Many progressive health professionals support a single payer health plan.  Yet, that issue has been a moot conversation. Politicians are throwing out adjectives and pronouns that amount to nothing more then insurance companies financially profiting and forcing the overworked and underpaid to contribute with payroll deductions. We have to admit, that not only insurance companies benefit from mandatory coverage, but government was not going to contribute to unemployment lines. The information society of insurance bureaucracy is a major factor in our nations gross national product.

Besides manipulating the media with false anecdotes,  insurance lobbyists swarm around every politician. for every politician in Washington.  These health care pundits  have entered the domain of my car emergency service. In between giving details about towing my truck, I started a conversation with office worker Chalein of Michigan,  about the proposal of universal health care.

Let me not be in shock at the volume of misinformation she had been subjected to. But one of the main points of her contention was how local politicians and a small minority almost convinced her that a government run health care    

Many progressive health professionals support a single payer health plan.  Yet, that issue has been a moot conversation. Politicians are throwing out adjectives and pronouns that amount to nothing more then insurance companies financially profiting and forcing the overworked and underpaid to contribute with payroll deductions. We have to admit, that not only insurance companies benefit from mandatory coverage, but government was not going to contribute to unemployment lines. The information society of insurance bureaucracy is a major factor in our nations gross national product.

Besides manipulating the media with false anecdotes,  insurance lobbyists swarm around every politician. for every politician in Washington.  These health care pundits  have entered the domain of my car emergency service. In between giving details about towing my truck, I started a conversation with office worker Chalein of Michigan,  about the proposal of universal health care.

Let me not be in shock at the volume of misinformation she had been subjected to. But one of the main points of her contention was how local politicians and a small minority almost convinced her that a government run health care    

laissez-faire capitalism

Mademoiselle Joan Walsh of Salon;

"I'm not a member of any organized party. I am a Democrat."

Will Rodgers said that.

The values of a laissez-faire capitalism supported by a puppet legislative government is reflective in your conversation about the history of the overworked and underpaid American. While your audience swells up with the suggestion of being elitist intelligentsia, not many comments got the true grit of your intended discussion. As a black patriot, your nutshell psychoanalysis of consumerism and the social science of profiteers that reduce Americans to chess pieces made my heart melt with cognitive affection. Such accurate interpretation of how the values and morals of United States of America's rich and famous just replaced European aristocrats who offer Angel food cake to the poor and downtrodden as they party with lobbyists.

Unfortunately, both Democrat and Republican politicians have joined the ranks of arrogant snobs who use the science of mass marketing to fulfill our needs for instant gratification with empty code words of schizophrenic propaganda enforced by class separation with the police as gatekeepers.

Thank you for being you.

I shall be pleased to discover more about you in your conversations Joan Walsh.

How can kids who attend second class schools, without chemistry labs, with outdated textbooks, in substandard buildings, and with disinterested teachers compete with a white suburban kid who has been on a computer since he was born?

It ain't happening!

President Obama is wrong, black parents do not rise their kids to be crack heads, basketball stars, or rappers. Like every parent, they hope that the public school inspires and guides them to become secure and independent. But when you walk into a classroom that emits a careless attitude about your success, then you unwillingly adopt that attitude and fall further into the cycle of engineered poverty.

Wake up Obama. Don't tell me to teach kids with 19th century books in a 21st century world. Don't pull a Booker T. Washington on me. When I 'cast down my bucket', I get polluted drinking water that further inhibits my chance at cognitive thoughts.

Republicans just don't get it. Because an inexperienced Puerto Rican male voted as a conservative judge, the southern senator expected Soto to follow her cultural patriarch. A kowtowing Justice Clarence Thomas she is not. [ By the way, has anyone read his briefs lately...}But her strength of character is reminiscence of Anita Hill.

Its the same southern aristocratic philosophy, that a Raygun Ron Reagan would use to instill fear in voters that a black president would create a nation catering to black needs and concerns. Its the same historical prejudice that believes all blacks know each other and given the opportunity will collaborate to rob and dismember white victims. One PR newscaster noted how stereotypical beliefs reminds him of when people thought anyone of Hispanic origin ate tacos and took afternoon siestas (you could see the hurt in his eyes as he reflected.)

Maybe Southern senators expect all Puerto Ricans to forgivingly embrace the conservative hypocrites who deny the colony statehood rights. Like U.S. Virgin Islands, the colonies of different races have no  political representation in the marble white halls of the 90 member senate.

Race was a topical accusation brought up so many times, I forgot she was being interviewed to be a judge. I thought I was witnessing a Wisconsin senator accusing innocent citizens of being a communist. Gender was mentioned so much as a threat to the sanctity of white men, I started smelling burning flesh from the Salem Witch Trials. But this time the culprit in the defendants chair is a racist, according to the society of elite white men. Men living for an anti-bellum century obtusely thought inherent prejudices  would help inspire the improper cat calls from anti-Soto audience members. All of these people are afraid of losing their superior status if a commie racist becomes a member of the Supreme Court. After all, capitalist pigs in positions of power never reflect the opinion of their rich constituents.  Still, no matter how they slung their southern grits and pig lips, their comments did not stick to the hallowed chamber wall of reason and logic.

What did stick was how those judicial republicans expressed fear and finally acknowledgment that they are losing power with the racist ideology that begun with Nixon. What they realize that as more people from the rest of the nation repopulate the South; these new immigrants do not necessarily share the same pompous views of anti-bellum Confederate agitators.   

When the director of Gone With the Wind predicted the South would rise again with blacks again as second class citizens; he would be dumbfounded to find out liberals, blacks, and Hispanics and Asians have come out of the ashes of Atlanta's nefarious hellfire. 

    News junkies resent the death of Michael J. Jackson.  It intrudes upon their masochistic desire to enjoy the various scenes of bloody traumas facing the world.  Believe me, the death of Socrates, and the death of Lincoln, and the death of Roosevelt created as much media hyperbole about as MJ does today.
     In past centuries, the lives of artists like Shakespeare and Picasso and the suicide of an one-eared artist, created controversy, conversation, and contriteness from tabloid writers. MJ's mass media coverage is no different from the media frenzy given to deceased icons from long ago.  Maybe the conservative media is jealous of how the death of President Reagan or Elvis Presley did not warrant the same media hype.  They need not worry; media obsession with the black MJ is still second to the white Princess Di's mass media funeral obsession.  
    Like the CEO's of Detroit auto manufacturers, the media pundits just don't get all the attention directed at MJ. The topics of war, poverty, and environment have always been requiems for MJ. His history is not limited to a controversial trial that found him innocent of all charges.  Alternatively, the physiological demons that influenced his physical appearance is another episode in the life of another American icon.
    The life of an American soldier and the effects of war upon the innocent civilian is of utmost concern to Jackson. This is proven by his visit to Walter Reed Hospital where he praised injured Iraqi soldiers. His concern about the rain forest and increasing deserts was exhibited in his songs and monetary contributions to just causes. The plight of people living in dismal hopelessness all around the world; was clearly examined within MJ's songs and music videos.
    There is ignorance about Michael Jackson in contemporary America that bears no relationship to the impact that this human being had upon the world. Watching MSNBC's Keith Olbermann and Vanity Fair's Maureen Orth  simply categorize Jackson as a weird demented icon was heart wrenching. They destroyed my image of a passionate and empathetic news station and cruelly reminded me of FOX's discriminatory coverage of OJ Simpson. There is a hereditary trend for whites to automatically view black males as guilty no matter how innocent.
    But these hypocritical commentators stop short of lambasting Princess Di for her extramarital affairs featured on tabloid headlines.  On the other hand, no one castrated the rockabilly King on his deathbed for his public use of amphetamines and barbiturates.  MJ's erratic behavior was publicized like a cattle prod up his fans collective asses; because no matter how famous he was,...no matter how many presidents invited him into the white house,...no matter how many NGO's survived with his donations,...and no matter how many of his musical peers recognized his genius,...and no matter that 30.1 million people felt empathy about his death; naysayers did not easily acknowledge his professional awards or his contributions to society, because he is a black male. Every successful black male will acknowledge the tribulations and traumas associated with breaking the glass ceiling of a white male world.  
    But the press only saw his follies. Various orators could hardly accomplish their long and laborious speechifying meant to dispel the highest praises of international leaders and the noblest honor of men upon the golden soul of MJ.

    The White House is preparing to honor the black slaves of men who built this international symbol of democracy.  A memorial of sandstone blocks will stand as a dedication to the men who were whipped and beaten into building a caricature of Greek democracy.
In the anti-bellum era of our country's history, black men did most of the skilled and unskilled labor in America. Skilled black men like Frederick Douglas, brought their freedom with extra money earned from their trade. When white men realized the income potential earned as a carpenter, bricklayer, painter, or stagehand; they blacklisted blacks from these jobs by organizing themselves into segregated labor unions.  Through intimidation and manipulation, employers could no longer hire the best-qualified tradesmen, but were restricted to using white union tradesmen for construction and manufacturing jobs. Even today, these guilds are secret societies with restrictive membership.
     The stone grave marker for black tradesmen who built the Capital building, should also mark the end of skilled black labor. Unions restrict the same black labor from working on the Urban Leagues new building. It is ironic that an organization dedicated to training and employing black men for jobs was unable to secure employment for black men to help build their own building.  My deep throat source tells me that concrete plans for the building have been in discussion for three years, and efforts to secure skilled employment for its underemployed and underpaid constituents were continually ignored.
    An urban league representative offered the old racist adage that now was not the time to distract contractors with pleas for job equality at tax supported job sites.  Martin Luther King said about equality, if the past was not the right time, and now is not the right time, when is the time to ask for the rights and privileges that every American rightfully deserves since the dawn of this country. With the construction new building, the Urban League passed up an opportunity to guarantee training for the trades. Maybe the contractor that is an advent donation to the urban league got the job to build the building if his donations made up for not hiring black men on the job. This nefarious act of betrayal is not unheard of in the world of deceitful lobbyist and conniving politicians. This is not the first time middle class representatives of the black community have forsaken the needs of the black working class.
    The 100 middle class Black Men of Madison, black ministers, and black politicians are notorious for undermining the social desires and economic needs of poor working blacks.  After 100 years of NAACP and 50 years of Urban League interaction for civil rights,  only token examples of success have materialized. Examples of ineptitude include...

Its always open season on blacks. Some of you educated white liberals might admit that 82 percent (2004 stats) of you will enjoy racist comments made by your peers. In  private conversation, you will not stop the degradation of another human being if that person is black.

Look around your work sites. Where are your black co-workers? seventy percent of middle and middle upper class blacks work in government. Government is the only employer dedicated to closing the ever widening employment gap between black and white. Private sector has your permission to exclude blacks because you feel uncomfortable with more then two blacks in the same room.

President Obama said the most segregated place in American is church on Sunday morning. He's wrong, with only 6 percent of black news reporters sitting in the newsroom. I say that the most segregated place is the newsroom on Monday morning, writing negative copy about blacks to reinforce stereotypes formulated by the press.

Another issue is how some of you are so childish to believe its socially acceptable to call blacks names. Well, let me say, at my age, I have never heard any black refer to whites as polacks, spics, potato heads, Marshmallow, Ofay    Trailer Trash, etc.etc.
And then again, I remember as a black Vietnam Veteran, that the Vietnamese could claim american citizenship as long as they could say the 'n' word. Other foreigners have also learned that this lesson is the true path to citizenship. But you don't hear blacks saying pakis or towelheads in public or private.
So, whats your excuse? 

Another racist goes public and does not understand what all the fuss is about.

Its always open season on blacks. Some of you educated white liberals might admit that 82 percent (2004 stats) of you will enjoy racist comments made by your peers. In  private conversation, you will not stop the degradation of another human being if that person is black.

Look around your work sites. Where are your black co-workers? seventy percent of middle and middle upper class blacks work in government. Government is the only employer dedicated to closing the ever widening employment gap between black and white. Private sector has your permission to exclude blacks because you feel uncomfortable with more then two blacks in the same room.

President Obama said the most segregated place in American is church on Sunday morning. He's wrong, with only 6 percent of black news reporters sitting in the newsroom. I say that the most segregated place is the newsroom on Monday morning, writing negative copy about blacks to reinforce stereotypes formulated by the press.

Another issue is how some of you are so childish to believe its socially acceptable to call blacks names. Well, let me say, at my age, I have never heard any black refer to whites as polacks, spics, potato heads, Marshmallow, Ofay    Trailer Trash, etc.etc.
And then again, I remember as a black Vietnam Veteran, that the Vietnamese could claim american citizenship as long as they could say the 'n' word. Other foreigners have also learned that this lesson is the true path to citizenship. But you don't hear blacks saying pakis or towelheads in public or private.
So, whats your excuse?

That was beautifully said. There is an ignorance about Michael Jackson in contemporary America that bears no relationship to the impact that this human being had upon the world. Watching MSNBC's Keith Olbermann and Vanity Fair's Maureen Orth simply categorize Jackson as a weird demented icon was heart wrenching. They destroyed my image of a passionate and empathetic news station  and cruelly reminded me of FOX's discriminatory coverage of O.J. Simpson. This deja vu constantly reminds black people that in the eyes of white liberals we are a guilty headline to be exploited by the CEO's of corporate advertisers. MSNBC's coverage was not an honorable memorial, but a lynching party with a Vanity editor tying the hangman's noose by the dim light of hyperbole from seasoned newscasters.  

You're right, meaningful liberals are all too eager to march to the distant sounds of apathy because they can step over the pig manure they historically permeated in their own back yard. Thanks for being you. http://www.thedailybeast.com/

To the Madison City Council:

White supremacy is alive and well in Madison, Wisconsin, but you just don't get it.

    Remember when those rich guys from the auto plants flew to Washington in private jets with their hands out for public money. It was too late but they promised to come to the next meeting in gas upped Pintos and collapsible Corvairs.  But the public kept saying they just don't get it. Then there were rumors of luxurious private parties and lavish Vegas gambling jaunts. Once again, the public said, they just don't get it.
    Well, it looks like you sitting there in your, made in china chairs, and  just don't get it. When you drive around town, who do you see working. When you drive past a street?  did you notice not one black man is on that crew? When you walk though a road construction site paid for with tax incremental financing of federal dollars, who do you see working? You do not see a black man working.  When you see a building construction paid for by federal tax dollars  at one of ten sites on campus, who do you see working? When you see a private company using tax dollars to buy land and build buildings, you don't see a black man working on the project or in the building working after its completed.
    When you deny DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL RIGHTS the power to enforce the hiring of black men, you just don't get it do you?  Seventy percent of the black middle class works for the government. Yet, you just don't see the nepotism that takes place in private business. Sure, Findorf, Vogel, Staff Electric, Forward Electric have a right to hire qualified personnel, but when qualified black men are continually turned away from advertised jobs; you just don't see the pattern of discrimination; you don't hear the cries for empathy, you don't speak out against apathy. You just don't get it.
    You just don't get how a small business owner or a company that receives public funds could reject a qualified black man. You just don't get it, do you. You just don't get how a company could do business with the city for 20 years and never find a qualified black man to hire. You, like me, should walk though the hollowed halls of city, county and state government offices with the published list of empty seats reserved for blacks that human resources can never find. This list of missing black employees has grown longer, not shorter over the last 20 years.
    You don't get how the city has been lying to blacks about seriously understanding how a black man could apply for a open position and not get hired.  Because if you did you would see how the streets of our city are being built by the brothers, classmates, drinking buddies, hunting friends, uncles, sisters, and cousins of company owners who would willingly pay a small fine and still not ever hire black men to work on a federally funded project.
    I'm sure some of you heard about the white women who claimed two burly black men kidnapped her and stole her child. As intelligent representatives of the city, you may ask yourself how could anyone come up with such a cock and bull story.  But the fact of the matter is, this is not the first time that a city's police department has been mislead to believe that black men were the perpetrators of a car jacking or other violent crime. But this is the first time the police did not do a massive roundup of black men as the usual suspects based on racist ideology.  Police fought against this built-in bias against black men and correctly assumed that over 70 percent of crimes where a black man was a perpetrator was a race conscious lie. This woman assumed no one would question her despicable beliefs. What do you do or say when your friend, relative, neighbor, co-worker spouts sardonic hatred? Empirical research shows that most whites are congenial about racism and its effects upon society.
    A company recently decided to search for police records of black applicants. To the surprise of the human relations department, none of the black applicants had police records. Previously, the director had assumed that all blacks have criminal records so why even accept applications from black applicants. You too, have denied the truth of institutional racism that denies a black man a right to work in order to support his family, his community, and his city.  You see the truth, but you can't handle it, do you dismiss it.
By denying the civil rights office this power you just don't get it. You are complacent about the pre-conceived notions of black men that each of you have consciously or unconsciously inherited from family, friends, and co-workers. These biased insinuations handed down from generation to generation are endemic of people who deny the holocaust and deny 400 years of slavery.
    It is disingenuous to think 400 years of institutionalized scientifically applied slavery, Jim Crow laws, housing discrimination, job discrimination, health care discrimination, and education inequity is going to be fixed in 60 years by businesses rolling over and volunteering to be good Christians. The fact that over 51 percent of local businesses are small businesses does not preclude the fact that some are working on city projects funded by federal funds. Funds that by law should help employ the generations of unemployed black men in Madison. The predetermined criminal record of a black man is because 3 out of 4 black men have had encounters with police.  Police stopping men who are driving while black is a national phenomenon that people just don't get. Racism is a disease and the cure is the law. Trickle down policies predicting that employers will follow their conscious works, if only the employer has a moral conscious.
    You cannot be blind, deaf, and silent about the factual systematic incarceration of black men by police, judges, probation officers, parole boards, jail guards, and juries purposely and publicly display their disdain for black men. This tool of right wing recruitment is cannon fodder for extremism mayhem. This includes denying DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL RIGHTS the right to enforce rules that protect all Americans from their ignorant anti-Semitic racist prophesies.
    To deny DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL RIGHTS power is the height of irresponsibility to the Madison citizenry. As politicians, you must know that the current social and economic traumas will unleash the venom of violent extremists. Your pretzel logic to deny this power is unconstitutional. The past few decades has only seen a token increase in the hiring of blacks in government and in private business. Research about a local manufacturing plant tells me how management attends seminars about how to legally not hire blacks without being sued for racial discrimination. Your ultimate obligation is to insure that city, county, state, federal governments, and private businesses do not hide behind a sea of judicial hyperbole that prolongs the anxiety of the black man waiting in the wings to be hired. Is it true what I read about how landlords who are found guilty of housing discrimination can secretly pay a fine and continue to discriminate?  My deep throat tells me city officials are in cahoots with private businesses and human resource staffs who intentionally violent national laws that prohibit all forms of racial discrimination and nepotism.  But as your hiring records show and newspapers have revealed, nepotism plays a role in who is hired; and since no blacks are hired though the back door we can assume that friends and relatives who look like the people in power are quickly hired into these hate circles that share the same racist views. You have not adequately monitored the negative rhetoric that keeps blacks from these jobs, this same stereotyped rhetoric that gets blacks intentionally fired when employers are forced to obey the affirmative action laws that is your civic responsibility to carry out. How do you reconcile the blatant truth of spitefulness and hatefulness that keeps blacks from feeding their families, from paying taxes, from being a citizen in a democracy?
    By not giving DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL RIGHTS absolute power, you are undermining the death of Dr. Martin Luther King and the sacrifice of Rosa Parks. Society allowed the lynching of Emmett Till and the gassing of Anne Frank. Do you represent blacks in society or do you represent businesses who find you a racist compatriot? Are you helping to tie the noose and turning on the gas or just another anonymous liberal hypocrite of freedom and liberty, who watch as the smoke plumes from the gas chambers disappear from your sight and mind. 
    It is disconcerting to know a white politician got the black vote because he likes gospel music, Tiger Woods, and chit'lins.  The silent protests of institutional racism in Dane County by 100 black men of Madison is synonymous with temperance minstrel music. Where is the voice of the Urban League as its new building goes up, where is the voice of the NAACP, the voice of NOW, PETA and other liberal women and men who hold siege to liberalism in Madison. Black men are invisible until the news comes on.  Even a fleeting association with blacks reveals that white resentment is a racist derangement; a dismal attitude attached to mainstream society. There are 10,000 hate groups on line.  Nine hundred and twenty-six white supremacy websites get nearly 10,000 hits a day to celebrate the silent genocide of the black male and Negro/Jew.  Isolated incidents of racism are uniformly destructive but you just don't get it. White supremacy is alive and well in government or why else would it take 60 years and more to resolve what is overt racism and what is courteous impertinence. Both are motivated by the politics of fear and loathing. But you still don't get it.
    This is a struggle between good and evil. You can no longer increase the police budget without seeing the repercussions of decreasing the funding of youth activities that show society does care about them. You must see the liaison between increasing jail space and the increasing education gap. Don't you think black mothers also want their new born sons to have the skills necessary to work on a road crew, to sit in that office cubicle, to finance a loan? Nativity is no longer an excuse when you see no black men at your dinner table, as your co-worker or in your church pews. Some suggest that blacks and Jews should just get over it, but they just don't get it. Racism is a mandate that is consciously or unconsciously supported by your inattention to the truth that the same people deny the Holocaust happened; people also deny that lynching, raping, castrating, and dismembering black men was an instant holiday for white people. (Recently a judge dropped charges against two white men for dragging a black men behind a truck until he was dismembered because there was no usable evidence and black witnesses were afraid to come forward.But you just don't get it.)People deny that prison factory towns are dependent upon the courts to keep the townspeople employed; the probation officer regurgitating inmates also keeps his job and the local police are counterfeiting evidence with propaganda that hides the lowering crime rate. 
    What are your principles?  What is your strategy to right 400 years of scientifically applied racism that kept black men from owning rural farmland, owning their own business, or working like any other man alongside any other man? Well, let me say that I'm disappointed in the intelligence of the council and I'm not going to stand by and watch ignorant selflessness keep black men unemployed. You can join me in the fight against this ingrained evil or you can take the consequences of a retaliatory government.
    The transparency of the Obama administration dictates efficiency. Federal funded projects in the city of Madison can come under the scrutiny of everyday citizens. To emphasize the continued racist hiring policies of private and public contractors, I have enlisted volunteers to apply for jobs with organizations receiving federal funding. As you know, the publication of projects using federal funds allows me to research past and current federally funded projects that historically physically/mentally abuse, while under utilizing, under employing, and under paying black employees.
    Researchers have been assigned to video record working areas for visually accompaniment of DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL RIGHTS/EEO records. Public resources that reveal the number of years and failed attempts at hiring and retaining black men are also available at public and private institutions. I am in direct correspondence with Sharon D. Eller, Director of Civil Rights for the Department of the Interior and Mary N. Whigham Jones, Deputy Director, Departmental Office of Civil Rights within the Department of Transportation, who will be constantly updated about hiring and firing policies of public and private entities who use American Recovery and Reinvestment of 2009 funds. 
    I have social contacts with representatives from the following agencies who report one common unapproved consistency; the unemployed black male:

    * Schools and homeless school liaisons;
    * Workforce centers;
    * employment counselors (welfare to work programs);
    * Property managers, landlord groups, and tenants' associations;
    * Housing courts and legal aid agencies;
    * County veterans' services offices and other veterans' services offices;
    * Multifamily housing associations;
    * Discharge planning departments at jails, prisons, and mental health, chemical dependency, and other institutions;
    * Probation offices;
    * Domestic violence service providers;
    * Food shelves and soup kitchens;
    * The faith community;
    * Housing authorities;
    * Family support centers;
    * Police;
    * Child welfare agencies;
    * Head Start and Early Head Start; and
    * Consumer Advocate Groups.

    The unemployment rate in the black community is twice as high as the general citizenry  because of temporary employment and those who are so disillusioned by the continuum of subtle racism that they no longer look for work. Linking black people with jobs funded by the economic stimulus package will address their other needs and defy the hopelessness, depression, and gloominess that helplessly accompany sustained poverty.
    This is a patriotic mission that begins when I applied for three jobs offered by DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL RIGHTS. I contacted the contractors with a formal application, a resume, and a cover letter. With no forth coming reply I telephoned and left messages. When it was clearly obvious that procrastination of their reply was meant to discourage me, I contacted the DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL RIGHTS office and was told while private contractors doing city work were supposed to hire black employees, they could not enforce the rules and contractors simply ignored the rules because they knew a penalty if any would be slight and hidden from public scrutiny.
    If you think I am frustrated, you are the pompous liberal jerk everyone says you are. I am disillusioned that the prophecies of our Jeffersonian democracy have almost soured by 36 years of bitter Brownshirt behavior towards blacks that was sanctioned by Democrats and well meaning Republicans.   Because of the new King of the hill, I do believe that messages of inclusiveness will be welcome by this cabinet. But unless someone takes responsibility to insure that tests are multi-intelligent; that police do not stereotype perpetrators, and that city governments spend federal money according to the Constitution and the by-laws of the tax-stimulus package, I guess it will be moi' looking over your shoulder for continued proof of your infidelity to humanity. Because three years ago I wrote and commented on the discrepancy in hiring policies by city contractors, but you failed to see the decades long pattern. You just don't get it.
    If you wish to receive copies of testimonials sent to dept of interior and dept of transportation, please contact a local social service agency listed above.  Because reporting discrimination reports are binded by time constraints, technical jargon, and job loss retaliation that dissuades victims from filing discrimination reports, I cannot promise victims will allow the release of their names to local officials. Nevertheless, you will not torpedo Affirmative Action/Equal Employment Opportunity programs on my watch. Obama has received hundreds of death threats, black Americans have experienced thousands upon thousands of hate crime; are these individual acts a coincidence or unorganized conspiracy?  Pro-business does not mean anti-black, otherwise you would of insisted that business tax write-offs include obeying federal hiring policies when using federal funds.(I refer you to the Home Security Report on Domestic Surveillance)

Some of us water our horse at the same trough, but you have made the waters murky with your proposal to stand against evil.. If you look closely upon the waves of change, you will see the image of Emmett Till looking up at you from his open coffin with a truth, that all black men still experience Jim Crow in the 21st Century.  If you open the book of Anne Frank, you will smell survival filling the air with or without your consensus. 

When robert fulton invented the streamboat, he would turn over in his grave if he knew that this new mode of transportation would help transport runaway slaves.

gilby's edition of the "Odyssey" a stanza which reads likc a prophecy, and almost awakens a belief that the great poet had a knowledge of steamvessels in those early times­a thousand years before the Christian era. The prince thus addresses Ulysses:

"We use nor Helm nor Helmsman. Our tall ships have Souls, and plow with Reason up the deeps; All cities, Countries know, and where they list, Through billows glide, veilcd in obscuring Mist; Nor fear they Rocks, nor Dangers on the way."

19th Century industrial powerhouse. Fulton's introduction of a steamboat line from New York City to Al bany, New York along the Hudson River, and later expansion into the Mississippi River Valley clearly changed the face of American shipbuilding and commerce, and tragically, inadvertently further entrenched southern agrarian slavery.

Blowin' in the Wind

Fulton's introduction of the steamboat tragically embedded free labor in the south. Most steamboats were used to transport African slaves to ports where they would be sold into bondage.

But there was one steamboat, The Mark Twain, that used the river as an Underground Railroad before and during the Civil War. Like every steamboat, there was gambling and music where the color of money helped determine freedom. German operas, Irish folk songs, and black gospel music penetrated the air as it steamed up and down the Mississippi.

Characters like Frederick Douglas, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Brown, Harriet Tubman, and Abraham Lincoln interact on the steamboat and on shore to free slaves. Fictional episodes of romance, violence, and historical conversations intertwine with historical accounts of social realism.

There are over 100 historical books about slavery and the Mississippi River. My research has helped me create a novella about a steamboat named after its Captain who is played by Richard Dreyfess.

I want to create a TV script or/and movie about this historical moment in United States History. It starts in Mississippi and ends in Wisconsin with creative enactments along the river. It reads like a Star Trek episode but is also a pirate ship like Serenity that satisfies its own greedy needs while admittedly helping slaves and their sympathizers escape from the malice of anti-abolitionists.  

My book also includes the adventurous historical plight of Asians, Jews, Quakers, and Irish enslaved Catholics who hide in the same ship holes of black slaves after helping to destroy slave plantations (etc.) on their journey to freedom.

Mille fois merci.

Gardner

2Letter to WORT:

News Facilitator?  Is this metamorphic for News Director, assignment desk editor, or city desk editor?  Audio and print job descriptions as well as responsibilities, have definitely evolved in my mass communications career. This title reminds me of the generational terminology describing my ancestors. We have transcended from darkie, to colored, to Negro, to black, to African-American. Consequently, News Facilitator must describe a news emancipator.

Are you looking for someone to free your news department from the manifesto restrictions of public affairs, subjective reporting, and social norms it currently subscribes? If WORT hires a News Facilitator every year, WORT will not be a reliable consistent source of news representing a diversity of economic and social interests.  This lack of cohesion affects your credibility.

The civil rights battle of the cardinal century is for news people can use; and information that educates participation in a democracy.  Radio news and Web 2.0 News can cooperatively transfer relevant documentation about everyday issues that concern your listeners. The transparency of news and information is necessary to fulfill Jefferson's dream of democracy.  When Obama laments on the demise of a free and fair press; he must not know of empirical research confirming the egalitarian empathy of community radio news.

Still, opinions are like assholes, everybody's got one. Some community radio stations process paternalistic liberal opinions. Others have a more daring narcissistic agenda.  WORT should be part of the paradigm shift of information, not a prisoner of nepotistic ideologies. An annual replacement of a 'News Facilitator' stifles press connections, factual resources and community trust. Bridging social capital requires a qualitative and quantitative facilitator of news and information. Your listeners deserve timely conversations that accurately reflect their lifestyles. The transparency of commercial objectivity clearly reveals the intertwined rhetoric of scientific conservatism with public and private broadcasters.   

WORT has the community responsibility of challenging  the monopolistic influence of public and private radio ideology. Multi-media Web 2.0 allows WORT to evolve within the paradigm shift of information. Citizen journalists, lobbyists, public relation departments, university researchers, non-government organizations and government departments are waiting for WORT to take charge of this era's destiny of reforming inequality and injustice.

This hidden power can only be established by a 'News Facilitator' who can manipulate traditional discourse of news and information by educating listeners with multi-media reformations. Your specialty shows are unique and charismatic for sub-culture protagonists.  But the meta-cognitive transformations from news and information, activates a community that has voted for change.

The only change news can believe in is radio. The constant force in everyones life, is radio news. WORT NEWS is on the edge of an communications abyss that teeters on antiquity.  Believe in my practical attributes as a 'News Facilitator', and I will incorporate new changes your listeners will eagerly and easily grasp as news that is vital to their everyday lives.

The future of journalism is WORT NEWS.

TORTURE IN '60S SOUTH SHOWS ERROR OF WATERBOARDING
By Tom Gardner
When I read about the increasing acceptance of waterboarding as a form of torture, I vividly recall how in 1968 members of the Memphis Police Department believed I could tell them information about civil rights insurgents arriving to create havoc. Forty years later I still hide my serrated scars.
I was 14 years old and forgot I was a black boy living in racist America and heading for the devil's den of discrimination. Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" stimulated my raging hormones for truth, justice, and the American way. Like the main character in his book, I stuck out my thumb for a ride from my home in Wisconsin. I was so excited when someone pulled over for me that I went in the wrong direction. After hitchhiking the rest of the way from Milwaukee to Memphis, Tenn., with no trouble, I put out my thumb for the last ride to my grandfather's place. I was sure he could take me to demonstrate alongside Martin Luther King Jr. to support his recently announced policy on poverty and Southeast Asia.
"Boy, where you from?" asked the toothpick-sucking officer in the passenger seat as his partner walked around the car to me. At the station Tennessee police officers beat me because I was a threat to the status quo of time-honored Uncle Tom behavior. In retrospect I would have kept the king's English to myself, shuffled my feet, and goggled my eyes in adherence to the South's renowned sacred social rule for young black bucks.
The physical and verbal abuse heaped upon me caused several broken bones in my body and several dozen switches on my 14-year-old skull. I guess these seven policemen were trying to protect the good citizens of Memphis from more of the Rev. King's peaceful demonstrations. Between the baton blows to my body and over my screams of youth and innocence, their loud accusations that there were people supposedly coming to Memphis "to stir up trouble" kept ringing in my ears.
Who were these people I supposedly knew who were ready to disrupt the city's infrastructure? My wild eyes could only register pain as the large men kicked, punched, and beat me with nightsticks because I was unable to speak coherently between my sobs of sorrow and moans for my mother.
I went over in my brain the moment when I stuck out my thumb for one more ride and noticed it was a police car driving by. When they pulled over to talk to me, I knew to have my ID ready, but I never could have been ready for the pain and anguish they distributed upon me.
Recent victims of waterboarding must have felt the same excruciating, indescribable pain administered to me by seven Memphis police officers. Forty years later, I can only hope that when Canada put America at the top of the list for human rights violations, they were also talking about America's recent increase of police brutality against black men.
The legacy of Memphis police in 1968 may have influenced CIA torture methods. I am not sure what waterboarding victims in our own times tell their captors, but my experience tells me that nothing said under such forms of torture should be regarded as truth. I acted quite contrite as I admitted to being the vanguard for hundreds of civil rights workers heading for Memphis to be with King for acknowledging the number of black men drafted, wounded, and killed during the Vietnam "conflict" (what a euphemism for war!).
Like relentless Stalinists, the policemen gave me a few hard, calculated kicks with steel-toed boots in my back and ribs for making them exhausted from their beating. I promised them the names of protesters, when they were coming, and what they were driving. I could hardly speak from my busted lips, chipped teeth, and broken jaw, but I forced words from my mouth that sounded like what they wanted as long as they stopped their feverish beating to decipher what my cracking voice was revealing.
But I didn't know anyone, and I certainly didn't know about a conspiracy to take over Memphis. So I have since apologized for naming as co-conspirators Ralph Waldo Emerson, Hermann Hesse, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, and any other author I ever read. I kept looking from face to face of my seven captors trying to plead with them individually by offering each a name. I worried that one would recognize these names and decide to kill me and dump me in the river, like so many other black men who had been crucified in the South.
Then one of the white men with sweaty armpits shouted out, "I know the name of Faulkner but I can't remember where." My heart seemed to explode. I held my breath while biting my lip in preparation for the repetitive beating from well worn nightsticks. Then another cop said, "Wait a sec. It sounds like one of the names from our list of people to look out for."
The next thing I remember was being thrown onto a crowded jail cell's sticky, dirty floor with inmates shouting to the guards that I belonged in a hospital. As they looked over at me with unmasked pity and sympathy, I tried to mumble "please, no police" because I was in no hurry for them to finish the homicidal job they started. When an old prisoner with callused fingers tried to prop me up to drink putrid water, I remember saying, "No, thanks, Mr. Bojangles," before I passed out again.
I woke up in a hospital bed with the sunlight streaming down on my shackled, cask-encased arm. Seeing me regaining consciousness, a black nurse dressed in blinding starchy white rapidly walked across the ward floor to my bedside. As a bulky white police guard looked on, the nurse whispered in my ear, "Martin Luther King is dead." Now death was also stalking me, and I started to hyperventilate.
My experience at age 14 in 1968 leads me to conclude at age 54 in 2008 that no torture is justifiable. No one has the right to harm another human being. Information obtained though such barbaric methods cannot be trusted to be the truth. The amendments of 1789 to the Constitution through the Bill of Rights denounce personal violation at home. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights should extend those morals abroad.

Tom Gardner, of Madison, is a student in the Odyssey program at the UW-Madison.

r

    The Republicans are like hyenas fighting over the rotten meat that no one else can digest.  Rush and Steele and the loser McCain, are trying to redefine the role of the Republican party without changing its sour message of doom and gloom. Most of us voters no longer accept the failed prophesies of a dictatorship. Except for Rush's imagined 20 million listeners, not many of us are willing to step over the ledge to fall off the cliff like lemmings following an ideology that leads to Hara-kiri rituals.
    When rush spoke in front of 8,000  republicans to condemn, and I put in quotes, 'the socialist polices of a Democratic president', I saw a charlatan trying to boost advertisers for his three-hour show of arrogant and bombastic venomous hate.  The bouncing beached whale, dressed in Mafia black (I don't think Johnny Cash shares his politics), made irrelevant statements at a conservative conference while rambling without context and intentionally misrepresenting the American constitution. While watching his zealous performance, I realized then why his third wife left him, so that he could wallow in his pigsty of misinformation without acknowledging his 'feminazi' doctrine from her separate $1.1 million living quarters on his $24 million dollar Florida estate.  

    I suppose his reputation for being a drug addict forced him to make up lines about Obama, because of his drug induced lapse in memory and imagination. His selective memory wants to debate the president about current policies without remembering that Obama took over the failed policies of a president he endorsed.  Where was Rush when Bush was running slipshod over the constitution?  While TV does make you look bigger, I suspect he was shoveling a lot of caviar and steaks into his rotund figure.

    I endorse his continued self-described anal representation of the Republican Party. His selfish acts fulfill my political bucket list of revealing how republicans stole American from the rest of us. Besides, the capitalist rich who tried to undermine trust and social responsibly are held captive in million dollar suites paid for by the rest of us. Democrats are taking America back without incarcerating the losers from the last election. While I have checked off the election of a black president as a fulfilled wish, I still wait to see the republican leaders boycott the extreme policies of its fringe members. I hope they will publicly acknowledge, that the domestic and foreign policies of the Bush administration have alienated them from the American promise of Jefferson, Franklin, and Lincoln.
    The party of Lincoln no longer represents a united country with the familiar goals of inclusiveness.  A college dropout has kidnapped the essence of American's founding fathers. Rush's followers intentionally critique progressive politics as anti-American. The anti-union, pro-racist, trickle down policy invoked by Reagan has not worked.  The accumulation of wealth is not a moral value.  How else can the rich get richer unless they embrace Ponzi style stock options from the sweat of unskilled underpaid workers?  
    If Clinton's claim that the era of big government is over, who will protect me from tainted tomatoes and peanut butter because of deregulation. Why is the high interest rate from my school loans dictated by millionaires determined to squeeze students into a life of debt.  If the rich do not want to support socialist policies that help repair bridges and roads and schools, then they are traitors to what General Washington fought so valiantly for and for what the revolutionary martyr, Crispus Attucks, so courageously died for at the Boston Massacre.

    As a vegan, I have no desire to eat the rich. After 36 years of failed policies to protect the people who are the backbone of this country, I can only ask that they follow their own advice about America, Love it or leave. love this country established by our righteous forefathers or leave it for the tax-free haven that hides your ill gotten money.