NAACP's Julian Bond Says Tea Party is American Taliban, Racist and Deserve IRS Audits

from Washington Times:

Julian Bond, with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said during a Tuesday interview on MSNBC that it’s only right and just that the federal government and the IRS target tea party groups.

“I don’t think there’s a double standard at all,” he said, in the MSNBC report. “I think it’s entirely legitimate to look at the tea party. I mean, here are a group of people who are admittedly racist, who are overtly political, who tried as best they can to harm President Obama … They are the Taliban wing of American politics and we all ought to be a little worried about them.”

Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/may/14/naacps-julien-bond-its-ok-irs-target-racist-tea-pa/#ixzz2TMY2nhAb

 

Confederate Memorial on MLK in Orange, TX Angers NAACP

Slavery was bad... it still is happening and it still is bad.... no one is disputing that. The thing about war though is that it usually is started by the powerful people and then lots of not powerful people get sucked into it and lots of innocent people die on both sides. The Civil war was over slavery between the big guys, but for all the regular people fighting, most of them did not own slaves and had no interest in owning slaved. Many people fought just to fight for their state or against the north or against the south or to right with their brother who joined. Did all the British solders that were fighting against the colonist in the American Revolution hate Americans or were many of them fighting just because they were British and had to fight for their side? Look, it does not mean you agree with slavery just because you are proud to be southern or want to honor your relatives who died in the civil war fighting for the Confederacy. In America we have a Constitutional right to freedom of speech and everyone is entitled to it. So if this guy wants to build a Confederate Memorial on a major intersection so that people driving through the city can see it then so be it. Soldiers have died to protect Freedom of Speech just as soldiers have died to end Slavery.


the story below is from KBMT 12 News:
http://www.12newsnow.com/story/21192179/confederate-memorial-to-be-built-on-mlk

ORANGE - Granvel Block of Orange says he's related to at least 17 Confederate soldiers.

"My great grandfather was a Confederate veteran," he told 12News Wednesday.

He and his organization, called the Sons of Confederate Veterans, want to honor their ancestors by building a Confederate memorial in Orange. It would look similar to the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C., and it would be surrounded by 26 different Confederate flags.

     

"It'll be there for an educational purpose, to show the public the misconception that a lot of people have that the only flag is the battle flag," Block said.

But the memorial will be at the corner of Interstate 10 and MLK, and it's the location that has people talking.

"I think the location could be offensive, it seems to be in bad taste," said Orange resident Philip Cooper.

         

Orange City Council member Theresa Beauchamp finds it offensive, saying, "Everyone has their freedom of speech, but let that (part of history) be gone and forgotten. We do not need to stir up controversy in this town."

Block says his organization never intended to "make a statement."

"It was just a matter of fate that this particular spot became available," he said.

Block says the complaints are unfounded.

"We are a very diverse group, we do not have prejudices," he said.

Several Orange residents and the Orange division of the NAACP plan to voice their concerns to the City Council. But the property is paid for, and Block says the memorial will be built, possibly completed as early as April.

NAACP Asks UN Council to Investigate US Voter ID Laws Even Though Countries on Council Don't Allow Women to Vote

The NAACP has asked the United Nations Human Rights Council to investigate U.S voter ID Laws. The problem is that some of the countries on this UN Council, Saudi Arabia for instance, do not even allow woman to vote at all!

This is ridiculous! How Hypocritical can the NAACP be?? They are asking a country who does not even allow women to vote to investigate the United States where ANY citizen can vote regardless of the color of their skin or if they are a woman.

If the NAACP really did care about ending discrimination and making sure everyone has the right to vote, the NAACP would ask Saudi Arabia to be investigated by the UN. How dare the NAACP ask that the U.S. be investigated by Countries in the UN like Saudi Arabia.

Voter ID laws have been enacted in dozens of states. They are simple, common sense laws that require people voting to bring their free government issued ID that they already have anyways because ID is required to do anything from go to the movies, drive a vehicle, or even to get food stamps. Democrats and the NAACP require identification to go to many of their rallies and events, so why is this so bad to want to protect our election process from people voting illegally, voting twice, or voting under made up names and registration cards?

Not only have a majority of the states in America enacted laws requiring people to show ID when they vote, but many countries also require voter ID including Mexico and Germany.

If asking the UN to investigate America was not enough, the NAACP President Wants Felons to Vote and Says it is Racist That They Can't.

The NAACP used to serve a good purpose but they have gone from helping black people have an equal vote to now advocating for felons to be able to vote and claiming it is racist, like Jim Crow Laws, that felons can't vote. I guess they are running out of things to do now that everyone is equal so they have to pull the race card to protect felons.

 The NAACP president himself is sayings felons should vote.

I worked with a guy who was in prison and changed his life when he got out and now has a family and lives a good life and votes conservative Christian values. So I am not saying that anyone who has committed a crime should never be able to vote even after they have done their time. In Texas, depending on your crime I believe, you can vote on local or state ballots once you have done your time. People who are in prison should not be able to vote while they are still in prison though.

My point is that the NAACP is saying it is RACIST that felons can't vote and they want ALL felons to be able to vote no matter what horrendous crime or murder they committed.

NAACP President Wants Felons to Vote and Says it is Racist That They Can't

The NAACP used to serve a good purpose but they have gone from helping black people have an equal vote to now advocating for felons to be able to vote and claiming it is racist, like Jim Crow Laws, that felons can't vote. I guess they are running out of things to do now that everyone is equal so they have to pull the race card to protect felons.

 

The NAACP president himself is sayings felons should vote.

 

According to The Blaze,

 

In the grand scheme of accusations of racism, comparing a piece of legislation to Jim Crow is one of the more drastic such accusation one can make. Throwing around such a charge willy nilly, however, dilutes its effectiveness, especially when the law being charged seems to conform to common sense. NAACP President Ben Jealous should have been more cognizant of this fact when he sat down with CNN’s Suzanne Malveaux to discuss laws that require photo ID in order to vote.

read rest of story here

 

I worked with a guy who was in prison and changed his life when he got out and now has a family and lives a good life and votes conservative Christian values. So I am not saying that anyone who has committed a crime should never be able to vote even after they have done their time. In Texas, depending on your crime I believe, you can vote on local or state ballots once you have done your time. People who are in prison should not be able to vote while they are still in prison though.

 

My point is that the NAACP is saying it is RACIST that felons can't vote and they want ALL felons to be able to vote no matter what horrendous crime or murder they committed.

Brandon Darby Exposes Child Sex Trafficking Cover-up by Eric Holder's DOJ

Brandon Darby has hit the national scene (again). This time, Darby has come out swinging (on TownHall.com) at Eric Holder's Department of Justice with proof that the DOJ has covered-up multiple cases of Child Sex Trafficking.This comes on the heels of Eric Holder being Held in Contempt by the United States House of Representatives for refusing to release documents in the fast and furious gun walking program that led to the death of federal border patrol agent Brian Terry.

Brandon Darby is not your average Texan. Darby is a conservative hero. Darby was once a liberal activist. Darby realized that liberal values were taking America in the wrong direction and were even becoming violent. After Darby became an FBI informant and exposed a plot by two liberal activists to bomb the 2008 Republican National Convention, Darby officially "came out" as a new conservative and began fighting to help people using conservative values instead of hurting them with liberal values.

I met Darby when he came to my neck of the woods (Lumberton, Texas) to gather info for his story NAACP Chapter President plays Race Card to Cover-up Child-Rape Charges Against His Relative. I was honored to help Darby by investigating Texas Media Bias and how The Silsbee Bee Downplayed the Child Rape Even After the Assailant Pleaded Guilty to Assault.

I followed Darby's activities and was able to interview him about how He brings Andrew Breitbart's Conservative Fighting Style to the Texas Ring. During last year's massive Texas Wildfires in Texas, Darby used the organization he founded (Citizen Patriot Response) to help victims of the wildfires.

Read Darby's latest article exposing the child sex trafficking cover-up here on TownHall.com

Black Republican Romney Supporter Refuses to Attend NAACP Speech: Opposes Actions of NAACP | MICHAEL BERRY

read the story here: http://www.ktrh.com/pages/michaelberry.html?article=10255697#.T_uM0sPTpSg.mailto

Iowa NAACP leader quits over same-sex marriage

DES MOINES — A prominent leader in the Iowa/Nebraska branch of the NAACP — the country’s oldest civil rights group — announced today that he is resigning as branch president and a national board member in the wake of the national organization’s decision to endorse gay marriage between people of the same gender.

The Rev. Keith Ratliff Sr. of the Maple Street Missionary Baptist Church in Des Moines issued a statement saying he was stepping down from the NAACP national board and as Iowa/Nebraska state conference president “due to the NAACP’s position and support of same-sex marriage.......

.........read the rest of the article here at Quad City Times

Is Obama White? False Race Card in Black Trayvon Shooting will Hurt Obama, Democrats, and Push Away Hispanics

Democrats and Minority Groups are falsely and hypocritically playing the race card in Florida case of Hispanic George Zimmerman shooting and killing of Black Trayvon Martin. This will come back to hurt Democrats, Minority Groups, like the NAACP, and even Obama

-Some groups are seemingly breaking the law by soliciting the murder of Zimmerman. The New Black Panther Party has offered a $10,000 reward for the capture of Zimmerman Dead or Alive. You won't find Eric Holder and the DOJ charging them with anything though.  

-If the liberal media wants to say that Zimmerman is white then they must also declare that Obama is white and is not the first black President because Obama is half white too!

-New police reports say that Trayvon was suspended for having weed and Trayvon violently attacked Zimmerman

-Even former NAACP leader C.L. Bryant has accused Sharpton and Jackson of exploiting Trayvon Martin to racially divide the country.

Instead of bringing races together in American, the Democrats and minority groups like the NAACP are driving even more wedges between racial groups in America by alienating Hispanics with cries of racism. Instead of focusing on the actions of this one man, they are making this case a nationwide race card platform and also a platform advocating for more gun control.

Let me make one thing clear. My article is about racial hypocrisy surrounding this shooting and how it will backfire on Obama and the Democrats as they alienate Hispanics by playing the race card. My article is not written to take the side of Zimmerman or Martin. I personally think that things are probably a little more complicated than what the media makes things out to be though. No one really knows the facts yet and most people are just going off of emotion. People have every right to be upset and demand more answers about what happened and why an unarmed teen was shot and killed. No one is arguing against that. Heck, I want to know what happened too! I want the truth to come out and justice to be done too. I suspect that when emotions are taken out of the equation and the facts come out, it is not as open and shut a murder as people think. For instance, Martin was a 6'2" football player suspended from school for having weed, and not a little kid like the picture on the news portrays him as. Trayvon's recent tweets show his violent, sexist and Extremely Vulgar side. Also, police have released new facts and evidence corroborating what Zimmerman and witnesses have claimed, that Zimmerman was attacked, was the one crying for help, and was having his head pounded into the ground by Trayvon when Zimmerman shot in self defense. Again, I am not defending Zimmerman. I am just showing how the media has completely distorted this instead of letting everyone see the truth. I do not know what happened that night and I do not know whether or not Zimmerman started the fight and committed murder. I just know that this media storm is being driven by pure emotion and racism. I think the actual facts of the case are probably a little more complicated than people think. At the very least, Zimmerman should face a trial and be judged by a jury who can see the actual facts and decide whether or not Zimmerman broke any laws that night.

Not everyone wants just a trial and the truth though... some people are bringing race into this and using this tragic death as a pulpit to try to spew racial hatred and stir up racial tensions. 

Some groups are seemingly breaking the law by soliciting the murder of Zimmerman. The New Black Panther Party has offered a $10,000 reward for the capture of Zimmerman Dead or Alive. You won't find Eric Holder and the DOJ charging them with anything though.

Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, NAACP and New Black Panthers are all up in arms because they say Trayvon Martin getting shot and killed by George Zimmerman in Sanford, FL had to do with race.

This death had NOTHING to do with race. Zimmerman, whether right or wrong, has a history of calling the police and following ANYONE of ANY race.

In the 911 call, Zimmerman did not display any racism. Zimmerman himself is a Spanish speaking Hispanic minority who has black friends/family members and has no history of racism. One of Zimmerman's black friends, Joe Oliver, has even gone on the news to defend Zimmerman against accusations that he is a racist. Oliver said that there were recent break-ins and Zimmerman was trying to stop another one from happening. He said Zimmerman did not want to kill anyone and cried for days after he shot Trayvon.

Turning this tragic death into a soapbox to divide the country along racial lines with cries of racism is going to backfire.

Even former NAACP leader C.L. Bryant has accused Sharpton and Jackson of exploiting Trayvon Martin to racially divide the country.

This Turmoil will Push Hispanics away from Democrats, Obama, and Minority Groups like the NAACP

Hispanics are generally conservative, but they have stuck with the Democrats because they have been tricked into believing that the Democrats, and minority groups like the NAACP, are on their side. Minorities like blacks and Hispanics stick together right? It was easy for Hispanics to stick with the Democrats and watch the Dems and NAACP play the race card as long as the race card is only being played against whites. Now the race card is being played against Hispanics in the national media and Hispanics are being portrayed as racists, things will change.

I would expect that Hispanics, who have already started to wake up and realize that the Republican Party is where they belong because of their conservative values, will be turned away from Democrats even more now that the tide has turned and the Democrats and the NAACP have played the Race Card against Hispanics. The Democrats and NAACP have made a potentially fatal move in an important election year. By attacking Hispanics using the false race card, they are turning their political "allies" into the enemy and are driving a wedge in between the minority groups. This will open the eyes of Hispanics. Hispanics will feel betrayed and attacked by being painted as racist against blacks. Hispanics will wake up to the realization that the Democrats and these other minority groups do not care about them and they will open up even more to the Republican Party. Hispanics will see that Republicans have the right values and stand on solid foundations, instead of shaky foundations based on promises and racism like the Democrats.

Some liberal media outlets, like PBS, have realized that attacking a Hispanic as being racist against blacks will hurt the Democrats and so some of these news outlets have actually been falsely stating that Zimmerman is white. Zimmerman is a Spanish speaking Hispanic and is NOT white. Sure, Zimmerman has some white in him, but so does Obama. Zimmerman is as white as Obama is White. If the liberal media wants to say that Zimmerman is white then they must also declare that Obama is white and is not the first black President because Obama is half white too! The general public is not stupid. The general public has seen pictures of Zimmerman and knows he is Hispanic and not White.

This Turmoil will Back fire against Obama and the DOJ

Sharpton and Jackson and the NAACP brought the Department of Justice into this situation. After all, Obama and Eric Holder will surely be able to do what the local police have not and press charges against racist Zimmerman right? Wrong. The DOJ cannot get involved in State investigations unless they are able to find beyond a reasonable doubt that racism was the motive in the shooting. That is the only way they can arrest and charge Zimmerman for a federal hate crime.

The DOJ will likely NOT be able to charge Zimmerman because there was no racial hatred involved. I am not saying a crime was not committed. I am saying that race was not involved. The DOJ might be watching but they will ultimately not file hate crime charges and will leave it up to the state to handle the case/trial.

This inaction by the DOJ means that Obama and the DOJ will have "failed" in the eyes of those in the black community who want nothing less that hate crime charges.

Not only will Obama eventually fail the black community in this situation by not being able to press charges, he has already made a mistake in this situation by personally commenting on an ongoing, state investigation. Obama's comment on this ongoing investigation was more than just a simple comment though. Obama's comment brought emotion and race into the situation by saying that Trayvon could look like his son if Obama had a son.

This Turmoil shows the racial hypocrisy of Al Sharpton, NAACP, and Jesse Jackson.

"Jesse Jackson says that blacks are under attack" in response to this teens killing.

He is right, blacks are under attack, but not by Zimmerman, Hispanics or Whites.

Blacks are under attack by abortion. Planned Parenthood was started in an effort to keep the black population down, and continues to target blacks. More blacks are killed by abortion that by anything else.

Blacks are also under attack by blacks.

According to the DOJ, blacks in America represent only about 12% of the overall population, and yet blacks commit over 52% of all murders in America, and the majority of blacks who get killed are killed by other black people. Specifically, in 2010, 2720 Black Americans were murdered, 2569 of them were killed by fellow Blacks. In 2010, 218 Blacks were murdered by white people.

If Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson really wanted to help the black community from getting attacked and killed then they need to turn their attention on addressing black on black violence.

Instead, they continue to show their racial hypocrisy by pulling the race card in a situation where race is not involved and trying to make it seem as though all other races hate and want to kill the black race.

Why do Sharpton and Jackson not care about the 9 month old baby who was gunned down in Detroit? Why no outrage and marches through Detroit to find the killer of this innocent baby? Oh yeah, because the killer is likely not a white person and so Jackson and Sharpton do not care about that dead child because they cannot pull the race card. How about the white, unarmed war veteran, James Whitehead, who was shot in cold blood by a black off duty police officer Robert Arnold in Orange, TX? Where is the national outrage of the racially charged attack where a 13 year old white boy was set on fire earlier this month in Kansas where the attackers said "You get what you deserve, white boy." Oh yeah, they don't care about that injustice because they cannot pull the race card. In fact, there are 15,000 to 20,000 murders of babies, children, adults, senior citizens each year. Why not care about any of those murders?

Racial hypocrisy over the years has made it painfully clear that Al Sharpton, NAACP, New Black Panthers, and Jesse Jackson do not care about Justice for all. They only care about Justice when they can get in the national spotlight and pull the race card against any race other than the black race.



Media is CLEARLY biased against Zimmerman..

The Mainstream Media clearly has clearly used old pictures to make Zimmerman look criminal and make Trayvon look like an innocent kid. They doctored pictures of Trayvon Martin!

These Pictures of Zimmerman is from SEVERAL years old but the Media is using it instead of the recent picture of Zimmerman looking upstanding. The media clearly wants Zimmerman to look criminal by using an old picture

Zimmerman picture from years ago that media is using makes him look bad:


Zimmerman RECENT picture that media is not using because it makes him look upstanding:



This picture of Trayvon is from several years ago and make him look like a little child. Why not use recent pictures? The media intentionally has tried to make Trayvon look like a child by using a picture of Trayvon from years ago instead of using recent pictures that show him grown up and instead of 6'2".

Trayvon picture from YEARS AGO that media is using to make Trayvon look like a kid:


Trayvon CURRENT picture that he uploaded to his twitter account:



The media has also been using a picture of Trayvon in a hoodie. The original picture of Trayvon in a hoodie has been extremely doctored to make Trayvon look younger and innocent. This CLEARLY shows how the media is biased against Zimmerman.

Trayvon Before Doctoring:


Trayvon after doctoring:

Does TX Senator Whitmire Care about Last Meals or Does He Want Black Votes? Are Hate Crime Laws Racist?

by, David Bellow

Houston, Texas Democrat, State Senator John Whitmire has written a letter to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Director, Brad Livingston, demanding that the Texas Department of Criminal Justice end the practice of giving death row inmates a last meal request before their execution.

Senator Whitmire asked for the practice to be stopped in response to the ridiculous last meal request of Lawrence Brewer, a white supremacist, who was executed this week for killing a black man, James Byrd Jr., in Jasper, TX.

I have no problem with ending last meals. These guys are murderers, who did not give their victims a last meal. They get too much in prison as it is anyway. These extra perks that inmates get strain the prison's time and resources. Earlier this year, I wrote an article explaining how David Puckett broke out of Stiles Maximum Security Prison in Beaumont, Texas, and I explained the problems in this Texas Prison that led up to the escape, including strained resources because the inmates get too many things in Prison.

So I do not have a problem with Senator Whitmire’s decision to ask TDCJ to stop last meals. I do have a problem with the timing and motive of Senator Whitmire.

Senator Whitmire has been the chairman of the Texas Senate Criminal Justice Committee for several years and there have been ridiculous last meal requests every year that Senator Whitmire has been the chair of this committee.

According to Fox News, just last week, Texas Death Row inmate Steven Woods' last meal request included two pounds of bacon, a large four-meat pizza, four fried chicken breasts, two drinks each of Mountain Dew, Pepsi, root beer and sweet tea, two pints of ice cream, five chicken fried steaks, two hamburgers with bacon, fries and a dozen garlic bread sticks with marinara on the side. Steven Woods robbed and killed 2 people.

So why end the meals after Brewer’s ridiculous request? Why now? Why not end it years ago when Senator Whitmire became chairman of the Senate Criminal Justice Committee? Did Senator Whitmire JUST figure out that inmates are asking for silly last meals? Is he that unintelligent that he does not know what goes in in Texas prisons even though he is the head of that senate criminal justice committee?

Of course he is not unintelligent and he knows that these ridiculous last meals have been going on for years. He has just never said anything before.

So why is he finally standing up against this practice? It is simple. He sees an opportunity to get some positive press and win points with black voters.

Brewer’s execution was a very high profile execution with lots of media attention. It was an especially important execution for black organizations like the NAACP because Brewer killed a black man. That dragging-death murder led to the Texas Legislature enacting Hate Crime legislation.

With all the media attention surrounding this execution, and the eyes of black voters watching the news reports of Brewers execution, this was Senator Whitmire’s opportunity to get some national attention and win points with black voters.

So Senator Whitmire wrote a letter to the TDCJ Director, acting all surprised that Brewer, a white supremacist, got a last meal request. Senator Whitmire made a big scene and demanded that the last meals stop or else he will pass legislation next session to stop it.

Well Senator Whitmire, you had many years to write legislation to stop it, but you never did. TDCJ immediately stopped the last meal requests when they got your letter, so why didn’t you send them a letter years ago? It was only when an opportunity arose to get some national media attention and approval points from black voters that you acted surprised that this was happening and demanded that it stop.


Texas Hate Crime Legislation is Discriminatory and was Passed to End Bad Press and Get Black Votes after James Byrd Jr. was Killed in Jasper, TX

Murder is murder. I don’t care if you are a white guy who kills a black guy or if you are a black guy who killed a white guy. Like Texas Governor Rick Perry said at a Republican Presidential Debate, if you come into Texas and you kill someone, then we are going to execute you (paraphrased). Murder is horrendous and wrong regardless of the color of one’s skin. It is wrong to say that one person’s life is more important than another person’s life simply based on the color of the murdered person’s skin. Hate crime legislation does just that. Hate crime legislation says that the rape and murder of a little girl is somehow less important that the murder of a black man by a white man. Both of the murders killed someone and they both should be dealt with using the strongest penalties allowed. In my opinion, every murder is a hate crime.

We need to break down the walls of using race as a determining factor in America. Whether it is college admissions or a job application, race should never be a factor. Like Martin Luther King Jr. once said, people should be judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin. Having race as a determining factor in any area of government simply keeps racism alive.

I don’t dislike Obama based on the color of his skin. I dislike Obama because I disagree with his policy. One of my good friends is Black, Republican Texas State Representative James White. James White is a strong conservative, and I fully supported him when he ran last year. I didn’t care if he was Black, Hispanic, or Chinese. I cared about what he stood for. We should all be color blind like that. We need to take race out of the equation and judge people based on who they are, not what color they are. Especially in voting, people should vote for someone based on what the person believes and not the color of the person’s skin.

Politicians want votes, and they do not want bad press. When Brewer killed James Byrd Jr. in Jasper, TX the media swarmed Jasper and said that East Texas is full of racial hatred and demanded that legislators do something. The legislators responded by passing a hate crimes bill. The hate crimes bill was to stop the bad press and win votes. In reality, hate crimes legislation really does not do anything except say that one person getting murdered is worse than another person getting murdered. Murder is the worst thing that can happen to an innocent victim, no matter what color the victim’s skin, is and all murder victims should be dealt with at the same level of seriousness no matter what color their skin is.


Same thing with Anti-Gay Bullying Laws

The same thing is happening when a homosexual kid is bullied at school. Many gay rights advocates are pushing for anti-bullying laws that specifically reference anti-gay bullying. Even President Obama has appointed a Homosexual Activist to a top post in the Department of Education. Kevin Jennings will oversee “safety” in schools. Maybe Jennings should try teaching students that homosexual sex is not safe considering that Homosexuals make up the majority of new Aids/HIV cases in America each year!

I am all for state and local laws that punish bullies in schools, but there is no need to make a law specifically against gay bullying. Why is it worse when a gay guy gets bullied than when a straight guy gets bullied? I bet there are more heterosexuals bullied in schools overall than homosexuals. My point is, Bullying is bullying no matter who is getting bullied, and it is wrong and there should be no tolerance for bullying of any kind. Gay rights advocates are just trying to push their agenda into schools. California is even creating mandatory homosexual education in schools! What happened to math and science? Maybe that is what is wrong with California’s economy.


Current Racial Divide in Jasper, TX after Black Council Members Discriminate Against White Applicants in Hiring of New Police Chief

The President of the Jasper NAACP, Billy Ray Robinson, was recently arrested in connection with the arrest of his son who was busted in a school zone with drugs. But that is not the big buzz in the town of Jasper.

The big buzz right now is that the City of Jasper, TX is currently faced with many lawsuits and recall elections over claims of racial discrimination. No, the city is not run by a bunch of white people who are discriminating against black people. It is actually the opposite. The city is run by mostly black leaders, and these black leaders have been accused of discriminating against white people. Earlier this year, the Jasper TX City Council hired a Black Police Chief. I don’t have a problem with that. The problem is that this new black police chief seems to have been hired in a backroom deal by the black city council members based on his race and not his qualifications. Rodney Pearson was at the bottom of the city’s hiring list. He was the least qualified and has a criminal record. The white applicants who were more qualified but passed up for the job have filed lawsuits of racial discrimination against the City of Jasper. The white Police Officers in the Jasper Police Department were demoted and even fired by Pearson when Pearson was hired. The City Council faces several recall elections due to these accusations of racial discrimination in the hiring of this new Police Chief. In response, the council gave Pearson a $5000 pay raise. Pearson has only been hired for 6 months and City policy states that all city employees are ineligible for a pay raise until after their first year. This is not just my opinion. Even the Beaumont Enterprise wrote an Editorial condemning the Jasper City Council for their actions.

What is the solution to all these problems in this article? We just need to stop judging people based on the color of their skin and start judging people based on the content of their character. We need to stop the political games of trying to win votes from certain groups. And we need to come together and break these racial divides that we have kept alive through reverse discrimination practices like hate crime laws.

Texas Media Bias: The Silsbee Bee Downplays Child Rape Case Even After Assailant Pleads Guilty to Assault

Media Bias in Small Town America... the Residents of Silsbee Deserve Better from their Local Paper!

By, David Bellow 

I first heard of what the Beaumont Enterprise dubbed the Silsbee Rape Case a couple of years ago from reading about it in one of the local newspapers, The Silsbee Bee. For over a year I read articles that gave me the impression that this alleged rape victim was not really a victim at all and she was probably just making it all up. Over the last few months, I started to hear some of the facts of the case, and it really started to get me thinking that maybe there was more to this story than what was being told. I have since found out that there was much more to the story and, just this past month, Liberal Caroline Heldman and Conservative Brandon Darby published shocking stories that shed light on the real facts of the Silsbee Rape Case.

We were all wrong in our assumptions of the case thanks to The Silsbee Bee and their questionable reporting of the case. There is a great injustice that has been done to the victim as a result of everyone believing the advocacy disguised as journalism of The Silsbee Bee instead of looking deeper to find the truth.

Did Gerry Dickert, Editor of The Silsbee Bee, downplay the Rape Case and Side with the Assailant in the Silsbee Bee Articles?

Media bias is real, and in a small town like Silsbee, Texas, the bias of the local newspaper can allow for massive cover ups and one-sided reporting.

In October, 2008, a minor girl claimed she was raped at a party. Two men, Rakheem Bolton and Chris Rountree (plus a minor male) were arrested on charges of rape of a minor. In September, 2010, Bolton was finally convicted of assaulting the minor girl.

Since the 2008 assault, the case made national headlines when the minor girl was kicked off of the school’s cheerleading team when she stood silent and did not cheer while her assailant was at the free throw line. The victim was being forced to yell, “Two, four, six, eight, ten, come on Rahkeem, put it in!”

You would expect the local newspaper to present both sides, but they did not. In over two years of covering the case, Gerry Dickert never once published any interviews with the victim or her family to get their side of the story. However, numerous articles featured interviews with the defendants and their families. For comparison, the nearby Beaumont Enterprise covered the case more comprehensively and frequently included statements from both sides like this article.

One of the most egregious examples of bias at The Silsbee Bee involves their coverage of an NAACP press conference held one week after Bolton and Rountree were indicted. The Bee posted a video of this NAACP meeting online with no context and no opposing views. And of course the paper also did not reveal that the President of the Jasper NAACP, Billy Ray Robinson, is the Great Uncle of Bolton (the convicted assailant) and Robinson used the NAACP to try to get these guys off the hook. See Brandon Darby’s Article, NAACP Chapter President Plays Race Card to Cover-up Child-Rape Charges Against His Relative. Is this ethical?

Similarly, The Silsbee Bee posted a video featuring a statement from Rountree’s mother, again without context, that was filmed right after the NAACP press conference. The caption reads, “Martha Jordan, the mother of Chris Rountree, speaks out about the support she and her family have received from the community of Silsbee. She is joined by Chris, center, and his sister, Chelsea Morgan, left.” This video is sheer promotion of one side of the story, not journalism.

Silsbee Bee Editor Dickert even went on a National News show trying to defend the school’s decision to kick the victim off of the cheerleading team, and he tried to discredit the accusations of the minor female victim. Notice how the interviewer is frustrated with his line of reasoning and cuts him off. Gerry Dickert also wrote an article slamming the national media for the attention it was giving the Silsbee rape case. He even claimed that the school did not ask the victim to limit her activities at the high school, even though this claim by the victim is backed by a school official and another member of her cheer squad.

Newspapers have an obligation to report on all sides in a story, not advocate for one side while essentially making the other side silent. This is especially true in small towns like Silsbee where opinions can be set by coverage in the local paper. Not once did I find that The Silsbee Bee presented the full facts about the story, despite the fact that the details are publicly available in the police records. Not once did The Silsbee Bee report the fact that the witnesses at the party heard the minor girl say “no” and “stop,” that these witnesses broke through the door, that the accused fled out a window, or that the girl was found on the floor under a pool table half naked and crying. The Silsbee Bee never reported that Bolton was heard by several witnesses threatening to come back and kill the people at the house where the rape occurred. The Silsbee Bee has all the police records about the Silsbee case and knows all of these facts but never reported them. See the facts of the case in Caroline Heldman’s article, A Cheerleader’s Rape in Silsbee, Texas: The Victim on Trial.
The Silsbee Bee did however report that a principal from Silsbee got a threatening email from an unidentified person after the school kicked the victim off of the cheerleading team. And after Bolton plead guilty to assaulting the minor female, they ran a story in which the men accused of rape were portrayed as the real victims. And in their unusual form, The Silsbee Bee did not interview the victim or her family. The Silsbee Bee also ran a story showing how much the county spent to convict Rakheem for assault, and The Silsbee Bee suggested that the $20,000 spent on the rape case wasn’t worth it.

WHY Would The Silsbee Bee Trick us With Their Biased Reporting?

Why would Gerry Dickert and The Silsbee Bee purposely slant their coverage of the Silsbee rape case? Dickert’s political and family ties tell an interesting story. Dickert previously worked on the political campaign of a county-wide elected official and was on the Silsbee Economic Development Board so it would seem that he has an interest in covering up bad publicity for the City of Silsbee. Dickert also worked with Silsbee Councilman Thomas Tyler while on the Silsbee Economic Development Board that granted Tyler’s employer, Cowboy Autoplex, a grant of $200,000 taxpayer money to build a new car dealership. Tyler is cousin to both Bolton, the convicted assailant, and Shannon Robinson, the man who drove the accused away from the scene of the crime that night. And this isn’t the first time The Silsbee Bee covered up a Tyler family problem. Thomas Tyler Jr., Thomas Tyler’s son, ran for Justice of the Peace against Robert Ward, Jr. whose father issued the arrest warrants in the Silsbee rape case. When Tyler, Jr. was running for Justice of the Peace, The Silsbee Bee refused to publish the police report of an incident where Thomas Tyler Jr. had an arrest warrant requested for him for allegedly beating his girlfriend even though the Hardin County News allowed the police report in their newspaper.

In the same election though, The Silsbee Bee had no problem reporting that a Republican candidate in Hardin County had some speeding tickets past due.

Lastly, although it is not uncommon for random people to be your friends on Facebook, the fact that Rakheem Bolton’s stepfather is Facebook friends with Gerry Dickert AND Gerry Dickert’s kids AND siblings shows that the Dickert family has close ties with the Bolton Family.

The bottom line is that it appears Gerry Dickert has unrevealed ties to the Silsbee assault case, and given his biased coverage, it seems that he slanted his reporting of the rape case to favor the admitted assailant. And this isn’t the first time his coverage has been affected by his politics and friendships. The residents of Silsbee deserve better from their local paper.