Last Thursday, the rabidly anti-immigrant and racist Tom Tancredo, a former Colorado Congressman, delivered the opening remarks at the national “Tea Party” convention. Like a deranged, gun-totting border-patrolling Minuteman, Tancredo declared: “…..First, we should have a ‘civics literacy test‘ before people are allowed to vote. Second, ‘People who could not even spell the word vote or say it in English put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House whose name is Barack Hussein Obama.’”

Notes: A literacy test, in the context of United States political history, refers to the government practice of testing the literacy of potential citizens at the federal level, and potential voters at the state level. The federal government first employed literacy tests as part of the immigration process in 1917. Southern state legislatures employed literacy tests as part of the voter registration process as early as the late nineteenth century.

As used by the states, the literacy test gained infamy as a means for denying suffrage to African-Americans. Adopted by a number of southern states, the literacy test was applied in a patently unfair manner, as it was used to disfranchise many literate blacks while allowing many illiterate whites to vote.

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The literacy test, combined with other discriminatory requirements, effectively disfranchised the vast majority of African-Americans in the South from the 1890s until the 1960s. Southern states abandoned the literacy test only when forced to do so by federal legislation in the 1960s.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 provided that literacy tests used as a qualification for voting in federal elections be administered wholly in writing and only to persons who had not completed six years of formal education.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 suspended the use of literacy tests in all states or political subdivisions in which less than 50 percent of voting-age residents were registered as of 1 November 1964 or had voted in the 1964 presidential election.

In a series of cases, the Supreme Court of the United States upheld the legislation and restricted the use of literacy tests for non-English-speaking citizens. Since the passage of this legislation, black registration in the South has increased dramatically.

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   Columnist – John Sammon
Three of the major, tubby, fat-faced-jowly, chubby white boys who serve as right-wing racist talk show hosts on Fox News, and the Fox News blonde she-male, if asked to rank their least favorite people, with the most despised starting at the top, would rank them as follows.

The names used here are the same slang names the tubby, fat-faced-jowly, chubby white boys who serve as right-wing racist talk show hosts on Fox News, and the Fox News blonde she-male, would themselves use once the mike is turned off.

Fox stands for Fear Others Xenophobically.

Here’s the list. No surprise to some of the rankings.

  1.   Niggers, coons, jungle bunnies (African Americans). All three Fox newscasters, and the Fox News blond she-male, secretly wish black people were back in fields picking cotton like in the good old days. Also, as a general rule, the greater the number of racist epithets (slurs) assigned to a people, the more they are hated, and the more they can be justifiably proud for being hated by the goons at Fox.

  2.   The Fox racists also despise those whom they think of as:

  3.   Spicks (Mexicans, also known as beaners, wet-backs or greasers).

  4.   Gooks.

  5.   Chinks.

  6.   Zips (Koreans).

  7.   Hajis (Iraqis).

  8.   Muzzies (Muslims).

  9.   A-Rabs (also known as rag-heads, sand niggers, or camel jockeys).

10.   Editors’ Note: Remember, none of the chubby Fox News broadcasters thought enough of their country to serve in the military, not one. They let other young men their age serve while they learned their vile craft safe from harm at the college campus radio station.

11.   Wops (Italians, also known as I-ties, garlic eaters or Dagos).

12.   Kikes, Hebes (Jews). Jews advanced down a notch from #9 to #12, in other words being slightly less hated in the opinion of Fox News, because they kicked ass on the A-Rabs.

13.   Frog Connucks (French Canadians).

14.   Frogs (French).

15.   Bohunks (Eastern Europeans).

16.   Polacks (Polish. Another racist epithet is to go up to a Polack and ask, “How’s the bowling team?“).

17.   Limeys (British). The presence of the Brits so high up the list is due to the Fox News blonde she-male and her opinion that Prince Charles and the Beatles were five English faggots.

18.   Japs or Nips (Japanese).

19.   Faggots (all persuasions, also called queers or limp-wrists).

20.   Socialists (liberals).

21.   Papists or mackerel snappers (Catholics).

22.   Micks (Irish. Hannity and O’Reilly disagreed with this one).

23.   Towel-heads, wogs or Sabu, for Sabu the Elephant Boy (East Indians).

24.   Injuns or Redskins (Native Americans).

25.   Congo Lisa (the name they secretly assigned Condoleezza Rice even though she is a conservative).

26.   Uncle Tom (Michael Steele).

27.   Tree huggers (conservationists).

28.   Krauts (Germans. Beck and Coulter disagreed with this ranking).

29.   Editor’s Note: All three major, tubby, fat-faced-jowly, chubby white boys who serve as right-wing racist talk show hosts on Fox News, and the Fox News blonde she-male, strongly and angrily disagreed that they are cracker honkies (white men).

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Politico: In a direct address to black America, President Barack Obama said that while “there’s probably never been less discrimination in America than there is today… the pain of discrimination is still felt” by Latinos, Muslims and gays, as well as African-Americans.

In New York on Thursday to mark the centennial of the NAACP, Obama delivered a sweeping speech outlining his domestic policy, and recalling America’s journey from slavery to freedom. He praised civil-rights activists, saying, “because of what they did, we are a more perfect union.”

Yet, he said, in spite of the many strides, there is still work to be done in ending discrimination and closing the racial gaps in employment, education, health care and incarceration rates. [ READ MORE ]

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The recently released groundbreaking genetic study by Sarah Tishkoff and her team of African, American and European researchers confirms and/or establishes three essential things about Africans, African-Americans and their evolutionary relationships with the rest of the populations of the world.

First of all, there can now be no doubt that approximately 200,000 years ago the human race had its origins in Africa. The true “Adam and Eve” were Black. This fact has been widely accepted in the scientific community for some time. But thanks to the Tishkoff team we can now pinpoint the place of origin to Southern Africa – near the current-day South African-Namibian border. From there ancient Africans migrated northeast until they reached roughly what is current-day Ethiopia.

From Ethiopia – at a point near the middle of the Red Sea – some of these early humans began leaving the African continent to populate the Middle East and Asia and then gradually spread next to Europe and finally to the Americas – probably across a land bridge which no longer exists.

Fundamentally, this confirms that all people on the planet Earth are ultimately of African ancestry – from the darkest-skinned person in the Congo to the lightest-skinned person in Sweden. Or as one of the researchers Muntaser Ibrahim of the department of molecular biology at the University of Khartoum in the Sudan phrased it, “Everybody’s history is part of African history because everybody came out of Africa.”

   Sarah Tishkoff With The Hadza and Datog People in a Village near Lake Eyasi

This conclusion is based on the scientific theory that the highest levels of genetic diversity are to be found in the populations which have been on Earth the longest because they have had the longest time to evolve and experience genetic changes. The study found that Africans are the most genetically diverse people on the planet and are thus the oldest or original people. Tishkoff, a geneticist at the University of Pennsylvania, explains, “Given the fact that modern humans arose in Africa, they [Africans] have had time to accumulate dramatic [genetic] changes.”

Second, the ten-year study also confirms the diversity (and implied vitality) of African Americans. The research covered 121 African populations, 60 non-African populations and four African American populations in Chicago, Baltimore, Pittsburgh and North Carolina. The conclusion: The genes which populate the bodies of the average American Black come from four primary sources: 71 percent from the Niger-Kordofanian people (language group) of West Africa; 13 to 15 percent from European ancestors; 8 percent from various other African people ranging from Angola to Senegal; and the remainder from various other peoples – African and non-African.

The only people with a higher level of mixed ancestry than American Blacks were the so-called “Cape-colored” of South Africa who are a blend of African, European, East Asian and South Indian ancestry. For American Blacks there is also a strong West Indian connection.

According to one of the researchers, during the slave trade, only 20 percent of Blacks were transported directly from Africa to America. The other 80 percent were sent to the West Indies to be what was called “seasoned” – brutalized into submission. However, among the Blacks transported directly to America, a few, such as the residents of the Sea Islands off Georgia and South Carolina, can trace their origins to specific regions of Africa such as Sierra Leone and Guinea. Other than these groups, it is extremely difficult to trace the ancestry of most African Americans to a specific people or tribe because the genetic mixture was so great.

Third, the ultimate goal of the study, as Tishkoff put it, was to set the stage “for future genetic studies, including studies of genetic and environmental risk factors for disease and drug response.” But thus far, says Tishkoff, the researchers have found that “Africans have the most diverse DNA and the fewest potentially harmful genetic mutations.”

By extrapolation, the above statement applies to American Blacks. In other words, they are genetically well evolved and adapted to survive on this planet. Thus, ailments and diseases are more likely to flow from social and environmental conditions along with the harm Blacks do to themselves rather than from any genetic weakness or abnormality. This is an extremely important point, especially when African Americans are constantly bombarded with articles about Blacks being two or three times more likely than whites to have some ailment or disease.

The truth is Black is original, diverse and well-evolved for success on planet Earth. The problem is most people think and behave in manner opposite of the truth.

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References:

1. Genome study gets insights in Africa — For all the recent revelations about the human genome, one area that has been largely overlooked is the place where humanity began: Africa. University of Pennsylvania geneticist Sarah A. Tishkoff filled in a lot of gaps yesterday, with new findings that underscore Africa’s status as the most genetically diverse place on Earth. After years spent bumping along in a Land Rover to gather blood samples from remote tribes, she and her colleagues completed what is by far the biggest-yet study of African genetics. [ READ MORE ]

2. Genetic and Linguistic Data about Human Migrations: The results of ten years of nuclear DNA research on Africans, collected by University of Maryland professor Sarah Tishkoff and colleagues, and intended to learn about the origins and migration patterns of all of us, was presented in an article in Science on May 1, 2009. [ READ MORE ]

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By Ronald Brownstein

National Journal: The Republican domination of the South “looked great when we were holding on to our Northeastern and Midwestern seats and continuing to sweep the South,” said Whit Ayres, a GOP pollster who specializes in Southern races. “The challenge arises when the rest of the country says, ‘I don’t believe the same things,’ or ‘I don’t admire the same candidates,’ as the South does.”

In the view of former Rep. Charles Bass, R-N.H., who was defeated in 2006, “The current crisis of the Republican Party is whether it wants to be a regional party or whether it can try to expand ideologically and appeal to other regions.”

Bill Carrick, like many other Democratic strategists, believes that these ideologically assertive Southern Republicans are hurting the GOP’s appeal elsewhere, particularly because cable television has made each party’s leaders more visible than a generation ago. “It makes them look… extreme and that they are engaged in partisan political fights that are irrelevant to achieving success,” Carrick says. “It is definitely a losing spiral that… is reinforced every day by the 24/7 news cycle.”

But the growth of other nonwhite populations, such as Hispanics and even Asians, is strengthening Democrats across the region, especially in the outer South, and even in portions of the Deep South such as Georgia. These “new minority” voters functioned like a thumb on the scale last year for Obama in Virginia (where they reached 10 percent of the vote) and North Carolina (where they comprised 6 percent). They were also instrumental in tipping Florida to the Democratic presidential nominee. “When you add the Democratic vote among African-Americans with that of the new minorities, that means the share of the white vote a Democrat needs to win goes down,” notes Merle Black. –[ READ FULL ARTICLE ]

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