Remember when republicans enabled by the white male dominated media accused candidate Obama of "palling around with terrorists"?

WATCH: Trump's full answer on Don, Jr.: "From a practical standpoint, most people would have taken that meeting." pic.twitter.com/FHa3q11uya

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 13, 2017

Let's recap

During the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign, controversy[1] was manufactured regarding Barack Obama's relationship with Bill Ayers, a Distinguished Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and a former leader of the Weather Underground, a radical left organization in the 1970s.[2] Investigations by CNN, The New York Times and other news organizations concluded that Obama did not have a close relationship with Ayers.[3][4][5]
Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, hosted a gathering at their home in 1995,[6] where Alice Palmer introduced Obama as her chosen successor in the Illinois State Senate.[4][7] Obama and Ayers' nine years of service on the board of directors of the Woods Fund of Chicago overlapped for three years from 1999 to 2002.[4][6][7]
The matter was first raised by the British and American press, then by conservative blogs and talk radio programs,[8][9][10]and then by moderator George Stephanopoulos during a debate between Hillary Clinton and Obama in April 2008. The Obama-Ayers connection was used as a major campaign issue by Republican presidential candidate John McCain and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin during the 2008 presidential election campaign. Obama has condemned Ayers' past,[11][12] and stated that he does not have a close association with him.

Remember when republicans enabled by the white male dominated media forced candidate Obama to renounce reject and repudiate his longtime pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright for preaching truth to power? 

The Jeremiah Wright controversy gained national attention in the United States, in March 2008 when ABC News, after reviewing dozens of U.S. Presidentialcandidate Barack Obama's pastor Jeremiah Wright's sermons,[1] excerpted parts which were subject to intense media scrutiny.[2][3] Wright is a retired senior pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago and former pastor of President Obama.[4] Obama denounced the statements in question, but critics continued to press the issue of his relationship with Wright. In response to this, he gave a speech titled "A More Perfect Union", in which he sought to place Wright's comments in a historical and sociological context. In the speech, Obama again denounced Wright's remarks, but did not disown him as a person. The controversy began to fade, but was renewed in late April when Wright made a series of media appearances, including an interview on Bill Moyers Journal, a speech at the NAACP, and a speech at the National Press Club.[5] After the last of these, Obama spoke more forcefully against his former pastor, saying that he was "outraged" and "saddened" by his behavior, and in May he resigned his membership in the church.[6]

Fast forward to today and the media's mass hysteria over collusion with Russia is out of control 

Anyway, Trump Jr. took the one-off meeting, and nothing happened. Is that not proof of non-collusion in and of itself? If you choose to believe otherwise, your disdain for President Trump is getting the best of you and you need help.

B-But the damn emails..... 

EYE Shall Return!

Rosa Parks: 60th anniversary of a historic day in Alabama – in pictures

EYE am trying to catch up on current events as EYE recover from Thanksgiving, which also gave me the opportunity to take a mental health break.   As always EYE am thankful, and humbled by the fact you read this blog even when I don't post.  Full post coming soon, stay tuned!

What EYE am working on:

Fiscally Conservative Republicans My Donkey

And the winners is...not equal/civil rights that's for sure.

Alabama the not Beautiful

It's the Media

B-But EYE thought All Lives Mattered?

TheBlacks and Donald Trump

Did EYE say It's the Media?

Blast from the Past.  What You are Reading

If you can't run on your record resort to race baiting and mudslinging~Sigh

Desegregation, white privilege, reparations, the "r" word, racism. I'm back!

"An open letter to the people who hate Obama more than they love America"

 

Fist Dap Ministry of Truth via Daily Kos

I meet you all the time. You hate Obama. You hate gay people. You hate black people, immigrants, Muslims, labor unions, women who want the right to make choices concerning their bodies, you hate em all. You hate being called racist. You hate being called a bigot. Maybe if you talked about creating jobs more than you talk about why you hate gay people we wouldn't call you bigots. Maybe if you talked about black people without automatically assuming they are on food stamps while demanding their birth certificates we wouldn't call you racist. You hate socialism and social justice. You hate regulations and taxes and spending and the Government. You hate.

Read on.  Read often.

Jailed Journalist Sends Shocking Letter from the Birmingham, Alabama Jail.  

Alabama commentator Roger Shuler's condition has sharply worsened during his nearly five months of jailing, as I learned by visiting him in Birmingham March 10.
"It's a horrible trauma to be away from your wife, your home -- and have no idea when you can get out or how," Shuler told me in a rare interview. It was just his second jailhouse interview overall and his only one this year.
Shuler, 57, nearly choked up at the end when he said that he missed his wife -- who is afraid to leave their home (except on secret, emergency food runs) because of the threat she will be arrested for her husband's reporting.

Dr. Wilmer Leon:  Armed Angry White Males: The New Domestic Terrorist

“You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them….And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” Senator Barack Obama April 6, 2008

The 7 kinds of American racism in the 2010's 

According to the Oxford dictionary, the official dictionary for this blog, racism is:
The belief that all members of each race possess characteristics, abilities, or qualities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races: ‘theories of racism’

Arizona GOP Congressional Candidate Slavery Wasn't So Bad, "Kept Business Rolling"

“Basically slave owners took pretty good care of their slaves and livestock and this kept business rolling along,” he said.

8 Shocking Instances of Moronic Right-Wing Malevolence This Week

"We have got this tailspin of culture, in our inner cities in particular, of men not working and just generations of men not even thinking about working or learning the value and the culture of work, and so there is a real culture problem here that has to be dealt with."
You don’t have to be a genius at cracking codes to understand that he’s simply saying: Blacks are lazy. They prefer being poor to working. (As if working was a surefire way not to be poor.)

White Torture of Black Bodies:  6 Medical Experiments on African Americans You Never Knew About

By now most people know about the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, but what many don’t know is that this was just one in a long line of experiments conducted on African-Americans. The experiments actually began during slavery, when African-Americans were treated no better than field animals, and continued from there.

 "And for the record, I do not hate you. I am embarrassed by you and nauseated by your cruel and thoughtless behavior and your all consuming greed, but I do not hate you. I forgive you and I hope you can change someday, but I don't hate you. You have enough hate in you for the rest of us as it is."

God, help America.  Please.

Redeye's Week in Review~edited

Hey Mister Speaker, can we reinstate slavery yet? Because Alabama's immigration law is working. Mission Accomplished.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama's agriculture commissioner, John McMillan, is suggesting farmers look at work-release inmates if they are experiencing labor shortages due to Alabama's new immigration law.

Some farmers have complained that Hispanic workers who traditionally harvested their crops have left and they can't find replacement workers.

A spokesman for the Department of Corrections says there are 2,300 inmates in the work-release program and they are available for all types of jobs, including farming. But spokesman Brian Corbett says the department can't attribute any increase in work-release jobs to the immigration law so far.

Our Guvermint foiled an alleged terrist plot to this week. What color is the Terra Lert?

I'm not saying that I don't believe our government's story. I neither believe it nor disbelieve it. I know too well that the intelligence game is played above my level. It could be true. It might not be. I'm more interested in why no one asks the obvious questions. I mean, what's the motivation?

The No to Jobs republican house passed the Let Women Die Bill this week. Why any self respecting women would vote for republican man or woman is beyond me.

How did you like that crackpot anti-Choice bill Boehner and Cantor-- who claim they're too busy to even allow a vote on the president's proposed jobs legislation-- passed yesterday? They're calling it the Protect Life Act and it passed the misogynistic-dominated House 251-172. If Mitt Romney or any of the other right-wingers running for the GOP presidential nomination were in power to sign this dreck, here's some of the damage it would do:
• Allow hospitals receiving federal funds to deny emergency abortions to women whose lives are in danger due to a pregnancy gone horribly wrong.

Herman Cain leads gop candidates according to the polling pollsters and the pollsters who poll them. Translation, Cain is a Weapon of Mass Distraction from the other gop clowns. Yep, instead of talking about Niggerhead Ranch, Rommney's religion, and the fact the republicans filibustered the Jobs Bill they would RATHER talk about 666, I mean 999, and Rick Perry's wife Anita whining about how hard it is out there for a pimp, I mean gop Presidential candidate.

Reverend Jeremiah Wright returned to the noose, I mean news this week, thanks to a minister supporter of Rick Perry calling Mitt Rommney's religion a cult.
"Wright indicted an entire country," he said. "What Wright did, Wright used the old style of preaching rooted in the ways of the prophet narratives of the Old Testament. Because the nation has done wrong, God will present judgment unless you repent. This is what God will do. He indicted an entire country for the things America has done."
Wright, a black man, called out the majority, Martin said.

Can Sweet Home Alabama can turn a Paige and take our state legislature back from the red, TeaPublicans? God I HOPE so.

How important is Parnell’s campaign to the Alabama Democratic Party? Right now, the Alabama House has a 64-40 GOP majority. A Parnell win makes that 64-41. That brings Democrats within a couple of seats of being able to block a cloture vote - in other words, to being able to mount an effective filibuster against further Republican efforts to attack both the Democratic Party, and the workers, teachers, police and fire personnel, and other vulnerable constituents we represent.

It's too late to apologize. A declaration.

What color is the Terror Alert?

How come we don't have those color coded Terror Alerts anymore?

The system was created by Homeland Security Presidential Directive 3 on March 11, 2002, in response to the September 11 attacks. It was meant to provide a "comprehensive and effective means to disseminate information regarding the risk of terrorist acts to Federal, State, and local authorities and to the American people." It was unveiled March 12, 2002, by Tom Ridge, then the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security. However, responsibility for developing, implementing and managing the system was given to the U.S. Attorney General.

In January 2003, the new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) began administering the system. The decision to publicly announce threat conditions is made by the Secretary of Homeland Security in consultation with the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security, according to Homeland Security Presidential Directive-5.[1]

Remember how after 911 everyone was all ginned up to go to war to fight them over there so we wouldn't have to fight them over here?


Remember how all Muslims were being lumped into the same category as the 911 hijackers?

Folks must call the Arizona shootings exactly what they are; acts of terrorism. Whether the shooter is white, black, or brown equal scrutiny should be given to a person who commits crimes of this nature. A person’s religion and the length of his name should not determine how the crime is reported. A terrorist is a terrorist. Because many allow the media to shape their thoughts and drive the conversation, the media helps facilitate racial flames at its leisure. The political pundits are carefully picked for their skills at stroking the audiences depending on what outlet you watch. Dumb pundits are chosen to play down a point and hateful pundits are picked to create more intolerance. They play us like puppets

Sarah Palin and her media enablers say don't blame them, blame the mentally ill among us.

The shootings in Tucson should be of concern to everyone. There are millions of people who already feel aggrieved and angry and they have now been incited by right wing invective calling for “Second Amendment remedies.”

The same mentally ill who need access to quality affordable health care which the gop infused, media enabled Tea Party vows to repeal.

Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), the incoming chair of the Energy and Commerce Committee, whetted conservative appetites early in the year when he pledged not only to push for repeal of the president's health care reform law, but also suggested that the votes would be there to override a veto in the House.

Now republicans want strict gun control and to erect a Plexiglas shield around Congress as Joe Wilson "you lie" slogan is etched onto line of Assault Rifles.

So, is the Terra Lert red, orange, green, yellow, blue? Should we run or run and hide? Should we get out our Duct Taped and Bottled Water?

Are we safe yet?

"Now the terrorist have truly won".

I might as well start the week off with righteous Redeye rant and get a lot of things off my chest that are bothering the heck out of me.

I am sick and tired of the Obama is a Muslim bigotry. Yes I said bigotry. Let's stop pussy footing around and call it what it IS. 1 in 5 Americans believe President Obama is a Muslim. Frankly, I am surprised by the number of bigots in America in 2010. I thought America had moved past religious, racial, and gender intolerance with the election of America's first African American President. Big RedEYE roll.

America was founded on the principle of religous freedom and Christianity. The same Christianity that landed on the necks of Native Americans and enslaved Africans. The same Christianity that prosecuted women for "withcraft". The same Christianity of night riders and cross burners. But I digress.

Barack Obama very well may be a Muslim, but you know what....if he is a Muslim I DON'T Care. Muslims have done a lot of good/bad things just like Christians have done a lot of good/bad things. One of the good things Muslims have done is clean up the black community. Personally i would feel safer in a Muslim community than a right wing Christian community. I would advise those who have bought into the fear factor that all Muslims are terrorist do a little research on the religion. And for the record, Rep. Keith Ellison (D MN) is a Muslim and is currently serving in the United States Congress. Muslims are not prohibited from holding elected office in America.

Question: If President Obama is a Muslim WHY would he try and hide it? He took the oath of office on the Lincoln Bible, not the Koran. He attended Trinity United Methodist Church for over 20 years. He was married in Trinity and his daughters were baptized at Trinity. Think about it.

I want to get past this issue and focus on the real issues facing real Americans. The gop, enabled by the media, want President Obama and the principles of America to fail. The principles of tolerance, honesty, integrity, freedom, liberty and justice. Why do they want President Obama and the principles of America to fail? Because President Obama is an African American man.

Muslim is the new black.

YouTube video portrays the views of 61% of the American population that are still living in the 19th century, are bigoted, racist and completely not a true representation of a democracy. This is the worst explaination to be given to those nations that were force converted into democracies. This is a shame for New York City. I would never have thought NYC would fall this low. Now the terrorists have truly won.

Amen and Amen.