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Boston Globe: Tobacco Funded Mass. Researchers

Philip Morris USA, which makes Marlboro and other top-selling cigarette lines, gave grants to scientists at Boston University, Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of Massachusetts, company spokesman David M. Sylvia said Friday.

The research supported by the company touched on conditions such as heart disease and cancer that are linked to smoking
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“Taking money from the tobacco industry to conduct scientific research is like the DA taking money from the Mafia to conduct investigations of crime,” said Gregory Connolly, a Harvard School of Public Health professor and former director of the Massachusetts Tobacco Control Program.

Obama Marched with Farrakhan

Senator Obama has long been obsessed with race.

Chicago Reader: What Makes Obama Run? — Lawyer, teacher, philanthropist, and author Barack Obama doesn’t need another career. But he’s entering politics to get back to his true passion–community organization. By Hank De Zutter, December 8, 1995

Obama took time off from attending campaign coffees to attend October’s Million Man March in Washington, D.C. His experiences there only reinforced his reasons for jumping into politics.

“What I saw was a powerful demonstration of an impulse and need for African-American men to come together to recognize each other and affirm our rightful place in the society,” he said. “There was a profound sense that African-American men were ready to make a commitment to bring about change in our communities and lives.”

“But what was lacking among march organizers was a positive agenda, a coherent agenda for change. Without this agenda a lot of this energy is going to dissipate. Just as holding hands and singing ‘We shall overcome’ is not going to do it, exhorting youth to have pride in their race, give up drugs and crime, is not going to do it if we can’t find jobs and futures for the 50 percent of black youth who are unemployed, underemployed, and full of bitterness and rage.” …

“This doesn’t suggest that the need to look inward emphasized by the march isn’t important, and that these African-American tribal affinities aren’t legitimate. These are mean, cruel times, exemplified by a ‘lock ‘em up, take no prisoners’ mentality that dominates the Republican-led Congress. Historically, African-Americans have turned inward and towards black nationalism whenever they have a sense, as we do now, that the mainstream has rebuffed us, and that white Americans couldn’t care less about the profound problems African-Americans are facing.”

“But cursing out white folks is not going to get the job done. Anti-Semitic and anti-Asian statements are not going to lift us up. We’ve got some hard nuts-and-bolts organizing and planning to do. We’ve got communities to build.”

So IF cursing out white folks DID get the job done, then it would be alright?

For the record, a publicity driven March, million-man or otherwise, is not needed to improve communities. A desire for self-improvement, motivation, and pride in oneself and one’s community are what is truly needed.

Michelle Malkin Gets Hate Mail

If you happen to be a minority and you have conservative beliefs of any kind, the letter below sent to Michelle Malkin should make clear how such people are mistreated and abused — for thinking differently.

For those who still naively believe black Americans aren’t as racist as anyone on earth, here is more of that liberal tolerance in action.

Dear Ms. Malkin:

You are nothing but a white woman disquised [sic] as an Asian. There is nothing about Asian about you accept [sic] your complexion. Attorney Malik Zulu Shabazz was right when he said that you should be ashamed of yourself as a “Woman of color” for the positions that you take concerning race, immigration, and non-whites otherwise known as minorities. Listening to you just sickens me. If I were close my eyes I wouldn’t be able to tell that you were Asian. By the way are you at least married to another asian or a non-white man [sic]. It would really surprise me if you were. I say this because usually non-whites such as yourself who spend their entire lives aligning themselves with white people in power physically, politically, financially or mentally often try to make it final by marrying a white person. Hoping that this will officiate the notion that you are in the inside of the white establishing [sic]. I have more to more later on [sic]. Have a blessed day.

Mr. Doshon Farad
New Black Panther Party For Self Defense

Farad’s command of the English language is just stellar. Maybe it was just “disquised” as bad English?

“Hoping that this will officiate the notion that you are in the inside of the white establishing.” Huh?

“I have more to more later on” Huh?

Farad is far too bizzee sending ignant hate mail to an eksellent jurnalist. He should be much more concerned with the list of problems plagueing the black community and racism isn’t one of them. We could start with some facts: a 70% out-of-wedlock birthrate, or poverty, or dependence of government, or the many black students stuck in lousy public schools, or the high drop out rate among blacks, or the percentage of blacks who commit murders, or the percentage of the prison population composed of blacks.

But no, all those very serious problems require very serious solutions and difficult work, and, well, Farad doesn’t have the solutions and does not appear interested doing real work to help his people. Much easier to write ignorant letters. Plus solving the problems of black Americans might hurt the Panther$ in their bank accounts.

It was almost amusing that Farad, after insulting Malkin and parroting Marxist notions that a person’s ethnicity dictates his or her beliefs, Farad wishes that Malkin “have a blessed day.”

What a kind gentleman.

Fuck yourself, Farad, and your racist rhetoric. Have a blessed day!