As my mother told me...

Got the headline off Insty. He uses it for occasions like this.

I WAS TOLD THIS WAS ABOUT CONFEDERATE GENERALS: Vandals behead statue at Chattanooga Catholic church before Saturday Mass services.

My mother was born in late 1909 and saw the rise and fall of the resurgent KKK. She used to say there was a joke that the letters stood for Kikes, Katholics, and Koloreds.

And so it is again. By exactly the same crowd. They'll say it's about oppression, but who gets oppressed?

And, you'll be interested to know, the city of Asheville NC has voted "reparations" in the form of investments in housing, health care and career growth. Why does the face of Jessuh Jackson appear before me as I consider this?

For those who dare question this appropriation of their tax money, the answer is, "[Slavery] is this institution that serves as the starting point for the building of the strong economic floor for white America, while attempting to keep Blacks subordinate forever to its progress".

And my reading of history was the slave-holding South was stagnating while the industrial North and free West were growing.

It's going to be interesting to follow the money.

Sharpton: a one man shakedown machine

"Sony Pictures co-chair Amy Pascal met with the activist preacher after leaked emails showed her making racially charged comments about President Obama."

Sharpton notably did not publicly assert his support for Pascal after the meeting — what observers say seems like a typical Sharpton “shakedown” in the making. Pay him in cash or power, critics say, and you buy his support or silence.

“Al Sharpton has enriched himself and NAN for years by threatening companies with bad publicity if they didn’t come to terms with him. Put simply, Sharpton specializes in shakedowns,” said Ken Boehm, chairman of the National Legal & Policy Center...

And Sharpton, who now boasts a close relationship with Obama and Mayor Bill de Blasio, is in a stronger negotiating position than ever.

“Once Sharpton’s on board, he plays the race card all the way through,” said a source who has worked with the Harlem preacher. “He just keeps asking for more and more money.” (read the whole thing)

Al Sharpton Leaves WH thru the front door

While this guy (Dalai Lama) was ushered out thru the back door

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