EYE want my democracy back! #Gerrymandering

Our democracy is fading. Until we clean up our election process we will be stuck w illegitimate corrupt leadership like Trump and McConnell.

— Amy Siskind (@Amy_Siskind) June 23, 2017

Can you say rigged?

The 2016 presidential contest was awash with charges that the fix was in: Republican Donald Trump repeatedly claimed that the election was rigged against him, while Democrats have accused the Russians of stacking the odds in Trump’s favor.
Less attention was paid to manipulation that occurred not during the presidential race, but before it — in the drawing of lines for hundreds of U.S. and state legislative seats. The result, according to an Associated Press analysis: Republicans had a real advantage.

It's the #Stupid #Gerrymandering. 

Any party that relies on voter suppression, the Russians and gerrymandering to obtain power can't say it's patriotic or supports democracy.

— Col. Morris Davis (@ColMorrisDavis) June 25, 2017

Today will live in infamy as #TheDayDemocracyDied

Despite the white male dominated media spin about the peaceful transfer of power and this is how the system works, this is a false narrative. The system failed, and they enabled it.  The bloodstains of our democracy are on their hands.

EYE am posting this video today in honor and memory of our late democracy.  Watch it and weep.

About that peaceful transfer of power thingy......

EYE see democrats  ( and EYE use that term loosely)are in formation calling for "the peaceful transfer of power" to a racist, sexist, fascist, madman because democracy.

Be afraid.

Be very afraid.

Pleading to be treated like "We The People" in 2016

One by one, parents and other members of the of the African American community, took the stand in District Court and pleaded for a seat at the table in the Huntsville desegregation case. 

More than a half century since her grandfather sued to end dual schooling in Huntsville, Catherine Hereford took the witness stand in an attempt to fill his shoes.
"I want to continue the work my grandfather did and see it through to completion," Hereford told U.S. District Judge Madeline Hughes Haikala on Monday in a crowded federal courtroom in downtown Huntsville
At stake is who gets a seat in the negotiations to end the city's long-running desegregation case.

Everybody has a seat at the table except those who are impacted the most   

"Since the filing of the Consent Decree in this case, the DOJ has failed to adequately represent the interests of African-American students in the Huntsville City Schools," reads the motion filed Friday.

Not surprisingly Huntsville City Schools and the DOJ want to keep it that way

"Please don't put us in a position that it's so unwieldy we cannot deal with," said J.R. Brooks, the school board attorney, in his closing appeal to the judge. He said that four new plaintiffs could open the door to even more new plaintiffs.

And the Judge thinks it's "growing pains"? 

The SPLC repeatedly commended the proposed consent order's objectives and efforts but argued it "does not comprehensively address many of the issues with HCS discipline procedures and practices, nor has the court been fully apprised of the issues during this litigation."
The Montgomery-based organization concluded in its 10-page letter that the plan risks being a "temporary fix" or "exacerbating" the situation unless it adds four revisions:
Meaningful judicial oversight;
Robust accountability measures;
Significant due process protections;
An expeditious time frame.
The SPLC criticized the proposed consent order as being written in "vague and overbroad terms that create uncertainty" and make it hard for the court to enforce.
It also seeks language that requires the school district to provide attorneys to students/families brought to disciplinary hearings in they can't afford one; obligations to report ongoing data; and a time frame for implementing reforms.

So here Black Parents and Community leaders go again.  Pleading to be heard.  Pleading for a seat at the table.  Pleading to be treated like human beings.  My question is why do we have to beg? 

I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me. Langston Hughes

This is What Democracy and #FreedomOfSpeech Looks Like

In Paris, France

Paris this evening: #NotAfraid pic.twitter.com/WoFNDCNBfg
— Martin Bashir (@MartinBashir) January 7, 2015

In Birmingham, Alabama

Cops Brutally Taze Protester, Then Turn On The Man Filming It: http://t.co/hFHBjzOLoW via @YouTube
— Red Eye (@RedEyesPage) January 7, 2015

In Denver, Colorado

Here is the number for @CNN. Call and ask them to report on the #NAACPBombing 404-827-1500 RT if you heard on Twitter pic.twitter.com/uWHxn8A1UR
— Bipartisan Report (@Bipartisanism) January 7, 2015

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Update: If journalistic intergrity means anything to you read, sign, and share this petition

 Update:  The Fox 45 reporter and the photographer are taking the fall for the news director.

The reporter and the photographer responsible for misquoting Tyrone West's sister, Tawanda Jones, at a protest rally in Washington, D.C., reporting she and others chanted "kill a cop," have been let go by Fox 45, according to two sources confirming a report that first appeared on the site FTVLive.com. - See more at: http://www.citypaper.com/blogs/the-news-hole/bcp-the-fox-45-crew-behind-the-bogus-kill-a-cop-story-has-been-let-go-20141231,0,2353761.story#sthash.OqidMFY0.dpuf

For those who remember the recent Baltimore-based Fox News affiliate WBFF’s deplorable attempt at misrepresentation of peaceful protests in the midst of the Black Lives Matter movement dominating the country since the murderers of Michael Brown and Eric Garner were cut loose of any charges, a petition is now being circulated calling for those responsible for the devious misrepresentation to be fired and for the station to receive large FCC fines. 

Motor City Slowdown Protests Emergency Management: Does EM Even Work?

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A look at a survey by Marketing Resource Group-Inside Michigan Politics shows that "59 percent of likely Detroit voters either strongly oppose or somewhat oppose Gov. Rick Snyder's appointment of Emergency Financial Manager Kevin Orr, while 41 percent strongly or somewhat support it." Of course, surveying 600 residents in a pool of 5.2 million is hardly representative. But who did the survey and for what purpose is even more revealing: it's done by a political research group whose head, Tom Shields, speculated that "the results could mean more inner-city votes for Snyder if Orr succeeds in turning around Detroit's troubled finances."
Is there any irony in a governor who removed the right of voters to select their own leaders seeking the votes of the very people he disenfranchised?
Here's the actual survey question asked: "Last week, Governor Snyder appointed an Emergency Financial Manager to try to balance Detroit's books and bring the city out of a financial crisis. Emergency Managers have sweeping powers to overrule the mayor and city council, as well as unilaterally amend or cancel city employee union contracts. Detroit unions and city elected officials fear the State will privatize city public services, eliminate public sector jobs and usurp local authority. State officials say that an Emergency Manager is required because the city has implemented few reforms and is reluctant to take necessary steps to bring its finances under control. Do you support or oppose an Emergency Financial Manager for the city of Detroit? (IF FAVOR/OPPOSE ASK: Do you strongly (support/oppose) it or just somewhat (support/oppose) it?)"

Redeye's Rants and Raves~Update

Are you ready for the Super Bowl , I mean some Super Bowl advertising? No one is talking about the big game because of the controversy over Tim Tebow's mother decision to share her personal, private CHOICE with millions of people.

The White Guy says this whole bru ha ha proves how out of touch the MSM is with the American people, and why.

Some people in the industry blame the decline of "traditional" media on the Internet. That's wrong. The decline of "traditional" media is because of their "tradition" of keeping their club predominantly white and male. Most of major media is pathetic now, flailing around; the major magazine publishers just recently got together to declare a digital standard for magazines. The problem is nobody cares anymore. And this folderol over the Super Bowl? Please. It's a LEADING INDICATOR, not an anomaly.

Planned Parenthood comes out swinging with their own ad posted on the Inter tubes, And The Women's' Media Center says Game On! You can sign their petition against the ad at not under the bus.com

"Game time is 6:30 on Sunday and the NFL is facing increased pressure to step in," says Spicuglia. "The last thing we need is CBS, the NFL, or their advertisers telling us when and how to have a family. It's not too late to send a letter in protest."

Rut Rho! ACORN fights back and prepare to sting the stinger. What's that saying about as you reap... And did you know that wanna be pimp James O'Keefe was playing dress up for the camera but not while inside the ACORN offices? Uh Huh.

But just imagine the years of outrage and endless repetition of the charges from the Right wing media and their acolytes --- folks like Crazy Andy --- that would accompany four operatives allied with the Democratic Party, perpetrating a scheme to dress up as phony telephone company employees in order to access and manipulate the phone system in the office of a sitting Republican U.S. Senator.

You know how the republicans love polls and the polling pollsters who poll them? Well, Daily Kos has polled the republican nation and it ain't pretty.

Ultimately, these results explain why it is impossible for elected Republicans to work with Democrats to improve our country. Their base are conspiracy mongers who don't believe Obama was born in the United States, that he is the second coming of Lenin, and that he is racist against white people. They already want to impeach him despite the glaringly obvious lack of high crimes or misdemeanors. If any Republican strays and decides to do the right thing and try to work in a bipartisan fashion, they suffer primaries and attacks. Even the Maine twins have quit cooperating out of fear of their homegrown teabaggers.

Chris Kromm of Facing South says the Kos poll illustrates the power of the red, republican, Confederate slave states. You think?

In short: The poll doesn't reflect a general shift to the right in the South. But it does show the growing hold of a certain form of far-right politics in Southern Republican circles, and a high level of receptivity among Republican Southerners to some of the conservative movement's most extreme views.

It's Black History Month so let's talk about Jim Crow Policing in New York City.

The New York City Police Department needs to be restrained. The nonstop humiliation of young black and Hispanic New Yorkers, including children, by police officers who feel no obligation to treat them fairly or with any respect at all is an abomination. That many of the officers engaged in the mistreatment are black or Latino themselves is shameful.

Say, have you seen my Democracy? I mean, really I want my Democracy back. Lawarence Lessig says if we want change we must change congress.

We should remember what it felt like one year ago, as the ability to recall it emotionally will pass and it is an emotional memory as much as anything else. It was a moment rare in a democracy's history. The feeling was palpable--to supporters and opponents alike--that something important had happened. America had elected, the young candidate promised, a transformational president. And wrapped in a campaign that had produced the biggest influx of new voters and small-dollar contributions in a generation, the claim seemed credible, almost intoxicating, and just in time.

Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason. ~Author Unknown