Good grief -- have we so few issues of importance in the field of civil rights ad race relations that so-called "civil rights leaders" (all-to-often merely racial grievance mongers) are reduced to protesting something as absurd as this.

Nobody got shot, but Vice President Cheney still fired up controversy Monday when he went hunting at a private club that hangs the Confederate flag.

A Daily News photographer captured the 3-by-5 foot Dixie flag affixed to a door in the garage of the Clove Valley Gun and Rod Club in upstate Union Vale, N.Y.

"It's appalling for the VP to be at a private club displaying the flag of lynching, hate and murder," said the Rev. Al Sharpton. "It's the epitome of an insult."

Sharpton demanded Cheney distance himself from the exclusive club where the Stars and Bars was flown, and said he might hold a prayer vigil there.

I'm curious -- how many folks, including club members, even knew that the thing was there before the picture was taken? Probably not many. If Al Sharpton is going to try to make a cause celebre out of this, it proves that the racial climate in this country even better than I had believed.

Indeed, if a flag in a garage and the six felonious thugs from Jena are the worst offenses the racial grievance mongers can muster, then I'd argue it is time to zero-out the civil rights division of the Department of Justice -- its work is done.

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Question: When can you direct a racial slur at a minority politician?

Answer: When he's a Republican, and you can get a fellow minority to say it.

Noting that Jindal, 36, chose the nickname Bobby in place of his given name, Piyush, as a toddler and converted from Hinduism to Christianity in high school, some have accused him of being a "potato": brown on the outside, white on the inside.

Shameful. Absolutely shameful. And no more acceptable than the "Is Obama black enough" meme of a few weeks back.

Jindal's crime, other than conservatism and Christianity, seems to be encapsulated in this view of the America.

“People want to make everything about race. The only colors that matter here are red, white and blue."

Why won't the media -- and too many Americans of minority ethnicities -- begin to embrace the views of one of the great men of twentieth century America?

I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today....

This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning, "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring." And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania! Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado! Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California! But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia! Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee! Let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

Bobby Jindal has embraced that vision. The voters of Louisiana have embraced that vision. The Republican Party has embraced that vision. When will the press, the ethnic and racial grievance mongers, and the Left embrace that vision?

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But then again, it will be ignored by the mainstream press -- or even echoed approvingly -- because the racist in question is an Asian-American commentator for an Asian-American publication.

When you see a person of color, you expect someone with similar values, views, beliefs — someone in touch with the emerging new majority. With Jindal, you get someone who very deliberately and proudly downplays his race in order to seek his own individual path. That kind of independence under certain circumstances may be commendable. But only if you happen to agree with his ideas that range from free-market health care, intelligent design instead of evolution, anti-choice and a fenced-in America.

In other words, independent thought is only OK when it leads you to the same conclusion as everyone else. "People of color" have no right to be diverse, the argument goes, because it somehow betrays the collective and their interests.

Tell me, though -- what is it about being Asian-American that requires one support socialized medicine? Is there some reason that one whose ancestry comes from East that obliges one to accept Godless evolution over the notion that there was a Creator of some sort? Does an Oriental heritage mandate taking the anti-life position on abortion? And is there something peculiarly and exclusively Occidental about a desire to see the sovereignty of the United States upheld and our immigration laws enforced so that all who come here are law-abiding?

One would think not, if one is a thinking person. There is no mandatory race-based political ideology, just as there is no exclusively "White" position on these issues that must be upheld lest one be a race-traitor. Indeed, suggesting such a thing would be seen as proof positive that one is a racist of the most vile ilk. And that is precisely the category to which individuals of good will must consign Emil Guillermo and the editors who allowed his piece to be published.

Because after all, the Asian community is a diverse one, encompassing multiple cultures, languages and religious faiths, not to mention histories. With all the contempt for assimilation and support for diversity mouthed by Guillermo, why does he insist that every individual of Asian-American heritage must behave as a part of a Borg-like left-wing racial collective?

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Lynch a white boy, get a free trip and red carpet status.

Two of the teens enmeshed in the nationally known "Jena Six" case helped present the most anticipated award during Black Entertainment Television's Hip Hop Awards show broadcast Thursday night.

Carwin Jones and Bryant Purvis were introduced by Katt Williams, a comedian and the awards show's host, as two of the students involved in a case of "systematic racism."

By no means are we condoning a six-on-one beat-down," Williams said during his introduction of the teens, one of whom is still facing attempted murder charges in connection with the attack on white student Justin Barker. "... But the injustice perpetrated on these young men is straight criminal."

As Jones and Purvis walked onto the stage at the Atlanta Civic Center, where the awards show was filmed on Saturday, they were greeted by a standing ovation.
"They don't look so tough, do they?" Williams joked as the teens stepped up to the podium.

Both Jones and Purvis thanked a number of people, including family, friends, the "Hip-Hop Nation" and the thousands who came to their small hometown to rally behind their case.

Bullcrap. What was done did condone the lynching of Justin Barker, an innocent white teenager, based solely upon his race. And the only systematic racism I see is the continued attempt to paint these guilty thugs as anything other than what they are – guilty thugs. What happened to them was straight justice – their lionization by the racists at the BET Awards is straight criminal.

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No, not the incident itself, which has a host of disgraceful angles involving both black and white individuals.

I mean the hearing in Washington yesterday.

1) Sheila Jackson-Lee, who disgraces Houston on a regular basis, hysterically screeching and raving about being a mother. Excuse me, Congresswoman, but your job yesterday was to be a legislator and to conduct yourself with the dignity of your office.

2) Al Sharpton. Given his involvement in the Tawana Brawley fraud, as well as his willingness to railroad the Duke lacrosse players, he no more deserves to be treated as a leader in healing racial division that David Duke.

3) Rev. Brian Moran of the Jena NAACP.

Several other Republicans on the panel questioned whether the white beating victim, Justin Barker, had been forgotten in all the uproar, but Rev. Brian Moran, president of the Jena NAACP chapter, said that the most pressing issue is justice for the six teens facing criminal charges.

Excuse me, sir -- don't you realize that this is precisely the same argument used by Kluxers, namely that something other than justice for the victims of racial violence was more important? Six black boys ambushed and assaulted a white boy as he lay helpless on the ground because of the color of his skin -- the obscene stupidity of the noose (in which no one was hurt) incident THREE MONTHS BEFORE and the subsequent failure to bring criminal charges provides no justification for giving lenient treatment to the criminals in this REAL LYNCHING of a student not involved in that other incident.

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Dr. Mike Adams notes that the NAACP in North Carolina is demanding that the state offer reparations for a race riot/coup in Wilmington in 1898. Indeed, there is the threat of litigation.

The N.C. NAACP is giving the state two options related to telling the story of the 1898 Race Riot and compensating descendants of riot victims.

"You can do it through the General Assembly or we're going to build a case," state NAACP President William Barber said Friday during a national symposium focused on the coup d'etat.

In other words, this is a race-based shake-down of the taxpayers of North Carolina for events that occurred before any current North Carolinian was alive.

I find it interesting who is not facing demands – the descendants of the actual perpetrators of the events in Wilmington, and the organizations and businesses that actively encouraged/benefited from the coup.

You know – the Democrat Party and the leading Democrats who were responsible for the coup, and who perpetrated the violence and murder.

Oh, and the News & Observer newspaper and other newspapers still publishing today that actively advocated for the removal of blacks from political power in Wilmington.

Why are these organizations not included in the demands? Why are the descendants of Josephus Daniels (later the Secretary of the Navy under Democrat Woodrow Wilson) and other participants not facing threats of litigation if they don’t pay up? Could it be that the NAACP knows that the political party and media outlets that instigated this rebellion and overthrow of lawful authority are today reliable allies – as are many of the individuals who would be impacted by the attempt to make them pay for events that occurred long before their birth?

Besides – the state has deeper pockets, since it can always tax the citizens more. And the NAACP loves higher taxes, more government spending and additional social programs which are what this lawsuit is really about. Otherwise

Reparations by those not responsible to those not personally wronged – like belated apologies for slavery – are misguided and dishonest efforts to assuage guilt of those who have done nothing wrong on behalf of those who believe themselves to be perpetual victims of the past.

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Anti-Semitic graffiti found at Columbia.

An anti-semitic message that included a swastika was found etched into the wall of a bathroom at Columbia University on Thursday, just two days after a noose was discovered hanging from the door of a professor at Teachers College.

In a message to the Columbia community, President Lee Bollinger said he was saddend by the second incident of hate in a week.

"One of the bathrooms in Lewisohn Hall -was sullied with an anti-Semitic smear," said Bollinger's note. "It has been promptly removed and is now being investigated."

I'd suggest that the invitation to the Iranian president to speak at Columbia created a hostile environment that encouraged anti-Semitism, but it is well-documented that such an environment has existed and been encouraged by faculty members there for years.

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Imagine that -- an unprovoked, race-based violent assault upon an innocent kid violates the terms of Mychal Bell's probation!

What was that? What probation?

This probation.

A teenager at the center of a civil rights controversy was back in jail Thursday after a judge decided the fight that put him in the national spotlight violated terms of his probation for a previous conviction, his attorney said.

Mychal Bell, who along with five other black teenagers is accused of beating a white classmate, had gone to juvenile court Thursday expecting another routine hearing, said Carol Powell Lexing, one of Bell's attorneys.

Instead, after a six-hour hearing, state District Judge J.P. Mauffrey Jr. sentenced him to 18 months in jail on two counts of simple battery and two counts of criminal destruction of property, Lexing said.

He had been hit with those charges before the Dec. 4 attack on classmate Justin Barker. Details on the previous charges, which were handled in juvenile court, were unclear.

"He's locked up again," Marcus Jones said of his 17-year-old son. "No bail has been set or nothing. He's a young man who's been thrown in jail again and again, and he just has to take it."

You see, Bell is not some innocent kid caught up in a racist system out to get him because of the color of his skin. He is a violent thug, whose adult charges that were a cause celebre were clearly warranted.

Race-baiter Al Sharpton, however, disagrees.

Sharpton reacted swiftly upon learning Bell was back in jail Thursday.

"We feel this was a cruel and unusual punishment and is a revenge by this judge for the Jena Six movement," said Sharpton, who was instrumental in organizing the protest held Sept. 20, the day Bell was originally supposed to be sentenced in the case.

I call bullshit. Al Sharpton, you would be outraged if Bell were white and his victims black. Why can't you apply the same standard here and be outraged because a black thug was allowed to get away with a violent, racist assault -- and is being forced to live up to the terms of his probation by going to jail. Heck, I don't remember any outrage when one of the Duke players had his probation revoked and was jailed because the false charges (which you supported on the word of a lying whore ) brought by a corrupt prosecutor. Indeed, I don't recall you apologizing for your defamation of those young men. Your hypocrisy is showing, sir, and your credibility in this case is shot as a result.

And I predict that we will see Mychal bell in and out of jail for the next several years, constantly playing the race card -- until he kills someone and is executed for that crime.

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