Cleveland’s own hits the stage with Chip tha Ripper as the finale to the Ohio Homecoming celebration of Ohio’s 214th Birthday.

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Why? The kids are hopeful that LeBron James will catch wind of their efforts and stay in Cleveland.

For more information about the efforts to keep LeBron in Cleveland visit www.morethanaplayer.org

What do you think? Was that punch thrown “for a good reason” ??

From BlackVoices.com:

I don’t have to list President Barack Obama’s credentials, but I will. 
He’s a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School. He’s also the first black to lead the Harvard Law Review.

He was a United States Senator and the first African American elected as president of the United States.

Obama is a powerful orator, and over the last 18 months, he has successfully tackled some of this country’s most enduring problems, such as health care reform, while trying to pull the economy out of the gutter. He’s also a loving husband and father.

Apparently, that’s not good enough for comedian Bill Maher.

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In an effort to tackle the latest crisis, the horrendous BP oil spill in the Gulf Coast, Maher thinks Obama needs to act more like a “real black president” and go in to the BP meetings flashing his gat.

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From Talking Points Memo

House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn has called for a U.S. Attorney investigation into the mysterious candidacy of Democratic Senate nominee Alvin Greene because he thinks the mischief goes far beyond one wacky race. Clyburn (D-SC), Congress’ highest ranking African American, told TPM in an interview today he believes at least two other Democratic candidates on Tuesday’s primary ballot were planted by people with deep pockets and nefarious motives.

“The party’s choice in the 1st Congressional district lost. The party’s choice for U.S. Senate lost. Sounds like a pattern to me,” Clyburn told TPM. He said Greene was one of three Democratic candidates in three separate races whom the state party didn’t back or even recognize. All three candidates are African American.

One is Gregory Brown, who ran unsuccessfully against Clyburn in the 6th Congressional district. Another is Ben Frasier, who prevailed against state party-favored candidate Robert Burton in the 1st district. Greene, Brown and Frasier have something else in common — they haven’t filed any campaign finance reports with the Federal Elections Commission.

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If the Tea Party were anything to go by this year, there wouldn’t be much more in a name than irony. There is of course a lot to say about the concepts and catchphrases thrown about in their rhetoric, including those related to the revival of the time-honored debate about socialism and capitalism.

But are Americans responding as expected? Possibly not.

The results of a Political Rhetoric Test, released May 4 by the Pew Research Center for People and the Press, suggest that for Americans the concept of ‘socialism’ is “not so negative” while the idea of ‘capitalism’ is “not so positive”.

As tradition would dictate, socialism continues to be held in a negative light by a majority of Americans while capitalism is regarded positively by most. Almost 60 per cent of respondents reacted negatively to ‘socialism’ compared to 37 per cent with ‘capitalism’.

The partisan divide was also present in the results. Independents and Republicans reacted negatively to ‘socialism’ with 64 and 77 per cent respectively. Democrats were split on the same concept, with 44 per cent reacting positively and 43 reacting negatively.

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Twice as many blacks reacted in a positive way to ‘socialism’ than whites with 53 and 24 per cent respectively.

However young people could be the strongest indication of changing times in America. To both ‘socialism’ and ‘capitalism’, 43 per cent of respondents under 30 responded with positive reactions. People over 65 in general were most notably negative towards ‘socialism’, with 73 per cent reacting negatively.

The Pew Research Center’s April research tested the reactions of over 1,500 adults to nine concepts of importance in modern America. ‘Family values’ and ‘civil rights’ came in first and second, with 89 and 87 per cent of respondents stating a positive reaction to those phrases. ‘Militia’ was the concept with least positive reactions, the largest being 36 per cent of male republicans.

There has been a revival in recent times of the debate about the influence of socialism in modern America. Republican candidates have led sweeping victories over Democrats across the country, largely in connection with anti-health-care campaigning and constant referral to the  ‘-isms’.

Republican Rick Scott is the latest contender for Governor to surge in the polls behind a well-funded campaign against the Obama administration’s health-care ambitions. He’s currently leading his party primary in Florida, where he is expected to compete against Democrat Alex Sink for Governor.

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