Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) will take the knee. He and the fuhrer are tangling with one another.
Many Democratic politicians are skipping the fuhrer's inaugural. Some are citing their frustrations with the fuhrer's decision to go after Rep. John Lewis (D-GA).
Lewis, a former civil rights activist was critical of fuhrer Donald J. Trump. He said that Trump isn't a legitimate president and it merited a response from the fuhrer on social media.
Trump took to social media to say that Lewis is all talk and no action.
Congressman John Lewis should spend more time on fixing and helping his district, which is in horrible shape and falling apart (not to......
Lewis took a rock to the head. Lewis felt a dog's teeth through his crotch. Lewis was arrested for peaceful resistance in 1960s and most recently 2016.
While some questioned Lewis’s assertion, many others expressed indignation about Trump's outburst, pointing out the unseemliness of attacking a civil rights leader on the eve of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Lewis was one of the original Freedom Riders, beaten by police officers while marching from Selma to Montgomery in Alabama.
Omarosa and Darrell Scott attacks Black leaders.
Trump's feud with Lewis carried echoes of his attacks on Khizr and Ghazala Khan, the Pakistani-American parents of an American soldier killed in Iraq, after Khan spoke out against Trump at the Democratic National Convention. Those attacks were widely viewed to have backfired, and Trump later modulated his words about the Khans.
Trump himself has experience questioning a president's legitimacy. He was instrumental in sowing doubts about President Barack Obama's birthplace.
Lewis, who is 76 and was first elected to Congress in 1987, is one of the few genuinely historic figures on Capitol Hill, revered by Democrats and Republicans alike. Allies of Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), and Trump's nominee for attorney general, circulated pictures of him linking arms with Lewis at the 50th anniversary of the Selma march to fend off accusations that Sessions was a racist.
Nevertheless, Lewis testified against Sessions, declaring, "We need someone as attorney general who's going to look out for all of us, and not just some of us."
Val Demings, Congresswoman-elect from Florida. The former Orlando Police Chief will be a shield from the relentless attacks from Black coon cop David Clarke.
The Democrats have a badge. As of January 3rd, Val Demings will take her position as U.S. Representative from the great state of Florida. She is African American. She serves the Republican strong 10th Congressional district. The district was once held by insurgent Rep. Daniel Webster (R-FL). She lost against Webster in a 2014. Webster retired from Congress this term leaving the seat up for grabs.
Before she was a Representative-elect. Demings was the police chief of Orlando, Florida.
She the daughter of a maid and janitor, Demings knows how the toughest route to success.
According to Ballotpedia, Demings is devoting her term as a lawmaker to making laws that are designed to creating and retaining good paying jobs. She vows to protect Medicare and Social Security.
Demings being a former police chief should resonate with the ongoing issues with gun violence and the police shootings of unarmed suspects. Hopefully she supports police reform.
Democrats hate this guy. David Clarke, Jr., the Milwaukee County sheriff is constantly elected as a Democrat but talks like a racist Republican.
She could defend or attack Black Lives Matter. I don't have no peg on her yet.
But certainly she could serve as the counter balance to another African American lawman who spits nothing but racially charged bullshit.
That coon David Clarke, Jr. is a pain in the ass. The controversial Milwaukee County sheriff is gleeful that his master won the election. The fuhrer Donald J. Trump and vice fuhrer Mike Pence are preparing for transition. They will rollback progress and cause such chaos when they take over.
For you see, I don't want Trump and Pence to succeed. I want them to fail. I want them to fail miserably and want the world to suffer because of them.
Hopefully I will hear more of Val Demings in the coming future.
Woman body shames ice cream parlor worker. Justine Elwood is beautiful and deserves respect.
Ah, clickbait stories. The more the merrier. Tis the season to be nasty!
Especially to those in the retail field.
In the state of Utah, a young woman in Layton was insulted by a customer. The customer insulted the worker while she was serving her at Coldstone Creamery and then went to Yelp to go even further.
The woman called her disgusting.
"She was giving me dirty looks the whole time and it was kind of weird but I helped her and then she said 'if you continue to eat too much ice cream you're going to look like her,' and I continue to help her and that's it," said Justine Elwood, the woman who was body shamed by this slimeball.
It wasn't the end of this. The woman then took to social media to rant about the experience.
"Coldstone has been one of our favorite places to go as a family and enjoy quality ice cream, specifically the Layton location. Unfortunately, I have had a specifically unsatisfying experience the last few times we have come into the store. One of their female employees Jessie? Jennifer? J something, is disgustingly obese, and each time we come in, although she does her job, and is very polite, instantly makes my appetite disappear. I understand the need to hire bias free, but when someones [sic] looks interfere with my experience at an establishment [sic] I can't help but complain. As a mother I don't like my children thinking they will look that way by eating too much ice cream. Overall a good establishment with fast service, and delightful treats. We love Coldstone [sic] just not all the employees."
Her mom Daphne Moore Felley took to social media to ask for the name of the person who insulted her daughter. She was so pissed that she wanted to serve her a five finger roll with a side of toe jam.
"At first I was really angry and I wanted to find the person and say face to face what are you thinking to say that kind of stuff and then it turn to well, you might as well make a good thing of it because what are you going to do? Justine is the one who said she forgave her so after that we just thought we'd make something good of it."
Felley managed to get Yelp to remove the post but she demands the public to out this Elanie S.
"I need everyone's help, especially in the Layton area!! Find this horrible woman Elaine S!! This awful person posted this on Yelp about someone very special to me and belittled her to her face! Please if you know of a woman with children in Layton that goes by the name Elaine, last name starts with S, please let me know and share so we can stop this bullying!! Thanks Daph."
Once Justine returned back to work, she was greeted with heartwarming. People across the city and nation gave her support. She was thankful for the kind words of the community.
Of course in Donald J. Trump's America, fat shaming is real. The controversial billionaire/racist/sex ist/pussy grabbing/immature reality television star will be your next fuhrer.
He and his Christian extremist partner will rollback the good that President Barack Obama accomplished.
You're beautiful, Justine. Ignore the haters and stay true! Ignore the hate.
Fuck what that beeyotch says!
Hopefully when they find this trash, the junk food media will take her out!
Vice President-elect Mike Pence with Republican lawmakers pose for a selfie. An all-White selfie. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) (in the red), House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) and top members celebrate winning this divisive election.
The definition of irony. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Vice President-elect Mike Pence take a selfie. Along with Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA), the Republicans do a "victory lap".
Notice the faces of most of Republican representatives. Except for the missing Black lawmakers Rep. Will Hurd (R-TX) and Rep. Mia Love (R-UT), the Republican Party is practically an all White affair.
She has been in elected office since 2005. She has been a part of the status quo for over 10 years.
Name one thing that McMorris Rodgers ever done to shake up the status quo?
She is a part of the rank-and-file members who will take the low road to win. And she and many of her Republican colleagues are rewarded for their inept leadership. And in the 115th Congress, it will not get any better.
Ryan, the Wisconsin lawmaker will likely control the gavel again when January 3rd comes around.
Pence and the controversial billionaire/racist/sexist/reality star Donald J. Trump will take office on January 20th.
This is an example of why minorities are considered worthless. Republicans bemoan about the Black vote strictly going to the Democrats. Now that their candidate won the election, the push for restrictions to curb early voting is off the table for now. The Republicans will still impose voter ID laws and restrictions to voting places in urban areas.
According to the Republicans, as long as they are in control, they'll be the "grown folks" in the room.
Unfortunately, demeaning President Barack Obama and his policies were their only accomplishment in Washington.
When Trump takes office, his first 100 days will be considered a honeymoon. The Democrats are lost in the woods. They will now have to find a way to bring back the voters who didn't support Hillary Clinton's failed presidential bid. They will have to speak to the White working class who still believe that Obama's policies "failed" them.
The Democratic Party might become the "Party of No". The Democrats will probably get more time on GOP Sundays now they're in the minority. They will be demeaning Trump and Pence. And the cycle of partisan rancor will continue.
I wish Donald J. Trump the best of luck. But he will not be my president and I will disrespect him they way he did to Barack Obama. THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS WHITE LIKE COCAINE. IT'S 90% WHITE AND 10% WHATEVER ELSE BEING SMOKED!
I will address the controversy of cyberbullies. I am frustrated with ignorance online. They have created websites devoted to exposing racists and cyberbullies. It's not easy to find a digital footprint, but in the age of Donald Trump, the need for being politically correct should merit accountability for such actions.
Actress Leslie Jones was attacked by some internet troll and his merry band of bigots. He was dismissed from Twitter after this. I was going to address this controversy but this one overshadowed it for the moment.
A Democratic lawmaker who represents a U.S. territory was the focus of a smear campaign. I don't know what happened, but it's a sign of what happens when you share things that should be private through your phone or computer.
Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D-VI) is finding herself with an embarassment. Now she is calling upon the U.S. Capitol Police and the FBI's cyber crime unit to find out who leaked a video of Plaskett and her husband taking things a little freaky.
She and her then husband made a sex tape and it got leaked on social media.
One of the photos that leaked to the junk food media has Plaskett sharing her goodies
Some of the videos that were leaked were really XXX. I mean it was so racy it's practically got her attention.
"I am shocked and deeply saddened that someone would stoop to such a level as to invade my marriage and the love of my family in an attempt to besmirch me personally," said Plaskett in a presser.
She added, "Private photographs shared between my husband and me, as well as a private playful video of our family, including one of our children, were illegally obtained and disseminated via the internet".
The video was posted on Facebook before it was quickly deleted. It also showed her husband Jonathan Buckney-Small wearing eyeshadow and lipstick.
Again, I don't care what people do in their bedrooms. I mean this is some real fucked up shit to have a public servant get caught up in a sex scandal. I mean her opponents are likely going to use this against her.
Plaskett who is a nonvoting delegate from the U.S. Virgin Islands, an unincorporated territory in the Caribbean Sea. She won a seat in Congress in 2015. She declared her intentions to run for reelection.
Also in the junk food media, Garry Marshall the famed entertainer and producer of Happy Days and Mork & Mindy, Laverne & Shirley, The Odd Couple and Pretty Woman passed away yesterday. He will sorely be missed. A part of my childhood died along with Saturday Morning Cartoons.
And not to forget the Hawaii Democratic lawmaker who died of cancer. Rep. Mark Takai passed away at the age of 49. He was suffering from pancreatic cancer. He would not finish out his term.
He was a first term congressman.
World News Today send our condolences to Garry Marshall and Rep. Mark Takai.
Freshman senator Joni Ernst of Iowa is being vetted by the Donald Trump presidential campaign.
The senator along with freshman senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas are in the running of being Trump's running mate.
Ernst went to Fox News to say that she's had a good conversation.
"I will continue to share my insights with Donald about the need to strengthen our economy, keep our nation safe, and ensure America is always a strong stabilizing force around the globe."
The Iowa senator who did a campaign video about castrating hogs is seriously being vetted. She hasn't accomplished much in one year of being a senator. She's kept a low key profile. I was expecting her to be a bombastic agitator like failed presidential candidates Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY).
Ernst is a retired National Guard lieutenant colonel and veteran of the Iraq war.
Ernst previously endorsed Rubio for president.
Trump is also heading to Indiana. He's talking with Governor Mike Pence. Pence who endorsed Cruz for president is making peace with Trump. Pence who is facing a reelection bid is trying to score some political points by embracing the Republicans presumptive nominee he distanced himself from earlier.
Trump needs a brain to move his body.
Pence faced a backlash after he passed a religious freedom bill that could discriminate against LGBT residents of Indiana. He looks the other way when Indiana mosques are firebombed and Rep. Andre Carson (D-IN) is being slandered by agitators for being a "ISIS-sympathizer".
Spokesman Marc Lotter said that Ernst and Pence will do all they can to help Trump win.
Also on the Trump veepstakes is Newt Gingrich, the former House Speaker who is a washed up politico. Gingrich ran for president in 2012. Chris Christie, the failed 2016 presidential candidate is in the running.
Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN), Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) are also on the list of potential Trump veeps.
One insurgent who isn't showing up for the Republican National Convention is Utah's Mia Love.
Love who is the first woman and African American elected in Utah. She said that she's going to focus on the residents of Utah and skip the convention. Love endorsed Rubio for president.
The Jesse Williams speech had touched a nerve. The conservatives are outraged over his fiery speech on how Black Lives are marginalized by the media. He said his passionate speech on BET.
As you know, BET is the network that seems to get the ire of conservatives. The network has mostly Black themed shows and it drives conservatives crazy. One in particular is a former actress turned conservative agitator.
Once again, Stacey Dash comes into the conversation.
She has the audacity to call Williams a "plantation slave".
Now she and many righties are calling for him to fired out the cannon. There's a petition on Change.org to have him fired from Grey's Anatomy, a hit medical drama on ABC.
Dash who is best known for being in the movie and television series Clueless joined Fox News in 2014 to host Outnumbered as a cultural analysis.
"Sorry Mr. Williams. But the fact that you were standing on that stage at those awards tells people you really don't know what (you're) talking about. Just spewing hate and anger", said Dash on her blog.
"Because you, my man, are just like everyone else hustling to get money."
Here's the kicker.
"But your cognitive dissidents has you getting it from THAT BYSTANDER whom YOU DON'T NEED. Yes, BLACK ENTERTAINMENT TELEVISION is WHITE OWNED
Get over yourself and get on with it.
Dash was a fixture on BET. Now a fixture on Fox News, she acts like an idiot.
That chip on the shoulders of people like you will weigh you down and keep you from flying free. But true freedom is never free. You have to know how to fly. If anyone is making you feel this way its you. Living in a psychological prison of your own making. If anyone is GHETTO-IZING anyone, it's people like you letting the BETs and other media outlets portray us in stereotypes.
So here's another thing. The agitator deflects towards Williams race. He is born of an African American father and White mother. She claims that he has no right to speak cause his mother is White.
When conservatives try to deflect from the passionate issues of #BlackLivesMatter, they often bring up gun violence in the Black community.
I happened to pick up a story from Addicting Info. This website that I frequently go had a story that made me smile. The negative images of Black women are being spread around the internet by conservative and racial agitators.
Addicting Info got word hat the National Center for Education Statistics has a report online about the futures of Black women achieving the dream.
“From 1999–2000 to 2009–10, the percentage of degrees earned by females remained between approximately 60 and 62 percent for associate’s degrees and between 57 and 58 percent for bachelor’s degrees. In contrast, the percentages of both master’s and doctor’s degrees earned by females increased from 1999–2000 to 2009–10. Within each racial/ethnic group, women earned the majority of degrees at all levels in 2009–10. For example, among U.S. residents, Black females earned 68 percent of associate’s degrees, 66 percent of bachelor’s degrees, 71 percent of master’s degrees, and 65 percent of all doctor’s degrees awarded to Black students.”
Black women are unappreciated and underprivileged. They are often looked upon as "unwed mothers", "welfare queens", "monkeys" and "bitches".
This comes as no surprise. Usually conservatives attack Black women who are powerful.
First Lady Michelle Obama is one of the most frequent targets of ridicule of conservatives. Mrs. Obama is a highly educated Black woman.
Krystal Lake, a well educated women was reprimanded for wearing a political hat at Home Depot. She got death threats and calls for a cannon firing after she spoke her mind about Donald Trump.
In my last posting, a satirist drew an offensive caricature of Mrs. Obama looking like a man with a bulge and broad shoulders next to the bubbly smiling Melania Trump. The satirist drew Trump in a negative fashion as well. Instead of calling her a business executive, he basically labeled her a trophy wife and bimbo.
Beyonce is a passionate activist and successful pop singer. She often reacts like most Americans to issues that face Black citizens. She made a video that reacted to the rage Black America has against a system that often is against them. To conservatives, they attack her for being anti-cop, a bad role model and talentless.
And of course, Romeo Rose, the loser who wants women to love him. He would degrade Black women as primates and said their lips look like rubber bands.
The conservatives and those in the Republican Party delegitimize people they don't like. They impose the fear and distrust towards others. Black women in power such as Baltimore city prosecutor Marilyn Mosby are often ridiculed as "cop-killers" and not professionals who are entitled to charge individuals for criminal acts.
Matter of fact, a young Black woman who wore an anti-Trump hat got attacked by trolls on social media. The Home Depot worker wore a "America was never great" hat to protest Donald Trump's ignorance and the conservatives went ape shit on her. Krystal Lake of Staten Island got death threats and calls for her cannon firing after she posted it on social media.
Black women are often look passed for jobs and education. Black women make less than White men and women combined.
Again, I can't stand Republicans! I don't like the Democrats either. Conservatives are racists and they don't hide the fact they are. Liberals are racists who pretend to be your friends and pretend to acted concerned when the issue becomes a matter of media attention.
Neither party cares about the needs of women of color.
Republican National Committee chief Reince Priebus still trying to color the White rainbow.
Republicans are hoping to create that coalition of non-White supporters. They've suffered a huge deficit of non-White voters in the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections. They hope they can capitalize off the dysfunction the Democrats are having right now.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Hillary Clinton are duking it out for the Black, Hispanic, young and women voters. These groups are the Democrats hope to see turnout this election.
Right now, Black and Hispanic voters are turned off to Sanders and Clinton. It's been rough for both candidates to capitalize off the Obama waves. President Barack Obama managed to carry huge turnout in 2008 and 2012. His success was based on grassroots to communities that candidates overlook.
Telly Lovelace.
Republicans are still hoping that they can at least gain at least 25% of the Black vote.
Kristal Quarker-Hartsfield, the former national director of African-American Initiatives and Media at the RNC, left Friday to be director of intergovernmental affairs for Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R). Orlando Watson, communications director for black media, departed in March. Tara Wall and Raffi Williams, son of Fox News political analyst Juan Williams, also left the RNC late last year.
Now GOP chief Reince Priebus announced that he's found him a new toy to play with.
Telly Lovelace, a veteran GOP communications strategist, is the new leader of the party’s black political engagement and communications efforts, the Republican National Committee announced on Friday.
Lovelace, who starts Monday as the national director of African-American Initiatives and Media, will spearhead black voter engagement.
“Telly is a welcome addition to our team, and I’m confident his experience will help us build on our commitment to cultivate relationships and trust with Black media and Black communities,” said Priebus in a statement.
The RNC is also launching a new diversity initiative — including a paid internship program focusing on historically black colleges and universities — to bring more black people into the party.
“I really want to focus on getting the Republican message into urban America and urban communities,” said Lovelace, who is overseeing the program.
Lovelace’s appointment comes in the middle of a mass exodus of black staffers from the organization.
I've always believed that the Republican Party is White like cocaine.
90% WHITE and 10% EVERYTHING ELSE.
They've engaged in this ongoing culture war against everyone including themselves. The Republicans don't know who to trust right now!
All they got left is pretty much the blame going to Barack Obama and the media for their continuous failures.
I got so many suggestions for the Republican Party, but I just couldn't contain myself from delivering my honest opinion about the rebranding of the national party. Here are some healthy and yet obvious suggestion to the ailing party.
The Republicans must stop this culture war against everyone! If they do so, I'll stop calling them racist.
I'll stop calling them bigots if they refuse to allow anyone within their party to hate a person's race, gender, sexuality, nationality, religion, educational, political and economic standings.
I'll stop blaming them for all the mass shootings in a suburban school or shopping center if they could at least pass a background check for all registered gun owners.
I'll stop blaming them if they can separate themselves from all the White supremacist rhetoric we've seen through channels such as The Drudge Report, InfoWars, Breitbart, WorldNetDaily and Conservative Review.
I'll vote for a Republican for president if the person can deliver a plan to help everyone. Not a select few. I would hope they would engage in communicating to all voters instead of just conservative voters.
I'll vote for a Republican if they stop acting like a bunch of idiots!
The first week of January begins another round of internet traffic for the social dating websites.
It's a huge week for the world's most poplar dating websites. OKCupid, POF.com, eHarmony, Badoo, Match.com, and Tinder are seeing a spike in traffic.
There's a website that's not seeing a spike in traffic.
There's a website that is causing an uproar. It's called WhereWhitePeopleMeet.com and its generating a dose of controversy. The creator of the website says that he developed Where White People Meet as an alternative to the other dating websites that cater to certain groups.
The creator of this said that he's not a racist. He just want to keep it rational. After all, he finds blackpeoplemeet.com, Blacksingles.com, Jdate.com, latinocupid,com, Latinpeooplemeet.com and singlemuslim.com and gay.com.
He says that he's not in the business of political correctness. He's in the business of finding couples to find love. He said that he dated Black and Hispanic women....
The site's founder, Sam Russell, anticipated some backlash from his startup, which is why he told the Washington Post that he isn't racist.
"It's about equal opportunity," Russell said. "The last thing in the world I am is racist. I dated a black woman once. I helped raise a young black man… I just believe it’s hypocrisy to say ‘one group can do this, but another can't.'"
Russell added that his site which launched in December "is not racially motivated in any way," and his policies prohibit racist or hateful messages.
However, how people choose the partners when dating can often be racially motivated, according to 2013 OkCupid data. Black women and Asian men are likely to receive fewer matches and messages on the site than any other group.
So while Where White People Meet's founder may not be racist because he dated one black woman or didn't have "racially motivated" intentions in creating this dating site -- the good news is that you can meet even more white people on the internet for as low as $4 for your first week.
It so far gained 421 supporters so far.
Did you know Whites and Republicans are the most angriest groups in the United States?
What they see in the junk food media riles them up.
Whites are declining in population. Non-Hispanic White people are 72% of the nation's population. Unfortunately, interracial births are on the rise.
Whites believe race relations went downhill the moment Barack Obama got into office.
The Whites believe that they're likely footing the bill on the issues that involve Blacks, Hispanics, Muslims and those in the LGBT.
That's the stuff that fueled Donald Trump's rise to the top.
By the way, President Barack Obama is interracial but identifies himself as a Black man.
Trump has a Black supporter, retired NBA player Dennis Rodman.
Donald Trump was going to hold a press conference today. It was suddenly canceled after it was revealed that the people who planned on endorsing him for president backed down.
A group of 100 Black clergy men were supposed to meet privately with the Republican front runner at the Trump Tower this week. It was going to be followed by a press conference. That was canceled after many a backlash from members of the Black church.
Some of the members were concerned that their church may face scrutiny if they endorse him.
Some in the Black church believe that Trump and Ben Carson are too polarizing.
It didn't help much to find out that Trump retweeted a crime statistic that many saw as a racial dog whistle. To make it even more clear, he tweeted an organization that doesn't even exist. The statistic came from some White extremist website.
And the brutal take down of a #BlackLivesMatter activist at a Trump event in Alabama happened.
Matter of fact, did the Black community forget that Trump was constantly bugging for President Barack Obama's birth certificate.
Trump's biggest Black backers so far is Dennis Rodman and those two women who made a viral YouTube video slamming Megyn the Outrage Princess.
Even Hispanic and Black Republicans are concerned about the direction of the party.
This weekend Black conservative agitator CJ Pearson denounced the Republican Party when they ignored the obvious police brutality in the Laquan McDonald shooting.
Jenean Hampton becomes Kentucky's lieutenant governor. She is the first African American to hold the position. She is a registered Republican.
Kentucky's soon to be governor Matt Bevin is no longer a perennial gadfly. It was a healthy victory for the insurgent Republican. Did you know that the controversial businessman had a running mate that also won. Her victory marks a first for the state.
Jenean Hampton becomes the lieutenant governor for the state. She is the first African American to hold this position. She was elected as a Republican.
The 58 year old mother and grandmother started from humble beginnings. She grew up in the Detroit area. Her family worked in the manufacturing boom of the automotive juggernaut Chrysler.
She joined the U.S. Air Force, where she spent seven years writing code and managing software like the radar used to find enemy planes in Operation Desert Storm, where she was deployed. She then spent 19 years in the corrugated packing industry.
She boldly says that she's not a fan of Barack Obama and vows to oppose his policies. That often cause a family feud between her and her late father.
It's apparently a mystery to her family, too. Hampton said her father, who recently died, "went to his grave mad at me."
"That I'm conservative, Republican, didn't support Obama — he just could not wrap his arms around that," she told Bailey.
Hampton says her guiding light is constitutionally limited government, and she told Bailey that when trying to climb out of inner-city Detroit, she felt government and friends and family around her were rooting for her to fail:
"A huge part of what formed my opinions was the peer pressure that I got to fail," she said. "These were kids who questioned my good grades, questioned the way I spoke, questioned my choice in music and the fact that I was reading all the time. I just remember wondering, 'Well, jeez, when do I get to just be Jenean with my own likes and dislikes?' "
As she got older, she said she despised Nixon's Republican Party but came around to the GOP when Ronald Reagan was president because he reflected her own optimism about the American Dream, according to Bailey.
Now as the lieutenant governor, Hampton will do her best to make Republicans seem less racist than they normally are.
The race in the Bluegrass state was supposed to be a victory for the Democrats.
The people of Kentucky love KNect, the state's health care exchange. Outgoing governor Steve Beshear was at best a decent governor. The Democrats didn't put much in the races for governor.
But I guess Donald Trump's impact and the state's opposition to gay marriage being a contributing factor to Bevin winning the governor's race.
The insurgents who make up the Freedom Caucus vow to derail any Republican willing to work with President Barack Obama.
Some of the candidates running for Weeper of the House include: Rep. Daniel Webster (R-FL) and Rep. Jason Chaffettz (R-UT). They are running for the spot now that Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) left abruptly. He vows to leave Congress before the end of the year.
The turmoil began when Boehner's handpicked successor Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) screwed up on that annoying conservative agitator's show. He told the viewers that the Benghazi select committee was devoted to destroying Hillary Clinton at the polls. That created a shit storm within the party.
Before McCarthy was to place his bid in, he abruptly took his name out the running. Allegations of ineptness and an affair with Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-NC) have swirled around the grapevine.
McCarthy is now fighting to stay on as Majority Leader.
Now the next handpicked candidate for the job, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI).
Ryan is the former 2012 vice presidential nominee for the perennial loser Mitt Romney. The Wisconsin lawmaker is from Janesville and became a "rock star" during the debate over the debt ceiling.
Ryan kept a relatively low profile after the crushing defeat. He hasn't spoken much to Romney.
Ryan chairs the House Ways and Means Committee.
Ryan isn't really interested in the gig but is willing to do so for the sake of the party. The consideration of Ryan becoming the next Weeper has the junk food media talking.
The other candidates, nearly a dozen, all lack Ryan's stature and broad support and it's not clear if any of them could gather the needed backing to become speaker.
With the speculation of Ryan jumping in, conservatives are crying foul. They believe that Ryan is a "loser" and too cozy with Boehner. The outgoing Minority Leader, Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) had praised Ryan for being a leader that could help move America forward.
They think he's soft on immigration and entitlement reform.
Ryan is a fiscal and social conservative.
Ryan wants a plurality of support from Republicans. He doesn't want no obstruction. He wants the Republicans to suck it up and help move the government forward.
Ryan made clear that family comes first and said he would be spending less time on the road than Boehner, who traveled nearly every weekend raising money for the party. Ryan, by contrast, has three school-age kids in Janesville, and wants to be able to continue to spend plenty of time with them.
"I genuinely worry about the consequences that my agreeing to serve will have on them. Will they experience the viciousness and incivility that we all face here on a daily basis?" Ryan said. "But my greatest worry, my greatest worry is the consequence of not stepping up, of someday having my own kids ask me, 'When the stakes were so high, why didn't you do all you could do, why didn't you stand and fight for my future?' "
Any thoughts on Ryan's potential run for the Weeper of the House?
Some nobody wrote a book highly critical of Black women. The writer assuming its a pen name wrote this book called "I Hate Black Women".
Now there's a backlash against the writer and the companies that promote this.
The writer T.C. Writer (ahem) wrote this provocative, controversial and certainly much talked about book. This Writer person is an American author who writes about the elephant in the room that everyone pretends is not there. "The goal is to ruffle a few bird feathers because angry people seek change, and complacent people don't."
T.C. Writer claims that she rapidly learned that your work will never please everyone. Balancing daily hate mail with messages from those hailing her as a maverick who isn't scared to speak the truth, Writer is on a lifelong mission to help fellow African American women better themselves. But her tools are not conventional, including 'I Hate Black Women', Writer's latest book. Firm in her belief that the African American audience respond better to hate than love, Writer's provocative manifesto untangles how black women often make life difficult for themselves, fostering a culture and reputation that ultimately finds them discriminated on by the rest of society.
This Writer said that Black women need to dial back their attitudes and fall in line with the system.
Basically this writer claims that the Black woman must act right in the presence of the Black man and White people.
Yeah, Black women are discriminated against. Ask Raven Symone, she said she wouldn't hire any women with a Black sounding name.
Raven-Symone is an example of Black women who attack their own.
Hear the nonsense from that annoying conservative agitator. The worst cable news host to ever have a program constantly says that First Lady Michelle Obama is a downright mean person. When she said that "for the first time" she was proud of her country, that annoying conservative agitator says that Mrs. Obama is "an angry Black woman".
Matter of fact, even that old fart Limbaugh said that "Moo Chelle" is the type of women Alex Rodriguez refuse to date.
How about when the Madame Tussauds decided to reveal the Nicki Minaj figure. They designed the wax figure to a likeness of her Anaconda music video. The famous pose by the entertainer was being vandalized by horny jerks and sexual perverts.
In her mind, the Black woman are destructive to America.
She calls upon the American people to address this. If we refuse to address it, we're going to be considered complacent.
Well I guess I am complacent. I am not down with this garbage. I am not going to allow this hateful book spread the seeds of distrust, division and diversion about Black women.
Here's what you're going to hear from concern trolls. Did you read the book?
Many in the Black community are very reactionary. We are willing to take action against something without reading it. Before I sign off the Change.org petition to have it removed from Amazon's website, I want to know what I'm dealing with.
Of course, the difficult job of looking for this book will be the challenge.
Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is dropping his bid to be House Speaker and giving up his role as Majority Leader.
I don't think he's resigning from Congress, but he certainly not going to be the House Speaker.
In a secret ballot committee vote, Republicans select who's going to be their choice for the speaker.
Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) figured he didn't have enough support from fellow Republicans to become the new House Speaker. He formally withdrawn from the nomination. He also will end his bid as Majority Leader.
A big blow to outgoing House Speaker, Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) who resigns at the end of the month. Boehner complains that the members of his own party are too extreme.
The members say that he "caves" to President Barack Obama.
The insurgency and establishment are displaying a full scale civil war within the Republican Party.
McCarthy cites conservative uproar over his Benghazi comments as a reason for him dropping out.
Last week, McCarthy gave Hillary Clinton a bone and she's ran with it. McCarthy appeared on that annoying conservative agitator's program to show and prove. He promised that Republicans will get tough on Obama. He said that Clinton's missing server and her struggling in the polls were a result of Republicans pushing this through the election.
He said that the committees spearheaded by Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) made Hillary Clinton struggle in her presidential campaign. That launched a Democratic platform demanding the Republicans end the partisan debate over Benghazi.
Now Republicans are seething at McCarthy for giving the Democrats an opportunity to prove they're inept.
Rep. Jason Cheffettz (R-UT) and Rep. Daniel Webster (R-FL) have promised to usurp McCarthy if he won the nomination. I guess they got what they wanted.
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) isn't keen on either of them. He said they all are inept. He refuses to endorse Chaffettz and Webster.
Jordan is mad at Chaffettz for stripping Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) from a committee seat.
Many Republicans see Webster as inept if he becomes a House Speaker.
Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) threatens to usurp Rep. Kevin McCarthy's (R-CA) coronation.
When you thought Republicans were done with their bitching, here comes the latest outrage from conservatives. House Majority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) may become the nominee. Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) is resigning from Congress at the end of the month. He will also give up his role as the House Speaker. McCarthy thought it was a shoe in. I guess not.
But there's still a feud within the ranks. Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) and Rep. Daniel Webster (R-FL) are plotting an usurping of power. The Republican insurgents are feuding with one another.
Chaffetz represents Utah's 3rd Congressional District. His district includes the city of Provo, Orem, and the rugged deserts of Utah. It's one of the Republicans Party's strongest congressional districts. The Cook Partisan Voting Index gives it +25.
Rep. Daniel Webster (R-FL)
Webster represents Florida's 10th Congressional District. His district includes south of Orlando, Walt Disney World Resort, Winter Garden, Lakeland, The Villages, Leeberg, and Lake Alfred. The Cook Partisan Voting Index gives it +10.
Republicans are still fighting over leadership roles. They are fighting over how to work with President Barack Obama and how to make the fool the public into believing that the Benghazi hearings aren't political theater.
Didn't think this was hard! - Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA, Majority Leader)
The insurgents have declared that Webster maybe their choice for House Speaker. But will they actually vote for the guy or continue to destroy the party within?
Now this Freedom Caucus is spearheaded by a lawmaker from my community. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) represents Ohio's 4th Congressional District. His district includes northern portions of Springfield, eastern portions of Lorain, northern portions of Elyria, Urbana, Lima, Sidney, Norwalk, Tiffin, Bellefontaine, and Marysville. The Cook Partisan Voting Index gives it R+9.
Jordan is an extremist in his own right. He often picked fights with Boehner. He and Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) were responsible for the coup against Boehner. His Freedom Caucus has 40 members of the Republican insurgency.
He is the most vocal of the insurgency. He declares that each of them suck and he won't endorse any of them.
Cecile Richards testified in Congress. Many pundits think it was a big sideshow.
If fixing stupid was easy, Washington edition.
While I don't support abortions, I don't believe it's my right to tell a woman whether to keep an unwanted pregnancy. I think women should have the right to make this difficult choice. I learned that a few years back when I dated a woman who I had gotten pregnant with my child. She had an abortion.
Matter of fact, that was probably one of the worst experiences in my life. And most recently, a woman I've dated hid her pregnancy from me. She was pregnant with another man's child.
I learned that I'm too damn nice and I've almost given up on finding love.
The Republicans may stall the government shutdown. Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) is weeping his last role as the House Speaker. His sudden resignation from Congress sparked a major civil war between the establishment and the insurgency.
Finger wagging from lawmakers. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) is an insurgent.
The insurgency continues to push Republicans further to the right. They still are fighting battles they'll never win.
Women rights is a very important issue. Planned Parenthood is a women's health clinic that assist women in family planning, women cancer screening, sexual disease treatment, and provide assistance to abortions.
Republicans who hate "big government" believe it's their business to be in a woman's legs.
These Republicans are so fucking stupid.
A majority of Americans polled said that Planned Parenthood is needed. A majority of single issue Republican voters support stripping funding from Planned Parenthood and every abortion provider.
Rep. Mia Love (R-UT) and many of her insurgent members were disrespectful to Planned Parenthood CEO.
Cecile Richards, the CEO of Planned Parenthood was called to testify at a majority Republican committee.
Many of the insurgent lawmakers were interrupting her and tossing around baseless claims about the Planned Parenthood CEO. Matter of fact, they gathered their talking points from the secretly recorded videos provided by an extremist group masquerading as a firm.
The videos that were released in this year were heavily elected and doctored. These videos haven't stopped the Republicans from stripping Planned Parenthood.
They vow to shut down the government if they can't take away a woman's right to choice.
Any thoughts on this controversy.
By the way, insurgent Black lawmaker Rep. Mia Love (R-UT) got a chance to show the country how truly crazy she is.
Put a cork in it! The Republicans can't fix the stupidity that plagues their party.
The sports agitator has let his mouth slip once again. This time he's putting on his political analysis hat and the righties are eating it up.
He has his nerve. This is the very guy who advocates for physical assault on a woman if she doesn't shut up. He's a real Black leader....yup, a REAL Black leader.
Anyway, Smith says that all THE BLACKS should vote for once Republican.
What I dream is that for one election, just one, every black person in America vote Republican....
Black folks in America are telling one party, ‘We don’t give a damn about you.’ They’re telling the other party, ‘You’ve got our vote.’ Therefore, you have labeled yourself ‘disenfranchised’ because one party knows they’ve got you under their thumb. The other party knows they’ll never get you and nobody comes to address your interest.
He wants Black America to stop thinking of the Republican Party being the enemy.
He thinks that the lesser of evil, them spineless Democrats took advantage of Black America.
Yeah, those once powerful Democrats put that Black man in the White House. Now they're scared to death of being associated with the Black man. They pretend to be your friends, but they'll stab you in the back as well.
The Republican Party isn't my friend. They don't hide their hatred. They relish in it. They can't get it through their "shit for brain" skulls that the grievances of income inequality, police brutality, and institutional racism is real.
They undermine Black America. They are the party that is stuck in the past.
Today is the 50th Anniversary of the Bloody Sunday march in Selma.
The only Republican who is attending is former president George W. Bush. The elected Republicans House Weeper John Boehner (R-OH), Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA), Senate Majority Leader Mitch The Turtle (R-KY) and Pro Tempe Orin Hatch (R-UT) are skipping the event.
Even the insurgent Black Republican lawmakers Rep. Mia Love (R-UT), Rep. Will Hurd (R-TX) and Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) refuse to attend.
They're too busy unzipping their pants and letting Benjamin Netanyahu plow his dick in their asses.
They probably planning an attack ad to claim that the president has more time to attend a rally that involves him apologizing for America rather than standing with leaders in France during the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack.
Top Republican leaders on Capitol Hill won't join the largest bipartisan congressional delegation ever in Selma, Alabama, this weekend to mark the 50th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday civil rights march.
President Barack Obama, along with his wife and daughters, will be in Selma on Saturday's anniversary, as will former President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush.
It's worth noting that not all top Democrats are planning to be in Selma either.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is going, according to her spokesman, and Minority Whip Steny Hoyer and Caucus Chair Xavier Becerra will also be there, said Rep. John Lewis, the Georgia Democrat who was a leader of the Bloody Sunday march and is heading up the congressional delegation. South Carolina Rep. Jim Clyburn, the No. 3 House Democrat, is also going.
But Sen Minority Leader Harry Reid is not going as he recovers from eye surgery, his office said. The second and third ranking Senate Democrats -- Dick Durbin of Illinois and Chuck Schumer of New York -- also won't attend, according to their spokesmen.
On Wednesday, Lewis told CNN 96 members were expected on the chartered flight to Selma and some 15 to 20 more were planning to meet up in Birmingham and Selma, calling it "the largest group ever."
At least two dozen Republicans were expected to be part of that group, according to a congressional staffer.
Asked if he was disappointed more Republicans weren't making the trip, Lewis said, "no, we continue to work and continue to build, we cannot become disappointed."
He said it "certainly" would be helpful to have leaders there to further the discussion on the Democrats' efforts to push for voting protections.
"We will not give up on anyone," Lewis said.
Top House leaders have gone to the annual event before. McCarthy traveled to Selma in 2012 when he was the No. 3 House Republican and then-Majority Leader Eric Cantor attended in 2013. Cantor, who had been a key Republican supporter of efforts to update the Voting Rights Act in the last Congress, lost his primary in 2014.
CNN reports that on the same day last month that the House voted to approve a congressional gold medal for Selma marchers, Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wisc.) and Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), both members of the House Judiciary Committee, introduced the Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2015, a bill aimed at updating and strengthening the law.
In 2013, the Supreme Court overturned a key provision of the Voting Rights Act that required certain states with a history of racial discrimination at the polls to "pre-clear" any changes to the law with the federal government before implementing them.
But there is no indication that House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) plans to take up the legislation to update the law. At a Christian Science Monitor breakfast in January, he said he believed the Voting Rights Act was sufficient as it stands.
"We have continued to study this issue, but to this point, we have not seen a process forward that is necessary to protect people, because we think the Voting Rights Act is providing substantial protection in this area right now," Goodlatte said.
Stewart noted that a delegation of Republican senators is planning to attend, led by Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina and including Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions and Ohio Sen. Rob Portman, who is a member of the leadership team in the Senate, serving as counselor to McConnell.
And as for Republican potential presidential hopefuls -- none of them will be in Selma either. Sen. Rand Paul's (R-Kent.) office said he will be in Kentucky. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) will be in Iowa participating in an agricultural summit and Sen. Marco Rubio's office did not respond to questions about where he would be this weekend, except to say that he was not traveling to Selma.
Boehner spokesman Michael Steel said that while the speaker will not be in Selma to mark Bloody Sunday, he was looking forward to granting those who marched to Montgomery Congress' highest civilian honor.
"Speaker Boehner was proud last month when the House passed legislation awarding the Congressional Gold Medal to the civil rights marchers in Selma 50 years ago, and will be proud to welcome them to a ceremony in the Capitol to bestow this honor," Steel said.
Both the House and Senate passed legislation in February to grant the awards.
Okay, when you hear those concern troll claim that it was the Democrats that were ones who turned the water cannons on American civil rights leaders, you kindly tell them, "Where are the Republicans now?"
The Democrats nominated and the American people elected the first Black president twice. So it's time to do the walk.....Republicans.
McCarthy and Scott had a change of heart. What about the Weeper and The Turtle?
He would be the right wing troll who floods comment pages attacking those who don't agree with him.
The viral sensation CJ Pearson figured out the price of fame. The little agitator who became a hit with the racist right is now being threaten with death threats and banishment from some social media outlets.
Pearson made the viral video claiming that President Barack Obama doesn't love America. The little agitator was openly expressing that we should invade countries and annihilate terrorists.
Like all racist trolls, you may get into these debates with people who try to "shame" you for supporting President Barack Obama during his 2008 presidential or his 2012 reelection bid.
They will toss around insults, baseless conspiracies, overheated rhetoric and possible solutions to remedy the situation. Some will do the compassionate conservatism nonsense. They also try this concern trolling nonsense. They will figure out that Blacks are uninformed and basically support Obama because of his race. They will say that extremists like Ben Carson, Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) and Rep. Mia Love (R-UT) are the real Blacks.
The right wing trolls are never shy when saying things about Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice, or any unarmed Black victim of violence. They will conduct there investigation of the victim and conclude that its their fault. See a dead body can't tell a story so they'll believe the shooter (i.e. White guy).
And to hear the endless apples to oranges stories about criminal acts by Blacks is a waste of time.
They claim that the junk food media is bias. They believe it protects the president and doesn't promote conservative ideals. The media usually complies to the conservatives. Because most of the junk food media's nonsense helped Weeper John Boehner (R-OH) and Mitch The Turtle (R-KY) become the Congressional top dogs.
Since, I'm a Black man who is pretty much familiar with issues facing my community, the government and the junk food media, I am often subjected to attacks from those who seriously don't agree with my honest opinion.
I've heard that some of these trolls are being paid to attack perceived "liberal" YouTube stars.
I've know that most fake profiles are created by men. And of course, if you're underage, you're going to be a target for sexual predators and social media hate.
CJ Pearson is pissed that Facebook banned him after he revealed his age. He claims that his political views are the reason for his banishment.
The Georgia middle schooler told the station WTTG that Facebook's explanation was "complete malarkey" because "there are many, many people younger than me" on the site.
"The First Amendment is very clear," he told WTTG. "We have a right to express our opinions regardless of who might disagree. And to silence that voice is a violation of that amendment."
He added that would not be silenced and would "continue to make as many accounts as possible."
