How Strom Thurmond Created Trump 

That despicable bigot Strom Thurmond.

The current "president"-  Strom Thurmond and the old bigoted Republican Party  created this monster!

Today, I'm writing about the influence of how right-wing and racist politicians of the previous century contributed to the rise of the alt-right and the 45th "President".  That the mainstream media doesn't want to discuss this because of their role in creating the monster.

Whenever I hear about the media is being liberal, I cringe because it's not true.  The media is actually conservative in not truly challenging the status quo or denying parts of American history.  I'm not just talking about Fox news.  NBC, CBS, PBS, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, the NYT, Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, USA Today, etc.  Today's media is own by very few people and the news we get is often biased or watered down.

Let's get back to talking about that dead senator Strom Thurmond.
Strom's father was an avid supporter of Ben Tillman, a notorious white supremacist who advocated lynching and denying Blacks and People of Color education and employment opportunities other than laborers, sharecropping, and domestic service.

In 1924, Strom exploited and impregnated a Black household domestic who gave birth to his first child, Essie Mae Washington on October 10, 1925.  For decades her existence has been shrouded in secrecy, lies, and humiliation until his death in 2003.

Yep, he said this back in the fifties.

Strom has used race, religion, and gender to divide the people of South Carolina, the South, and, eventually, the nation.  His family was connected to notorious White supremacists such as Ben Tillman and Coleman Blease.   Coleman Blease racism was so blatant and open that some of his White supremacist supporters were turned off by such displays.  Read up on both Ben Tillman and Coleman Blease at Wikipedia.  Some of the stuff are shocking to some but to many people, especially Black people, none of this surprise us as we are going through another time of intolerance and bigotry in 2019.

VOTE!

Time to vote.

The day of reckoning. Today is Election Day and tonight one of these two will become the President of the United States. Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican nominee Donald Trump will make history.

The path to 270 was a hard fought battle between the two. It was extremely bitter.

This election has divided Americans. Regardless of who wins, the partisan rancor will continue.

It's worth noting that Democrats have history on their side and if they nominated the first Black man and the first female for president, it leaves the Republicans permanently the party of old White men.

Drudge Mocking "Lying Ted"!

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CRUZ KEEPS GOING
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There's an ugly feud between conservative agitators. Michelle Malkin and Matt Drudge are feuding now because of his not so subliminal support of Donald Trump. Malkin who is a supporter of Ted Cruz was kind of pissed about the controversial splashes on his conservative Craigslist.

The fact is that Cruz has a rough road ahead. After a losing Ohio, Florida and North Carolina, it's nearly impossible for Cruz to secured the nomination.

Drudge's latest splash has gotten attention. It basically shows his daughter putting rabbit ears over Cruz's head. It subliminally saying that Ted Cruz is a "joke" and conservatives better rally around Trump.

Not so fast, Drudge. There's a conservative meeting of the minds in Washington, DC. Some conservatives are so upset that Trump could secure the nomination, they're thinking of a third party candidate to rally around.

The notion of Donald Trump being the Republican Party's nominee is tearing the party up.

John Kasich's victory in Ohio assured that the Republicans will have a brokered convention. Kasich refuses to dropout. Cruz continues to stomp and rallies conservatives to his cause.

Trump warned that he will go full birther on Cruz if he is the nominee.

Former House Speaker John Boehner was asked about a brokered convention. He was saying that it would be nice to have one. At least his successor House Speaker Paul Ryan could become the Republican nominee.

Cue the conservative outrage.....

Donald Trump warned that if he doesn't get the nomination, there could be riots at the convention.

Ryan joked that he's not serious about running for president. But Drudge taunted that Ryan didn't want to be the Speaker of the House, but he is now.

Failed presidential candidate Lindsey Graham reluctantly throws his support to Ted Cruz. Graham said that Cruz is inept but he's the only choice left in this. He really likes John Kasich but figures he doesn't have momentum in this race.

Any thoughts of Trump's potential destruction to the Republican Party.

They Keep On Laying Hands On Our People...

SMH.  They are beyond evil.  They're demonic!

Please read the story written by The Son of Baldwin at:

https://medium.com/@SonofBaldwin/choice-of-demons-b77c9352bcda#.cdjvd3ssf

Walter Plecker- Father of Racial, Political, and Ethnic Divisiveness

Walter Plecker- An American Bigot

Walter Plecker by Abagond:

So-called president Donald Trump would have been so proud of him!

Plecker in 1935 at the Bureau of Vital Statistics (Richmond Times-Dispatch)

Walter Plecker (1861-1947), a White American eugenicist, was the mastermind of the state of Virginia’s Act to Preserve Racial Integrity (1924). The law was an instrument of Jim Crow and did considerable damage to Native American tribes. It led to Loving v Virginia (1967), which made mixed-race marriages legal across the US.

Plecker was born the son of a slave owner ten days before the start of the Civil War. He became a country doctor, then a county public health officer and then, from 1912 to 1946, the head of Virginia’s Bureau of Vital Statistics.

He was a pioneer in public health. He cut infant mortality among Blacks nearly in half and reduced blindness among Blacks and Natives.

As a eugenicist he believed in “race improvement”, so his concern for public health extended to keeping the White race “pure”:

“Unless this can be done, we have little to hope for, but may expect in the future decline or complete destruction of our civilization.”

To that end he pushed for the Act to Preserve Racial Integrity:

“the most perfect expression of the white ideal, and the most important eugenic effort that has been made in 4,000 years.”

It was not completely overturned till 1974.

Under the law, his Bureau recorded the race of every person born in Virginia, as either “white” or “coloured”, using the One Drop Rule. When you got married, you had to go through the Bureau, which either knew your race already or required proof of it. This prevented mixed marriages, like the Lovings.

It went beyond marriage: you could not go to a good school or a good hospital unless you were White.

Plecker wrote to one White mother:

“This is to inform you that this is a mulatto child and you cannot pass it off as white. You will have to do something about this matter and see that this child is not allowed to mix with white children. It cannot go to white schools and can never marry a white person in Virginia.

“It is a horrible thing.”

He was a devout Christian:

“Let us turn a deaf ear to those who would interpret Christian brotherhood as racial equality.”

Because many Virginia lawmakers counted Pocahontas as an ancestor, they made an exception to his White ideal: you could be up to 1/16th Native and still count as White.

To close this loophole, Plecker said that all Natives were “mixed-blooded negroes,” that he could prove that with state records going back to 1830.

Because some Natives could pass for White, he made lists of common Native names, like Branham, public.

Families were torn apart: many Natives left Virginia to escape Plecker’s world.

Natives were recorded as “coloured” (Black) under Plecker. In part because they had disappeared from state records as Natives, the US government sees Virginia as having no tribes. So Virginian tribes do not receive the rights and money granted to other tribes.

It will take an act of Congress to undo the damage, something tribes have been pushing for.

– Abagond, 2015.

My take on Walter Plecker and his racist/fascist legacy he left:

He left a legacy of racial, ethnic, and class division not only in the commonwealth of Virginia, but also this nation.  He not only want to classify Native Americans as Black, but also many groups such as the Melungeons.  He strongly believed in white racial purity/racial hierarchy as well as eugenics to purge certain groups of people from the body politic of the nation.  Buck v Bell case comes to mind.  He thought young Miss Carrie Buck was a danger and a threat to American social order, so he favored her being sterilized over her family's objection.  

The real legacy of Mr. Plecker is that he wanted to see America  divided into two "races", "pure" white and nonwhite.  His evil racist/classist legacy lives on today in the right wing of the Republican Party. Just take a look at the demagoguery of Donald Trump and his followers, Steve King of Iowa, Ted Cruz(person of Color), etc., the HBD crowd, the American Renaissance crowd, talk radio and media hosts Bob Dumas and Richard Cohen, and the Tea Party Crowd.  Unfortunately, liberals as well.  They, too, imbibe the poison of Mr. Plecker by not recognizing American Indian tribes in Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina.

His legacy is alive and well in racial profiling by American government, the divisive political atmosphere of the Republican and Democratic parties, as well as ongoing systemic institutionalized racism.

The evil spirit of Walter Plecker is alive and well today and it's not going anywhere unless people push back against racial/ethnic divisiveness.- S.

Water Woes Plague Flint!

The rust belt city of Flint becomes a national story. The water supply is corrupted. 

Hashtag activism brought attention to the 97,000 populated city of Flint, Michigan.

Michigan's eighth largest city is in dire straits. The city is within a hour of the U.S. Canadian border. The city is within traveling distances from metropolitan areas such as Detroit, Saginaw, Warren, Ann Arbor, Lansing and Port Huron.

Interstate 69, Interstate 75, Interstate 475 and U.S. Highway 23 connects Flint to areas in the lower peninsula.

Flint suffered some of the worst since General Motors packed it up and left. Flint has been ranked among the "Most Dangerous Cities in the United States", with a per capita violent crime rate seven times higher than the national average.

The real crime continues to hurt the city. The city's water supply is contaminated and people are getting real sick off it.

That water could kill you!

A real life genocide in the city. Children and adults are catching sickness from lead poisoning, legionaries and extremely deadly bacteria found in fecal matter.

The water supply in the city is so polluted, the Michigan governor had no choice but to call upon the federal government to assist.

Sometime in 2014, the city's drinking water had a series of issues that culminated with lead contamination, creating a serious public health danger. The crisis began when the city—then under the control of emergency manager Darnell Earley—changed the source of the water supply from Lake Huron to the Flint River. The corrosive river water of the Flint River caused lead from aging pipes to leach into the water supply, causing extremely elevated levels of lead. As a result, residents had severely high levels of lead in the blood and experienced a range of serious health problems.

There are four families who filed a federal class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan in Detroit against Governor Rick Snyder and thirteen other city and state officials. Separately, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Michigan opened an investigation. In early January 2016, the city was declared to be in a state of emergency by the Governor of Michigan Rick Snyder.

Dr. Karen Weaver, the mayor of Flint with Republican governor Rick Snyder of Michigan.

Three government officials—one from the City of Flint and two from the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality—resigned over the mishandling of the crisis, and Snyder issued an apology to citizens.

There are calls from social media to indict former mayor Dayne Walling and Michigan governor Rick Snyder. Activist and entertainer Michael Moore went to social media to hashtag #ArrestSnyder

And of course, the #FlintWaterCrisis is trending on social media right now.

Conservatives are having a field day with this. They want to blame liberalism and the Democratic Party for this crisis.

Water rationing and spikes in sales create a panic.

The inept Congress once again blocks progress. RT America reports that members of the U.S. House of Representatives voted 253-166 this week to overturn a controversial rule to protect America’s clean water in spite of a growing scandal in Flint, Michigan over poisonous levels of lead.

Representatives approved a resolution back by the Senate in November that blocks the Environmental Protection Agency's "waters of the United States" (WOTUS) rule.

The regulation protects streams and wetlands used in local water supplies, but failed after a deluge of lobbying from corporations including Halliburton, Shell, and Tyson foods.

President Barack Obama is expected to veto the bill to protect the rule, at the same time as he considers a request from Michigan Governor Rick Snyder to declare a state of emergency.

Frustrated residents have called for the Republican governor’s resignation after high levels of deadly lead were found in Flint’s drinking water.

The city switched its supply in April 2014 from Lake Huron to the Flint River in an effort to save $19 million.

By the way, Snyder is facing more controversy. The city of Detroit's public schools are facing a crisis as well. Some educators are doing sick outs because they're fed up with the state not contributing funds to the overcrowded and deteriorating schools.

GOP Bans NBC!

Republicans chairman Reince Priebus bans NBC from debates.

I can imagine the concern trolls saying that the Democrats did it to that right wing network when then senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton boycotted the debate in Nevada.

I remember over at Steve Doocy's Playhouse, the agitators told their viewers about Obama attending a radical Islamic madrassah and it was being spread around by Clinton's operatives.

Obama blasted the network for misleading the notion that he's a Muslim. What made him boycott the event? Well it had to be the head hancho over at that network. Chief Roger made an inappropriate joke about Obama. That was the last straw for Obama.

He froze the network out for nearly a year. It took Rupert Murdoch to broker peace with the network.

To this day, President Barack Obama looks at that network as "the opposition". He believes that he won't be able to talk about issues on that network. He believe that network attacks him and his allies for ratings. He cites that annoying conservative agitator as one of the reasons to why that network isn't friendly to him or Democrats.

NBC News disappointed that Republicans bowed out.

The network fired back at the Democrats by saying they've caved to the pressures of liberal activist groups such as MoveOn.org. They said that if you can't handle us, you can't be the president.

Now it seems like history is repeating itself.

The Republican National Committee is doing damage control after Republican candidates complained about the debate on CNBC. Some of the candidates were pissed they didn't get a lofty green room and the questions didn't focus on real matters.

Today it seems like the Republican leader caved to pressure from the candidates. Reince Priebus formally banned NBC from participating in debates. That includes Spanish network Telemundo.

I just sent this letter to NBC News suspending our partnership for the February Debate: https://t.co/MVke5m2EBm

— Reince Priebus (@Reince) October 30, 2015

Reince Priebus release a statement in regards to the CNBC debate. He said that he's no longer going to invest time in working with NBC.

Mr. Andrew Lack
Chairman, NBC News
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, New York 10112

Dear Mr. Lack,

I write to inform you that pending further discussion between the Republican National Committee (RNC) and our presidential campaigns, we are suspending the partnership with NBC News for the Republican primary debate at the University of Houston on February 26, 2016. The RNC’s sole role in the primary debate process is to ensure that our candidates are given a full and fair opportunity to lay out their vision for America’s future. We simply cannot continue with NBC without full consultation with our campaigns.

The CNBC network is one of your media properties, and its handling of the debate was conducted in bad faith. We understand that NBC does not exercise full editorial control over CNBC’s journalistic approach. However, the network is an arm of your organization, and we need to ensure there is not a repeat performance.

CNBC billed the debate as one that would focus on “the key issues that matter to all voters—job growth, taxes, technology, retirement and the health of our national economy.”  That was not the case. Before the debate, the candidates were promised an opening question on economic or financial matters. That was not the case. Candidates were promised that speaking time would be carefully monitored to ensure fairness. That was not the case.  Questions were inaccurate or downright offensive. The first question directed to one of our candidates asked if he was running a comic book version of a presidential campaign, hardly in the spirit of how the debate was billed.

While debates are meant to include tough questions and contrast candidates’ visions and policies for the future of America, CNBC’s moderators engaged in a series of “gotcha” questions, petty and mean-spirited in tone, and designed to embarrass our candidates. What took place Wednesday night was not an attempt to give the American people a greater understanding of our candidates’ policies and ideas.

I have tremendous respect for the First Amendment and freedom of the press. However, I also expect the media to host a substantive debate on consequential issues important to Americans. CNBC did not.

While we are suspending our partnership with NBC News and its properties, we still fully intend to have a debate on that day, and will ensure that National Review remains part of it.

I will be working with our candidates to discuss how to move forward and will be in touch.

Sincerely,

Reince Priebus
Chairman, Republican National Committee


Quick poll.

What are your thoughts on the GOP banning NBC?

Great Idea. NBC has always been against Republicans. The junk food media is too liberal and Republicans will never get fair coverage.

Bad Idea.  Getting mad at the junk food media shows the public that Republicans are petty. They can't handle pressure being the president.

Poll Maker

Like I've said in the previous posting. NBC and other networks should tell Republicans to "go fuck themselves". They should say to Priebus, "Fine, we'll no longer cover Republicans".

Good luck on winning votes.

Let the Republicans grant all their debates to that right wing network, Newsmax, The Blaze, Cumulus, Salem Radio and iHeart Media. Let them deal with all the Republican debates.

Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina, Mike Huckabee, George Pataki, John Kasich, Chris Christie, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, Bobby Jindal, Rick Santorum, Jim Gilmore, Lindsey Graham  and Jeb Bush needs the junk food media more than they need them.

I mean if you're that petty over a few questions, how can you deal with a real issue?

If you believe that the decision was a good idea or a bad idea, vote in our poll.

Jamie Foxx: Got Flack For Knocking Bruce Jenner's Transformation!

Entertainer Jamie Foxx as Ugly Wanda from In Living Color.

Obviously, the entertainer Jamie Foxx meant no harm. He was roasting controversial celebrity Bruce Jenner. His jokes lead to an outcry by some on the social media.

The patriarch of the Kardashian-Jenner clan has decided to transition into a woman. Jenner, a former Olympic gold medal athlete and occasional actor told his wife Kris about his transitioning to becoming a woman. This sparked a major feud between them and they went through a divorce.

Jenner is also under investigation for vehicular homicide after his SUV plowed into two vehicles killing a driver. It was on the Pacific Coast Highway and LAPD are trying to determine if Jenner was on the phone when this occurred.

At the iHeartRadio Music Awards, Foxx hosted it and got a little bit of flack for this video.



Foxx hosts The Foxxhole on SiriusXM . He is a comedian, singer and director.

He's pretty tolerant of the LGBT community.

The LGBT community is not having any of it. They call upon Foxx to apologize.

Just recently Indiana's Republican governor Mike Pence got his share of controversy.

Jenner is transitioning into a woman.

The governor passed a Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The law is a backdoor for openly discriminating against someone based on religious grounds. The LGBT community is pissed that this law could generate into businesses in the state turning away customers because of their sexuality.

Pence had just recently announced he will call upon Republican lawmakers to specifically eliminate any traces of anti-gay rhetoric in this law.

Pence is floated as a potential clown for the nomination.

UNAPOLOGETIC: TN State Representative Sheila Butt's Racist Comments on Facebook

UNAPOLOGETIC

                                                    This is TN State Rep Sheila Butt

                                                     Look beyond the smile, people!

State Rep. Sheila Butt wrote a Facebook post in January that critics thought painted her as a racist, if taken at face value.

Any elected leader who believes this country needs an “NAAWP” deservedly would face scorn and ridicule. She never would be taken seriously again for the rest of her political career and likely have to go home in shame.

There’s just one problem. No one seems to hear what Butt is telling them.

The Republican from Columbia said she did not mean “National Association for the Advancement of White People,” as her critics charge. They thought she was playing off “National Association for the Advancement of Colored People,” or “NAACP.”

In January, Butt responded to a social media comment on Islamophobia by writing, “It is time for a Council on Christian Relations and an NAAWP in the Country.”

The Republican from Columbia, 63, said she meant “National Association for the Advancement of Western Principles,” and she really doesn’t care whether critics believe her or not.

“I know what I was writing,” Butt said as I spent a morning and afternoon with her at the State Capitol last week.”I am not going to apologize for something that I did not mean. It’s not going to happen.”

Butt describes herself as a Christian, conservative woman, in that order. The second-term legislator said she’s the most non-judgmental person you would ever meet. Furthermore, she said she does not rate people by race, creed or color. And she’s offended by anyone who thinks otherwise.

- See more at: http://columbiadailyherald.com/news/local-news/unapologetic#sthash.Jy43MYz5.dpuf

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Here's more racism from Ms. Butt:

My take:  As you and I can see, Right wing racism is in your face in 2015. This occur in less than one month after the racially and religious motivated killing of a Muslim family in Chapel Hill, N.C.  Islamophobia is at an all-time high.  Keep it up, conservatives!

Bonus reading:  The Chapel Hill Shooting- Abagond
                            The Rant(March 5, 2015)

Ohio Mayor Blames Blacks For Cop Morale!

Norwood, Ohio mayor popped off about race-baiting Black leaders.

Norwood, Ohio is located about six miles from Downtown Cincinnati. It's an enclave that's surrounded by Cincinnati and is located around Ohio State Route 562 (known as the Lateral) and Interstate 71.

The mayor of the city has generated national attention after he wrote a letter singling out race-baiting Black leaders and cowardly lawmakers for cop morale being down.

And the defiant mayor spoke to the junk food media saying that he's not a racist and he's just showing "love" to his police force.

Post by Norwood Police Department.

Thomas Williams the mayor of the Norwood is facing a controversy. He sent a letter to his police chief and urged vigilance but happen to slip the Black in it.

In 2001, Timothy Thomas was an unarmed man who was gunned down by former Cincinnati officer Stephen Roach. That sparked a week of riots in the city and an ongoing boycott of the city.

This mayor Williams needs to understand that the issue is real.

Norwood residents are calling for the mayor to formally apologize or get the fuck out of the office.

THOMAS F. WILLIAMS, MAYOR
5701 VARELMAN COURT
NORWOOD, OH  45212
HOME: 731-3053
CITY: 458-4501
mayor@norwood-ohio.com

His freedom of speech was intrusive and inclusive of most Republicans. Just in case you want to actually know what political affiliation this clown is, Williams is a Democrat.

The Cincinnati Enquirer reports that despite the firestorm of controversy his letter created on social media, the mayor would "never turn a blind eye" to an officer who betrays the public's trust, Police Chief William Kramer said in response.

Norwood, Ohio at Linden Pointe. The area Montgomery Road (U.S. 22, Ohio State Routes 3 and 561) near Ohio State Route 562 known as the Norwood Lateral.

The Facebook post generated almost 200 comments since Wednesday.

While many of those 200 comments backed the mayor and applauded his support of the police department, others said the comments added fuel to the fire of racial tension while being antagonistic and insensitive.

Kramer posted a response to some of the criticism Thursday.

"In no way is he saying that he would blindly support us," Kramer said in the post.

"There were also many comments about Norwood's history. That seems to be (a) ghost that no matter how hard we try, we cannot get past. Regardless, we will continue to provide the exemplary service we always have and we also will continue to build and strengthen our relationship with the citizens and visitors to Norwood."

Ohio Deputies Traded Racial Slurs Online!

High ranking Montgomery County deputy was placed on leave after he traded racial emails to his fellow officers. 

In Dayton, Ohio, the Montgomery County sheriff's office has placed two officers on administrative leave after it was discovered a few deputies were trading racial comments about the Black community through their police-issued devices. This is comes right after the grand jury found no probable cause for the NYPD officer who placed Eric Garner in a chokehold.

This comes a few weeks after the no probable cause verdict for the Ferguson officer who killed unarmed Michael Brown.

This happened a month after the no probable cause verdicts for Beavercreek and Provo officers who killed Jonathan Crawford and Darrien Hunt.

These deputies were pretty much having a field day online about the residents of color.

The Dayton chapter of the NAACP is calling for the removal of these officers. The Montgomery County sheriff Phil Plummer is hoping that the issue doesn't go to the U.S. Justice Department.

WDTN reporsts that Plummer has ordered an investigation into the officer's conduct through internal affairs.

According to the report five members of the force are under investigation but so far two high ranks are pulled.

“These text messages, while some of them may be some joking going on back and forth, some of them are flat out rude and racist,” said NAACP Dayton chapter president Derrick Foward.

The messages were exchanged between November 2011 and January 2013.

Sheriff Phil Plummer says the messages had racial overtones and were considered inappropriate.

“These five individuals have taken this organization three steps backward and will be held accountable,” said Sheriff Plummer. “I will not tolerate racism in this department.”

The sheriff described the texts as “very disturbing racial text messages”. He says one of the five deputies made the racially charged comment.

Foward turned over documentation of the complaint to the sheriff’s office Tuesday. Sheriff Plummer says the investigation is in its early stages, but it is important to public safety that both Flanders and Sollenberger be put on leave.

Plummer says the text messages were exchanged during both on and off the clock hours, but he says that deputies are always considered on the clock representing the community.

The messages were sent from personal cell phones.

Phil Plummer, sheriff for the county may have to fire the cannon a couple of times.

Flanders was a sergeant at the time of the text messages and Sollenberger was a detective under Flanders’ supervision. Both have since been promoted to their current positions.

Flanders is currently working as a jail administrator. Sollenberger is in Internal Affairs.

2 NEWS Investigates spoke with Captain Tom Flanders and his wife on the phone. He said the allegations are completely false and he has not been shown the text message transcript the sheriff is referring to. He and his wife said they are not racist and look forward to clearing his name. He has been with the sheriff’s office for 19 years.

Foward said the Dayton Unit NAACP will request an outside agency to perform an investigation. He said the complainant, who he would not identify, has made made that request.

Some of the emails and text messages included: I HATE NIGGERS! That is all.

Quote of the Day

@irin @tressiemcphd White Republican politicians think the way Elliot thinks except the use of extreme violence.
— Stephanie Baldwin (@Reynawomyn) May 26, 2014

Womanist Musings: George Sodini: Misogynist and Racist

Womanist Musings: George Sodini: Misogynist and Racist



Past posting from Womanist Musings regarding George Sodini's misogynistic racism.  I see the similarities between yesterday's Santa Barbara shooter and Mr. Sodini.   Mr Sodini's right-wing racism and Eliot 

Rodger's.  This serves as proof that the war on women, working/middle class people, and people of Color are real and deadly!

According to Renee Martin:

White women and people of color are routinely referred to as angry and castrating and yet the violence of White men is always viewed as an anomaly.  Limbaugh recently referred to Obama as an angry Black man for daring initially to speak truth to power regarding the Gates incident, however the ways in which White men use hate speech and violence to maintain their undeserved privilege is never seen for what it truly is – fear and anger run amok.

Sodini may be only one man but his body represents much of the anger that White men are currently experiencing at the thought that power dynamics could possibly change.  Some may not go as far as to murder innocent people, however just as one would not turn your back on a wounded animal, so to is it dangerous to take the threat that they pose lightly.  This is not about how Sodini felt as man but specifically how he identified as a White man. 

Hank Aaron....

One poster sums it up quite perfectly:  

"When one really looks at the whole landscape of America...things really haven't changed."-  Brownhornet71 

Where is the C in CPAC? | American Renaissance

Where is the C in CPAC? | American Renaissance



Ha! Ha! Ha!



Paleoconservative White Nationalists Jared Taylor criticized CPAC for not being conservative and racist enough. Isn't it ironic that conservatives are fighting one another when they say that liberals are disunited.  It's the conservative movement that is in array.  They're fighting about who's the most conservative, more White, and Christian.  Obviously, Mr. Taylor doesn't think that CPAC is racist enough and yet the latter agrees with Mr. Taylor about the inferiority of People of Color.


Well, Mr. Taylor, America is a changed country.  Get used to it!

Deborah Gray White: Black diversity in the Post-civil Rights Movement

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.

Repealooza!

The 33rd Repeal Of The Affordable Healthcare Reform Act. 

It cost the taxpayers millions when the Congress is wasting time on symbolic votes. President Barack Obama is going to take on not only Mitt Romney, the presumptive nominee for the Republican Party, but Congress as well.

Never in my day has Congress been so bad. The Republicans took control of the U.S. House of Representatives in January 2011, on the whim of the U.S. Midterms. They had the wind in their sails when the conservative Tea Party Movement came forth. In 2009, a few months after the president signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (the Stimulus), the Tea Party was born. The Tea Party opposed the president's involvement in the rescue of the automotive and banking industry. The Tea Party opposed the health care reform law that was signed by the president in 2010.

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Virginia) speaks.

Republicans ran on the slow economy. As the economy was picking up, the Republicans were screaming that the president and Democratic leaders weren't doing enough. Congressman John Boehner (R-Ohio) chanted "Where's the jobs?" The Minority Leader at the time, Boehner and Congressman Eric Cantor (R-Virginia) were masterminding a message to the voters. The Republicans vowed that they'll get their act together. They vowed that if you elect the Republicans, they'll promise to bring back jobs and fiscal restraint.

That message proved to be fruitful for the Republicans. The Republican Party won back the House of Representatives and a majority of state/territorial governorships.

When unemployment was at its highest 10.9%, the Republicans had managed to win the message war. They claimed that "the Stimulus" failed, health care is a government takeover (later a huge tax burden), and Barack Obama was coming for the guns. It riled up White voters and it wiped out the Democratic supermajority in the U.S. Senate and gave the Democrats unease.

The House Democrats are now in the minority. They've been waiting for a way to win the message war! I think its coming in the form of CBS reporter Nancy Cordes.



Cordes reports that Congress is holding their 33rd attempt at repealing the Affordable Healthcare Reform Act (Obamacare). She also reports that Congress will have only 42 days left in their agenda schedule and many other important issues are coming up to vote.

Congress must fund the government. They must compromise on passing tax breaks for small businesses and the middle class. The Republicans will in the beginning say they'll refuse to compromise on anything the president does! But when pressure and of course negative publicity comes forth, the Republicans will take this fight all the way to the end!


Nancy Cordes reports that CBS News had a tally that found the Republican repeal effort has taken up at least 80 hours on the House floor, or two full work weeks, since 2010.

"Obamacare is a massive tax hike on the middle class," said Texas Republican Lamar Smith. 
                       


But Wednesday's measure will suffer the same fate as the other full repeal efforts, which sailed through the Republican-controlled House but died, predictably, in the Democrat-controlled Senate
."I say shame," said John Dingell, a Democratic congressman from Michigan. "You're wasting the time of the American people. You're wasting the time of Congress."

And time is precious on Capitol Hill, where House leaders have scheduled only 42 more working days between now and the end of the year when critical deadlines loom. The Bush-era tax cuts are set to expire then for everyone, and steep across-the-board spending cuts will kick in.

There's been little attempt to seek common ground on those issues or on funding the government, which must be done by October, or on tackling the nation's 8.2 percent unemployment rate.

Virginia's Eric Cantor, the second highest ranking House Republican, spearheaded today's repeal measure.

When asked why they keep holding these debates and repeal votes, Cantor said Republicans "want to try and get it right."

"Again the American people have rejected Obamacare," Cantor said. "You know they don't want Washington telling them what kind of health care they should have."

Is the GOP proposing something else? "Absolutely," Cantor said. "All along the process during which Obamacare was being discussed here in Capitol Hill we posited an alternative."


Republicans did release a short outline of their health care priorities in 2009, but they haven't released any formal replacement for the president's health care law and have no immediate plans to do so. One of their main goals with all these votes is to tie vulnerable Democrats to an unpopular law in an election year.

Politics as usual! 

GOP School Board Members Want To Deny Michelle Obama A Visit!

Republicans trying to have a political event that features First Lady Michelle Obama canceled. 

Who are these people trying to fool?

These people in the Republican Party have no respect for the office of the president. No matter how many times a person tells them that the president and First Lady Michelle Obama aren't terrorists, those in the political right will not believe you! They will agitate a confrontational debate over how we're the ones misinformed by all the things you get from the mainstream media.

The New York Daily News and other outlets are reporting that a Miami-based school is going to hold a campaign event where First Lady Obama is planning on attending. Two members of the school board are not happy about this arrival. Of course these two Republican members think that it's against school policy to have the president or first lady attend this school.

Courtesy of the New York Daily News

Michelle Obama unwelcome at Miami school, say GOP board members

Some Republican members of the Miami-Dade school board in Florida are none too pleased that First Lady Michelle Obama is holding a campaign event at an empty-for-summer local high school.

By Kristen A. Lee / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS



Some Republican members of the Miami-Dade school board in Florida are none too pleased that First Lady Michelle Obama is holding a campaign event at a local high school Tuesday.

Obama is scheduled to help recruit campaign volunteers at an event at Miami Lakes’ Barbara Goleman Senior High, which is empty of students for the summer vacation.

Board member Renier Diaz de la Portilla – who happens to be a Republican candidate for the Florida State House – has called for the event to be canceled, The Miami Herald reported.

Another board member, Carlos Curbelo, sent a letter to the school board’s attorney saying it is “inappropriate” and “sends the wrong message” for the Obama campaign hold a political event at the school. 


Curbelo has worked as a Republican strategist, the newspaper noted.

The use of public schools whose only focus should be to educate our children for political gain is downright wrong,” Diaz de la Portilla said in a statement provided to the Herald. “Don’t these liberals have boundaries? Our schools are places for learning, not places for politicking.”

School board attorney Walter Harvey says the Obama campaign is simply renting the building.

Under Miami-Dade school board policy, any group can apply to lease facilities from the county’s public schools, Harvey told the Herald. He added that the district cannot discriminate against political groups.

Both presidential campaigns frequently use public schools for campaign events. Republican candidate Mitt Romney is holding a town hall meeting Tuesday at Central High School in Grand Junction, Colo.

Students at Barbara Goleman Senior High are on summer break and its employees cannot attend the event if they are working. The $2,351 cost of hosting the event will be paid by the campaign, not the district, the Herald reported.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/election-2012/michelle-obama-unwelcome-miami-school-gop-board-members-article-1.1111219#ixzz20KA5M3UC

GOP Defeats Equal Pay Bill!

 

Is there a War on Women?

To the Republican Party, it's just another example of the class warfare the president and the Democratic Party present to the general public to deflect the attention off the economy.

The Republicans love to say that "the president hasn't produced enough jobs!"

What this equal pay law meant to so many women? To those who are unfairly paid by corporations must allow fair treatment. Republicans defeat the bill with 52 -48. There was a Democrat in the opposition too.

What this means is the Republicans aren't concerned with jobs, they're wrapped their asses around the American flag in preparedness of these ridiculous culture wars.