Cynthia’s Interests

Why would anyone put the heads of Obama and Clinton on nude bodies belonging to other people and leave Guiliani fully dress? Is this racism and sexism at its finest?

Radar Magazine: As the 2008 race for the White House kicks off, Radar’s politics issue gets personal with the top candidates…

If people are at least 10% different, is race biological inexistent like some of us think? Many of us really don’t understand math and science and we make the mistake of making uneducated guesses based upon the little knowledge we have heard or think we know.

New research shows that at least 10 percent of genes in the human population can vary in the number of copies of DNA sequences they contain—a finding that alters current thinking that the DNA of any two humans is 99.9 percent similar in content and identity.

How is this fair? African Americans can’t even get the 40 acres and the mule that was promised, but the Jews can get at least $8 billion or more…

The US diplomat seeking compensation and restitution for holocaust survivors and descendants of victims said that cash payments have reached $8 billion, and negotiations are under way for more.

They constantly beat on a door and beg to get in and they are consistently being ignored. Why don’t they get it? It is said the Republican Party is family oriented, but whose families are they talking about?

This is an interesting article written by Michael Fauntroy about "What Black Republicans Should Do Now" as a direct result of the decision by the front runners of the Republican Party (the former New York Mayor – Rudy Giuliani, Senator John McCain, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, and former Senator Fred Thompson) who skipped a forum at Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD, a historically Black college. 

This should be a wake up call to Black Republicans. This action clearly demonstrates that Black people are unimportant to the Republicans and do not fit into their agenda.  Black Republicans should stop begging the Republicans for their crumbs. Their actions are shameless. You are not wanted! We are not wanted! Why don’t you get it?

I guess, Black Republicans are just wired differently from the rest of us…

I’ve been spending a lot of time at a blog called the Assault on Black Folk’s sanity (AOBFS) at the expense of my primary blog. I was invited to be a contributor, but do to irreconcilable differences, this relationship was terminated. A lot has happened in my absence.

I went to three states in the South to visit relatives. The first place was Houston, TX; the second was a little town down the Bayous of Louisiana, and the third was a city in central Mississippi. Although it is said that Mississippi is one the poorest States in America, poor Black people in many parts of Louisiana and Houston live in deplorable conditions (third world) that I haven’t encountered in Mississippi, or Illinois. I’ve often told friends about Louisiana and told them that they should really consider visiting this place because no matter how bad I tell you it is, things are worst than what you can imagine.

Anyway, while in Louisiana, I asked my cousins how could they vote William Jefferson back into office again after he was caught red handed with cold cash? To my surprised, they told me, he was 1) framed, and 2) I work at a school that also keeps working cash in the freezer in a plastic bag. She said it’s so hot down here that this is the best way to keep cash on hand. After thinking about this for a second, I wondered why the media left this little detail out. No wonder the cops looked in the freezer, they already knew if you have cash on hand in a place as hot as Louisiana, you will store it in the freezer. This just goes to show, you can’t trust everything the media reports because they often omit little details when they want to discredit a Black person.

Next, while visiting my cousins in Mississippi, I asked them, with so many Black people living in the South, how could Mississippi be a Red State? One of them told me that I voted for the Democrats, but my husband voted Republican. Once he came into the polling place his boss followed him in to observe whether he would go to the Democrat or the Republican line. I informed them, you guys do realize this is illegal. Their response was, we are not in Chicago, we are in Mississippi and these people will fire you if you don’t vote the way they want you to. Although we suppose to have the Civil Rights Acts of 1964, which should have given us some rights, in certain places like Jena, LA, and MS, these rights are illusive.

Lastly, since I’ve graduated with my PhD, I was working as a postdoc in the lab where I received my degree until I found more permanent and suitable employment.  I’ve finally found a job that I can live with.

She would have been raked, this time, under the coals.  This is old, but still, it reeks of racism in the nation’s capitol…

Rep. Christopher Shays (R-Conn.) apologized Friday for an altercation with a Capitol Police officer Thursday afternoon in which the lawmaker repeatedly swore at an officer and touched his nametag to read it before storming away.

The officer and the Capitol Police could not be reached for comment.

By Harriet Washington…

Please check out this Book TV [Cpan2) video, it is very enlightening. If you don’t have her book, you should really consider purchasing it. These are things that all Black people should know and pass on to future generations.

Journalist and medical ethicist Harriet Washington details medical research on African Americans from colonial times to the 20th century. She describes the "Tuskegee Syphilis Study" that began in 1932 and was conducted by the U.S. Public Health Service. Almost 400 African American men were withheld treatment for syphilis to study how the disease would affect them in its late stages. The author contends that this is just one of several experiments that shaped the way in which African Americans relate to today’s medical industry.

I’m doing a series of post on the fallacy of HIV over at "The Assault on Black Folk’s sanity".

This government has failed its people…

94% of FEMA trailers for Katrina victims contain hazardous levels of formaldehyde.

Trailers with floors and cabinets built with particle board containing the chemical formaldehyde. Under hot, humid conditions, formaldehyde lets off toxic fumes, especially harmful to young lungs.

To fix the problem, FEMA recommends that people should open their windows and turn on the air conditioner. I bet most of these people don’t even have enough money to buy an air conditioner, as if that would fix the problem.

Writer finds hidden history in old records, newspaper stories. This country owes us big time!