I had a long moment of reflec­tion at the per­va­sive hypocrisy entrenched in the American body politic at a report com­ing from our friends over at the (Huffington post​.com) today.
In an Article titled [Twitter’s Jack Dorsey Told Ilhan Omar He Won’t Take Down Trump’s Tweet Targeting Her], HuffPost report­ed that Jack Dorsey the prin­ci­pal own­er of Twitter told Muslim Congresswoman Ilhan Omar in a tele­phone con­ver­sa­tion that he would not be tak­ing down the tweets Donald Trump made tar­get­ing her, result­ing in a wave of death threats against her.
According to the report, the CEO called the con­gress­woman to say a Trump tweet mis­char­ac­ter­iz­ing her com­ments about ⁹⁄₁₁ doesn’t break Twitter rules. 

Now before we try to process this it is impor­tant to remem­ber that of all the social media plat­forms, Twitter prob­a­bly has the most strin­gent rules.
A large seg­ment of Twitter users has had their accounts sus­pend­ed for dubi­ous and ques­tion­able rea­sons.
I have had my Twitter sus­pend­ed twice. I can­not even recall what rea­son they gave for the first (7) day sus­pen­sion and the sec­ond one was because I referred to an African-American man I was upset with as (Negro).
By the time the sec­ond sus­pen­sion came around, I was so turned off from the hypocrisy that I can­not tell you how long it last­ed, but it was less than a month.
By the time I received a noti­fi­ca­tion (wel­come back) I was so turned off that I had already tak­en the deci­sion to delete my account which I did.

Now, remem­ber that it was only on Tuesday, April 23^rd that Donald Trump sum­moned Twitter’s Jack Dorsey to the White House.
According to the Washington Post, Trump sum­moned Dorsey to com­plain that social media plat­forms are work­ing to sti­fle con­ser­v­a­tive voic­es. A charge the com­pa­nies deny.
Trump accused Twitter of play­ing “polit­i­cal games” and tam­per­ing with his near­ly 60 mil­lion fol­low­ers.
Trump con­tin­ues to attack the tech indus­try, threat­en­ing to reg­u­late Facebook, Google, and Twitter out of con­cern that they cen­sor con­ser­v­a­tives online — an alle­ga­tion those com­pa­nies fierce­ly deny. 
In an effort to head off the dis­qui­et of some Twitter employ­ees, the Washinton Post reports Dorsey wrote a memo to them.
“Some of you will be very sup­port­ive of our meet­ing the pres­i­dent, and some of you might feel we shouldn’t take this meet­ing at all,” Dorsey said in an e‑mail obtained by the Post. “In the end, I believe it’s impor­tant to meet heads of state in order to lis­ten, share our prin­ci­ples and our ideas.” 
Dorsey nev­er denies that he applies a dif­fer­ent set of stan­dards for pub­lic offi­cials when chal­lenged with the hypocrisy of Twitter.

Twitter has long main­tained that it applies a dif­fer­ent stan­dard to promi­nent pub­lic fig­ures, giv­en that their com­ments — even offen­sive ones — remain in the pub­lic inter­est the Post reports.

There is no shock in the response of Dorsey to Congresswoman Omar. The mere fact that Dorsey was sum­moned to a meet­ing with Trump, must be seen as threat­en­ing and intim­i­dat­ing, to say the least.
After all the occu­pant of that house, a deranged crea­ture has the full pow­er of the American Government behind him and count­less mind­less min­ions who are will­ing to do any­thing, includ­ing com­mit mur­der.
Most impor­tant­ly though, we now under­stand that sep­a­rate but equal is still the law, from the response of Jack Dorsey. His prin­ci­ples apply only to the aver­age peo­ple of char­ac­ter, not the pow­er­ful deranged crim­i­nals in posi­tions of power. 

I want to you to imag­ine that a so-called President of the United States would call in the leader of a tech-com­pa­ny to bitch about the fluc­tu­a­tions in his Twitter fol­low­ing? Just con­tem­plate that for a sec­ond and then ask your­selves whether this per­son is fit for the office he holds?
Even as you con­tem­plate that it bears men­tion­ing that the fact that his tweets are endan­ger­ing the life of a sit­ting mem­ber of the United States Congress and has not been removed says all you need to know about Donald Trump and the wimp Jack Dorsey.

If pop­u­lar, rich and influ­en­tial peo­ple were exempt from the rule of law, only the poor­er peo­ple with no con­nec­tions to jus­tice and pow­er would be sub­ject to the rule of law.
I want you to think about that for a moment.
Why?
Because, to a large extent that is exact­ly where we are. Donald Trump com­mit­ted all kinds of crimes against his peo­ple who call him pres­i­dent, yet he will suf­fer no real con­se­quences for his role in solic­it­ing and con­spir­ing with Russian coun­ter­in­tel­li­gence in swing­ing the elec­tions his way.
It is not that Robert Muller the Republican Prosecutor has­n’t found evi­dence that Trump com­mit­ted crimes, not just in con­spir­a­cy but in obstruc­tion of jus­tice.
The fact remains, that counter to the American Constitution, the Justice Department’s Decision that a sit­ting President can­not be indict­ed, effec­tive­ly places Presidents above the law.
Donald Trump by virtue of the high office he holds, though ill-got­ten, will nev­er face justice.

But this isn’t about the hypocrisy of the American Justice sys­tem which tar­gets poor African-American peo­ple with dra­con­ian enforce­ment strate­gies while ignor­ing the crimes of the pow­er­ful, wealthy and well con­nect­ed.
It is about us Jamaicans, reg­u­lar peo­ple, who clam­or for and sup­port blind­ly, con­vict­ed drug deal­ers, mur­der­ers, and rapists.
Deep in those ten­den­cies, we con­vinced our­selves that we are jus­ti­fied, because those crim­i­nals we love have had their rights abro­gat­ed, our elites and our pol­i­cy­mak­ers believe it, and so the impres­sion­able peo­ple end up believ­ing it.
We have a his­to­ry of emu­lat­ing the wrong peo­ple, lion­iz­ing and can­on­iz­ing peo­ple who are pop­u­lar and peo­ple who have com­mit­ted seri­ous crimes, (not just some­one who was bust­ed with two sticks of weed), but those whose hands are drip­ping with the inno­cent blood of their coun­try­men.
I would like to see real­ly clear lines of demar­ca­tion in how we view these peo­ple.
Adijah Palmer is a con­vict­ed mur­der­er, [a con­vict­ed mur­der­er], let that sink in, yet he is one of the most pop­u­lar peo­ple in the coun­try.
What does that say about the peo­ple in our coun­try? What does that say about our moral com­pass?
What kind of coun­try are we cre­at­ing in which mur­der­ers are allowed to cre­ate music and enjoy the fruits of their labor after tak­ing the life of oth­ers?
What then do we expect the youth to emu­late, our decent hard work­ing pub­lic ser­vants or the mis­guid­ed gang­sters who are able to put some mur­der lyrics togeth­er?
On today, the day we are told was the day of Christ’s res­ur­rec­tion, the Jamaican peo­ple con­tin­ue to say “give us Barabas”.

Mark Myrie, (Buju Banton) a con­vict­ed felon returned to Jamaica to a wel­come befit­ting a nation­al hero.
No one both­ered to stop for a minute and think that this guy just walked out of Federal prison in the United States for deal­ing dope.
It mat­tered not that he was bust­ed mak­ing the deal.
If soci­eties are able to stop crimes before they are com­mit­ted, ain’t that good for stop­ping mur­ders rapes, and the addic­tion of our youth to dan­ger­ous drugs?
And now, Myrie cries foul that his hotel room was searched by Trinidadian author­i­ties after enter­ing that coun­try to per­form, hav­ing left an American Prison.
This writer can­not and will not con­done dis­crim­i­na­tion or abus­es of any­one’s human rights, but I am a firm believ­er in the rule of law.
Being allowed into a coun­try, (not your own) is a priv­i­lege, not a right, as some of our mis­in­formed are apt to believe.
No, being a CARICOM mem­ber state, does not give Jamaicans rights which super­sedes the Trinidadian con­sti­tu­tion, or any oth­er CARICOM mem­ber state for that mat­ter.
So when you enter their coun­try, you are sub­ject and dif­fer­en­tial to their laws, as they are to ours.
Mark Myrie can play the vic­tim if he choos­es to, and he is, because there are more than enough peo­ple will­ing to sac­ri­fice com­mon sense, decen­cy, and dig­ni­ty on the idol­a­trous altar of hero wor­ship.
The truth is that he is not the sec­ond com­ing of Jesus Christ, none of his shows are events designed to save human­i­ty.
They are events designed to make mon­ey for, and pro­mote his brand, noth­ing more noth­ing less.

Whether the search of Myrie’s hotel room is legit or not is not the issue.
If he believes that his rights were abridged he has rem­e­dy in the courts.
The fact of the mat­ter is that we con­tin­ue to delude our­selves into think­ing that oth­er peo­ple in the Caribbean hate us because we have mag­nif­i­cent track stars, reg­gae music, and some good Ganja.
Me, I am a lot more skep­ti­cal, I am old enough to remem­ber when every Caribbean nation­al would tell for­eign­ers they were from Jamaica.
They did so because they respect­ed us, they emu­lat­ed us, they looked up to us.
That hyper­bol­ic self-delud­ing non­sense that we feed our­selves, that they hate us because of our accom­plish­ments only fur­ther deep­ens the pit from which we will need to dig our­selves.
The truth is that they stop emu­lat­ing us when we stopped respect­ing our­selves. We can con­tin­ue with the delu­sion­al non­sense, or we can ask our­selves why is it that we are three times more like­ly to kill each oth­er as Jamaicans, than are the peo­ple in Latin America and the rest of the Caribbean, the most vio­lent region on plan­et earth?
They stopped want­i­ng to be us when we demon­strat­ed that we no longer val­ued the lives of our own.
They became afraid of us when we demon­strat­ed that we did not care who we slaugh­tered. Not only have we killed in our coun­try we have export­ed our degen­er­a­cy to their shores.
We will nev­er be respect­ed when we open­ly demon­strate that we do not respect our­selves.
This is not just a Jamaican prob­lem it is a black prob­lem which has had dev­as­tat­ing con­se­quences for black peo­ple also in America and across the globe.
When we deval­ue our own lives, we have no right demand­ing that oth­ers respect or val­ue our lives.

A ground­break­ing Netflix Documentary on the United States Federal Government’s war on Drugs, and the con­se­quences this war has had in the destruc­tion of mil­lions of lives. Disproportionately in the black com­mu­ni­ty.
Regardless of your feel­ings about law and order, regard­less of what you have been led to believe through the mas­sive indoc­tri­na­tion cam­paign waged by the American Government, this Documentary is bound to shock you into what’s wrong about what you may have believed.
The shock­ing real­i­ty is that tens of thou­sands of lives have been caught up in this igno­ble war, many have been utter­ly destroyed while count­less oth­ers (main­ly-black) have been robbed of the glo­ri­ous future they were des­tined for.
Through mass incar­cer­a­tion, mass depor­ta­tion, and mass den­i­gra­tion the American Government man­aged to wage war on a race of peo­ple under the guise that its war was a war on drugs.
In this race war, peo­ple were ille­gal­ly arrest­ed for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, count­less peo­ple had weed plant­ed on them while police were allowed to fab­ri­cate evi­dence all to beef up the incar­cer­a­tion rates and the depor­ta­tion of peo­ple they did not like.
Today not much has changed, police still con­tin­ue to arrest young black men for mere­ly hav­ing the smell of mar­i­jua­na com­ing from their cars.
Using the most bru­tal tac­tics police abuse and humil­i­ate them under the col­or of law, all for hav­ing a mar­i­jua­na cig­ar.
At the same time, the nar­ra­tive has shift­ed, because white men see the poten­tial for wealth in mar­i­jua­na.
And so while police ware lock­ing away young black men young and old­er white men are mak­ing hun­dreds of mil­lions from the very same weed in the very same country.

If you’re plan­ning to smoke and binge, kick off the holy smokin’ hol­i­day of ⁴⁄₂₀with Netflix‘s lat­est weed doc­u­men­tary, Grass Is Greener.
The film is hip-hop pio­neer and for­mer MTV VJ Fab 5 Freddy’s homage to Mary Jane. Freddy, bet­ter known as Fred Brathwaite, made his direc­to­r­i­al debut with the provoca­tive film. In it, he explores the deep ties between the crim­i­nal­iza­tion of reefer and racism in America.

Brathwaite uses his music con­nec­tions to speak with some of the music indus­tries most out­spo­ken advo­cates of mar­i­jua­na includ­ing Snoop Dogg, Cypress Hill’s B‑Real, and Damian Marley. A vari­ety of oth­er celebri­ties and mar­i­jua­na advo­cates fur­ther unrav­el the pop­u­lar drug’s influ­ence on music and pop cul­ture. The film also speaks to the dev­as­tat­ing impact that the crim­i­nal­iza­tion of the plant has had on both black and Latino com­mu­ni­ties.
Read More here:
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Donald Trump, the despi­ca­ble imbe­cile and the rep­re­sen­ta­tive of White Supremacy in America knows that only recent­ly a deranged scum­bag was arrest­ed for threat­en­ing the life of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar of Minnesota yet he tweet­ed a video link­ing the Congresswoman to the ⁹⁄₁₁ débâ­cle.
If any harm comes to Congresswoman Omar Donald Trump is respon­si­ble make no mis­take about it.
The half ‑baked idiot in the white house is bare­ly lit­er­ate so no one should expect any­thing else from him.
Nevertheless, the despi­ca­ble Democrats who have sat on their mouths are justs as retard­ed by not speak­ing out against the dimwit­ted imbe­cile who is present­ly parad­ing as a president. 

Donald Trump used Twitter to tar­get Rep. Ilhan Omar (D‑Minn.) on Friday for remarks she made dur­ing a speech on Muslim civ­il rights last month. Trump tweet­ed an incen­di­ary video that took clips from the speech out of con­text and inter­laced them with news footage of the Sept. 11 ter­ror­ist attacks. The tweet text accom­pa­ny­ing the video read, “WE WILL NEVER FORGET.” The video came a day after the New York Post pub­lished an eth­i­cal­ly ques­tion­able and wide­ly crit­i­cized cov­er fea­tur­ing a quote by Omar across an image of the twin tow­ers as they burned.


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In the space of ten(10) days, three African-American places of wor­ship were reduced to smol­der­ing ruins in the State of Louisiana, and now we are told that the FBI has got­ten involved in the Investigations.
Before you break out the cham­pagne, how­ev­er, ask your­selves how many African-American Churches have been tar­get­ed by white domes­tic ter­ror­ists, using arson as a weapon over the years?
Then ask your­selves, how many of these cow­ard­ly punks have been held account­able by local, state or Federal law-enforce­ment author­i­ties?
Here are a few facts from 2015.

• June 30: Mount Zion AME Church in Greeleyville, South Carolina. The his­toric black church burned down on June 30. A fed­er­al law enforce­ment offi­cial told the AP that the fire was­n’t inten­tion­al­ly set, and the FBI cur­rent­ly thinks it was prob­a­bly caused by a light­ning strike.
• June 26: Glover Grove Baptist Church in Warrenville, South Carolina. The most­ly black church burned down on June 26. Investigators don’t know if it was inten­tion­al or an acci­dent, but they “observed no ele­ment of crim­i­nal intent.” The fire has offi­cial­ly been clas­si­fied as “unde­ter­mined” because inves­ti­ga­tors could­n’t rule out the pos­si­bil­i­ty of an accident.
• June 26: Greater Miracle Apostolic Holiness Church in Tallahassee, Florida. The most­ly black church was destroyed by a fire on June 26. It was like­ly set off by an elec­tri­cal short, so it’s not believed to be arson or a hate crime.
• June 24: Briar Creek Baptist Church in Charlotte, North Carolina. The pre­dom­i­nant­ly black church was burned down on June 24. Investigators are treat­ing the case as arson, but there’s no evi­dence it was a hate crime.
• June 23: God’s Power Church of Christ in Macon, Georgia. The most­ly black church burned down on June 23. The fire is being inves­ti­gat­ed as an arson, but local and fed­er­al law enforce­ment agents have said there’s no evi­dence yet of a hate crime.
• June 23: Fruitland Presbyterian Church in Gibson County, Tennessee. This is a most­ly white church, and it was struck by light­ning on June 23. But it’s been wide­ly includ­ed in reports of church fires.
• June 21: College Hill Seventh-day Adventist Church in Knoxville, Tennessee. Officials said that some­one on June 21 inten­tion­al­ly set fire to a church-owned van and straw near the most­ly black church, but the church itself was­n’t burned. Investigators have con­firmed that the fire was a case of arson. A spokesman for the Knoxville Police Department toldlocal news sta­tion WATE that it was being inves­ti­gat­ed as an act of van­dal­ism rather than a hate crime, because the sus­pect did­n’t leave any mes­sage or indi­ca­tion of the rea­son for the crime.
• 
  According to the National Fire Protection Association (via the Los Angeles Times’s Matt Pearce), fire­fight­ers respond­ed to an aver­age of 1,600 fires at church­es a year from 2007 to 2011. That comes out to an aver­age of 31 fires a week. 

The fore­gone was in just 2015. accord­ing to [Vox​.com.]

Let us under­stand some­thing here, these are acts of ter­ror being car­ried out by the descen­dants of igno­rant white ter­ror­ists who were doing the same thing in the ’50s and ’60s.
As for the rea­son that no one is ever held account­able? In many cas­es, the ones doing the burn­ing are wear­ing police uni­forms, or they are part of the same white suprema­cists’ groups that the cops belong to.
By the FBI’s own account over a decade ago, law enforce­ment has been infil­trat­ed by white Supremacists, Skinheads, and Neo-Nazis and have become a prob­lem.
In this medi­um, I have writ­ten sev­er­al Articles on this phe­nom­e­non and there have been inde­pen­dent report­ing on the sub­ject.
Yet in America, the def­i­n­i­tion of “Terror” has been reduced to acts com­mit­ted by Muslims.
The almost dai­ly acts of “Terror” being com­mit­ted by white mas-mur­der­ers upon American cit­i­zens of all col­ors are reduced to back and forth argu­ments about gun rights and men­tal illness.

The nar­ra­tive com­ing from Law-enforce­ment in this lat­est string of arson church fires, as have the nar­ra­tive through time, is that they are prob­ing to see if there are any links between the dif­fer­ent fires!
A link to what?
What does it mat­ter whether or not there is a link between per­pe­tra­tors who set two or all three of the church­es ablaze? If there is no nexus does it mean that the church­es are any less burned?
If there is no estab­lished nexus, does it mean that the one or more indi­vid­u­als who burned those church­es are not domes­tic ter­ror­ists?
And if they act­ed sep­a­rate­ly, inde­pen­dent­ly and in no coör­di­na­tion with each oth­er does that mean that the acts are any less terroristic?

The dan­ger­ous real­i­ty is that there is hard­ly any atten­tion being paid to the rapid growth of white suprema­cists, Neo-nazis and skin­head groups which sprung up dur­ing Barack Obama’s eight years in office, and are embold­ened to act with­out fet­ter under Donald Trump.
What the FBI is con­cerned with infil­trat­ing, are inno­cent Black activists who demon­strate and speak out against White Neo-nazis oper­at­ing as police offi­cers and killing unarmed Black peo­ple.
To add insult to injury, accord­ing to [Salon​.com] (in the face of Rising Extremism, Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security dis­band­ed its Domestic Terror Unit).
The unmit­i­gat­ed truth is that Domestic Terrorism has been on the rise in America and now the peo­ple in those groups feel empow­ered to act because Donald Trump referred to them as “fine peo­ple.”

The full con­text and con­se­quences of the rise and spread of white nation­al­ism across America, is yet to be under­stood, as there is a refusal by author­i­ties to accept that it is even a prob­lem.
As more and more infor­ma­tion sur­faces of police offi­cers being mem­bers of neo-nazi groups, munic­i­pal­i­ties and police depart­ments have hun­kered down and refused to see the prob­lem of unwar­rant­ed lethal police-civil­ian encoun­ters for what they tru­ly are.
With that men­tal­i­ty, it is impos­si­ble to source accu­rate data on the loss of life, loss of lib­er­ty and destruc­tion of prop­er­ty this is caus­ing, par­tic­u­lar­ly in the Black Community.
Having the FBI inves­ti­gate should offer no com­fort to the Black com­mu­ni­ty. The FBI is no greater friend to the Black com­mu­ni­ty than the local hicks who dou­ble as clans-men and cops.
The FBI is inter­est­ed only in infil­trat­ing and dis­rupt­ing black protest groups which are sim­ply demand­ing jus­tice for the atroc­i­ties com­mit­ted by white nation­al­ist cops who mur­der with­out accountability. 

Blacks have been in America long, long, long before America was a nation.
African American schol­ars like Dr. Ivan van Sertima were laughed at for decades until now.
There is now undis­put­ed sci­en­tif­ic proof that the first Americans were descend­ed from Africans or Australian abo­rig­ines, accord­ing to evi­dence in a new BBC doc­u­men­tary. Dozens of their skulls and cave writ­ings have been found dat­ing back to 50,000 years. The skulls, one named ‘Lucia’ by Scientists, have def­i­nite and dis­tinct Negroid facial fea­tures like those of Africans, New Guineas or Australian Aborigines. [www​.naira​land​.com]

Contrary to pop­u­lar belief, African American his­to­ry did not start with slav­ery in the New World. An over­whelm­ing body of new evi­dence is emerg­ing which proves that Africans had fre­quent­ly sailed across the Atlantic to the Americas, thou­sands of years before Columbus and indeed before Christ. The great ancient civ­i­liza­tions of Egypt and West Africa trav­eled to the Americas, con­tribut­ing immense­ly to ear­ly American civ­i­liza­tion by import­ing the art of pyra­mid build­ing, polit­i­cal sys­tems and reli­gious prac­tices as well as math­e­mat­ics, writ­ing and a sophis­ti­cat­ed cal­en­dar.
The strongest evi­dence of African pres­ence in America before Columbus comes from the pen of Columbus him­self. In 1920, a renowned American his­to­ri­an and lin­guist, Leo Weiner of Harvard University, in his book, Africa and the dis­cov­ery of America, explained how Columbus not­ed in his jour­nal that Native Americans had con­firmed that “black skinned peo­ple had come from the south-east in boats, trad­ing in gold-tipped spears.”[globalresearch.ca]
These impor­tant details sur­rep­ti­tious­ly haven’t made it into( his-sto­ry) books[sic]

One of the first doc­u­ment­ed instances of Africans sail­ing and set­tling in the Americas were black Egyptians led by King Ramses III, dur­ing the 19^th dynasty in 1292 BC. In fact, in 445 BC, the Greek his­to­ri­an Herodotus wrote of the Ancient Egyptian pharaohs’ great sea­far­ing and nav­i­ga­tion­al skills. Further con­crete evi­dence, not­ed by Dr. Imhotep and large­ly ignored by Euro-cen­tric archae­ol­o­gists, includes “Egyptian arti­facts found across North America from the Algonquin writ­ings on the East Coast to the arti­facts and Egyptian place names in the Grand Canyon.”
In 1311 AD, anoth­er major wave of African explo­ration to the New World was led by King Abubakari II, the ruler of the four­teenth cen­tu­ry Mali Empire, which was larg­er than the Holy Roman Empire. The king sent out 200 ships of men, and 200 ships of trade mate­r­i­al, crops, ani­mals, cloth and cru­cial­ly African knowl­edge of astron­o­my, reli­gion and the arts.

African explor­ers cross­ing the vast Atlantic waters in prim­i­tive boats may seem unlike­ly, or per­haps, far fetched to some. Such incred­i­ble nau­ti­cal achieve­ments are not as daunt­ing as they seem, giv­en that
numer­ous suc­cess­ful mod­ern attempts have illus­trat­ed that with­out an oar, rud­der or sail ancient African boats, includ­ing the “dug-out,” would cer­tain­ly have been able to cross the vast ocean in a mat­ter of weeks.History: How African Muslims “Civilized Spain”
As time allows us to drift fur­ther and fur­ther away from the “European age of explo­ration” and we move beyond an age of racial intel­lec­tu­al prej­u­dice, his­to­ri­ans are begin­ning to rec­og­nize that Africans were skilled nav­i­ga­tors long before Europeans, con­trary to pop­u­lar belief.
Of course, some Western his­to­ri­ans con­tin­ue to refute this fact because, con­scious­ly or uncon­scious­ly, they are still hang­ing on to the 19^th-cen­tu­ry notion that sea­far­ing was a European monopoly.

After all, his­to­ry will tell you that sea­far­ing is the quin­tes­sen­tial European achieve­ment, the sin­gle endeav­or of which Europeans are awful­ly proud. Seafaring allowed Europe to con­quer the world. The notion that black Africans braved the roar­ing waters of the Atlantic Ocean and beat Europeans to the New World threat­ens a his­tor­i­cal­ly white sense of own­er­ship over the seas.
When most peo­ple think about ancient Mexico, the first civ­i­liza­tions that come to mind are the Incas, Aztecs and the Maya. However, dur­ing the ear­ly 1940’s arche­ol­o­gists uncov­ered a civ­i­liza­tion known as the Olmecs of 1200 BC, which pre-dat­ed any oth­er advanced civ­i­liza­tion in the Americas.

The Olmec civ­i­liza­tion, which was of African ori­gin and dom­i­nat­ed by Africans, was the first sig­nif­i­cant civ­i­liza­tion in Mesoamerica and the Mother Culture of Mexico.
Olmecs are per­haps best known for the carved colos­sal heads found in Central Mexico, that exhib­it an unmis­tak­ably African Negroid appear­ance. Ancient African his­to­ri­an Professor Van Sertima has illus­trat­ed how Olmecs were the first Mesoamerican civ­i­liza­tion to use a writ­ten lan­guage, sophis­ti­cat­ed astron­o­my, arts and math­e­mat­ics and they built the first cities in Mexico, all of which great­ly influ­enced the Mayans and sub­se­quent civ­i­liza­tions in the Americas. “There is not the slight­est doubt that all lat­er civ­i­liza­tions in [Mexico and Central America], rest ulti­mate­ly on an Olmec base,” once remarked Michael Coe, a lead­ing his­to­ri­an on Mexico. 

Africans clear­ly played an intri­cate role in the Olmec Empire’s rise and that African influ­ence peaked dur­ing the same peri­od that ancient Black Egyptian cul­ture ascend­ed in Africa.
A clear indi­ca­tor of pre-Columbus African trans-Atlantic trav­el is the recent arche­o­log­i­cal find­ings of nar­cotics native to America in Ancient Egyptian mum­mies, which have astound­ed con­tem­po­rary his­to­ri­ans. German tox­i­col­o­gist, Svetla Balabanova, report­ed find­ings of cocaine and nico­tine in ancient Egyptian mum­mies. These sub­stances are known to only be derived from American plants. South American cocaine from Erythroxylon coca and nico­tine from Nicotiana tabacum. Such com­pounds could only have been intro­duced to Ancient Egyptian cul­ture through trade with Americans.

Similarities across ear­ly American and African reli­gions also indi­cate sig­nif­i­cant cross-cul­tur­al con­tact. The Mayans, Aztecs and Incas all wor­shipped black gods and the sur­viv­ing por­traits of the black deities are reveal­ing. For instance, ancient por­traits of the Quetzalcoatl, a mes­si­ah ser­pent god, and Ek-ahua, the god of war, are unques­tion­ably Negro with dark skin and wooly hair. Why would native Americans ven­er­ate images so unmis­tak­ably African if they had nev­er seen them before? Numerous wall paint­ings in caves in Juxtlahuaca depict the famous ancient Egyptian “open­ing of the mouth” and cross liba­tion rit­u­als. All these reli­gious sim­i­lar­i­ties are too large and occur far too often to be mere coincidences.

Professor Everett Borders notes anoth­er very impor­tant indi­ca­tion of African pres­ence, which is the nature of ear­ly American pyra­mids. Pyramid con­struc­tion is high­ly spe­cial­ized. Ancient Egypt pro­gressed from the orig­i­nal stepped pyra­mid of Djosser, to the more sophis­ti­cat­ed fin­ished prod­uct at Giza. However, at La Venta in Mexico, the Olmecs made a ful­ly fin­ished pyra­mid, with no signs of pro­gres­sive learn­ing. Olmecian and Egyptian pyra­mids were both placed on the same north-south axis and had strik­ing­ly sim­i­lar con­struc­tion meth­ods. Tellingly, all of these pyra­mids also served the same dual pur­pose, tomb and temple.

Ancient trans-Atlantic sim­i­lar­i­ties in botany, reli­gion and pyra­mid build­ing con­sti­tute but a frac­tion of the signs of African influ­ence in ancient America. Other indi­ca­tors include, astron­o­my, art, writ­ing sys­tems, flo­ra and fau­na.
Historically, the African peo­ple have been excep­tion­al explor­ers and pur­vey­ors of cul­ture across the world. Throughout all of these trav­els, African explor­ers have not had a his­to­ry of start­ing dev­as­tat­ing wars on the peo­ple they met. The great­est threat towards Africa hav­ing a glo­ri­ous future is her people’s igno­rance of Africa’s glo­ri­ous past.

Pre-Columbus civ­i­liza­tion in the Americas had its foun­da­tion built by Africans and devel­oped by the inge­nu­ity of Native Americans. Sadly, America, in post-Columbus times, was found­ed on the geno­cide of the indige­nous Americans, built on the backs of African slaves and con­tin­ues to run on the exploita­tion of work­ers at home and abroad.
Clearly, Africans helped civ­i­lize America well before Europeans “dis­cov­ered” America, and well before Europeans claim to have civ­i­lized Africa. The grow­ing body of evi­dence is now becom­ing sim­ply too loud to ignore. It’s about time edu­ca­tion pol­i­cy mak­ers reex­am­ine their school cur­ricu­lums to adjust for America’s long pre-Columbus history.

In fact when Christopher come-rob-us arrived (by acci­dent no less), the Moors from Africa were already liv­ing in America, hav­ing arrived from around the 11^th Century.
Blacks have been under white boot-heels since then.
The chang­ing face of America is the best thing for all Blacks includ­ing peo­ple from the Caribbean who live in America. It is the com­bined numer­i­cal strength of a major­i­ty-minor­i­ty Democratic vot­ing block which is, and will con­tin­ue to put to rest once and for all the vex­ing issue of tox­ic racism in America.
Those who believe that blacks will get bet­ter jobs, bet­ter edu­ca­tion, bet­ter oppor­tu­ni­ties by fight­ing against more minori­ties in America, absolute­ly needs an edu­ca­tion on America’s his­to­ry to present .[www​.glob​al​re​search​.ca]

Leaked chat logs reveal that Daniel Morley, a school resource offi­cer, recruits for Identity Evropa. 

By Andy Campbell

A police offi­cer has been con­nect­ed to white nation­al­ist group Identity Evropa, join­ing a grow­ing list of pub­lic employ­ees who have been iden­ti­fied in a gar­gan­tu­an leak of the group’s chat logs.
Daniel Morley, 31, a school resource offi­cer at L.C. Bird High School in Virginia, holds a side gig as an orga­niz­er for Identity Evropa, a group not­ed for its part in the orga­niz­ing of the dead­ly Unite the Right ral­ly in Charlottesville in 2017. The group (also known as the “American Identity Movement”) tasked Morley with help­ing new recruits through the appli­ca­tion process. 
He was first iden­ti­fied by anti-fas­cist activists scour­ing through hun­dreds of thou­sands of mes­sages leaked by Unicorn Riot, an inde­pen­dent media orga­ni­za­tion.
Morley been sus­pend­ed from his job at the high school, and Chesterfield County Police Chief Jeffrey Katz rec­om­mend­ed he be fired pend­ing a state-man­dat­ed dis­ci­pli­nary process, accord­ing to the Richmond Times-Dispatch.

“We are con­cerned and com­mit­ted to deter­min­ing if there is any truth to these alle­ga­tions,” Katz said Monday. “There is absolute­ly no place for intol­er­ance or prej­u­di­cial behav­ior in pub­lic ser­vice, and we will not tol­er­ate affil­i­a­tions which even remote­ly lend them­selves to pre­dis­po­si­tions of bias.”
Morley ― using the moniker “Danimal876” ― had been post­ing on the white nation­al­ist group’s pri­vate chat serv­er since at least 2017, accord­ing to The Daily Beast. He used that han­dle on mul­ti­ple plat­forms, includ­ing the white suprema­cist forum Stormfront, to espouse racist views and engage with like­mind­ed big­ots as far back as 2009.
On Identity Evropa’s serv­er, he active­ly worked on recruit­ment. “Good after­noon new­com­ers to IE! I’m the new pledge coör­di­na­tor,” he wrote in September, accord­ing to the Daily Beast. “My job is to help guide peo­ple through the process of apply­ing to IE and becom­ing full mem­bers of this great orga­ni­za­tion. If you have any ques­tions about what you need to do next, DM me and I’ll get back to you.”

In August of 2018, the Chesterfield County Police Department post­ed a video of Morley, in which he intro­duced him­self as the high school’s new resource officer.“I want to ensure that the chil­dren of this coun­ty get to have the same safe child­hood that I did grow­ing up,” he says in the short clip. 

Unicorn Riot’s leak of more than 700,000 mes­sages has led to numer­ous ground­break­ing reports about white nation­al­ism, par­tic­u­lar­ly as it per­tains to pub­lic fig­ures and employ­ees in the United States.
HuffPost report­ed exclu­sive­ly this week that sev­en mem­bers of the U.S. mil­i­tary were work­ing direct­ly with Identity Evropa, help­ing the group recruit on cam­pus­es and in cities across the coun­try. There’s been report­ing on the group’s efforts to sup­port promi­nent white suprema­cists in office like Iowa Rep. Steve King; legit­imize itself and recruit through col­lege groups like Turning Point USA; and even infil­trate the GOP head-on.
Since Unicorn Riot’s drop, Identity Evropa attempt­ed to rebrand by renam­ing itself the “American Identity Movement.”

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In a man­i­festo, the alleged gun­man said he was moti­vat­ed by American extremism. 

Our hearts are bro­ken we grieve with the inno­cent vic­tims of hate in New Zealand.

A man accused of open­ing fire Friday at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, killing dozens of wor­ship­pers, appears to have been moti­vat­ed by white suprema­cy and extrem­ism that he saw in the United States.
During a news con­fer­ence, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison char­ac­ter­ized the alleged shoot­er as an “extrem­ist, right-wing, vio­lent ter­ror­ist.” Four sus­pects were tak­en into cus­tody Friday in con­nec­tion with the attack. The alleged gun­man was lat­er charged with mur­der. Read more here:https://​www​.huff​post​.com/​e​n​t​r​y​/​n​e​w​-​z​e​a​l​a​n​d​-​s​h​o​o​t​e​r​-​s​u​s​p​e​c​t​e​d​-​w​h​i​t​e​-​s​u​p​r​e​m​a​c​y​_​n​_​5​c​8​b​2​4​5​1​e​4​b​0​d​b​7​d​a​9​f​1​7​320

Stephen A. Crockett Jr. 

On Monday night, Oklahoma City Thunder point guard Russell Westbrook got into a ver­bal alter­ca­tion with a Utah Jazz fan.
I don’t know the fan, but I’ve dri­ven through Utah and I believe Russell Westbrook’s ver­sion of what­ev­er he says hap­pened because the entire state of Utah is just one big hole of weird white­ness.

According to the 2010 cen­sus, 89.2 per­cent of Utah’s pop­u­la­tion is white. In fact, Utah’s entire black pop­u­la­tion plays for the Utah Jazz.Anyway, dur­ing the inci­dent, Westbrook was record­ed telling a Jazz fan, “I’ll fuck you up. You and your wife.”

After the game, Westbrook claimed that the fan told him to “get down on your knees like you’re used to.” Westbrook called the com­ments dis­re­spect­ful and racial. 

Well, it turns out that the fan, Shane Keisel, has social media, and his social media is a feast, no, a buffet.…a cor­nu­copia of racist shit, because Shane Keisel, it turns out, is a shit heel.
In one post he calls some­one a “nig­ger boy.”

In anoth­er, he punc­tu­at­ed a race-bait­ing tweet with “MAGA”

In anoth­er, he tweet­ed that an African coun­try looked like a “shit­hole to him.”

He also claimed before the game that some­one needs to kick Westbrook’s ass. 

Now that Keisel has been exposed, he’s delet­ed his Twitter account and has gone back to play­ing vic­tim and act­ing as if this entire inci­dent was an enraged black man over­re­act­ing and threat­en­ing to beat him and his 100-pound wife up. Oh, why did he bring up his wife’s weight to add into the nar­ra­tive of a help­less white woman being berat­ed by an angry black man? It’s all bull­shit. Keisel been on his race-bait­ing bull­shit and Utah will always be weird, and not in a good way.

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From the start, T.S. Ellis the Federal Judge who would hear evi­dence against Trump’s for­mer cam­paign chair­man Paul Manafort seemed agi­tat­ed and angry that Paul Manafort was even brought in for tri­al. The Reagan appointee chid­ed Prosecutors that Manafort was only before him because they want­ed to get at Donald Trump.
At the time Ellis made those state­ments many peo­ple were aghast that a judge could be that bla­tant­ly political.

Ellis was open­ly hos­tile to Prosecuting attor­neys, repeat­ed­ly inter­rupt­ed them, told them to stop using the word “oli­garch” to describe peo­ple asso­ci­at­ed with Manafort because it made him seem “despi­ca­ble,” and object­ed to pic­tures of Manafort’s lux­u­ry items they planned to show jurors. “It isn’t a crime to have a lot of mon­ey and be prof­li­gate in your spend­ing,” Ellis told pros­e­cu­tors dur­ing the tri­al. (accord­ing to yahoo news​.com)

If you thought that was beyond weird and despi­ca­ble, yes­ter­day Judge T.S. Ellis, in sen­tenc­ing Paul Manafort, pulled the cur­tains away and dis­played the two sep­a­rate jus­tice sys­tems in America for every­one to see.
The Judge imposed a 47-month prison sen­tence and a $50,000 fine in con­junc­tion with resti­tu­tion in the sum of just over $24 mil­lion, which Manafort is oblig­at­ed to repay.
In hand­ing down the rather light sen­tence which falls way below Federal sen­tenc­ing guide­lines and the poten­tial­ly 20-years to life Manafort could have been giv­en the Judge com­ment­ed, “Clearly the guide­lines were way out of whack on this.”
“I was sur­prised I did not hear you express regret for engag­ing in wrong­ful con­duct,” Ellis told Manafort, nev­er­the­less he gave Paul Manafort a light slap on the wrist. 

Most shock­ing of all, (1) the Judge argued, Manafort “is not before the court for any alle­ga­tions that he, or any­one at his direc­tion, col­lud­ed with the Russian gov­ern­ment to influ­ence the 2016 elec­tion.”
That is a tact tak­en by Manafort’s Lawyers, Trump’s Lawyer Rudolph Guiliani, and Donald Trump him­self.
(2) Ellis extolled his(Manafort’s) “oth­er­wise blame­less” life in which he “earned the admi­ra­tion of a num­ber of peo­ple” and engaged in “a lot of good things.”
For the record, Paul Manafort will face a DC Judge for sim­i­lar crimes next week for sen­tenc­ing.
Maybe next week the Obama appointee, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson will not inter­pret Manafort’s Teflon abil­i­ty to escape pros­e­cu­tion for his crimes as ” a blame­less life.”

Manafort was con­vict­ed after pros­e­cu­tors accused him of hid­ing from the U.S. gov­ern­ment mil­lions of dol­lars he earned as a con­sul­tant for Ukraine’s for­mer pro-Russia gov­ern­ment. After pro-Kremlin Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych’s ouster, pros­e­cu­tors said, Manafort lied to banks to secure loans and main­tain an opu­lent lifestyle with lux­u­ri­ous homes, design­er suits, and even a $15,000 ostrich-skin jacket. 

All across America and right there in the Commonwealth of Virginia Black peo­ple are being incar­cer­at­ed for far longer peri­ods of time, for sig­nif­i­cant­ly less than what Paul Manafort did.
Not only did Manafort com­mit numer­ous white col­lar crimes, he did not see fit to acknowl­edge his wrongs, he forced the sys­tem to find him guilty.
Which absolute­ly is his right, but a lit­tle fact which lines up with what Judge Ellis was forced to acknowl­edge, that Paul Manafort had not expressed any regret for engag­ing in wrong­ful conduct. 

In 2018 43-year old Crystal Mason was sen­tenced to 5‑years in prison — — -Her crime, not know­ing that as a for­mer Felon she was not allowed to vote.
“You have to go vote!” Mason’s moth­er said, accord­ing to her attor­ney, J. Warren St. John, who spoke to NPR.
Mason grabbed her keys and set out for her local precinct. When she got there, she found out that her name was not on the vot­er roll so she was giv­en a pro­vi­sion­al bal­lot. An elec­tion work­er stuck around to walk her through the form.
She used her cur­rent license and her cur­rent address, St. John says.“She had a good faith belief that she could vote,” St. John says. “She would have nev­er vot­ed if she knew she was not allowed to.“The next time she thought about that night she was being arrest­ed.
Crystal Mason is serv­ing her five-year term for doing her civic duty and was com­plete­ly igno­rant of the fact that she was not allowed to vote.

According to the New York Times African-American defen­dants get more time behind bars — some­times twice the prison terms of whites with iden­ti­cal crim­i­nal his­to­ries — when they com­mit the same crimes under iden­ti­cal cir­cum­stances. It also shows how bias on the part of indi­vid­ual judges and pros­e­cu­tors dri­ves sen­tenc­ing inequity.
The Florida Legislature has been wrestling with this issue for decades. In the 1980s, for exam­ple, it tried to change sen­tenc­ing poli­cies that var­ied wide­ly from place to place by cre­at­ing sen­tenc­ing guide­lines. Today, pros­e­cu­tors assign defen­dants points — based on the seri­ous­ness of their crime, the cir­cum­stances of their arrest and whether or not they have pri­or con­vic­tions — to deter­mine the min­i­mum sen­tence required by law.
In a fair sys­tem, black and white defen­dants who score the same num­ber of points under this for­mu­la would spend the same time beyond bars. But The Herald-Tribune found that judges dis­re­gard the guide­lines, sen­tenc­ing black defen­dants to longer prison terms in 60 per­cent of felony cas­es, 68 per­cent of seri­ous, first-degree crimes and 45 per­cent of bur­glar­ies. In third-degree felony cas­es — the least seri­ous and broad­est class of felonies — white Florida judges sen­tenced black defen­dants to 20 per­cent more prison time than white defen­dants. (NYT)

Well over a decade ago, the FBI warned of the poten­tial con­se­quences — includ­ing bias — of white suprema­cist groups infil­trat­ing local and state law enforce­ment, indi­cat­ing it was a sig­nif­i­cant threat to nation­al secu­ri­ty.
According to (pbs​.org), in a 2006 bul­letin, the FBI detailed the threat of white nation­al­ists and skin­heads infil­trat­ing police to dis­rupt inves­ti­ga­tions against fel­low mem­bers and recruit oth­er suprema­cists.
The bul­letin was released dur­ing a peri­od of scan­dal for many law enforce­ment agen­cies through­out the coun­try, includ­ing a neo-Nazi gang formed by mem­bers of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department who harassed black and Latino com­mu­ni­ties.
Similar inves­ti­ga­tions revealed offi­cers and entire agen­cies with hate group ties in Illinois, Ohio, and Texas. (pbs​.org).

To date, I know of no real plan which has been put in place to deal effec­tive­ly with this dan­ger­ous scourge.
According to the (pbs​.org) arti­cle, the bul­letin, though heav­i­ly redact­ed, iden­ti­fied white suprema­cists in law enforce­ment as a con­cern, because of their access to both “restrict­ed areas vul­ner­a­ble to sab­o­tage” and elect­ed offi­cials or peo­ple who could be seen as “poten­tial tar­gets for vio­lence.” The memo also warned of “ghost skins,” hate group mem­bers who don’t overt­ly dis­play their beliefs to “blend into soci­ety and covert­ly advance white suprema­cist causes.”

Since that report has been issued, count­less peo­ple of col­or have been killed by American Police. The vast major­i­ty of those killed have been African-American, male though women are not exempt.
No one real­ly knows the exact num­ber of unarmed peo­ple who have been killed by so-called law enforce­ment because there are no require­ments for law enforce­ment to give an account­ing to the FBI when they have encoun­ters with mem­bers of the pub­lic, which ends with fatalities.

Despite those warn­ings, the then FBI Director, James Comey, told police offi­cers at a nation­al con­fer­ence that because of insuf­fi­cient data on the use of force, “Americans actu­al­ly have no idea” whether racial bias in polic­ing is real­ly an epi­dem­ic.
At the time Comey made those com­ments, a lot of things came full cir­cle in my mind.
For years before Comey’s state­ments, I won­dered, some­times aloud, why African-Americans were delight­ed when the Feds took over an inves­ti­ga­tion into abuse of black peo­ple.
The FBI — COINTELPRO, comes to mind when I see Black lead­ers delight at the Feds, tak­ing over an inves­ti­ga­tion. I nev­er under­stood why.
Pointing to pub­lic out­rage over police killings of African-Americans, Comey said “the absence of good infor­ma­tion” and data has aid­ed in the grow­ing belief that police offi­cers tar­get par­tic­u­lar com­mu­ni­ties.”
“That is the nar­ra­tive,” he told atten­dees of the International Association of Chiefs of Police. “It is a nar­ra­tive-dri­ven by video images of real mis­con­duct, pos­si­ble mis­con­duct, and per­ceived mis­con­duct.”
In oth­er words, the shock­ing video evi­dence which shocks our sen­si­bil­i­ties over and over again, is not enough to prove that cops do tar­get par­tic­u­lar com­mu­ni­ties. Or, in oth­er words, the black community.

Under Attorney General Eric Holder, the Obama Justice Department did what it could in the time they had to hold some of the police depart­ments with the most egre­gious com­plaints against them account­able.
Under Trump, the Justice Department, head­ed by Jefferson Beauregard Sessions 111, walked back many, if not most, of those gains.
So it came as no sur­prise when we learned this.

Coast Guard offi­cer arrest­ed, was plan­ning ‘to kill almost every last per­son on earth.

Prosecutors say Lt. Christopher Hasson, 49 aU.S. Coast Guard offi­cer, an avowed white nation­al­ist, and drug addict, has been arrest­ed and charged with being a domes­tic ter­ror­ist intend­ing to mur­der as many inno­cent civil­ians as pos­si­ble.
According to a motion to detain him pend­ing tri­al, agents of the FBI Baltimore Field Office and the Coast Guard Investigative Service on Friday, February 15, charged Hasson with firearms and drug charges.
Now, this guy is also a drug addict who author­i­ties say is on the drug Tramadol. He alleged­ly dreams of killing every­one on earth but was quite will­ing to start with jour­nal­ists like Chris Hayes and Ari Melber of (MSNBC)and Democrats he called trai­tors, includ­ing Virginia Senator Tim Kaine. Maxine Waters, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and oth­ers. He also said he want­ed to gath­er and stock­pile guns, food, dis­guis­es, and sur­vival supplies.

That was not just a fan­ta­sy; he actu­al­ly gath­ered some of the things he said he want­ed to gath­er, so we have to pre­sume that he would have made good on his inten­tions if he was not stopped.
This brings us to the mil­lion-dol­lar ques­tion.
“If they are in the Sheriff’s depart­ments and oth­er police depart­ments in the armed forces, what exact­ly is the lev­el of threat they pose to the coun­try.
What exact­ly is the threat lev­el to peo­ple of col­or or peo­ple with whom they dis­agree polit­i­cal­ly or dif­fer racially?

Literally every week, there is a mass shoot­ing some­where in the United States. The vast major­i­ty of those shoot­ings are done by some white guy who has some beef with every­body else.
Never mind that, the empha­sis is on rip­ping babies from their par­ents because those par­ents are run­ning from vio­lent death.
The empha­sis is on crim­i­nal­iz­ing peo­ple for smok­ing or sell­ing pot and deport­ing them.
Others are swept up in mass raids, crim­i­nal­ized, and their lives ruined any­way.
In the mean­time, the mass hys­te­ria cre­at­ed around Muslim peo­ple is still ram­pant to the point, even an elect­ed US Representative is unable to speak out against Israel’s aggres­sion against the Palestinian peo­ple it has under its bootheels, with­out being brand­ed an anti-Semite. Who is pay­ing atten­tion to the threat posed by these white home­grown ter­ror­ists?
That’s the question.

Colin Kaepernick end­ed his legal bat­tles with the National Football League on Friday after ini­tial­ly accus­ing own­ers of col­lud­ing to keep him from play­ing over his nation­al anthem protest. In iden­ti­cal state­ments on Friday, the NFL and Kaepernick’s attor­ney, Mark Geragos, said the griev­ance was resolved. The NFL also said it had set­tled a sim­i­lar com­plaint filed by Eric Reid. “For the past sev­er­al months, coun­sel for Mr. Kaepernick and Mr. Reid have engaged in an ongo­ing dia­logue with rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the NFL,” the state­ment said. “As a result of those dis­cus­sions, the par­ties have decid­ed to resolve the pend­ing griev­ances. The res­o­lu­tion of this mat­ter is sub­ject to a con­fi­den­tial­i­ty agree­ment so there will be no fur­ther com­ment by any party.”

Kaepernick filed his griev­ance against the NFL in 2017, accus­ing team own­ers of vio­lat­ing the league’s col­lec­tive bar­gain­ing agree­ment by col­lud­ing to keep him off a team. Kaepernick sparked nation­al debate in 2016 when he knelt at a foot­ball game dur­ing the nation­al anthem. A San Francisco 49ers quar­ter­back at the time, Kaepernick described his act as a form of silent protest against police bru­tal­i­ty and racial injus­tices in the United States. Critics of the quar­ter­back, includ­ing President Donald Trump, accused him of dis­re­spect­ing the American flag and the mil­i­tary. Kaepernick opt­ed out of his con­tract with the 49ers at the end of that sea­son and entered free agency, which would allow him to play with oth­er teams. But he was unable to sign with a new team.

Reid, who joined Kaepernick in the kneel­ing protest, fared much the same when he became an unsigned free agent in 2018. He filed his own griev­ance against the NFL in May 2018. (Reid ulti­mate­ly signed a new con­tract with the Carolina Panthers in September.) The NFL Players Association released a state­ment on Friday applaud­ing the set­tle­ment.V
“We are not privy to the details of the set­tle­ment, but sup­port the deci­sion by the play­ers and their coun­sel,” the asso­ci­a­tion said. 
The NFL and Geragos did not spec­i­fy the terms of the agree­ment. Charles Robinson, a senior NFL reporter for Yahoo, not­ed in a tweet on Friday: “Sources pre­vi­ous­ly said Kaepernick would only with­draw if a lucra­tive set­tle­ment was secured.”

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Judge strikes down Scott Walker’s vote-suppression measure, but Republicans will fight on — at taxpayer expense

A fed­er­al judge ruled last week that Wisconsin Republicans vio­lat­ed a fed­er­al court order by approv­ing restric­tions on ear­ly vot­ing and oth­er elec­tion issues dur­ing a lame duck ses­sion before the new Democratic gov­er­nor was sworn in.
U.S. District Judge James Peterson blocked a law signed by out­go­ing Republican Gov. Scott Walker that lim­it­ed ear­ly vot­ing to two weeks before the elec­tion and restrict­ed in-per­son absen­tee vot­ing and the forms of ID that can be used to vote.
Peterson wrote that the leg­is­la­tion vio­lat­ed a 2016 court order that blocked the state from mak­ing sim­i­lar changes.“This is not a close ques­tion,” Peterson wrote. “The three chal­lenged pro­vi­sions are clear­ly incon­sis­tent with the injunc­tions that the court has issued in this case.”In that case, Peterson ruled that the state’s vot­er ID and lim­its on in-per­son absen­tee vot­ing were uncon­sti­tu­tion­al, the Wisconsin State Journal report­ed. The case was appealed to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals which is yet to rule on the mat­ter.The state argued that the new laws were dif­fer­ent from the 2016 leg­is­la­tion, which Peterson rejected.

“If the court accept­ed defen­dants’ argu­ment, it would mean that a leg­isla­tive body could evade an injunc­tion sim­ply by reen­act­ing an iden­ti­cal law and giv­ing it a new num­ber,” he wrote.
The elec­tion restric­tions were part of a larg­er set of bills passed by Wisconsin Republicans dur­ing last year’s lame duck ses­sion that were signed by Walker right before he was replaced by new­ly-elect­ed Democratic Gov. Tony Evers. Progressive groups Citizen Action of Wisconsin and One Wisconsin Institute sued over the moves.
Evers said after the rul­ing that he as “glad to see that a fed­er­al [court] again struck down the GOP’s uncon­sti­tu­tion­al attacks on our right to vote.”
A sec­ond law­suit filed by pro­gres­sive groups, includ­ing the League of Women Voters, Disability Rights Wisconsin and Black Leaders Organizing for Communities, that was filed in the same court is seek­ing to have all the new laws passed by Republicans dur­ing the lame-duck ses­sion void­ed, argu­ing that the ses­sion was ille­gal. A judge is yet to rule on the case but experts told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel Read more here:https://​www​.salon​.com/​2​0​1​9​/​0​1​/​2​2​/​j​u​d​g​e​-​b​l​o​c​k​s​-​w​i​s​c​o​n​s​i​n​-​g​o​p​s​-​l​a​m​e​-​d​u​c​k​-​v​o​t​e​r​-​s​u​p​p​r​e​s​s​i​o​n​-​n​o​t​-​a​-​c​l​o​s​e​-​q​u​e​s​t​i​on/

There is some­thing about some of us Jamaicans, not all I have to admit. But there is a kind of fire which burns in our bel­lies. A fire which would cause us rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
Maybe it is that west African Coromantee, blood which flows through our veins, that which heats up when we hear about inci­dents like the fol­low­ing.
Incidents which in most cas­es draws not even a bit of care much less anger from others.

Imagine some­one harass­ing you to the point that you are forced to quit your job? Imagine that you have nev­er both­ered that person/​s?
You see, it is hard for me to fath­om because I was always of the opin­ion that no one, no man or woman, have a greater right to be on this plan­et than I do.
On that basis, I will not tread on your space but so help me God if you ever tread on my space.
After all, we all have just one life and what’s the point of liv­ing it if you can­not live it in peace?

At a press con­fer­ence, Monday, Vermont’s chief law enforce­ment offi­cer almost com­plet­ed one of the great­est per­for­mances of white­s­plain­ing in recent his­to­ry as he announced that he wouldn’t file charges against a white nation­al­ist who alleged­ly stalked, harassed and ter­ri­fied one of the state’s only black law­mak­ers.
As Vermont Attorney General T.J. Donovan described the volu­mi­nous evi­dence, he point­ed out that he didn’t have enough evi­dence. He explained how hate speech was a mat­ter of free speech. He explained that the harass­ment against the black fam­i­ly was bad, but that it wasn’t a crime. All the while, the woman was the tar­get of the inces­sant acts of hate stood beside him as he shucked and jived.

Then the racists showed up.
According to WNYT, On Monday, Vermont Attorney General T.J Donovan held a press con­fer­ence at the Congregation Beth El syn­a­gogue in Bennington, Vt. to announce that, instead of fil­ing charges, he would instead release a 10-page report on the racial harass­ment of for­mer State Rep. Kiah Morris, the state’s only black woman state rep­re­sen­ta­tive who resigned in September after alleged­ly being harangued by white suprema­cist Max Misch, who describes him­self the man who “be rep­re­sent­ing dem white muh­fuck­az of Bennington.”

Seven Days Vermont reports:

The press con­fer­ence went off the rails when Bennington res­i­dent Max Misch entered the room as Morris answered a tele­vi­sion reporter’s ques­tion about the AG’s probe. Misch had been sub­ject to a year­long pro­tec­tive order in 2016 pro­hibit­ing him from con­tact­ing Morris over a series of racist tweets, mes­sages and online com­ments he aimed at her.

Misch wore a black long-sleeve shirt bear­ing the image of alt-right icon Pepe the Frog. Many in the room began shout­ing “No, no, no!” and “Out!” when he arrived.

“This is not safe,” one per­son shout­ed. “Why is this ass­hole allowed to come in here?” some­one else in the crowd said.

“Because it’s America,” anoth­er attendee replied. “We have to lis­ten to every­one, whether we like it or not. But we don’t have to put up with it.”

Also in atten­dance was Kevin Hoyt, a failed Republican can­di­date who has accused Morris and her hus­band of incit­ing oth­ers to paint him as a Nazi. Hoyt says he is a vic­tim of reverse racism after his request for a stalk­ing order of pro­tec­tion against Morris’ hus­band was reject­ed by a judge. The hunt­ing expert and gun advo­cate has repeat­ed­ly insin­u­at­ed that Morris and her hus­band were fab­ri­cat­ing their claims to make Vermont look like a state that tol­er­ates racism.

“I call bull­shit on Ms. Morris!” yelled Hoyt. “As a polit­i­cal oppo­nent who was accused of being a Nazi, I think we’re hear­ing one side of the sto­ry … I was called a Nazi, I was called a white suprema­cist. Obviously, racism exists in Vermont … I ques­tion to what degree, though.”

After win­ning a House seat in the state leg­is­la­ture, Morris gave up her re-elec­tion bid before resign­ing in September, cit­ing her husband’s open-heart surgery com­bined with Hoyt and Misch’s con­tin­ued online cam­paign of harass­ment. Citing tweets that told her to “Go back to Africa, it’s the only place you’ll ever be safe,” The Attorney general’s report list­ed forty-eight sep­a­rate racial inci­dents where Morris had been threat­ened and attacked, including:

• A mes­sage to Morris’ hus­band inform­ing him that he should put his wife “in her place,” or the mes­sen­ger would do it for him;
  
• A tweet that read: “You will nev­er silence me. Every time you attend a polit­i­cal ral­ly at the Four Corners or anoth­er local venue and I’m aware of the event, I will troll the hell out of you and the oth­er sub­ver­sives there. Maybe I’ll bring a friend or three with me too;”
• Someone paint­balling Morris’ car and spray paint­ing a swasti­ka on a tree near Morris’ home;
• Another tweet said, “Stop push­ing ‘social jus­tice’ on your near­ly entire­ly White con­stituen­cy in Bennington, VT. Go back to Chicago if you want to engage in SJW [Social Justice Warrior] bull­shit. We will con­tin­ue to fight against your efforts to make our town/​state look more like your mon­grel son;”
• Multiple reports to police of strange men and sus­pi­cious vehi­cles in the ceme­tery behind Morris’ home;
• A break-in at the Morris home where Morris’ husband’s neck­ties were stolen and found in the ceme­tery (Police did not fin­ger­print or swab the crime scene);
• Morris’ child care provider report­ing a man sit­ting in a car out­side the home film­ing the Morris residence;

Donovan con­clud­ed that there was not enough evi­dence to charge Misch with any crimes, not­ing that there was a lack of evi­dence. “No Vermont court has specif­i­cal­ly con­sid­ered whether com­mu­ni­ca­tions like those sent to Ms. Morris could be con­strued as ‘true threats,’” Donovan’s find­ings read, adding:

In this case, the online com­mu­ni­ca­tions that were sent to Ms. Morris by Max Misch and oth­ers were clear­ly racist and extreme­ly offen­sive However, the First Amendment does not make speech sanc­tion­able mere­ly because its con­tent is objec­tion­able. The ques­tion here is whether the mes­sages, in con­text, were com­mu­ni­cat­ing a seri­ous expres­sion of an intent to harm Ms. Morris or her fam­i­ly. The fact that a num­ber of mes­sages were direct­ed at her role as an elect­ed offi­cial rais­es the issue of whether they were intend­ed to express polit­i­cal oppo­si­tion through the use of hyper­bole and insult, as not­ed in the case law above. Therefore, there appears to be insuf­fi­cient evi­dence to pur­sue crim­i­nal charges under Vermont law.

“Kiah Morris was a vic­tim of racial harass­ment. Relatively few Vermonters have had any of these expe­ri­ences, and very few have had these expe­ri­ences in the con­text of vicious racial harass­ment,” Donovan said, accord­ing to the Washington Post. But, he added, “the Constitution does not per­mit us to pros­e­cute racist speech because we find it offensive.”

Meanwhile, Morris stood in the face of her harassers and the attor­ney gen­er­al, not­ing that law enforce­ment offi­cers had shrugged off her claims.“For two years, we lived in my husband’s child­hood home, feel­ing unsafe, nev­er sleep­ing peace­ful­ly because we had to be vig­i­lant,” said Morris, “We did every­thing we were told to do. We report­ed as we should, held noth­ing back and trust­ed in a sys­tem that was insuf­fi­cient and inept at address­ing and repair­ing the harm done.” So there you have it. It was just polit­i­cal expres­sion and free speech, which is apt­ly expressed in the Vermont state motto:

Freedom and Unity.

A woman was caught on video scream­ing the N‑word and pulling a knife on a black fam­i­ly in an Oregon park­ing lot, per­fect­ly encap­su­lat­ing white America’s shenani­gans in 2018.

On December 24, 20-year-old Emora Roberson cap­tured rare footage of what is either an irate racist albi­no fer­ret or a quick­ly decom­pos­ing white woman in the ear­ly stages of turn­ing into a White Walker. Roberson was in a car with her 15-month-old daugh­ter, her boyfriend and an aunt doing some last-minute Christmas shop­ping when the stage 1 zom­bie pulled up next to the fam­i­ly at a McMinnville, Ore. Dominos pizza.

Clad in a cam­ou­flage jack­et, track pants with two stripes, wrap­around sun­glass­es and dingy white shoes only worn by nurs­ing assis­tants, church ush­ers and senior cit­i­zens who exer­cise by walk­ing laps at the mall — the offi­cial uni­form of peo­ple who want to make America great — the sog­gy saltine woman pulled up next to the fam­i­ly in a hand­i­capped park­ing spot, obvi­ous­ly qual­i­fied by a tooth count that appeared to be in the low-to-mid teens.

According to Roberson, the enraged woman slapped and spit on her boyfriend, Keysuan Goodyear. Goodyear grew angry and warned the woman about her behav­ior and language.

The woman respond­ed by whip­ping out a knife.

That’s when Roberson said she began film­ing the inci­dent on her phone.

“This bitch is real­ly try­ing to stab him,” Roberson com­ments as the enraged meerkat holds a knife in clear view. “It’s called self-defense, you stu­pid nig­ger butch” Tammy Two-Teeth responds before slam­ming the car door on Roberson.

Roberson’s boyfriend tells Debbie No-Dentist, who looks like a french fry at the bot­tom of the McDonalds bag, to stay away but his girl­friend warns him that they are in McMinnville. I don’t know where McMinnville is, exact­ly. But from the name alone, it sounds like a place where the sher­iff wears a cow­boy hat and black peo­ple know to “stay in their place.”

“It’s not worth it today,” she warns her boyfriend. “We’re in a white-ass town.”“We even­tu­al­ly drove off. We still had Christmas shop­ping to do,” Roberson told Oregon Live. “My daugh­ter woke up and was cry­ing her head off.” Roberson said she con­tact­ed the local police depart­ment and alert­ed them that either Kellyanne Conway had left the Trump admin­is­tra­tion for a career on the lucra­tive meth-smok­ing cir­cuit, or there was a racist woman on the loose who had pos­si­bly bank­rupt­ed the Tooth Fairy.

On Saturday, KPTV announced that they arrest­ed 39-year-old Amber Rocco for the inci­dent and charged her with intim­i­da­tion, unlaw­ful use of a weapon, harass­ment and men­ac­ing. Her bail was set at $55,000 but I’m not sure if they have the right per­son. There’s no way the woman in that video is 39 unless they are count­ing in pos­sum years.

I real­ly hope they catch the real offend­er before she actu­al­ly stabs a vic­tim or bites some­one and turns more peo­ple into Zorro-zom­bies. I don’t want to tell the cops how to do their job but I’m bet­ting they could catch the actu­al sus­pect tomor­row if they just staked out con­ve­nience stores that sell Pall Mall cigarettes.I also don’t like to stereo­type but I’m bet­ting the woman’s in the video’s name is not Amber. Most Ambers have twen­ty-plus teeth. The woman in the video looks like a Gretchen. If not, I’m bet­ting on a hybrid name like SueEllen or MaryLou. But prob­a­bly Gretchen. 

Free Amber Rocco.

She has a den­tal appoint­ment tomor­row… I hope.

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Hate, big­otry, and racism should have no place in any com­mu­ni­ty, state or nation.
Yet, despite all of the work and sac­ri­fice which has been put into the fight to erad­i­cate the igno­rant scourge of racism from our midst, hate, big­otry, and racism per­sist as it did back in the ’40s and ’50s.
The fact that peo­ple are a lit­tle less bla­tant with racist atti­tudes toward oth­ers they dis­like may only be attrib­ut­able to the cost attached to acts of racism rather than any change of heart indi­vid­ual big­ots may have had. 

The prob­lem of racism and Police abuse in America was the num­ber one issue while stal­warts like Stokely Carmichael, Dr. King, and oth­ers lived. 
Today the issue of racist Police abuse of peo­ple of col­or con­tin­ue to be the num­ber one issue plagu­ing the coun­try.
Years after the Federal Bureau Of Investigations warned that white suprema­cists were infil­trat­ing police depart­ments noth­ing sub­stan­tive has been done to root them out.
In fact Department heads, Prosecutors and Judges have worked assid­u­ous­ly to ensure that racist mur­der­ers parad­ing in police uni­forms are not held account­able for their crimes against peo­ple of col­or.
Cops hard­ly make attempts to de-esca­late volatile sit­u­a­tions any­more, they esca­late minor sit­u­a­tions in order to jus­ti­fy the use of force.
Casual sit­u­a­tions which ought to be han­dled with kind­ness and pro­fes­sion­al­ism are esca­lat­ed by the cops them­selves, even when they were ini­tial­ly called to help.

“A fed­er­al court found that mem­bers of a Los Angeles sher­if­f’s depart­ment formed a neo-Nazi gang and habit­u­al­ly ter­ror­ized the black com­mu­ni­ty. Later, the Chicago police depart­ment fired Jon Burge, a detec­tive with reput­ed ties to the Ku Klux Klan, after dis­cov­er­ing he tor­tured over 100 black male sus­pects. Thereafter, the may­or of Cleveland dis­cov­ered that many of the city police lock­er rooms were infest­ed with ‘White Power’ graf­fi­ti. Years lat­er, a Texas sher­iff depart­ment dis­cov­ered that two of its deputies were recruit­ed for the Klan.”

(1) “[T]he term ‘ghost skins’ has gained cur­ren­cy among white suprema­cists to describe those who avoid overt dis­plays of their beliefs to blend into soci­ety and covert­ly advance white suprema­cist caus­es,” the FBI report states.
(2) In 2014 New Orleans Times-Picayune colum­nist Jarvis DeBerry remind­ed read­ers of Michael Elsbury, a white Baton Rogue police offi­cer who resigned after “he was linked” to racist text mes­sages.
(3) “I wish some­one would pull a Ferguson on them and take them out,” Elsbury report­ed­ly wrote in one mes­sage, refer­ring to the 2014 police shoot­ing of Michael Brown. “I hate look­ing at those African mon­keys at work … I enjoy arrest­ing those thugs with their sag­gy pants.”
(4) According to Esquire​.com) Critical to the rise of these groups with­in law enforce­ment was the severe back­lash by main­stream con­ser­v­a­tives to a 2009 report by the Department of Homeland Security that revealed that white-suprema­cist groups and right-wing domes­tic ter­ror­ist orga­ni­za­tions had been recruit­ing heav­i­ly among a num­ber of groups in the coun­try, espe­cial­ly among return­ing mil­i­tary vet­er­ans. Mainstream con­ser­v­a­tives went com­plete­ly bananas and, to her dis­cred­it, then-DHS Secretary Donna Shalala killed the report, apol­o­gized to var­i­ous vet­er­ans groups, and dis­band­ed the unit with­in her depart­ment that had done the research.

(5)Critics fear that the back­lash fol­low­ing the 2009 DHS report hin­dered fur­ther action against the grow­ing white suprema­cist threat and that it was large­ly ignored because the issue was so polit­i­cal­ly con­tro­ver­sial. “I believe that because that report was so denounced by con­ser­v­a­tives, it sort of closed the door on what­ev­er the FBI may have been con­sid­er­ing doing with respect to com­bat­ing infil­tra­tion of law enforce­ment by white suprema­cists,” said Samuel Jones, a pro­fes­sor of law at the John Marshall Law School in Chicago who has writ­ten about white pow­er ide­ol­o­gy in law enforce­ment. “Because after the 2006 FBI report, we sim­ply can­not find any­thing by local law enforce­ment or the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment that address­es this issue.”

(6) The web­site (Occupy Democrats) argue that White suprema­cists are infil­trat­ing the police depart­ments across the coun­try accord­ing to a report by the FBI. The report is alarm­ing in the Trump era, as white nation­al­ists across the coun­try are feel­ing embold­ened and only build on a long his­to­ry of domes­tic ter­ror­ist groups join­ing law enforce­ment.
A clas­si­fied FBI Counter-Terrorism Policy Guide from April 2015 was obtained by The Intercept and revealed that “domes­tic ter­ror­ism inves­ti­ga­tions focused on mili­tia extrem­ists, white suprema­cist extrem­ists and sov­er­eign cit­i­zen extrem­ists often have iden­ti­fied active links to law enforce­ment offi­cers.”
Shockingly, to those study­ing law enforce­ment in the US this is noth­ing new; how­ev­er, the FBI is doing lit­tle to pub­licly address this grow­ing threat. Many police depart­ments around the nation have a his­to­ry of racism in their ranks, and with no nation­al stan­dard among the near­ly 2,000 law enforce­ment agen­cies, white nation­al­ists have lit­tle trou­ble infil­trat­ing the ranks and spread­ing their influence.

Summing up these real­i­ties with incred­i­ble pre­ci­sion Angelia Williams Graves, a Virginia coun­cil­woman,at a NAACP lun­cheon said the fol­low­ing.
These white suprema­cists have “tak­en off their white hats and white-sheet­ed robes and put on police uni­forms. Some of them have put on shirts and ties as pol­i­cy­mak­ers and some of them have put on robes as judges.” 
“I know I could nev­er change the con­di­tion from the out­side. I had to go for the inside,” Col. K.L. Williams, the Black chief of police in Kinloch, Mo., told CNN. “If you think that racism and white suprema­cy is not involved in police depart­ments, you bet­ter check your­self. Because the KKK has been involved with law enforce­ment from when it just about start­ed,” he continued.

Time after time white mass killers are arrest­ed, not killed, even when armed.
White South Carolina mass mur­der­er Dylan Roof was even treat­ed to fast food after being arrest­ed with­out being shot, cour­tesy of the local PB.
Conversely, black men and women risk instant death at the hands of police on every traf­fic stop, traf­fic stops which are gen­er­al­ly done on ille­gal­ly cooked-up con­vo­lut­ed rea­sons.
Black men risk get­ting mur­dered while black women risked get­ting pulled from their auto­mo­biles and bru­tal­ized by police whose job it is to pro­tect them.

The instances are well doc­u­ment­ed, guilty white mass killers are treat­ed expo­nen­tial­ly bet­ter than respectable black vic­tims of crime.
Which brings us to the ques­tion of why?
We can waste time talk­ing about all man­ner of periph­er­al stuff like what the main­stream media does to deceive the pub­lic on this issue.
Or we can accept the fact that many cops in the pub­lic sphere are white Nationalists with a badge and gun.
Black cit­i­zens could fight the clan toe-to-toe. How do you fight back against some­one who comes under the cov­er of the law?

Whether the nation wants to face what’s hap­pen­ing or con­tin­ue to ignore it does not change the facts.
Black and brown peo­ple are being mur­dered by white cops who are active white suprema­cists bent on enforc­ing their own agen­das.
In the mean­time, all-white grand juries con­tin­ue to grant them license to mur­der by fail­ing to indict them.
On the rare occa­sions that these mur­der­ers are even indict­ed for their crimes, the chances of con­vic­tions are almost nil, whether they receive a jury or bench tri­al the end results are the same.
Murderers who kill while wear­ing a police offi­cers uni­form are guar­an­teed that there will be no con­se­quences for their actions.
What bet­ter place to be if you are a white suprema­cist who hates and wants to kill black people?

The final elec­tions of the 2018 sea­son will be held today November 27^th, in the south­ern state of Mississippi. The elec­tions are a runoff between Republican-appoint­ed Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, a white woman appoint­ed to fill the Senate seat vacat­ed by the retir­ing Republican Senator Thad Cochran African-American Mike Espy, for­mer Congressman, and Clinton agri­cul­ture secretary.

Neither can­di­date received more than 50% of the votes in the November 6^th elec­tions; by state law, this means that there has to be a runoff elec­tion to decide a win­ner. Today is that day.
Hyde-Smith’s par­ents report­ed­ly sent her to a whites-only school after school seg­re­ga­tion was out­lawed. This can hard­ly be laid at Cindy Hyde-Smith’s feet, but she con­tin­ued the trend by send­ing her own daugh­ter to one such school to avoid send­ing her to a school in which she would mix with black students.

The cam­paign is draw­ing a lot of atten­tion because of com­ments Cindy Hyde-Smith made on the cam­paign trail.
Normally a Republican can­di­date in ruby red Mississippi would swat away a demo­c­ra­t­ic oppo­nent, not so much this time.
Donald Trump’s two cam­paign events for Hyde-Smith on November 26^th seem to indi­cate a sense of ner­vous­ness on Republicans.
The Doug Jones win in neigh­bor­ing Alabama may be upper­most in the minds of Hyde-Smith’s sup­port­ers as well.

At issue are com­ments made by Hyde-Smith, Referring to a local ranch­er, in which she joked that, “if he invit­ed me to a pub­lic hang­ing, I’d be on the front row.” 
At anoth­er event, the sen­a­tor sug­gest­ed to a group of young vot­ers that vot­er sup­pres­sion would be “a great idea.”
“There’s a lot of lib­er­al folks in those oth­er schools who maybe we don’t want to vote,” she said. “Maybe we want to make it just a lit­tle more dif­fi­cult. And I think that’s a great idea.”
Cindy Hyde-Smith has not real­ly made a full-throat­ed apol­o­gy for her state­ments. She is seem­ing­ly invest­ed in run­ning out the elec­tion clock rather than apol­o­gize for her insen­si­tive and racist com­ments.
Attaching her­self ful­ly to Donald Trump’s coat-tails, Cindy Hyde-Smith seems to think that is all she needs to win in Mississippi.
She may very well be right in think­ing that.

Mississippi not only has the dubi­ous dis­tinc­tion of being one of the most racist states in the union, but it also had the high­est num­ber of lynch­ings of African-Americans dur­ing the Jim Crow era.
That Hyde-Smith thinks that sit­ting front and cen­ter at a pub­lic lynch­ing tells a great deal about her human­i­ty. 
If elect­ed to the Senate, it will speak even more clear­ly about those who vot­ed for her.
That Mississippi kind of brain rot has cer­tain­ly kept that state one of the most impov­er­ished and depen­dent on fed­er­al aid.
This brings me to the point of this article.

Not sur­pris­ing is the response of some Republicans in the state when asked about Cindy Hyde-Smith’s com­ments.
No.……I’m not talk­ing about whites; they are what they are; I’m refer­ring to some blacks in the state, who still sup­port the Republican par­ty.
“I just choose to look at it as a pos­si­ble mis­take and chalk it up to that,” said John Mosley Jr., an African-American Republican who ran for may­or of Moss Point, Mississippi, in 2017. “And I haven’t giv­en it much thought after­ward.”
“I’m a Republican. I sup­port Cindy Hyde-Smith,” said Charles Evers. “She didn’t say any­thing about black folks; she didn’t say any­thing about white folks. She just said, ‘If there’s a hang­ing, I’ll be in the front row’ or some­thing like that. She didn’t mean any­thing like that. She was say­ing some­thing. I don’t give a damn what oth­er peo­ple think.”

It makes me won­der whether these two are afraid of being strung up on the near­est tree. 
Please tell us how you real­ly feel, we will not tell any­one.
According to (post​bul​letin​.com), Evers is the 96-year-old broth­er of the late Medgar Evers, an NAACP leader who was assas­si­nat­ed on June 12, 1963, out­side his home in Jackson Byron De La Beckwith, a mem­ber of the White Citizens Council. Two tri­als in 1964 result­ed in hung juries. Beckwith was con­vict­ed of Evers’ mur­der on Feb. 5, 1994.

When I saw these com­ments and oth­ers, my ini­tial instinct was rage, just unadul­ter­at­ed rage at what I thought was the abject stu­pid­i­ty of the indi­vid­u­als involved.
Maybe some of that in these men and oth­ers like them, but there is always anoth­er per­spec­tive.
I have been writ­ing on this sub­ject for some time now, [the idea of black and Latino Republicanism], both of which seem to oper­ate in an Orwellian uni­verse, divorced from the real­i­ty of their indi­vid­ual existence.

I am mind­ful that for many in the deep south, the Democratic par­ty of George Wallace and Bull O’Connor still leaves a bit­ter taste in the mouths of peo­ple alive. The likes of Charles Evers, who lost his broth­er to an assas­s­in’s bul­lets.
I can only imag­ine how they would find it hard to sup­port the Democratic par­ty, which was the par­ty of seg­re­ga­tion­ists.
Juxtapose that with the ini­tial loy­al­ty African-Americans felt for the Republican par­ty because Lincoln, the Republican pres­i­dent, signed the Emancipation dec­la­ra­tion, and the obsti­na­cy becomes more under­stand­able, even though intol­er­a­ble and no less infuriating.

The miss­ing nexus for African-Americans who still cling to the Republican par­ty, is their inabil­i­ty to think out­side the way they were pro­grammed to think as [sub­hu­man sub­jects] of a sys­tem that pro­ject­ed itself as supe­ri­or to them.
Sure, Lincoln, a Republican President, was forced to free the slaves, but he did so only because it suit­ed his inter­est in main­tain­ing the Union.
Lincoln had no burn­ing desire to be rid of slav­ery, it was con­ve­nient for him, and his eman­ci­pa­tion dec­la­ra­tion was acute­ly tai­lored to fit those ends.
On the con­trary, Democratic President Lyndon Johnson presided over the sign­ing of both the [Civil and Voting Rights Acts] which changed the way blacks are treat­ed in this coun­try.
The sign­ing of both these pieces of leg­is­la­tion result­ed in whites’ mass exo­dus from the Democratic Party to the Republican par­ty.
Today the most loy­al base of the Democratic par­ty is African-Americans.

The Republican par­ty is ful­ly con­ver­sant with those facts. Subsequently, the par­ty isn’t try­ing to recruit blacks into the par­ty.
If you think about it, why would the Republican par­ty, which has become far too white and far too racist for even for­mer white Republicans, want to attract blacks?
Considering that Whites left the Democratic par­ty over that par­ty’s sup­port for blacks?
It is impor­tant nev­er to for­get that whites left the Democratic par­ty for no oth­er rea­son than that they believed anoth­er group of peo­ple had no right to the fun­da­men­tal rights and dig­ni­ty they enjoyed, as a mat­ter of course!
Nevertheless, as the small per­cent­age of blacks who still sup­port the Republican par­ty is con­cerned, the par­ty will not chase them out. 
At least not yet.…..who knows what this far-right par­ty of Stephen Miller, Cindy Hyde-Smith, and Donald Trump will do ulti­mate­ly?
The par­ty still has a demo­graph­ic prob­lem. As it strug­gles with per­cep­tions and a shrink­ing white base, it still needs a cou­ple of token black stooges to fend off some of the attacks on its racism.
Sorry Mia Love, Michael Steele, et al. 
Not many expect a Mike Espy win tonight in Mississippi, indeed, not this writer but stranger things have hap­pened.
I ful­ly expect white Mississippians will act like white Mississippians but the negroes, though.….….