This lovely lady is a Nubian – which is why this song by Haifa Wehbe confuses us so much.  this woman is from the same tribe that we originate from. we are all Nubians, and of many colors and hair types. not one of us looks like another. if Haifa Wehbe is a Nubian, she wouldn’t have sang those lyrics about herself. she would have known better than to be so defamatory, about herself and her family origins.

“We are one of the oldest civilizations on earth,” said Isaaq. “Instead, our image is constantly perpetuated as the uneducated doorman or waiter.”

Racism is a very seductive mistress; even for those who are products of it.  Haifa Wehbe  must not have looked into that date grove where she originated, very closely. Very sad indeed in 2009.  a star of the stature of  Haifa Wehbe being openly racist and ignorant. then thinking she can just be excused for it.

The line, Nubian representatives say, infers that members of the black Egyptian minority are monkeys.

This woman is lebanese, and that means she is a product of the Nile Valley. does she not know the truth of who originated there ?  obviously not since her song belies her ignorance to her own dna and origins. She is a decendant of Nubians; thereby making her a Nubian.

Please Haifa, Get a Book and do a lil reading; it does a brain good.

Penticton Herald – Stories -.

In this Tuesday, May 19, 2009 file photo, Lebanese model, actress, and singer Haifa Wehbe arrives at the 62nd International film festival in Cannes, southern France. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Joel Ryan, File)

CAIRO, Egypt – A famous Lebanese pop singer, who normally stirs controversy for her seductive dresses and provocative dancing, has now been accused of singing a song with racist lyrics that compares black Egyptians to monkeys.

Haifa Wehbe, considered by many as one of the sexiest women in the Arab world, has the minority Nubian community in Egypt distraught over her latest children’s album “Baby Haifa” and the community’s activists have launched several lawsuits over the lyrics.

The Nubians took issue with a verse in the song “Where is Daddy?” in which Wehbe croons: “Where is my teddy bear and my Nubian monkey?”

The line, Nubian representatives say, infers that members of the black Egyptian minority are monkeys. In November, they slapped separate lawsuits on the singer, her record label and Wehbe’s Egyptian song writer.

“It may not be intentional racism on the part of the song writer, but it is still highly racist and offensive,” said Motez Isaaq, with the Committee for Nubian Issues.

Nubians come from the southernmost region of present-day Egypt, where a culture later known as Nubian first arose around 3,800 B.C. along the Nile and in northern Sudan. It was one of Africa’s earliest black civilizations, complete with an independent kingdom.

Isaaq said that stereotypes of minorities are so entrenched that referring to them in popular culture media is frequently done unconsciously.

“We are one of the oldest civilizations on earth,” said Isaaq. “Instead, our image is constantly perpetuated as the uneducated doorman or waiter.”

Isaaq alleged that Nubians are discriminated against because of their darker skin, and stressed that the community still holds in painful memory the political oppression in the 1960s, when the Egyptian government forced tens of thousands of Nubians to leave their homes and resettle elsewhere in southern Egypt, to make way for the building of the High Dam, 425 miles (685 kilometres) south of Cairo.

Wehbe has in the past tested the limits of a conservative Middle Eastern culture for her revealing outfits, suggestive lyrics and dancing.

But this time, Isaaq said the danger of her song is that it targets children.

“Kids can soak up the lyrics so quickly,” he said. “They could start calling their Nubian classmates monkeys.”

Isaaq’s group has held protests against the song, he said, and is also suing Egypt’s culture minister and the country’s state censorship board for allowing Wehbe’s latest album to be on the Egyptian market.

The Nubians want a formal apology and an end to airing the song in Egypt, Isaaq said, expressing also hope that the action would change the way other Egyptians treat their Nubian fellow countrymen.

“Egyptians have to stop treating us as second class citizens,” he said. “We are the original Egyptians and the country needs to remember it.”

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This Troll just threw a Live Frog into a Pot of Boiling Water – Yes You Can See it for yourself, so you won’t say we are lying – Is He Crazy or What ?

Where is PETA Now ?

First he’s talking about Lil Kids Singing a song about President Obama; and now he’s tossing Live Frogs into Boiling Water while muttering like an idiot about President Obama.

When does Faux News Get their Fine FCC ?

If  ever anyone deserves to be hit with a load of flack, this is the best demonstration of why. he’s boiling Live Frogs and then he says, OH I thought He Would Jump Out ..

You Dummie,  Whomever told you that lie must be responsible for your whole mis-education.

Glenn Beck is a Sorry Excuse for a Human Being. Most certainly this will bring anyone to their own decision on if or not he has good sense. This video confirms for Us that He Is Just Plain Brain Dead.  we know about the rumors that this was a plastic frog that he put into the pot – somehow we don’t care about that excuse;  because the shock value is what we’re concerned about -

Killing Frogs on Television to Prove a Non Existent Lie.. Janet Jackson’s Boob was less tramautic and certainly more enjoyable, so why has the fcc done nothing about this ?

Yeah PETA, Teabaggers, Birthers What Ya Got to Say Now ?

BadGal Says – TheSUSS: Please Tell Us, how do little children fit into the Glenn Beck drama ?

why are we teaching our children to be fearful of praising the good works they see ?

when we read this story earlier it was appalling to see how these children are being made pawns of stupidity. how do little children fit into the glenn beck drama ? it appears the kids made a little video singing during a celebration at their school; presented it to an author of a childrens book on Barack Obama as a gift; and her pr people capitalized on the kids cuteness factor and put them on YouTube.

What are these kids doing wrong ?

YouTube seems to be getting the rep as the place you find anything to use to stick someone else in the eye with. but why kids and why now ?

the tune is “Jesus Loves the Little Children” and “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” Why is this wrong ?

apparently when they (the political pootbutts) discovered the video it had been up for months, and the becks’ folks just discovered it.

Utterly amazing, they are searching for kids videos now to use as fodder in their war of stupidity 

anything that comes up about Barack Obama seems to make Glenn Beck believe he is writing a new page in history. but who’s going to read that misinformation and get anything usable out of it ? we doubt anyone who can read the news in comparison, will know that this is a lame attempt to remain in the media – by a personality with little appeal and less common sense.

Glenn Beck take your finger out of your nose and go sit down somewhere,

Scrutiny rises over NJ kids singing Obama song

By GEOFF MULVIHILL

BURLINGTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) – A school for kindergartners through second-graders in a comfortable Philadelphia suburb has become the latest target of accusations by conservatives that schoolchildren are being indoctrinated to idolize President Barack Obama.

The controversy grows out of a school assembly during Black History Month in February, when gripes about the freshly inaugurated president were still mostly hushed.
That month, a group of smiley and fidgety students at B. Bernice Young School sang a medley of two short songs praising the president.

The first song begins, “Mmm, mmm, mmm, Barack Hussein Obama/He said that all must lend a hand/To make this country strong again.”

The second one was set to “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” and included the refrain, “Hooray, Mr. President.”

While the performance is seven months old, the outrage is new and came about because of the discovery of a YouTube video.

It’s been fodder for conservative opinion leaders such as columnist and blogger Michelle Malkin and Fox News Channel host Glenn Beck.

The notion that schoolchildren are being subjected to partisan politics rather than taught civics emerged earlier this month before an Obama speech to students was played in thousands of schools.

By then, unlike February, there was broader mistrust of Obama, particularly over his health insurance overhaul plans. Concerns that he would use his speech to students as a political tool grew partly because the White House initially released a lesson plan encouraging students to “help the president.”

The plan was revised and the message to students was not overtly political.
News about the song brought a quick response from New Jersey’s Department of Education. Spokeswoman Beth Auerswald said the department wants “to ensure students can celebrate the achievements of African Americans during Black History Month without inappropriate partisan politics in the classroom.”

Auerswald said the state would also look into whether posting the video online violated the privacy of students.

Superintendent Christopher Manno defended the performance in Friday’s editions of the Burlington County Times.

“There was no intention to indoctrinate children,” he said. “The teacher’s intention was to engage the children in an activity to recognize famous and accomplished African Americans.”
He said he would not identify the teacher who led the song. State education officials said she retired at the end of the last school year.

The source of the video is not entirely clear. In Malkin’s column, she said it was posted in June on the YouTube channel of author Charisse Carney-Nunes, who wrote the children’s book “I Am Barack Obama.”

The song medley was presented to Carney-Nunes, who had been invited to the school, as a demonstration of a project the children had put together, her public relations firm said in a statement.

“Charisse feels it is unfortunate that an event put together with sincere intentions to encourage literacy while celebrating the contributions of African Americans to our great nation has become political fodder and hopes cooler heads will prevail,” the hoverFly media statement said.
The video was ubiquitous online Friday but was not listed under Carney-Nunes’ feed.
Officials at the Burlington Township Board of Education did not return calls Friday to discuss the incident or how much public response it received, and the district’s Web site was not available.
Leslie Gibson, the mother of a kindergartner and a second-grader, said the incident was not addressed in Thursday evening’s back-to-school assembly.

Gibson said that while parents had different views about how problematic the song may have been, one thing was unanimous: They don’t like having television trucks and reporters camped out on the streets near the school.

Friday afternoon, there were two police cars posted outside the building.
There wasn’t much protest, though. One man, Chris Concannon, from nearby Magnolia, was outside hoping to speak with school officials about what happened.
“It’s just like the Hitler Youth all over again,” said Concannon, an unemployed 26-year-old former National Guardsman. “They should be learning history, but instead they’re being taught to worship the president.”

I’m not sure if I totally understand this one – he’s White and he has cornrows but he can’t wear em to work ? yet Blacks can –

Huh ?

As a Black Woman, I am soooo not liking this. now in our universe Fair is Fair. if the Black Officers can wear Cornrows, why can’t a White Officer ? it seems everybody in the NBA is wearing em; at the tennis matches; the beach, why not work ? His diversity should be respected if it’s neat.

You tell us what you think about this lil hot mess right here,

Feel free to grab yourself a cold one on the way out, since we know you gonna need one after this mess.

where is Black Jesus when you need him – oh that’s right, he was at the UN Today. Sheesh,

we kinda get confused what with him being all over the place and doin so much. anyway – enjoy your Thirsty Thursday treats.

The Philadelphia police force may be losing the battle on violent crime, but they’re winning the battle against white guys with cornrows, having ordered a Caucasian cop off the street after he showed up looking like Axl Rose.

Officer Thomas Strain, a five-year veteran in Philly’s 35th district, came to work on Sept. 3 with the hairstyle and was immediately taken off his patrol and put behind a desk until he cut off his braids.

“It’s absolutely discriminatory,” said one officer who wished to remain anonymous. “It’s not like he shaved a Nazi sign or something anti-black or anti-Hispanic on his head. It’s just cornrows. I don’t know what the problem is.”

But police spokesman Lt. Frank Vanore said it had nothing to do with discrimination and everything to do with Strain’s failure to look “professional.” He pointed out that the cornrows may have prevented a proper military fit for his hat, though he couldn’t explain why this wasn’t an issue for black officers with cornrows.

Regardless of whether the actions were discriminatory or not, it means there’s one less white guy with cornrows on the street. And that can’t be a bad thing.

Story From: http://www.asylum.com/2009/09/23/white-philadelphia-cop-told-to-lose-cornrows/

This cartoon illustrates the story below – Stupidity at Work Today.

America, How Can You Continue to Build on a Legacy of Hatred ?

This is absolutely stupid – I saw this on Aldon Hynes’ blog today;  and it pissed me off to no end. how the scenario played out according to the article points out some fundamental issues that seem to be too American, for America.

Please Be Sure to Continue to below the article to read Aldons’ Very Well Written Letter – which has received NO Response yet from Sheraton.

Leave the Kids out of your Damn Racism Adults – Really Doh

Drill Team Booted

by Melissa Bailey | August 6, 2009 7:32 AM

Dixwell’s drill team soared to victory in a national competition in Kansas City — then saw its trip cut short by a late-night visit from the cops.

The Nation Drum and Drill Squad took a bus ride back to New Haven Wednesday after scoring gold and silver trophies in a national drill team competition.

Their return trip came one day earlier than planned — after an early-morning wake-up call from the police.

In what staff called a “highly unusual” move, the Sheraton Kansas City Sports Complex Hotel evicted the 35 kids and 13 chaperons from their hotel rooms at 1:30 a.m. Wednesday, citing repeated noise complaints from people who were trying to sleep nearby.

The hotel called in police officers to kick the group out. No arrests were made.

Doug Bethea, leader of the Nation Drill Team, called the eviction a “horrible” end to an otherwise successful trip.

“I’ve never in my life experienced something like this,” Bethea said. He accused the hotel of racial discrimination and vowed to litigate.

“It all boils down to, they had 48 black people in their hotel and they did not like it,” Bethea said. The hotel denied that charge.

Bethea, the founder and head of the Nation squad, has been leading the group to national competitions for 21 years. The competition is in a different city each year. This year’s trip started out well: On Tuesday, the group scored first place in the junior division precision category, and second place in the senior division “fancy trick” category, in which they were defending champs. Click here and on the play arrow to read about how hard they worked to get there.

After the competition, the trip took a turn for the worse, Bethea said. He described Wednesday morning as the breaking point of a week of discriminatory treatment from hotel staff.

“Get Out Of Here Now”

Ten police officers banged on his hotel door wielding Taser stun guns at about 1:30 a.m., he said. Hotel staff was there, too.

“We want you guys out of here now,” they told the drill team, according to Bethea. The cops didn’t use the Tasers, but their presence scared the kids, he said.

Bethea was outraged. He said at that time, the only people who were awake were four adults and four college-aged kids. They were hanging out together in one hotel room, giggling, laughing and telling stories. The drill team folks in the other nine rooms were asleep, he said.

He asked why the police needed to wake up all the children, including three babies, in the middle of the night.

“There’s no justification” for that, he said. He asked the hotel to let these kids stay; he would get them out in the morning.

The hotel refused.

According to the hotel’s general manager, Ted Frerking, Bethea had already been warned that the group was on the verge of eviction. Staff had received repeated complaints about the group being noisy ever since the drill team checked in Sunday night, he said. On Tuesday at 10:30 p.m., they got two more noise complaints from guests.

Hotel staff gave the drill team a “final warning,” Frerking said. Then, at 1:20 a.m., they got two more guest complaints. They made the decision to kick the group out. Since it was such a large group, they called police for help with the eviction, Frerking said.

Bethea said the situation was tense. Parents and some older kids on the trip “wanted to stand their ground.” Some of the kids “were ready to fight the police officers.”

Bethea said he complied with the officers’ request, in order to defuse the situation.

“Let’s get out of here before anyone gets hurt,” he told them. With police standing guard, the group packed up its belongings and left at 2:30 a.m., Bethea said. He pulled $400 from his own pocket to find rooms to stay in at a nearby Days Inn.

The eviction was carried through without incident, according to Sgt. Stacey Graves, a public information officer for the Kansas City police. She confirmed that a staff person at the hotel called police at 1:20 a.m. Wednesday. The caller said a large group was refusing to leave the hotel. They were “arguing about payment, and arguing with security,” she said. Police showed up at the hotel and resolved the issue, she said. She said the police did carry Tasers, which are standard issue on police uniforms. No arrests were made and no police report was written, she said.

“A Reality Call”

Reached by phone Wednesday, Bethea and two members of the trip said they had been discriminated against by the hotel all week. Bethea said the New Haveners were among the few black people at the largely white hotel.

Racial tension first materialized Monday night, when about five teenagers went down to the hotel bar to get something to eat. An intoxicated patron at the bar made a remark to the effect of “wow, look at the black people,” according to Bethea. Heated words flew.

Bethea was called downstairs to resolve the situation. There was no fight, but the kids were on the verge. “These kids were ready to do whatever they had to do to survive,” he said.

Frerking said the New Haven kids misconstrued a statement made by a bar patron. He said they thought the remark was about them, but it wasn’t.

Diane Wilson, a chaperon and the grandmother of a 11-year-old on the trip, said racial profiling took other forms, too: The group wasn’t given room service for two days, was denied new rolls of toilet paper, and was subjected to racially charged remarks by hotel staff, she asserted.

As one hotel staffer got off an elevator, she was overheard saying “there’s a bunch of them running around here,” Wilson said. Wilson took the remark to have a racial connotation.

Ronald Huggins said he heard a female staffer say the New Haven kids were “all over the place like roaches.” Huggins, Bethea’s nephew, drums on the drill team and helps manage the team.

Frerking said he didn’t know anything about those allegations. He denied the group was mistreated on account of race.

“We treat all our guests fairly. It had nothing to do with the group other than the noise,” said Frerking. “Like any room, if they’re noisy, we would ask them to depart.”

He called the situation “unfortunate,” but said the hotel “has the responsibility to maintain quiet and restful environment.”

The disruption was starting to be costly, he added: Frerking said the hotel has had to compensate seven guests with free nights’ stays on account of the drill team’s noise.

“We’ve got to respect the concerns of the other guests as well,” he said. The hotel plans to reimburse the drill team for Tuesday and Wednesday nights’ stays, he added.

Meanwhile, reached on the 22-hour bus ride back to New Haven, Bethea vowed to file a racial discrimination lawsuit.

To top off their trip, Bethea and Huggins said the group was called “monkeys” by a client at the second hotel. The person told them to “go back to Africa,” according to Huggins.

“I’m upset and appalled,” said Huggins. He said the trip served as “a reality call” for the kids on the team, many of whom don’t otherwise get to leave New Haven. He said the trip showed him that in America, “certain parts have progressed, and other parts are still behind.”

Next year, the national competition will be in Las Vegas. Bethea said he doesn’t expect any problems there.

The experience in Kansas City “won’t stop me from doing competitions,” he said. “This is what I live for.”

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This is the Mail sent to Sheraton from Aldon Hynes who pulled our coats to the incident . Thanks Aldon – You’re a Good Man and a Great Journalist.

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From: Aldon Hynes [mailto:Aldon.Hynes]
Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 9:33 AM
To: publicrelations@starwoodhotels.com
Subject: Alleged Racial Profiling at Sheraton Kansas City Sports Complex
Hotel

One of the top news stories in Connecticut right now is about New Haven
Connecticut’s Dixwell National Drum and Drill Squad which won gold and
silver trophies at the Elks Grand Lodge World National Championships in
Kansas City.

According to the article in the New Haven Independent,
http://www.newhavenindependent.org/archives/2009/08/drill_team_boot.php

“In what staff called a “highly unusual” move, the Sheraton Kansas City
Sports Complex Hotel evicted the 35 kids and 13 chaperons from their hotel
rooms at 1:30 a.m. Wednesday, citing repeated noise complaints from people
who were trying to sleep nearby.

The hotel called in police officers to kick the group out. No arrests were
made.”

The local television affiliates are now running the story, with the NBC
affiliate running
http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local-beat/Racket-Or-Racism-You-Decide-52
612957.html
and another New Haven paper has
http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local-beat/Racket-Or-Racism-You-Decide-52
612957.html
and another New Haven paper has
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