State of Black America

[Space05us]

Anyone know what this is supposed to be about?

I assumed that its something important because its on C-SPAN but it seems like a bunch of black guys patting each other on the back as the audience applauds mindlessly at certain points.

edit: the banner behind them calls it "State of the Black Union 2005"

[JimmyCracksCorn]

It will probably just be alot of statistics about gains and losses among American blacks.

[Wycoff]

Blame the Whitey day!

[Pyrodrew]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/usnw/20050226/pl_usnw/bishop_harry_jackson_and_rev__jesse_jackson_to_appear_on_tavis_smiley_panel_in_atlanta_to_discuss_future_of_black_america101_xm

Bishop Harry Jackson and Rev. Jesse Jackson to Appear on Tavis Smiley Panel in Atlanta to Discuss Future of Black America

Sat Feb 26, 8:02 AM ET
To: Assignment Desk, Daybook Editor
Contact: Mike Paul, 212-595-8500, Derek McCoy of the High Impact Leadership Coalition, 204-417-7708


-- Bishop Harry Jackson and Rev. Jesse Jackson (news - web sites) to Both Appear on Tavis Smiley Panel in Atlanta this Sat. 2/26 to Discuss the Future of Black America in 2005


-- Leading Conservative Black Christian Leader Goes Head-to- Head with Top Liberal Black Leader and Others


-- (The Only Thing These Two Have in Common is a Last Name!)


WHO: Bishop Harry Jackson, the conservative chairman of the High Impact Leadership Coalition and drafter of the Black Contract with America on Moral Values, goes head-to-head with Rev. Jesse Jackson and other leading black liberal leaders from across America this Saturday.


WHAT: Tavis Smiley's Sixth Annual State of the Black Union, http://www.tavistalks.com


WHEN: Saturday, February 26th, 2:45 pm (eastern time)


WHERE: New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, 6400 Woodrow Rd., Lithonia, Georgia (near Atlanta), http://www.newbirth.org


WHY: The Black community is not a monolith and both conservative and liberal leaders will go head-to-head to try to define the new direction for the Black community in 2005.


Do black leaders in America agree on moral values and solutions for the social ills in America?


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MEDIA NOTE:


Tavis Smiley's 2005 State of the Black Union symposium will also be airing LIVE this Saturday, 2/26 starting at 11 am ET on C-SPAN.


For more info on Bishop Harry Jackson's High Impact Leadership Coalition and to sign up to become on of the Moral Million who back the Black Contract with America on Moral Values, visit http://www.himpactus.com.





For general info on Bishop Harry Jackson, go to http://www.thehopeconnection.org. Bishop Harry Jackson and George Barna are also co-authors of a recent book called High Impact African American Churches. Bishop Jackson will also be releasing a new book called The Black Contract with America on Moral Values in April of 2005.

Bishop Harry Jackson, a national, black, conservative, Christian leader, was also a strong and vocal supporter of the re-election of President George W. Bush (news - web sites). Bishop Jackson is also a frequent guest commentator in the news regarding moral value issues in America and has appeared on The O'Reilly Factor on Fox News, CBS Nightly News, NPR and many other national TV, radio and print news outlets.

http://www.usnewswire.com/

[Wycoff]

I just watched Farakhan give a speech there

[Imran Siddiqui]

They should have Chris Rock and Bill Cosby there .

[The Mad Monk]

If they ever meet, my money's on Cosby.

[floppy_lobster]

farakhan is a racist cocksmoker.

[Pax]

Originally posted by booger
farakhan is a racist cocksmoker.

Can you support your position with examples or qoutes by him that support him being racist, a cocksmoker or both?

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Pax
Can you support your position with examples or qoutes by him that support him being racist

Narrow-minded, common Jews…The Jews cannot defeat me so I will grind them and crush them into little bits. - Louis Farrakhan, Flushing New York, May 21, 1998
Murder and lying comes easy for white people… -Louis Farrakhan, Saviour's Day, February 27, 1994

[Pax]

Originally posted by DinoDoc

Narrow-minded, common Jews…The Jews cannot defeat me so I will grind them and crush them into little bits. - Louis Farrakhan, Flushing New York, May 21, 1998
Murder and lying comes easy for white people… -Louis Farrakhan, Saviour's Day, February 27, 1994

From the evidence you present, the first statement is not racist, IMHO. The second does sound racist, unless he can support his claim somehow. From what I've read of Farrakhan, he would point to broken treaties, slavery, and lynchings to support his views.

[Tassadar500]

I can't believe you are defending Farrakhan.

[Wycoff]

Some highlights from the Nation of Islam site:

"10. We believe that intermarriage or race mixing should be prohibited."

"5. WE BELIEVE in the the resurrection of the dead--not in physical resurrection--but in mental resurrection. We believe that the so-called Negroes are most in need of mental resurrection; therefore they will be resurrected first.

Furthermore, we believe we are the people of God's choice, as it has been written, that God would choose the rejected and the despised. We can find no other persons fitting this description in these last days more that the so-called Negroes in America."

"7. WE BELIEVE this is the time in history for the separation of the so-called Negroes and the so-called white Americans. We believe the black man should be freed in name as well as in fact. By this we mean that he should be freed from the names imposed upon him by his former slave masters. Names which identified him as being the slave master's slave. We believe that if we are free indeed, we should go in our own people's names--the black people of the Earth."

"9. WE BELIEVE that the offer of integration is hypocritical and is made by those who are trying to deceive the black peoples into believing that their 400-year-old open enemies of freedom, justice and equality are, all of a sudden, their "friends." Furthermore, we believe that such deception is intended to prevent black people from realizing that the time in history has arrived for the separation from the whites of this nation.

If the white people are truthful about their professed friendship toward the so-called Negro, they can prove it by dividing up America with their slaves.

We do not believe that America will ever be able to furnish enough jobs for her own millions of unemployed, in addition to jobs for the 20,000,000 black people as well"

http://www.noi.org/program.html

[Spiffor]

My, what a horrible load of crap. Looks like mystics without a clue.

[Pax]

Originally posted by Lord Nuclear
I can't believe you are defending Farrakhan.

I'm not defending him. I just don't think that it's fair to devalue everything he says. I think everything should be fairly evaluated.
For example, I haven't heard George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and many other famous Americans referred to as racist cocksmokers instead we name buildings, streets, and ships after these guys.

True, Farrakhan has opinions of whites. These opinions are formed through his life experiences that apparently tells him he can't trust jews, whites are liars, and killers and etc. How are his views different from the typical jewish posters views on the palestinians. Check some of there posts. Check the posts of some americans on arabs/muslims. I would not call them racist cocksmokers. I would say that the problem is a failure of both sides to understand eachother.