“Sarah Palin, a former Alaska Gov. and reality TV star, turned down an invitation today to the New Hampshire primary debate on June 13.

In response to the invitation, Palin said to WMUR: ‘That’s quite soon. So, no I don’t think I’m going to be there. Thank you for asking though.’ [ READ MORE ]

Palin’s excuse for turning down an invitation to join the June 13th debate is bogus. It’s not too soon; in fact it’s almost too late for any serious candidate to join the presidential field.

This is yet another piece of evidence that Palin has no intentions of running for president. The former beauty queen is having too much fun “writing” books, starring in reality shows, mentoring Bristol on how to cash in on her fame, and teasing the media.

Palin would only join a debate if it were conducted like “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.” The former beauty queen would feel comfortable only if she could call a friend or an expert, or asked the audience for guidance before answering a question.

The June 13th debate is going to be a dull affair without Palin, don’t expect any fireworks from the likes of Mitt Romney or Tim Pawlenty.

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   By: Kevin Huffman
Dan Domenech of the American Association of School Administrators told NPR last week, “The correlation between student achievement and Zip code is 100 percent. The quality of education you receive is entirely predictable based on where you live.” And where you live in America today depends largely on income and race.

Last week, 40-year-old Ohio mother Kelley Williams-Bolar was released after serving nine days in jail on a felony conviction for tampering with records. Williams-Bolar’s offense? Lying about her address so her two daughters, zoned to the lousy Akron city schools, could attend better schools in the neighboring Copley-Fairlawn district.

Williams-Bolar has become a cause célèbre in a case that crosses traditional ideological bounds. African American activists are outraged, asking: Would a white mother face the same punishment for trying to get her kids a better education? (Answer: No.)

Meanwhile, conservatives view the case as evidence of the need for broader school choice. What does it say when parents’ options are so limited that they commit felonies to avoid terrible schools? Commentator Kyle Olson and others across the political spectrum have called this “a Rosa Parks moment for education.”

For me, the case struck an additional nerve. As a young teacher nearly two decades ago, I taught bilingual first grade in Houston. Some of my students were in this country illegally; by my third year, a number of them also lived outside the school and district zone. Given their substandard neighborhood options, some parents drove 30 minutes or more each way just so their kids could be in my class. I was supportive of, and flattered by, their efforts. These were good parents, doing the best they could for their families.

In this country, if you are middle or upper class, you have school choice. You can, and probably do, choose your home based on the quality of local schools. Or you can opt out of the system by scraping together the funds for a parochial school.

But if you are poor, you’re out of luck, subject to the generally anti-choice bureaucracy. Hoping to win the lottery into an open enrollment “choice” school in your district? Good luck. How about a high-performing charter school? Sure – if your state doesn’t limit their numbers and funding like most states do. And vouchers? Hiss! You just touched a political third rail.

Williams-Bolar lived in subsidized housing and was trapped in a failed system. In a Kafkaesque twist, she was taking college-level courses to become a teacher herself – a dream she now will never realize as a convicted felon. It’s America’s version of the hungry man stealing bread to feed his family, only to have his hand cut off as punishment.

The intellectual argument against school choice is thin and generally propagated by people with myriad options. If we let the most astute families opt out of neighborhood schools, the thinking goes, those schools lose the best parents and the best students. The children stuck behind in failing schools really get hurt.

But kids are getting hurt right now, every day, in ways that take years to play out but limit their life prospects as surgically as many segregation-era laws. We can debate whether lying on school paperwork is the same as refusing to move to the back of the bus, but the harsh reality is this: We may have done away with Jim Crow laws, but we have a Jim Crow public education system.

As Dan Domenech of the American Association of School Administrators told NPR last week, “The correlation between student achievement and Zip code is 100 percent. The quality of education you receive is entirely predictable based on where you live.” And where you live in America today depends largely on income and race.

Consider the recent results from a test of 15-year-olds around the world. Headlines noted the embarrassing American mediocrity (31st out of 65 countries in math, with scores below the international average). Even worse, our results are profoundly segregated by race. White and Asian Americans are still in the upper echelon. But African American and Latino students lag near the bottom quartile of world standards. As we think about our game plan to “win the future,” our black and Latino students won’t be competing with China and Finland – they’re on track to scrap it out with Bulgaria and Mexico.

Some on the left will say this is the pernicious result of poverty. Solve poverty, and you solve the Zip-code-equals-outcomes issue. Some on the right will blame culture. Stop teenage pregnancy and crime, and the outcomes look different.

Like millions of parents hoping to do right by their kids, Kelley Williams-Bolar thought that schools were the answer. She didn’t have the luxury of waiting a generation while intellectuals argue about poverty or culture. She looked at her options, she looked at the law and she looked at her children. Then she made a choice.

What would you have done?

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   Columnist – John Sammon
I would like to see in 2011 the right-wing racists in the country including those at FOX News stop using the usual racist epithets under their breath and in the secret corporate boardrooms where they hatch their plots. You know, they want to call Obama the “N” word, but they don’t dare do it on the air.

Instead, they call him that while on the toilet or in the shower or when in a meeting with a few cronies they can trust (off the record).

Here’s what I would like to see in 2011. All you racists at FOX, you can use racist slurs, but change the words to a more pleasant cast. These you can use on the air to unfairly label people for political gain. And here’s what I want you to do. I want you to label EVERYBODY, not just a few groups you don’t like. Include everyone. That way you can become an equal opportunity offender.

In other words, we can still insult each other and not be so harsh about it.

For example, instead of calling an African American the “N” word, a word that originally referred in Latin to the color black. Instead, you could yell, “Hey you, the tanned fellow in the third row!”

What’s harsh about that? “Fellow” is a pleasant word. “Tanned.” Everybody wants a healthy looking tan. Millions go to Hawaii to get one. If tanning isn’t desirable, why are there so many tanning parlors?

Even though your intent may have been hostile, you have couched the words in a more benign tenor, two or more word combinations free of any previous negative taint.

In fairness, an African American person should be able to call you “Whitey!” (Named after a character on the old Leave it to Beaver TV show).

Or, an African American could simply yell, “Hey you, luminous one! Yeah you, the guy who practically glows in the dark (because he’s so white).”

See?

Luminous makes you sound special. Like you’re effervescent.

It’s wrong, but hate is as American as apple pie. Our history is founded on it. We have a long history of hate. It never was a case of, “United We Stand.” Human nature being what it is, everybody hates somebody. Republicans hate Democrats. Protestants hate Catholics. Visa versa. Some people are unkind to practitioners of the Hebrew faith. And on and on.

Okay, maybe hate is a little too strong. Irritated. That’s it. You’re irritated by somebody. See? By changing “hate” to “irritated,” like we changed our racial slurs, it sounds less cruel, more civilized.

   Racists Endorse Obama in 2008

We can all co-exist if all I do is irritate you.

Don’t call an Asian person the C word, Ch’nk (racist slang term meaning Chinese). That’s insulting. Instead yell, “Hey Mister Engineering Department at Berkley!” The Engineering Department at UC Berkley has a high number of Asian students. You’ve praised his intelligence because you have to be smart to be an engineer. He’s proud of his career choice.

You accomplished two things. You satisfied your need to label him, call attention to him as a member of a group separate from your own. If you’re a conservative, you really feel a compulsion to do this. But you did it in a more kindly way.

Don’t call an Irishman a “drunken Mick!” Call him a “wayward son of Erin.”

Don’t call a Latino the opening S word from spic-and-span. I mean, what’s wrong with being clean after all? Say, “Hey, person of Castellan-Aztec origins!” Who wouldn’t be proud of that kind of a proud heritage after all?

You might yell at an Eskimo, “hey, how’s the dog sled team?”

Don’t call a gay person the F word (it used to mean a cigarette). That’s cruel. Instead yell, “hey you over there with the different orientation!”

You can be mean and nice both.

Another technique is to use incomprehensible wording that makes no sense at all. For example. You might yell at a person who is a member of a group you don’t like. “hey, you, the one who bore his faculties so meek, has been so mild in his office that his virtues cry like angels” (this is a quote from Macbeth). You mean sarcasm, but the recipient of your scorn doesn’t know this. He’s smiling. So you’re both happy.

Or, you can just cuss him out in a foreign language he doesn’t understand. But smile when you do it.

Copyright 2011 SammonSays.com

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   Columnist – John Sammon
How many times in television commercials or situation comedies or doctor/lawyer dramas have you seen an African American man portrayed as a sensitive poet? Never, right?

Now, how many times have you seen an African American man portrayed as a menacing figure threatening violence in a scene with a usually scared and cringing usually submissive but more intelligent sounding white man?

Dozens of times. This is Hollywood’s new racial stereotype.

Black male actors who appear in such scenes appear to be proud of this, and I suppose African American male viewers at home watching are perhaps also proud that the new caricatures of them on TV portray them as fear-inspiring creatures.

I have railed against this before. So here goes again. FEAR IS NOT RESPECT. It’s still hate, in a new guise.

It used to be that black men were portrayed as meek and submissive, like Amos and Andy characters. Now, they are almost always portrayed as gigantic, towering figures of potential mayhem. And everybody including African Americans seems to think that’s okay.

Is this racial progress?

It is not. It is racism, just like the old Stepin Fetchet stereotypes, but with a new window dressing. The 22-year-old white boys who produce and direct and screen-write these shows have switched to a new negative. African Americans on television are played as huge, menacing, physically gifted, and also by inference, childlike and ignorant.

Remember Lebron James, the basketball player who posed next to a blonde model on the cover of Vogue Magazine. He was portrayed as an enraged snarling animal, an ape-like creature you would turn and run in terror from. James and the magazine’s publisher (a white man) seem to think this is okay.

Perhaps James is even proud of this. But why? According to this pose, he can’t make anything, solve anything, think anything through. Just beat someone up. That’s nothing to be proud of.
If I was he, I wouldn’t be proud.

Lebron possibly didn’t know it, but he had furthered the cause of racism for money by handing racists and Klansmen the image they need, that of people of color as childish animals prone to mindless violence.

I wouldn’t want to be symbolized as a barbaric missing link. The other night, I was forced to watch a portion of a show my wife was watching because I was in the same room doing a chore. There on the screen was a towering black man standing over a much smaller cringing white man.

This was supposed to be funny. Huge threatening black man/savage and tiny scared white man. I suppose it’s just a new twist on a jungle headhunter cooking a missionary in a pot.

The smaller white man was trying to placate and suck up to the much larger black man who appeared as a force of violence, ready to lose all control in two seconds.

Funny! Funny!

If African Americans think this is funny, or Civil Rights progress has been made over the earlier misinterpretations of them by Hollywood, I beg to differ.

The smaller white man in the scene must be thinking to himself. Sure, you can kill me. Sure, you’re bigger than me. But you’re still stupid, you’re still a (N word), you’re still childlike.

I would like to see African Americans protest these portrayals for what they are, racism with a new twist. When was the last time you saw a black male played as an intelligent, sensitive and rationally fully-in-control individual like Martin King was?

I’m still waiting.

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   Columnist – John Sammon
You got to hand it to BP oil company. They are the kind of company who are truthful and profound in spite of themselves. There is something fascinating and psychologically comic about a fascist oil company that has a complete disdain and disregard for both the nature it rapes and the people it victimizes, and then unwittingly confirms these things as it clumsily attempts to maintain the opposite.

This is a new take on the adage, you give them some rope, they will hang themselves.

After a week of Orwellian testimony in which he said he is just a multi millionaire operator who has no involvement or knowledge with the day to day operations of the company he supposedly runs, using the historic, I do not know, I forgot, Ronald Reagan excuse of the Iran Contra episode, BP head Tony Hayward went off to a yacht race party in England. It is a kind of a different take on Marie Antoinette saying let them eat cake, only this time it is let them suck oil.

Hayward and his cronies are smart enough to know that his testimony was a disaster to rival that of the spill and that people are mad his company has destroyed the Gulf of Mexico. They became angrier when it was said that the company cares about the SMALL PEOPLE. This is a Freudian compliment. Backhandedly translated, it means, we really do care about the ignorant hillbillies and riffraff whose pathetic miserable lives are made possible by the Gulf waters.

   Tony Hayward goes yachting in JP Morgan Regatta
BP did promise to share some of its oil profits with victims of the spill under the guise and philosophy of, a cash payout makes everything okay, despite nature perhaps damaged forever. To a person who values money and nothing else, this is a kind of sadomasochistic logic.

But first I have to go to a yacht race and party.

Not to be outdone, this robber baron and his henchmen have now hired a spokesman for the common man, those BP identified as small people. An African American. BP is running a TV commercial just like a crooked candidate running for office in which this oil industry Uncle Tom says, I will be here (to help victims) as long as it takes.

As long as it takes?

As long as it takes?

He fails to specify exactly what IT is.

As long as it takes? Since the oil spill will destroy the Gulf of Mexico for 100 years including the probably permanent extinction of already endangered species, that must mean this mouthpiece fellow plans to be around for a very long time.

How clever of BP to try and distance itself from an arrogant, pompous white man (Hayward) by selecting a member of a minority group (African American) to be the point man for the mess. You need a common man, the lowest. That is what they think. I know, let us get a black man. Nobody can accuse us of elitism then.

BP is learning. When you get in trouble, do crooked politics. What they have not learned is that the American people, many of them, are not the small and ignorant bunch of hicks BP thinks they are.

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