O'Malley needs to get more sunlight.....

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Saturday December 19, 2015 · 8:08 PM PST

2015/12/19 · 20:08

Just based on these remarks here...unfortunately the fix is in...but this guy should get a whole lot more coverage…

He get's it....

Is it time for African Americans to find new allies....

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Friday August 14, 2015 · 8:04 PM PDT

2015/08/14 · 20:04

I gotta say, I'm quite frankly amazed at the the hate thrown at #BLM, There is a diary on today's list of diaries that quite frankly should be headlining over at RedState or some Klan R' US forum...I mean, I can't with that…

There's is a discussion bubbling in the Black Community about backing away from Progressive/Democrats...this backlash to #BLM and people performing actions on #BLM's behalf is quite frankly astonishing…

Right before Kings death he had a conversation with Harry Belafonte….the gist….

Midway through the Civil Rights movement, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. realized that the struggle for integration would ultimately become a struggle for economic rights. I remember the last time we were together, at my home, shortly before he was murdered. He seemed quite agitated and preoccupied, and I asked him what the problem was. “I’ve come upon something that disturbs me deeply,” he said. “We have fought hard and long for integration, as I believe we should have, and I know that we will win. But I’ve come to believe we’re integrating into a burning house.”
That statement took me aback. It was the last thing I would have expected to hear, considering the nature of our struggle, and I asked him what he meant. “I’m afraid that America may be losing what moral vision she may have had,” he answered. “And I’m afraid that even as we integrate, we are walking into a place that does not understand that this nation needs to be deeply concerned with the plight of the poor and disenfranchised. Until we commit ourselves to ensuring that the underclass is given justice and opportunity, we will continue to perpetuate the anger and violence that tears at the soul of this nation.”

“I fear, I am integrating my people into a burning house.”

~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

Harry Belafonte Reflects on Working Toward Peace

His response to Harry Belafonte when he was asked what should be done...his response

“What should we do?” Dr. King told him that we “Become the firemen, Let us not stand by and let the house burn.”

Is it time to put down the firehose and walk away...let the house burn down...is it that time, just take the knock for the losses, walk away, rebuild....?

Stokely Carmichael in his Black Power speech on October 29, 1966 pointed out....

"..And the question is, if we are going to do that when and where do we start, and how do we start? We maintain that we must start doing that inside the white community. Our own personal position politically is that we don’t think the Democratic Party represents the needs of black people. We know it don’t. (applause) And that if, in fact, white people really believe that, the question is, if they’re going to move inside that structure, how are they going to organize around a concept of whiteness based on true brotherhood and based on stopping exploitation, economic exploitation, so that there will be a coalition base for black people to hook up with? You cannot form a coalition based on national sentiment. That is not a coalition. If you need a coalition to redress itself to real changes in this country, white people must start building those institutions inside the white community. And that is the real question, I think, facing the white activists today. Can they, in fact, begin to move into and tear down the institutions which have put us all in a trick bag that we’ve been into for the last hundred years?..."

BLACK POWER

After 50 years, can we concede he was right all along...should African Americans move on to other things...other spaces, whereas we may truly build a team of allies, who recognize and will fight for what needs to be done...first and foremost stopping the murders by Law Enforcement....without the hostile and racist overtones...

Or do we as Malcolm says in his speech in 1964...remain political chumps...

Is it time, heed the wisdom of those that came before us, take a fresh look, re-tool....I'm just asking....

Police Reform...and while I'm at it...Eff your feelings, man

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Thursday August 13, 2015 · 9:27 PM PDT

2015/08/13 · 21:27

I gotta say the Seattle spectacle has been an eye opening experience for the African American community, I'm seeing and participating in a lot of chatter… in all, a lot of butthurt. Because supposedly Progressives/Democrats were on the team

Listening to the audio of that event and hearing some of the vile, racist disgusting chatter at that event, because these young ladies just want to live, was very disheartening. If one didn't know any better you would have thought, that the crowd was going to start building gallows and tying nooses with crosses burning in the background...it was disgusting.

A couple of images have stuck with me so far, one is a video clip of an OathKeeper...you know, the guys who are supposed to be infiltrating the area, and when you look on MSNBC and a few diaries here, their only purpose is to create chaos and kill black people…

In this clip he's debating with what I assume to be a Progressive. This one minute clip spoke volumes to me, it was so profound. How is it, that this hater of Black People, this domestic terrorist depending on who you listen to, have so much more clarity on this issue, than supposedly a Progressive…? This guy is supposedly a right wing terrorist, he hates black people, right..? right? but he got it….Now later I saw another clip where he said we should elect Trump for President so brightest tool in the shed he's not ...but still...he got it, more-so than a lot of bleeding blue Progressives.

Now some are going to puff their chests, pout and stomp their feet, and say maybe African Americans need to find new allies…..you know what, maybe...it's quite possible that this relationship has run it's course and it's time to look elsewhere...one of purposes of aligning with Progressives/Democratics was to put a stop to the killing….based on the backlash to BLM it appears that some Progressives are satisfied with death by cop instead of lynching...as an African American I find that unacceptable...so if your response is...well there are other causes than yours, and let's work on them all...my response is fuck you, fuck your causes, fuck your candidates and fuck your elections...it's really that simple.

Because I can't really think of a cause that's more important than my or someone who looks like me life, to able to be as a free, tax paying, law abiding citizen able to roam the country freely without being killed by law enforcement...and before you make an ass out of yourself, and make a statement like that...think for yourself if you were a part of a group that was only 13% of the population, living in a country that had mass genocide, slavery, lynching and interment camps in it's history...and you decided to go to the store for you favorite latte, and didn't make it home killed by law enforcement...because your blinker didn't work.

Over the fold for police reform...

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Friday April 10, 2015 · 1:00 AM PDT

2015/04/10 · 01:00

I typically don't watch T.V. any-more, preferring to screen my video input on my computer and watch it there, any way I'm just sitting here allowing the T.V. to watch me with no supervision. All of a sudden I see the mother of thee Cop who killed the unarmed African American in S.C.

Out of her mouth flows, I can't watch the video, I ignore the people around me who are talking about it....he's my baby.....all I can see is red, rage is building. WTF... Are they trying to taint the jury pool already...?

Let me calm down T.V's are expensive ... settle down...

I can't....

Foreclosure to Home Free, as 5-Year Clock Expires

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Tuesday March 31, 2015 · 1:12 AM PDT

2015/03/31 · 01:12

Whenever someone tells me that housing and the economy is recovering, and that Obama is doing such a good job bringing these things back, the market is 18k...blah, blah, blah...I just chuckle...because they don't track the same information I do for my business...bottomline, we are no where near a recovery, the banks are on life support...the game is rigged.

And before someones head esplodes and starts rattling off all the good things about Obamanomics, let me just say, if your name is not Merlin the Wizard it's very little you can do to fix the mess the spreadsheet cowboys on Wall Street created....that's just the bottomline. This is not an attack on Obama's economic policy...

However, with that said ...there seems to be some kharma in the air, a little bit of payback for some of the ills of Wall Street and this information needs to be spread far and wide...

What is it you ask...Free Houses....

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Sunday March 29, 2015 · 11:02 PM PDT

2015/03/29 · 23:02

Let me first start off by saying, this is not really a diary...it's more or less a question. This popped up in my newsfeed on my social media and rendered some fairly interesting responses, nevermind the article comment section, which quite frankly is a cesspool...

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Friday February 20, 2015 · 9:10 PM PST

2015/02/20 · 21:10

I mean really....drilling for Copper on sacred land by a Foreign Corporation

"...Year after year the bills failed to pass. But in December, the legislation was was quietly passed into law as part of the 2015 National Defense Authorization Act. Arizona Sen. John McCain, who has long championed the deal, said the land exchange would “maintain the strength of the most technologically advanced military in the world” since copper is the second-most-utilized mineral by the Department of Defense...."

I'm not going to write out a long drawn out diary about how foul this is...but I saw no one was talking about it and just wanted to bring attention to it.

As someone who has lived in Arizona and visited the reservations, it annoys me when I see things like this....

Crap like this is not supposed to happen during a supposedly Progressive Administration...it just isn't.

President Obama signed the defense bill into law in mid-December, but the San Carlos Apaches say they haven’t given up yet. Tribal members organized a two-day protest march to draw attention to their cause, walking 44 miles along the highway from the reservation to Oak Flat.
America Tonight also made multiple attempts to reach the Arizona congressional delegation that advocated for the land swap: Republican Sens. John McCain and Jeff Flake, and Rep. Paul Gosar plus Democratic Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick. All declined to comment or did not respond.

“At the end of the day I think the American people are getting short-changed badly. They are going to lose an exquisite, beautiful piece of landscape that belongs to them,” said Wood. “And yet a foreign-owned company is going to manage to make billions of dollars of profit off of resources that belong to the entire American public, and that’s the ultimate description of what happened here.”

Hopefully somehow, someway this can be stopped. However, with a Republican majority in the House and the Senate I won't hold my breath.

Looks like OccupyLA is going down tonight

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Tuesday November 29, 2011 · 9:56 PM PST

2011/11/29 · 21:56

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A Black Woman Who Occupied Wall Street: Why She Won't Be Going Back.

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Sunday October 16, 2011 · 10:25 PM PDT

2011/10/16 · 22:25

This rant is currently making it's way through the African American circles of Google+ and Facebook. I'm posting it here for awareness, in my circles I'm hearing a lot about what role African Americans are supposed to play in this melee / movement...a lot of questions...in fact more questions than answers.

Maybe someone will see this and correct the situation...if it can be corrected.

These are not my words....a link to the original post is at the bottom

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Saturday July 30, 2011 · 5:10 PM PDT

2011/07/30 · 17:10

He's the only one who seems to get it. I'll post the video when it comes up.

Updated...

I really don't think anything else needs to be added nor do I figure his remarks need to be analysed...it's pretty simple stuff what he's saying and compared to some of the other nonsensical logic displayed on the floor today, he's clearly the smartest of the pack...

End of diary

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Sunday July 24, 2011 · 8:54 PM PDT

2011/07/24 · 20:54

WASHINGTON -- After another round of failed negotiations with Republicans over the weekend, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Sunday night laid out Democratic leaders' latest — and likely final — proposal for a deficit reduction deal: $2.7 trillion in cuts, a debt ceiling hike through the end of 2012 and no revenues.
The proposal "meets Republicans' two major criteria," Reid said in a statement. It includes enough spending cuts to meet or exceed the amount of a debt ceiling raise through the end of 2012, and it doesn't includes any of the new revenues Democrats have been pushing for.

"We hope Speaker Boehner will abandon his 'my way or the highway' approach, and join us in forging a bipartisan compromise along these lines," Reid said.

HuffPost Article

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Thursday June 23, 2011 · 12:23 AM PDT

2011/06/23 · 00:23

The citizens of this country are slowly sinking into the abyss from joblessness and this is what you're focusing on...and evidenced by this article you have zero support from the other side of the aisle...

WASHINGTON -- Senate Democrats launched on Wednesday a new effort for comprehensive immigration reform, even though they so far have no Republican support for a bill that would allow some undocumented immigrants to gain legal status.
"Right now going down, figuratively, this long corridor of doors of the offices of Republican senators, and I'm trying every door to see if one door will open, and one senator will step forward and join us," said Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.).

Although Durbin, along with bill author Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) and co-sponsor Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), acknowledged the tough odds of getting immigration reform through the Senate -- much less a Republican-controlled House -- they said it was important to offer a vehicle.

Really Senators... is this the best use of your time...? Something where at this point in time there is absolutely no political will, to make this happen. The Dream Act was just defeated a few months back...and that should have been an easy one. I mean seriously, when Democrats had the House and the Senate you couldn't get it done...so what makes you think it's going to happen now?

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O'Malley needs to get more sunlight.....

Is it time for African Americans to find new allies....

Police Reform...and while I'm at it...Eff your feelings, man

I want to Hulk smash my T.V.

Foreclosure to Home Free, as 5-Year Clock Expires

Netanyahu has burned his bridges with Black Democrats

Can someone...anyone cut the American Indian Tribes in ths country some slack...

Looks like OccupyLA is going down tonight

A Black Woman Who Occupied Wall Street: Why She Won't Be Going Back.

Listening to Bernie Sanders on the floor now...Updated w/ video

Reid Pitches Final Deficit Deal Without Revenues

Comprehensive Immigration Reform Effort Relaunched In Senate - (what a complete waste of time)