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Al Sharpton....Sabes que? You're off base just like the conservatives

Over the last week or so, while listening to the Al Sharpton show, and I mean just that, a SHOW, he has been very hot on this issue of the Arizona law that gives Arizona law enforcement the legal authority to "racially profile" their citizens and visitors.  Reverend Sharpton is planning to go to Arizona to walk the streets of Phoenix without I.D., to challenge the law signed in by Rep. governor Jan Brewer.  He states to his audience that what starts out in Arizona with the Latinos, could well strike Black people next.  What he says is 'suppose you', speaking to one of his callers, 'were in Arizona and a cop stops you, he (the cop) could say you look like a Haitian or Jamaican and lock you up if you couldn't produce documentation that you are an American citizen.  Well, Rev. Sharpton this makes sense and in fact exists in the realm of possibility.  However, why should you go to Arizona to protest against this law?  He also says, that if Arizona enacts this law then quite possibly South Carolina, Georgia, or Florida could be next.

This rationale, this way of thinking, suits one mindset.  The mindset of fear.  Rev. Sharpton is playing on the emotion of fear in much of his listening audience to conjure support for his selfish actions to protest this law.  Selfish, simply because it's bad law.  This law voted in by the Arizona legislature, is a Republican tactic to garner support from the Tea Party types, that could very well siphon votes from mainstream Republicans during the upcoming mid-term elections in November.  It also shakes the wheat from the chaff.  Those that are truly conservatives and those that are really nationalist-racists hiding behind the banner of conservativsm.   It also exposes Black conservatives that follow this line of thought, making them merely parrots that continue to muddy the political waters by regurgitating talking head drivel.

We should understand that this law, on it's face, appears to be an anti Latino law.  But, it's really and truly an anti Mexican/Salvadoran law, not anti Latino.  Arizonians are not concerned about people that look like Zoe Saldana, Lloyd Banks or Fox News panelist Juan Williams. So, really why is Sharpton going there to protest along side the Mexicans?  I have not heard him say or read anything that any Mexican or Salvadoran groups have requested his presence in Arizona.  Seems here he is inserting himself into this fray uninvited.  This is why it appears to be primarily a selfish act on his part.  And again this is bad law.  SB 1070 allows agents of the government to detain anyone that he or she "reasonably believes" is in the U.S. illegally.  This is a blatant expansion of government.  Conservatives claim to abhor a big and expanding government, supporting this bill exposes you as a fraud or exposes who you really are.

Al Sharpton this law will not stand, it will not spread.  Jeb Bush has already said this bill could have "unintended consquences" and civil liberties issues.  Surely, this law will be challenged in court and will more than likely be struck down and go no where.  Truly, SB 1070 may not deliver legally, but has delivered in ripping the facade off many.  Off the nationalist-racists, off parroting Black conservatives, off selfish television activists, off the facade of Latino versus Mexican/Salvadoran, off the fact that Mexican civil rights groups don't desire Black civil rights group's assistance.

Removing the shackles of the trans-atlantic slave trade

The immortal Henrietta Lacks

Henrietta Lacks. Does the name ring a bell? Don’t be surprised if you’ve never heard of her, its not surprising. In the U.S., many of us are used to the blanket of white supremacy covering the most valued of contributions made by Black people, whether those contributions are voluntary or involuntary as in the case of Henrietta Lacks. So let me try again. Have you heard of the polio vaccine? I know that you have, but not heard of Henrietta Lacks who’s cells actually formed the basis for Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine that saved millions around the world.

Mrs. Lacks, in February1951, was diagnosed with cervical cancer and prior to treatment, in the negro ward of John Hopkins hospital, some of tissue from the cancerous tumor was taken to a research lab for study without Mrs. Lacks ‘permission. (Does tissue belong to you upon entering a hospital, clinic or doctor’s office?) During laboratory testing it was found that the cells from Mrs. Lacks would overtake and “contaminate” any cells, even in another Petri dish that the dish with Mrs. Lacks’ cells came in contact with. Since her death, HeLa cells have been used in the formation of the polio vaccines, break throughs in Parkinson’s disease, herpes , the flu, Aids , and radiation poisoning. Not to mention research in human reaction to tape, glue and most importantly the Human Genome Project.

Through a witches brew of human placenta blood, cow embryo blood and chicken blood Mrs. Lacks’ cells would become immortal. In fact one physician believes more that 50 million metric tons of Henrietta Lacks’ cells have been grown and sent/sold to laboratories around the world. Indeed, Henrietta Lacks is not only alive through her children, but she is alive around the world immortally. Sadly, and all too common, in the U.S., her family has never been compensated for their mother’s immortal contribution to medical science. Deborah Lacks-Pullum bitterly stated.

 "We never knew they took her cells, and people done got filthy rich [from HeLa-based research], but we don't get a dime," she says. The family can't afford a reputable lawyer to press its case for some financial stake in the work. She says she has appealed to Hopkins for help, and "all they do is pat me on my shoulder and put me out the door." Mrs. Henrietta Lacks is buried in an unmarked grave in Lackstown, Virginia.