Support Trump or else!
The most odious of those who are letting Trump drag America into the gutter include Vice President Mike Pence, the leaders in Congress and the pious shepherds of a white evangelical community that continues to give an awful man a pass for every awful thing he does.
When all else fails, blame it on the black guy/gal
But President Trump is doing what he does best: blame someone else for all his self-inflicted problems. Trump’s usual scapegoats are Hillary Clinton, the media, and former President Obama. In fact, Trump blamed the Obama administration for letting a Russian lawyer who initiated the meeting, into the country. Trump claimed that former Attorney General Loretta Lynch permitted Russian attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya to travel into the country, ultimately blaming her for the meeting. Trump exclaimed: “She was here because of Lynch.”
B-But You. Built. That.
RussiaGate: the Cliff Notes
Sometimes a photo from Baltimore says more than a thousand words. Fist Dap to The Real Segun Idowu @RevrendDoctor
There is nothing wrong with families framing their struggle solely in
terms of their child who was killed; similarly, there is nothing wrong
with the community framing their uprising within the context of police
murder after police murder with nothing but an increasingly armed and
hostile police force killing more young black men on the horizon...
But let's talk about random acts of vandalism, not to be confused with rioting, so we won't have to talk about this right here.
Erica Garner, 24, the daughter of Eric Garner, who died in New York
police custody, attended Gray’s funeral. She said she came after seeing
video of Gray’s arrest, which she said reminded her of her father’s
shouts that he could not breathe when he was being arrested on a city
street.
“It’s like there is no accountability, no justice,” she said. “It’s like we’re back in the ’50s, back in the Martin Luther King days. When is our day to be free going to come?”
Gray’s death has prompted near-daily demonstrations. He was arrested
one week before he died when officers chased him through a West
Baltimore neighborhood and dragged him into a police van.
Police said Gray was arrested after he made eye
contact with officers and ran away. Officers held him down, handcuffed
him and loaded him into the van. While inside, he became irate and leg
cuffs were put on him, police have said.
Gray asked for medical help several times, beginning before he was
placed in the van. After a 30-minute ride that included three stops,
paramedics were called.
Authorities have not explained how or when Gray’s spine was injured.
#Baltimore
#FreddieGrey
#BlackLivesMatter
#LorettaLynch
Another day, another hashtag...
Rest in Power and in Love #FreddieGrey
EYE am back! Did you miss me? EYE am playing catch up, but here are some issues that caught my EYE to get the ball rolling.
A 57 year old grandfather from India, Blogger Legal Schnauzer and three Muslim students discover what it's like to be black/brown in America. Welcome to our world.
What's that you say? Stripping the Jackie Robinson League of the their title is all about race? I'm shocked! Shocked I tell you! NOT.
Given the racial politics of Chicago and a few of it’s surrounding
suburbs, having one mostly white team start a witch hunt against an all
black team just smells of racist attitudes. I rarely use the term
racist because often times people act on their ignorance based on
prejudices and bigotry, but racist ideals and sensibilities often
present themselves in larger ways that affect the metanarrative; it’s
hard to label a person racist when so much of the system is slanted and a
preferential treatment is automatically given to whites. Operating in
white privilege often means the subconscious, and perhaps unintentional
discrimination of denial of persons of color, but in this case it is
clearly intentional on not just the denial, but the removal of an earned prize and more importantly, the title.
I can't believe HBCU's(Historically Black Colleges and Universities) are being criticized by the first African American President of the United States of America. Strike that. Yes. EYE. Can. So much for Hope for Change we can Believe in.
Say it ain't so Joe! Lorretta Lynch is Codoleeza Rice with a law degree and the Senate committee is delaying a vote to confirm her?
Today's Must Read
Selma in February
No keener an observer than Thurgood Marshall has rightfully made the
point that, with the exception of Abraham Lincoln, no other president in
American history did more for the equal rights of African Americans
than Lyndon - not Jack Kennedy, not Bill Clinton (the first "black" president) not even Barack Obama! In
fact, Obama's presidency owes its very existence to the Civil Rights
Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, both of which were signed
into law by Johnson. I know it's fashionable these days to portray
half-witted presidents from Texas in the most negative light (I'm guilty
of that, believe me); it's just that Lyndon B. Johnson and George W.
Bush just aren't in the same league - it's not even close. Think of it as comparing apples with decomposing ravens.
EYE Shall Return
