James Eagan Holmes' 1st Court Appearance & Modus Operandi: PhD Social Experiment ("Analyzing WHITE People")

Comedian Paul Mooney describes James Eagan Holmes' Criminal Behavior & how he will Fool the American Criminal Justice System to avoid Punishment:

"A WHITE Man Shoots a bunch of people and goes before the Judge."
"The Judge asks him: WHITE Man why did you Shoot those People?"
"WHITE Man Answers: I don't know. I have Multiple Personalities."
"The Judge says: Multiple Personalities? Interesting. We will have to Study You."

"A BLACK Man Shoots a bunch of people and goes before the Judge."
"The Judge asks him: BLACK Man why did you Shoot those People?"
"BLACK Man Answers: "I don't know. I have Multiple Personalities."
"The Judge answers: Well one of those Multiple Personalities is going to Pay for these Crimes today, I don't care if its Bob, Tim, Steve, Somebody is going to pay for these Crimes today."


Welcome to AmeriKKKa where there are 2 forms of JUSTICE!
A NON- JUSTICE System for WHITE People & a Harsh JUSTICE System for BLACK People!

THE MEDIA & WHITE AMERICA IS ATTEMPTING TO HELP SAVE JAMES EAGAN HOLMES' LIFE BECAUSE HE IS WHITE & CONSIDERED TO BE AN ACADEMIC GENIUS.

JAMES HOLMES BASICALLY LIVED A PRIVILEGED LIFE BACK IN CALIFORNIA WHERE HE GREW UP & EXCELLED ACADEMICALLY IN ALL HIS CLASSES.

HE LEARNED ALL ABOUT INSANE HUMAN BEHAVIOR DURING HIS STUDIES, THUS JAMES EAGAN HOLMES WILL NOW PLAY CRAZY & WILL NEVER, EVER SPEND A DAY IN PRISON, NOR WILL HE FACE THE DEATH PENALTY.

THE MEDIA & GOVERNMENT SCIENTISTS WILL USE HIM AS A CASE STUDY. (HIS MIND, HIS DEVIANT BEHAVIOR & WHAT CAUSED HIM TO FLIP.)

IN FACT JAMES IS PROBABLY LAUGHING AT THE MEDIA, HIS PARENTS, THE JUDGE & HIS ATTORNEYS RIGHT NOW BECAUSE HE IS NOW FAMOUS AND GETTING OVER ON EVERYONE WITH HIS MASTER PLAN.

WHAT WAS JAMES' MASTER PLAN?

JAMES EAGAN HOLMES' MASTER PLAN WAS TO USE THIS MASSACRE AS A THESIS FOR HIS PHD STUDIES.

i.e., A SOCIAL EXPERIMENT!!!

JAMES WILL EVENTUALLY BE SENT TO A MINIMUM SECURITY COMMUNITY FOR PEOPLE WHO NEED A BREAK FROM SOCIETY.

HE WILL LATER WRITE A BEST-SELLING BOOK AND THERE WILL BE A MOVIE MADE ABOUT HIS LIFE.

IN ESSENCE JAMES EAGAN HOLMES WILL BECOME A CELEBRITY LIKE ALBERT EINSTEIN & JEFFREY DAHMER.

On Friday July 20, 2012 James Eagan Holmes formerly of California, Assassinated 12 People & Seriously Wounded 59 others in Aurora, Colorado.

Emergency Doctors are now saying that at least 9 More People will most likely DIE from their Injuries caused by James Eagan Holmes on July 20 when he SHOT them in Cold-Blood.

James will NEVER be sentenced to Death, nor will he Ever spend Life in Prison.

He will instead become a Huge CELEBRITY & earn tons of Money!


JOHN ALLEN MUHAMMAD & LEE BOYD MALVO (2 BLACK Men) Assassinated at least 10 People in the Tri-State Area of Virginia, DC & Maryland.

John Allen Muhammad, a Former U.S. Army Soldier who Served his Country for 15 Years and completed 2 Tours in Iraq, was by all accounts Seriously Mentally-Ill and probably Suffering from PTSD.

However on November 10, 2009 was Executed by the State of Virginia.
Lee Boyd Malvo is now serving LIFE in Prison.

Again Both JOHN ALLEN MUHAMMAD & LEE BOYD MALVO are BLACK.

Welcome to AmeriKKKa where there are 2 forms of JUSTICE!
A NON- JUSTICE System for WHITE People & a Harsh JUSTICE System for BLACK People!







Colorado theater shooting suspect makes first court appearance


The man accused of opening fire Friday in a packed movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, made his first court appearance Monday, giving the public its first look at the 24-year-old former doctoral candidate since his arrest.

James E. Holmes, his hair dyed various shades of red, looked downward, then straight ahead. He sat without blinking for long periods. At times, his eyes fluttered, then squeezed tight and reopened in a blank stare. Occasionally, his eyebrows arched, giving his face a mournful mien.

But the man who identified himself to police as "The Joker," dressed in a maroon jumpsuit over a white T-shirt, gave little indication that he was paying attention to the courtroom procedure that ensured he will be continue to be held without bond.

He is to be charged next Monday. Those charges are likely to include first-degree murder -- an offense that carries a possible death penalty, if he is convicted -- in the shooting deaths, given allegations over the weekend by police that there is evidence to suggest "calculation and deliberation" in the rampage.

Holmes is being held in connection with the early Friday shootings that left 12 dead and 58 wounded, and the subsequent discovery of his booby-trapped apartment, which authorities believe he rigged before leaving for the Century Aurora 16 multiplex.

Authorities have been tight-lipped about a possible motive in the case, and police spokesman Frank Fania told CNN late Sunday that Holmes has been uncooperative with investigators and requested an attorney.

Arapahoe County public defender James O'Connor has been assigned to the case. The Colorado Judicial Department declined to say whether Holmes requested a public defender. A telephone call by CNN to O'Connor's office was not immediately returned.

Holmes' court appearance will come a few hours before his family is expected to issue a statement.

Lisa Damiani, an attorney representing the family, told CNN the statement would be made at her San Diego office.

The family, which lives in San Diego, issued a statement Friday saying, "Our hearts go out to those who were involved in this tragedy and to the families and friends of those involved." It added, "We are still trying to process this information."

Over the weekend, Aurora Police Chief Daniel Oates told reporters that there was "evidence of, I think, some calculation and deliberation."

Holmes received deliveries over the past four months to his home and work addresses, which begins to explain how he may have obtained some of the materials used in the attack and those found at his apartment, Oates said.

As of late Sunday, at least 17 people remained hospitalized -- eight in critical condition -- in five area hospitals.

President Barack Obama met Sunday in Aurora with survivors and relatives of the dead, and thousands of residents gathered in the city for a prayer vigil that drew state and local officials.

"I confessed to them that words are always inadequate in these kinds of situations, but that my main task was to serve as a representative of the entire country and let them know that we are thinking about them at this moment, and will continue to think about them each and every day," Obama told reporters after the meeting at the University of Colorado Hospital.

"It reminds you that even in the darkest of days, life continues and people are strong and people bounce back and people are resilient," the president said, after describing the recovery of some victims. "Out of this darkness, a brighter day is going to come."

Though much attention has been paid to the "perpetrator of this evil act," that spotlight will fade, leaving behind just the good memories of those affected by the tragedy, he said.

Aurora is bracing for another emotional week as families begin making funeral arrangements. It was not immediately known when the coroner would release the bodies.

It also became clear that more people may have been killed if the gunman's semiautomatic rifle had not jammed.

Josh Nowlan suffered gunshot wounds but said he is happy just to be alive. "If that gun did not jam, I am full certain that I probably would not be here," he said Saturday from his hospital bed.

A law enforcement source, who spoke Sunday with CNN on condition of anonymity, said the rifle jammed because of a problem with the 100-shot magazine feeding it.

The military-style AR-15 had a separately purchased drum magazine, which can have trouble feeding bullets into the firing chamber if the gun is fired rapidly, the source said.

Investigators say the rifle was one of three guns used Friday by the suspect, along with a shotgun and a .40-caliber pistol.







Probe of shooting suspect James Holmes intensifies

A Computer, cellphone, homemade explosives and Batman mask all seized at the Colorado apartment of James Holmes could help shed light on the mind, motive and Modus Operandi of the suspected mass killer, a federal law enforcement official said Sunday.

The official, who asked not to be identified because he is not authorized to comment publicly, said the computer could aid the effort to determine how long the suspect had been allegedly planning the attack and other details of the massacre.

A maze of incendiary devices arrayed inside Holmes' apartment included 10 gallons of gasoline that was likely intended to serve as an accelerant to any fire caused by an explosion inside, the official said.

The devices included about 30 aerial shells commonly used in commercial fireworks displays.

The official said the shells had been cannibalized, reconstructed and set up in the living room, where a stream of wires connected them to a "control box" in the unit's kitchen. The box was disabled Saturday by bomb technicians using robotic devices and a controlled detonating device.

Also Sunday, the University of Colorado said it is helping authorities determine whether Holmes used his position as a graduate student to order materials for the potentially deadly booby traps.

Police said Holmes received deliveries over four months to his Aurora, Colo., apartment and the school. They haven't identified the contents. University spokeswoman Jacque Montgomery said the school is looking into those packages received at the school.
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The latest information represents more pieces to a puzzle authorities are constructing to determine what was happening inside the mind of the quiet, intellectually gifted neuroscience student suspected of morphing into a vicious killer.

Aurora Police Chief Dan Oates says Holmes, 24, has "lawyered up" and is not talking.

Was this killer mentally ill?

"It says a lot about the type of prejudice we have when we automatically go to the presumption that a clinical mental illness was the cause," says Praveen Kambam, a professor of psychiatry at the University of California-Los Angeles. "Even the surgeon general of the United States has said there's very little risk of violence or harm from a stranger who has a mental disorder.

"Not all bad behavior comes from mental illness. Sometimes it can simply be bad behavior."

In a résumé posted on Monster.com, Holmes listed himself as an "aspiring scientist" and said he was looking for a job as a laboratory technician.

The résumé, first obtained by The Press-Enterprise in Riverside, paints a picture of a brilliant young man brimming with potential: He worked as a summer intern at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla in 2006 and mapped the neurons of zebra finches and studied the flight muscles of hummingbirds while an undergraduate at the University of California-Riverside.

He also worked as a summer camp counselor to underprivileged children at a Jewish camp in Los Angeles in 2008.

In Rancho Peñasquitos, a community of picturesque hacienda-style homes surrounded by hills and canyons outside San Diego where Holmes grew up, residents have a hard time squaring the quiet teen who didn't call attention to himself with the violent image of Holmes emerging now.

Those who knew Holmes in the upscale San Diego community remember a polite young man who kept to himself and excelled academically.

"He was really talented, really smart," said Porsche Parkman, 19, who attended Westview High School with Holmes' younger sister, Chris. Holmes graduated from the school in 2006. "He was so nice and his family was always there for him. Nothing seemed wrong."

Her description of the young man seen with a ready smile in his high school yearbook photo stands in stark contrast to the 6-foot-tall gunman dressed in head-to-toe black body armor whom police say opened fire with multiple weapons in a crowded suburban Denver movie theater, killing 12 people and wounding 58.

Today, Aurora police portray Holmes as a suspect intent on killing, taking the violence even further by booby-trapping his apartment to kill the first person to enter, most likely a police officer.

"This apartment was designed to kill," Oates said. He said Holmes had a "high volume" of deliveries of materials and ammunition that could explain the aerial shells, trip wires and other explosive devices found in his apartment.

"What we're seeing here is some evidence, I think, of calculation and deliberation," Oates said Saturday. "If you think we are angry, we sure as hell are angry."

In the six months before the shooting, police said Holmes bought at least 6,000 rounds of ammunition, an AR 15 assault rifle, a Remington shotgun and two 40-caliber Glock handguns. He bought them legally, according to a federal law enforcement official who was not authorized to speak publicly.

Oates said Holmes used a rifle, shotgun and one of the handguns during the attack.

At the same time that authorities say he was buying ammunition and weapons, Holmes was in the process of dropping out of the University of Colorado's graduate neuroscience program in Aurora. He had joined the program a year ago, but by June he had withdrawn, the university said in a statement.

Dan Meyers, spokesman for the University of Colorado School of Medicine, would not say why Holmes left.

Oates said the FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit is working with local police to try to determine a motive for the shooting.

Holmes seems to have little online presence. Unlike many people his age, he does not have accounts on Twitter, Facebook or other social media.

University of Colorado biology student Kaitlyn Fonzi, who was living below Holmes in a student-housing complex in northern Aurora, had seen Holmes in the building several times and remembers a student who looked like any other on the medical and academic campus across the street from their apartment building.

"You never really think anything like this is going to happen," Fonzi said after the building was evacuated when police tried to defuse the trip wires they said Holmes set up.

In Rancho Peñasquitos, the suspect's family still lives in the two-story white house with a red-tiled roof where he grew up.

Holmes, who graduated with high honors with a bachelor of science degree in neuroscience from the University of California-Riverside, was raised in a math and science household. His mother, Arlene, has been licensed as a registered nurse for more than 30 years. His father, Robert, is a mathematician who develops statistical models for financial services, specifically looking at fraud.

Theirs is a community where neighbors are friendly and know each other, said one neighbor, Rose To.

"We know the parents as good neighbors," said To, whose home is across the street. "We watch out for each other here."

Lindsay Van Leeuwen, 32, lives three doors away from the Holmes' family. She has lived there four years and said she was probably one of the newest residents in the neighborhood. She doesn't know the family well, she said, but she received a card from them when her twins were born two months ago.

"It's scary. I'm shocked that it's happened right down the street," Van Leeuwen said.

Parkman and her husband, William, 19, remember a friendly family who kept to themselves but were supportive one another.

She became friends with Holmes' sister during their freshman year at Westview, about 3 miles from where the Holmes family lived.

"Her dad was really smart. Their mom was nice, quiet. They let (their children) be who they were," Porsche Parkman said.

William Parkman marveled at how Holmes had gone from a proud example of a successful graduate of their high school to one of the most hated people in the country.

"The news reports you hear about him, it's as if people are talking about one person in San Diego and one in Colorado," he said. "Who he is now is not who he was in San Diego."

On Sunday, ABC News aired a video showing Holmes as a shy, thin teen speaking at a science camp at Miramar College in San Diego when he was 18.

His presentation is on "temporal illusion," which he defines as "an illusion that allows you to change the past."

A woman who introduces Holmes in the video says he wants to become a researcher and make scientific discoveries.

She says his dream is to own a Slurpee machine, eliciting laughter from the audience and a smile from Holmes.


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Voter ID Suppression Laws Disenfranchise 50% Of Registered Voters In 2012; POLL TAXES!

Increasing Numbers of Registered Voters Could Lose Right to Vote because of New ID Laws

Generally speaking, election tacticians for both major parties pursue two strategies: make sure your supporters actually go to the polls on Election Day and try to persuade undecided voters to lean your way when they cast their ballots.

But this year, Republicans have aggressively added a new tactic…limiting the number of Democrats who are able to vote.

They have done this by passing state laws requiring voters to present ID, often with photos, on the assumption that voters who are too old or too poor to have photo IDs are more likely to vote Democratic.

For example, new laws requiring voters in Pennsylvania and Mississippi to show ID at polling places could result in thousands not voting in November.

State elections officials in Pennsylvania say more than three quarters of a million registered voters do not have the most common required documentation: a drivers license or ID card from the state Transportation Department.

In Philadelphia alone, more than 186,000 registered voters (18% of the city’s total registration) lack a license or state ID.

Many of these voters could be turned away in November unless they can provide the above forms of identification or a U.S. passport, student ID card, current military identification or ID cards issued to government employees.

The percentage of registered voters statewide at risk of not being allowed to vote is 9.2%, out of 8.2 million people.

The administration of Governor Tom Corbett had previously claimed that only 1% of registered voters did not have the required photo ID.

The new law was adopted by Republican lawmakers and Corbett over the objections of Democrats who argued that the restriction would disenfranchise thousands of voters, especially the poor, elderly and young.

A similar conundrum faces voters in Mississippi, where the voter ID law has a Catch-22 aspect.

Those who need to obtain an ID to qualify to vote must show a certified birth certificate, but for those who don’t have a birth certificate, they need to show an ID to get one.

Besides Pennsylvania and Mississippi, five other states have passed strict photo ID laws…Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Tennessee and Wisconsin, although Wisconsin’s law is being challenged in the courts.

Texas and South Carolina have also passed such laws, but they are being challenged by the federal government.

In Virginia, a law enacted in May requires those who show up without ID to cast a provisional ballot and then present ID within a few days for their ballots to count.



After 50 and 70 Years of Voting, Two 93-Year-Olds Sue to Keep Right to Vote without Photo ID

Viviette Applewhite, 93, of Philadelphia has become the face of a civil liberties lawsuit against the state of Pennsylvania for requiring voters to show identification before voting. The new requirement was signed into law by Republican Governor Tom Corbett on March 14.

The wheelchair-bound Applewhite says she has voted since 1960, but won’t be able to do so this November because of the new legal requirement. She doesn’t possess a driver’s license and is unable to obtain a birth certificate from the state, she says, making it impossible for her to show the requisite ID at the polls.

Another 93-year-old plaintiff, Bea Bookler, first voted for Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1940. She has the documents needed to obtain a valid photo ID, but state law requires that she present them in person and she is too frail to do so.

Representing Applewhite, Bookler and eight other plaintiffs are the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Association for the Advancement of Color People. They contend the law will disenfranchise tens of thousands of eligible Pennsylvanians who lack ID.

A 2006 survey by the Brennan Center for Justice concluded that about 13 million adult American citizens lack the kind of proof needed to comply with voter ID laws.


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Obama Admin Nullifies "No Child Left Behind", Grants Waivers To States For Equal, Quality Education

‘No Child’ Law Whittled Down by White House

In just five months, the Obama administration has freed schools in more than half the nation from central provisions of the No Child Left Behind education law, raising the question of whether the decade-old federal program has been essentially nullified.

On Friday, the Department of Education plans to announce that it has granted waivers releasing two more states, Washington and Wisconsin, from some of the most onerous conditions of the signature Bush-era legislation. With this latest round, 26 states are now relieved from meeting the lofty — and controversial — goal of making all students proficient in reading and mathematics by 2014. Additional waivers are pending in 10 states and the District of Columbia.

“The more waivers there are, the less there really is a law, right?” said Andy Porter, dean of the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education.

While No Child Left Behind has been praised for forcing schools to become more accountable for the education of poor and minority children, it has been derided for what some regard as an obsessive focus on test results, which has led to some notorious cheating scandals. Critics have also faulted the law’s system of rating schools, which they say labeled so many of them low performing that it rendered the judgment meaningless.

In exchange for the education waivers, schools and districts must promise to set new targets aimed at preparing students for colleges and careers. They must also tether evaluations of teachers and schools in part to student achievement on standardized tests. The use of tests to judge teacher effectiveness is a departure from No Child Left Behind, which used test scores to rate schools and districts.

Congress has tried and failed repeatedly to reauthorize the education law over the past five years because Democrats and Republicans cannot agree on an appropriate role for the federal government in education. And so, in the heat of an election year, the Obama administration has maneuvered around Congress, using the waivers to advance its own education agenda.

The waivers appear to follow an increasingly deliberate pattern by the administration to circumvent lawmakers, as it did last month when it granted hundreds of thousands of young illegal immigrants a reprieve from deportation. The administration has also unveiled policies to prevent drug shortages, raise fuel economy standards and cut refinancing fees for federally insured mortgages.

Critics question whether the waivers have done much to genuinely shift the focus of federal education reform, given their continued reliance on standardized tests. The waivers “should probably make the meh list,” said Joshua Starr, superintendent of the Montgomery County schools in Maryland, which was granted a waiver in May.

Mr. Starr said he believed that education reform should focus on incentives to help teachers collaborate and help students learn skills that could not simply be measured by tests.

“It is another example to me of how we’re not focused on the right things in the American education conversation today,” Mr. Starr said. “I have a lot of respect for Arne Duncan,” he added, referring to the secretary of education, “but it’s just sort of moving around the chairs on the Titanic.”

Mr. Duncan, in a telephone interview on Thursday, said states that had received waivers, including New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, would also use a mix of other indicators to evaluate teachers and schools, like how many students actually enrolled in college or took Advanced Placement exams, as well as reviews of teachers by their peers, their students and their principals.

“You have to look at multiple indicators and multiple measures,” he said. “There’s been historically a push to way oversimplify what is very complex.”

House Republicans have repeatedly protested the Obama administration’s use of waivers as an end-run around Congress.

In a speech to the American Enterprise Institute this year, Representative John Kline, a Minnesota Republican and the chairman of the House Committee on Education and the Work Force, accused the administration of using waivers “in exchange for states adopting the policies he wants them to have.”

But education officials in the states that received waivers expressed relief from the pressure of the looming 2014 deadline.

“There was a general feeling that there were these goals that no one was ever going to meet,” said Kelli Gauthier, spokeswoman for the Tennessee Department of Education. “Now we have standards that are possible.”

Instead of labeling all struggling schools as failing, the waivers direct states to focus most attention on the bottom 5 percent of low-performing schools. “With the waiver we can focus on those schools that really need a lot of help,” said June Atkinson, North Carolina’s state superintendent of public schools.

One of the most practical effects is that waivers will remove many schools from being branded with the tag that they had failed to make what the law deemed “adequate yearly progress” in getting more students to pass standardized tests.

Across the country, nearly half of all schools missed their targets under No Child Left Behind in the 2010-11 school year.

In some states, the rate was much higher. In Massachusetts, for example, 80 percent of schools did not make adequate progress during that school year, and in Virginia, the figure was 61 percent.

Charles Pyle, spokesman for the Virginia Department of Education, said that in some cases, schools that had improved test performance still failed to meet federal goals. “The idea that 6 out of 10 Virginia schools are failing is preposterous,” Mr. Pyle said.

But critics say putting a priority only on the lowest-performing schools will let too many others off the hook, especially those that serve minority students, poor children or high populations of students with special needs.

“Are we saying all the schools are good except for 5 percent?” asked Margaret Spellings, education secretary under President George W. Bush, who now oversees education policy for the United States Chamber of Commerce. “I just don’t get it.”

The administration said all schools would be required to show yearly improvement. “To label an improving school a failure is the worst thing you can do,” Mr. Duncan said. “If they’re doing the hard work to get better, it’s like, ‘Why are we killing ourselves to improve if we’re going to get slapped in the face for it?’ ”

The waivers also free up about $2 billion in annual federal funding that No Child Left Behind required low-performing schools to use either to transfer students to other schools or for tutoring services.

Maria Campanario, interim principal at Rafael Hernández School, a dual-language kindergarten-to-Grade 8 school in Roxbury, a Boston neighborhood, that has missed its federal targets four years running, said parents were often confused by the offer to transfer to another school.

“I have parents who come in who are English-language learners, and they would say: ‘What does this mean, we can go to another school? You don’t want us to be here?’ ” she said. “They would say, ‘But we like the school and think it’s fine.’ ”

Ms. Campanario said she welcomed the discretion to use the funding for “professional development that is going to support the whole school.”

“If you give me that money,” she said, “ I will put it to excellent use.”


Sources: AP, NY Times, Youtube

Obama Urges More Investments In Infrastructure & Education (Weekly Address Video)

Weekly Address: Pushing Congress to Create Jobs, Keep College in Reach for Middle Class

President Obama discusses legislation he signed on Friday that does two important things: It keeps thousands of construction workers on the job rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure, and it stops interest rates on federal loans from doubling this year for more than seven million students.


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June Jobs Report Is Weak Due To BLACKS Not Being Hired; Even Qualified BLACKS! Political Employment Discrimination!

The 2012 June Jobs Report remains at 8.2% but it's 14% & Higher for Blacks. Even College-Educated Blacks. Can you say Political Employment Discrimination?

The 2012 June Jobs Report remains at 8.2% with only 80,000 Private Sector Jobs Added to the U.S. Economy.

Is it because there are NO Jobs out there?

NO! There are plenty of Jobs waiting to be Filled.

Instead the Low Jobs Numbers are due to Widespread Employment Discrimination.

To help Defeat Pres. Obama this Fall many Large Corporations are Refusing to Hire BLACK Applicants.

This includes College-Educated, Qualified BLACK Applicants.

It really irks me when Politicians & Business Experts go on Cable TV and claim that WHITE People are being Hired because they are more Educated than BLACKS & Latinos.

That is a LIE!

WHITE People are Hired more Frequently and paid decent Wages often with NO College Degree and NO Previous Experience.

Businesses are NOT Nervous about Hiring.

Businesses are just Supporting Mitt Romney by NOT Hiring BLACKS because most BLACKS Support Pres. Obama’s Re-election.

Remember Romney telling a Reporter: "Corporations are People My Friend"?

WE ARE NOT GOING BACK!

FORWARD!!

HELP RE-ELECT BARACK OBAMA IN 2012!

GET YOUR STATE-APPROVED ID CARDS NOW AND GO TO THE POLLS THIS NOVEMBER EVEN IF YOU HAVE TO CRAWL THERE!

REAL TALK!!!





June jobs report: Unemployment rate stays at 8.2 percent, but increases for Blacks

Overall unemployment remained at 8.2 percent in June, but the jobless rate for African-Americans increased by almost a point to 14.4 percent, the Department of Labor announced Friday in its monthly employment report.

The unemployment rate of 8.2 percent suggests the economic surge that seemed to be happening earlier in the year has largely stalled. In the first three months of the year, the economy grew by an average of more than 200,000 jobs a month, compared to less than half that from April-June.

At the same time, the picture is much better than a year ago, when the jobless rate was 9.1 percent.

The increase in the black jobless rate will raise concerns, because other demographic groups did not show similar surges in unemployment. Unemployment among whites is 7.4 percent and 11.0 percent among Hispanics.

Black unemployment was 13.6 percent in May. The black jobless rate is traditionally double that of the rate among whites, but the rate in the last three years has been historically high.

“There are some fluctuations in the employment statistics for blacks, but essentially for blacks as well as the rest of the country, the economy is in a holding pattern,” said Algeron Austin, director of the Race, Ethnicity and the Economy program at the Washington-based Economic Policy Institute. “We haven’t seen any real significant change for the first half of the year.”

Politically, the report presents a challenge for President Obama, who is on a two-day campaign bus tour of Ohio and Pennsylvania. No modern president has won reelection with a jobless rate higher than 7.4 percent, but it is increasingly unlikely the unemployment will dip below that number by November.

Republicans in Congress said the report showed the president’s policies aren’t working.

“This crawling pace is not enough to get the millions of Americans who are unemployed back to work or provide long-term growth. We’ve seen month after month of dismal jobs numbers,” said House Majority Leader Eric Cantor.”

White House officials noted that economic growth is continuing, even as they acknowledged that challenges remain.

“The economy has now added private sector jobs for 28 straight months, for a total of 4.4 million payroll jobs during that period. Employment is growing but it is not growing fast enough given the jobs deficit caused by the deep recession,” said Alan Krueger, chairman of the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers.


Obama downplays weak jobs report; Romney blames him for it

President Barack Obama downplayed a weak jobs report Friday as he wrapped up a two-day bus tour to critical states in the November election, while Republicans pounced on the news to declare the president's policies have failed.

Stock prices plunged on the report that the economy created 80,000 jobs in June, well below the number needed to bring down the 8.2% unemployment rate.

At a campaign event in Poland, Ohio, Obama said the job growth -- while smaller than needed -- continued a trend that has added 4.4 million jobs in the past 28 months following what he called "the worst economic crisis of our lifetime."

"That's a step in the right direction," Obama contended.

Republicans, however, called the weak growth a result of Obama policies that don't work.

Certain GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney called the jobs figures a "kick in the gut for middle-class families," blaming Obama's policies for continued high unemployment and saying it was "time for Americans to choose whether they want more of the same."

"His policies have not worked," Romney said at a brief news conference in New Hampshire, where he is vacationing with his family.

Referring to more than three years of unemployment higher than 8%, Romney said "the evidence is in, again and again and again" and added that the continuing high unemployment rate "pretty much defines lack of success."

Other Republican leaders echoed Romney's remarks, with House Speaker John Boehner taking a jab at Obama's comment last month that when compared to public sector job creation, the private sector was "doing fine."

"Today's report shows the private sector clearly isn't 'doing fine' and that President Obama's policies have

failed," Boehner, R-Ohio, said in a statement. Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus' statement said, "The Obama economy is defined by chronically high unemployment."

Also Friday, an independent group co-founded by conservative operative Karl Rove said it was launching a new ad targeting what it claimed were Obama's excuses for the bad economy.

Crossroads GPS said the spot was the first wave of a $25 million ad buy starting July 10 and running through early August in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Nevada, Ohio and Virginia -- all swing states that both Democrats and Republicans will heavily contest in the presidential election.

In speeches in Ohio and Pennsylvania to conclude the bus tour, Obama referred to the negative ads by Republicans and told supporters not to get discouraged.

"You'll hear the same thing from them over and over again, because they know that their economic theory isn't going to sell," the president told a Pittsburgh event.

"So all they've got to argue is the economy's not moving as fast as it needs to.

Jobs aren't growing as fast as they need to. And it's all Obama's fault. That's basically their only message."

Obama briefly mentioned the new jobs report in Ohio and didn't refer to it specifically in Pittsburgh.

Instead, his full-fledged campaign speeches emphasized restoring opportunity for the middle class, in contrast to what he characterized as Republican policies that favor corporations and the wealthy.

In Ohio, Obama joked with the crowd, kissed at least one baby and outlined his vision of middle-class opportunity while making sure to note his administration's help in reviving the U.S. auto industry, which is big in the state.

He rebuffed GOP criticism that his policies are wrong, blaming political stalemate in Washington for the failure by Congress to pass needed job creation measures he has endorsed, such as ending tax breaks for companies that send jobs overseas.

"This election is about how we break that stalemate," Obama said. "It's in your power to break the stalemate."

House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, meanwhile, accused congressional Republicans of obstructing economic progress by focusing on partisan politics, such as a planned House vote next week to repeal the health care reform law in what would be a purely symbolic gesture.

"It's time for Republicans to abandon their agenda of obstruction and delay, and work with Democrats to create jobs and strengthen the middle class," said a statement by Pelosi, D-California.

Republicans accuse Democrats of similar tactics against measures passed by the GOP-majority House that have died in the Democratic-controlled Senate.

However, former Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman publicly criticized his party Friday for failing to focus "on a bigger, bolder, more confident future for the United States -- future based on problem solving, inclusiveness, and a willingness to address the trust deficit, which is every bit as corrosive as our fiscal and economic deficits."

In a statement announcing he won't attend the GOP convention in August, Huntsman called for "a return to the party we have been in the past, from Lincoln right on through to Reagan, that was always willing to put our country before politics."

After Obama returns to Washington on Friday afternoon, he will sign a giant transportation bill that includes funding for road and bridge construction and repairs -- a component of Obama's jobs plan that Congress passed last week as part of a package that included holding down interest rates on federal student loans.

Both components were top priorities for Obama and passed after lengthy negotiations in Congress that were delayed by partisan posturing.

All polling so far shows a tight race between Obama and Romney, and that voters consider the economy the top issue.

Obama contends the economy continues to show slow growth after the deep recession he inherited, while Romney argues the president's policies deter job creation.

In his remarks Friday, Romney specified what he called excessive corporate taxes and regulatory burdens as the main culprits.

"The president's policies have not got America working again," Romney said. "The president's going to have to stand up and take responsibility for it."

Obama, however, said the policies espoused by Romney and Republicans -- such as cutting taxes and removing regulations -- failed under the Bush administration and only would help the rich get richer while keeping the middle class stagnant or worse.

"We saw us fighting two wars on a credit card," Obama said of what happened before he took office.

"The tax cuts turned a surplus into a deficit and the lack of regulation resulted in what happened on Wall Street and we ended up with the biggest crisis we have ever seen. It ain't right. It is not a smart theory."

At the heart of the issue are the differing philosophies of the two parties, with Obama and Democrats advocating a combination of strategic spending, increased revenue and entitlement reforms to reduce budget deficits and the national debt while Romney and Republicans focus on shrinking government.

Health care reform also has emerged as a major point of contention, especially after last week's Supreme Court ruling that upheld the signature legislation of Obama's presidency so far.

The Romney campaign has been dogged by conflicting stances on the issue, which is a vulnerability for the former Massachusetts governor who implemented a similar plan in the state but now calls for repeal of the federal law known as Obamacare.

GOP leaders emphasized that the high court ruling that the law's most controversial section -- the individual mandate requiring people to have health insurance -- amounted to a kind of tax was evidence that Obama deceived the nation in 2009 by denying it was a tax increase.

However, a top Romney adviser -- seeking to protect the candidate from Democratic charges that he implemented a similar tax increase in Massachusetts -- insisted that the individual mandate was not a tax but a penalty, as argued by Obama.

Romney then had to declare publicly that the Supreme Court ruling means the mandate is a tax, but added more confusion by making clear he disagreed with the high court decision.

Obama kept up the pressure on Romney on the issue, assailing him in an interview airing Friday for reversing his position on the penalty provision.

A short portion of the interview was distributed by Obama's campaign early Friday.

The remainder of the interview with WLWT-TV in Cincinnati was not immediately available.

Romney "was one of the biggest promoters of the individual mandate," Obama said in the interview. "In Massachusetts, his whole idea was that we shouldn't have people who can afford to get health insurance to not buy it and then force you or me, or John Q. Public to have to pay for him when he gets sick."

Now, Obama said, Romney's reversal from "penalty" to "tax" raises the question of "are you doing that because of politics?"

"Are you abandoning a principle that you fought for, for six years simply because you're getting pressure for two days from Rush Limbaugh or some critics in Washington?" Obama said.

Romney's campaign responded that Obama "told the American people that Obamacare was not a new tax, then sent his lawyers to convince the Supreme Court that it was a new tax, and now is insisting -- again -- that it is not a tax."

"Americans deserve straight answers from their president," a campaign statement said.

When asked about the issue, Romney said Friday that he always maintained that health care should be managed at the state level, like his program in Massachusetts, rather than at the federal level under Obamacare.

Obama's solicitor general argued before the Supreme Court in March that the individual mandate could be viewed as constitutional under Congress' taxation power.

Donald Verrilli said the fee would be collected by the Internal Revenue Service on April 15, the day Americans pay their federal income taxes.

Asked by Associate Justice Samuel Alito "can the mandate be viewed as a tax?" Verrilli responded, "I think it could."

In his speech at the Ohio school, Obama raised the issue again, saying to cheers that including the individual mandate with its penalty provision was the right thing to do.

"I make no apologies for it," the president said.


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Johnathan Wall & North Carolina's Young BLACK Voters: They Have Courage!

Only Young, BLACK People who currently reside in the 21st Century South possess enough Courage to Speak up about how it REALLY is in this region of the United States.

Most Older BLACK people who live in Southern States like North Carolina are either Afraid, too Brain-washed or too Embarrassed to Admit how things REALLY are even in the 21st Century.

Thus I Applaud Young, BLACK Men like Johnathan Wall, a Harvard College Student who decided that he was NOT going to Accept or Tolerate Blatant Racism as a Fact of Life.

This is NOT the 1950's!

This is NOT the 1960's!

This is NOT the 1970's!

Nor the 1980's!

This is the year 2012 and this kind of Blatant, In-Your-Face Jim Crow Racism and Segregation should NOT still be happening in the Southern United States of America.

Why is the Klu Klux Klan STILL being allowed to Control the State of North Carolina and the City Of Charlotte???

Why?

I implore more Young BLACK VOTERS who live in the South to STAND UP FOR YOUR LEGAL & CIVIL RIGHTS!

We Are Human Beings Created In God's Image NOT Animals!

We Have Equal Human Rights & We Demand To Be Respected As Human Beings!

God Bless Johnathan Wall & All Young, Courageous BLACK Voters Who Live In The South!






Raleigh, NC Discrimination Rally Fosters Dialogue About Racism


Nearly 100 people rallied in downtown Raleigh Saturday in support of a man who claims he was physically removed from a bar earlier this month because he is black.

Jonathan Wall, 21, filed a complaint last week against Todd Chriscoe, who manages The Downtown Sports Bar and Grill on Glenwood Avenue. In the paperwork, Wall accused Chriscoe, 47, of simple assault and ethnic intimidation. Wall says Chriscoe grabbed his wrists, put them behind his neck, forced him out of the bar and pushed him to the ground.

William Potter, an attorney for the bar, denies that Wall was mistreated and says he was kicked out because he's not a member. Potter said race had nothing to do with it.

Wall's supporters aren't convinced.

"I wish people were more evolved and we had gotten past things like this, but it's important to remember it still happens everywhere," said Clark Goldentyer, who attended Saturday's rally in Moore Square.

Organizers of the rally, called "Above It All: A Raleigh Stand Against Social Injustice," said they are trying to call attention to discrimination at several bars and nightclubs. They say people can rise above the issues by talking to each other about race and racism.

"This is, you know, an inter-generational dialogue," said organizer Marjorie Fields-Harris. "I think it's just a step in a good journey."

Rachel Powell said it's important for people of all racial backgrounds to stand in solidarity against discrimination.

"Even if we're not people of color, we very much sympathize," she said. "We stand against it as well, and I think that it's important for the community to know that they have support."

Wall and Chriscoe are scheduled to appear before a Wake County judge on July 23. Chriscoe said earlier this week that he looks forward to telling his side of the story in court.



Patrons allege discrimination at North Carolina sports bar

A sports bar in Raleigh, North Carolina has sparked outrage for repeatedly denying entry to black customers, with no apparent consequence from local law enforcement.

The most recent instance occurred June 16th when Jonathan Wall, a 21-year-old Harvard-bound college student from Raleigh, North Carolina, arrived at Downtown Sports Bar and Grill.

Wall and his two friends were first hassled when the bouncer told the group they needed a membership to enter the bar.

The bar is known to be a causal sports bar so the assertion that it was members-only club was the first indication that there might be a problem. According to Wall, when the bouncer noticed a police officer outside the bar, he allowed Wall and his friends to enter the bar.

Once inside the bar Wall was confronted by a hostile employee, who he later learned was the bar’s manager, and was identified as Todd Chriscoe.

As Wall tells the story, Chriscoe approached him in a rather aggressive manner and demanded that he buy a drink immediately or leave the bar.

Wall was waiting for his friends to return form the bathroom and told Chriscoe he would be drinking but was only waiting for his friend to return.

After a few moments, when Wall’s friend hadn’t returned form the bathroom, Chriscoe allegedly attacked Wall and began to physically remove him from the bar.

“After staring me down for about 30 seconds, he walked back over and said “Are you going to buy a drink, or are you going to leave?”

I replied, “As soon as my friend comes from the bathroom.” Before I cold utter another word, he grabbed my right wrist and my left arm and threw them behind my head in an effort to constrain me, although I was speaking to him [in a] calm and non-aggressive tone and didn’t once even gesture.

He then used excessive force to push me through the crowd and out of the club while I was still in this “headlock” of sorts, before pushing me out of the front door. As soon as he grabbed me, I let my body go limp because with the degree of force he was already using, I didn’t want him to think I was trying to fight back.

I accepted that he was on an ego-trip, and let him guide me through the club in this position before pushing me out.”

Once outside, Wall found a police officer standing outside and tried to explain what had just occurred. The officer spoke with both parties, but encouraged Wall to overlook the episode, telling him she knew something like this would happen once he entered the bar.

“She explained that this happens all the time, and that if she approached the bartender about it, he’d have witnesses that would corroborate whatever story he made up as to why he kicked me out in such an aggressive manner.

She then explained that my options were limited because if she proceeded with getting statements from both of us and conducted an investigation, the end result could be worse for me: either it would get dismissed in court, or we would both be charged with what is the equivalent of “fighting” and both have a misdemeanor.

She said “He probably has a few charges already, but you’re young with a bright future ahead of you, and you don’t want that on your record.”

What disturbed Wall most was the officer’s casual response to the incident and “that she seemed to assume the worst case scenario in every possible solution to my encounter. She kept talking about how much paper work would be involved,” Wall explained to friends after the encounter.

After Wall’s former professor at the North Carolina Central University, Philip Christman, posted Wall’s account of the incident on his blog yesterday, other African-Americans began to post comments on Christaman’s blog relaying similar experiences at Downtown Sports Bar and Grill in Raleigh.

There are now more than a dozen posts telling tales of racial discrimination at the same bar and others in the area.

Now, Wall and others have embarked on an social media campaign to have the bar shut down and are demanding action on the part of local law enforcement and the City of Raleigh.

The incident has spawned a Facebook page, ‘Stop Race Discrimination at Downtown Sports bar NOW’ and has over 3000 followers.

On the page, followers tell tales of similar experiences, share legal advice and seem to be building a ground swell of support that may result in serious consequences for the bar and law enforcement for allegedly overlooking these accounts of racial discrimination.


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#Don'tDoubleMyRate! Obama Urges Congress To Act On Student Loans NOW!

You could owe an extra $1,000 unless Congress takes action soon.

Taking out Stafford Loans to help pay for college?

Interest rates on new subsidized loans are scheduled to double on July 1 and more than 7 million students around the country will rack up an average of $1,000 of extra debt each. Congress has the power to stop that from happening. Unfortunately, so far, Republicans in Congress have voted to let those rates go ahead and double in order to pay for tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires.

President Obama knows that’s not acceptable. Today, higher education isn’t a luxury – it’s a necessity that every American family should be able to afford. But it’s also getting more and more expensive.

For the first time ever, Americans owe more in student loans than in credit card debt. That’s why the President is calling on Congress to keep interest rates low so that every hardworking student gets a fair shot at the skills and training needed to get a good job in today's economy.


Sources: White House.gov, Twitter, Facebook, Youtube

FAMU President James Ammons Receives "No Confidence" Vote From School Trustees: Robert Champion's Hazing Death

FAMU President James Ammons is in the Hot Seat!
After a "No Confidence" Vote by School Trustees, Ammons' job is on the line.
Ammons was criticized for his mishandling of Bandmember Robert Champion's Hazing Death Investigation.
It appears Mr. Ammons has long cultivated an environment ripe for Hazing.
If this is true than Yes it is most certainly time for FAMU to seek New Leadership.




No-Confidence Vote for FAMU Head Over Hazing

The president of Florida A&M University received a no-confidence vote Thursday from school trustees for his handling of the hazing death of a drum major in its famed Marching 100 band, but he said afterward that he won't resign.

The board voted 8 to 4 to approve the no-confidence measure against university president James Ammons.

Ammons signed a five-year contract extension last year. He said he plans to remain in his post and help the university stamp out what many call a culture of hazing surrounding the university and its nationally recognized band, which has played at Super Bowls and inaugurations.

"This is very serious for the future of this university," Ammons said after Thursday's vote. "You have my commitment to fix them and get this job done."

The school has been reeling since the November death of drum major Robert Champion. Eleven members of the band have been charged with felony hazing for allegedly beating him to death. The death exposed a wide culture of hazing at the school. Critics say Ammons and other administrators ignored it.

Champion died after being beaten in a band bus outside an Orlando hotel after a football game. Ammons suspended The Marching 100 soon afterward and last month announced he was continuing the suspension for the coming year.

Ammons became president in 2007 following a budget scandal that threatened the school's accreditation. He said recently that the current crisis triggered by Champion's death marks the biggest challenge of his career.

Trustees who voted against Ammons not only cited problems with hazing and The Marching 100, but also the fact that a top auditor at the university resigned after it was revealed that false audit summaries were presented to the board of trustees. The university is also struggling with financial woes because of state budget cuts and a likely decline in enrollment this fall.

The school, meanwhile, wants to launch a major fundraising campaign in the coming year but its athletic program, now grappling with a deficit, must figure out how to fill football stands this fall even though the band has been suspended for the coming year.

"I do not have confidence in Dr. Ammons to lead us out of this crisis," trustee Bill Jennings said.

Narayan Persaud, the faculty member on the board, said he had concluded that the university was "caught in a wilderness of errors."

"How can we reclaim control of the dignity of this once prestigious university has been pulled backwards and backwards?" Persaud said.

Last month, university officials acknowledged 101 members on the 457-member marching band roster were not FAMU students. Earlier this week, Ammons proposed limiting the band to only full-time FAMU students and stiffening requirements for membership.



No-Confidence Vote for FAMU Head Over Hazing


FAMU president gets no confidence vote amid hazing scandal

The Florida A&M Board of Trustees issued a vote of no confidence against the university's president Thursday in the wake of last year's hazing death of a school band member.

President James Ammons acknowledged the board's feelings after the 8-4 vote.

"I hear you loudly and clearly," Ammons said. "I understand there are measures I have to take, as president of the university, to fix things. And I will fix them."

The vote followed a series of investigations into the university amid concerns over the November death of drum major Robert Champion. The vote was also related to financial audits that resulted from the investigation.

Champion's family said they agreed with the vote.

"They have no confidence in Dr. Ammons' ability to effectively manage this hazing crisis," the family said in a statement released by their spokesman, Ryan Julison.

Champion, 26, died after the initiation ritual aboard a bus, of what the Orange County medical examiner said was "hemorrhagic shock due to soft tissue hemorrhage, due to blunt force trauma."

The medical examiner ruled the death a homicide, prompting a police investigation and renewed public scrutiny of hazing in the university's famed Marching 100 marching band, which got its name in 1950 and actually has about 400 members.

Four students were expelled from the school and another 30 were dismissed from the band soon after Champion's death.

The police investigation resulted in charges against 14 people. Eleven face one count of third-degree felony hazing resulting in death. Each also is accused of two counts of first-degree misdemeanor hazing.

State law provides a prison term of up to six years for those facing the more serious charges.

Three people each face a single count of misdemeanor first-degree hazing. Sentences in such cases typically call for up to a year in jail.

FAMU said it took steps to eradicate the problem of hazing after Champion's death, and the the board of trustees approved an anti-hazing plan that includes an independent panel of experts to investigate hazing allegations.

The band has been suspended since Champion's death and Ammons said last month it will stay inactive through the upcoming school year. The band's long-time director, Julian White, retired earlier this month.

There are more than 2,000 pages of police interviews with witnesses and defendants who were aboard the bus on the day of Champion's death.

Multiple witnesses say Champion was forced to walk, shirtless, from the front of the darkened bus to the back while being beaten with drumsticks, bass drum mallets, punches and kicks.

"You get beaten until you get to the back," one band member said on the condition of anonymity.

Drum major Keon Hollis told investigators he went through the same ritual just ahead of Champion and that they did it to gain respect.

Hollis said they had to fight their way through a fury of punches and slaps, while other band members swung with sticks and straps.

"(Robert) really didn't want to do it, but he was kind of like, 'I'm just going to do it,' " Hollis said. "You know, I told him, I said, 'if you don't want to do it, don't do it.' "

Champion's parents say their son was against hazing and would not have participated willingly.

The Marching 100 is one of the top university marching bands in the United States, famed for its elaborate dance formations and innovative style incorporating popular music.


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