KELLYANNE'S THOUGHT PROCESS

"During an interview with the Bergen County Record on Sunday, Conway talked about President Donald Trump’s unsubstantiated claim that his predecessor, Barack Obama, ordered wiretapping of his communications during the campaign.

“Do you know if Trump Tower was wiretapped?” the interviewer asks Conway in the video above.

In response, Trump’s counselor says, without evidence:

“What I can say is there are many ways to surveil each other now, unfortunately. There was an article this week that talked about how you can surveil someone through their phones, through their — certainly through their television sets, any number of different ways, and microwaves that turn into cameras, etc., so we know that that is just a fact of modern life.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/twitter-responds-kellyanne-conway-microwave-camera-comment_us_58c6ce27e4b0d1078ca86b60

BWAAAAAAA HA HA HA

Oooh these twit-wits of Chump's. Will it never stop? Woman, if I was living in another country, I'd be laughing so hard I'd be peeing on myself every time I thought about this.

We're supposed to believe Obama hacked a microwave to spy on Chump, then did absolutely nothing with the information but let Chump win. Yeah. Okay.


KELLYANNE'S THOUGHT PROCESS

• Chump tweets something else stupid
• Open mouth
• Defend him
• Think Later
• Insert Foot, Leg, and Ass into own mouth
• Look even dumber than Chump, be a human deflection

BWAAAAAAA HA HA HA

By the way, this is what happens when a extra stupid white racist goes crazy. Every time something makes this Alt-Right New KKK Wanna-Be Grand Dragon uncomfortable in the slightest way, the most competent black person Chump can think of comes to mind as "the" [ n-word ] that's doing him in.

And you know it's pure racism too.

Hillary was his arch-nemesis. But it's Obama he accuses of wiretapping, revving up the protesters, energizing the townhall meetings against him. 

I bet Chump sees Obama's face in his nightmares every night.

And I'll bet Obama smiles knowing Chump's driving himself insane with his own racism. Or maybe he's not that petty. But I promise you I would be.

I would send Cheeto Satan a tweet every night that said, "BWAAAAAAA HA HA HA"  I pay somebody else to do it, every single night. Hell, if Obama would pose for a picture with me, I'd do it every night for 7 months (the length of time I think it'll take for Trump to get bored with NOT being King and go home)

THE WHITE WRITTEN HISTORY OF SALLY HEMINGS AND THOMAS JEFFERSON

There are no known images of Sally Hemings
This is what someone imagined she looked like
Source: pinterest

"Sally Hemings, born in 1773 in Virginia, worked on the Monticello plantation of Thomas Jefferson. She was a nursemaid to his daughter Mary and traveled with the family to Paris. Though it was rumored that she had several children with Jefferson, both the family and [white] historians denied the claim. "

Source: http://www.biography.com/people/sally-hemings-9542356#synopsis

"The claim that Thomas Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemings, a slave at Monticello, entered the public arena during Jefferson's first term as president, and it has remained a subject of discussion and disagreement for two centuries."

https://www.monticello.org/site/plantation-and-slavery/thomas-jefferson-and-sally-hemings-brief-account

"Recent DNA testing has concluded [for white people] however that Hemings’ children are connected to the Jefferson bloodline."

Source: http://www.biography.com/people/sally-hemings-9542356#synopsis

"Based on documentary, scientific, statistical, and oral history evidence, the Thomas Jefferson Foundation (TJF) Research Committee Report on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings (January 2000) remains the most comprehensive analysis of this historical topic.  Ten years later, TJF and most historians believe that, years after his wife’s death, Thomas Jefferson [became] the father of the six children...[Sally Hemings is recorded as having given birth to] including Beverly, Harriet, Madison, and Eston Hemings. 

Historical Background

In September 1802, political journalist James T. Callender, a disaffected former ally of Jefferson, wrote in a Richmond newspaper that Jefferson had for many years "kept, as his concubine, one of his own slaves." "Her name is Sally," Callender continued, adding that Jefferson had "several children" by her..."

Source:  https://www.monticello.org/site/plantation-and-slavery/thomas-jefferson-and-sally-hemings-brief-account

"Jefferson traveled to Paris in 1784 to serve as the American minister to France. He took his eldest daughter, also named Martha, with him, while his two younger daughters, Mary and Lucy, stayed with their relatives, as did Hemings. After Lucy Jefferson died of whooping cough, Jefferson called Mary to Paris in the summer of 1787. The 14-year-old Hemings came with her. Hemings spent the next two years living with the Jeffersons in Paris, along with her brother, James, who served as Jefferson's personal servant. There is strong evidence to suggest that during this time, Jefferson and Hemings began a sexual relationship..."

Source: http://www.biography.com/people/sally-hemings-9542356 

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LOOK HERE:

A 14 year old girl who is owned by a forty-plus old white man cannot "begin a sexual relationship" with someone who owns her. I'd argue that a 40 year old slave cannot "begin a sexual relationship." Both of those relationships are rape because the slave has no choice. And raping a 14 year old makes Jefferson a pedophile or something one half step a way from being a pedophile.
Some will argue that "women got married younger back then" The lack of consent aside, I've traced my family's history and the women consistently got married between 19 and 21 years of age. It's amazing how consistent my family's history is on my mother and my father's side.

Jefferson raped a child. Period.

When white historians lie and shade history in their own favor they make movies where Sally is a curvy woman seducing her master. 

This is a still from the movie JEFFERSON IN PARIS.  

The black female stereotype in white imaginations everywhere has the black girl as overly overtly and overly sexual from a young age -- as compared to innocent white girls. For centuries this has made it easier for white historians to believe a man can own a woman and still have the relationship be consensual enough to call it "an affair."

In 12 YEARS A SLAVE, a black filmmaker makes sure that there are two realistic depictions of black women "voluntarily" having sexual relations with white men in the film. 

One of the stories in the movie is about a woman who slept with her white master and kept him happy to save her own life and eventually her children's lives -- which worked until he died. In the movie, we meet her after she's been sold as a result of his death. Her children are taken away and sold elsewhere. 

The other black woman, played by Alfre Woodard, smiles at the white owner has pleasant sex with her in exchange for dressing her in fine linens and letting her sit pretty and drink tea on the porch while he works. This black woman tells Lupita N'yongo's character that there's a special place in hell for all the white slave owners -- because the filmmaker has this character recognizing herself as raped. 

We'll never know how a 14 year old girl like Hemings responded to being forcibly raped or blackmail raped or seduced-by-owner rape. The thing we do know is that the white washing of history has left Thomas Jefferson as one of those superior caliber white men in the minds of white people. 

And anything that white historians add to white supremacy is deadly for black and brown people. 
Donald Trump riding a wave of white supremacy into the White House along with the subsequent rise in hate crimes is proof of this.

Previously unpublished data by the university’s Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism show that hate crimes in at least six major urban centers, including New York City, Chicago and Columbus, Ohio, registered double-digit increases last year.

Among them:

•  New York City notched an uptick of 24 percent in hate crimes, the highest in over a decade.

•  New York state had an increase of 20 percent.

•  Chicago saw a rise of 24 percent, the highest since at least 2010.

•  Cincinnati, Ohio, saw hate crimes jump by 38 percent.

•  Columbus, Ohio, reported an increase of nearly 10 percent.

•  Montgomery County in Maryland, adjacent to the nation’s capital, had an increase of more than 42 percent.

•  Seattle, Washington, registered an increase of 6 percent in malicious harassment.

http://www.voanews.com/a/us-hate-crimes-rising-particularly-in-big-cities/3756604.html 

THE ACCURATE TELLING OF HISTORY MATTERS. 

Yeah, history means "his story." The victor (dominate-er) gets to frame the narrative more often than not. But sometimes a lie is a lie is a lie when someone is deliberately white washing history.

Read the fine print.This movie is about Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings.
And the full title says, "Sally Hemings An American Love Story."
And then below the title,  "Bound By Slavery Freed By Love" 

This DVD/Movie cover doesn't just reflect a lie being told about Sally Hemings. The white history articles and white history books and white history movies mentioned above reflect the widespread lies that white people have been telling themselves about the horrors of slavery for centuries. 

This movie SALLY HEMINGS AN AMERICAN LOVE STORY has 4.5 stars out of 5 star rating and is being sold on Amazon.com right now. White people are still telling themselves that white supremacy and slavery was not the horror that it was.

Make no mistake, the cotton was being picked in the south, being processed into material in the north, and sold to Britain. All of the white people in these areas benefited greatly from slavery. American and British capitalism and wealth was built on slavery. We are all benefiting from it to this day (some more than others) That's why so many white people are STILL very invested in making slavery look less horrible than it was.

It's ridiculous that www.biography.com and monticello.org have romance language or white-washy neutral arrangement of language that hides the fact that Jefferson in Paris at 44 years of age while Hemings was 14 when he sent for Hemings (his wife's half sister) the in the very same year his wife died.

There's no romance here or anywhere there's ownership of a black girl child --- depicted as grown woman in white movie after white movie and a white history book near you.

 Bottom Line: Your history source always matters.

Furthermore, 

the personal history of your historian matters

which includes that person's 

race, ethnicity, and gender. 

Some historians try to overcome their personal history and some do not. White people have a crappy record of refusing to overcome their personal histories in an attempt to tell an accurate history. Furthermore, many white historians cannot separate the description "American" from description "white people" when writing about history which is another discussion altogether.
Black people, brown people, and especially white people should read about black history written by black people. You should always read a people's history from one of it's own. When that's not possible, make sure to check and double check what's being said by getting multiple sources....and even then find a source of history from the same demographic that's being reported about.
 
When you get down to wanting to know about black women specifically, refine your sources even more. Read about black women's history as written by black women. Because male supremacy is real too, inside and outside the black community. I learned all kinds of things about Martin Luther King, SNCC, and Marcus Garvey's wife Amy Garvey that I'd never heard before thanks to the writings of black women. 

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And now, a black view of Thomas JeffersonHeadline

The Real (Despicable) Thomas Jefferson

• ---> Michael Coard
 
• Apr 9, 2016

 READ IT HERE:
http://www.phillytrib.com/commentary/the-real-despicable-thomas-jefferson/article_1bbc31a3-74dd-573f-acb0-ad38ab7bc7da.html








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ALICIA GARZA MATTERS, MATTERED, AND WILL ALWAYS MATTER

A belated happy birthday to her. March 4th was her birthday. Read some of her words, know her importance, and learn more of her vision. She's all in. She into Black Lives Matter for the long haul. Are you?

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FROM THE GUARDIAN:

Nearly four years into a task she expects to take 40, 50, even 60 years to achieve, Alicia Garza is done with compromise.

Garza is a co-founder of Black Lives Matter: once a hashtag, now a national organisation and a global rights movement. When your goal is to end violent policing, the oppression of black people and racism in the United States – and eventually everywhere else – you can’t hope to bring all parties to the table.

“Everybody is now aware of Black Lives Matter, for the most part … but it doesn’t mean systemic racism has been eradicated,” she says before her appearance at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas in Sydney on Saturday. “We’ve got dozens and dozens of laws that prevent discrimination, but there’s still discrimination...

~THEGUARDIAN.COM 

Read More: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/02/alicia-garza-on-the-beauty-and-the-burden-of-black-lives-matter

A LETTER FIT FOR FEMINIST MOMS TRYING TO BUILD FEMINIST DAUGHTERS

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Hopefully you won't read anything in this letter that you haven't already heard from me many times before. I've always tried to lead by example when we are together, so I will do the same in this letter by reminding you of a few thoughts that will help you navigate your incredible life journey ahead:

• Always be present,  

• read the signs,  

• stay in your lane,  and  

• never back up more than you have to.

I have always tried to be present for you regardless of how old you were, where we were, or where I was. I wanted you to know that I am always there for you spiritually, emotionally and digitally. You never need feel isolated or alone. You know I am on 24/7 for advice, love, or just to share a funny filtered photo, bitmoji or laugh (even though I know I laugh inside). Being fully present, by listening, feeling, empathizing—always holding serious eye contact, and often the touch of a hand—builds trust. 

Trust builds confidence and confidence enables you to look forward, dream more and focus on others vs. yourself. Being present is the greatest gift you can give another person, and the greatest way to more closely connect with them. When you are present, you are living in the moment vs in your mind. You are seeing, hearing, and feeling another person, and together you are even more empowered to do great things. This is a gift that often comes more naturally to women.

I have also tried to share with you as many of life's precious lessons and secrets as I can so that when I am not here, you have a solid foundation of learnings and values regardless of what potholes in life you may hit along the way.

Stay open; always try to read the signs as you pass by them or they pass by you. I've often reminded you that there are no coincidence 

Everything that happens in your life is for a reason or was predestined. Every book you receive, every new person you meet, everything you call lucky is a sign just waiting to be read. It is tough when you are young and so inward-focused, but once in a while you will look back, make the connection and then be more open to and curious about those signs in the future. You see, signs aren't blatant or obvious. You have to be open and present to instinctively feel or intuitively see them. You've seen firsthand, and we have often discussed, the role signs have played in my life and the incredible things that have happened as a result of me listening and reacting to them. You are blessed as sensitive women to more naturally understand this.

You are fully aware of how blessed you are, the incredible gifts you were born with that your brother doesn't have and the gifts he has that you don't possess. You know how happy you feel when you are doing what you love and that comes so easily and naturally to you. So please, please, please connect to your passion, and then just stay in your lane. Great athletes, musicians, scientists, etc., all have an expertise that they focus on and perfect. 

Don't let anyone persuade you to do anything that doesn't feel natural or isn't aligned with your values or God-given gifts. You know what excites you more than anyone else. The sooner you recognize your passions, and the more you focus, the happier you will be and the greater success you will achieve. Still, don’t worry if you don’t know exactly what your lane is yet. The path will illuminate itself so long as you stay present, open to the signs, and follow your passions. It’s all related.

Lastly, my loves, never back up more than you need to, and this means in life, not just when driving. Just as you are blind to what's behind you while backing up a car, if you keep looking back in life and focusing too much on the past, you may find yourself running things over and over in your mind,often seeing or creating things that never existed in the first place. Even worse, living in reverse blinds you to what lies ahead: Your lifelong dreams waiting to be achieved, your destiny waiting to be fulfilled.

I know what you’re thinking: why do Dad and I always have our old family photos streaming on Apple TV? This is O.K., because your family is your foundation, and also your greatest enabler. When it comes to your family, we should be with you everywhere you are, as you are always and forever with us.

I love you, 

Mom 

#IWD2017 #LeadersAndDaughters

SOURCE: http://leadersanddaughters.com/ 

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MICHELLE ON INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY

Michelle Obama Marks International Women’s Day with Surprise School Visit and Call to ‘Embrace Immigrants’

THIS FIRST TRUMPCARE BILL IS A 600 BILLION DOLLAR TAX CUT FOR THE WEALTHY

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To pay for its spending, Obamacare included several taxes on couples making more than $250,000, like a 3.8 percent surtax on investment income and a 0.9 percent surtax on wages. Last year, those levies brought in about $27 billion, according to Wall Street Journal analysis of IRS data.  

Repealing them would cost about $275 billion over the next decade; which is to say, it would transfer $275 billion from public-health spending to the richest 1 or 2 percent....

That’s not all. Many companies can deduct employee salaries as a business expense when they pay taxes. Obamacare included a provision ***that prevented insurance companies from deducting more than $500,000 of their top executives' salaries***, as a way of raising a little bit of revenue and discouraging ever-rising compensation for insurance executives.

Paul Ryan and the Original Gangstas

But the Republican [ TRUMPCARE ] scraps that provision, so that large insurance companies like Cigna and Aetna, which pay their CEOs more than $15 million, would find new tax savings.

Republicans have railed against many problems with the new health care law. But nobody is complaining about cutting taxes, because cutting taxes is the fundamental objective of Republican economics. This is not an explosively accusatory claim, but an objective description of policy...

~THE ATLANTIC

Read More:

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/03/acha-tax-cut/518889/?utm_source=atlfb

How Washington ranchers are learning to cope with wolves, with lessons from Uganda

He was driving out of the valley one night when a deer ran across the road.

“And these three large German shepherds ran across after the deer,” he says. “And I’m thinking, ‘Those aren’t German shepherds, those are wolves. … Those are wolves! Can you believe it?’”

A month later, the return of wolves to the area really hit home. Johnson was out with his dogs when one of them — Lance — disappeared.

“Lance went off on his own and by the time I realized he was gone, it was too late,” Johnson says, his voice cracking and his eyes tearing up. It was the first animal he’d lost to a wolf.

That night, Johnson saddled his horse and grabbed his gun. “I was going to kill every wolf in the Teanaway,” he says...."

Then came an animal lover from Uganda. Carol Bogezi is a researcher at the University of Washington in Seattle. She came up with a way to save rancher's pride and profits and the wolves lives.

Bogezi eventually sold the white ranchers on the idea that they should market their meat as "wolf friendly" and sell it a premium. That way they could use less lethal but more expensive ways to keep the wolves away and also not take charity from the state.
Read the original story here:https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-02-24/how-washington-ranchers-are-learning-cope-wolves-lessons-uganda?


SMART, COMPASSIONATE, 
BLACK WOMEN ROCK THIS WORLD
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DRUSILLA DUNJEE HOUSTON TOOK BLACK HISTORY INTO HER OWN HANDS

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Drusilla Dunjee Houston spent her life fighting against the efforts of white supremacists to hide and discredit the history of Africa and those of African descent. There were two events in the year 1915 that called Houston to this mission - her brother, Roscoe Dunjee, founded the Black Dispatch newspaper in Oklahoma, and W.E.B. Du Bois published his book 'The Negro,' which took aim at the racist belief that African peoples had no history to speak of.

Inspired to action, Houston took on the role of contributing editor for her brother's newspaper, where she served for many years. She also founded two new schools for women and girls in McAlester and Sapulpa, Oklahoma, intent on giving educational opportunities to those who had long been denied them. Her own scholarly work focused on the Cushite civilization, a powerful empire that thrived for thousands of years in the ancient world near the site of modern-day Sudan.

At his interview with The HistoryMakers, scholar and HistoryMaker Jacob H. Carruthers, Jr. was kind enough to share a quote from Houston that he treasures. It goes as follows: "Lift up your heads, downtrodden and discouraged Ethiopians, and listen to this marvelous story told of your ancestors who wrought mightily for mankind and built the foundations of civilization true and square in days of old."

SOURCE: THE HISTORY MAKERS 

Read More:
http://www.blackpast.org/aaw/houston-drusilla-dunjee-1876-1941

How To Raise A Feminist

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A few years ago, Chimamanda Adichie received a message from a childhood friend asking for advice: She wanted to know how to raise her newborn daughter to be a feminist.

For Adichie — a best-selling author who has also made a name for herself as a leading feminist voice — the question was a bit daunting, but she wrote a long letter back to her friend.

Clockwise to the Center: Beverly Bond, Chimamanda Adichie, Michelle Obama, Amandla Stenberg and Mommy, Beyonce and daughter Shonda and daughter, Viola and daughter, Barack and daughters, Kerry Washington carrying unborn child.

Now, that letter has been published as a book. It's called Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions, and it talks about everything from how to choose toys to teaching self-reliance to challenging traditional gender roles.

Adichie says writing the letter was useful for her, too. "Yes, I wrote it for my friend, but I think to a large extent it was also my way of mapping out my own thinking. Because I have talked a lot about these things and I care very much about them and I get very passionate ... but I realized I didn't actually have a concrete map of the particular, specific things that I think will help if we do them differently.

SOURCE: NPR 

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[In the book are] fifteen invaluable suggestions–compelling, direct, wryly funny, and perceptive–for how to empower a daughter to become a strong, independent woman. From encouraging her to choose a helicopter, and not only a doll, as a toy if she so desires; having open conversations with her about clothes, makeup, and sexuality; debunking the myth that women are somehow biologically arranged to be in the kitchen making dinner, and that men can “allow” women to have full careers, Dear Ijeawele goes right to the heart of sexual politics in the twenty-first century. It will start a new and urgently needed conversation about what it really means to be a woman today.

SOURCE: Penguin / Random House

Interview Highlights
On "feminism-lite" and why it's harmful...
Read More, Hear More, See More.... at the interviewhttp://www.npr.org/2017/03/03/518160055/how-do-you-raise-a-feminist-daughter-chimamanda-adichie-has-15-suggestions?

BARACK OBAMA on being A FEMINIST FATHER
http://thankherforsurviving.blogspot.com/2016/08/feminist-in-chief-barack-obama-on-being.html

BARACK OBAMA on being a FEMINIST FATHERhttp://thankherforsurviving.blogspot.com/2016/08/feminist-in-chief-barack-obama-on-being.html

MICHELLE OBAMA TAKES HER SEAT IN THE CIRCLE AT A WASHINGTON DC SCHOOL

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We Love Michelle 

because 

Michelle Loves Us

When former first lady Michelle Obama walked into a D.C. high school classroom, the stunned students erupted in tears. One student even darted out of the classroom to regain her composure before she could sit next to her. Obama, who still lives in Washington, made a surprise visit Tuesday to Ballou STAY High School to speak with 14 students for two hours. Upon arriving, she hugged each of them before taking her seat in the circle

She's still working on her REACH HIGHER initiative. Her commitment to students isn't over just because her husband isn't in the white house anymore.
She stayed for two hours and talked about the struggle and life goals.

Ballou High School Photo From Facebook

READ MORE

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/michelle-obama-surprises-dc-students-talks-struggles-and-life-goals-for-two-hours