April 18, 2005
IN CASE YOU WERE WONDERING....
'JUST A REMINDER / WE SHOW MOVIES HERE / SUPPORT LOCAL INDEPENDENT BUSINESSES'
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: Oakland's Grand Lake movie theater would like you to know that in addition to promulgating crackpot conspiracy theories, sour grapes, political temper tantrums, & tired old paleoliberal canards, they also show theatrical films. Not sure if this is an occasional gig or standard procedure. Call for titles & showtimes. In other news from the Bay Area, aka the Lost Continent of Political Correctness:
¶ The SF Zoo shelved its contest to name their 2 new grizzly bears. Rules were the names had to be Native American. FYI 'Navajo Joe' & 'Chief Wahoo' were not acceptable. How about 'Ward Churchill'?
¶ In Oakland, Uhuru House, the local black racists, have launched a campaign against Patrick McCullough, a black anti-crime advocate who chased drug dealers out of his neighborhood & shot a young man who assaulted him:
"McCullough must be removed from the African community before he kills. The U.S. government hires sellouts like McCullough to make it look like we're killing ourselves. Whose side are you on? The people or the pigs?"
Uhuru House is run by the African People's Education & Defense Fund, which bills its mission as "Positively impacting the transformation for African people throughout the world" & calls for reparations to bring about that transformation.
¶ UC Berkeley's new chancellor Robert Birgeneau issued a call to action for greater ethnic diversity on campus, saying the inclusion of 'underrepresented' minorities is "the most significant challenge that Berkeley faces." Really?? Translation: UC now prohibited from using race as a factor in admissions thanks to Prop. 209.
I suppose underrepresented is a reference to the bogus notion of proportional representation (which began as an anti-Semitic ploy in the Twenties, with advocates saying Jews were overrepresented in the Ivy League compared to their numbers in the general population). Since anyone can apply to UC, Birgeneau isn't talking about equality of opportunity, but equality of results.
¶ Bay Area Reporter (not online) reports SF still trying to skirt Prop. 209. After the ballot measure banned minority preferences in public hiring, contracting, & education, SF continued its affirmative action until a Superior Court struck down the program last year. Since then, SF supervisors have been reauthorizing emergency legislation every 60 days to ensure 'nondiscrimination' despite 209.
¶ A federal grand jury re-indicted a self-described "voodoo chief" & "shaman psychologist" who performed exorcisms in Oakland on charges she failed to file income tax returns.
¶ West Oakland library will celebrate the life of Bobby Hutton, national treasurer of the murderous Black Panther Party who was shot & killed by police in West Oakland 37 years ago. Hutton is a famous martyr who was killed after a Party hit squad attacked San Francisco police in an attempt to 'avenge' the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
¶ The SF Sheriff's Dept will be hiring a new batch of deputy sheriffs, but the oral tests, normally held at SF hotels, have to held outside the city limits, because none of the city's hotels offer domestic partner benefits, mandatory if you want to do business with the city of San Francisco.
¶ Dianne Feinstein is up against the Rev. Lou Sheldon for the dubious honor of the SF Pride Parade's Pink Brick raspberry. Her crime: making the shocking statement that the gay marriage push was "too much, too fast, too soon". Judging by the numbers of state constitutions being updated with gay marriage bans, looks like Feinstein's guilty of speaking the truth.
Posted by Jeff at April 18, 2005 03:09 PM
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Oh, Jeffie...I'd invite you to run like the wind and come live with me...but...um...that would be like going from the frying pan into the fire.
Sigh.............
Posted by: SondraK at April 18, 2005 05:24 PM
We also show movies! That's their best sign yet! Ha ha ha ha ha I love it!
Posted by: Jonathan at April 19, 2005 06:18 AM
"Uhuru House is run by the African People's Education & Defense Fund, which bills its mission as "Positively impacting the transformation for African people throughout the world" & calls for reparations to bring about that transformation."
Riiiiiiight! How 'bout they seek reparation from the Masai and Watusi that originally enslaved them and sold them to the white-slavers? This is terribly un-PC of me, but most African tribes had a cultural history of slavery-- it was a tradition. The slave-taking tribes, (like the Masai and Watusi) were nearly impossible to turn into productive slaves. The tribes with a long cultural history of being enslaved were terrific at it.
Posted by: jinnderella at April 19, 2005 02:07 PM
Barry Unsworth wrote a great novel several years ago that won the Booker Prize, Sacred Hunger. It's about a failing British shipping dynasty in the 18th Century that gambles everything on one last ship to pick up slaves for the New World. It's based on a true story about a revolt on a slave ship, where the survivors, black & white, set up a secret settlement in Florida.
A big chunk of the book recounts the purchasing of slaves, where the ship sits offshore from the Guinea coast while the Captain barters with the African slavers. Because it won many awards, a movie deal was set, but soon ran into a roadblock: the PC police, who are very strong in Hollywood, said You CANNOT show black slavers. The producers pointed out that it was historically accurate, but abandoned the movie when it became clear that all Hollywood would portray is Roots-style mythology, the English charging into the interior of Africa with their muskets...
See also Camille Paglia Who is Really to Blame for the Historical Scar of Black Slavery?
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at April 19, 2005 03:01 PM