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Cha's JournalRest In Peace, Power, And Greatness, Julian Bond~ A Photo Journal from The Obama Diary of Julian
Bond's Life.
When he was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives in 1965 — along with seven other black members — furious white members of the House refused to let him take his seat, accusing him of disloyalty. He was already well known because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee’s stand against the United States’ involvement in the Vietnam War. That touched off a national drama that ended in 1966, when the Supreme Court in a unanimous decision ordered the legislature to seat him, saying it had denied him freedom of speech. He went on to serve 20 years in the two houses of the legislature. As a lawmaker, he sponsored bills to establish a sickle cell anemia testing program and to provide low-interest home loans to low-income Georgians. He also helped create a majority-black congressional district in Atlanta.
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Julian Bond & @repjohnlewis registering black voters in the South in early 1970s with the Voter Education Project
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Many more photos and tweets on Julian Bond! http://theobamadiary.com/2015/08/16/rest-in-peace-power-and-greatness-julian-bond/
Thank you, MADem~
President Obama and Veep Biden are close friends.. and I do love Joe. I think he's been a great
Vice President.. and I've seen a lot of what he's done.. not through the eyes of the US corpmedia. But, I hope he doesn't run, either.
snip from your link//
Though the event was closed to the public and press, Clinton was careful to take note of the Black Lives Matter movement, which has disrupted the events of her Democratic rivals Sanders and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley.
The movement has sought to highlight the race-based disadvantages blacks face in American society, and Clinton called it a “really important statement,” adding, “We can’t act like it’s happening somewhere else.”
Thank you, ericson
"President Barack Obama recently shared a public version of his soundtrack for the summer. This
list seems to capture the feelings of a president who happens to be black, in the twilight of his term, and contemplating his successes, disappointments, and understanding of how America's history, as a white supremacist society, grown from the contradictions of slavery and freedom, whose culture is black and brown, mated with the thrown off human surplus of Europe, built on bloodied land stolen from First Nations peoples, as well as the labor of the Asian, can simultaneously love and loathe the idea and fact of its first Black President of the United States."Thank you for this, she.. and the iconic pic(to me already) of the young Black boy facing down "Police Thuggery" in Ferguson, MO. It evokes such heartbreak and brutality and those who are standing up to it.
#BlackLivesMatter
I can tell you as someone who read what BS supporters were laying on #BlackLivesMatters supporters..
mostly Black.. but other supporters got attacked too. It was so ugly, egregious, and pervasive.. and it was said in Bernie's name whether his supporters knew it or not. It went on for 2 weeks or more and it's still going on. Actually some Bernie supporters were calling the ugly posts out, too(Mahalo!).
Martin O'Malley got confronted by #BlackLivesMatter @ NetrootsNation,.. but we didn't see his supporters attacking the African American online supporters of #BlackLivesMatter.... accusing them of being Rove Plants and accusing Hillary and George Soros of pulling the strings behind #BlackLivesMatter.
They accused African Africans on DU of calling "Bernie a racist".. because they had the audacity to question him about his stance on "racial injustice".. "He marched with MLK!!!".. not current enough, Bernie.
Bravenak whose thread this is about.. was speaking out to her former fellow BS supporters and begging them to cool it.. it wasn't working, she said.. It only got WORSE.. and she continued to plead.. they thanked her by Alerting her and Hiding her posts until she was given the ol du time out for however long. Silenced her they thought..
But, while she's been Censored on DU.. Bravenak wrote to Thom Hartmann about it and she thinks others must have written, too.. Because he properly called out DU on his show!..
This is the result.. bravernak's and others' activism.. Thom Hartmann is a compassionate, intelligent person who supports bernie..
Mahalo MADem! They can criticize all they want but the rampant hate illustrated with POCSUS,
TROJAN HORSE, and other oozing hate screeds.. and rec to the gills says everything about the posters and absolutely nothing about the President.
I don't know who these people are.. they have no cred with me.
The rest of the Country can see the whole forest and give him good marks.. while those online whine away.. history is passing them by.
Quit saying "Bravenak is a martyr".. you're way off base. And, quit accusing Hillary supporters of
of something you're obviously clueless about.
You came in here and rudely demanded the Hosts of the African American Group change the way they conduct business.
I am a friendly person but not to someone who comes into the protected AA group to whine about Bravenak and throws around accusations at my friends.
Edit to say.. This isn't about Hillary or any other candidates. It's about a strong African American voice who had been trying to let BS supporters know that their treating #BlackLivesMatter supporters with disrespect is Not Working.
And, for that she was alerted on and hidden by a jury pool that is "85%" Sanders supporters.
Wrong. Bravenak isn't a Hillary Clinton supporter.. and, it's your responsibility to know where
you're posting. No one else is here to do your work for you.
Then, while you're here.. you rudely come into the African American Group making false accusations and ordering people around.
This is why we have Protected Groups.. Havens for whomever or whatever that particular Group supports.. free from intruders and disruptors.
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