Received this e-mail from former presidential candidate, Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s (D. TX) organization, Powered by People: Today, we're excited to share one of our most expansive efforts yet. Powered by People is joining the Texas Democratic Party and the Texas Coalition of Black Democrats to reach out and contact every Black voter in Texas through…
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SC, MS & GA-Sen B: Former Sen. Barbara Boxer (D. CA) Helps Send More Black Leaders To The Senate
Received this e-mail this from former U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D. CA) in support of Jaime Harrison (D. SC), Mike Espy (D. MS) and Rev. Raphael Warnock’s (D. GA) U.S. Senate campaigns: x In 1992, I was one of four women elected to the US Senate, tripling the number of women Senators. Now I've launched…
SC, MS & GA-Sen B: BET, “Black Senate Candidates Explain Why They Are Seizing The Moment”
U.S. Senate candidates Jaime Harrison (D. SC), Mike Espy (D. MS) and Rev. Raphael Warnock (D. GA) have penned on op-ed for BET promoting their candidacies, promote their platforms addressing racial injustice and how they can be the faces a of a New South in the U.S. Senate: As Black fathers, brothers, sons and men…
hate charges for CA couple who defaced a Black Lives Matter street mural
Reactionaries just do their Chad/Karen thing, believing that their speech rights trump others. In this case municipally sanctioned street murals do have some protections. x A Martinez, California couple defaced a Black Lives Matter street mural hours after it was complete, using black paint 😡 pic.twitter.com/RBJyMel4EV— HOT 97 (@HOT97) July 6, 2020 In California, two…
Colorado white woman follows a black man in her neighborhood: Get out of here!
Colorado white woman tries to run a black man out of her neighborhood then realizes someone else in the neighborhood was videoing her. Again a white woman attempting to exert authority over a black man walking in the neighborhood. x x YouTube Video Watch complete episodes here. As the woman is following the black man…
Two black people leave restaurants on bad terms. One avoids police the other stand their ground.
I blogged two Daily Kos articles recently and titled them respectively “NFL player & friends asked to leave Chipotle ’cause white customer uncomfortable.’” and “A Black pregnant woman dragged out of her car by a cop and tased on her stomach.” There were similarities in that the racial component was there. The differences were what the aggrieved…
Bryant Gumbel: The Black Tax
There is no image to accompany the brief video that is the reason I am posting this entry. This week Bryant Gumbel devoted his “Real Sports” show to the issues that have arisen since the police murder of George Floyd, including reactions across the Sports World, and combined that with looking at the impact of…
MS, SC, KY, GA & TX-Sen: Axios, “Black Senate candidates could make history in 2020”
From Axios: There are five black men running for U.S. Senate in the South as Democrats who could not only make history, but are using this unique moment to have difficult, intimate conversations about being black in America. Why it matters: There have only been 10 black senators in U.S. history, and it wasn't until 2013…
Minnesota Poll: Biden leads by 16% and 57% approve of Black Lives Matter
http://www.gravismarketing.com/… Gravis Marketing released a poll today showing Joe Biden has a 58% to 42% lead in Minnesota, a closely divided state that was also the scene of racial and anti-police disturbances after the death of George Floyd on May 25. In addition to being a state that Donald Trump came within 1.5% of winning in…
Patrick & Delvon Carolan: White dad, Black son discuss their experience w/ Police, School, more
Patrick & Delvon Carolan, father & son discuss their American experience. Delvon’s police encounters & discrimination at school was met by no-holds-barred dad. Patrick & Delvon Carolan tells their story x x YouTube Video Watch the full episode here. Patrick Carolan, the Director of Catholic Outreach for Vote Common Good and former Executive Director of the Franciscan Action…
MS, SC & GA-Sen B: Sen. Patty Murray (D. WA) Helps More Black Leaders Get Elected To The Senate
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D. WA) in support of Mike Espy (D. MS), Jaime Harrison (D. SC) and Rev. Raphael Warnock’s (D. GA) U.S. Senate campaigns: There have only been ten Black Senators in the entire history of the U.S. Senate. Today, there are three — Democrats Cory Booker and…
Georgia officers held 5 black young teenagers going through a neighborhood at gunpoint.
Here we go again. Police officers decided to hold young teenagers at gunpoint as they walk through a Georgia neighborhood. See the entire episode here. UPDATE: We may be looking at very good policing that occurred after a bad start. I have very mixed feelings about how this entire incident evolved from the 911 call from…
Presumptuous white woman tries to stop man from painting Black Lives Matter on his own home
She assumes the home isn’t his. It gets tiring. Is there any wonder the blood pressure of POCs is higher in the aggregate? This woman’s disrespect was palpable. No man or woman should go through this. It seems likely in short order we are forcing an atonement. The man she confronted handled it well. See the…
The difference between Black & White policing side by side in video. Guess who's shot dead.
These two attempts of arresting a white man and a black say much. It shows vividly that different people get different levels of policing and the outcome is too often deadly. Two versions of policing, one white, the other black x x YouTube Video See the entire episode here. The black guy in the video was…
Tucker Carlson just said black people are coming for you (whoever that privileged “You” is)
What a frightened bunch, that Fox News audience, so sensitive to racist dog whistles, because the GOP is apparently blameless for racist policies. More frightening is that “this is a moment of strong cross-racial solidarity,” and the reactionary appeals of “All Lives Matter” or “Blue Lives Matter” have little weight. But Carlson is trying hard to help…
What’s Fox News implying about black men’s deaths & stock market?
Fox News had an interesting graph along with a report on stock market moves in regards to when certain things happen to black men, police violence & deaths. The matter-of-fact format of the report was astounding. Is Fox News normalizing the deaths of black men by cop/violence? x x YouTube Video Visit full episodes here….
“Buildings Matter, Too”, equating violence against Black Americans and vandalism cost editor his job
Darn that BLM Plaza. Trump wanted a Space Force, when unlike an army in outer space, on this planet, it’s not about force in the urban space of protest and speech rights. In the 12 days of protest since the killing of George Floyd. the decline of paramilitary force in confronting protests has actually increased public participation and decreased…
SC-Sen: Jaime Harrison (D), “How Do I Tell My Black Sons That This Could Be Them?”
U.S. Senate candidate, Jaime Harrison (D. SC), has an op-ed in The Root that addresses George Floyd and the years of police brutality that the black community has had to deal with: Minneapolis, Minn.; Louisville, Ky.; Brunswick, Ga. These are the latest cities turned inside out because of the killing of innocent black men and…
lawn order, black snake mown, preying and praying cops brutalizing media
It is important to remember that public acts of prayer do not absolve the application of selective violence especially against journalists. x Police Target Journalists as Trump Blames ‘Lamestream Media’ for Protests https://t.co/bd5DEgZMYU— Anita Kumar (@anitakumar01) June 3, 2020 A senior White House official said Trump wanted to an aggressive response in Washington D.C. to…
NY-16: PCCC, “Thrown in jail for Driving While Black. Now, running for Congress”
Received this e-mail today from the Progressive Change Campaign Committee in support of Jamall Bowman’s (D. NY-16) campaign: x YouTube Video As we see videos of the police shooting, beating, and driving through peaceful protesters — and even attacking reporters — we think about how we can redouble our mission to change the world by…
