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Yes. Yes. Yes....no disrespect but she represents the same old the same old. And why do black people buy into this? I haven't read Jet/Ebony in years - nor do I intend to. The NYT has a broader representation of black people than they. What does that tell you - in 2010?

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agree 1000% let a white person get a top job like that and they holler racism but in this case it's ok they just use that race card when it's to their advantage

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Get real. Ebony/Jet even Essence employs white people. So do Tyler Perry and Oprah!

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Paul Revere, it appears you fell off the horse.

I agree with the first part of your post. But in this part:
"AND HOW DID HELEN THOMAS GET FIRED FOR SAYING WHAT WE ARE ALL THINKING, DID WE ALSO LOOSE OUR FREEDOM OF SPEECH, I MUST HAVE FALLEN ASLEEP ALONG THE WAY.ONE IF BY LAND TWO IF BY SEA"

HOW can you be so arrogant as to saying "What we are ALL thinking"? I do not think the way Helen does on Israel. Who is this ALL?

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If Helen Thomas were in fact fired "for what we are all thinking" then there must have been more people thinking the other way. However, she was not fired, she resigned. (And who is the "we" to whom you are referring?) Also, you are dead wrong: Helen Thomas most certainly enjoys freedom of speech because she said what she said and it was widely reported in full--there was no censorship. How is that not freedom of speech? Denial of freedom of speech refers to government suppression of free speech and no one in government suppressed Thomas' speech. Nor did anyone in the private sector suppress it and we know this because her words were fully and widely disseminated. In this case, she made certain statements which upset many people, and for good reason. And, because she is free to speak as she wishes, so are those who take issue with what she said likewise free to comment upon what she said. Understand?

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And three if you're an idiot! Listen, there is no such thing as "just an American." Everyone in this country is a descendant of someone who was an immigrant at some point -- except, of course, the Indians -- remember? They are the people from whom the land now known as America was stolen and Black people were bought to do the hard labor in building the land known as America. Then the Indians were banished to some of the land known as Reservations and Blacks were denied rights and privileges as human beings in the land known as America. Meanwhile, "immigrants" continued to come from Europe to the New World and suddenly they were known as Americans. So, you are no more an American as anyone else. All of our forefathers came here from somewhere else whether it was by choice or by payment. Everyone loves to talk about their heritage and how their great-grandpappy came here with $1 and became successful but let the Black man want to acknowledge his heritage and now it's problem. I find that quite comical...and disturbing. Folks who have the most money and own just about everything in this country tend to have "selective memory."

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