What is worse is the congress lady said the incident was not racially motivated and it appears most of the MSM view all the things going own with the RACIST GOP and their base at these town hall meeting are just plain americans exercising their free speech so please Black folks reading this comment it is time for us to do the same –

Come to the town halls armed and ready to protect and defend our president and the county built on the backs of blacks, native and hispanic americans

What is worse is the congress lady said the incident was not racially motivated and it appears most of the MSM view all the things going own with the RACIST GOP and their base at these town hall meeting are just plain americans exercising their free speech so please Black folks reading this comment it is time for us to do the same –

Come to the town halls armed and ready to protect and defend our president and the county built on the backs of blacks, native and hispanic americans

I don’t know about it being all out racist that Mrs. Johnson and the attacker were both escorted out (although, 4 cops? really?), I think the cops were ending an altercation with potential to escalate. That being said, between being called “Obama Lover” and seeing signs with “Obama Nigger” on them, I feel certain that Mrs. Johnson felt under attack, I know I do. For me, the most chilling thing about this video is the applause at the end.

I don’t know about it being all out racist that Mrs. Johnson and the attacker were both escorted out (although, 4 cops? really?), I think the cops were ending an altercation with potential to escalate. That being said, between being called “Obama Lover” and seeing signs with “Obama Nigger” on them, I feel certain that Mrs. Johnson felt under attack, I know I do. For me, the most chilling thing about this video is the applause at the end.

The Congress woman doesn’t know what she’s talking about.That doesn’t change the fact that four police officers was needed to hold back one black woman. It was racially motivated. Sad but true!

The Congress woman doesn’t know what she’s talking about.That doesn’t change the fact that four police officers was needed to hold back one black woman. It was racially motivated. Sad but true!

i dont see why she was put out someone appeared to asked about the poster. and not only that she did not hold it up, if anything she was only allowing the person who asked to see it. that was just anoter case of being black in the wrong place at the wrong time.

i dont see why she was put out someone appeared to asked about the poster. and not only that she did not hold it up, if anything she was only allowing the person who asked to see it. that was just anoter case of being black in the wrong place at the wrong time.

I have been wondering about these town hall protests… how come the audience is always predominantly white? The ones we hear about and see in the MSM anyways… I’ve only seen about three or four blacks total in all coverage that’s been airing. To be honest, as a black woman, I really would be afraid to go to one of those seeing how “militant” and irrational some of these protesters have been behaving.

I am really waiting to see who will be the calming voice of reason in this whole health care overhaul fiasco. It clearly will not be Obama… his words have been hitting the wall and sliding to the floor fast. Who can come out and calm the crowds and appeal for reason?

I have been wondering about these town hall protests… how come the audience is always predominantly white? The ones we hear about and see in the MSM anyways… I’ve only seen about three or four blacks total in all coverage that’s been airing. To be honest, as a black woman, I really would be afraid to go to one of those seeing how “militant” and irrational some of these protesters have been behaving.

I am really waiting to see who will be the calming voice of reason in this whole health care overhaul fiasco. It clearly will not be Obama… his words have been hitting the wall and sliding to the floor fast. Who can come out and calm the crowds and appeal for reason?

To the reporter’s last question: I honestly don’t understand why people are so angry about the health care reform issue. Do they think their choices are being taken away? From what I understand people will have more choices and insurance companies will not have the same hold on the health care system as they do now. People will be able to decide which doctor they want to see instead of being forced to decide if they can afford to see a docor at all. The vitiol is just caked all over this issue, at least the way the media plays it. What am I missing?

To the reporter’s last question: I honestly don’t understand why people are so angry about the health care reform issue. Do they think their choices are being taken away? From what I understand people will have more choices and insurance companies will not have the same hold on the health care system as they do now. People will be able to decide which doctor they want to see instead of being forced to decide if they can afford to see a docor at all. The vitiol is just caked all over this issue, at least the way the media plays it. What am I missing?

To Adaobi what you are missing is that Congress is being bullied by lobbyists for the insurance companies. The real issue that should be addressed is the control lobbyists have over laws and regulations of our country. No one likes to speak out about it because they know money talks and well bull*&$# walks.

To Adaobi what you are missing is that Congress is being bullied by lobbyists for the insurance companies. The real issue that should be addressed is the control lobbyists have over laws and regulations of our country. No one likes to speak out about it because they know money talks and well bull*&$# walks.

Clearly…viewing from the eyes of intelligence, anyone can see that this was racially motivated!

Clearly…viewing from the eyes of intelligence, anyone can see that this was racially motivated!

I guess they didn’t have a hose.

I’m just saying,

Jerone
Black Culture etc

I guess they didn’t have a hose.

I’m just saying,

Jerone
Black Culture etc

Very off topic, but congrats on your very well deserved weblog awards…

Very off topic, but congrats on your very well deserved weblog awards…

This is off-topic but have you ever written about racism in graduate schools?

Macon D of stuffwhitepeopledo recently stated “whenever white people congregate these days, high concentrations of racial homogeneity are just pure coincidence.” …

I am a graduate student at a major biological “research institution” in New York City. You wouldn’t know this is a graduate/research program if you stumbled on campus. This exclusive, highly maintained campus feels more like Sandals resort with all of the young upper-middle class white or white male/asian female couples roaming around hand-in-hand during the evenings. Groups of white or white-and-asian students roam with tennis rackets on their way to the on-campus court. Or they congregate in packs at the on-campus student lounge with a personal bartender. Or the white and asian students have parties in the hotel-like student lounge of the dorms.

Most of the groups of people you see dotted around campus are all-white or white-and-asian. The campus is mostly white with a substantial number of asians but has a serious dearth of black or latino students–and I almost never see the other black students.

You wouldn’t believe the amounts of implicit racism I’ve experienced here. Twice while coming on campus I’ve been stopped in a hostile and condescending manner by newly-hired guards who, having seen my ID, told me that I am ‘ok’ since I was a groundskeepers or a day worker for the animal facility whose staff is mostly black and latino.

Coming to my dorm, almost every six months someone gives me a hostile look in the foyer as if I’m some intruder. When I attend lectures, I meet the same hostility until I ask a serious academic question of the lecturer.

When someone new comes to my lab, they’ll automatically either intentionally ignore me or attempt to condescend to me. Scientific sales reps will intentionally ignore me and proceed to the white guys who are also just students. Believe it or not, this one white girl who rotated in the lab would speak to me in a passive-aggressive/patronizing manner. And almost everyone in the lab, despite my being there for years and attempting to form working relationships with them, never come to me casually or attempt to have conversations (work or otherwise) with me unless I initiate the conversation and never at the casual or intelligent level they have with each other.

I noticed the other two black guys, who are accomodationists (and overrepresented with respect to the real dearth of black students on campus), also attempt to have conversations with the white people in the lab but they are always the ones to initiate the conversation.

After five years of being here, the only thing I’ve learned is that white and asian people are the only people competent enough to be scientists.

A maintenance staff guy wrote an article in the student rag praising the university’s president in light of the great hall of European philosophers like Kant and Hume and the great European scientific tradition. Additionally, the sense of ownership and privilege among other students is just incredible.

I’m beginning to think that biomedical science is almost a white supremist enterprise by default. Science is supposed to be a collaborative endeavor with a free collegial exchange of information and support, but when people are constantly patronizing or condescending to you, such is a psychological assault informing you that you are inconsequential, “tolerated” or unwelcomed. I read a report somewhere that around half of black graduate science students drop out of their programs. If they meet the same kinds of hostility or implied white supremacy I meet, small wonder.

I’ve especially felt a sort of patronizing attitude right off the bat from many of the white female students on campus. White women, with the help of affirmative action, have made great gains in both scientific student bodies and faculty, but you would still be wont to find black faculty and only a little more lucky in locating black students in scientific graduate programs across the country. That aside, most of my interactions with white females on campus has been unnecessarily hostile and patronizing.

There are two other black male students who happen to be in my lab; they’re very sycophantic towards the white male students, which surprised me. They’re always kissing up, laughing nervously, you know that trying to court your attention laugh, around these other white males who are just graduate students like them. They prick up their minds and attempt to engage the se white guys with crisp, intelligent conversation. They’ll go to the white guys equally whenever they have a problem as if they are the fount of knowledge, (I’ve never seen them approach any of the white girls or the Indian guy when they have problems, but they will approach them for prick-up-your-mind ‘casual’ conversation, more than they give me [or each other]). When explicitly in the company of the white guys (which never seems to be together with each other), they intentionally ignore me or will attempt to condescend to me. It’s irritating to watch white guys no better than the average black guy get their egos stroked day after day by white girls and sycophantic blacks while they also slap themselves on the back. It’s not like they’re especially brilliant or that this science is just so difficult that only superiorly intelligent white supremists like James Watson can do it.

I don’t even want to get into the student listserve conversation I had to observe in the wake of James Watson’s comments back in 2007. Some of them practically endorsed the man with statements like “science is about objective data, not political correctness” or “what does giving a writing prize for his autobiography have to do with him making statements that any old man would make”?

This is off-topic but have you ever written about racism in graduate schools?

Macon D of stuffwhitepeopledo recently stated “whenever white people congregate these days, high concentrations of racial homogeneity are just pure coincidence.” …

I am a graduate student at a major biological “research institution” in New York City. You wouldn’t know this is a graduate/research program if you stumbled on campus. This exclusive, highly maintained campus feels more like Sandals resort with all of the young upper-middle class white or white male/asian female couples roaming around hand-in-hand during the evenings. Groups of white or white-and-asian students roam with tennis rackets on their way to the on-campus court. Or they congregate in packs at the on-campus student lounge with a personal bartender. Or the white and asian students have parties in the hotel-like student lounge of the dorms.

Most of the groups of people you see dotted around campus are all-white or white-and-asian. The campus is mostly white with a substantial number of asians but has a serious dearth of black or latino students–and I almost never see the other black students.

You wouldn’t believe the amounts of implicit racism I’ve experienced here. Twice while coming on campus I’ve been stopped in a hostile and condescending manner by newly-hired guards who, having seen my ID, told me that I am ‘ok’ since I was a groundskeepers or a day worker for the animal facility whose staff is mostly black and latino.

Coming to my dorm, almost every six months someone gives me a hostile look in the foyer as if I’m some intruder. When I attend lectures, I meet the same hostility until I ask a serious academic question of the lecturer.

When someone new comes to my lab, they’ll automatically either intentionally ignore me or attempt to condescend to me. Scientific sales reps will intentionally ignore me and proceed to the white guys who are also just students. Believe it or not, this one white girl who rotated in the lab would speak to me in a passive-aggressive/patronizing manner. And almost everyone in the lab, despite my being there for years and attempting to form working relationships with them, never come to me casually or attempt to have conversations (work or otherwise) with me unless I initiate the conversation and never at the casual or intelligent level they have with each other.

I noticed the other two black guys, who are accomodationists (and overrepresented with respect to the real dearth of black students on campus), also attempt to have conversations with the white people in the lab but they are always the ones to initiate the conversation.

After five years of being here, the only thing I’ve learned is that white and asian people are the only people competent enough to be scientists.

A maintenance staff guy wrote an article in the student rag praising the university’s president in light of the great hall of European philosophers like Kant and Hume and the great European scientific tradition. Additionally, the sense of ownership and privilege among other students is just incredible.

I’m beginning to think that biomedical science is almost a white supremist enterprise by default. Science is supposed to be a collaborative endeavor with a free collegial exchange of information and support, but when people are constantly patronizing or condescending to you, such is a psychological assault informing you that you are inconsequential, “tolerated” or unwelcomed. I read a report somewhere that around half of black graduate science students drop out of their programs. If they meet the same kinds of hostility or implied white supremacy I meet, small wonder.

I’ve especially felt a sort of patronizing attitude right off the bat from many of the white female students on campus. White women, with the help of affirmative action, have made great gains in both scientific student bodies and faculty, but you would still be wont to find black faculty and only a little more lucky in locating black students in scientific graduate programs across the country. That aside, most of my interactions with white females on campus has been unnecessarily hostile and patronizing.

There are two other black male students who happen to be in my lab; they’re very sycophantic towards the white male students, which surprised me. They’re always kissing up, laughing nervously, you know that trying to court your attention laugh, around these other white males who are just graduate students like them. They prick up their minds and attempt to engage the se white guys with crisp, intelligent conversation. They’ll go to the white guys equally whenever they have a problem as if they are the fount of knowledge, (I’ve never seen them approach any of the white girls or the Indian guy when they have problems, but they will approach them for prick-up-your-mind ‘casual’ conversation, more than they give me [or each other]). When explicitly in the company of the white guys (which never seems to be together with each other), they intentionally ignore me or will attempt to condescend to me. It’s irritating to watch white guys no better than the average black guy get their egos stroked day after day by white girls and sycophantic blacks while they also slap themselves on the back. It’s not like they’re especially brilliant or that this science is just so difficult that only superiorly intelligent white supremists like James Watson can do it.

I don’t even want to get into the student listserve conversation I had to observe in the wake of James Watson’s comments back in 2007. Some of them practically endorsed the man with statements like “science is about objective data, not political correctness” or “what does giving a writing prize for his autobiography have to do with him making statements that any old man would make”?