Maxine Waters Earns Dubious Honor
Congresswoman Maxine Waters has always provided local voters with entertaining moments. Who can forget her filibustering in the House and being ordered by the Speaker Pro Tem to "suspend," to which she replied "Shut up." Or her referring to the LA Riots as a "rebellion." And of course, there was the time when former Police Commission President allegedly referred to her as a bitch. (Many politicos in Los Angeles privately say that was one of the most accurate assessments of Caruso's political career).To add to the fun, Maxine, who never met a race card she hasn't dealt, has earned yet another dubious honor - being named by the blog "Beyond DeLay" as one of the 13 Most Corrupt Members of Congress. She's the only one on the list from the Metro LA area and only one of two Democrats on the list (the other is William Jefferson of Louisiana - need we say more?).
Among Maxine's alleged corrupt activities include her daughter shaking down local pols for big dough to appear on Maxine's slate mailers, her husband working as a part-time consultant for a government bond firm seeking introductions to decisionmakers, and a lucrative deal for Waters' husband and son getting a county golf course concession with support from Supervisor Yvonne Burke whom Waters had campaigned for in a close election.
Way to go Maxine! Lets hope someday your District elects a Congress Member they can be proud of.
Posted by Mayor Sam @ 10/14/2005 07:45:00 AM
101 Comments:
Maxine is a politician who plays for the highest bidder. She is a farce.
Maxine is a great, great womyn. And the only reason she plays the race card is because she plays it better than anyone else. Why wouldn't you play something that you are so skilled at? Does anyone wonder why Lisa Leslie plays blasketball? Answer: she's darn good at it.
I think you just have a problem with her "corruption" (as you call it) because you don't like seeing a womyn of color doing such a fine job providing for her family. If it was a Euro-centric white male giving his kids the chance to take a little hear and there from the populace you'd call that "being a good daddy."
I've considered putting Mayor Sam on my BlackList (the nations's #1 Liberal Blacklist I might add) and now I'm really thinking of doing that!
But here's the problem, most of those other white Euro-centric males would have used those to his advantage to help his or her community, this bitch (as she is approrately should be called) has done none of that.
If she played the race card to her true advantage, South LA would be in MUCH, MUCH better shape. But since 1992 there are style large empty parcels of property there, that no investor or businessman would step foot in because Ms. Waters has fucked her community over.
TRUE BLUE,
THAT WOULD BE ONE LESS READER, JUST YOU MY DEAR OLD COMRADE!
AMERICA, YOU LIVE IN AMERICA REMEMBER? NOT A COMMUNIST FANTASY WORLD WHERE YOU ADORE CENSORSHIP.
I LOVE CHOCOLATE, DOES THIS MEAN YOU WON'T READ THIS BLOG BECAUSE YOU HATE IT?
YOU LIBERAL EXTREMISTS ARE TOO MUCH.
A CONSERVATIVE DEMOCRAT
8:55 "You are the exact reason why our Democratic Party is rapidly going to the SHITTER."
Did any of you view Kerry pushing Villaraigosa off the podium during a media rally against Prop 75?
My interpretation was, "This question is too difficult for you, get out of the way!"
What nerve Kerry had for doing such a thing! Villaraigosa can handle the press, oops the TROLLS.
Why is John Kerry in California, that little fag!
You know why? Little brown man can't handle it, big white brother came to help.
Maxine has been elected by those in her district because they are obviously satisfied with what she is doing. She has a high positive national profile among African-Americans. The fact that she pi$$es off conservatives, half-assed Republicans and racism-blind whites only proves that she's doing her job and is an indicator among many that she is serving her constituents' interests. So, slam away. Better to have politicians that challenge the status quo than to have them sit back compliantly simply so they won't be called a bitch.
BTW, "race card" is one of the silliest phrases evented. Anytime a black person points out racism in this country he/she gets accused of "playing the race card." That is because, of course, racism doesn't exist at all in this country unless it comes from "the blacks." Give it up. This lame metaphor is ten years old. Think of some other way to dismiss racism. Saying the "race card" makes you sound like an OJ trial groupie.
Although Maxine is considered to be one of the best politicians of our time, her style of race-baiting politics is dead and tired. For a person who has hired most of her family, her grandson is her press deputy, her daughter and husband as consultants...she is loved by many. But Maxine...Can you update your website ? It has been six years since your website has been updated.
RE: VILLARAIGOSA
"If you can't say no to your friends and supporters, you don't deserve to be mayor," James said. "Jim Hahn's never said no to his contributors."
Campaign spokesman Nathan James said the councilman never discussed airport concessions during his Miami fund-raisers.
"POWER TO THE PEOPLE!"
(TRANSLATION)
"GIVE ME YOUR MONEY"
9:42 AM WRONG!!!! AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IN COLLEGES. WHEN STUDENTS PROTESTED THE ABUSE AA CREATED TO PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS AND ALLOWED STUDENTS WHO MET ALL REQUIREMENTS, BUT ARE NOT A MINORITY TO BE SHUNNED AWAY, THIS WAS CALLED RACISM.
MANY LIBERAL GROUPS CALLED THE PROTEST AGAINST AFFIRMATIVE ACTION RACIST. YOU SEE, YOU EXTREME LIBERALS ARE RACIST!
Leave the Mayor alone! He knows what it means to be poor, have nothing, and make something out of yourself!
Let him be that role model for all children.
True Blue,
Please do blacklist us. We'll get more readers that way.
In terms of pointing out her corruption because she is black, you are wrong, wrong, wrong here. Take a look at her co-horts on the most corrupt list. With the exception of Maxine, a White Republican female and a Black male Democrat, all the rest of those people are white Republican guys. That makes 76% of the corrupt list are old white guys. Hardly picking on black people.
True Blue is Michael Trujillo in upset mode.
Maxine Waters is the most racist person I've heard. She didn't get into the King/Drew mess until it was too late. She really takes care of her people. She also comes off like a pms'ing woman when you put a camera in front of her. She threaten violence when Parks wasn't getting reappointed.
Don't forget this is the same crazy woman who wrote letters on behalf of Surge Knight and a lot of the black rappers who call their mothers and wives "bitches, whores, sluts, and promotes killing cops and taking drugs. Yes, she's a great role model. Ask Larry Elder what he thinks of her. He did a whole show on what a moron and embarrassement she is to the African American community.
Politicians like Maxine Waters are really a throwback, they are of a generation coaxed and coddled by white Liberals like Jackie Goldberg, Ted Kennedy and others who convinced them that the white man (present company excluded of course) is their sworn enemy.
A new generation of albeit still liberal but rational African American politicians like Barack Obama, Condy Rice and Colin Powell have come of age and will soon supplant dinosaurs like Maxine, Diane Watson, Jesse Jackson, etc.
Whites being incensed over affirmative action is nothing but misdirected frustration over becoming a minority. Under affirmative action, NO minority students were admitted who did not meet the minimum requirements to enter the UC system. Taking ethnicity into account is just a means of ensuring diversity so that the public - who supports the system through their own taxes - investment in the system benefits all. That is why university applicants are accepted into certain majors and community colleges.
The state would not benefit from having a college of all engineering majors or all business majors. Therefore to ensure that both the state has a diversity of gradates from a variety of fields to serve in the future workforce, and to ensure that students whose interests might be paleontology, dance, Russian, etc. have a place at the universities, other factors are taken into account. The system also makes accommodations to ensure that there is sufficient representation of students from rural areas, and certainly everyone knows that the universities accommodate athletes who will play on school teams. Extracurricular activities, special skills, and notable accomplishments are also factors that play into admission.
Yet the only admission factor that enraged white conservatives was race. They did this by wrongly labeling "minority" students as "unqualified" and convincing much of the electorate - already paranoid from the demographic changes going on in the state - that they are somehow a victim of racism. Tell me, if the average GPA of business majors is higher than that of sociology majors, does that make sociology majors "unqualified" and make business majors discriminated against? What if more aspiring business majors did not gain admission (because it is a popular major) versus the percentage of those who wish to be sociology majors? Does that make the previous statement true? No. And it is no truer if you substitute an ethnic category for a major.
If you doubt that the anti-affirmative push was in part racism and racial paranoia, consider this. Anyone who has been to or is strongly aware of sentiments on UC campuses over the past several years knows that many white students have complained about there being "too many" Asians on some campuses, despite the fact that Asian students have higher academic profiles than the whites. The unease with this Asian presence has nothing to do with whether they deserve to be there or unfairness, it's simply because they are not white. It is no accident that this AA debate has arisen in states like California, Texas, Florida, and Michigan - all states where either whites have become a minority or will be soon.
People need to remember that families in South Central, East LA, etc. support these universities with their taxes too and deserve to have a return on their investment and not have it simply be a subsidization of educating students from white suburbia who think college admission is an entitlement and a ticket to a high-paying job.
Face it. Prop. 209 gave Pete Wilson and Republicans a chance to claim a political victory and made Wardell Conerly a household name. The absence of AA has not made the admissions process more fair, just more random. Thousands of “qualified” white students still get turned away from UC schools. Is that fair? Athletes’ GPA’s and SAT scores are lower than non-athletes. Are they taking up space from more deserving students? Racism would be if all members of an ethnic group are denied admission, not when some individuals think they deserve to be at a university more than others who have qualified. AA never prevented the education of any white students. If they qualified for one campus they qualified for any of the others and several other capable colleges across this country. Many people were (and still are) uncomfortable with racial changes in society and the differing viewpoints brought about from a diversity of voices, and affirmative action became the scapegoat. Let’s be real here
NEIGHBORHOODS NEED A RETURN ON THEIR TAXES, I AGREE. HOW MANY PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN THE VICINITY OF THE UNIVERSITY, EX:USC, PAY TAXES?
IS THERE A SOCIAL DEPENDENCY IN THIS AREA?
11:24 - Perhaps you're too young to remember the reality of segregation, lynchings and other formally acceptable social control mechanisms against ethnic minorities. Perhaps you never heard of or simply choose to ignore the decades of complete exclusion of people of color (black, red, yellow and brown). Perhaps you're unaware of the denial to access fundamental building blocks to business and venture capital (loans).
Your interpretation suggests that minorities have no basis for their attitudes toward an oppressive society, specifically a white-male establishment that instituted the aforementioned practices against ethnic groups and women.
It's this lack of awareness that perpetuates hostile social and racial tensions in our country.
Funny. Colin Powell's and Barack Obama's attitudes about race in the USA are not much different from Maxine's, Jesse's, etc. Their language and approach are different but the feelings and attitude are there. I guess in a society that appreciates style over substance, the messenger over the message, that makes a difference. But in the black community, the same folks that like Maxine like Barack, and people do realize that Barack is more palatable to others and therefore has a potential future, but that doesn't necessarily make him better.
11:35
Perhaps you are unaware those awful things that happened in the past are no longer happening today.
Perhaps you didn't know that Americans of any color can suceed today if they work hard and play by the rules.
Those that don't end up on welfare, red, yellow, black or white, low lifes are all within our site.
I just read the 9:00 AM post from Archie Bunker and I have to say that was the most comedic episode of the show ever. Maxine Waters is responisble for the lack of business and development in South Central [insert laugh track]. White males are more interested in helping "their" community [insert more canned laughter].
11:35 AM You want us to hold a grudge on new generations that had NOTHING, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the lynchings from the past. I will not hold the new generations accountable. We should be smarter than what you assume of society. Society must move on and look forward, not hold grudges and punish those who had nothing to do with your topics.
Democratic Party always looks backwards, does not move forward.
I get it Mayor Frank or Sam, you are deleting anything that states about your previous boss, it's all fair game. He blogs here, so let it be. He is a BIG BOY you know.
Hey 12:15. If you really want to laugh, Read this article;
http://www.laweekly.com/ink/05/28/news-kaplan.php
LA Weekly
JUNE 3 - 9, 2005
Building Confidence?
Riot-scarred Vermont Avenue finally gets a big development, but some say it’s the wrong kind
by ERIN AUBRY KAPLAN
Vermont Avenue has waited a long time for this. The South-Central corridor, less famous but grander than Crenshaw, Florence or Normandie, took the brunt of the fire and destruction in 1992 and has been the slowest to recover; closed storefronts and burned-out lots still dominate the scene at the ground-zero point close to Manchester. Now, finally, comes a big project that is on a fast track to happen, thanks to the trilateral political support of 8th District Councilman Bernard Parks, county Supervisor Yvonne Burke and — most important — Congresswoman Maxine Waters, who actually lives in the neighborhood’s middle-class enclave called Vermont Knolls. There’s just one problem: Many people in the neighborhood don’t want it.
That’s because the project, at 83rd Street and Vermont, is not of the commercial or retail variety that residents have been lobbying hard for since ’92, but a county building — the Department of Social Services, to be exact. Residents say there are already enough county buildings in South-Central, including one going up at 120th and Western, several miles to the south. They say the fact that Vermont’s first sizable development in years will be a government building that serves mainly the poor and indigent sends potential commercial developers the wrong message. Residents also complain that the project was put together behind closed doors without sufficient community input; public meetings have been held since last year, they say, but only to inform people about what always felt like a fait accompli. They say meeting notices were mailed only to those folks who had attended meetings already rather than the community at large, and not nearly enough were printed in Spanish. “The process was very flawed,” says Lawrence Koonce, a 37-year resident of Vermont Knolls and a member of the Vermont/Manchester Economic Development Organization, a consortium of neighborhood councils that opposes the DPSS building. “One question is, why is the county putting this here? Why not somewhere else in the city?” ...
Of course, part of this ongoing crisis of inaction is attributable to the city itself, and to the polarizing effect of politics in inner-city development. Parks’ predecessor, Mark Ridley-Thomas, did get 163 acres in the Vermont area, including the three acres of the proposed DPSS site, declared a city redevelopment zone after 1992. When Ridley-Thomas proposed a housing complex to be built on Vermont near Manchester, he was fiercely opposed by Maxine Waters and a contingent of residents, especially those in Vermont Knolls, who maintained that commercial and retail were what the community needed and deserved; it didn’t hurt the cause that Waters famously disliked Ridley-Thomas and didn’t hesitate to oppose him (the former councilman, now an assemblyman, eventually got his way).
That Waters supports the DPSS project now is partly due to a very different relationship with the sitting councilman, Parks; she was among his most vocal supporters during his failed bid to retain his job of police chief and, later, during his successful run for council. Some sources say that Waters has uncomfortably close ties with the developer, ICO, a Beverly Hills–based outfit that is currently renovating the Pacific Electric building downtown as part of that area’s latest housing and gentrification boom; ICO was a contributor to Waters’ 2003 re-election campaign. Neither ICO nor Waters’ office returned calls for comment.
Another dynamic at work is the role of the Crenshaw Christian Center, the megachurch on Vermont near 83rd led by televangelist Fred Price. Five years ago, the church was the nonprofit partner with Majestic Realty — the developer of Staples Center — in a promising deal to bring in commercial and retail outlets, anchored by a supermarket. But the partnership unraveled over land-acquisition problems, lack of a supermarket tenant and — perhaps most significantly — the failure on the part of the city to fill a $20 million funding-subsidy gap Majestic was asking for. Though the church has no official role — yet — in the DPSS project, it has been outspoken in its support of it and has mobilized its membership accordingly. At a May 14 community meeting about the DPSS issue that was held at the church, attendees say it was less a meeting and more a rally in favor of the county building. “They [members of the Crenshaw Christian Center] packed the meeting and intimidated the anti-DPSS people,” says one attendee, who asked not to be named. “Our voice was heard, but not loudly.” At the meeting of the county Board of Supervisors three days later, church members also dominated the public-comment forum that preceded the supervisors’ vote to approve the 30-year lease for ICO (the board voted in favor of it).
Both supporters and opponents of the project say that, 13 years of nothing notwithstanding, time is of the essence now.
The biggest irony in all this may be that Koonce and other residents stress that they aren’t philosophically opposed to a county building in the neighborhood at all — they’re just opposed to it as the catalyst for bringing back the kind of high-end retail that Vermont was known for in the 1940s and ’50s. “But we’re not expecting all that to come back,” Koonce adds. “We just want a Walgreens, a grocery store, a pharmacy, a sit-down restaurant. Stores that recycle dollars. We can’t stabilize a community without that.”
Anon posted earlier, "I get it Mayor Frank or Sam, you are deleting anything that states about your previous boss, it's all fair game. He blogs here, so let it be. He is a BIG BOY you know."
You guys are sissys. Mayor frank I predict it is you deleting. Why mess with something so good. Who gave you the orders today? It is now a joke at city hall, how AV has you by the balls.
Archie, one suggestion, next time give us a link to the story with short intro...gracias bunker, a.
Hey there's a link right at the top, and this is just half of the article.
Sorry. The 12:31 episode was a snoozer. This is an example of your anti-Maxine anger? Oooookaaaaay. How is she any different than any other politician in this regard?? Particular those white ones that you say look out for their own community?? Next.
Perhaps you fail to realize the role of lineage factoring into the lives of people currently living. That young blacks adults of today had parents who suffered all those things while their white peers did not. That people are not unaffected by the status of and attitudes from their parents.
Perhaps you fail to realize that although lynching does not occur in the present, being stabbed, fatally shot, chased & beaten, etc. in the present isn't necessarily better.
Perhaps you don't realize the extent to which America's schools and neighborhoods are still segregated despite the striking down of legal segregation and discrimination.
Perhaps you think the numerous studies showing present-day job and housing discrimination are all fakes.
Perhaps you think the day-to-day experiences of racism and discrimination – including from those who are not poor and therefore aren’t looking for any society handouts or sympathy – are just figments of people's imagination. Perhaps they complain because it’s good for their health.
Perhaps you’re amongst those that think as long as you deny racism exists or you relegate it to the past, that really makes it go away.
Perhaps you think if racism is rationalized – as with racial profiling, red-lining, etc. – then it really isn’t racism and we still live in a “colorblind” society.
Perhaps you believe that the likes of Dan Quayle and Paris Hilton are where they are in life because they've worked hard, whereas factory workers in East L.A. are where they are because they don't work hard enough, and their children will have an equal shot at success as those born to Beverly Hills families.
Perhaps you think the concept of the working poor is just a myth.
Perhaps you believe corporations are benevolent organizations whose main purpose is to seek to employ everyone who wants to work giving them ample wages, costs be damned. Anyone who is unemployed is simply rejecting the offer because they are lazy.
Perhaps you believe there are not enough people in the society who can see through conservative smokescreens and that simply repeating conservative conventional "wisdoms" ad naseum will actually make those more true.
Then you woke up.
12:50
You see that's the problem. She's NO better than the guys she proclaim as the cause to these problems.
She has an opportunity to make it better, but instead goes with the status quo.
And I can tell you are probably one of Maxine's kids who has made a nice comfortable living for themselves off of this, so I'm not writing any of this to change one's minds but to show as you point out she's no better than the white boys.
12:54 PM
Perhaps you have a perception of society that is no longer valid.
Perhaps you used the word "perhaps" so much that it's meaning got lost.
Perhaps you should consider being happy and accept what life has to offer, instead of crying about it.
And perhaps you will stop feeling sorry for yourself and do something.
Mr. Dumass, you don't even see your own point. She fights hard because the things she tries to do on behalf on her community don't work because of the source of her fight. How many white men get called a racist or a bitch from the same people who would call her that??? Thank you, that's the difference. She plays the same game only to get shut down because she is not part of the old white boy network. She fights for the opportunity to "serve her community" much in the same way Archie says the white boys do, but when she points out her obstacles to that she gets called a racist and a bitch.
And I can tell you must be one of those Bush kids who feel so entitled and shudder at the thought of encroachment on their privileged life and birthright. I can't change your mind because you barely have one.
12:09, 12:20
Blacks and other ethnic minorities are affected by what happened just a generation ago.
Those legal and social road blocks have resulted in the disproportionate poverty and other social ills experienced by these same ethnic groups today. The beneficiaries of those road blocks have passed down their benefits to their children.
It's like running a race. You tie a chain and ball around the ankles of your competitors and begin the race. Clearly, this is unfair. But half-way through the race you decide to have the ball and chains removed from them but resume the race positioned at your existing places and call it a fair race.
Gimme' a break.
1:16 You have a hateful and pessamistic outlook on what a HUMAN BEING CAN ACCOMPLISH.
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Perhaps you shouldn't complain about someone using "perhaps" then use it yourself.
Perhaps you should give up trying to be a street-corner psychologist and guessing my motivations and well-being.
Perhaps you assume anyone who is privy to society's shortcomings is poor, unhappy and dissatisfied in his/her personal life versus simply being content, well-off and educated yet selfless, socially resposible, and aware.
Perhaps you think patriotism and rah-rah conservatism is the opiate of the masses and all of America needs more drugs.
Perhaps you realize that you don't have a solid argument or point so you rely on personal attacks and trivia like the viability of the use of "perhaps."
My use of perhaps anon was to show you how silly it is to be repetitive with no solid points as you previously posted.
In other words, I used the word perhaps intentionally....geez!
CAN'T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG?
Duh. I thought you used "perhaps" by mistake.
Are people on this board that slow??? Are you one of the Bush kids?
My use of perhaps mirrored the previous use of perhaps from other posters, just like yours did. You, like an idiot assume you're responding to the same anonymous poster.
Don't try to cover for your lack of substance. You know when you've been shot down, hence your obsession with the use of "perhaps".
p.s. to 1:43 pm
If a statement prefaced with "perhaps" - sarcastic or not - has its point immediately lost on you, that's your problem. Go back to school. Apparently everybody who thinks he/she has merit and qualifications does not - proving many of my points today.
The really pathetic thing is that people like Yvonne Burke and the other 4 cowards on the Board of Supervisors are so afraid of her that they continue to let MLK Hospital kill patients.
It's one thing to give away a golf course concession, it is another to let people in her district receive inferior medical care.
But the Board of Supervisors, lead by the high and mighty Zev Yaroslavsky continue to back the status quo and continue to let the health director cover over the crappy care at King Hospital with hallow promises and mea culpas.
It's time to dump these 5 career politician losers.
Mr. Dumass, you don't even see your own point. She fights hard because the things she tries to do on behalf on her community don't work because of the source of her fight.
She fights hard? She fights hard alright but she only fights for herself. In her own community she's had many opportunities to provide a higher level of services to her community. But she shuts them ALL down, Wonder why there's no sit down resturants in her community? Wonder why there's no local Business Improvement/Empowerment District in her neighborhoods? Riddle me this?
How many white men get called a racist or a bitch from the same people who would call her that???
Thank you, that's the difference. She plays the same game only to get shut down because she is not part of the old white boy network.
From last I heard a certain former Reagan member and current gambling addict is getting reamed for his comments about aborting black baies to bring crime down.
"She fights for the opportunity to "serve her community" much in the same way Archie says the white boys do, but when she points out her obstacles to that she gets called a racist and a bitch."
I have no problem with her pointing out her obstacles, the problem comes when she does nothing to bring others up with those same obstacles. If that was the case South LA would have been the new Harlem Renassiance, but her attitude and resistance is a cause of why that isn't the case.
Shot down? I guess this is the perception you have on your own neighborhood, right? Shot down, society let you down, we are all at fault for your misery, the gov made you do it, white man kept you down all along, colleges won't accept you because.....
You are indeed a product of our liberal system. Cry, Cry, Cry, the only ones that will tolerate your sorry ass whining is your local psychiatrist.
Perhaps you are Gannon blogging here.
Warwolf
Maxine Waters To Illegals: Get Outta Here!
There may be hope for stemming the illegal alien epidemic when one of the most left-wing members of Congress declares her outrage at illegal gangbangers. Rep. Maxine Waters, who represents South Los Angeles, erupted in a tirade against Hispanic and black gang members last week, at a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
Enter Maxine Waters. Waters has poisoned racial politics in Los Angeles for years; she essentially declared the Los Angeles riots a strike against racial injustice. Never saw a cop she doesn’t think is a racist. Yet here she was at the hearing declaring herself absolutely fed up with the race war between Hispanics and blacks that is raging on the streets of downtown L.A. “Why isn’t anyone talking about the Mexican Mafia (a gang of illegal Mexicans that controls the California prison system)?” she thundered. ‘I don’t care if you’re pink or purple or white or black or brown, I want you out if you’re committing crimes.’ There is no excuse not to control the border, she said. ‘I’m a liberal with a capital ‘L’,’ she said, ‘but I’m sick of it.’
Waters’ timing was impeccable. A day after she spoke, 100 black and Hispanic students at Jefferson High School in South L.A. attacked each other in a race- and gang-driven brawl; three days later, the same thing happened, this time, students also hurled bottles at the police. Principal Norm Morrow told the Los Angeles Times:”We just have a lot of issues with race,” said Morrow. “It’s coming out of the community, into the school.” Cops in riot gear now patrol the school.
If Maxine keeps this up, not only will there be no one left to do the thinking, but there won't be anyone left to do the working, either.
It will be interesting to see how many call HER a racist. Funny how gangs have been all right with her as long as they're black gangs. Could it be that blacks are losing the gang wars?
Ehh, I think they need to take some diversity classes- especially Maxine here.
"Can't we all just get along?"
Be patient, my friends. Things are starting to heat up and God willing, maybe some things will start to turn our way. The Blacks are feeling threatened by the mongol hoards crossing our borders. When Maxine Waters complains, this is really something. The Demoncats are taking this issue of immigration right out from under Jorge Boosh (and I am confident that is motivating Waters, also.)Let's keep the pressure on through contacting our legislators, etc.
Why isn’t anyone talking about the Mexican Mafia (a gang of illegal Mexicans that controls the California prison system)?”
More disinformation. The "Mexican Mafia" aka "La Eme" ( The M in Spanish) is overwhelmingly US Born Mexicans with a LARGE contingent of WHITES among them. In fact, LA EME was originally organized by a half breed named JOE MORGAN. Even today, there are MANY whites within LA EMEs leadership. There may indeed be SOME illegals, but in no way, shape or form is this an organization made up primarily of illegals. I would guess however, that there are as many WHITES asscoiated with LA EME, as illegals. This is a Mexican-AMERICAN outfit.
LA EME, called the 'gangs of gangs', hold the allegiance of ALL Hispanic gangs in Southern California----ALL. In fact, Southern California gangs will usually include the number 13 in their monikers, a reference to the 13th letter of the alpabet--M. In short, LA EME could call a meeting of ALL the 1000s of gangs that use the number 13 in their monikers. Even MS-13, ostensibly a CENTRAL AMERICAN gang, explicitly is pledging allegiance to LA EME. Even the Armenian gangs of Hollywood and Glendale pay alleigiance to LA EME--in the form of a TAX they pay on ALL their operations.
The Mexican Mafia actually has only about 500 members. Their strength stems from the allegiance pledged to them by ALL gangs using a 13 in their monikers.
Note to WN. The Mexican Mafia is an ALLY of the "Aryan Brotherhood"---whats that tell you?
fatman213
Los Angeles County, CA
I believe that Maxine Waters is a raving, divisive, liberal idiot of the highest order, and wouldn't vote for the woman for dog catcher,but as Churchill once said of Hitler, "If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons" let the right use her for what she's worth. Might as well get something useful out of a useful idiot.
‘I don’t care if you’re pink or purple or white or black or brown, I want you out if you’re committing crimes.’
"Pink? Purple? White? Hmmm. The gang problem in LA is primarily black and brown, not many pink, purple and white members, but I'll keep a lookout for them, also."
Maxine only wants to rid L.A. of Mexicans to help her fellow blacks. She certainly could care less about what whites think on the subject, nor would I or any other self respecting white person want her help.
As much as I wish the majority of Mexicans to go back to Mexico, I would probably rather have a Mexican as a neighbor than a black supremacist such as Maxine Waters
I would be very careful before declaring someone like Maxine Waters and ally. She is an absolute racist when it comes to white people - slavery reparations, affirmative action, hate crime double standards, anti-white cops, supporting the LA riots - and I would support the Mexicans over her. Remember who hates us the most - blacks like Maxine Waters and self hating whites like Tim Wise.
It's nice to see blacks get a little taste of what they've been doing to us for years. They feel threatened because the hispanics will stand up to them unlike whites who have been being beaten down for the last fifty years in the U.S. They're going to have to share some of the space with a hostile group of people they can't intimidate. Our benevolent rulers must have decided to teach them a lesson. Maxine is a creepy hateful rascist, she must be getting some negative feedback from the brothers and sisters, so she has to take off the phony liberal facade and come out as herself. Hope she does lose her seat to a hispanic, they can't be as bad as she is.
The racial makeup of district 35
Black pop: 229026 ( 35.8%)
Asian pop: 41264 ( 6.5%)
Latino pop: 302805 (47.4%)
Source: http://www.sen.ca.gov/ftp/SEN/cngplan/CD35.HTM
fatman ;The Mexican Mafia is an ALLY of the "Aryan Brotherhood"---whats that tell you?
Actually, the two groups have allied when fighting blacks inside prison, due to the high numbrs of blacks. Then go right back to disliking each other when the situations subside.
It is useful to keep in mind that the Mexicans and the blacks are just tools of the folks who are really in charge. Chaos helps them go about their business without much notice, and the mish mash of low IQ blacks, browns, whatever helps their divide and conquer goals.
OK Maxine, you get rid of the black and brown gangs, and we'll get rid of the pink and purple ones.
Democrats + Communists + Cop-killers + Black Panthers + Hollywood + Street gangs + Muslims
There is a very large overlap in funding, communication, personel and mutual support between the Democratic Party, Communists, Hollywood/Media/Entertainment, Black street gangs, and radical militant Muslim groups like the New Black Panthers and the Nation of Islam.
Maxine Waters is just one of their well-placed foot-soldiers.
On May 2, 1973, Joanne Chesimard, a member of the Black Liberation Army, a militant branch of the Black Panthers, and two of her fellow Black Militants were stopped in their vehicle on the New Jersey Turnpike by state troopers James Harper and Werner Foerster. While being questioned, Chesimard and the driver, her "companion" Zayd Malik Shakur, opened fire with automatic pistols, striking Trooper Foerster twice in the chest and Trooper Harper in the shoulder. Then, grabbing Trooper Foerster's own service weapon, she fired an additional two bullets into Foerster's head execution style, killing him. Trooper Harper survived the attack. The driver, Zayd Shakur, was killed at the scene by Trooper Foerster before Chesimard murdered him.
Joanne Chesimard was caught, tried, found guilty, sentenced to life in prison, and lost again on appeal. In the mean time she changed her name to Assata Shakur.
In 1979 she made an armed escape from prison and fled to Cuba. Ever since, Fidel Castro has refused extradition requests from the US for her return.
In 1998, Representative Maxine Waters, Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, wrote a letter to Fidel Castro ("Dear President Castro...") urging him to REFUSE extradition of this convicted-cop-killer-fugitive saying she is a victim of "political persecution" and compared the convicted cop-killer to Martin Luther King Jr. - even though Amnesty International refuses to recognize her as a political prisoner.
YOU FORGOT TO MENTION....
"To this day, the convicted cop-killer and Muslim Black Militant Assata Shakur lives safely in Cuba and is a hero to the Black Liberation Army, the New Black Panthers, Fidel Castro, the Hollywood hip-hop community - and is apparently a hero to Maxine Waters and the Congressional Black Caucus as well."
2:55
"Shot down? I guess this is the perception you have on your own neighborhood, right? Shot down, society let you down, we are all at fault for your misery, the gov made you do it, white man kept you down all along, colleges won't accept you because.....
You are indeed a product of our liberal system. Cry, Cry, Cry, the only ones that will tolerate your sorry ass whining is your local psychiatrist."
She shuts things down when there's actual support for it. Former Councilman Mark Ridley Thomas and neighborhood support wanted to quickly rebuild and come up with an economic and cultural plan for South LA areas hit by the Rebellion. When I heard her rhetoric I was pissed that I moved out of the hood and up to the Antelope Valley so that way my neighborhood won't be posioned by her madness.
AND.....
Assata Shakur is the "aunt" of Tupac Shakur, the rap "star" who was murdered in a gang-related hit in Las Vegas in 1996. Tupac has a very long history of violent crime including numerous assault arrests, a rape conviction and a 1993 incident when he was accused of shooting two white Atlanta police officers. Those charges were later dropped.
In 1988, Tupac Shakur’s stepfather, Mutulu Shakur, a long-time radical Black Militant, was sentenced to 60 years in prison for his involvement in a 1981 armored-car robbery in which two policemen and a Brinks guard were killed. Tupac's mother, Afeni Shakur, is also a long-time militant Black Panther who actually gave birth to Tupac in prison while under arrrest for plotting to bomb several buildings in New York. Mutulu Shakur still works on behalf of many radical Black Militant groups who advocate violence to achieve their goals.
Mutulu Shakur is the brother of Zayd Malik Shakur and Assata Shakur, the two who murdered Trooper Foester in New Jersey and was instrumental in Assata Shakur's prison break and escape to Cuba. Their father, Aba Saladin Shakur, was a close associate of Malcom Shabazz (Malcom X).
They are all Black Muslims.
C'mon, you forgot the homosexuals, drug addicts, abortion rights advocates, flag burners, anti-gun nuts, pacifists, pedophiles, defense attorneys . . . geez, who am I missing?
Oh yea, Jews, "injuns", illegal immigrants . . .
Wow, you Klan folks have a long list of people you hate.
Even more ludicrous, some African-American leaders in Los Angeles--California Representative Maxine Waters, most particularly--accused former Assembly Speaker Villaraigosa, who'd founded the city's Black-Latino Roundtable and headed up the local chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, of posing a menace to blacks.
FOUND AT THE AMERICAN PROSPECT ONLINE EDITION
I AM NOT A KLAN, YOU OFFEND ME YOU MORON!
I AM AN AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMAN WHO HATES RACIST MAXINE.
NOT EVERY AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMAN LIKES HER
She doesn't find little brown guys a threat to her, that's why she endorsed AV for mayor. Instead of Vanilla Jim
QUOTE FROM YOUR FAVORITE MAXINE W.
"(Congresswoman Maxine Waters) "I know a racist when I see one. Sen. Ashcroft acts like a racist, walks like a racist and talks like a racist."
FINALLY SHE LOOKED IN THE MIRROR!
Maxine Waters looks like a used up C*** and she's a bitch!
I have absolutely no respect for her being a poverty pimp!
If Ashcroft is a racist in M. Waters' eyes, then the whole world is racist to her. Maxine sees racism everywhere because she is a racist. Her heart is a blob of hate.
Mayor Sam and Frank.
You guys are geniuses! You had me fooled.
(Claps hands and shouts 'Bravo!!!')
Using Maxine Waters so people can vent their frustrations and emotions yet have them forget that Villaraigosa is helping to push another school bond to LA voters in the special election
Mayor Sam and Frank.
You guys are geniuses! You had me fooled.
(Claps hands and shouts 'Bravo!!!')
Using Maxine Waters so people can vent their frustrations and emotions yet have them forget that Mayor Villaraigosa is helping to push another school bond to LA voters in the special election.
The use of "shot down" above is a colloquialism that I don't expect unqualified whites to understand. Carry on with your usual un-ironic stereotyping. You're so good at it.
I always find it interesting when whites say they shouldn't have to suffer for the sins of their forefathers. That is an incomplete statement. The full statement is: "We shouldn't have to suffer for the sins of our forefathers, black people should."
People are hip to the game. Don't believe otherwise.
4:29
You are distorted in the head. With comments like yours, why imagine a HELL, you create it right here in our own little world.
Archie, don't worry. We all know the smart and right thing to do is VOTE NO TO MEASURE "Y"
YOU SHOULD READ THE VOTERS PAMPHLET FOR SPECIAL ELECTION. THE REBUTTAL TO THIS MEASURE HITS IT RIGHT ON THE DOT.
hey 4:24
Would stop be a more accurate term? How about terminate? Or Sweep under the rug?
That's what she did for that white man, before she became a politician, Right?
Oh I'm sorry, it's un-ironic for me to use stereotypes.
Again the whites prove how paranoid they are. "Mexican over black?" Supporting the "lesser of two evils?" Whites view hispanics as simply a way to lessen the influence of blacks. However the kink in that plan is that blacks are not losing ground to hispanics - whites are. Hispanics might now outnumber blacks in the US, but both blacks and Hispanics have increased as a portion of the population while the white percentage drops. The same is true for CA - only whites are dropping as a percentage of the pop. The fear (and reality) of the browning of America still persists, so some just hope minorities stay out of the colleges, remain uneducated or unemployed or underpaid and hopefully kill each other.
The other kink is, didn't Maxine and others endorse Villaraigosa?? Why do you think Tony V courts blacks so much? Riordan won twice with virtually no black support. Tony V knows where the votes really are and where his heart is politically. For blacks and browns to actually work together scares the crap out of white conservatives. So they sit back and hope the groups develop ill will towards each other, taking out of both sides of their mouths by tarnishing the image of both groups.
Whites and browns fight in the prisons too but the media doesn't call those race riots. Whites are constantly railing against illegal immigration, “Mexicans” taking over their schools and neighborhoods, crowding the city, but the media doesn't call that white-brown tension. Hispanic seats on the City Council have all come at the expense of whites but the media doesn't say whites and browns are in political competition. Had Jim Hahn been black, the media would've said that's a sign of "decline" for black politics, but because he's white there is no such suggestion, and it might be a while before we see another white mayor, especially if Hispanic candidates keep courting the black vote like Tony V did. South Central, Compton, Inglewood, etc. are all still significantly black despite large increases in Hispanic population, whereas formerly white areas turnover from white to brown in less than a decade, yet the media keeps portraying blacks as pushed out by Hispanics. Neo-nazi youth attack Hispanics but that not portrayed as symbolic of overall white-brown relations, as is 30 gang-influenced youth out of a student body of 3000 getting into a fight. Yeah there’s tension if you say there is. Asian-Latino, Armenian-Latino. Hell, you never hear about a problem of “white-black tension” as if everything is great between the two. No, the media knows what tune to play. The media is just reflecting the desires of the white conservative population that is uneasy with demographic changes and trying its best to stave off the consequences.
Unfortunately for them, that’s not happening as planned. Hispanics increasingly vote Democrat and do show a propensity to develop a similar political outlook as blacks. Is there that much difference between Maxine and Fabian Nunez, Gil Cedillo, Cruz Bustamante, Gloria Molina, etc.? That doesn’t mean the style is the same – look at Barack vs. Maxine – but the vision is. They at least agree with the politics of inclusion and concern for the less fortunate, versus the “if you’re poor you’re screwed and it’s your own fault” mentality and a nonchalant or antagonistic view of diversity. And yes they will call out racism when they see it – real or not. Plus, what makes you think Hispanics won’t support black candidates? What is Martin Ludlow doing now? Your time would be better spent worrying about the next district going from white to a Latino or Asian Democrat.
"...Had Jim Hahn been black, the media would've said that's a sign of "decline" for black politics, but because he's white there is no such suggestion..."
Exactly, media distorts america and molds stories into racist factors to gain viewers, otherwise no one would watch.
Media loves racism, that is what sells. Do you think ratings would go up if you showed everyone holding hands? No. You are just one of those ignorant fools that bought into the racist propaganda. Poor sucker.
How many white men get called a racist or a bitch from the same people who would call her that???
Thank you, that's the difference. She plays the same game only to get shut down because she is not part of the old white boy network.
From last I heard a certain former Reagan member and current gambling addict is getting reamed for his comments about aborting black baies to bring crime down.
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Yeah dork he’s being called racist – and not a bitch - for his something he said, not his political actions. What similar statement has Maxine said about whites that she should be called racist for? That is silly, yet not surprising, that you would equate Bennett's comments with Water's speaking against racism. And are you saying that Bennett and thousands of white politicians SHOULD be called racist and bitches along with Maxine? Please answer.
5:13 PM If the media simply liked to portray everything as racial why didn't they suggest that a Latino mayor replacing a white mayor was symbolic of white decline and the ascension of Latinos over whites? (Especially since Latinos have surpassed whites as the largest ethnic group in Los Angeles). Because they know whites don't want to hear that. Whites want to hear about blacks in alleged decline. And they want to hear about those colored people who can't get along with each other, 'cause that makes them feel like they're not so bad and racist after all.
Yes the media loves sensational, emotional, push-button angles for stories, but that same media does not want to imply realities or present perspectives counter to what they believe their "target" wants to hear. Typically that happens without effort because those in control of the media are part of that decided "target". Hence you hear about "black-brown tension," but not "white-brown tension." That was the point of my third paragraph. Reading is fundamental.
4:53
I'm white, and I absolutely despise our media, for some of the reasons you mention and MANY, MANY more reasons.
Obviously, I can't speak for whites in gereral, or americans, for that matter. My opinions are usually not shared by the masses. I just feel that our entire country has gone insane. And I believe the media has a lot to do with it.
I am sick of the media showing blacks in decline, and all the other tactics they use to manipulate us and brainwash us.
The media will have us all marching into hell with blinders on. "1984" doesn't even come close. That box in the room is our greatest enemy. Blogging is better!
I don't think there's a white person she likes.
She's the racist bitch. AND it's people like her, Al Sharpton and Jessie MR RAINBOW that keep the situations and issues perpetuating because if they fixed them they would be out...
Just like the mayor in New Orleans, what an idiot. Have you heard his comments?
5:57 What have they done or said that makes them racist? Nowadays, just about all black politicians and media-defined spokespeople get labeled as racist without qualification. Can you elaborate? Thanks.
Whites have gotten to be so sensitive about race, and wish so bad to be absolved of any responsibility, that the mere mentioning of racism by any black person gets that person automatically labeled a racist. Blacks didn't create the monster, but they'll damn sure get blamed for pointing it out AND will be expected to kill it.
Archie, give it up. Your show has long been cancelled. And you're dead. It's a bygone era. Let it go.
Mayors,
You gave BAIT. Maxine Waters is a political sacrifice to the cause, "The cover up and distract Antonio and LAUSD corruption" cause.
Did any of you view Kerry pushing Villaraigosa off the podium during a media rally against Prop 75?
My interpretation was, "This question is too difficult for you, get out of the way!"
What nerve Kerry had for doing such a thing! Villaraigosa can handle the press, oops the TROLLS.
There is so much misinformation and hate on this board. Unfortunately, it is because there are far too many racists, sexists, ageists, sizeists, regionalists, etc. in the world and nothing gets you going like a leader like Maxine.
In fact the reason why Maxine Waters really gets to you (and I'm talking to you Euro-Centric Males in particular) is that you can't handle a strong womyn of color in a position of power. Your egos just can't deal with the fact that she can do what she wants, when she wants, without the restraint you expect of her.
You are particularly upset because she does not fit the good looking, attractive mold that you feel womyn must be to be successful. Sorry but you do not have to be attractive or slender to succeed in this world. Keep trying to perpetuate the myth but leaders like Maxine (as Jackie Goldberg and Janet Reno did before her) will prove you sexists all wrong.
Second, any lacky can bend to public opinion and talk about how looting is bad and people shouldn't be burning down buildings, rioting, etc. Blah, blah, blah. However, it takes a real leader to stand up and go against that tide. Just wait, by the time Spike Lee and Michael Moore are done with their documentaries we will know the truth about how the Bush Administration used Katrina as an excuse to attack the people of color of New Orleans. I wouldn't be surprised if Bush has permitted global warming just to increase the chance of hurricanes (though I understand that is speculation and it will be awhile before that can be proved). However, all of the facts are there about how FEMA was held back, like Jack Nicolson said "you can't handle the facts." Fortunately, Spike Lee, Sean Penn, Maxine Waters and other great leaders can so the truth will come out.
One last thing, Mayor Sam, you are definitely going on the Blue Flypaper Black List. Good liberals should never again have to come to this site without advance warning that you have a hateful conservative agenda. You laugh now but watch your traffic plummet.
PS. No matter what you do, lay off Maxine and the family ties/extortion stuff. George W. Bush's Dad rigged the Supreme Court to get GW elected president. I think that is quite a bit worse than whatever backdoor stuff Maxine has done for her kids because she loves them.
PSS. I'm so disappointed. I never knew the real Mayor Sam but I can't imagine that he kept a blog like this when he was alive or in office.
true blue - give it a break. Reporting on already published information is neither racist nor sexist nor anything else.
Interestingly, you didn't speak to the accusations against Rep. Waters. You didn't speak to the issue that 11 of the 12 others on the list are white men.
Maybe you forgot that Mayor Sam also reported on Tom DeLay. Is he also anti-conservative?
I'm a staunch Dem, but I definately don't subscribe to that "you're either with us or against us" approach.
Maxine will use the race card any time to get attention for herself. When Parks wasn't getting reappointed instead of being an intelligent person and realizing it was because he was a bad Chief she said it was because the police commission was racist. With her access to Federal Funds why hasn't she done anything to get more cops,businesses, after school progams etc. in her district? Can anyone tell me what the hell she does? She made Hahn look racist during the mayoral campaign. Although most black senior citizens voted for Hahn cause they know better. Maxine is a moron. She's not taken seriously and will come out and use race whenever anything happens in her district.
I didn't know Maxine was racist. How did we let her go on this long we have to not vote for her in the future elections.
anon 12:35
I have three things to say to you.
One, stop drinking the cool aid.
Second, step away from the crack pipe.
Third, if Bush could summon a hurricane to totally demolish a state, it would have been Iraq, not New Orleans. I mean he's dumb, but not stupid.
"Interestingly, you didn't speak to the accusations against Rep. Waters."
Victims of racism cannot be racists themselves. Maxine Waters has been a longtime victim of racism. If (and this is a big if) she did indeed do something wrong, then it can be easily explained by the fact that she was merely acting out after years of being a victim. The white men on that list have no such excuse and their transgressions were due solely to their oppressive.
Victims of racism cannot be racists themselves.
WRONG!
Maxine Waters has been a longtime victim of racism.
WRONG!
If (and this is a big if) she did indeed do something wrong, then it can be easily explained by the fact that she was merely acting out after years of being a victim.
WRONG!
The white men on that list have no such excuse and their transgressions were due solely to their oppressive.
WRONG!
YOU ARE DRENCHED IN PROPAGANDA. WAKE UP AND FIGURE IT OUT BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE FOR YOU!
Racism is not defined by a status of victimization. Racism is the ACT of discrimating against or inflicting harm onto another individual or group based on that individual or group's ethnic/racial identity.
This is not to be confused with people who are prejudiced toward others, that is, hold negative or stereotypic attitudes against people from a particular ethnic group.
African Americans, Latinos, Asians, Native Americans, etc. can indeed be racists if they ACT OUT their prejudice.
Racism was a result of Maxines actions in her many speeches.
It gets worse.....She is now all up in New Orleans' Mayor Ray Nagin's "Amen Corner" (meaning they are in cohoots with one another)....Nagin never met a race card dealer that he didn't love.....This was the same Congresswoman who demanded military and state police protection before she and any other member of Congress would visit Louisiana post Katrina....Nagin held himself up on top of the hotel that he was staying during Katrina's fury when he heard that an angry mob of people were demanding to speak to him.....Nagin and Waters are all about their fragile egos....They play to the crowd and who ever wants to listen to them....
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