“(AHN) - Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Wednesday that he will not attend the Democratic National Convention as claimed by Bill Kristol, Weekly Standard editor.
‘I do not have time to waste on Bill Kristol’s musings,’ Powell told ABC. ‘I am not going to the convention. I have made this clear.’
Kristol said in a Fox report earlier in the day that Powell was planning to endorse Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) on the third night of the convention, the day Democrats speak about the theme “Securing America’s Future.” He added that Powell is scheduled to give a speech explaining his support for Obama.” — Kris Alingod/AHN News Writer
Colin Powell was a voice of moderation and reason in the Bush Administration. He was frequently at odds with Dick Cheney and the rest of the neocons, who had an ill-fated pipe dream of invading Iraq and turning the Muslim country into a bastion of democracy.
“In July 2007 Powell revealed that he spent two and a half hours trying to persuade George W. Bush not to invade Iraq but that he did not prevail.” — Quotation from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Powell)
Powell was deeply opposed to the invasion and occupation of Iraq, but instead of doing the honorable thing and resigning he went before the United Nations to present his “dog and pony” show in favor of attacking Iraq.
Colin Powell: The Speech that led to WAR (1/8)
Powell’s speech before the UN was such an egregious betrayal of everything that he stood for, that it forever mars an otherwise sterling political and military career.
Sen. Barack Obama’s early claim to fame was that he was against the Iraq war from the start. His vehement opposition to the Iraq war is the main reason why he is the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.
Under no circumstances should Obama accept Powell’s endorsement, it would be a betrayal of everything he stands for.
Powell’s timidity and cowardice at a critical juncture in history has forever stained his legacy, and if Obama accepts his endorsement it will compromise his moral legitimacy.
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Singer Harry Belafonte Slams Colin Powell — Calls Him A “Sellout” TUES OCT 17, 2002 15:30:38 ET
Singer Harry Belafonte took to the AM radiowaves on Tuesday morning to slam Secretary of State Colin Powell as a sellout to the black race!
Belafonte, appearing on San Diego’s 760 KFMB, told host Ted Leitner that Powell was like a plantation slave who moves into the slave owner’s house and only says what his master wants him to say.
“There’s an old saying,” Belafonte began. “In the days of slavery, there were those slaves who lived on the plantation and were those slaves that lived in the house. You got the privilege of living in the house if you served the master… exactly the way the master intended to have you serve him.
“Colin Powell’s committed to come into the house of the master. When Colin Powell dares to suggest something other than what the master wants to hear, he will be turned back out to pasture.”
For close to twenty minutes, Belafonte ripped the entire Bush administration, including an attack on Attorney General John Ashcroft.
“There’s something wrong with men who think the way Ashcroft does and who manipulate the justice system the way he does.”
Belafonte likened Ashcroft’s tactics to the McCarthy era:
“Families were destroyed, neighbors spied on neighbors. Now we find Ashcroft cutting in under the guise of catching terrorists, suspending liberties and rights. To deny those rights, to any citizen, to any people, is to cast a great shame on us and lead us back to another dark period.”
Belafonte also sang the praises of the United Nations as a pillar of global democracy, and decried President Bush for failing to attend the UN World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa earlier this year.
“There were tens of thousands of peoples and leaders from all over the world gathered to discuss the issue of race. It was an honorable arena… But by not showing up, by sticking it to the government of Nelson Mandela… It was a dark page on our foreign policy.”
Belafonte is best known for the international hit “Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)”.
2. Former aide: Powell WMD speech ‘lowest point in my life’ — A former top aide to Colin Powell says his involvement in the former secretary of state’s presentation to the United Nations on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction was “the lowest point” in his life.
Here is what set off Lou Dobbs — CNN’s in-house nativist/arsonist ‘compost thrower’:
Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice said that race is still an issue in America.
She said yesterday that the United States still has trouble dealing with race because of a national “birth defect,” that denied black Americans the opportunities given to whites at the country’s very founding. Read the full story
“Boy, don’t you shame me, and don’t you shame the race.” — Clarence Thomas’s Grandfather to his son, Justice Clarence Thomas, adding: “Boy, you are now of age, and don’t you ever look at a white woman.”
Justice Thomas and Wife - Justice Thomas is a victim of NegroPhobia Syndrome Well, Clarence Thomas shamed and defied his grandfather — not only did he look at a white woman, but he “privileged” himself the FATTEST white woman he could get. Anita Hill’s “Long John Silver,” got himself as much “white flesh” as he could lay his big-black hands on.
What is it with my black brothers?
Every time I see one of you with a white wife — she is always FAT! And, I mean UGLY fat, for there are lots of “thick,” yet beautiful women out there.
Aren’t there many million beautiful white women to choose from in this land, and better still, there are loads of beautiful black sisters out there — ready and willing to partner with a “Long Don” like Clarence Thomas!
“Chicken-and-biscuit eating Uncle Tom” (courtesy of Spike Lee), you have shamed the Black Race, over and over, in the last sixteen years since you were elevated to the US Supreme Court by “Corporate ReTHUGlican” President, George H.W. Bush, on October 23, 1991 — to your position as the favorite right-wing Republican “House-Nigger,” the GOP’s “Most Wanted Playing Card.”
Last Sunday, I watched in amusement as the Justice arrogantly attempted to “compassionatize,” humanize, and sanitize his rotten record with his black brethren.
“I struggled as a child,” Thomas told CBS’s “60 minutes” correspondent Steve Kroft.
“As a child in the Deep South, I’d grown up fearing the lynch mobs of the Ku Klux Klan; as an adult, I was starting to wonder if I’d been afraid of the wrong white people all along,” he writes. “My worst fears had come to pass not in Georgia, but in Washington, D.C., where I was being pursued not by bigots in white robes but by left-wing zealots draped in flowing sanctimony.” — Clarence Thomas writes in his memoir: “My Grandfather’s Son.”
Yes, he apparently struggled when growing up (and so did numerous blacks), and rose to the Supreme Court of the United States, only to be a black apologist for the worst white Racists and Bigots, of the Republican party.
One article I came across on the Internet sums up Republican Racism very eloquently:
“My mother used to tell me that America’s political system wasn’t perfect, but it was all we had: She spent a lifetime supporting Democratic candidates that she described as “the lesser of two evils.” A little thought would show that she was admitting the system is evil; it gives you a choice between one candidate who wants to cut off your head, and another who wants to cut of your hand.”
As far as I am concerned, Republicans, who I hereby baptize “ReTHUGlicans” would rather kill you the black man, or starve you to death, whereas the Democrats will sing lullabies to you while slowly chopping away your hand.
We blacks have stood with the Democrats since the Kennedy because “it was all we have,” and they are “the lesser of two evils,” the article says.
When you are faced with a “Poisonous Snake” and a “Hungry Hyena,” I would rather face the Hyena, for a broken limb can be repaired.
Anita Hill accused Justice Thomas of boasting of his penis size and his sexual prowess — Thomas allegedly called his penis “Long John Silver.” On Sunday night, as I watched Thomas walk with “60 minutes” correspondent Steve Kroft, in the yard where the Justice grew up, I couldn’t help but notice a monstrous bulge jingling in his baggy pants. The evidence of “Massive Endowment” was un-mistakable, prompting me to wonder…hmmm! — Anita Hill may have been telling the truth after all.
Almost every black personality (With exception of fellow Black ReTHUGliTOMS) has cursed the Justice in the name of blackness — surely, where there is smoke, there is fire!
Here goes:
1. Historian John Henrik Clarke called Thomas: A “frustrated slave crawling back to the plantation.”
2. Former Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders publicly called Justice Thomas an “Uncle Tom” (see Washington Post, May 2, 1995);
3. The Rev. Joseph Lowery publicly said (see Atlanta Journal-Constitution, June 4, 1996) that Justice Thomas “has become to many in the African-American community what Benedict Arnold was to the United States, a deserter; what Judas was to Jesus, a traitor, and what Brutus was to Caesar, an assassin.”
4. Movie director Spike Lee called Thomas: “A handkerchief-head, chicken-and-biscuit-eating Uncle Tom.”
5. Author, June Jordan characterized Thomas him as a “virulent Oreo phenomenon,” a “punk-ass,” and an “Uncle Tom calamity.”
6. Entertainer | Producer | Activist — Harry Belafonte, a friend, advisor and confidant of Paul Robeson, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, and generations of other human rights activists said of Clarence Thomas: “A slave to white masters.”
7. The late Khalid Abdul Muhammad was blunt and dramatic: “When white folks can’t defeat you, they’ll always find some Negro, some boot-licking, butt-licking, bamboozled, half-baked, half-fried, sissified, punkified, pasteurized, homogenized Nigger that they can trot out in front of you.” LOL (x100)
8. ….and A LOT MORE!
When such a wide cross-section of a community denounces one of their own, in this manner — SOMETHING HAS TO BE WRONG!!
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Justice Thomas claims to have faced lots of Racism while growing up, yet he is most comfortable in bed with the same people (Republicans) who are hell-bent on stomping on people of color at all times — the NEO-NAZIs, the skin-heads, the minute-men, Tom Tancredo, Duncan Hunter, pill-popping hate-spewing talk-show imbeciles like Rush Limbaugh, the fascist fake-news anchors at FOX, The Religious right (America’s Taliban), the KKK, etc., are ALL “White-Power” ReTHUGlicans.
These are the people Uncle Clarence Thomas wants to be with!!
Despite this, before the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1991, Thomas had the gal to say:
“Today is a travesty… and from my standpoint, as a black American, as far as I am concerned, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves, to do for themselves, to have different ideas, and it is a message that, unless you Kowtow to an old order, this is what will happen to you. You will be lynched, destroyed, caricatured by a committee of the U.S. Senate (Democrats), rather than hung from a tree.”
A black man campaigning to join the Lyncher’s — The big-bad Republican “Lynching Machine.”
…and what a “Monkey-Wrench” this statement was — for the Democrats. The “lesser of two evils,” was stopped in its tracks, singing “lullabies.”
And, Thomas got confirmed, to join the RACIST party in bashing his fellow black brethren and minorities, in the comforts of the “Masters House” — the US Supreme Court, where in the last sixteen years, ReTHUGliTOM Thomas, has a 100% anti-black, anti-minority record.
The contempt many blacks have for Justice Thomas does not arise entirely, out of him cavorting with Republicans, but his opposition to affirmative action, after he benefited from such action himself.
“Thomas is the classic example of a black who made it across the moat of discrimination and then raised the drawbridge so others could not follow,” writes DeWayne Wickham for USA Today, adding: “In another of his twisted court rulings, when two prison guards pulled a black inmate from his cell and beat him senseless, Thomas argued that the action didn’t amount to “cruel and unusual punishment” because the beating didn’t result in serious injury.”
Affirmative Action is NOT about racial preference, but equal opportunity. Thomas seems to be to be oblivious of the fact that White Racism is still rampant in these United States, and measures such as affirmative action are necessary tools with which to counter Bigotry and Nepotism.
The “Hanging Mentality” still oozes in many whites, in the form of “racial profiling,” “housing discrimination,” “deliberate school segregation” “school under-funding,” “extreme police brutality,” “immigrant stereotyping and persecution,” “skin-head propaganda,” and in numerous other forms.
They have been improvements over the last 50 years, but the PLAYING FIELD in NOT level yet, and may not be in my time.
By his actions, Justice Thomas is undermining this progress, for his ReTHUGlican friends clearly do not care about blacks and people of color in general.
The late prominent U.S. Appeals Court Judge A. Leon Higginbotham Jr., once said that Thomas “has done more to turn back the clock of racial progress than has perhaps any other African-American public official in the history of this country.”
Including a few YES-MEN/WOMEN in a Republican Administration is NOT progress, it is “show-boating” of the worst kind — include them and allow them to work for the betterment of blacks and not against them.
For example, Republicans like to tout Condoleezza Rice as the most powerful woman in the world. Rice is nothing but a subservient and incompetent Secretary of State, an “Auntie Tom” being used by the Republicans, for “an illusion of inclusion.”
Look what they did to Colin “Mr. Slick” Powell, when he realized that he had been used to sell Bush’s illegal war to the United Nations, and started to grumble.
His “Black Ass” was kicked out of the door!
Thomas’s predecessor, Justice Thurgood Marshall, a black man, was truly a great Supreme Court Justice. He was a champion of individual and minority rights, a scholar, an intellectual and a statesman.
Justice Thomas is the exact opposite — a BIG DICK Uncle Tom.
