tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4441543959341642672024-03-13T05:55:35.399-07:00Robeson's VoicePop culture,politics,sports from My point of viewRobeson' voicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12886842079822490450noreply@blogger.comBlogger164125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-444154395934164267.post-80633044334128609702014-11-25T21:39:00.001-08:002014-11-25T21:39:26.768-08:00Cartoon Politics<img height="282" src="https://38.media.tumblr.com/5b06be5d9c7741b4c09d5ebe1ccadffa/tumblr_nfm1poM5BO1r55d2io1_1280.jpg" width="400" />Robeson' voicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12886842079822490450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-444154395934164267.post-52279514978590505332014-11-25T21:36:00.001-08:002014-11-25T21:37:42.225-08:00Cartoon Politics<img height="275" src="https://38.media.tumblr.com/85919afe7e8bbe164d38982831873b7a/tumblr_nfmmez8FBm1r55d2io1_1280.jpg" width="400" />Robeson' voicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12886842079822490450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-444154395934164267.post-63292276068099092462014-11-25T21:35:00.002-08:002014-11-25T21:35:34.989-08:00Cartoon politics<img src="https://31.media.tumblr.com/da3ed82c9a15f6809a37e321ff21d558/tumblr_nfidgsc0cg1r55d2io1_500.jpg" />Robeson' voicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12886842079822490450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-444154395934164267.post-70618365105238776212014-11-24T17:25:00.000-08:002014-11-25T21:28:53.025-08:00<img alt="Obama Numbers" src="http://www.blue-route.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Obama-Numbers-e1416797036765.png" /><br />
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It’s rather bizarre that Republicans see all issues relating to black people (ie. Ferguson,Mo) as being the President’s purview. Did we hold every white president accountable for every thing white people did? Um, no. That would have been absurd because being white is not a relationship. But for Republicans, everyone who is black is in some club and the President is the defacto leader of said club.</div>
Robeson' voicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12886842079822490450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-444154395934164267.post-30096087935608067242014-11-22T19:19:00.000-08:002014-11-22T19:19:05.913-08:00Cartoon Politics<img src="https://38.media.tumblr.com/4a209e66b6ae22e77cb885606c5e484c/tumblr_nfcqwkYMCv1r55d2io1_500.jpg" /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.6000003814697px;">"Despite the fact that whites engage in drug offenses at a higher rate than African-Americans, African-Americans are incarcerated for drug offenses at a rate that is 10 times greater than that of whites.” </span><em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 19.6000003814697px; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.. the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)</em>Robeson' voicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12886842079822490450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-444154395934164267.post-12353064125450130822014-10-26T13:30:00.003-07:002014-10-26T13:30:41.093-07:00Cartoon Politics<img src="https://33.media.tumblr.com/8e845bcd0adaf1fa7e963a402d4a4f0b/tumblr_nd07amsCXQ1skfdzbo1_500.jpg" />Robeson' voicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12886842079822490450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-444154395934164267.post-11922811368812853152014-10-05T21:40:00.001-07:002014-10-05T21:40:31.300-07:00Wealthy ‘Lucas Oil’ Founder’s Facebook Rant: ‘I’m Sick And Tired of Minorities Running Our Country’ <div style="border: 0px; font-family: Kameron, serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
A Facebook post written by Charlotte Lucas, the wife of Lucas Oil founder in Indianapolis, displays disparaging remarks about minorities. Mrs. Lucas is “sick and tired of minorities…”</div>
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Lucas claims minorities are “running the country,” however, her oppressed white husband Forrest has a net worth of $300 million and their company brings in an annual revenue of $150 million, <a href="http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/10/04/wealthy-oil-company-founder-trashes-atheists-and-other-minority-groups-on-facebook-image-and-video/" style="border: 0px; color: #3b77bf; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">according to <em>Addicting Info</em></a>.</div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: Kameron, serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Charlotte has had it, dammit! Won’t you please “fight back” for her gazillions of dollars?</span></span><br />
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Charlotte and her husband live in a sprawling 25,000 square foot home. To put that in perspective, I live in a 1,300 square foot home which has 3 bedrooms. So, the poor beaten down couple is really living in a modest home which is about 10 times the size of mine. I live in one of those “minority” neighborhoods which according to her, is full of residents who are “running our country”.</div>
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The 33.6 acres where the Lucases reside, include an infinity swimming pool with a cascading waterfall and five buildings. Their estate has been the site of community benefits such as the Young Presidents Organization with guest speaker former President George W. Bush. Their home houses a 60-spot parking lot.</div>
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In total, they own five residences so they’re really just scraping by.</div>
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Charlotte whitesplained her Facebook post to <em><a href="http://www.theindychannel.com/news/call-6-investigators/charlotte-lucas-facebook-rant-about-minorities-raises-eyebrows" style="border: 0px; color: #3b77bf; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">RTV 6</a>. </em>“I was very upset when I wrote that,” she said. “I will not elaborate other than to say that there are certain people who are trying to make the whole world eat what they want to eat and do what they want to do. I don’t think it’s any of their business what I put in my mouth. Thank you.”</div>
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Congressman Elijah Cummings spoke on “Face the Nation” of his concerns about <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/tv/rep-cummings-african-americans-worried-secret-service-is-racist/" style="border: 0px; color: #3b77bf; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">how African-Americans view the Secret Service now</a>.</div>
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">“Eighty-five percent of all African-Americans that come to me mention [this fear], and I don’t agree with it,” said Cummings, who was vocal about the need for former Director Julia Pierson to resign.</span></div>
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“We have information that this goes all the way back to the Bush administration, a lot of the problems that we’re talking about now. It’s just that they’re coming to light. So a lot of these things existed before President Obama.”</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue;">An autopsy report released this week cast further doubt on a police officer’s claim that a suspect committed suicide by shooting himself while handcuffed in the back of a police cruiser, reports <a href="http://www.katc.com/news/autopsy-report-victor-white-iii-shot-in-the-chest-not-back/" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">KATC</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue;">According to the first page of the official autopsy report released by the Iberia Parish Coroner’s Office, Victor White III, 22, died from a gunshot to the chest, not in his back as reported by the arresting officer.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue;">White was arrested by State Police in March of this year on narcotics charges and, according to authorities, was handcuffed, with his hands behind his back, in the back seat of a police cruiser when he refused to exit the vehicle for processing. According to the police report, the arresting officer went to get help and when he returned he found White critically wounded from a gunshot wound to his back.<span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Police believe that White had somehow hidden a gun in the backseat of the cruiser and committed suicide by shooting himself. White died shortly after, with police stating there were no surveillance cameras in that area of the parking lot where the car was parked.</span>Questions were immediately raised as to how White could have smuggled a gun into the cruiser and then managed to shoot himself in the back when left alone.According to the autopsy report, the bullet entered White’s chest, perforated his left lung and heart before exiting his armpit area and lacerating his upper arm. The report still lists his death as a suicide.Admitting that the case is still being investigated, State Police Master Trooper Brooks David said that state troopers originally did believe the gunshot entry wound was in White’s back.No explanation was given for how White could have shot himself in the chest with his hands cuffed behind him.</span></div>
Robeson' voicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12886842079822490450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-444154395934164267.post-943244196814794042014-08-18T21:02:00.002-07:002014-08-18T21:08:06.638-07:00Klan heading to Ferguson to ‘guard white businesses,’ back shooting of ‘n*gger criminal’<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: georgia, 'palatino linotype', palatino, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: white;">Ku Klux Klan (KKK) members from three different states are reportedly traveling to Ohio to hold a two-day fundraiser for the officer who shot unarmed teen Michael Brown, and to “guard white businesses.”</b></span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2014/08/13/kkk-raising-money-for-police-officer-who-shot-african-american-teen/" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">first reported</a> last week that that the New Empire Knights of the Ku Klux Klan had <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/14/kkk-raising-money-for-hero-ferguson-cop-who-shot-jewish-controlled-black-thug/" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">begun raising money</a> in support of the Ferguson police officer who killed Brown.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: white;">On Friday, the New Empire Knights <a href="https://newempireknights.wordpress.com/2014/08/15/sullivan-city-mo-kkk-police-fundraiser-august-23-24/" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">announced</a> that it would be holding a fundraiser on August 23-24 in Sullivan, about 60 miles from Ferguson.<span style="font-style: inherit;">“With the police state in Ferguson, we will be holding our fundraiser in Sullivan City, MO,” the announcement said. “Donations of $10 and up. All money will go to the cop who did his job against the negro criminal.”</span>New Empire Knights Imperial Wizard Charles Murray said in the comments section of the group’s website that the event was “being attended by 3 different Klan fractions.”And to anyone thinking of trying to get in the way, Murray warned, “we have guns (and more).” “We are raising money for a cop who shot a n*gger criminal,” he explained.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: white;">In a <a href="http://www.sullivan.mo.us/news_detail_T67_R196.php?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">statement</a> on Monday, Sullivan Mayor Thomas Leasor said that the city had seen reports about the KKK’s plans.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: white;">“City elected officials nor City staff is aware of the specific location for the gathering or have any details regarding the event,” the statement said. “On behalf of the City of Sullivan elected officials and City staff I want to emphasize that we have not, or will not, endorse or condone any activity based on hatred, more specifically any activity based on hatred towards any ethnicity.”</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: white;">Murray, whose group is based in Abbeville, SC, <a href="http://www.mysullivannews.com/2014/08/kkk-rally-planned-this-weekend-somewhere-in-sullivan/" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">clarified to <em>Sullivan Independent News</em></a> that the event being held next weekend should not be considered a “rally.”</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: white;">”We are not holding a rally. We are having a fundraiser,” Murray said. ” Members of ours have been selling items online also. All funds are going to [the officer].”</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="background-color: white;">On Monday, the New Empire Knights <a href="https://newempireknights.wordpress.com/" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">issued a statement</a> about plans to “guard white businesses near Ferguson.”</b></span></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 21px;"><b>“With blacks out of control, we have our Missouri Realm going to areas near Ferguson,” the statement said. “We can’t have blacks robbing and murdering innocent whites. I am on my way down along with members from three different states and members from the Southern Mountain Knights.”</b></span>Robeson' voicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12886842079822490450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-444154395934164267.post-70613125334266999012014-08-13T19:17:00.002-07:002014-08-13T19:17:46.956-07:00Cartoon Politics<img alt="(more here)" src="http://37.media.tumblr.com/2b4f78b85137ae6b33986c100eae9c03/tumblr_na7mvsefkb1r55d2io1_500.jpg" />Robeson' voicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12886842079822490450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-444154395934164267.post-86467869694073178412014-08-03T16:56:00.003-07:002014-08-03T16:57:09.522-07:00<img alt="and on that subject, the U.N. has previously accused Israeli forces of using Palestinian children as human shields .. (article here) .. and .. (more here)" src="http://37.media.tumblr.com/52f14b4d6f8e97e59648350bc3517707/tumblr_n9qwunzhTo1r55d2io1_500.jpg" /><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">and on that subject, the U.N. has previously accused Israeli forces of using Palestinian children as human shields ..</span></span>Robeson' voicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12886842079822490450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-444154395934164267.post-39713941527337779582014-08-03T16:54:00.002-07:002014-08-03T16:55:21.574-07:00Cartoon Politics<img alt=""Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens, and then everybody disagrees." .. (Boris Marshalov)" src="http://38.media.tumblr.com/773d6cbb3e26c9e9ffbdd95a3ddc3aa2/tumblr_n9lavqJAXq1r55d2io1_500.jpg" /><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">"Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens, and then everybody disagrees."</span><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> .. (Boris Marshalov)</em></span></span></div>
Robeson' voicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12886842079822490450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-444154395934164267.post-38298268109258246722014-07-27T14:50:00.002-07:002014-07-27T14:52:19.621-07:00A PIECE OF NEGRO LEAGUE HISTORY IS DECAYING IN NEW JERSEY<img src="https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSH4K0CFbXb7CpHbZFfmX2MioAauWyypDPHEj907c-JAessIdmdUQ" /><br />
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Without the proper context, Hinchliffe Stadium is nothing more than cracked earth and rotting wood. The former ballpark squats out on the bluffs of the great Paterson Falls in Paterson, New Jersey, a relic you can miss unless you're looking for it. I wasn't aware of it's existence until the first time I made that trip as an adult to the Paterson Falls, and even then, I only happened upon it by accident. I remember wandering inside the fortifications of the great structure and coming across a few older men stood in the center of the field, chain-smoking and remembering their high school days, when they played there.<br />
Another time, on a more purposeful visit, three friends and I parked outside it, crawled through a hole in the fence, and stared up at the industrial ruin, imagining history, spinning pictures of the past. There was no one else there except for the wildlife who have made the place their home since 1997, when the stadium was abandoned after years of decay.<br />
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I climbed the creaky stairs, devoured by years of termites, as if ascending a mountain. The summit, and my grand prize, was a battered old broadcast booth that looked as if the years had taken their toll. The inside looked about how you'd expect a place that's been all but forgotten to look.<br />
For the next hour or so my friends and I tossed around an old baseball we found and used a tree branch as a bat. We took long breaks to sit in the bleachers—when the stadium was built, in those pre-luxury box days, all the seats were bleachers—just imagining the crowds that packed the stadium.<br />
The park was home, from 1933-37 and from 1939-45, to the New York Black Yankees, and often played host to some of the great Negro League superstars, including Larry Doby, a future Hall of Famer who played high school ball at Hinchliffe Stadium. Doby, a seven-time All-Star who got his start with the Cleveland Indians, was the first black man to play in the American League and was the second to play Major League Baseball, after Jackie Robinson. Students from Paterson's Eastside High School also used the field, taking on their rivals from the Paterson Central in an annual Thanksgiving game.<br />
It's hard to understand why for so long a tremendous piece of history like Hinchliffe Stadium didn't get the historical attention it deserved. I grew up in neighboring Glen Rock, a mere 15-minute drive from the stadium. When we were 15, my friends and I would get someone to drive us down the road and play "hey mister" until someone bought us beer. That was about as far as my exploration of Paterson went. It was poorer than my town, mysterious, damaged, off-limits.<br />
But I grew up in privilege. My public high school was highly ranked and I had everything I wanted. My parents gave me a car when I was 17, I had a cell phone in high school, and I was given money for new clothes. The problems in Glen Rock were things like teen drinking and how to shelter kids from reading historical fiction that was a little too "real."<br />
Paterson had bigger problems in those days, and still does. The city has been pegged as the gateway to Northern New Jersey's white suburban heroin problem, and with that drug "epidemic" getting national attention, the cops have been cracking down on drug-related crimes—meaning the city is spending money on arresting and prosecuting minorities and not restoring Hinchcliffe.<br />
Last year, however, the stadium got some recognition when it was designated a historic landmark by the National Park Service.<br />
"Today marks a great day in Paterson's history," US Congressman Bill Pascrell, who played high school baseball at the stadium, said. "As one of the last remaining Negro League stadiums in our nation, this designation allows us to honor the many athletes, including Larry Doby, who proudly called this historic stadium home.<br />
"It's had a great history, and you can't ever replace that history, ever," he continued. "We've come a long way since the days of institutionalized segregation, but we still have a long way to go. We can't forget where we came from if we want to keep moving forward. I say this to the Doby family: We are not going to forget, and we will always not only keep your dad in mind, but we keep your whole family and what you meant to our city."<br />
Over the years, there have been attempts at putting together money to renovate the stadium, but it still sits in disrepair despite the efforts of groups like the Friends of Hinchliffe Stadium, a nonprofit dedicated to the preservation of the stadium. It won't be demolished, at least—thanks to a bill passed this week by Congress, the ballpark is going to become part of Great Falls National Historical Park, and thus safe from anyone who would want to tear it down and build something in its place.<br />
Hopefully, the money can be raised to restore Hinchcliffe to an approximation of its past glory, or at least get it to a point where people can play baseball again there without using tree branches and old balls.Robeson' voicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12886842079822490450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-444154395934164267.post-39263242213520986392014-07-26T19:08:00.000-07:002014-07-26T19:08:00.558-07:00CARTOON POLITICS<img alt=""Fox News is nothing if not impressive. No matter how harsh the criticism it endures, the network somehow always manages to prove itself even worse than we had previously imagined." .. (Eric Alterman)" src="http://37.media.tumblr.com/0350799234502e0729e6d467f9ac1d52/tumblr_n98d6mjfWa1r55d2io1_500.jpg" /><br />
<span style="color: red;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">"Fox News is nothing if not impressive. No matter how harsh the criticism it endures, the network somehow always manages to prove itself even worse than we had previously imagined." ..</span><em style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> (Eric Alterman)</em></span>Robeson' voicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12886842079822490450noreply@blogger.com0