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Hi All, be positive and vote, vote vote, find out who is not registered and get them registered voting is the only solution the days of 15% turnout are dead
Chipsticks & UT, you have done great work today.
I’m still grappling with my emotions.
America’s Family!
Seeing them reminds us that while we sometimes suffer in the depths, we also soar in the heights.
So very true, Ceb, and such a timely reminder! TY 2 Utal.
{{{{{TOD}}}}}
Hi.
UT – Thanks for providing this “safe room” for all of us, today, on behalf of Chips. Appreciate it.
I echo this sentiment…
Thank you prettyfoot58.
Thank you so much for this Jacqueline. It means a lot.
As you mean a lot, to all of us.
I am with you JOB! UT is absolutely amazing. She is a shining example of young people who are the future of this country.
And, thankfully, she’s on the Obama team!
I going out to our Life Group meeting. Our current study is about grace. I need the reminder tonight.
Be sure someone finds Joy Reid’s last segment…..her comments about the four freedoms FDR talked about. she focused on the freedom from fear. It was awesome.
Joy Ann Reid will NOT be getting a show any time soon.
She is the truth and it scares TPTB to death.
Joy was preaching. That was a fabulous closing commentary. It was a brilliant and powerful statement. Hopefully, that segment will be posted here so that everyone can see it. I just love Joy, she is a treasure.
dammit I missed it. Hope there’s video soon.
This has been a sad but predictable day. After hearing the heartbreaking verdict, we temporarily came together. But like clockwork, people move on to disagreements and their typical “I didn’t donate & vote for POTUS for weak response or excuses”.
Seriously ?!? I mean WTF!
We can’t get our act together to focus on what we need to do to get Justice for Trayvon Martin, and what we need to do to rollup our sleevesto attack overt Voter Suppression efforts by the #GOP?
People seem to forget that
1. Zimmerman case is under investigation by the DOJ, so it would be inappropriate for POTUS to comment on it
2. POTUS focus was on Trayvon’s Family, and acknowledging their pain. it’s not about us!
3. He is the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, not just one group or another. As a leader, he doesn’t get the LUXURY of speaking his mind. I’m sure he’s angry. i’m sure he’d love to let loose. But he can’t! Just as Ben Bernanke has to be careful what he says, or markets go nuts. President Obama needs to measure his words so that the spotlight is not on him and what he said, but rather the issue at hand.
This is WHY Republicans can win. They turn up and vote and they’re unified.
We seriously need to get our act together and already work on the 2014 election. And if I see another comment about 2016, I seriously will lose it!!
Your comment is a thing of beauty, PB.
All truth !!
I know as an AA I feel a certain kinship to the Obamas but with that feeling comes a slight bit of ownership and it’s not right. I can’t talk for him, assume I know what he is thinking or tell them what to do from my keyboard. He is the President of the Nation and should be respected as such. He is not MLK or Mr X.
Exactly, Jessica! Besides, what are the people bashing him doing?
Exactly.
Very well said!
I thought this had some key points on the gap between the law and peoples’ perception of fundamental justice
I’m sorry, I don’t give a dam what the jury focus on, the fact is if Zimmerman had stay in his car and allow the police to do their job, Trayvon would be alive. So I guess according to that white jury, only Zimmerman had a right to defend himself.
Not sure what “justifiable use of force” is needed to let a boy walk home from the store with his snacks…
I wish people and the media had said of the OJ Simpson that the jury “focused on reasonable doubt.” Yet these same people called the predominantly black jurors stupid, though the evidence in the OJ Simpson case clearly left room for “reasonable doubt.” In any case, today I am not in a mood to listen to media idiots who are looking for excuses to cover this gross injustice. It’s not as if this was the first time this happened when Blacks are victims of racist violence and murder.
FYI …pass it on!
Thanks just tweeted video!!
Thanks, PB! Everyone needs to Tweet this, email, FB, carrier pigeon… whatever it takes!
great video – tweeted DF
I so wish I could live up to the grace, dignity and pure humanity of our First Family.
From a Wisconsin attorney:
“In Florida, if self-defense is even suggested, it’s the states obligation to prove it’s absence beyond a reasonable doubt(!). That’s crazy. But ‘not guilty’ was certainly a reasonable result in this case. As I told in friend in Tampa today though, if you’re ever in a heated argument with anyone, and you’re pretty sure there aren’t any witnesses, it’s always best to kill the other person. They can’t testify, you don’t have to testify, no one else has any idea what happened; how can the state ever prove beyond a doubt is wasn’t self-defense? Holy crap! What kind of system is that?”
Sorry, Jovie, Global and others in Florida. It looks like it *was* Florida.
Watched maybe 20 minutes of cables’ wall-to-wall Zimmerman trial coverage, but it looks to me like they are trying to apply a national standard on a state law that needs to be changed. Sheesh.
I don’t believe it was Florida. I believe it was racist in the extreme. When the prosecutors think there is “no chance”, when a light colored person is allowed to follow and kill a black kid & people BELIEVE his story – it is racist. It could have been in lots of other states. The black guy asked to be killed. There was overwhelming evidence that this was NOT self defense. If the jury didn’t see that – they were colored in their sight.
Where were all these people in the OJ case! All these are excuses to hide the blatant racism! I am not buying any of them.
I don’t know if many of you read Juanita Jean’s blog. She is really an attorney in Richmond, Texas, and is deeply involved with the Democratic Party there. She has helped keep me sane through two elections. And she is hilariously funny, especially on the topic of Texan politics. This post, however, is not funny. She has some good points to make about the trial, the jury, and the system.
http://juanitajean.com/2013/07/14/my-thoughts/
Always love to read juanitajean:)
It is like pulling teeth to get people to vote in non-Presidential years, when judges, DAs and sheriffs are elected. Barack Obama can change the world, but who your local sheriff is will most certainly change your life.
I live in a majority minority county yet we elected a man to be sheriff who called the President of the United States of America, “that clown in Washington.” Every single judge we have is white, old, and Republican with the exception of one, who is female. Our District Attorney, also white, old and Republican, could not try his way out of a paper bag.
Elections have consequences.
Please do not vote just the top of your ballot. Find out something about the candidates who decide if your child is safe walking home from the store with Skittles and ice tea. They are all our children. And until we can protect them, the job is not done.
Thanks Maryl, I tend to forget juanitajean until someone shares. So how was your first week of ss?
Thanks for asking! It went well, considering. It’s really supposed to be remedial but many families who really want enrichment signed up. I have about 8 first graders and 11 second graders, so it is a pretty diverse group! I also have two autistic children. Luckily I have a great aide for the class and they are trying to find the money for a one on one aide for one of the autistic students. The first week was math, and we concentrated on learning math facts like Partners of Ten through games and songs. This week it will be doubles, even and odd, counting by 2s, and maybe counting by 5s. It’s two hours of high energy activity. The kids are very funny. I think a tiny bit of progress was made.
‘ I think a tiny bit of progress was made. ‘
‘Odds’ are more than a ‘tiny bit’, some of it measured in relationships/interactions! 😉 😀
Thanks, I hope so!
Do we get to know the names/backgrounds/educational levels/professions of the jurors? I would like to/need to know.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/21/us/6-female-jurors-are-selected-for-zimmerman-trial.html?_r=0
The jurors, none of them black, include a Hispanic woman with eight children, an animal rescuer who once had a concealed-weapons permit, and a woman who said she had used Mr. Martin’s death as a cautionary example for her two adolescent children. Of the four alternates chosen for the case, two were men, and all were white. Nearly all of the jurors have children.
That the final jury was made up solely of women was unusual, legal experts said. But what might resonate more in this racially charged case is that all but one of the jurors is white.
Diana Tennis, a defense lawyer based in Orlando, said the chances of having a six-person jury without any black jurors were high given the demographics of Seminole County, where 11 percent of the population is black. But should Mr. Zimmerman, who is Hispanic, be acquitted by a jury that includes no blacks could become a point of contention in the trial’s aftermath, she said.
I saw on TV last night that 2 were unemployed
A few threads back Chips posted a link to this info
http://my.elizabethwarren.com/page/s/glass-steagall?source=20130711emf
SUPPORT THE 21ST CENTURY GLASS STEAGALL ACT
Our new 21st Century Glass Steagall Act once again separates traditional banks from riskier financial services. And since banking has become much more complicated since the first bill was written in 1933, we’ve updated the law to include new activities and leave no room for regulatory interpretations that water down the rules.
The bill will give a five year transition period for financial institutions to split their business practices into distinct entities – shrinking their size, taking an important step toward ending “Too Big to Fail” once and for all, and minimizing the risk of future bailouts.
A little Stream, later began a might Ocean. Brava, Lady.
Awesome!
Now this brought tears to my eyes. Was waiting to see righteous white folks being righteous. Thank you so much !
great! the numbers may be small but the diversity sends a very LOUD message
Spent the day with my Canadian cousin who now teaches community college in NY and she said something which is very true, Republicans think and strategize long term Democrats react that’s why we have gerrymandering, VRA, tampongate, Trayvon etc etc. It is time to start planning and strategizing long term, 2010 taught everyone that you can never take your eye off the ball, yes we will get weary, yes we will be disillusioned, yes we will get angry but that’s why there is more than one of us, when ALL of us pull together the strong will help the weak, walk for the tired, speak for the sleepy, we are all in this together GET UP AND GET GOING as a Canadian I can’t vote but I can encourage, encourage, encourage, remember that darkest hour is just before dawn; despite this verdict we can’t give up now, PBO, Trayvon’s family and all the other disenfrancished, discriminated against folks are depending on all of us to be their voice, we are the voices of the voiceless, let us not so despair that we lose the war after giving up at the setback of one battle…FORWARD to a better tomorrow a better Country a better People
Yes, Anjo:) Tend the garden.
I plead guilty, Anjo. I’m one of those who raised the roof in the sixties. Oh the heady days…. Got a nasty letter from jeh/nixon and annual visits from the fbi for ten years (scared the heck out of my grandma when I was living with her for a few months.)
Now…READY TO ROLL…just a bit slower.
Yup. Left throws fits and votes easily without any long term strategy or discipline. Persistence is not its strong suit.
JimmY Carter in 2009…….GZ, Fox and what RWNJs are doing are Not coming from a Vacuum………
Keith Olbermann Covered it as Only him could
Twisted Sister sand: We’re not Gonna Take it……….
People across this nation is beginning to say Enough……Their Objection has got to be Louder than what the teabaggers did in 2009 and 2010.
Their Objection has got to be Louder than what the teabaggers did in 2009 and 2010…….
BooM!
Then when Bill Clinton is asked on Larry King……Clinton minimized the issue.
UGH.
I do not like this man soooo much!
Clinton must be talking about his and Hillary supporters. He is why I am so glad POTUS selected Joe Biden as his VP, and not Hillary. And Bill Clinton is the reason why I would not vote for Hillary if she ran.
Not much there there.
Nena, what a stark contrast between Carter and Clinton. By the way, what exactly did Clinton do to fight racism?
Now has CNN covered this for I know that Fox will not….they are looking for violence and horrific pictures or videos to run.
Thanks for sharing this picture.
You’re welcome!
Looks like a lot of white arms to me—-in solidarity.
I think this is March, 2012 picture. check it out.
Ok, needed a break, so watching The Addams Family movie. IMHO, Raul Julia and Anjelica Hurston as Gomez and Morticia were just absolutely SPOT ON casting. The rest of the supporting cast are just as perfect as the two leads. I even love the sequel.
Great chemistry between the leads, and the casting and campy yet not too campy feel of it was a winner in my book.
My fav scene are of course of Mortica and Gomez:
I just love that you do that!
I’ve learned to compartmentalize thing Layla. I’ve always had a hard time getting to sleep at night. I think it’s because I always have something on my mind and so until my mind is settles, I can’t get to sleep. So on days like today and late yesterday I have to unwind my mind are I’ll never get to sleep. I’m a movie person, so movies do that for me
Are you my twin? 🙂
Oops. Didn’t see your post lovely lady. Even though you don’t know I’m there, I’m almost always hang out at night with you.
No no, I was talking about our shared love for movies and this one in particular. So sad that Raul Julia left us. He was an wonderful actor. (… and of course, there’s Idris) 😀
We have a lot in common, lamh. Sometimes when dudette is posting music late at night, I’m lurking and and loving her selections,
😀
You are smart to take a break in order to maintain your sanity. I am afraid to check my BP .
Beautiful image.
Happening now in DC
Awww the good people of the USA!!!!!!!! This warms my heart!
This is AWESOME!
Just the opposite will happen. Zimmerman is a hero to the racist. There will be job offers, free beer, bills paid and a starring role at the next republican convention. This is a good day for Zimmerman and the haters. Neither will feel remorse or any suffering.
Yeh, you’re probably right. But the letter’s still great!
There are many more people in the US that will regard him and his so called supporters as pure racists and a child killer.
Sorry, but I have to disagree with this statement. These racist idiots will abandon him the moment his 15 minutes of fame are up.
Besides, he’s not “one of them.” He just acted as if he was.
https://twitter.com/Fascinatingpics/status/356250462988668929
I can see both. Simultaneously too. So. RT’ed & Fav’ed.
Me too! 🙂
https://twitter.com/Fascinatingpics/status/356220262083076096
Awesome!
THIS!!
My thoughts are with the martin family for their son is beyond pain but it is the living that has to suffer. I knew from the beginning that he would be aquitted. I am not a lawyer. BUT
1) it took an out cry for him to be charged
2) venue for trial was not changed. picking jurors from said town who were all female and almost white without black or asian
3) Judge was a republican
4) prosectur did a namby-pamby job.
i have not followed the case closely as I told one of my coworkers cos it was rigged from thr beginning so why should I listen to that. Justice shall prevail. They are just waiting for us to riot. We should not give them the satisfaction. Satisfaction should be at the ballot box. PBO is wise he knows there are powerful forces behind the scenes trying to make the county ungovernable.
I can’t play videos, but this is one of the best and says it all. Many thanks. prettyfoot.
I love this man! Thanks , Prettyfoot for sharing this clip.
And the shark is smiling! Good shark, good boy! I will stick with my cat!
I’m not even into cats, but I’d have to agree with you on this one. 😀
Diana Ross
No Mountain High Enough
Awwww…
https://twitter.com/Fascinatingpics/status/356145016676171776
Spectacular!
I’ve only been there once, at night.
The sound of the water rushing over the falls was terrifying.
People need to keep in mind the awesome power of Mother Nature.
Me too arapaho, but in the daytime. We rode the Maid of the Mist boat right up to the falls. It was the exhilarating experience to say the least! Never occurred to me how amazing it would look from directly above until now. It’s just breathtaking!
Not to be a Debbie Downer here, but really???
I know I’m in the minority here in not being a Hillary fan.
Her advisers Mark Penn and Lanny Davis really give me the creeps, and I think it’s disrespectful for Huma to wear this dress. She knew what she was doing — getting attention.
I sympathized with Huma when Gawker and who knows wherever else questioned if her pregnancy was a publicity stunt when Weiner’s tweets surfaced; totally uncalled for speculation, irrelevant, and barring a miscarriage the world would know soon enough.
But she should leave FLOTUS out of Weiner’s campaign, unless Michelle wants to be involved (which I doubt).
Classless!
That’s what the Clintonites are gonna do. They criticize everything about the Obama administration, but then copy everything about the administration. If Billary runs, you betcha they’ll try to copy all of PBO’s campaign moves. 🙄 I don’t know who they think they are fooling…. Probably only themselves.
Did Hillary tell her to go out and buy the same dress or did she swipe it out of Michelle’s closet before she left? This doesn’t amount to anything.
I seriously doubt anybody is going to vote for Weiner because of what his wife wears. If Abedin wants to wear what The First Lady wears so be it. There’s no patent on the dress and there’s nothing wrong with taking a cue from an actual trendsetter when it comes to style. I don’t think New Yorker’s are going to get the two mixed up.
Considering the not so news ragemachine, do you suppose the hillary thing is being shoved to divide+conquer, arapaho?
Two things:
1) it’s a good strategy. Since 2008 there have been two main camps: the Obots and the “grass is always greener” PUMAS. the big problem for the PUMAS is that the Obots, outnumber them, outclass them and outcompete them.
2) I don’t know if the pukes are smart enough to pick up on the divide because, hey, they are the ones who see that very soon Hispanics will become the majority and they can’t seem to get their tails together and pass immigration reform.
But in all honesty,if I were a republican strategist, I would be working this angle like nobody’s business because it is very fruitful.
It’s just a dress.
Saw a lady on London Bridge wearing this dress!! Thought I knew the lady because something appeared familiar but it was actually the dress!
And anyone who manages to make the verdict about President Obama, and finds fault with his calming words, needs to be sent to the moon—-permanently. They have “issues” and are in the way.
Yup.
Melba Moore
Lean on Me
Ooooh Melba Moore! Love her! Remember her fondly from back in the day.
She and Ben Vereen were my two favorite Broadway stars in the 70’s!
I’ve always liked Melba Moore as well and especially liked that particular song.
No wonder you have the music all night long! I hang with you almost every night/morning/crack of dawn, dear lady. Lurkin’ all the way.
Alrighty! Well thanks for coming in to hang for a while!
We’ve got plenty of others on DJ duty tonight though and they’re doing an OUTSTANDING job! 🙂
YES!!
Looking forward to it, Dudette. As an insomniac, my partner is used to me climbing the walls without input. You keep me sane many a night, good friend.
Ok. Now you’ve got me, lisa. This is the song that is part of me and my anthem for my deaf sister….in sooooo many ways. And she finally called me today!!!!
My mom bought me their collection of CDs for my 19th birthday some time ago. This is one of my favorites too. 🙂
This always calms my rather RAGING temper. Thanks for sharing, lisa. We did have some really talented folks back in the ‘old’ days. PS. I still have that album and tell your mom ‘THANKS’ from me.
😆 I will, Lynn.
Ps- I’m no spring chicken myself. I’m getting up there. Notice I said ” for my 19th birthday some time ago.”? I’ll officially reach that age in your twenties when you start saying you’re 23 every birthday thereafter in a few weeks. God. I want to be 20 again.
Nina Simone-I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free
I wish I knew how
It would feel to be free
I wish I could break
All the chains holding me
I wish I could say
All the things that I should say
Say ’em loud say ’em clear
For the whole round world to hear
I wish I could share
All the love that’s in my heart
Remove all the bars
That keep us apart
I wish you could know
What it means to be me
Then you’d see and agree
That every man should be free
I wish I could give
All I’m longin’ to give
I wish I could live
Like I’m longin’ to live
I wish I could do
All the things that I can do
And though I’m way over due
I’d be starting a new
Well I wish I could be
Like a bird in the sky
How sweet it would be
If I found I could fly
Oh I’d soar to the sun
And look down at the sea
Than I’d sing cos I know – yea
Then I’d sing cos I know – yea
Then I’d sing cos I know
I’d know how it feels
Oh I抎 know how it feels to be free
Yea Yea! Oh, I know how it feels
Yes I know
Oh, I know
How it feels
How it feels
To be free
See this guy? He went to high school with my daughter ….loved him in this movie…loved him in Friday Night Lights, too:)
Hey DF! I thought of you when I posted it. Several months ago I remembered you telling me that. He’s fantastic and has a beautiful singing voice. 🙂
{{{{lisa}}}}} You tend to repeat yourself when you get “older”…opps! He’s adorable, and he DOES have a very nice singing voice!
Np, DF! I really did think of you when I went looking for it! And he’s someone to be proud of and proud to know of. I’d be repeating it 100 times a day! 😆
You’re such a cutie! You always put a smile on my face. Hugs to you. love! That, and you’re damn feisty, like me, and I love that!!
Who meeeeeeeee? 😳
Ps- thanks, DF. 😆
Yes, you. You are a gem:)
Let’s hope it expands.
lotsa whities in this photo too, that is good. and right.
Like this a lot!
Luv it!
Someday We’ll all be FREE!
Excellent music selections everybody! 😀 😀 😀
Whoa! I had to do a double take! Awesome!!
People are creative. I wish more people put their energy to creating unique, beautiful things, instead of focusing on destructive activities. The world would be infinitely more rewarding!
ok. THAT’S COOL!
Sly and The Family! Thanks for sharing, desertflower.
This is a very soothing thread, thank you everybody!
Truer words were never spoken, we’re only equal in death. I love Les Mis. Is a commentary on the inequalities of society. Victor Hugo published it in 1860 and it’s still tru today.
Another yardarm e-mail
Subject: Fwd: Muslim Terrorists
Not trying to offend anyone, but thought the email was worth forwarding.
Everyone seems to be wondering why Muslim Terrorists are so quick to commit suicide.
Let’s have a look at the evidence:
– No Christmas
– No television
– No nude women
– No football
– No pork chops
– No hot dogs
– No burgers
– No beer
– No bacon
– Rags for clothes
– Towels for hats
– Constant wailing from some idiot in a tower
– More than one wife
More than one mother in law
– You can’t shave
– Your wife can’t shave
– You can’t wash off the smell of donkey
– You cook over burning camel sh*t
– Your wife is picked by someone else for you
– and your wife smells worse than your donkey
Then they tell you that “when you die, it all gets better”??
Well no sh*t Sherlock!….
It’s not like it could get much worse
THE MUSLIMS ARE NOT HAPPY!
They’re not happy in Gaza ..
They’re not happy in Egypt ..
They’re not happy in Libya ..
They’re not happy in Morocco ..
They’re not happy in Iran ..
They’re not happy in Iraq ..
They’re not happy in Yemen ..
They’re not happy in Afghanistan ..
They’re not happy in Pakistan ..
They’re not happy in Syria ..
They’re not happy in Lebanon ..
SO, WHERE ARE THEY HAPPY?
They’re happy in Australia .
They’re happy in Canada .
They’re happy in England ..
They’re happy in France ..
They’re happy in Italy ..
They’re happy in Germany ..
They’re happy in Sweden ..
They’re happy in the USA ..
They’re happy in Norway ..
They’re happy in Holland .
They’re happy in Denmark .
Basically, they’re happy in every country that is not Muslim
and unhappy in every country that is!
AND WHO DO THEY BLAME?
Not Islam.
Not their leadership.
Not themselves.
THEY BLAME THE COUNTRIES THEY ARE HAPPY IN!
AND THEN; They want to change those countries to be like….
THE COUNTRY THEY CAME FROM WHERE THEY WERE UNHAPPY!
Excuse me, but I can’t help wondering…
How damn dumb can you get?
You get a big golden star for this one!
I try but don’t always succeed.
Yardarm, I love you brother but, this IS offensive!
I meant no harm. I’ll go to the brig.
You had me at the ‘more than one wife’ ‘more than one mother-in-law’ thingee! Now I’ll finish reading the rest, you old pirate you! Right after i finish cleaning the spewed beer off my keyboard.
Sorry ’bout that. 🙂
One of my faves by him! 😀
Was it you that posted these drawing before? Absolutely stunning. My daughter does these drawings and they are AMAZING! So proud of her, because I can barely draw a stick figure…have NO idea where she got that incredible talent from!
Yes, it was quite a while back. Good memory, df! 🙂
Would love to see some of your daughter’s work. This branch of portraiture really fascinates me. I’m with you back at stick figure stage, but even some people who do stick figures make a living as artists. Me? Not in a million yrs! 🙂
i just also don’t understand the fascination with the Clinton’s we in Arkansas have seen how they left the Democratic party in just a bad shape. They milked all they can get from Dem supporters and left no strategic planning for the growth of the party its just annoying to see how they are treated like they really cared about other people. Arkansas was at least moderate and the only part that was repubs was in the Northwastern part of the state. We now have retugs about 90% of the congress that’s why you can see Mike Pryor turning himself like a pretzel his father would have stuck with Dem principles
when I moved into my house 7 months ago, the yard had been overgrown for over two years… we had to cut our way onto the porch to move our belongings in when we arrived. Periodically I’ve gone outside w/ my sons and cut and bagged. Today I took my rage outside and between my 14 yr old son and I, we chopped, cut, sawed, weeded and bagged every single mess outside. I feel better for that.. but I will not stop being angry about this ‘verdict’ ever. I appreciate the President’s statement.. he is a wise and loving man and I believe that he always has American’s best interests at heart. He is a black man in this country too, and what he knows is if folks went out and got violent- it would be only black folks that would pay the price for that. We have to turn our anger and sorrow into smart action.. and I know we will do just that and we will succeed.
Well, I’ve spent the whole day wondering what to write after the verdict. Can’t say I’m surprised, but we as black folks must be proactive. We have to stop waiting for these fairweather supporters to back us up. We waited while the oppressive hands gutted our voting laws trying to stifle our voices, bought out our economic struggle,succeeding in making us a permanent and throwaway underclass. And now, the Florida court has affirmed that my life and other black men’s lives are as worthless as a Enron investment. Were foreigners in our own country, where even the actual foreigners are treated better than us. We have to start this new movement. Women didn’t allow men to be the head of their movement. Gays and Lesbians didn’t allow straight people to be the head of their movement. We shouldn’t allow anyone white to be the head of ours. All we have is us. And we need to make sure it is us that keeps it going. No more outsourcing this.
And for all the white folks talking about why black people are not concerned with black on black crime, SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU IGNORANT SON OF A BITCH!!!!!! You, in your white elitist suburban enclaves do not know what grief we go through on black on black crime. You do not see us at every city council and ward meetings BEGGING the council members to extend after school programs to keep their kids off the streets. You do not see us rallying for stopping the violence and organizing gun turn in rallies and disbandment of streetgang rallies. You do not see us tell our children, ESPECIALLY our boys, our beautiful black boys that you must keep your head in the books. You do not see the black parents or parent working their asses off damn near killing themselves to ensure said child has the means to live like a normal kid and not a struggling refugee in his own country. No, what you see is on that media box where majority white pundits who have never in their lives lived in the sticks pontificate and opine profusely and stupidly on a subject they know shit about.
I’m tired. I’m TIRED. I’m 24, a graduate of college, achieved my paralegal certification, work two part time jobs (Hopefully I get this job as a front end processor at a law firm) never been arrested, never been suspended, never been in detention, never been written up, never gotten a speeding ticket, is friendly and caring and adoring, does not only have rap music as my only repitore of music, and yet, and YET, because I am a black male, my life is worth less than a dogs life to some in this nation. They let a 17 year olds killer get off because of that.
I’m tired of accepting every excuse from white people about what is and what isn’t racism. LIKE YOU KNOW!?? YOU DON’T!!!! Its why I laugh at this notion of “reverse racism” Its like the tooth fairy, Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny, IT DOESN’T EXIST!!!!!!! There hasn’t been one white person that was hung in a tree and left their for months letting the crows consume their flesh because they were white. There has never been an instance where because they were white, the man of the house was late at night accosted from his home, his wife raped, his children beaten and the man ends up strung up and hung while the rest of the family watches as their house burns down. There has never been an instance where a white person is tailed by police because he is in a nice car or lives in a nice neighborhood. Never an instance where a white person has REPEATEDLY been turned down for jobs because of his race. I said REPEATEDLY, not in the case of those firefighters where they weren’t hired because of a quota. My understanding of that was that they had other departments willing to accept them but declined because they wanted to work at THAT one. We, as black folks, had a larger problem. You have never had your women repeatedly called ugly and fat when you actually aren’t on both counts. You have never been accused of being dangerous just because you showed anger and raised your voice. You have never ever had to see a cop’s siren behind you and grip the wheel and slow to the speed limit and agonize until he passed. You have never had to think that your child going out into the world may cause him to end up dead or maimed or in jail because of being him. We do not need your lectures on racism, because it would be like me lecturing women about the affects and feelings of premenstrual cycles. WHAT THE FUCK DO I KNOW ABOUT IT!? I feel the same way toward this.
I’m tired that I have to stoop lower at times not to seem imposing to white folks. I’m tired of having to lower my voice or not show anger because it somehow frightens white folks. I’m tired of not being allowed to be human. I’m tired of having to hide my displeasure or voice my opinion because it makes white folks uncomfortable. I’m sorry, but I wan’t you uncomfortable now. I cannot do anything to assuage your discomfort. Black folks need to stop trying to make ourselves more palatable, more acceptable. Its not our problem you fear us. IT IS YOU!!! You have that problem, not me. You need to have that therapy session. Black folks, if these folks are frightened of you for no reason, it isnt your fault. If they can’t be in the same room without quaking, its not your fault. If they are having psudo-sexual fantasies about you raping any of their women, ITS. NOT. YOUR. FAULT. Its their problem, you can’t fix it.
Trayvon Martin couldn’t fix it either. He got suspended like a typical teenager. He cursed, he made sexual and crude remarks, he listened to hip hop, and wore hoodies like a. typical. teenager. In all those characteristics, he exudes the character of every male teenager on this earth, including a teenaged George Zimmerman. He was doing what he was supposed to do. Zimmerman wasn’t. Zimmerman was the one sick with the poison of bigotry, of disdain, of fear. Zimmerman got out of that car. Zimmerman approached him. Zimmerman shot and killed him and Zimmerman got off because he was able to stoke those fears of us to a panel of majority white women. My attitude is that maybe we shouldn’t give a damn about asuaging it anymore. Let them fear me. Let them fear what sleeping giant this court arose. Let the sermon on the mount ring in their ears every day white supremacy power wanes and the power of ALL people comes through……
3“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
4“Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
5“Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.
6“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.
7“Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.
8“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
9“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.
10“Blessed are those who have been persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
11“Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me.12“Rejoice and be glad, for your reward in heaven is great; for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
Tears rolling down my face as I read this!
Thank you, anotherslyfox: you said what I felt all day. I could not move this morning. I knew what the outcome would be that is why I refused to watch the circus trial. I still had joy and praise in my broken soul as I stayed closed to my young males who are too young to explain this travesty to them. But I dread the day their father will have to sit them down and tell them they are endangered species and can be hunted down like an animal any given day of their lives. As I held their hands today, a part of me never wanted them to grow up because I cannot be with them to protect them from racism. I may not be there when someone stares at them in a way that makes them feel like they have done something wrong. I will protect them with my love while they are young and raise them to be strong men, confident men who will not ever have to apologize for the color of their skin…….ever!
Well said Anotherslyfox. wellsaid
I embrace you, your words, your pain, your rage, your wisdom, and your resolve.
Bravo!!! Beautifully said. I am so sick and tired of the “black on black crime” meme, and why they bring it up is beyond reason…other than to justify their own racism. This isn’t even about that, it’s about an insecure petty tyrant who was so disgusted with himself and wanted to make a young black male pay for his frustrations.
Jaw-dropping!!!!
Is this the Joy Reid ‘Trayvon’ segment that was referenced earlier, or is it something else?
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/45755822/ns/msnbc-the_ed_show/vp/52475618/#52475618
are you serious? this is pencil?
Yep
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New post.
http://theobamadiary.com/2013/07/14/night-owls-healing/
(((((TODS)))) I’ve been like a zombie since the GZ’s verdict…
But there’s some good news:-)