KANYE NEEDS ALL HIS STUFF PUT IN A BOX TO THE LEFT

AND HE IS NOT ALONE

In case you called in sick for few weeks and missed it:

Kanye West has been babbling about how Jay Z and Beyonce's child can't play with his children anymore  -- in addition to talking smack about a BeyHive protected Beyonce who won some award he thought he should have won 

Not long after the election, Kanye called out the black audience members from the stage and said something to the effect of 'If I woulda voted I would'a voted for Trump' and told them to stop talking about racism so much. 

Black audience members handed him his head. (boo-ed him)

Kanye flounced off stage after only 3 songs   

I'm assuming promoters/show runners have to refund the audience's money

THEN Kanye decides he won't do the rest of his tour 

I'm assuming promoters/tour runners have to refund a lot more money  

All of a sudden Kanye's sick with "exhaustion" and cancel's his tour -- It's been reported that he was committed involuntarily  

Me? I'm not going for this. I tend to think his family and lawyers started thinking Kanye looked "exhausted" and needed a rest in a mental institution just about the time they figured out there was a possibility of their meal ticket being sued by everybody who sponsored his tour. 

I mean, how many millions just went up in smoke for Kanye new-ish extended family and his managers because he canceled a tour based on being booed. And all because he can't stop seeing himself as a black unicorn every single time he passes a mirror?

It's true that Kanye could be having a real nervous breakdown --since he's not wrapped too tight to begin with. But I think this breakdown is legally convenient coming on the heels of hissy fit that began on a stage and lasted long enough for him to cancel an entire tour. 

More than that, I don't know that extreme arrogance and a dedication to "I'm sooo different" and I'm  going to prove it just by saying crap that's different than most black folks with common sense actually qualifies as "mental illness." 

I dated a guy who lived to be different. LIVED. FOR. IT.  And it sort of felt like it should be put in the  "mental illness" box. but I don't think it actually is -- dysfunctional or not.

Ultimately though, what one believes about Kanye (Azealia or Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) doesn't matter though. The solution is the same. 

To the left, to the left

To the left, to the left (mmmmmm)

To the left, to the left

Everything you own in the box to the left

In the closet that's my stuff

Yes, if I bought it, please don't touch

And keep talking that mess that's fine

But could you walk and talk at the same time

Standing in the front yard

Tellin' me, how I'm such a fool

Talkin' 'bout, I'll never ever find a man like you

You got me twisted

You must not know about me, 

you must not know about me...

Don't you ever for a second get to thinking

You're irreplaceable

So go ahead and get gone...

Beyonce's Song

Irreplaceable

In case you can't tell, let me inform you that I am not a fan of Kanye West. I haven't been one for a long time. In fact, I'm pretty anti-Kanye.

But I was a big fan for a minute or two when he first started. During a critical moment of the Hurricane Katrina Crisis, he said, "George Bush doesn't care about black people." I fell out of my chair laughing over his audacity. A lot of people did. It was an angry laughter though. So many black people were dead and displaced and our government, led by George Bush, was barely moving to help them. 

Do you remember when Kanye said that? Do you remember the days of Hurricane Katrina? (video below)

Black intellectuals had been using million dollar words to say the same thing about Bush Jr not caring on various news shows when he did not respond to Hurricane Katrina with any urgency seemingly because black neighborhoods were hit hardest. Kanye came right out and said Black people are "being called looters" while white people are said to be "looking for food" when they broke into abandoned grocery stores.  

Then Kanye followed up with, "George Bush doesn't care about black people." 

My entire family from coast to coast screamed at our televisions in support. My phone was ringing off the hook. We were overjoyed and laughing because he said it but also angry that it had to be said.  

Video from back when Kanye sounded like 

he was a little "off" but sounded as if he had sense.

"George Bush doesn't care about black people."

But that was before Kanye's Mama died. He ain't been right since.

For a long time I made the excuse he was in mourning when he said something stupid and/or offensive. Then I started making the excuse that he was just young. Then somebody told me he was closing in on 40 years old (a few years back) and I had to admit that it wasn't youth that informed his arrogance and ridiculousness.

I had to admit he's just an arrogant @$$, mourning or not.

By the time Kanye said a couple of things about black and brown women, I was done with him. So I may have overreact a bit when he said "Me and a lot of my friends like...mutts"  (translation: light-skinned, mix raced women)

I started calling him "Coonye" in my head a long time ago.

Now Kanye is saying he would have voted for Mean Tangerine if he had voted. And he said this ignorant crap after MT has assigned a white nationalist to be his chief strategist.

For those that think Kanye is intelligent, let me remind you that for every quasi-wise thing Kanye says, he says 6 idiotic things. And if a person talks long enough that person will eventually say something that sounds profound. It's a matter of time. So I'm not impressed with Kanye's silly @$$ --even without the colorism b.s. he uttered to cover up the fact that he uses a paper bag test to decide who he's going to date and/or marry.

I'm just as unimpressed Azealia Banks' and her attempts to stay relevant by saying outrageous things. But what's interesting here is how Banks gets called everything but a child of gawd when she says anything off the wall. She got dragged, and rightfully so, when she said she supports Trump, a white man that would annihilate all people of color with a snap of a finger if he could.

The difference between Azealia and Kanye get treated is obvious. 

The same Kanye West, who surprises me by being able to walk and chew gum at the same time since his mama died? For him people cry. For him people mourn the loss of his mind and the strain he must be under. For him people skim through paragraphs of verbal mishmash to find a few sentences they can twist, pretzel-ize and generally reform into wisdom....even after he makes it plain he'd have supported Trump too.

Kanye gets cover.

Azealia gets the boot to the butt.

Blatant racism isn't the only thing that hurts the black community The blatant sexism and toxic masculinity worship revealed by the black community's treatment of Azealia Banks, Nate Parker, Bill Cosby are problems too.

In fact, I think people of color refusing to vote for the HILLARY-BLOCK of Trump in the same way they voted for President Obama may have something to do with Hillary's failure to be a man. 

Toxic Masculinity isn't just being repulsed by the control and power of the female. It is also being attracted to the hyper-masculine male. The hyper-masculine hero male in the U.S. is:

1.  the man with a lot of women, 
2.  the man with a lot of money or 
3. the man with a lot of power. 
4.  the man with talent enough to be professional athlete  

Donald Trump fits the bill as a hyper-masculine, toxic masculinity hero in three out of four areas.

So black folk suffering from a TM mindset are likely as attracted to Kanye as they are repulsed by Azealia. And it follows that Kanye, Dwayne Johnson, LL Cool J and a host of others --in what may be a TM mindset-- are as attracted to Trump as they are repulsed by Hillary. 

When you see people like Kanye, The Rock, LL Cool J and more than a few sports figures of various ethnicities, Azealia and Omorosa drool over Trump's unethical path to more riches based on his Daddy's riches, you should probably wonder if they don't feel something close to sexual excitement whenever they Trump or hear him talk.

We shouldn't give our money, time, and support to anybody, no matter what race or ethnicity they are, if they are going to influence others to vote for a misogynistic, homophobic, islamophobic white supremacist no matter what the basis of their attraction to the misogynistic, homophobic, islamophobic white supremacist actually is. 

So, I am not advocating that Azealia be treated like Kanye. I don't want to see her dragged anymore. But I am suggesting that we make sure all of our self-hating attention addicts disappear from public life. People of color can make that happen by not supporting them. This is important because every single person of color these stars influence toward Trump from their platform harms us all. 

Side Note: White feminists have been asking why white country singer, Taylor Swift, a recently self-proclaimed feminist did not come out in support of Hillary Clinton (which is different from black and brown people voting Clinton to keep Trump out of office) The reason they are asking they think a white feminist should vote for and support a white feminist because they know that most of America isn't that bright.

America, black, brown, white, etc vote the way their favorite stars vote. This is dumb that this is true. It is embarrassing that this is true. But it's still true. 

However, it's shockingly ridiculous for white feminists to not understand that white country-western turn pop singer Swift clearly knows her predominantly white audience and their likely love for Donald Trump's mysoginist, racist, homophobic, islamophobic rhetoric. Swift is not Bey. Bey leads her fans. Swift follows hers or at the very least does not say anything contrary to what she can intuit they believe.  

 Therefore, I don't care how minuscule famous POC political efforts in supporting Trump were in the past or will be in the future, Kanye, Azealia, Dwayne the Rock Johnson have the ability to provide real voter support to overt white supremacy candidates.




And if some people of color don't think there's a difference between how fast overt white racism moves versus covert white racism, then the Bleached Blond Dragon is about to give them a lesson.

If some don't think there's differences in levels and types of white racism, that means they've been living in fear and trembling before they've even seen and experienced peak white violence -- and they haven't read very much detail about peak white violence in black history books either. (Not knowing your history can be deadly. POC's should be nervous if not outright scared now.)

  

Not to belabor a point, but Trump being a ethnoracist, sexist, homophobic Islamophobe is not a matter of Trump having opinions different than ours. 

Racism and Sexism are not opinions. Trump is deficient in character and actively trying to harm people of color and whole host of others that are not white male or attached to white males (white wives) And he has strong leadership skills  

Trump's supporters are actually talking about Japanese-like internment camps for Muslims during his "extreme vetting process."  

Black and brown people who voted for the HILLARY-BLOCK understand WHO the white people are that supported the Dragon. We are flat out calling these white people racist, sexist, homophobic islamophobes. 

And now we need to understand the same thing about people of color.
EVERYBODY that voted for Trump, including POCs, have made it clear that they don't give a damn about themselves as people of color, women, LGBT rights, immigrants, or Muslims. And we need to respond to their disregard of others accordingly.

I saw a tweet from a white person that said, "Just because I voted for Trump doesn't make me a racist." 

That has me thinking Kanye and Azealia might say, "Just because I'm inclined to vote for Trump, that doesn't make me a internalized racism sufferer."

A response tweet I read probably applies to both is, "Just because I stabbed a stranger to death with a knife doesn't make me a murderer.

In other words, Kanye and Azealia are both full of crap. Personal disgust aside, we can't afford to let them fracture a POC vote that is already too fractured. 

So please stop giving Kanye and Azealia and other public figures that are POC republicans your money. If we push them disappear from public life we limit their political influence on voters who don't like to think that much.  

Your young sons, young daughters, and young cousins cannot afford to mistake the foolishness they spout for wisdom. And the rest of us cannot afford to have their fans collude with an ethnoracist, sexist, homophobic Islamophobic man that's creating a White House Staff bent on destroying us.

Trump's staff scares me more than Trump does

I don't think Trump has the brains or dedication to run the country. I think his attention seeking is going to take up all of his mind. If he doesn't find a way to quit just so he doesn't have to read a million documents on policy, I think someone on his staff or a group of people on his staff including that white supremacist Bannon, will be running the country.

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As for those who believe Kanye and Azealia  truly are mentally ill. That's fine. Let them recover permanently in obscurity.

Obscurity is probably the cure they need anyway because I tend to think Kanye and Azealia's breakdowns coincide with drops in their popularity. If they have no popularity to lose, they'll be better off. 

Besides, black and brown people who try to side with whiteness, who try to climb inside whiteness are bound to make themselves mentally ill.

Kanye even has white family that fairly republican (as I understand it from reading headlines as I stand on line at the supermarket.) So I am not inclined to feel sorry for him when its clear the mind can't go in two directions at once. The moderate republicans have been filling their swamp with overt racists since Reagan.  Mental breakdown in the midst of white supremacy advocates seems inevitable to me.

Clarence Thomas didn't go completely bonkers and start shooting people like we thought he would, but Kanye's choices of Amber Rose and Kim K. as significant others PLUS his implying by word and deed that he doesn't like black women because he favors women closer to whiteness makes a mental breakdown seem likely more than unlikely. Taken together these are all symptoms of self-hate, right?  

Anybody who doesn't like half the black race (black women) is self-hating, right? Self-hate indicates mental illness -- whether he is up and happy or down in the dumps and in a mental hospital, yes?

As for Azealia Banks? She actually defends bleaching herself. It seems to me that making yourself whiter also lays out the stepping stones of self-hate toward mental illness.

Maybe the two of them are creating their own mental illness with their choices toward whiteness or they were made mentally weak by living in oppressive white America. I'm not a psychologist. So I don't know. But whatever's going on with them? They have chosen the side of the deadliest oppressor the black community has had lately. 

No matter what is or is not wrong with Kanye and Azealia as far as their mental health goes, I think we as black and brown people should boycott anybody that can damage young black and brown fans by spouting self-hating nonsense.

Kanye, The Rock, are Azealia, are not irreplaceable. New artists with a better sense of duty to the black community will be along tomorrow. 



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THE DRAGON AND THE WEATHER VANE

Very Smart Brothas Headline

I WILL NEVER UNDERESTIMATE WHITE PEOPLE’S NEED TO PRESERVE WHITENESS AGAIN

At least the author of this article admits he under estimated white folks commitment to preserving the power of whiteness. 

A lot of black and brown folk say that they knew this already. But,   unlike this brave writer, they refuse to admit that they did not see the majority of white folks as a formidable political enemy.

More than that a lot of black and brown folk refuse to admit they failed to connect the dots and therefore failed show up for political battle at the polls. 

I don't usually like using war metaphors. It feels too violent and trivializing of the waste of life that is war. But I don't want to be too similar to President Obama in that I sometimes show up to a gun fight with a dull pen knife (as a friend said of President Obama a few weeks back.)  But we are in a war right now. Trump has appointed people that are openly xenophobic and spewers or hate speech.

For people of color (POCs) the 2016 election was never about loving Hillary. It was about stopping Trump.  Black women that showed up showed solidarity, tried to build a wall between Trump black and brown communities.

But a lot of POCs didn't even show up. They didn't even vote.

But now that I've read the VSB article captioned up top, I now realize that a lot of black and brown people didn't know how much danger they were in from the majority of white people in this particular election.

In order to set voting in certain elections as a priority one has to know the difference between weather vane politician, and a dragon politician -- especially when the Dragon has a new name like "alt-Right." 



The weather vanes (democratic or republican) follow opinion polls and move with the wind. Usually they only have the potential to move POCS backward or forward by about 10% As POC progress comes in minuscule movements over long periods of time, we tend to vote for our white democratic weather vanes because those miniscule movements forward lead to the occasional leap forward. 

Dragons, however, are different. Dragons don't blow with the wind. Dragons create wind based on fear of the-other. They breathe fire and inspire people to move. When you see a white dragon with a clear ability to lead on the other side, that's when you start voting self-preservation. That's when you make sure everybody shows up for political battle.

More important than being able to tell the dragon from the weather vane is having the knowledge that the majority of white people, especially poor white people, will vote against their own financial well-being in order to feel like they have the higher status of whiteness. 

Damon Young of VerySmarthBrothas said,

In this election, White people did not vote against their self-interests. They may have voted against a self-interest — a few actually — but not their most important one: The preservation of White supremacy. 

Retaining the value of a Whiteness they believed to be increasingly devalued superseded everything else. Including their own livelihoods; their own physical and financial well-beings; their own Christianity; their own agency; their own money; their own educations; their own futures; their own children’s futures, their own country’s legacy; their own country’s status with the rest of the world; their own environment; their own food, air, and water; their own rights; and their own lives.

And please note that I am not including any qualifiers. For working class Whites. Or Whites from rust-belt cities. Or White men. Or White people who didn’t graduate from college. Or rural Whites. Or Midwestern Whites. Or Southern whites. This is on ALL White people. Who are complicit even if they didn’t vote for Trump. Because they obviously haven’t done enough to repudiate the mindsets existing in their families and amongst their friends; possessed by their co-workers and neighbors; shared during private holiday gatherings and public city townhalls. Who have shown us that nothing existing on Earth or Heaven or Hell matters more to them than being White and whichever privileges — real or fabricated; concrete or spiritual — existing as White in America provides.

http://verysmartbrothas.com/i-will-never-underestimate-white-peoples-need-to-preserve-whiteness-again/ 

The paragraph above, highlighted in red, is shockingly naive.

The majority of white men have always voted for white supremacy above all else. Always. And non-feminist white women (the majority of white women) follow them more often than not.

Again, the white poor have been voting to slit their own throats for decades and decades as they look on in worshipful hopefulness at the white rich (who hate them) FOREVER. That has never changed. That hasn't changed since slavery.

"Poor white trash" and "Trailer Trash" and "Wife beater" t-shirts are all names I hear from white people about other white people who don't have much, money or education. Yet, poor white people almost worship those that either hate them or try to erase them, pretend they don't exist.   

The thing that was different about this election --after 8 years of white-washed thinking that we were in a post-racial America-- was proximity of the white demographic to no longer being the numerical majority. 

Shrinking White Demographic
White people should no longer be the majority by 2050 (some say 2040)

This bone deep fear or losing power, plus Donald Trump's ability water, nurture, and energize white supremacy in a huge variety of white groups by using a mixture of dog whistle and overt white racism made a lot of white folks decide to vote their white supremacy.

Add to that the fact that white people have been looking at a black president for 8 years and you get a super energized white supremacy. 

So white folks being white didn't surprise me.The things that surprised me were that: 

1) a full two-thirds of white people did NOT vote for Trump. (It was less)
2) the black males vote for Trump at 13% -- and that this was the "good" news for male POCs
3) the latino vote (mostly mexicans) was as bad as it was. I almost fell on the floor when I saw estimates that Latino men (other than Cubans) voted for Trump at a rate of 33%

I thought we (people of color) all knew that we were going to have to jump white supremacy and go to the polls.

And I really did not think educated black people could mistake a weather vane (Hillary) for a white supremacy dragon (Mean Tangerine), and actually think that both were equally threatening to us. 

Again, black women voters rose up to push this back because they did recognized the threat. They did not rise up for love of Hillary. I haven't spoken to a black woman yet who gives a damn about Hillary yet. What black women voters cared about was stopping Trump. 

At least this brother admits he messed up. But I wonder if he knows where he messed up. 

I'm not sure but I'm getting the distinct impression that black and brown folks younger than 30 only know the surface of black and brown history if they know any at all.

White folk jumping up to defend white supremacy at the polls has been consistent for decades. Furthermore, the rogue waves of white supremacy have hit us before, and I'm not talking about during the Civil Rights Movement.

We've seen a white supremacy dragon with an ability to lead before. His name was Ronald Wilson Reagan. Mr. 666 only used a dog whistle to stir up white fears and label black and brown folk degenerates.

And he did it at a time when there was virtually nothing for white people to worry about from a white superiority perspective; they had all the power and were in no danger of losing it any time soon. But Reagan scapegoated black and brown people for what was wrong with the economy-- just like the KKK has done so many times in our country's history. And Ronnie Ray Gun* made white people feel good about themselves as he was doing it. (*- Nickname based on his foreign policy)

This time it's Donald instead of Ronald. And Donald is using a bull horn when there's something real for white folks to be worried about, such as:  

1) a world where they won't be the only ones who can fail to graduate high school and still make a solid middle class living

2) a world where they are out-numbered and can be out-voted routinely.

3) a world where you can no longer feel superior just by being born white even if you don't have a pot to piss in -- just like in the days of slavery. The white poor have always been willing to slit their own throats to feel superior to black and brown. 

That's why Mean Tangerine didn't need half the brain wattage of  a not that bright Reagan in order to be successful. The white supremacy fire was already burning bright before MT came along to pour gasoline on it.

The only thing Ronald and Donald had to be smart enough to do is read white people. 

And, I really thought black and brown children were taught this at the dinner table as they were growing up. I thought black and brown children understood that a huge chunk of white people hide white supremacy from themselves first and others next-- in order to justify reserving or justifying the taking of money, jobs, land or to justify the preservation of white status (a form of power).

Clearly black and brown oral histories are not being passed along at the dinner table. But it needs to start happening again.  We cannot be out-voted again. We can still lose to the majority of white voters. But we don't have to lie down. All of us can show up for political battle and vote.

Black people, women in particular, can try to whittle down that 13% of Black men that voted for Trump

Latinas and Asian women have a bigger job with their men, nearly three times as big a job stopping their men from voting for a racist, sexist, homophobic, islamophobe.

But the most important thing is to get those that didn't vote to see the importance of showing up for battle. We can go down fighting in 2020, 2022, 2024, 2026, and 2028 (counting midterm elections too)  Eventually the tide will turn our way.

I don't know how much 2050 will look like South Africa (minority whites ruling the majority black and brown). But we have to try to pull together. Maybe part of that pulling together is creating a new black and brown led party.

The only thing we cannot do is lie down and not have some sort of plan.  We need to have a plan and move collectively because open white supremacy mows us down much more quickly than closet white supremacy. And Mean Tangerine has changed the wind. Open white supremacy is on the table as a political bargaining chip now. Republicans, alt-Right within republican ranks, and democrats are likely to try and access that chip, the white race card, in coming elections.

In other words, we're probably not going to have the option to vote for a weather vane and hope for stagnation instead of sliding backwards.

Read your history. Speak to people who have oral history. And then get your minds right. We do not want to be doomed to repeat our history. And repeating our history is exactly what will happen if we let Trump and his likely smarter successor make America white again. 

  

TRY TO KEEP OVERT WHITE SUPREMACIST STEVE BANNON OUT OF WHITE HOUSE

Feeling Rebloggy

Trump has chosen Steve Bannon, a White Nationalist, as chief strategist and senior counselor.... "Bannon is about to become one of the most influential people in the country."    

White Nationalist Definition from Southern Poverty Law Center  - White nationalist groups espouse white supremacist or white separatist ideologies, often focusing on the alleged inferiority of nonwhites. Groups listed in a variety of other categories - Ku Klux Klan, neo-Confederate, neo-Nazi, racist skinhead, and Christian Identity - could also be fairly described as white nationalist.

"Bannon is a longtime record of bigoted statements, as documented by the Southern Poverty Law Center among others. When both the Anti-Defamation League and the Council on American-Islamic Relations -- two groups that have clashed with each other -- immediately condemn the same thing, then you know something is not normal. And, in this case, it is also not acceptable. "

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-11-14/how-to-keep-steve-bannon-out-of-the-white-house  

"Bigotry isn't just immoral. It puts democracy at risk by threatening the equal citizenship of those who are targeted. Trump’s threats against the media and against his political opponents, by undermining legitimate opposition, are in the same category. "

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-11-14/how-to-keep-steve-bannon-out-of-the-white-house 

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FIND YOUR CONGRESSMAN BY ZIP CODE
1)  GET HIS OR HER NAME http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/
2) USE HIS OR HER NAME TO MAKE CONTACT:  http://www.house.gov/representatives/


FIND AND WRITE YOUR SENATOR  1)  PUT YOUR STATE INTO DROP DOWN MENU 
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
2)  click on the Senators Name and you can send your opinion to the Senator



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Headline
Racism in the US: More than 200 incidents of harassment reported since Donald Trump won presidency

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-elections/racism-in-the-us-more-than-200-incidents-of-harassment-reported-since-donald-trump-won-presidency-a7413881.html 

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SIGN A PETITION FROM DAILY KOS

https://actionsprout.io/CA3A06/initial 

WHITE WEST VIRGINIA MAYOR AGREES MICHELLE OBAMA IS AN "APE IN HEELS"

Feeling Rebloggy

Celebrating Donald Trump's victory "Pamela Ramsey Taylor, director of the Clay County Development Corp, which provides services to elderly and low-income residents, made the remark on Facebook."

"It will be refreshing to have a classy, beautiful, dignified First Lady in the White House. I'm tired of seeing a Ape in heels."

Beverly Whaling, the mayor of Clay, responded on Facebook by saying: "Just made my day Pam."

I've read in two different articles both of these white(?) women have resigned and/or been fired. I'm not sure what the latest is. I think "removed from her job" means fired, reference Taylor. But that's very careful wording. 
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/11/15/michelle-obama-ape-in-heels-facebook-post-causes-outrage/

According to the Charleston Gazette-Mail, Taylor had been removed from her position.
Source: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/11/15/west-virginia-mayor-under-fire-official-removed-after-racist-michelle-obama-post.html

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Be petty. Be honest too. Don't pretend you didn't know both these heifer's were going to be able to break a mirror just by looking in it.

I could be biased, but racists are almost always ugly as homemade sin.

Ex Mayor Beverly Whaling

WHITE SUPREMACY IN POLLING ("Hidden White Vote")

It's killing me. to listen to these white people on PBS try to figure out why Trump is winning.

(I pray he doesn't ultimately win. But it looks real bad right now)



They are mentioning how white white white people are voting for Trump. They are mentioning uneducated white people are coming out of the woodwork. But they are not concentrating at all how much white racism motivated Trumps base A LOT MORE than Hillary motivated the POC within her base.

POC, especially blacks are MOURNING President Obama leaving.  They are NOT motivated. 

These white folks took poll after poll after poll only focused on how white people feel. But didn't take into account the Latnix and Blacks might vote issues and skip the president OR vote for a third party.

Trump's pollster's are the only ones who knows how white people function as a group.

DAMMIT!

(And Michael Moore knows too. He said all along Trump would win.  Should'a listened. He knows white people too)

ELECTION 2106 THE SWING STATE POLLS TO WATCH

Repost

As we all know, it's the electoral college points/votes that count. Electoral votes are counted state by state. One candidate has to get 270 to win.
The states that might swing into the republican column or the democratic column are the ones to watch. The states in play are listed below.



If you see less than 3% difference between Trump and Clinton in any given state, there's virtually no difference due to the margin of error. 

That said, let's look back: 

In 2012, the battle for the swing states was over so early that I watched stopped watching the election in favor of watching the anchors on Fox News watch Romney lose. 

I didn't really think they would cry at Fox News. But I hoped. And they didn't. But STILL...noses were wrinkled up, lips were curled. They wanted to cry when they saw President Obama win for the second time. I saw it. 

The petty was delicious.  Absolutely delicious.  I can't believe I didn't keep the video. 

Anyway.  I hope I get to see the same thing again this year because this I know:

 Donald Trump may or may not be Ronald Reagan on steroids. 

However, the republican nominee that stands on Donald Trump's win will inevitably be a smarter Trump and his mostly overt white racist, misogynist homophobic followers. And he'll go all out of for the 1% without even having to slow down so he can be sneaky about it. 

And ArGAT's* foreign policy will make your hair fall out or the skin slough off your skull if you're already bald.

So, I hope we can nip this in the bud by stopping Trump early today.

(*ArGAT= alt-Right Guy After Trump)

Read why state polls matter than polling individual voting trends here: 


http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2016/11/trump-clinton-american-elections-polls-guide-161105154641020.html


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SWING STATE PRESIDENTIAL POLLS

Florida

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/fl/florida_trump_vs_clinton-5635.html

http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/2016-florida-presidential-general-election-trump-vs-clinton
North Carolina
http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/2016-north-carolina-president-trump-vs-clinton

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/nc/north_carolina_trump_vs_clinton-5538.html


Virginia 

http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/2016-virginia-president-trump-vs-clinton

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/va/virginia_trump_vs_clinton-5542.html

Ohio

http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/2016-ohio-president-trump-vs-clinton

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/oh/ohio_trump_vs_clinton-5634.html


Pennsylvania
http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/2016-pennsylvania-president-trump-vs-clinton
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/pa/pennsylvania_trump_vs_clinton-5633.html


Michigan
http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/2016-michigan-president-trump-vs-clinton

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/mi/michigan_trump_vs_clinton-5533.html

Nevada

http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/2016-nevada-president-trump-vs-clinton

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/nv/nevada_trump_vs_clinton-5891.html


Colorado

http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/2016-colorado-president-trump-vs-clinton

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/co/colorado_trump_vs_clinton-5751.html


New Hampshire (small number of electoral votes but part of New England block)
http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/2016-new-hampshire-president-trump-vs-clinton

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/nh/new_hampshire_trump_vs_clinton-5596.html

About the Election from Hell and Why I Voted for Hillary Clinton

Feelng Rebloggy Awesomely Luvvie — November 7, 2016

I am exhausted, because this election season was conducted by Satan. Never in the history of ever have I wanted to skip ahead in time as I have in this particular presidential campaign. From the beginning, it has been more divisive than any I can recall, and everyone has been in our collective feelings.

From the passionate Bernie Bros to the Hillary Heads. The Democrats acted a fool amongst each other, because everyone seemed really heart tied to their candidates. And then when Bernie lost, folks threw massive tantrums and you would have thought someone stabbed Jesus in the heart.

Some moved past it.

And for Hillary, who might have thought she had it all in the bag. Well, this election rightfully checked her and let her know that she ain’t just gonna moonwalk into the Oval Office. Her campaign misstepped more than a few times and she learned that Clinton privilege isn’t always a smooth ride to the top.

But NOTHING. Not a damb thing. Not an ounce of a gram of a thing, can compare to the fuckery that has been Donald Trump, his campaign and the fact that he is literally Hilter’s mentee. He has made this an election from hell....

Read More: http://www.awesomelyluvvie.com/2016/11/election-hell-voted-hillary-clinton.html

JENIFER LEWIS ON ELECTION DAY

It scares me to see young black people so afraid that their vote doesn't matter that they aren't going to vote at all. But I suppose there's always been that element among us though. Maybe I should be glad that this seems to represent a very vocal few. I think I am glad. Anyway. Here's a song from Jenifer Lewis to encourage you.

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TO THE BLACK AND BROWN DISCOURAGED

FILLING THE SWAMP: THE REPUBLICANS FROM LINCOLN TO alt-RIGHT AND TRUMP

A REPOST

AN OVER SIMPLIFIED TIME LINE:
Lincoln to the 2016 Republican National Convention

PART I:
HOW THE SOUTH WAS WON

1)1850s - The Northern Republicans, Lincoln, and Abolitionists  -  The Civil War was fought was not fought over *slavery* but over *slave power*

The North did not want white people with slave power moving into western states. Southern white men were richer than Northern white men due to the free labor (slave power)

The slaves also provided southern men political power. While slaves could not vote, each slave did count as 3/5 of a person and THAT increased official population of each southern state which increased the number of representatives each southern state sent into the House of Representatives. (slave power =political power)

The Industrial North wanted to be stronger and richer than the Planter Class South

The abolitionists in the Northern Republican Party were like a fringe group. If you can envision Green Peace choosing today's democrats over today's republicans if they had to choose between the two then you can imagine the abolitionists relationship to the republicans in the 1850s and 1860s.

2) 1860s Once the Republican North won the Civil War, they become the rich and powerful white business people instead of the southern white democrats. 

 
The North leaves troops in the south after the war. That is, the South is essentially occupied by the North. (In 1869 Black men get the vote and are able to vote and elect black people to congress)

3) In 1877 when the southern white candidate won the presidency and the powerful white northern republicans cannot allow this. 

No longer interested in black rights now that they've taken **slave power** away from southern whites, the republican north agrees to take troops out of the south in exchange for letting the northern candidate have the presidency. Abolitionists fade from power and/or lose interest in giving black people a representative share of the pie.

Blacks are then terrorized by southern whites who are recovering from the aftermath of the civil war. Lynching becomes popular. Blacks can't vote anymore. Blacks don't get elected to congress for decades.

4) Republicans centered entirely on business and growth were still in charge of the country when the stock market crashed in 1929. 

The great depression begins.

5) 1930s Democrats came into power and did clean up following the depression using "The New Deal" which expanded the size and role of government power. 

Rich Corporation Favoring Northern republicans hated the New Deal and become anti-big government

"Then, Franklin D. Roosevelt and other Democrats were swept into power and began dramatically expanding the size and role of the federal government, in an attempt to fight the Depression and better provide for Americans (as this map of New Deal projects across the country makes clear).

The Republicans left in Congress generally placed themselves in opposition to this newer, bigger government role."

~ Vox.com

6) 1930s Southern Democrats, who already believe in "states rights," who still hate the federal right of the federal government for taking away their slaves are already anti-big government. 

7) 1930s - 1940s States Rights loving White Southern Democrats and Rich White Republican businessmen are on the same side against federal government regulation. Some of the white southerners (who still think they should have slaves) leave the democrats for the republicans at this time. 

8) As in the civil war, when white troops are losing their lives at a high rate of speed, and all the hands on deck are needed -- even black hands. 

So some republican presidents do things like integrate some aspects of the military during WWII (to stop the loss of white life. An example of this can be seen in movie "The Tuskeegee Airmen" - 1980s version) 

9) Eisenhower, a republican, as a result of pressure from Civil Rights Leaders, integrates some schools. 

10) 1964 - Lyndon B Johnson, a democrat, signed the Voting Rights Act as a result of high pressure put on him by Civil Rights Leaders. 

This new thing called "the television set" is broadcasting American racist hypocrisy across the globe. And this hypocrisy is being broadcast to allies and enemies only 15 to 20 years after Hitler made it clear ethnoracism can have massively deadly consequences 

11) As a result of the democrats putting the Voting Rights Act in place, the white racist (supposedly defunct) dixiecrats moved into the republican party while the vast majority of the remaining blacks move into the democratic party.  

"I think we just delivered the South to the Republican Party for a long time to come," President Johnson said shortly after signing the Civil Rights Act, according to his aide Bill Moyers. And indeed, Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina switched his party affiliation from Democratic to Republican specifically for this reason.

~ Vox.com

12) White racists across the country know they have a home wherever the southern white racists congregate.  So that's where they start moving in 1964.

Note: When the economy is better, the numbers of black republicans rises. We, as black people, have a black 1%. Sometimes we've called them "The New Blacks"

PART II:
HOW THE OTHER WHITE SUPREMACISTS WERE WON

13)  1970s Richard Nixon -- The Civil Rights Movement has taught white people what they are not allowed to say even though most still thoroughly believe in most stereotypes/racism. 

Southern Strategy then Dog Whistle Racism become major tools of the republican party

14) 1980s  white racism trends -- The republicans, in particular, rail against "political correctness" and talk about words they are not allowed to say like n*gger,  kike,  d*ke,  f*g,  sp*c, etc as if these words and terms are not precursors to white violence. 

15) 1980s Ronald Reagan becomes a master at southern strategy and dog whistle racism. He coined terms or made them famous."Welfare Queen" and "Black-on-black crime" are phrases he used in speeches. 

When talking about welfare in the North he talks of how sad people must be to have to go get a welfare handout after they've worked so hard. In the south, when speaking on the same subject of welfare, he tells white southerners he understands how mad they must be to see "some young buck" using welfare money for steak 

Reagan even uses the term "state's rights" whenever he can to let white southerners know he is on their side

15) Racial violence explodes in the 1980s as a result of Reagan's making it okay to be a white racist again. However only big stories involving multiple whites in mobs travel across the country via black magazines and black newspapers -- not the one on one cop killings of people like Trayvon Martin, Yvette Smith, Mike Brown, Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell. 

Today's cop murders are practically invisible from 1860 to 2000s. Black people only know about black people being murdered by police in their local areas until Black Lives Matters is able to feed into already organized black social media 

16) 1980s to 2000s  White democrats get to point at overt republican racism and call them racist sans a scintilla of self examination. Paternalism is a favorite brand of racism among liberals but it IS better than the republi-klansmen type racism. Republi-klansmen type racism kills faster and is hands on. Liberal racism keeps black people from getting jobs and keeps higher rates of black poverty high. In other words, liberal white racism kills slowly. 

17) In the 1990s Clinton leads by following popular opinion polls. And he moves further and further right toward a truly powerful white republican party that does NOT look like Trump's giant clown car. The republicans looked organized enough to take over the world in the 1990s.

18) Bush Junior watches people from Saudi Arabia fly planes into buildings on 9/11 after they trained in Afghanistan. Instead of attacking Saudi Arabia after Afghanistan, he attacks Iraq.

Bush junior gets support from a large percentage of white America due to white racism. He wouldn't have gotten an ounce of support to bomb Iraq (and accidentally create ISIS out of the now jobless Iraqi military) if it weren't for white racism in THIS country.

Let's re-imagine what happened in the lead up to bombing Iraq using different countries in a different year.

Imagine there were planes big enough to damage to buildings high enough in 1960 like there were on 9/11.

Now imagine France terrorists, who trained in Spain, flew two big planes into two, nationally symbolic buildings and killed 3000 people.

What kind of speech would the president have to give to convince the entire country to go bomb Germany.  

1.  when German terrorists didn't fly the planes into building
2. when  Germany didn't provide space in their country to train the terrorists  
3. when Germany actually hates the French too 
4.  BUT we were at war with Germany during WWII, more than a decade earlier  

This basically describes are decision to invade Iraq.

Substitute Saudi Arabia every place I put "France" and "Iraq" every place I put "Germany" and you have the argument that was made to invade Iraq for "regime change" for the benefit of the savages (sarcasm) so we could get access to the oil (reality).

This decision to go to war with Iraq only works within  a white racist framework. My version of the  argument that implies all those white Europeans are alike anyway, let's go bomb the crap out of them because there's no difference between the European Spanish, French and German white people anyway.

But my version of the argument won't white dominated United States. They-are-all-the-same-anyway so let's bomb them to bits only works when you plan to bomb "those people."  

Brown people,  Muslim people, or Brown Muslim people. *Those people are all alike* live in  the middle east or Africa, but not white Europe.  

~Theory paraphrased from Walter Mosley

19) Barack Obama is elected to office. 

The racist Tea Party rises from obscurity as a result, and takes a stand against "political correctness" and is more overtly racist. The Tea Party leaders don't usually make directly racist remarks but they defend constituents that do or pretend they don't see racist signs in the crowds they speak to. 

20) Donald Trump sees how well the Tea Party is doing with their little jabs of overt racism and becomes one of the prominent faces of the "Birther Movement" claiming President Obama wasn't born in this country. 

21) The birther movement having gotten enough momentum from angry white men, who were out voted two elections in a row, Donald Trump decides to use overt racism as a platform to run for president.  Under estimating just how strong white racism is in this country, white pundits for republicans and for democrats are shocked by his meteoric rise...while black and brown people get nervous. 

22) White racists watching Donald Trump rise higher and higher in prominence with every overtly racist comment (his anti-political correctness), and gradually THE "Alternative-RIGHT" is born

"Commonly referred to as the “alt-right,” this group of [clever] skinheads and [well-read] white supremacists (but still ignorant as rocks) has emerged from the shadows and positioned itself as a formidable force in the party of Lincoln and Trump. Its members are young, energetic, educated and persistent. They are homophobic and xenophobic, and they are dangerous.

On Monday night Steve King, the anti-Muslim, racist-cartoon-tweeting Republican lawmaker from Iowa who once walked out of the State of the Union because he dislikes Obama so much, revealed in a nationally televised interview on MSNBC that he believed everything good in America and the world came from white people, and he was tired of white people losing."

(read more at link below)

23) Laura Know-Nothing Ingram does something very close to a Nazi Salute at the Republican National Convention. I find it hard to believe that weird wave wasn't done on purpose. But I could be wrong. 

24) David Duke, who was an actual Grand Wizard or Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan is feeling relevant again, relevant enough, thanks to Trump, to run for the senate again -- in Louisiana, where Alton Sterling was killed. 

When Duke made an overture to Donald Trump, Trump was slow to reject him. Trump also seemed to suggest there might be some good groups in the KKK -- but he really didn't know anything about them 




The nickname "RepubliKKKLan" now fits the Republican Party like a glove. 

But there are moderate republicans, aghast at Donald Trump's ethnoracism, homophobia, xenophobia, misogyny, who absolutely will not own that the rabid white racist dogs now running the party that are nothing more than the chickens the republican party leaders have been dog whistle calling for decades are finally at home and roosting. 


Racism piled on racism piled on racism has been coming directly at us, almost silent and sometimes deadly, from republican party for decades. Yet, "reasonable" and "thoughtful" white republicans who are appalled by Trump cannot figure out where the racism came from.They think the OVERT racism just sprang up whole in Donald Trump and his followers, that it did not come in stages and waves -- now provided extra fuel by a white fear of the **decreasing percentages of white people as compared to black and brown people. (Analysts have been predicting white people will not be the majority by 2060 or so.)

The most fearful of the two parties for decades, worried about "race wars" and being outnumbered by people of color and "immigrants" too, the white republicans think because they can say "white democrats aren't racism free either" that this decreases the level of overt vileness they've executed on black and brown and/or willfully ignored for decades. 

And a bunch of white republicans are completely serious when they say they are flabbergasted by Donald Trump's popularity.***

Republican senators and congressmen have defended the symbols of black destruction such as the confederate flag then claim they don't know that the KKK uses that flag at a march for the same reason their political colleagues keep that flag on their desks.

The white democrats are guilty of enabling and ignoring racism, but the republiklansmen are hands on. The republiklans are THE ONES politically protecting these white cop murderers -- and it is the political protection that counts. 

But the thing that worries me more than these ignorant white republicans determined to defend their ignorance are the black people who think Trump is more of the same ole crap. He's not the same. This white racism is like 1940s and 1950s racism and earlier. 

Black people cannot afford to believe white historians, even white liberal ones "doing their best." White people defend themselves against knowing how heinous their crimes against people of color have been. And when black researchers do research there's often a white gate keeper (publisher) to keep the number of heinous crimes as low as possible

When I was in school, I was taught there were 1 million Native Americans on this continent, not much more than that.  White people made themselves believe that before they taught white history of the U.S. because they didn't want to acknowledge they wiped out  90% of  20 million people (today's estimates based on DNA etc. However these estimates may be minimums too for the reasons stated above)

So when I read black people saying things like white cops TODAY are killing black people like they lynched people back in the 19th century, I get worried that some people actually believe that.

News is traveling so much faster and so much further, it's hard to compare one age to another age. But the thing that never changes is that white people tell the best story they can about themselves. All humans are like that.

When black people were first released from slavery, white southerners were scared of the repercussions they might face. So they became vicious as a type of defense. What we call "civilized" now-a-days wasn't even a factor back in the 19th century. These are the same people who gave Native Americans small-pox infested blankets so they could steal their land. 

In the 19th century, white people -- southerners in particular-- weren't even pretending to be civilized. I'll probably never be able to prove it, but there's likely not a snowball's chance in hell the white cops afraid of black skin now are anywhere near as scared as the white people who had owned slaves OR who never owned slaves but enjoyed their status over slaves just because they were white. 

There's no comparing the level of white fear between  1865, 1965, and 2016 and therefore there's no comparing the level of white deadliness. 

We cannot allow Trump to take us back to 1965, 1955 or 1935.




Read an old newspaper. Read Fanny Lou Hamer's biography. The year 1965 was a lot worse than any year in the last decade or so for black people.  We cannot afford to let Trump take us back even that far. 


I expect that we will be pushed and leaned on hard as white people lose their majority numbers. But to fail to show up and vote, even when you only have the choice between the lesser of two evils, is like spitting on Civil Rights Leader's graves.

Some of them died to make sure we could vote. And I got to vote FOR someone two presidential elections in a row when I thought I'd go to my grave only able to vote for the lesser of two white male evils.

I was a little depressed at the thought of returning to voting for the lesser of two evils at the beginning of this year. But that was when Donald Trump was supposed to disappear like the racist cartoon character he kinda is. Now I'm energized. I'm energized to vote against the rabid racist dog who is a card carrying racist, but probably doesn't believe half of what comes out of his mouth -- if he even knows what comes out of his mouth. 

Something is wrong with him. I've seen evil card carrying racists before. And I've heard them say things that don't begin to make sense But this card carrying racist has something wrong with his brain.  Even if all of this is just this racist's way of getting all the attention he can get before he dies of old age, this man is beyond bizarre.

Vote against Trump. This matters. 

   

REPUBLLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION AS
THE alt-RIGHT DEBUTANTE BALL

Read More: 
http://www.theroot.com/articles/politics/2016/07/the-alt-right-debutante-ball-how-a-racist-group-hijacked-the-gop-and-rnc/

Accidentally posted 7 24 16. Updated 7 29 16