How can kids who attend second class schools, without chemistry labs, with outdated textbooks, in substandard buildings, and with disinterested teachers compete with a white suburban kid who has been on a computer since he was born?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