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Last Sunday, MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry opened her program over the weekend with a commentary about the Affordable Care Act’s colloquial moniker: “Obamacare.” She said that the word was originally created as a “derogatory term,” designed by white men as a way to delegitimize President Barack Obama and his achievement. However, she said that the term will soon be synonymous with all of Obama’s accomplishments and she urged her audience to use the term with pride.
“I want to talk today about a controversial word. It’s a word that has been with us for years, and like it or not, it’s indelibly printed in the pages of American history,” Harris-Perry opened. “A word that was originally intended as a derogatory term, meant to shame and divide and demean.”
“The word was conceived of by a group of wealthy white men who needed a way to put themselves above and apart from a black man; to render him inferior and unequal and to diminish his accomplishments,” she continued.
“At first, he rose above it, hoping that if he could just make a cause for what he achieved, his opponents would fail in making their label stick,” Harris-Perry added. “But no matter how many successes that he had as president, he realized there were still many people for whom he’d never be anything more than that one disparaging word.”
She said the president eventually embraced the term, and so should Obama’s supporters. “Because he knows that of all his victories over two terms in office his legacy is ultimately going to be remembered for this one single word,” the MSNBC host declared.
I mean, what do you call the president who rescues the U.S. auto industry? Obamacare. What do you call the president who finally eliminates Osama bin Laden? Obamacare. What do you call the president who ends Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell? Say it with me! Obamacare.
Heard the one about the president who pulled us out of the greatest recession since the Great Depression? Yep. Obamacare. And what about the one, you know, about the president who reduced drug sentencing disparities? Obamacare.
She closed by noting that “Obamacare,” is no longer the “derogatory term” it was originally conceived to be. Like the historic accomplishments above, the ACA will soon be widely regarded as a celebrated accomplishment.
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Leo Terrell took part in a heated discussion on the “Hannity” show on FOX News about American civil rights leader Jesse Jackson’s comments about apartheid existing in America
In this new book,”Why All Black Women Should Marry Jewish Men”, Nazaree Hines-Starr details to Jacquie Reid how she feels many black men fall short when it comes to qualities that make for a good husband. She goes further and lays out why your Prince Charming may be as your local synagogue.
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United States President Barack Obama Speaks At A Memorial Service For Late Nelson Mandela
On last Sunday’s NBC News’s “Meet the Press”, American civil right leader, Jesse Jackson said, “Apartheid remains. Apartheid gaps in poverty, healthcare and education. We’re in the middle of the end of the apartheid struggle now, but it’s just changed phases.”
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The late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. accepts the Nobel Peace Prize on December 10, 1964
Yesterday, CNN’s Don Lemon brought on a black writer who wrote a column titled, “Why I hate being a black man.” Orville Lloyd Douglas explained to Lemon why he wrote such a highly charged column and what it’s like for him being a black man.
Douglas admitted he’s mainly talking about the stereotypes surrounding black men regarding his self-hatred, saying it’s hard for people who don’t conform to the stereotypes of black men to live in society.
Lemon was somewhat baffled by what he was saying, asking him why he doesn’t just let himself define who he is and not worry about other people. Douglas, a Canadian, explained race is handled with kid gloves up there, especially to the “more progressive way” it’s talked about in America.
Lemon credited Douglas for being very brave to come out like he is, especially with all the online hate he’s getting, but also pressed him on rejecting the self-hatred. Lemon said he should just “learn to love being black” and not to “let other people define who you are.”
Douglas also talked about diversity in Canada, as well as racial and social issues that aren’t being dealt with in Toronto.
The black students at University of California, Los Angeles, sent a strong message about diversity at their school. Namely, the fact that there isn’t much when it comes to African-American males, a troubling fact for one of the state’s most elite institutions. Click on the link below to read more.
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Fox News host Geraldo Rivera asserted on November 1, 2013 edition of Fox News’ “Fox & Friends” that New York City’s “Stop-and-Frisk” policy “protected” black and Latino residents more than other groups even though they make up about 90 percent of the people targeted by the policy.
