Showing posts with label Moral Monday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Moral Monday. Show all posts

Monday, October 27, 2014

The Tar Hills Have Eyes!

The battle in the Tar Hill state. Embattled Democratic politico Kay Hagan is taking on establishment nominee Thom Tillis, the North Carolina Speaker of the Statehouse.

The Democrats are extremely nervous about the prospects of Kay Hagan, the embattled senator from the state of North Carolina. She is locked in a dead heat with the establishment nominee Thom Tillis.

I had it at Leans Democratic. But alas, I will throw it into the Toss Up category. The category is valuable in this race for control of the Senate. Republicans are hoping that Obama's negative popularity could help them win control of Congress. Although, Congress under both parties is pretty damn bad, Republicans are more motivated to getting their base out to vote.

Early voting is the only key for Hagan to win. After all, Charlotte, Greensboro, Fayetteville are minority majority cities. Hagan is banking on the Black and Hispanic votes to carry her to victory.

The first term senator is fighting for her political life. She supported the president's agenda about almost 85% of the time. Hagan is the second most vulnerable candidate after Arkansas Democratic senator Mark Pryor.

Janet Kay Ruthven Hagan (/ˈheɪɡən/; born May 26, 1953) is the junior United States Senator from North Carolina, in office since January 2009. Previously she served in the North Carolina Senate from 1999 to 2009. She is a member of the Democratic Party.

When Hagan defeated Republican incumbent Elizabeth Dole in the 2008 United States Senate election, she became the first woman to defeat an incumbent woman in a Senate election.

Hagan is running for re-election in 2014 in what is considered one of the toughest reelection bids in the country, facing Republican Thom Tillis, and Libertarian Sean Haugh.

Thomas Roland "Thom" Tillis (born August 30, 1960) is a Republican member of the North Carolina House of Representatives from Mecklenburg County, and Speaker of the House, and is also the Republican Party's nominee for the 2014 U.S. Senate election in North Carolina.

Tillis, the son of a boat draftsman, was born in Jacksonville, Florida, but also lived in New Orleans, Louisiana, and Nashville, Tennessee, growing up.

His family moved especially frequently when he was in elementary school, as he never went to the same school in back-to-back years. In high school, Tillis was elected student body president and graduated near the top of his class.

After graduating high school at 17, Tillis left home to get a job, telling The Charlotte Observer that he and his siblings "weren't wired to go to college."He would eventually go back to school, attending Chattanooga State Community College and receiving his bachelor's degree in technology management from the University of Maryland University College in 1996.

Hagan was stalked by "protesters" according to that annoying conservative agitator's show.

You know that Thom Tillis has operatives trying to sway voters. Obviously that conservative agitator is one of those operatives who is trying to sway votes.

If the election was held today, I am guessing Hagan would survive. But still it's too early to predict the outcome.

Pat McCrory, the Republican governor of the state tried to pass a voter identification law that was considerably strict and discriminatory. Many figured that he was trying to marginalize Black, poor, and young voters with this.

The shooting death of Jonathon Ferrell also happened last year and still has people totally pissed off over the officers not being charged. This sparked the Moral March protests.

The Moral March were covered by me and S. Baldwin this year. This was the motivation for gaining new voters. Hopefully, North Carolina decides on who going to Washington.

Agriculture, tobacco, technology, aviation and coal make North Carolina prime real estate.

We'll see what happens November 4.

Saturday, March 22, 2014

Right Wing Alert: Sally Kern Equates Disagreeing With Her With 'Stoning' God

Sally Kern Equates Disagreeing With Her With 'Stoning' God



                                            Sally Kern, Oklahoma's right wing's favorite Daughter.



Here are several of her right-wing fanaticism at the Oklahoma legislature.  Here's a video wanting the OK Legislature to protect students creating imaginary weapons, guns included:




All of this proves to me is that Oklahoma needs to enter the 21st century, not back to the Dark Ages or Jim Crow!

At least the good people of North Carolina rose up to protest the right-wing Dark Ages policies of Gov. Pat McCrory.  The Tar Heels ain't having any of that nonsense! They will not go back to the days of Jessie Helms.  No way!

How come the people of Oklahoma aren't protesting against Governor Mary Fallin, Rep. Sally Kern, RamZPaul, Sen. Inhofe, etc.?  When are they going to get a comeuppance?


Georgia, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Alabama had their Moral Mondays.  Why not Oklahoma?  Why not my home state, Ohio?  We, too, have a governor that is just as repressive as Fallin and McCrory.  

What are your thoughts?

Thursday, March 13, 2014

NC Forward Together / Saving OurSelves Voting Rights Rally





March 11th, 2014 - Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II and the Forward Together Movement welcomes the S.O.S. Coalition in Raleigh as its Caravan for Democracy makes its way from Selma, Ala. to Washington DC, leaving 49 years almost to the day after civil rights leaders were beaten for daring to organize for voting rights in the Jim Crow South. Many of the assembled carry signs that memorialize the efforts and sacrifices made at Bloody Sunday in March 1965, sacrifices that spurred Congress to act on the mass disenfranchisement of African Americans by passing the Voting Rights Act later that summer.

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

The Racist Right Undermines The Moral March!

Loserville sends its ventriloquist dummy to aid in its attempt to undermine the Moral March. The dummy confronts Reverend William Barber on the criticism of Black Republican senator Tim Scott of South Carolina.

SiriusXM commentator David Webb is a Black conservative agitator. He often appears on Loserville to aid in the racist right's attempts to undermine the Black community and President Barack Obama.

I guess over the weekend, Webb and SiriusXM commentator Mark Thompson went to the Moral March to cover the event. Thompson is a Black liberal agitator and a strong supporter of the march.

Webb wanted to cause some trouble. So under the direction of That Guy Who Helped Obama Win, he went to make his concerns known about the leader of the Moral March's criticism of the Black Republican ventriloquist dummy who was appointed as a U.S. Senator last year.

That Guy Who Helped Obama Win is a prime example of the racist right's attempt to undermine the Black community and President Barack Obama. He's a bipolar right wing agitator who obsesses literally about Obama. He's trying to spread the gospel of lies and deception.
Reverend William Barber became the racist right's new whipping boy after he criticized the Tea Party and lawmaker Tim Scott of South Carolina, the only Black Republican in the Senate.

Barber believes Scott, Webb and many other Black conservatives promote the racist right agenda. They often say really condescending and racist things. The racist right often props these dummies to the media to prove that the 90% White party has at least 10% "the other".

Tim Scott is one of two Black U.S. Senators.
Rev. Barber would say, "A ventriloquist can always find a good dummy. [I often criticize] the extreme right wing down here. And here in South Carolina, they find a black guy to be senator and claims he's the first black senator since Reconstruction and then he goes to Washington, D.C., and articulates the agenda of the tea party."


As usual That Guy Who Helped Obama Win will selectively edit the video to make Rev. Barber look like some "angry Black man" because he's not "hearing concerns from those 'offended' by his comments."

That Guy Who Helped Obama Win called for the firing of Rev. Barber because of his criticism of the ventriloquist dummy.

What was shown on Loserville was a deception.



The result of that visit was played on They Guy Who Helped Obama Win's right wing carnival is a partial clip of the response. In the case in the time-constrained news business, only about 25 seconds of Rev. Barber’s response made it onto the show. At a press conference following the march, Webb asked, “Do you feel you owe Senator Tim Scott an apology for calling him a ventriloquist’s dummy, and black conservatives mouthpieces for the tea party?”
SiriusXM host Mark Thompson went to the Moral March and filmed the actual confrontation between Black ventriloquist dummy and Reverend William Barber.
Make It Plain, the show on SiriusXM's Progress is hosted by Mark Thompson knocks down That Guy Who Helped Obama Win and Webb. Thompson hosts his show during the evenings and he filmed the actual conversation between Webb and Rev. Barber.

Mediaite reports that Loserville flash-cuts to Rev. Barber responding, “It’s my job, it’s my calling, it’s the job of the NAACP to speak the truth about public policies,” then cuts again to Barber, who said, “And while some people may choose to get caught up on a metaphor, that is a regular usage of preachers, the real indignation and upsetness should be over the regressive agenda.”

"If you’re going to get upset," Rev. Barber said, "get upset over the denial of the Medicaid expansion. Get upset about voting to reject unemployment benefits for laid-off workers who are Republicans, who are Democrats, who are black, who are white. Get upset over reduced access to public education and funding. We are in the 60th year of Brown versus Board of Education, and some want to go backwards on public education, rather than forward. Get upset over the attacks to turn back voting rights that were won with blood, sweat, and tears."

"My critique,” Rev. Barber said, “was about public policy, not party."

David Webb host a show on SiriusXM's Patriot during the evenings. He often appears on Loserville to counterpoint the Black progressive agenda.
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Rev. William Barber makes the case for the Moral March.
In 2010, the NAACP delegates passted a resolution to condemn extremist elements within the Tea Party.

They were calling on Tea Party leaders to repudiate those in their ranks who use racist language in their signs and speeches.

The resolution came after a year of high-profile media coverage of attendees of Tea Party marches using vile, antagonistic racial slurs & images.

The proposed resolution had generated controversy on conservative blogs, where in some cases the language has been misconstrued to imply that the NAACP was condemning the entire Tea Party movement itself as racist.

Andrew Breitbart the late conservative agitator and David Webb's mentor try to sabotage the NAACP and Shirley Sherrod in 2010 with a selectively edited video claiming the event was racist.

Moral Mondays are protests in North Carolina, United States of America. The protests are in response to several actions by the Republican government of North Carolina in 2013. The protests are characterized by engaging in civil disobedience by entering the state legislature building and then being peacefully arrested. The protests in North Carolina launched a grassroots social justice movement that, in 2014, spread to Georgia and South Carolina.

Moral Mondays has key principles: They demand eqaul voting rights, the prevention of cuts to social programs, tax changes, racial justice, abortion rights, public education and recently equality for LGBT.

Here's extended video of those remarks, via Make it Plain:



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Friday, February 07, 2014

Oklahoma Restaurant Owner Won't Serve "Freaks, F*ggots, Disabled" Or Tho...



Trigger Warning:  The language is demeaning and hateful.  It's not surprising from a state that has a reputation of being unfriendly to Blacks, women, and gays.  It produces bigots such as RamZPaul and David Yeagley, whom I had several run-ins with several years back.

Here's the story from The Raw Story:


A restaurant outside of Oklahoma City is facing criticism after its outspoken owner made a series of inflammatory comments after one of his former customers, who is disabled, complained that he’d been banned from the establishment.
Matt Gard claims that the owner of Gary’s Chicaros restaurant, Gary James, banned him from the restaurant because of his wheelchair. James, however, says otherwise: “He created an issue. You only have one time here. You create an issue, you’re out forever.”
Gard claims that’s just “a weak excuse,” and that James’s real problem with him is that he’s on disability.
James doesn’t deny that he thinks some people shouldn’t patronize his restaurant. “Well if you work, you own a business, pay your taxes, you’re more than welcome here,” he told KFOR. “If you’re on welfare, stay at home and spend my money, there. I don’t deal with these people walking down the street with no jobs on welfare.”
Gard also claims that James has routinely turned away customers for decades. “He doesn’t like certain people of race, color, ethnicity,” Gard said of James.
James told KFOR that he’s owned Gary’s Chicaros for 44 years, so he “think[s] I can spot a freak or a f*ggot.”
The restaurant’s official t-shirt makes it clear that a “f*ggot” isn’t welcome in James’s establishment. It features that word, the N-word, and threatens violence against Muslims, Democrats, and members of many minority groups.
James says he is “proud” to wear the shirt: “I really don’t want gays around. Any man that would compromise his own body would compromise anything.”

Maybe Oklahoma needs a Moral Monday to protest against racist attitudes of its citizens.

Thursday, February 06, 2014

NC Students & Young People Mobilize | Moral March on Raleigh Promo





North Carolina Students and Young People are under attack in North Carolina when it comes to their education and voting rights. And they are mobilizing for their future.

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