For most black people in America, we encounter three types of white people. The first are the sleepers, those who live in a somnambulant world where race relations are a nightmare that disturbs their rest. Secondly, and the most disturbing, is the woke. They listen to Cardi B, wear Authentic Vans, Lululemon yoga pants, and…
Category: BlackLivesMatter
GA-Sen B: Rev. Raphael Warnock (D) Releases Ad Recalling Childhood Experience With Racism
Good stuff: x When I was 12, I was falsely accused of shoplifting in a grocery store. My experience dealing with structural inequality as a black kid is the same as many, and in the Senate, I will fight to level the playing field for all working Georgians. Watch my new ad now: pic.twitter.com/4PMzmPERxB— Reverend…
GA-Sen B: Watch Black Lives Matter Activists Bring The Heat To Kelly Loeffler's (R) Campaign Event
This is awesome: A campaign event for U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., in North Forsyth was interrupted by Black Lives Matter supporters on Thursday afternoon. About four individuals began chanting “Black lives matter” during Loeffler's remarks at the Sawnee Mountain Park community building during a campaign event attended by several local officials and U.S. Sen….
New poll shows Trump's apocalyptic anti-protester message is failing, big-league
Well, well, well, isn’t this inconvenient for the ocher abomination? x There goes that plotline:56% say violence will get worse if Trump is re-elected18% say it will get betterhttps://t.co/hwZsAJqQta pic.twitter.com/tzniWI8XB8 — Amy Siskind 🏳️🌈 (@Amy_Siskind) September 2, 2020 I guess that’s the drawback of blaming civil unrest and violence that’s happening on your watch on a…
White House on accused shooter Kyle Rittenhouse: 'The president is not going to weigh in on that'
President LAW & ORDER seems pretty reticent when it comes to, er … wait, this can’t be right … a white 17-year-old who killed two people and injured another with an AR-15? Why would anyone in their right mind not want to instantly and unequivocally condemn that? Never mind. We’re talking about the president of the United…
Portland mayor rips Trump to shreds: 'It’s you who have created the hate and the division'
Somehow Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler got hold of my bile duct and squeezed out all my personal feelings about Donald Trump like it was a very unfunny whoopee cushion. After last night’s Trump-encouraged unrest in Portland, Mayor Wheeler went on a righteous rant today — and he successfully diagnosed the disease currently afflicting us. Surprise! It’s Donald…
You are literally NOT safe in Donald Trump's America; we have to flip the script
Somehow I don’t remember the continual civil unrest when Joe Biden was vice president. I don’t remember a thousand people dying every day from a raging, out-of-control pandemic. JESUS POGO-HOPPING CHRIST, THIS IS DONALD TRUMP’S AMERICA! He is overseeing all this carnage! How can we let him beat Joe Biden over the head with it?…
Kyle Rittenhouse gets caught on video, again, this time for sucker-punching a girl.
The video just now surfaced of the murderer of Kenosha and his deplorable buddies attacking and beating a girl. Kyle Rittenhouse murdered two people and wounded one other during a Black Lives Matter protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin over the police shooting of Jacob Blake at point-blank range. In the video below Rittenhouse is wearing red, white, and blue…
Kushner: Protesting NBA players are 'very fortunate' they have the 'luxury' of taking a 'night off'
Good God, Little Lord Fauntleroy. Read the room. What exactly are you trying to accomplish with this response? Way to seize the moment with your creepy little Lobster Boy claws. x Jared Kushner on athlete protests: “The NBA players are very fortunate that they have the financial position where they’re able to take a night…
GA-Sen B: Loeffler (R) Blames Protestors, Not Gunman, For Protestors Deaths In Kenosha Shooting
True to form: x Blaming the shooting targeting protesters — 2 were killed — on the protesters themselves is the take Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler chose for the incident in Kenosha: https://t.co/qPw26VwTEm— Tia Mitchell, AJC’s Washington Correspondent (@ajconwashington) August 27, 2020 Some context: A white, 17-year-old police admirer was arrested Wednesday after two people were…
A mini-lesson in how media treat Black victims and white perpetrators
Needless to say, this is appalling. NY Post’s really showing its hand pic.twitter.com/Ph6lKMDYLJ — Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) August 27, 2020 See? Kyle Rittenhouse simply wanted to help. He’s a good (i.e., white) boy deep down. I mean, we can understand Rittenhouse, right? He’s a vigilante! Like Batman! Gotham is corrupt, y’all! Tucker: How shocked are…
SC-Sen: Of Course Lindsey Graham (R) Wants To Know Why Jacob Blake “Didn't Yield” In Police Shooting
Can’t say that I’m surprised: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Tuesday questioned the actions Jacob Blake took before the 29-year-old Black man was shot several times by a police officer in Kenosha, Wis., asking why Blake “didn’t yield.” Graham spoke at a press conference announcing the endorsement of the South Carolina Fraternal Order of Police, according to Politico, when he…
Kenosha shooter was photographed sitting in front row of Trump rally in January
Because of course he was. x NEW: Kyle Howard Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old who was charged with shooting and killing two people and injuring another in Kenosha during protests for Jacob Blake appeared in the front row at a Donald Trump rally in January, BuzzFeed reports.https://t.co/CNM2UZFCCg— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) August 26, 2020 Buzzfeed: The law enforcement–obsessed…
WI Dems Mount Pressure On GOP State Legislature To Pass Legislation Cracking Down On Police Violence
Received this e-mail today from the Wisconsin Democratic Party: In the wake of the horrifying police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man in Kenosha, who was shot in the back while his three children watched, Governor Evers called the State Legislature into a special session on police accountability and transparency. Add your name now to…
KY-Sen: Amy McGrath (D) Puts Pressure On KY AG To Release Report On Breonna Taylor Investigation
Sorry I missed this: x Today marks 100 days since the KY AG took on the Breonna Taylor case and still no final report. Release the findings or hand it over to an independent counsel who can ensure a fair and timely process.— Amy McGrath (@AmyMcGrathKY) August 21, 2020 Amy McGrath is calling on Kentucky…
Kentucky U.S. Senate Candidates Dragging Contest Down Rabbit Hole: China and Rioters Oh My!
No, I am NOT being Chuck “Bothsiderist” Todd, but I need to tell you all about the descent into the rabbit hole that the U.S. Senate race in Kentucky has taken. I’m pulling for Amy McGrath. I really am. But I’m not the only one who has noticed the blatant racism of Moscow MItch and…
Tucker goes full white supremacist: 'Demographic shift' will make cities 'dirty and dangerous'
I almost preferred the dog whistles to the train whistles. But hey, at least they’re out in the open now. Tucker Carlson from last night’s Shit Your Pants in Fear, Rural White People Hour. Via Media Matters: TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): What will be the aftermath of all of this? What are America’s cities going to…
Did an ex-military contractor throw IEDs at Portland protesters
Like the DHS and DoJ contractors deployed with the miscellaneous tactical units, a variety of former military are formally and informally at play during the Portland protests. In this case, a rogue element was pursued by citizen activists because these “contractors” were trying to escalate peaceful protests. The Military Industrial Complex has dregs as well as…
GA-Sen B: WaPo Highlights All The Events Giving Rev. Raphael Warnock (D) The Path To Senate Victory
Paul Kane at The Washington Post has an op-ed out where he highlights a “confluence of events” that give Rev. Raphael Warnock (D. GA) an edge in taking out vulnerable corrupt U.S. Senator Kelly Loeffler (R. GA) in the upcoming special election: Warnock, as senior pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church, oversaw the nationally televised funeral of…
GA-Sen B: HuffPost, “Matt Lieberman (D) Wrote A Book Filled With Racist Tropes”
Huffington Post has a piece out about how U.S. Senate candidate, Matt Lieberman (D. GA), self published a book he wrote in 2018 called “Lucius” which is about an old man who believes he owned a slave for all for most of his adult life and how the slave could communicate with animals and plants….
