The Black Power, Black Love, Black Pain, Black Strength, Black Beauty, Black Courage, Black Culture, Black Girl Magic, Black Everything is still giving me SO. MUCH. LIFE.
This is my absolute favorite Beyoncé video and song ever! Someone posted this late night on TOD the other night right when it came out and I was blown away by how powerful and beautiful and hard it is.
I don’t have any Beyoncé tunes – don’t hate me – I really appreciate her as a huge talent and great artist, but I tend to prefer less mainstream stuff. That being said, I know that if I saw her in concert she’d be one of those artists that I would end up surprising myself by knowing every song and dancing the whole time.
I LOVE this song Formation and the video is BEAUTIFUL and DEEP on so many levels. I’m buying this and playing it endlessly for sure!
Also, just saw that she will be creating a fund in order for her fans to help Flint residents recover from the water crisis long-term. Was trying to find a way to donate to it, but I guess it’s not yet in operation. Nice to see about these other artists helping too:
Yup. One of the many things I appreciate about she and Jay Z is that they don’t look for recognition for their activism, they just do it. In addition to helping out with the Flint water crisis, she has donated over $7M to homeless causes in her native city of Houston. She and Jay Z provided funds to bail out many Black Lives Matter activists, and she and Jay Z just donated $1.5M to the Black Lives Matter movement.
Nice to hear about all of their good work, NW. Yes, I love when artists are “woke” as well as talented and entertaining. I didn’t know about all of what she and Jay Z do, but the fact that all of their activism and charity is not front paged all the time is also, I think, because they don’t do it for promotion or publicity but because it is just who they are; good people doing good because they can. Their weren’t any big news stories about it, but Stephen Colbert is from South Carolina and funded every single South Carolina Donor’s Choose teacher request by himself, to the tune of $800,000. He’s another “woke” one 🙂
Loved this from Stephen’s “Midnight Confessions” segment the other night:
“Sometimes I use slang I don’t understand to connect with young people. I guess I’m just woke like that on fleek bye Felicia.”
“Best revenge is your paper” and “I’m a Black Bill Gates in the making” Bey just let us know the Carters are billionaires and I’m totally and completely here for it. We have built a large socially responsible #BLACKWEALTH and #BLACKPROFESSIONAL class and if we get a Bernie presidency, he’s gonna make sure that all goes away. This is why #ImWithHer
Clinton doesn’t appear to know how to cut the outside noise and establish clear channels of authority and communication. She needs to figure this out PRONTO.
Wait, Mark Penn is still giving advice to the Clinton campaign?
Excuse me, but didn’t President Obama write the bible on how to run for the Presidency and win? For goodness sakes doesn’t anyone over there in Clinton land know what they are doing?
If she’s tussling with Joel Benenson, that is not a good sign. He’s a polling strategist, so not sure why he’s in a more visible role. He and Plouffe were the ones that put together that famous spreadsheet in 2008.
This is the same problem she had the last time. She can’t seem to keep her old friends out of her ear. All it does is create chaos and blur the lines of authority. PBO knew how to organize and manage his staff from the start, that’s for damn sure.
Yes, PBO knew how to organize but more importantly he didn’t attract the type of element that the Clintons seem to attract. Birds of a feather flock together.
Seems like she can’t do without those sycophants. If one can’t learn from past errors, then they will never learn. Truly thought she would finally find her own voice, if it was ever there to begin with, but not looking good, if this is where she’s heading. Uggh!
You would think she would have learned something from POTUS’ campaign. She needs to start by putting Bill on ice somewhere, whatever he was saying this weekend about Sanders reminded me of ’08, also having Albright and other women out there pushing the “I am woman” thing is awful. She seems to be running the same campaign as last time.
I agree. There’s a difference between standing up for yourself, holding everyone accountable and inflaming resentment. She’s going to need Berne’s supporters sooner or later. Bill, et al, need to cool their jets.
She also needs to start speaking to the needs of young women. They don’t pay enough attention to what is going on and Hillary would be the perfect person to talk about the GOP wanting to take away birth control, and equal pay etc. They aren’t interested in having a woman president and I’m sure they don’t care about who is the most progressive politician.
Yes! And look at the work VP Joe is doing with #ItsonUs to stop campus assaults. He’s been so effective and the students – both women and men – love him to pieces.
Of course Mark Penn is on the payroll, I think the Clintons still owe this guy money from the last trip. Which by the way if my memory serves me correctly the Clintons wanted President Obama to pay off their campaign debts. The Clintons are in the process of getting the band back together again replete with grafters, flim-flam men, long and short con artist, and assorted bag men. When these motherfuckers come to town, hold on to your wallets.
Between the incompetence, tone-deafness, and/or obliviousness of Hillary and Bernie coupled with the extreme nuttiness of the BernieBot/Bros, a President Trump/Cruz/Rubio is a more disturbing possibility than it should ever be.
This, after I heard earlier that the Clinton campaign is changing out staff, and at least one of those to leave is from “the Obama campaign.” Hmmm. I think we’re seeing a little insider stuff here. Thanks for sharing.
I really liked A Ballertina’s Tale: for me, it was the tale of Black women uplifting Misty every step of the way, pushing her towards this moment in history.
By Tambay A. Obenson | Shadow and Act
February 8, 2016 at 1:44PM
Tonight on PBS’ INDEPENDENT LENS film series, Nelson George’s “A Ballerina’s Tale” makes its TV premiere, so many, many more of you will finally be able to check out the documentary for yourselves, in the comfort of your homes.
The film explores the rise of Misty Copeland, who made history as the first African American female principal dancer with the prestigious American Ballet Theater. It gives audiences an intimate look at a groundbreaking dancer during a crucial period in her life, as she makes the transition.
On June 30, 2015, Copeland became the first African American woman to be promoted to principal dancer in ABT’s 75-year history.
Flipped on MSNBC, where Chris Matthews is ranting like a raving maniac who lost it yesterday, in prep for his interview with Trump. Luckily, none of this is “required viewing.” *click*
G’day mates. I’ve been lurking off and on while hold a small “pity party” for my chronic health issue. A friend sent me this link and it helped. The message is awesome….and Nerdy you do one helluva job!
This video says it all doesn’t it? When we think why me, there are others who are a lit worst off. They keep on keeping on, thats what i wish for all my TOD family. Just keep your head up and keep your spirits up. Prayers to you and all my family here.
“This is the crux of the whole thing; this is what racism is, the lowest, most uneducated, toothless, inbred, southern white man still believes that his white skin makes him better than the President. Until we can get around that, racism will always be with us.”
That’s why the GOP field is chock full of ignorant, morally bankrupt jackasses. If a black man can be President, surely any of them can get over, they think.
These two ran or is running for the highest office in the land, President of the United States, but the current President is to “flashy” for going on talk shows, making short clips to encourage young people to get insured, independent radio and internet showing the human side of him is just too Unpresidental….go figure.
Here is some info on the new Italian President. I’ve been so caught up in our election season here, I didn’t even know that Italy’s Parliament had elected a new President (Matteo Renzi is still Prime Minister). My Italian boyfriend, who lives in Italy, didn’t even mention it; in our most recent conversation he talked about Sanders vs. Clinton – ha ha.
A quote from the article:
“Traditionally in Italy, when a right wing government is in power, a left leaning president is elected. This is exactly what Berlusconi and Co were pushing for.
This time round though, in a break from tradition, and a display of Matteo Renzi’s power and, it has to be said, of his skill at the political game, a left leaning government has succeeded in electing a left leaning president of the republic. This represents a major victory for Mr Renzi and, on the face of it, something of a drubbing for Silvio Berlusconi and Italy’s right leaning politicians, some of whom, ironically, helped vote in a reputedly anti-fascist president.”
OMG! I’m totally overcome with joy and emotion seeing these girls. I can’t imagine how their parents feel with them performing at the White House like this. FLOTUS is echoing my thoughts with her words 🙂
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I am amazed at a grown man Rob Lowe, who was caught rolling around in bed with teenage girls can question some one else character. That is a Republican for you, they are the biggest hypocrites ever.
The Enduring Solidarity of Whiteness
Black poverty is fundamentally distinct from white poverty—and so cannot be addressed without grappling with racism.
TA-NEHISI COATES 7:00 AM ET POLITICS
There have been a number of useful entries in the weeks since Senator Bernie Sanders declared himself against reparations. Perhaps the most clarifying comes from Cedric Johnson in a piece entitled, “An Open Letter To Ta-Nehisi Coates And The Liberals Who Love Him.” Johnson’s essay offers those of us interested in the problem of white supremacy and the question of economic class the chance to tease out how, and where, these two problems intersect. In Johnson’s rendition, racism, in and of itself, holds limited explanatory power when looking at the socio-economic problems which beset African Americans. “We continue to reach for old modes of analysis in the face of a changed world,” writes Johnson. “One where blackness is still derogated but anti-black racism is not the principal determinant of material conditions and economic mobility for many African Americans.”
Johnson goes on to classify racism among other varieties of -isms whose primary purpose is “to advance exploitation on terms that are most favorable to investor class interests.” From this perspective, the absence of specific anti-racist solutions from Bernie Sanders, as well as his rejection of reparations, make sense. By Johnson’s lights, racism is a secondary concern, and to the extent that it is a concern at all, it is weapon deployed to advance the interest of a plutocratic minority.
At various points in my life, I have subscribed to some version of Johnson’s argument. I did not always believe in reparations. In the past, I generally thought that the problem of white supremacy could be dealt through the sort of broad economic policy favored by Johnson and his candidate of choice. But eventually, I came to believe that white supremacy was a force in and of itself, a vector often intersecting with class, but also operating independent of it.
FLOTUS makes me so proud. She is the best First Lady this country have had in a long time. I just love what she said to those young girls. Did you see the love for our FLOTUS?
Sanders has ended the coronation and fired up the grass roots. Now Clinton’s electability argument is crumbling too
BILL CURRY
It would be hard to overstate what Bernie Sanders has already achieved in his campaign for president, or the obstacles he’s had to surmount in order to achieve it. Not only has he turned a planned Hillary Clinton coronation into an exercise in grass-roots democracy, he’s reset the terms of the debate. We are edging closer to the national conversation we so desperately need to have. If we get there, all credit goes to Bernie.
Many of those obstacles were put in place by Democratic national party chair and Clinton apparatchik Deborah Wasserman Schultz. Without pretense of due process, Schultz slashed the number of 2016 debates to six, down from 26 in 2008, and scheduled as many as she could on weekends when she figured no one would be watching. To deprive would-be challengers of free exposure, Schultz robbed voters of free and open debate and ceded the spotlight to the dark vaudeville of the Republicans. That Sanders got this far in spite of her is a miracle in itself.
“he turned a planned Hillary Clinton coronation into an exercise in grass-roots democracy, he’s reset the terms of the debate. he turned a planned Hillary Clinton coronation into an exercise in grass-roots democracy, he’s reset the terms of the debate. ” <– THIS right here.
HRC has done nothing to earn a win. Coronation my a*s.
Even though I, myself, blame Debbie W-S on the lack of debates, I don’t blame her as though I thought it was her idea. She would have never gone against Hillary on something so substantial, without her initial blessing. In cahoots, I believe, is the term. Subsequent reasons range from incompetence, to lack of integrity, to Debbie’s total feeling of self-importance, which I never picked up on way back when I thought she was one of the cool kids.
“Without pretense of due process, Schultz slashed the number of 2016 debates to six, down from 26 in 2008, and scheduled as many as she could on weekends when she figured no one would be watching”
We’ll see come Super Tuesday and what is written about Senator Sanders. “Reverse racism”, AA’s refuse to elect a white man for president…..Although that is all we’ve done before PBO.
Oh. My. Goodness. Mrs. Obama, these mentors and beautiful performers had me going! So incredible and inspiring. And so much love for FLOTUS and all the work she’s doing for our nation’s youth. BRAVA!!
I thank First Lady Michelle Obama for truly opening the doors of the White House because it helps young girls like the brilliant performers we saw on that stage, dream big dreams, see what is possible, keep on hoping, and know that it is within their grasp.
What she has done and keeps doing is so important, ground breaking, and changes lives for the better.
Everything she’s done is historic. There will never be another like her in the White House. I can’t wait to see where she puts her energy after 2016. I just hope we can still follow her work somehow.
I had the great privilege of seeing Judith Jamison in her prime and the Alvin Ailey dance troupe a few times and it was revelatory. I’ll never forget their skill and artistry and how it changed my experience of dance. A real renaissance.
Hard to say which of PBO’s many, many accomplishments will be recognized as the most pivotal, but I’m betting on his shifting the whole damn world economy away from oil-tocracy. Gas prices low, petroleum stocks quivering, renewables booming– this is revolutionary. Which is why the pooor widdle rethugs are unable to get traction. Oil has been their deity, their agenda, their source of all support, and it’s just petered out. 🙂
“Gas prices low, petroleum stocks quivering, renewables booming– this is revolutionary.”
PBO has brought this and other major revolutions to this country. Just wish some of the Berniebots could acknowledge and appreciate it so we could build on and preserve them, not ignore them or try to tear them down in search of some imagined Utopia.
As AA’s, Asians, Whites, Hispanics, Poor, Rich, Middle income folks fill up their tanks….but PBO has done NOTHING for AA’s and the poors like Donald or Sen. Sanders will…..
Sometimes I think there’s been a decision to hush up PBO’s accomplishments because if people actually understood what he’s done they’d be even more reactionary. Reminds me of young folks paying respect to their elders, while quietly going about making the whole society in a new image. Don’t tell grandpa, but the world he thinks he knows is long gone!
The Obama Diary 
1st!
Love the tweets Nerdy. Thank you!
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Good afternoon Nerdy and TOD family, I hope all is well with everyone this lovely Monday afternoon. Congrats Don, on being first.
To all, I hope you have a fresh, energetic, and zippy day today. ❤ ❤ ❤
Thank God that President Obama is still the President of The United States of America. ⭐🏆 ⭐🏆 ⭐🏆
🙂 Hello, RanMan!
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!
Thanks rikyrah for posting this.
The Black Power, Black Love, Black Pain, Black Strength, Black Beauty, Black Courage, Black Culture, Black Girl Magic, Black Everything is still giving me SO. MUCH. LIFE.
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS….. SLAY BEYONCÉ. #ISlay #Swag #Formation
We Struggle….We TRIUMPH…Our spirit continues to fight for what is right…Each in our own way…
Black…Girl…..Magic….
We have the strength of Kings and Queens in our Wings…
AMEN!!!!
This is my absolute favorite Beyoncé video and song ever! Someone posted this late night on TOD the other night right when it came out and I was blown away by how powerful and beautiful and hard it is.
I don’t have any Beyoncé tunes – don’t hate me – I really appreciate her as a huge talent and great artist, but I tend to prefer less mainstream stuff. That being said, I know that if I saw her in concert she’d be one of those artists that I would end up surprising myself by knowing every song and dancing the whole time.
I LOVE this song Formation and the video is BEAUTIFUL and DEEP on so many levels. I’m buying this and playing it endlessly for sure!
P.S. I carry hot sauce in my bag too – ha ha 🙂
Also, just saw that she will be creating a fund in order for her fans to help Flint residents recover from the water crisis long-term. Was trying to find a way to donate to it, but I guess it’s not yet in operation. Nice to see about these other artists helping too:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/08/entertainment/stars-help-flint/index.html
Yup. One of the many things I appreciate about she and Jay Z is that they don’t look for recognition for their activism, they just do it. In addition to helping out with the Flint water crisis, she has donated over $7M to homeless causes in her native city of Houston. She and Jay Z provided funds to bail out many Black Lives Matter activists, and she and Jay Z just donated $1.5M to the Black Lives Matter movement.
I love it when artists are as they say, “woke.” 🙂
Nice to hear about all of their good work, NW. Yes, I love when artists are “woke” as well as talented and entertaining. I didn’t know about all of what she and Jay Z do, but the fact that all of their activism and charity is not front paged all the time is also, I think, because they don’t do it for promotion or publicity but because it is just who they are; good people doing good because they can. Their weren’t any big news stories about it, but Stephen Colbert is from South Carolina and funded every single South Carolina Donor’s Choose teacher request by himself, to the tune of $800,000. He’s another “woke” one 🙂
Loved this from Stephen’s “Midnight Confessions” segment the other night:
“Sometimes I use slang I don’t understand to connect with young people. I guess I’m just woke like that on fleek bye Felicia.”
Arghhh.. “there” weren’t any big news stories about it…
“P.S. I carry hot sauce in my bag too – ha ha”
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS….Rock on, MadameSoph! 🙂
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“Best revenge is your paper” and “I’m a Black Bill Gates in the making” Bey just let us know the Carters are billionaires and I’m totally and completely here for it. We have built a large socially responsible #BLACKWEALTH and #BLACKPROFESSIONAL class and if we get a Bernie presidency, he’s gonna make sure that all goes away. This is why #ImWithHer
THIS!!!!!!
I am only going to vote for Hillary because the alternatives are horrible.
It will not be with faith nor conviction
Clinton doesn’t appear to know how to cut the outside noise and establish clear channels of authority and communication. She needs to figure this out PRONTO.
Excuse me, but didn’t President Obama write the bible on how to run for the Presidency and win? For goodness sakes doesn’t anyone over there in Clinton land know what they are doing?
If she’s tussling with Joel Benenson, that is not a good sign. He’s a polling strategist, so not sure why he’s in a more visible role. He and Plouffe were the ones that put together that famous spreadsheet in 2008.
This is the same problem she had the last time. She can’t seem to keep her old friends out of her ear. All it does is create chaos and blur the lines of authority. PBO knew how to organize and manage his staff from the start, that’s for damn sure.
Yes, PBO knew how to organize but more importantly he didn’t attract the type of element that the Clintons seem to attract. Birds of a feather flock together.
Seems like she can’t do without those sycophants. If one can’t learn from past errors, then they will never learn. Truly thought she would finally find her own voice, if it was ever there to begin with, but not looking good, if this is where she’s heading. Uggh!
You would think she would have learned something from POTUS’ campaign. She needs to start by putting Bill on ice somewhere, whatever he was saying this weekend about Sanders reminded me of ’08, also having Albright and other women out there pushing the “I am woman” thing is awful. She seems to be running the same campaign as last time.
I agree. There’s a difference between standing up for yourself, holding everyone accountable and inflaming resentment. She’s going to need Berne’s supporters sooner or later. Bill, et al, need to cool their jets.
She also needs to start speaking to the needs of young women. They don’t pay enough attention to what is going on and Hillary would be the perfect person to talk about the GOP wanting to take away birth control, and equal pay etc. They aren’t interested in having a woman president and I’m sure they don’t care about who is the most progressive politician.
Yes! And look at the work VP Joe is doing with #ItsonUs to stop campus assaults. He’s been so effective and the students – both women and men – love him to pieces.
Absolutely!
Thisss
Maybe she should ask fellow First Lady Michelle Obama to handle her communications …..
Brilliance.
Joe Biden we miss you….Wish you were running. Completely understand your decision not to.
AMEN
aahhh no. HRC should handle her own mess. FLOTUS should not be put in a position of cleaning up after her.
Absolutely! I was only remarking on the brilliance of FLOTUS. She has her own full and beautiful plate and doesn’t need anybody else’s problems.
Of course Mark Penn is on the payroll, I think the Clintons still owe this guy money from the last trip. Which by the way if my memory serves me correctly the Clintons wanted President Obama to pay off their campaign debts. The Clintons are in the process of getting the band back together again replete with grafters, flim-flam men, long and short con artist, and assorted bag men. When these motherfuckers come to town, hold on to your wallets.
Between the incompetence, tone-deafness, and/or obliviousness of Hillary and Bernie coupled with the extreme nuttiness of the BernieBot/Bros, a President Trump/Cruz/Rubio is a more disturbing possibility than it should ever be.
Ouch !
That is going to leave a mark
YUP.
So, meta, I decided to do a little messaging of my own 😉
That hurt.
This, after I heard earlier that the Clinton campaign is changing out staff, and at least one of those to leave is from “the Obama campaign.” Hmmm. I think we’re seeing a little insider stuff here. Thanks for sharing.
Probably he or she got tired of the bullshit.
I think you hit on it.
I really liked A Ballertina’s Tale: for me, it was the tale of Black women uplifting Misty every step of the way, pushing her towards this moment in history.
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Tonight: Nelson George’s Misty Copeland Doc – ‘A Ballerina’s Tale’ – Premieres on INDEPENDENT LENS
By Tambay A. Obenson | Shadow and Act
February 8, 2016 at 1:44PM
Tonight on PBS’ INDEPENDENT LENS film series, Nelson George’s “A Ballerina’s Tale” makes its TV premiere, so many, many more of you will finally be able to check out the documentary for yourselves, in the comfort of your homes.
The film explores the rise of Misty Copeland, who made history as the first African American female principal dancer with the prestigious American Ballet Theater. It gives audiences an intimate look at a groundbreaking dancer during a crucial period in her life, as she makes the transition.
On June 30, 2015, Copeland became the first African American woman to be promoted to principal dancer in ABT’s 75-year history.
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#Obamagas
Flipped on MSNBC, where Chris Matthews is ranting like a raving maniac who lost it yesterday, in prep for his interview with Trump. Luckily, none of this is “required viewing.” *click*
He is Star Struck over Trump…. I had to mute it…..
Ugh. Trump plays all those he considers lesser beings like a piano.
LOL
I’m with that kid! Love it.
Out of the mouths of babes truth is spoken.
G’day mates. I’ve been lurking off and on while hold a small “pity party” for my chronic health issue. A friend sent me this link and it helped. The message is awesome….and Nerdy you do one helluva job!
Good Afternoon Sailor.
This video says it all doesn’t it? When we think why me, there are others who are a lit worst off. They keep on keeping on, thats what i wish for all my TOD family. Just keep your head up and keep your spirits up. Prayers to you and all my family here.
Thank you.
Awesome, indeed.
Wonderful video……we all need this message most of the time. Thank you!
Beautiful. Thanks Yardarm for sharing. Sometimes we all need a swift kick in the reminder keester 🙂
Amen Sis.
Awwww…..thank you, Sir!
Dmi. You deserve that and more.
She’s exactly right and it can’t be said enough:
“This is the crux of the whole thing; this is what racism is, the lowest, most uneducated, toothless, inbred, southern white man still believes that his white skin makes him better than the President. Until we can get around that, racism will always be with us.”
That’s why the GOP field is chock full of ignorant, morally bankrupt jackasses. If a black man can be President, surely any of them can get over, they think.
Rudy did not like Beyonce’s act at the SuperBowl. Aww……maybe he wishes he and The Donald were asked to perform.
These two ran or is running for the highest office in the land, President of the United States, but the current President is to “flashy” for going on talk shows, making short clips to encourage young people to get insured, independent radio and internet showing the human side of him is just too Unpresidental….go figure.
Starting soon: https://twitter.com/jazziz2/status/696800920961728512
Just started. FLOTUS speaking now…
Here is some info on the new Italian President. I’ve been so caught up in our election season here, I didn’t even know that Italy’s Parliament had elected a new President (Matteo Renzi is still Prime Minister). My Italian boyfriend, who lives in Italy, didn’t even mention it; in our most recent conversation he talked about Sanders vs. Clinton – ha ha.
A quote from the article:
“Traditionally in Italy, when a right wing government is in power, a left leaning president is elected. This is exactly what Berlusconi and Co were pushing for.
This time round though, in a break from tradition, and a display of Matteo Renzi’s power and, it has to be said, of his skill at the political game, a left leaning government has succeeded in electing a left leaning president of the republic. This represents a major victory for Mr Renzi and, on the face of it, something of a drubbing for Silvio Berlusconi and Italy’s right leaning politicians, some of whom, ironically, helped vote in a reputedly anti-fascist president.”
http://italychronicles.com/all-about-italys-latest-president-sergio-mattarella/
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Cool, I didn’t miss it! I’m painting my toes and am enjoying this while they dry 🙂
OMG! I’m totally overcome with joy and emotion seeing these girls. I can’t imagine how their parents feel with them performing at the White House like this. FLOTUS is echoing my thoughts with her words 🙂
Thanks Nerdy for posting! I enjoyed this immensely. What a feast for the eyes, ears and soul. 🙂 And these little girls showing their excellence – WOW!
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I am amazed at a grown man Rob Lowe, who was caught rolling around in bed with teenage girls can question some one else character. That is a Republican for you, they are the biggest hypocrites ever.
Bravo to those young girls. They did well.
FLOTUS makes me so dam proud, it is so nice to see these young black girls.
The Enduring Solidarity of Whiteness
Black poverty is fundamentally distinct from white poverty—and so cannot be addressed without grappling with racism.
TA-NEHISI COATES 7:00 AM ET POLITICS
There have been a number of useful entries in the weeks since Senator Bernie Sanders declared himself against reparations. Perhaps the most clarifying comes from Cedric Johnson in a piece entitled, “An Open Letter To Ta-Nehisi Coates And The Liberals Who Love Him.” Johnson’s essay offers those of us interested in the problem of white supremacy and the question of economic class the chance to tease out how, and where, these two problems intersect. In Johnson’s rendition, racism, in and of itself, holds limited explanatory power when looking at the socio-economic problems which beset African Americans. “We continue to reach for old modes of analysis in the face of a changed world,” writes Johnson. “One where blackness is still derogated but anti-black racism is not the principal determinant of material conditions and economic mobility for many African Americans.”
Johnson goes on to classify racism among other varieties of -isms whose primary purpose is “to advance exploitation on terms that are most favorable to investor class interests.” From this perspective, the absence of specific anti-racist solutions from Bernie Sanders, as well as his rejection of reparations, make sense. By Johnson’s lights, racism is a secondary concern, and to the extent that it is a concern at all, it is weapon deployed to advance the interest of a plutocratic minority.
At various points in my life, I have subscribed to some version of Johnson’s argument. I did not always believe in reparations. In the past, I generally thought that the problem of white supremacy could be dealt through the sort of broad economic policy favored by Johnson and his candidate of choice. But eventually, I came to believe that white supremacy was a force in and of itself, a vector often intersecting with class, but also operating independent of it.
FLOTUS makes me so proud. She is the best First Lady this country have had in a long time. I just love what she said to those young girls. Did you see the love for our FLOTUS?
Yes, I did. It was awesome! 🙂
uh huh
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SUNDAY, FEB 7, 2016 05:01 AM CST
It’s almost over for Hillary: This election is a mass insurrection against a rigged system
Sanders has ended the coronation and fired up the grass roots. Now Clinton’s electability argument is crumbling too
BILL CURRY
It would be hard to overstate what Bernie Sanders has already achieved in his campaign for president, or the obstacles he’s had to surmount in order to achieve it. Not only has he turned a planned Hillary Clinton coronation into an exercise in grass-roots democracy, he’s reset the terms of the debate. We are edging closer to the national conversation we so desperately need to have. If we get there, all credit goes to Bernie.
Many of those obstacles were put in place by Democratic national party chair and Clinton apparatchik Deborah Wasserman Schultz. Without pretense of due process, Schultz slashed the number of 2016 debates to six, down from 26 in 2008, and scheduled as many as she could on weekends when she figured no one would be watching. To deprive would-be challengers of free exposure, Schultz robbed voters of free and open debate and ceded the spotlight to the dark vaudeville of the Republicans. That Sanders got this far in spite of her is a miracle in itself.
“he turned a planned Hillary Clinton coronation into an exercise in grass-roots democracy, he’s reset the terms of the debate. he turned a planned Hillary Clinton coronation into an exercise in grass-roots democracy, he’s reset the terms of the debate. ” <– THIS right here.
HRC has done nothing to earn a win. Coronation my a*s.
Even though I, myself, blame Debbie W-S on the lack of debates, I don’t blame her as though I thought it was her idea. She would have never gone against Hillary on something so substantial, without her initial blessing. In cahoots, I believe, is the term. Subsequent reasons range from incompetence, to lack of integrity, to Debbie’s total feeling of self-importance, which I never picked up on way back when I thought she was one of the cool kids.
“Without pretense of due process, Schultz slashed the number of 2016 debates to six, down from 26 in 2008, and scheduled as many as she could on weekends when she figured no one would be watching”
We’ll see come Super Tuesday and what is written about Senator Sanders. “Reverse racism”, AA’s refuse to elect a white man for president…..Although that is all we’ve done before PBO.
White man talking.
Nerdy Wonka, you are so right. Thanks to you for posting this.
Oh. My. Goodness. Mrs. Obama, these mentors and beautiful performers had me going! So incredible and inspiring. And so much love for FLOTUS and all the work she’s doing for our nation’s youth. BRAVA!!
Indeed meta. You can’t put a price on this!
It was a wonderful event, Meta! 🙂
I thank First Lady Michelle Obama for truly opening the doors of the White House because it helps young girls like the brilliant performers we saw on that stage, dream big dreams, see what is possible, keep on hoping, and know that it is within their grasp.
What she has done and keeps doing is so important, ground breaking, and changes lives for the better.
Everything she’s done is historic. There will never be another like her in the White House. I can’t wait to see where she puts her energy after 2016. I just hope we can still follow her work somehow.
I had the great privilege of seeing Judith Jamison in her prime and the Alvin Ailey dance troupe a few times and it was revelatory. I’ll never forget their skill and artistry and how it changed my experience of dance. A real renaissance.
This reminded me of Judith Jameson too. I agree; watching her was a transcendent experience.
Hard to say which of PBO’s many, many accomplishments will be recognized as the most pivotal, but I’m betting on his shifting the whole damn world economy away from oil-tocracy. Gas prices low, petroleum stocks quivering, renewables booming– this is revolutionary. Which is why the pooor widdle rethugs are unable to get traction. Oil has been their deity, their agenda, their source of all support, and it’s just petered out. 🙂
YES, he’s turned the whole world on its ear. Really phenomenal.
“Gas prices low, petroleum stocks quivering, renewables booming– this is revolutionary.”
PBO has brought this and other major revolutions to this country. Just wish some of the Berniebots could acknowledge and appreciate it so we could build on and preserve them, not ignore them or try to tear them down in search of some imagined Utopia.
As AA’s, Asians, Whites, Hispanics, Poor, Rich, Middle income folks fill up their tanks….but PBO has done NOTHING for AA’s and the poors like Donald or Sen. Sanders will…..
For you jojo 🙂 >^..^<
(ignoring, of course, that catnip is already legal under PBO 🙂 )
{{{{hugs & kittie kisses}}}} MadameSoph
Sometimes I think there’s been a decision to hush up PBO’s accomplishments because if people actually understood what he’s done they’d be even more reactionary. Reminds me of young folks paying respect to their elders, while quietly going about making the whole society in a new image. Don’t tell grandpa, but the world he thinks he knows is long gone!
Science!
Please, don’t tell GOPers running for Prez, they will 100% deny it!
New post.
http://theobamadiary.com/2016/02/08/tweet-of-the-day-22/