MLK Jr's 'Bash Bush' event omitted some vital information.

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* New York Martin Luther King Day Events, Realizing the Dream: A Call to Conscience, actors Susan Sarandon and Jeffrey Wright will read select works of Dr. King.

* United for Peace and Justice provides handouts for your anti-war, Anti-Bush MLK events.

* On Monday, January 16, at 7 PM at Steppenwolf's Upstairs Theater, some of Chicago's outstanding theater artists will present scenes/readings in a performance that they hope will inspire you to assume your birthright as citizens of the world in this moment of political upheaval. Readings from Mark Twain, Henry David Thoreau, Martin Luther King, Jr., Naomi Wallace, Margaret Atwood, Harold Pinter and recent testimony from the Commission of Inquiry on Crimes Against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration.

Donations at the event will benefit World Can't Wait - Drive out the Bush Regime, a national movement calling on Bush to step down and take his whole program of immoral war, bigotry, intolerance, and suppression of science with him.

* Monday, Jan 16 - Martin Luther King Day, support Black Voices for Peace in kickoff of nationwide speaking tour by four mothers whose children died in Iraq. Special meeting place: Plymouth Congregational United Church of Christ, 5301 N. Capitol St, NE from about 2 - 6pm. (Peace Majority Report)

* Sen. Edward Kennedy will join the LET JUSTICE ROLL Living Wage services and/or events on the Martin Luther King Holiday Weekend in order to inspire, educate and mobilize congregations and community organizations to support an act for raising the minimum wage at both the Federal and State levels.

* In Fort Lauderhill -- Singer Harry Belafonte is featured speaker at the fifth annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day program, 7 p.m. at Diamante's Banquet Center, 6501 W. Commercial Blvd., Lauderhill. Cost is $50 per person. 954-730-4218.

While in reality...

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President George W. Bush receives the Black Expo Lifetime Achievement Award by Black Expo Chairman Arvis Dawson during the Indiana Black Expo Corporate Luncheon in Indianapolis, Indiana, Thursday, July 14, 2005. (White House photo by Eric Draper)

* The Bush Administration has increased spending on elementary and secondary education by 41 percent.

* Minority students are also making progress at a faster rate, so the achievement gap is narrowing. According to NAEP, African-American and Hispanic fourth graders set records in both reading and math scores. Eighth grade Hispanic and African-American students achieved the highest math scores ever. (January 2006)

* Reading and math scores for African-American nine-year-olds reached their highest levels in the history of the test, with reading scores up 14 points and math scores up 13 points in the past five years.

* African-American Business Ownership Is At An All Time High.

* Bush cut taxes on small businesses, and last year increased Small Business Administration loans to African-American businesses by more than 28 percent.

* The Administration is working to give minority-owned businesses better access to compete for Federal contracts, and has provided $8 billion in New Market Tax credits to boost investment and community development in low-income areas.

* Nearly Half Of All African-Americans Now Own Their Own Home. The minority home ownership rate rose a record 51.6 percent during the first quarter of 2005, as 15.7 ethnic minorities claimed ownership of the roof over their heads, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

* Violent crime is at a 30 year low. Violent crime rates in Canada, the EU and have begun to equal or surpass the rates in the US (see France).

* The Bush Administration has awarded $2 billion in competitive grants to faith-based institutions that are working to transform minority neighborhoods with faith and compassion.

* The Bush Administration partnered with the National Urban League in a new initiative to expand business ownership and entrepreneurship among minorities July, 2004.

* 50 million Iraqis and Afghanis now live in freedom because of the War on Terror - and millions across the broader Middle East are claiming their liberty as well.

* Because of the US and Allies action, there are significantly less people dying daily in Iraq today than when Saddam was in power.

* Minority unemployment rates are lower now (Black 9.3, Latino 6.0) than they were in 1997 (Black 9.9, Latino 7.5)

* Hurricane Katrina was not a racist disaster, not hardly.

* George Bush has put more blacks in prominent positions than any other president in US history.

* The President's Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief. PEPFAR, the largest international health initiative dedicated to a single disease in history, is providing historic levels of support to the fight against the AIDS pandemic.

* The President's Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) Has Supported Life-Saving Treatments For Approximately 400,000 Sub-Saharan Africans Living With HIV/AIDS.

* And, of course there are the other black history moments that the democrats won't share with you this weekend including the Twenty-Five Historically Significant Black Experiences.

This information would never get to you if we didn't have the internet.
These are the honest people who appreciate the good things the President does and they are never heard. That's because the liberal black and liberal press run a business of shielding the truth. A truth that would seriously crush the lefty hate fest of President Bush.

With such agitators claiming blacks will never be admitted to mainstream society then going around and idolizing purveyors of hatred like Farrakhan and Belfonte and obscuring true gains made by blacks disaster can be the only result.

These people are doing more to create an environment of segregation than the KKK could ever dream of creating with Jim Crowe laws. Then once they have that self-imposed segregation as evidence they are victims, not even seeing the irony of their situation.

Sad. Just sad.

LeviticusMky

Yep, us libbies, we're all racist and we all want to be supremely powerful, presiding over all in the land.

While Bush and the conservatives, on the other hand, they're very close to minorities. All that big oil money and massive seven and eight figure salaries don't stop them from caring a whole lot about the little guy.

Us anti-war, anti-monetary classed society folk just want to slam Bush. we don't care about any real social problems.

S3nd K3ys

LeviticusMky wrote:

Yep, us libbies, we're all racist and we all want to be supremely powerful, presiding over all in the land.

While Bush and the conservatives, on the other hand, they're very close to minorities. All that big oil money and massive seven and eight figure salaries don't stop them from caring a whole lot about the little guy.

Us anti-war, anti-monetary classed society folk just want to slam Bush. we don't care about any real social problems.

Nice side-step. Now how about you provide some feedback pertaining to what I posted instead of the typical libby dodge and weave when the facts are put on the table.

Intelligence; the unused tool of the Democrats.

Soulfire

S3nd K3ys wrote:

LeviticusMky wrote:

Yep, us libbies, we're all racist and we all want to be supremely powerful, presiding over all in the land.

While Bush and the conservatives, on the other hand, they're very close to minorities. All that big oil money and massive seven and eight figure salaries don't stop them from caring a whole lot about the little guy.

Us anti-war, anti-monetary classed society folk just want to slam Bush. we don't care about any real social problems.

Nice side-step. Now how about you provide some feedback pertaining to what I posted instead of the typical libby dodge and weave when the facts are put on the table.

Intelligence; the unused tool of the Democrats.

Agreed with S3nd K3ys.

Dorsk82

While I feel some of your contentions are valid and that the blind Bush bashing and hatred of any and all of his polices just because of "him" being behind them is naive, I also want to caution you about your own skewed statistics and views.

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The Bush Administration has increased spending on elementary and secondary education by 41 percent.

While this statistic at some level maybe correct you have stated it incorrectly and in a misleading way... total funding for schools is not up 41 percent federal funding is!

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Violent crime is at a 30 year low. Violent crime rates in Canada, the EU and have begun to equal or surpass the rates in the US (see France).

Similarly this quote here is very misleading as you don't provide any statistics and I have no idea what is included in your definition of violent crime. I can though for a fact state that the US murder rate is significantly higher than any of the countries you mentioned! In 2001 the US rate was 5.6 per 100,000 as compared to 1.8 in Canada and 1.6 in the EU.

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Because of the US and Allies action, there are significantly less people dying daily in Iraq today than when Saddam was in power.

This here is another oft quoted and misleading statistic. What you have done is aggregated the number of people who died under Hussein into a number of people who died per day. What you fail to take into account is that a large percentage of these deaths occurred during wars conducted by Hussein these were not just daily killings he carried out for pleasure. The average number of people who died per day is a really innacurate representation of this statistic! If you looked at the number of US citizens who died per day with our high crime rates, wars and so forth it would be a much grimmer statistic than many would suspect but we don't look at it that way because it doesn't very accurately reflect what is happening in the US. (By the way I am not saying that the statistic would be any where near as bad as Iraq nor am I saying Hussein was a good leader just saying it is a misleading way of representing his bad leadership!)

Anyways the point of all this is that both sides and their supporting media use confusing statistics like these to promote their agendas and gain followers. Neither is any more or less guilty of this skewing of the truth than the other. While many on the left engage in bashing of absolutely everything Bush does it cannot be denied that some good things have happened under him. I think though that one of the main contentions of most reasonable people on the left is not that Bush is all evil but simply that another president would hopefully be able to do even more to help the American people. Specifically those that are disadvantaged like our African American and Hispanic minorities.