Rob – I agree with the sentiment, but I don’t see the problem going away because there is too much money to be made by pumping the image that black folks victims of _____ (fill in the blank with “whites”, “corporations”, “Republicans”). Case in point – Rev Wright. I personally do not believe that he believes half of what he is saying – but it certainly made him lots of $$.

I believe the Rev Wright is not unique. I grew up on the South Side of Chicago as a Roman Catholic. As a young, naive, sheltered working man I could not understand how the black preachers that I met were so wealthy – driving Cadillacs, flashy jewelry, lots of cash. (I met several of these preachers because one of my older co-workers was a serial-dater of this type of man.) At the time I chalked it up to different culture, but in my older days I came to feel that the preachers preyed on their much poorer parishioners through solicitation of donations to support their own lavish lifestyles. Rev Wright reinforces this belief for me, though his parishioners are middle class to wealthy folks. He hit the jackpot.

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The man is no preacher. he is a racist. Pure and simple. he reminded me of all those old black and white films of Hitler spewing forth his hate and anger at other races and religions.

How anyone could condone such behavior with a straight face is beyound me. How Obama could sit in there and listen to that garbage with his kids is scary.

But then again liberals and the Political Correctness Police only see racism as a one way street.
For them to see it any other way would mean that their fantasy world would could crashing down around their heads. White, black, brown, yellow, there is no excuse for such racist remarks.

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Once a again John Ryan you are wrong. You really should stay a way from Wiki sites they are horribly inaccurate.

From the horses mouth: They have a complete section on Global Feminism.

NOW and Global Feminism

Try going to actual sources next time.

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Yiddish… exactly so on the “racism” definition. And a more apt description of affirmative action policies, I might add. But I suspect that won’t fly for the world of professional victims.

John Ryan… geez, guy. No wonder you’re so fubar’d. Wikipedia is an educational source of choice?? And you’re tackling NOW and their historic mentality now??

Trust me, you’re way too young to comprehend or deal with NOW wenches, nor their original ideology.Because much of what they seek is considered socially acceptable, or has had major gains via their lobbying liberal legislators, they’ve become mostly irrelevant. Lesbian/gay relationships, abortions, equal pay… Equal Opportunity Employment and Fair Housing cover gender. Modern women give them nary a thought.

Most of us old timer women have had distain for them since their inception. Quite frankly they’ve damaged the sanctity of marriage and relationships more than helped. They are actually the epitome of their own caricature… fighting for “equality” and lesbian rights. But you won’t find them lending much of a hand for the boys who want to marry boys. For a group who hates discrimination, they don’t mind discriminating against males on every and any issue.

But you obviously don’t know their original mission statement, written by Betty Friedan (authoress of The Feminine Mystique, if that gives you any clue…), was to be part of a *world* wide movement to gain equality for *ALL* women. Since they are an physical activist group, composed of North American women, it’s not feasible for them to be active protesting outside the US political realm. But they do have “sister” organizations with which they cooperate.

However Rob is correct… their viability and genuine concern is shot to hell by their recent decades of inaction on womens issues… including here in the US. That’s assuming they had any viability since their early years anyway.

But remember, there was nary a whisper of condemnation of Bill Clinton and his womanizing, just to name one domestic issue they remained quiet on. They should, according to their original founders, being weighing in on abuse of women under Islamic law even here in the states. But that would pretty much sap what little influence they have left.

Just a friendly suggestion.. you’d be better off laying low on stuff you don’t know, rather than regurgitating wikipedia nonsense as source material for history. Then again, after reading so many of your posts elsewhere, you are the quintessential fruit of their (NOW’s) political womb.

And oh yeah… economics 101. When you increase supply, prices come down on the free market. They don’t have to be govt owned. They told us Anwar would take years, years ago when they were refusing to drill. Now it’s years later, and the same ol’ argument comes up. The lack of foresight by liberal Congress members for decades has led us to this point. So next time you fill up, thank your buddies in the halls of the Capitol.

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So John Ryan:

Do you agree with N.O.W.’s policy?

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Rob N.O.W. is more interested in domestic issues than foreign if you would like to learn more about that organization than I suggest you look in the wikipedia article. For decades the policy of the USA has been to not interfere with the internal workings of other nations. Russian women are beaten by their drunkard husbands ?? so shall we invade ? French husbands take mistresses ? Latin machismo allows their wives to be beaten yeah the world is a bad place.
New wells are constantly being drilled in the USA.
The oil that is found and will be found in the USA will not be sold to us at a substantially lower rate it is sold to the highest bidder, always has been and always will be unless you are thinking of nationalizing the industry, like say Mexico where you can still buy gas and diesel for 2 bucks a gallon.
ANWAR would take YEARS to come on line, drilling for oil is a bit diffeernt than say using a Dewalt cordlesss drill.

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There is no “REVERSE RACISM”; only RACISM. It doesn’t matter what color the person is that perpetuates the belief or behavior.

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i guess we all are to stupid to realize that he isn’t a racist, american hating pig. he is crazy, obama is cracked for believing in him, the whole black religious movement is almost a cult. they have their leaders, beliefs and their movemnets that actually go against god’s word. but, we are all racists, yeah right. we all speak english and can read for ourselves what he has preached, it is hatred of god’s word, racism and lies.

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