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August 14, 2015
Mayor Cory Booker Lays out Party Platform at the DNC
I was hoping he'd run in 2016. He is presidential material, IMO. DU search shows hostile comments. I want Van Jones as POTUS, so don't listen to me...
Ah, but he endorsed HRC and now he's a corporatist crook again according to a DU diatribe yesterday.
People forget the real goal. Booker is for the people and not just any candidate. Wait, he did speak at the 2012 DNC for PBO. That's unpopular. Yet he's on course. He made a strong populist speech:
Mayor Cory Booker Lays out Party Platform at the DNC
I was hoping he'd run in 2016. He is presidential material, IMO. DU search shows hostile comments. I want Van Jones as POTUS, so don't listen to me...
August 14, 2015
The most scientifically-proven news.™
Where have I seen that trademark before?
Ready For Someone Else.™
Don't diss the entities from the Eightth Dimension. They are here and the entire world is their smorgasbord. You cannot escape them:
Republicans serve The Beast. From the dawn of mankind they are the regressive element that's been holding back and destroying our civilization. They nourish other-dimensional entities that feed on misery, pain, and chaos. Republicans are their minions, and hope to share in these entities' power, or be spared the pain. But The Beast never shares; The Beast never spares.
From a DU2 sigline.
Love the banner on the 'newspaper':
The Portland IntelligencerThe most scientifically-proven news.™
Where have I seen that trademark before?
Ready For Someone Else.™
Don't diss the entities from the Eightth Dimension. They are here and the entire world is their smorgasbord. You cannot escape them:
Republicans serve The Beast. From the dawn of mankind they are the regressive element that's been holding back and destroying our civilization. They nourish other-dimensional entities that feed on misery, pain, and chaos. Republicans are their minions, and hope to share in these entities' power, or be spared the pain. But The Beast never shares; The Beast never spares.
From a DU2 sigline.
August 13, 2015
Because of your work in radio, you may get him to go over your list and the words of bravenak.
I cannot get these words by bravenak out of my head and heart, thinking as a woman and mother. I always knew this, but her words are so powerful:
252. Maybe delete and apologize for your 'race nagging' comment. We are dying and in jail.
It is not nagging. We are fighting for our lives and our childrens lives. How is that nagging? It is a demand to be treated fairly and equally and to be seen. Look at me. Notice my race. It affect me everyday. Why not just join our call and not feel nagged, but instead feel called to action?
Black Lives Matter:
This is a CALL TO ACTION TO PROGRESSIVES!!! SOS!!!! SOS!!!
MAYDAY MAYDAY, WE'RE SCARED TO LEAVE OUR HOMES AND THE COPS CAN JUST COME IN AND KILL US, HELP HELP HELP!!
OUR HUSBANDS ARE IN JAIL AND OUR KIDS ARE POOR, WE'RE SCARED!!
To that you say: Race naggers!!! I think that was a terribly unfeeling and mean response. It saddens me.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251467790#post252
I cannot hold back the tears every time I read this heart rending plea to those who should be on her side.
Thanks, CR, needs to be posted in the paper or on Thom Hartmann's show.
A rumor, likely be true, is that bravenak was the one who inspired this:
Because of your work in radio, you may get him to go over your list and the words of bravenak.
I cannot get these words by bravenak out of my head and heart, thinking as a woman and mother. I always knew this, but her words are so powerful:
252. Maybe delete and apologize for your 'race nagging' comment. We are dying and in jail.
It is not nagging. We are fighting for our lives and our childrens lives. How is that nagging? It is a demand to be treated fairly and equally and to be seen. Look at me. Notice my race. It affect me everyday. Why not just join our call and not feel nagged, but instead feel called to action?
Black Lives Matter:
This is a CALL TO ACTION TO PROGRESSIVES!!! SOS!!!! SOS!!!
MAYDAY MAYDAY, WE'RE SCARED TO LEAVE OUR HOMES AND THE COPS CAN JUST COME IN AND KILL US, HELP HELP HELP!!
OUR HUSBANDS ARE IN JAIL AND OUR KIDS ARE POOR, WE'RE SCARED!!
To that you say: Race naggers!!! I think that was a terribly unfeeling and mean response. It saddens me.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251467790#post252
I cannot hold back the tears every time I read this heart rending plea to those who should be on her side.
August 13, 2015
Raising the Flag at U.S. Embassy Havana
U.S. Department of State
Published on Aug 12, 2015
A New Chapter for the United States and Cuba
On January 4, 1961, U.S. Marines Jim Tracy, F.W. "Mike" East, and Larry C. Morris assigned to U.S. Embassy Havana lowered the American flag outside the embassy for the last time. For 54 years, the soldiers’ warm affection for the Cuban people never wavered. And neither did their belief that, one day, they would reunite to raise the flag again.
On August 14, 2015, these three U.S. Marines reunite and join Secretary of State John Kerry to re-open the U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba. Watch this video as they reflect on the past and look towards the future.
More at:
http://www.state.gov/p/wha/ci/cu/
President Barack Obama and SoS John Kerry are changing lives and history one day at a time. Thanks, Obama!
*This is the BOG (Barack Obama Group), a safe haven for supporters of the 44th POTUS and his policies. Please do not disrupt this group. TIA.*
Tomorrow Morning the US Flag Will Be Raised In Havana *BOG Post*
Raising the Flag at U.S. Embassy Havana
U.S. Department of State
Published on Aug 12, 2015
A New Chapter for the United States and Cuba
On January 4, 1961, U.S. Marines Jim Tracy, F.W. "Mike" East, and Larry C. Morris assigned to U.S. Embassy Havana lowered the American flag outside the embassy for the last time. For 54 years, the soldiers’ warm affection for the Cuban people never wavered. And neither did their belief that, one day, they would reunite to raise the flag again.
On August 14, 2015, these three U.S. Marines reunite and join Secretary of State John Kerry to re-open the U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba. Watch this video as they reflect on the past and look towards the future.
More at:
http://www.state.gov/p/wha/ci/cu/
President Barack Obama and SoS John Kerry are changing lives and history one day at a time. Thanks, Obama!
*This is the BOG (Barack Obama Group), a safe haven for supporters of the 44th POTUS and his policies. Please do not disrupt this group. TIA.*
August 13, 2015
Critics of BLM sound like Nixon's 'law and order' campaign. And yes, that shows my age, but it's too close, IMO.
When I hear the word 'rude' or 'disuptive' applied, I want to say that's a false equivalency.
The 'disruption' to the families of the slain means more a political rally. And murder is beyond 'rude.'Critics of BLM sound like Nixon's 'law and order' campaign. And yes, that shows my age, but it's too close, IMO.
August 10, 2015
Transcript and comment:
Baldwin goes on to eloquently state the affirmative in what has to be one of the most encompassing and moving soliloquies I have ever heard. Excerpts follow, but do not sell yourselves short, watch it in its entirety:
“The white South African or Mississippi sharecropper or Alabama sheriff has at bottom a system of reality which compels them really to believe when they face the Negro that this woman, this man, this child must be insane to attack the system to which he owes his entire identity.”
“In the case of the American Negro, from the moment you are born every stick and stone, every face, is white. Since you have not yet seen a mirror, you suppose you are, too. It comes as a great shock around the age of 5, 6, or 7 to discover that the flag to which you have pledged allegiance, along with everybody else, has not pledged allegiance to you. It comes as a great shock to see Gary Cooper killing off the Indians, and although you are rooting for Gary Cooper, that the Indians are you.”
“From a very literal point of view, the harbors and the ports and the railroads of the country—the economy, especially in the South—could not conceivably be what they are if it had not been (and this is still so) for cheap labor. I am speaking very seriously, and this is not an overstatement: I picked cotton, I carried it to the market, I built the railroads under someone else’s whip for nothing. For nothing.”
"The Southern oligarchy which has still today so very much power in Washington, and therefore some power in the world, was created by my labor and my sweat and the violation of my women and the murder of my children. This in the land of the free, the home of the brave.”
“Sheriff Clark in Selma, Ala., cannot be dismissed as a total monster; I am sure he loves his wife and children and likes to get drunk. One has to assume that he is a man like me. But he does not know what drives him to use the club, to menace with the gun and to use the cattle prod. Something awful must have happened to a human being to be able to put a cattle prod against a woman’s breasts. What happens to the woman is ghastly. What happens to the man who does it is in some ways much, much worse. Their moral lives have been destroyed by the plague called color.”
“It is a terrible thing for an entire people to surrender to the notion that one-ninth of its population is beneath them. Until the moment comes when we, the Americans, are able to accept the fact that my ancestors are both black and white, that on that continent we are trying to forge a new identity, that we need each other, that I am not a ward of America, I am not an object of missionary charity, I am one of the people who built the country—until this moment comes there is scarcely any hope for the American dream. If the people are denied participation in it, by their very presence they will wreck it. And if that happens it is a very grave moment for the West.”
http://bacanisays.tumblr.com/
The video is long, but worth it to hear all that Baldwin says to Buckley:
James Baldwin Debates William F. Buckley (1965)
Published on Oct 27, 2012
Historic debate between James Baldwin v. William F. Buckley Jr. at Cambridge University on the question: "Is the American Dream at the expense of the American Negro?"
To which I would respond Blacks were given NOTHING:
James Baldwin debates William F. Buckley Jr. at Cambridge University | The Resolution: “Is the American Dream at the expense of the American Negro?”Transcript and comment:
Baldwin goes on to eloquently state the affirmative in what has to be one of the most encompassing and moving soliloquies I have ever heard. Excerpts follow, but do not sell yourselves short, watch it in its entirety:
“The white South African or Mississippi sharecropper or Alabama sheriff has at bottom a system of reality which compels them really to believe when they face the Negro that this woman, this man, this child must be insane to attack the system to which he owes his entire identity.”
“In the case of the American Negro, from the moment you are born every stick and stone, every face, is white. Since you have not yet seen a mirror, you suppose you are, too. It comes as a great shock around the age of 5, 6, or 7 to discover that the flag to which you have pledged allegiance, along with everybody else, has not pledged allegiance to you. It comes as a great shock to see Gary Cooper killing off the Indians, and although you are rooting for Gary Cooper, that the Indians are you.”
“From a very literal point of view, the harbors and the ports and the railroads of the country—the economy, especially in the South—could not conceivably be what they are if it had not been (and this is still so) for cheap labor. I am speaking very seriously, and this is not an overstatement: I picked cotton, I carried it to the market, I built the railroads under someone else’s whip for nothing. For nothing.”
"The Southern oligarchy which has still today so very much power in Washington, and therefore some power in the world, was created by my labor and my sweat and the violation of my women and the murder of my children. This in the land of the free, the home of the brave.”
“Sheriff Clark in Selma, Ala., cannot be dismissed as a total monster; I am sure he loves his wife and children and likes to get drunk. One has to assume that he is a man like me. But he does not know what drives him to use the club, to menace with the gun and to use the cattle prod. Something awful must have happened to a human being to be able to put a cattle prod against a woman’s breasts. What happens to the woman is ghastly. What happens to the man who does it is in some ways much, much worse. Their moral lives have been destroyed by the plague called color.”
“It is a terrible thing for an entire people to surrender to the notion that one-ninth of its population is beneath them. Until the moment comes when we, the Americans, are able to accept the fact that my ancestors are both black and white, that on that continent we are trying to forge a new identity, that we need each other, that I am not a ward of America, I am not an object of missionary charity, I am one of the people who built the country—until this moment comes there is scarcely any hope for the American dream. If the people are denied participation in it, by their very presence they will wreck it. And if that happens it is a very grave moment for the West.”
http://bacanisays.tumblr.com/
The video is long, but worth it to hear all that Baldwin says to Buckley:
James Baldwin Debates William F. Buckley (1965)
Published on Oct 27, 2012
Historic debate between James Baldwin v. William F. Buckley Jr. at Cambridge University on the question: "Is the American Dream at the expense of the American Negro?"
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