In Memoriam: Andrew Breitbart (1969-2012)

A very interesting post from http://biggovernment.com/ about the passing of a great journalist frequently referecned on this sight at posts here and here. You can get his book here and visit his website here.

In Memoriam: Andrew Breitbart (1969-2012)

by Larry Solov


With a terrible feeling of pain and loss we announce the passing of Andrew Breitbart.

Andrew passed away unexpectedly from natural causes shortly after midnight this morning in Los Angeles.




We have lost a husband, a father, a son, a brother, a dear friend, a patriot and a happy warrior.



Andrew lived boldly, so that we more timid souls would dare to live freely and fully, and fight for the fragile liberty he showed us how to love.



Andrew recently wrote a new conclusion to his book, Righteous Indignation:



I love my job. I love fighting for what I believe in. I love having fun while doing it. I love reporting stories that the Complex refuses to report. I love fighting back, I love finding allies, and—famously—I enjoy making enemies.



Three years ago, I was mostly a behind-the-scenes guy who linked to stuff on a very popular website. I always wondered what it would be like to enter the public realm to fight for what I believe in. I’ve lost friends, perhaps dozens. But I’ve gained hundreds, thousands—who knows?—of allies. At the end of the day, I can look at myself in the mirror, and I sleep very well at night.



Andrew is at rest, yet the happy warrior lives on, in each of us.



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Media inquiries: jpollak@breitbart.com

Scam: How the Black Leadership Exploits Black America

A timely post about a book to read in this current environment that you can get here from your library or by clicking the title of the article below to get it from amazon.This follows this post about the Knoxville horror and the presiding judge in the case.  This follows THIS POST about some movies that have been released over the past few years that you might have missed! This all  follows this post about guidelines to chosing good movies to watch yourself.

Scam: How the Black Leadership Exploits Black America










In a word.... OUCH!,

ByD. A. Martin "Avid Reader" (Morocco)

- See all my reviews(REAL NAME)

This review is from: Scam: How the Black Leadership Exploits Black America (Hardcover) In the early 20th century, Booker T.Washington had a premonition:"There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs - partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose their grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs."Sounds like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Maxine Waters, and Louis Farrakhan to me.Thus opens the Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson's new book, "SCAM: How the Black Leadership Exploits Black America" (WND Books). Peterson, founder and president of the Brotherhood Organization of A New Destiny (BOND) and author of "From Rage to Responsibility," lays into the modern day civil rights establishment in ways that would make even Rush Limbaugh wince. He shows the ways in which this "other class of coloured people" profits from black misery and racial strife just as Booker T. Washington described almost a century ago. In exposing modern day black "leadership" for what it truly is, the author's main thesis is that the problems of the black community are due to a lack of moral character and not racism. In other words, we no longer need leaders - we need change.Peterson devotes an entire chapter on the abysmal failing of the NAACP and why that organization should be boycotted, showing how "the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization" is completely out of step with the needs of black America. Over 90% of black homicides in America are committed by other blacks, but instead of addressing the root causes of black-on-black crime, the NAACP absurdly blames gun manufacturers. The average black public high school graduate has in reality only an eighth-grade education, yet the NAACP vehemently opposes school choice - a policy overwhelming supported by black parents. Over 70% of black babies in America are born out of wedlock, yet Julian Bond and Kweisi Mfume would prefer to tackle "more important" issues - such as the supposed lack of minorities on popular television shows. Peterson sums up his critique by concluding "If the NAACP were truly concerned about black issues, it would focus most of its attention on black-on-black crime, restoring morality in black men, and supporting policies that strengthen black families... But as these moves would increase the real-world welfare of blacks... the NAACP wants nothing to do with them." Ouch!"SCAM" addresses how the fear of publicly being labeled "racist" causes many whites to hold their tongues when they see things run amuck in the black community (yet black liberals are given virtual carte blanche to publicly spew all manner of invective at whites and/or black conservatives). This fear prevents Americans from engaging in honest dialogue about race (think of the recent fallout over Rush Limbaugh's comments about NFL quarterback Donovan McNabb and you'll get the idea), and serves the interests of self-appointed black "leaders" and their liberal white sympathizers. As the average white person would rather be labeled a child molester than a racist, Peterson urges whites to no longer fall prey to such psychological bullying. (To wit, there is nothing wrong with the word "niggardly.")BOND puts on the annual National Day of Repudiation of Jesse Jackson, so it is no surprise that the author saves the lion's share of his venom for the self-proclaimed "heir-apparent" to Dr. Martin Luther King. Citing investigative reporter Kenneth Timmerman's best-selling tell-all "Shakedown" (I still can't believe Jackson was brazen enough to take his pregnant mistress with him to the White House for a photo-op with then-President Clinton!), Peterson rips into this improperly ordained minister like a buzz saw. The author also discusses why he is presently suing Jackson and his associates for an alleged assault in December 2001 in Los Angeles. Peterson is not afraid to publicly challenge the black establishment, sometimes at considerable risk to his own safety.To be sure, "SCAM" is more than just a stinging indictment against the modern-day civil rights establishment. The book is also a critically compassionate look at what is really plaguing the black community, in particular the plight of the black family, and what can and must be done to reverse the downward spiral in which many black men, women, and children find themselves. Peterson's concluding ten-point plan on how the black community can truly realize its full potential and achieve true spiritual freedom is worth of a full-length book in and of itself.







Direct and to the point,





By content_of_character "content_of_character" (Mid-Atlantic) -

See all my reviews

This review is from: Scam: How the Black Leadership Exploits Black America (Hardcover) First off, I am black and proud to be so. Rev. Petersen's book is a breath of fresh air. He exposes black "leadership" as being in it for themselves. The past civil right leaders made sacrifices and weren't concerned about themselves, but looked to the future. Petersen points out how the current "leaders" really put their own self-interests first. My dad taught me that "you don't pull yourself up by putting someone else down" -something these "leaders" have not learned.He is gives strong evidence for stating that the lack of real leadership by black men is one of the key reasons for the problems in the black community (which unfortunately may be a foreshadowing of general American society). He identifies that racism, though it exists (and frankly will never go away) is not the cause of the black man's plight, but rather used as an excuse for our moral failings. I'm tired of seeing these leaders rush to defend criminals, and define bad behavior as part of "black culture", while putting down blacks who have achieved leadership but have different political views. I always though that a true sign of how black people have advanced is our ability to be believe in different things and respect each others beliefs.The writing style, while not outstanding, is easy to read. Petersen may seem too repetitive on some points, but many of them need to be repeated. In summary, I think Petersen makes a strong case for not only exposing the hyprocrisy of these "leaders", but showing how we as a people can better improve our lot by first taking responsibility for our own actions, and then working to improve them.

Scam: How the Black Leadership Exploits Black America

A timely post about a book to read in this current environment that you can get here from your library or by clicking the title of the article below to get it from amazon.. This follows this post about the word "racist" being thrown around in the immigration debate and this post about the MURDER of ROBERT KRENTZ, who the protestors and boycotters won't give a solution for, but will call Americans racist for trying to prevent another MURDER, and this post which shows that there are 30,000 openly illegal immigrants in the border town of El Paso. For more interesting stories like this click here to follow this blog.

Scam: How the Black Leadership Exploits Black America

In a word.... OUCH!,
ByD. A. Martin "Avid Reader" (Morocco)
- See all my reviews(REAL NAME)
This review is from: Scam: How the Black Leadership Exploits Black America (Hardcover) In the early 20th century, Booker T.Washington had a premonition:"There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs - partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose their grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs."Sounds like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Maxine Waters, and Louis Farrakhan to me.Thus opens the Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson's new book, "SCAM: How the Black Leadership Exploits Black America" (WND Books). Peterson, founder and president of the Brotherhood Organization of A New Destiny (BOND) and author of "From Rage to Responsibility," lays into the modern day civil rights establishment in ways that would make even Rush Limbaugh wince. He shows the ways in which this "other class of coloured people" profits from black misery and racial strife just as Booker T. Washington described almost a century ago. In exposing modern day black "leadership" for what it truly is, the author's main thesis is that the problems of the black community are due to a lack of moral character and not racism. In other words, we no longer need leaders - we need change.Peterson devotes an entire chapter on the abysmal failing of the NAACP and why that organization should be boycotted, showing how "the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization" is completely out of step with the needs of black America. Over 90% of black homicides in America are committed by other blacks, but instead of addressing the root causes of black-on-black crime, the NAACP absurdly blames gun manufacturers. The average black public high school graduate has in reality only an eighth-grade education, yet the NAACP vehemently opposes school choice - a policy overwhelming supported by black parents. Over 70% of black babies in America are born out of wedlock, yet Julian Bond and Kweisi Mfume would prefer to tackle "more important" issues - such as the supposed lack of minorities on popular television shows. Peterson sums up his critique by concluding "If the NAACP were truly concerned about black issues, it would focus most of its attention on black-on-black crime, restoring morality in black men, and supporting policies that strengthen black families... But as these moves would increase the real-world welfare of blacks... the NAACP wants nothing to do with them." Ouch!"SCAM" addresses how the fear of publicly being labeled "racist" causes many whites to hold their tongues when they see things run amuck in the black community (yet black liberals are given virtual carte blanche to publicly spew all manner of invective at whites and/or black conservatives). This fear prevents Americans from engaging in honest dialogue about race (think of the recent fallout over Rush Limbaugh's comments about NFL quarterback Donovan McNabb and you'll get the idea), and serves the interests of self-appointed black "leaders" and their liberal white sympathizers. As the average white person would rather be labeled a child molester than a racist, Peterson urges whites to no longer fall prey to such psychological bullying. (To wit, there is nothing wrong with the word "niggardly.")BOND puts on the annual National Day of Repudiation of Jesse Jackson, so it is no surprise that the author saves the lion's share of his venom for the self-proclaimed "heir-apparent" to Dr. Martin Luther King. Citing investigative reporter Kenneth Timmerman's best-selling tell-all "Shakedown" (I still can't believe Jackson was brazen enough to take his pregnant mistress with him to the White House for a photo-op with then-President Clinton!), Peterson rips into this improperly ordained minister like a buzz saw. The author also discusses why he is presently suing Jackson and his associates for an alleged assault in December 2001 in Los Angeles. Peterson is not afraid to publicly challenge the black establishment, sometimes at considerable risk to his own safety.To be sure, "SCAM" is more than just a stinging indictment against the modern-day civil rights establishment. The book is also a critically compassionate look at what is really plaguing the black community, in particular the plight of the black family, and what can and must be done to reverse the downward spiral in which many black men, women, and children find themselves. Peterson's concluding ten-point plan on how the black community can truly realize its full potential and achieve true spiritual freedom is worth of a full-length book in and of itself.

Direct and to the point,

By content_of_character "content_of_character" (Mid-Atlantic) -
See all my reviews
This review is from: Scam: How the Black Leadership Exploits Black America (Hardcover) First off, I am black and proud to be so. Rev. Petersen's book is a breath of fresh air. He exposes black "leadership" as being in it for themselves. The past civil right leaders made sacrifices and weren't concerned about themselves, but looked to the future. Petersen points out how the current "leaders" really put their own self-interests first. My dad taught me that "you don't pull yourself up by putting someone else down" -something these "leaders" have not learned.He is gives strong evidence for stating that the lack of real leadership by black men is one of the key reasons for the problems in the black community (which unfortunately may be a foreshadowing of general American society). He identifies that racism, though it exists (and frankly will never go away) is not the cause of the black man's plight, but rather used as an excuse for our moral failings. I'm tired of seeing these leaders rush to defend criminals, and define bad behavior as part of "black culture", while putting down blacks who have achieved leadership but have different political views. I always though that a true sign of how black people have advanced is our ability to be believe in different things and respect each others beliefs.The writing style, while not outstanding, is easy to read. Petersen may seem too repetitive on some points, but many of them need to be repeated. In summary, I think Petersen makes a strong case for not only exposing the hyprocrisy of these "leaders", but showing how we as a people can better improve our lot by first taking responsibility for our own actions, and then working to improve them.

Pres. Obama's Advice on Yelling 'Racism' Is Good For Us & Especially the Pro-Amnesty Hate Groups

A timely post from www.NumbersUSA.com about the word "racist" being thrown around in the immigration debate. This follows this post about the trial over Arizona's 1070 law and this post about the MURDER of ROBERT KRENTZ, who the protestors and boycotters won't give a solution for, but will call Americans racist for trying to prevent another MURDER, and this post which shows that there are 30,000 openly illegal immigrants in the border town of El Paso. For more interesting stories like this click here to follow this blog.


Pres. Obama's Advice on Yelling 'Racism' Is Good For Us & Especially the Pro-Amnesty Hate Groups

By Roy Beck - posted on NumbersUSA

The Shirley Sherrod episode got a lot of journalists and politicians thinking this last week about how too many people far too quickly and easily toss around charges of racism without knowing the facts or the context.
I found Pres. Obama's comment on ABC to be an excellent quote to offer back to the next pro-amnesty blogger, religious figure or politician who charges racism against our immigration-reduction movement or individuals within it.
In case you missed the story, this is the way I'm understanding it:
Short clips of Sherrod's speech to the NAACP recently popped up on the internet and appeared to show her bragging about being a Black American using her work position to discriminate against a White American.
Amid public and media (especially conservative media) charges of racism against her, she found herself summarily fired from her federal job by the Obama Administration, which at first seemed to be trying to show America that it would not tolerate racism of any sort from any quarter.
But it turned out that the context of the video clips had been totally lost. Instead of bragging about her discrimination, Sherrod was confessing how she learned the wrongness of her racism after the incident of many years ago.
In apologizing for his Administration's knee-jerk reaction to the out-of-context video clips (and after offering to hire Sherrod back), Pres. Obama taped this comment on Thursday for ABC's "Good Morning America" show:
"If there's a lesson to be drawn from this episode, it's that rather than us jumping to conclusions and pointing fingers at each other, we should all look inward and try to examine what's in our own hearts and, as a consequence, I think we will continue to make progress."
-- Pres. Obama, quoted in the Washington Post, July 23, 2010
The pro-amnesty internet is absolutely jammed with quotes from officials and bloggers "jumping to conclusions" and "pointing fingers" while charging racism, nativism, hate and xenophobia at fellow Americans who desire a public policy of less immigration that would allow for sustainability and the ability of local communities to have some control over their quality of life and standard of living.
This promiscuous labeling occurs not just on little-read fringe websites but regularly on giant websites such as the Huffington Post and those of mainstream organizations such as the wealthy Center for American Progress, headed up by Pres. Clinton's Chief of Staff John Podesta.
It almost seems that a blog is more likely to be picked up on a lot of the big blogger websites if it includes a labeling of an individual or group as racist or white supremacist based on a sentence fragment or even a whole paragraph that nonetheless is just as misleading as the clip that first brought down Shirley Sherrod because of its removal from full context.
As Pres. Obama has said many times over the years, issues of race are complex. All of us do well not to try to get too simple when dealing with race.
My sense of the spirit of the President's comments to ABC would be that those of us who feel unfairly smeared by epithets related to hate or racism should be careful about responding by, in essence, making the same charges back at the smearers. A new response can be, "As Pres. Obama has said, you need to avoid jumping to conclusions and pointing fingers when you don't know the full context because that leads to bad errors in judgment like what happened to Shirley Sherrod."
Yes, we have people on our side of the issue who make racist, bigoted and hateful statements. I found one this morning in the comments section under my blog in tribute to the great Black American radio host Terry Anderson. That comment is now gone. (Click here to read the tribute.)
But most of the individuals whom I've seen smeared by name as racists because of some snippet of information about them or some fragment of a quote are clear victims of somebody jumping to a conclusion. The smearers prefer to avoid arguing the merits of their pro-amnesty proposition and, instead, try to assassinate the reputation of one of their opponents.
Certainly some of the people on our side who are most maligned with racism charges are -- if one studies the context of their quotes and the fullness of their lives -- just as unfairly maligned as was Shirley Sherrod. For example, one of the smearers' favorite techniques is to take a question that has been posed by somebody on our side and then portray it as the stated belief of that person. Can you imagine if every journalist or professor or preacher had to be held accountable for a belief that seemed to be implied by a rhetorical question?
A thoughtful article in the Washington Post this week carried this quote about the excessive and careless charges of racism that abound in our society:
"They have devalued what racism means -- which is a terrible shame if you actually care about stopping real racism or remembering it in our history."
-- Erick Ericson, quoted in "A place for race on Obama's agenda," by Karen Tumulty, Washington Post, July 23, 2010
Actually, I think the pro-amnesty forces have realized that "racist" doesn't carry as much weight as it once did and that is the reason that people on our side are now much more likely to be called "white supremacist." And the term seems to be used just as easily against the Black Americans and Hispanic Americans among our ranks.
I'm pretty sure that Pres. Obama's admonition about caution in throwing around pejorative labels would apply to "white supremacist."
In fact, I would venture to say that today, almost any time we see the labels of "racism" or "white supremacist" show up in a discussion about immigration, we can be sure that the speaker/writer is volating Pres. Obama's admonition for civility and a slow-rush-to-judgment this past week.
ROY BECK is Founder & CEO of NumbersUSA
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