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Limbaugh has gone too far. I believe in freedom of speech, but not freedom to be ignorant. This is a head-shaker. Imus gets canned for calling some college women basketball players "nappy-headed hos" and yet Rush Limbaugh plays "Barack The Magic Negro" on his show and he is still on the air?

Listen to a short clip of his broadcast:

Which one would you choose my brothers

If there was no day or night

Which would you prefer to be right. — Curtis Mayfield, “Choice of Colors.”

While Barack Obama was pondering whether to seek his party’s nomination for president, there was another development already taking place in the Black community. More than any time in memory, there has been a growth in the number of people of biracial parentage assuming leadership roles in largely Black cities and organizations. They include Newark Mayor Cory A. Booker, Washington, D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty and NAACP President/CEO Benjamin Jealous. The lieutenant governor of Maryland, Anthony G. Brown, is also bi-racial.

As with so many things in the African-American community, the issue of color is a complicated one.

From the days slave masters forced themselves on Black women, there have been bi-racial children, some taking on the color of their mother and others looking as white as any White man. Even today, more than nearly 400 years later, some Blacks can still pass for White.

Complicating matters within the community, however, is the mixed signals Blacks have historically sent on color. In many social gatherings, a premium was placed on what was then called light-bright-and-damned-near-White. Some social clubs required potential members to pass the paper bag test – if you were darker than a paper bag, you couldn’t join.

But all of that changed – or, at least was challenged – during the Black Power Movement of the late 1960s. Black was in, White was out. No more White dolls, no more European beauty standards, no more self-hate. We were taught to love ourselves. Of course, the Black Pride Movement never took full hold in our community – after trying an Afro, James Brown even went back to his scary curl – but it represented a significant step in the right direction.

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Couple embrace in the ocean. From Pride in the City Riis beach event, 2007.

I wondered if I was being too idealistic in my attempts to depict the community in a positive light, when by most accounts the "community" itself hasn't steadfastly rallied it's members and demanded better for themselves. PRIDE for all intents and purposes takes place once a year in NYC, when black SGL men (and women) from across the United States converge on the city for a weekend of parties, hedonism, and well...not much else really. I made it my own duty to make it much more, to show expressions of love, fellowship,diversity and a change of the status quo. While I'm proud of the work I've done these last three or four years documenting the black gay community at these events, I am somewhat dismayed by the lack of follow-through, or aftermath, if you will of the PRIDE that could take us to higher ground.

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Also in thinking about the thug mentality, ask yourself: Do I want to be somebody, or act like a nobody. The last time I checked, a thug was at the bottom of a caste system.

So I guess I will be a king (or queen) any day

"Miss Hilton was neither asked, nor did she give permission, for the use of her likeness in the ad, and has no further comment," her rep said in a statement.

In the campaign ad from the Republican presidential hopeful, images of Spears, Hilton and Democratic challenger Obama appear on the screen as a voiceover says, "He's the biggest celebrity in the world. But is he ready to lead?"

Spears's rep declined to make a comment on the ad

Hilton then came back with her own campaign ad for Presidency and get this she actually knows what she is talking about.

CHECK IT OUT HERE

Then on The View Elizabeth Hasselbeck and Whoopi Goldberg have a debate on the same ad that Hilton responded to. Hasselbeck is an obvious conservative and she defends the ad by taking a punch at the Barack Obama's recent appearances on Magazine Covers and TV shows.

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I'm asked regularly, "How do you like Charlotte?", " How are the men treating you?", "What's the gay life like?" After arriving to this place without a friend in the world, one of my close buddy's said that I should sign onto one of the "meeting gay" websites. I was told that its free and could perhaps, if nothing else, be some form of entertainment. I signed on but failed to read the fine print of guaranteed promised lies and false starts. In the last year I've gone from being the new kid on the block to the "daddy" of someone who's trying to get my attention and my wallet.

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In 1996, Congress passed and President Clinton signed into law the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) to protect heterosexual marriage from the perceived threat of same-sex unions. The statute provides that no state shall be required to give effect to same-sex marriage in another state and defines marriage as solely between a man and a woman.

Under DOMA, states do not need to recognize a same-sex couple married in another state. DOMA mandates that all federal departments and agencies exclusively interpret marriage as heterosexual.

Marriage is a civil contract authorized in all 50 states. The federal government promotes marriage by providing 1,138 federal marital protections and benefits. Those include taxation and pension benefits, inheritance and immigration rights, among others. DOMA prohibits same-sex couples lawfully married under state law from receiving the 1,138 federal marital provisions including social security benefits to same-sex survivors and their children.

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"He's completely out of touch," said Kara Suffredini, public policy director for the Family Equality Council. "There's no reason, except for the sake of red meat for his base, to throw up screens in the way of children in foster care getting homes."

Jody Huckaby, executive director of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, said McCain's comments were especially dismaying because more than 100,000 children are in foster care waiting to be adopted.

"Sen. McCain would deny loving homes to children who desperately need them simply because of an outdated prejudice about what a family may look like," Huckaby said. On Tuesday, as criticism of McCain's comments spread, his campaign elaborated on the candidate's views.

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Wasn't it the Rev. Jackson who called for a boycott when Michael Richards. "Seinfeld", called the black persons in his audience, flipped out, and said the "N" word over and over and over. Isn't the Rev., the same person who asked for the public to boycott the record industry for the same reason, for allowing our black artist to use this word, the "N" word.

Now its he, who is apologizing for using the same word. How stupid can you get? We, as a people are being closely watched, especially when there's a possibility that we may, and hopefully, will have a black person in the Whitehouse as President. For the next few months till election day, all others who are not of color, who hope that the Senator will not be elected, are praying that we destroy each other, as they sit back and say, "see I told you "N"s always turn against each other.

Jackson who has let the public down in the last few years, with having an affair and child out of wedlock, disappointed his family and hurt his reputation, appears to be jealous of Senator Obama. At this point, he should just go on vacation and not return till after the election. I don't think that Rev. Jackson, if he ran, could be elected to be dog catcher.

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