 12:58:16 PM:
Replying to FoD (02/23/2010 12:24:40 PM):
"89% of the residents of the area under discussion are White.

4% are Black, 4% are Asian and the rest are varied.":

Intersting. I'm not sure where you got those stats or what year they are from, but this link http://apps.cms.k12.nc.us/departments/instrAccountability/schlProfile05/profiles.asp is the report on Community House Middle School which would serve that particular piece of land (which is, by the way, extreamly overcrowded). It states that 67.3% of the 2008 student population was white, 12.5% African American, 8.5% Asian, 8.7% Hispanic, .4% American Indian and 2.6% multi-racial.


Pier1211 wrote on 02/23/2010 12:57:52 PM:

Oh pleeeeeeze, give Ballentyne folks their share of section 8 housing. Pleeeeeeaaze!


Spacegrass wrote on 02/23/2010 12:57:46 PM:

I know! I know!

Let's build secret bunkers underground for all the poor people to live in! And they can dig tunnels to get back and forth to work and all their secret poor people meetings.

You're welcome.


Lamont_Cranston wrote on 02/23/2010 12:54:14 PM:
Replying to CMS_educator (02/23/2010 08:51:54 AM):
"Every man is born equal. Not every man will end up equal.":

A more near correct statement is "Every man is born equally" - male sex cell and/female sex cell fertilization, gestation, and birth. Men are not born equal - to be so would mean that they each possesses the same talents, flaws, opportunities and etc...


FoD wrote on 02/23/2010 12:51:10 PM:

Of the 33,905 residents of that area, 3.3% have income below the Poverty Level (four-person family unit with two children, the 2008 poverty threshold is $21,834).

That means Ballantyne ALREADY has 1,118 residents making less than poverty wages.

We're talking 86 housing units out of a total of more than 16,700 existing housing units - and of those 86, only 26 are reserved for those making less than $29,000 a year.


ShepherdDA wrote on 02/23/2010 12:44:04 PM:

Wonder if Mayor Foxx will put his and his neighbors home values and quality of life where his mouth is and offer up his neighborhood for a little social experimentation? Not holding my breath. Let's take advantage of all the foreclosed properties all over the county and help those that are really trying to help themselves get into a real house rather than an apartment. This way they can be spread out all over the county and not just clustered in low income appartment blocks in any one are.


ebowman29 wrote on 02/23/2010 12:42:02 PM:

Fod-

Again, there is a difference between "low-income" housing and government subsidized housing. I have no problem with people who make a lower wage living in my neighborhood AS LONG AS THEY WORK FOR A LIVING AND CAN PAY FOR IT WITHOUT MY TAX DOLLARS. My point is, there is ALREADY affordable and lower-income housing available in Ballantyne that people who are making the level of income can afford.


ChileG wrote on 02/23/2010 12:41:45 PM:
Replying to CMS_educator (02/23/2010 12:28:55 PM):
"The only class warfare I have seen have been the insults hurled from outside of Ballantyne towards those who have an (in)vested interest there.":

by people who also would not want section-8 housing built in their neighborhoods.


sunshine_76 wrote on 02/23/2010 12:39:41 PM:
Replying to apoIIo21 (02/23/2010 11:23:06 AM):
"Soooo...you're special why?":

No, I'm not any more special than anyone else, but I still have a right to live where I want to live - which is away from public housing! It seems like on these forums unless you're a raging liberal Democrat you are completely chastized - I can't even mention that I'm a Christian without other posters going nuts!


justask wrote on 02/23/2010 12:32:33 PM:

You could buy a lot of Bus ticket's to San Francisco with a whole lot less money. Or even Atlanta where they also encourage entitlement.







Charlotte Citizens Protest Against Charlotte Affordable
Housing Project


The meeting started inside while people were still lining up outside. Hundreds showed up to hear more about a proposed public housing complex in the Ballantyne area. One by one, they fired questions and comments at the developers, Republic Development Group:

"What experience do you have creating something like this?"

"Can you not find a more suitable place than what is the southern gateway to our community?"

"Where I'm coming from is I don't want it here. My house is over one million dollars and I don't want the crap next to me."

The project took a hit Monday afternoon when the Charlotte Housing Authority issued a statement that it would not participate in the mixed income housing development. "Questions about certain aspects of the project's structure, including its density (the total number of apartment units relative to the cost of the land) and funding, prompted our decision," said Jennifer Gallman with the Housing Authority.

"We keep going," said Stuart Proffitt of Republic Development. Proffitt says he still hopes to build the 86 unit complex with another affordable housing developer. A representative from the Crosland Company told News Channel 36 the developer has asked if Crosland would manage the property if it were approved.

One man, who asked not to be identified, said he believed this was a case of "not in my backyard." "I live on the West side and this will be pushed to some other part of town," he said.

But opponents say that's not the case. They point to the fact that the proposed site, south of Ballantyne, off of Johnston Road, has no easy access to public sidewalks, little public transportation and already overcrowded schools.

Cynthia Jennings lives in the Ballantyne area. "People who live in low income housing want the same thing we all do. A nice place to live for their families. But the way the developer came in, through the back door, was sneaky and shady," she said.


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Wilson, Sanford's Embarrassing Behavior Exposes South Carolina's Hostile Racial History...North Carolina's Too

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Wilson Debate reopens deep S.C. wounds


U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson - at first sorry for his "You lie!" yell at President Barack Obama as he addressed Congress, but defiant since - is being taken up as a hero by conservative activists.

Wilson is being invited to speak in other states and raking in campaign contributions from across the country - almost $2 million since his now-famous shout.

At a large anti-Obama rally outside the U.S. Capitol three days after Wilson's outburst, thousands cheered when a speaker exclaimed, "I thank God for Congressman Wilson!"

Wilson's newfound prominence on the national political scene is being driven, in part, by the anger of another S.C. politician, U.S. House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, a Columbia Democrat.

Clyburn, with other black lawmakers, compelled Speaker Nancy Pelosi to call a vote reprimanding Wilson that she didn't feel was necessary.

Speaking with an influential liberal columnist, Maureen Dowd of The New York Times, Clyburn also made incendiary charges about Wilson.

Together, the two prominent S.C. politicians are helping to rip open the country's most festering wound - Race - only 10 months after the election of Pres. Obama, a self-styled post-racial Black President who wants no part of that centuries-old argument.

Former President Jimmy Carter, a son of the South and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, poured salt on the wound by accusing Wilson of racism for his shout at Pres. Obama the evening of Sept. 9 on live, prime-time television.

"I think it's based on Racism," Carter said Tuesday when asked about Wilson's outburst during a town hall meeting in Atlanta. "There is an inherent feeling among many in this country that an African-American should not be president."

Carter later tied Wilson's shout-out to anti-Obama rallies in Washington and town hall meetings around the country.

"I live in the South, and I've seen the South come a long way," Carter told NBC News. But, he added, "That racism inclination still exists. And I think it's bubbled up to the surface because of the belief among many white people - not just in the South, but around the country - that African-Americans are not qualified to lead this great country."

The day after his outburst, Wilson was asked whether it was tied to Pres. Obama's race.

"No, no," he told McClatchy Newspapers. "I respect the President."

But in response to Carter's comments, Wilson was less conciliatory.

"Congressman Wilson believes that President Carter's remarks are a distraction from the task at hand, which is a respectful debate over health-insurance reform and working to bring jobs to our communities," said Ryan Murphy, a Wilson spokesman.

In videos on his campaign Web site - joewilsonforcongress.com - Wilson says he's "under attack by liberals" but vows he "will not be muzzled."

Pres. Obama has resisted getting drawn into any new racial dispute.

The President said that he had accepted Wilson's apology, and that it was time to move on. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said, "The President does not believe the (broader) criticism comes based on the color of his skin."

RACE AND ITS CONSEQUENCES

In South Carolina, however, the specter of racially tinged politics still looms.

The National Newspaper Publishers Association, a group of about 200 black publishers, moved its planned January 2010 convention from Charleston to Charlotte, N.C., after Wilson's yell.

"We are asking people not to go to South Carolina and to make sure we do not spend our hard-earned money in a place where we are not wanted," Danny Bakewell, the association's chairman, told McClatchy Newspapers.

"Joe Wilson has confirmed that there are forces in South Carolina who have deep-seated racist feelings toward African-Americans," Bakewell said.

Clyburn, the highest-ranking African-American in Congress, made pointed remarks about Wilson to Dowd. In two columns, she used the Columbia Democrat's comments to argue Wilson was racially motivated.

In a column published Wednesday, Clyburn told Dowd that over the years he had tried to "look past" things that bothered him about Wilson.

Clyburn cited Wilson's 1999 vote against removing the Confederate flag from atop the Capitol dome - Wilson was one of only seven state senators to oppose the move.

Clyburn also cited the Lexington County Republican's "membership in some groups that call into question his feelings about the whole notion of white supremacy."

Pressed about that claim Wednesday, Clyburn declined to repeat it in an interview with McClatchy Newspapers.

Asked to name the groups he'd been referring to in the Dowd interview, Clyburn responded: "I have said that over time that he became affiliated with groups. I didn't say 'member,' I said that he was affiliated with these groups."

Wilson's campaign Web site lists the Sons of Confederate Veterans as among numerous groups to which he belongs. The Southern Poverty Law Center does not include the SCV among the "hate groups" it tracks, though a center analyst said about 2,000 SCV members are white supremacists.

Clyburn also said Wilson made "very vile comments" in December 2003 when a Los Angeles woman, Essie Mae Washington-Williams, said she was the biracial daughter of Strom Thurmond, born out of wedlock to the late senator and a black 16-year-old maid in his household.

Wilson, a page for Thurmond early in his political career, said then that the former governor and 1948 segregationist presidential candidate was a personal hero. He called Washington-Williams' claim "a smear on the image that (Thurmond) has as a person of high integrity who has been so loyal to the people of South Carolina."

In a subsequent bow to historical accuracy, Washington-Williams' name was added to the list of Thurmond's children on a monument to him on the S.C. State House grounds.

Clyburn also said he was furious over Wilson's decision to hold a town hall meeting last month, attended by hundreds from Wilson's majority-white district, at Keenan High School, whose student body isvirtually all black.

Keenan is in Clyburn's district, and his three daughters attended high school there. Clyburn said neither he nor numerous other colleagues he has asked - Democrats and Republicans - could recall another instance of a lawmaker having such a large meeting with constituents in the district of another congressman, especially one from the opposite party.

"It was absolutely in my face," Clyburn said.

Fred Beuttler, U.S. House deputy historian, told McClatchy Newspapers such a move was "very rare, if in fact it has ever happened before."

Wilson told McClatchy: "The decision to move the town hall to Keenan High School was a last-minute change in order to accommodate an anticipated larger crowd."

Wilson aides said the event's original location, Midlands Technical College/Northeast, was too small for his town hall meeting.

Clyburn, though, ticked off three nearby high schools in Wilson's district that could have hosted the gathering: Richland Northeast, Ridgeview and Blythewood.

For his part, Wilson said he was surprised by Clyburn's leading role in getting House Democrats, with seven Republicans, to pass a "resolution of disapproval" against him Tuesday.

Wilson told Roll Call, a widely read political newspaper in Washington, that he and Clyburn had been on friendly terms.

As evidence, Wilson said he'd voted in 1998 for Mignon Clyburn, one of the congressman's three daughters, to sit on the S.C. Public Service Commission.

But, on May 6, 1998, Wilson broke with most fellow state senators, including some Republicans, and opposed Mignon Clyburn, backing another candidate who received four votes.

S.C. Rep. Leon Howard, a Columbia Democrat and former head of the Legislative Black Caucus, said Wilson voted time and again against African-American candidates for a range of state posts.

Howard and Gilda Cobb-Hunter, D-Orangeburg, said even after Wilson left the General Assembly for Washington, he made calls to Republican legislators in Columbia to try to block at least one black woman from becoming a judge.

"He interfered with us electing black judges even when he was in Congress," Howard said. "During the time he was in the General Assembly, he never or rarely voted for an African-American for anything."

State Sen. David Thomas, a Greenville Republican, said he and Wilson became close friends while their desks were next to each other during the congressman's tenure in the state Senate.

"I know him like he's my brother," Thomas said. "He is absolutely not a racist. He would never say a bad word about anybody."

Ronald Walters, director of the University of Maryland's African-American Leadership Institute, said he'd been on eight black radio stations around the country in recent days, and the Wilson episode dominated discussion among listeners.

Carter's assertions about Wilson's outburst seem obvious to African-Americans, Walters said.

"THERE ISN'T ANY QUESTION IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY THAT THIS IS A RACIALLY MOTIVATED INCIDENT," WALTERS SAID. "MANY THINGS IN TERMS OF WILSON'S BACKGROUND AND PAST STATEMENTS EQUIP HIM TO HAVE YELLED THAT WITH A RACIAL MEANING."TARNISHING PROGRESS

From his professor's desk at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, Walter Edgar is dismayed by all the racial heat around the Wilson episode.

Edgar, author of a definitive history of South Carolina and head of USC's Institute for Southern Studies, said the state has made great strides toward binding its racial wounds in recent years.

Edgar points to election returns last November, when 26 percent of white South Carolinians voted for Obama - a larger share than in the other Deep South states of Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana.

The professor also noted that two years ago, a General Assembly dominated by white, male Republicans put a black man, Donald Beatty, on the S.C. Supreme Court.

"We in South Carolina have come a long way," Edgar said. "This isn't a perfect world, but things have changed."

Edgar fears the whole Wilson "You lie!" fiasco is a step backward for the state.

"This is very unfortunate for South Carolina," he said. "It is not helpful for the state to be in the national and even international spotlight.

"Coming on the heels of the (Gov. Mark) Sanford soap opera, this does not present the state in a positive light."




Doug Fox, North Carolina Official, Resigns Over Racist Email

North Carolina's top liquor regulator resigned Tuesday after sending an e-mail that reportedly showed a watermelon patch outside an altered photo of the White House.

Gov. Beverly Perdue demanded and received the resignation of Alcoholic Beverage Commission Chairman Douglas A. Fox after the e-mail mocking the first Black U.S. president was shown to Perdue's staff.

"I have accepted Doug Fox's letter of resignation. E-mails and images of this nature are offensive and unacceptable," Perdue said in a statement.

In his resignation letter, Fox offered to stay on until his successor was ready, but Perdue spokesman David Kochman said the resignation was immediate.

Fox was paid $110,000 last year in the job he held since being appointed by Gov. Mike Easley in 2004. The commission handles liquor law violation cases, sets prices and runs the state warehouse from which all ABC stores buy their liquor. The stores at which spirits are sold are run by local ABC boards.

The News & Observer and Charlotte Observer reported it acquired the e-mail sent from Fox's law firm to Bill Hester, a lobbyist for Southern Wine & Spirits, a major liquor distributor. The e-mail was sent on Nov. 14, 10 days after Barack Obama was elected president.

The e-mail, which had been forwarded by others several times before reaching Fox, showed the image of the White House, the watermelon patch on the South Lawn, and the phrase "There goes the neighborhood..." printed above the photo, the newspapers said. The e-mail contained no other text, but the subject line stated: "how true."

Hester declined to comment when contacted by The Associated Press. Message left Tuesday evening at Fox's Wilmington law office and a listed residential number for Doug Fox were not returned.

For the last year, Fox also has been president of the National Alcohol Beverage Control Association, which represents the 19 states with government-run liquor sales.



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America Awaits Lessons Learned From Race Relations "Beer Summit" With Pres. Obama

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WASHINGTON - Just as Congress nears a deal on health care legislation, President Barack Obama will have to set aside his top legislative priority to revisit the racially charged issue that stole the spotlight from his health care push last week — the arrest of his Harvard professor friend.

Obama will meet with Cambridge, Massachusetts, police Sgt. James Crowley and Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. at the White House on Thursday, each one chugging his favorite beer, in a public attempt to move past the emotional event.

Obama convened the "beer summit" after calling both men last week in an attempt to defuse the political fallout from his comment at a news conference that police had "acted stupidly" in arresting Gates at his home after responding to a call from a passer-by about a possible break-in.


He invited both men over for beer, to be served at a picnic table near his Oval Office if thunderstorms forecast for Thursday hold off.

Gates, who is black, was taken into custody by Crowley, who is white, after Crowley accused him of disorderly conduct for protesting the policeman's actions. The charges were later dropped.

The comments by Obama, the nation's first black president, inflamed matters further, and the subsequent outcry and constant commentary reached such a pitch that he was forced to acknowledge that he could have been more diplomatic with his words.

"Over the last two days as we've discussed this issue, I don't know if you've noticed, but nobody has been paying much attention to health care," Obama lamented to reporters last Friday.

Crowley is looking forward to the meeting, according to a spokeswoman for Cambridge and Massachusetts police unions that support him. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Crowley is bringing family members with him.

"He's aware it's a big opportunity to meet the president, but my friend Jim is a charming guy and I won't be surprised if the president and Professor Gates find him to be as pleasant as he is," added Andy Meyer, one of Crowley's softball teammates.

There was no immediate comment Thursday from Gates.

But the nation did get hear for the first time from Lucia Whalen, the passer-by who placed the phone call to police dispatchers to report a possible break-in at Gates' home. In a trembling voice, Whalen said she was pained to be wrongly labeled a racist based on words she never said. Police said the caller had reported a possible break-in by two black men.

Tapes of the call released this week revealed that Whalen did not mention the race of the suspects. Only when pressed by a dispatcher did she say that one of the two men she saw at Gates' door might have been Hispanic.

Her attorney, Wendy Murphy, said the three men overreacted, while Whalen was the only one who remained cool.

"The three highly trained guys who reacted badly are getting together for a beer," Murphy said. "The one person whose actions have been exemplary will be at work tomorrow in Cambridge. I don't know — maybe it's a guy thing. She doesn't like beer anyway."

It will be Bud Light for Obama, Blue Moon for Crowley and Red Stripe for Gates, the White House says.



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