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Was happy to see my favorite bookstore, Mejah Books in Delaware on the list. Em started with two tables in a mall concourse 25 years ago, and progressed to a brick and mortar about 21 years ago.
Oh, yes…. you should share:) So glad that Just Mercy is being shown widely. I haven’t seen the movie, but the book is right beside my bed. Reminding me daily. ❤️
Obama speaks at 5p ET today on police violence via virtual town hall. Discussion, livestreamed on https://t.co/9Z1IolZ200, will be on “tragic events of recent weeks, the recurrent problem of racial bias in our criminal justice system, and specific action steps needed,” per aides.
Can you imagine, I refrained from putting black owned in my bio for years in fear of losing out on potential white customers? Well I am indeed black and this is my store and I will be screaming it from the mountain tops moving forward 🗣🗣🗣
— Black Owned Bookstore (@BooksNCrannies_) June 2, 2020
I'm so happy to know we'll be hearing from President Obama and My Brother's Keeper Alliance today in what will surely be a dignified discussion and learning experience in the wake of so much pain. 5pm at https://t.co/bEkf0Hs373pic.twitter.com/nNVqJojNiX
“Trump has used his time in the White House far more effectively than anyone could have imagined.
He ignored the dead and dying in Puerto Rico and brutalized the children at the border. He ignored the dead and dying in the pandemic and wants to brutalize the protesters in our cities.
In five months, the good people can end both his hateful words and their own appalling silence.”
(https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/02/weve-reached-the-mad-emperor-stage-and-its-terrifying-to-behold)
Join us tonight at 8 Eastern for an @NAACP tele-town hall: A Nation In Peril. We’ll talk about justice for George Floyd, police accountability and reform, and the decriminalization of black skin. pic.twitter.com/QOOMH50t1B
Liars lie. Why anyone would listen to a damn word he says, is beyond me
Trump just claimed on Fox radio he went to the underground bunker "for an inspection." He claims he was there "during the day" and not at night and that he was there for "a short period of time."
Trump was rushed to bunker for nearly 1 hour amid protests, per multiple reports.
He and Barr launched an attack on Americans citizens and commandeered the church grounds to save what is left of his face…terrible transparently pathetic liar deserves every punishment on the books.
1. Major corporations publicly embracing Black Lives Matter — including @citi, @Google, and @amazon — have given hundreds of thousands of dollars to members of Congress rated "F" by the NAACP over the last two yearshttps://t.co/4JF4LqEmQr
I ask all of America — not to deny our pain or cover it over — but to use it to compel our nation across this turbulent threshold into the next phase of progress, inclusion, and opportunity for our great democracy.
And he should be banned from ever being a police officer again. Anywhere.
A Denver police officer has been fired for writing "Let's start a riot" as a caption to a photo he posted on social media showing himself and two other officers in riot gear. https://t.co/po6NVeYneS
President Obama (in Medium):
“[A]s a starting point, here’s a report and toolkit developed by the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and based on the work of the Task Force on 21st Century Policing that I formed when I was in the White House.”
“New Era of Public Safety: An Advocacy Toolkit for Fair, Safe, and Effective Community Policing”
(https://www.obama.org/wp-content/uploads/Toolkit.pdf)
–Pls see, so elegant.
Why the hell is #WhiteLivesMatter trending? Society has NEVER tried to take away my rights or my life on the basis of my white skin color. I don’t need a hashtag, I’m already awash in white privilege as it is. Take down that dumbass hashtag and put up #BlackLivesMatter instead.
America cries out for unification. Yet Trump is ripping it apart by tear-gassing peaceful protestors so he could pose for photos with a bible outside a church.
We need real leadership — not a President whose message and actions fan the flames of discord, bigotry and violence. pic.twitter.com/dHIl0GQlhE
100,000 dead from a pandemic. Tens of millions unemployed. Protests across country. Authoritarianism on the streets of DC. And Lindsey Graham is holding hearings on OBAMAGATE. The Republican Party is totally broken.
Second, a reminder of the difference politics and voting can make in changing who has the power to make real change in a community like Ferguson with a history of blatant discriminatory law enforcement practices.https://t.co/U0z9wMOx8z
Rev Mariann Budde:
“I am the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington and was not given even a courtesy call,
that they would be clearing [the area] with tear gas so they could use one of our churches as a prop.”
Her outrage (paraphrased by Maddow) about the way Trump “clothed himself in the symbols of a religious tradition…to enhance his own authority…to assume the power and the weight of those symbols to try to aggrandize his own political power and standing.”
Blessed are the peace makers.
Bishop Michael Curry:
“I believe that in the end, if people of good will and human decency come together and say
“we’re going to be a people of love, we’re going to be a people of compassion, we’re going to be a people worthy of the name American,” and then we will be a shining city upon a hill.
If we the majority, sometimes the silent majority, will stand up, speak up, and join hands together across racial differences, across religious, across sexual orientation, across all of our differences, join hands as brothers and sisters and siblings. And let us stand up and make this nation a loving, decent, freedom reigning nation. And then there will be peace on our streets.”
Correction:
“And let us stand up and make this nation a loving, decent, freedom loving, justice reigning nation.
Make America that kind of nation, and then there will be peace on our streets.” (Bishop Curry)
Yes, she was. It’s overwhelming how much drumpf has destroyed but if some real and lasting change can come out of this, we need to fight to win the White House, Senate and keep the House.
When a First Family strolls through Lafayette Square on the way to St. Johns Church and it's not a stunt with beatings and tanks and tear gas and rubber bullets and helicopters. pic.twitter.com/YK83sI1qsn
“James Miller, who served as the undersecretary of Defense for policy from 2012 to 2014,
resigned from his position on the Pentagon’s science board Tuesday,
accusing Secretary of Defense Mark Esper of betraying his oath of office by backing President Trump
on the forceable removal of peaceful protesters in Washington, D.C.,
the previous day.” (The Hill)
From Mr. Miller’s resignation letter:
“On Monday, June 1, 2020, I believe that you violated that oath.
Law-abiding protesters just outside the White House were dispersed using tear gas and rubber bullets — not for the sake of safety, but to clear a path for a presidential photo op. You then accompanied President Trump in walking from the White House to St. John’s Episcopal Church for that photo…
Anyone who takes the oath of office must decide where he or she will draw the line:
What are the things that theywill refuse to do? Secretary Esper, you have served honorably for many years, in active and reserve military duty, as Secretary of the Army, and now as Secretary of Defense. You must have thought long and hard about where that line should be drawn. I must now ask:
If last night’s blatant violations do not cross the line for you, what will?”
(full text in WaPo)
Today, @BarackObama joins @MsPackyetti, @EricHolder, and other local and national leaders for a virtual town hall about the steps we can take forward in this moment.
Don’t just read Black literature in this moment. Read Black lit for the rest of your life. Read and support the work of Black essayists, novelists, poets, today and forever and always. Do NOT make your support conditional on whether or not racism is in the headlines
For anyone worried about talking to their white children right now—worried that their kid is too young for these conversations—I was 5 or 6 when my Dad told me “no matter what you do, some people will always hate you.” Black children don’t get to not understand racism.
And before you “I’m so sorry that happened to you,” that conversation saved me a world of disillusionment and pain. I was very young, but he handled it with so much love. I’ll always remember it for the incredible protective act that it was.
I had to explain to my 5 y.o. son why he was the only child not invited to a party, as he was the only child of color in his class. He cut his beautiful hair off, to the skin, in school, so they would stop calling him nappy head. Have the conversation.
Everyone assumes children are so fragile, but this is exactly the age where they grasp lifelong concepts. You have to be very literal and feed them information over time, but they are going to deposit that shit like crazy. Please, TALK!
Bryan Stevenson is the founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative,
a human rights organization in Montgomery, Alabama. Under his leadership, EJI has won major legal challenges eliminating excessive and unfair sentencing, exonerating innocent death row prisoners, confronting abuse of the incarcerated and the mentally ill, and aiding children prosecuted as adults.
Mr. Stevenson has argued and won multiple cases at the United States Supreme Court.”
(https://eji.org/bryan-stevenson/
Civil rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson asked by Chris Hayes:
His response to soldiers standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial.
BRYAN STEVENSON:
“When racial integration came, many of us believed this nation would change.
None of us thought that 50 years later, black people would be menaced and targeted and marginalized. And what I’ve realized is that we have to reckon with this long history. And that image speaks to our failure to deal with the mythology that we’ve created. The great evil we are facing in America is this legacy created during slavery, this myth that black people are not as good as white people. The enslavers who justified slavery had to create a narrative to make that institution which was so barbaric, acceptable. And so they said that black people are less deserving….that ideology of white supremacy continued past 1865…slavery doesn’t end in 1865 it just evolves. And law enforcement and these institutions of militarized power became the tools that sustained that. It was law enforcement that allowed black people to be ravaged, and massacred, and killed during Reconstruction. White southerners overthrew government because there was no protection. And that ideology of white supremacy was even greater than our commitment to the Constitution, because the 14th Amendment should have protected black and brown people, should
have allowed black people to vote.”
More of this interview:
(https://www.modernghana.com/videonews/0/1/111506/)
Didn’t he claim to have recently voted by mail? Was that a FL absentee ballot? If so, how, since he couldn’t claim Mar-a-Lago as his residence?
Not only this, he listed Mar a Lago as his residence in Florida. The only problem is that in an agreement with the city to change into a private club, it was agreed that NO ONE could stay there more than 21 days spread out over 3 nonconsecutive visits.
This places him in legal jeopardy because 21 days a year does not establish legal residency and if he claims he actually lives there, then the status of the private club comes into question and could be forced to close and become a single family residence once again.
uk racism is not subtle and it is not only in the form of microaggressions. it is clear as day in grenfell, in the wind rush scandal, in gentrification, in our education system, in stop and search, in policing, in medical racism, in our media
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse just revealed the most basic acts of misconduct from Trump's unjust DOJ, asking Rod Rosenstein why they wouldn't answer a DAMN question for Democrats, but they'll trot information out for the GOP and the Trump 2020 campaign.#VoteOutTheGOP
Doom was interviewed there recently…now monument reinterpreted.
The soldiers, military might, fanning the steps of the Lincoln Memorial imo attempts to give the monument new meaning.
Star-Tribune: Attorney General Keith Ellison plans to elevate charges against Derek Chauvin while adding charges of aiding and abetting murder against the other three officers at the scene, according to multiple law enforcement sources. https://t.co/QoKgW6o1NB
FAMILY’S REACTION: This is a bittersweet moment. We are deeply gratified that @AGEllison took decisive action, arresting & charging ALL the officers involved in #GeorgeFloyd's death & upgrading the charge against Derek Chauvin to felony second-degree murder. #JusticeForGeorgepic.twitter.com/jTfXFHpsYl
— Benjamin Crump, Esq. (@AttorneyCrump) June 3, 2020
Take it from an Iranian from a radical family that has been a leader in every major resistance movement in Iran…stay in the streets, it’s one of the few things that scares people in power…
I see Blackademics are at it again complaining about voting. You can't just pull a lever one day a year and think you've fulfilled your social contract. We have to teach folks to be engaged on every level. The more engaged in the process the better the outcomes.
Thomas Lane and J. Alexander Keung, who helped restrain Floyd, and Tou Thao, who stood near the others, were not initially charged. Lane, 37, Kueng, 26, and Thao, 34, are now charged with aiding and abetting second-degree murder and aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter.
Lrt: unless you were from Columbus you wouldn’t realize protesting this is a major power move by the protestors. Upper Arlington is where all the rich businessmen/politicians live who work in downtown Columbus.
Former President Obama will speak publicly Wednesday about police brutality and the criminal justice system in the wake of nationwide protests of the police killing of George Floyd.
Obama will appear at a virtual town hall meeting alongside former Attorney General Eric Holder and police reform activists. The remarks will be his first on-camera comments about Floyd’s death and the demonstrations throughout the nation.
The town hall is set to take place at 5 p.m. Eastern and will be livestreamed at obama.org.
BREAKING: Attorney General Keith Ellison to elevate charges against former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin to second-degree murder; three other officers to be charged with aiding and abetting murder, sources say. https://t.co/NTBkdBH4Oo
Three other ex-Minneapolis police officers at the scene — Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane — will be charged with aiding and abetting second-degree murder, according to sources who spoke on conditions of anonymity. #GeorgeFloydhttps://t.co/NTBkdBYFFW
The charges come just days after Gov. Tim Walz asked Ellison to take over the prosecution, which until Sunday had been led by the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office. #GeorgeFloydhttps://t.co/NTBkdBYFFW
Snapchat will no longer promote President Donald Trump's account on its platform in the wake of his controversial comments on ongoing protests across the US, the company announced https://t.co/4TdPrpaSQ6
“We are a physical representation of our support for George Floyd…for Sandra Bland…for Trayvon Martin… for Stephen Lawrence… I don’t know if I’m going to have a career after this, but f*** that” – John Boyega at London’s #BlackLivesMattter march 👑 https://t.co/pxf0lf3KFqpic.twitter.com/ckHVswRz6h
BREAKING: President Barack Obama will address the nation at 5pm EDT today (livestreamed on https://t.co/1IhHfFleeK) regarding George Floyd’s killing and the ongoing protests around our country.
Back outside the White House. Today the perimeter has been pushed back another half block. Federal law enforcement of some kind, but they won’t identify themselves, and all insignias and name plates have been removed. pic.twitter.com/q5dmdMgkLV
Jimmy Carter: "Rosalynn and I are pained by the tragic racial injustices and consequent backlash across our nation."
"We are responsible for creating a world of peace and equality…We need a government as good as its people, and we are better than this." https://t.co/T9Pa1GovpR
The Obama Diary 
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Spread far and wide. Happy studying!
Thx very much for all you have done and are doing for all of us.
❤️
Was happy to see my favorite bookstore, Mejah Books in Delaware on the list. Em started with two tables in a mall concourse 25 years ago, and progressed to a brick and mortar about 21 years ago.
Thank you so much for this, Nerdy. Also marking ahead for holiday and birthday gifts for the little ones!
Thanks you Sister ! 💖
Oh, yes…. you should share:) So glad that Just Mercy is being shown widely. I haven’t seen the movie, but the book is right beside my bed. Reminding me daily. ❤️
Everything Trump touches dies … ??
Most difficult movie to watch ever though worth it.
Buy from Black-owned bookstores.
Good Morning Family! 😘
Be well. Have faith in good people.
THANK GOODNESS.
wow magnificent all !
Fitting. Maybe it’s practice for January 2021.
the paranoid little russian weasel devolves…..
Zacklee
“Trump has used his time in the White House far more effectively than anyone could have imagined.
He ignored the dead and dying in Puerto Rico and brutalized the children at the border. He ignored the dead and dying in the pandemic and wants to brutalize the protesters in our cities.
In five months, the good people can end both his hateful words and their own appalling silence.”
(https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/02/weve-reached-the-mad-emperor-stage-and-its-terrifying-to-behold)
Liars lie. Why anyone would listen to a damn word he says, is beyond me
He and Barr launched an attack on Americans citizens and commandeered the church grounds to save what is left of his face…terrible transparently pathetic liar deserves every punishment on the books.
Watch what they DO, not what they SAY
The whole world’s watching
Barr Unit:
Who pays the wages of the Armed Ones without badges or names, who say they are with the DOJ.
Assuming they are American…
And he should be banned from ever being a police officer again. Anywhere.
President Obama (in Medium):
“[A]s a starting point, here’s a report and toolkit developed by the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and based on the work of the Task Force on 21st Century Policing that I formed when I was in the White House.”
“New Era of Public Safety: An Advocacy Toolkit for Fair, Safe, and Effective Community Policing”
(https://www.obama.org/wp-content/uploads/Toolkit.pdf)
–Pls see, so elegant.
Good Morning, TODville Community.
🙏💪😍🤗💪🙏☮☮💜💙❤🙌🙌
Thank you, NW👒💁♀️😍😍
Rev Mariann Budde:
“I am the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington and was not given even a courtesy call,
that they would be clearing [the area] with tear gas so they could use one of our churches as a prop.”
Her outrage (paraphrased by Maddow) about the way Trump “clothed himself in the symbols of a religious tradition…to enhance his own authority…to assume the power and the weight of those symbols to try to aggrandize his own political power and standing.”
Blessed are the peace makers.
Bishop Michael Curry:
“I believe that in the end, if people of good will and human decency come together and say
“we’re going to be a people of love, we’re going to be a people of compassion, we’re going to be a people worthy of the name American,” and then we will be a shining city upon a hill.
If we the majority, sometimes the silent majority, will stand up, speak up, and join hands together across racial differences, across religious, across sexual orientation, across all of our differences, join hands as brothers and sisters and siblings. And let us stand up and make this nation a loving, decent, freedom reigning nation. And then there will be peace on our streets.”
“Episcopal bishop cites Christian gospel in criticism of Trump”
“The Most Rev. Michael Curry, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, talks with Rachel Maddow about Donald Trump’s use of St. John’s Episcopal Church and a Bible as props for a publicity stunt,
and where Americans can find hope in these troubled times.”
(https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/episcopal-bishop-cites-christian-gospel-in-criticism-of-trump-84274757611)
Correction:
“And let us stand up and make this nation a loving, decent, freedom loving, justice reigning nation.
Make America that kind of nation, and then there will be peace on our streets.” (Bishop Curry)
Rachel was holding back tears last night before this conversation
Yes, she was. It’s overwhelming how much drumpf has destroyed but if some real and lasting change can come out of this, we need to fight to win the White House, Senate and keep the House.
From the Episcopal News Service;
https://www.episcopalnewsservice.org/2020/06/02/episcopal-leaders-express-outrage-condemn-tear-gassing-protesters-for-trump-photo-op-at-washington-church/
Impactful decision
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/03/us/george-floyd-officers-charges/index.html
“James Miller, who served as the undersecretary of Defense for policy from 2012 to 2014,
resigned from his position on the Pentagon’s science board Tuesday,
accusing Secretary of Defense Mark Esper of betraying his oath of office by backing President Trump
on the forceable removal of peaceful protesters in Washington, D.C.,
the previous day.” (The Hill)
From Mr. Miller’s resignation letter:
“On Monday, June 1, 2020, I believe that you violated that oath.
Law-abiding protesters just outside the White House were dispersed using tear gas and rubber bullets — not for the sake of safety, but to clear a path for a presidential photo op. You then accompanied President Trump in walking from the White House to St. John’s Episcopal Church for that photo…
Anyone who takes the oath of office must decide where he or she will draw the line:
What are the things that theywill refuse to do? Secretary Esper, you have served honorably for many years, in active and reserve military duty, as Secretary of the Army, and now as Secretary of Defense. You must have thought long and hard about where that line should be drawn. I must now ask:
If last night’s blatant violations do not cross the line for you, what will?”
(full text in WaPo)
NO. MORE. EXCUSES.
Bryan Stevenson is the founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative,
a human rights organization in Montgomery, Alabama. Under his leadership, EJI has won major legal challenges eliminating excessive and unfair sentencing, exonerating innocent death row prisoners, confronting abuse of the incarcerated and the mentally ill, and aiding children prosecuted as adults.
Mr. Stevenson has argued and won multiple cases at the United States Supreme Court.”
(https://eji.org/bryan-stevenson/
Civil rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson asked by Chris Hayes:
His response to soldiers standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial.
BRYAN STEVENSON:
“When racial integration came, many of us believed this nation would change.
None of us thought that 50 years later, black people would be menaced and targeted and marginalized. And what I’ve realized is that we have to reckon with this long history. And that image speaks to our failure to deal with the mythology that we’ve created. The great evil we are facing in America is this legacy created during slavery, this myth that black people are not as good as white people. The enslavers who justified slavery had to create a narrative to make that institution which was so barbaric, acceptable. And so they said that black people are less deserving….that ideology of white supremacy continued past 1865…slavery doesn’t end in 1865 it just evolves. And law enforcement and these institutions of militarized power became the tools that sustained that. It was law enforcement that allowed black people to be ravaged, and massacred, and killed during Reconstruction. White southerners overthrew government because there was no protection. And that ideology of white supremacy was even greater than our commitment to the Constitution, because the 14th Amendment should have protected black and brown people, should
have allowed black people to vote.”
More of this interview:
(https://www.modernghana.com/videonews/0/1/111506/)
Like voter fraud?? Like that??
Didn’t he claim to have recently voted by mail? Was that a FL absentee ballot? If so, how, since he couldn’t claim Mar-a-Lago as his residence?
diff is absence of guns
Doom was interviewed there recently…now monument reinterpreted.
The soldiers, military might, fanning the steps of the Lincoln Memorial imo attempts to give the monument new meaning.
TODAY at 5pm Eastern, 2pm Pacific
I can’t wait to hear his voice and his powerful words
SAME SAME SAME
Like rainwater in a desert
As it should be
A much needed midday smile.
I HIGHLY encourage everyone who has Netflix to watch this limited series.
Yes! It was excellent.
ALSO HERE: https://abcnews.go.com/live/video/special-live-4
THREAD 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾
Second Degree Murder charges for all ! Thank you Lord
Thomas Lane and J. Alexander Keung, who helped restrain Floyd, and Tou Thao, who stood near the others, were not initially charged. Lane, 37, Kueng, 26, and Thao, 34, are now charged with aiding and abetting second-degree murder and aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter.
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Former President Obama will speak publicly Wednesday about police brutality and the criminal justice system in the wake of nationwide protests of the police killing of George Floyd.
Obama will appear at a virtual town hall meeting alongside former Attorney General Eric Holder and police reform activists. The remarks will be his first on-camera comments about Floyd’s death and the demonstrations throughout the nation.
The town hall is set to take place at 5 p.m. Eastern and will be livestreamed at obama.org.
New charges filed
You’ve got my vote Joe Biden.
The real President will address the nation at 5pm
Thread
Whoa Idaho!
President Obama speaks shortly ❤️
Is Trump watching this? I bet he is.
MSNBC just said they’re gonna carry President Obama’s speech and the subsequent Obama.org panel discussion.
He’s on! He’s on!
Truth!!
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2020/06/03/7-years-old/