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You are joking, but it seems like that's exactly what they did.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_23:48:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 993915, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "985090": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I don't even understand that.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_23:33:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 985052, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "985092": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Funny enough, my family maternal family name is Evans, and we lived in the New Orleans Housing projects, so \"Good Times\" was my reality.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_23:33:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "lamh", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 983420, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "985093": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Soledad had to toss in for effect that while they had a father \"he was abusive\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_23:34:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "985857": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "She was on yesterday during a segment with TJ. She had a baby. Hey at least they're looking for some Black people huh? No seriously, Tara is a Rethug shill and works for the WSJ and she's always trying too hard to be a right wing pundit. She hasn't gotten the memo that only white men are allowed to be bullish.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_02:09:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 985142, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "990218": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "that's so true, i'm always wondering when we talk about the lack of black fathers in the home, why the stepfathers who take on non-biological children are NEVER mentioned. I know several brothers like that.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_13:03:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "cc6569f8cbd4abd6bef53a2f883f8ca5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 987294, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "985103": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "And my younger cousin acted so much like Michael, that even though his name was Darryl Evans, we called him Michael.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_23:35:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "lamh", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 985092, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "985623": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The program treads the same ground which is depressing. I think Dr. King would be pissed about our lack of economic progress, and the failure of many in the subsequent generations to achieve more in education. <br><br>What's important about this program is showing the inspirational privately driven solutions, like that of Harvard Prof. Roland Fryer.   Now the key is finding a way of networking the private efforts, to church / social group  solutions.  The other issue I have is the detractors from academia to some of the novel trials in education in particular.  I am a supporter of Teacher unions and their causes, but I think we need to integrate the union causes with the novel approaches to education.  Nice thought I know. <br><br>Single parent, fatherless families has got to stop.   Black women need to look beyond their race, and broaden their standards in terms of culture.  A good, respectful, complimentary mate can come in many colors  and backgrounds.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_01:02:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "df6445fd9cf634f4cf814864698b48fd", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "984089": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Just saw the segment on the Kennedy family with the single father. Have to wonder what happened to the mother", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_21:42:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "TariqNelson", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "992283": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "yes, I should probably say that I made that up...although it sounds very close to what would have passed for discussion over at CNN, given what the show reviewers on JJP have shared.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_15:32:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "cc6569f8cbd4abd6bef53a2f883f8ca5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 991916, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "985264": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "best clip that was worthy of the No-They didnt award..<br><br><a href=\"http://MarryMyBabyDaddy.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">MarryMyBabyDaddy.com</a><br><br>In the clip, they actually showed a brotha dancing down the aisle, to marry his baby momz... All that was missin was the group of newly weds doin the Harlem Shuffle...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_00:00:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "smoothie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "993315": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Uhmmmmm:  Thank you [she said making her hand move over her head like one flew <br>over the cukoo].  And as much as I like subtle humor  - I missed that one!  :&gt;)  Thanks, <br>EVERYONE for bringing me out of the STRATOSPHERE back to EARTH.  Now I'm <br>JOINING you in the humor!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)  :&gt;)<br>Come ta think of it, I did ask if anyone could get those \"notes\".  Oh well.  I'm just going to<br>enjoy the day that Mr. Obama had in Germany with e'rrybody else.  :&gt;)  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_16:59:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 992283, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1009188": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I was told by the small business administraction the because I am not a \"minority\"  - and that includes anyone other that a white person, that I cannot apply for certain programs or contracts - those contracts for small business owners are closed to me because I happen to be caucasion. But my heritage goes back to Africa before my ancestors immigrated to Ireland - Black Irish.  I wish I were black skinned to be honest, because there are so many programs available and jobs and other benefits available to non-whites.  As a prior post said, there are SO MANY successful black Americans - look at Opera and Maya Angelou who is my role model - I look up to them - I can't think of white people I look up to - but many black people I admire.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-26_13:04:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "0d33372c7ca84703cb205f1774639435", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "990757": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "NO ID:  WHAT!!!??  OH-MY-GOODNESS!!!!!!  DATA/FACTUAL INFORMATION!!! Yes.  This EXPLAINS sooo much!!  Can anyone have access to these notes?  <br>I am so through!!!!  The LEVEL [LOW] of DISCUSSION {???} at this meeting EXPLAINS IT ALL!!!<br><br>WHEW!!!! MAJOR DEEP BREATHS!!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_13:40:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 990410, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "985126": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yeah it was.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_23:38:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 985025, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "990247": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "TD Fucking Jakes....what blasphemy! <br>(P.S. I agree) <br>LOL", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_13:05:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "cc6569f8cbd4abd6bef53a2f883f8ca5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 988005, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "984617": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Okay, now the black girl's white husband does not look completely white.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_22:31:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "985131": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I guess Dyson brought it up.  Soledad (who I can barely stand at this point) said it was discussed while she was interviewing for the segment.  Colorism that is.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_23:40:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 985090, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1001004": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Why am I not surprised?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-25_12:18:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 993930, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "985142": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I haven't been watchig \"Black In America\", is this in reference to that, or is it the usual AC360 bull.<br><br>BTW, I can't stand that Tara woman.  If she is the sista with the long hair who talks out of one side of her mouth, then she is the conservative shill that they use now instead of Amie Holmes.  I just realized that Amy Holmes was all over CNN, now she's gone.  What happened to her?  Is she in \"Token Black\" Conservative witness protection", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_23:42:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "lamh", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 10, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 985000, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "985144": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I didn't think it was terrible, but I did think it focused way too much on problems instead of holistically discussing black people.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_23:42:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "1643d5fae8d9ae9459fb9cf6b797592e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "984883": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "i just hate the fact that the overarching title was black in america, as if it represented all of our experiences (or a majority of them).  a better title would have been ignorant and poor in america since most of the people they profiled fell into one or both of those categories.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_23:06:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "mslisha", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "984642": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "omg, I really want him to stop.  who thought it would be cute to insert def poetry into each segment? grrrr....shame on CNN!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_22:34:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "mslisha", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 984387, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "991299": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I was so excited to watch the program last night.  But after watching it I was left with a really bad taste in my mouth.  I understand these issues exist, but for crying out loud, there is more to us than just the negative.  In fact, I can even give you a positive spin on the single mother issue! I know a sister who has always been raising her now 13 year old daughter without the father, but who has ALWAYS had her daughter in PRIVATE  school; who goes to sleep away summer camp, plus the mother owns TWO Bed-Stuy brownstones! The mother is 4 year city college educated and works as an administrative assistant (secretary!) for a major Fortune 500 company.  Where is that story???", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_14:16:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "afb187a6960618da9681d25951c6a7bc", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "992950": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"NO ID -- can you imagine what the conversation was when they were planning the episode about Black men? God help us! Lock up your virgins, those mandingos are coming to get you!\"<br><br>-Where all the white wimmen at?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_16:27:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "987206": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Someone suggested that people who are black and Buddhist make their own documentary rather than complain about being left out of CNN's investigative report on black America, so I did:<br><br><a href=\"http://rainbowdharma.com/festivalscreening/theater1.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://rainbowdharma.com/festivalscreening/thea...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_08:03:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "Original_Black_Buddha", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "984648": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "No he sure doesn't.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_22:36:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "989257": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "And which old white guy is the baby's daddy?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_11:45:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 987084, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "991822": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "to say \"Having lived the life\" implies that there is a definitive group of markers that denote what it is to live life as a black person in this country.  and part of the reason so many people on this thread have problems with this documentary is that its glaring deficiencies are evidence that there is no such thing as an easily summarized \"Black Life.\"  our experiences vary.  i find dmtyus311's question to be a good one.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_14:57:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "c14dc645708e1f6b7caba8da416ef4b7", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 990665, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "984657": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "@ msmartin<br><br>No he doesn't look completely white.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_22:37:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "TariqNelson", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "988754": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hey, I have a family reunion coming up to --- Aug. 1-3 in South Carolina.  It would be great to trace family history.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_11:07:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "868338df72656d1f9ae020ea4fbc9a4b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "990803": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "SquarePeg:  VERY enLIGHTening!!!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)  Wonder if this is in Wikipedia?  :&gt;)  Thank you.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_13:43:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 989338, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "994389": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Why are you glossing over all the positives I highlighted in my previous post?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_18:41:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "BlackAmericanPrincess", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 994093, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "992697": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The program was what I expected. The same old topics. It wasn't really about what it's like to be Black, it was more like what its like to be American, but things are just harder for Black people. Other than the part where the Black family had a White great, great, grandfather, these are issues that affect all Americans.  They didn't show unique things like what its like to live in a country where people expect the worst of you, living in a society with a Eurocentric beauty ideal, not knowing your history or where you are from, living around people who may have owned and raped your ancestors, dealing with an education system that tells you almost nothing about African Americans or Africans now or in the past, what Black people see as life goals, and even what its like to be a victim of constant racism!!!. I am actually pissed about how they showed statistics. They showed things like 53% of Black people graduate highschool but they showed nothing about the difference between predominantly White schools or predominantly Black schools! They mentioned the incarceration rates but nothing about the bias in the justice system that convicts Black people and sentences them to prison more often than White people! By doing that they make it seem that there is something inherent in Black people that accounts for the problems.<br><br>Don't even let me start on how irresponsible and sensationalistic is is to show opinions from scholars who have no scientific evidence behind their claims. Why have Michael Eric Dyson say he was treated better by his family because he is light skinned and his brother did not because he is dark skinned? That's just an anecdote. He's a social scientist, couldn't he have cited some research that supports this phenomena? Also, why focus on that school who is paying students for test grades as though this is the revolution in education that will save Black people? What about all the charter schools that work? What are they doing differently? What about Black students who attend predominantly White schools? Why do they do better? How did the three kids in that one family stay in school and get into college? How is their life different from the drop-outs? And don't even get me started on that stupid salt sensitivity idea? Why were they wasting our time with something that has no research evidence behind it when there is research that supports fact that it is harder to find healthy foods in inner cities (yes they did a little clip about that but there were no statistics or research findings) and that unhealthy foods are cheaper than healthy foods so poor people are more likely to buy unhealthy foods? <br><br>I think that PBS would have done a much better job because they base their documentaries on a lot of research and that guides the presentation. This special was based on what they could get a select group of Black people to discuss and government statistics without the background and context. It would change things if they explained why inner cities are the way they are and why Black schools are the way they are (i.e., lack of funding, lack of investment, lack of jobs, unqualified teachers etc). <br><br>This was not a presentation meant for Black people. It was meant for people who don't know much about Black people. Something about it is kind of objectifying as if they are anthropologists observing \"The Black Man\" in his natural habitat. It wasn't meant for us. They hyped this thing WAAAAY too much and I've seen PBS and HBO documentaries about Black people that were so much more informative. It didn't provide solutions other than the unusual one about paying students because they wanted to cause debate or something about the experiment.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_16:06:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "88cc2e3b44ea537139ac2b890ac4a8c6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "985182": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "It's sad that his family will be homeless in a couple of weeks.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_23:47:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 984240, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "985189": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "CO-signing with many on the use of Soledad as a moderator.  I've stated B4 that she has NICHED herself into the role of the \"African-American EXPERT\", WITHOUT having LIVED THE LIFE!  That's what calls AUTHENTICITY into QUESTION!!  And WHO made up the THESES - the QUESTIONS that are the subject/categories of what is being presented.  This is CRUCIAL to know.  Was there a panel which included Black folks??<br>For example, there is a segment on a \"controversial\" issue related to PAYING children for getting high test scores in an effort to close the \"achievement gap\".  That is ONLY ONE strategy for motivating students.  BUT, there are OTHER just as EFFECTIVE,  NON-MONETARY strategies.  As an educator, if I were asked about whether to spotlight this strategy - I would say NO!  It could be listed as ONE strategy BUT NOT a major focus.  I would highlight a spectrum of strategies.<br>Whew!  (Deep Breaths).", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_23:48:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "983649": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Nice first story about the Rands", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_21:08:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "TariqNelson", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "993891": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "glory:  Point taken.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_17:55:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 991822, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "984677": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Oooo, Totally Off Topic, But:<br><br>Diahann Carroll (pictured recently on your blog) has been nominated for an Emmy!!<br><br>It's for her guest role in Grey's Anatomy:  Guest Actress In A Drama Series, ABC \u00b7 Diahann Carroll as Jane Burkev. (Sandra Oh's (also nominated) potential Step-mother, i think.   Only one word can describe this:  FABULOUS!!!   Even at 70+ (what is her age anyway?  Black don't crack, that is for sure!) Diahann Carroll continues to demonstrate excellence, dominate scenes and practice her craft to the delight (and recognition) of both peers and audience.  <br><br>I LOVE myself a true Blacktress!<br><br>PLUS, Ms. Diva Carroll just released a tell-all book and basically said 'so friggin' what?' to critics of her biography of life with Vic Demone<br>Is one of only 7 African-American actresses to receive the Best Actress Oscar nomination.<br><br>How about a post on behalf of this Glorious Diva!?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_22:40:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "e744dd7e178577d647171ba52408a10c", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "993382": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ohboy:  Thank you.  I have made my mea culpas below!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)  And I will try to be better when I<br>see comedy.  :&gt;)  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_17:05:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 991916, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "992295": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "if that's meant for me thank you! :-)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_15:33:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "cc6569f8cbd4abd6bef53a2f883f8ca5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 992071, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "985197": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "They probably wanted some black conservatives who seem \"really\" black to shill for them.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_23:50:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 985142, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "993907": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Honey01:  Co-signing.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_17:56:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 985313, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "985206": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "She's:  Co-signing.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_23:51:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 985144, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "986746": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This is the number one question. We really have to respect people like Dr Carnell Cooper who started VIP and is taking his time to do something in the community. I also feel that the Eric Kennedy story was nice as well", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_06:07:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "TariqNelson", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 986096, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "993915": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Here was the conversation about black men...<br><br>BIM Producer: So, Soledad, who do you know that we could put on the show? <br>Soledad: Umm, I mentioned Snoop right...do you think Barack Obama is available?<br>Black Intern: I think he's probably pretty busy preparing for the White House right now. <br><br>BIM Producer: What? He's not going to win! Now, who else do we know - Will Smith is doing a movie, LeBron James and Kobe Bryant are playing basketball, hey what about that guy my kids like Wally, Woozy, Weeble?<br><br>BIM Intern: You mean L'il Wayne? But what about black stepfathers, grandfathers, doctors, bus drivers, lawyers, corporate executives, weekend golfers, college professors, writers, artists, software developers and IT guys, uncles, fighter pilots, fireman and grass roots in the trenches working in the community guys? <br><br>BIM Producer: Soledad, do you know what he's talking about? <br><br>Soledad shakes her head. <br><br>Soledad: I don't know anybody like that.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_17:57:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "cc6569f8cbd4abd6bef53a2f883f8ca5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 992791, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "984188": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hey, our reunion is August 1-3! <br><br>I SO wanted to have our roots genetically traced, but we couldn't foot the bill.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_21:48:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "taritac", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 983749, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "985218": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "What is this Tara person talking about?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_23:53:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "985222": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "msmartin:  SEEEEEE!  Always the negative jab!!!<br>Whew!  (DEEP BREATHS!!)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_23:53:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 985093, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "993930": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Sepia:  In an article about her in April, '08, it was stated that \"she was enjoying life with her new Jewish boyfriend.\"<br>I Goggled her name to get information.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_17:58:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 989257, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "985227": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Sheesh.  After reading these comments, I'm glad I didn't watch the special.  I actually like Soledad, but if this election coverage has revealed anything to me about CNN, its that they wouldn't know what balanced, fair, and nuanced news coverage was if they had a map and a flashlight.  So I didn't have high hope for what was going to be seen on this special.  I mean the title pretty much gave it away...\"Black in America\"  I just found that to be pretty lame.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_23:54:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "ef781b639c890767ebd1ce99011c3afa", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "987358": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Figures.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_08:34:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 987347, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "983420": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Some of us may have wished to look like the Huxtables, but the reality was that we looked like the Evans family on \"Good Times\".<br><br>My father wasn't always yelling like James Evans, though.  But what would we expect from the Clinton/Klanton News Network?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_20:49:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "989338": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Soledad O'Brian is an Afro-Cuban married to a white man.  When she came to this country from Cuba she and her Afro-Cuban family ran into bigotry, racism and discrimination from white cubans in Miami.  Even with that, she still did not identify with the struggles of Black Americans as with most Cubans who affiliate themselves with white folks.<br><br>Her perspective of the Black experience in this country has evolved because of the evident hue of her color, something that even if she wanted to, couldn't deny.  So in her conversations with Black folks that surround her in journalism, I'm sure she has been schooled on being Black in America even if you don't want to believe it.  For Cubans many of them aspire to whiten up their Black families and look down on anything perceived as Black.  In Miami many Cubans could not understand the pride that Black Americans had in our accomplishments and often reacted in hostile ways, such as her reaction when reporting on MLK.<br><br>I said all that to say, the report last night was nothing more than a string of commercials and upcoming attraction previews for other shows with a few snipets of Black life thrown in between.  Those so-called segments were so short and pieced together without any indepth coverage of the causes of the negative aspects of these folks lives, with only a short segment at the end showing the resilience and preserverence of Black folks in this country in spite of.  This was a failed attempt and was not substantive or edifying at any point.<br><br>A hugh disappointment.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_11:52:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "53b68a68032d55308b4b72dedfc2bae6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "984731": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Is this about being Black in America or what's wrong with black folks in america?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_22:47:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "987294": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I didn't see the broadcast, but if there was no mention of adoption, informal or formal, when talking about the Black family, did their profiles were incomplete.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_08:24:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "985760": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "So \"This is what it's like to be Black in America?\"<br><br>I was thoroughly disappointed in this show.  I thought Part 1 would be a story of triumphs of black women and families.  Instead, we got more of the same.  This show could have been made with any race in mind...just show the most troubling parts of anyone's culture and then fade to commercial.<br><br>I was expecting to see stories of triumph, and how sisters used their ingenuity and deep down resilience to make it in this country.  I think of people like my Mother, who started out in the projects of North Philly.  A single mom, she actually moved us to the worst apts in the suburbs so I could get a decent education (after pulling me out of school mid-year).  Was it fun to be essentially integrating a school district? No.  But I learned in a great environment that help me get to where I am.  She raised 3 college grads (and one soon-to-be grad).  My best friend's Mom was a crackhead but he got a Masters and is a sought-after teacher. Ish like that...not this nonsense that I see.<br><br>And I'm not condemning every single segment,  but I guess I'm frustrated y'all.    CNN had a chance to transform coverage of Blacks in the media, but they opted for the easy way out.  With their unlimited level of reach and resources it's a damn shame that this was the result.<br><br>Has Soledad even seen a movie like \"The Pact?\"<br><br>This show set up back years with respect to media perception.  Fortunately, Barack will be on TV for the next 8 years as Prez and make people forget about this show.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_01:37:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "1d391c8cbd233eca83927e0fcf1ec4e1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "985258": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "msmartin:  On that TARA woman - 1.  she could uncross her legs.  2.  If she doesn't like \"brothas\", \"whycome\" she's gotta out them with  their \"level of education\", makes less than some Black women, etc.  We know that!     SOOOO!  Geeez!!<br>And you do know that her political lean is so to the \"right\"!<br>Whew!  (Deep breaths)!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_23:59:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 984992, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "985259": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Co-sign!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_23:59:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "CarolinagirlinGA", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 984831, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "991916": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "ummm, GreenLadyHere....I think NO ID was making a joke...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_15:04:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "36f42de1a4d9ffef4cdfc3b389e799c2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 990757, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "983725": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Is this truly the story of most African Americans? yes indeed i believe we all should trace our roots and see where we really come from", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_21:13:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "ggaint007", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "984240": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "We can't let Eric Kennedy Jr slip through the cracks. He has too much potential!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_21:52:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "3551693f02b59a56819446ce17bd4b38", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "991926": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "So... why aren't you a producer?  Your presence really coulda helped with this documentary.  Those are good topics!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_15:04:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "c14dc645708e1f6b7caba8da416ef4b7", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 985369, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "984250": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm watching it right now, and I have to agree with nondelusional; there is a slight \"Negroes on display\" feel to it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_21:53:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "funkybrownchick", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "985277": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Smoothie:  Co-signing!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_00:02:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 984869, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "983749": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "i can relate as my family is tracing roots as we speak for our reunion august 2nd", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_21:15:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "smoothie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "984775": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "my thoughts exactly.  if i were a nonblack I would wonder why all blacks don't just slit their wrists now and end the misery.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_22:53:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "mslisha", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 984731, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "990410": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Well, given everyone's comments, here are the notes from the CNN Planning Meeting for \"Black in America.\"<br><br>Black Production Intern: I know a family that has four children, the parents are married, all the kids have 3.5 and above GPA'a and they live in a four-bedroom suburban home. <br><br>CNN BIM Lead Producer: I've never heard of that. They must be the exception, that's not realistic. <br><br>Soledad O'Brien: Well, I know a family like that but the black man is married to a white woman. <br><br>CNN BIM Lead Producer: Now that's what I'm talking about Soledad. Do the kids look like those cute little curly-haired mixed kids on TV, you know like the kid from Heroes?<br><br>Black Intern: I know a young couple who brought a house in the inner-city, live on a block with other young professional couples and just had a baby. They were registered at Tiffany's and everything?<br><br>BIM Producer: You said they live in the INNER CITY? Is he a drug dealer? <br><br>Intern: No, I think he's an IT guy and his wife's a doctor. They restored a historial home and -- <br><br>BIM Producer: There are no historical homes in the inner-city! You said they're married? And no one's selling drugs? The girl is of legal age and she's a doctor? That's not realistic!<br><br>Soledad: Well, I do know one black married couple. He's a rapper, and they have four kids. You know who Snoop Dogg is right? He's a rapper and he had that show, \"Fatherhood?\"<br><br>BIM Producer: Great, Soledad, that's why I'm glad we had you do this special. What about that football player Deion Sanders? They have a nice house, and his wife is very attractive....<br><br>Black Intern: Well, you could include a story on the black 14-year-old who enrolled in college...<br><br>Soledad: Oh, that's great....was it Harvard? <br><br>Black Intern: No, I think it was an HBCU.<br><br>Soledad: A what?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_13:15:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "cc6569f8cbd4abd6bef53a2f883f8ca5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "985296": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "TariqNelson:  Co-sign!!  Whew!! (Deep breaths!)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_00:05:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 984416, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "987347": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "No mention  of adoption or many other positive things in the black community.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_08:33:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 987294, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "985550": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "So should we just forget about the baby mammas and people who are trying to succeed in spite of the circumstances they find themselves in?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_00:44:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 985369, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "991963": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "So true, Roger. The best answer period.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_15:06:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "36f42de1a4d9ffef4cdfc3b389e799c2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 991598, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "984285": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I knew it would be negroes on display when they announced it.  I wondered when this was planned and I heard Soledad tell Campbell Brown last night that they planned it 18 months ago.   Ummmmm.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_21:56:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "984798": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Soledad can't understand why a black doctor would want to go back home to his comfortable home that is not in the hood and not try to solve the problem with black males.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_22:57:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "985313": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yeah Dyson brought it up. I'm not too crazy about discussing the Black colorism issue for the masses to view. Obviously, this is the internets so anyone is privy to our discussions here at JJP  and other forums with a Black audience.<br><br>Something about that particualr topic being broached on CNN just kinda...just like discussing of usage of the \"N\" word. I just prefer certain topics to be moderated/hosted/ whatever by those whom actually care. <br><br>The voice over announcing \"Being Black in America\" every five minutes drives me crazy.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_00:07:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "Honey01", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 985131, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "984809": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I realy hate the way Soledad is smiling and laughing while talking about these reall y serious issues affecting the black community.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_22:58:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "983787": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "our family reunion is in on aug 8 and im goin to see can we start tracing our roots", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_21:18:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "ggaint007", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 983749, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "985324": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "lamh:  Good post.  :&gt;)  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_00:09:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 985103, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "984303": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "So owning a successful construction company is middle-class.  I would think they would be upper-middle class.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_21:57:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "995057": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "evita:  Good project!  My sister and I have both had the \"play dumb even though you have a degree\" to some officers if you are pulled over for a DWB.<br>Here's one;  My son was given a \"ticket\" around 10 P.M. for ---drum roll please --<br>SPEEDING ON HIS SKATE BOARD!!!   I KID YOU NOT!!!!  I saw a record of it! <br>Only in America!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_20:00:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 988663, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "995063": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "No ID you are making me pee in my pants!<br><br>Were they actually talking about Black women, I mean it was really hard to tell?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_20:00:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "53b68a68032d55308b4b72dedfc2bae6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "984828": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You'd be surprised how many people feel that way.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_23:00:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 984775, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "985341": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  GREAT!!!!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)  Can't wait!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_00:11:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 983519, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "997118": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Whoops. Wrong spot.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-25_00:34:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "The_Black_Snob", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "984831": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Oh....tonight was just about whats wrong with being a black woman in America....black men get the full beatdown tomorrow night.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_23:00:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "984833": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I co-sign... <br>In the nearly 2 hrs that have passed, they have had 1 segment on proffesional blackfolk and that was single sisters..And rather then speak on tryin to make it in a white male driven worforce, they focused on them being single. <br><br>The other segment about the white-mobley construction family only served as a segway to the johnson family..<br>I think CNN didnt really focus on all aspects of being black, rather they took the easy way out and hit what some see as problems in the community.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_23:00:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "smoothie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 984731, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "994050": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "NO ID:  I am enjoying the humor!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_18:08:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 993915, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "985862": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Dyson is another one of these Civil Rights Industrial Complex wannabes who like Cornel West likes to sound really educated and use a lot of words while promoting himself as the authority on Black people, except for him the Black people are in fact Black men. He actually refers to himself as a 'yellow' child.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_02:12:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 985131, "depth": 3, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "995592": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "That's not the question you ought to be asking.  You ought to be asking why CNN glossed over those positives as though they were some sort of exception or anomaly in African American life.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_21:13:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "5e2b33c435c317e69152caba2b39bad6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 994389, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "988425": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You know, I am not a fan of airheaded Rachel Sklar, but I think she accidentally did us a favor in her bizarre review of \"Black In America\" a few days before it aired. I direct your attention to this cringe worthy passage which will probably give you an idea of how out of touch some of these people are. After skimming through a few of the sobering topics O'brien attempted to cover, Sklar pivots to this:<br><br>\"On to lighter topics! The reception afterward was delightful and everyone was all smiles as servers passed trays of delicious samosas, grilled shrimp and dipping sauce, chicken quesadillas, spinach-and-cheese mini-quiches, mini-burgers and mini-crab sandwiches. Oh and battered mushrooms. Mmm. We have pics below, from the party and the doc, but in the meantime, here's who was a-mingling, in no particular order: actress (and Oscar nominee) Cicely Tyson, academic Cornel West, activist Malaak Compton Rock, wife of Chris, Bishop TD Jakes, Time Warner CEO Dick Parsons, CNN prez Jon Klein, Oprah pal Gayle King, Essence exec editor Angela Burt-Murray , CBS News correspondent Michelle Miller, CNN arts and culture correspondent Lola Ogunnaike, NBC's jolly \"Today\" show co-hostess, Hoda Kotb, Abyssinian Baptist Church pastor Dr Calvin Butts, actresses Lynn Whitfield (the Josephine Baker Story) and Janet Hubert-Whitten (Fresh Prince of Bel-Air - \"Oh, Philip!\"), author/former CNN producer Jim Miller, who co-wrote \"Live From New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live,\" Essence Communications president Michele Ebanks , TVNewsers Chris Ariens and Steve Krakaeur, plus author/commentator Keli Goff and FishbowlNY co-editor Glynnis MacNicol, aka ETP's dates. We roll with a posse, yo.\"<br><br>Yes. Rachel Sklar rolls with a posse. Yo.<br><br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/16/black-in-america-explorin_n_112984.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/16/black-...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_10:39:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "eclecticbrotha", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "997130": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Amy Holmes has always been an undercover (conservative-leaning) independent with \"Liberal\" views. I'm convinced she went conservative for the bank. If you're black and a conservative it's a LOT easier to get on TV.<br><br><a href=\"http://blacksnob.blogspot.com/search/label/amy%20holmes\" rel=\"nofollow\">I'm a bit of an Amy Holmes lover/hater</a>, so I keep abreast of such things.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-25_00:36:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "The_Black_Snob", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 985986, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "984847": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Can someone explain what this black guy's purpose is? They keep ending and beginning segments with this spoken word type brother. Do people need a black interpreter to get this stuff? <br><br>Anyway I didn't hate it overall.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_23:02:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "245857794a8d4da90a73fbb64352b916", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "985363": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "This show was the same superficial BS that is continually recycled and edited to depict the same one dimensional view of being Black in America as seen through the white world's comfort lens.  <br><br>A REAL show of what it is really like being Black in America would be based on the true dichotomy that exists when you are Black in an America that was created to be solely based on white supremacy as the rightful norm in society. <br><br>That REAL informative piece would not have Soledad O'Brien as the journalist and also no Anderson Cooper trying to intelligently discuss something for which he has no reference point... which shows!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_00:15:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "pcmadison", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "985369": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Well, I'll say this... after watching this documentary, you'd think I'd be some sort of oulier. Meaning, I'm educated, married w/ a family, disease-free, and grew up in a nuclear family. I'm sorry, but where I'm from, this is the norm. Baby mommas and ignorance are the outliers. It's too bad that CNN couldn't show that.<br><br>Topics I would have liked to see discussed:<br><br>1. black youth (millenials)<br>2. the political aspects of the black community (why we vote democratic and why black republicans are self-haters)<br>3. the split b/w the older generation and the younger generation on civil rights<br>4. the success stories of everyday black people who make a difference in their communities<br>5. the black family (not single-parent homes, but about how blacks discipline their children compared to other races)<br>6. health in the black community<br>7. how the economy and housing crisis is affecting the black community<br>8. the nuances of black people and culture in different areas of the country (for example: black ppl in Atlanta have a very different mindset than black people in Los Angeles, etc.)<br><br>I mean we all can come up with a list of things other than, single moms, AIDS, high school drop outs, and poverty/welfare. I give this \"documentary\" a C-.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_00:16:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "CarolinagirlinGA", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "984861": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Gee, I can hardly wait!<br><br>I'm just counting the hours!  :-P", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_23:03:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "990495": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "This quote struck me the most in your comment: \"\"African-American EXPERT\", WITHOUT having LIVED THE LIFE!\"   So....what qualifies to you as someone who can present information on how african americans live their lives?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_13:21:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "dmtyus311", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 985189, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "984869": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Myh question is, <br>If there trying to get other races to understand us, why show them only one aspect, and have it 90% negative. <br><br>I mean if I were someone who had no idea of what blackfolk went through and saw this, I'd assume were all sexually active, highschool dropouts who are raised in single parent homes.  Maybe I missed something.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_23:04:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "smoothie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "985383": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I am signing of to go to bed, but just wanted to say the On Demand info guide gives the following description for this segment of the program on now:<br><br>Verbatim:<br>\"The Black Woman & Family\", (2008), Soleday O'Brien examines the black female experience in America, including single parenthoold, classroom disparaties between blacks and wites and the HIV/AID epidemin in black communities.<br><br>In closing,<br>I think what bothers me most about these type of programs and syposiums, is that you have a bunch of so called experts , politicians, and intellectuals pontificating on these issues. However, rarely do I hear actual solutions. When someone does have a solution, it is criticized . For instance, I believe there is a Harvard professor on the program who is paying students as an incentive to do well. May not be the best idea, but hey he is in the trenches. Also, there was another guy on the earlier who started a school I believe for males only. He espoused the idea of gender specific schools.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_00:19:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "Honey01", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "992556": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The only good thing I can think of is at least they didn't put it on in February (Black History Month).", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_15:53:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 989338, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "994093": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"It seems like alot of people are embarassed and I think that's sad...\"<br><br>I'm going to call bullshit on that.  First, the majority of comments have addressed the paucity of critical thought--embarrassment has nothing to do with it.  The so-called documentary failed to put any of the statistics (these well-worn, oft-tossed-out statistics) into any sort of perspective, the reporter failed to actively critique any of the people she interviewed (especially TD Jakes' assertions that women so desperately craving male attention to the degree that they will \"do anything to get the love of a man\"), and the segment that was supposedly on \"the black woman and the family\" failed to proceed with any clear thesis or objective (other than presenting black people en masse as a some form of pathology to which successful, well-adjusted black folk exist as an anomaly).", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_18:12:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "5e2b33c435c317e69152caba2b39bad6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 993242, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "994094": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "ditto  RonnieB.  I refuse to watch.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_18:12:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 988660, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1009885": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Jane, I think you must be living in a dream world if you thing that there are more opportunities for Black people in America than there are for White people. This is the same reverse-racism crap that makes White people feel like they are discriminated against more than Black people. ITS NOT TRUE! Imagine for every affirmative action opportunity provided to Black people there are 10 that will be blocked to them (basically affirmative action for White people). If you watched the documentary at all you would not be wishing you were Black. If you attended school a day in your life you would have numerous White people to look up to and I think you were just making up that part about not admiring any White people. I'm not going to bother going on with this because its just ridiculous for you to think this way and you need to have a reality check. I'll bet you a million dollars that its MUCH easier and better being Irish American than Black American. You have a major thinking distortion problem if you think otherwise.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-26_15:20:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "88cc2e3b44ea537139ac2b890ac4a8c6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1009188, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "989488": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"The reality is that the vast majority of Black folk are ordinary citizens who are neither newsworthy nor documentary subjects. \"<br><br>Say it again. <br><br>Also, It's not until I read business magazines do I find out we are starting businesses more than any other group out there.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_12:05:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "a9b9abf70e450bc2128c0e057afa51ce", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 988660, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "984882": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I noticed that too- I like her but I wonder if she was the right person to do this documentary.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_23:06:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "8632f4835ddb3fa44e48a36a0b6f9668", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 984809, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "988979": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "No, that is just middle class.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_11:24:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "542a2483d63424586b4b508f7177b91d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 984303, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "985310": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Honey01:  The only thing \"brown\" about her is her name.  So \"whycome\" she's all up in the Kool-aide when she isn't the \"flava\"!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_00:07:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 983985, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "983866": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "All the pictures are great in that article. I love the wedding picture especially. What a great couple.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_21:24:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "29f6805818d1f575c4b8e2182a2ac4ce", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 983519, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "993083": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm not watching this mockumentary tonight.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_16:39:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "984892": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I am super excited about both nominations because their acting was superb last season.  yeah!!!!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_23:07:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "ef781b639c890767ebd1ce99011c3afa", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 984677, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "984898": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I haven't liked her since the King story and she kind of snickered at the thought of a conspiracy behind his assasination.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_23:08:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 984882, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "984387": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I am tired of the graphics and the brother (when introducing the topics).<br><br>I co-sign with the \"negroes on display\" feeling.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_22:03:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "984902": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I thought it was pretty good, I do wish they would have delved a bit deeper into the CAUSES of all the ills plaguing our people though, that would've been GREAT...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_23:08:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "BlackAmericanPrincess", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "984903": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I agree smoothie, since the real audience was obviously non blacks, as nothing in this documentary was news to most black people.  <br><br>they could have done better by us, much better", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_23:08:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "mslisha", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 984883, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "985421": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Best post of the night! <br>3, 5, and 8 would have made my night. Just one of them.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_00:24:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "smoothie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 985369, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "994126": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Bronze Trinity:  Co-signing on \"It didn't provide solutions other than the unusual one about paying students . . . .\"  I had a similar observation.  NOT that I had any objections to programs that motivate and work - which this one appeared to do.  But, it also took TIME AWAY from the discussion of other VIABLE programs because it was the subject of controversy and \"debate\".  I don't believe that there is time for that.  Let's just see what works!  Hence, my question about the \"design\"/designers of the program.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_18:15:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 992697, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "983376": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.people.com/people/article/0%2C%2C20214569%2C00.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,2021456...</a><br>Well, here's one black family we like on this board...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_20:45:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "cc6569f8cbd4abd6bef53a2f883f8ca5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1021265": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Teenage pregnancy has dropped 50%...of course thats not worth mentioning.<br><br>The percentage of single parent households and two parent households are 50/50...while one should also take into account that just because a parent is non-resident, does not mean that they are not taking care of parental responsibilities. Now that shrinks it even more.<br><br>The majority of AA's are middle classed.<br><br>Lastly, I refused to watch this series...REFUSE! No thank you. <br><br>White people have always had a fascination with \"dysfunctional black folks\" or what they consider to be dysfunctional or \"the other\" from cinematic stereotypes to sociological myth-we as a race are constantly reduced to the lowest denominator. <br><br>You see, while other blacks participate in it, I refuse to. Its all racist at best.<br><br>I will wait to see the \"Latino in America\",  \"White in America\" , \"Asian in America\", \"Arab in America\" etc...etc...until, my theory stands.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-28_12:53:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 983985, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "995158": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "BWA HA HA HA HA<br><br>You are hilarious.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_20:15:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 993915, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "984920": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ignorant, poor, diseased, uneducated, husbandless, and the occassional success story.  <br><br>If you didn't like it tonight, tomorrow is going to make you sick - Black men in America.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_23:11:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 984883, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "984411": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Deja-vu.....Its better a better production and Soledad can carry any segment, but I've seen this \"Black in America\" special a hundred times in the last decade...or heard it on a radio show, or read about it in a magazine. This is the same show, same script just a different case. Same simplistic reasons for what \"ails us\"...I had hopes that it would go deeper, but alas, tis not to be.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_22:06:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "985437": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"A REAL show of what it is really like being Black in America would be based on the true dichotomy that exists when you are Black in an America that was created to be solely based on white supremacy as the rightful norm in society. \"<br><br>That would indeed be a real look at what it means to be Black in America.  Unfortunately, they are not going to tell that story, nor will they let us tell it.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_00:26:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 985363, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "984416": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I think the guy speaking after the intermissions is what gives it the \"negros on display\" feel", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_22:07:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "TariqNelson", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "987792": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I hope all of you let CNN know how you feel.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_09:35:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "taritac", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "990052": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "sorry, girl :-)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_12:51:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "cc6569f8cbd4abd6bef53a2f883f8ca5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 983519, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "988005": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Halfway through, I told my friends, \"I need to be drunk to finish this.\" It was so hackneyed, so stereotypical--it wasn't about being Black; it was about what a bunch of stupid so-called \"journalists\" think being Black is. Of course, it was full of what you'd expect: statistics thrown left, right and center as though that constitutes real research, speaking with TD Fucking Jakes who asserted that girls need fathers because they'll fall in love with the first man who crosses their path and then \"backing it up\" with ONE single black female parent who has five kids, treating success in black families as though it were the exception--and this is their words--\"not the rule.\" Tonight they'll \"focus\" on the Black Man. Of course, Michael Eric Dyson will be on.  And as someone pointed out upthread, he's nothing but a Cornel West-wannabe, Civil Rights Industrial Complex talking head who spouts whatever mainstream black pathology nonsense is en vogue at the time. Last night's segment had precious little to do with black women and the family (seriously?  note that tonight's segment isn't called \"black men and the family\"--no, that's too much like dispelling with a false dichotomy) and more to do with calling black women stupid, men-obsessed whores who can't keep it together because they're out looking for manflesh (and, of course, when they can't get it from the trifling brothers, they automatically default to white).<br><br>\"Marry your baby daddy day\"????  That was the precise moment I decided to have a beer.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_09:59:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "5e2b33c435c317e69152caba2b39bad6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "991598": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Oh, I'll tell you where that story is: in the dumpster.  The so-called \"liberal\" whites at CNN don't want to see that--how could such a story accurately describe the Deep Bottomless Sadness that is being Black In America?  I mean, a daughter in private school?  And she's not a hooker?  A mother raising her child by herself? Where's her pathology?  She owns two brownstones in Bed-Stuy?  Surely she must have bought them with drug money from her no good layabout babydaddy Raheim...right? She went to college?  Sure, but was it accredited?  No, if it isn't full of the kinds of swing-low-sweet-chariot pain that America LOVES to see in relation to black life, it ain't makin' it to the screen.  Especially if it upends any negative stereotypes.  <br><br>Tonight's installment of Deep Bottomless Black Sadness should be a hoot.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_14:38:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "5e2b33c435c317e69152caba2b39bad6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 991299, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1021295": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ironically, my family is more like the Huxtables along with many of the black families that I know than anyhting on Good Times.<br><br>Listen, they need to show the diversity of the black community that includes the Evans and the Huxtables and whatever you will see on Menace II Society.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-28_12:55:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 983420, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "984944": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I'm sorry, but this documentary was sensationalistic garbage.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_23:16:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "mslisha", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "984950": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That's exactly what they did.  Are your surprised?  I'm so sick of this shit, I might have to cancel my Essence subscription.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_23:16:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 984833, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "990264": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I remember a few articles I have read that challenged the conventional wisdom of the \"black experience.\"  One made the point that of all the negative statistics you can name, in all but one (out-of-wedlock births), a majority of black people don't experience it.  For example, if 1 in 3 black Americans are poor, that means that 2/3 are not poor.  If 1 in 10 black men are in prison, that means that 9/10 are not in prison.  If 16% of black adults are unemployed, that mean that 84% of black adults are employed.  And so on.<br><br>The other article was talking about the \"achievement gap\" in test scores.  The author pointed out that all the other \"achievement gaps\" between whites and blacks have been bridged, and this one will too.  For example, the literacy gap was bridged between 1865 and 1900; the elementary school attendance gap was bridged by 1940; the high school attendance gap was bridged by 1960; and the high school graduation gap was bridged by 1990.  The author suggested that those other gaps had to be bridged first before we could tackle the test score gap, and indeed, the gap is declining, just not as fast as we would like.<br><br>Meanwhile, if they want an example of a black family, let me propose my own.  I have a large extended family, and we are not rich; we are middle class and working class.  I have only one non-black relative, the wife of one of my cousins.  We're descendants of American slaves, and are not recent immigrants, either.  Yet none of us grew up without our fathers; none of the men in the family has ever been to jail;  all of us are gainfully employed; with one exception, no one is addicted to drugs or alcohol.  Not everyone has been to college, but all who are old enough have graduated from high school.<br><br>There are a few negative statistics that affect our family.  A few of the men have children out of wedlock, but they are all involved in their children's lives.  Only one of the women has a child out of wedlock - a baby born last year - and I don't count her as irresponsible.  She is a 39-year-old doctor, and I think she made the decision because she wanted a baby before her biological clock ran out.  <br><br>The biggest one, however, is that a lot of the health problems that disproportionately affect blacks - heart disease, stroke, and diabetes - are very present in our family.  Most of the men have had one of the above, and several of us, myself included, lost our fathers when we were young to disease.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_13:06:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "7842bd70c04075373dda8de0daa75b90", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "985464": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I like to see a documentary on being black anywhere.  I believe the experiences are similar.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_00:30:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "984444": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "there are alot of nice areas in Houston  with black folk in them i noticed theyve failed to visit. Of course if you do a special in 5th ward you'll see stories like this. <br><br>I", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_22:09:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "smoothie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "984959": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Uh, they're showing them the part they want them to understand.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_23:18:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 984869, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "990593": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "ya know!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_13:28:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "cc6569f8cbd4abd6bef53a2f883f8ca5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 984775, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "985986": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "lamh:  Amy has MORPHED into an INDEPENDENT!  She probably took the \"HINT\" that she was not welcomed even as a REpug.  I'm going to Wikip to see if it's reported there.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_02:49:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 985142, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "984967": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yes.it.was!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_23:19:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 984944, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1021321": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Lol...its just sucks to be black.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-28_12:58:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 984775, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "983447": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "All this \"Negroes on display\" shiznit CNN is doing is so much an obvious, \"Hey there might be a Negro in the White House, you better learn about these people\" meme. Its so corney and wack. The race pandering and \"spade work\"at CNN really needs to stop.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_20:51:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "nondelusional", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "990093": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "daaaam y'all was it that bad? <br>sigh, i'm sure it was. thanks for the reviews, i don't feel so bad now about having no cable. the olympics is coming though, i'm going to have to splurge on that. LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_12:54:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "cc6569f8cbd4abd6bef53a2f883f8ca5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 984967, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "994190": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "bingo glory", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_18:22:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 991822, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "985489": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Lets get you the grant money to do such a documentary.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_00:33:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "29f6805818d1f575c4b8e2182a2ac4ce", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 985421, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1021331": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Beatdown...hahaha", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-28_13:00:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 984831, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "984981": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "OT, but for those who might want to know:<br><br>OBAMA'S SPEECH IN BERLIN<br><br>So I found out that Obama's speech is scheduled for 7pm Berlin time, which I now know, thanks to my handy new timezone calculator (thx google) should be 12 noon CST.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_23:20:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "lamh", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "996758": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Nonsense.  The idea of glossing over something involves mentioning something and minimizing it while emphasizing other ideas.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_23:34:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "5e2b33c435c317e69152caba2b39bad6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 995822, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "984983": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "They could have really made it good and interviewed some black conservatives like Shelby Steele.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_23:20:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "992922": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yes I would like to have seen those topics too! Here are some things I would have liked to see.<br><br>1. How Black women feel about living in a society with Eurocentric beauty ideals that they either accept or reject?<br>2. How do Black people feel about living in a country that eslaved them, stole their names and history, called them less than human, etc?<br>3. How often do they get discriminated against, what incidents occured, how do they feel?<br>4. How do they feel about having light skin or dark skin (self-image)?<br>5. What do they think about their media representation and about Black celebrities?<br>6. How do they feel being a minority in predominantly White schools?<br>7. What do they think about race as it is described in the Bible (e.g., that stupid Ham curse)?<br>8. What do they know about how racism against Black people began and why it exists?<br>9. How do they feel about Africa?<br>10. Why do some date interracially and why do some prefer Black partners.<br>11. What is it like working in predominantly White settings.<br><br>I think thats a lot. These topics would really help others to understand where we are coming from and why we are the way we are.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_16:24:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "88cc2e3b44ea537139ac2b890ac4a8c6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 985369, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "984992": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Off Topic - But oooh Joe Klein just checked that Tara person.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_23:21:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "985926": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I didn't watch it. It must be because I've been watching this same \"expose\" since the 60's. <br><br>It would be nice if someone did a special telling the untold history of blacks in America. You know, the stuff our ancestors were doing before the Civil Rights era? The contributions blacks have made to this country since the colonial days? Enough of this \"noun/verb/MLK\" shit. Tell somebody who Frederick Douglass is every now and then.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_02:32:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "eclecticbrotha", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "985000": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Oooh David Gergen just joined in and called her out on a lie she told.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_23:22:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 13, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "992071": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You are too funny on this. Too funny.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_15:15:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 990410, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "997292": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The_Black_Snob:  Thank you.  I've been over to \"visit\" your site since I've started my <br>blogging venture!  Like the title  - good stuff!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-25_01:11:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 997130, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "983985": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I am flipping back and forth. I just saw the first positive image via the Texas family.<br><br>How many parts are in this series? All of what I have seen bascially discussed, AIDS in the Black community, achievement gaps, teenage pregnancies, etc.<br><br>The title of the program is \"Being Black in America\". The above social ills although real and are/have reached epidemic proportions in some areas, are not exhaustively representative of \"being Black\". <br><br>They even had Campbell Brown's doing a little segment prior to tonight's airing.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_21:33:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "Honey01", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1005490": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Roger, I love you. You make the most excellent points. Black American Princess, you're lost and have fallen for the farce.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-25_20:11:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "bd7136a6c12f209e7e9955406d8d507b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 996758, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "993438": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  Sorry to you too for messing up this thread by mis-interpreting true humor.  :&gt;)  :&gt;)  I have come back to earth, I have taken my (deep breaths) and I am getting my \"laff\" on!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_17:09:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 992071, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "985014": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This is what we get: Too many single women with multiple kids who don't know 'what to do', too much criminal mentality, no discussion of how that mindset permeates so many and why they see limited options and engage in so much negativity. Did you hear the Negro spirituals being sung in the background? UGH.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_23:23:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "985015": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "A friend asked me to watch it.<br>That's it.<br>I won't be buying the DVD.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_23:23:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 984944, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "985588": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>..For instance, I believe there is a Harvard professor on the program..</i><br><br>Roland Friar, he's pretty terrific in what he's doing.  He got a little pushback from Julianne Malveax on the earlier special.  She said she wanted to see \"empirical data\" on whether his program would be successful in the long term.  It felt like a swat...ah, that pesky biology again.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_00:52:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 985383, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "985532": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That kinda made me cringe.<br><br>The Kennedy family story was moving.  Here is a black father taking care of his children.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_00:40:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 985264, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "997310": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thank you! I do my best to blog for the people!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-25_01:14:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "The_Black_Snob", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 997292, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "985023": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Is that the Unity speech that's being advertised?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_23:25:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 984981, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "985024": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Is that the Unity speech that's being advertised?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_23:25:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 984981, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "985025": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "is this CNN?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_23:25:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 985000, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "984514": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Sugar Land - Missouri City-Third Ward", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_22:17:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "Texas_Girl_in_LA", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 984444, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "990150": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "WHY does the mainstream media keep harping on HIV/AIDS as thought it's the number one killer of black women? It's not, it's heart disease, exacerbated by high rates of obesity. That's an issue I'd dare say that far more African-Americans struggle with than HIV/AIDS. I wonder how many black producers worked on this show. Never mind the host...who was in the planning meetings, who was green-lighting the programming?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_12:58:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "cc6569f8cbd4abd6bef53a2f883f8ca5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 985383, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "985032": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "yep", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_23:26:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 985024, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "990665": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "dmtyus311:  Having LIVED THE LIFE!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_13:33:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 990495, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "987084": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Amy had a baby?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_07:39:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 985857, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "992718": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yeah I get what you mean. Its like Black people are under the microscope by a bunch of antrhropologists who want to teach the White man about the Black man even though we have been living in the same bloody place for 400 years!!!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_16:08:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "88cc2e3b44ea537139ac2b890ac4a8c6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 983447, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "993358": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Admiral:  I'm there.  :&gt;)  :&gt;)  I promise that I'll let no more humor get past me.  :&gt;)  :&gt;)  Well, at least I'll try!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_17:02:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 992950, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "993242": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I guess I am in the absolute minority here because I didn't think the documentary was as awful as it's being painted at ALL.  They only had 2 hours, of course they couldn't address everything about what it is to be a Black woman in America.  The annoying poet notwithstanding, I think they did a good job of showing the positive AND negative.  What about the doctor in Baltimore and the brothas and sistas in Houston going door to door trying to get high school dropouts back in school?  What about the single, beautiful, successful sistas who were seeking a brotha?  What about that beautiful family that owned the successful construction company who were sending ALL their children to college?  What about Dr. J Malveaux or the Harvard professor or the Harlem cardiologist who were working hard for and in our community?  What about the hardworking single father who was raising his children the best he could and the hardworking single mother raising her 5 kids PLUS her niece?  Those were all positives in my opinion, coupled with the fact that a successful Black woman, Soledad O'Brien herself, was doing the show.  Sure, there were negatives but those negative aspects, sadly, are reality.<br><br>It seems like alot of people are embarassed and I think that's sad...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_16:53:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "BlackAmericanPrincess", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "985052": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Okay now Anderson Cooper is going to do a spot on Dyson's brother being in prison for murder when they were raised in the same household.  He asked was it a question of skin color.  OMG.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_23:28:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "983519": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "This was my surprise for tomorrow. This is the picture for my Thursday Open Thread.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_20:58:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 983376, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "992791": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "For those planning to watch tonight's episode of this farce, I will wait to read your reviews because I will not subject myself to more Black bashing masquerading as thoughtful, insightful analysis of the Black experience in America.<br><br>NO ID -- can you imagine what the conversation was when they were planning the episode about Black men?  God help us!  Lock up your virgins, those mandingos are coming to get you!  <br><br>Nothing will be said about the beautiful Black man, whose sensual walk alone seems shivers down a sister's spine.  Just watch a Black man walking and you will see why so many  \"others\" feel threatened, not an educated Black man, an intelligent Black man, a wealthy Black man, a family-loving Black man, a GOOD Black man.  Just watch a Black man walking, even with all the attempts to emasculate.<br><br>Do I love Black men?  You think?!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_16:14:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "53b68a68032d55308b4b72dedfc2bae6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "996841": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Exactly.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_23:46:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 995592, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "997356": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Honey01:  I'll co-sign to this as often as I can!!  Shoulda been more - WHAT WORKS- educational strategies.  And don't subject them to discussion!!  If they work - THEY WORK!!!  Whew!  (deep breaths!)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-25_01:27:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 985383, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "995822": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "CNN wasn't exploitive in their depiction of the successful Black folk.  How specifically did they gloss over them in your opinion?  Glossing would have been not to include them at ALL...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_21:38:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "BlackAmericanPrincess", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 995592, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "986096": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The QUESTION is, what are we going to do as an Afrikan people in America to change the ills that effect our people?  Lets talk solutions that can be applied today.  \"Forward forever, Backwards never\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_03:17:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "UpYouMightyRace", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "984562": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Inwood Humble Kingwood, <br>Katy...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_22:25:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "smoothie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 984514, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "988660": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I didn't watch; and I'm probably not going to.  <br><br>The reality is that the vast majority of Black folk are ordinary citizens who are neither newsworthy nor documentary subjects.  That being the case, why then does CNN want to air a series on Black America other than for entertainment value.<br><br>And let's face it; if we've learned nothing about TV in the last 80 years, there's nothing more entertaining than dysfunctional Black folk. <br><br>Thanks but no thanks, CNN.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_10:58:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "RonnieB", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "985077": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yep,<br><br>It's the one I think some people have been saying is not a good idea, but I think it's okay. <br><br>I hope it's a barn-burner.  Let's place bets that all 3 cable networks will broadcast much of it.  I would bet FOX news cuts away first though.  MSNBC might broadcast the whole thing, but 12noon is usually the time that Andrea \"rattlesnake\" Mitchell does her show.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_23:32:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "lamh", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 985023, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "988663": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Related but not related to the documentary which I have DVR'd haven't seen yet...<br><br>I attended an Undoing Racism workshop last week with mixed group of educators and non profit organization folks.  In talking about racism it was obvious that white people have great difficulty in knowing their own privilege. It is in essence why Katie Couric can say that sexism is more pervasive than sexism. As the saying goes, the fish has great difficulty in describing what is wet as it has never known what it means to be dry.<br><br>That said, in the spirit of revisiting Peggy McIntosh's list in her article \"Unpacking the Knapsack\" <a href=\"http://seamonkey.ed.asu.edu/%7Emcisaac/emc598ge/Unpacking.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://seamonkey.ed.asu.edu/~mcisaac/emc598ge/U...</a><br>I would like to recreate the list from the perspective of people of color. I just saw the clip of Soledad O'Brien talking about how white people never sit their sons down to talk about what to do if they are stopped by the cops. I was privy to the same conversation when it was had with my nephew and son of a friend.<br><br>Help me make a list. I will then use it as a resource when I do my work (diversity education,) helping highlight the parallel universes we live in.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_10:59:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "evita", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "984568": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I have a cousin who lives in Sugar Land.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_22:26:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 984514, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "985083": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "On tomorrow's installment I wonder if there will be a segment on black men dating white women?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_23:33:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "985084": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "understatement of the year: \"I've not always made the best choices\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_23:33:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "mslisha", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}}, "integration": {"receiver_url": "", "theme": 4, "reply_position": true, "disqus_logo": false}, "timer": {"timer_url": "http://localhost:8005", "thread_id": "2135448", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "21630", "hash": -33943943145842216}, "thread": {"days_alive": 0, "slug": "cnn8217s_8216_black_in_america8217_day_one_open_thread", "paginate": false, "num_pages": 1, "num_posts": 184, "per_page": 0, "total_posts": 0, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 2135448, "queued": false}, "reactions_limit": 10, "context": {"show_reply": true, "use_fb_connect": true, "forum_facebook_key": "bd6a8bc56f8eb204984f34b6fefe228d", "use_yahoo": false, "subscribed": false, "use_twitter_signin": true, "use_openid": false, "realtime_speed": 5000}, "reactions_start": 0, "settings": {"debug": false, "disqus_url": "http://disqus.com", "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"}, "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"};
	/* */ this.jsonData.cookie_messages = {"user_created": null, "post_has_profile": null, "post_twitter": null, "post_not_approved": null}; this.jsonData.session = {"url": null, "name": null, "email": null}; /* */

	
	this.curPageId = 'dsq-comments';

	this.frames = {};
};

var disqus_popup_reference = null;

if(typeof DsqLocal == 'undefined') {
	DsqLocal = {};
}



/**
 * Dsq.Strings: UI strings
 */
Dsq.Strings = new function() {
	this.ADD_NEW_COMMENT = "Add New Comment";
	this.LOG_INTO_DISQUS = "Log into DISQUS";
	this.USE_MEDIA = "Use Media";
	this.LOGOUT = "Logout";
	this.SHARING_OPTIONS = "Sharing options";
	this.SHARE_ON = "Share on";
	this.TWEET_THIS_COMMENT = "Tweet this comment";
	this.SHARE_ON_NEWSFEED = "Share on news feed";
	this.SEND_UPDATE_TO_YAHOO = "Send update to Yahoo!";
	this.REBLOG_ON = "Reblog on";
	this.CONFIGURE_OPTIONS = "Configure options";
	this.POST_AS = "Post as";
	this.SORT_BY = "Sort by";
	this.SUBSCRIBE_BY_EMAIL = "Subscribe by email";
	this.SUBSCRIBE_BY_RSS = "Subscribe by RSS";
	this.POPULAR_NOW = "Popular now";
	this.BEST_RATING = "Best Rating";
	this.NEWEST_FIRST = "Newest first";
	this.OLDEST_FIRST = "Oldest first";
	this.HIGHLIGHTED = "Highlighted";
	this.UNSUBSCRIBE = "Unsubscribe";
	this.REQUIRED = "Required";
	this.OPTIONAL = "Optional";
	this.YOU_ARE_COMMENTING_AS_A = "You are commenting as a";
	this.LOGIN_BELOW = "Login below";
	this.PLEASE_LOGIN_BELOW_TO_COMMENT = "Please login below to comment.";
	this.SUBSCRIBE_TO_ALL_COMMENTS_BY_EMAIL = "Subscribe to all comments by email";
	this.DO_NOT_SUBSCRIBE_TO_COMMENTS = "Do not subscribe to comments";
	this.REALTIME_UPDATING_IS = "Real-time updating is";
	this.ENABLED = "enabled";
	this.PAUSED = "paused";
	this.PAUSE = "Pause";
	this.RESUME = "Resume";
	this.SHOW = "Show";
	this.JUST_NOW = "Just now";
	this.REPLY = "Reply";
	this.EDIT = "Edit";
	this.FLAG = "Flag";
	this.MODERATE = "Moderate";
	this.CANCEL = "Cancel";
	this.REPLYING_TO = "Replying to";
	this.REPORT_MISSING_REACTIONS = "Report missing reactions";
	this.POST_A_COMMENT = "Post a comment";
	this.FLAG_INAPPROPRIATE_COMMENT = "Flag inappropriate comment";
	this.FLAGGED = "Flagged";
	this.NO = "No";
	this.YES = "Yes";
	this.NEVER_MIND = "Never mind";
	this.ARE_YOU_SURE_YOU_WOULD_LIKE_TO_REPORT_THIS_COMMENT_TO_A_MODERATOR = "Are you sure you would like to report this comment to a moderator";
	this.THIS_WILL_FLAG_COMMENTS_FOR_MODERATORS_TO_TAKE_ACTION = "This will flag comments for moderators to take action";
	this.TO_RATE_PLEASE_LOG_IN = "To rate, please log in";
	this.JUST_A_MOMENT = "Just a moment...";
	this.GUEST = "Guest";
	this.NAME = "Name";
	this.EMAIL = "Email";
  this.WEBSITE = "Website";
  this.SETTINGS = "Settings";
  this.MODERATOR_OPTIONS = "Moderator options: ";
};
// Dsq.Strings

/**
 * Dsq.FmtStrings: functions that return interpolated UI strings
 */
Dsq.FmtStrings = new function() {
	// Seems we have to use named interpolation for Django to translate. Investigate more.
	this.LOGGED_IN_AS = function(username) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate('Logged in as %(username)s', {username:username});
	};

	this.LOGOUT_FROM = function(disqus) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate('Logout from %(disqus)s', {disqus:disqus});
	};

	this.SHOWING_COMMENTS_FULL = function(total, num) {
		if (num === 1) {
			return Dsq.Utils.interpolate("Showing <span id='dsq-num-posts'>%(num)s</span> of <span id='dsq-total-posts'>%(total)s</span> comment", {num:num, total:total});
		} else {
			return Dsq.Utils.interpolate("Showing <span id='dsq-num-posts'>%(num)s</span> of <span id='dsq-total-posts'>%(total)s</span> comments", {num:num, total:total});
		}
	};

	this.SHOWING_COMMENTS_WITHOUT_PAGINATION = function(num) {
		if (num === 1) {
			return Dsq.Utils.interpolate("Showing <span id='dsq-num-posts'>%(num)s</span> comment", {num:num});
		} else {
			return Dsq.Utils.interpolate("Showing <span id='dsq-num-posts'>%(num)s</span> comments", {num:num});
		}
	};

	this.NUMBER_OF_COMMENTS = function(num) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
			(num == 1
				? '%(num)s comment'
				: '%(num)s comments'
			), {num:num});
	};

	this.NUMBER_OF_LIKES = function(num) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
			(num == 1
				? '%(num)s like'
				: '%(num)s likes'
			), {num:num});
	};

	this.NUMBER_OF_POINTS = function(num) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
			(num == 1
				? '%(num)s point'
				: '%(num)s points'
			), {num:num});
	};
};
// Dsq.FmtStrings





Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN = '3a1994e3330279e78957da82fb64f754';
Dsq.COMMENTS_RE = /(<li.*?id="?dsq-comment-(\d+)"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*?)(<\/li>)/gim;
Dsq.POST_RE = /(<div.*?id="?dsq-comment-header-(\d+)"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*?)(<\/div>)\s*(<div.*?class="?dsq-comment-body"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*)(<\/div>)/gim;
Dsq.POST_BODY_RE = /\s*(<div.*?id="?dsq-comment-message-(\d+)"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*)(<\/div>)/gim;
// HACK: Safari ends with "-->" while other browsers end with "--&gt;" as expected.
Dsq.MEDIA_POST_RE = /&lt;!--\[(.*?)\]--(?:>|&gt;)/gim;



var FragmentPacket = function(reader, writer, writer_url, is_child, receiveCallback) {
	var that = this;
	this.reader = reader;
	this.writer = writer;
	this.writer_url = writer_url;

	this.is_child = is_child || false;
	this.receiveCallback = receiveCallback;

	this._lastHash = null;

	this._accumMsg = '';

	this._lastSeqno = 0;

	this.MAX_DATA_LEN	= 1024;

	this.WAIT_TIME		= 10;

	this.READY		= 0x1;
	this.WRITING	= 0x2;
	this.FIN		= 0x4;
	this.ACK		= 0x8;

};

FragmentPacket.prototype.createListener = function() {
	var that = this;
	var listener = function() {
		that.recv();
	};
	return window.setInterval(listener, 10);
};

FragmentPacket.prototype.log = function(msg) {



};

FragmentPacket.prototype.recv = function() {
	var hash;
	if (/MSIE/.test(navigator.userAgent)) {

		hash = this.reader.name;
	} else {

		var hashIndex = this.reader.location.href.indexOf('#');
		if (hashIndex == -1) {
			return;
		}
		hash = this.reader.location.href.substring(hashIndex+1);
	}
	var flags = parseInt(hash.substring(0, 4), 10);
	var seqno = parseInt(hash.substring(4, 24), 10);
	var data  = hash.substring(24);

	if (this._lastHash !== hash) {
		this._lastHash = hash;
		this.log('recv: ' + hash);

		this.log(' flags: ' + flags);
		this.log(' seqno: ' + seqno + ' len: ' + hash.substring(4, 24).length + ' (' + hash.substring(4, 24) + ')');
		this.log(' data: ' + data + ' len: ' + data.length);

		this._lastSeqno = seqno;

		if (flags & this.WRITING) {
			this._accumMsg += data;
			this.sendFlag(this.ACK, seqno);
			if (flags & this.FIN) {
				this.log('recv finished: ' + decodeURIComponent(this._accumMsg));
				this.receiveCallback(decodeURIComponent(this._accumMsg));

				this._accumMsg = '';

				this.sendFlag(this.READY | this.ACK, this._lastSeqno);
			}
		}
	}

	return {
		flags: flags,
		seqno: seqno,
		data: data
	};
};

FragmentPacket.prototype.sendRawPacket = function(packet) {
	if (/MSIE/.test(navigator.userAgent)) {
		this.writer.name = packet;
	} else {

		this.writer.location.href = this.writer_url + '#' + packet;
	}

};

FragmentPacket.prototype.sendFlag = function(flag, seqno) {
	this.sendRawPacket(this._zerofill(flag, 4) + this._zerofill(seqno, 20));
};

FragmentPacket.prototype.send = function(msg) {
	this._send(0, encodeURIComponent(msg));
};

FragmentPacket.prototype._send = function(packetNum, msg) {
	var that = this;
	var recvBuf = this.recv();

	if (packetNum === 0) {

		if (!(recvBuf.flags & this.READY)) {
			this.log('client is not ready, waiting...');
			window.setTimeout(function() { that._send(packetNum, msg); }, this.WAIT_TIME);
			return;
		}
	} else {

		if (!( (recvBuf.flags & this.ACK) && (recvBuf.seqno === this._lastSeqno) )) {
			this.log('waiting for ack from client...');
			window.setTimeout(function() { that._send(packetNum, msg); }, this.WAIT_TIME);
			return;
		} else {
			this.log('received ack: ' + this._lastSeqno + ' ' + recvBuf.seqno);
		}
	}

	var flags = this.WRITING;
	var num_packets = Math.ceil(msg.length / this.MAX_DATA_LEN);
	this.log('num_packets: ' + num_packets);

	if (num_packets === packetNum) {

		this.log('message successfully sent!');
		this.sendFlag(this.READY | this.ACK, this._lastSeqno);
		return true;
	}

	this._lastSeqno++;

	if (packetNum == num_packets-1) {
		flags |= this.FIN;
	}

	var data = msg.substring(packetNum * this.MAX_DATA_LEN, (packetNum+1) * this.MAX_DATA_LEN);
	var packet = this._zerofill(flags, 4) + this._zerofill(this._lastSeqno, 20) + data;

	this.log('sending raw packet: ' + packet);
	this.sendRawPacket(packet);

	return this._send(packetNum + 1, msg);
};

FragmentPacket.prototype._zerofill = function(num, width) {
	var retval = num.toString();
	var retval_len = retval.length;
	for (var i = 0; i < width - retval_len; i++) {
		retval = '0' + retval;
	}
	return retval;
};

var PostMessagePacket = function(receiver, receiveCallback, id, receiverId) {
	var that = this;
	this.receiver = receiver;
	this.receiveCallback = receiveCallback;
	this.id = id;


	this.receiverId = receiverId;
};

PostMessagePacket.prototype.createListener = function() {
	var that = this;

	var listener = function(e) {

		if (!that.id) {
			that.id = e.data;
			return;
		}


		var id = e.data.split(';')[0];
		if (id !== that.id) {
			return;
		}
		var data = e.data.substring(e.data.indexOf(';') + 1);

		that.receiveCallback(data);
	};

	if (typeof window.attachEvent == 'function') {
		window.attachEvent('onmessage', listener);
	} else if (typeof window.addEventListener == 'function') {
		window.addEventListener('message', listener, false);
	} else {
		throw new Error('No method found to create event listener for PostMessagePacket.');
	}
};

PostMessagePacket.prototype.send = function(msg) {



	var needs_reget = false;
	try {
		if (typeof this.receiver.id == 'undefined' || typeof this.receiver.postMessage == 'undefined') {
			needs_reget = true;
		}
	} catch(e) {


	}
	if (needs_reget && typeof this.receiverId != 'undefined') {
		this.receiver = document.getElementById(this.receiverId).contentWindow;
	}

	var packet;
	if (!msg) {

		packet = this.id;
	} else {
		packet = this.id + ';' + msg;
	}
	this.receiver.postMessage(packet, '*');
};

PostMessagePacket._last_unique_id = null;
PostMessagePacket._get_unique_id = function() {
	var id = (new Date()).getTime();
	if (id == PostMessagePacket._last_unique_id) {
		id++;
	}
	PostMessagePacket._last_unique_id = id;
	return id.toString();
};

var JsonRpc = function() {

	this.ids = {};

	this.objectToJSON = function(obj) {
		var json = '';
		var results = [];

		if (obj === undefined || obj === null) {
			return 'null';
		}

		switch (obj.constructor) {
			case Object:
				for (var property in obj) {
					if (obj.hasOwnProperty(property)) {
						results.push(this.objectToJSON(property) + ': ' + this.objectToJSON(obj[property]));
					}
				}
				json = '{' + results.join(', ') + '}';
				break;
			case Array:
				for (var i = 0; i < obj.length; i++) {
					results.push(this.objectToJSON(obj[i]));
				}
				json = '[' + results.join(', ') + ']';
				break;
			case Number:
			case Boolean:
				json = obj.toString();
				break;
			case String:

				var specialChars = {'\b': '\\b', '\t': '\\t', '\n': '\\n', '\f': '\\f', '\r': '\\r', '\\': '\\\\'};

				json = obj.replace(/[\x00-\x1f\\]/g, function(match) {
					var ch = specialChars[match];
					return ch ? ch : '\\u00' + match.charCodeAt().toPaddedString(2, 16);
				});

				json = '"' + json.replace(/"/g, '\\"') + '"';
				break;
			default:

				json = 'null';
				break;
		}

		return json;
	};

	this.createHandler = function(send_func, registered_funcs) {
		var that = this;
		var handler = function(message) {

			try {
				var rpc = eval('(' + message + ')');
			} catch(e) {
				alert('bad JSON: ' + message);
				return;
			}
			if (rpc.method) {

				if (!registered_funcs[rpc.method]) {
					return;
				}

				var retval = registered_funcs[rpc.method].apply(null, rpc.params);
				if (rpc.id) {
					var response = {
						result: retval,
						error: null,	// TODO
						id: rpc.id
					};
					send_func(that.objectToJSON(response));
				}
			} else if(rpc.result) {

				if (!that.ids[rpc.id]) {
					return;
				}

				that.ids[rpc.id](rpc.result);
				delete that.ids[rpc.id];
			}
		};
		return handler;
	};

	this.execute = function(send_func, method, params, response_callback) {
		response_callback = response_callback || null;
		var id = (response_callback) ? (new Date()).getTime() : null;

		var request = {
			method: method,
			params: params,
			id: id
		};

		send_func(this.objectToJSON(request));

		if (id) {
			this.ids[id] = response_callback;
		}
	};
};
JsonRpc = new JsonRpc();

var ParentMessenger = function(childUrl, receiverUrl, container, receiveCallback) {


	if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Safari') >= 0 && parseInt(navigator.userAgent.substring(navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Version/') + 8), 10) == 3) {
		throw new Error("unsupported.");
	} else if (window.opera) {
		throw new Error("unsupported.");
	}



	if (!receiverUrl &&
		navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Gecko') >= 0 &&
		parseFloat(navigator.userAgent.slice(navigator.userAgent.indexOf('rv:') + 3, navigator.userAgent.indexOf('rv:') + 6)) < 1.9) {
		throw new Error("unsupported.");
	}


	if (/msie/i.test(navigator.userAgent) && !/opera/i.test(navigator.userAgent)) {


		if (document.domain == window.location.hostname) {
			receiverUrl = '';
		}
	}

	var that = this;
	this.childUrl = childUrl;
	this.receiverUrl = receiverUrl;
	this.container = container || document.body;

	this.packetHandler = null;


	this._ready = false;
	this._error = false;


	var _createReceiverForFragmentPacket = function() {

		that.receiver = document.createElement('iframe');
		that.receiver.src = receiverUrl;
		that.receiver.id = 'receiver_' + (new Date()).getTime();
		that.receiver.name = that.receiver.id;

		that.receiver.frameBorder = '0';
		that.receiver.frameSpacing = '0';
		that.receiver.style.borderStyle = 'none';

		var receiver_onload = function() {
			var receiver = document.getElementById(that.receiver.id).contentWindow;

			try {
				receiver.document.body.innerHTML = '';
			} catch(e) {

				that._error = true;
			}
			receiver.document.body.style.padding = '0px';
			receiver.document.body.style.margin = '0px';

			var child = receiver.document.createElement('iframe');
			child.id = 'child';
			child.name = 'child';
			child.src = that.childUrl;

			child.frameBorder = '0';
			child.frameSpacing = '0';
			child.style.borderStyle = 'none';
			child.style.width = '100%';
			child.style.height = '100%';
			receiver.document.body.appendChild(child);

			that.child = receiver.document.getElementById('child').contentWindow;
			that.receiver = receiver;

			that.packetHandler = new FragmentPacket(that.receiver, that.child, that.childUrl, false, receiveCallback);

			that._listener = that.packetHandler.createListener();

			that.packetHandler.sendFlag(that.packetHandler.READY, 0);

			that._ready = true;
		};

		that.receiver.onreadystatechange = function() {
			if (this.readyState == 'complete') {
				receiver_onload();
			}
		};

		that.receiver.onload = receiver_onload;







		if (Dsq.Utils.ie) {
			if (that.container.clientWidth === 0) {

				var _waitForWidth = function() {
					if (that.container.clientWidth > 0) {
						Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(that.container.id);
					} else {
						window.setTimeout(_waitForWidth, 100);
					}
				};
				_waitForWidth();

				that._once = false;
				that.receiver.onresize = function() {
					if (!that._once) {
						Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(that.container.id);
					}
					that._once = true;
				};
			}
		}

		that.container.appendChild(that.receiver);
	};


	var _createReceiverForPostMessage = function() {

		var receiver_onload = function() {

			that.packetHandler.send();
			that._ready = true;
		};

		var id = PostMessagePacket._get_unique_id();
		var receiverId = 'child_' + id;


		ParentMessenger['_receiver_onload_' + receiverId] = receiver_onload;

		that.container.innerHTML += '<iframe ' +
			'src="' + childUrl + '" ' +
			'id="' + receiverId + '" ' +
			'name="' + receiverId + '" ' +
			'onload="ParentMessenger._receiver_onload_' + receiverId +'();" ' +
			'></iframe>';

		that.receiver = document.getElementById(receiverId).contentWindow;
		that.packetHandler = new PostMessagePacket(that.receiver, receiveCallback, id, receiverId);
		that._listener = that.packetHandler.createListener();
	};

	if (typeof window.postMessage == 'function') {
		_createReceiverForPostMessage();
	} else {
		_createReceiverForFragmentPacket();
	}

};

ParentMessenger.prototype.sendMessage = function(message) {
	var that = this;
	if (!this._ready) {

		window.setTimeout(function() { that.sendMessage(message); }, 10);
		return;
	}
	this.packetHandler.send(message);
	return true;
};

Dsq.NewFrames = function(url) {
	this.url = url;
};

Dsq.NewFrames.prototype.init = function(onFailure) {
	var that = this;

	try {
		this.messenger = new ParentMessenger(this.url, Dsq.jsonData.integration.receiver_url, this.container, this.receive_callback);
	} catch(e) {
		if (typeof onFailure == 'function') {
			onFailure();
		}
	}

	if (typeof onFailure == 'function') {
		var iId = window.setInterval(function() {
			if (typeof that.messenger == 'undefined') {
				window.clearInterval(iId);
				return;
			}
			if (that.messenger._ready) {
				window.clearInterval(iId);
			} else if (that.messenger._error) {
				window.clearInterval(iId);
				onFailure();
			}
		}, 10);
	}
};

Dsq.NewFrames.prototype._execute = function(method, args, callback) {
	var that = this;
	if (typeof that.messenger == 'undefined') {
		return false;
	}
	JsonRpc.execute(
		function(msg) { that.messenger.sendMessage(msg); },
		method,
		args || [],
		callback);
	return true;
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame = function(container, parent_post_id) {
	var that = this;
	this.container = container;
	this.parent_post_id = parent_post_id;

	var sendFunc = function(msg) {

		Dsq.Debug.log('Dsq.ReplyFrame.sendFunc');
		that.messenger.sendMessage(msg);
	};


	var postComment_onSuccess = function(response) {
		Dsq.jsonData.posts[response.message.id] = response.message.post_meta;
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.users[response.message.post_meta.user_key]) {
			Dsq.jsonData.users[response.message.post_meta.user_key] = response.message.user_meta;
		}


		var reply_position = (typeof(disqus_insert_wrt_sort) == 'undefined' 
			? (Dsq.jsonData.forum.reply_position ? -1 : null) 
			: (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 2 ? null : -1));
		
		if (response.message.post_meta.approved) {
			Dsq.Post.insert(response.message.post_meta.parent_post_id || reply_position, response.message.id, response.message.post_meta.message);
		}

		Dsq.Templates.postComment_onSuccess(response, parent_post_id, response.message.id);
	};

	var postComment_onFailure = function(response) {
		Dsq.Popup.popModal(response.message, 'Error');
		Dsq.Templates.postComment_onFailure(response, parent_post_id, response.message.id);
	};

	var editComment_onSuccess = function(response) {
		var post_id = parent_post_id;
		var message = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + post_id);
		
		message.innerHTML = response.message;
		Dsq.Templates.toggleEdit(post_id);
		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};
	
	var editComment_onFailure = function(response) {
		var post_id = parent_post_id;
		
		Dsq.Popup.popModal('Sorry, there was an error editing this comment.', 'Edit Error');
		Dsq.Templates.toggleEdit(post_id);
		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};

	var getUserByEmail_onSuccess = function(response) {
		var msg = response.message;
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(parent_post_id);

		if (msg.username) {

			Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(parent_post_id, 'login', {
				'username': msg.username,
				'display_name': msg.display_name,
				'avatar_url': msg.avatar_url,
				'verified': msg.verified,
				'email': fields.email.value
			});
		} else {

			Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(parent_post_id, 'register');
		}
	};

	var validateAuth_onSuccess = function(response, auth_choice) {
		Dsq.Templates.postComment(parent_post_id, null, true, auth_choice);
	};

	var validateAuth_onFailure = function(response, auth_choice) {
		var pid = parent_post_id ? '-' + parent_post_id : '';
		var msg = response.message;

		if (auth_choice == 'register') {
			var fields = ['email', 'username', 'password'];

			for (var i = 0; i < fields.length; i++) {
				var field = fields[i];
				var errorDiv = Dsq.$('dsq-' + field + '-errors' + pid);

				if (msg[field]) {
					errorDiv.innerHTML = msg[field];
				} else {
					errorDiv.innerHTML = '';
				}
			}
		} else if (auth_choice == 'login') {
			Dsq.$('dsq-lightbox-errors' + pid).innerHTML = '<p>We couldn\'t log you in. Please verify your login.</p>';
		}
		
		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};

	this.receive_callback = JsonRpc.createHandler(sendFunc, {
		'postComment.onSuccess': postComment_onSuccess,
		'postComment.onFailure': postComment_onFailure,
		'editComment.onSuccess': editComment_onSuccess,
		'editComment.onFailure': editComment_onFailure,		
		'getUserByEmail.onSuccess': getUserByEmail_onSuccess,
		'validateAuth.onSuccess': validateAuth_onSuccess,
		'validateAuth.onFailure': validateAuth_onFailure,
		'reload': function() { window.location.reload(); }
	});

	this.url = Dsq.Urls.REPLY +
		'?' + (new Date()).getTime() +
		'&f=jackandjillpolitics' +
		'&t=cnn8217s_8216_black_in_america8217_day_one_open_thread' +
		'&ff=' + Dsq.Thread.ff +
		'&default_text=' + disqus_default_text +
		'&ifrs=' + encodeURIComponent(disqus_iframe_css);
	if (this.parent_post_id) {
		this.url += '&parent_post=' + this.parent_post_id;
	}
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype = new Dsq.NewFrames(Dsq.ReplyFrame.url);

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.post = function(author_name, author_email, author_url, authenticate, sharing_services, subscribe) {
	this._execute('postComment', [author_name, author_email, author_url, authenticate, sharing_services, subscribe]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.edit = function(post_id, message) {
	this._execute('editComment', [post_id, message]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.setState = function(parent_post_id, depth) {
	this._execute('setState', [parent_post_id, depth]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.getUserByEmail = function(email) {
	this._execute('getUserByEmail', [email]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.validateAuth = function(auth_choice, email, username, password) {
	this._execute('validateAuth', [auth_choice, email, username, password]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.authenticateFacebook = function(session, forum_url) {
	this._execute('authenticateFacebook', [session, forum_url]);
};

	Dsq.Facebook = function() {
	var that = this;

	var handleSessionData = function(session) {

		var forum_url = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;




		if (typeof disqus_facebook_forum != 'undefined') {
			forum_url = disqus_facebook_forum;
		}
		Dsq.frames.reply_0.authenticateFacebook(session, forum_url);
	};

	var onLogin = function() {
		FB.Connect.getSignedPublicSessionData(handleSessionData);
	};

	this.login = function() {
		FB.Connect.requireSession(onLogin, true);
	};
};
Dsq.Facebook = new Dsq.Facebook();


	






Dsq.Themes = {};

Dsq.Themes.narcissus = new function() {
	this.addPostContainer = 'dsq-form-area';
	this.textareaContainer = 'dsq-textarea-wrapper';



	
	this.header = function() {
		var comments_count, total_posts, num_posts;
		var html = '';
		var missing_perm_tmpl;

		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.missing_perm) {
			missing_perm_tmpl = Dsq.Templates.missingPermissions();
			if (missing_perm_tmpl) {
				html += '<div class="dsq-missing-permissions">' + missing_perm_tmpl + '</div>';
			}
		}

		total_posts = Dsq.jsonData.thread.total_posts;
		num_posts = Dsq.jsonData.thread.num_posts;

		if (total_posts) {
			comments_count = Dsq.FmtStrings.SHOWING_COMMENTS_FULL(total_posts, num_posts);
		} else {
			comments_count = Dsq.FmtStrings.SHOWING_COMMENTS_WITHOUT_PAGINATION(num_posts);
		}

		html += ' \
		<div id="dsq-comments-title"> \
			<h3>' + comments_count + '</h3> \
		</div> \
		';

		html += ' \
		<div class="dsq-options"> \
			<span class="dsq-item-sort">'
				+ Dsq.Strings.SORT_BY + ' \
				<select id="dsq-sort-select" onchange="Dsq.Thread.sortBy(this.value);"> \
					<option value="hot" ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 4 ? 'selected="selected"' : '') + '>' + Dsq.Strings.POPULAR_NOW + '</option> \
					<option value="best" ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 3 ? 'selected="selected"' : '') + '>' + Dsq.Strings.BEST_RATING + '</option> \
					<option value="newest" ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 2 ? 'selected="selected"' : '') + '>' + Dsq.Strings.NEWEST_FIRST + '</option> \
					<option value="oldest" ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 1 ? 'selected="selected"' : '') + '>' + Dsq.Strings.OLDEST_FIRST + '</option> \
				</select> \
				&nbsp; \
			</span> \
			<span class="dsq-subscribe-email"> \
				<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/email.png" style="width:12px;height:12px;vertical-align:middle"> \
				<span id="dsq-subscribe">'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.subscribed
						? '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(0); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.UNSUBSCRIBE + '</a>'
						: '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.SUBSCRIBE_BY_EMAIL + '</a>')
				+ '</span> \
			</span> \
			<span class="dsq-subscribe-rss" style="width:12px;height:12px;vertical-align:middle"> \
				<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/bullet-feed.png" alt="" /> \
				<a href="http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/cnn8217s_8216_black_in_america8217_day_one_open_thread/latest.rss">' + Dsq.Strings.SUBSCRIBE_BY_RSS + '</a> \
			</span> \
		</div> \
		';

		
		

		return html;

	};
	
	this.footer = function() {
		var html = '';

		html += Dsq.Templates.pagination();

		
		
			html += Dsq.Templates.realtime();
			html += Dsq.Templates.showThreadSettings();
			html += Dsq.Templates.postBox();

		html += Dsq.Templates.reactions();

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.trackbacks();
		


		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator) {
 			html += ' \
				<div class="dsq-global-moderator-extras">'
					+ '<strong>shortname:</strong> ' + Dsq.jsonData.forum.url
					+ '<strong>thread id:</strong> ' + Dsq.jsonData.thread.id
					+ '<strong>thread slug:</strong> ' + Dsq.jsonData.thread.slug
				+ '</div> \
			';
		}

		return html;
	};
	
	this.realtime = function() {
		var html = '';
		
		if (Dsq.jsonData.realtime_enabled) {
			html += '<div id="dsq-realtime-options" class="dsq-options">'
					 + Dsq.Strings.REALTIME_UPDATING_IS + ' <strong id="dsq-realtime-status" style="text-transform: lowercase">' + Dsq.Strings.ENABLED + '</strong>. \
					 <a href="#" id="dsq-realtime-toggle" style="text-transform: capitalize"></a> \
					</div>';
		}

		if (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.streaming_realtime) {
			html += ' \
				<div style="display: none" id="dsq-realtime-alert" class="dsq-realtime-alert"><span id="dsq-realtime-queued"></span> <a href="#" id="dsq-realtime-show"></a></div> \
			';
		}
		
		return html;
	};

	this.showThreadSettings = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) {
			return '';
		}

		html = '<div id="dsq-thread-settings" class="dsq-thread-settings">' + Dsq.Strings.MODERATOR_OPTIONS;
		html += '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.showSettings(); return false;">' + Dsq.Strings.SETTINGS + '</a>';
		if (Dsq.jsonData.forum.reactions_enabled && Dsq.jsonData.reactions.length === 0) {
			html += '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Reaction.reportMissingReactions(); return false;">'
						+ Dsq.Strings.REPORT_MISSING_REACTIONS
						+ '</a>';
		}
		html +='</div>';

		return html;
	};

	this.postBox = function(post_id, use_fallback_iframe) {


		var html;
		var display_sharing_options = Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated;

		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated && Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled && !Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post) {
			return '';
		}
		
		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote) {


			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.hasOwnProperty(Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain)) {
				display_sharing_options = false;
			}
		}
		
		if (post_id) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
			var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];				
		}
		
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';

		var _requestUserInfo = function() {
			var html;



			var user_has_email = false;

			html = '<div class="dsq-request-user-info"> <!-- // If authenticated --> \
				<a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT + '?ctkn=' + Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN + '" class="dsq-request-user-logout">' + Dsq.Strings.LOGOUT + '</a> \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td rowspan="2">'
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '<a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE + '">' : '')
								+ '<img src="' + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_AVATAR + '" width="48" height="48" class="dsq-request-user-avatar">'
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '</a>' : '')
						+ '</td> \
						<td class="dsq-request-user-name">'
								+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
									 ? '<span class="dsq-badge-small dsq-badge-' + Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain + '">' + Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain + '</span>'
									 : (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_verified
											? '<span class="dsq-badge-small dsq-badge-verified">Verified</span>'
											: '<span class="dsq-badge-small dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span>'))
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? ' <a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE + '">' : '') 
								+ Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username 
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '</a>' : '')
							+  (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote && user_has_email ? ' <small>(<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.remoteAccountSettings(); return false;">change settings</a>)</small>' : '')
							+  (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote && !Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? ' <small>(<a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/info/" target="_blank">change name</a> or <a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/avatar/" target="_blank">picture</a>)</small>' : '')
						+ '</td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-request-user-stats"> \
							<span><big>' + Dsq.jsonData.request.comments_count + '</big> ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.comments_count == 1 ? 'comment' : 'comments') + '</span> \
							<span><big>' + Dsq.jsonData.request.likes_count + '</big> ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.likes_count == 1 ? 'like' : 'likes') + '</span> \
							<span><big>' + Dsq.jsonData.request.points + '</big> ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.points == 1 ? 'point' : 'points') + '</span> \
						</td> \
					</tr> \
				</table> \
			</div> \
			';
			return html;
		};

		var _loginOptions = function() {
			var html;
			html = ' \
			<div class="dsq-authenticate"> \
				<p class="dsq-autheneticate-copy">'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
					? Dsq.Strings.YOU_ARE_COMMENTING_AS_A + ' <a class="dsq-help" title="Click for more information" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Guest</a>. ' + Dsq.Strings.OPTIONAL + ': ' + Dsq.Strings.LOGIN_BELOW + '.'
					: Dsq.Strings.REQUIRED + ': ' + Dsq.Strings.PLEASE_LOGIN_BELOW_TO_COMMENT + '.')
				+ '</p> \
				<ul class="dsq-login-buttons">'
					+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-disqus.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Facebook.login(); return false;"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-facebook.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_twitter_signin ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect(); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-twitter.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_openid ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.OpenID.requestURL(); return false" ><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-openid.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_yahoo ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Yahoo.startYahooConnect(); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-yahoo.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
				+ '</ul> \
			</div> \
			';
			return html;
		};

		if (!Dsq.jsonData.context.show_reply) {


			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {



				return '<div id="dsq-form-area" style="display:none"><div id="dsq-textarea-wrapper"></div></div>' + _loginOptions();
			} else {
				return '';
			}
		}

		html = ' \
		<div id="' + (post_id 
			? 'dsq-reply-post-' + post_id
			: 'dsq-new-post')
		 	+ '" class="dsq-post-area"> \
			<div class="dsq-dc-logo"> \
				<a href="http://disqus.com/comments" target="_blank"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/disqus-logo.png"></a> \
			</div>'
			+ (post_id 
				? '<h3>' + Dsq.Strings.REPLYING_TO + ' ' + userData.display_name + '</h3>'
				: '<h3>' + Dsq.Strings.ADD_NEW_COMMENT + '</h3>')
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated 
				? _requestUserInfo()
				: _loginOptions() )
			+ '<div id="dsq-form-area' + pid + '">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-textarea"> \
				<div class="dsq-textarea-wrapper" id="dsq-textarea-wrapper' + pid + '"></div> \
			</div>'
			+ (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated
			? ' \
			<div class="dsq-post-fields"> \
				<form action="." method="GET" onsubmit="Dsq.Templates.postComment(' + post_id + ', this, false); return false;"> \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-left"><div class="dsq-input-wrapper"><input id="dsq-field-name' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (disqus_def_name ? disqus_def_name : (Dsq.jsonData.session.name ? Dsq.jsonData.session.name : Dsq.Strings.NAME + '" class="dsq-placeholder')) + '" onfocus="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'name\')" onblur="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'name\')" /></div></td> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-right"><div class="dsq-input-wrapper"><input id="dsq-field-website' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (Dsq.jsonData.session.url ? Dsq.jsonData.session.url : Dsq.Strings.WEBSITE + ' (' + Dsq.Strings.OPTIONAL.toLowerCase() + ')" class="dsq-placeholder') + '" onfocus="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'website\')" onblur="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'website\')" /></div></td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-left"><div class="dsq-input-wrapper"><input id="dsq-field-email' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (disqus_def_email ? disqus_def_email : (Dsq.jsonData.session.email ? Dsq.jsonData.session.email : Dsq.Strings.EMAIL + '" class="dsq-placeholder')) + '" onfocus="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'email\')" onblur="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'email\')" /></div></td> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-right"> \
							<div class="dsq-subscribe"> \
								<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.chooseSubscribe(' + post_id + '); return false" class="dsq-subscribe-menu"><span id="dsq-subscribe-select' + pid + '">' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.subscribe_on_post ? Dsq.Strings.SUBSCRIBE_TO_ALL_COMMENTS_BY_EMAIL : Dsq.Strings.DO_NOT_SUBSCRIBE_TO_COMMENTS) + '</span> <small>&#9660;</small></a> \
								<ul class="dsq-panel" id="dsq-subscribe-menu' + pid + '"> \
									<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.setSubscribe(2, this, ' + post_id + '); return false">Subscribe to all comments by email</a></li> \
									<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.setSubscribe(0, this, ' + post_id + '); return false">Do not subscribe to comments</a></li> \
								</ul> \
								<input id="dsq-subscribe-on-post' + pid + '" type="hidden" value="' + Dsq.jsonData.request.subscribe_on_post + '" /> \
							</div> \
						</td> \
					</tr> \
				</table> \
				</form> \
			</div>'
			: '')
			+ '<div class="dsq-post-footer"> \
				<div class="dsq-sharing-options" ' + (!display_sharing_options ? 'style="display:none;"' : '') + '> \
					<button class="dsq-button-small" onfocus="document.getElementById(\'dsq-post-button' + pid + '\').focus();"><span>' + Dsq.Strings.SHARING_OPTIONS + ' <small>&#9660;</small></span></button> \
					<div class="dsq-panel"> '
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.twitter !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.twitter.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-twitter' + pid + '"'
								  + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.twitter.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-twitter' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Twitter</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.facebook
								&& (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.facebook.enabled === true ||
										(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote && Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain == 'facebook'))
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-facebook' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.facebook.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-facebook' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Facebook</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.yahoo !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.yahoo.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-yahoo' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.yahoo.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-yahoo' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Yahoo!</label> \
								</div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.tumblr !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.tumblr.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-tumblr' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.tumblr.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-tumblr' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Tumblr</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.wordpress !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.wordpress.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-wordpress' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.wordpress.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-wordpress' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Wordpress</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.movabletype !== undefined
							  && Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.movabletype.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-movabletype' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.movabletype.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-movabletype' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Movable Type</label> \
							   </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.typepad !== undefined
							  && Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.typepad.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-typepad' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.typepad.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
								  <label for="dsq-sharing-typepad' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' TypePad</label> \
							   </div>'
							: '')
						+ '<div><a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/connections/" target="_blank" class="dsq-configure-options">' + Dsq.Strings.CONFIGURE_OPTIONS + '</a></div>'
					+ '</div> \
				</div>'
				+ '<button class="dsq-button" id="dsq-post-button' + pid + '" onclick="Dsq.Templates.postComment(' + post_id + ', this, false)"><span>' + Dsq.Strings.POST_AS + ' '
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username
					? Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username
					: Dsq.Strings.GUEST)
				+ '</span></button>'
				+ (post_id
					? '<button class="dsq-button" id="dsq-cancel-button' + pid + '" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleReply(' + post_id +', this)"><span>' + Dsq.Strings.CANCEL + '</span></button>'
					: '')
			+ '</div>'
			+ '</div>' // end dsq-form-area
		+ '</div> \
		';
		
		return html;
	};




	this.appendPost = function(post_id) {
		var html = '<div id="dsq-append-post-' + post_id + '"></div>';
		return html;
	};

	this.postPrependHeader = function(post_id) {
		var html;
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		
		html = ' \
		<table> \
			<tr> \
				<td id="dsq-header-avatar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-header-avatar" onmouseover="Dsq.Post.dropProfile(' + post_id + ')"> \
					<a id="dsq-avatar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-avatar" href="' + userData.url + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.show_avatar
					? '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.users[_meta.user_key].avatar + '" alt="" />'
					: '')
				+ '</a> \
				</td> \
				<td class="dsq-comment-header-meta"> \
		';

		
		return html;
	};
	
	this.postAppendHeader = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var html;
		var parent_display_name = '';
		
		if(_meta.parent_post_id) {

			var _parent_meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[_meta.parent_post_id];

			if (_parent_meta) {
				var parentUserData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_parent_meta.user_key];
				parent_display_name = parentUserData.display_name;
			}
		}

		html = ' \
		<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/moderator.png" class="dsq-moderator-star" title="Moderator" /> \
		<span class="dsq-comment-header-time"><a href="#comment-' + post_id + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.permalink(' + post_id + ')" title="Permalink">' + (_meta.is_realtime ? Dsq.Strings.JUST_NOW : _meta.date) + '</a></span> '
		+ (_meta.parent_post_id && parent_display_name
			? '<a href="#comment-' + _meta.parent_post_id + '" title="Jump to comment">in reply to ' + parent_display_name + '</a>'
			: '')
		+ '</td> \
		<td id="dsq-like-pts-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-comment-header-likes">'
		+ (_meta.points
			? _meta.points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(_meta.points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this.'
			: '')
		+ '</td> \
		</tr> \
		</table> \
		';
		return html;
	};

	this.preBody = function(post_id) {
		var html = '';
		return html;
	};

	this.postFooter = function(post_id) {
		var html;
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		if(_meta.killed || !_meta.approved) { return ''; }
		
		html = ' \
		<div class="dsq-comment-footer" id="dsq-comment-footer-' + post_id + '"> \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer-left">'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator
					? '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.moderateOptions(' + post_id+ '); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.MODERATE + '</a>'
					: '')
				+ '<a href="#" id="dsq-post-report-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-post-report" onclick="Dsq.Post.report(' + post_id + ', false); return false;">' + Dsq.Strings.FLAG + '</a> \
			</div> \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer-right">'
				+ (_meta.votable 
					? '<span id="dsq-like-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-like">'
					+ (!_meta.up_voted
						? '<button class="dsq-button-small" onclick="Dsq.Post.rate(this, ' + post_id + ', 1)" >Like</button>'
						: 'You liked this.&nbsp;&nbsp;')
					+ '</span>'
					: '')
				+ (_meta.can_reply && !_meta.has_replies && _meta.from_request_user
					? '<button class="dsq-button-small dsq-post-edit" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + ')" >' + Dsq.Strings.EDIT + '</button>'
					: '')
				+ (_meta.can_reply
					? '<span class="dsq-comment-footer-reply" id="dsq-comment-footer-reply-' + post_id + '" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleReply(' + post_id +', this)"> \
						<button class="dsq-button-small">' + Dsq.Strings.REPLY + '</button> \
						<button class="dsq-comment-footer-reply-tab">' + Dsq.Strings.REPLY + '</button><span></span> \
					</span>'
					: '')
			+ '</div> \
		</div> \
		';
		
		return html;
	};



	
	this.showRetweets = function(id, limit, element_id /* Optional */) {
		var source, html = '';

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			if (reaction.id === id) {
				source = reaction.retweets;
			}
		}

		if (source) {
			if (limit === 0) {
				limit = source.length;
			}

			for (var j = 0; j < limit; j++) {
				var rt = source[j];
				html += '<a href="' + rt.url + '">' + rt.author_name + '</a>'	+ ((j === (limit - 1)) ? '.' : ', ');
			}
		}

		if (element_id === undefined) {
			return html;
		}

		var element = document.getElementById(element_id);
		element.innerHTML = html;
		return element;
	};

	this.showMoreReactions = function(reactions, has_more, start, limit) {
		var link = document.getElementById('dsq-show-more-reactions');
		var container = link.parentNode;
		container.removeChild(link);

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = reactions[i]; i++) {
			var el = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (el) {
				container.innerHTML += el;
			}
		}

		if (has_more) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = start;
			var l = limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			container.innerHTML += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions" class="dsq-show-more-reactions"><button class="dsq-button-small" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</button></li>';
		}
	};

	this.generateReactionHTML = function(reaction) {
		if (reaction.body === null || reaction.body == '') {
			return;
		}

		if (reaction.author_name === '') {
			reaction.author_name = '&nbsp;';
		}

		if (reaction.url === '') {
			reaction.url = reaction.get_service_url;
		}

		var item = '<li class="dsq-comment dsq-reaction" id="dsq-reaction-' + reaction.id + '">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-comment-header"> \
			<table> \
			<tr> \
			<td class="dsq-header-avatar"> \
			';

		if (reaction.author_url && reaction.author_url !== '') {
			item += '<a target="_blank" href="' + reaction.author_url +'" class="dsq-avatar">';
		}

		if (reaction.avatar_url && reaction.avatar_url !== '') {
			item += '<img src="' + reaction.avatar_url + '"/>';
		} else {

			item += '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/noavatar92.png"/>';
		}

		var service_icon = (reaction.get_service_name == 'trackback' || reaction.get_service_name == 'pingback' ? 'rss' : reaction.get_service_name.replace(' ', ''));
		item += (reaction.author_url && reaction.author_url !== ''
				? '</a>'
				: '')
			+ '</td>'
			+ '<td><cite class="dsq-comment-cite">' + reaction.author_name + '</cite> <span class="dsq-comment-header-time">' + reaction.date_created + '</span></td>'
			+ '<td class="dsq-comment-header-likes"></td>'
			+ '</tr></table></div>' // end dsq-comment-header
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-header" \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-reaction-header-left">'
							+ '<img class="dsq-service-icon" src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/reactions/services/' + service_icon + '.png" />'
							+ ' From <a class="dsq-service-name" target="_blank" href="' + reaction.url + '">' + reaction.get_service_name + '</a> '
							+ 'via ' + (reaction.source == 'backtype' ? '<a href="http://backtype.com/">BackType</a>' : '<a href="' + reaction.source_url + '">UberVU</a>')
						+ '</td>'
						+ '<td class="dsq-reaction-header-right">';
			
			if(reaction.retweets) {
				var num_retweets = reaction.retweets.length;
				if (num_retweets > 0) {
					if (num_retweets == 1) {
						item += 'One more retweet from <a href="' + reaction.retweets[0].url + '">'  + reaction.retweets[0].author_name + '</a>';
					} else {
						item += (num_retweets + ' more retweets from ');
						item += '<span id="dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '">';
						var n_tweets = (num_retweets > 3) ? 3 : num_retweets;
						item += Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(reaction.id, n_tweets);
						if (n_tweets != num_retweets) {
							item += '</span> <a onclick="Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(' + reaction.id + ', 0, \'dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '\');'
								+ 'this.parentNode.removeChild(this); return false;" href="#">Show all</a>';
						}
					}
				}
			}	
			item += '</td></tr> \
			</table> \
			</div>' // end dsq-reaction-header
			+ '<div class="dsq-comment-body"> \
				<div class="dsq-comment-message">' + reaction.body + '</div>'
			+ '</div> \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer"> \
				<div class="dsq-comment-footer-left"> \
				</div>'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator 
					? ' \
					<div class="dsq-comment-footer-right"> \
						<button class="dsq-button-small dsq-hide-reaction" onclick="Dsq.Reaction.hide(' + reaction.id + ')">Hide</button> \
					</div>'
					: '')
			+ '</div>'
		item += '</li>'; /* Reaction HTML ends */
		return item;
	};

	this.reactions = function() {
		var html, reaction;

		if (Dsq.jsonData.reactions === undefined || Dsq.jsonData.reactions.length === 0) {
			return '';
		}

		html = '';
		for (var i = 0; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			var item = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (item) {
				html += item;
			}
		}

		if (Dsq.jsonData.has_more_reactions) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_start;
			var l = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			html += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions" class="dsq-show-more-reactions"><button class="dsq-button-small" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</button></li>';
		}

		return '<h3 id="dsq-reactions-title" class="dsq-h3-reactions">Reactions</h3><ul id="dsq-reactions" class="dsq-reactions">' + html + '</ul>';
	};
	
	this._popupGeneric = function(content) {
		return ' \
		<div class="dsq-popup-container"> \
			<table> \
				<tbody> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-tl"></td><td class="dsq-popup-b"></td><td class="dsq-popup-tr"></td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-b"></td> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-body"> \
							<div class="dsq-popup-content"> \
								<div class="dsq-popup-title"> \
									<button class="dsq-button-small" style="float:right" onclick="Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true)">Close</button>' 
									+ content['header'] 
								+ '</div>'
								+ content['body']
							+ '</div> \
							<div class="powered-by"><a href="http://disqus.com/comments/">Powered by <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-logo.png" alt="Disqus Comments" style="margin-bottom:-5px" /></a></div> \
						</td> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-b"></td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-bl"></td><td class="dsq-popup-b"></td><td class="dsq-popup-br"></td> \
					</tr> \
				</tbody> \
			</table> \
		</div> \
		';
	};



	
	this.chooseSubscribe = function(post_id) {

		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var menu = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-menu' + pid);
		
		menu.style.display = menu.style.display == 'block' ? 'none' : 'block';
		
	};
	
	this.setSubscribe = function(value, el, post_id) {

		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var input = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-on-post' + pid);
		var select = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-select' + pid);
		var menu = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-menu' + pid);
		
		select.innerHTML = el.innerHTML;
		input.value = value;
		this.chooseSubscribe(post_id);
	};
	
	this.getFormFields = function(post_id) {

		var fields = {};
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var name = Dsq.$('dsq-field-name' + pid);
		var email = Dsq.$('dsq-field-email' + pid);
		var website = Dsq.$('dsq-field-website' + pid);
		var username = Dsq.$('dsq-field-username' + pid);
		var password = Dsq.$('dsq-field-password' + pid);

		fields = {
			'name': name,
			'email': email,
			'website': website,
			'username': username,
			'password': password
		}
		
		return fields;
	}
	
	this.validateFields = function(post_id) {
		
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) { return true; }
		
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		
		var nameField = fields.name;
		var websiteField = fields.website;
		var emailField = fields.email;
		
		websiteField.value = (websiteField.value == Dsq.Templates.placeholder['website']) ? '' : websiteField.value;
		
		var v = [{

			validator: Dsq.Validators.name,
			value: nameField.value
		}, {

			validator: Dsq.Validators.email,
			value: emailField.value
		}, {

			validator: Dsq.Validators.url,
			value: websiteField.value
		}];
		
		return Dsq.Validators.validate(v, function(e) { Dsq.Popup.popModal(e, 'Oops...') } );
	};
	
	this.checkExistingUser = function(post_id) {
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);		
		Dsq.Popup.loading(post_id);
		
		if (post_id) {
			Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].getUserByEmail(fields.email.value);
		} else {
			Dsq.frames['reply_0'].getUserByEmail(fields.email.value);
		}
	};

	this.validateAuth = function(el_clicked, post_id, auth_choice) {
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		var email = fields.email ? fields.email.value : '';
		var username = fields.username ? fields.username.value : '';
		var password = fields.password ? fields.password.value : '';
		
		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked, post_id);
		
		if (post_id) {
			Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].validateAuth(auth_choice, email, username, password);
		} else {
			Dsq.frames['reply_0'].validateAuth(auth_choice, email, username, password);
		}
	};

	this.lightboxUpdateEmail = function(post_id, new_email) {
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		fields.email.value = new_email;
	};

	this.lightboxAuthenticate = function(post_id, auth_choice, auth_data) {
		var title, body;
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';

		if(typeof(auth_data) == 'undefined') {
			var auth_data = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		}

		d = auth_data;

		switch(auth_choice) {
			case 'register':
				var suggestedUsername = d.name.value.replace(/[^a-zA-Z0-9-]/g,'').toLowerCase();
			
				title = Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post ? 'Optional:' : 'Required:';
				title += ' Register a <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-profile.png" alt=Disqus Profile" />';

				body = ' \
				<ul class="dsq-lightbox-register-reasons"> \
				<li>Verify your comments</li> \
				<li>Edit and delete comments</li> \
				<li>Manage comments and replies</li> \
				</ul> \
				';

				body += ' \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-fields"> \
					<table> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Email</td> \
							<td><input type="text" value="' + d.email.value + '" onchange="Dsq.Templates.lightboxUpdateEmail(' + post_id + ', this.value)" /><div id="dsq-email-errors' + pid + '"></div></td> \
						</tr> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Username</td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-username' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + suggestedUsername + '"/><div id="dsq-username-errors' + pid + '"></div></td> \
						</tr> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Password</td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-password' + pid + '" type="password" /><div id="dsq-password-errors' + pid + '"></div></td> \
						</tr> \
					</table> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-switch-auth"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(' + post_id + ',\'login\'); return false">Login instead</a></div> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-lightbox-errors' + pid + '" class="dsq-lightbox-errors"></div> \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-submit"> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-post"><button class="dsq-button" onclick="Dsq.Templates.validateAuth(this, ' + post_id + ',\'' + auth_choice + '\')">Register and Post comment</button></div>'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
						? '<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-skip"><button class="dsq-button-small" onclick="Dsq.Templates.postComment(' + post_id + ', this, true)">Just post as a Guest</button></div>'
						: '')
				+ '</div> \
				';
				break;
			case 'login':
				title = Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post ? 'Optional:' : 'Required:';
				title += ' Login to your <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-profile.png" alt=Disqus Profile" />';
				body = '';
				
				if(d.avatar_url) {
					body += '<div class="dsq-lightbox-recognized"><table><tr>';
					body += '<td><img src="' + d.avatar_url + '" alt="" /></td>';
					body += '<td><span class="dsq-badge ' + (d.verified ? 'dsq-badge-verified' : 'dsq-badge-registered') + '">' + (d.verified ? 'Verified' : 'Registered') + '</span></td>';
					body += '<td>Hey <strong>' + d.display_name + '</strong>, is that you? Login below to claim this comment.';
					body += '</tr></table></div>';
				}

				body += ' \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-fields"> \
					<table> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Username or Email</td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-username' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (d.avatar_url ? d.username : '') + '" /></td> \
						</tr> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Password <a href="http://disqus.com/forgot" target="_blank">(cannot log in?)</a></td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-password' + pid + '" type="password" /></td> \
						</tr> \
					</table> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-switch-auth"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(' + post_id + ',\'register\'); return false">Register instead</a></div> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-lightbox-errors' + pid + '" class="dsq-lightbox-errors"></div> \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-submit"> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-post"><button class="dsq-button" onclick="Dsq.Templates.validateAuth(this, ' + post_id + ',\'' + auth_choice + '\')">Login and Post comment</button></div>'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
						? '<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-skip"><button class="dsq-button-small" onclick="Dsq.Templates.postComment(' + post_id + ', this, true)">Just post as a Guest</button></div>'
						: '')
				+ '</div> \
				';
				break;
			default:
				break;
		}
		Dsq.Popup.lightbox(body, title, post_id);
		Dsq.$('dsq-field-username' + pid).focus();
	};
	
	this.buttonsToRestore = [];
	this.setLoadingButton = function(btn, post_id) {
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		if (btn) {

			var loadingBtn = document.createElement('button');
			loadingBtn.id = btn.id + '-loading';
			loadingBtn.innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-lite.gif" alt="" /> Just a moment...';
			loadingBtn.className = btn.className + ' dsq-post-loading';
			btn.parentNode.appendChild(loadingBtn);
			btn.style.display = 'none';
			var cancelBtn = Dsq.$('dsq-cancel-button' + pid);
			if(cancelBtn) { cancelBtn.style.display = 'none'; this.buttonsToRestore.push(cancelBtn); }
			this.buttonsToRestore.push(btn);
		} else {

			var buttons = this.buttonsToRestore;
			for(var i = 0; i < buttons.length; i++) {
				buttons[i].style.display = 'inline';
				Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(Dsq.$(buttons[i].id + '-loading'));
			}
		}
		
	};

	this.postComment = function(post_id, el_clicked, force, auth_choice) {
		var append_id = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);

		if (Dsq.Templates.validateFields(post_id)) {

			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated && !force &&
				((!Dsq.Utils.readCookie('skipped_auth') && !disqus_skip_auth && !Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled) || !Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post)) {
				Dsq.Templates.checkExistingUser(post_id);
				return false;
			}
			var params = [];
			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {
				params.push(fields.name.value,
					fields.email.value,
					fields.website.value);

				if (auth_choice == 'login' || auth_choice == 'register') {
					params.push({
						auth_choice: auth_choice,
						username: fields.username.value,
						password: fields.password.value,
						email: fields.email.value
					});
				} else {
					params.push(null);
				}

				params.push(null /* sharing options */, Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-on-post' + append_id).value);
			} else {
				var service_checked = function(name) {
					var el = Dsq.$('dsq-sharing-' + name + append_id);
					return (el !== null && el.checked === true) ? '1' : '0';
				};
				params.push(null, null, null, null, {
					tw: service_checked('twitter'),
					fb: service_checked('facebook'),
					tr: service_checked('tumblr'),
					wp: service_checked('wordpress'),
					mt: service_checked('movabletype'),
					tp: service_checked('typepad'),
					yh: service_checked('yahoo')
				});
			}

			var frame = Dsq.frames['reply_' + (post_id ? post_id : 0)];
			frame.post.apply(frame, params);

			if (el_clicked) {
				Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked, post_id);
			}
			
			if (force) {
				Dsq.Utils.createCookie('skipped_auth', true);	
			}
			
		} else {
			return false;
		}
	};

	this.editComment = function(el_clicked, post_id) {
		var edited_message = Dsq.$('dsq-edit-textarea-' + post_id).value;

		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked, post_id);
		Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id].edit(post_id, edited_message);
	};

	this.toggleEdit = function(post_id) {
		var body = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-body-' + post_id);
		var message = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + post_id);

		if (!Dsq.Post.stateEditToggled[post_id]) {


			message.style.display = 'none';
			if (Dsq.$('dsq-edit-' + post_id)) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-edit-' + post_id).style.display = 'block';
			} else {

				var edit_area = document.createElement('div');
				edit_area.id = 'dsq-edit-' + post_id;
				edit_area.className = 'dsq-edit dsq-textarea';
				edit_area.innerHTML = ' \
				<div class="dsq-textarea-wrapper"> \
					<textarea class="dsq-edit-textarea" id="dsq-edit-textarea-' + post_id + '">' + message.innerHTML + '</textarea> \
				</div> \
				<div class="dsq-save-edit"> \
					<button onclick="Dsq.Templates.editComment(this, ' + post_id + ')" class="dsq-button-small">Save Edit</button> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-edit-iframe-' + post_id + '" style="display: none"></div> \
				';

				body.appendChild(edit_area);

				if (!Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id]) {
					var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
					Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(Dsq.$('dsq-edit-iframe-' + post_id), post_id);
					Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id].init();
					Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id].setState(post_id, _meta.depth);
				}
			}
		} else {

			message.style.display = 'block';
			Dsq.$('dsq-edit-' + post_id).style.display = 'none';
		}
		
		Dsq.Post.stateEditToggled[post_id] = !Dsq.Post.stateEditToggled[post_id];
	};
	
	this.edit = function(el, post_id) {

		Dsq.Templates.toggleEdit(post_id);
	};

	this.toggleReply = function(post_id, button) {
		
		if(!this.stateReplyToggled[post_id]) {

			if (Dsq.$('dsq-reply-post-' + post_id)) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).style.display = 'block';
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.postBox(post_id);
				var container = Dsq.$('dsq-textarea-wrapper-' + post_id);
				if (!Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id] && container) {
					var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(container, post_id);
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].init(function() {

						Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.postBox(post_id, true);
						Dsq.$('dsq-form-area-' + post_id).innerHTML = '';

						var theme = (typeof disqus_frame_theme == 'undefined') ? 'default' : disqus_frame_theme;
						Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(Dsq.$('dsq-form-area-' + post_id), post_id, {theme: theme});

					});
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].setState(post_id, _meta.depth);
				}
			}
			Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).className = 'dsq-append-post';
			Dsq.$('dsq-comment-footer-reply-' + post_id).className = 'dsq-comment-footer-reply-active';
			
		} else {

			Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).style.display = 'none';
			Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).className = '';
			Dsq.$('dsq-comment-footer-reply-' + post_id).className = 'dsq-comment-footer-reply';
		}
		
		this.stateReplyToggled[post_id] = !this.stateReplyToggled[post_id];

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie && this.stateReplyToggled[post_id]) {

		}

		Dsq.Events.fire(Dsq.Events.REPLY_IFRAME_TOGGLED, {
			postId: post_id,
			opened: this.stateReplyToggled[post_id]
		});
	};
	
	this.moderateOptions = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		
		if(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator && !Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator) { return false; }

		var html;
		
		html = ' \
		<div class="dsq-moderate-options"> \
		<table>'
		+ (_meta.email ? '<tr><td>Email</td><td>' + _meta.email + '</td></tr>' : '')
		+ (_meta.ip ? '<tr><td>IP address</td><td>' + _meta.ip + '</td></tr>' : '')
		+ '<tr> \
			<td>Actions</td> \
			<td><ul>'
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.moderator_can_edit
				? '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false;">Edit Comment</a></li>'
				: '')
			+ '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.removePost(' + post_id + ', 1); Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false;">Delete Comment</a></li> \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.reportSpam(' + post_id + '); Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false;">Mark Spam</a></li> \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.blacklist(' + post_id + '); return false">Block User</a></li> \
			</ul></td> \
			</table> \
		</div> \
		';
		
		html += '<p>Go to the full <a href="http://disqus.com/comments/moderate/" target="_blank">moderate panel</a> for more options.</p>';
		
		return Dsq.Popup.popModal(html, 'Moderate Options', post_id);
	};
	
	this.placeholder = {
		'class': 'dsq-placeholder',
		'name': Dsq.Strings.NAME,
		'email': Dsq.Strings.EMAIL,
		'website': Dsq.Strings.WEBSITE + ' (' + Dsq.Strings.OPTIONAL.toLowerCase() + ')'
	};
	
	this.handlePlaceholder = function(evt, el, key) {
		var placeholder = Dsq.Templates.placeholder[key];
		var className = Dsq.Templates.placeholder['class'];
		
		switch(evt.type) {
			case 'focus':
				if(el.value == placeholder) {
					el.value = '';
					el.className = '';
				}
				break;

			case 'blur':
				if(el.value == '') {
					el.value = placeholder;
					el.className = className;
				}
				break;
			default:
				break;
		}
	};
	
	this.paginate = function(page, el_clicked) {

		var extra_params = '';

		if(typeof disqus_per_page != 'undefined') {
			extra_params += '&per_page=' + disqus_per_page;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_sort != 'undefined') {
			extra_params += '&sort=' + disqus_sort;
		}

		Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML += '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
		
		if(el_clicked) {
			Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked);
		}
		
		Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/jackandjillpolitics/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ 'cnn8217s_8216_black_in_america8217_day_one_open_thread'
			+ '&p='		+ page
			+ extra_params);
	};
	
	
	this.rate = function(el, id, vote) {


		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated || Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_votes) {
			if(vote == 1) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-like-' + id).innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
			}
			Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/jackandjillpolitics/vote.js'
				+ '?post_id='    + id
				+ '&vote='        + vote);
		} else {
			Dsq.Popup.login('To rate, please log in');
		}
	};

	this.voted = function(post_id, points, vote) {

		Dsq.$('dsq-like-pts-' + post_id).innerHTML = points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this.';

		if(vote) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-like-' + post_id).innerHTML = 'You liked this.&nbsp;&nbsp;';
		}
	};




	this.postComment_onSuccess = function(response, parent_post_id, post_id) {
		var approved = response.message.post_meta.approved;

		if (parent_post_id) {
			Dsq.Post.toggleReply(parent_post_id);
		}

		Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true);
		
		if (approved) {
			Dsq.Post.incrementPostCount();
			Dsq.Post.outlineComment(post_id);
		} else {			
			var unapproved_msg = 'Thanks for posting!\
	 Your comment must be approved by a moderator before appearing here.\
			';
			Dsq.Popup.popModal(unapproved_msg, 'Comment awaiting approval', post_id);
		}

		var sharing_results = response.message.sharing_results;
		var sharing_errors = '';
		for (var service in sharing_results) {
			if (sharing_results.hasOwnProperty(service) === true) {
				if (sharing_results[service].error === true) {
					sharing_errors += service + ', ';
				}
			}
		}

		if (sharing_results.facebook && sharing_results.facebook.callback) {
			FB.ensureInit(function() {
				FB.Connect.streamPublish('', sharing_results.facebook.attachment);
			});
		}

		if (sharing_errors !== '') {
			var message = 'Your comment was posted, but there were errors sharing with the following connections: ';
			message += sharing_errors.replace(/,\s$/, '');
			message += '<p><a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/connections" target="_blank">Configure your connections here</a></p>'
			Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, 'Sharing options');
		}

		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};

	this.postComment_onFailure = function(response, parent_post_id, post_id) {

		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};
};




// TODO: It might be faster to use string methods to find all <li (...) </li> blocks and pass to Dsq.PostHandler manually.
Dsq.CommentsHandler = function(str, head, post_id, content, tail, offset, s) {
	var prepend_post = Dsq.Templates.prependPost(post_id);
	var append_post = Dsq.Templates.appendPost(post_id);

	content = content.replace(Dsq.POST_RE, Dsq.PostHandler);
	Dsq.Templates.postLoopCounter++;
	head = Dsq.Templates.Filters.commentContainer(post_id, head);
	return prepend_post + head + content + tail + append_post;
};

Dsq.PostHandler = function(str, h_head, post_id, h_content, h_tail, b_head, b_content, b_tail, offset, s) {
	var prepend_header = Dsq.Templates.postPrependHeader(post_id);
	var append_header = Dsq.Templates.postAppendHeader(post_id);
	var prepend_body = Dsq.Templates.preBody(post_id);
	var append_body = Dsq.Templates.postBody(post_id);
	var append_footer = Dsq.Templates.postFooter(post_id);

	b_content = b_content.replace(Dsq.POST_BODY_RE, Dsq.PostBodyHandler);
	return h_head + prepend_header + h_content + append_header + h_tail + b_head + prepend_body + b_content + append_body + b_tail + append_footer;
};

Dsq.PostBodyHandler = function(str, head, post_id, content, tail, offset, s) {
	content = Dsq.Templates.Filters.commentContent(post_id, content);
	return head + content + tail;
};

Dsq.MediaPostHandler = function(str, args, offset, s) {
	args = args.split(' ');
	if(args[0] == 'seesmic') {
		return '<br />' + Dsq.Templates.mediaSeesmic(args[1], args[2]);
	}
	return '';
};


/**
 * Shorcuts
 */
Dsq.$ = function(element) { return document.getElementById(element); };
Dsq.$b = document.body || document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0];


/**
 * Dsq.Debug: Logging functions.
 */

Dsq.Debug = new function() {this.log=function(s){};this.profile=function(f){if(typeof f == 'function')return f();else return eval(f);};};


/**
 * Dsq.Urls: URL paths
 */
Dsq.Urls = new function() {
	this.LOGIN = '/profile/login/';
	this.LOGOUT = '/logout/';
	this.REPLY = 'http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/cnn8217s_8216_black_in_america8217_day_one_open_thread/reply.html';
	this.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE = '/AnonymousUser/';
	this.REQUEST_USER_AVATAR = 'http://media.disqus.com/images/noavatar92.png';
};
// Dsq.Urls

/**
 * Dsq.Validators: Validation for form fields
 */
Dsq.Validators = new function() {
	this.VALID_EMAIL_RE = /^[a-z0-9\-\_\+]+(\.[a-z0-9\-\_\+]+)*\@(([a-z0-9\-\_\+]+(\.[a-z0-9\-\_\+]+)*)+\.[a-z]{2,}|([0-9]+\.){3}[0-9]+)$/i;
	this.name = function(name) {
		var error = false;

		if(typeof Dsq.Templates.placeholder !== 'undefined' &&
		   name == Dsq.Templates.placeholder.name) {
			error = true;
		}
		if(name.length <= 1) {
			error = true;
		}

		if(error) {
			return "Please enter a name to comment.";
		} else {
			return true;
		}
	};
	this.email = function(addr) {
		if(Dsq.Validators.VALID_EMAIL_RE.test(addr)) {
			return true;
		} else {
			return "Please enter a valid email to comment.";
		}
	};
	this.url = function(addr) {
		if(!addr || addr.indexOf('.') != -1) {
			return true;
		} else {
			return "Please check your website URL (this field is optional).";
		}
	};

	this.validate = function(bulk_validation, failure_callback) {
		failure_callback = failure_callback || function(e){ alert(e); };

		for(var i = 0; i < bulk_validation.length; i++) {
			v = bulk_validation[i];
			ret = v.validator(v.value);
			if(ret !== true) {
				failure_callback(ret);
				return false;
			}
		}
		return true;
	};
};

/**
 * Dsq.Utils: Generic utility functions.
 */
Dsq.Utils = new function() {
	this.ie = /msie/i.test(navigator.userAgent) && !/opera/i.test(navigator.userAgent);
	this.ie7 = (document.all && !window.opera && window.XMLHttpRequest) ? true : false;
	this.ie6 = (!window.XMLHttpRequest) ? true: false;
	this.webkit = navigator.userAgent.indexOf('AppleWebKit/') >= 0;
	this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache = {};
	this._styleSheet = null;

	this.gebiFromElement = function(el, id, tag) {
		// This only method only helps IE.
		if(!this.ie) {
			return Dsq.$(id);
		} else {
			var cacheKey = el.id + '-' + tag;
			tag = tag || 'div';
			if(typeof this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache[cacheKey] != 'undefined') {
				collection = this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache[cacheKey];
			} else {
				collection = el.getElementsByTagName(tag);
				this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache[cacheKey] = collection;
			}

			for(var i = 0; i < collection.length; i++) {
				if(collection[i].id == id) {
					return collection[i];
				}
			}
			return null;
		}
	};

	this.execOnReady = function(func) {
		var node = document.createElement('document:ready');
		try {
			node.doScroll('left');
			func();
			node = null;
		} catch(err) {
			setTimeout(function() { Dsq.Utils.execOnReady(func); }, 10);
		}
	};


	// Courtesy of http://www.quirksmode.org/js/cookies.html
	this.createCookie = function(name,value,days) {
		if (days) {
			var date = new Date();
			date.setTime(date.getTime()+(days*24*60*60*1000));
			var expires = "; expires="+date.toGMTString();
		}
		else var expires = "";
		document.cookie = name+"="+value+expires+"; path=/";
	};

	this.readCookie = function(name) {
		var nameEQ = name + "=";
		var ca = document.cookie.split(';');
		for(var i=0;i < ca.length;i++) {
			var c = ca[i];
			while (c.charAt(0)==' ') c = c.substring(1,c.length);
			if (c.indexOf(nameEQ) == 0) return c.substring(nameEQ.length,c.length);
		}
		return null;
	};

	this.eraseCookie = function(name) {
		Dsq.Utils.createCookie(name,"",-1);
	};

	this.deleteNode = function(node) {
		if(node) {
			this.deleteChildren(node);
			if(typeof node.outerHTML != 'undefined') { node.outerHTML = ''; }
			else if(node.parentNode) { node.parentNode.removeChild(node); }
			delete node;
		}
	};

	this.deleteChildren = function(node) {
		if(node) {
			for(var x = node.childNodes.length-1; x >= 0; x--) {
				var childNode = node.childNodes[x];
				if(childNode.hasChildNodes()) { this.deleteChildren(childNode); }
				if(typeof childNode.outerHTML != 'undefined') { childNode.outerHTML = ''; }
				else node.removeChild(childNode);
				delete childNode;
			}
		}
	};

	this.findPos = function(obj) {
		var curleft = 0;
		var curtop = 0;
		if (obj.offsetParent) {
			do {
				curleft += obj.offsetLeft;
				curtop += obj.offsetTop;
			} while (obj = obj.offsetParent);
		}
		return [curleft,curtop];
	};

	this.getWindowSize = function() {
		var windowWidth = -1;
		var windowHeight = -1;

		if(typeof(window.innerWidth) == 'number') { //Non-IE
			windowWidth = window.innerWidth;
			windowHeight = window.innerHeight;
		} else if(document.documentElement) { // IE 6+ in 'standards compliant mode'
			windowWidth = document.documentElement.clientWidth || document.body.clientWidth;
			windowHeight = document.documentElement.clientHeight || document.body.clientHeight;
		}

		return [windowWidth, windowHeight];
	}

	this.getScrollPos = function() {
		var scrollWidth, scrollTop;

		if(document.documentElement && (document.documentElement.scrollTop || document.documentElement.scrollWidth)) {
			scrollWidth = document.documentElement.scrollWidth;
			// IE is weird here.  If no doctype is provided, document.body.scrollTop is 0,
			// otherwise document.documentElement.scrollTop is 0.
			scrollTop = document.documentElement.scrollTop || document.body.scrollTop;
		} else if(document.body.scrollTop && document.body.scrollWidth) {
			scrollWidth = document.body.scrollWidth;
			scrollTop = document.body.scrollTop;
		}

		return [scrollWidth, scrollTop];
	}

	this.addEventListener = function(instance, eventName, listener) {
		var listenerFn = listener;
		if (instance.addEventListener) {
			instance.addEventListener(eventName, listenerFn, false);
		} else if (instance.attachEvent) {
			listenerFn = function() {
				listener(window.event);
			};
			instance.attachEvent("on" + eventName, listenerFn);
		} else {
			throw new Error("Event registration not supported");
		}
		return {
			instance: instance,
			name: eventName,
			listener: listenerFn
		};
	};

	this.removeEventListener = function(event) {
		var instance = event.instance;
		if (instance.removeEventListener) {
			instance.removeEventListener(event.name, event.listener, false);
		} else if (instance.detachEvent) {
			instance.detachEvent("on" + event.name, event.listener);
		}
	};

	this.fixIframesIE = function(id) {
		var disqusThread = Dsq.$(disqus_container_id);
		var iframes = disqusThread.getElementsByTagName('iframe');

		if(id) {
			var container = Dsq.$(id);
		} else {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-content');
		}

		for(i = 0; i < iframes.length; i++) {
			if (container) {
				iframes[i].style.width = container.offsetWidth;
			}
		}
	};

	this.getElementsByClassName = function(oElm, strTagName, strClassName) {
	/* Credit: Jonathan Snook [http://www.snook.ca/jonathan], Robert Nyman [http://www.robertnyman.com] */
		var arrElements = (strTagName == "*" && oElm.all)? oElm.all : oElm.getElementsByTagName(strTagName);
		var arrReturnElements = new Array();
		strClassName = strClassName.replace(/\-/g, "\\-");
		var oRegExp = new RegExp("(^|\\s)" + strClassName + "(\\s|$)");
		var oElement;
		for(var i = 0; i < arrElements.length; i++) {
			oElement = arrElements[i];
			if(oRegExp.test(oElement.className)) {
				arrReturnElements.push(oElement);
			}
		}
		return (arrReturnElements);
	};

	this.postToUrl = function(url, post_data, opt_redirect) {
		var form = document.createElement('form');
		var iframe_container = document.createElement('div');
		var id = 'dsq-temp-iframe-' + (new Date()).getTime();

		form.method = 'POST';
		form.action = url;
		if (!opt_redirect) {
			form.target = id;
		}
		iframe_container.innerHTML = '<iframe style="display:none" name="' + id + '" id="' + id + '"></iframe>';

		for(var key in post_data) {
			if(post_data.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				var input = document.createElement('input');
				input.name = key;
				input.type = 'hidden';
				input.value = post_data[key];

				form.appendChild(input);
			}
		}

		Dsq.$b.appendChild(iframe_container);
		Dsq.$b.appendChild(form);
		form.submit();
	};

	// Strips integer id from id of element in the form ('some-id-###')
	this.extractId = function(e) {
		var chunks = e.id.split('-');
		if(chunks.length <= 1) {
			return 0;
		} else {
			return parseInt(chunks[chunks.length-1]);
		}
	};

	this.getStyle = function(el, styleProp) {
		if(el.currentStyle) {
			var y = el.currentStyle[styleProp];
		} else if(window.getComputedStyle) {
			var y = document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(el, null).getPropertyValue(styleProp);
		}

		if(y == 'transparent' || y == '') {
			this.getStyle(el.parentNode, styleProp);
		} else {
			return y;
		}
	};

	this.execScript = function(url, append_qs, container) {
		var script = document.createElement('script');
		append_qs = typeof append_qs == 'undefined' ? true : append_qs;
		container = container || Dsq.container;

		if(append_qs) {
			var j = (url.indexOf('?') >= 0) ? '&' : '?';
			url += j + (new Date()).getTime();
		}
		script.type = 'text/javascript';
		script.charset = 'UTF-8';
		script.src = url;
		container.appendChild(script);
		return script;
	};

	this.pluralize = function(num, singular, plural) {
		return (num != 1) ? plural || 's' : singular || '';
	};

	this.getRequestParams = function(queryString /* optional */) {
		var pairs, tuple;
		var params = {};

		queryString = queryString || window.location.search.substring(1);
		pairs = queryString.split('&');

		for (var i = 0, pair; pair = pairs[i]; i++) {
			tuple = pair.split('=');
			params[tuple[0]] = (tuple[1] || true);
		}

		return params;
	};

	this.addCssRule = function(selector, styleText, index) {
		var stylesheet;
		index = index || 0;

		if(!this._styleSheet) {
			var styleEl = document.createElement('style');
			document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(styleEl);
			this._styleSheet = styleEl.sheet;
			if(!this._styleSheet) {
				// IE does not like our newly created stylesheet.
				this._styleSheet = document.styleSheets[document.styleSheets.length-1];
			}
		}
		stylesheet = this._styleSheet;

		if(stylesheet.insertRule) {
			var ruleText = selector + ' { ' + styleText + ' }';
			if(index == -1) {
				index = stylesheet.cssRules.length;
			}
			stylesheet.insertRule(ruleText, index);
		} else if(stylesheet.addRule) {
			stylesheet.addRule(selector, styleText, index);
		}
	};

	this.forEachIn = function(obj, callback) {
		for(var key in obj) {
			if(obj.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				callback(key, obj[key]);
			}
		}
	};

	this._interpolateGlobalContext = {
		// values that get used a lot and are global to the request
		'profile_url': Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE,

		'disqus_url': Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url,
		'media_url': Dsq.jsonData.settings.media_url,
		'request_username': Dsq.jsonData.request.username,
		'request_display_username': Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username,
		'forum_name': Dsq.jsonData.forum.name
	};

	this.renderFromContextStack = function(key, contexts) {
		// Returns the first instance of `key` in the array of objects `contexts` or else ''
		for (var i=0; i<contexts.length; i++) {
			if (contexts[i][key] !== undefined) {
				return String(contexts[i][key]);
			}
		}
		throw new Error('key ' + key + ' not found in context');
	};

	var that = this;
	this.interpolate = function(fmt, opt_localContext) {
		// Interpolate `fmt` named-format string with an assumed global context.
		// Based on `interpolate` in django.views.i18n
		var contextStack = [opt_localContext || {}, that._interpolateGlobalContext];
		return fmt.replace(/%\(\w+\)s/g, function(match){
			return that.renderFromContextStack(match.slice(2,-2), contextStack);
		});
	};

	this.stripTags = function(s) {
		// Removes HTML tags from `s`
		return s.replace(/(<([^>]+)>)/g,"");

	};

	this.assert = function(b) {
		if (!b) {
			throw new Error('Assertion error.');
		}
	};

};
// Dsq.Utils

/**
 * Dsq.Popup: Popup helper functions.
 */
Dsq.Popup = new function() {
	this.timeHide = new Array();
	this.timeShow = new Array();
	this.activePopup = {};
	this.profileCache = {};
	this.statusCache = {};

	this.showTimer = function(post_id) {
		// clear the hide timer
		clearTimeout(this.timeHide[post_id]);

		// start the timer
		if(!Dsq.Popup.profileIsOn && !Dsq.Thread.adminIsOn) {
			this.timeShow[post_id] = setTimeout("Dsq.Popup.popProfile(\"" + post_id + "\")", 400);
		}
	};

	this.hideTimer = function(post_id) {
		// clear the show timer
		clearTimeout(this.timeShow[post_id]);
	};

	this.updateProfile = function(username) {
		// Callback from /embed/profile.js
		if (this.statusCache[username]) {
			var statusEl = Dsq.$('dsq-profile-status-' + username);
			statusEl.innerHTML = this.statusCache[username];
			statusEl.style.display = 'block';
		}

		if (this.profileCache[username]) {
			var _cache = this.profileCache[username];

			var _genhtml = function(text) { return '<span><big>' + text + '</big></span>'; };
			var _no_comments = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_COMMENTS(_cache.comments_count));
			var _no_likes = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_LIKES(_cache.likes_count));
			var _no_points = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_POINTS(_cache.points));

			var statsEl = Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-user-stats-' + username);
			statsEl.innerHTML = '';

			if (Dsq.jsonData.users[username].registered) {
				statsEl.innerHTML = _no_comments + _no_likes;
			}
			statsEl.innerHTML += _no_points;

			var activeSites = '';
			for (var i = 0; i < _cache.active_sites.length; i++) {
				var site = _cache.active_sites[i];
				activeSites += '<li><a href="' + site.url + '"> \
					<img src="' + site.favicon + '"/ width="16" height="16"/></a>\
					<a href="' + site.url + '">' + site.name + '</a></li>';
			}
			if (activeSites !== '') {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-' + username).innerHTML = activeSites;
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-' + username).innerHTML = 'This site.';
			}

			var moderatedSites = '';
			for (var i = 0; i < _cache.moderated_sites.length; i++) {
				var site = _cache.moderated_sites[i];
				moderatedSites += '<li><a href="' + site.url + '"> \
					<img src="' + site.favicon + '"/ width="16" height="16"/></a>\
					<a href="' + site.url + '">' + site.name + '</a></li>';
			}
			if (moderatedSites !== '') {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-moderated-' + username).innerHTML = moderatedSites;
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-moderated-wrapper-' + username).innerHTML = '';
			}
		}

		// Reposition popup after full HTML is rendered
		if(Dsq.Popup.activePopup && Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el) {
			Dsq.Popup.initPopup(Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el, Dsq.Popup.activePopup.id, Dsq.Popup.activePopup.type);
		}

	};

	this.showCookieMsgs = function() {
		var title = '';
		var message = '';
		var numAlerts = 0;

		Dsq.Utils.forEachIn(Dsq.jsonData.cookie_messages, function(k, v) {
			if (!v) return;

			switch(k) {
				// Cookie: Twitter
				case 'post_twitter':
					if (v === 'error') {
						title = 'Twitter Error!';
						message += '<li id="dsq-msg-twitter-error">Oops, we couldn\'t tweet this comment. Please check your <a href="http://disqus.com/account/services">account settings</a>.</li>';
					} else {
						var _msg = v.split(':');
						title = 'Tweeted!';
						message += '<li id="dsq-msg-twitter-success">Your comment was successfully tweeted. <a href="http://twitter.com/' + _msg[0] + '/status/' + _msg[1] + '">Click here to view the tweet</a>.</li>';
					}
					break;
				// Cookie: Unapproved Post
				case 'post_not_approved':
					title = 'Comment awaiting approval by a moderator';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-post-not-approved">Your comment must be approved by a moderator before appearing here.</li>';
					break;
				// Cookie: Profile Found
				case 'post_has_profile':
					title = 'Use your existing commenter profile';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-post-has-profile">You have just posted your commment as a <span class="dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span>, but you may already have a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile.<br /><br /><a href="http://disqus.com/claim">Log in and claim this comment!</a></li>';
					break;
				case 'user_created':
					var _data = v.split(':');
					title = 'Profile created!';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-user-created">You have just created a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile, the best way to claim, manage, and track your comments all over the web. \
					<br /><br />A confirmation is being sent to <strong>' + _data[1] + '</strong>. Please check for this email in order to verify your profile. \
					<ul class="dsq-list-tick"> \
						<li>Your username is <strong>' + _data[0] +'</strong>. <a href="http://disqus.com/people/' + _data[0] + '/" target="_blank">Click here to view your public profile</a>.</li> \
						<li>Be sure to set your profile picture, as well as connect your <span class="dsq-badge-facebook">Facebook</span> and <span class="dsq-badge-twitter">Twitter</span> accounts. <a href="http://disqus.com/account/" target="_blank">Click here for account settings</a>.</li> \
					</ul> \
					</li>'
					break;
				default:
					break;
			}
			numAlerts++;
		});

		if(numAlerts > 1) {
			message = '<ul class="dsq-list-bluebullet">' + message;
			message += '</ul>';
			title = 'Thanks for posting!';
		}
		if(numAlerts > 0) {
			if(typeof(disqus_cookie_msgs) == 'function') {
				disqus_cookie_msgs(message, title);
			} else {
				Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);
			}
		}
	};

	this.helpBadges = function(post_id) {
		var html = ' \
			<ul class="dsq-popup-help"> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-verified">Verified</span> has a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile with a confirmed email address.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span> has a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile, but has not yet confirmed his or her email address.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span> is not logged in with any account and has not claimed his or her comments.</li> \
				<li class="dsq-help-otheraccts">Other accounts</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-facebook">Facebook</span> is using his or her Facebook profile via Facebook Connect.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-twitter">Twitter</span> is using his or her Twitter profile via Twitter Sign-in.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-openid">OpenID</span> is using his or her OpenID.</li> \
			</ul> \
		';

		this.popModal(html, 'Help: Types of Commenters', post_id);
		return;
	};

	this.permalink = function(post_id) {
		var header = 'Link to this comment';
		var body = '<strong>You are anchored to</strong>:<br />' + document.location.protocol + '//' + document.location.host + document.location.pathname + document.location.search + '#comment-' + post_id;

		this.popModal(body, header, post_id);
	};

	this.login = function(header, body) {
		var h = header || 'Login or Register';
		var b = body || '';
		b += Dsq.Templates.frameLogin({id: 'dsq-popup-login'});
		b += '</iframe>'; // HACK: Sometimes there is something funky with the IFRAME SRC that causes no end tag
		this.popModal(b, h, null, true, 'dsq-popup-login');
	};

	this.blacklist = function(id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		var title = 'Add to Blacklist';
		var message = ' \
		Adding this person to the blacklist will block him or her from commenting on this site. Check the following types that you would like to add to the blacklist:'
		+ (userData['registered'] ?
			'<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
				<input id="dsq-blacklist-username" type="checkbox" checked> \
				<label for="dsq-blacklist-username"><strong>Username</strong>: ' + userData['username'] + '</label> \
			</div>'
			: '')
		+ (_meta.email ?
			'<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
				<input id="dsq-blacklist-email" type="checkbox" checked> \
				<label for="dsq-blacklist-email"><strong>Email address</strong>: ' + _meta.email + '</label> \
			</div>'
			: '')
		+ '<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
			<input id="dsq-blacklist-ip" type="checkbox" onclick="Dsq.$(\'dsq-blacklist-ip-warning\').style.display=\'block\'"> \
			<label for="dsq-blacklist-ip"><strong>IP address</strong>: ' + _meta.ip + '</label> \
		</div> \
		';

		message += ' \
			<p id="dsq-blacklist-ip-warning" style="display:none">	\
				Note: Blocking this person\'s IP address may also unintentionally prevent others, who share his/her IP address, from commenting on this site. \
				This may include people who are sharing the same computer, living in the same house, or using the same Internet provider. Only block an IP address as a last resort. \
			</p> \
		';

		message += ' \
			<p style="text-align:center"><button onclick="Dsq.Post.blockUser(' + id + '); this.disabled=true; this.innerHTML=\'Just one moment...\'">Add to Blacklist</button></p> \
		';

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);
	};

	this.remoteAccountSettings = function() {
		var body = '';
		// Set up IFrame.
		var params = {};
		var base_url = 'http://disqus.com/forums/jackandjillpolitics/_auth/embed/remote_settings/';
		var attributes = {id: 'dsq-popup-account-settings'};
		if (typeof disqus_frame_theme != 'undefined') {
			params['theme'] = disqus_frame_theme;
		}

		body = Dsq.Templates._frameGeneric(base_url, params, attributes);
		this.popModal(body, 'Account Settings', null, true, 'dsq-popup-account-settings');
	};

	this.popModal = function(message, title, post_id, use_listener, extra_classes) {
		var container = document.createElement('div');
		var header, body;

		Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true);

		if(typeof(title) == 'undefined') { title = ''; }
		if(typeof(use_listener) == 'undefined') { use_listener = true; }

		if(post_id) {
			container.id = 'dsq-popup-message-' + post_id;
		} else {
			container.id = 'dsq-popup-message';
		}

		header = title;
		body = message;

		container.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.popupModal(header, body);
		Dsq.Popup.initPopup(container, post_id, 'message', extra_classes);
		if(use_listener) {
			Dsq.Popup.popupListener = Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(document, 'mouseup', Dsq.Popup._closePopup);
		}
	};

	this.popAlert = this.popModal;

	this.loading = function(post_id) {
		var title = Dsq.Strings.JUST_A_MOMENT;
		var body = '<div style="text-align:center; padding: 5px 0 10px 0"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading.gif" alt="" /></div>'
		Dsq.Popup.lightbox(body, title, post_id);
	};

	this.lightbox = function(message, title, post_id) {
		// Wraps Dsq.Popup.popModal

		var overlay = document.createElement('div');
		overlay.id = 'dsq-overlay';
		overlay.className = 'dsq-overlay';
		Dsq.$b.appendChild(overlay);
		
		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title, post_id, false, 'dsq-lightbox');
	};

	this.popProfile = function(post_id, userKey) {
		var post = Dsq.jsonData['posts'][post_id];
		if (post && post.has_been_anonymized) {
			Dsq.Popup.popModal('This message was anonymized by its previous owner.', 'Anonymized', post_id);
			return;
		}

		if(post_id) {
			userKey = Dsq.jsonData['posts'][post_id].user_key;	
		}
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][userKey];
		var elId = 'dsq-popup-profile-' + userKey;
		var container = document.createElement('div');

		if(this.activePopup.el) {
			this._closePopup(null, true);
			if(this.activePopup.linkClicked) {
				this.activePopup.linkClicked = false;
				return;
			}
		}

		container.id = elId;
		container.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.popupProfile(userKey);

		this.initPopup(container, post_id, 'profile');
		this.popupListener = Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(document, 'mouseup', this._closePopup);

		if(!this.profileCache[userKey]) {
			Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/embed/profile.js'
				+ '?username=' + userKey
				+ '&anon=' + (userData['registered'] ? 0 : 1)
				+ '&f=' + Dsq.jsonData['request'].forum);
		} else {
			this.updateProfile(userKey);
		}
	};

	this._closePopup = function(e, force) {
		var activePopup = Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el;
		var id = Dsq.Popup.activePopup.id;
		var link = 'dsq-avatar-' + id; // HACK: Specific to profile toggle target

		// HACK: This event should be gone if there is no active popup.
		if(!activePopup) {
			return;
		}
		if(force || !Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, activePopup.id)) {
			// TODO: This is breaking iE?
			if(Dsq.Popup.popupListener) {
				Dsq.Utils.removeEventListener(Dsq.Popup.popupListener);
			}
			
			// Kill overlay
			var overlay = Dsq.$('dsq-overlay');
			if(overlay) { Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(overlay); }
			
			try {
				Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(activePopup);
			} catch(e) {
				// HACK: IE6 throws an error when using deleteNode() with a node containing a <table> in the html.
				activePopup.parentNode.removeChild(activePopup);
			}
			Dsq.Popup.activePopup = {};
		}

		if(!force && Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, link)) {
 			Dsq.Popup.activePopup.linkClicked = true;
		}

	};

	this.initPopup = function(popup, post_id, type, extra_classes) {
		popup.className = 'dsq-popup dsq-popup-' + type + ' ' + (extra_classes ? extra_classes : '');
		if(Dsq.Utils.ie6 || Dsq.Utils.ie7) {
			// HACK: We can't modify the body before it's ready, so we need
			//       to use an IE-safe "DOMReady" workaround before loading
			//       our popup.
			Dsq.Utils.execOnReady(function() {Dsq.$b.appendChild(popup); });
		} else {
			Dsq.$b.appendChild(popup);
		}

		popup.style.display = 'block';

		var xPos = (Dsq.Utils.getWindowSize()[0] - popup.offsetWidth) / 2;
		var yPos = (Dsq.Utils.getWindowSize()[1] - popup.offsetHeight) / 2;

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) {
			yPos += Dsq.Utils.getScrollPos()[1];
		}

		popup.style.left = xPos + 'px';
		popup.style.top = yPos + 'px';

		Dsq.Popup.activePopup = {
			'el' : popup,
			'id' : post_id,
			'type': type,
			'linkClicked' : false
		};
	};

	this.isClicked = function(e, id) {
		var t = e.target || e.srcElement;
		while(t && t.parentNode) {
			if(t.id == id) {
				return true;
			}

			t = t.parentNode;
		}
		return false;
	};
};
// Dsq.Popup

/**
 * Dsq.Templates
 */
Dsq.Templates = new function() {
	/*
	 * Counter keeping track of the number of posts iterated over.
	 */
	this.postLoopCounter = 0;
	this.filters = {};
	this.addPostContainer = 'dsq-post-add';
	this.textareaContainer = 'dsq-post-add';

	this.registerTemplate = function(name, func) {
		this['$$_' + name] = func;

		if(typeof DsqLocal.Filters != 'undefined'
		&& typeof DsqLocal.Filters[name] == 'function') {
			// Push filters to this.filters to unify code.
			this.filters[name] = this.filters[name] || [];
			this.filters[name].push(DsqLocal.Filters[name]);
		}

		this[name] = function() {
			var ret;

			if(typeof DsqLocal.Templates != 'undefined'
			&& typeof DsqLocal.Templates[name] == 'function') {
				ret = DsqLocal.Templates[name].apply(this, arguments);
			}

			if(ret === undefined) {
				ret = this['$$_' + name].apply(this, arguments);
			}

			if(this.filters[name]) {
				var args = [ret];

				args.push.apply(args, arguments);
				for(var i = 0; i < this.filters[name].length; i++) {
					ret = this.filters[name][i].apply(this, args);
				}
			}

			return ret;
		};
	};

	this.registerFilter = function(name, func) {
		this.filters[name] = this.filters[name] || [];
		this.filters[name].push(func);
	};

	/**
	 * Dsq.Templates.Filters
	 */
	this.Filters = new function() {
		this.commentContainer = function(post_id, s) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
			var classes = [];
			if(Dsq.jsonData.request.page > 1) {
				classes.push('dsq-append');
			}

			//
			// Extra classes used for custom themes
			//

			if(_meta.depth) {
				classes.push('dsq-comment-child', 'dsq-depth-' + _meta.depth, 'dsq-parent-is-' + _meta.parent_post_id);
			}


			//

			if(_meta.author_is_creator) {
				// TODO: We need to deprecate the "special" class since it is not properly prefixed.
				classes.push('special', 'dsq-special');
			}
			if(_meta.author_is_moderator) {
				classes.push('dsq-moderator');
			}
			classes.push(['dsq-odd', 'dsq-even'][Dsq.Templates.postLoopCounter % 2]);

			s = s.substring(0, s.lastIndexOf('>'));
			return s + ' class="dsq-comment ' + classes.join(' ') + '" style="margin-left:' + _meta.depth*30 + 'px">';
		};

		this.commentContent = function(post_id, s) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
			if (_meta.killed) {
				return '<em>Comment removed.</em>';
			} else if (!_meta.approved) {
				return '<em>This comment was flagged for review.</em>';
			}

			s = s.replace(Dsq.MEDIA_POST_RE, Dsq.MediaPostHandler);
			return s;
		};
	};

	//
	// Thread
	//
	// TODO: These need to be stripped of all Django template tags.

	this.authPost = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.context.show_reply) {
			return '';
		}
		var result = [];
		result = result.concat([
				'<div id="dsq-auth"',
						Dsq.jsonData.integration.reply_position ? 'class="dsq-auth-bottom"' : '',
						'>',
					'<div class="dsq-by">',
						'<a href="http://disqus.com" target="_blank">',
							(Dsq.jsonData.integration.disqus_logo ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img src="%(media_url)s/images/embed/by-disqus.png" alt="discussion by DISQUS">') :
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img src="%(media_url)s/images/embed/dsq-button-120x19.png" alt="discussion by DISQUS">')
							),
						'</a>',
					'</div>',
					'<div class="dsq-auth-header">',
						'<h3 id="dsq-add-new-comment" class="dsq-h3-addcomment">',
								Dsq.Strings.ADD_NEW_COMMENT,
						'</h3>',
						'<div id="dsq-login">',
						(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated && Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
								? '<p class="dsq-login-message" id="dsq-login-message">You are commenting as a <a class="dsq-help" title="Click for more information" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Guest</a>. You may select one to log into:</p>'
								: '')
		]);
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {
			result = result.concat([
							Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
								'<a id="dsq-login-toggle" href="%(disqus_url)s%(login_url)s?next=article:%(thread_id)s" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false"><img class="dsq-login-icon" src="%(media_url)s/images/dsq-profile-btn.png" title="%(log_into)s" alt="%(log_into)s"/></a>',
								{login_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGIN, thread_id: Dsq.jsonData.thread.id, log_into: Dsq.Strings.LOG_INTO_DISQUS}
								),
							'&nbsp; ',
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect ?
								'<div id="dsq-fbc-login" onlogin="DisqusFbcParentController.onLogin()" size="medium" background="light" length="short" style="display:inline; margin-right:7px"></div>' :
								''
							),
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_twitter_signin ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
									'<div id="dsq-twitter-login" class="dsq-twitter-login" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect();" style="display:inline; cursor: pointer"><img src="%(media_url)s/images/twitter-signin-short.png" style="margin-right:7px" /></div>', {}) : ''),
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_openid ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
									'<div id="dsq-openid-login" class="dsq-openid-login" onclick="Dsq.OpenID.requestURL();" style="display:inline; cursor:pointer;"><img src="%(media_url)s/images/openid-login-button.png"/></div>', {}
								) : '')
			]);
		}
		result = result.concat([
						'</div>', // dsq-login
					'</div>', // dsq-auth-header
					'<div id="dsq-authenticated" class="dsq-authenticated" ',
						Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated ? 'style="display:block"' : '',
						'>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-pic">',
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">' +
																			'<img class="dsq-post-avatar" src="%(avatar_url)s" alt="" /></a>',
																			{avatar_url: Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_AVATAR,
																			url: (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
																					 ? Dsq.jsonData.request.url
																					 : Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE) }),
						'</div>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-info">',
							'<ul>',
								'<li>',
									(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(
												Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">%(request_display_username)s</a>', {url:Dsq.jsonData.request.url})
										  )
										: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(
												Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(profile_url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">%(request_display_username)s</a>')
											)
									),
								'</li>',
								'<li class="logout">',
									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img class="dsq-login-icon" src="%(media_url)s/images/dsqicon12.png" alt="%(logged_in_as)s"/>&nbsp',
											{logged_in_as: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username)})
										: ''),

									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="%(logout_from_disqus)s">',
											{logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN, logout_from_disqus: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGOUT_FROM('DISQUS')})
										: ((Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain == 'twitter')
												? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('using Twitter (<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="Logout">Logout</a>)',
												 {logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN})
												: ((Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain == 'openid')
													 ? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('using OpenID (<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="Logout">Logout</a>)',
													 {logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN})
													 : ''
													)
											)
									),

									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote ? Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGOUT_FROM('<span class="logo-disqus">DISQUS</span>') : ''),
									'</a>',
								'</li>',
							'</ul>',
						'</div>',
					'</div>'
		]);
		if (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect) {
			result = result.concat([
					'<div id="dsq-fbc-authenticated" class="dsq-authenticated">',
						'<div id="dsq-fbc-profilepic" class="dsq-authenticated-pic" uid="loggedinuser" type="FB.XFBML.ProfilePic" size="square" facebook-logo="true"></div>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-info">',
							'<ul>',
								'<li>',
									'Logged in as <span id="dsq-fbc-name" uid="loggedinuser" type="FB.XFBML.Name" linked="true" useyou="false"></span>',
								'</li>',
								'<li class="logout">using Facebook Connect <a href="#" onclick="javascript:DisqusFbcParentController.logout();return false;">(Logout)</a></li>',
							'</ul>',
						'</div>',
					'</div>'
			]);
		}
		result = result.concat([
				'</div>', // dsq-auth
				'<div id="dsq-toolbar-items">',
				'</div>'
		]);
		result = result.concat([
					//
					//
					//
				((!Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post && !Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) ?
					// Needs to be translated:
					('<p id="dsq-no-anon-msg">Required: Please log into <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> ' +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect ? 'or connect with Facebook ' : '') +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_twitter_signin ? 'or sign in with Twitter ' : '') +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_openid ? 'or sign in using OpenID ' : '') +
					Dsq.Utils.interpolate('to comment on <strong>%(forum_name)s</strong>.</p>')) :
					''
				),
				'<div id="dsq-post-add"></div>',
				'<div style="margin:10px 0">',
				((Dsq.jsonData.forum.use_media) ?
						'<a href="#" id="dsq-media-link" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, false, \'media\'); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.USE_MEDIA + ' <small>&#9660;</small></a>' :
						''),
				'</div>'
		]);
		return result.join('');
	};


	this.header = function() {

		var html = '\<h3 id="dsq-comments-count" class="dsq-h3-commentcount">\
	 <span id="dsq-num-posts">184</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/cnn8217s_8216_black_in_america8217_day_one_open_thread/latest.rss"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/bullet-feed.png"></a>\
	 </span>\
	 </h3>\
	 <div id="dsq-options" style="margin:15px 0">\
	 <span class="dsq-item-sort">\
	 Sort by\
	 <select id="dsq-sort-select" onchange="Dsq.Thread.sortBy(this.value);">\
	 <option value="hot" selected="selected">Popular now</option>\
	 <option value="best" >Best Rating</option>\
	 <option value="newest" >Newest first</option>\
	 <option value="oldest" >Oldest first</option>\
	 </select>\
	 &nbsp;\
	 </span>\
	 <span class="dsq-item-cp"><a href="http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/cnn8217s_8216_black_in_america8217_day_one_open_thread/">Community Page</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>\
	 <span class="dsq-item-subscribe">\
	 <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/email.png" style="width:12px;height:12px;vertical-align:middle">\
	 <span id="dsq-subscribe">\
	 <a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">Subscribe by email</a>\
	 </span>\
	 </span>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-alerts">\
	 <p><a href="http://disqus.com/profile/login/?next=article:2135448" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false">You must log into your Disqus Profile in order to post comments.</a></p>\
	 </div>\
		';

		

		
		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) { 
			html = ' \
			<div class="dsq-alert-message dsq-upgrade-message"> \
				<strong>Disqus upgrade available.</strong> Hi ' + Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username + ', this message is being displayed to you because you are a moderator of this site. <a href="#" onclick="Dsq.$(\'dsq-upgrade-message\').style.display=\'block\';this.style.display=\'none\';return false">Click here for details.</a> \
				<div style="display:none; margin-top:10px;" id="dsq-upgrade-message"> \
					A new theme is available with added features. <a href="http://disqus.com/comments/settings/' + Dsq.jsonData.forum.url + '/?p=customize">To change your theme, click here</a> and choose the theme Narcissus. \
					If you do not upgrade, you are missing out on features such as: real-time commenting, new sign-in integrations, and an upgrade interface. \
					<strong>This message will automatically go away in one week.</strong> \
				</div> \
			</div> \
			' + html; 
		}
		return html;
	};

	this.footer = function() {
		var html = Dsq.Templates.pagination();

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.authPost();
		

		html += Dsq.Templates.reactions();

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.trackbacks();
		

		return html;
	};

	this.pagination = function() {
		var html = '';
		
		if (Dsq.$('dsq-pagination')) { Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML = ''; }
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.thread.paginate) { return ''; }

		//
		// TODO: num_paginator still uses the template tag for pagination, 
		// 		while append_paginator does it all in JavaScript.
		//		This should all be in JavaScript.
		//

		if (Dsq.jsonData.thread.num_pages > 1 && Dsq.jsonData.request.page < Dsq.jsonData.thread.num_pages) {
			html = ' \<a class="dsq-paginate-append-text" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.paginate(Dsq.jsonData.request.page + 1, this); return false">Show more comments...</a>\
	 <button class="dsq-button-small dsq-paginate-append-button" onclick="Dsq.Thread.paginate(Dsq.jsonData.request.page + 1, this);">Load more comments</button>\
			';
		}
		
		if (Dsq.$('dsq-pagination')) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML = html;
			return '';
		} else {
			return '<div id="dsq-pagination" class="dsq-pagination">' + html + '</div>';
		}
	};

	this.trackbacks = function() {
		var html = '';

		if(typeof DsqLocal != 'undefined' && DsqLocal.trackback_url && DsqLocal.trackbacks) {
			var trackbacks = DsqLocal.trackbacks;
			var trackback_url = DsqLocal.trackback_url;
		} else {
			var trackbacks = [
			
			
			];
			var trackback_url = 'http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/cnn8217s_8216_black_in_america8217_day_one_open_thread/trackback/';
		}

		html += '<div class="dsq-item-trackback">Trackback URL&nbsp;&nbsp;<input class="dsq-trackback-url" onclick="this.select()" readonly="true" value="' + trackback_url + '"></div>';

		if(trackbacks.length) {
			html += '<ul id="dsq-references">'
			for(var i = 0; i < trackbacks.length; i++) {
				var trackback = trackbacks[i];
				html += '<li><cite><a href="' + trackback.author_url + '" rel="nofollow">' + trackback.author_name + '</a></cite> \
						<p class="dsq-meta">' + trackback.date + '</p> \
						<p class="dsq-content">' + trackback.excerpt + '</p></li>';
			}
			html += '</ul>';
			html = '<h3 class="dsq-h3-trackbacks">Trackbacks</h3>' + html;
		}

		return html;
	}

	this.showRetweets = function(id, limit, element_id /* Optional */) {
		var source, html = '';

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			if (reaction.id === id) {
				source = reaction.retweets;
			}
		}

		if (source) {
			if (limit === 0) {
				limit = source.length;
			}

			for (var j = 0; j < limit; j++) {
				var rt = source[j];
				html += '<a href="' + rt.url + '">' + rt.author_name + '</a>'	+ ((j === (limit - 1)) ? '.' : ', ');
			}
		}

		if (element_id === undefined) {
			return html;
		}

		var element = document.getElementById(element_id);
		element.innerHTML = html;
		return element;
	};

	this.showMoreReactions = function(reactions, has_more, start, limit) {
		var link = document.getElementById('dsq-show-more-reactions');
		var container = link.parentNode;
		container.removeChild(link);

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = reactions[i]; i++) {
			var el = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (el) {
				container.innerHTML += el;
			}
		}

		if (has_more) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = start;
			var l = limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			container.innerHTML += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions"><a href="#" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</a></li>';
		}
	};

	this.generateReactionHTML = function(reaction) {
		if (reaction.body === null || reaction.body == '') {
			return;
		}

		if (reaction.author_name === '') {
			reaction.author_name = '&nbsp;';
		}

		if (reaction.url === '') {
			reaction.url = reaction.get_service_url;
		}

		/* Reaction HTML begins */
		var item = '<li class="dsq-reaction" id="dsq-reaction-' + reaction.id + '">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-header">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-header-avatar">';

		if (reaction.author_url && reaction.author_url !== '') {
			item += '<a target="_blank" href="' + reaction.author_url +'">';
		} else {
			item += '<a target="_blank" href="#" onclick="return false;">';
		}

		if (reaction.avatar_url && reaction.avatar_url !== '') {
			item += '<img src="' + reaction.avatar_url + '"/>';
		} else {
			item += '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/noavatar32.png"/>';
		}

		var service_icon = (reaction.get_service_name == 'trackback' || reaction.get_service_name == 'pingback' ? 'rss' : reaction.get_service_name.replace(' ', ''));
		item += '<img class="dsq-service-icon" src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/reactions/services/' + service_icon + '.png"/>'
			+ '</a></div>'
			+ '<cite><span>' + reaction.author_name + '</span></cite>'
			+ '<span class="dsq-header-meta"><a class="dsq-header-time">' + reaction.date_created + '</a></span>'
			+ '</div><div class="dsq-reaction-body">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-message">' + reaction.body + '</div>'
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-footer">From <a class="dsq-service-name" target="_blank" href="' + reaction.url + '">' + reaction.get_service_name + '</a> '
			+ 'via ' + (reaction.source == 'backtype' ? '<a href="http://backtype.com/">BackType</a>' : '<a href="' + reaction.source_url + '">UberVU</a>')
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator ? '&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp;<a class="dsq-hide-reaction" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Reaction.hide(' + reaction.id + '); return false;">Hide</a>' : '') + '</div></div>';

		if(reaction.retweets) {
			var num_retweets = reaction.retweets.length;
			if (num_retweets > 0) {
				item += '<div class="dsq-reaction-retweets">';
				if (num_retweets == 1) {
					item += 'One more retweet from <a href="' + reaction.retweets[0].url + '">'  + reaction.retweets[0].author_name + '</a>';
				} else {
					item += (num_retweets + ' more retweets from ');

					item += '<span id="dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '">';
					var n_tweets = (num_retweets > 15) ? 15 : num_retweets;
					item += Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(reaction.id, n_tweets);

					if (n_tweets != num_retweets) {
						item += '</span> <a onclick="Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(' + reaction.id + ', 0, \'dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '\');'
							+ 'this.parentNode.removeChild(this); return false;" href="#">Show all</a>';
					}
				}
				item += '</div>';
			}
		}

		item += '</li>'; /* Reaction HTML ends */
		return item;
	};

	this.reactions = function() {
		var html, reaction;

		if (Dsq.jsonData.reactions === undefined || Dsq.jsonData.reactions.length === 0) {
			return '';
		}

		html = '';
		for (var i = 0; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			var item = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (item) {
				html += item;
			}
		}

		if (Dsq.jsonData.has_more_reactions) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_start;
			var l = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			html += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions"><a href="#" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</a></li>';
		}

		return '<h3 class="dsq-h3-reactions">Reactions</h3><ul id="dsq-reactions" class="dsq-reactions">' + html + '</ul>';
	};
	
	this.missingPermissions = function() {
		return '	<p><a href="http://disqus.com/profile/login/?next=article:2135448" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false">You must log into your Disqus Profile in order to post comments.</a></p> \n';
	};

	//
	// Post
	//

	this.prependPost = function(post_id) {
		var html = '<div id="comment-' + post_id + '"></div>';
		return html;
	};

	this.appendPost = function(post_id) {
		var html = '<div id="dsq-comment-reply-' + post_id + '"></div>';
		return html;
	};

	this.postPrependHeader = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];

		var _includeServices = function() {
			var userServices = Dsq.Post.getUserServices(null, post_id);
			var html = '';
			var hiddenThreshold = 3; // Define # of services to show before stuffing them in hidden div

			for(var i = 0; i < userServices.length; i++) {
				html +=
				(i == hiddenThreshold
					? '<li id="dsq-drop-hidden-' + post_id +'" class="dsq-drop-hidden"><ul>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-drop-services"> \
					<a class="dsq-service-' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" href="' + userServices[i].url + '" target="_blank"> \
						<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/embed/services/' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '.png" alt="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '">'
					+ userServices[i].name
					+ '</a> \
				</li>';
			}

			if(i >= hiddenThreshold) {
				html += '</ul></li> \
				<li id="dsq-drop-more-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-drop-more"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.dropProfileMore(this, '+ post_id + '); return false"><small>&#9660;</small></a></li> \
				';
			}
			return html;
		};

		return ' \
			<div class="dsq-header-avatar" id="dsq-header-avatar-' + post_id + '" onmouseover="Dsq.Post.dropProfile(' + post_id + ')"> \
				<a id="dsq-avatar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-avatar" href="' + userData.url + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">'
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.show_avatar
				? '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.users[_meta.user_key].avatar + '" alt="" />'
				: '')
			+ '</a>'
			+ '</div> \
		';
	};

	this.postAppendHeader = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];

		return ''
			+ (_meta.author_is_moderator
				? '<img class="dsq-mod-star" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/bullet-star.png" title="Moderator" alt="" />'
				: '')
			+ '<span class="dsq-header-meta"> \
				<a id="dsq-time-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-header-time" href="#comment-' + post_id + '" title="Permalink">' + _meta.date + '</a> \
			</span>';
	};

	this.preBody = function(post_id) {
		return '';
	}

	this.postBody = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: Deprecate flagging conditional
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		return ''
			+ (_meta.edited
				? '<p class="dsq-editedtxt">(Edited by a moderator)</p>'
				: '')
			;
	};

	this.postFooter = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: Use media should be conditional
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		if(_meta.killed) { return ''; }

		return ' \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer" id="dsq-comment-footer-' + post_id + '"> \
				<div id="dsq-points-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-likedtxt">'
				+ (_meta.points
					? _meta.points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(_meta.points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this comment.'
					: '')
				+ '</div>'
				+ '<ul class="dsq-comment-options dsq-list-style">'
				+ (_meta.votable
					? '<li class="dsq-list-first dsq-rate" id="dsq-rate-cont-' + post_id + '">'
					+ (!_meta.up_voted
						? '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.rate(this, ' + post_id + ', 1); return false;">Like</a>'
						: 'You liked this.') + '</li>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-report' + (!_meta.votable ? ' dsq-list-first' : '') + '" id="dsq-post-report-' + post_id + '"><a href="#" class="dsq-post-report" onclick="Dsq.Post.report(' + post_id + ', false); return false;">Report</a></li> \
				</ul> \
				<ul class="dsq-list-style">'
				+ (_meta.can_reply
					? '<li class="dsq-list-first"><a href="#" id="dsq-reply-link-' + post_id +'" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleReply(this, ' + post_id +'); return false;">Reply</a></li>'
					: '')
				+ (_meta.can_reply && !_meta.has_replies && _meta.from_request_user
					? '<li id="dsq-edit-el-' + post_id + '"><a id="dsq-edit-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); return false;">Edit</a></li>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="' + (!_meta.can_reply ? 'dsq-list-first' : '') + '" id="dsq-more-el-' + post_id + '"><a id="dsq-more-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, ' + post_id + ', \'more\'); return false">More <small>&#9660;</small></a></li>'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.use_media
					? '<li id="dsq-media-el-' + post_id +'" style="display:none"><a id="dsq-media-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, ' + post_id + ', \'media\'); return false">Use Media <small>&#9660;</small></a></li>'
					: '')
				+ '</ul>'
				+ '<div id="dsq-reply-bar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar" style="display:none"> \
						<div id="dsq-reply-bar-items-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar-items"> \
						</div> \
						<div id="dsq-reply-bar-auth-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar-auth"> \
							 \
								 \
									<a href="#" class="dsq-help dsq-reply-req-opt" title="You must log into an account in order to comment on Jack and Jill Politics" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Required:</a> \
								 \
								<img class="dsq-login-icon" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/dsq-favicon-16x16.png" alt="" /> \
								<a id="dsq-reply-login-' + post_id + '" href="http://disqus.com/profile/login/?next=article:2135448" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false">Login</a> \
								 \
									&nbsp;or&nbsp; \
									<img class="fb_login_image" src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/images/fbconnect/login-buttons/connect_light_small_short.gif" alt="Facebook Connect"/> \
									<a href="#" onclick="FB.Connect.requireSession(DisqusFbcParentController.onLogin); return false;">Connect</a> \
								 \
								&nbsp;or&nbsp; \
									<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/twitter-signin-icon.png" alt="" /> \
									<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect(); return false">Sign-in</a> \
								 \
								 \
							 \
						</div> \
					</div> \
					<div id="dsq-reply-' + post_id + '"></div> \
			</div> \
		';
	};

	//
	// Iframes
	//

	this._makeAttributes = function(attributes) {
		// Makes a tag attributes string out of an object.
		// Caller is responsible for making sure nothing needs to be escaped.
		var result = [];
		for (key in attributes) {
			result.push(' ' + key + '="' + attributes[key] + '"');
		}
		result = result.join('');
		return result;
	};

	this._frameGeneric = function(base_url, params, attributes) {
		if(typeof(disqus_callback_params) == 'undefined') {
			disqus_callback_params = '';
		}

		var default_params = {
			// TODO: These should be moved to Dsq.jsonData.
			'f'				: 'jackandjillpolitics',
			't'				: 'cnn8217s_8216_black_in_america8217_day_one_open_thread',
			// Do we need encodeURIComponent here?
			'ifrs'			: encodeURIComponent(disqus_iframe_css),
			'to_redirect'	: encodeURIComponent(window.location),
			'cbp'			: disqus_callback_params,
			'ff'			: Dsq.Thread.ff,
			'fc'			: Dsq.Thread.fc,
			'ac'			: Dsq.Thread.ac,
			'default_text'	: disqus_default_text
		};

		base_url += '?' + (new Date()).getTime();
		// Add params to default_params.
		if(params) {
			for(var key in params) {
				if(params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
					default_params[key] = encodeURIComponent(params[key]);
				}
			}
		}
		// Build querystring.
		for(var key in default_params) {
			if(default_params[key] && default_params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				base_url += '&' + key + '=' + default_params[key];
			}
		}

		return [
			'<iframe marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" frameborder="0"',
			(' allowtransparency="true" src="' + base_url + '"'),
			this._makeAttributes(attributes),
			'</iframe>'].join('');
	};

	this.frameLogin = function(opt_attributes) {
		var params = {};
		var base_url = 'http://disqus.com/embed/login.html';
		var attributes = opt_attributes || {};
		attributes['class'] = 'dsq-post-login';

		if(typeof disqus_frame_theme != 'undefined') {
			params['theme'] = disqus_frame_theme;
		}
		return this._frameGeneric(base_url, params, attributes);
	};

	this.frameReply = function(post_id, extra_params, attributes) {
		// Returns the HTML for a reply iframe. Called by Dsq.Iframes.setReplyIframeToContainer
		var _meta = (typeof post_id != 'undefined') ? Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id] : false;
		var base_url = Dsq.Urls.REPLY;
		var params = {
			'def_email'		: disqus_def_email,
			'def_name'		: disqus_def_name
		};
		if(extra_params) {
			for(var key in extra_params) {
				if(extra_params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
					params[key] = extra_params[key];
				}
			}
		}
		if(_meta) {
			params['parent_post'] = post_id;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_per_page != 'undefined') {
			params['per_page'] = disqus_per_page;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_frame_theme != 'undefined') {
			params['theme'] = disqus_frame_theme;
		}
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {
			attributes['class'] += '-authenticated';
		}
		return this._frameGeneric(base_url, params, attributes);
	};

	this.frameEdit = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = (typeof post_id != 'undefined') ? Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id] : false;
		var base_url = 'http://disqus.com/embed/edit.html';
		var params = {
			'p' : post_id
		};
		return this._frameGeneric(base_url, params, {'class': 'dsq-post-edit', 'name': 'dsq-edit_' + post_id + '-frame'});
	};

	//
	// Menus
	//

	this.menuMore = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: "Remove post" button should hide menu.
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		return ' \
			<li><a href="#comment-' + post_id + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.permalink(' + post_id + ')">Link</a></li> \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">Profile</a></li>'
	+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator
		? '	<li class="dsq-menu-sep"></li>' + (_meta.email ? '<li class="dsq-admin-email">' + _meta.email + '</li>' : '')
		+ '	<li class="dsq-admin-ip">' + _meta.ip + '</li> \
			<li class="dsq-menu-sep"></li>'
		+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.moderator_can_edit
			? ' <li class="dsq-admin-edit"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); return false;">Edit Comment</a></li>'
			: '')
		+ ' <li class="dsq-remove"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.removePost(' + post_id + ', 1); return false;">Remove Comment</a></li> \
			<li class="dsq-report-spam"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.reportSpam(' + post_id + '); return false;">Mark Spam</a></li> \
			<li class="dsq-block-user"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.blacklist(' + post_id + '); return false">Block User</a></li>'
		: '');
	};

	this.menuMedia = function(post_id) {
		return ' \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleMediaReply(this, ' + post_id + ', \'seesmic\'); return false;">Record video</a></li> \
		';
	};

	this.dropProfile = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];

		var _includeServices = function() {
			var userServices = Dsq.Post.getUserServices(null, post_id);
			var html = '';
			var hiddenThreshold = 3; // Define # of services to show before stuffing them in hidden div

			for(var i = 0; i < userServices.length; i++) {
				html +=
				(i == hiddenThreshold
					? '<li id="dsq-drop-hidden-' + post_id +'" class="dsq-drop-hidden"><ul>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-drop-services"> \
					<a class="dsq-service-' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" href="' + userServices[i].url + '" target="_blank"> \
						<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/embed/services/' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '.png" alt="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '">'
					+ userServices[i].name
					+ '</a> \
				</li>';
			}

			if(i >= hiddenThreshold) {
				html += '</ul></li> \
				<li id="dsq-drop-more-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-drop-more"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.dropProfileMore(this, '+ post_id + '); return false"><small>&#9660;</small></a></li> \
				';
			}
			return html;
		};


		var menu = '<li class="dsq-drop-showlnk"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">Expand &#8663;</a></li>';
		var pointsMessage = '';
		if (userData['registered']) {
			pointsMessage = 'with ' + userData['points'] + ' points (more points are better).';
		}

		if (userData['is_remote']) {
			var domain = userData['remote_domain_name'];
			menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' is a ' + domain + ' user ' + pointsMessage + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()">';
			menu += '<span class="dsq-badge-' + domain.toLowerCase() + '">' + domain + '</span></li>';
		} else if (userData['registered']) {
			if (userData['verified']) {
				menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' has a verified commenter profile ' + pointsMessage + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()">';
				menu += '<span class="dsq-badge-verified">Verified</span></li>';
			} else {
				menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' has a registered, but unverified, commenter profile ' + pointsMessage + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()">';
				menu += '<span class="dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span></li>';
			}
		} else {
			menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' has not claimed this commenter profile." onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()"><span class="dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span></li>';
		}

		menu += _includeServices();
		return menu;
	};

	//
	// Popups
	//

	this._popupGeneric = function(content) {
		return ' \
		<div class="dsq-popup-content"> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-top"></div> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-body" class="clearfix"> \
				<div class="dsq-popup-body-padding"> \
					<div class="dsq-popup-header"> \
						<a class="dsq-close-link" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/modal-close.png" alt="" /></a>'
						+ content['header']
					+ '</div>'
					+ content['body']
					+ '<div class="powered-by"><a href="http://disqus.com/comments/">Powered by <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-logo.png" alt="Disqus Comments" style="margin-bottom:-5px" /></a></div> \
				</div> <!-- padding --> \
			</div> <!-- body --> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-bottom"></div> \
		</div> \
		';
	};

	this.popupProfile = function(user_key) {
		var userServices = Dsq.Post.getUserServices(user_key, null);
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][user_key];
		var headerHtml = '';
		var bodyHtml = '';
		var content = {};

		var _includeServices = function() {
			var html = '';
			for(var i = 0; i < userServices.length; i++) {
				html +=
				(i == 0
					? '<h4>Connections</h4><ul>'
					: '')
				+ '<li> \
					<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/embed/services/' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '.png" alt="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" title="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" /> \
					<a class="dsq-service-' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" href="' + userServices[i].url + '" target="_blank">'
					+ userServices[i].name
					+ '</a> \
				</li>'
				+ (i+1 == userServices.length ? '</ul>' : '');
			}
			return html;
		};

		headerHtml = ' \
			<table> \
				<tr> \
					<td> \
						<a class="dsq-profile-userurl" href="' + userData.url + '"><img class="dsq-popup-profile-avatar" src="' + userData['avatar'] + '" alt="" /></a> \
					</td> \
					<td> \
						<div class="dsq-popup-profile-user"> \
							<h3>' + userData['display_name'] + '</h3> \
							<div class="dsq-popup-profile-user-stats" id="dsq-popup-profile-user-stats-' + user_key + '">Loading...</div> \
						</div> \
					</td> \
				</tr> \
			</table> \
		';

		bodyHtml = ' \
			<div class="dsq-popup-profile-state"> \
				This is a&nbsp;<span class="'
					+ (userData['registered']
						? (userData['verified']
							? ' dsq-badge-verified'
							: (userData['is_remote']
								? ' dsq-badge-' + userData['remote_domain_name'].toLowerCase()
								: ' dsq-badge-registered')
							)
							: ' dsq-badge-guest') + '">'
			+ (userData['registered']
				? (userData['verified']
					? 'Verified'
					: (userData['is_remote']
						 ? userData['remote_domain_name']
						 : 'Registered')
					)
				: 'Guest')
			+ '</span>&nbsp;commenter profile.'
			+ '&nbsp;<a class="dsq-profile-userurl" href="' + userData.url + '"><strong>View more comments </strong></a>'
			+ (!userData['points']
				? '<p class="dsq-popup-notice">If this is you, <a href="http://disqus.com/profile" target="_blank">claim it now</a> to manage your comments.</p>'
				: '')
			+ ((userData['registered'] && !userData['verified'] && (Dsq.jsonData.request.username && (Dsq.jsonData.request.username == userData['username'])) && !userData['is_remote'])
				? '<p class="dsq-popup-notice"><strong>Alert</strong>: You have not verified this account. <a href="http://disqus.com/verify">Verify it now.</a></p>'
				: '')
			+ '</div> \
			<div id="dsq-profile-status-' + user_key + '" class="dsq-popup-profile-status" style="display:none"></div> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-profile-snapshot"> \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td> \
							<div id="dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-wrapper-' + user_key + '"> \
								<h4>Most active sites</h4> \
								<ul id="dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-' + user_key + '"> \
									<li>Loading...</li> \
								</ul> \
							</div> \
						</td> \
						<td>'
							+ _includeServices()
							+ '<div id="dsq-popup-profile-moderated-wrapper-' + user_key + '"> \
								<h4>Moderator of</h4> \
								<ul id="dsq-popup-profile-moderated-' + user_key + '"> \
									<li>Loading...</li> \
								</ul> \
							</div> \
						</td> \
					</tr> \
				</table> \
			</div> \
			';

		content = {
			'header': headerHtml,
			'body': bodyHtml
		};

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

	this.popupReblog = function() {
		var headerHtml = '';
		var bodyHtml = '';
		var content = {};

		headerHtml = ' \
			<cite><span>Reblog this comment</span></cite> \
		';

		bodyHtml = ' \
			<div id="dsq-reblog-form" class="dsq-reblog-form"> \
			</div> \
		';

		content = {
			'header': headerHtml,
			'body': bodyHtml
		};

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

	this.popupModal = function(title, message) {
		var headerHtml = '';
		var bodyHtml = '';
		var content = {};

		headerHtml = ' \
			<h3>' + title + '</h3> \
		';

		bodyHtml = message;

		content = {
			'header': headerHtml,
			'body': bodyHtml
		};

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

	this.alertContent = function(name, post_id) {
		var alert = {
			'post_not_approved': {
				'title': 'Comment awaiting approval by a moderator',
				'message': 'Thanks for posting. Your comment must be approved by a moderator before appearing here.'
			},
			'post_has_profile': {
				'title': 'Use your existing commenter profile',
				'message': 'You have just posted your commment as a <span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span>, but you may already have a <span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span> commenter profile.<br /><br /><a href="http://disqus.com/claim">Log in and claim this comment!</a>'
			}
		};
		return alert[name] || false;
	};

	//
	// Actions
	//

	this.voted = function(post_id, points, vote) {
		// Update number of points
		Dsq.$('dsq-points-' + post_id).innerHTML = points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this comment.';

		// Update link text
		if(vote) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-rate-cont-' + post_id).innerHTML = 'You liked this.';
		}
	};

	this.subscribed = function(status) {
		var title, message;

		if(status) {
			title = 'Subscribed!';
			message = 'You have subscribed to this comment thread. New comments will be sent directly to your email inbox, where you may read and respond by email.';
			Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe').innerHTML = ' \
				<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(0); return false">Unsubscribe</a> \
			';
		} else {
			title = 'Unsubscribed';
			message = 'You have unsubscribed to this comment thread. New comments will no longer be sent to your email inbox.';
			Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe').innerHTML = ' \
				<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">Subscribe by email</a> \
			';
		}

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);

	};
	
	this.highlighted = function() {
		Dsq.Popup.popModal('This comment has been highlighted.', 'Highlighted comment');
	};

	//
	// Media
	//

	this.mediaSeesmic = function(id, thumb) {
		return ' \
			<div id="dsq-seesmic-' + id + '_preview" class="dsq-seesmic-preview"><a href="http://www.seesmic.com/video/' + id + '" target="_blank" class="see_link">&nbsp;</a> \
				<div style="display:block;width:160px; height:120px; border:none; background-image:url(http://t.seesmic.com/thumbnail/' + thumb + ')"> \
					<div id="dsq-seesmic-' + id + '_hide" class="seePlayOverlay" style="display:none;"><img onclick="see_play_video(\'' + id + '\',false)" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/seesmic/stopOverlay.png" width="50" height="50" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand; padding-top: 30px; padding-left: 50px" alt="" /></div> \
					<div id="dsq-seesmic-' + id + '_show" class="seePlayOverlay"><img onclick="see_play_video(\'' + id + '\',true)" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/seesmic/playOverlay.png" width="50" height="50" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand; border:none; padding-top: 30px; padding-left: 50px" alt="" /></div> \
				</div> \
			</div> \
			<div id="' + id + '_content" style="display:block; width:100%; padding-top:5px"></div> \
		';
	};

	//
	// Callbacks
	//

	this.postComment_onSuccess = function(parent_post_id) {
		// Increment post count
		var num_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-num-posts');
		var total_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-total-posts');
		
		if (num_posts) { 
			num_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(num_posts.innerHTML) + 1;
		}
		if (total_posts) { 
			total_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(total_posts.innerHTML) + 1;
		}
	};
};
// Dsq.Templates


/**
 * Dsq.Post
 */
Dsq.Post = new function() {
	this.openedMenu = {};
	this.menuEventListener = null;
	this.stateReplyToggled = {};
	this.stateEditToggled = {};
	this.stateRecordLink = {};

	/**
	 * Inserts a new post into the document.
	 *
	 * @param after_id {Number}	Insert a post before specified id.  If after_id
	 *							evaluates to false, then post in the front.  If
	 *							after_id is -1, post at the end.
	 */
	this.insert = function(after_id, id, message, author) {
		// Skeleton template from thread_posts.html.
		var skeleton = ' \
			<li id="dsq-comment-%(id)s"> \
				<div id="dsq-comment-header-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-header"> \
					<cite id="dsq-cite-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-cite"> \
						<a id="dsq-author-user-%(id)s" href="%(author_url)s" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">%(author_name)s</a> \
					</cite> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-comment-body-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-body"> \
					<div id="dsq-comment-message-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-message">%(message)s</div> \
				</div> \
			</li> \
		';
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
		var _user_meta = Dsq.jsonData.users[_meta.user_key];
		var markup = Dsq.Utils.interpolate(skeleton, {
			id: id,
			message: message,
			author_url: _user_meta.blog,
			author_name: _user_meta.display_name
		});
		var div = document.createElement('div');
		markup = markup.replace(Dsq.COMMENTS_RE, Dsq.CommentsHandler);
		div.innerHTML = markup;

		if (after_id === -1) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-comments').appendChild(div);
		} else if (!after_id) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-comments').insertBefore(div, Dsq.$('dsq-comments').firstChild);
		} else if (Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + after_id)) {
			// Get next node after "after_id", so we can insert before it.
			// If "after_id" is the last comment, the target node is the
			// last node.
			
			// var append_post_id = Dsq.Templates.appendPost(after_id).replace('<div id="','').replace('"></div>', '');
			var append_post_id = 'dsq-append-post-' + after_id;
			var node = Dsq.$(append_post_id);
			while (node = node.nextSibling) {
				if (!node || node.nodeType == 1) { // 1 == Node.ELEMENT_NODE
					break;
				}
			}
			if (!node) {
				node = Dsq.$(append_post_id);
			}
			node.parentNode.insertBefore(div, node);
		}
	};

	this.incrementPostCount = function() {
		
		var num_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-num-posts');
		var total_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-total-posts');

		if (num_posts) {
			num_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(num_posts.innerHTML, 10) + 1;
		}
		if (total_posts) {
			total_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(total_posts.innerHTML, 10) + 1;
		}
	}
	
	this.outlineComment = function(post_id) {
		Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + post_id).className += ' dsq-comment-outline';
		setTimeout("(function () { Dsq.Post.clearOutlineComment(" + post_id + ") })()", 3000);
	};
	
	this.clearOutlineComment = function(post_id) {
		Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + post_id).className = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + post_id).className.replace('dsq-comment-outline', '');
	};

	this.showMenu = function(el, id, name) {
		var anchorPos = Dsq.Utils.findPos(el);
		var menu = document.createElement('ul');

		if(this.openedMenu) {
			if(this.openedMenu.linkClicked) {
				this.openedMenu.linkClicked = false;
				return;
			}
		}

		switch(name) {
			case 'more':
				menu.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.menuMore(id);
				break;
			case 'media':
				menu.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.menuMedia(id);
				break;
			default:
				break;
		}

		// Add menu to document body
		menu.id = 'dsq-menu-' + id;
		menu.className = 'dsq-menu';
		Dsq.$b.appendChild(menu);

		// Position and show
		anchorPos[1] += 15;
		menu.style.left = anchorPos[0] + 'px';
		menu.style.top = anchorPos[1] + 'px';
		menu.style.display = 'block';

		// Set global reference
		this.openedMenu = {
			'el' : menu,
			'id' : id,
			'name' : name,
			'linkClicked' : false
		};

		// Set listener
		this.menuEventListener = Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(document, 'mouseup', this._hideMenu);
	};

	this._hideMenu = function(e) {
		var el = e.target || e.srcElement;
		var openedMenu = Dsq.Post.openedMenu.el;
		var id = Dsq.Post.openedMenu.id;

		if(!id) {
			var link = 'dsq-' + Dsq.Post.openedMenu.name + '-link';
		} else {
			var link = 'dsq-' + Dsq.Post.openedMenu.name + '-link-' + id;
		}

		if(!openedMenu) {
			return;
		}

		if(!Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, openedMenu.id)) {
			openedMenu.style.display = 'none';
			Dsq.Utils.removeEventListener(Dsq.Post.menuEventListener);
			Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(openedMenu);

		} else {
			// Hide the menu if a link was clicked inside the menu.  We can't
			// completely remove the menu until the onclick event on the link
			// fires, but the menuEventListener will prevent multiple menus
			// from polluting the DOM.
			if(el && typeof el.href != 'undefined') {
				openedMenu.style.display = 'none';
				Dsq.Post.openedMenu.el = null;
			}
		}

		if(Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, link)) {
 			Dsq.Post.openedMenu.linkClicked = true;
		}
	};


	this.getUserServices = function(user_key, id) {
		if(!user_key && id) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
			user_key = _meta.user_key;
		}
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][user_key];
		var userServices = [];

		// Keep a full list of supported services. This is the order they will display in the drop-profile.
		// Each service must have a corresponding case in _buildServiceUrl()
		var supportedServices = ['blog', 'twitter', 'facebook', 'tumblr'];

		function _buildServiceUrl(serviceName) {
			var data = userData[serviceName];
			var services = {
				blog:		function(d) { return d; },
				twitter:	function(d) { return d; },
				facebook:	function(d) { return d; },
				tumblr:		function(d) { return 'http://' + d + '.tumblr.com'; }
			};
			return services[serviceName](data);
		}

		for(var i = 0; i < supportedServices.length; i++) {
			if(userData[supportedServices[i]]) {
				var serviceUrl = _buildServiceUrl(supportedServices[i]);
				userServices.push({'name' : supportedServices[i], 'url' : serviceUrl});
			}
		}
		return userServices;
	}

	this.dropProfile = function(id) {
		var dp = Dsq.$('dsq-drop-profile-' + id);

		// IE6 needs JS to display/hide. All other browsers use CSS.
		if(dp) {
			if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) dp.style.display = (dp.style.display == 'inline') ? 'none' : 'inline';
			return false;
		} else {
			dp = document.createElement('ul');
		}

		dp.id = 'dsq-drop-profile-' + id;
		dp.className = 'dsq-drop-profile';

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) { dp.style.display = 'inline'; }

		var container = Dsq.$('dsq-header-avatar-' + id);
		dp.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.dropProfile(id);
		container.appendChild(dp);
	};

	this.dropProfileMore = function(el, id) {
		var hiddenItems = Dsq.$('dsq-drop-hidden-' + id);

		hiddenItems.style.display = 'inline';
		el.parentNode.style.display = 'none';
	};

	this._updateReplyLinks = function(el, id) {
		// Update "reply / cancel" links based on state.
		var displayDict = {};

		if(id) {
			if(this.stateReplyToggled[id]) {
				el.innerHTML = 'Cancel';
				displayDict['media'] = 'inline';
				displayDict['edit'] = 'none';
			} else {
				el.innerHTML = 'Reply';
				displayDict['media'] = 'none';
				displayDict['edit'] = 'inline';
			}
		}

		for(var key in displayDict) {
			if(displayDict.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				var	linkEl = Dsq.$('dsq-' + key + '-el-' + id),
					spacer = Dsq.$('dsq-' + key + '-spacer-' + id);

				if(linkEl) {
					linkEl.style.display = displayDict[key];
					if(spacer) spacer.style.display = displayDict[key];
				}
			}
		}
	};

	this._updateMediaLinks = function(el, id) {
		// Update "use media / cancel" links based on state.
		var appendId = (id) ? ('-' + id) : '';
		var link = Dsq.$('dsq-media-link' + appendId);

		if(this.stateRecordLink[id]) {
			link.innerHTML = 'Cancel Media';
			link.onclick = function() { Dsq.Post.toggleMediaReply(link, id); return false; };
		} else {
			link.innerHTML = 'Use Media <small>&#9660;</small>';
			link.onclick = function() { Dsq.Post.showMenu(link, id, 'media'); return false; };
		}
	};

	this.toggleReply = function(el, id) {
		// Create reply IFrame
		if (window.disqus_use_postmessage) {
			if (!this.stateReplyToggled[id]) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id).style.display = 'block';
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'block';
				// Create IFrame if it doesn't exist.
				if (!Dsq.frames['reply_' + id]) {
					var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + id] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(Dsq.$('dsq-reply-frame-' + id), id);
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + id].init();
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + id].setState(id, _meta.depth);
				}
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id).style.display = 'none';
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'none';
			}
		} else {
			// DEPRECATED
			if(!this.stateReplyToggled[id]) {
				// Reply toolbar
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'block';
				Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainerIfAllowed(Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id), id);
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'none';
				Dsq.Iframes.hideAllInContainer(Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id));
				if(this.stateRecordLink[id]) {
					// HACK: Cancel media before canceling self.
					this.toggleMediaReply(Dsq.$('dsq-media-link-' + id), id);
				}
			}
		}

		this.stateReplyToggled[id] = !this.stateReplyToggled[id];
		this._updateReplyLinks(el, id);

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE('dsq-reply-' + id); }

		Dsq.Events.fire(Dsq.Events.REPLY_IFRAME_TOGGLED, {
			postId: id,
			opened: this.stateReplyToggled[id]
		});
	};

	this.toggleMediaReply = function(el, id, xtype) {
		id = id || 0;
		if(id) {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id);
		} else {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-post-add');
		}

		if(!this.stateRecordLink[id]) {
			Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(container, id, {xtype:xtype}, 'dsq-post-video');
		} else {
			Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(container, id);
		}
		this.stateRecordLink[id] = !this.stateRecordLink[id];
		this._updateMediaLinks(el, id);

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(); }
	};

	this.edit = function(el, id) {
		Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + id).innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.frameEdit(id);
		el.parentNode.style.display = 'none';
		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE('dsq-comment-message-' + id); }
	};

    this.rate = function(el, id, vote) {
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated || Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_votes) {
			if(vote == 1) {
                Dsq.$('dsq-rate-cont-' + id).innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
            }

            Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/jackandjillpolitics/vote.js'
                + '?post_id='    + id
                + '&vote='        + vote);

		} else {
			Dsq.Popup.login(Dsq.Strings.TO_RATE_PLEASE_LOG_IN);
		}
    };

	this.report = function(id, confirmed) {
		if(confirmed) {
			Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/jackandjillpolitics/cnn8217s_8216_black_in_america8217_day_one_open_thread/post_report/', {'post_id': id});
			Dsq.Popup.popModal('Thank you. This comment has been flagged for moderator attention.', 'Successfully flagged');
			Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(Dsq.$('dsq-post-report-' + id));
		} else {
			var title = Dsq.Strings.FLAG_INAPPROPRIATE_COMMENT;
			var message = Dsq.Strings.ARE_YOU_SURE_YOU_WOULD_LIKE_TO_REPORT_THIS_COMMENT_TO_A_MODERATOR + '? \
			<br /><br /> \
			<button onclick="Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true)"><strong>' + Dsq.Strings.NO + '</strong>, ' + Dsq.Strings.NEVER_MIND + '</button>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<button onclick="Dsq.Post.report(' + id + ', true);"><strong>' + Dsq.Strings.YES + '</strong>, ' + Dsq.Strings.FLAG_INAPPROPRIATE_COMMENT + '</button><br /><br />'
			+ Dsq.Strings.THIS_WILL_FLAG_COMMENTS_FOR_MODERATORS_TO_TAKE_ACTION + '. \
			';

			Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title, id);
		}
	};



	this.showAlert = function(id, msg) {
		var msgEl = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + id);
		var alert = '<div class="dsq-comment-alert">' + msg + '</div>';

		msgEl.innerHTML = alert + msgEl.innerHTML;
	};

};
// Dsq.Post


/**
 * Dsq.Thread
 */
Dsq.Thread = new function() {
	this.fc = null;
	this.ff = null;
	this.ac = null;

	
	this.adminIsOn = false;

	
	
	

	this.hlComment = null;
	this.hlCommentClass = null;

	this.getNextComment = function(el) {
		var start_id = el.id;
		while(el = el.nextSibling) {
			if(el.id && el.id.indexOf('dsq-comment-') != -1 && el.id != start_id) {
				return el;
			}
		}
		return null;
	};

	this.getActiveCommentId = function() {
		if (document.URL.indexOf('#comment-') >= 0) {
			var anchor = document.URL.slice(document.URL.indexOf('#') + 1);
			return anchor.replace('comment-', '');
		}
		return null;
	};

	this.highlightAnchor = function() {
		var i = this.getActiveCommentId();
		if (i == null) return false;
		var id = 'dsq-comment-' + i;
		var hash = window.location.hash;

		// Toggle the hash incase the comment isn't available when the page loads
		// for WebKit-based browsers.
		if (Dsq.Utils.webkit) {
			window.location.hash = '';
			window.location.hash = hash;
		}

		this.hlComment = Dsq.$(id);
		// Adding this conditional guard pending #289
		if (!this.hlComment) {
			return;
		}
		this.hlCommentClass = this.hlComment.className;
		this.hlComment.className += ' dsq-hl-anchor';

		setTimeout("Dsq.Thread.highlightClear()", 3000);
	};

	this.highlightClear = function() {
		if (!this.hlComment) {
			return;
		}
		this.hlComment.className = this.hlCommentClass;
	};

	this.login = function(toggle) {
		// toggle id is #dsq-reply-login-[id]
		var postId;
		if(toggle.id.indexOf('dsq-reply-login') != -1) {
			postId = toggle.id.slice(16);
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + postId);
		} else {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-post-add');
		}

		if(toggle) {
			if(toggle.className == 'dsq-login-active') {
				Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainerIfAllowed(container, postId);
				toggle.className = '';
			} else {
				Dsq.Iframes.showLoginIframeInContainer(container, postId);
				toggle.className = 'dsq-login-active';
			}
		} else {
			Dsq.Iframes.showLoginIframeInContainer(container, postId);
		}

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(); }
	};


	this.paginate = function(page, el_clicked, per_page) {
		// Use extra_params to pass any override parameters that we need to persist.
		var extra_params = '';

		// "Per page" can either be overriden by providing it as an argument
		// (per-call) or setting the disqus_per_page override variable (global).
		if(typeof per_page == 'undefined') {
			per_page = null;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_per_page != 'undefined' && per_page === null) {
			per_page = disqus_per_page;
		}

		if(typeof disqus_sort != 'undefined') {
			extra_params += '&sort=' + disqus_sort;
		}
		if(per_page !== null) {
			extra_params += '&per_page=' + per_page;
		}

		Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML += '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
		
		if(el_clicked) {
			el_clicked.style.display = 'none';
		}
		
		Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/jackandjillpolitics/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ 'cnn8217s_8216_black_in_america8217_day_one_open_thread'
			+ '&p='		+ page
			+ extra_params);
	};

	this.sortBy = function(sort) {
		var disqus_script = document.createElement('script');
		var disqus_date = new Date();

		if (location.hash != '') {
			location.hash = '#disqus_thread';
		}

		if(typeof(disqus_url) == 'undefined') {
			disqus_url = disqus_href;
		}
		disqus_script.type = 'text/javascript';
		disqus_script.src = 'http://disqus.com/forums/jackandjillpolitics/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ 'cnn8217s_8216_black_in_america8217_day_one_open_thread'
			+ '&sort='	+ sort
			+ '&title='
			+ '&'		+ disqus_date.getTime();

		Dsq.$('dsq-comments').innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading.gif">';
		Dsq.container.appendChild(disqus_script);
	};

	this.subscribe = function(status, email) {
		// `status` is an int -- 1 to subscribe, 0 to unsubscribe
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated || email) {
			// If authenticated user OR anonymous email provided

			if(email) {
				Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true);
			}

			Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/jackandjillpolitics/subscribe.js'
				+'?status=' 	+ status
				+ '&slug='		+ 'cnn8217s_8216_black_in_america8217_day_one_open_thread'
				+ '&email=' 	+ encodeURIComponent(email));

		} else if(!email) {
			// If anonymous user and no email has been provided yet, prompt for email

			var title = 'Subscribe to this comment thread';
			var message = ' \
				New comments will be sent directly to your email inbox! \
				<div class="dsq-subscribe-submit"> \
					<p><strong>Enter your email address below.</strong></p> \
					<input type="text" id="dsq-subscribe-email"> \
					<button onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1, Dsq.$(\'dsq-subscribe-email\').value)">Subscribe</button> \
				</div> \
			';

			Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);
		}
	};

	this.showSettings = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) {
			return;
		}

		/* The form has to be re-designed when more options will come out. */
		var html = 'Automatically close comments after <input size="3" id="dsq-thread-days-alive" value="' + Dsq.jsonData.thread.days_alive + '" type="text" /> days. Existing comments will still be displayed.<br /><br />(Using 0 days will disable this feature)<br /><br />'
								 + '<button onclick="Dsq.Thread.updateDaysAlive();" class="dsq-button-small"><span>Save</span></button>'
								 + '<span id="dsq-thread-settings-status" class="dsq-options-status"></span>';
		Dsq.Popup.popModal(html, 'Settings');
	};

	this.updateDaysAlive = function() {
		var days = Dsq.$('dsq-thread-days-alive').value;
		var status = Dsq.$('dsq-thread-settings-status');
		Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/jackandjillpolitics/update_days_alive.js', {days:days,thread:Dsq.jsonData.thread.id});
		status.innerHTML = 'Saved!';
		window.setTimeout(function() { status.innerHTML = ''; }, 1000);
	};
};
// Dsq.Thread

Dsq.Events = function() {
	var obj = {};

	// Private
	var handlers = {};
	var getHandlers = function(event) {
		if (handlers[event] === undefined) {
			handlers[event] = [];
		}
		return handlers[event];
	};

	// Public
	// Value keys : postId, node, xtype
	obj.REPLY_IFRAME_CREATED = 1;
	// Value keys : postId, opened
	obj.REPLY_IFRAME_TOGGLED = 2;
	obj.fire = function(event, opt_value) {
		if (!event) {
			throw new Error('Unknown event');
		}
		var value = opt_value || {};
		for (var i=0; i<getHandlers(event).length; i++) {
			getHandlers(event)[i](value);
		}
	};
	obj.addHandler = function(event, callback) {
		getHandlers(event).push(callback);
	};

	return obj;
}();

/**
 * Dsq.Realtime
 */
Dsq.Realtime = new function() {
	var initialized = false;
	var interval = null;
	var last_checked = Dsq.jsonData.request.timestamp;
	var new_posts = [];
	var ongoing_request = false;
	var prev_script = null;

	function updateNewPostCount() {
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-alert').style.display = new_posts.length ? 'block' : 'none';

		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-queued').innerHTML = new_posts.length
		+ ' new '
		+ Dsq.Utils.pluralize(new_posts.length, 'comment', 'comments')
		+ Dsq.Utils.pluralize(new_posts.length, ' was', ' were')
		+ ' just posted.';

		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-show').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.SHOW + ')';
	}

	function insertNewPosts() {
		var post_id = null;
		var after_id = Dsq.$('dsq-sort-select').value === 'oldest' ? -1 : null;

		for (var i=0; i<new_posts.length; i++) {
			post_id = new_posts[i];
			Dsq.Post.insert(after_id, post_id, Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id].message);
			Dsq.Post.incrementPostCount();
			Dsq.Post.outlineComment(post_id);
		}
		new_posts = [];
	}

	this.enableInterval = function() {
		interval = setInterval(Dsq.Realtime.check, Dsq.jsonData.context.realtime_speed);
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-status').innerHTML = Dsq.Strings.ENABLED;
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.PAUSE + ')';
	}

	this.disableInterval = function() {
		if (interval) {
			clearInterval(interval);
			interval = null;
		}
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-status').innerHTML = Dsq.Strings.PAUSED;
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.RESUME + ')';
	}

	this.toggleInterval = function() {
		if (!interval) {
			Dsq.Realtime.enableInterval();
		} else {
			Dsq.Realtime.disableInterval();
		}
		return false;
	}

	this.initialize = function() {
		if (!initialized) {
			initialized = true;
			Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').onclick = this.toggleInterval;
			if (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.streaming_realtime) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-show').onclick = this.show;
				updateNewPostCount();
			}
			if (Dsq.jsonData.thread.realtime_paused) {
				Dsq.Realtime.disableInterval();
			} else {
				Dsq.Realtime.enableInterval();
			}
		}
	}

	this.show = function() {
		insertNewPosts();
		updateNewPostCount();
		return false;
	}

	this.check = function() {
		if (!ongoing_request && Dsq.jsonData.realtime_enabled) {
			if (prev_script) {
				prev_script.parentNode.removeChild(prev_script);
			}
			ongoing_request = true;
			prev_script = Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/2135448/realtime.js?timestamp=' + last_checked);
		}
	};

	this.update = function(timestamp, posts, users) {
		ongoing_request = false;
		last_checked = timestamp;

		if (users) {
			for (var user_id in users) {
				if (users.hasOwnProperty(user_id)) {
					if (!Dsq.jsonData.users[user_id]) {
						Dsq.jsonData.users[user_id] = users[user_id];
					}
				}
			}
		}

		if (posts) {
			for (var post_id in posts) {
				if (posts.hasOwnProperty(post_id)) {
					if (!Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id]) {
						Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id] = posts[post_id];
						new_posts.push(post_id);
					}
				}
			}

			if (Dsq.jsonData.forum.streaming_realtime) {
				insertNewPosts();
			} else {
				updateNewPostCount();
			}
		}
	};

}();

// DEPRECATED
Dsq.Iframes = function() {
	// Different style of object from the above. Hoping to switch to this for some reason.
	var obj = {};

	// Private
	var showIframeInContainer = function(container, id, markup) {
		// Look through container for iframes, hiding them, except show one that matches id
		// If none of them matched id, create a new iframe using markup and insert it.
		// Returns the iframe node if and only if it was newly created.
		var found = false;
		for (var i=0; i<container.childNodes.length; i++) {
			var child = container.childNodes[i];
			if (child.nodeName == 'IFRAME') {
				if (child.id == id) {
					child.style.display = 'block';
					found = true;
				} else {
					child.style.display = 'none';
				}
			}
		}
		if (found) {
			return;
		}
		// The iframe wasn't found, so construct it and add it to the container.
		// Don't use innerHTML because it might reload iframes
		var div = document.createElement('div');
		div.innerHTML = markup;
		var iframe = div.childNodes[0];
		div.removeChild(iframe);
		container.appendChild(iframe);
		return iframe;
	};

	// Public
	obj.makeReplyIframeId = function(opt_postId, opt_xtype) {
		var id = 'dsq-post-add-iframe';
		if (opt_xtype) {
			id += '-' + opt_xtype;
		}
		if (opt_postId) {
			id += '-' + opt_postId;
		}
		return id;
	};
	obj.makeLoginIframeId = function(opt_postId) {
		if (!opt_postId) {
			return 'dsq-login-iframe';
		}
		return 'dsq-login-iframe-' + opt_postId;
	};
	obj.makeReplyIframeName = function(opt_postId, opt_xtype) {
		var name = 'dsq-reply-frame';
		if (opt_xtype) {
			name += '-' + opt_xtype;
		}
		if (opt_postId) {
			name += '-' + opt_postId;
		}
		return name;
	};
	obj.showReplyIframeInContainer = function(container, opt_postId, opt_extraParams, opt_className) {
		// Construct the id so we can check if it's already present.
		// Hide any other iframes we find, and show this one if it's found.
		var params = opt_extraParams || {};
		// use xtype in the id and name so we can distinguish media replies from text replies:
		var id = Dsq.Iframes.makeReplyIframeId(opt_postId, params.xtype);
		var name = Dsq.Iframes.makeReplyIframeName(opt_postId, params.xtype);
		var attributes = {
			'id': id,
			'name': name,
			'class': opt_className || 'dsq-post-reply'
			};
		var markup = Dsq.Templates.frameReply(opt_postId, opt_extraParams, attributes);
		var iframe = showIframeInContainer(container, id, markup);
		// It was newly created
		if (iframe) {
			Dsq.Events.fire(Dsq.Events.REPLY_IFRAME_CREATED, {
				postId: opt_postId,
				node: iframe,
				xtype: params.xtype
			});
		}
	};
	obj.showLoginIframeInContainer = function(container, opt_postId) {
		var id = Dsq.Iframes.makeLoginIframeId(opt_postId);
		var markup = Dsq.Templates.frameLogin({id: id});
		showIframeInContainer(container, id, markup);
	};
	obj.showReplyIframeInContainerIfAllowed = function(container, opt_postId) {
		if (Dsq.jsonData.context.show_reply) {
			obj.showReplyIframeInContainer(container, opt_postId);
		} else {
			obj.hideAllInContainer(container);
		}
	};
	obj.hideAllInContainer = function(container) {
		for (var i=0; i<container.childNodes.length; i++) {
			var child = container.childNodes[i];
			if (child.nodeName == 'IFRAME') {
				child.style.display = 'none';
			}
		}
	};

	return obj;
}();

Dsq.Twitter = new function() {
	var that = this;

	this.startTwitterConnect = function() {
		var popupParams = 'location=0,status=0,width=800,height=400';
		that._twitterWindow = window.open(Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/_ax/twitter/begin/', 'twitterWindow', popupParams);
		that._twitterInterval = window.setInterval(that.completeTwitterConnect, 1000);
	};

	this.completeTwitterConnect = function() {
		if (that._twitterWindow.closed) {
			window.clearInterval(that._twitterInterval);
			window.location.reload();
		}
	};
};

Dsq.Yahoo = new function() {
	var that = this;

	this.startYahooConnect = function() {
		var popupParams = 'location=0,status=0,width=800,height=400';
		that._yahooWindow = window.open(Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/_ax/yahoo/begin/', 'yahooWindow', popupParams);
		that._yahooInterval = window.setInterval(that.completeYahooConnect, 1000);
	};

	this.completeYahooConnect = function() {
		if (that._yahooWindow.closed) {
			window.clearInterval(that._yahooInterval);
			window.location.reload();
		}
	};
};

Dsq.OpenID = new function() {
	var that = this;

	this.requestURL = function() {
		var message = '<table class="dsq-openid-form"><tr><td style="vertical-align:top;" rowspan="2"><img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.media_url + '/images/openid-icon-100x100.png" /></td>';
		message += '<td><label for="dsq-openid-url">OpenID URL:</label></td><td><input type="text" id="dsq-openid-url" /></td></tr>';
		message += '<tr><td><label for="dsq-openid-username">Display name:</label></td><td><input type="text" id="dsq-openid-username" /></td></tr>';
		message += '<tr><td class="dsq-openid-submit" colspan="3"><input type="button" value="Sign in" onclick="Dsq.OpenID.startConnect();" /></td></tr>';
		message += "</table>";

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, 'Sign in using OpenID');
	};

	this.startConnect = function() {
		var isblank = function(str) {
			return /^\s*$/.test(str);
		};

		var openid_url = Dsq.$('dsq-openid-url').value;
		var username = Dsq.$('dsq-openid-username').value;

		if (isblank(openid_url)) {
			return;
		}

		var popupParams = 'location=0,status=0,width=800,height=500';
		var url = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/_ax/openid/begin/' + '?url=' + encodeURIComponent(openid_url) + '&username=' + encodeURIComponent(username);
		that._openidWindow = window.open(url, 'openidWindow', popupParams);
		that._openidInterval = window.setInterval(that.completeConnect, 1000);
	};

	this.completeConnect = function() {
		if (that._openidWindow.closed) {
			window.clearInterval(that._openidInterval);
			window.location.reload();
		}
	};
};

Dsq.Reaction = new function() {
	var that = this;

	this.hide = function(id) {
		Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/jackandjillpolitics/hidereaction.js?' + 'reaction_id=' + id);
	};

	this.reportMissingReactions = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || !Dsq.jsonData.forum.reactions_enabled) {
			return;
		}

		if (Dsq.jsonData.thread.queued) {
			Dsq.Popup.popModal('Your report has been received. The system will automatically search for new reactions; if any are found, they will be displayed on this comment thread.<br/><br/>Thank&nbsp;you.',
												 'Reported missing reactions');
			return;
		}

		Dsq.Utils.execScript(Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/forums/jackandjillpolitics/queueurl.js');
	};
};

Dsq.CNN = function() {
	var obj = {};

	obj.authenticate = function() {
		var url = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + "/saml/cnn/try/";
		Dsq.Utils.postToUrl(url, {'target': document.location}, true);
	};

	return obj;
}();


if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) {
	(function() {
		DSQ_HEADER_AVATAR_RE = /<div class="dsq-header-avatar"(.*?)>/gim;
		Dsq.Templates.registerFilter('postPrependHeader', function(html, post_id) {
			// Add "onmouseout" for dsq-header-avatar for dropProfile
			// functionality since IE6 cannot use :hover.
			function _headerAvatarReplace(content, inner, _unused, html) {
				return '<div class="dsq-header-avatar" '
					+ inner
					+ ' onmouseout="Dsq.Post.dropProfile(' + post_id + ')">';
			}
			html = html.replace(DSQ_HEADER_AVATAR_RE, _headerAvatarReplace);
			return html;
		});
	})();
}





	// TODO: Move Seesmic code outside of the main script.  Don't let this script clobber the global namespace.
	if(typeof seesmic == 'undefined') { var seesmic = {}; }
	seesmic.widget = new function () {
		this.callback = function (data) {
			playerVersion = data.disqusplayer;
		};
	};

	
	var scriptEl = document.createElement('script');
	scriptEl.setAttribute('type', 'text/javascript');
	scriptEl.setAttribute('src', 'http://seesmic.com/version.js?callback=seesmic.widget.callback');
	document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(scriptEl);

	
	var scriptEl = document.createElement('script');
	scriptEl.setAttribute('type', 'text/javascript');
	scriptEl.setAttribute('src', 'http://media.disqus.com/javascript/library/swfobject.js');
	document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(scriptEl);

	function see_play_video(_videoUri, _add) {
		var swf = !!playerVersion ? playerVersion : 'http://seesmic.com/embeds/StandalonePlayer.swf';

		flashcontentDiv = Dsq.$(_videoUri + '_content');
		previewDiv = Dsq.$('dsq-seesmic-' + _videoUri + '_preview');
		hideDiv = Dsq.$('dsq-seesmic-' + _videoUri + '_hide');
		showDiv = Dsq.$('dsq-seesmic-' + _videoUri + '_show');
		if(_add) {
			// push flash widget
			var so = new SWFObject(swf, 'sotester', '300', '270', '9', '#000000');
			so.addVariable('video', _videoUri);
			so.addParam('allowFullScreen', 'true');
			so.addParam('allowScriptAccess','always');
			so.useExpressInstall('swfobject/expressinstall.swf');
			so.write(_videoUri + '_content');

			previewDiv.style.display = 'none';
			hideDiv.style.display = 'block';
			showDiv.style.display = 'none';
		}
		else {
			flashcontentDiv.innerHTML = '';
			previewDiv.style.display = 'block';
			hideDiv.style.display = 'none';
			showDiv.style.display = 'block';
		}
	};





(function() {
	//
	// Load theme.  This overrides the base templates with template functions
	// from the respective themes.
	//
	if (Dsq.jsonData.integration.theme == 4) {
		var theme = 'narcissus';
		// HACK: Set variable on window to use post message.
		window.disqus_use_postmessage = true;

		
		for(var prop in Dsq.Themes[theme]) {
			if(Dsq.Themes[theme] && Dsq.Themes[theme].hasOwnProperty(prop)) {
				Dsq.Templates[prop] = Dsq.Themes[theme][prop];
			}
		}
		
		for(var prop in Dsq.Post) {
			if(Dsq.Themes[theme] && Dsq.Themes[theme].hasOwnProperty(prop)) {
				Dsq.Post[prop] = Dsq.Themes[theme][prop];
			}
		}
	}

	//
	// Register templates.  This must be done after all themes are loaded.
	//
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('authPost', Dsq.Templates.authPost);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('header', Dsq.Templates.header);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('footer', Dsq.Templates.footer);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('trackbacks', Dsq.Templates.trackbacks);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('reactions', Dsq.Templates.reactions);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('prependPost', Dsq.Templates.prependPost);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('appendPost', Dsq.Templates.appendPost);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postPrependHeader', Dsq.Templates.postPrependHeader);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postAppendHeader', Dsq.Templates.postAppendHeader);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('preBody', Dsq.Templates.preBody);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postBody', Dsq.Templates.postBody);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postFooter', Dsq.Templates.postFooter);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('_popupGeneric', Dsq.Templates._popupGeneric);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('voted', Dsq.Templates.voted);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('popupProfile', Dsq.Templates.popupProfile);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postBox', Dsq.Templates.postBox);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('pagination', Dsq.Templates.pagination);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postComment_onSuccess', Dsq.Templates.postComment_onSuccess);

})();

Dsq.container.className = "clearfix";
Dsq.container.innerHTML = ' \
<ul id="dsq-comments">\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-989338">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-989338" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-989338" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-989338">SquarePeg</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-989338" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-989338" class="dsq-comment-message">Soledad O\'Brian is an Afro-Cuban married to a white man.  When she came to this country from Cuba she and her Afro-Cuban family ran into bigotry, racism and discrimination from white cubans in Miami.  Even with that, she still did not identify with the struggles of Black Americans as with most Cubans who affiliate themselves with white folks.<br><br>Her perspective of the Black experience in this country has evolved because of the evident hue of her color, something that even if she wanted to, couldn\'t deny.  So in her conversations with Black folks that surround her in journalism, I\'m sure she has been schooled on being Black in America even if you don\'t want to believe it.  For Cubans many of them aspire to whiten up their Black families and look down on anything perceived as Black.  In Miami many Cubans could not understand the pride that Black Americans had in our accomplishments and often reacted in hostile ways, such as her reaction when reporting on MLK.<br><br>I said all that to say, the report last night was nothing more than a string of commercials and upcoming attraction previews for other shows with a few snipets of Black life thrown in between.  Those so-called segments were so short and pieced together without any indepth coverage of the causes of the negative aspects of these folks lives, with only a short segment at the end showing the resilience and preserverence of Black folks in this country in spite of.  This was a failed attempt and was not substantive or edifying at any point.<br><br>A hugh disappointment.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-990803">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-990803" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-990803" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-990803">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-990803" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-990803" class="dsq-comment-message">SquarePeg:  VERY enLIGHTening!!!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)  Wonder if this is in Wikipedia?  :&gt;)  Thank you.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-992556" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-992556">Admiral_Komack</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-992556" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-992556" class="dsq-comment-message">The only good thing I can think of is at least they didn\'t put it on in February (Black History Month).</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-988660" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-988660" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-988660">RonnieB</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-988660" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-988660" class="dsq-comment-message">I didn\'t watch; and I\'m probably not going to.  <br><br>The reality is that the vast majority of Black folk are ordinary citizens who are neither newsworthy nor documentary subjects.  That being the case, why then does CNN want to air a series on Black America other than for entertainment value.<br><br>And let\'s face it; if we\'ve learned nothing about TV in the last 80 years, there\'s nothing more entertaining than dysfunctional Black folk. <br><br>Thanks but no thanks, CNN.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-989488" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-989488" href="http://bettychambers.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">GoldenAh</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-989488" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-989488" class="dsq-comment-message">"The reality is that the vast majority of Black folk are ordinary citizens who are neither newsworthy nor documentary subjects. "<br><br>Say it again. <br><br>Also, It\'s not until I read business magazines do I find out we are starting businesses more than any other group out there.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-994094" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-994094">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-994094" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-994094" class="dsq-comment-message">ditto  RonnieB.  I refuse to watch.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-985623" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-985623" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-985623">B Meredith</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-985623" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-985623" class="dsq-comment-message">The program treads the same ground which is depressing. I think Dr. King would be pissed about our lack of economic progress, and the failure of many in the subsequent generations to achieve more in education. <br><br>What\'s important about this program is showing the inspirational privately driven solutions, like that of Harvard Prof. Roland Fryer.   Now the key is finding a way of networking the private efforts, to church / social group  solutions.  The other issue I have is the detractors from academia to some of the novel trials in education in particular.  I am a supporter of Teacher unions and their causes, but I think we need to integrate the union causes with the novel approaches to education.  Nice thought I know. <br><br>Single parent, fatherless families has got to stop.   Black women need to look beyond their race, and broaden their standards in terms of culture.  A good, respectful, complimentary mate can come in many colors  and backgrounds.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-984869" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-984869" href="http://realpeeplz.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">smoothie</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-984869" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-984869" class="dsq-comment-message">Myh question is, <br>If there trying to get other races to understand us, why show them only one aspect, and have it 90% negative. <br><br>I mean if I were someone who had no idea of what blackfolk went through and saw this, I\'d assume were all sexually active, highschool dropouts who are raised in single parent homes.  Maybe I missed something.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-984959" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-984959">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-984959" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-984959" class="dsq-comment-message">Uh, they\'re showing them the part they want them to understand.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-985277" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-985277">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-985277" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-985277" class="dsq-comment-message">Smoothie:  Co-signing!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-983985" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-983985">Honey01</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-983985" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-983985" class="dsq-comment-message">I am flipping back and forth. I just saw the first positive image via the Texas family.<br><br>How many parts are in this series? All of what I have seen bascially discussed, AIDS in the Black community, achievement gaps, teenage pregnancies, etc.<br><br>The title of the program is "Being Black in America". The above social ills although real and are/have reached epidemic proportions in some areas, are not exhaustively representative of "being Black". <br><br>They even had Campbell Brown\'s doing a little segment prior to tonight\'s airing.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-985310" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-985310" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-985310">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-985310" class="dsq-comment-message">Honey01:  The only thing "brown" about her is her name.  So "whycome" she\'s all up in the Kool-aide when she isn\'t the "flava"!!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1021265" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1021265" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1021265" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1021265" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1021265" class="dsq-comment-message">Teenage pregnancy has dropped 50%...of course thats not worth mentioning.<br><br>The percentage of single parent households and two parent households are 50/50...while one should also take into account that just because a parent is non-resident, does not mean that they are not taking care of parental responsibilities. Now that shrinks it even more.<br><br>The majority of AA\'s are middle classed.<br><br>Lastly, I refused to watch this series...REFUSE! No thank you. <br><br>White people have always had a fascination with "dysfunctional black folks" or what they consider to be dysfunctional or "the other" from cinematic stereotypes to sociological myth-we as a race are constantly reduced to the lowest denominator. <br><br>You see, while other blacks participate in it, I refuse to. Its all racist at best.<br><br>I will wait to see the "Latino in America",  "White in America" , "Asian in America", "Arab in America" etc...etc...until, my theory stands.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-983376" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-983376">NO ID</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-983376" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-983376" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.people.com/people/article/0%2C%2C20214569%2C00.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,2021456...</a><br>Well, here\'s one black family we like on this board...</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-983519" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-983519" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-983519">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-983519" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-983519" class="dsq-comment-message">This was my surprise for tomorrow. This is the picture for my Thursday Open Thread.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-983866" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-983866" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-983866">Lily</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-983866" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-983866" class="dsq-comment-message">All the pictures are great in that article. I love the wedding picture especially. What a great couple.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-985341" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-985341" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-985341">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-985341" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-985341" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  GREAT!!!!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)  Can\'t wait!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-990052" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-990052">NO ID</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-990052" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-990052" class="dsq-comment-message">sorry, girl :-)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-983420" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-983420" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-983420" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-983420" class="dsq-comment-message">Some of us may have wished to look like the Huxtables, but the reality was that we looked like the Evans family on "Good Times".<br><br>My father wasn\'t always yelling like James Evans, though.  But what would we expect from the Clinton/Klanton News Network?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-985092" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-985092" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-985092">lamh32</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-985092" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-985092" class="dsq-comment-message">Funny enough, my family maternal family name is Evans, and we lived in the New Orleans Housing projects, so "Good Times" was my reality.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-985103" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-985103" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-985103">lamh32</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-985103" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-985103" class="dsq-comment-message">And my younger cousin acted so much like Michael, that even though his name was Darryl Evans, we called him Michael.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-985324" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-985324" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-985324">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-985324" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-985324" class="dsq-comment-message">lamh:  Good post.  :&gt;)  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1021295" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1021295" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1021295" class="dsq-comment-message">Ironically, my family is more like the Huxtables along with many of the black families that I know than anyhting on Good Times.<br><br>Listen, they need to show the diversity of the black community that includes the Evans and the Huxtables and whatever you will see on Menace II Society.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-983447" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-983447">nondelusional</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-983447" class="dsq-comment-message">All this "Negroes on display" shiznit CNN is doing is so much an obvious, "Hey there might be a Negro in the White House, you better learn about these people" meme. Its so corney and wack. The race pandering and "spade work"at CNN really needs to stop.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-992718" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-992718" href="http://bronzetrinity.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Bronze Trinity</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-992718" class="dsq-comment-message">Yeah I get what you mean. Its like Black people are under the microscope by a bunch of antrhropologists who want to teach the White man about the Black man even though we have been living in the same bloody place for 400 years!!!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-983649" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-983649" href="http://www.tariqnelson.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">TariqNelson</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-983649" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-983649" class="dsq-comment-message">Nice first story about the Rands</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-983725" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-983725" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-983725">ggaint007</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-983725" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-983725" class="dsq-comment-message">Is this truly the story of most African Americans? yes indeed i believe we all should trace our roots and see where we really come from</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-983749" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-983749" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-983749" href="http://realpeeplz.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">smoothie</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-983749" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-983749" class="dsq-comment-message">i can relate as my family is tracing roots as we speak for our reunion august 2nd</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-983787" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-983787" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-983787">ggaint007</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-983787" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-983787" class="dsq-comment-message">our family reunion is in on aug 8 and im goin to see can we start tracing our roots</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-984188" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-984188" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-984188">taritac</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-984188" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-984188" class="dsq-comment-message">Hey, our reunion is August 1-3! <br><br>I SO wanted to have our roots genetically traced, but we couldn\'t foot the bill.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-984089" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-984089" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-984089" href="http://www.tariqnelson.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">TariqNelson</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-984089" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-984089" class="dsq-comment-message">Just saw the segment on the Kennedy family with the single father. Have to wonder what happened to the mother</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-984240" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-984240" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-984240">Maryland and Calyn</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-984240" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-984240" class="dsq-comment-message">We can\'t let Eric Kennedy Jr slip through the cracks. He has too much potential!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-985182" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-985182" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-985182">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-985182" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-985182" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s sad that his family will be homeless in a couple of weeks.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-984250" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-984250" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-984250" href="http://funkybrownchick.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Twanna A Hines funkybrownchick</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-984250" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-984250" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m watching it right now, and I have to agree with nondelusional; there is a slight "Negroes on display" feel to it.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-984285" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-984285" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-984285">msmartin</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-984285" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-984285" class="dsq-comment-message">I knew it would be negroes on display when they announced it.  I wondered when this was planned and I heard Soledad tell Campbell Brown last night that they planned it 18 months ago.   Ummmmm.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-984303" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-984303" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-984303">msmartin</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-984303" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-984303" class="dsq-comment-message">So owning a successful construction company is middle-class.  I would think they would be upper-middle class.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-988979" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-988979" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-988979">Richard</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-988979" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-988979" class="dsq-comment-message">No, that is just middle class.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-984387" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-984387" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-984387">Admiral_Komack</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-984387" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-984387" class="dsq-comment-message">I am tired of the graphics and the brother (when introducing the topics).<br><br>I co-sign with the "negroes on display" feeling.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-984642" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-984642" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-984642">mslisha</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-984642" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-984642" class="dsq-comment-message">omg, I really want him to stop.  who thought it would be cute to insert def poetry into each segment? grrrr....shame on CNN!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-984411" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-984411" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-984411">Lynne</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-984411" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-984411" class="dsq-comment-message">Deja-vu.....Its better a better production and Soledad can carry any segment, but I\'ve seen this "Black in America" special a hundred times in the last decade...or heard it on a radio show, or read about it in a magazine. This is the same show, same script just a different case. Same simplistic reasons for what "ails us"...I had hopes that it would go deeper, but alas, tis not to be.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-984416" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-984416" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-984416" href="http://www.tariqnelson.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">TariqNelson</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-984416" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-984416" class="dsq-comment-message">I think the guy speaking after the intermissions is what gives it the "negros on display" feel</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-985296" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-985296" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-985296">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-985296" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-985296" class="dsq-comment-message">TariqNelson:  Co-sign!!  Whew!! (Deep breaths!)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-984444" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-984444" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-984444" href="http://realpeeplz.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">smoothie</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-984444" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-984444" class="dsq-comment-message">there are alot of nice areas in Houston  with black folk in them i noticed theyve failed to visit. Of course if you do a special in 5th ward you\'ll see stories like this. <br><br>I</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-984514">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-984514" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-984514" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-984514">Texas_Girl_in_LA</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-984514" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-984514" class="dsq-comment-message">Sugar Land - Missouri City-Third Ward</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-984562" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-984562" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-984562" href="http://realpeeplz.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">smoothie</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-984562" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-984562" class="dsq-comment-message">Inwood Humble Kingwood, <br>Katy...</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-984568" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-984568" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-984568">msmartin</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-984568" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-984568" class="dsq-comment-message">I have a cousin who lives in Sugar Land.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-984617" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-984617" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-984617">msmartin</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-984617" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-984617" class="dsq-comment-message">Okay, now the black girl\'s white husband does not look completely white.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-984648" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-984648" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-984648">Lynne</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-984648" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-984648" class="dsq-comment-message">No he sure doesn\'t.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-984657" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-984657" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-984657" href="http://www.tariqnelson.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">TariqNelson</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-984657" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-984657" class="dsq-comment-message">@ msmartin<br><br>No he doesn\'t look completely white.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-984677" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-984677" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-984677">Aphros</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-984677" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-984677" class="dsq-comment-message">Oooo, Totally Off Topic, But:<br><br>Diahann Carroll (pictured recently on your blog) has been nominated for an Emmy!!<br><br>It\'s for her guest role in Grey\'s Anatomy:  Guest Actress In A Drama Series, ABC · Diahann Carroll as Jane Burkev. (Sandra Oh\'s (also nominated) potential Step-mother, i think.   Only one word can describe this:  FABULOUS!!!   Even at 70+ (what is her age anyway?  Black don\'t crack, that is for sure!) Diahann Carroll continues to demonstrate excellence, dominate scenes and practice her craft to the delight (and recognition) of both peers and audience.  <br><br>I LOVE myself a true Blacktress!<br><br>PLUS, Ms. Diva Carroll just released a tell-all book and basically said \'so friggin\' what?\' to critics of her biography of life with Vic Demone<br>Is one of only 7 African-American actresses to receive the Best Actress Oscar nomination.<br><br>How about a post on behalf of this Glorious Diva!?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-984892" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-984892" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-984892">TRW</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-984892" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-984892" class="dsq-comment-message">I am super excited about both nominations because their acting was superb last season.  yeah!!!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-984731" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-984731" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-984731">msmartin</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-984731" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-984731" class="dsq-comment-message">Is this about being Black in America or what\'s wrong with black folks in america?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-984775" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-984775" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-984775">mslisha</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-984775" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-984775" class="dsq-comment-message">my thoughts exactly.  if i were a nonblack I would wonder why all blacks don\'t just slit their wrists now and end the misery.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-984828" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-984828" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-984828">msmartin</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-984828" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-984828" class="dsq-comment-message">You\'d be surprised how many people feel that way.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-990593" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-990593" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-990593">NO ID</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-990593" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-990593" class="dsq-comment-message">ya know!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1021321" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1021321" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1021321" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1021321" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1021321" class="dsq-comment-message">Lol...its just sucks to be black.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-984833" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-984833" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-984833" href="http://realpeeplz.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">smoothie</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-984833" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-984833" class="dsq-comment-message">I co-sign... <br>In the nearly 2 hrs that have passed, they have had 1 segment on proffesional blackfolk and that was single sisters..And rather then speak on tryin to make it in a white male driven worforce, they focused on them being single. <br><br>The other segment about the white-mobley construction family only served as a segway to the johnson family..<br>I think CNN didnt really focus on all aspects of being black, rather they took the easy way out and hit what some see as problems in the community.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-984950" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-984950" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-984950">msmartin</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-984950" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-984950" class="dsq-comment-message">That\'s exactly what they did.  Are your surprised?  I\'m so sick of this shit, I might have to cancel my Essence subscription.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-984798" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-984798" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-984798">msmartin</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-984798" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-984798" class="dsq-comment-message">Soledad can\'t understand why a black doctor would want to go back home to his comfortable home that is not in the hood and not try to solve the problem with black males.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-984809" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-984809" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-984809">msmartin</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-984809" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-984809" class="dsq-comment-message">I realy hate the way Soledad is smiling and laughing while talking about these reall y serious issues affecting the black community.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-984882" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-984882" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-984882">Brette79</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-984882" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-984882" class="dsq-comment-message">I noticed that too- I like her but I wonder if she was the right person to do this documentary.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-984898" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-984898" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-984898">msmartin</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-984898" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-984898" class="dsq-comment-message">I haven\'t liked her since the King story and she kind of snickered at the thought of a conspiracy behind his assasination.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-984831" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-984831" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-984831">Lynne</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-984831" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-984831" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh....tonight was just about whats wrong with being a black woman in America....black men get the full beatdown tomorrow night.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-985259" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-985259" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-985259">carolinagirl</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-985259" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-985259" class="dsq-comment-message">Co-sign!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1021331" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1021331" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1021331" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1021331" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1021331" class="dsq-comment-message">Beatdown...hahaha</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-984847" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-984847" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-984847">Miss-Opinion</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-984847" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-984847" class="dsq-comment-message">Can someone explain what this black guy\'s purpose is? They keep ending and beginning segments with this spoken word type brother. Do people need a black interpreter to get this stuff? <br><br>Anyway I didn\'t hate it overall.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-984861" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-984861" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-984861">Admiral_Komack</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-984861" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-984861" class="dsq-comment-message">Gee, I can hardly wait!<br><br>I\'m just counting the hours!  :-P</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-984883" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-984883" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-984883">mslisha</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-984883" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-984883" class="dsq-comment-message">i just hate the fact that the overarching title was black in america, as if it represented all of our experiences (or a majority of them).  a better title would have been ignorant and poor in america since most of the people they profiled fell into one or both of those categories.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-984903" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-984903" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-984903">mslisha</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-984903" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-984903" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree smoothie, since the real audience was obviously non blacks, as nothing in this documentary was news to most black people.  <br><br>they could have done better by us, much better</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-984920" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-984920" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-984920">msmartin</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-984920" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-984920" class="dsq-comment-message">Ignorant, poor, diseased, uneducated, husbandless, and the occassional success story.  <br><br>If you didn\'t like it tonight, tomorrow is going to make you sick - Black men in America.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-984902" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-984902" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-984902">BlackAmericanPrincess</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-984902" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-984902" class="dsq-comment-message">I thought it was pretty good, I do wish they would have delved a bit deeper into the CAUSES of all the ills plaguing our people though, that would\'ve been GREAT...</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-984944" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-984944" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-984944">mslisha</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-984944" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-984944" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m sorry, but this documentary was sensationalistic garbage.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-984967" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-984967" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-984967">msmartin</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-984967" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-984967" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes.it.was!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-990093" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-990093" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-990093">NO ID</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-990093" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-990093" class="dsq-comment-message">daaaam y\'all was it that bad? <br>sigh, i\'m sure it was. thanks for the reviews, i don\'t feel so bad now about having no cable. the olympics is coming though, i\'m going to have to splurge on that. LOL</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-985015" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-985015" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-985015">Admiral_Komack</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-985015" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-985015" class="dsq-comment-message">A friend asked me to watch it.<br>That\'s it.<br>I won\'t be buying the DVD.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-984981" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-984981" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-984981">lamh32</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-984981" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-984981" class="dsq-comment-message">OT, but for those who might want to know:<br><br>OBAMA\'S SPEECH IN BERLIN<br><br>So I found out that Obama\'s speech is scheduled for 7pm Berlin time, which I now know, thanks to my handy new timezone calculator (thx google) should be 12 noon CST.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-985023" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-985023" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-985023">msmartin</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-985023" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-985023" class="dsq-comment-message">Is that the Unity speech that\'s being advertised?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-985077" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-985077" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-985077">lamh32</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-985077" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-985077" class="dsq-comment-message">Yep,<br><br>It\'s the one I think some people have been saying is not a good idea, but I think it\'s okay. <br><br>I hope it\'s a barn-burner.  Let\'s place bets that all 3 cable networks will broadcast much of it.  I would bet FOX news cuts away first though.  MSNBC might broadcast the whole thing, but 12noon is usually the time that Andrea "rattlesnake" Mitchell does her show.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-985024" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-985024" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-985024">msmartin</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-985024" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-985024" class="dsq-comment-message">Is that the Unity speech that\'s being advertised?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-985032" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-985032" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-985032">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-985032" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-985032" class="dsq-comment-message">yep</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-984983" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-984983" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-984983">msmartin</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-984983" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-984983" class="dsq-comment-message">They could have really made it good and interviewed some black conservatives like Shelby Steele.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-984992" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-984992" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-984992">msmartin</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-984992" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-984992" class="dsq-comment-message">Off Topic - But oooh Joe Klein just checked that Tara person.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-985258" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-985258" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-985258">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-985258" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-985258" class="dsq-comment-message">msmartin:  On that TARA woman - 1.  she could uncross her legs.  2.  If she doesn\'t like "brothas", "whycome" she\'s gotta out them with  their "level of education", makes less than some Black women, etc.  We know that!     SOOOO!  Geeez!!<br>And you do know that her political lean is so to the "right"!<br>Whew!  (Deep breaths)!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-985000" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-985000" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-985000">msmartin</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-985000" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-985000" class="dsq-comment-message">Oooh David Gergen just joined in and called her out on a lie she told.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-985025" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-985025" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-985025">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-985025" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-985025" class="dsq-comment-message">is this CNN?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-985126" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-985126" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-985126">msmartin</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-985126" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-985126" class="dsq-comment-message">Yeah it was.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-985142" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-985142" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-985142">lamh32</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-985142" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-985142" class="dsq-comment-message">I haven\'t been watchig "Black In America", is this in reference to that, or is it the usual AC360 bull.<br><br>BTW, I can\'t stand that Tara woman.  If she is the sista with the long hair who talks out of one side of her mouth, then she is the conservative shill that they use now instead of Amie Holmes.  I just realized that Amy Holmes was all over CNN, now she\'s gone.  What happened to her?  Is she in "Token Black" Conservative witness protection</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-985197" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-985197" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-985197">msmartin</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-985197" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-985197" class="dsq-comment-message">They probably wanted some black conservatives who seem "really" black to shill for them.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-985857">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-985857" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-985857" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-985857" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-985857" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-985857" class="dsq-comment-message">She was on yesterday during a segment with TJ. She had a baby. Hey at least they\'re looking for some Black people huh? No seriously, Tara is a Rethug shill and works for the WSJ and she\'s always trying too hard to be a right wing pundit. She hasn\'t gotten the memo that only white men are allowed to be bullish.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-987084" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-987084" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-987084">msmartin</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-987084" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-987084" class="dsq-comment-message">Amy had a baby?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-989257" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-989257" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-989257">Sepia</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-989257" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-989257" class="dsq-comment-message">And which old white guy is the baby\'s daddy?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-993930" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-993930" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-993930">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-993930" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-993930" class="dsq-comment-message">Sepia:  In an article about her in April, \'08, it was stated that "she was enjoying life with her new Jewish boyfriend."<br>I Goggled her name to get information.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1001004" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1001004" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1001004">Sepia</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1001004" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1001004" class="dsq-comment-message">Why am I not surprised?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-985986" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-985986" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-985986">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-985986" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-985986" class="dsq-comment-message">lamh:  Amy has MORPHED into an INDEPENDENT!  She probably took the "HINT" that she was not welcomed even as a REpug.  I\'m going to Wikip to see if it\'s reported there.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-997130" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-997130" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-997130" href="http://blacksnob.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">The_Black_Snob</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-997130" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-997130" class="dsq-comment-message">Amy Holmes has always been an undercover (conservative-leaning) independent with "Liberal" views. I\'m convinced she went conservative for the bank. If you\'re black and a conservative it\'s a LOT easier to get on TV.<br><br><a href="http://blacksnob.blogspot.com/search/label/amy%20holmes" rel="nofollow">I\'m a bit of an Amy Holmes lover/hater</a>, so I keep abreast of such things.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-997292" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-997292" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-997292">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-997292" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-997292" class="dsq-comment-message">The_Black_Snob:  Thank you.  I\'ve been over to "visit" your site since I\'ve started my <br>blogging venture!  Like the title  - good stuff!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-997310">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-997310" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-997310" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-997310" href="http://blacksnob.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">The_Black_Snob</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-997310" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-997310" class="dsq-comment-message">Thank you! I do my best to blog for the people!</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-985014">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-985014" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-985014" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-985014" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-985014" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-985014" class="dsq-comment-message">This is what we get: Too many single women with multiple kids who don\'t know \'what to do\', too much criminal mentality, no discussion of how that mindset permeates so many and why they see limited options and engage in so much negativity. Did you hear the Negro spirituals being sung in the background? UGH.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-985052" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-985052" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-985052">msmartin</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-985052" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-985052" class="dsq-comment-message">Okay now Anderson Cooper is going to do a spot on Dyson\'s brother being in prison for murder when they were raised in the same household.  He asked was it a question of skin color.  OMG.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-985090" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-985090" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-985090">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-985090" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-985090" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t even understand that.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-985131" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-985131" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-985131">msmartin</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-985131" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-985131" class="dsq-comment-message">I guess Dyson brought it up.  Soledad (who I can barely stand at this point) said it was discussed while she was interviewing for the segment.  Colorism that is.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-985862">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-985862" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-985862" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-985862" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-985862" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-985862" class="dsq-comment-message">Dyson is another one of these Civil Rights Industrial Complex wannabes who like Cornel West likes to sound really educated and use a lot of words while promoting himself as the authority on Black people, except for him the Black people are in fact Black men. He actually refers to himself as a \'yellow\' child.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-985313" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-985313" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-985313">Honey01</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-985313" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-985313" class="dsq-comment-message">Yeah Dyson brought it up. I\'m not too crazy about discussing the Black colorism issue for the masses to view. Obviously, this is the internets so anyone is privy to our discussions here at JJP  and other forums with a Black audience.<br><br>Something about that particualr topic being broached on CNN just kinda...just like discussing of usage of the "N" word. I just prefer certain topics to be moderated/hosted/ whatever by those whom actually care. <br><br>The voice over announcing "Being Black in America" every five minutes drives me crazy.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-993907" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-993907" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-993907">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-993907" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-993907" class="dsq-comment-message">Honey01:  Co-signing.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-985083" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-985083" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-985083">Admiral_Komack</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-985083" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-985083" class="dsq-comment-message">On tomorrow\'s installment I wonder if there will be a segment on black men dating white women?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-985084" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-985084" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-985084">mslisha</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-985084" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-985084" class="dsq-comment-message">understatement of the year: "I\'ve not always made the best choices"</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-985093" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-985093" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-985093">msmartin</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-985093" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-985093" class="dsq-comment-message">Soledad had to toss in for effect that while they had a father "he was abusive"</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-985222" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-985222" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-985222">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-985222" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-985222" class="dsq-comment-message">msmartin:  SEEEEEE!  Always the negative jab!!!<br>Whew!  (DEEP BREATHS!!)</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-985144">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-985144" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-985144" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-985144" href="http://amaryahisthinking.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">She&#39;s Still Thinking</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-985144" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-985144" class="dsq-comment-message">I didn\'t think it was terrible, but I did think it focused way too much on problems instead of holistically discussing black people.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-985206" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-985206" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-985206">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-985206" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-985206" class="dsq-comment-message">She\'s:  Co-signing.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-985189" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-985189" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-985189">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-985189" class="dsq-comment-message">CO-signing with many on the use of Soledad as a moderator.  I\'ve stated B4 that she has NICHED herself into the role of the "African-American EXPERT", WITHOUT having LIVED THE LIFE!  That\'s what calls AUTHENTICITY into QUESTION!!  And WHO made up the THESES - the QUESTIONS that are the subject/categories of what is being presented.  This is CRUCIAL to know.  Was there a panel which included Black folks??<br>For example, there is a segment on a "controversial" issue related to PAYING children for getting high test scores in an effort to close the "achievement gap".  That is ONLY ONE strategy for motivating students.  BUT, there are OTHER just as EFFECTIVE,  NON-MONETARY strategies.  As an educator, if I were asked about whether to spotlight this strategy - I would say NO!  It could be listed as ONE strategy BUT NOT a major focus.  I would highlight a spectrum of strategies.<br>Whew!  (Deep Breaths).</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-990495">dmtyus311</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-990495" class="dsq-comment-message">This quote struck me the most in your comment: ""African-American EXPERT", WITHOUT having LIVED THE LIFE!"   So....what qualifies to you as someone who can present information on how african americans live their lives?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-990665">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-990665" class="dsq-comment-message">dmtyus311:  Having LIVED THE LIFE!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-991822" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-991822" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-991822">glory</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-991822" class="dsq-comment-message">to say "Having lived the life" implies that there is a definitive group of markers that denote what it is to live life as a black person in this country.  and part of the reason so many people on this thread have problems with this documentary is that its glaring deficiencies are evidence that there is no such thing as an easily summarized "Black Life."  our experiences vary.  i find dmtyus311\'s question to be a good one.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-993891">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-993891" class="dsq-comment-message">glory:  Point taken.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-994190">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-994190" class="dsq-comment-message">bingo glory</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-985218">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-985218" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-985218" class="dsq-comment-message">What is this Tara person talking about?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-985227">TRW</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-985227" class="dsq-comment-message">Sheesh.  After reading these comments, I\'m glad I didn\'t watch the special.  I actually like Soledad, but if this election coverage has revealed anything to me about CNN, its that they wouldn\'t know what balanced, fair, and nuanced news coverage was if they had a map and a flashlight.  So I didn\'t have high hope for what was going to be seen on this special.  I mean the title pretty much gave it away..."Black in America"  I just found that to be pretty lame.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-985264" href="http://realpeeplz.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">smoothie</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-985264" class="dsq-comment-message">best clip that was worthy of the No-They didnt award..<br><br><a href="http://MarryMyBabyDaddy.com" rel="nofollow">MarryMyBabyDaddy.com</a><br><br>In the clip, they actually showed a brotha dancing down the aisle, to marry his baby momz... All that was missin was the group of newly weds doin the Harlem Shuffle...</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-985532" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-985532">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-985532" class="dsq-comment-message">That kinda made me cringe.<br><br>The Kennedy family story was moving.  Here is a black father taking care of his children.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-985363">BlackButterfly</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-985363" class="dsq-comment-message">This show was the same superficial BS that is continually recycled and edited to depict the same one dimensional view of being Black in America as seen through the white world\'s comfort lens.  <br><br>A REAL show of what it is really like being Black in America would be based on the true dichotomy that exists when you are Black in an America that was created to be solely based on white supremacy as the rightful norm in society. <br><br>That REAL informative piece would not have Soledad O\'Brien as the journalist and also no Anderson Cooper trying to intelligently discuss something for which he has no reference point... which shows!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-985437">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-985437" class="dsq-comment-message">"A REAL show of what it is really like being Black in America would be based on the true dichotomy that exists when you are Black in an America that was created to be solely based on white supremacy as the rightful norm in society. "<br><br>That would indeed be a real look at what it means to be Black in America.  Unfortunately, they are not going to tell that story, nor will they let us tell it.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-985369">carolinagirl</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-985369" class="dsq-comment-message">Well, I\'ll say this... after watching this documentary, you\'d think I\'d be some sort of oulier. Meaning, I\'m educated, married w/ a family, disease-free, and grew up in a nuclear family. I\'m sorry, but where I\'m from, this is the norm. Baby mommas and ignorance are the outliers. It\'s too bad that CNN couldn\'t show that.<br><br>Topics I would have liked to see discussed:<br><br>1. black youth (millenials)<br>2. the political aspects of the black community (why we vote democratic and why black republicans are self-haters)<br>3. the split b/w the older generation and the younger generation on civil rights<br>4. the success stories of everyday black people who make a difference in their communities<br>5. the black family (not single-parent homes, but about how blacks discipline their children compared to other races)<br>6. health in the black community<br>7. how the economy and housing crisis is affecting the black community<br>8. the nuances of black people and culture in different areas of the country (for example: black ppl in Atlanta have a very different mindset than black people in Los Angeles, etc.)<br><br>I mean we all can come up with a list of things other than, single moms, AIDS, high school drop outs, and poverty/welfare. I give this "documentary" a C-.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-985421" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-985421" href="http://realpeeplz.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">smoothie</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-985421" class="dsq-comment-message">Best post of the night! <br>3, 5, and 8 would have made my night. Just one of them.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-985489">Lily</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-985489" class="dsq-comment-message">Lets get you the grant money to do such a documentary.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-985550">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-985550" class="dsq-comment-message">So should we just forget about the baby mammas and people who are trying to succeed in spite of the circumstances they find themselves in?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-991926">glory</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-991926" class="dsq-comment-message">So... why aren\'t you a producer?  Your presence really coulda helped with this documentary.  Those are good topics!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-992922" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-992922" href="http://bronzetrinity.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Bronze Trinity</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-992922" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes I would like to have seen those topics too! Here are some things I would have liked to see.<br><br>1. How Black women feel about living in a society with Eurocentric beauty ideals that they either accept or reject?<br>2. How do Black people feel about living in a country that eslaved them, stole their names and history, called them less than human, etc?<br>3. How often do they get discriminated against, what incidents occured, how do they feel?<br>4. How do they feel about having light skin or dark skin (self-image)?<br>5. What do they think about their media representation and about Black celebrities?<br>6. How do they feel being a minority in predominantly White schools?<br>7. What do they think about race as it is described in the Bible (e.g., that stupid Ham curse)?<br>8. What do they know about how racism against Black people began and why it exists?<br>9. How do they feel about Africa?<br>10. Why do some date interracially and why do some prefer Black partners.<br>11. What is it like working in predominantly White settings.<br><br>I think thats a lot. These topics would really help others to understand where we are coming from and why we are the way we are.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-985383">Honey01</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-985383" class="dsq-comment-message">I am signing of to go to bed, but just wanted to say the On Demand info guide gives the following description for this segment of the program on now:<br><br>Verbatim:<br>"The Black Woman & Family", (2008), Soleday O\'Brien examines the black female experience in America, including single parenthoold, classroom disparaties between blacks and wites and the HIV/AID epidemin in black communities.<br><br>In closing,<br>I think what bothers me most about these type of programs and syposiums, is that you have a bunch of so called experts , politicians, and intellectuals pontificating on these issues. However, rarely do I hear actual solutions. When someone does have a solution, it is criticized . For instance, I believe there is a Harvard professor on the program who is paying students as an incentive to do well. May not be the best idea, but hey he is in the trenches. Also, there was another guy on the earlier who started a school I believe for males only. He espoused the idea of gender specific schools.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-985588" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-985588">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-985588" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>..For instance, I believe there is a Harvard professor on the program..</i><br><br>Roland Friar, he\'s pretty terrific in what he\'s doing.  He got a little pushback from Julianne Malveax on the earlier special.  She said she wanted to see "empirical data" on whether his program would be successful in the long term.  It felt like a swat...ah, that pesky biology again.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-990150">NO ID</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-990150" class="dsq-comment-message">WHY does the mainstream media keep harping on HIV/AIDS as thought it\'s the number one killer of black women? It\'s not, it\'s heart disease, exacerbated by high rates of obesity. That\'s an issue I\'d dare say that far more African-Americans struggle with than HIV/AIDS. I wonder how many black producers worked on this show. Never mind the host...who was in the planning meetings, who was green-lighting the programming?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-997356">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-997356" class="dsq-comment-message">Honey01:  I\'ll co-sign to this as often as I can!!  Shoulda been more - WHAT WORKS- educational strategies.  And don\'t subject them to discussion!!  If they work - THEY WORK!!!  Whew!  (deep breaths!)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-985464">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-985464" class="dsq-comment-message">I like to see a documentary on being black anywhere.  I believe the experiences are similar.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-985760" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-985760" href="http://dallasprogress.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Michael Davis-Dallas Progress</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-985760" class="dsq-comment-message">So "This is what it\'s like to be Black in America?"<br><br>I was thoroughly disappointed in this show.  I thought Part 1 would be a story of triumphs of black women and families.  Instead, we got more of the same.  This show could have been made with any race in mind...just show the most troubling parts of anyone\'s culture and then fade to commercial.<br><br>I was expecting to see stories of triumph, and how sisters used their ingenuity and deep down resilience to make it in this country.  I think of people like my Mother, who started out in the projects of North Philly.  A single mom, she actually moved us to the worst apts in the suburbs so I could get a decent education (after pulling me out of school mid-year).  Was it fun to be essentially integrating a school district? No.  But I learned in a great environment that help me get to where I am.  She raised 3 college grads (and one soon-to-be grad).  My best friend\'s Mom was a crackhead but he got a Masters and is a sought-after teacher. Ish like that...not this nonsense that I see.<br><br>And I\'m not condemning every single segment,  but I guess I\'m frustrated y\'all.    CNN had a chance to transform coverage of Blacks in the media, but they opted for the easy way out.  With their unlimited level of reach and resources it\'s a damn shame that this was the result.<br><br>Has Soledad even seen a movie like "The Pact?"<br><br>This show set up back years with respect to media perception.  Fortunately, Barack will be on TV for the next 8 years as Prez and make people forget about this show.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-985926">eclecticbrotha</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-985926" class="dsq-comment-message">I didn\'t watch it. It must be because I\'ve been watching this same "expose" since the 60\'s. <br><br>It would be nice if someone did a special telling the untold history of blacks in America. You know, the stuff our ancestors were doing before the Civil Rights era? The contributions blacks have made to this country since the colonial days? Enough of this "noun/verb/MLK" shit. Tell somebody who Frederick Douglass is every now and then.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-986096">kemet</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-986096" class="dsq-comment-message">The QUESTION is, what are we going to do as an Afrikan people in America to change the ills that effect our people?  Lets talk solutions that can be applied today.  "Forward forever, Backwards never"</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-986746" href="http://www.tariqnelson.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">TariqNelson</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-986746" class="dsq-comment-message">This is the number one question. We really have to respect people like Dr Carnell Cooper who started VIP and is taking his time to do something in the community. I also feel that the Eric Kennedy story was nice as well</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-987206">Original_Black_Buddha</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-987206" class="dsq-comment-message">Someone suggested that people who are black and Buddhist make their own documentary rather than complain about being left out of CNN\'s investigative report on black America, so I did:<br><br><a href="http://rainbowdharma.com/festivalscreening/theater1.htm" rel="nofollow">http://rainbowdharma.com/festivalscreening/thea...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-987294" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-987294" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-987294" class="dsq-comment-message">I didn\'t see the broadcast, but if there was no mention of adoption, informal or formal, when talking about the Black family, did their profiles were incomplete.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-987347">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-987347" class="dsq-comment-message">No mention  of adoption or many other positive things in the black community.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-987358" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-987358" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-987358" class="dsq-comment-message">Figures.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-990218">NO ID</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-990218" class="dsq-comment-message">that\'s so true, i\'m always wondering when we talk about the lack of black fathers in the home, why the stepfathers who take on non-biological children are NEVER mentioned. I know several brothers like that.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-987792">taritac</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-987792" class="dsq-comment-message">I hope all of you let CNN know how you feel.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-988005">Roger</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-988005" class="dsq-comment-message">Halfway through, I told my friends, "I need to be drunk to finish this." It was so hackneyed, so stereotypical--it wasn\'t about being Black; it was about what a bunch of stupid so-called "journalists" think being Black is. Of course, it was full of what you\'d expect: statistics thrown left, right and center as though that constitutes real research, speaking with TD Fucking Jakes who asserted that girls need fathers because they\'ll fall in love with the first man who crosses their path and then "backing it up" with ONE single black female parent who has five kids, treating success in black families as though it were the exception--and this is their words--"not the rule." Tonight they\'ll "focus" on the Black Man. Of course, Michael Eric Dyson will be on.  And as someone pointed out upthread, he\'s nothing but a Cornel West-wannabe, Civil Rights Industrial Complex talking head who spouts whatever mainstream black pathology nonsense is en vogue at the time. Last night\'s segment had precious little to do with black women and the family (seriously?  note that tonight\'s segment isn\'t called "black men and the family"--no, that\'s too much like dispelling with a false dichotomy) and more to do with calling black women stupid, men-obsessed whores who can\'t keep it together because they\'re out looking for manflesh (and, of course, when they can\'t get it from the trifling brothers, they automatically default to white).<br><br>"Marry your baby daddy day"????  That was the precise moment I decided to have a beer.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-990247">NO ID</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-990247" class="dsq-comment-message">TD Fucking Jakes....what blasphemy! <br>(P.S. I agree) <br>LOL</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-988425">eclecticbrotha</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-988425" class="dsq-comment-message">You know, I am not a fan of airheaded Rachel Sklar, but I think she accidentally did us a favor in her bizarre review of "Black In America" a few days before it aired. I direct your attention to this cringe worthy passage which will probably give you an idea of how out of touch some of these people are. After skimming through a few of the sobering topics O\'brien attempted to cover, Sklar pivots to this:<br><br>"On to lighter topics! The reception afterward was delightful and everyone was all smiles as servers passed trays of delicious samosas, grilled shrimp and dipping sauce, chicken quesadillas, spinach-and-cheese mini-quiches, mini-burgers and mini-crab sandwiches. Oh and battered mushrooms. Mmm. We have pics below, from the party and the doc, but in the meantime, here\'s who was a-mingling, in no particular order: actress (and Oscar nominee) Cicely Tyson, academic Cornel West, activist Malaak Compton Rock, wife of Chris, Bishop TD Jakes, Time Warner CEO Dick Parsons, CNN prez Jon Klein, Oprah pal Gayle King, Essence exec editor Angela Burt-Murray , CBS News correspondent Michelle Miller, CNN arts and culture correspondent Lola Ogunnaike, NBC\'s jolly "Today" show co-hostess, Hoda Kotb, Abyssinian Baptist Church pastor Dr Calvin Butts, actresses Lynn Whitfield (the Josephine Baker Story) and Janet Hubert-Whitten (Fresh Prince of Bel-Air - "Oh, Philip!"), author/former CNN producer Jim Miller, who co-wrote "Live From New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live," Essence Communications president Michele Ebanks , TVNewsers Chris Ariens and Steve Krakaeur, plus author/commentator Keli Goff and FishbowlNY co-editor Glynnis MacNicol, aka ETP\'s dates. We roll with a posse, yo."<br><br>Yes. Rachel Sklar rolls with a posse. Yo.<br><br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/16/black-in-america-explorin_n_112984.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/16/black-...</a></div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-988663" href="http://blog.evavegadiversity.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">evita</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-988663" class="dsq-comment-message">Related but not related to the documentary which I have DVR\'d haven\'t seen yet...<br><br>I attended an Undoing Racism workshop last week with mixed group of educators and non profit organization folks.  In talking about racism it was obvious that white people have great difficulty in knowing their own privilege. It is in essence why Katie Couric can say that sexism is more pervasive than sexism. As the saying goes, the fish has great difficulty in describing what is wet as it has never known what it means to be dry.<br><br>That said, in the spirit of revisiting Peggy McIntosh\'s list in her article "Unpacking the Knapsack" <a href="http://seamonkey.ed.asu.edu/%7Emcisaac/emc598ge/Unpacking.html" rel="nofollow">http://seamonkey.ed.asu.edu/~mcisaac/emc598ge/U...</a><br>I would like to recreate the list from the perspective of people of color. I just saw the clip of Soledad O\'Brien talking about how white people never sit their sons down to talk about what to do if they are stopped by the cops. I was privy to the same conversation when it was had with my nephew and son of a friend.<br><br>Help me make a list. I will then use it as a resource when I do my work (diversity education,) helping highlight the parallel universes we live in.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-995057">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-995057" class="dsq-comment-message">evita:  Good project!  My sister and I have both had the "play dumb even though you have a degree" to some officers if you are pulled over for a DWB.<br>Here\'s one;  My son was given a "ticket" around 10 P.M. for ---drum roll please --<br>SPEEDING ON HIS SKATE BOARD!!!   I KID YOU NOT!!!!  I saw a record of it! <br>Only in America!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-988754">Mika</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-988754" class="dsq-comment-message">Hey, I have a family reunion coming up to --- Aug. 1-3 in South Carolina.  It would be great to trace family history.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-990264">Daughter</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-990264" class="dsq-comment-message">I remember a few articles I have read that challenged the conventional wisdom of the "black experience."  One made the point that of all the negative statistics you can name, in all but one (out-of-wedlock births), a majority of black people don\'t experience it.  For example, if 1 in 3 black Americans are poor, that means that 2/3 are not poor.  If 1 in 10 black men are in prison, that means that 9/10 are not in prison.  If 16% of black adults are unemployed, that mean that 84% of black adults are employed.  And so on.<br><br>The other article was talking about the "achievement gap" in test scores.  The author pointed out that all the other "achievement gaps" between whites and blacks have been bridged, and this one will too.  For example, the literacy gap was bridged between 1865 and 1900; the elementary school attendance gap was bridged by 1940; the high school attendance gap was bridged by 1960; and the high school graduation gap was bridged by 1990.  The author suggested that those other gaps had to be bridged first before we could tackle the test score gap, and indeed, the gap is declining, just not as fast as we would like.<br><br>Meanwhile, if they want an example of a black family, let me propose my own.  I have a large extended family, and we are not rich; we are middle class and working class.  I have only one non-black relative, the wife of one of my cousins.  We\'re descendants of American slaves, and are not recent immigrants, either.  Yet none of us grew up without our fathers; none of the men in the family has ever been to jail;  all of us are gainfully employed; with one exception, no one is addicted to drugs or alcohol.  Not everyone has been to college, but all who are old enough have graduated from high school.<br><br>There are a few negative statistics that affect our family.  A few of the men have children out of wedlock, but they are all involved in their children\'s lives.  Only one of the women has a child out of wedlock - a baby born last year - and I don\'t count her as irresponsible.  She is a 39-year-old doctor, and I think she made the decision because she wanted a baby before her biological clock ran out.  <br><br>The biggest one, however, is that a lot of the health problems that disproportionately affect blacks - heart disease, stroke, and diabetes - are very present in our family.  Most of the men have had one of the above, and several of us, myself included, lost our fathers when we were young to disease.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-990410">NO ID</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-990410" class="dsq-comment-message">Well, given everyone\'s comments, here are the notes from the CNN Planning Meeting for "Black in America."<br><br>Black Production Intern: I know a family that has four children, the parents are married, all the kids have 3.5 and above GPA\'a and they live in a four-bedroom suburban home. <br><br>CNN BIM Lead Producer: I\'ve never heard of that. They must be the exception, that\'s not realistic. <br><br>Soledad O\'Brien: Well, I know a family like that but the black man is married to a white woman. <br><br>CNN BIM Lead Producer: Now that\'s what I\'m talking about Soledad. Do the kids look like those cute little curly-haired mixed kids on TV, you know like the kid from Heroes?<br><br>Black Intern: I know a young couple who brought a house in the inner-city, live on a block with other young professional couples and just had a baby. They were registered at Tiffany\'s and everything?<br><br>BIM Producer: You said they live in the INNER CITY? Is he a drug dealer? <br><br>Intern: No, I think he\'s an IT guy and his wife\'s a doctor. They restored a historial home and -- <br><br>BIM Producer: There are no historical homes in the inner-city! You said they\'re married? And no one\'s selling drugs? The girl is of legal age and she\'s a doctor? That\'s not realistic!<br><br>Soledad: Well, I do know one black married couple. He\'s a rapper, and they have four kids. You know who Snoop Dogg is right? He\'s a rapper and he had that show, "Fatherhood?"<br><br>BIM Producer: Great, Soledad, that\'s why I\'m glad we had you do this special. What about that football player Deion Sanders? They have a nice house, and his wife is very attractive....<br><br>Black Intern: Well, you could include a story on the black 14-year-old who enrolled in college...<br><br>Soledad: Oh, that\'s great....was it Harvard? <br><br>Black Intern: No, I think it was an HBCU.<br><br>Soledad: A what?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-990757">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-990757" class="dsq-comment-message">NO ID:  WHAT!!!??  OH-MY-GOODNESS!!!!!!  DATA/FACTUAL INFORMATION!!! Yes.  This EXPLAINS sooo much!!  Can anyone have access to these notes?  <br>I am so through!!!!  The LEVEL [LOW] of DISCUSSION {???} at this meeting EXPLAINS IT ALL!!!<br><br>WHEW!!!! MAJOR DEEP BREATHS!!!!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-991916">OhBoy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-991916" class="dsq-comment-message">ummm, GreenLadyHere....I think NO ID was making a joke...</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-992283">NO ID</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-992283" class="dsq-comment-message">yes, I should probably say that I made that up...although it sounds very close to what would have passed for discussion over at CNN, given what the show reviewers on JJP have shared.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-993315">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-993315" class="dsq-comment-message">Uhmmmmm:  Thank you [she said making her hand move over her head like one flew <br>over the cukoo].  And as much as I like subtle humor  - I missed that one!  :&gt;)  Thanks, <br>EVERYONE for bringing me out of the STRATOSPHERE back to EARTH.  Now I\'m <br>JOINING you in the humor!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)  :&gt;)<br>Come ta think of it, I did ask if anyone could get those "notes".  Oh well.  I\'m just going to<br>enjoy the day that Mr. Obama had in Germany with e\'rrybody else.  :&gt;)  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-993382">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-993382" class="dsq-comment-message">Ohboy:  Thank you.  I have made my mea culpas below!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)  And I will try to be better when I<br>see comedy.  :&gt;)  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-992071">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-992071" class="dsq-comment-message">You are too funny on this. Too funny.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-992295">NO ID</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-992295" class="dsq-comment-message">if that\'s meant for me thank you! :-)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-993438">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-993438" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  Sorry to you too for messing up this thread by mis-interpreting true humor.  :&gt;)  :&gt;)  I have come back to earth, I have taken my (deep breaths) and I am getting my "laff" on!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-991299">XaXu</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-991299" class="dsq-comment-message">I was so excited to watch the program last night.  But after watching it I was left with a really bad taste in my mouth.  I understand these issues exist, but for crying out loud, there is more to us than just the negative.  In fact, I can even give you a positive spin on the single mother issue! I know a sister who has always been raising her now 13 year old daughter without the father, but who has ALWAYS had her daughter in PRIVATE  school; who goes to sleep away summer camp, plus the mother owns TWO Bed-Stuy brownstones! The mother is 4 year city college educated and works as an administrative assistant (secretary!) for a major Fortune 500 company.  Where is that story???</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-991598">Roger</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-991598" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh, I\'ll tell you where that story is: in the dumpster.  The so-called "liberal" whites at CNN don\'t want to see that--how could such a story accurately describe the Deep Bottomless Sadness that is being Black In America?  I mean, a daughter in private school?  And she\'s not a hooker?  A mother raising her child by herself? Where\'s her pathology?  She owns two brownstones in Bed-Stuy?  Surely she must have bought them with drug money from her no good layabout babydaddy Raheim...right? She went to college?  Sure, but was it accredited?  No, if it isn\'t full of the kinds of swing-low-sweet-chariot pain that America LOVES to see in relation to black life, it ain\'t makin\' it to the screen.  Especially if it upends any negative stereotypes.  <br><br>Tonight\'s installment of Deep Bottomless Black Sadness should be a hoot.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-991963">OhBoy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-991963" class="dsq-comment-message">So true, Roger. The best answer period.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-992697" href="http://bronzetrinity.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Bronze Trinity</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-992697" class="dsq-comment-message">The program was what I expected. The same old topics. It wasn\'t really about what it\'s like to be Black, it was more like what its like to be American, but things are just harder for Black people. Other than the part where the Black family had a White great, great, grandfather, these are issues that affect all Americans.  They didn\'t show unique things like what its like to live in a country where people expect the worst of you, living in a society with a Eurocentric beauty ideal, not knowing your history or where you are from, living around people who may have owned and raped your ancestors, dealing with an education system that tells you almost nothing about African Americans or Africans now or in the past, what Black people see as life goals, and even what its like to be a victim of constant racism!!!. I am actually pissed about how they showed statistics. They showed things like 53% of Black people graduate highschool but they showed nothing about the difference between predominantly White schools or predominantly Black schools! They mentioned the incarceration rates but nothing about the bias in the justice system that convicts Black people and sentences them to prison more often than White people! By doing that they make it seem that there is something inherent in Black people that accounts for the problems.<br><br>Don\'t even let me start on how irresponsible and sensationalistic is is to show opinions from scholars who have no scientific evidence behind their claims. Why have Michael Eric Dyson say he was treated better by his family because he is light skinned and his brother did not because he is dark skinned? That\'s just an anecdote. He\'s a social scientist, couldn\'t he have cited some research that supports this phenomena? Also, why focus on that school who is paying students for test grades as though this is the revolution in education that will save Black people? What about all the charter schools that work? What are they doing differently? What about Black students who attend predominantly White schools? Why do they do better? How did the three kids in that one family stay in school and get into college? How is their life different from the drop-outs? And don\'t even get me started on that stupid salt sensitivity idea? Why were they wasting our time with something that has no research evidence behind it when there is research that supports fact that it is harder to find healthy foods in inner cities (yes they did a little clip about that but there were no statistics or research findings) and that unhealthy foods are cheaper than healthy foods so poor people are more likely to buy unhealthy foods? <br><br>I think that PBS would have done a much better job because they base their documentaries on a lot of research and that guides the presentation. This special was based on what they could get a select group of Black people to discuss and government statistics without the background and context. It would change things if they explained why inner cities are the way they are and why Black schools are the way they are (i.e., lack of funding, lack of investment, lack of jobs, unqualified teachers etc). <br><br>This was not a presentation meant for Black people. It was meant for people who don\'t know much about Black people. Something about it is kind of objectifying as if they are anthropologists observing "The Black Man" in his natural habitat. It wasn\'t meant for us. They hyped this thing WAAAAY too much and I\'ve seen PBS and HBO documentaries about Black people that were so much more informative. It didn\'t provide solutions other than the unusual one about paying students because they wanted to cause debate or something about the experiment.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-994126">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-994126" class="dsq-comment-message">Bronze Trinity:  Co-signing on "It didn\'t provide solutions other than the unusual one about paying students . . . ."  I had a similar observation.  NOT that I had any objections to programs that motivate and work - which this one appeared to do.  But, it also took TIME AWAY from the discussion of other VIABLE programs because it was the subject of controversy and "debate".  I don\'t believe that there is time for that.  Let\'s just see what works!  Hence, my question about the "design"/designers of the program.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-992791" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-992791" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-992791">SquarePeg</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-992791" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-992791" class="dsq-comment-message">For those planning to watch tonight\'s episode of this farce, I will wait to read your reviews because I will not subject myself to more Black bashing masquerading as thoughtful, insightful analysis of the Black experience in America.<br><br>NO ID -- can you imagine what the conversation was when they were planning the episode about Black men?  God help us!  Lock up your virgins, those mandingos are coming to get you!  <br><br>Nothing will be said about the beautiful Black man, whose sensual walk alone seems shivers down a sister\'s spine.  Just watch a Black man walking and you will see why so many  "others" feel threatened, not an educated Black man, an intelligent Black man, a wealthy Black man, a family-loving Black man, a GOOD Black man.  Just watch a Black man walking, even with all the attempts to emasculate.<br><br>Do I love Black men?  You think?!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-993915" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-993915" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-993915">NO ID</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-993915" class="dsq-comment-message">Here was the conversation about black men...<br><br>BIM Producer: So, Soledad, who do you know that we could put on the show? <br>Soledad: Umm, I mentioned Snoop right...do you think Barack Obama is available?<br>Black Intern: I think he\'s probably pretty busy preparing for the White House right now. <br><br>BIM Producer: What? He\'s not going to win! Now, who else do we know - Will Smith is doing a movie, LeBron James and Kobe Bryant are playing basketball, hey what about that guy my kids like Wally, Woozy, Weeble?<br><br>BIM Intern: You mean L\'il Wayne? But what about black stepfathers, grandfathers, doctors, bus drivers, lawyers, corporate executives, weekend golfers, college professors, writers, artists, software developers and IT guys, uncles, fighter pilots, fireman and grass roots in the trenches working in the community guys? <br><br>BIM Producer: Soledad, do you know what he\'s talking about? <br><br>Soledad shakes her head. <br><br>Soledad: I don\'t know anybody like that.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-994050" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-994050" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-994050">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-994050" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-994050" class="dsq-comment-message">NO ID:  I am enjoying the humor!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-995158" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-995158" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-995158">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-995158" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-995158" class="dsq-comment-message">BWA HA HA HA HA<br><br>You are hilarious.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-996864">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-996864" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-996864" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-996864">msmartin</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-996864" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-996864" class="dsq-comment-message">I just caught this.  You are joking, but it seems like that\'s exactly what they did.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-992950" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-992950" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-992950">Admiral_Komack</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-992950" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-992950" class="dsq-comment-message">"NO ID -- can you imagine what the conversation was when they were planning the episode about Black men? God help us! Lock up your virgins, those mandingos are coming to get you!"<br><br>-Where all the white wimmen at?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-993358" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-993358" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-993358">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-993358" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-993358" class="dsq-comment-message">Admiral:  I\'m there.  :&gt;)  :&gt;)  I promise that I\'ll let no more humor get past me.  :&gt;)  :&gt;)  Well, at least I\'ll try!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-993083">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-993083" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-993083" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-993083">Lynne</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-993083" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-993083" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m not watching this mockumentary tonight.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-993242">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-993242" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-993242" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-993242">BlackAmericanPrincess</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-993242" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-993242" class="dsq-comment-message">I guess I am in the absolute minority here because I didn\'t think the documentary was as awful as it\'s being painted at ALL.  They only had 2 hours, of course they couldn\'t address everything about what it is to be a Black woman in America.  The annoying poet notwithstanding, I think they did a good job of showing the positive AND negative.  What about the doctor in Baltimore and the brothas and sistas in Houston going door to door trying to get high school dropouts back in school?  What about the single, beautiful, successful sistas who were seeking a brotha?  What about that beautiful family that owned the successful construction company who were sending ALL their children to college?  What about Dr. J Malveaux or the Harvard professor or the Harlem cardiologist who were working hard for and in our community?  What about the hardworking single father who was raising his children the best he could and the hardworking single mother raising her 5 kids PLUS her niece?  Those were all positives in my opinion, coupled with the fact that a successful Black woman, Soledad O\'Brien herself, was doing the show.  Sure, there were negatives but those negative aspects, sadly, are reality.<br><br>It seems like alot of people are embarassed and I think that\'s sad...</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-994093" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-994093" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-994093">Roger</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-994093" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-994093" class="dsq-comment-message">"It seems like alot of people are embarassed and I think that\'s sad..."<br><br>I\'m going to call bullshit on that.  First, the majority of comments have addressed the paucity of critical thought--embarrassment has nothing to do with it.  The so-called documentary failed to put any of the statistics (these well-worn, oft-tossed-out statistics) into any sort of perspective, the reporter failed to actively critique any of the people she interviewed (especially TD Jakes\' assertions that women so desperately craving male attention to the degree that they will "do anything to get the love of a man"), and the segment that was supposedly on "the black woman and the family" failed to proceed with any clear thesis or objective (other than presenting black people en masse as a some form of pathology to which successful, well-adjusted black folk exist as an anomaly).</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-994389">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-994389" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-994389" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-994389">BlackAmericanPrincess</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-994389" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-994389" class="dsq-comment-message">Why are you glossing over all the positives I highlighted in my previous post?</div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-995592">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-995592" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-995592" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-995592">Roger</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-995592" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-995592" class="dsq-comment-message">That\'s not the question you ought to be asking.  You ought to be asking why CNN glossed over those positives as though they were some sort of exception or anomaly in African American life.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-995822">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-995822" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-995822" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-995822">BlackAmericanPrincess</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-995822" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-995822" class="dsq-comment-message">CNN wasn\'t exploitive in their depiction of the successful Black folk.  How specifically did they gloss over them in your opinion?  Glossing would have been not to include them at ALL...</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-996758">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-996758" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-996758" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-996758">Roger</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-996758" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-996758" class="dsq-comment-message">Nonsense.  The idea of glossing over something involves mentioning something and minimizing it while emphasizing other ideas.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1005490" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1005490" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1005490">OhBoy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1005490" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1005490" class="dsq-comment-message">Roger, I love you. You make the most excellent points. Black American Princess, you\'re lost and have fallen for the farce.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-996841" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-996841" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-996841">msmartin</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-996841" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-996841" class="dsq-comment-message">Exactly.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-995063">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-995063" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-995063" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-995063">Squarepeg</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-995063" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-995063" class="dsq-comment-message">No ID you are making me pee in my pants!<br><br>Were they actually talking about Black women, I mean it was really hard to tell?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-997118" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-997118" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-997118" href="http://blacksnob.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">The_Black_Snob</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-997118" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-997118" class="dsq-comment-message">Whoops. Wrong spot.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1009188">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1009188" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1009188" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1009188">jane</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1009188" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1009188" class="dsq-comment-message">I was told by the small business administraction the because I am not a "minority"  - and that includes anyone other that a white person, that I cannot apply for certain programs or contracts - those contracts for small business owners are closed to me because I happen to be caucasion. But my heritage goes back to Africa before my ancestors immigrated to Ireland - Black Irish.  I wish I were black skinned to be honest, because there are so many programs available and jobs and other benefits available to non-whites.  As a prior post said, there are SO MANY successful black Americans - look at Opera and Maya Angelou who is my role model - I look up to them - I can\'t think of white people I look up to - but many black people I admire.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1009885">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1009885" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1009885" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1009885" href="http://bronzetrinity.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Bronze Trinity</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1009885" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1009885" class="dsq-comment-message">Jane, I think you must be living in a dream world if you thing that there are more opportunities for Black people in America than there are for White people. This is the same reverse-racism crap that makes White people feel like they are discriminated against more than Black people. ITS NOT TRUE! Imagine for every affirmative action opportunity provided to Black people there are 10 that will be blocked to them (basically affirmative action for White people). If you watched the documentary at all you would not be wishing you were Black. If you attended school a day in your life you would have numerous White people to look up to and I think you were just making up that part about not admiring any White people. I\'m not going to bother going on with this because its just ridiculous for you to think this way and you need to have a reality check. I\'ll bet you a million dollars that its MUCH easier and better being Irish American than Black American. You have a major thinking distortion problem if you think otherwise.</div>\
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		Dsq.container.appendChild(fbDiv);
	}
	var fbJS = document.createElement('script');
	fbJS.type = "text/javascript";
	fbJS.src = "http://static.ak.connect.facebook.com/js/api_lib/v0.4/FeatureLoader.js.php";
	document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(fbJS);

	ExecuteWhen.add(window.fbIsReady,
		function () {
			// HACK: This is a workaround FBC's single domain limitation by
			//		 allowing sites to create multiple forums with different
			//		 Facebook API keys.  This must be used in conjunction with
			//		 disqus_facebook_forum (see authenticateFacebook).
			var facebook_api_key = 'bd6a8bc56f8eb204984f34b6fefe228d';
			if (typeof disqus_facebook_api_key != 'undefined') {
				facebook_api_key = disqus_facebook_api_key;
			}

			FB.init(facebook_api_key, window.facebookXdReceiverPath || null,
				{fetchSignedPublicSessionData: true});
		});
}


	


if(typeof(disqus_callback) == 'function') {
	var callback_params = Dsq.Utils.getRequestParams()['dsq_cbp'] || null;

	// We don't care about any errors in third-party code
	try {
		disqus_callback(callback_params);
	} catch (x) {
		if (typeof(console) != 'undefined' && typeof(console.log) == 'function') {
			// But it would be nice to let developers know about them
			console.log(x);
		}
		// pass
	}

	// HACK: We don't know if the callback wraps our container, which may
	// possibly result in a new DOM element.
	Dsq.container = document.getElementById('dsq-content');
}

})();




