Flash! From Liz Smith | 07/10/2009 1:30 pm
LIZ SMITH FLASH! Old Joe Jackson Thinking Showbiz for Paris?
Memo to the Michael Jackson family. When you allow old Joe to go about talking of how he is looking at Paris for a show business career and how he is going to raise Michael’s children – isn’t this just a setup for Debbie Rowe to seize custody from Katherine Jackson?! Joe Jackson gave an interview to ABC News that is chilling in its implications – aside from his assertions that Michael was the victim of "foul play."
The one thing Michael always made clear was how his father ruined his life. I think he must be rolling in his grave wherever that may be to think that Joe Jackson will have any say-so over these three grandchildren. Let alone protecting these poor innocents from a future in show business!
The one thing Michael always made clear was how his father ruined his life. I think he must be rolling in his grave wherever that may be to think that Joe Jackson will have any say-so over these three grandchildren. Let alone protecting these poor innocents from a future in show business!
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My argument with the constitution is that a Black Man is 3/5 of a man. It has never been changed, that is what my argument with it is. This country elected a Black President because he happens to be the best man for the job, not because he is Black. Let’s be honest.
Nicole,
You need to do research.
The purpose of the 3/5’s [black man] rule was to develop a unit of measurement for the purpose of determining the wealth of each state and its tax obligations. The North wanted slaves to count for more than the South did, because the objective was to determine taxes paid by the states to the federal government. In the Constitutional Convention, the more important issue was representation in Congress, so the South wanted slaves to count for more than the North did.
In 1793 slave states would have been apportioned 33 seats in the House of Representatives had the seats been assigned based on the free population; instead they were apportioned 47. In 1812, slaveholding states had 76 instead of the 59 they would have had; in 1833, 98 instead of 73. the Connecticut Compromise argued that position.
No matter. In 1865 when slaves were freed the three-fifths clause was rendered moot. Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (1868) later superseded Article 1, Section 2, Clause 3. It specifically states that "Representatives shall be apportioned …counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed..."
I am clueless what you are arguing about. Nothing is ever stricken from a federal document. It is amended.
Yes, let’s be honest about the current President. I do not believe he is the best man for the job. I also do not understand why anyone would think he is.
Nicole,
It WAS amended. You can check it out for yourself.
OK, then explain what it is I don’t understand. But before you do, you need to understand that while you criticize the "Good Ole Boy" network, obama is creating his own network. Also, don’t assume that I can’t understand because I haven’t walked in your shoes, keep in mind that I’m a Jew and lost many relatives in the Holocaust. You think I don’t know about discrimination?
This is your opportunity to educate me. Tell me what you’ve had to endure for the last 8 years.
Andrea Brandon
The Holocaust was horrific! … Jews were not the only persons who were murdered! … However, no one ever acknowledges the murders of ethnics, homosexuals, the disabled and the mentally challenged! … Six million people died and Jews were the majority. However, MILLIONS of Blacks died during the Middle Passage/Slavery! … Yes, you know about discrimination AB. The difference is the difference. Jews by virtue of their complexion could always change their names and many did. African Americans cannot.
Jews were not lynched, rape, whipped, castrated, murdered, suffer attacks by dogs and water hoses. There were Jews who died during the Civil Rights Movement. AB Jews did not suffer the lost of their identity. Nor were they placed in chains and packed on ships. They were not stripped of their cultural heritage. They were not left a people with no name to piece together a life. Adopting the names of their oppressors.
Your Words
This is your opportunity to educate me. Tell me what you’ve had to endure for the last 8 years."
We are know what African Americans had to endure in this country from Slavery until today. President Obama being the president does not mean there’s an end to discrimination. AB there was a "Jewish Holocaust and a Black Holocaust." I’ve also adopted the expression NEVER AGAIN! … However, it keeps happening where Blacks are concerned. Your skin color is your pass. You are Jewish not Israelite the descendants of the Bible.
Biblical Truth
Blacks (Israelites)have been oppressed since biblical times. Israelites(Blacks) have endured discrimination and oppression for thousands of years.
LC,
I empathize with the history of blacks, but the question was about the last 8 years. [That’s the time frame Nicole was arguing.]
As an aside, it’s NOT correct to say that Jews could have simply become non-Jews by virtue of their skin color and escaped the Holocaust. This was never an option. They were rounded up like cattle and shipped, crushed into one another, in cattle cars bound for concentration camps. I won’t argue that Blacks suffered grave indignities and pain, but they were fed and weren’t mass murdered. But again, the answer I’m looking for is about the last 8 years.
LC so your one of those who believe that Israelites are black, then that makes Andrea a black person b/c she is Jewish and Jews are Israelites…Im sorry but I do not believe that Israelites are the same as black people, that is your opinion. Jesus was a Jew not a black man, if he was a black man he would have been described as a black man of African decent, not a olive skin, wooly hair man of Jewish decent.
If you go to Israel and meet those born in Israel, Lebanon, Iraq, those are the men that Jesus looked like…
Slavery was awful and it should have never happened yet it did at the hands of their own people in Africa, was it right for the Americans and other Countries to buy slaves and do what was done to them NO just like it wasn’t right for the Jews to be rounded up and put into camps and treated like animals. For me one isnt worse than the other BOTH were just horrible.
Have you traced your roots back to slavery? If so I apologize that the white men treated your family unkind. I know one of my long ago relatives had slaves so does that make me a bad person today?
It is in the past and should stay there…no one alive today was ever a slave, there are still Jews alive today that were…
No certain people do not know what it feels like to be black but you also dont know what it feels like to be white, or jewish or mixed…
Nicole,
You may perceive that I am "going after him." Frankly, I could care less about him. All I want is the insane glorification to stop so it interferes with my personal time. The over the top news media and broadcast journalism have slowed down…….thank goodness…..but for two solid weeks all anyone heard about was him.
You’ve been going on and on about defending him and I have to wonder why.