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Re: noodad » It’s Gymbucks Lunacy Time

One who knows.... — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:52:56 -0000

Actually, Noodad IS right. You spend $50 to get the coupon. Then you pick out $50 worth of clothes and pay $25. So essentially, you ARE spending $75 for $100 worth of clothes.

Trust me. I\'ve been one of \"those women\" for year :)

Re: New Coroner Controversy

One who knows.... — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 07:49:18 -0000

Number one she is qualified! A Shortridge High School and Howard University Graduate and served in the U.S. Air Force; is a strong, intelligent African American female. Anytime an African American stands up to the establishment whether or not they are right in their efforts, you will be setup, ridiculed and defamed. How is it when an African American employer fires a white employee and they file suit, large monetary awards are granted them? When an African American files a suit against a white employer a nominal monetary award is given them.

There are other examples but I will not list them here. If you do not have all of the facts involving these incidents in her past, be silent. Buck the system and find out what they will do to your reputation. The smear campaign does not have to be true, only believable or questionable. Indiana politicians are known for the same thing and have defamed many decent professionals, also have allowed the corrupt ones to remain in their positions for control.

Marion County has had several questionable decisions rendered by past coroners who happen to be white regarding shootings or murdered African American victims or suspects which were not prosecuted. The media did not question the decisions or the qualifications of those coroners. Hoewever, in the eyes of the public, doubt still remains if there was a cover up.

In 1987, Michael Taylor’s death almost caused a race riot in this city. The community was made to accept his decision as a suicide rather than an accidental self-inflicted fatal wound to the head in the back of a patrol car.

Could it be the majority community is afraid to have a qualified African American female who was raised in this community, be in charge of forensic investigations? Think about!

Re: Still Thinking About It

One who knows.... — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 10:22:22 -0000

Businessman Bob Parker, Republican has been asked to run for mayor. He ran in 1999, 2003 for the Republican nominations but lost to Sue Ann Gilroy and Greg Jordan. It seems the attorneys in the Party want to protect their legal contracts with the city so most of them are riding the fence period. Bob Parker can give Bart and his boyz a run for their money.

Re: It’s Amazing What a Little Blog Can Do

One who knows.... — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:36:54 -0000

Abdul;

Mayor Peterson sits in the studio with Amos Brown and answers questions from friendly callers, but he calls in on your show and uses the phone as a buffer between him and your not too agreeable listeners.

Did you know, Amos has his producer screen and block callers who they determine will attack Mayor Peterson, Sen. Bayh or Rep. Carson on issues. They do not answer any tough questions.

When a Republican officeholders are on his show, they are usually attacked and ridiculed by callers and by him.

Amos Brown's nomination into the Media Hall of Fame is more than likely his payoff for protecting and supporting incompotent Democrat officeholders daily on his raido show.

Re: It’s Amazing What a Little Blog Can Do

One who knows.... — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:37:11 -0000

Re: Political Musings

One who knows.... — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 11:20:46 -0000

For the record, the State Board of Accounts, merely audits the amount of funds appropriated for a given period of time, and list the accounts payable for checks and balances. The audits do not investigate specific expenditures unless there is a request to do.

Re: Clothe the Poor, but Don’t Style Them

One who knows.... — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 09:22:08 -0000

Wilson you are wrong again.
Nothing libelous was filed in superior court requesting access to public records. Trustee emplyees complained publicly about Doris' Outlet and the overpriced clothing sold to poor relief recipients. Julia Carson denied her access to the records the reason she had to file a lawsuit.

Jeff Modisett[D]served 1991-1994, he ignored any wrong doing by Julia Carson, Center Township Trustee at the time. Remember the 5th Ward Chairwoman, Charlotte Goode. They supported Modisett's candidacy for prosecuter. He gave them street money to pass out for votes and introduced him to black voters and leaders.

Jeff Modisett and Bart Peterson were both former executive assistants to then governor Bayh.
The Democrats looked the other way then, just like they are doing now. The Ghetto Mafia rules in Center Township. The Democrat Party needs the black vote to win over a Republican candidate and they know it.

Re: BAYH PRODUCT

One who knows.... — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 14:28:32 -0000

Mr. Abdullah is married. For married candidates the Code states "where the immediate family resides. Where does his wife reside? I believe it on the eastside of Center Township, not Wayne Township.

Case law for Superior Court Judge in Kosiosko County in Northern Indiana.

Residency laws for federal candidates are more liberal than for local elections. Check it out.

Re: BAYH PRODUCT

One who knows.... — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 15:01:27 -0000

correction: Kosciusko County

Re: STAR STRUCK

One who knows.... — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 20:56:46 -0000

My! my! my! The stupid democraps still play the old game of race baiting to motivate black voters to get out and vote. This tired bunch of Negroes are still living in the "1960s". Looks like Peterson has fallen for the "okay dokay."

Since when is it that one member of the African American community can not criticize or identify corrupt black leaders and call them out. To hell with Bart Peterson holding a press conference with the same "house Negroes, who have sold out the black community over the past 50 years.

I am curious to know if Mr. Burris received permission from the national NAACP to exploit the organizations name in this mess. I am cancelling my membership after I write a letter to the national office.

As for Rep Bill Crawford, the black elected official who screwed the black church, minority and women owned businesses in the 2007 session of the general assembly with legislaltion he sponsored.

Amos Brown does more race baiting on WTLC, than anybody I know. But he promotes all of these corrupt democraps as well, so he is protected.

Julia Carson has lied and smeared her opponents over the years and nothing was ever said or done about her conduct in public office.

Glenn Howard runs his mouth about people around the town and he is nothing more than a joke as a legislator.

Any and all white democrats who do not support these fools are labled "racist" to black voters when they run for office. The pressure game is played every election by the members of the Ghetto Mafia. They extort money out of these candidates for them to receive their support.

Many African Americans agree with the article Rishawn Biddle wrote, but they don't have the forum to express their views. Indepnedent thinking blacks support his views.

Re: My Brother From Another Mother

One who knows.... — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:02:22 -0000

Fact: If I recall the Mayor's race in 1999 was about race relations in the city of Indianapolis at the time which was Ms. Adande's platform. She didn't expect to win but had the guts to put this key issue on the front burner which was needed at the time during the Primary Election.

Peterson readily embraced her platform to garner more support from the black community as most white democrat candidates. Look at Hillary and Bill Clinton, even Evan Bayh is attempting to improve his image in the black community these days by supporting Obama.

One of the first actions by Peterson was to hold a race relations conference at the IU Conference Center in January 2000 immediately folowing his election to office. It was a well attended conference by the way by white leaders. Indianapolis can't afford to have a race riot like other cities did in 1960s. Often, too many black people including their so-called leaders are afraid to address this issue head on in mixed company.

Blacks as well as whites are uncomfortable discussing the subject out of ignorance. You can not legislate acceptance of another person's race or color.

Re: Now This Is a Good Idea

One who knows.... — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:06:10 -0000

No, I strngly disagee. Many of the democrat trustees have used the system to create a political power base. The state guidelines are clear. Many of the career politicians have used our tax dollars in the trustee system for political gain. It is obvious that comments regarding poor relief have been misinterpreted here. The system was never designed to pay the expenses for anyone for the long-term.

Fact: Laws governing the Township Trustee system came over on the Mayflower from England. Indiana was considered a farming state in early times. The system was initially designed to give some temporary financial relief to farmers who had a bad harvest. The system provided for their living expenses, food, utilities, school clothes and books for their children, etc. until spring.

Presently, Marion and Lake County are considered urban areas and not rural. Many of the 92 counties in Indiana are considered rural or have farms. Reason why the system has not been abolished.

Read Indiana's history.

Long term financial assistance is the federal welfare program.

Re: This Can’t Be Good

One who knows.... — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 09:10:39 -0000

Response to all Nay-sayers:
How many of you have bothered to attend Indiana Black Expo. IBE's Summer Celebration is more than young people standing around on the street corners in downtown Indianapolis on Friday and Saturday nights after the event closes.

First: Let me get something straight. African American Citizens pay taxes in this city and state also, and it is our downtown as well.

Second: Our youth have just as much right to enjoy all of the same privileges and opportunities the downtown has to offer as caucasians teens.

For those of you who have chosen not to experience the true programs of IBE, your criticism is merely based on media soundbites
of a few negative incidents that have occurred during the week. All of which can not be associated with IBE.

I have never heard a call from the majority community for the 500 Mile Race, the Brickyard 400 or any other major white supported event to be shut down when multiple arrests for public nudity, public drunkeness, excessive noise in the Speedway community and other law violations have occurred. Your statements are racist!

Living downtown, I have seen these offenses committed by white citizens but it does not always make the evening news.

Why don't some of you attend the informative workshops held to expand your knowledge in business, education, health issues, employment, the arts, and exhibits which have been generously sponsored and supported by all of the major corporations and government entities for 38 years?

Fact: In an estimated crowd of 300,000 people in attendance for IBE's events, the number of criminal offenses or incidents are minimal.
IBE is in the top 5 economic events for the city and the state, and we are here to stay!

Re: Saturday Night Special

One who knows.... — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 09:13:39 -0000

Re: Saturday Night Special

One who knows.... — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:49:56 -0000

Response to IBE Nay-Sayers:

Fact: Television and movies today glamorize unwed mothers in Hollywood and drug use. Remember the TV series Murphy Brown, and not to mention the lifestyles portrayed daily in the soap operas. Just as many Caucasian teens wear the same clothing. If you are going to critique black teens, the same goes for whites. This country has a majority of young white unwed mothers with no fathers. More white citizens receive welfare benefits than blacks. Blacks are not the majority. Check your statistics.

The media continues to publicize the negative images in the black community which I do not deny exist. However, rarely do the media publicize the numerous accomplishments or the positives. Stereotyping blacks since slavery is the norm for the media. SoundBits in the news is what you have responded to.

Per capita, the city of Indianapolis has more educated blacks for a city of this size, and most are married.

Young white celebrities like Brittany Spears, her sister and others used to be idolized, no longer, and Paris Hilton to name a few. Yet you tend to imply that only black teens and young adults have this problem.

Illegal drug use and rehab is the norm for the wealthy. Blacks do not control or earn profits from the millions of dollars of illegal drugs sold in this country. Who does?

IBE is not responsible for any citizen black or white who chooses to violate the law during its events. Many of these crimes would occur in our city even if there was not a Summer Celebration.

Regarding attendance. Increased numbers of white citizens do attend and participate in the activities during Expo and they are welcomed. Ironically they are not afraid or intimidated to come and mingle with us. Maybe some of you should try it. Stop the stereotyping; I could do the same based on my personal experiences having grown up in this city.

As for guns, talk to the National Rifle Association Members.

Re: Saturday Night Special

One who knows.... — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:15:20 -0000

Response to Iroc:

I can agree with much of what you have stated.
My point is just that. Indiana Black Expo has made numerous changes and is promoting and exhibiting the higher standards for young African Americans through a variety of workshops and exhibits for the past 38 years, as well as to educate members of the entire community.

Positive role models are recognized annually, information is presented and is available for those who desire to achieve and improve their individual lifestyles. "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink."

The racists in our society continue to try to define our race. However, we will not settle for it. For too long our true history has been hidden from us through our public educational system. For too long the negative images of our people have been promoted by those individuals in control of mass media.

For example, the media venues do not promote the numerous negative images of other races on a daily basis, year after year. Our history did not begin with slavery in this country, nor will it be recorded accurately unless we write it. These images continue to create the division amongst the races to maintain their superiority to people who are different from them.

America is a "melting pot" and every race has members who choose not to advance. Nothing or no one can change that.

Re: Saturday Night Special

One who knows.... — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:02:09 -0000

Response to Robert and Rico:

I did not state that African Americans could do no wrong. I am probably more critical of my people than you are.

Yes, if whites choose to be addressed as African Americans, they can be.
Who really cares.

BTW: Black includes all colors, and white is without color.

A particular race of people should not be defined by the color or pigment of their skin. If they choose to identitfy with a native continent or country of their ancestors, who cares.

Think on this. The color white is not superior to black.

Re: Saturday Night Special

One who knows.... — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 04:52:06 -0000

Robert

Your comments are clearly racist. Considering the number of teens over (100,000) attending IBE events for the right reasons, the number of incidents involving the police are few. You need to check your statistics. Overall, IBE nor the police have no control over the number of persons who choose to violate the law during these events. The Rodney King incident in LA have nothing to do with Black Expo.

Re: Saturday Night Special

One who knows.... — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 06:46:46 -0000

Springfield's secret
100 years ago, Lincoln's birthplace was torn by riots as whites attacked blacks -- an episode the city is only now accepting.
By Michael Skube

July 6, 2008

SPRINGFIELD, ILL. — Our memory of the unpleasant chapters in our nation's history is usually shorter than we imagine, especially where race is concerned. Few Americans could even tell you "who" Jim Crow was. Only mostly older Americans remember the racial history of the Deep South and of the big cities -- Detroit, Newark, Watts.

Still fewer would include in the roster of riot-torn cities the hometown of Abraham Lincoln, the Great Emancipator. But 100 years ago this summer, white mobs rampaged through the streets of this city for weeks, setting fire to black businesses, beating up blacks wherever they found them and demanding that two black inmates -- both accused of crimes against whites -- be handed over to them by the county sheriff. Not until 5,000 federal troops were deployed was calm restored. Afterward, the Chamber of Commerce and others tried their best to paint the episode over, saying the mobs were local lowlifes who did not reflect the city or its people. "The inception of the destruction of lives and property in Springfield came from the lawless, indolent and vagrant portion of the community," Maj. Gen. E.C. Young said on declaring an end to military occupation of the city.
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FOR THE RECORD:
History: A headline in the July 6 Opinion section describing racial riots in Springfield, Ill., said that the city was Abraham Lincoln's birthplace. He was born in Kentucky. —

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The archives tell a different story, one in which respectable citizens and even local newspapers played their parts. The Illinois State Register began its Aug. 14 story reporting the alleged rape of a white woman by a black man this way: "One of the greatest outrages that ever happened in Springfield took place ... last night. There is no doubt the case is one of premeditated assault. ... No effort should be spared to find the black viper." A month later, the woman, Mabel Hallam, would confess to making the story up.

Tensions had begun more than two months earlier. On June 1, an intruder broke into the home of a mining engineer named Clergy Ballard and frightened Ballard's 16-year-old daughter in her bed. Hearing her screams, Ballard gave chase, eventually catching the intruder. But the man pulled a knife and Ballard was mortally wounded. After Ballard died, his son and two other men scoured the neighborhood for suspects. The three came upon a 17-year-old black drifter named Joe James, who was sleeping on the street, and, apparently, convinced themselves he was the likely killer. They were beating James to a pulp when police arrived. According to one account, shreds of clothing matching James' were found at Ballard's home. For his part, James said he had been drunk and couldn't remember that night. His guilt has never been conclusively established, but he was tried that September and hanged Oct. 23.

In the months between Clergy Ballard's death and James' hanging, tension among Springfield residents spilled over, fueled by rumors of alleged assaults on white women by black men and imminent lynchings. Bands of white vigilantes roamed the city at will. It was Mabel Hallam's allegation of assault by George Richardson that brought tensions to the point of riot. Scores of black-owned homes and businesses were torched. Before it was over, half a dozen people would be killed and more than 100, white and black, would be injured. One of those who died was 84-year-old William Donnegan, a retired cobbler whose only crime was to be married to a white woman. When a mob moved on Donnegan's house, the old man came to his door. The mob pulled Donnegan from his home, cut his throat and strung him up in a schoolyard across the street.

The city's riots were instrumental in the founding, in New York City the next year, of the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People.

Last month, Springfield's local newspaper, the Illinois State Journal-Register, ran a special supplement recounting the horrors of that summer a century ago. For many, it was an awakening to something in their city's past they had known nothing about. "I was born and raised here, and this is the first I've ever heard of it," a 53-year-old man said at a Barnes & Noble bookstore.

I had heard nothing about it myself until taking a history course at a university in the South. Growing up in Springfield in the 1950s and 1960s, I had made school trips to Lincoln's home at 8th and Jackson streets and once took an out-of-town girlfriend to visit his tomb at Oak Ridge Cemetery. But the riots of 1908 went unmentioned in the schools I attended, the city held no commemorations, and no truth-and-reconciliation commissions sought to reconcile past and present. The city was residentially segregated, and it remains so today. The west side sparkles with neatly kept lawns and new businesses; the east side is in abysmal decay.

The contrast between white and black in Springfield is a grim reflection of the words of Alexis de Tocqueville in "Democracy in America," written 25 years before the Civil War and almost 75 years before the riots of 1908.

"These two races," he said, "are fastened to each other without intermingling; and they are alike unable to separate entirely or to combine." Tocqueville saw slavery as an ancient evil that had mutated in a pernicious way in the New World. He saw no hope of assimilation.

A mere six months after the riots, he would not have been surprised by the city's centennial celebration of Lincoln's birth. It was the grandest ever held in the city, with a sumptuous menu that, as the Journal-Register's retrospective reports, included "five barrels of oysters, hundreds of pounds of fowl, beef tenderloin and crab meat, more than a ton of ice cream and gallons of turtle soup, all part of a four-course meal for the roughly 750 invited."

The city's two newspapers at the time covered it as the gala it was, with scarcely a word about the violence of the previous summer. Almost buried in its coverage was a smaller story reporting that local black leaders had held a separate celebration in a church on the east side. Theirs was separate because they were not invited to the grander celebration downtown. There was no interest on the city's part in their assimilating.

Long before Malcolm X preached separatism, assimilation is all black Americans ever wanted -- assimilation not in the sense of losing racial identity but only of wanting a place at the nation's table. Symbolically, it is what they and many whites today want in the presidential candidacy of Barack Obama. In the city where he once served as state senator, Obama surely knew what had happened in 1908. If whites had long since forgotten, memory of it would have been passed down through oral tradition in the black community. It would have understood what William Faulkner meant. "The past," he said, "is not dead. It is not even past."

And yet hope of a better future, even more than change, has been the wellspring of Obama's presidential campaign. In the face of a past so implacable, it requires an uncommon optimism to believe tomorrow is not only a new day but a better one.

Michael Skube teaches journalism at Elon University in North Carolina.

Re: MB Market Update for 1/31/09 - Inventory

One who knows.... — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:52:26 -0000

772 Rosecrans went into contract at $760K...the true limus test of value! The lender however forced the appraisal down to $744K.

Re: Gina Carano iPhone Wallpapers

One who knows.... — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:21:16 -0000

SECOND ROW RIGHT IS NOT GINA...BOTTOM ROW LEFT IS NOT GINA. THAT IS KYRA GRACIE.

Re: Apparently, we were one bureaucratic level short of an answer

One who knows.... — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 22:54:28 -0000

Guys and girls, save the rants that are based on your mere speculation. Sit back and watch what unfolds. Then everybody can comment as they see fit. I assure you that you all will have plenty to comment on. Yes, I know that you can jump on me for throwing things out there without substance, but for now, it's all you get. The truth will come out, and the bus will not be derailed by the speedbumps being thrown in front of it. It will reach its destination.

Re: Two views on the GOP’s future

One who knows.... — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 09:40:08 -0000

Birkett needs to remember he does NOT have a clean slate to run on... He can run as fast and as far as he'd like, but he's not going to get far.

Re: On pork and hypocrisy

One who knows.... — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:54:04 -0000

I've seen some of the pork that's been processed in the last five years in Illinois, and I can attest to the fact that a lot of it does not pass the sniff test. Emil Jones' use of the lump sum line items allowed him to award prominant religious supportes with funding for their "daycare" programs or "after school arts" programs, when in reality, the funding went to pay for personnel, more specifically it went to his buddies. I agree that the infrastructure and emergency management grants are warranted and necessary, but when public funds are used to line the pockets of private organizations, that's where I draw the line.

Re: More on the threatened veto…

One who knows.... — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:53:51 -0000

I think that the "pork" Cassandra is referring to are the project like the ones purchasing 50,000 chairs for a church daycare (that only services 50 children - you do the math) or the thousands of dollars dropped into silk plants at a Chicago museum a few years ago. As a parent, I agree that I am concerned about maintaining healthcare, and our family insurance is quite costly. When I asked around for doctors who would accept the state's healthcare plan for my child if I put him on it, I only found one doctor of the 50 I spoke with that would even consider it. What good is his healthcare plan doing Illinois anyway? Why would we want to expand it if doctor's won't see the kids who are on it now?

Re: Not enough info, but here it is anyway

One who knows.... — Wed, 20 May 2009 15:53:14 -0000

Paul's Presidential vote might be the only affirmation of his GOP credentials. I don't think he runs either.