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Get ready to feel your blood boil. You will NOT believe it but this article actually ties the incident with Luis Ramirez with Birmingham, AL 1963 and a KKK bomb attack that killed four young black girls. Yes, you read that right.. they are saying that this incident is as bad as the KKK planting a BOMB and killing children!!

The article was in the Tallahassee.com edition and written by Barbara Ransby of the Progressive Media Project. I decided to find out who she is which follows the article.

Back to Birmingham, 45 years later

By Barbara Ransby • PROGRESSIVE MEDIA PROJECT • September 15, 2008

Forty-five years ago, one of the most pivotal racist attacks of the civil-rights era occurred. Local members of the Ku Klux Klan planted a bomb under the steps of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., on a Sunday morning, Sept. 15, 1963. The explosion killed four young girls, three of them age 14 and one of them only 11 years old.

Most popular accounts of the civil-rights movement mark 1963 as the apex of nonviolence. In August of that year, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial facing an audience of 250,000 supporters.

But while King praised nonviolence, racist groups and individuals engaged in violence throughout the region. Birmingham was at the center of the fray. There were so many buildings and homes blown up by vigilantes there that the town was dubbed “Bombingham.” Convictions for these crimes were rare. It was not until 1977 that prosecutors in Alabama aggressively went after the culprits in the 16th Street Church bombing, resulting in the conviction of KKK member Robert Chambliss that same year.

Things have changed in America since 1963. No one would argue with this. My own grandmother, who was born in Mississippi in 1901 and worked as a sharecropper and maid, never believed the day would come that a black man would be nominated for president by a major political party.

But let’s not celebrate the postracial Promised Land too soon. There is not only persistent racism in the United States, there is also persistent racist violence and the hatred that fuels it.

Sen. Barack Obama has had numerous death threats. The threats were so prevalent and so serious that he received Secret Service protection well before he was the Democratic Party nominee.

Yeah you get death threats no matter what color you are Barbara if you decide to become a public figure and a controversial one at that.

In America, people of color are still victims of racially motivated violence.

In May a federal jury in Kansas City convicted two men of the racially motivated murder of a black man, William McCay, three years before.

Last month, Luis Ramirez, a Mexican immigrant and father of two, was beaten to death by four white teenagers in Shenandoah, Pa. They hurled racist epithets along with kicks and punches.

Let me straighten you out here Barbara. This fight was mutual and Ramirez could have walked away but he chose to return WITH his friend and go after the teens, which resulted in his death. It was NOT a KKK attack. And Ramirez ALSO hurled racial epithets at the white teens. Ramirez was also wanted on a 2004 aggravated assault charge and he was a fugitive from justice at the time of his death. He was ALSO in a dark park at 11:30pm with a 15 year old girl, which is how the fight got started. But of course you don’t want to muddy up your little article with things like FACTS now do you. You’d much rather make your distorted correlations between the KKK and these white teens and I charge that YOU Barbara, are the racist here because you apparently see white teens and you see the KKK.

It is important to remember the lessons and legacy of Birmingham in 1963.

It is equally important to not turn a blind eye to the instances of racial harassment and violence today, from the lynching reference that sparked the Jena 6 case last year to the numerous hate crimes that get reported to the Justice Department and civil-rights watchdog groups each year.

Let’s not forget the cold blooded MURDER of Jamiel Shaw Jr by a Hispanic illegal alien and the MURDER of the black honors students in NJ by an illegal alien Hispanic GANG and the MURDER of the Bologna father and sons by an illegal alien HISPANIC Barbara. These are all WAY more racist and hateful than what happened in Shenandoah - but that does not support your distorted arguments so you conveniently leave them out.

It is not only naive to think we have completely eradicated racism in America, it is dangerous.

To be sure, racist violence never consumed the entire population or even the majority. Most people of color were not direct victims. And most whites did not throw the blows or the bombs. They simply looked the other way.

Apathy or willful ignorance in the face of racism and injustice yields the same net result, whether it is the blatant and widespread racism that showed itself in Birmingham, or the more subtle but no less real racism of today.

We couldn’t afford that apathy or that ignorance yesterday. We can’t afford it now.

# Barbara Ransby is an associate professor in the department of African American Studies and History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Contact the author via e-mail: pmproj@progressive.org.

Apparently Barbara Ransby is not only involved with the Progressive Media Project, but also the LEFT FORUM and they have a web site here. They are self described in this way:

Left Forum provides a context for the critical dialogue that is essential for a stronger Left and a more just society.

Oh really? A more just society? And that gives you the license to outright LIE? It’s outrageous that anyone can tie the event in Shenandoah to a KKK bombing and get away with it. The Tallahassee.com saw fit to print it. Shame on them!

Barbara Ransby is also a member of the Editorial Board of The Black Commentator - apparently a magazine devoted to ONLY Black issues. Oh yeah Barbara, you aren’t a racist now are you. I can just imagine how you would point the finger at an ALL WHITE magazine. Total double standard Barbara. A just society? Where Blacks run the world? Is that what you want Barbara?

Oh and guess what? The chair of The Black Commentator is a Julian Bond. Julian Bond was named the first president of the Southern Poverty Law Center at its founding in 1971 and still sits on the board. The SPLC is leading the way in listing anyone who is against illegal immigration as a racist hate group, including a Pennsylvania group which consists of two sweet white haired ladies.

I’ll tell you what will end racism. When people like YOU stop seeing the world through a RACE PRISM and see people without seeing their color. You are just as bad if not worse than the KKK with your Black Commentator membership and your singling out that only Barack Obama receives death threats and your focus on only white crime against other races. Give me a break! You are just not worth listening to.

You will notice that all of these associations of Barbara Ransby’s are conveniently omitted in the credits on the article and she only refers to her associate professorship in the department of African American Studies and History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. I think we should let Barbara know how we feel about her using her position at a university to spew her racist, leftist agenda and have it appear mainstream.

Email her here

Contact the President of the University of Illinois at Chicago - Robert Zimmer - here

President’s Office at University of Chicago (773) 702-8800

Sound off about this article in the forums at the Save Shenandoah web site here

Well well isn’t this interesting to see. The son of Mayor Thomas O’Neill wrote the following editorial in the Standard Speaker on September 4th. I had several comments on the article - none of which have appeared. So I decided to comment here where I have free speech - on my own blog.

Shenandoah trying to come together

(From The Standard Speaker)

Published: Thursday, September 4, 2008 4:25 AM EDT

Editor,

I was one of the participants at the unity gathering at the Kahillat Israel Nondenominational Christian Church in Shenandoah. Some who attended commented to me afterwards that they felt as if they sat in on an evangelical political rally. Their comments seemed to have been made sarcastically though because of the religious and political undertone of the main speakers. Leaders from various state and Hispanic organizations spoke to show their support for our town’s Latinos, and to gain the media coverage.

That’s because, Thomas, it was indeed a political rally. The sponsors have a political agenda and that agenda is to legalize illegal aliens and turn them to citizens so that their Hispanic power base increases even more. They are also acting as agents of the government of Mexico to further their PR efforts to induce sympathy for the Mexican illegal alien. If Mexico truly cared about its citizens, it would not EXPORT them to the United States for a better life! Your last line belies the true motivation behind the “unity rally”. It was to gain MEDIA ATTENTION for MALDEF - which has MILLIONS of DOLLARS to spend helping ONLY Mexicans who are here in this country - most of them here illegally.

The gathering did bring members of our community together though in a positive way. People left the event knowing that they are not alone in their frustrations with the racial tensions in our town.

The 600 or so people at the Voice of the People USA rally also left knowing they are not alone and that they are in the majority. The “racial tensions” in the town are from several things. First, the presence of non-English speaking illegal aliens from Mexico in the town induces racial tensions because they cannot communicate, they are taking jobs from Americans because they work for slave wages and they are committing crimes in the community. Of COURSE the citizens of Shenandoah are tired of seeing these people run around breaking laws without being punished! Not only are they breaking the law just BEING HERE, but several of the people involved in this Ramirez “beating” death are repeat offenders of driving without a license, aggravated assault and the list goes on.

The SECOND cause of racial tensions is coming from Crystal Dillman herself and her new MALDEF “handlers” who are encouraging her accusations at the town. Funny how none of the accusers mention that Ramirez ALSO uttered racial epithets at the white teens. It’s only a problem if racial slurs are uttered by whites? The “racial tensions” are being STOKED by the likes of MALDEF and Dr Agapito “we will never assimilate” Lopez. All of these people who claim to be in Shenandoah to promote Unity are the actual perpetrators of the DIVISION in the town. They are from OUTSIDE the town - even going so far as to bus people to Shenandoah from CHICAGO. Are they trying to express unity between Shenandoah and CHICAGO? They wanted their “unity” gathering - the first one - to appear successful so they pumped it up with people from ANOTHER STATE! You know why? Because they knew that they would not get a large turnout from the town they had accused of being a racist town. It’s just laughable for a group to jump into an issue, hurl insults at a town and then pose as “unifiers” of the town. What a laughable piece of crap!

At the same time, a group calling themselves “the voice of the people” was rallying across town. Their rhetoric seemed counter productive and their actions spoke louder than their words. They seemed angry and bitter towards immigrants in general. Their arrival was divisive to the community and in no way have they brought about healing.

There was no “rhetoric” at the Voice of the People USA rally. Only truth was being spoken and the “voices” of Shenandoah were quite enthusiastic. All of the people involved in the VOPUSA rally make ZERO money from doing this and in fact it costs them money to ATTEND in the first place. They stand to gain NOTHING except to help a town defend themselves against the VICIOUS ATTACKS by the likes of MALDEF with the help of the supposed fiancee of the victim, Luis Ramirez. You are DEAD WRONG when you say VOPUSA is “angry and bitter towards immigrants in general”. In fact, I’d have to say the majority of people at the rally and speaking are descendants of “immigrants” themselves but not the ILLEGAL kind. So to call us “bitter towards immigrants” could not be farther from the truth.

The anti-immigration rally on the most part was taking advantage of our town’s economic condition. Poverty has gripped our region in a severe way. The Hispanics simply became the rally’s whipping-board for everything that is wrong with our society.

The people who are “taking advantage of your town’s economic condition” are the illegal aliens who have arrived there in a depressed economy to put even more American citizens in Shenandoah out of work, depress the local wages and essentially live like parasites off the depressed economy. They are STILL better off in Shenandoah than they are in Mexico but that does not make it right for them to come here. The other people taking advantage are the outsiders from MALDEF who have descended upon this town to exploit the racial tension so that they can point to the white residents of Shenandoah and say “see how racist Americans are against Mexicans”. The people who are being DEMONIZED are Americans! The illegal aliens have chosen to break the laws - we don’t need to demonize them - we just need to point out their illegal behavior coming into the country and that it continues once they arrive in the form of driving without licenses and insurance, driving while intoxicated and aggravated assaults or worse.

It is true that our town is impoverished and that is one of the reasons why the Hispanics are moving here. They are here because of the low cost of living. They are also willing to work hard manual labor jobs that the average person will not work.

Correction. Americans are very willing to do hard labor and they have been doing hard labor jobs for the entire history of our country. These jobs that illegal aliens are taking are PAYING LESS THAN AN AMERICAN CITIZEN CAN LIVE ON. Why is that? Because the employers are GREEDY and SELFISH and because Americans need to pay taxes and insurance and register their vehicles.. these are all laws the citizen is required to follow and the illegal alien is NOT. Thus, illegal aliens come here, stack up 20 or more per house to save money, work under the table for cash and send half of it BACK to the MEXICAN or GUATEMALAN economy!

We also have to realize that most of the Hispanics that immigrated to our region left behind in their native countries the most impoverished conditions imaginable.

That is not our problem. We cannot save the poor of the world by inviting them to our country!!! If you care so much about the impoverished of the world - go work for the Peace Corps and do some good for them in their own country!

I have seen this kind of extreme poverty first hand. In the early 1990’s, I lived in Ecuador, India, Malaysia, and Australia. People living in the hills of Duran in Ecuador are living in sugarcane huts.

When I returned to the United States I was grateful for what I had and the little inconveniences were just that — little inconveniences compared to how the poor live in Ecuador.

The people in Ecuador looked at me with such curiosity and they were the most loving people. I washed my clothes with them, ate with them, and we had to communicate in body language because I could not speak their language. There was one thing that they loved to do however and that was laugh. They were not aware of what they did not have in terms of technology because they were pretty much isolated from the rest of the world. On the most part they are content to live in their community because the community is their family. They could rely on one another in times of need.

If these people are so family oriented, why are they so willing to leave their families behind to come to a foreign country for a better life? Hmmm?

That is how most of the Hispanics in Shenandoah would like to live. They would like to reach out to their neighbors and to their community free from racial bias, bigotry, and hate. They understand implicitly what we give to the members of our community we give to ourselves.

Shenandoah would be happy to welcome immigrants of all races to their town if they were coming here LEGALLY and in doing so, they wished to learn the LANGUAGE and assimilate into becoming an American. But what we have is something different entirely. We have foreigners coming here illegally, “living in the shadows (their choice)” and refusing to learn our language or assimilate. Meanwhile they are happy to send their MANY children to our schools paid for by the local taxpayers, and take jobs from Americans in Construction, Hospitality, Agriculture, Manufacturing because they will work for peanuts and also get free health care at our hospitals. WHAT A COUNTRY EH?

Our town might be ailing but the cure is in the people. Whenever we enhance the wellbeing of a person in need we in turn enhance our own lives. This type of living is becoming lost in our modern, high-tech society, but it is something we can learn from the Hispanic population.

Ah yes.. Mr Ramirez was a shining example of those Hispanic family values.. allegedly sleeping with Crystal Dillman’s 15 year old half sister at the same time he was fathering children with Crystal out of wedlock.. and he led her along that he was going to marry her.. for how long?

The foreigners are coming to our country because they want their children and grandchildren to have better opportunities and a better life as Americans. That is what makes our country the greatest nation on earth and a beacon of light and hope for the other nations of the world.

I’m sure they are but that does not make the United States of America a LIFEBOAT for everyone who wants a better life. Immigrants are welcomed here to the tune of 2 MILLION per year. That is more than ALL OF THE COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD COMBINED. How DARE you say that America and Americans are not welcoming to immigrants ?

As for the group calling themselves ‘the voice of the people’ they seem to have an unenlightened voice. Especially, when you consider that our community is trying to come together to bring about change for the better.

Oh you will see change in Shenandoah because the voice of the people in that town have been enlightened and it was not from the “unity” gathering that you attended.

Thomas F. O’Neill,

Shenandoah native

Digger over at Digger’s Realm put together an awesome video analysis of the story NBC San Diego did on the National Council of THE RACE Convention being held in San Diego this week. The NBC story was being passed off as “objective news” but it was more like a nice little PR piece for NCLR. In fact, it seems the Mayor of San Diego was busy whoring himself at the feet of NCLR and the imaginary powerful Latino vote like a cheap hooker, by proclaiming July 8th as “NCLR Day”. How nice! A racist, separatist pro-Latino screw everyone else group is being honored with their own day. Well scratch San Diego off my list of cities I ever want to visit because apparently it has been bought and paid for by Mexico and NCLR. How disgusting!

I visited San Diego in the late 70’s and it was a cool, hip place with lots of American “hippie” types. I suppose now it looks more like Mexico. How sad.

Digger does an EXCELLENT job at dissecting the media bias in the short piece. You will learn how to spot the media bias in other stories after you watch his educational video.

Here’s the YouTube video by Digger that you absolutely must see!

Sad but true - Mayor John DeStefano, an elected official who swore to uphold the Constitution of the United States AND the Constitution of Connecticut has actually stated in public that enforcing immigration laws is like water boarding and those who seek to have our laws enforced are hate groups and racists. So do you consult with the National Council of La Raza much Mr Mayor?

Thankfully there are patriots like Community Watchdog Project in New Haven who are making us all aware of how idiotic the Mayor of New Haven Connecticut is. Talk about HATE SPEECH! He is accusing this group of burning down churches and being racist without a SHRED of EVIDENCE to back it up. He is just like NCLR - obviously reading about the methods of famous Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels “if you repeat a lie often enough people will come to believe it”. Well Americans are not as stupid as you think Mayor and we are pissed off at people like you and your time in office will be very short now that you have revealed yourself to be anti-American and pro-invasion.

Read the story and see the video over here at Community Watchdog Project’s site (This site is no longer available).

Tonight I (Dustin W. Gold) went to the Mark Twain House to see an illegal immigration forum featuring Mayor John DeStefano, Mayor Mark Boughton, and Tamar Jacoby. There was roughly 150 people in attendance, in additon to several media outlets.

About half way through the forum Mayor DeStefano had a temper tantrum, and began attacking Roger and I, and accused Community Watchdog Project of being a “hate group”. One member of the audience scolded the Mayor for accusing us of being racist, but he said that it was the truth and was based on our actions.

This is the second time that the Mayor has publicly accused our group of things that just aren’t true. The other was the 2008 State of the City Address.

We have also been informed that during a meeting of the “ministers” at the Mayor’s Office on Thursday, January 31, 2008, the Mayor was in favor of attacking the character of one of our founders, Alan Felder. One of the ministers was very upset and refused to take part in any public smearing of CWP. We thank you very much for professionalism, and will prove to you that you have made the right decision.

As for you Mr. Mayor, we are not anti-immigrant or racist. We are anti-illegal immigration, anti-law breaking, anti-pandering, and anti-exploitation. Just because we do not agree with your support of encouraging illegal activity does not mean that we are racist or anti-immigrant.

Subject: Illegal Immigration: How Cities Are Coping
Start Date: 03/12/2008
Start Time: 6:00 PM
End Date: 03/12/2008
End Time: 7:30 PM
Location: Mark Twain House & Museum, 351 Farmington Ave., Hartford
Member Fee: $10.00
Non-Member Fee: $15.00

Description: Cities are dealing with their illegal immigrants in very different ways, some working with federal agents to arrest the undocumented, others barring police from even asking about citizenship status, and others in the muddled middle.

A think-tank expert and two Connecticut mayors with different perspectives will talk about this complex problem in a Key Issues Forum on Wednesday, March 12, at 6 p.m. at the Mark Twain House & Museum, 351 Farmington Ave., Hartford.

Panelists are Danbury Mayor Mark D. Boughton, New Haven Mayor John DeStefano and Tamar Jacoby of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. Courant columnist Tom Condon will moderate.

Full story

Gee I thought there were supposed to be panelists with different opinions.. I certainly didn’t see many people challenging this asshole Mayor on his inflammatory and HATEFUL comments!