Marching With Martha -- Update

[Turfgrass]

Support for Martha Burk?s self-promotional ploy at Augusta National this weekend is so weak that she?s been forced to hire a professional protest organizer to get enough warm bodies together to make a decent showing. This professional protest organizer is using e-mails and other methods to reach various advocate groups. We?ve also heard that plans for a busload of protestors from DC have been changed. They can?t get a busload interested. Maybe a minivan. They?re also going to college campuses and bars in the Atlanta area trying to gather some warm protest bodies together.. What kind of bars? We can only imagine.

Martha has also called for help from Jesse Jackson. Jesse is calling churches in the Augusta area trying to get preachers to use their clout to put bodies on the protest line. Come on now, Martha. If your cause was all that great would you have to resort to such extraordinary ends just to get some people to chant and carry signs?

 

[Iminforabuck]

Question: When have you reached the point of desperation?

Answer: You're summonsing Jesse Jackson

 

[Turfgrass]

HEY, JESSE. I HAVE A CAUSE FOR YOU, IF YOU HAVE THE INTEGRITY TO PURSUE IT.

Jesse Jackson knows that the television cameras will be in Augusta this weekend to assist Martha Burk in her grand publicity quest. So ? when the television cameras show up, there you will find Jesse.

Just last week Jesse was ready to run off to Baghdad to do his ?pandering for POWs? bit. Alas, Saddam didn?t last long enough to Jesse to scamper over there to smooch his Baathist butt.

I have an issue that Jesse should embrace. It?s theft ? grand larceny ? on a massive scale. Hard-working black men are being systematically ripped off, and nobody seems to notice, let alone care.

There is no single identifiable demographic group out there which suffers more under our insipid Social Security system than the black male. It can be explained in just one sentence --- one sentence says it all. This one sentence that can set Jesse?s entire protest agenda. The life expectancy of black males in this country is lower than the eligibility age for Social Security benefits. Need I say more? The average black male in this country will die before he has a chance to recover one penny of that money which is seized from each and every paycheck. Every penny will be lost. Gone. Statistics show that the average black male will see no less than $10,000 of his lifetime earnings transferred to the demographic group with the longest life expectancy, white females.

Come on, Jesse. You?re such a champion for your people. You care so much. You?re so willing to confront injustice where you find it. Whether or not Augusta National ever accepts a female member will have no effect on that racial justice you claim to seek. Black men are being ripped off ? and you have the platform to do something about it. You have the platform, but do you have the guts? After all, Social Security is the grand Democratic program, isn?t it? The Republicans want reform. The Republicans want private accounts that can?t be taken away. The Democrats do not. It?s the Democrats who are stealing from those you claim to champion. Do you have the courage to confront them, or is a ridiculous protest against a private golf club the best you can muster up right now?

 

[djv]

All the problems and troubles in the world and right here at home. To bad folks dont put there energy in to help some of them. Out of 100 inportant things. Whats this rate about 97th.