Union President Speaks about Racism and Obama

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Also, STAR JONES REYNOLDS responds to Bill O'Reilly/Fox News about Michelle Obama!

Below is Star Jones' informed and provocative response
to Bill O'Reilly's
comment about 'having a lynching party for Michelle
Obama if he finds
out that she truly has no pride in her country.'

Bill O'Reilly said: 'I don't want to go on a
lynching party against Michelle Obama
unless there's evidence, hard facts, that say this is
how the woman really feels.
If that's how she really feels - that is a bad country
or a flawed nation, whatever -
then that's legit. We'll track it down.'
Star said: 'I'm sick to death of people like Fox
News' Bill O'Reilly, and his stupid
and ignorant thinking that he can use a racial
slur again st a black woman who
could be the next First Lady of the United States , and
then give a half-assed
apology and not be taken to task and called on his crap.
What the hell is if it's
'legit,' you're going to 'track it
down?'

And then what do you plan to do? How dare this white man
with a
microphone and the trust of the public think that in 2008,
he can still
put the words 'lynch and party' together in the
same sentence with a
reference to a black woman; in this case, Michelle Obama? I
don't care
how you 'spin it' in the 'no spin zone,'
that statement in and of itself
is racist, unacceptable and inappropriate on every level.

O'Reilly claims his comments were taken out of context.
Please don't insult my intelligence while you're insulting
me. I've read the comments and hea rd them delivered in O'Reilly's
own voice; and there is no right context that exists. So, his insincere apology
and 'out-of-context' excuse is not going to cut it with me.

And just so we're clear, this has nothing to do with
the 2008 presidential election, me being a Democrat, him claiming to
be an Independent while talking like a Republican, the liberal
media or a conservative point of view. To the contrary, this is about
crossing a line in the sand that needs to be drawn based on history,
dignity, taste and truth.

Bill, I'm not sure of where you come from, but let me
tell you what
the phrase 'lynching party' conjures up to me, a
black woman born in
North Carolina ..

Those words depict the image of a group of white men who
are angry
with the state of their own lives getting together,
drinking more than they
need to drink, lamenting how some black person has moved
forward
(usually ahead of them in stature or dignity), and had the
audacity to
think that they are equal.

These same men for years, instead of looking at what
changes they should
and could make in their own lives that might remove that
bitterness born
of perceived privilege, these white men take all of that
resentment and
anger and decide to get together and drag the closest black
person near
them to their death by hanging them from a tree - usually
after violent
beating, torturing and violating their human dignity. Check
your history
books, because you don't need a masters or a law degree
from Harvard
to know that is what constitutes a 'lynching
party.'

Imagine, Michelle and Barack Obama having the audacity to
think that
they have the right to the American dream, hopes, and
ideals. O'Reilly
must think to himself: 'How dare they have the
arrogance to think they
can stand in front of this nation, challenge the status quo
and express
the frustration of millions?

When this happens, the first thing that comes to mind for
O'Reilly and
people like him is: 'it's time for a party.'

Not so fast...don't order the rope just yet.

Would O'Reilly ever in a million years use this phrase
with reference
to Elizabeth Edwards, Cindy McCain or Judi Nathan? I mean,
in all of the
statements and criticisms that were made about Judi Nathan,
the one-time
mistress turned missus, of former presidential candidate
Rudy Giuliani,
I never hear d any talk of forming a lynch party because of
something she
said or did.

So why is it that when you're referring to someone
who' s
African-American you must dig to a historical place of
pain, agony and
death to symbolize your feelings? Lynching is not a joke to
off-handedly
throw around and it is not a metaphor that has a place in
political
commentary; provocative or otherwise.

I admit that I come from a place of personal outrage here
having buried
my 90 year-old grandfather last year. This proud,
amazing African-
American man raised his family and lived through the time
when
he had to use separate water fountains, ride in the back of
a bus, take
his wife on a date to the 'colored section' of a
movie theater, and
avert his eyes when a white woman walked down the street
for fear of
what a white man and his cronies might do if they felt the
urge to
'party'; don't tell me that the phrase you
chose, Mr. O'Reilly, was
taken out of context.

To add insult to injury, O'Reilly tried to
'clarify' his statements, by
using the excuse that his comments were reminiscent of
Supreme Court
Justice Clarence Thomas' use of the term 'high-tech
lynching' during his
confirmation hearing. I reject that analogy. You see
Justice Thomas did
mean to bring up the image of lynching in its racist
context. He was
saying that politics and the media were using a new
technology to do to
him what had been done to black men for many years -- hang
him.

Regardless of if you agreed with Justice Thomas'
premise or not, if in
fact ---Bill O'Reilly was referencing i t the context
becomes even clearer.

What annoys me more than anything is that I get the feeling
that one of
the reasons Bill O'Reilly made this statement, thinking
he could get
away with it in the first place, and then followed it up
with a lame
apology in a half-hearted attempt to smooth any ruffled
feathers, is
because he doesn't think that black women will come out
and go after
him when he goes after us. Well, he's dead wrong. Be
clear Bill O'Reilly:
here will be no lynch party for that black woman.

And this black woman assures you that if you come for her,
you come for
all of us.'

Star Jones Reynolds


ON THE SAME NOTE:

What if John McCain were a former president of the Harvard Law Review? What if Barack Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating class?

What if McCain were still married to the only woman he married and 19 years.
What if Obama were the candidate who left dated another woman while still married, then left his wife, for that other woman?

What if Michelle Obama were a wife who not only became addicted to pain
killers, but acquired them illegally through her charitable organization? What if Cindy McCain graduated from Harvard?

What if Obama were a member of the Keating-5? What if McCain were a charismatic, eloquent speaker?

If these questions reflected reality, do you really believe the election numbers would be as close as they are?

This is what racism does. It covers up, rationalizes and minimizes positive qualities in one candidate and emphasizes negative qualities in another when there is a color difference.

Lets put it this way. You are The Boss. Which team would you hire?

With America facing historic debt, 2 wars, stumbling health care, a
weakened dollar, all-time high prison population, mortgage crises, bank
foreclosures, etc.

Educational Background:

Obama:
Columbia University - B.A. Political Science with a Specialization in
International Relations. Harvard - Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude

Biden:
University of Delaware - B.A. in History and B.A. in Political Science.
Syracuse University College of Law - Juris Doctor (J.D.)

Or...

McCain:
United States Naval Academy - Class rank: 894 of 899

Palin:
Hawaii Pacific University - 1 semester
North Idaho College - 2 semesters - general study
University of Idaho - 2 semesters - journalism
Matanuska-Susitna College - 1 semester
University of Idaho - 3 semesters - B.A. in Journalism

Which team are you going to hire ?

PS: What if Barack Obama had an unwed, pregnant teenage daughter....