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Although sewage or landfill excuses are nasty on their own, I would also consider that they were planted by people with sick minds who want to poke fun at blacks or they could be laced with poisons to kill the blacks that want to return. Okay, so it’s a conspiracy theory but hey the Tuskegee Experiment was theorized until most of the men died from syphillis.
Last week, 9 News told you about an unusual phenomenon in St. Bernard Parish that has some experts baffled. Watermelons are growing in areas devastated by Hurricane Katrina, and no one seems to be able to explain why. The story of the Katrina melons has now sparked the interest of some biologists, who are curious about just what might be inside. Gary Ross is one biologist who made the trip to investigate the melons.

“From a scientific point of view, I think it’s interesting just to see how plants may or may not filter anything that’s in the soils,” said Ross.

A native of New Orleans, Ross said he felt compelled to examine the Katrina melons.

“It’s a general scientific interest, and it also could be a public concern because a lot of the people who see these nice watermelons may want to immediately eat them. And they may be perfectly fine… but then they may not be.”

Ross also took soil samples from the ground where watermelons were inexplicably sprouting. He says he wants to know what’s in the dirt that spawned the springtime fruit in the fall and winter.

While he collected samples he explained, “This site, in my opinion, probably has the potential of having the most contaminants, if any, because it’s a low area and the water pooled and sat here for awhile.”

The next stop for the melons Ross collected will be the LSU laboratory in Baton Rouge. The test results will be available in about two to three weeks.

McKinney Urged to Cool Rhetoric
By: Hazel Trice Edney
NNPA Washington Correspondent
Originally posted 4/10/2006

WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.) is being advised to tone down her language by someone who knows her best – her father.

“After all of this, I would probably give her the same advice that I gave her in the beginning,” says Billy McKinney, the Congresswoman’s father, a former police officer. “To get along in America, in this society, it might be better to go along and get along,” he said, repeating advice he’d given her when she first won election to the Georgia General Assembly in 1988. “I’m talking about not putting yourself out because you won’t find that a whole lot of Black people will back you when you get out there,” McKinney says in an interview with the NNPA News Service. “I don’t think she’ll ever be understood by a segment of this country.”

And perhaps nor will he. When she was defeated, he created a stir when he blamed Jews for her downfall.

Controversy seems to be a life-style for Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney.
In 2002, then five-term McKinney lost her seat after a string of controversies that included her accusation that the Bush Administration knew in advance about the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and may have benefited from it. She later recanted saying she had no proof of her allegation.

In the latest debacle, she accused a White police officer of “inappropriate touching” and racial profiling after a March 29 incident in which the unidentified officer allegedly grabbed her when she bypassed a metal detector. Members of Congress are not required to pass through the detectors. However, McKinney was not wearing her lapel pen, identifying her as a member. She has also recently changed her hairstyle from her trademark two braids to a loose natural.

“There are only 14 African-American women members of Congress. So I don’t understand what it is about my face that certain members of the Capitol Hill Police Department can’t remember,” McKinney said on CNN with Wolf Blitzer in an interview following the incident.

The congresswoman allegedly struck the officer with her cell phone in reaction to his touch after she failed to stop.

A federal grand jury will decide whether to charge her with a crime. No decision was made by NNPA deadline. Capitol Police spokeswoman Sgt. Kimberly Snider said the police was still reviewing McKinney’s statements on the House floor.

After a whirlwind of press conferences, news appearances and interviews, McKinney apologized on the House floor April 6.

“I come before this body to personally express again my sincere regret about the encounter with the Capitol Hill Police,” she said. “There should not have been any physical contact in this incident. I have always supported law enforcement and will be voting for H. Res. 756, expressing my gratitude and appreciation to the professionalism and dedication of the men and women of the U. S. Capitol Police. I am sorry that this misunderstanding happened at all and I regret its escalation. And I apologize.”

In her carefully-crafted statement, McKinney bemoans “physical contact” but did not directly admit her complicity.

McKinney did not return repeated phone calls from the NNPA News Service.
A police officer for 21 years before retiring and winning a seat in the Georgia State legislature, Billy McKinney says he was one of those who advised his daughter to apologize.
“We want to end this and go on,” he says. From the standpoint of a former police officer, McKinney says, “He grabbed her and I guess he was doing his duty. I’ve grabbed a thousand people like that. I would imagine that he was doing his duty as he saw it,” he says. On the flip side, McKinney says the officer could have acted differently without touching his daughter. “I would have told her, ‘Hold it. Hold it right there.’ And then I would have lectured her until I found out she was a congressman because no congressman goes through the X-Ray machine.”
Georgia State Rep. Tyrone Brooks, a die-hard McKinney supporter, participated in a press conference along with a host of clerical and other Black civic organizations in Georgia. He says Republicans exploited the incident for political gain.

But Brooks, who has known McKinney for 30 years, chaired her congressional campaign for 10 years and describes her as “like family, like one of my sisters,” says something needs to change. He says if she asked his advice, he would give it.

“I would say to Cynthia, ‘Cynthia, a long time ago, you were deemed to be an easy target on the other side of the aisle. And we were taught in the civil rights movement by Dr. King and Dr. Abernathy and Hosea Williams and other great leaders, that before our enemies can destroy you, they first make you angry. Never allow your enemy to push you to the point where your enemy knocks you off course to the point where you lose your temper or you don’t control your composure,’” Brooks says. “And I would say, ‘You’ve got to keep your guard up because they’ll always be coming after you.’”

While her constituents spoke up, few members of McKinney’s colleagues in the Congressional Black Caucus were willing to speak at all. The usually outspoken Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) and CBC Chairman Mel Watt (D-N.C.) declined comment through spokespersons.
U. S. Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-Texas), who stood by McKinney during her apology to the House, says she thinks McKinney should continue to express herself freely.

“I’ve seen her in different categories. And I feel that she will monitor her own temperament and be guided by her own moral compass,” Lee says. “We are different. There are moments when you are popular and there are moments when you are unpopular. But your goals are the same, to make America better. And I think Congresswoman McKinney works every day to make America better.”

Former CBC Chair Congressman Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) praised the work of Capitol Police, who have tightened security since the Sep. 11 terrorist attacks.

“I can’t say what she was doing. But I think anybody who has dealt with the police here on Capitol Hill, know that they do an outstanding job. They really do. They work very hard to protect the members of Congress and the public and mistakes are made,” Cummings says. “I talked to her lawyer directly. And I said to him I thought that this was a matter that needed to be resolved at the earliest possible moment so that we can all get it behind us.”

Julia Hare, a psychologist and co-founder of the Black Think Tank in San Francisco, Calif., says she was particularly taken aback by the personal attacks on McKinney from conservative talk show hosts during the controversy.

Atlanta-based conservative talk show host Neal Boortz said she looks like a “ghetto slut” with her new natural hairstyle and that it looks like “an explosion in a Brillo pad factory.”
Says Hare, “They do not criticize the Black women, the rap artists who have blond hair, which is an imitation of them.”

Hare says she believes the whole situation was based on race. “Had this been a Black man and Cynthia McKinney been a White woman, then the Black security guard would have been dismissed…Black women do not understand that Cynthia McKinney, whether you agreed with her or not – Cynthia McKinney represents you. It will be Cynthia McKinney today and you tonight because they look at us as a monolithic group. They look at us as plantation mammies no matter how high we go.”

The insult about McKinney’s hair surfaced on the same day talk show host Rush Limbaugh called the Black student allegedly raped by three White Lacrosse players at Duke University a “Ho,” the street term for the word whore.

Hare dismissed Limbaugh scoffing, “Rush Limbaugh, with his drug-addicted self wouldn’t even be on the air if he was a Black person doing what he was doing.” Three years ago Limbaugh confessed to an addiction to prescription drugs and to purchasing them from an illegal drug market.

Asked if Black women are under attack, Mary Frances Berry, former chair of the U. S. Commission on Civil Rights, quipped, “Not any more than usual.”
However, she says, McKinney should have understood that she was already “starting behind the eight ball” when she accused the police officer of racism.

“There’s always a presumption because of the way Black people are treated and the way we are in society and racism and subordination that we’re going to be less believable than other people,” says Berry. “She should have understood that. And I can understand why you get angry when things happened. But even if her version of it was true, she just had to understand that the way the press operates and the way things play out that, given that he’s a police officer, that the police naturally, and everybody was going to come to his defense, probably, she should have had to just swallow it and, you know, go on. That’s unfortunate and you shouldn’t have to do that, but she got made out as a crazy Black woman.”

Despite all the controversies, Billy McKinney says he is deeply proud of his daughter having been again elected to Congress. But he says, there have been serious repercussions on him and his wife, Leola, in the DeKalb County-based 4th Congressional District.

“It’s been devastating for us over the last 10 years,” he said. “For her to be elected from Georgia, we’ve received hate mail, we’ve been vandalized, our front yard and back yard vandalized. We’ve had to call the police and they had to lock up some [White] fella from Texas who had her house staked out…The Republicans have given her holy hell.”

He says she was outspoken even as a high school student at St. Joseph’s Catholic School, which had an all White cheerleading squad until McKinney led a boycott and the squad admitted its first Blacks. She eventually joined the squad.
Some see her as a cheerleader for justice.

Chuckling, Billy McKinney confessed that she got her ways honestly. “My wife just said I was a trouble-maker. A whole lot of Black policemen got promoted because of my picketing and agitating.”

Says Brooks: “We still support her. She is one of our most valued representatives and we will stick with her until the end.”

Houston At Her Whit’s End–The SUN
Houston’s Sister-in-law Tells All–National Enquirer

“Our Great President Is Not a Racist Even Though He Killed All Those Black People!!”

September 10, 2005
By Bob Boudelang, Angry American Patriot

It is with a heavy heart that I write this from me to you today. As a nation we have been disgraced, and I think every one of us ought to be ashamed.

I am talking of course, about the awful human toll caused by the Democraps blame-gaming after the flooding in Alabama and the city of Louisiana killed a few measly people who did not matter anyway.

Imagine, criticizing Our Great President just because tens of thousands of people died after going nearly a week without help that was supposed to come from FEMUR? What is wrong with some people? Whatever happened to that American “Can’t Do” spirit?

Is it not enough that Commissioner Brownie put out a press release saying everything had gone allright after the storm? You would think so. And yet people continued to complain any way, just because there was no water, or food, or medicine after the flooding.

And yes, the Natural Guard was at the disaster in Iraq instead of being at home helping with the disaster at home, but so what? Worse yet, some people actually pointed to the money that was supposed to go to fix the levys but went to Iraq instead, and complained out loud, like they had as much right to it as Halliburton does!

Really!

By the way, all those people who have been carrying on for months about troops in Iraq not having armored humvees can be quiet now. Our Great Vice President Dick Cheney had no problem finding one.

Speaking of Commissioner Brownie, it is very unfair that Mrs. Brown Rosenfeld keeps calling him “Commissioner Horseflop.” Yes, he was in charge of the show horse association, and yes, he got into a fight with horse owners over horse bottoms, and yes, he got fired and the association went out of business, and yes, he lied on his resume, but as George W. said, he was doing a Hell of a job. In fact, Hell is exactly what most Americans would of described his accomplishments as.

Well now the finger pointers and hysterical liberals and moderates have got their way, and Commissioner Brownie has not been fired. I hope they are happy now!

Instead some Coast Guard guy will be in charge of doing Brownie’s job and Brownie will remain as head of FEMUR, only not doing what he was doing before, whatever that was.

The new Homely Secretary of Security, Michael Shirtoff, said Brownie is needed for other disasters. Is it not reassuring to think that he could do for your city what he did for New Orleans? I feel safer already.

What is worst is that some people are calling Our Great President racist just because he stayed on vacation while black people were dying. Amazing! Do those people really think that if he had stopped his vacation and made sure the flood victims got taken care of that they wouldn’t have been inferior?

Our Great President has not got a racist bone in his body, said Ben Stein, and he would know since he is a Jew, which is almost as bad as a blacko-American.

I mean it! President Bush is not racist, and neither is his mother, who was not laughing at the flood victims but with them, if they had only been laughing at the time. Some people said that Our Great President was racist when he visited Bob Jones University, and some people said he was racist because he would not visit with the NAACP (and who can blame him?) and now some people are saying he is racist just because there are tens of thousands of black people. And you know who those people are, too, and they are the same sort of malcolm tents who went around telling blacko-Americans in the sixties that they were unhappy and causing unrest.

Would Haley Barbour be associating with George W. if he was a racist? Arrest my case!

And who is not outraged about that San Francisco LIEberal Nancy Pelosi calling Our Great President “oblivious, in denial, and dangerous” just because he asked out loud what went wrong with FEMUR. How dare she say he is “oblivious, in denial, and dangerous” just because so many people died?

And nothing shows how “oblivious, in denial, and dangerous” Pelosi is then her telling the lady on CNN “if you want to make a case for the White House, you should go on their payroll.” How does she know she is not on their payroll already, like that good black person Armstrong Williams was? I ask you? Should not she go find out before she starts throwing around accusations like that?

Perhaps the worst part of all this blame-gaming is that it is distracting attention from Our Great President’s celebration of the happiest day in American history, September 11. It is going to be the fourth anniversary of that occasion, and instead of helping out with the exciting Cliff Blatt concert or signing up to be prescreened to take part in the Freedom March, some people are still complaining “Where’s Osama?” and “Where’s the anthrax killer?” as if that matters. Or else they are complaining because the money that was supposed to help the money grubbing people in New York City went to other people instead.

Well, as a Republican Team Leader I will be there marching proudly, and I have even got a new brown shirt for the event. I am even working on a special armband!

So there!

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This picture was taken before she turned into a crackhead. I really don’t understand it. Was she sheltered as a child? I mean, she can’t dance. But I have to break the news to the world….NOT ALL BLACK PEOPLE CAN DANCE. Now most of us have better rhythm than other groups of people but we can’t dance. We just look cool.

But dancing, unless you are a video ho or a rap star or singer or backup dancer, does not pay the bills. It might help you get pregnant because you are backin’ da dang up but it does not pay a mortgage.

Now it would be AWESOME if all of these naturally talented and gifted black dancers could open up a dance studio….preferably on the white side of town. I mean, why open it up on the black side of town? Black people will not pay to have one of their own teach them how to dance. Black people will try to barter or will show up to the dance studio to balk at the prices!

So why don’t black people open up dance studios on the “other side of the tracks” or in the suburbs?

I saw in my suburbian neighborhood that the local dance studio is offering hip hop classes! I admit I was pissed like the rest of us get. We hate it when white people imitate us and then have the nerve to walk around like they are “black.” I guess the term is “acting wiggerish.” But we COMPLAIN again about that but don’t open up our own studios. It’s not their fault that they can pay their house payment!!!!!!!!!

Come on black people!

But back to Whitney…this photo was taken in the early 90’s. What a role model she was for me. I used to listen to the white people make wonderful and beautiful comments about how beautiful, glamorous and charming Whitney was. But when she came out as a Bobby Brown beaten crack-head, I was ashamed and embarrassed. Whitney, you let us all down. You sicken me.

I don’t want to watch you make those surprise cameo appearances. I get sick of hearing about how much weight you gained and how much better you look. You pissed me off and ruined my image of you forever. How do you honestly come back from being a crackhead when you had the world in the palm of your hands.

I don’t support the NAACP when they back and support these celebrity screwups who come back from screwing young girls, raping little boys, or marrying Bobby Brown. I don’t care how religious their moma’s are. The NAACP just screws everything up for the rest of us by doing this “we forgive you” because the press ate your black behinds for lunch.

If they have the opportunity to “make it” and have fame and fortune, it’s their fault when they do things that land them on the wrong side of Knight Ridder.

NAACP does not represent the majority of black people. Hmmm, since NAACP likes those membership dues, I wonder how many fallen celebs have paid “lifetime” dues to garner their support.

NAACP sucks and I will never pay a membership due unless they come out about something serious like why black men are still getting lynched in 2002? Or why AIDS, the biological weapon that it is, is being used to kill off black people globally?

So NAACP gets funding from stupid, screwup black celebrities and the government? And they are representing who?

All I know is that I ain’t never called myself a “colored person” so NAACP cannot represent me!

Black folk are a very interesting folk.

We are always complaining, me included, about the poor programming on television, especially cable.

Grab a remote and click through the channel and tell me what you see?
Go ahead…I’ll wait…

Are you back? Let me guess. You saw white men and white men, talking about their version of the news, on game shows, on soap operas, and practicing their spirituality. You saw more white people falling in love, jumping over buildings, running on the roofs of out of control trains and somehow surviving. You saw them screaming TERRORISTS! You might have even seen a few in outerspace going where no non-white man has gone before.

Now go to Blockbuster and tell me what you see. You got it! More white people! They are everywhere although they only make up a very small percentage of the worlds population.

I get sick and tired of seeing them and sometimes I wonder if they ever just get sick and tired of seeing themselves.

I would hope that one month like Black History Month or one week or one day they will not dominate the television and just provide some programming that is all black. Shoot, I will take ONE HOUR of that. Just turn off the white people for an hour and turn on black people.

Oh no! All of a sudden, someone will scream out racism or discrimination if we could let the white folks take the back seat for a change.

Someone reading this will say “well you have B.E.T.!”
“One channel out of 50 should be enough. Besides look at yourself. You black people don’t do anything but talk about platinum teeth, platinum rims, and being hoochies. ”

We complain that are children don’t have positive images. We complain that white people don’t want us to know the truth! We complain that white people are all racist and afraid of black people.

To some degree that might be true. But the reality is that we don’t do anything about it ourselves! And that’s the most frustrating. I recently found a site called www.Africast.us and I linked it onto every single website that I have operating online.

Additionally, I sent it out to about 50 emails.

I sent it to the most professional, educated, intelligent, and african conscious black people I could think of. I sent it to people who talk the talk and say that they want to identify with Africa. I sent it to people who know Marcus Garvey, know about Khemet, know that all mankind orginated in Africa.

But how many of those people signed up for www.Africast.us? There were 48 hits and not one person signed up for the $4.99 to watch quality African movies with our perception and our vantage point.

The point that I am making is the same point that the rest of us make. Unless we do for ourselves and “buy black,” we will never become truly free.

I suppose most of them are hanging on to the money so that they can pay their cable bills….

The Healthcare Commission in the UK sent out a press release entitled: “Census shows black people are more likely to go into Mental Health hospitals”

It is well written and thought provoking to say the least. My question is HOW MUCH MONEY DID THEY SPEND PAYING WHITE FOLKS TO DETERMINE THAT WE WERE CUCKOO?

Rather than spend time with black people, they perused medical files and downloaded zipped files of the racial profiles of mental health records to determine their findings.

They should have hired my research company called Crazy As Hell Black People, LLC and paid a sista some money to explain why I shaved my hair bald and started growing a head full of nappy locs. Or threw away a whole freezer of chicken, pork chops and steak for black beans and lentils. Or changed my name from Kimberly to Kenya and demand that you call me that. Or show up at the public school everyday on a sneak mission to see how you were treating my daughter and hoping to find her sitting in the corner so I could “click” and do something that would put me on the frontpage of the daily newspaper. Why do I take old Hanes t-shirts that I have collected over the years from ex-stupid-black-so-called-boyfriends and write slogans covering my REAL big and beautiful breasts that say things like “George Washington was a slave owner. The PIG!” Why did I jump out of my car and walk toward the police officer who stopped me one night becasue I was turning too many blocks….

Ah…that’s a story worth recording for posterity. I was driving to a business meeting with a sista who has an off the chain fashion store. She lived on a street that was surrounded by one way streets. I called her from my cell and she was guiding me to her house and I inadvertently did not come to a complete stop at a 4-way. Of course, why would a cop have to see me. So I felt like the race was on. The dog was on pursuit and I, the rabbit, was trying to find the hole. The last corner, the last block to turn to get to her house and the red and blues danced in my rearview mirror. My daughter was 5 at the time and afraid. Being the strong, black, running late and pissed, needing the business sista that I am, I jumped out of the car and walked toward the patrol car. He jumped out and placed his hand over his gun and screamed “Get back in the car! Ma’am, get back in the car!” I was lip slapping, colorfully creating a desciption in his head of how pissed I really was. He told me that he stopped me because I was turning too many corners like a drug dealer would. He kindly let me go but only with his last question. “Have you ever seen what Chris Rock says about what to do when you get stopped by the police?” I looked at him like he was crazy. He continued by saying that Rock jokes that when you are stopped by the police, you sit still and “shut the F*U*C*K* up!” So I have to learn about dealing wtih the police by watching comic skits?

If I had been my brother, I’d be in jail…or dead!

Yeah, I’m crazy….