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Ambrosiaforheads.com: Lauryn Hill Releases a Chilling Dedication to Michael Brown
Read here
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BLACK RAGE is founded on two-thirds a person
Rapings and beatings and suffering that worsens
Black human packages tied up in strings
BLACK RAGE can come from all these kinds of things
BLACK RAGE is founded on blatant denial
Squeezed economics, subsistence survival
Deafening silence and social control
BLACK RAGE is founded on wounds in the soul
When the dogs bite
When the beatings
When I’m feeling sad
I simply remember all these kinds of things, and then I don’t fear so bad
BLACK RAGE is founded: who fed us self hatred?
Lies and abuse, while we waited and waited
Spiritual treason, this grid and its cages
BLACK RAGE is founded on these kinds of things
BLACK RAGE is founded on draining and draining
Threatening your freedom to stop your complaining
Poisoning your water, while they say it’s raining
Then call you mad for complaining, complaining
Old time bureaucracy drugging the youth
BLACK RAGE is founded on blocking the truth
Murder and crime, compromise and distortion
Sacrifice, sacrifice, who makes this fortune?
Greed, falsely called progress
Such human contortion
BLACK RAGE is founded on these kinds of things
So when the dogs bite
And when the ceilings
And when I’m feeling sad
I simply remember all these kinds of things and then I don’t fear so bad
Free enterprise, is it myth or illusion?
Forcing you back into purposed confusion
Black human trafficking or blood transfusion?
BLACK RAGE is founded on these kinds of things
Victims of violence, both psyche and body
Life out of context is living unGodly
Politics, politics
Greed falsely called wealth
BLACK RAGE is founded on denial of self
So when the dogs bite
And when the beatings
And when I’m feeling sad
I simply remember all these kinds of things and then I don’t fear so bad…. so bad
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The Obama Diary 
Hello!
Ha, furst, finally!!!
Congratulations then, finally. 🙂
Thanks, Smoothscotch. It feels good to be first in something, at last!
Congrats NCLB 🙂
Thank you, Bob!
Good evening No Child!
Oh boy, this song gives me the chills.
Good Evening Chipsticks.
Yes, the song fits these days we are living. It’s been tough since the murder of Michael Brown and other young men.
The power of Lauryn Hill. She is a poet.
Those words are gut-wrenching Nerdy, she is incredible.
🙂 ❤
Ouch!
Love it! Still have 2 out of 5 grandkids in school, so I’ll pass it along!
I just told my grand-daughter that. I said I want 4.0. Nothing less.
I am now in the fully relaxing phase of my vacation. Missus is working tonight and for the following 3 nights. So I’ll be mostly on my own. Watching TV, reading, having the odd cocktail here and there. Ah, heaven.
Gimlet 🙂
Vodka this time, but yes. 🙂
Some level of solitude is important for all. It does not mean we don’t love others, only that solitude allows us to pause and reflect, uninterrupted. LL, enjoy.
AT LAST, someone recognizes the brilliance and commitment to those in need. This is a MUST READ:
Finally someone who looks beyond the surface.
Right now on BBC4 I’m watching “Infested with Parasites”. Because of course I’d be watching that. With all the creepy crawlies extant on this globe, it’s amazing we survive.
Screeeeech! Huff. pant.
And still too late! What a waste of good energy! Who got her first anyways?
O, it’s NCLB – that works. Congrats, NCLB!
🙂
😉 Coming in I was fearful it might have been unowho1 or unlwho2.
Thanks, VC. I jumped alone. Where were you?
Hopping up and down the thread to see what new comment was being added, while at the same time flipping back and forth between here and twitter.
Amazing song. Hopefully Ms. Hill will get back into the studio and document the reality of America in 2014.
Stunning, Chips!!! Thank you for sharing Lauren Hill’s tribute.
A pleasure Bob, it’s beyond haunting in the context of current events.
It certainly is, Chips. Poignant and relevant artistry, for sure.
It’s a stunning tribute…laying the bare truth of atrocities and abuse sung to the tune of “my favorite things.” Genius…
Had just posted this at the bottom of the previous thread when the new one appeared. I must say that I did not think I could despise Bibi more than I did, yesterday and over the past decades of his wretched inhumanity. But, he took it to an entirely new level of EVIL when he exploited James Foley’s death.
Couldn’t say it better. What a shame!
Janet Napolitano was right.
She definitely was, meta – and, WE all knew it – and, that matters!!
We are the ones We have been awaiting.
#FORWARD
#OWNthe114th
Yes We Must
She was trashed for it and she was on the mark!
But but but…
Will MPH feature this critical piece of info on her show on MSNBC? Will Ta’Neshi Coates write a think piece bestowing praise and support for our President’s war on poverty? What about the “Soul Patrol” poverty-pimp duo of Corny and Tarvis? Will they weigh in positively, and SOON?
Those people have their story and they will stick to it, hf.
But this editorial is very encouraging to me. Most days I despair of the trash I see while I’m drinking my morning coffee.
Tonight I’m looking forward to the newspapers arrival on my doorstep.
Bob we’re on the same wavelength here. I didn’t even see your tweet when I posted my response to africa asking the same of those Blackademic PBO-haters a few comments above… 🙂
Hf, these haters never based their accusations on truth, so truth will not sway them even if it’s presented in indisputable terms in numbers. Our president does not brag, rant, pound the podium or act a poseur of good works, he quietly and effectively gets things done. But in the haters world, it doesn’t matter what you do, it only matters how dramatically you appear.
Precisely!
They NEVER DO THE RESEARCH. They listen to the speeches, they want big rhetoric, they want words, and they don’t analyze anything beyond that.
If President Obama doesn’t use the terms “poor”, “poverty” very often, I suspect two reasons.
1) He doesn’t like the words. They are negative. And they are overused by politicians who talk a good game but don’t walk the walk. And he does’t want to sound like those politicians who have made so many empty promises. He prefers using “those who want to enter the middle class”: it doesn’t define people in a negative way but in a positive way, in terms of their goals, their dreams.
2) He’s very well aware that the GOP is always hitching to accuse him of working only for minorities, especially black people. And since GOP associates poverty with black people, constantly using lots of code words…
Thissssssssssssss
https://news.vice.com/article/a-ku-klux-klan-group-claims-it-is-around-ferguson-and-fundraising-for-darren-wilson
No wonder policemen are taken official position against the fundraising. But do I know what they do under the Halloween costume?
“are taking”
Bringing over the link for the (dumb) rant by a StLC police officer(????) that Edwina shared
Ferguson cop’s hour long anti-government, racist rant. Same cop shoved CNN reporter Don Lemon on air
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017210685
old tweet, but still gold.
You should send this to the DOJ and demand his firing.
My goodness…this is VILE…if it’s him, can someone please explain what a rabid, hateful terrorist like him is is doing on the police force in a small town?
If you check Shaun King’s TL, I guess the crowd funding support for murdering cop is chock full of racist comments. I think that we should forward a copy of that to Justice Roberts…didn’t he say that there’s no more racism in America.?? Stupid ass. Ignorant. Stupid. Ass with blinders on.
with its ugly history, murka will never be rid of its racist shitstain.
Of course, every country has an ugly racist past of some sort. We’re all “cavemen” afraid of “the others” coming over the ridge, sad to say.
We may never be rid of it entirely….but people of good will can contain it….it takes vigilance…persistence….HOPE
No incident report written by the cop-killer of Michael Brown. This is unbelievable!
My source is Lawrence O’Donnell at MSNBC.
Wwwwhhhhaaaatttt is he talking about?
Jovie, I can answer that.
You see, when he reported for his mug shot, he didn’t have his glasses because LensCrafters warned him not to use their glasses in such unfortunate circumstance.
Therefore, for a few hours, he couldn’t see too well. He assumed that he saw ISIS members crossing the south border. But I have news for the governor. Some of those ISIS members may have been born in Texas, the land of many racists such as Darren Wilson (just to name one).
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/eugene-robinson-robert-mcdonnell-throws-his-wife-under-the-bus-at-trial/2014/08/21/664c5ebe-2971-11e4-958c-268a320a60ce_story.html?tid=HP_opinion
Eugene is a fine writer. I love to read his pieces. But, oh boy, Gov. Ultrasound-invasive-vaginas-perforation is cooking up a story in REAL TIME.
I need to see him on the yard, à la THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION.
Larry O says absolutely no incident report in Ferguson with the Michael Brown murder.
He’s showing it on tv right now.
It’s fucking BLANK, except for Michael Brown’s name on it.
It was the ACLU’s lawsuit that got it.
the video of Larry O’s first segment – I hope you put it in Rise and Shine.
If it was written, it was after the fact and backdated. Sickening POSs in charge.
Reign of April had raised this possibility since last week. She said that all incident reports she has seen do not have the suspect’s name – it’s always Suspect “X” or Suspect “Y” yet this report hat Browns first and last name. How did they know his name at the time of the shooting? They didn’t. The report was written WELL after Brown was ID’d and more info was known.
Smell a dirty rat. I do not trust any of the Ferguson police, or that DA.
don lemon with ex NY police chief (indicted?) bernard kerik (?) who sez that the congress members calling for the arrest of the killer cop are actually “lynching” him. unbelievable.
cnn is out there discrediting all the eyewitnesses (surprise, surprise, they are all blacks) poisoning the jury pool. They are all true fifth columnists.
Mister, you know things (apart from dog-wee-wee-training) – is there any way anymore on the Twitter machine of including the url of a tweet in your own tweet without the tweet itself actually being embedded? (Does that make any sense?)
Copy and paste the tweet url. Have done it a few times. Only the link appears, not the tweet.
Oh flip, thought I was doing that already, but the embedded tweet always shows up. My head hurts.
yup. apparently it does not work with your own tweets, only with others. … How the hell should I know why?
Hmph, I thought you knew things. 🙄
A short history of embedding tweets in a tweet:
In the beginning, when you embedded a tweet, it would show up in its full glory in your tweet.
Then, Twitter decided that made too much sense, so it changed it so that only the link would show up.
Finally, a couple of weeks ago Twitter decided to just fuck with everyone. The embedded tweet shows up more or less, but not in its original form. However, if you post your tweet to a WP blog, only the link shows up. However, on other blogs, it shows up as it does in native Twitter.
There, go and convert the multitude.
This is me:
Feckety feck. I used to love tweeting: “This is fantabulous —-> tweet’s url”
But now when I do it, the tweet shows up and I get the RT.
Granted, in the scheme of things it’s not massively bad, but still, not a happy bunny.
Here, I made you some raspberry tea.
Ugh. As if embedded tweets weren’t enough of a crime against humanity. But thanks, though.
It’s herbal. And it’s awesome.
Meh. You’re weird.
Weirdly magnificent.
And just DM’d you.
Sometimes known as ‘First World Dilemmas’. 😉
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G.W. Bush released current ISIS leader, McCain poses with them, but they blame Obama for them! http://www.theminorityreportblog.com/2014/06/22/photos-of-senator-mccain-chillin-with-isis-leaders-in-syria-before-their-rampage-through-iraq/ … pic.twitter.com/QHRG2X7N8n
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McCain is always on the wrong side of history. Thank you Sweet Father. This is why he is not (nor will ever be) our President. Amen.
Experimenting posting a picture
It worked! Another one taken today.
chips, you’ve been hacked. Imagine the horror what unohoo can wreak.
When anyone can post pictures in a WP comment section, cats and dogs sleeping together is not far behind!
😆 Crumpled over!!!
Oh, wait, my cats and dog already sleep together. We’re fucked.
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When the next thread gets going, I’ll have a picture of my wounded Stewie to share.
LL, I didn’t expect this remark. I am sad. 😦
Oh NCLB, your pictures are always welcome! I’m on an herbal tea high.
I see you.
There you go!
There’ll be geese everywhere!1!1! 😆
No Child, how did you do that?!
I won’t say. I am too hurt. 😦
Actually, it is not unusual in an officer involved shooting with a death to not have an incident report from the officer. They are entitled to their 5th amendment rights, and any decent lawyer will tell them not to write one. What is unusual here, and extremely troubling, is there are no reports from the other officers that responded to the scene. There should be at least two incident reports from other officers, from what I’ve seen on video. Cover up is in full swing and was from the minute they responded.
Unfortunately, what is getting lost here is that there are a whole lot of good cops in this country. They put their lives on the line every day. And they have been put in an impossible situation with the number of guns on the streets. Simply comparing officer shootings to other countries doesn’t begin to tell the story without looking at the number of guns they face each day. Given that no other civilized country allows it citizens the kind of access to guns that we have here, it all goes back to reasonable gun control. For those here who are 50+. just think about how this country has changed under the Republican rule and the NRA on this topic alone. I can remember moving from a small town to a big city when I was in my early 20’s and it was surprising when there was an occasional shooting, coming from a town where there were none. Now it’s how many shootings day in and day out. I suspect that this more than anything has contributed to many officers’ shooting response. There are only so many things that can be changed on the policing front while we allow guns everywhere.
While I deplore your pseudo (not really deploring it but wish it weren’t Fox affiliated), your argument makes sense. I still hope that Mr. Ofc Darren Wilson, cop-killer of Michael Brown, will come out of hiding and explain himself. And his 6 bullets, two of them while the teenager was already bent forward and down. Thanks for your remark.
LOL! It is wholly unrelated to Fox News and relates to the “fox” animals. Just goes to show how badly Fox has destroyed the image of these beautiful animals. I show and breed Finnish Spitz dogs. The breed description is that they are “fox-like” in appearance. This has been my passion and hobby for 20+ years. I’d post a photo of my beautiful boy who was ranked the number one Finnish Spitz in the country the last two years if I had any idea how to do it:-)
Thanks for the clarification. Indeed, foxes are handsome-looking and elegant, too.
As for posting pictures, I’ll be the last person to guide you. I’ve just posted two earlier, to my great astonishment, then reposted one below out of nowhere. But when you can, please do post your No. 1 precious son. It will be an addition to the family of cats and dogs here, but will never take Danny-the-Boy’s place. He is No. 1 in TODVille.
Nerdy’s new post:
http://theobamadiary.com/2014/08/22/ferguson-honors-michael-brown/