The Victims Of White Supremacy

“Mary Turner, who after denouncing her husband’s lynching by a rampaging white mob, was hung upside down, burned an… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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Ava DuVernay (@ava) April 26, 2018

A Tweet Or Two

White House Proposes Broad Consumer Data Privacy Bill nyti.ms/1C6Zwx7

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The New York Times (@nytimes) February 28, 2015

LOVE This!!! => Obama's post-presidential slogan: 'Eight years is only the beginning': chicago.suntimes.com/politics/7/71/…

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Nancy LeTourneau (@Smartypants60) February 02, 2015

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Hungry slaves were put in iron masks to keep from eating cane during the harvest #BlackHistoryYouDidntLearnInSchool http://t.co/GrXEN3mulQ

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BΛD HΛBITS. (@BlvckNostalgia) February 07, 2015

Five you should know: AA Freedom Fighters - bit.ly/1BJkHWG #nmaahcheroes http://t.co/F0UjCM6uuT

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Smithsonian NMAAHC (@NMAAHC) February 28, 2015

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NYT ad is reprehensible & wrong. @SusanRice has tirelessly fought for human rights & for the state of Israel. I thank her for her service.

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Steny Hoyer (@WhipHoyer) March 01, 2015

Ad in NYT is vile and contemptible and has no place in legitimate discourse. Susan Rice is owed an apology.

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Nita Lowey (@NitaLowey) March 01, 2015

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Ad in today's NYT slandering Susan Rice is wrong on the facts -- she's a fierce defender of human rights and Israel's security.

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Rep. Keith Ellison (@keithellison) February 28, 2015

Susan Rice has been and remains a great defender of human rights globally. I strongly reject tasteless ad in NYT impugning her service.

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John Conyers (@repjohnconyers) February 28, 2015

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US Jewish groups voiced outrage at NYT ad calling Susan Rice “blind” to genocide,saying statement was revolting... timesofisrael.com/jewish-groups-…

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Danielle (@Dani4Peace) March 01, 2015

This NYT ad, accusing Susan Rice of blindness to genocide, is disgraceful. MT @BarakRavid: http://t.co/q6gHWlOgbq

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Roland Paris (@rolandparis) March 01, 2015

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Susan Rice dared criticize Bibi & got Schmuley Boteach (Dermer affiliated, Adelson funded) to run an ad against her http://t.co/scdZAjaPfv

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Barak Ravid (@BarakRavid) February 28, 2015

Black woman has to work an additional seven months to match the salary her white male counterpart earns in a work year #BlackWomenLead

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HigherHeights (@HigherHeights4) March 01, 2015

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US marine who remembers #IwoJima invasion, 70 years ago bbc.in/1AJTuAM http://t.co/xQeOFzF8bB

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BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) March 01, 2015

Iran authorities say they're ready to let in Google, other Internet firms yhoo.it/18ddKza

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Yahoo News (@YahooNews) March 01, 2015

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Full list of US delegation traveling to Montreux, Switzerland on March 2nd for Iran nuke talks. Moniz joins again http://t.co/kj11CTLfKW

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Arash Azizzada آرش (@87films) February 28, 2015

Iran nuclear talks advancing, no deal likely next week: U.S. official reuters.com/article/idUSKB…

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Kelsey Davenport (@KelseyDav) February 28, 2015

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Oh What A Week…..

President Obama looks out of the “door of no return” during a tour of the ‘House of Slaves‘ on Goree Island, Senegal, June 27

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Monday

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Questions by Liberal Librarian

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HealthCare.gov

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Tuesday

Congressman John Lewis watches news of the Supreme Court’s Voting Rights act decision

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Today, the Supreme Court stuck a dagger into the heart of the Voting Rights Act of 1965

— John Lewis (@repjohnlewis) June 25, 2013

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These men never stood in unmovable lines. They were never denied the right to participate in the democratic process.

— John Lewis (@repjohnlewis) June 25, 2013

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An Image for the Ages

President Obama looks out of the “door of no return” during a tour of the ‘House of Slaves‘ on Goree Island

Senegal: An Image or Two

…. at the doorway that slaves departed from on Goree Island in Dakar

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@FLOTUS

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First Lady Michelle Obama visits the Martin Luther King middle school in Dakar, Senegal

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@FLOTUS

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President Obama introduces the First Lady to President Sall

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NPR

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Chat away, back in a while with more

oh these people….

Jack and Jill: In Iowa, there’s a social conservative pledge called “The Marriage Vow – A Declaration of Dependence upon Marriage and Family” that is anti-abortion, anti-same sex marriage, anti-divorce etc etc that GOP candidates are being urged to sign. (It includes:)

Slavery had a disastrous impact on African-American families, yet sadly a child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two-parent household than was an African-American baby born after the election of the USA’s first African-American President.

Given that families were broken up regularly for sales during slavery and that rape by masters was pretty common, this could not be more offensive … When will Republicans inquire with actual Black people whether or not we’re ok with invoking slavery to score cheap political points? It has to stop….

Full post here

Michele Bachmann (here) and Rick Santorum (here) have signed the ‘pledge’

More at ThinkProgress and baratunde.com

Thanks lmrj

‘a place of profound sadness’

The UK Independent: The ocean views are stunning, but it’s the tragic past of Ghana’s rugged coast that is also drawing in visitors, thanks in part to America’s first black president.

Perched on the windswept edge of West Africa, the imposing whitewashed former slave trading fort known as Cape Coast Castle has seen a steady increase in visitors since US President Barack Obama and his family toured here in 2009.

The dark dungeons where untold numbers of people were kept before being shipped off as slaves serve as stark reminders of the brutality they endured – a point of view perhaps too often overlooked in the Western world.

….Obama, whose wife Michelle traces her ancestry to slaves, chose Ghana for his first visit to sub-Saharan Africa as president in July 2009, and he and his family made sure to stop at Cape Coast Castle … A tour of the fort was “a moving moment”, Obama said then.

He added that “there is a special sense that on one hand this place was a place of profound sadness, on the other hand it is where the journey of much of African-American experience began.”

“Following President Obama’s visit we are seeing a consistent increase in international arrivals,” deputy Tourism Minister Kobby Akyeampong told AFP. Current arrivals are averaging 748,000 per year from 587,000 two years before and the aim is to hit a million thanks in part to the so-called “Obama effect”.

Full article here

rewriting history?

‘How did the University of Virginia come to publish a version of Lincoln’s inaugural speech that cut crucial words on slavery?’

Matt Seaton (The UK Guardian): ….I was preparing for publication Eric Foner’s article on the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration speech … I went searching for a transcript of the speech to link to. The results of a Google search took me to the site of the University of Virginia’s Miller Centre of Public Affairs; reckoning this a prestigious institution at a public university (founded by Thomas Jefferson, no less), I assumed this would be a reliable link to use …

Then I reached the passage quoted by Eric’s piece, where Lincoln flatly states: “One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended. This is the only substantial dispute.”

…I searched the transcript on the Miller Centre site for this sentence but could not find it…. I sent off an email to the Miller Centre staff, alerting them to the fact that they were publishing a misleading, redacted version of Lincoln’s address; and outlining my interpretation that it looked as though the speech had been cut to remove references to slavery… I received an immediate reply; and within an hour, the webpage had been amended and the full text restored.

Since then, I’ve done a full comparison of the cached version of the page and the amended one; at the foot of this article run all the passages that had been omitted from the original…

…the sum of the redactions appeared to have two key effects: first, of toning down or removing entirely Lincoln’s strong assertions of the legitimate authority of the Union before and above the Constitution; and second, as said, of shifting the emphasis away from slavery as the key point of dispute between North and South and towards differences over the precedence and prerogative of individual states v the Union in law-making and enforcement. It is difficult not to see a neo-Confederate agenda in this editing.

It is possible that the erroneous version of Lincoln’s address was published by accident or carelessness. But the alacrity with which a correction was made suggests that Miller Centre executives realised the potential damage to the institution’s reputation of hosting what might appear to be a politically tendentious, “doctored” version of the address.

Having had a polite note from them, thanking me for pointing out the error and confirming the correction, I wrote back saying I was considering writing about it and seeking their comment on several questions (see the questions here)

In contrast to the almost instantaneous earlier response, as yet, I have received no reply to these questions. So the Miller Centre would seem to wish to make no further comment. But given that its online database of the Scripps Library purports to be a vital resource for scholars of public policy, US government and presidential history, I certainly hope they are running some checks.

Full article here