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Keeping an eye on the reddest state in the UnionRedeyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16726342951810334788noreply@blogger.comBlogger1939125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5091078896160115890.post-65064164307391277982020-08-01T07:23:00.007-07:002020-08-05T06:47:53.025-07:00EYE wish white Democrats (and EYE use that term loosely) would pick a lane and stop walking down the yellow line in the middle of the road<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Daddy used to say the only thing in the middle of the street is a yellow line. White Democrats would RATHER stay in the middle of the street than pick a lane. They can't decide if they want to be democrats or if they want to be republicans. Walking the yellow line allows them to be modern-day <a href="https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/2019/12/05/joe-reed-alabama-democratic-party-dispute-could-go-federal-court/2613271001/">Dixiecrats</a>. </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Reed defined a Dixiecrat as "those folks who are mad because blacks are a majority in the Democratic Party in Alabama."</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">White <a href="https://www.alreporter.com/2020/07/29/democratic-women-condemn-comments-on-gov-kay-iveys-appearance/">democratic women</a> will <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/letters/let-governor-ivey-know-where-you-stand/">defend </a>the honor of a republican woman before they <a href="https://apnews.com/6d6ab7e49de34604856e753a912ca18a">defend </a>their<a href="https://wbhm.org/feature/2019/jones-says-hes-not-attacking-the-state-democratic-party-hes-rebuilding-it/"> own</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">White democrats believe the only way they can <a href="http://www.indianapolisrecorder.com/opinion/article_ab76229a-f173-11e7-aca1-afb4908c2a06.html">"win"</a> elections is to pander to the Republicans at the expense of their <a href="https://unherd.com/2020/02/the-democrats-cant-take-the-black-vote-for-granted/">base</a> because after all where can the base <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/31/democrats-black-voters-granted-abandoned-them">go</a>? The <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/06/01/black-women-and-the-dnc/">base </a>is held <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/31/us/politics/black-americans-democrats-trump.html">captiv</a>e on the <a href="https://redeyesfrontpage.blogspot.com/2019/09/eye-used-to-get-so-angry-when.html">plantation</a>.</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><br />
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Redeyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16726342951810334788noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5091078896160115890.post-27461458345548861202020-07-20T07:55:00.004-07:002020-07-20T07:55:55.292-07:00Congressman John Robert Lewis " rooted deep in Alabama soil"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Front row L-R Rosa, Ethel, Ora
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Lewis is the most famous one, but Rosa Tyner, the youngest, said all of her older brothers and sisters were exceptional. Ora worked in nursing. Edward, the oldest boy, was deaf, but refused to get on disability and he took care of Willie Mae after Eddie died in 1977.
“My mother, we called her Mul, was very humble. She didn’t say much and I never really heard her cuss. Dad was a humble, good person,” Tyner said. “All of the children were raised right. I’m not saying that we were saints. But if we did something wrong, we got it straight.”" height="248" src="https://www.ajc.com/resizer/GOAfaAGpX91mQZNV7p5phhQZHxE=/800x0/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/ajc/33NLCNAFJRB4DD2MX3JXMGEOTM.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="320" /></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <i>“So you are John Lewis? <a href="https://www.ajc.com/news/john-lewis-the-boy-from-troy/FPQXUXXHMZEUVCX3HORKOHCYHM/">The boy from Troy,</a>” Martin Luther King Jr. said upon meeting the teenager who would become one of the civil rights movement’s most famous, vocal, and long-lived members.</i></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.atlantamagazine.com/great-reads/the-parable-of-julian-bond-john-lewis/">The third of ten children born to sharecropper Eddie Lewis and his wife, Willie Mae,</a> John Lewis was out in the blistering Alabama fields at age 4, picking cotton, gathering peanuts, pulling corn. The family survived on the leavings after their white landlord deducted his rent in cash or crops. They lived in “Carter’s Quarters,” a tract that had been home to Willie Mae Carter’s family since slavery days. Ironically, it was just a few miles from where John Lewis’s great opponent, Gov. George Wallace, was raised.</span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">My father couldn’t afford a newspaper subscription. I’d walk half a mile to get my grandfather’s paper after he got done reading it. I kept up with what was going on, reading that paper and listening to that radio. . . . We ordered everything from the Sears & Roebuck catalog. We called it ‘the Wish Book.’ . . . I was bused 18 miles to the Pike County Training School. Black schools were ‘training schools’; whites went to high schools. We had old broken-down buses, ragged books, a rundown building. White students had new buses, nice painted buildings with the grounds kept up. . . . In Troy, they had a soda fountain where you could get Coca-Cola. We called it a combination. A black person could not take a seat. We had to stand at the end of the counter. ‘May I have a combination?’ You put your money down and went outside to the street corner to drink it. . . . As a young child I saw a difference. I resented it. Even the country road where I grew up—because black people owned the land, the road was left unpaved for many, many years. When it rained, the bus got stuck in the mud. That was life in Alabama.—U.S. Rep. John Lewis</span></i></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://storycorps.org/stories/the-boy-from-troy-how-dr-king-inspired-a-young-john-lewis/">Listen </a>to John Lewis describe how Rev. Martin Luther King Jr inspired him in his own words.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">While researching John Lewis EYE discovered <a href="https://blavity.com/julian-bond-vs-john-lewis-an-unforgettable-fight-for-atlantas-fifth-congressional-district?category1=black-history&subCat=community-submitted">black politics are more complex than they look</a>.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Sometimes, going back into history is what helps define the present in black politics and helps point the way forward. The fight for Atlanta’s fifth congressional district once upon a time, in 1986, pitted two civil rights icons, Julian Bond and John Lewis, against each other. It is the sort of history that tells us everything about much of black politics today: Bond, the intellectual race man beloved by blacks, loses to John Lewis, the man who sold himself particularly well to whites.</span></i></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;">Rest in peace, power, and love with the #Ancestors Congressman John Lewis. EYE will keep getting into #<a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/john-lewis-congressman-civil-rights-donald-trump-825629/">GoodTrouble</a> in #<a href="https://www.splcenter.org/20200210/alive-and-well-voter-suppression-and-election-mismanagement-alabama">SweetHomeAlabama </a>in honor of your courage and sacrifice. </span><br />
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Redeyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16726342951810334788noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5091078896160115890.post-27410648479605332392020-07-17T10:17:00.000-07:002020-07-17T10:51:01.659-07:00“People do not choose rebellion, it is forced upon them. Revolution is always an act of self- defense.” - Rest In Power Rev. C. T. Vivian<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">As you will see from the video below the right to vote is steeped in <a href="https://youtu.be/kLGAoarOm1M">blood</a>, sweat, tears, and sacrifice for African Americans. <a href="https://youtu.be/5gHJjbDofd0">This </a>video was recorded pre-cell phones in Selma, Alabama in 1965. In this video, he was assaulted by Alabama Law Enforcement Officers for trying to register to vote at the Dallas County Courthouse in Selma, Alabama. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is why the Confederate monument located on the grounds of the <a href="https://whnt.com/news/activists-raise-money-to-pay-fine-to-remove-confederate-statue-outside-madison-county-courthouse/?fbclid=IwAR07f1dco8o1OphXEx91_8ziyG2FWHE4MXzxfAm5PoUOQLhDjRFcEvEGCyc">Madison County Alabama courthouse</a> is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDOextrtpWw">offensive </a>and needs to be <a href="https://www.rocketcitynow.com/article/news/local/local-historians-write-open-letter-to-leaders-calling-for-removal-of-confederate-monument/525-e935d43f-f31c-425a-8a59-367dc20c6da1?fbclid=IwAR061jSfw3vdqoE4mPTR_NraPPOQUTRhQ3y9SdxZCCJ0FaRvJ1yx1CpCfBk">removed</a> and <a href="https://www.al.com/news/2020/07/groups-vow-to-continue-fight-to-relocate-confederate-statues-say-alabama-law-immoral.html?fbclid=IwAR1VbYbBNjHZU2YnXN9GIMIxmtFjsJjgrKYuty-m1TFR6hy8p2aHUXKigtM">replaced</a> immediately.</span></div>
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Redeyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16726342951810334788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5091078896160115890.post-16339731272858587262020-07-15T10:40:00.000-07:002020-07-15T10:40:21.417-07:00Republican Governor Kay Appointed but the Democratic Voters in Madsion County Commission District 6 Annointed<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">EYE would like to offer my congratulations to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdSxunAZG1I">#VioletEdwards </a>the new and first African American female to be elected to the Good Ole Boys Club, EYE mean the Madison County Commission to <a href="http://redeyesfrontpage.blogspot.com/2018/03/how-do-we-preserve-legacy-of.html">represent District</a> 6 by the voters in District 6 and for the voters in District 6. Hopefully, she won't be the last.</span><div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But here's the<a href="https://themadisonrecord.com/2020/07/15/how-madison-county-voted-in-tuesdays-runoff-election/"> rub</a>:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">EYE know good and darn well there are more than 3,261 registered voters in District 6, it's the largest district in Madison County. To be fair there is a <a href="https://www.newsmax.com/us/alabama-masks-runoff-election-tuberville/2020/07/10/id/976624/">COVID19</a> crisis in <a href="https://www.rocketcitynow.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/madison-county-now-tracking-with-alabama-covid-19/525-405b2512-f758-4311-af82-151705ea2e7e">Huntsville/Madison County</a> and more voters could have voted absentee,<a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/supreme-court-blocks-curbside-voting-in-alabama"> curbside</a>, or via <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/07/03/887113506/supreme-court-temporarily-blocks-easier-voting-by-mail-in-alabama-during-coronav">mail if the Republicans hadn't intervened</a>, but EYE have to ask, why are Democrats so darn apathetic? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As you can see, rain, snow, sleet, shine, or COVID19 Republicans get out and vote. What's up with Democrats, especially <a href="http://redeyesfrontpage.blogspot.com/2012/08/aint-gonna-let-nobody-turn-us-around.html">African American Democrats </a>whose right to vote is steeped in<a href="http://redeyesfrontpage.blogspot.com/2011/10/right-to-vote-today-right-to-vote.html"> blood, sweat, tears, and sacrifice</a>?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is why the <a href="https://www.madisoncountyal.gov/government/about-your-county/district-six">District </a>can't have nice things.</span><br />
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Redeyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16726342951810334788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5091078896160115890.post-87530941817225602412020-07-04T08:30:00.003-07:002020-07-05T08:05:12.640-07:00America hates us for our Freedom<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.theroot.com/america-is-a-confederate-monument-1844249576?fbclid=IwAR1tmwEf36qEaYrrpVTYXo7_NQfiNZyqcPevyEhRRjBg5vE3P29ZrDVhFfA">America hates us.</a></span></i><span style="font-size: large;"><i>For years, the Black students at Auburn University have protested Kappa Alpha Order’s “Old South Parade,” a tradition that happens on college campuses where members of one of the oldest American fraternities celebrate the Confederacy. Tennessee <a href="https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2019/02/20/tn-gov-bill-lee-kappa-alpha-old-south-party-auburn/2904953002/">Gov. Bill Lee did it</a> when he was a member. South Carolina Gov. <a href="https://www.kappaalphaorder.org/2018/11/south-carolina-native-officially-elected-governor/">Henry McMaster</a> did it when he was a member in college. So did Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D-Mass.), Roy Blount (R- Ala.), Former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover and former Carolina Panthers owner Jerry Richardson, among many others.</i></span></div>
Redeyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16726342951810334788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5091078896160115890.post-31968397158422512812020-06-27T16:51:00.000-07:002020-06-27T16:57:24.940-07:00"Walk together Chulluns don't you get weary there's a great camp meeting in the promised land" <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Redeyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16726342951810334788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5091078896160115890.post-86811483371992701192020-06-26T09:38:00.002-07:002020-06-26T16:41:45.595-07:00#BlackLivesMatter on the football field, off the field all bets are off #SweetHomeAlabama Edition<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">So, it took <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/06/01/867219130/george-floyd-independent-autopsy-homicide-by-asphyxia">Minneapolis, MN police officer</a> Derek Chauvin<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/24/us/minneapolis-police-chief-comment-george-floyd-trnd/index.html"> literally taking a knee </a>on <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/31/us/george-floyd-investigation.html">George Floyd's neck, killing him live and in living color</a> for <a href="http://redeyesfrontpage.blogspot.com/2020/06/we-are-fighting-for-right-to-breathe.html">8 minutes and 46 seconds</a> for some (not to be confused with all) #Colonizers to wake up and smell the coffee and realize why <a href="https://www.alreporter.com/2020/05/27/opinion-it-should-be-clear-by-now-kaepernick-was-right/">Colin Kaepernick</a> and other <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1a9lWQShFTA">NFL players</a> took a knee during the <a href="https://www.si.com/nfl/2017/08/22/national-anthem-protests-list-players-kneel">National Anthem</a>. <i>Yes, EYE know that was a run-on sentence but EYE digress.</i> The realization <a href="https://bamahammer.com/2020/06/13/alabama-crimson-tide-racial-inequality/">racist/racism</a> has the potential to hit them where it really hurts...in their <a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/sports/college/nick-saban-raise-reminds-alabama-lucrative-plantation-article-1.3137344">wallets </a>and <a href="https://www.al.com/alabamafootball/2018/01/alabama_footballs_piece_of_174.html">pocketbooks</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">EYE suspect <a href="https://www.rollbamaroll.com/2020/6/25/21303501/nick-saban-alabama-players-speak-out-all-lives-cant-matter-until-black-lives-matter">someone </a>in the school of business at the University of Alabama <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2020/06/25/alabama-football-nick-saban-drop-powerful-black-lives-matter-video/">developed</a> a marketing plan<a href="https://www.wbrc.com/2020/06/25/ua-football-all-lives-cant-matter-until-black-lives-matter/?fbclid=IwAR1gdR6Rj64jvqMntG94fukSqfgCly6gwSepWyuPJOaB7HiZmr0pDxpBxDg"> </a>to try and <a href="https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2020-06-20/college-football-players-more-power-in-search-for-social-justice">plug the holes </a>and stop the<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/07/sports/ncaafootball/alabama-crimson-tide-football-marketing.html"> Rising Tide</a> ship from <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/10/black-athletes-should-leave-white-colleges/596629/">sinking</a>. Let's not pretend <a href="https://www.jbhe.com/2019/04/black-male-athletes-make-up-a-high-percentage-of-black-male-enrollments-in-power-5-conferences/">black male athletes don't make up a high percentage </a>of collegiate student-athletes. </span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">A new <a href="https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/education-postsecondary/reports/2019/03/28/466892/madness-doesnt-end-march/">report</a> from the Center for American Progress concludes that colleges and universities are making a great deal of money on football and men’s basketball – sports where African American men make up a large percentage of all athletes – while the African American athletes are not adequately reaping the benefits of this money-making machine.<br />The report states that “Black male college athletes are getting a bad deal. Their work on the court and the field generates vast profits for the NCAA, member colleges, and TV networks, yet student-athletes receive no share of the profits they generate. Moreover, the majority of black student-athletes participate in sports with the highest risks of physical injury<a href="https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/education-postsecondary/reports/2019/03/28/466892/madness-doesnt-end-march/#fn-466892-17"></a>.”</span></i></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;">Despite the popular opinion of some African Americans care about their <a href="https://www.quora.com/What-percent-of-NCAA-Division-1-football-players-are-African-Americans">student-athletes</a>. Sure they would like for them to play in the #NFL and become <a href="https://bleacherreport.com/articles/536070-the-50-greatest-players-in-alabama-crimson-tide-football-history">rich and famous</a> but at what <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/03/12/graduation-rates-black-athletes-lower-most-students-study-shows">cost?</a> What self-respecting black parents want to send their student to play in a <a href="https://www.alreporter.com/2020/06/23/opinion-this-is-who-we-are/?fbclid=IwAR28LfYlCIHkkwUwdKVagGUOeoO50CgbWGlypjjmbzpfu2maAdofdk3qQXI">state </a>still<a href="https://www.espn.com/racing/nascar/story/_/id/29344050/nascar-sees-confederate-flags-fly-talladega-superspeedway"> flying</a> the <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/11/us/ray-ciccarelli-nascar-confederate-spt-trnd/index.html">Confederate Flag</a>, <a href="https://www.alreporter.com/2020/06/22/opinion-a-noose-was-left-in-bubba-wallaces-garage-stall-a-coward-put-it-there/?fbclid=IwAR3D28RF2YO4tfsswyP_cDY37HYBmC5cZZxtBqaD0mVXnJH4tgfkGVlxAtA">hanging nooses</a>, EYE mean <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toieR8wKmvg">garage door pulls</a>, burning <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/501477-authorities-investigate-cross-burning-in-alabama">crosses</a>, and protecting <a href="https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2017/05/gov_kay_ivey_signs_bill_protec.html">Confederate monuments?</a> It's not like <a href="https://theundefeated.com/features/cam-newtons-younger-brother-caylin-will-play-football-at-howard-university/">they</a> don't have <a href="https://hbcugameday.com/2020/06/24/marquis-mcclain-auburn-transfer-to-southern-sec-swac/?fbclid=IwAR2j1Rv7cTNRAuZQcMHHsC8ExfxfMTUevpPvC_eqqmYeq9xfx7xFxaludzI">options</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.al.com/news/tuscaloosa/2019/11/trump-balloon-protest-over-after-man-stabs-balloon-arrest-made.html"> Everybody</a> knows the <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7668441/Cheers-FINALLY-drown-boos-Trump-appears-college-football-game-Alabama.html">University</a></span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7668441/Cheers-FINALLY-drown-boos-Trump-appears-college-football-game-Alabama.html"> of Alabama</a> is <a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/11/07/university-of-alabama-trump-visit-student-government-letter-vpx-nr.cnn">Trump Country </a></span><span style="font-size: large;">so </span><a href="https://www.diversityinc.com/black-university-of-alabama-dean-fired-for-tweeting-about-racism/" style="font-size: x-large;">EYE</a><span style="font-size: large;"> have to question the </span><a href="https://theundefeated.com/features/a-brief-history-of-alabama-phenom-jalen-hurts-and-the-black-qbs-who-came-before-him/" style="font-size: x-large;">motivation</a><span style="font-size: large;"> behind the PSA. </span><br />
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Redeyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16726342951810334788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5091078896160115890.post-53678254606149436922020-06-22T10:29:00.000-07:002020-06-22T10:35:22.975-07:00EYE am "shocked and appalled" someone left a noose at the first race in Alabama after NASCAR announced it had banned Confederate flags at races and on NASCAR property<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">“I am shocked and appalled to hear of yesterday’s vile act against Bubba Wallace in Talladega — there is no place for this disgusting display of hatred in our state,” Ivey said in a statement. “Racism and threats of this nature will not be condoned nor tolerated, and I commit to assisting in any way possible to ensure that the person responsible for this is caught and punished. While the important conversation of racial reconciliation is ongoing all over our country, it is clear there is much work to do. Bubba Wallace is one of us; he is a native of Mobile and on behalf of all Alabamians, I apologize to Bubba Wallace as well as to his family and friends for the hurt this has caused and regret the mark this leaves on our state. I ask the NASCAR family to rally around Bubba and his team as they compete today and I know that there are more people who are wishing him well today than ever before.”</span></i></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2017/05/gov_kay_ivey_signs_bill_protec.html">Says the Governor who signed the Confederate Monument Protection Act</a> but EYE digress.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">EYE am so <a href="https://www.masslive.com/sports/2020/06/nascar-bans-confederate-flag-fans-outside-talledega-still-displaying-controversial-banner.html">NOT </a>shocked </span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">The Confederate flags that once flew openly around the infield and stands are still for sale across the street. NASCAR hasn't disclosed how it will handle fans flying flags.</span></i></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;">Nor am EYE so<a href="https://www.alreporter.com/2020/06/22/opinion-a-noose-was-left-in-bubba-wallaces-garage-stall-a-coward-put-it-there/?fbclid=IwAR3D28RF2YO4tfsswyP_cDY37HYBmC5cZZxtBqaD0mVXnJH4tgfkGVlxAtA"> NOT </a>surprised </span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">This is why we can’t have nice things in Alabama. Because the redneck jokes write themselves when a bunch of hillbillies get all riled up over not being able to fly their traitor flag at their car racing/beer drinking event.</span></i></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;">Fake <a href="https://www.alreporter.com/2020/06/22/nascar-investigating-noose-left-in-bubba-wallaces-garage-stall/">shock and awe </a>aside you can't have it both ways. You are either for preserving Confederate monuments and symbols or you are not and t<a href="https://www.startribune.com/nascar-racing-at-talladega-postponed-but-confederate-flags-show-up/571413162/">his is who/what represents "the disgusting displays of hate" in #SweetHomeAlabama.</a> It all starts in the home. Parents are the first teachers. </span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">"Shame. Notice the police protecting them. No riot gear. No tear gas. No rubber bullets. He has his back to them scanning the crowd because he identifies with them."</span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"The danger of Donald Trump is much more extent to my community," Reid said. "It's much more extent to both my immigrant relatives, to African-Americans, to Latinos, it's not about whether or not we can regain our public standing on the world stage and be seen as America, as America was, to people who look like me, it's about imminent danger."<br />"Donald Trump is dangerous to our families, he's dangerous to our lives," Reid warned. "The, you know, my son, my -- our youngest son goes to Syracuse University, where right now, you know, the manifesto of the Texas shooter is being sent around to immigrant students, to black students, to Asian-American students."</span></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">The 17 counties that make up <a href="https://alabama.app.box.com/s/pc178kuanxcc5qkghauyruxqz48iuhvo">Alabama’s Black Belt</a> region are home to just 11 percent of the state’s population, but as of Thursday, 27 percent of all confirmed coronavirus cases in the state could be found there. A quarter of all coronavirus deaths in Alabama have been Black Belt residents.</span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Hours after the Birmingham City Council approved a mandate requiring that people wear face coverings while in public, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall issued a cautionary statement, reminding cities and towns that while they have power, there is a limit.</span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.al.com/news/2020/06/nancy-worley-drops-legal-battle-over-control-of-democratic-party.html">The battle for control of the Plantation, EYE mean Alabama Democratic Party</a> is over and the <a href="http://wantedalabamademocrats.blogspot.com/2014/02/when-is-minority-not-minority-and-other.html" id="http://wantedalabamademocrats.blogspot.com/2014/02/when-is-minority-not-minority-and-other.html" name="http://wantedalabamademocrats.blogspot.com/2014/02/when-is-minority-not-minority-and-other.html">Minority</a> now officially rules the <a href="https://yellowhammernews.com/alabama-democratic-party-officer-doug-jones-dnc-plan-to-strip-voting-rights-from-blacks/">Majority.<br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Worley said lawyers advised her not to appeal. She said it doesn’t help that Republicans hold all the seats on Alabama’s appeal courts.<br /><br />“They were certainly not about to do any favors for us, longtime Democratic stalwarts,” Worley said. "They were much more inclined to help the nouveau regime than they were us."</span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">The fight for control of the Alabama Democratic Party between Sen. Doug Jones (D) and <a href="https://thehill.com/person/nancy-worley">Nancy Worley</a>, the current head of the party, has revived painful allegations of racial discrimination, never far from the surface in a state at the heart of the battle for civil rights — even though both Jones and Worley are white and their chief allies are black.<br /><br />But what makes matters complicated are the countercharges of generational discrimination and acrimony between the African American Democrats who were on the front lines of the fight for civil rights in the 1950s and 1960s and a younger group of rising leaders who say they are being shut out of the party they will soon control.</span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Huntsville police had edited the photos to black out a portion of Shapiro’s face but that didn’t do enough to make him unidentifiable.<br /><br />McMurray told <a href="http://al.com/">AL.com</a> that he included Shapiro’s images in the presentation in an attempt to “educate” the public about antifa and anarchists. He said some deny that antifa is in Huntsville and believe police overreacted to the protesters. He says he was trying to prove them wrong.<br /><br /><br />“I didn’t accuse him of anything,” McMurray said. “Sympathizers are here. If you’re posting sympathetic likes and finds on your website, you very likely could be (a sympathizer). They put that on their website, not me.”</span></i></blockquote>
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Redeyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16726342951810334788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5091078896160115890.post-88416706383591614712020-06-17T10:22:00.000-07:002020-06-17T10:22:03.665-07:00It's been 5 years since the Mother Emmanual AME Church Massacre<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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An armed black business owner mistaken for a robber was punched in the face by a white Alabama cop - after calling to report being robbed. <br /><br />The situation happened nearly three months ago on March 15 but just became public due to this security clip... <a href="https://t.co/zQQrfDSYHP">pic.twitter.com/zQQrfDSYHP</a></div>
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Redeyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16726342951810334788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5091078896160115890.post-68407884253116936332020-04-27T07:56:00.000-07:002020-04-27T07:56:40.405-07:00On This Day EYE Am #CelebratingCoretta, An Amazing, Intelligent, Beautiful Woman born in Marion, Alabama <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Redeyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16726342951810334788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5091078896160115890.post-30537858368152280032020-04-22T07:45:00.000-07:002020-04-22T07:46:41.799-07:00Dear WYPIPO #WeTriedToTellYa is Code for Listen to Black People<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">And before the "<a href="http://field-negro.blogspot.com/2020/04/pandemic-ing-while-white.html">not all white people</a>" whine cranks up if you listened to black people this post is NOT directed at you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So, how is that <a href="https://redeyesfrontpage.blogspot.com/2018/01/about-that-peaceful-transfer-of-power.html">peaceful transfer </a>of <a href="http://redeyesfrontpage.blogspot.com/2017/06/so-how-is-that-peaceful-transfer-of.html">power thingy </a>working out for you? Is <a href="https://nomoremister.blogspot.com/2020/04/their-activists-and-ours.html">America Great Again </a>yet?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://redeyesfrontpage.blogspot.com/2017/03/eye-dont-want-to-hear-another-mumbling.html">#WeTiredToTellYa </a>there was something rotten in the cotton in <a href="https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2017/01/06/congresswoman-maxine-waters-booed-after-objection-to-electoral-college-count/">2016 </a>but did you listen? Nope. Because we <a href="https://twitter.com/gykendall/status/862265002836852737?s=20">can't tell ya'll nothin' which means you're incapable of learning or willfully ignorant</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">#WeTriedToTellYa you were putting <a href="https://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2020/04/trumps-words-of-defiance-to-protesters.html">evil</a> in the White House. <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/11/21/joy_reid_trump_an_imminent_danger_to_blacks_just_being_black_or_brown_feels_dangerous.html">We </a>knew what <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/article/What-the-hell-do-you-have-to-lose-a-13248964.php">we</a> had to <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trump-coronavirus-hydroxychloroquine-anti-malaria-drug-latest-a9447796.html">lose</a>.</span><br />
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Redeyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16726342951810334788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5091078896160115890.post-67022036679303290262020-03-31T12:04:00.000-07:002020-04-19T08:57:31.958-07:00Standing 6 feet apart so African American Alabamians will not be 6 feet under #COVID19 #ExpandMedicaidNow<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Members of the </span><a href="https://greenecodemocrat.com/2020/03/25/the-save-ourselves-movement-for-justice-and-democracy-standing-six-feet-apart-so-alabamians-will-not-be-lying-six-feet-under/?fbclid=IwAR0fFfOaG7fa_DPVUoQlToCw1uNfRA8K32MnPt0OsDw5ZXgxbBQ2NtSSaXs" style="font-size: x-large;">Save Ourselves for Justice and Democracy</a><span style="font-size: large;"> Movement are fighting back against </span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuYwXZQSj6k">Governor Kay Ivy's </a></span><span style="font-size: large;">dangerou</span><a href="https://www.theroot.com/nathaniel-woods-sister-confronts-alabama-gov-kay-ivey-1842316293" style="font-size: x-large;">s gamble</a><span style="font-size: large;"> putting</span><a href="https://www.theroot.com/a-dangerous-gamble-alabama-gov-kay-ivey-refuses-to-1842528527" style="font-size: x-large;"> Black Alabamians at risk.</a><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Attorney and former State Senator Hank Sanders said: “I was here 55 years ago today when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. asked the question, “How Long?” about voting rights and other rights. I and the rest of the massive crowd responded, “Not Long!” We are here today standing six feet apart so that Alabamians will not be lying six feet under. Dr. King asked, “How Long?” 55 years ago, and today we are asking, “How Long” will it be until Alabama expands Medicaid so that the working poor can have health insurance and health care so they can stand a chance to be tested and treated, not only during the coronavirus pandemic but afterwards? I hope and pray the answer to “How Long? is “Not Long!”</span></i></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;">B-But every <a href="https://www.americashealthrankings.org/explore/annual/measure/healthstatus_disparity/state/AL">life</a> is <a href="https://www.fox10tv.com/news/coronavirus/alabama-governor-has-no-plans-for-a-coronavirus-shutdown/article_44a320bc-6e18-11ea-a9b4-67fc1742aff3.html">precious</a>.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Its time to stop playing <a href="https://redeyesfrontpage.blogspot.com/2020/03/republicans-playing-politics-with.html">petty partisan politics</a> with people's lives. </span><br />
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Redeyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16726342951810334788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5091078896160115890.post-38850342967727324912020-03-30T10:26:00.001-07:002020-03-30T11:04:42.093-07:00"You People be nice don't be threatening" #WhenTheySeeUS <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">To be white in America is to assume, with total self-confidence and little afterthought, the personal ownership of public spaces. To be white in America is to have the confidence to say, without a second thought: this space, this neighborhood, this city, this county, this country is mine. Myself and those who look like me have the right to decide who can be here, and <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/spanish-not-english-most-all-american-language-has-been-centuries-ncna877716">even what language can be spoken here. </a>It doesn’t even have to be intentionally malicious. These assumptions just are. They exist inside the American body.<br />From the moment black and brown people were imported into this country, not as citizens but as worker bodies, transgressing these “white-owned spaces” — from rail cars to restaurants to whole parts of town — could mean humiliation or persecution or even death. It still can today. What has changed is the scale.</span></i></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;">So this is <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trump-black-female-journalists-questions-phillips-ryan-alcindor-cnn-jim-acosta-a8627416.html">not the first time </a>black women reporters have been <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-attacked-black-women-racist-question-1209872">publically humiliated</a> and <a href="https://www.theroot.com/it-s-time-for-america-to-do-the-right-thing-and-quarant-1842559965?utm_medium=socialflow&utm_source=theroot_facebook&fbclid=IwAR0d1xXsh_wYMm1I3O0l589I4zIbmCydyLVSfvPITy7kVq1I5WTdTrdwYms">disrespected </a>by <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/trump-to-reporter-you-ask-a-lot-of-stupid-questions/2018/11/09/408fdc12-e43b-11e8-ba30-a7ded04d8fac_video.html?itid=lk_interstitial_manual_23">Trump </a>and it's probably not going to be the last time because<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/where-are-black-men-in-the-fight-for-black-women/2018/11/13/63030e0c-e771-11e8-a939-9469f1166f9d_story.html"> everyone </a>knows black women don't deserve<a href="https://twitter.com/common/status/985636601677131776?s=20"> respect</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is what happens when there is a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2018/nov/05/newsroom-diversity-media-race-journalism">lack of diversity</a> in <a href="https://www.cjr.org/special_report/race-ethnicity-newsrooms-data.php">mainstream media</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What <a href="http://redeyesfrontpage.blogspot.com/2010/12/we-people-cant-win-for-media.html">EYE</a> don't understand is why not one of their colleagues stand up for <a href="https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/race/news/2017/08/14/437253/black-journalists-critical-democracy/">them</a>. Strike that. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/09/business/media/trump-retaliation-reporters-april-ryan.html">Yes</a>, <a href="http://redeyesfrontpage.blogspot.com/2016/01/its-media.html">EYE</a> do.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">The question facing us all now as citizens is whether or not the response of our country to a worldwide pandemic is being driven by the basic strategy of the Piranha Brothers. That is, whether or not the president* is withholding vital medical aid during a national health crisis for the purpose of muzzling criticism of his obvious incompetence, and for the auxiliary purpose of gaining political advantage in November’s election. If the answer to either of those questions is “yes,” then we have an unreconstructed monster running the country and there’s no telling what he might do next.</span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #8899a6; font-family: "helvetica neue" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center; white-space: nowrap;">And we need <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Medicare4All?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Medicare4All</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MasksNow?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MasksNow</a> — not a “president” who ignores recommendations, spreads misinformation and tweets jibberish<a href="https://t.co/ohgjulQUCu">pic.twitter.com/ohgjulQUCu</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Redeye tiptoeing away from the computer to go <a href="https://www.al.com/news/2020/03/all-non-essential-businesses-closed-statewide-ivey-doesnt-issue-shelter-in-place.html?ath=ac2401557b5ed46158b13de643be6ec6&utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Newsletter%20-%20Breaking%20News&utm_campaign=Newsletter%20-%20Breaking%20News&fbclid=IwAR1p8g0D-vVKZHIh-910DMAYXXWFcxgDuE30nU-WvVQRgD9qG5JUwcAToa4#cmpid=nsltr_strybutton">pray</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This whole thing started when<a href="https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/20200313/coronavirus-why-lake-worth-beachs-commissioners-request-for-emergency-meeting-was-denied"> a request for an emergency meeting by Lake Worth Beach County Commissioner Omari Hardy was rejected.</a></span><br />
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Redeyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16726342951810334788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5091078896160115890.post-21813552725682349212020-03-17T16:24:00.001-07:002020-03-17T16:37:17.245-07:00"Joe Biden will be the Democratic nominee because of Black voters not in spite of Black voters"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">Life on the Democratic Party Plantation <a href="https://youtu.be/DIlzDMfX-To">Cue in the theme song to Roots</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thanks to South Carolina Congressman Jim Clyburn <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/joe-bidens-south-carolina-win-black-voters-and-the-democrats-way-forward">Democratic Presidential Candidate Joe Biden </a>carried all of the red, voter suppressing, Confederate, <a href="https://youtu.be/YP_XIx23ji4">Slave </a>States on Super Tuesday when <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/03/opinion/why-black-voters-support-joe-biden/">African American</a> voices are finally heard. Candidate Biden didn't have to spend not one dime or make one promise to <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/487365-democrats-will-go-broke-betting-on-black">African American voters.</a> All it took was the word of one powerful Black man. </span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">A Trump presidency that’s been disastrous for America has been catastrophic for Black people.<br />From <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/12/us/hate-crimes-fbi-report.html">spikes in hate crimes</a> to <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/06/trump-racism-comments/588067/">Trump’s racism</a>, Black communities have suffered mightily under this administration. Certainly, more progressive policies pitched by Sanders and Senator Elizabeth Warren would benefit Black people, yet there is also a sense that this nation has no real appetite to foster economic or racial equality espoused by candidates on the left.<br />“I like [Warren and Sanders], but I don’t see them winning, because I think they’re too progressive for a lot of white people in his country,” said Marsha, a jewelry maker who offered political analysis along with her deft recommendations for good barbecue joints in Charleston. “I don’t think white people generally vote in a way that will benefit them if it also benefits Black people.”</span></i></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;">So now we know for sure the power of the<a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/03/10/813922126/why-joe-biden-is-the-pragmatic-choice-for-black-voters"> black vote</a> is used to benefit white people. And all Black voters can do is <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/467490-feud-by-alabama-democrats-threatens-doug-joness-reelection-bid">vote blue no matter who</a> and<a href="https://jacobinmag.com/2020/03/joe-biden-black-voters-african-americans-betrayal"> HOPE </a>and pray <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/biden-black-vote/">white people </a>will decide to treat us as equals someday. </span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">My read of the South Carolina vote is that black people know exactly what they’re doing, and why. Joe Biden is the indictment older black folks have issued against white America. His support is buttressed by chunks of the black community who have determined that most white people are selfish and cannot be trusted to do the right thing. They believe if you make white people choose between their money and their morality—between candidates like Sanders or Elizabeth Warren (who somehow finished fifth in South Carolina, behind Pete Buttigieg) and candidates like Biden and Michael Bloomberg—they will choose their money every time and twice on Election Day.</span></i></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://redeyesfrontpage.blogspot.com/2017/06/so-how-is-that-peaceful-transfer-of.html">EYE</a> HOPE <a href="http://redeyesfrontpage.blogspot.com/2019/09/its-not-about-winning-election-its.html">the candidate with the most votes wins this time</a>. </span></div>
Redeyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16726342951810334788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5091078896160115890.post-11581171063051538342020-03-06T08:46:00.001-08:002020-03-06T08:46:27.321-08:00"Every life is precious" My Donkey! #AbolishTheDeathPenalty #JustMercy #SweetHomeAlabama #SayHisName #NateWood<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Redeyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16726342951810334788noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5091078896160115890.post-70568320811455031362020-03-03T07:44:00.000-08:002020-03-03T07:45:13.800-08:00EYE don't condone the Bloomberg endorsement but EYE understand the Bloomberg endorsement~Redux<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://redeyesfrontpage.blogspot.com/2020/03/eye-am-willing-to-forgive-mike.html">EYE</a> know <a href="http://redeyesfrontpage.blogspot.com/2020/02/eye-dont-condone-bloomberg-endorsement.html">EYE </a>keep vacillating on the <a href="https://www.al.com/politics/2020/02/alabama-democratic-conference-backs-bloomberg-for-president.html">Alabama Democratic Conference's endorsement of Mike Bloomberg </a>but after watching this video and listening to the words of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Black-Labor-White-Wealth-Economic/dp/0966170210/ref=pd_sbs_14_img_0/136-4500329-7177827?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0966170210&pd_rd_r=1a583ee2-b3ff-4ce4-be1c-e06f77dd4e21&pd_rd_w=vkQbk&pd_rd_wg=tt2EC&pf_rd_p=5cfcfe89-300f-47d2-b1ad-a4e27203a02a&pf_rd_r=6N4F3PWT3TCF1R3CSSPK&psc=1&refRID=6N4F3PWT3TCF1R3CSSPK">Dr. Claude Anderson</a> EYE understand their rationale and their reasoning, and <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/campaign-chronicles/michael-bloombergs-black-agenda-gets-reviewed-on-black-wall-street">EYE approve the endorsement</a>.</span><br />
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Redeyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16726342951810334788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5091078896160115890.post-72974743609862837832020-03-02T10:02:00.001-08:002020-03-02T14:14:46.790-08:00EYE am willing to forgive Mike Bloomberg but EYE can't forget what Mike Bloomberg did<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://youtu.be/2sQz29AN1gs"><br />Cue in Aretha Franklin-Willing to Forgive </a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">"B</span><i style="font-size: x-large;">ecause you really, really hurt me this time"</i><span style="font-size: large;">. </span><a href="http://redeyesfrontpage.blogspot.com/2011/02/welcome-to-my-worlda-very-personal.html" style="font-size: x-large;">Someone EYE love was racially profiled in New York City </a><span style="font-size: large;">under the Stop and Frisk policy so this is </span><a href="http://redeyesfrontpage.blogspot.com/2011/02/welcome-to-my-worlda-very-personal_17.html" style="font-size: x-large;">personal </a><span style="font-size: large;">to me. </span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">The young man in question is the son of a very dear friend of mine. I've known him since he was an infant. His only crime was being a young black man between the ages of 18 and 24 years of age.</span></i></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;">As my wise Daddy once told me, <i>I will support and defend you when you are done wrong, but I won't support and defend you when you do wrong and <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/weekends-with-alex-witt/watch/church-attendees-silently-turn-backs-on-bloomberg-during-selma-service-79767621902?cid=sm_npd_ms_fb_ma&fbclid=IwAR11ic9grNp7gN4CMNvjb1o7u2yf53H4-S9XQ4djv2YwR8eDeXK4UA_jP54">there is no right way to do the wrong thing</a>.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://redeyesfrontpage.blogspot.com/2020/02/eye-dont-condone-bloomberg-endorsement.html"> EYE don't condone the decision </a>of the <a href="https://www.al.com/politics/2020/02/alabama-democratic-conference-backs-bloomberg-for-president.html">Alabama Democratic Conference to</a> <a href="https://www.al.com/news/2020/02/bloombergs-alabama-bet-is-joe-reeds-gamble.html">endorse Mike Bloomberg</a> and this morning EYE <a href="https://leftinalabama.com/if-you-vote-for-bloomberg-on-tuesday-your-votes-for-uncommitted-delegates-wont-count/?fbclid=IwAR34fCJ4H6Ga5zAqtPP6OGSh5Czv-We5bz7CP2GrOX8Zl1HfFXx_ZTMq7h8">wake up to the news the endorsement will bite them in the Donkey</a>, which <a href="http://redeyesfrontpage.blogspot.com/2019/09/psst-dnc-chairman-tom-perez-please-let.html">EYE</a> suspect was<a href="http://redeyesfrontpage.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-political-plays-of-decade-in.html"> the plan </a>all along.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">THERE IS NO AMBIGUITY HERE. IF YOU VOTE FOR MICHAEL BLOOMBERG FOR PRESIDENT AND VOTE FOR “UNCOMMITTED” DELEGATES THINKING THAT THEY WILL SOMEHOW BE ASSIGNED TO HIM AFTER THE ELECTION, YOU ARE MISTAKEN.<br />Your vote for Bloomberg for President will count. Your vote for Uncommitted delegates will be ignored.<br />And yet, this the sample ballot distributed outside churches in Madison County today seems to indicate that you can vote for Bloomberg AND the ADC’s endorsed “Uncommitted” delegates. You can; the machine won’t reject your ballot. But it also won’t count the votes for the Uncommitted delegates.</span></i></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;">There is a<a href="https://www.al.com/news/2019/08/dnc-committee-votes-to-invalidate-nancy-worleys-credentials.html"> concerted effort</a> to <a href="https://redeyesfrontpage.blogspot.com/2019/09/eye-used-to-get-so-angry-when.html">control African American voters in Alabama</a>, and <a href="https://www.apr.org/post/judge-dismisses-alabama-democratic-party-lawsuit">EYE</a> guess we aren't supposed to notice we are <a href="https://www.wsfa.com/2020/02/28/nancy-worley-weighs-options-after-ala-democratic-party-case-dismissed/">fighting with each other</a> while the <a href="https://www.al.com/news/2019/11/dnc-jumps-into-legal-fight-between-warring-factions-of-alabama-democratic-party.html">DNC</a> is standing on the <a href="https://www.al.com/news/2019/11/alabama-democrats-hope-to-elect-new-chair-today.html">sideline</a> egging it on. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ironically Americans from across the nation converged on<a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/03/01/john-lewis-makes-unexpected-appearance-selma-bloody-sunday-anniversary/4925083002/?fbclid=IwAR2IA_6o1Sg3sK6pKsMusUh6rmvX2SMvS1pfTodgQBxc7PXUSuZeshq7UfE"> Selma, Alabama </a>to<a href="https://www.newsandguts.com/video/rep-john-lewis-we-must-vote-like-we-never-ever-voted-before/?fbclid=IwAR3YbAkfK4dAL1cQvFhE7L-r_9LgABZkyRWoQ2izueSWs4mXf6mV9imO6xg"> re-enact Bloody Sunday </a>but the struggle is not over. <a href="http://redeyesfrontpage.blogspot.com/2013/08/all-jimmie-lee-jackson-wanted-was-right.html">Then as now, we are struggling to vote.</a> Republicans suppress the Black vote, Democrats<a href="http://redeyesfrontpage.blogspot.com/2019/02/the-dnc-credentials-committee.html"> depress the black vote</a>. What to do and <a href="http://redeyesfrontpage.blogspot.com/2019/08/an-open-letter-to-nancy-worley.html">where to go</a>?</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">RedEye tiptoeing away from the computer to go pray.</span></i></div>
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