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President-elect Barack Obama's top choice for US attorney general seems to be Eric Holder. Holder was the No. 2 official in the Justice Department under President Clinton. The Obama team says no final decision has been made.
Filed under: BlackSpin , Barack Obama , News
Whodini once said that "the freaks come out at night." But in the case of President-elect Obama's cabinet picks, they'll probably be out closer to noon every day.Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
SPONSORED BY: BOLD MOVES: THE FUTURE OF FORD Step behind the curtain at Ford Motor. Experience the documentary first-hand.
When Barack Obama spoke on election night, he made famous a woman named Ann Nixon Cooper, a 106 year old Atlanta resident who now compares Obama to Dr. King.
The No. 2 man in Al-Qaida, Ayman al-Zawahri, launched into an attack on newly elected US President Barack Obama today, calling him a "house negro."
Filed under: BlackSpin , Barack Obama , Breaking News , Malcolm X
In his latest audio, Ayman al-Zawahiri Al-Qaida's number 2, has the gall to call President-elect Barack Obama "dishonorable" and a "house negro." According to the Associated Press: CAIRO,Egypt (AP) - Al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri insulted Barack Obama in the terror group's first reaction to his election, calling him a demeaning racial term implying that the president-elect is a black American who does the bidding of whites.Clearly this is a cynical attempt to dampen the renewed global optimism about America's role in the world going forward. Al-Qaida operatives know that if there is hope and not simply desperation, it will be harder for Al-Qaida to raise funds and tactical support for its terrorist expeditions.
The message appeared chiefly aimed at persuading Muslims and Arabs that Obama does not represent a change in US policies. Al-Zawahri said in the message, which appeared on militant Web sites Wednesday, that Obama is "the direct opposite of honorable black Americans" like Malcolm X, the 1960s African-American rights leader.
Al-Zawahri also called Obama-along with secretaries of state Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice-"house negroes."
Speaking in Arabic, al-Zawahri uses the term "abeed al-beit," which literally translates as "house slaves." But al-Qaida supplied English subtitles of his speech that included the translation as "house negroes."
The message also includes old footage of speeches by Malcolm X in which he explains the term, saying black slaves who worked in their white masters' house were more servile than those who worked in the fields. Malcolm X used the term to criticize black leaders he accused of not standing up to whites.
The 11-minute 23-second video features the audio message by al-Zawahri, who appears only in a still image, along with other images, including one of Obama wearing a Jewish skullcap as he meets with Jewish leaders. In his speech, al-Zawahri refers to a Nov. 5 US airstrike attack in Afghanistan, meaning the video was made after that date.
Al-Zawahri said Obama's election has not changed American policies he said are aimed at oppressing Muslims and others.
True Islam taught me that it takes all of the religious, political, economic, psychological, and racial ingredients, or characteristics, to make the Human Family and the Human Society complete.
Since I learned the truth in Mecca, my dearest friends have come to include all kinds -- some Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, agnostics, and even atheists! I have friends who are called capitalists, Socialists, and Communists! Some of my friends are moderates, conservatives, extremists -- some are even Uncle Toms! My friends today are black, brown, red, yellow, and white!
I said to my Harlem street audiences that only when mankind would submit to the One God who created all -- only then would mankind even approach the "peace" of which so much talk could be heard...but toward which so little action was seen. Adapted from the pamphlet - Malcolm X: Why I Embraced Islam by Yusuf Siddiqui.
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SPONSORED BY: BOLD MOVES: THE FUTURE OF FORD Step behind the curtain at Ford Motor. Experience the documentary first-hand.
I was on the phone with an old Clinton friend this afternoon and we picked out President-elect Barack Obama's ideal cabinet. Spoiler alert : Hillary Clinton is Secretary of State.
During the presidential election campaign, the Republican ticket tried to make an issue out of Barack Obama's association with William Ayers, a 1960s-era radical who later served on a charitable board with Obama. Ayers wasn't heard from much during the campaign. Now the nationally known scholar on urban education is on a book tour.
For the first time since the election, President-elect Barack Obama met with his former rival, Senator John McCain.
President-elect Barack Obama is putting together his Cabinet. He has said the Republican Party would be represented. Obama's choices may reveal a lot about his governing philosophy.
Barack Obama ran for president promising to change the way Washington works. Now that he's won, he is indeed starting to change the rules. His transition team has imposed tighter ethics restrictions, and that might affect the appointment of officials for the new administration.
President-elect Barack Obama says national security and the economy will be priorities when he takes office in January. He tells CBS' 60 Minutes that it's important to get a national security team in place because transition periods can be vulnerable. For a portion of the interview, he was joined by future first lady Michelle Obama.
Filed under: BlackSpin , Barack Obama , Politics , News
I get the feeling most Americans would like to say an early good bye to the current White House resident and get an early start with President-elect Obama . And it's no surprise - given how vacant the White House has been the past year as the nation has tumbled into a financial ditch.
Paul Shepard blogs the Democrat side of politics for BlackVoices. He has been a journalist for 16 years; on the national urban/minority affairs beat for The Cleveland Plain Dealer and for The AP in Washington, DC Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
SPONSORED BY: BOLD MOVES: THE FUTURE OF FORD Step behind the curtain at Ford Motor. Experience the documentary first-hand.
With a new black president, we still need affirmative action. No matter what Ward Connerly and the racial apologists have to say.
In his first interview since the election, President-elect Barack Obama said he is reading Lincoln, selecting a national security team and preparing to bring a puppy--and maybe his mother-in-law--to the White House.
After months of silence, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan has finally spoken out about Barack Obama's election as president.
President-elect Barack Obama became the first US President-elect to deliver a weekly address by video on Saturday.
Filed under: BlackSpin , Politics , News
Is Barack Obama the needed bridge between blacks and Latinos? Maybe.Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
SPONSORED BY: BOLD MOVES: THE FUTURE OF FORD Step behind the curtain at Ford Motor. Experience the documentary first-hand.
Hollywood is buzzing about a documentary on Barack Obama. A film crew has been following Obama for two years. One of the talent agents involved with the project is Ari Emanuel. He's the brother of Congressman Rahm Emanuel, who has been chosen as White House chief of staff to Barack Obama. So far, the third Emanuel brother has not been involved with the project. Zeke Emanuel is a doctor at the NIH Clinical Center.
President-Elect Barack Obama has announced he'll resign his Senate seat, effective Sunday. Illinois Governor, Rod Blagojevich, a Democrat, will appoint Obama's successor. Should the governor name an African American to replace the Senate's only African-American member?
From North Carolina to New York, reports have come in of racially motivated incidents since Barack Obama was elected president.
One of the initiatives President-elect Barack Obama discussed during his campaign was closing the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. But it's not that simple. Many of the detainees' home countries don't want to take them back, and creating a new infrastructure to deal with enemy combatants might just push the problem elsewhere.
A listener in Bellingham, Wash., was surprised that a Monday story only mentioned black churches praying for Barack Obama. She says her pretty much all-white church prayed for the president-elect and his family, too. A Veterans Day commentary on coming home from Vietnam reminded one listener in Kentucky of bringing his entire team home from Iraq safely.
With plenty of people vying for Barack Obama's US Senate seat, speculation has focused on Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., who could become the state's third African American senator.
President-elect Barack Obama wants to give US automakers federal funds. Critics say funding without conditions would be like pouring gas into a broken-down clunker. Paul Ingrassia, a former Detroit bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal, says bankrupty might be a better option.
Many British observers were ecstatic about Barack Obama's election as president last week. Reuters Video interviewed some of them.
When President-elect Barack Obama takes office in January, he'll have expanded majorities of Democrats in both houses of Congress — and the support of a big grass-roots movement. Millions of people helped him beat Sen. John McCain, and Obama must be as innovative in utilizing their power postelection as he was during the campaign.
President-elect Barack Obama's top choice for US attorney general seems to be Eric Holder. Holder was the No. 2 official in the Justice Department under President Clinton. The Obama team says no final decision has been made.
Filed under: BlackSpin , Barack Obama , News
Whodini once said that "the freaks come out at night." But in the case of President-elect Obama's cabinet picks, they'll probably be out closer to noon every day.Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
SPONSORED BY: BOLD MOVES: THE FUTURE OF FORD Step behind the curtain at Ford Motor. Experience the documentary first-hand.
When Barack Obama spoke on election night, he made famous a woman named Ann Nixon Cooper, a 106 year old Atlanta resident who now compares Obama to Dr. King.
The No. 2 man in Al-Qaida, Ayman al-Zawahri, launched into an attack on newly elected US President Barack Obama today, calling him a "house negro."
Filed under: BlackSpin , Barack Obama , Breaking News , Malcolm X
In his latest audio, Ayman al-Zawahiri Al-Qaida's number 2, has the gall to call President-elect Barack Obama "dishonorable" and a "house negro." According to the Associated Press: CAIRO,Egypt (AP) - Al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri insulted Barack Obama in the terror group's first reaction to his election, calling him a demeaning racial term implying that the president-elect is a black American who does the bidding of whites.Clearly this is a cynical attempt to dampen the renewed global optimism about America's role in the world going forward. Al-Qaida operatives know that if there is hope and not simply desperation, it will be harder for Al-Qaida to raise funds and tactical support for its terrorist expeditions.
The message appeared chiefly aimed at persuading Muslims and Arabs that Obama does not represent a change in US policies. Al-Zawahri said in the message, which appeared on militant Web sites Wednesday, that Obama is "the direct opposite of honorable black Americans" like Malcolm X, the 1960s African-American rights leader.
Al-Zawahri also called Obama-along with secretaries of state Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice-"house negroes."
Speaking in Arabic, al-Zawahri uses the term "abeed al-beit," which literally translates as "house slaves." But al-Qaida supplied English subtitles of his speech that included the translation as "house negroes."
The message also includes old footage of speeches by Malcolm X in which he explains the term, saying black slaves who worked in their white masters' house were more servile than those who worked in the fields. Malcolm X used the term to criticize black leaders he accused of not standing up to whites.
The 11-minute 23-second video features the audio message by al-Zawahri, who appears only in a still image, along with other images, including one of Obama wearing a Jewish skullcap as he meets with Jewish leaders. In his speech, al-Zawahri refers to a Nov. 5 US airstrike attack in Afghanistan, meaning the video was made after that date.
Al-Zawahri said Obama's election has not changed American policies he said are aimed at oppressing Muslims and others.
True Islam taught me that it takes all of the religious, political, economic, psychological, and racial ingredients, or characteristics, to make the Human Family and the Human Society complete.
Since I learned the truth in Mecca, my dearest friends have come to include all kinds -- some Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, agnostics, and even atheists! I have friends who are called capitalists, Socialists, and Communists! Some of my friends are moderates, conservatives, extremists -- some are even Uncle Toms! My friends today are black, brown, red, yellow, and white!
I said to my Harlem street audiences that only when mankind would submit to the One God who created all -- only then would mankind even approach the "peace" of which so much talk could be heard...but toward which so little action was seen. Adapted from the pamphlet - Malcolm X: Why I Embraced Islam by Yusuf Siddiqui.
Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
SPONSORED BY: BOLD MOVES: THE FUTURE OF FORD Step behind the curtain at Ford Motor. Experience the documentary first-hand.
I was on the phone with an old Clinton friend this afternoon and we picked out President-elect Barack Obama's ideal cabinet. Spoiler alert : Hillary Clinton is Secretary of State.
During the presidential election campaign, the Republican ticket tried to make an issue out of Barack Obama's association with William Ayers, a 1960s-era radical who later served on a charitable board with Obama. Ayers wasn't heard from much during the campaign. Now the nationally known scholar on urban education is on a book tour.
For the first time since the election, President-elect Barack Obama met with his former rival, Senator John McCain.
President-elect Barack Obama is putting together his Cabinet. He has said the Republican Party would be represented. Obama's choices may reveal a lot about his governing philosophy.
Barack Obama ran for president promising to change the way Washington works. Now that he's won, he is indeed starting to change the rules. His transition team has imposed tighter ethics restrictions, and that might affect the appointment of officials for the new administration.
President-elect Barack Obama says national security and the economy will be priorities when he takes office in January. He tells CBS' 60 Minutes that it's important to get a national security team in place because transition periods can be vulnerable. For a portion of the interview, he was joined by future first lady Michelle Obama.
Filed under: BlackSpin , Barack Obama , Politics , News
I get the feeling most Americans would like to say an early good bye to the current White House resident and get an early start with President-elect Obama . And it's no surprise - given how vacant the White House has been the past year as the nation has tumbled into a financial ditch. Paul Shepard blogs the Democrat side of politics for BlackVoices. He has been a journalist for 16 years; on the national urban/minority affairs beat for The Cleveland Plain Dealer and for The AP in Washington, DC Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
SPONSORED BY: BOLD MOVES: THE FUTURE OF FORD Step behind the curtain at Ford Motor. Experience the documentary first-hand.
With a new black president, we still need affirmative action. No matter what Ward Connerly and the racial apologists have to say.
In his first interview since the election, President-elect Barack Obama said he is reading Lincoln, selecting a national security team and preparing to bring a puppy--and maybe his mother-in-law--to the White House.
After months of silence, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan has finally spoken out about Barack Obama's election as president.
President-elect Barack Obama became the first US President-elect to deliver a weekly address by video on Saturday.
Filed under: BlackSpin , Politics , News
Is Barack Obama the needed bridge between blacks and Latinos? Maybe.