This Is What They Think Of Us! Don't Let Them Get Away With It!!

Trump of course is saying that he wants no part of an endorsement from the Klan, but doesn't he believe the same things they do about black people? Haven't we heard him saying derogatory things about blacks in the ghetto, etc.? 

Please,  to all my brothers and sisters, (no matter what color you are) don't let the Klan and Trump get away with this!  Show them that "40s and Weed" will not keep us from going to the polls and making sure that ego-maniacal, women-groping, foul-mouthed Republican does NOT become the leader of this country.

White Nationalists Plan to Suppress Black Voters With ‘40s and Weed’: Report

Amid Donald Trump’s cries that the presidential election is rigged, the KKK and neo-Nazi organizations are reportedly working to suppress the African-American vote.

STEPHEN A. CROCKETT JR.

November 2, 2016

Members of the Fraternal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in 2009

On Tuesday, The Crusader, a newspaper affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan, endorsed Trump, who allegedly found the endorsement “repulsive.” Now a neo-Nazi leader has told Politico that he and his associates are planning to hand out marijuana and 40-ounce malt liquor in the “ghettos” of Philadelphia to encourage black voters to stay home.

According to Politico, the National Socialist Movement, the Ku Klux Klan and the white nationalist American Freedom Party are monitoring polls amid Trump’s claims that the election is rigged.

“The possibility of violence on or around Election Day is very real,” Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center told Politico. “Donald Trump has been telling his supporters for weeks and weeks and weeks now that they are about to have the election stolen from them by evil forces on behalf of the elites.”

Potok added that intimidating efforts could actually work against Trump.

“If, on the morning of Election Day, it turns out that we have white supremacists standing around looking threatening at polling places, I think it would arouse anger,” he said. “People would vote just to prove they’re not being intimidated by these radical racists.”

But intimidation isn’t the only method Trump supporters plan to use. Apparently all black voters need not to vote is weed and 40s.

“We also have some teams going in to the ghettos in Philly with 40s and weed to give out to the local residents, which we think will lead to more of them staying home. We have had success with this in the past,” wrote an unnamed representative of the right-wing website TheRightStuff.biz.

Politico added that it could not independently verify the claim that this “method” of black-voter suppression has worked in the past.

Read more at Politico.

The First 'Shock Jock' of the Radio - "Nothing But a Con and a Thief"

Please excuse the references to doing things 'today'; this post was supposed to have been published  yesterday, July 3rd.
Warning: Very Long Post 


I watched a movie today on the Bounce Channel called Talk To Me. I didn't recognize it, other than to identify that it was sometime in the 70's. Although not a big time fan of the 'Blacula' era movies I began to find myself interested in this one, which was about a young radio DJ and the radio station he worked for. The DJ had become very popular in that city; very well-liked, respected, and listened to when he spoke. He was always quick to tell his audience though that he was "nothing but a con (someone who'd done time in jail) and a thief".  It didn't matter to them, they loved him all the more.

The city was  Washington, DC., and the radio station was WOL 1450 AM. The movie was based around the time of the Martin Luther King Jr. assassination, and the DJ was heralded as being a voice that calmed down the angry mobs who surged through the streets vandalizing and looting the businesses there. They were pulling people out of their vehicles (white people) and beating them unmercifully with whatever weapon came to hand. The DJ, instead of fleeing as most people were doing, went back into the radio station and began a broadcast vigil that lasted for hours. During this time he was able to calm some of the emotions that were threatening to bring down the city, to talk some of the residents down from the precipice of anger and hate which they found themselves perched on. The man's name was Ralph Waldo "Petey" Greene.

Petey Greene

Earlier today I also read an article about a certain FOX newscaster's reaction (and the video she made) to Jesse Williams' speech at the BET Awards. (Of course her opinion wasn't good!) How she ran on, showing just how unintelligent she really is! (IMO) Of course there were many comments; very few agreed with her. Mostly the comments were people railing against her and her nerve to say anything against Mr. Williams. Here's an exchange that really struck me: evidently the  first poster was in support of the newscaster's video.

You said:

    " What would happen if whites had a white entertainment award? Or white Emmy award?  Or white music award? Or white history month? Or even a white miss America pageant??? Well we don't have any of these things...."

<quote>How old are you? I'm asking because obviously you don't remember the Miss America Pageant years ago, from when it first began in Atlantic City right up until 1970. Eleven months out of the year our children are taught American History in school, with no mention of the things that the children learn about during Black History Month. Now who is it that decrees every year (since 1976) that February is Black History Month? Oh yes, the President... and it hasn't been Obama! Now why would all those Presidents have made that decree if somewhere along the line the disparity had not been obvious? Or is it only those who refuse to see beyond someone's color who cannot admit that there HAS been a time when blacks couldn't do any of the things you mentioned because they were still being 'downtrodden'; they couldn't vote, they couldn't sit in the first seat they came to on the bus, they couldn't even walk into a carry-out and order a soda like everyone else! Just as you seem to have forgotten about the Miss America Pageant being all white for the first 30 years it was in existence, there are many other people who have not forgotten how things 'used to be', and for years have tried to retain their so-called white supremacy through use of the KKK and other organizations like it. When they couldn't be that open about their feelings, many of them have found whatever ways they can to let that hatred out.
What I really find hard to understand is how so many people who claim not to be prejudiced still cannot see that the disparity which has always existed is STILL HERE! And it's a shame that so many refuse to see it; I think we'd go a long way toward healing the breach if first we acknowledge that there IS one. All this constant back and forth does is make it worse, with everyone pointing fingers at everyone else.
What was that old punch line from a few  years back? "Can't we all just get along?" No one says we have to like each other, but we shouldn't be killing each other either. </quote>
                                          
Watching that movie, and watching that video and reading the accompanying article made me look at the two periods in our history; comparing the times and comparing the reactions of people. Do you realize how similar these periods are? Times in the 70's and  80's were the same as they are now in 2016. Events happen, people object and/or protest, and still others wonder what the big deal is, there's no problem... What do you think about what's happening to our society, our children, our businesses, our self-respect? Is racism 'better' than it was? (What constitutes better?) A lot of people, black and white, are saying that we really should just relax and enjoy what strides we've made; we should stop making something out of nothing!!

Brothers and Sisters, how can we not worry about what is happening when so many of us are being beaten and/or killed and everyone is telling us that there's nothing wrong? smh

Will Anyone Get It Right About Using the N-Word?

    Of course it's just my opinion, my sense of 'right', but it seems to just make so much sense; if you don't make a big deal about something, no one can use it to hurt you anymore! Instead, it's 'that group shouldn't use that word' and 'it's okay for that group to use this word'.. To my way of thinking, either NO ONE uses it, or EVERYONE does! How does it make sense to anyone that a person from one group can say a particular word and not only not get lambasted for it but there are people defending its usage, but another group says it and not only are there loud complaints but this person stands to lose their job, their career, and their standing in their community? Come on people, this is A WORD; a 2 dimensional word formed from tiles on a Scrabble board for goodness sakes! Something that you can just as easily make disappear by just a wave of your hand across the board. It means no more than that, unless you allow it to.  Of course, everyone has their own opinion:

The Pledge: Never use the n-word again

From the Clarion-Ledger.com May 10, 2010 

 

 

 Myrlie Evers-Williams knows the pain of the n-word.She heard it hurled many times in hate at her husband, Medgar Evers, before a Klansman shot him in the back on June 12, 1963. She and her three children ran outside to see him gasping and covered in blood before he died.   

     Her husband’s killer, Byron De La Beckwith, walked free in 1964. Thirty years later, Beckwith went on trial again. Several witnesses testified that Beckwith bragged to them later about killing "that n-----," Medgar Evers. This time, a jury convicted Beckwith, and he was sentenced to life in prison, where he died in 2001.

      Some white Americans use the racial epithet, but it's African Americans' use of the word that bothers Evers-Williams more. 

"They don't realize the historical shame of that word," she said. "It is not some term to toss to a buddy of yours." Some young African-African {sic} men have told her they use the n-word among themselves, said the 77-year-old chairman emeritus of the national NAACP. "They say, 'Well, I call my brother that. It's a loving term.' "

"That's no loving term — not unless you are ready to fight. For those of our generation, it is the most unpalatable word you can say."

      Even though the word has been popularized in some songs, African Americans should never speak the word, she said. "That bothers me more than a Caucasian using it. It is racist. It is hateful. It is everything it was meant to be." She challenged all Americans to stop using the n-word.