Calling Jeremy “White boy,” and referring to your culture as being “ripped off” has nothing to do with Jeremy’s article. You say you are “damned tired” of people screaming out racism, and yet it sounds like you are trying to pull the race card yourself by stating you’re getting ripped off by white people. Is that reverse racism?

Should white people get to benefit from black culture just as black people have benefited from white culture? White nerdy guys created Macs, PC’s, and the internet…does that mean you should get to post comments on it, or would you be ripping off the white nerdy culture?

The racism Jeremy was referring to had nothing to do with black or white. Racism is the hatred of one person against another and can be based on race, descent, national or ethnic origin. In Jeremy’s case, he believes that Rashid Khalidi’s ethnicity has played into the questions surrounding his relations with Obama. Rashid isn’t black. It isn’t always white and black.

/Martha’s head comes out of sand after reading this, but will never admit to it.

Now I’m ripping off your culture? How so?

Justa few questions, Martha:

Martha, would you think it would be racist of me to refer to you as “Black Girl”? I asked you once before. Please answer the question.

Why do you think the LA Times should break its code of ethics and release a tape it reported on and was given only on the condition that it not be released?

Why do you seem to think (from what I can tell) that Obama did something bad here? Do you agree with the McCain campaign that to associate with a Palestinian who is critical of Israel is worthy of condemntation?

In other words, are you also prejudiced against the Palestinian people?

You write:
*Earlier this week, John McCain once again attacked his presidential campaign opponent Barack Obama on the basis of his association with another individual.
*McCain himself lashed out at the L.A. Times for choosing to not release the videotape, accusing the paper of bias and comparing the dinner to a “neo-Nazi outfit”.

“Lashed out,” “again,” etc. You stack the deck to one side. Don’t bore me with your nonsense. The issue is LAT has a responsibility to release a tape it reported on. If it was not able to release it, it shouldn’t have reported on it.

Sources can be protected. Video tapes? Notes? I don’t believe the courts have seen it that way and how nice of you, Hammond, to ignore the fact that I said your failure was in refusing to take on the press aspect.

LAT wants to cover a videotape (back in April) and wants people to take their word for it. No.

They should have released the tape or not reported on it.

Also true is that LAT — at their own site — has offered 4 different reasons for refusing to release the tape.

Repeating, read your language. You go out of your way to attack one side.

I’m not buying your nonsense. The issue was the press.

And you do stack the deck in favor of Barack.

The only mistake I made was in reading your bad writng.

Comments like Bob’s have no place here.

I find it curious that you should conclude that this piece somehow is written in support of Obama since I include him in my criticism of prejudice against Palestinians. I did not vote for Obama. He is not “my candidate”. I don’t understand at all how you arrived at THAT conclusion.

You’re simply wrong on journalistic ethics with regard to the tape. If the agreement that was made was that the tape itself wouldn’t be made public, then the LA Times would disgrace itself to RELEASE the tape. It’s not as though we were talking about evidence of a crime being committed here, so proper ethics in this regard is not even controversial. It’s perfectly elementary.

You got one thing right. I’m white. However, I wonder if you wouldn’t yourself regard it racist yourself were I to refer to you as “Black Girl”. Perhaps you’d be fine with that, but I can’t help but sense a double-standard here.

I call racism as I see it. In this case, it couldn’t be more apparent. Contempt for and prejudice against the Palestinian people is very deeply ingrained. The only ounce of credit I give to Obama is that at least he’s willing to acknowledge his own bias. But as I say in the article, that’s not nearly enough.

It’s odd indeed after I get finished saying Obama is NOT FIT FOR THE PRESIDENCY that you write this comment suggesting I wrote the piece just to defend “my candidate”.

Perhaps you should actually READ a piece before commenting on it. Just a suggestion.

“This is a deeply anti-Semitic position–for Arabs are Semitic peoples, too–in that the underlying assumption is…”

Mr. Khalidi was not a “spokesman” for the PLO. Nor is he an “apologist for terrorism”.

“…They would in my opinion “hold the coats” of those willing to perpetrate another Holocaust”!

“If you are a leftist or an anti-Semite, by all means you should vote for Barack Obama, if not realize a vote for Obama is a vote for Antisemitism, and in favor of tyrants”!

Beware of Left wing Nazis and the PLO spy running for President! Awesome funny stuff

Bob: The only “masquerade” I see is this long-jaded farce of fancifully labeling opposition to the brutality that is Zionism as “anti-semitism”. What a crock!

And the rest of your scribble above follows suite quite neatly. Obama “anti-semitic”? How completely laughable! It’s obviously YOU who must actually think WE’RE all stupid.

Israel and America are both imperialist rogue nations. Quite frankly, our world would be a far better place if neither of them existed!

http://www.dangerouscreation.com

Do you believe we are all stupid?

Mr. Khalidi, was a spokesman for the PLO, and continues to be an apologist for terrorism against the Jewish people, and any one else who stands with Israel and against the Arab Muslims.

There is not a dimes worth of difference between the people at that the Khalidi event and the Nazi intelligentsia of the 30′s and 40′s. They would in my opinion “hold the coats” of those willing to perpetrate another Holocaust!

Barack Obama is a closeted Anti-Semite, and his association with prominent Anti-Semites should be brought into the open.

If you are a leftist or an anti-Semite, by all means you should vote for Barack Obama, if not realize a vote for Obama is a vote for Antisemitism, and in favor of tyrants!

Reading about incidinces such as these stirs up so much anger inside me. It just shows that the Palestinian genocide (and others such as the plight in the Congo) will continue to be unacknowledged by the media and the U.S. as long as U.S. or Israeli interests are at stake.