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Posted: May/27/2008 at 18:48 \| IP 64.12.116.140

The Main Stream Media is getting around to "suggesting" that anyone who doesn't support Senator Obamas' views is a Racist. Or at the very least, is still conflicted and struggling and not quite over being a Racist!

Watching the panel on Meet the Press this past Sunday served as an example. And couple of weeks ago a prominent Washington Post Journalist, a Black lady, said on Meet the Press, that we are able to discuss Race in America, but not Racialism!

There is an element of truth in her comment. But not in the implication of her assertion.

The Mail stream media doesn't know how, or I postulate, doesn't want to discuss Black on White racism. As evidenced by the pass and/or rationalization they gave Rev. Wright. Rationalizing his comments as " Sound Bites" that were taken out of context. They were most certainly Sound bites! Sound bites that were produced by his Church on DVD. The comments in that DVD are what that Church has put forth as their best examples of what Rev. Wright and the Church stand for. And they were reproduced for sale.

The same Main stream Media interviewed several Back leaders and Pundits. Perhaps one reputed Wrights' words. Some gave half hearted qualifications then rationalized that Back Churches have always preached politics from the pulpit and that Rev. Wright had grown up with racism, etc. The bottom line is they agreed with the vitriol and opprobrium.

The biggest paradox for me is that Media and Politicians are always voicing concern for "the Children" as if they are the only ones with the moral authority to utter a credible opinion.

But what about the Children attending Rev. Wrights' Church? The Children that have been exposed to the loathing for twenty Years or more. No leader/pundit spoke to that . And no one in the Media had the "Les Jalets" to ask.

I've been to more than a few Back Churches, I haven't seen vitriol , hatred or Politics. What I have seen was a lot of joyous Christians celebrating their faith though words and song.

America is ready for a discussion on racism. One that also admonishes Back Racism and tolerates no excuses for it. One that also challenges the Back professional Race baiters who live a life of luxury while their followers continue to remain poor and worst, ignorant. In large part because of the message and culture of victimization their leaders propagate.

America is ready for Anchors in the Main Stream Media to ask the self ordained Back leaders of how long they intend to blame the current generations of White Americans for the ills that occurred years ago. I am waiting for them to ask when do you get over it an move on? When do you preach a message of hope and extol the opportunities of America so that the people who look to you for leadership actually get some positive direction that will benefit them?

America is not who we were two hundred years ago, or even forty years ago.

A lot of White Guys ( the preponderance of Soldiers in every War America has been involved in, to include Vietnam! ) fought to help assure those opportunities evolved for all Americans. And we deserve, as do all Americans, an honest discussion lead by the Main Stream Media in which Racism from any direction is unacceptable. And the condemnation of any who use it for Political or Criminal cover.

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Edited by jeyates on May/27/2008 at 18:56

There is an element of truth in her comment. But not in the implication of her assertion.

The biggest paradox for me is that Media and Politicians are always voicing concern for "the Children" as if they are the only ones with the moral authority to utter a credible opinion.

I've been to more than a few Back Churches, I haven't seen vitriol , hatred or Politics. What I have seen was a lot of joyous Christians celebrating their faith though words and song.

America is not who we were two hundred years ago, or even forty years ago.

Posted: jeyates @ April/27/2008 11:27

The Aleethia Foundation is a small Non--Profit in the Washington DC area that works with Wounded Veterans that are convalescing at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the National Naval Medical Center.

I learned of the Aleethia Foundation from two of my life-long Friends and life long Veteran's Advocates, John Summer, Executive Director of the American Legion and Jim Mayor ( a duel amputee of the Vietnam War, who's distinguished career in includes service as Chief of VA staff, and Chief of Staff of PVA (Paralyzed Veteran of American) now in service with the Wounded Warrior Project).

Both are emphatic, hands on, participants in the Aleethia Foundation. They represent the best of American and the true character of America's Vietnam Veterans.

I encourage all Americans to follow their stellar example and support the Aleethia Foundation (www.aleethia.org) as well as the Wounded Warrior Project (www.woundedwarriorproject.org).

lastly we call on Corporations and Citizens of other Nations who receive all or part of their Corporate or Individual livelihood from American enterprise to donate. The sacrifices of American Wounded Veterans are at least in part, contributing to your security, and prosperity as well.

J. Eldon (Jer) Yates

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Edited by sstark on April/30/2008 at 10:57

Posted: jeyates @ February/17/2007 02:47
WASHINGTON, February 16, 2007 - The leader of the nation�s largest wartime veterans� organization provided the following statement in response to the House vote disapproving the President�s decision to deploy more than 20,000 additional combat troops to the Iraqi theater. �Congress may consider its vote today on H. Con. Res. 63 to be non-binding, but veterans of previous wars and those in the field of combat right now consider Congress�s action to be a betrayal of trust and the first step toward surrender to the terrorists who caused this war in the first place. �We must never forget the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, when two U.S. commercial aircraft were used to kill nearly 3,000 innocent people in an unprovoked attack against our nation�s sovereignty. We must never forget those brave Americans who downed their plane in Pennsylvania, saving the lives of many in the Capitol. We must never forget the attack on the Pentagon, or on the USS Cole, or our embassies, or our Marine barracks in Beirut. The list goes on and on. �Even the Clinton administration tried to kill Osama bin Laden by lobbing missiles at him. This war didn�t just start with the invasion of Iraq. It�s been going on for decades. It�s been going on in Republican and Democrat administrations and Congresses. �It isn�t about partisan politics. It�s about America. It�s about all of us, and especially those who are at this moment risking their lives on the field of battle. �Americans are not the enemy here. The terrorists and all of those governments that support them are the enemy. We must never forget that. And, equally important, we must never forget the primary lesson learned in Vietnam: you cannot separate the war from the warrior. �Congress can talk all it wants to about how it supports the troops. But its actions set the table. The message they sent today to the frontline is that America is preparing to cut and run. We essentially told our fighting men and women that �we have taken step one in the plan to cut reinforcements, to cut armaments, and to withdraw any support you need to complete your mission.� �The Speaker characterized it succinctly when she said, �(t)his legislation will signal a change in direction that will end the fighting and bring our troops home.� �What she failed to add was �� in defeat, and without completing the mission they were trained to complete and ready to win if only America had not given up before they did.� �The American Legion and the American people find this to be totally unacceptable and we will do everything within our power to ensure that our troops are not used as political pawns by a Congress that lacks the will to win.� Edited by jeyates on February/17/2007 at 02:48
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