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Say what you will about President Obama and his policies. I can say for myself, I am not happy with many of them and have been quite vocal. His recent cowtowing around the issue of healthcare and the public option has got me angry. Now in the world of politics, dissent even if its loud and boisterous is fair game.
New York City Councilman Charles Barron once told me, in politics you go hard and beat up your opponent on the issues, but at the end of the day you remain civil and even friends. In short, politics is a contact sport and not a whole lot of folks have the stomach for it. You go hard but there are lines you don’t cross. With the election of President Obama, lines are being crossed everyday. We’ve seen folks with guns and rifles showing up at rallies where the President is speaking. He’s gotten an unprecedented number of threats on his life. He’s been the subject of racist cartoons. The most recent affront comes from two Ohio police dispatchers who saw nothing wrong with passing around an email containing a doctored photo of AirForce One where the tail letters spell out the word nigger.
Now its annoying enough when ordinary citizens who are angry with President Obama resort to using racial slurs to talk about him. Its outright disturbing when people working in law enforcement do the same thing. If they see President Obama as a nigger imagine how they see the citizenry they are supposed to protect and serve. What are these folks serving? Mayhem and misery?
This new racial assault from tax payer supported police personnel comes on the heals of a Cambridge cop writing an op ed piece where he called the President’s friend Professor Henry Louis Gates a ‘jungle monkey’. That officer was fired, but is appealing the decision. That incident came on the heals of a lawsuit filed by Black officers in Philadelphia about a popular website called Domelights used by white officers where they routinely make racially charged remarks about the people they encounter while on patrol. The final straw was when white officers referred to a group of young kids who were denied entrance into a country club swimming pool, ‘jungle monkeys’.
As KRS-One once famously asked in a song when reffrring to out of control police- ‘Who Protects Us from U’ ?
-Davey D-
Post Racial America? Yeah right! Look at the "tail number" of this plane that North Canton Police Dispatcher Anita Malachowski( amalachowski@northcantonpolice.org ) sent to an undisclosed amount of people. So this is what our tax dollars are paying for!
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North Canton dispatchers accused of forwarding racial e-mail
By Beacon Journal staff
POSTED: 06:56 p.m. EDT, Aug 16, 2009
http://www.ohio.com/news/53361252.html
Two North Canton Police Department dispatchers have been placed on administrative leave after they were accused last of forwarding racial messages using department e-mail accounts.
North Canton Police Chief Michael Grimes said the department was notified that ”inappropriate e-mail had been replied to or forwarded by two dispatchers” while on duty.
The dispatchers were not named.
A political blog at http://www.ohiodailyblog.com posted copies last week of what it said was e-mail sent by the two dispatchers.
The forwarded prank e-mail begins by saying Air Force One — the U.S. president’s private plane — has a new tail number.
The message that was allegedly forwarded reads: ”Please forgive me, I’m really sorry, I really tried not to laugh, but. . . !” It then displays a doctored photo of Air Force One with a combination of letters and numbers on the tail that spell a racial slur.
”The police department understands the serious and offensive nature of this matter,” Grimes said. ”We are investigating the situation and will deal with it appropriately.”
The police e-mail accounts of the dispatchers have been suspended during the investigation, Grimes said.
One of the two dispatchers also works for the Uniontown Police Department, Uniontown Police Chief Jack Coontz said Sunday.
He said he was notified about the allegations and plans to investigate the claims Tuesday, when the dispatcher will be back on duty.
”I haven’t been able to talk to my dispatcher to really make a comment yet,” he said.
Two North Canton Police Department dispatchers have been placed on administrative leave after they were accused last of forwarding racial messages using department e-mail accounts.
North Canton Police Chief Michael Grimes said the department was notified that ”inappropriate e-mail had been replied to or forwarded by two dispatchers” while on duty.
The dispatchers were not named.
A political blog at http://www.ohiodailyblog.com posted copies last week of what it said was e-mail sent by the two dispatchers.
The forwarded prank e-mail begins by saying Air Force One — the U.S. president’s private plane — has a new tail number.
The message that was allegedly forwarded reads: ”Please forgive me, I’m really sorry, I really tried not to laugh, but. . . !” It then displays a doctored photo of Air Force One with a combination of letters and numbers on the tail that spell a racial slur.
”The police department understands the serious and offensive nature of this matter,” Grimes said. ”We are investigating the situation and will deal with it appropriately.”
The police e-mail accounts of the dispatchers have been suspended during the investigation, Grimes said.
One of the two dispatchers also works for the Uniontown Police Department, Uniontown Police Chief Jack Coontz said Sunday.
He said he was notified about the allegations and plans to investigate the claims Tuesday, when the dispatcher will be back on duty.
”I haven’t been able to talk to my dispatcher to really make a comment yet,” he said.
I think the ideology that our solution was to integrate with our oppressor is what neutralized the black power movements. That’s why racism still exists. We should’ve instead listened to Malcolm X & The Black Panthers and stuck together with a unified agenda in overthrowing the families in power (illuminati) who promote their racist white supremacist ideology. The struggle continues…
@Mr. Davey D thank you brother for informing me, cause when i repost this material, my own peers ask me questions regarding topics such as this, people are starting to notice the disrespect..
President Obama is the scapegoat… Many rappers have eluded that are we rocking with Obama.. Yeah he walked into a mess but CHANGE one doesn’t come over night and second change starts from the Bottom
I am born and raised in Boston, MA gotta deal with the Sgt Crowely’s off the world and the Officer Barretts..
BUT
It’s ALL HOOD ! Big Brother knows his only means to quite all resistances is that he needs to Baghdad the hood !
FEEL LIKE THE 90’S AGAIN ALL THEY DOING IS UPSETTING A GENERATION THAT WAS RAISED OF NWA !
(pow)
F*CK THE POLICE
so can we say the dispatcher was “acting stupidly”?
The problem with this article is that the author writes as if he was either born yesterday or as if he just woke up in America today. Since his astute wrting ability totally negates the former, I will assume that it is the latter…metaphorically speaking.
In other words, the fact that many still see Obama as a “nigger” should come as no surprise to you. What is more surprising is the belief that the selection (as opposed to “election”) of a Black President is an indication or racial progression in America. During slavery, even the privied Overseers were still slaves.
Little has change.
The sooner we stop being so swayed by “perception” the better off we will be. Because in all honesty, the only difference between Barack Obama and Oscar Grant is their tax bracket and media influence. Maybe Oscar Grant should have been a Harvard professor. Maybe then his murder would have gotten the attention it deserves. Have you heard of him, Obama?
Yes, those policemen are racist/prejudice, and bigotry is still alive and well in America. Nothing has “changed” despite the catch-phrase and it’s mascot.
In fact, it is this very dichotomy that makes Obama such a historical figure which also fuels the anomorization of many of his followers who deem him infallible, but are slowly awaking to the fact that “something is awry”.
There is no questioning Obama’s magnetism and intelligence. The only thing that is questionable is his ability to effectively use them within a structure and culture that is historically and habitually corrupt and conspiritorial with a propensity to use Black folks for what they can get out of them. You’re tolerated if you can make them some money (just ask the Wall St. bankers about their bailout from Obama), but if not, you’re shot in the back and ignored……because you are still a nigger either way.
Once we start thinking in terms of “wrong and right” instead of “black and white”, then, and only then, will the real “Change” be ushered in. Until then…….
Tungz
really interesting topic, thanks.