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This is a classic case of too many people trying to be politically correct! And really taking things out of context.

Here is what I want the Obama Administration…The White House and the President himself to do:….STOP IT!!!!!

Stop trying to play nice and stop trying to suck up to the other side….They don’t care about being your friend…they don’t care about you succeeding….in fact they want failure….Just do your job…make some things happen……

If a conservative blogger posted this and if FOX news had anything to do with helping to circulate this..then more fact checking should have happened.

The NAACP/Roland Martin and others that jumped the gun….you should do more than apologize to this lady. Stop trying to be so politically correct….STOP IT!

This was taken from the website and one of my favorite radio shows from NPR News…”Tell Me More.”

NAACP Changes Stance To Support Ex-USDA Official

by Frank James

The NAACP at first denounced Shirley Sherrod, the former U.S. Agriculture Department official who admitted in a speech that long before she became a federal official, she once didn’t initially help a white farmer facing foreclosure as much as she could have because of his race.

But later on Tuesday, the organization retracted its earlier denunciation. It said that after reviewing a fuller version of a video of a March 2010 speech in which Sherrod told the story from 1986, it felt that it had been manipulated by the conservatives who pushed an edited version of video. The precise word used by the NAACP was “snookered.”

An excerpt:

With regard to the initial media coverage of the resignation of USDA Official Shirley Sherrod, we have come to the conclusion we were snookered by Fox News and Tea Party Activist Andrew Breitbart into believing she had harmed white farmers because of racial bias.

Having reviewed the full tape, spoken to Ms. Sherrod, and most importantly heard the testimony of the white farmers mentioned in this story, we now believe the organization that edited the documents did so with the intention of deceiving millions of Americans.

The fact is Ms. Sherrod did help the white farmers mentioned in her speech. They personally credit her with helping to save their family farm.

Moreover, this incident and the lesson it prompted occurred more that 20 years before she went to work for USDA.

Finally, she was sharing this account as part of a story of transformation and redemption. In the full video, Ms.Sherrod says she realized that the dislocation of farmers is about “haves and have nots.” “It’s not just about black people, it’s about poor people,” says Sherrod in the speech. “We have to get to the point where race exists but it doesn’t matter.”

Councilman Kenneth I. Stokes was angry the other day because the council voted 5-2 to deny him taxpayer money to hire a lawyer to investigate The Clarion-Ledger. Stokes has been on a warpath every since the paper did a detailed report on his traveling expenses…in fact they reviewed all of the council members travel as well as the mayor and they found some items of interest.

Stokes wouldn’t let it rest…

1) He holds a press conference at city hall on a Saturday only The Mississippi Link and The Clarion Ledger shows up! That wasn’t good enough!!!!!

2) He refused to appear on my radio show on WRBJ 97.7 after two requests…one made to him at the press conference.

3) He holds a pitiful protest in front of the C-L building….here at least he got what he wanted some TV time……

4) At the next council meeting he holds up Clarion LIER signs

5) He appears on the Paul Gallo radio show…white ultra conservative…..WHY?

6) He responds to a written request from the C-L after his appearance on Gallo’s show….on city letter head saying “KISS HIS ASS!”

7) He passes off in the hallway to Council President Frank Bluntson a document for his signature; suggesting its routine city business….Bluntson signs without reading it (BIG MISTAKE)

8) Ultimately the document signed is a lawsuit against the city…saying the council voted improperly when they voted to refuse hiring a lawyer for Stokes.

9) Lumumba signature is on the lawsuit document as well. Lumumba was the only other council person to vote with Stokes

10) STOKES MUST GO! How do we change the dynamics of ward 3? Stokes can not appear to be the victim here……How do we change the mindset?

If ever there was a time to tell Kenneth Stokes to get out of politics, now would be the time. Today, while at City Hall for the council meeting (which I hate to cover)..I was actually embarrassed to be black.

Councilman Kenneth Stokes arrived late (according to 16 WAPT 10 mins late) for the council meeting and the vote for the leadership of the council had already been taken. Councilwoman Margaret Barrett Simone left the council meeting early after having had an opportunity to vote for the leadership of the council.

Stokes was outraged!

“I’ve got sickness in the family. But at the same time, that councilmember needs to have her behind here,” Stokes said. “It’s council meeting time. Now you can let them go everywhere else and they can do everything else, but they don’t have to be at a council meeting. They can go to a special meeting. They can go to any kind of meeting, but they don’t stay for the council meeting. The white council members know that. You, as president, need to set the rules and tell them they need to stay here at council meeting like everybody else,” said Stokes.

Stokes was angry because agenda item number 16 had been moved to the top of the agenda. Supposedly Stokes was planning to vote for Ward 2 Councilman Chowke Lumumba. According to sources, Stokes made the suggestion last year to move the item to the first part of the agenda so that the new president would be able to conduct the meetings.

Frank Bluntson, who won reelection as president of the council said “Councilman Stokes, on last year, let the record reflect, you made the motion that we bring this to the front (of the agenda).”

Stokes was so out of order and so embarrassing!
What is the difference between leaving early and arriving late? What is the purpose of a quorum if you have to go back just to include a sloppy, lazy, irresponsible, out of touch, no sense of politics councilman?

It is time for Stokes to rethink his political career. Oh, and to add insult to injury two or three people used the public comment portion of the meeting to quote biblical scriptures out of context in support of Stokes….if that wasn’t staged..then iI don’t know what is….A mess!

New reports show that there’s been an increase in house break-ins and car theft. In the report three of the four precincts in Jackson saw an increase of at least 27 within the last couple of weeks.

On the radio show yesterday (Monday, July 11) two callers called in and said they reported their break-ins and got little to no response….and no follow up if an initial response was given at all.

Here’s how you can help…..if you’ve been a victim…share your story here. We will compile the info and get it to JPD officials and we will track it. Additionally we are reaching out to JPD to be a guest on the show on Monday, July 18. We will broadcast live from the Africka Book Cafe 404 Mitchell Ave. in Fondren. This town-hall style broadcast will give you an opportunity to have a one on one with city officials. We are asking you to come out to the broadcast and call in….We will be live 6-8pm…..

Let’s take our city back and let’s get involved. We are live every MOnday with a live town hall meeting and we need you! 6-8pm MOnday July 18…share here and there!

OK…so I thought I wasn’t going to return to this post…but I am learning more and more about the weekend sports guy that was fired…he actually took the rap for a heck of a lot more than what was reported or actually happened….

I’m being cursed out on this blog in a previous post for no reason….. But here is what I’m told by sources close to the situation…..

Both Scott and Mr. Evans (Wendy Suares’s husband) were pretty drunk but they knew exactly where they were going when they arrived at this house….They were not looking for a party…they knew the party was at Monica Hernandez’s house….they were looking for someone specific…someone that is/was really close to Wendy. This person being a male…

I’m told JPD had to handcuff a reporter/anchor that remains at WLBT whose soon to be husband was on the scene as well. I’m told a station (WLBT) vehicle albeit a sports vehicle was at the scene as well which really begs the question: who was driving?

The bottom line to this story and some people and sites are blaming 16 WAPT for reporting this and not being responsible journalists…..bottom line is it happened….some stuff covered up…some not shared….

More to come….

I interviewed Mayor Johnson on Tuesday for a story that I did in The Mississippi Link newspaper that was published today (Thursday, July 1). He spoke extremely high/favorable of some city employees that monitors the water system….we talked about the recent water emergency that he enacted….How do you rate this administration?

SOUND OFF and check out the story here: mississippilink.com

I ran out of time during my radio show yesterday and couldn’t discuss this issue.

A weekend sports anchor at WLBT, Scott LaPeer and the husband of morning news co-anchor Wendy Suares, Steven Evans stopped by the wrong house in Belhaven last weekend. Or maybe you could say they stop by the right house because I have friends in Belhaven that say shoot first and ask questions later.

Apparently both men had been drinking and showed up at the wrong house for a party. After knocking on the door and not getting an answer the two kicked in the door. Evans received a blow to the head from the person inside the home.

I’ve learned that LaPeer has been fired and it has been reported that Wendy and Steven are headed to Little Rock at the end of this month. Wendy is taking on a new anchoring job there and Steven will attend school. Question is what will he study???? Maybe this is why WLBT has been hush-hush about the situation!

This story has made ShopTalk a news industry website that tracks stories on news people and stations around the country. While on Shoptalk, I did notice that they got their information from one of WLBT’s competitors in Jackson—the local ABC affiliate 16 WAPT!

OK, can you believe this? Kenneth Stokes is taking his fight to circuit court….he’s asking a Circuit Court Judge to overturn a decision by the City Council not to hire an attorney to investigate The Clarion Ledger.

Guess who Stokes’ attorney is? Ward 2 Councilman Chokwe Lumumba!!!! Strange right? Isn’t that like suing yourself? Is that a conflict of interest? I think an OUSTER should be on the horizon n two wards….

http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20100628/NEWS/6280321/Stokes++Make+council+pay+for++C-L++probe

OK…for the record, I don’t think Stokes abused any taxpayer money…PERIOD… NONE…END OF STORY……well its the end of the money story…but did he go too far when he told some folks at the C-L to kiss his A$$??????

I think it was totally out of order and disrespectful…was it a publicity stunt?

Is it just me or was Stokes virtually non-existent when Frank Melton was mayor…..no weekly press conferences….no hogging the media over the weekend…no nothing……he was quiet!

But now it is the return of Kenneth Stokes….

Additionally this issue speaks volumes about policy and procedures with city employees…especially our governing body.

Here is a story that I did in this week’s edition of The Mississippi Link: http://mississippilink.com/news/article_db8ca6d2-7a1d-11df-a2a5-001cc4c002e0.html

Now I fully understand why the oil crisis is no big deal to Governor Haley Barbour!!! Now I get why he has missed two meetings with President Barack Obama……

Now I know why he’s encouraging folk to visit the Gulf Coast….. (this point, I think we should for the economy) but I digress….

I saw a report on MSNBC…Rachel Maddow’s show….. oil and gas companies contributed $1.8 million to Haley’s gubernatorial campaign…..

Come on Haley really????????

My mind goes back to the grocery tax……Haley a darn good lobbyist for tobacco companies…..

Does Haley really have Mississippi’s best interest at heart?
Is he simply positioning himself for a national office?

Is money his motivator?