About Keli Goff
Keli Goff is an author and political analyst whose commentary on politics and pop culture has been seen on CNN and heard on Bloomberg Radio. She is currently working on a book on African-American voters that will be published by Basic Books in Spring 2008. To learn more about Keli please visit: www.keligoff.com
I am a black male professional in Toronto,Canada. I admire you as a person and greatly appreciate the work you are doing. Keep it up and stay in touch.
God Bless
Hi Keli,
What is your middle name? It’s rare to find someone with the same spelling for Keli, nevermind the same last name.
Warmest regards,
Keli C. Goff
Hi Keli,
I’ve been watching you on MSNBC Dan Abrams and I’m loving your commentary. Way to stand up to Pat Buchanan! Great to see more diversity on the news.
Young, beautiful - and smart - love it!
Keep it up!
Bess
Greetings Keli,
I just saw you on CNN! Excelente!!!!!! Such beauty and a Goff!!!!!!! Very few people with the last name Goff. Do you know if your family has ancestors from the Princeton, WV area? My grandfather was Preston Goff—I didn’t know him, he was killed in the coal mine when my Dad was just a few years old. If my Dad was living he would be 86. Just looking out for my people!
Stay strong and I will watch for your book.
Vivian
Keli,
My name is Mark and I’m a Chicano activist from Albuquerque, New Mexico. I’m so
damn proud of the way you handled yourself under the arrogant, dismissive, and ignorant attacks of Pat Buchanan. You make me proud to be an American. You should come to Albuquerque to sign some books and talk with your Chicano brothers and sisters.
Way to go Keli! You handled Pat Buchanan in the appropriate manner. He is so a joke with his racist commentary but you countered with class and grace! I’m glad to see such an intelligent sister on television. God Bless!
You rock Keli! I always appreciate your commentary wherever you appear and I happened to catch Pat Buchanan telling you to (you know what) last night! It is highly ironic that in defending Ferraro he puts down a black woman on national televison. (ok, international, as I caught it up here in London, Ontario, Canada!) I think Pat is fairer then most on the conservative talk show circuit but he blew it last night. Of all the people he’s ever been on a panel with, why did he think it was ok to say that to you? I’ve seen many a man challenge him before but he never told them to shut it. Mysogyny and racism - alive and well in the USA! You keep on doing what you’re doing!
Although blacks are 12% of the population in reality it is just 2% of the blacks that commit 50% of the murders and a greater percentage of other crimes. Consider: black females - 6%. Blacks from zero yrs. to 12 yrs. and black males from 50-100 years commit an infinitesimal percentage of the crimes. Therefore we are left with two percent. If we eliminate crimes committed by this two percent from the U.S. statistics our country compares very favorably with all Western countries. Fact — blacks kill 7 times more than whites kill. Fact — blacks kill whites 20 times more than whites kill blacks. Fact — blacks mug or commit group crime against whites 50 times more than whites commit against blacks. Fact — blacks rape white women 2000 (yes 2000) times more than whites rape black women. In New York City, about 300 white women are raped by blacks every year BUT there has not been a black woman raped by a white male in anybody’s memory (going back over 20 yrs.) Consider: Al Sharpton had to go upstate New York to find a hoax and that was almost 20 years ago. (Source NYT 4/22/05)
According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics 2004 report (released May 2006), blacks commit 54 percent of the homicides in America even though they constitute only 12 percent of the population.
An individual black male is seven times more likely to commit murder than an individual white male. It so happens that black felons commit 43 percent of aggravated assaults, 66 percent of armed robberies, 27 percent of rapes and 85 percent of interracial crimes of violence, mainly against whites (this last figure from a Justice Department report 2003). However, it’s not just in the United States. The greatest dicators in recent years have emerged in Africa. People like Idi Amin of Uganda, Hastings Kamuzu Banda in Malawi, Mobutu Sese Seko, in Zaire, self-anointed Emperor Bokassa of the Central African Republic, Mohammed Saidi Barre in Somalia, Sani Abacha of Nigeria, Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe — the list is endless.
Blacks are dumber as well, statistics analyzed by the New York Times (July 4, 1999) dispel the poverty argument by establishing that impoverished white children whose parents earn less than $10,000 a year score higher on standardized SAT tests than black children whose parents earn more than $70,000 a year. Also, nearly 70 percent of black children are born out of wedlock.
Hi Keli,
I am a blogger who is also a fan. Keep up the good work.
Hey Keli!
Girl, I remember you from Lantern Lane to Elkins! Way to go! Congrats on the book! Keep up the great work!
Keli,
I wanted to comment on the recent appearance boraodcast on CNN Headline News this Sunday. I’ve waited for MONTHS to hear someone give the response you provided on the issue of Sexism vs. Hillary Clinton’s personality in the way she is being portrayed during the Primary coverage. You had the rare insight and self-confidence to actually step foward and say it…..the problem is not that she is a woman; the problem is that she is THAT woman. Now that’s “testicular fortitude”………….
I just read your article about McCain and gay adoption and loved it. I think you hit the nail on the head with your piece. Keep it up!!!!