Sorry, I've been getting lazy lately...

CFR stands for Councel on Foreign Relations. They were put in place by the Federal Reserve (I think) back in 1917. Officials are not elected by us, or congress from what i understand. It's founders gathered 12 key reporters (one for every media branch) and hired them. This is what controls our mainstream media even today. This is also why, even at times with no war, we dump billions and billions of dollars into third world countries that do us no good, regardess of what "we the people" say, or want.

thanks drivinmenutz (love the sound of your screen name)
-- will look them up but thank you

Who is African American?

Since 1977, the United States officially categorized black people (revised to black or African American in 1997) are classified as A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa.[5] Other Federal offices, such as the United States Census Bureau and the adheres to the OMB standards on race in its data collection and tabulations efforts.[75] The U.S. Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation also categorizes black or African-American people as "A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa" through racial categories used in the UCR Program adopted from the Statistical Policy Handbook (1978) and published by the Office of Federal Statistical Policy and Standards, U.S. Department of Commerce derived from the 1977 OMB classification.[76]

Due in part to a centuries-old history within the United States, historical experiences pre- and post-slavery, and migrations throughout North America, the vast majority of contemporary African Americans possess varying degrees of admixture with European and Native American ancestry.[77][78]

Some courts have called a person black if the person had any known African ancestry. It became known as the one-drop rule, meaning that a single drop of "black blood" makes a person "black". Some courts have called it the traceable amount rule, and anthropologists used to call it the hypodescent rule, meaning that racially mixed persons were assigned the status of the subordinate group. Prior to the one-drop rule, different states had different laws regarding color; in Virginia, for example, a person was legally black if he or she had at least one-sixteenth black ancestry. The one-drop rule was implemented by states in the southern United States during the early to mid-1880s[citation needed]. For African Americans, the one-drop system of pigmentocracy was a significant factor in ethnic solidarity. African Americans generally shared a common lot in society and, therefore, common cause — regardless of their multiracial admixture or social and economic stratification.

In the 1980s, parents of mixed-race children began to organize and lobby for the addition of a more inclusive term of racial designation that would reflect the heritage of their children. When the U.S. government proposed the addition of the category of "bi-racial" or "multiracial" in 1988, the response from the public was largely negative.[79] In recent decades, the multicultural climate of the United States has continued to expand. Although the terms mixed-race, biracial, and multiracial are increasingly used, it remains common for those who possess any visible traits of black heritage to identify or be identified solely as blacks or African Americans. As well, it is very common in the United States for people of mixed ancestry possessing any recent black heritage to self-identify demographically as African American while acknowledging both their African-American and other cultural heritages socially.

For example, 55% of European Americans classify Senator Barack Obama as biracial when they are told that he has a white mother, while 66% of African Americans consider him black.[80] Obama describes himself as black[81] and African American, using both terms interchangeably,[82] and is generally considered to be African American.[83]

Relationships between Native Americans and African slaves first occurred in 1502, and have continued throughout the centuries.[84] Tracing the genealogy of African Americans and Native Americans is a difficult process, because most African slaves were not permitted to read or write and many Native Americans did not speak English.[85] Another difficulty is that elder family members sometimes withhold pertinent genealogical information.[85] However, knowing the family's geographic origins is a key factor in helping reveal Native American ancestry from specific tribes.[85] Due to continued intermarriage between African-Americans and Native Americans, some people who are considered African American can claim Native heritage, although since the 1980s many Native groups refuse to recognize those claims.[86]

Read more here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American

I don't like the term African American.
Some say it's better than Black or Negro.
There may be some truth to that.

I come from a background of Native American, Irish, Scottish, and African. But America sees me as a Black or African American woman.

Don't know anyone that doesn't have a colorful heritage these days. And I see nothing wrong with that.

When people ask me what I am, I answer...
a human being.

Enough with the labels already

only label I want to be known as is a good person - (notice even avoided using gender)

Playing the race card is just and adult form of a temper tantrum

www.cfr.org is their website.

thanks checking it out now

exactly

Who owns the media????

And why would you, AB, an intelligent free thinker, even consider the media representation to be remotely factual?

The McCain's show nothing but contempt for Obama. McCain also didn't shake Omama's hand when he stuck it out, so whatever... You see things through your prism and others see things differently.

I noticed that also
wonder how he would explain that if it was mentioned to him?

Would be funny wouldn't it? I'm sure he would look like a fool.

Nevertheless, the media does tend to take a biased stance....

very true

the hipocrasy of political correctness in America has killed any opportunity for real dialouge...

Obama is half white. Sounds like your projecting your own "isms"onto him.

When someone says something rascist, then they've said something rascist.(Not you)but a lot of white republican people are saying rascist stuff. They just are, and its a fact, and they are getting their little feelings hurt when they get called on it. The great thing about it is that it looks like it may backfire on the republicans Go U.S.A.

Wow. Dems as a group have bad manners. I am a Dem. and I have perfectly good manners.

You had a McCain sign stolen? I'm sure that there has been an Obama sign stolen somewhere.

I find it amusing when somebody calls a half white/half black person, raised by his white grandparents, a racist.

Two debates. And add to that the little digs throughout.

This reminds me a lot of when girls started joining the wrestling team. We didnt have enough girls to make an all female team so they competed against the boys.

Poor high school boys didnt know what to do. If they beat the girl ..they were called a woman beater. If they lost they were a wimp.

Same deal no one wins.

It's called civil discourse. Something she is so lacking in.

So I take it that you don't mind it if there are black racists?

So much for equality...right?