Good Morning America!

 

I would like to publicly respond to Hillary’s comments about Barack Obama’s comments on the disillusionment and disgust of the working class in America.

 

First of all, I have said time and time again, that a common man or common woman cannot run for president of the United States of America, because of the way that the political system is set up.

 

Therefore, all three presidential candidates are elitist, simply because of the fact that they have obtained the means and cleared all of the hurdles that one must clear in order to make a serious run for President of the United States. And, the fact that they have arrived as a serious candidate for the presidency indicates that they were already in the political loop, which means that they are all professional politicians who are well connected, and they all are in fact elitist, and not common men and woman.

 

So cut the crap Hillary, you are no less an elitist then Barack Obama, or John McCain, because remember America, the common workingman or woman, cannot run for president.

 

So don’t be fooled by Hillary’s rhetoric America.

 

Hillary is just doing what she has been caught doing since the beginning of her campaign.

 

She has been embellishing, exaggerating, and just plain lying about so many issues. And I just hope that there are enough Americans who are seeing through all of this, so that they can make an informed decision on November 4, 2008, and not a decision based on the deception of a professional politician.

 

Hillary is business as usual. She practices the kind of politics that the average American has been brainwashed into accepting as normal. And it will remain acceptable as the norm until the American public decides to do what is necessary in order to change this.

 

This change can be accomplished by keeping track of what the politicians are doing verses what they are saying, and publicly calling them out on it. If we become vigilant in doing this, many things would have to change for the better.

 

Now that we know that Obama is an elitist also, how do we tell how he differs from Hillary Clinton?

 

First of all, Obama has made many mistakes in judgments, and I think that he has effectively addressed them, as I see him trying to do with this latest statement about the working class in America; which his opponents have began programming the American public to view as condescending as opposed to being true.

 

However, for every mistake that Hillary has made, she has either denied that she made the mistake in the first place, or she has covered it up with a lie, which leads to another lie, and so forth and so on.

 

Hillary has been in attack mode since the beginning of the campaign.

 

Obama has only been aggressive in response to these attacks, and in spite of these attacks, he has respectfully defended his character, his views, his policies, and his plans for America.

 

Hillary has shown by her sneaky behavior, her lies, her personality changes, and her attempt to become someone different whenever the occasion calls for it, that she thinks that the American people are stupid. Every time she commits one of these treacherous and deceitful acts, she is indeed insulting your intelligence.

 

Obama respects and believes in the intelligence of the American People, as indicated by his positive demeanor, which he has maintained in many types of situations, be they positive or negative.

 

Hillary continues to refuse to address all of the money that her and her husband made during his presidency, which many consider to be excessive and suspicious.  She would rather deflect those questions with empty words that do not address the issue, rather then answering the question.

 

No wonder you held out on releasing those tax returns for so long Hillary.

 

All of Barack Obama’s real estate, tax, and business transactions have been explained and laid out for the American public to see.

 

Finally, Hillary Clinton has received very large sums of money from lobbyist, who do not offer this kind of financial support for a candidate unless they expect a huge return on their investment. And it is important to note that, most of the time, these favors that our politicians do to repay these lobbyist are usually not things that will benefit the American people.

 

We already have someone in the Whitehouse that has used his tenure as president to repay lobbyist for all of the money and favors that were done for him, in order to have him elected and reelected again, which is the job of a professional politician, when they are practicing the business as usual politics. And the evidence is clear that these decisions have not benefited the American people.

Obama has started a grassroots movement from the ground up, (unlike any that I have ever seen in all my days).

 

The people of the United States are funding Obama’s campaign. These are people who are sincerely interested in seeing a change for the better in our government. So he owes more to these people then he does to special interest groups and lobbyist.

 

With Hillary, it is business as usual. So her loyalties will be heading in another direction altogether, if she is elected as president.

 

A quick note about John McCain: At the present time, we have allocated so many of our resources; financial, equipment, and human lives to one area of the world (Iraq), which has been shown to not be a clear and present danger. We are stretched so thin that we have now had to ask other countries to assist in our war efforts with Iraq. These actions by the current president have actually made us more vulnerable to terrorist’s attacks, and attacks by other countries. 

 

We have very little resources for natural and other disasters here at home in America, because all of our equipment and the soldiers who’s job it is to carry out these function are over in Iraq.

 

The stock market and the economy, have been unable to bounce back with any consistency because of this, and will not show any signs of improvement until the current administration is gone. Wall Street, and Main Street, is afraid, and uncertain about the future at the present time.

 

If you want more of this, then vote for John McCain in order to have a continuation of the George Bush Administration.

 

 

Here is my warning to you America:

 

Anyone who will say or do anything, (rather it is true or not), to be elected President of the United States, will say or do anything to keep the office once elected. This will be true rather their actions benefit America or not.

 

This is what you have now.

 

 Is this what you want next?

 

 

Greg Coleman                       

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                                          April 9, 2008

Dear Bill:                                                                         

 

This letter is in reference to your April 7, 2008 show, when you implied that everyone who is black, who complains about racists, (who still exist in this country), and the racism that they practice are “race baiters”. Which I believe in your opinion, is someone who makes unfounded racist claims against white people.

 

You also implied that all of the people that these “race baiters” attack are completely innocent, and are not actively practicing racism and that “we”, (the race baiters), by doing so, are discouraging these white people, (who you have become the national spokesman for, and protector of), from having a healthy dialogue with black America, and that we are also insulting, humiliating, and in general, hurting these people’s itty bitty feelings.

 

Well Bill, I hate to tell you this, but I will, because apparently you do not know.

 

Those who sincerely want to maintain an open line of communication with people of other races are going to do so, no matter what anyone says about the negative reality that we as black people have experienced and continue to experience at the hands of white racist, that you claim no longer exist. And people who are not sincerely interested in establishing these quality relationships wont.

 

If they are upset by the fact that we black people have a genetic predisposition to detecting, identifying, and publicly defending ourselves against racists in this country, then I just got to say that the reason that they are so upset is because they have yet to deal with what America did, has done, and is still doing to the black race.

 

And as far as your black cohorts who agree with you are concerned, they have already made it to where they want to be, and have forgotten the racism that they experienced along the way. So because they have “made it”, they would rather deny that racism is a reality in this country.

 

I am all for establishing effective lines of communication and understanding between all members of the human race. However, this is very hard to do, when the people who you are trying to establish this with, have not yet dealt with the fact that they are the ones who created the problem in the first place. 

 

You see, the fact that these very good white people that you spoke about on your show, who you say are so broken up by the fact that we “race baiters”, are constantly attacking them, proves to me that they have yet to compare being called a racist to the things that we experienced then, now, and in all probability, what we will experience in the future for a long time to come; especially if we do not remain vigilant, and sensitive to racist and the racism that they practice.

 

If being called a racist upsets these folks, then try being called nigger, darkie, spook, spade, boy, ape, coon gorilla, crocodile, and everything else except your name.

 

Try being snatched from your home and family, and taken to a foreign land, and made to work for nothing.

 

Try deciding to drown to be free, instead of living to be a slave.

 

Try watching your female companion being raped by slave masters, and being so powerless that you cannot do anything about it, and how about watching the same thing happen to your children.

 

Try having your manhood and your humanity taken away from you with every conversation that you have with a white American.

 

Try watching your family members and members of your community, (on the plantation), lynched, burned, spit on, urinated on, defecated on, and shot dead, as an example to the other slaves who might get the idea that they want to be free.

 

And it’s bad enough that this all occurred during slavery. But after slavery was “abolished”, America still refused to treat black people with the courtesy, respect, and consideration that all humans are entitled to by the creator.

 

This is not a fantasy; it is a matter of record. And what makes this so painful is that after all of this, institutions, business establishments, and the government, is still discriminating against black people. It is also important to note, how the government is currently making all of these major concessions, and trying to devise a plan to make sure that people who do not even belong in America, can be given all of the rights and benefits of people who do. This is a major slap in the face to the black race, since on paper the playing field is supposed to be leveled, but in reality, it really is not. 

 

According to you, I could be classified as a “race baiter”. But when CNN did that job on you with the comments about Sylvia’s Restaurant, I spoke up for you, because I investigated the facts for myself, and found out that CNN had presented your statement completely out of context, to deliberately deceive people into thinking that you were something that you are not; a racist.

 

I did not disagree with what people were saying about you because you were white; I disagreed because you were judged unfairly. CNN took a positive complementary statement about black people, and completely turned it around to appear as if you were making a derogatory statement about black people instead.

 

Of the entire group of  “Conservative”, commentators on TV, I do indeed enjoy your “No Spin Zone”, and I think you are pretty fair as far as conservatives go. Now correct me if I am wrong; but, doesn’t conservative mean that you want things to remain the same, and that where they are not the same, you would like to return to “the way things were”?

 

So does this mean that conservatives would like to return to the 1700 and 1800’s when the enslavement of human beings was legal, totally acceptable, (and as a matter of fact was encouraged) by America?

 

Is this what being a conservative means?

 

I am not trying to be funny. I just don’t understand people who want to leave things the same, no matter how wrong these things are.

 

Anyway! What I am trying to say is: that black people, (after all the inhumanities that we were subjected to), and continue to be subjected to; we really could care less about white America’s feeling being hurt by what we say about what they have done, and are doing to us.

 

And if you claim that it was not, or is not that bad, then my next questions to you are:

 

How long have you been a black man in America?

 

 How long have you been a black woman in America?

 

Have you ever been a black man or woman in America?

 

I don’t understand how white people are always telling black people how they should, or should not feel, or what they should or should not say, when they have not been through what we have been through.

 

You see, you have not been with me when I meet with the racist at DORS, (Division Of Rehabilitative Services), or the RISE (Reach Independence Through Self Employment), program. These are state programs that receive federal money for the purpose of assisting disabled citizens to become self-sufficient. And to not be dependent on Social Security, which is what I have been fighting for, for over 4 years now.

 

I qualified for the business training programs, I was accepted into the programs, I passed the same business training classes that everyone else did, I followed the same rules as everyone else did, however at the end of the program, there was not 1 African American who received a grant to assist them with the set up of their businesses.  However, there were 2 Caucasian males, who had received their grants several weeks before the class had even ended.

 

When I inquired about the reason for this, all I was told by the supervisor at DORS was that: “ They must have had something in place that you did not”.

 

What might this mysterious element be?

 

I would have to say that this is another one of those racist situations that you do not want us to talk about.

 

Well Bill! This is just not going to happen.

 

Not talking about racial problems or denying that they exist will not solve these problems for white people, and definitely not for black people.

 

It might serve white Americans who do not want to deal with the reality of what was and is being done to us, and the negative long-term generational effects that it has had on the black race. Because when a race of people see, hear, and experience things that human beings were not meant to see, hear or experience, the consequences cut so deep into the psyche, that the damage done is transmitted from generation to generation to generation.

 

So we refuse to ignore all of these things to please people who are uncomfortable with acknowledging the reality of what has, and is going on for black people in America.

 

Of course there are those who benefit from creating strife between the races, but I do not believe that even those people could continue to benefit from this, if there was no concrete foundation for it all.

 

As a matter of fact, I think that most black Americans would prefer that none of this ever took place, thereby eliminating the need for talking about it. But it did, and we do talk about it, and will continue to talk about it. We have too much to lose by letting our guards down.

 

Racism is real, and it is here.  It is also just as detrimental now, as it was back then, to black Americans, and to society as a whole. And this is something that we just cannot afford to not talk about.

 

Sincerely,

Greg Coleman

President/CEO, G.R.C. Records, LLC.

 

When was the last time you compared what your candidates promised during their campaigns, with what they actually delivered once in office???

The answers may surprise you, and is the main reason that the problems that they have promised to solve year after year, have not only not been solved, but are now problems of epidemic proportions.

Think About It!

 

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Basket Ball Superstar, Lebron James of The Cleveland Cavaliers, will be appearing on the front cover of vogue’s April issue with Super Model Gisele Bundchen. Famed photographer, Annie Leibovitz, took the photo.  James is 1 of 3 men who have appeared on the cover with super models in the 116-year history of the magazine.

 

The other 2 men who have appeared on the cover with super models were: Richard Gere and Cindy Crawford in 1992, and George Clooney who appeared with Gisele Bundchen in 2002.

 

The difference here is that: the photo of Lebron James and Gisele Bundchen, (unlike the other couples), has created a heated debate, and is fueling controversy.

 

As a matter of fact, it has stirred up so much controversy, that it was a featured story on “The Today Show”.

 

I wonder why?

 

In addition, James is not only 1 of 3 men that appeared on the cover with a super model, but in 116 years, he is the first African American to be featured on the cover with a (White Supermodel).

 

Here we go again! Talking about a nonexistent problem in America. The one that most people ignore, rather then address:

 

RACE!

 

When I first heard the story; without immediate investigation, I knew the controversy was smothered in racial overtones, like a chicken-fried steak with country gravy.

 

Let’s check the statistics to confirm my intuition.

 

Richard Gere-Cindy Crawford 1992- No Problem!

 

George Clooney-Gisele Bundchen 2002-No Problem!

 

Also in this same April addition are:

 

Olympic Swimmer, Michael Phelps-Caroline Trentini-No Problem!

 

Snowboarder, Shaun White-Daria Werbowy-No Problem!

 

Speed Skater, Apolo Anton Ohno-Doutzen Kroes-No Problem!

 

Of course, this also is not LeBron James’s first magazine cover appearance.

 

He is indeed a superstar in many arenas.

 

Sports Illustrated, 2002-When he was a high school senior-No Problem!

 

1 of 11 athletes on ESPN’s 10^th. Anniversary issue-No Problem

 

Recently Featured On:  

 

Fortune-No Problem!

 

Men’s Health-No Problem!

 

Black Enterprise-No Problem!

 

Vogue April 2008 Issue: LeBron James-Gisele Bundchen-PROBLEM!

 

The comments are coming in, and there are not very positive about this picture.

 

Some commentators say that the photo is perpetuating racial stereotypes. James strikes a gorilla-like pose, baring his teeth, with one hand dribbling a ball and the other around Bundchen’s waist. They say it is a depiction of the movie” King Kong”, in which the ape grabs Fay Wray around her waste and picks her up.

Tamara Walker, age 29, from Philadelphia said:” It conjures up this idea of a dangerous black man”.

Damion Thomas, assistant professor in the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Maryland Said: Images of black male athletes as aggressive and threatening “reinforce the criminalization of black men”.

In my personal opinion as a black male, I would have to say that if the intent was to foster and spread further, the image of the angry, dangerous, criminal black man, I did not see it that way, because I don’t identify with that, and I know that all black males are not like that. I just seen an African American man doing something that no other African American man had done before him.

And if the intention of the magazine’s publishers was to perpetuate this negative stereotype of the black male, then the message was targeted to ignorant white people who are going to think what they want to think about black people anyway, so I don’t think this cover really makes that much of a difference.

We know that the reason for all of the controversy on both black and white people’s part is because he is an African American, and because of the interracial element of the magazine cover.

The problem for some people is just the fact that a black man is on the cover with a white woman.

For some illogical reason, there are some people who believe that they have the right to tell other people who to hang out with, who to talk to, who to have sex with, who to pose with, who to do business with, and also, who to marry and have a family with. This is especially true, once a person reaches a certain level of success and fame. If a man or woman is hooked up with somebody other then somebody from their race, some people feel that these people belong to them, and that this is a violation of their rights.

 

However, what I have found is: that the people who have these types of attitudes towards these people, are the very people that would have not given these people the time of day, if it were not for their fortune or fame. However, if someone suffering from this malady would like to be healed, all they need to do is, turn the situation around and think! What if someone told me? Who to hang out with,  who to talk to, who to have sex with, who to pose with, who to do business with, and also, who to marry and have a family with. Would they live and die, according to someone else’s purpose.

I don’t think so.

For me, I am just happy to see this black man on the cover of vogue, and to see his level of achievement in his professional life. His personal life is his.

But I guess that the most important statements made about the cover were from the people who were on the cover.

Bundchen, (who is the girl friend of New England Patriots Quarterback, Tom Brady), wasn't intimated by James's frame.

"He doesn't really make you feel small, even though he is big," she says in the magazine. "I think my leg is like the size of his shoe."

 LeBron James told The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer he was pleased with the cover, saying he was “just showing a little emotion.”

“Everything my name is on is going to be criticized in a good way or bad way,” James told the paper. “Who cares what anyone says?”

And that’s just fine with me!

Greg Coleman 

 

 

Hello America!

The national presidential elections are in full swing; which means it is time to take a deep breath of fresh air, (while there is still some fresh air left), put on your oxygen mask, and hold on tight for the ride that we are about to be taken on over the next few months.

I know that those who are hip to the game know what politics are all about. But, for those who buy into the myth that it’s all about truth, justice, and the American Way, and is done only for the benefit of all Americans are still asleep.

What politics is about is bullshit.

It’s about who can sling the most bullshit with the least detection of stench. And there is so much bullshit, that it is spreads throughout the entire system on all levels of government: municipal, state, federal, and now they are even spreading it into other people’s business in other people’s countries, (to our detriment); so now there is so much of it that it is now stinking internationally.

So if you are hoping for an election year that you don’t have to hold your breath for, then you are not in the right place. Because as long as we have elections, and the people running in those elections don’t really care about the people that they claim to represent, or the issues that they have to live with on a daily basis, you are going to be smelling bullshit.

Now the question becomes, what type of bullshit do you want to settle for? Because as I have said many times before, you are probably not going to get to choose an honest common man, or woman for president, who truly understands what common people are dealing with on a daily basis: the drugs, the crime, the violence, living from paycheck to paycheck, being discriminated against when you apply for a small business loan from the many so called small business assistance entities, unemployment, foreclosure, etc. etc. etc.

Oh they will come to your church (election time), to give the impression that they like being with you, and that they are just one of the members of the congregation who normally attend.

They will go to hospitals and nursing homes, and work with the sick to make you believe that this is what they have been doing long before the elections.

(Are there still people in America that fall for this bullshit?) – Probably more then you would want to believe.

They will do all of this bullshit to make you think that they are just common everyday working class people. However, let me tell you something in case you don’t know; a common working person cannot run for president, because of the system requirements and the financial requirements. First you have to be a professional politician- (bullshit Artist), and you also have to be well connected to the many special interest groups that give these politicians millions and millions so that they can run for president. (You know, the special interest groups that politicians say are so evil during the elections), the same groups who give them money for their campaigns behind closed doors. Yea! -Those groups.

The only time that these people try to appear to be a common man or woman is around election time.

And this My Fellow Americans is bullshit. 

So after very careful and diligent, intellectual analysis, I have divided the 3 leading contenders into 3 different categories, and it will be up to you to decide who is who, and whose bullshit you are willing to smell for the next 4 years.

And the nominees for President of The United States of America are:

Ancient Bullshit

Same Old Bullshit

New Bullshit

What type of bullshit can you tolerate for the next 4 years?

No matter who you choose, you can depend on one thing, you’re going to get bullshit. Why? – Because the American Public has been conditioned to think that this is okay. It’s just the way it is.

And until the American People realize that just because this is the way that it has been, does not mean that it is good for the country.

Until we start calling our politicians out on this bullshit, and bring it to the attention of our fellow Americans who are still asleep-This situation will remain the same, as it has for far too long.

(Only) Around Election Time By: Greg Coleman
A make you think song about our politicians.
When was the last time that you compared what your candidates promised during their campaigns, with what they actually delivered once in office???
The answers may surprise you, and is the main reason that the problems that they have promised to solve year after year, have not only not been solved, but are now problems of epidemic proportions.
Think About It!

 

 

 

Once again, a politician has been discovered to be not what he appeared to be to the voting public.

This is such an acceptable phenomenon in this country, until I often wonder why the public takes so many of these crooks at their word, without investigating or challenging the promises and claims that they make during their election campaigns. 

Why do I feel that he has gotten some of what he deserves?

Why do I feel the punishment should definitely fit the crime?

Why do I think that he should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law? 

Because anyone who deceives the voting public like he did under the guise of upholding and protecting the voters from crooked politicians and business people, and all illegal activities, and then turns out to be a hypocrite-should be.

 It’s not because he made a mistake in judgment. All of us as human beings do that from time to time.

It’s not because he went outside of his marriage and cheated on his wife with a prostitute. He is not the first man to do this, and I am almost 100% sure that he will not be the last, (not that this makes it right).

And it’s not because he broke the law.

It is because of his proud history of unmercifully stoning other human beings who had made the same or similar mistakes, or bad decisions in judgment like he just did.

If it is one thing that I hate, it is those who are so self righteous and judgmental of others who have made mistakes, and who are sincerely sorry for what they have done, and who want to not have the offended forget, but to at least have them practice forgiveness;(and I say practice, because forgiving is a process, and it is not something that will take place overnight for those who have been hurt). I know personally that it is a process, because I myself am still working through years of offenses that I have not yet learned to forgive.  And, one more important point: there are a lot of people who commit offences that say that people should forgive and forget. However, this is a statement of what should be, and not a request for the offended to forgive. So if you want forgiveness, it has to be requested.

Even GOD requires that you ask for forgiveness.

 

But anyway! - The main reason that I feel that he should pay dearly for his offense(s) is because of the many lives that he destroyed, not because he did his job, but because he overdid his job without the human element of mercy for the human being who committed the offense.  And I have learned (the hard way), that the only way for a person with no mercy for another human being can learn how that feels, is by showing them no mercy in return.

Hard people can only understand the pain that they inflict upon others when it is inflicted upon them. And guess what? It appears to me that those are the very people who cannot tolerate the same type of pain that they have been inflicting upon others. It’s funny that these same people suffer the most when faced with the punishment that they have been administering to others.

Eliot Spitzer, did not admit to any wrong doing in his initial statement to the public. It suddenly became a private matter, (according to him). However, he proudly made the pain and suffering of those that he prosecuted a matter of public record, and made sure that he displayed his trophies to the public so that they would be awed and amazed by his legal prowess, and his self righteousness

Eliot Spitzer is one among many powerful men who have put their righteousness on display for the public, and who have harshly judged others for being human, and prone to error, and have found themselves in the same positions as those that they were willing to crucify.  Some others are: Idaho Senator, Larry Craig, Presidential Candidate, Gary Hart, DC Mayor, Marion Barry, Florida Congressman, Mark Foley, New Jersey Governor, James McGreevey, and President Bill Clinton, (who did not have sex with that woman Monica Lewinsky), and Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, who insisted upon Bill Clinton’s impeachment as a result of his lack of moral judgment, and shortly after his insistence, his own skeletons came out of the closet to haunt him), to name just a few.

It seems to me that those who make the most noise about someone else’s shortcomings are the one’s who have the most sin to hide.

 And it is very important to note that politicians are not the only ones who have been found guilty of being immoral, or who have been caught committing illegal acts.

Of particular interest are the “Men, (and woman), Of GOD”, who claim to have a direct connection to GOD that places them far above the common man or woman, and therefore not prone to sin like us mere mortals are: Reverend Jimmie Swagger, Jim Bakker, Tammie Fay Bakker, and now, faith healer Benny Hinn, Georgia megachurch pastor Creflo Dollar, and one of the nation's most prominent women preachers Joyce Meyer are all under investigation by the Senate Committee because of their lavish spending.

You see! - The point that I am making is that:  only GOD is perfectly righteous, and that you should be totally suspicious of any other human who claims to be; especially, politicians and preachers.
A brief study of history will validate this viewpoint.

Eliot Spitzer is a prime example of what I am saying now, and what I have been saying for years. Don’t listen to what people say. Watch what they do.

Eliot Spitzer should not expect to receive any lesser punishment then the punishment that he has insisted on inflicting upon others who he proudly prosecuted unmercifully during his career.

It’s the law of the universe. You get back what you put out.

(Only) Around Election Time By: Greg Coleman
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