How liberal is CBS really?
A Media Matters for America analysis of CBS Evening News broadcasts since the November 2, 2004, presidential election found that the program featured Republicans and conservatives more often than Democrats and progressives. Read more...
Quote of the week ending February 18, 2005:
Bush officials have divorced themselves from reality. They flipped TV's in the West Wing and Air Force One to Fox News. They paid conservative columnists handsomely to promote administration programs. Federal agencies distributed packaged "news" video releases with faux anchors so local news outlets would run them. As CNN reported, the Pentagon produces Web sites with "news" articles intended to influence opinion abroad and at home, but you have to look hard for the disclaimer: "Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense." The agencies spent a whopping $88 million spinning reality in 2004, splurging on P.R. contracts.
Even the Nixon White House didn't do anything this creepy. It's worse than hating the press. It's an attempt to reinvent it.
-- New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, February 17
Malcolm X: Double Anniversary This Year
Malcolm X was assassinated on Feb. 21, 1965 -- forty years ago this
Monday. He was born May 19, 1925 -- eighty years ago this year. The
following are some of his statements. Malcolm X broke with the Nation of
Islam in early 1964; a chronology is available at:
<http://www.brothermalcolm.net/mxtimeline.html>.
"We need to expand the civil-rights struggle to a higher level -- to the
level of human rights. Whenever you are in a civil-rights struggle, whether
you know it or not, you are confining yourself to the jurisdiction of Uncle
Sam. ... [T]he Negro problem is never brought before the UN. This is part
of the conspiracy. This old, tricky blue-eyed liberal who is supposed to be
your and my friend, supposed to be in our corner, supposed to be
subsidizing our struggle, and supposed to be acting in the capacity of an
adviser, never tells you anything about human rights."
-- "The Ballot or the Bullet," April 3, 1964,
<http://americanrhetoric.com/speeches/malcolmxballot.htm>
"They have a new gimmick every year. They're going to take one of their
boys, black boys, and put him in the cabinet so he can walk around
Washington with a cigar. Fire on one end and fool on the other end. And
because his immediate personal problem will have been solved he will be the
one to tell our people: 'Look how much progress we're making. I'm in
Washington, D.C., I can have tea in the White House. I'm your spokesman,
I'm your leader.' While our people are still living in Harlem in the slums.
Still receiving the worst form of education."
"But how many sitting here right now feel that they could [laughs] truly
identify with a struggle that was designed to eliminate the basic causes
that create the conditions that exist? Not very many. They can jive, but
when it comes to identifying yourself with a struggle that is not endorsed
by the power structure, that is not acceptable, that the ground rules are
not laid down by the society in which you live, in which you are struggling
against, you can't identify with that, you step back."
"It's easy to become a satellite today without even realizing it. This
country can seduce God. Yes, it has that seductive power of economic
dollarism. You can cut out colonialism, imperialism and all other kind of
ism, but it's hard for you to cut that dollarism. When they drop those
dollars on you, you'll fold though."
-- "The Prospects for Freedom in 1965," at the Militant Labor Forum, New
York City, Jan. 7, 1965
Audio from this and other speeches is at:
<http://www.brothermalcolm.net/mxwords/whathesaidarchive.html>,
<https://www.pacifica.org/store/product_info.php?cPath=24&products_id=32>.
"This is a society whose government doesn't hesitate to inflict the most
brutal form of punishment and oppression upon dark-skinned people all over
the world. To wit, right now what's going on in and around Saigon and Hanoi
and in the Congo and elsewhere. They are violent when their interests are
at stake. But all of that violence that they display at the international
level, when you and I want just a little bit of freedom, we're supposed to
be nonviolent. They're violent. They're violent in Korea, they're violent
in Germany, they're violent in the South Pacific, they're violent in Cuba,
they're violent wherever they go. But when it comes time for you and me to
protect ourselves against lynchings, they tell us to be nonviolent.""The entire American economy is based on white supremacy. Even the
religious philosophy is, in essence, white supremacy. A white Jesus. A
white Virgin. White angels. White everything. But a black Devil, of course."
-- From May 1963 Playboy interview,
<http://www.malcolm-x.org/docs/int_playb.htm>
I am very honest, this is both good and bad, hopefully it'll make it easier and faster for you to decide if you like me. The meek shall inherit the earth. I'm constantly learning and trying to be better and help those around me better. I try not to be materialistic and egotistical. (But..) I'm self-sufficient, own my own house and car, and have my first BS degree. I'm very resourceful and adaptive. I'm very progressive. I wish everyone could be open-minded.