This from Chris Rock is the realest shit I've read all week. vulture.com/2014/11/chris-… http://t.co/xXVtf8aN25
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Jamelle Bouie (@jbouie) December 01, 2014****
Bravo, Chris Rock! It is not up to Black people to end racism. It is up to white people. That is the hard truth a lot of people shy away from. Black people know what racism is. They know the sting of it, they know the hurt, they know the pain, they know the economical and institutional pain of it, they know the death that results from it. It is not Black people who are out there committing heinous racist acts and crimes. Black people have been speaking about this to the world for decades. If you want a country where a child doesn’t get gunned down because of the color of his skin, white people have to look at themselves and ask what role do I play in this and how can I first listen, believe, and help to end this scourge.
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The same people who don't "see color" don't see injustice, oppression, privilege or anything else that might upset their fragile worldview.
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East of Can't Even (@er0tikka) December 01, 2014****
Frank Rich: In Conversation With Chris Rock
What would you do in Ferguson that a standard reporter wouldn’t?
I’d do a special on race, but I’d have no black people.
Well, that would be much more revealing.
Yes, that would be an event. Here’s the thing. When we talk about race relations in America or racial progress, it’s all nonsense. There are no race relations. White people were crazy. Now they’re not as crazy. To say that black people have made progress would be to say they deserve what happened to them before.
Right. It’s ridiculous.
So, to say Obama is progress is saying that he’s the first black person that is qualified to be president. That’s not black progress. That’s white progress. There’s been black people qualified to be president for hundreds of years. If you saw Tina Turner and Ike having a lovely breakfast over there, would you say their relationship’s improved? Some people would. But a smart person would go, “Oh, he stopped punching her in the face.” It’s not up to her. Ike and Tina Turner’s relationship has nothing to do with Tina Turner. Nothing. It just doesn’t. The question is, you know, my kids are smart, educated, beautiful, polite children. There have been smart, educated, beautiful, polite black children for hundreds of years. The advantage that my children have is that my children are encountering the nicest white people that America has ever produced. Let’s hope America keeps producing nicer white people.
It’s about white people adjusting to a new reality?
Owning their actions. Not even their actions. The actions of your dad. Yeah, it’s unfair that you can get judged by something you didn’t do, but it’s also unfair that you can inherit money that you didn’t work for.
Would you seek out someone to interview who might not normally be sought out?
I would get you to interview somebody, and I would put something in your ear, and I’d ask the questions through you.
You’d have a white guy.
And I would ask them questions that you would never come up with, and we’d have the most amazing interviews ever.
And we’d be asking white people and black people?
Just white people. We know how black people feel about Ferguson—outraged, upset, cheated by the system, all these things.
So you think people can be lulled into saying the outrageous shit they really feel?
Michael Moore has no problem getting it. Because he looks like them. But the problem is the press accepts racism. It has never dug into it.
When Obama was running for president, a certain kind of white person would routinely tell reporters, “He’s just not one of us.” Few reporters want to push that person to the wall and say, “What do you mean he’s not like you, unless you’re talking about the fact that he’s African-American?” Where else besides Ferguson would you hypothetically want to interview white people?
I’d love to do some liberal places, because you can be in the most liberal places and there’s no black people.
More here
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St. Louis Rams players show solidarity with Ferguson protesters ti.me/1tuf0m4 (USA Today Sports—Reuters) http://t.co/05iBPd1sBW
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TIME.com (@TIME) December 01, 2014S/o to the @STLouisRams WR core, especially @KennyBritt_18 for their support of #MikeBrown. Keep standing strong guys http://t.co/uy8ZAlAV8m
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The Icon (@Chilluminati06) December 01, 2014****
"black people sure do love to riot over nothing" he chortles, counting down the days until he can punch a child at wal-mart for a cheap xbox
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demi adejuyigbe (@electrolemon) November 25, 2014America: Land of the free murderers and home of the bullshit judicial system.
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Kyle Lippert (@Kyle_Lippert) November 25, 2014****
Have you seen the video of Tamir Rice's killing? Watch. Mourn your idea of America. #TamirRice newsnet5.com/news/local-new…
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deray mckesson (@deray) December 01, 2014I'm fighting back tears looking at that glow on Tamir's face. If we don't fight for our kids, who will? Tamir should be here today.
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deray mckesson (@deray) December 01, 2014****
Welcome to 'Whose America Is It Anyway?' where the laws are made up and your guilt doesn't matter.
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Glenn (@justabloodygame) November 27, 2014Being Black in America is exhausting.Y'all want us to sing, dance, play football, run fast, be your target practice, and be quiet.
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Brittany Lewis (@Buttercup_B) November 25, 2014****
Chris Rock: Question isn't why they shoot so many Black kids...real question is how come you never shoot white kids? cbsnews.com/news/q-a-chris…
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Nerdy Wonka (@NerdyWonka) December 01, 2014Tamir Rice didn't commit any crime. The police shot and killed him. The local paper looked into him, not the cop. pocket.co/suBjK
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Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) November 30, 2014****
[guy gets punched at a store on Black Friday]
NEWS: VIOLENCE IN AMERICA
[45 homicides in America every day]
NEWS: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Nice Hippo (@NicestHippo) November 28, 2014At this point, America's national anthem should just be a sigh of disappointment with the sound of sirens in the background.
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Jamie Woodham (@jwoodham) November 25, 2014****
We're sorry that the universal sign of surrender is so offensive to you. It must bring back painful memories. #STLPDApologies
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Cosmic Voyager (@cosmicvger) December 01, 2014To put upcoming events in #Ferguson in context: This is what San Francisco looked like after recent Giants' victory http://t.co/0zAjZQ0xSO
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Karen Franklin (@kfranklinphd) November 24, 2014****
Stand by your players, @STLouisRams. Peacefully protesting police brutality is not cause for reprimand. Don't mess this up!
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a fifth of forever (@ARainhaDoce) December 01, 2014We saw the video, #TamirRice was executed by a cop & there's hardly a word about it from media
Just when you thought it couldn't get worse
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TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) December 01, 2014****
I don't think the Tamir Rice murder is getting enough coverage right now. And yes it was cold blooded murder.
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Matt Murphy (@MattMurph24) December 01, 2014Finally watched that Tamir RIce video. Worst thing I've seen. My God. It's essentially a state-authorized drive-by.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates (@tanehisicoates) November 30, 2014****
"They say turn down we say #MikeBrown" protestors at 14th and D @wusa9 http://t.co/DlNNV8BIdr
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Nikki Burdine (@NikkiBurdine) December 01, 2014Officers wore "I am Darren Wilson" bracelets while WORKING in #ferguson, but athletes can't make a gesture while taking the field??
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T Jessica (@ms_tjp) December 01, 2014****
Knowing that you can't protect your kids from the people who are supposed to protect everyone changes everything. We protest. #Ferguson
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deray mckesson (@deray) December 01, 2014115 days. 3 dead black boys. 4 free white male cops. 1,000 officers. 2,200 NG. 200 FBI. 0 attempts at justice. #Ferguson
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deray mckesson (@deray) December 01, 2014****
I'm a crazy radical who thinks police shouldn't be able to shoot people dead in the streets. Especially kids. Omg so crazy WATCH OUT AMERICA
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eve ewing (@eveewing) December 01, 2014Anything that forces people out of their comfort zones to bring light to the mass killings of Black lives, I’m with it. STOP KILLING US!
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Alexis (@MusicOverPeople) December 01, 2014
The Obama Diary 
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Way to be, MightyP! Congratulations! 🙂
Didn’t someone say the truth shall see you free?
Outstanding Nerdy, Chris Rock’s words were stupendous. Thank you SO much for this.
I fervently co-sign!!!
Thanks, Chips.
The interview with Chris Rock was an interesting read to say the least. When I got to the section on Ferguson, all I could say was “YES! YES! YES!” Sometimes it takes a comedian as fearless as Chris Rock to just lay it all on the line and say exactly what we’re all thinking.
I also loved how he called out the media and their blessing of the racist crap that occurs daily. Take for example the horrific murder of 12 year old Tamir Rice in Cleveland, Ohio. What did the media do? They didn’t research the cop who brutally shot him to death, they didn’t question why the car hadn’t even reached a stop before the cop shot and killed him. Noooooo, they researched Tamir so they could justify to the racists that they pander to, that hey, he and his family aren’t perfect so he must have gotten what was coming to him.
Sickening.
THIS!
When I saw that ‘report’ about Tamir’s father, I almost wept. I just could not believe, after everything, that this was still happening, trying to smear a black victim – a 12-year-old child – by digging up dirt on his family. And the reporter’s later-deleted defense of himself was even worse, he argued that it was important to know what background Tamir came from. Why? Why was it important? More important than knowing the background of the cop who executed him?
It’s too much.
That’s the way they do it. Some how blame the victim. “Look what you made me do n**g-r.”………Words I’ve heard all my life. 😦
That’s the absolute TRUTH!
Been there done that!
Bravo, Nerdy Wonka! Thanks for sharing Chris Rock’s interview and thanks for being such a fearless TRUTH teller.
Thanks, Nath.
Sec Kerry speaking live now at WH World Aids Day event
GM all.
Talk about nerve:
Not one click from MP.
I clocked for you. She sstole from a store in NC when she was 17. She is so classy!
I clicked.
Apparently Karma visited and she was pissed.
So, that hack, Andrea Mitchell just compared the St. Louis Rams hands-up entrance yesterday with black power fist displayed by Olympians 25 years ago. This drives me crazy! The subtle, wink-wink racism that is displayed constantly in what used to be the media. It really is not racism. It is white supremacy. They are all white elitists that dance to their white elitists corporate masters. UGH!
CNN just did the same thing.
FWIW, I didn’t have any problem with the black power raised fist salute at the Olympics.
And, actually, I get the comparison. The problem is that she, and others, see that as a negative. I see it as a positive. And I am as white as they get.
well both scenarios brought awareness to issues happening in the black community.
so I am okay with that.
….still we rise
Ferguson protest leaders to meet with President Obama at the White House Monday
FERGUSON — Several prominent Ferguson protest leaders will attend meetings at the White House with President Obama and other top administration officials Monday to discuss the ongoing tension in that city.
Obama will also meet Monday with young community leaders from Miami, New York City and Cleveland, where a 12-year-old boy holding a toy gun was shot and killed by a police officer last week, according to a person with direct knowledge of the meeting.
The meetings come as the president convenes a series of sessions with cabinet members, elected officials, and civil rights activists one week after a grand jury decided against charging Darren Wilson, a white Ferguson police officer, with a crime for the shooting of unarmed teenager Michael Brown. And they take place as the Ferguson Commission – a body convened by Gov. Jay Nixon to probe systemic issues fueling the racial tension surrounding the shooting – meets for the first time later Monday in Missouri.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/12/01/ferguson-protest-leaders-to-meet-with-president-obama-at-the-white-house-monday/
I hope there is good coverage of this event. reports, photos.
Yesterday the schedule said Closed Press. Does that mean only a few press, or none at all?
Closed press means none at all. I think that includes a photo spray at the top.
Pete may have some photos to share.
This is great to hear meta. I think Prettyfoot58 was hoping this would be the case. She will be pleased! 🙂
:-D…they must be heard
This is HUGE!
Thanks Nerdy for posting this. Only when we face these uncomfortable truths and deal with them head on, will we see any genuine justice in this country. This is ESSENTIAL reading – given the circumstances of the last several weeks and months.
You’re welcome.
It’s not just St. Louis, by the way.
This was how Cheney, Schwerner and Goodman were murdered in Mississippi. The ‘police’ pulled them over, released them and tagged them for their KKK buddies to know where to grab and murder them.
They simply shot the white men once in the chest. They chain-whipped Cheney until they broke every bone in his body and shot him several times.
Exactly!
Hardcore Obama Hating House Republicans Want To Cancel Obama’s State Of The Union
Even the thought of canceling the State Of The Union demonstrates that congressional Republicans never had any intention of working with the president. Republicans thought that they would take over Congress, and the president would be forced to bend to their will.
The exact opposite has happened. The president has moved to left and joined with a newly empowered group of congressional liberals to put Boehner and McConnell on the defensive. Boehner and McConnell wanted to get off to a fast start in January, but it looks like they will have the black cloud of another government funding battle hanging over their heads.
It may seem totally normal to some House Republicans to demand that the president be censured, or the State Of The Union canceled, but this is a party on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Republican dysfunction is about to veer off into a whole new crazy direction.
http://www.politicususa.com/2014/12/01/hardcore-obama-hating-house-republicans-cancel-obamas-state-union.html
Let them cancel it and look like little children. Have a large auditorium be rented and have the Senate and House Dems and the other dignitaries come and it will still be televised.
The Sate of The Union Address
The practice arises from a command given to the president in the Constitution of the United States:
He shall from time to time give to Congress information of the State of the Union and recommend to their Consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.
—Article II, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution
While not required to deliver a speech, every president since Woodrow Wilson, with notable exception of Herbert Hoover,[5] has made at least one State of the Union report as a speech delivered before a joint session of Congress. Before that time, most presidents delivered the State of the Union as a written report.[3]
What began as a communication between president and Congress has become a communication between the president and the people of the United States. Since the advent of radio, and then television, the speech has been broadcast live on most networks, preempting scheduled programming. To reach the largest television audience, the speech, once given during the day, is now typically given in the evening, after 9 pm ET.
A formal invitation is made to the President for each State of the Union Address.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_the_Union
Great idea! This would even be better than appearing before these hateful and disrespectful Republican members of Congress.
wtf do they mean by cancel?
They mean that they don’t want Boehner to accept PBO’s request to speak to the Nation from Congress.
Doesn’t the president have the right to assemble the congress whenever he wants?
Yes ….
so?
where does the question of cancelling it does even arise?
Please proceed mofos!
that would be funny to watch
Health & Human Services Secretary Burwell is about to take the podium at the WH World AIDS event.
Obama to meet with civil rights leaders after Ferguson.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-30281735
beebs fp – Critic of Obama daughters resigns.
a ‘critic’ ?.
rriight, this is how the media mainstreams racists’ invective.
“Critic”? Good friggin’ grief.
How’s everything in Madiba land, Mister?
meetings, meetings, meetings
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and meetings
A lot of meetings then? 🙂
fucking mba’s.
My brother-in-law is one of them, he speaks a language I do not understand.
And I told him if he ever used ‘upskill’ in my company again, I’d put my foot up his ass.
mba – mainly being asshole
gunnite.
LOL! 😀
yup…
“The NFL said Monday that it will not take disciplinary action against the players involved in the protest.
“We respect and understand the concerns of all individuals who have expressed views on this tragic situation,” spokesperson Brian McCarthy told USA Today Sports in a statement.”
not.gonna.happen.
Add Scarbourough to that list. Apparently he went on a wild ass rant this morning about how the “media” is attacking cops and those NFL players should be punished. I sent email to Phil Griffin, Joe’s BFF and boss at MsNBC? I also called NBC headquarters in NY, NY and complained about his rants. The man is unhinged from murdering that intern “back in ’98”. Everyone should complain. It at least aggravates the hell out of them!
Breaking on MSNBC :
White House releases report on Ferguson.
Where can we find it ????? Off to look for it. !
I don’t see anything on whitehouse.gov or MSNBC.com about this. Was it just a tease for their coverage of the event later today?
Report here Dudette, but it’s Zeke Miller….
http://time.com/3611895/barack-obama-ferguson-executive-order/
Ah! Okay, I so read that and kept thinking “That’s it?” This is breaking newsworthy? Don’t get me wrong: Oversight of militay surplus supplies sent to local police orgs is a good thing, but I don’t see that moving the needle toward justice in the cases that people are on the streets protesting right. Besides the article says Congress would need to take action to curtail the flow of military surplus items to the police. That ain’t gonna happen with the bunch of clowns The People just re-elected/elected.
So my reaction to this until something actually does make policing fairer and safer: Meh.
… “I don’t see that moving the needle toward justice in the cases that people are on the streets protesting right now….” [Sigh!]
Ah! I missed the part about the cameras.Ad looked like end of the page.
[See what happens when you read news from your freaking phone?!!]
Excellent analysis of the Halbig case that the nutjobs want to use to gut ACA:
http://jhppl.dukejournals.org/content/early/2014/11/21/03616878-2867881.full.pdf+html
And to add to the insanity: apparently, the only acceptable black person to be in “Star Wars” is Lando Calrissian. Black stormtrooper? FIE ON YOU!
You forgot Jedi Master Mace Windu in the form of one Samuel L. Jackson.
Okay, so he was killed. If Obi Wan can transcend death, why can’t he?
Are we geeking out? We’re going to geek out.
Why didn’t Gui Con Gi (sp?) become a ghost? Why aren’t there a whole army of Jedi ghosts? What made Obi Wan so damned special?
And you’re right. I did forget Mace Windu. Because I tried to forget Eps 1-3.
😀 😀 😀
MSM is so obviously irrelevant they are laughable.
Ronan Farrow wants his watchers to vote on whether they think the NFL should discipline the Rams players for their Hands up Don’t Shoot demonstration.
Hello…Ronan….the NFL already announce there will be NO Discipline you freaking dumbass.
BOOM! Now he means business…
You know I have many problems with the NFL. But good on them for basically telling the police orgs to go pound salt over the “hands up don’t shoot” Rams’ protest.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/live/press-briefing-press-secretary-josh-earnest-37
Hello TOD.
🍸 🍸 🍸 to NW and Chips……on their back to back exceptional pots. Thank you so much.
Congrats to Gold ⭐ winners staring with this post and 3/4 back.
exactly. and that is not going to happen. not voluntarily.
CBS radio news keeps playing a clip from a spokesman (but I don’t think it was Roorda) was said the Rams players’ gestures were “offensive.”
Cannot believe they play that unchallenged — Darren Wilson (and whoever that cop was in Cleveland who shot Tamir Rice) KILLED an unarmed teen in BROAD DAYLIGHT for walking in the street. Anyone who buys into that idiotic statement doesn’t understand what offensive is, and/or is a bigot.
LL mentioned this earlier
Darkened bedroom, six years old, watching Chespirito with my mom.
That is why he got along so well with GWB…two weaklings who have to pretend to be tough. GWB played cowboy but was afraid of horses and Putin so afraid that Russia will get lost in America’s and Europe’s dust, he has try to rebuild the Soviet Union and NO ONE wants to go back to that madness once they have experienced independence.
Presidential? Not in my book.
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/hillary-clintons-awkward-keystone-day
Both the Clinton’s make me sick.
She is such a fraud. POWER is the goal.
from the chris rock interview: “Where else besides Ferguson would you hypothetically want to interview white people?
I’d love to do some liberal places, because you can be in the most liberal places and there’s no black people.”
yes, would love to see this at a “ready for hillary” rally. who could forget this “liberal” gathering to support hillary against barack obama:
any hillary supporters here need to ask yourselves why she purposely tries to ride these people in elections, and antagonize president obama supporters. would love to see chris rock take on this mentality face to face.
I had not seen that before – hard enough to hear this talk from a GOPer but mind bogling to see such racism from a democrat – makes it even more amazing that pbo was ever elected
Hillary grew up in a Republican home and up until he died, while her husband was President of the United States, her father referred to black people using the N-word.
Cameras! YESSSSS!
Every damn day!
Paging 20committee and JimCrowleyTIME….
Cwy me a wivah!
paging Bobfr.
I know he will get a kick out of this. 😀
Punks.
Is Obama Bold Enough For You Now?
PAUL WALDMAN DECEMBER 1, 2014
All the criticisms of him for being too “passive” were just a cover for substantive disagreement.
Remember when the problem everyone had with Barack Obama was how passive he was? In late October, Charles Krauthammer lamented Obama’s “observer presidency with its bewildered-bystander pose.” Dana Milbank agreed that “The real problem with Obama is not overreach but his tendency to be hands-off.” Milbank quoted Mitt Romney approvingly for his criticism of Obama for not being sufficiently “focused” on the Ebola threat (I guess a more focused president would have managed to avert the thousands of American Ebola deaths—oh wait). Anonymous Hillary Clinton aides tell reporters that unlike the “passive” Obama, their boss is going to be “aggressive” and “decisive” when it comes to foreign crises. Leon Panetta writes a memoir criticizing Obama for being passive, but the specific criticisms look a lot like, “I told the President to do something, and he didn’t follow my advice!”
Moment of Geek (hold my hand, LL!) 😀
😆
And as long as we’re on the subject, why are there still Storm Troopers 30 years after the Empire has fallen?
A question to be answered in the new movie, perhaps.
And we have an entire year to wait for some answers.
“R” is always treated differently from “D” by the News Media in USA, period. Those who deny it are LYING.
Case in Point, once again.
Catch y’all later!
I definitely had to retweet the cuteness 🙂
The toddlers’ questions in the WHPC brought me back to the hard reality of puerile politics. They are all in full force with their usual babbling. Wow. You would think that after Thanksgiving, they would have grown up a bit, if not laterally but spiritually.
Good Afternoon TODVille!
Bo and potus.
New post:
http://theobamadiary.com/2014/12/01/executive-order-on-police-militarization/
Just want to thank you Nerdy for highlighting the Chris Rock Interview. I went and read the whole thing. Not only were his comments on racism spot-on and illuminating but also this:
“I don’t think I’ve had any meetings with black film execs. Maybe one. It is what it is. As I told Bill Murray, Lost in Translation is a black movie: That’s what it feels like to be black and rich. Not in the sense that people are being mean to you. Bill Murray’s in Tokyo, and it’s just weird. He seems kind of isolated. He’s always around Japanese people. Look at me right now.”
Oh, and loved your tweet with the pic of DCGopGirl! Ha Ha! What comes around…. 🙂