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StarfishSaver's JournalBlack senior State Dept official resigns because of Trump's comments and actions on race
Is the dam breaking?
A senior State Department official who has served in the Trump administration since its first day is resigning over President Trumps recent handling of racial tensions across the country saying that the presidents actions cut sharply against my core values and convictions.
Mary Elizabeth Taylor, the assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs, submitted her resignation on Thursday. Taylors five-paragraph resignation letter, obtained by The Washington Post, serves as an indictment of Trumps stewardship at a time of national unrest from one of the administrations highest ranking African Americans and an aide who was viewed as both loyal and effective in serving his presidency.
Moments of upheaval can change you, shift the trajectory of your life, and mold your character. The Presidents comments and actions surrounding racial injustice and Black Americans cut sharply against my core values and convictions, Taylor wrote in her resignation letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. I must follow the dictates of my conscience and resign as Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs.
Taylor, 30, was unanimously confirmed to her position in October 2018 and is the youngest assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs in history and the first black woman to serve in that post.
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Taylor was viewed as a loyal member of the administration and is a lifelong member of the Republican Party. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/top-state-department-official-resigns-in-protest-of-trumps-response-to-racial-tensions-in-the-country/2020/06/18/e142e342-b181-11ea-a567-6172530208bd_story.html
Facebook takes down Trump campaign ads for promoting "organized hate"
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/18/tech/facebook-trump-ads-triangle-takedown/index.htmlLet's repeat this ... The reelection campaign of the president of the United States had ads taken down because they promote organized hate.
Pelosi: "This person is ethically unfit, intellectually unprepared, and personally unqualified"
Full Quote: "This person is ethically unfit, intellectually unprepared, and personally unqualified to be president of the United States."
And while I know physical appearances shouldn't mean much, she said it while looking aweome in a amazingly beautiful cotton candy-colored jacket with a matching pink mask dangling from her neck.
She rocks
BREAKING: Supreme Court protects DACA from Trump!
Dear White People: Please do what John Pavlovitz says
Thank you.
https://twitter.com/johnpavlovitz/status/1273584114403336193
Kamala: "It was a DEBATE!"
Love her!
https://twitter.com/mmodi93/status/1273471749947088896
Watch Eric Swalwell try to get Matt Gaetz to say "Black Lives Matter"
And guess what Gaetz's response is?
https://us.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/06/17/eric-swalwell-matt-gaetz-black-lives-matter-sot-keilar-nr-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/this-week-in-politics/
Officer who killed Rayshard Brooks accused of covering up 2015 shooting
He has a history.
Let me see if I can find my surprised face around here somewhere.
Garrett Rolfe was fired by the Atlanta police department following what officials called the unjustified killing of Brooks on Friday. Rolfe shot Brooks twice in the back as Brooks ran away after a scuffle with officers when they attempted to arrest him. It was among a recent spate of killings of black men by white police officers, which have ignited a national uprising against police brutality and racism.
In August 2015, Rolfe and two other officers opened fire on Jackie Jermaine Harris, who they chased after he was caught driving a stolen truck, the Guardian can reveal after reviewing court documents on the incident.
However, the shooting was not reported by the police involved. Harris, like Brooks, is African American.Harris rammed a police vehicle and officers shot at him several times inside the truck, striking Harris once and collapsing his lung. Harris survived and later pleaded guilty to charges including theft, property damage, fleeing arrest and damaging a police vehicle.
Judge Doris L Downs, during a 2016 court hearing, called the case a disaster and said its the wildest case Ive seen in my 34 years here.
Downs said she was so troubled by officers failing to report the shooting that she wanted the matter investigated.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/17/rayshard-brooks-shooting-police-officer-cover-up-accusations-garrett-rolfe?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1592411069
Jeff Tiedrich uses his privilege to say what no black person could get away with saying
https://twitter.com/itsJeffTiedrich/status/1273378269224730632Let's hope the Atlanta DA puts to rest the attempts here to justify the killing of Rayshard Brooks
and, more important, causes people who do tend to go out of their way to immediately give the benefit of the doubt to police officers and assume that victims of police killings are responsible for their deaths to think more deeply about the pervasiveness of police brutality and why the Black Lives Matter
movement is so necessary.
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