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📢 White Privilege: "We'll decide what is racist & what is not racist. We are the deciders of everything." pic.twitter.com/pf7y31Mpd4
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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

The Neo Liberals Win Again

Fair warning, I'm getting ready to slam the race card down on the table. Hard.

We already have two white women on the Supreme Court do we need three? I mean, really? Are there no African American women qualified, competent, and intelligent enough to sit on the Supreme Court? To paraphrase Sojourner Truth ain't we a woman?

And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man - when I could get it - and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?

Once again progressives/liberals/and African Americans are overlooked and our loyalty taken for granted. I don't care if Elana Kagen is a direct descendant of the late Thurgood Marshall, can't we have one progressive/liberal African American on the Supreme Court? And NO, Clarence Thomas doesn't count. In the words of the Langston Hughes poem Mother to Son, life for black women ain't been no crystal stair.

Well, son, I'll tell you:
Life for me ain't been no crystal stair.
It's had tacks in it,
And splinters,
And boards torn up,
And places with no carpet on the floor --
Bare.
But all the time
I'se been a-climbin' on,
And reachin' landin's,
And turnin' corners,
And sometimes goin' in the dark
Where there ain't been no light.

Historically African American women have always been marginalized and minimized. In the days of slavery they watched helplessly when their children were snatched from their arms and sold down the river. Their bodies weren't their own and they endured rape and humiliation by their owners. African American men were powerless to protect and defend them from the horrors, brutality and disrespect.

The media is spinning Kagen as an ultra liberal because she attended Harvard, clerked for Thurgood Marshall, donated to Obama blah, blah, blah, but we really know very little about her because she doesn't "have a paper trail" or a track record. We do know as the Solicitor General she argued against former Governor Don Siegelman getting a new/fair trail.

Oh how I wish progressive/democrats could be organized in their opposition like the republicans. One of my friends writes:
One of the things that burns me up is that when Bush nominated Harriet Myers, the Conservative Republicans had no problem organizing opposition to the nomination, and they got the job done in record time (25 days). The one thing missing in the Liberal/Progressive base is the ability to effectively organize, when the President makes a mistake like Kagan and the "Mandatory Insurance" issue

Oh how I wish President Obama would stop pandering to the neo liberals at the expense of progressives/liberals.

Was President Obama afraid to nominate a qualified African American woman because he felt white Senators wouldn't vote for her?

If so, what does that say about the white Senators?

If so, what does it say about President Obama? I mean he has the power and the opportunity to validate African American women. African American women like his mother in law Marion Robinson. African American women like his wife Michelle. African American women like his daughters Sasha and Malia. He could have paved the way for his daughters and young black women all over this land, but he chose to play it safe.

Life for black women ain't no crystal stair because we ain't a woman. A woman with equal rights.

The Neo Liberals win again.

Sigh.