When Your Driver's License Is Not Enough

Country wide ramifications of the anti immigration laws passed in Arizona.

If you're brown, black or of questionable color, meaning you're some kind of biracial mixture, having a drivers license on your person is not enough to keep you from being questioned about your citizenship, should some Arizona cop decide to pull you over for whatever.

Doesn't matter where you're from or what state you live in...if you are on vacation, say driving to California or following Route 66, or decide to visit the Grand Canyon, and get stopped for a traffic violation while passing through Arizona, your seat belts are not fastened, your tail light is broken, or you're driving while black, you have to produce proof of citizenship in order not to be carted off to jail. Understand that is the new law in Arizona.

Proof of citizenship is a passport....not a drivers license. And once they stop the car...everyone in the car is liable...

Most Americans don't travel outside of the US and therefore don't own a passport, according to government statistics. Now you need one for moving around inside your own country. How many kids carry proof of Id, even when they're supposed to?

We're one big country...state's borders are open borders....or used to be..until last week....

The laws actually changed last year with the implementation of the REAL ID program. This program means you need a passport to travel to Canada, Mexico or the Islands. Not to travel to them...but in order to return home. You can't get on an airplane to fly to Mexico without a passport anymore.

There are actually two kinds of REAL ID...a passport and a REAL ID card. The card allows you to get onto cruise ships. However, it won't allow you to board a plane and soon it won't allow you to enter a federal building...any federal building.

Florida is already demanding citizens use REAL ID...trouble is...just like Joseph and Mary, you have to go home in order to get the ID papers. Florida is a retirement state. Most people in Florida, were born somewhere else. Big Problem...

Back to Arizona...their new laws make it illegal for anyone to travel cross their borders without proof of citizenship on their person...meaning you need a passport to simply go through Arizona. As reported earlier this week, Ohio and other states are looking into enacting similar kinds of legislation.

Legislation will codify racial profiling in law by erasing the civil rights of more than half of the American population or the new majority.

Now, you know, no one with white skin is going to be challenged, and probably no one with a spray on orange tan is going to be challenged, either.

However, those of us with varying shades of permanent tan...those of us gifted by god with melanin are in trouble. ...country wide....not just in Arizona.

I do like the fact that our current White House is willing to investigate and study a situation before acting irrationally. However, my Dad has saying about making decisions...

“Study long....you study wrong”

The feds need to do something quickly, before this stuff gets further out of hand...

Arizona, Texas, Oklahoma, Ohio, Nebraska and Virginia are in open rebellion. I understand the very special tightrope that Obama is walking as America's first Black President. There is nothing that Obama or any brown or Black person can do that will placate these people....nothing.

But there comes a time, when the Feds have to say, enough is enough and take action to quell the stupidity.

Other presidents have done it....time for Obama to bite the bullet and call a halt to what is very obviously a growing insurrection.

He pulled the trigger on the Somali pirates...yet they still believe he is soft....time to prove them wrong, again....

Friday Rap

Fox bags Hannity in Cincinnati

Without FOX News Sean Hannity, the Cincinnati Tea Bag Party, which claims to represent the majority of Cincinnatians, like the national organization alleges it represents all of real America, couldn't fill a college stadium last night for it's big tax day rally.

According to reports, about 7500 people showed, down from the estimated 15,000 expected.

Hannity was pulled reportedly because Fox didn't want him doing a paid gig to benefit a political organization. Seems someone on corporate level thought that a journalist headlining a paid political event is something of a conflict of interest.

Really? Ya Think?

And please, can someone tell me what the teabaggers are protesting. Their taxes went down...the polls say they really do like their social programs like medicare, medicaid and social security...and they are mostly retired..so they are not in the job market...and they already have more money than anyone else...

So what is their problem..hmmmmmmmmmmmm?

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Lou Dobbs for President

Another wannabe...thinks because he talks a good game, that he's ready for the majors...Note to Lou...those who can...do...those who can't....go into the media and become commentators...keep your day job, man...keep your day job...

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Jackie Robinson legacy

63 years after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball, many are sounding the alarm about the dwindling number of black Americans playing baseball, these days. The teams are filled with dark men of color, but most of them are from the Caribbean, central or south America..few of them are American born, so the appearance of baseball is deceptive.

Many are calling for programs to get American blacks interested in the game again, which is all well and good, I guess. But I want to know where are the programs for regular Black guys to get into living in general.

Face it...the American Black man is virtually invisible in America today. Oh, we have a Black president in the White House. We have an NFL and an NBA full of big Black guys playing with balls. We have prisons full of young stupid Black guys who dropped out of school, trying to make a quick score and ended up “got” instead.

We have the hip hop life of young men, some of whom are talented making bank, but many more one hit wonders, in debt up to their eyeballs to some white man's record corporation, or dead in the streets attempting to live out some ridiculous gangsta fantasy.

But where are the programs to convince Black guys that education is the key.

Where are the programs that integrate the construction industry. finally. I walk all over Cincinnati, past big time construction projects downtown, the bridges are being painted, Cincinnati's soon to be tallest building is going up...and all I see are white guys and Hispanic guys working on the structures...no Black guys...Cincinnati public schools are building more new schools...plural....yet...no Black guy construction workers....it's so bad the useless NAACP is leading protest marches and getting arrested like back in the day.

What up Cincinnati...we got a Black Mayor...is that enough? Don't make me answer that question...

Why is this the reality in the 21^st century? Why are we more concerned about the lack of Black baseball players rather than the lack of Black men as providers for their families and role models, real role models for their own children?

We don't need anymore LeBron James or Jackie Robinsons for that matter.....we need another WEB DuBois, Carter G. Woodson, Charles Ogletree, or a Robert Johnson with brains...

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Rocky Mountain Insanity

Colorado Court says it's okay for Colorado college students to carry guns on campus...That's a great idea considering how well these young students behave so responsibly having proven their ability to multi task so effectively....like driving while texting or partying while fugged up. Guess if they can study with their eyes closed, then they ought to be able to shoot with their eyes open, right?

Nothing like having an ecstasy fueled or testosterone driven 19 year old with gun strapped to his side.

What next...tricycles with built in rifle racks?

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White House Closet Jitters

The White House apparently has no trouble putting gays and lesbians in highly visible governmental positions. However it seems to be bothered when somebody tries to yank the closet door open on those LGBT people who have not yet gone public with their preferences.

Seems there is a dust up about whether or not maybe Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagen is a lesbian. CBS News wrote and then retracted the story yesterday. You can check it out here.

Despite being highly touted, Obama hasn't named anybody yet for the SUPCO vacancy. Matter of fact, he can't name anyone until July, after the current session ends. Second, the White House claims that allegations of Kagen being a lesbian, are simply false.

I just have to ask...in the aftermath of the Tiger Woods, Tiki Barber, Sandra Bullock, Melissa Etheridge and now Larry King, why are journalists suddenly reticent to talk about someone's sexual preferences?

Is it deference to the solicitor general, which Kagen is.....or are we still as a society covertly and uncomfortably homophobic, despite the efforts to install real civil rights for LGBT people...

And by the way...Thank you Obama for the hospital visiting privileges..