Month: June 2020

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The Most dangerous Person in the Racism Industry

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Racism–In the United States, there traditionally and systemically disadvantages amongst racial groups—across the country.

These social organizations and political forces have created ingrained issues that persist these days.

For the most part, In the last three years under the Trump administration, we have witnessed an increase in racism.

Consequently,  amid large nationwide protests over systemic racism and police brutality in the wake of George Floyd’s death, there has been a renewed effort to remove Confederate monuments and rename government facilities christened with rebel leaders’ names.

Yet—President Donald Trump said he is standing firm” with Confederate generals as Washington begins moving forward with renaming several military bases named after Confederate leaders.read more here

He is openly backing “dead, racist.

To be honest,  it has been one hundred fifty years since slavery ended and over and fifty years since the end of the Civil Rights Movement; we are still having to deal with the same racist matters.

We must remember:

Overcoming

When you get in a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”

Beecher Stower

Encouragement

“It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever – the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it. ”
Vince Lombardi

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Another Blatant Act of Racism

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Another Blatant act of Racism— Stephanie Rapkin, of Shorewood, in Milwaukee, an attorney showed up at a peaceful protest on N. Oakland Ave, parked her car across the road, blocking the march, over the past weekend. 
Ditching the car in the middle of the street, she got out and walked up to demonstrators, where she was caught on camera shouting at them; 
 Meanwhile, when asked to move her car, Rapkin spits on Eric Patrick Lucas III, 17, who helped organize the rally.

Eyewitnesses were stunned.

There is no other way to put this–Stephanie Rapkins is a redneck racist. This is crazy as hell, and my question is, WHY? There is no way this kind of racist stupid.  
As a lawyer, she knows that what he did was wrong, right about now, I am sure that she knows that a HUGH RISKY DECISION was made. Especially after being arrested “for spitting on a juvenile male during a verbal dispute.

Racism Must End

 According to the Shorewood Police Department, they charged her with disorderly conduct and battery. Her bail was set at $950. and not jailed because of COVID19.
Then on Sunday, she was arrested again after allegedly pushing a student from Ithaca College. The student was with a group protesting in front of  
Rapkin’s residence. Enraged, she came out and engaged in a verbal altercation with the protesters.
This time she physically shoved him with her hand in the chest, and then she proceeded to go back into her house where she should have remained in the first place.
Of course, someone called the police, and she was arrested for disorderly conduct and battery. 
 She allegedly “became physically resistive” when one of the officers tried to handcuff her.
While struggling during the arrested, she allegedly kneed one of the officers in the groin.
She was led by her elbows backward from her home to the car 
She was taken to the Shorewood Police Department to finish being booked.
State Rep. David Bowen, who attended the protest, has called for Rapkin to be disbarred, the Journal Sentinel reports.
Unfortunately, this lady will more than likely will not be disbarred. Things never change for black and brown human being. Let Punishment Fit The Crime!!

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” -Barack Obama
“No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background or his religion. People learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.” – Nelson Mandela

 

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Let Punishment Fit The Crime!!

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The Punishment: George Floyd died last week after a white cop refused to remove his knee from his neck keeping his airway blocked for nearly 9 minutes. This shocking incident was recorded by bystanders.
Allegedly he tried to pass a phony $20 bill before he died. No matter, those police officers could have handled this differently.
The head of the Minneapolis police union doesn’t care that a human life being taken away. Because he says George Floyd’s “violent criminal history” needs to be remembered and that the protests over his death are the work of a “terrorist movement.”

Bob Kroll –police union told his members in a letter–“the violent criminal history of George Floyd is not airing in the media.

What kind of BS is this?

Really–what kind of thinking is this. A child lost her father over this unnecessary police tactic. So what the Union chief is saying George Floyd deserved to die! Why? His criminal history.
He wants the protesters to know Floyd had landed five years behind bars in 2009 for an assault and robbery two years earlier. Before that, he had been convicted of charges ranging from theft with a firearm to drugs.
The man paid the price for his crimes and should not be further demeaned in the media because of it.
What’s more important is that white cop had every opportunity take his knee off the man neck–especially when he kept REPEATING “I CAN’T BREATHE.”

“I’ve worked with the four defense attorneys that are representing each of our four terminated individuals under criminal investigation, in addition to our labor attorneys to fight for their jobs.
They were terminated without due process,” Kroll wrote.
“This terrorist movement that is currently occurring was a long time build up which dates back years,” Kroll said in his letter of the protests, adding that some of his city’s issues exist because Minneapolis leaders have been “minimizing the size of our police force and diverting funds to community activists with an anti-police agenda.read more here

My take on the statement  above is:

The Police Union is full of corrupted members that want to use brutality as a means of defense against people committing crimes, no matter the nature of the offense.
Despite being caught on video–it seems as if they are going to continue brutalizing George Floyd by attempting to making what occurred justified.
Those cops deserved what they got–for not taking the appropriate actions in light of the situation. Floyd was down and handcuffed.
His death was a crime and the cops should be punished, just as Floyd was punished for his crimes.

Black Lives Matter

The Death of a 14 year old Black Boy

“Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.”
― Dr. Benjamin Spock
“We live in, arguably, the most developed, powerful country in the world, yet we are still unable to find a way to keep corrupt cops from killing black men. Why is that?”
― Carlos Wallace
“I know that it’s hard to believe that the people you look to for safety and security are the same people who are causing us so much harm. But I’m not lying and I’m not delusional. I am scared and I am hurting and we are dying. And I really, really need you to believe me.”
― Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

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The Death of a 14 year old Black Boy

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The Beginning

Carolyn Bryant swore in 1955 that 14-year-old Emmett Till grabbed and verbally threatened her days before her husband and his brother kidnapped and brutally murdered him.

Circumstances

Suddenly, after five decades, she admitted, “she lied.”

In August 1955, Emitt was visiting family in Sumner County, Mississippi, when he entered Bryant’s country store to buy some bubble gum. Bryant’s wife, Carolyn, was working in the store and spent about one minute alone with Till before others heard him whistle at her. ( However, Vanity Fair reported, he was said to have a lisp and may not have actually whistled.)

Pissed off, Roy Bryant and his half brother, J.W. Milam, kidnapped Till and tormented him to death. The two men were apprehended and arraigned on September 1955.

During the three-day preliminary, investigators introduced testimony from Moses Wright, Till’s uncle who saw his snatching, and Willie Reed, an African American tenant farmer heard Bryant and Milam torturing Till.

The worse part is the defense claimed that the mutilated body discovered in the Tallahatchie River was not that of Emmett Till.

The Trial

Disgustingly on the stand, Carolyn Bryant asserted that Till had grabbed her and verbally threatened her. She stated that while she was unable to utter the word he had used (as one of the defense lawyers put it), “he said [he had]’”—done something – “with white women before.’” Then she added, “I was just scared to death.”

And so in less than 60 minutes, the all-white, all-male jury found the men not guilty on September 23, 1955. Every person on the jury later conceded that they believed Bryant and Milam were guilty of homicide, yet decided to clear in light of the fact that they would receive life in prison or the death penalty would be to be too cruel to even think about imposing upon white men for murdering a black kid.

The end results after the preliminary, Bryant and Milam admitted to the murdering Emmitt in a Look magazine article. Consequently, The magazine paid them some $4000 if they graphically provided details to the their snatching of Emmett Till from his uncle’s home. Read More

Conclusion

Personally, I find it disturbing that that they conceded that they gun whipped him, constrained him to undress, tied an overwhelming cotton-gin fan around his neck with security fencing, shot him, and dumped his body in the Tallahatchie River.

It is still a disturbing thought— thinking about it is sixty-five years since the death of Emitt Till’s murder in Mississippi; and nothing has changed. Black men and male children are still being murdered for no reason. The only crime some black men committed was being born Black.

It is past the time that White Americans that harbor hatred toward people of color realized that you are not superior, just as we are not inferior to you because of the color of our skin.

We are human-beings, our blood run red just as yours. In fact, most of us related to each other in more ways than one. More or less of us shared White DNA. For example—I have 30% European DNA, and I have 70% African DNA.

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Attacking bullshit with more bullshit doesn’t

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Ultimate Guide To BULLSHIT DEFENSE

Attacking  bullshit—When I let malicious bullshit in my life go unchecked, it severely limits my ability to enjoy friendly bullshit in the future.

The Two Pillars of Bullshit Defense Combating the malicious bullshit in your life need not be all that complicated it can be done in two steps but before you can fix something, you have to identify the problem.

Since bullshit is so prolific in today’s age, it can hit you from almost any angle, so being ready for anything is the best strategy, but that’s impossible. Instead, a more realistic and decidedly less bullshit way to approach it is to attack the areas where bullshit is most likely to disrupt your life.

News and politics: Due to our own appetite for sensation, the flow of bullshit runs very deep in this sector of society.

If this is the benign strand of the bullshit virus and going along with it could be entertaining, why sweat it? When malicious bullshit enters my life, I stand up to it and beat it down with as much truth and integrity as I can muster.

If it’s malicious bullshit that will not harm others, I may also choose to avoid it. Attacking bullshit with more bullshit does not cancel the equation; it multiplies it. When I let malicious bullshit in my life go unchecked, it severely limits my ability to enjoy friendly bullshit in the future. Whichever decision you make, it’s good to remember that, as long as you want to participate in life, bullshit cannot be entirely avoided.

The best decision for what to do in a bullshit-prone environment will depend on how important the outcome is for you and your ability to afford disappointment both financially and emotionally. When it comes to bullshit, you can get ahead by playing the odds. Examples of Pure, Unfiltered Bullshit Let’s say you see something on the news that leaves you feeling sad, angry, lonesome, or numb (this should not be unfamiliar to anyone).

There’s a high likelihood that the report being made contains factual information, but is presented via a stream of veritable bullshit.

 

This is nothing but bullshit!

 

Trump vows to help oust GOP senator after criticism: ‘Get any candidate ready’

AOL.COM 3 hrs ago

Donald Trump wrote Thursday that he would campaign against Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski over her praise of comments made by Gen. James Mattis, who the previous day lashed out at the president over threats to use the U.S. military to put down nationwide protests over the death of African-American George Floyd.

Posting to his Twitter account, Trump vented over Murkowski’s public rebuke and vowed to head to her home state of Alaska and campaign on behalf of her as-yet-unnamed opponent in 2022.

Earlier in the day Thursday, Murkowski told reporters on Capitol Hill that she agreed with the remarks made by Mattis, Trump’s former defense secretary, who said he was “angry and appalled” by Trump’s response to the protests over Floyd’s killing.

“When I saw Gen. Mattis’s comments yesterday I felt like perhaps we are getting to a point where we can be more honest with the concerns that we might hold internally and have the courage of our own convictions to speak up,” Murkowski said.