I voted for the President but what he said regarding the disabled community was a non-traditional symptom of Cultural Poisoning that should be looked at closer.
As a matter of Cultural Health we should always endeavor to reduce Cultural Poisoning of all types. Normally I do cultural commentary on Cultural Poisoning as it relates to Black and White ethnic group issues. Cultural Poisoning as it relates to the disability community is a reality that is even less known and understood then Black/White issues.
For the first time, a sitting President appeared on the Jay Leno Show, where President Obama unfortunately referred to bowling and the “Special Olympics”. See the video on YouTube.
First let me say that anyone can, and most of us do, exhibit a symptom of Cultural Poisoning (CP) from time to time. for instance, Dr. Martin Luther King used the “N” Word (Negro) as common parlance. I have watched the President closely and I have not detected any inter-ethnic Cultural Poisoning yet so, why this odd off hand disrespect of the disability community. Was it competitive arrogance?
If you have ever been in a Gym locker room and heard the trash talk, you might suspect that the President probably picked up this CP in such and environment. Whatever the case, the good news is that unlike Bush and the forty thieves, this President immediately acknowledged the mistake and apologized. Now, that is change, and a good example of how to cure a specific symptom of Cultural Poisoning. Amen!
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The Main Stream Media seems not to have noticed this - or is conveniently ignoring it.
Last night on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Sen. McCain appeared to claim that Barry Goldwater's loss was corrected by the assassination of Jack Kennedy in Dallas.
McCain: ...Where I learn is from a town hall meeting. That's where you learn hopes, dreams, aspirations and concerns of Americans who are hurt right now. So if we stood on the stage together, it changes the atmosphere. Many years ago Barry Goldwater and Jack Kennedy had agreed to fly around the country and from one place to another and stand before the American people. I still with Senator Obama would do that.Leno: ...Look what happened to Barry Goldwater.McCain: ...As you know the tragedy of Dallas intervened. But I think it would have been great for the American people to see us stand together.
So John McCain does essentially the same thing as Hillary Clinton, and not a peep from the media???
I finished watching Jay Leno last night and Jay tries every once in a while to try to make a serious point. When asked about his 7 homes, we got the standard McCain campaign rebuttal - I was a POW. "I didn't have a kitchen table."
Do we want another "Good job Brownie" president? I thought Rudy couldn't string together 5 words without 9/11 in there somewhere. McCain better stop wearing out the POW card, it will be empty come October.
I took down the original post because i did not realize the images would be displayed. They were deplorable.
I apologize to anybody who might have been offended by that graphic depiction of what Toby Keith is singing about and getting national airtime of all 3 networks including The Tonight Show. I wonder how Kevin Eubanks would feel about this.
Here is the article without the images. Again I deeply regret having those images on MYBO. His campaign had nothing to do with it. It was my mistake. Sorry!
We need to write NBC, CBS, stop this country western crooner from singing his song about how lynching is a good thing.
Write Colbert and say that was an awful guest and you didn't undetand the hate he was spewing.
Please read for yourselves:
Despite his background as a comedian, Stephen Colbert is known by many of the authors who have appeared on his show as one of the toughest interviewers in the business. But on July 28, when country music superstar Toby Keith stepped on the set of the Colbert Report to promote his movie, Beer For My Horses, he was greeted by his host with nothing less than reverential admiration. After a jovial, back-slapping sit-down with Keith, Colbert turned the stage over to his guest for a performance of the song that inspired the title and theme of his forthcoming "Southern comedy."
While Keith belted out "Beer For My Horses," Colbert's studio audience clapped to the beat, blithely unaware that they were swaying to a racially tinged, explicitly pro-lynching anthem that calls for the vigilante-style hanging of car thieves, "gangsters doing dirty deeds...crime in the streets," and other assorted evildoers.
The lyrics to Keith's ode to lynching are as follows:
Well a man come on the 6 o'clock newssaid somebody's been shotsomebody's been abusedsomebody blew up a buildingsomebody stole a carsomebody got awaysomebody didn't get to far yeahthey didn't get too farGrandpappy told my pappy back in my day, sonA man had to answer for the wicked that he'd doneTake all the rope in TexasFind a tall oak tree, round up all of them bad boysHang them high in the streetFor all the people to seeThat Justice is the one thing you should always findYou got to saddle up your boysYou got to draw a hard lineWhen the gun smoke settles we'll sing a victory tuneAnd we'll all meet back at the local saloonAnd we'll raise up our glasses against evil forces singingwhiskey for my men, beer for my horsesWe got too many gangsters doing dirty deedstoo much corruption and crime in the streetsIt's time the long arm of the law put a few more in the groundSend 'em all to their maker and he'll settle 'em downYou can bet he'll set 'em down...
Grandpappy told my pappy back in my day, sonA man had to answer for the wicked that he'd doneTake all the rope in TexasFind a tall oak tree, round up all of them bad boysHang them high in the streetFor all the people to see
That Justice is the one thing you should always findYou got to saddle up your boysYou got to draw a hard lineWhen the gun smoke settles we'll sing a victory tuneAnd we'll all meet back at the local saloonAnd we'll raise up our glasses against evil forces singingwhiskey for my men, beer for my horses
We got too many gangsters doing dirty deedstoo much corruption and crime in the streetsIt's time the long arm of the law put a few more in the groundSend 'em all to their maker and he'll settle 'em downYou can bet he'll set 'em down...
During the days when Toby Keith's "Grandpappy" stalked the Jim Crow South, lynching was an institutional method of terror employed against blacks to maintain white supremacy. According to the Tuskegee Institute, between the years 1882 and 1951, 3,437 African-Americans were lynched in the United States, mostly in the heart of Dixie. Felonious assault and rape (read: corrupting "the flower of white womanhood") were the two most frequent justifications for lynch mob actions.
In his music video he makes it clear he is talking about an Afrivcan American. Toby Keith is the calliber of man who would support John MCCain.
On Jay Leno Thursday night, Hillary Clinton put all the blame on Obama for a failed re-vote in Michigan. Robert F. Bauer, general counsel to the Obama campaign, wrote this memo on March 19th outlining the reasons the proposal for a new primary in June was flawed.
Mainly, it would disenfranchise voters! Here's an excerpt (emphasis mine):
Voter DisqualificationAlthough Michigan has always run open elections, which allow voters to vote in whatever primary they prefer, voters who participated in the Republican primary in January could not vote in the June election under the proposed law. This class of voters includes Democrats and Independents who chose not to vote in the invalid Democratic primary at the time because the majority of active candidates did not appear on the ballot and the results would not be accepted under party rules.The burden on voters here is one of complete disqualification—they cannot participate in the Democratic primary in June if they voted in the January Republican primary. Their claim of a violation of their rights would rest on the fact that that the state "changed the rules in the middle of the game." These voters' choice was entirely reasonable in the circumstances: there was no valid Democratic primary available to them at the time, and they could not know that, when their choice was made, that they were disqualifying themselves from participating in a re-run Democratic primary this year that they could know would be held.
Voter Disqualification
Although Michigan has always run open elections, which allow voters to vote in whatever primary they prefer, voters who participated in the Republican primary in January could not vote in the June election under the proposed law. This class of voters includes Democrats and Independents who chose not to vote in the invalid Democratic primary at the time because the majority of active candidates did not appear on the ballot and the results would not be accepted under party rules.
The burden on voters here is one of complete disqualification—they cannot participate in the Democratic primary in June if they voted in the January Republican primary. Their claim of a violation of their rights would rest on the fact that that the state "changed the rules in the middle of the game." These voters' choice was entirely reasonable in the circumstances: there was no valid Democratic primary available to them at the time, and they could not know that, when their choice was made, that they were disqualifying themselves from participating in a re-run Democratic primary this year that they could know would be held.
Here are a couple of clips from Obama's appearance on the Tonight Show last night. Enjoy!
Update -- here's another:
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