By Antonio D. French
Filed Friday, September 08, 2006 at 1:51 AM
PUB DEF is reporting this week from Washington D.C. where we are attending the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's 36th Annual Legislative Conference. Labels: Black_Caucus, Events
This afternoon, Kansas City Congressman Emanuel Cleaver II hosted a session on "The Evolution of the Black Church and the African-American Political Experience". Cleaver's co-panelists included former Congressman Rev. Dr. Floyd Flake from New York; Rev. James T. Meeks, a state senator from Illinois; and the very popular Bishop T.D. Jakes, whose non-denominational Dallas church boasts a membership of greater than 28,000.
Cleaver stressed what he said is the need for black politicians and religious leaders to work together. He told a room of several hundred -- mostly black -- people that no matter what their religious, economic, or other demographic differences, they all face a common foe in racism.
He told a story of a rabbit who was walking along when suddenly he was shot at. The bullet narrowly missed him and he darted into the first hole he saw. Inside the hole was another rabbit. That rabbit asked the first, "What's wrong?"
"Someone's shooting at me!" he answered.
"Why?" asked the second rabbit.
"I have no idea."
"Well, I'll go have a talk with him. Wait here." And the second rabbit calmly stepped out of the hole and walked towards the hunter. "Sir, why are you shooting at my..." Boom!!! The hunter's rifle sounded off, again barely missing its target. The rabbit darted back in the hole.
"That guy's crazy!" he said. "First he shot at you and now he's shooting at me!"
"I don't think you get it," said the first rabbit. "He's not shooting at me or you. He's just shooting at 'rabbit'."
"Friends, what's happening is happening to all of us," said Cleaver.
He pointed to the images of blacks starving and begging for water in front of the Superdome in New Orleans as evidence of African-Americans being in the same second-class boat.
"One day after Hezbollah discontinued bombing Israel, Hezbollah was passing out $12,000 checks in Lebanon," said Cleaver. "[And] we couldn't do it in New Orleans."
5 Comments:
I couldn't hear any sound on the Cleaver video.
9/08/2006 8:21 AM
What are you talking about, Travis? I could hear it just fine. Dude, get a Dell.
9/08/2006 3:06 PM
How very odd. I can't hear any of the pubdef you tubes now. It must be gremlins.
9/08/2006 3:42 PM
Where was Nagin and the Louisiana governor when they were begging for food? As for Hezbollah, how many children and babies have they murdered and how many heads have been severed from their bodies? Yep, oil money is flowing in to buy allegiance.
The KKK Disbands: Leaves Their Job To Black Folks
The KKK leader stepped to the podium, his hood lowered around his shoulders and a look of disgust on his face. He said, "Sorry guys but this will be our last meeting; we're going out of business."
A member stood up in back. "But why sir?" The leader sighed, "Well, reverend, the niggers are doing a better job getting rid of themselves than we ever did, so we are no longer needed."
There were rumblings and protest. The leader raised his hand to silence the Klan members, and said, "Their rap music says more vile things about black women than
we ever thought of."
The members grudgingly nodded in approval. The Imperial Dragon continued: " And their women write
books and make songs that demean black men better than my two speech writers ever could, looking down at two men seated in front who lowered their heads.
"They shoot each other constantly," he continued; And as a group, they spend a huge amounts of money on
cars, liquor, that stuff they call bling bling, and the proliferation of rap music -- as they talk about
all that shit in their magazines -- and nobody needs us to talk about how a lot of their sorry asses keep
playing the race and victim cards while complaining that other groups are surpassing them in economic
development and supposedly getting more attention in schools. Hell, they even support a so-called "Black
Hair" DVD that a white man is making money on, in four sequels at $20.00 a pop, talking about how Koreans have taken over the "black hair" industry without acknowledging that Black entrepreneurs had 100 years to get a monopoly or entrenchment in the industry that Madam C.J Waker founded 100 years ago,but got out-hustled and out-strategized while spending investment capital elsewhere. Let's face it, they're
being hoisted by their own petards."
Some members went looking for dictionaries, while most members nodded as it hit them that their job was finished; that blacks had become their own worst enemy.
The leader shook his head. "It's time to go back to our regular lives as policemen, judges and congressmen, and leave the business of getting rid of niggers to niggers. They are just better at it than us."
He then threw his hood on the ground and walked off the stage. Thus ended the last KKK meeting.
9/11/2006 9:27 AM
Cleaver sounds like the some of the old black gold diggers who just want to get what and however much they can.
Lebanon is a much smaller country, and Hezbollah only had to give oil-rich funds to Muslims; not to Christians, Jews or anyone else.
The federal government has a country and population how much greater than the small or wee country of Lebanon? Let's hope some people are able to think through the issues a bit more clearly and rationally than Cleaver who has his hands out.
9/13/2006 3:42 PM
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