At this point, I see no difference between a MAGA hat and a KKK hood. They all sanction the same thing.
Thank you to @VinceSchilling of @IndianCountry and many others who identified the proud Native man who is being harassed. He is Mr. Nathan Phillips. I’m reposting this video from “ka_ya11” on IG. This man’s words pierce my heart. The grace. The wisdom. The hope. pic.twitter.com/BKOA40SVq5
white kids, in this case boys specifically, are very aware of the structural power they possess as a result of their whiteness/maleness and they’ll go out their way to wield and flex it, just for the fun of it, just like their parents, grandparents, and ancestors https://t.co/KTV3WcMDUt
Anyone excusing those kids is TRASH. From the moment they stole this land, white people know the structural and sociopolitical power they wield and you could see it in those kids demeanor.
Those MAGA racists knew exactly what they were doing.
The video of the MAGA kids harassing an indigenous veteran further demonstrate the consequences of having public displays of racism & bigotry sanctioned by the most powerful person in the country. It should disabuse ppl of the notion that such public racism will simply “die out.”
If you compare teenage me to a MAGA Youth, grown ass me will beat your ass in Jesus name. Don't come on this hellsite and make false equivalences like this. https://t.co/TxkBfLfRyl
— Bae Grylls (@theauracle@queer.party) (@TheAuracl3) January 19, 2019
They love to wear those #MAGA hats at the African American history museum too. Something really needs to be done about that.
I have a hard time regarding the sneering kid in the MAGA hat as some combination of stupid and harmless. He’s working in a long tradition that begins with public taunts and humiliation but is inevitably violent. pic.twitter.com/y2VSQcJHKY
You go into a church, funeral, Lincoln’s museum, Holocaust museum, African American museum, or any place like this, show your respect, if you don’t or can’t it shows your lack of intelligence, respect, cruel, self centered, evil person that you are. Take you hat OFF!
Earlier today I read the story about the bullying of the Native American elder at Arlington National Cemetery. After now having watched the video of Michelle Obama’s “letter to herself,” I can’t help but remark on how wonderful her parents were and how they influenced and helped her become the remarkable woman she is today. I don’t think the same could ever be said about the parents of the boys who publicly taunted and verbally attacked an elderly man in a military cemetery, there to perform a traditional sacred remembrance ceremony for fallen soldiers who died to protect this country.
I was working on an important painting today, I stopped so I can draw this
I'm disgusted with the racist behavior & ignorance by the students who harassed indigenous Omaha Nation elder & Vietnam Vet Nathan Phillips at the #IndigenousPeoplesMarchpic.twitter.com/cr8eqxReVw
.@byTheresaVargas, timely & relevant as ever: American Indians remain one of the most vulnerable groups in this country, and the cost of ignorance about them is already too high. https://t.co/QlmciJU01W
This is why I laugh at the perception that racism is merely going to die off with the old folks. If anything, the attitude and policies of the current administration show young people that racism is absolutely worth it. https://t.co/qLWu1iEdoA
Republicans and right-wing media figures who pushed the disgusting Pocahontas stuff encouraged those high school MAGA kids to mock and intimidate Native Americans. You modeled this behavior for teens and they simply followed your lead.
1/Key point: Trump is not going to reopen the government until he gets his immigration bill passed but offers 1) a plan which cannot pass Senate or House 2) path which would preclude regular order – no committees, hearings, studies, debate, votes. Process normally takes months.
Mr. Obama was given credit by tribal leaders…establishing a buyback program to help tribes regain scattered lands; expanding the jurisdiction of tribal courts; and including tribal women under the protection of the Violence Against Women law in 2013. https://t.co/3YjE8U8NXy
A powerful statement from the former anti-ISIS envoy who says Trump’s Syria policy is helping ISIS and sowing chaos, heard the same from Kurdish commanders on the frontlines. https://t.co/VdH9vhaHJv
1/Key point: Trump is not going to reopen the government until he gets his immigration bill passed but offers 1) a plan which cannot pass Senate or House 2) path which would preclude regular order – no committees, hearings, studies, debate, votes. Process normally takes months.
What is original in the President’s proposal is not good. What is good in the proposal is not original. Democrats will vote next week to add additional border security funding for ports of entry, advanced technology for scanning vehicles for drugs & immigration judges.
The Diocese of Covington and Covington Catholic High School said they condemn the actions of students towards Nathan Phillips, deeply apologize to Phillips, are investigating the matter and "will take appropriate action, up to and including expulsion." https://t.co/iRYbeyDiXl
Mitt Romney, Mar 3, 2016: "Here's what I know. Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud. His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University. He's playing the American public for suckers: He gets a free ride to the White House and all we get is a lousy hat." https://t.co/03aanPTk1k
Trump had nothing to say about the hundreds of thousands of federal workers who aren’t being paid. Not one word. Not even an insincere statement of sympathy. Those people don’t exist to him.
This makes me so angry! Of all the people that are truly “Native” it is our indigenous people. I was sick when so many of them in North Dakota were not allowed to vote in the last election because they live in reservations and so many only have PO boxes…PO boxes not allowed as an address to vote (voter ID). They live on fucking reservations!! They shouldn’t even need a fucking Voter ID! This makes me so fucking mad! Those MAGNA hat wearers are an embarrassment, they have so much white privilege in their smirks. Their parents taught them this…our president fuels this….Where the fuck is my country!
This Day, 2015: Maintaining a tradition of performing community service on a holiday, Barack Obama volunteered at the Boys & Girls Club of Greater DC pic.twitter.com/3Wy3rE2Ykj
“I started going and that guy in the hat blocked my way.” So, he kept drumming and singing, thinking about his wife, Soshana, who died of cancer four years ago, and the threats to indigenous communities. “I felt like the spirit was talking through me.” https://t.co/Ze5n6z7pLe
Has that smugged faced bully been identified. Melania where are you, when are you going to speak up about this bully, oh right you flew off to Mar-a-largo at our expense during the shut down. What a deplorable bunch of grifters. Lock them up, lock all of them up.
Each time I learn of a situation which highlights racism (especially when it involves young people), I think of a challenge that PBO posed to us during the eulogy of Rev. Clementa Pinckney in S.C. PBO said that perhaps we should think about what we are doing to (cause? teach?)our children to hate. I suspect that not many of us have given much thought to this part of the exceptional Amazing Grace speech.
Think you are correct, gcl. As I said to my husband last night when telling him about this, racism (and this kind of behavior) is taught. Children are not born with this hate. These boys have been taught/learned this from the adults in their lives and now the man occupying the oval office shows them every day that it is okay. Remember he began last week with mocking one of the worst massacres in Native American history and this is how that week ended. Aren’t these kids from KY? MMcC anyone?! I am betting you that if these boys were from a state with two D senators, the media would be contacting them and asking or demanding a comment. This time……crickets…….
Correct. All children are born perfect. The adults mess them up
To the surprise of absolutely nobody, the MAGA twerp who tried to punk a Native American veteran learned his white supremacy from his parents. https://t.co/4Tv9PLfcUb
Bullying at this school seems to be a feature . Do they get any tax money ? They need to be shut down . Read the thread
My brother graduated from this all boys catholic school in Northern KY. He was harassed and ridiculed to literally within an inch of his life. I see nothings changed. Shame on you @CovCathColonelshttps://t.co/WwVOMe9y0G
Awful. Thanks to the shutdown, 2,500 retailers around the country are unable to take any form of food stamps because they need to renew their EBT debit card licenses and can’t. https://t.co/uW4VMxyeS1
Can’t take much more of it, myself. He’s killing our spirits, too! I detest him with the heat of a thousand suns (and, yes, I may have mentioned that a couple hundred times before!!!!).
This is news. Rudy Giuliani again says that conversations between Trump and Michael Cohen about the Trump Tower Moscow project continued past the June 2016 end date in Cohen's guilty plea.
“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.” — Nelson Mandela
Mitch McConnell is pushing for Trump’s racist wall while saying NOTHING about his constituents surrounding and mocking Native Americans at the Lincoln Memorial. This is the real Mitch McConnell. He’s not savvy. He’s a warrior for white supremacy. Where’s the media?
McConnell is, above all, a coward. He has the chance to reopen the federal government. See that the bills coming his way get passed. Let Trump refuse to sign one of them and then OVERRIDE his veto in the Senate. He would then be doing the work he’s supposed to be doing as majority leader. But he doesn’t believe in the job he holds. His refusal, for eight years, to work with the Obama administration proved his seditionist soul. He should quit because he doesn’t want to be a leader. He wants to trail along and lead the whole country down with him.
PS A coward like McConnell would never stand up for a minority person, under any circumstance. He’s too worried about keeping himself wealthy.
NPR’s Maria Liasson just now stated that Buzzfeed “got a black eye”:
And that consequently Trump and Mueller look good. Meanwhile Buzzfeed is doubling down on the accuracy of their reporting.
NPR not even taking the usual faux ‘both sides are equal’ here…just unequivocally that Buzzfeed is wrong.
-This is the problem with compromised NPR and others.
with respect to the Buzzfeed story and the response from Special Counsel’s office, I have decided to wait and see how it all plays out.
Reasons for my hesitance to make a sweeping judgement:
(a) I am not sure that I understand exactly what the response from Special Counsel meant. I have read and listened to different interpretations from various professionals and pundits but I am just getting confused;
(b) I seem to recall that during the 2016 campaign, the DOJ refuted a New York Times story related to russia. the disputed story was then publicly retracted. Months later, we learned that the story was true and that DOJ knew at the time that it was true and yet challenged its publication.
So my posture is to wait, and wait, ……, and wait some more until I see what happens in the future
Ten years as an authentic president of the USA. Ten years as an authentic leader of the free world. Ten years as an authentic first family, First Lady and first daughters of the USA. Ten years of presidential excellence! The Obamas are the best!
The urgency to keep up the pressure on our Senators only gets higher the longer the #TrumpShutdown drags on. Mark your calendars (and charge your phones!) for a national call-in day of action on Wednesday, 1/23. pic.twitter.com/xzX1Z1YTMh
One off outrage is insufficient, especially when tomorrow the headlines will move on. Elect leaders & support orgs who will seek to end this hurt, to advance & to uplift indigenous people, Black folks/DOS, POC & other marginalized groups, & work to dismantle white supremacy.
heh, “change through the legislative process”. As if McConnevil hasn’t held Congress hostage since 2009.
-As if the despotic little russian and MLK can be rolled into the same sentence.
This Nick Sandmann "explanation" is pure racist victim blaming gaslighting nonsense.
Him, his family, the MAGA students who joined in, Covington Catholic School, its administrators, and everyone who sanctioned their harassment are FILTH.https://t.co/0q60rKxgBE
Naw. That won’t work. We saw what we saw. The MAGAts are thugs. I hope they are expelled from the Catholic school which sent them on that “March for Life”. They’re not fit to be in polite society. THUGS.
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The Obama Diary 
I’m sure enjoying all the coverage of Forever FLOTUS here. Keep up the good work! 🙂 Greetings from snowy Iowa.
Me, too, Nerdy. Greetings from snowy Illinois.
Couldn’t see the video but any pic of Michelle is beautiful.
Those of you who, like me, couldn’t see the video from here might like to try this link. I was finally able to watch it there; hope you can too.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/note-to-self-michelle-obama-pens-emotional-letter-on-loss-love-and-making-history/
At this point, I see no difference between a MAGA hat and a KKK hood. They all sanction the same thing.
You go into a church, funeral, Lincoln’s museum, Holocaust museum, African American museum, or any place like this, show your respect, if you don’t or can’t it shows your lack of intelligence, respect, cruel, self centered, evil person that you are. Take you hat OFF!
Earlier today I read the story about the bullying of the Native American elder at Arlington National Cemetery. After now having watched the video of Michelle Obama’s “letter to herself,” I can’t help but remark on how wonderful her parents were and how they influenced and helped her become the remarkable woman she is today. I don’t think the same could ever be said about the parents of the boys who publicly taunted and verbally attacked an elderly man in a military cemetery, there to perform a traditional sacred remembrance ceremony for fallen soldiers who died to protect this country.
Did you see this drawing? OMG.
Remember
https://newsmaven.io/indiancountrytoday/archive/barack-obama-emotionally-and-intellectually-committed-to-indian-country-tiTULWItlkuFW0jXZcorcQ/
Watch the emotional video. It will bring tears. This is what honor and respect looks like
i am so reminded how far we have fallen….
I know. It hurts my heart. Proof your vote matters
I miss President Obama so much and I know that many others feel the same way.
That was nice to watch. Reminds me of what it meant to have an actual decent, compassionate man as our President.
Nobel Peace Prize. I’m telling you
Now this is what a hero looks like.
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Wonderful.
i loved this video…it was so moving ….
Love this Note to Self from our Forever FLOTUS44.
Trump’s wall will cost more the 5.7 billion. Once again he is lying.
Re: the Gillette razor commercial
Bravo!
https://apnews.com/9591a9be2e464775a92aeee69d783be4
https://mobile.twitter.com/girlsreallyrule/status/1086607993293160450/photo/1
THIS THREAD RIGHT HERE:
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Sorry! I didn’t see that meta had already posted this. We do think alike around here:)
It’s a great thread!!
‘Tis!!
Speaker Pelosi’s statement
https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/11919/
https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/11919/
Thought it would print statement; my apologies.
Trying another route
Another damn fraud heard from
Thank you so much, Nerdy. It was such a pleasure coming here to see and listen to forever FLOTUS, Michelle Obama.
He didn’t mention them because Trump and his racist white supremacist speech writer Steven Miller don’t care one bit about those people.
I guess that’s the bigot’s name. Why don’t Trump get a make-up artist to cover around his eyes, he looks like a clown all he need is the red nose.
This makes me so angry! Of all the people that are truly “Native” it is our indigenous people. I was sick when so many of them in North Dakota were not allowed to vote in the last election because they live in reservations and so many only have PO boxes…PO boxes not allowed as an address to vote (voter ID). They live on fucking reservations!! They shouldn’t even need a fucking Voter ID! This makes me so fucking mad! Those MAGNA hat wearers are an embarrassment, they have so much white privilege in their smirks. Their parents taught them this…our president fuels this….Where the fuck is my country!
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Has that smugged faced bully been identified. Melania where are you, when are you going to speak up about this bully, oh right you flew off to Mar-a-largo at our expense during the shut down. What a deplorable bunch of grifters. Lock them up, lock all of them up.
Parents of those boys ought to be ashame, but they probably aren’t.
Each time I learn of a situation which highlights racism (especially when it involves young people), I think of a challenge that PBO posed to us during the eulogy of Rev. Clementa Pinckney in S.C. PBO said that perhaps we should think about what we are doing to (cause? teach?)our children to hate. I suspect that not many of us have given much thought to this part of the exceptional Amazing Grace speech.
Think you are correct, gcl. As I said to my husband last night when telling him about this, racism (and this kind of behavior) is taught. Children are not born with this hate. These boys have been taught/learned this from the adults in their lives and now the man occupying the oval office shows them every day that it is okay. Remember he began last week with mocking one of the worst massacres in Native American history and this is how that week ended. Aren’t these kids from KY? MMcC anyone?! I am betting you that if these boys were from a state with two D senators, the media would be contacting them and asking or demanding a comment. This time……crickets…….
Correct. All children are born perfect. The adults mess them up
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Thanks, Pamela!
https://earthsky.org/tonight/supermoon-lunar-eclipse-january-20-21
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Bullying at this school seems to be a feature . Do they get any tax money ? They need to be shut down . Read the thread
He’s taking food away, too
Can’t take much more of it, myself. He’s killing our spirits, too! I detest him with the heat of a thousand suns (and, yes, I may have mentioned that a couple hundred times before!!!!).
We are Our Brother’s Keeper
October November???
So why is this “person” invited to all these “news” outlets to spew his misinformation/propaganda?
I can’t bear to think about it… magical time. I was so proud then
Howard University “Showtime” Marching Band (Inauguration 2009)
Such happiness then. I remembered with chills. Thanks for sharing.
McConnell is, above all, a coward. He has the chance to reopen the federal government. See that the bills coming his way get passed. Let Trump refuse to sign one of them and then OVERRIDE his veto in the Senate. He would then be doing the work he’s supposed to be doing as majority leader. But he doesn’t believe in the job he holds. His refusal, for eight years, to work with the Obama administration proved his seditionist soul. He should quit because he doesn’t want to be a leader. He wants to trail along and lead the whole country down with him.
PS A coward like McConnell would never stand up for a minority person, under any circumstance. He’s too worried about keeping himself wealthy.
NPR’s Maria Liasson just now stated that Buzzfeed “got a black eye”:
And that consequently Trump and Mueller look good. Meanwhile Buzzfeed is doubling down on the accuracy of their reporting.
NPR not even taking the usual faux ‘both sides are equal’ here…just unequivocally that Buzzfeed is wrong.
-This is the problem with compromised NPR and others.
with respect to the Buzzfeed story and the response from Special Counsel’s office, I have decided to wait and see how it all plays out.
Reasons for my hesitance to make a sweeping judgement:
(a) I am not sure that I understand exactly what the response from Special Counsel meant. I have read and listened to different interpretations from various professionals and pundits but I am just getting confused;
(b) I seem to recall that during the 2016 campaign, the DOJ refuted a New York Times story related to russia. the disputed story was then publicly retracted. Months later, we learned that the story was true and that DOJ knew at the time that it was true and yet challenged its publication.
So my posture is to wait, and wait, ……, and wait some more until I see what happens in the future
agree gcl. if only NPR would do the same.
Someone may want to share this with Soeaker Pelosi and others.
https://www.georgetakei.com/engineering-expert-takes-down-trumps-wall-2626484735.html
Ten years as an authentic president of the USA. Ten years as an authentic leader of the free world. Ten years as an authentic first family, First Lady and first daughters of the USA. Ten years of presidential excellence! The Obamas are the best!
Is FEMA shut down during disasters? This is tornado season and many of Orange Satan voters live in tornado areas.
He is Uachtarán…President one who rises through excellence.
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heh, “change through the legislative process”. As if McConnevil hasn’t held Congress hostage since 2009.
-As if the despotic little russian and MLK can be rolled into the same sentence.
Exactly. Love your “McConnevil” name change!
Naw. That won’t work. We saw what we saw. The MAGAts are thugs. I hope they are expelled from the Catholic school which sent them on that “March for Life”. They’re not fit to be in polite society. THUGS.
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2019/01/20/history-that-can-never-be-erased/