Geronimo was born in southern Arizona, present-day Clifton, and given the name Goyathlay, meaning “one who yawns.” The Mexicans later gave him the name Geronimo, which is Spanish for Jerome. After his mother, wife and children were massacred by Mexicans in 1858, he joined in the raids of Cochise, Victorio, and other Apache leaders against Mexican and American settlers. He did not inherit his status as chief, having risen to leadership through the ranks.
Geronimo was chief of the southern Chiricahua tribe of Apache Indians.* In 1876, when the Chiricahua reservation was dismantled by the U.S. government and the Apaches were relocated to the dry San Carlos reservation in New Mexico, Geronimo led his followers into Mexico. He established hideaways for his followers in the Sierra Madre Mountains. The camps were well concealed to avert capture.
From this secure base, Geronimo began a decade of sporadic forays against white settlements alternating with periodic surrender, then peaceful farming on the San Carlos reservation. Once while on the warpath in March 1886, he surrendered to General George Crook, who imposed a “treaty” that would have relocated the Chiricahua to Florida, but Geronimo escaped with his band two days later. In September of that year, he and his force surrendered to General Nelson A. Miles, Crook’s replacement.
In March 1905, Geronimo was invited to President Theodore Roosevelt’s inaugural parade; he and five real Indian chiefs, who wore full headgear and painted faces, rode horses down Pennsylvania Avenue. The intent, one newspaper stated, was to show Americans “that they have buried the hatchet forever.”
After the parade, Geronimo met with Roosevelt in what the New York Tribune reported was a “pathetic appeal” to allow him to return to Arizona. “Take the ropes from our hands,” Geronimo begged, with tears “running down his bullet-scarred cheeks.” Through an interpreter, Roosevelt told Geronimo that the Indian had a “bad heart.” “You killed many of my people; you burned villages…and were not good Indians.” The president would have to wait a while “and see how you and your people act” on their reservation.
Geronimo Quote: “I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say.”
I also have enjoyed the series. My four year old grandson Moonshadow, is part Pima/Shoshone.
Thank You!!!
YVW! I’m so happy you’ve enjoyed the series. We will most definitely be visiting Native American culture again. I love learning about their way of life and music. I may not understand the words to the music but I recognize prayer/ worship when I hear it. My soul connects with it.
Here is something for your grandson, Moonshadow. Blessings!
Hello, dreamer. Welcome to 3 Chics. So glad that you enjoyed the series. Come back and visit anytime. We appreciate your comments.
Obamacare: New fight, old tactics
Opponents of the healthcare law are following in the footsteps of Southern segregationists half a century ago.
By Nelson Lichtenstein
September 8, 2013
Last month, Americans took pride in celebrating the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. Unfortunately, we are also revisiting a far darker episode in our history, a civil rights-era conflict that tells us much about the hurdles facing President Obama’s Affordable Care Act, the most ambitious piece of social legislation enacted in almost half a century.
That episode was the “massive resistance,” a policy pushed by a phalanx of Southern white politicians, journalists and local worthies who organized in the 1950s and early ’60s when the courts, the federal government and the civil rights movement pressed for desegregation of public schools and the end of Jim Crow racism in American life. Rather than consent to the 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown vs. Board of Education, which ordered an end to segregation in public schools, Southern governors and legislatures declared that they would refuse to implement the law and, if necessary, close schools. Their policy would later extend to efforts to shut down pools, parks and other public facilities that courts had ordered integrated.
In Congress, the Southern delegation stood firm against federal action in support of civil rights. Across the South billboards went up: “Impeach Earl Warren,” the chief justice who presided over the court’s 9-0 decision in the landmark 1954 case.
Today, the Republican opponents of Obamacare, and especially those hailing from the old Confederacy, have dusted off just about every tactic and ruse once deployed by Southern segregationists. House Republicans have taken 40 votes to repeal Obamacare. But the real battle over the fate of the law will take place at the state and local level.
And, as in the 1950s in the case of civil rights, the Supreme Court has inadvertently given opponents — this time of healthcare reform — a green light. In 1955, the high court declared that desegregation should proceed with “all deliberate speed,” which integration opponents interpreted as permission to drag their feet. In 2012, when the Roberts court ruled that states could reject the large expansion of Medicaid called for in the original Affordable Care Act, virtually every Republican legislature and governor in the South did just that, spurning the chance to enroll hundreds of thousands of their residents in the new federal program.
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/commentary/la-oe-lichtenstein-civil-rights-fight-obamacare-20130908,0,3721274.story
Thank you for posting this article, rikyrah.
Also, from the article is this excerpt:
http://youtu.be/Zoo3GEfhPwo
Thank you, rikyrah, for posting this video.
I personally think you should post it EVERY day until the 2014 midterm elections!
I would also hope that people with other websites would also post it.
John McCain Says Obama Would Be Impeached If He Put Boots On The Ground In Syria
John McCain is claiming that President Obama will be impeached if he puts American boots on the ground in Syria.
McCain also said that Obama has bungled this whole thing.
Contrary to the the other members of his party who are calling for Obama to be impeached, McCain was saying that nobody wants American ground troops in Syria, and that if Obama took that step, he would be impeached.
http://www.politicususa.com/2013/09/07/john-mccain-obama-impeached-put-boots-ground-syria.html
Athletes, Pop Stars, And Booze: The Most Creative Efforts To Promote Obamacare
By Tara Culp-Ressler on September 4, 2013 at 4:48 pm
This week, news broke that the Obama administration has formed its first official partnership with a professional sports team to help spread the word about the health reform law. The Baltimore Ravens will help advertise the upcoming plans in Maryland’s new state-level insurance marketplace, which will open for enrollment in a little less than a month. Maryland’s health department officials note that will be an important way to reach the people who will soon be able to benefit from Obamacare, since they estimate that 71 percent of uninsured people in the state have either watched, attended, or listened to at least one Ravens game in the past year.
Maryland may be the first state to partner with a sports team (the Obamacare administration did attempt to pursue a national partnership with the NFL, but the league declined after massive conservative outcry). However, it hardly provides the only example of a creative strategy to educate people about the health reform law. With Obamacare’s open enrollment period fast approaching, here are other innovative efforts currently being used to publicize it:
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/09/04/2572281/creative-obamacare-promotion/
New York Magazine Changes Mayor Bloomberg’s ‘Racist’ Quote
Hunter Walker
7:25 PM EDT, Saturday September 7, 2013
New York Magazine on Saturday edited a quote that appeared in an interview with New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg in which he seemed to accuse Bill de Blasio, the Democratic frontrunner in the race to succeed him, of being a “racist.”
In the interview, Bloomberg described de Blasio’s campaign as “class-warfare and racist.”When questioned about his use of the word “racist” by New York Magazine writer Chris Smith, Bloomberg immediately said, “Well, no, no,” according to the latest version published by the magazine. Those three words were not included in the original version.
An editor’s note was added to the story to explain the change.
“The mayor’s office asked us to amend the remarks to add an interjection that was inaudible in our audiotape of the interview, which was conducted over speakerphone. In our view the added words do not alter the meaning of the exchange as reflected in the published interview,” the note said.
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/new-york-magazine-makes-change-to-mayor-bloombergs
Without Medicaid Expansion, Over 40 Percent Of The Poorest Americans Won’t Get Any Health Insurance
By Sy Mukherjee on September 6, 2013 at 11:14 am
In the states refusing to accept Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion, approximately 42 percent of the Americans living below the Federal Poverty Line (FPL) — i.e., people making less than $11,170 per year — won’t be able to take advantage of any of the health law’s new coverage options for the poor, according to a new study by the Commonwealth Fund.
The health law originally had two avenues to ensure that poor Americans can afford health coverage. It required every state to expand Medicaid coverage to all Americans making up to 133 percent FPL, or slightly under $15,000 per year for an individual. And it offered government subsidies to people making up to 399 percent FPL to help them buy insurance in Obamacare’s statewide insurance marketplaces. The law didn’t extend any government subsidies to the poorest Americans living below the poverty level, reasoning that these people would be eligible for an expanded Medicaid pool and therefore wouldn’t need them.
But the Supreme Court ruled the Medicaid expansion optional last summer, leaving it up to the states to decide whether or not to participate in it. That means if poor Americans live in states that refuse to expand Medicaid, they won’t be able to take advantage of the expanded public program or receive subsidies to buy insurance on the Obamacare marketplace.
Most GOP-led states home to lawmakers hostile to health reform have refused to go along with the optional expansion, despite the fact that the federal government will pay for the vast majority of it. Numerous studies have shown that states that don’t expand Medicaid are losing out on billions of dollars in federal funding and denying health benefits to about two-thirds of the poor Americans who were originally expected to gain Medicaid coverage under the law. Nonetheless, 21 states have explicitly refused to expand their programs while five still remain undecided:
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/09/06/2581411/medicaid-expansion-40-percent-options/
Without Warning, 57,000 Virginians Could Have Their Voter Registrations Cancelled
By Scott Keyes on September 5, 2013 at 2:35 pm
With two months until Virginians decide which of two polar opposites — Terry McAuliffe and Ken Cuccinelli — will be their next governor, tens of thousands of voters could be removed from the rolls in a statewide purge.
Approximately 57,000 Virginians have been flagged as being registered in another state, and counties are removing some from the voter rolls without any notice or opportunity to rebut the claim. Before conservatives lose their marbles that this is clear and irrefutable evidence of voter fraud, it’s worthwhile to consider how voter registration works. Each state maintains its own roll rather than a nationwide system. When Joe America, who had been registered in Richmond, moves to Philadelphia and registers there, he’s not required to cancel his Virginia registration before enrolling in Pennsylvania. The process for removing registrations of people who have moved elsewhere varies from state to state, but generally involves periodic comparisons of lists between states to flag and remove people like Joe America who have moved elsewhere.
Clearly, given the decentralized 50-voter-roll system we currently have, there’s a need for the lists to be periodically cleaned up. But there are a number of issues that make Virginia’s current purge of up to 57,000 voters problematic.
First and foremost, as multiple county registrars explained to ThinkProgress, voters whose registrations are being cancelled aren’t being given any advance notice. Rather than being mailed a warning letter asking if they still live in Virginia, they are being sent notices that their registration has been cancelled effective immediately. If the cancellation is in error, the letter says to contact the registrar and get it worked out. It’s not measure twice, cut once. It’s cut first and be ready with tape for the mistakes.
Second, according to at least one voter’s experience, the list contains some serious errors. One Accomack County voter, writing on the blog Blue Virginia under the pseudonym rodentrancher, detailed her experience having her registration wrongly cancelled. Though she’d lived and registered in South Carolina in 2009, she had moved to Virginia last year and re-registered there. Even so, her file was flagged as a duplicate and she received a letter last week informing her that her registration was cancelled. If she hadn’t seen the letter, or had the foresight to call the county registrar who sent her a new registration form, she would have been effectively disenfranchised from the November election.
The list of 57,000 duplicate registrations was given by the state Board of Elections to county registrars in August. “We were told by the state board that this is a legitimate list and we should process them accordingly,” Patricia White, General Registrar of Accomack County, told ThinkProgress. Still, as Don Palmer, Secretary of the Virginia Board of Elections, emailed, “the final decision is up to each of the 133 local registrars based on voter history and activity.” Palmer was appointed by Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) in 2011.
Some county registrars are going over the list with a fine-tooth comb in an effort to prevent errors. “We’re not taking the list at face value,” Gary Scott, Deputy Registrar of Fairfax County, told ThinkProgress.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/09/05/2576661/virginia-voter-purge/
Black leaders may ask some mayoral hopefuls to bow out
By Travis Andersen and Andrew Ryan
| Globe Staff
September 05, 2013
The race for mayor in Boston intensified on Wednesday night as dozens of leaders and activists from the city’s African-American communities met behind closed doors and considered asking some candidates of color to abandon their campaigns and rally behind the remaining hopefuls.
Kevin C. Peterson, who helped spearhead the gathering at the Second African Meeting House of the Twelfth Baptist Church in Roxbury, described the meeting as “pretty heated up” in an update outside the building halfway through the nearly four-hour session.
“There is some concerted interest in asking two or three of the minority candidates to step out of the race and endorse one or two” other candidates of color, said Peterson, who directs the New Democracy Coalition and who is a longtime friend and active supporter of candidate Charlotte Golar Richie.
One option that was discussed, Peterson said, was asking the six candidates of color to meet and identify three hopefuls who would step aside. Those three candidates would then be urged to each endorse two candidates of color, he said.
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However, organizers made no public statement after the meeting on that plan or any other to possibly whittle down the number of minority candidates.
In fact, Mel King, a longtime activist and former mayoral candidate who was described by multiple attendees as a lead organizer of the meeting, denied afterward that any such plan was discussed.
Organizers said much of the meeting was also devoted to identifying the issues relevant to people of color that they would like the candidates to address.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/09/04/african-american-leaders-meet-discuss-mayor-race-weigh-call-some-candidates-bow-out/WctBGdQtoXgpn9NeFBIESP/story.html?s_campaign=sm_tw
Colorado Proves Housing The Homeless Is Cheaper Than Leaving Them On The Streets
By Scott Keyes on September 5, 2013 at 4:42 pm
In Colorado, a former prison that was recently converted to a homeless shelter is not only doing right by those on the streets, it’s doing right by taxpayers as well.
The Fort Lyon Correctional Facility in southeastern Colorado had housed prisoners until 2011, when it was closed because of budget cuts. In the two years since, it has laid dormant while lawmakers debated what to do with the building.
Gov. John Hickenlooper’s (D) office proposed a novel idea: turn the prison into a homeless shelter to help house needy people in the area. Bent County, which contains Fort Lyon, is one of the poorest areas in Colorado, with a poverty rate over more than 20 percent, 8 percentage points higher than the state.
Earlier this year, state lawmakers appropriated $3.9 million to re-open Fort Lyon as a homeless shelter, which will ultimately house 200 people, many of whom are veterans.
Though conservatives may balk at the price tag, Next City, an urban-focused media outlet, makes an excellent point: even setting aside factors like dignity and humane treatment, it’s actually cheaper for taxpayers to give homeless people housing at Fort Lyon than to leave them on the streets.
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/09/05/2579451/colorado-homeless-shelter/
Well, well, no doubt the conservatives will play nice now, not out kindness, but out of a CHEAPER price tag.
Fewer Young Americans Are Using Drugs — But An Increasing Number Of Older Americans Are
By Sy Mukherjee on September 5, 2013 at 12:31 pm
The rate of illicit drug use among young Americans aged 12 to 17 dropped by nearly 20 percent in the past decade, from 11.6 percent to 9.5 percent, according to new data from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). But at the same time, substantially greater numbers of Americans between the ages of 50 and 64 started using controlled substances.
In 2002, about 3.5 percent of people aged 50 to 54 were using illegal drugs. Now, that number has more than doubled to 7.2 percent. Those aged 55 to 59 have seen an even greater increase, with more than triple the percentage (6.6 percent) using drugs in 2012 than the 1.9 percent that were doing so 10 years ago:
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/09/05/2576581/drug-youth-older/
Also from the article:
Some doctors are becoming drug dealers!
Ed Asner: Hollywood Silent on Syria Because They ‘Don’t Want to Feel Anti-Black’
by Josh Feldman | 11:25 am, September 7th, 2013
WHERE WAS ED ASNER WHEN THE TEA PARTY CALLED PBO EVERYTHING, BUT A CHILD OF GOD?
With the current run-up to war in Syria, you may very well ask where Hollywood is. After all, a lot of celebrities were very vocal about war during the Bush administration. So where are they now? Well, many have apparently OD’d on political correctness. Ed Asner, Hollywood actor and longtime liberal activist, admitted to The Hollywood Reporter that Hollywood doesn’t want to appear “anti-black” in opposing President Obama.
Both Asner and former M*A*S*H star Mike Farrell have personally been very outspoken about Syria, with Farrell calling Obama’s plan of limited military action as “a potential war crime.” As far as Asner’s concerned, though, it’s far too late for Hollywood to jump in. He said, “This country will either bomb the hell out of Syria or not before Hollywood gets off its ass.”
Asner also attributed “unsuccessful efforts” to protest Iraq to Hollywood’s more recent complacency, before revealing the big underlying reason Hollywood wants no part of criticizing Obama’s Syria plan.
Another reason some Hollywood progressives have been reticent to speak out against war in Syria, according to Asner, is fear of being called racist.
“A lot of people don’t want to feel anti-black by being opposed to Obama,” he said.
He also told THR that too many people who voted for Obama (himself among them) have “lost hope,” and at this point in his presidency, “‘Who gives a shit?’ is essentially the bottom line.”
http://www.mediaite.com/online/ed-asner-hollywood-silent-on-syria-because-they-dont-want-to-feel-anti-black/
Excellent series this week, Chicas! I want to add a few more things about Geronimo. He was really destined to be a spiritual leader, not a war chief. Both his mother & grandmother were healers & he learned a lot from them. He was respected as a visionary & a dreamer before he ever became a fierce warrior.
The slaughter of his family by Mexican raiders while he was away on a trading mission made him angry, vengeful & bitter against Mexicans. He turned those feelings against the Anglo settlers & US Army because they supported the Mexicans & tried to stop his raids into Mexico. Mexicans & Apaches had a history of fighting among themselves long before the whites came even though they often traded with each other & sometimes inter-married. It was a complex relationship.
I find Geronimo a complex & fascinating person. I learned a whole ton of stuff about him while helping my Grandson do a research paper for AZ history.
Sup, AG? Thanks for adding you two Pesos.
De Nada & not much. I’m just so grateful for blogs that are not Syria and/or Obama bashing 24/7. I know what I think & I trust my Prez to do the best thing in an impossible situation.
I’m getting ready to celebrate my 7th decade on this earth come Wednesday. The familia has a big Par-Tay planned & I expect to enjoy myself!
@aquagranny. That is very interesting and informative. Thanks for sharing it.
I think I learned more than the Kiddo. I found it all very interesting because my AZ history book from the old days sure left out a lot of stuff, lol!
Thank you, AG!
Hola! I hope you forgive me for just being such a lurker instead of commenting much but you all seem to say nearly everything I might say so I just don’t comment. I think you might get bored if you just got “Ole” & “Brava” from me constantly. But I do love your blog!
Thanks so much for your series on the Native Americans. I’ve enjoyed it o much.
Glad you enjoyed it, CarolMae. And thanks so much for all your contributions too!
Thank you. Glad to contribute.
Thank you CarolMae for sharing your comments about the Black Hills and inspiring me to go visit. I hope I get to see and experience all the goodness of this sacred place.
Thanks. Beware the tourist traps though. ;) I’ve never seen so many billboards around Rapid City. Go for the scenery and of course Mt. Rushmore. We’ve stayed alway from the Crazy Horse Monument because it is controversial. Crazy Horse family disagrees with it. He would never allow his picture taken and they think this is wrong to make an image of him. They don’t like the way is hand is outreached and pointing either. In their culture you don’t point at people. Another sad story. :'(
CarolMae,
I didn’t post about Crazy Horse because I read he didn’t want his picture taken. I ran across a drawing someone made of him but decided not to use it. Crazy Horse was a true warrior for the Lakota people in helping to defeat Custer in the Battle of Little Big Horn! Custer got routed!
I sent a twitter to you I think. It’s very powerful and beautiful. Just discovered it. Here is a link. Not sure if this works.
http://youtu.be/vX2mIyLRx7U
@CarolMae. When my husband I visited Mount Rushmore last year, they advertised the Crazy Horse Light show.
It would begin once it got dark. We waited until dark to see the exhibit. It was a total disappointment.
They just shone rays of light for a few minutes, and presto! it was over. It was a sham, and we paid for it. It’s just an exploitive sham to make $$.
As usual , folks LOVE MONEY & USE PEOPLE.
Here is a link to a great poetry reading site. Here M. Ayodele Heath reads (performs) African American poets’ works in a series called “28 Days of Poetry”.
http://www.youtube.com/user/ayospeaks/videos
In addition he reads his own poetry at this same site.
Here is a sample of one of M. Ayodele Heath’s poems.
It is entitled “Things My Father Gave Me.”
http://www.youtube.com/user/ayospeaks/videos
Where Were You When They Stole Detroit’s Democracy?
By: Black Liberal BoomerSep. 7th, 2013
If it happens here, it certainly won’t end here. The threat to Detroit’s democracy is a threat to everyone who values their right to vote, but especially to those whose vote is their only avenue toward effective representation in government. Not everyone can start a Super PAC. In fact most of us can’t. For most of us, the vote is our best way to let the powers-that-be know what we think, what we want, and to let them know that we will hold them accountable if they don’t act appropriately. Take away that vote, and you’re left with Gov. Rick Snyder’s America.
Down here on the ground in Detroit, it has never been unusual as a part of random conversation you might have with a neighbor , friend, or perhaps even somebody you met at a bar, to wind up discussing the topic of what ‘they’ had planned for our city. What’s next for Detroit, who will be determining what’s next – and who won’t – has been a constant topic that I have heard off and on throughout the city in more than a few social circles pretty much ever since I moved here nearly 20 years ago. There has always been that underlying sense that somewhere there was a plan brewing to steal Detroit back from Detroiters. It was only a matter of time before ‘they’ took our city from ‘us’ unless ‘we’ put up one hell of a fight. Not many would say out loud that they feared a conspiracy, but that feeling was there nevertheless. The feeling that someone or something is coming, and whoever/whatever it is isn’t interested in making life better for us.
http://www.politicususa.com/2013/09/07/stole-detroits-democracy.html
The masses who need HEALTH CARE are going to be in for a RUDE awakening, if they don’t stop listening to the the pie-faces on tv and lnstead listen and read about who and what’s going to HELP them.
I’m DONE with the ignorant.
What a super interview…..absolutely fantastic!
Thank you so much for posting this, Ametia!
YVW, Yahtc. We’re working on getting more segments of Advancing the Dream posted.
Fantastic!
I was hoping to watch more of the event!
all in all, I thought it was a good program.
Published on Sep 7, 2013
In his weekly address, President Obama makes the case for limited and targeted military action to hold the Assad regime accountable for its violation of international norms prohibiting the use of chemical weapons.
GERONIMO! Good Morning, Everyone. :-) Great series this week, SG2. Thanks so much.
Leis H. Michaus, Harlem bookseller:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_H_Michaux
The wisdom of Lewis H. Michaux –
Posted August 18, 2012 on Youtube by Derek Blair who excerpted it from the Swedish Documentary – “The Black Power Mixtape”
There was a poster of Stevie Wonder toward the end of the video above, and that made me want to look for images of other Stevie Wonder posters.
Here is what I found:
https://www.google.com/search?q=1960's+poster+stevie+wonder&client=safari&rls=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=2EgrUoehA8aP2gXP3YCYBA&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1234&bih=591
Interview from the past with Lois Mailou Jones on Good Morning America:
Uploaded on Dec 25, 2009 by marisayutub
Lois Mailou Jones
[African-American Harlem Renaissance Painter, 1905-1998]
Thank you, Yahtc! You’re rockin & rollin!
:) LOL!
YW, SouthernGirl2!
Seriously, you’ve done a yeoman’s job of posting valuable information. We appreciate your hard work.
Oh, SG2, I was appreciative of your kind words and was LOL getting a kick at your “rocking and rolling” way of expressing it.
What I should have written was
:) your kind words put an appreciative smile on my face.
LOL at the fun way you said that I was rockin and rollin.
Then YW, SG2.
This is a good reminder for me to be more clear.
Thanks again for your comment to me.
Yahtc
No harm at all. I just wanted you to know what an outstanding job you did on posting such good information. I loved it.
Drudge’s Race-Baiting Is Only Getting Worse
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/09/06/drudges-race-baiting-is-only-getting-worse/195762
A new study from The New Republic determined that the Drudge Report’s use of race-baiting headlines has soared in the last five years, a fact that lends context to the recent flood of conservative media amplifying random, interracial crimes and baselessly assigning them a racial motive.
Matt Drudge’s conservative website Drudge Report is infamous for its obsessive coverage of alleged black-on-white crime and race-baiting headlines. But it’s only getting worse, according to a new analysis by The New Republic. The magazine analyzed Drudge’s use of race-related terms in headlines after 2008 — the year President Obama established himself as a national figure with his first presidential campaign — with Drudge headlines before 2008, and the results are striking. According to the analysis, since 2008, Drudge headlines:
◾Referencing “racism” have more than tripled
◾With the term “racist” have nearly doubled
◾Containing “black” and “crime” have quadrupled, and
◾Have included the n-word eight times, a slur not found in Drudge headlines before 2008.
Notably, the analysis highlighted that Drudge often altered headlines to inject a racial component when the original source contained none. This method of race-baiting has spilled over into the broader media. Recently, conservative outlets have seized upon local crime stories and baselessly assigned them racial motives when no such evidence existed. This spate of reckless race-baiting has been repeatedly accompanied by inapt comparisons to the killing of Trayvon Martin, an attempt to highlight a supposed double standard among civil rights leaders and media figures.
When a video of three teenage students beating up another student on a Florida school bus surfaced in early August, local media reported that the attack was in retaliation for the victim notifying school officials that the three teens tried to sell him drugs. But because the perpetrators happened to be black and the victim white, conservative media broke into a chorus of race-baiting, complaining that civil rights leaders hadn’t spoken about the assault. Fox News bragged about its insertion of race into the crime, highlighting that it was the only network to bring race “to the forefront” on the story.
When three teens — two black, one white — allegedly shot and killed an Australian college student last month because they were “bored,” law enforcement officials emphasized there was no evidence “to indicate that the killing of Christopher Lane was related to either his race or to his nationality.”
Undeterred by facts, right-wing media again repeatedly manufactured a racial motive. Fox argued that the murder was “likely motivated by race” and even criticized other media outlets for “ignoring the race issue” in the crime. Drudge featured photographs of the two black suspects, neglecting to include the photo of their alleged white accomplice.
Well, we know where things are headed if we remain silent!
We must speak up, stand up, march and insist that we be HEARD!
Power to the people!
Stevie Wonder takes on Texas: Changing education on slavery is ‘unacceptable’
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/06/stevie-wonder-takes-on-texas-changing-education-on-slavery-is-unacceptable/ …
Singer Stevie Wonder took a moment during a panel discussion hosted by MSNBC’s Al Sharpton on Friday to criticize the Texas Board of Education’s attempt to gloss over the U.S. slave trade.
“We really have to confront the educational system. Every single American must feel and know that they were a part of this United States,” Wonder said. “I think, that [school] books have to be rewritten — the whole notion of changing what happened during slavery time to saying it’s a fantasy — Texas — is unacceptable.”
The board approved the redesignation of the slave trade as the “Transatlantic Slave Trade,” after flirting with the name “Atlantic Triangluar Trade” as another possible name for the industry.
Though he clarified that he did not want to offend his fans in Texas, Wonder said, “I just feel that we can’t act like something that truly happened didn’t happen. It’s real, confront it. Deal with it and make the difference by changing it.”
Don’t Know Much About History
Controversial changes may be in store for your textbooks, courtesy of the Texas state school board.
by Tim Walker
You can see a slideshowof examples of the changes below the article at this link:
http://www.nea.org/home/39060.htm
Historians speak out against proposed Texas textbook changes
By Michael Birnbaum
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, March 18, 2010
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/17/AR2010031700560.html
Texas Conservatives Win Curriculum Change
By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr.
Published: March 12, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/13/education/13texas.html?_r=0
Posted at 06:00 AM ET, 07/09/2012
By Valerie Strauss
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/texas-gop-rejects-critical-thinking-skills-really/2012/07/08/gJQAHNpFXW_blog.html
Someone recorded this movie when on a visit to the Native American Museum in Washington, D.C. (This is why you hear the talking of the museum visitors in the background):
Oglala Sioux Back Bill to Stop IRS Harassment of Tribes
http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/09/05/oglala-sioux-back-bill-stop-irs-harassment-tribes
On August 2, 2013, Representative Nunes, joined by Representatives Jenkins, Kind, Gerlach, Reichert, Boustany, Cole, Moore, Delbene, Cardenas, Kilmer, Valadao, McCollum, Mullin and Gosar, introduced H.R. 3043, the Tribal General Welfare Exclusion Act of 2013. The Bill is designed to stop IRS efforts to tax tribal citizens who receive essential tribal government programs and services, such as housing, education, elder and child care, and cultural awards, among other things. Late in the game, the IRS has offered to provide guidance to its agents to respect at least some of our tribal government programs and services. That’s good, but we cannot leave Indian sovereignty and tribal self-government in the hands of IRS agents.
H.R. 3043 is important because it recognizes that Indian nations and tribes, as native governments, have a right and duty to tribal citizens to provide government programs and services to our people make our Indian lands and reservations livable homelands. In McClanahan v. Arizona Tax Comm’n, the Supreme Court explained, “It must always be remembered that … Indian tribes were once independent and sovereign nations.” We remember and we remain sovereign nations.
Our Lakota people were always free, and we fought for our freedom. In 1868, at the end of Red Cloud’s War, the United States entered the 1868 Treaty, pledging its honor to keep the peace. Chief Red Cloud burned the forts that the United States surrendered in the Powder River Country and signed our 1868 Treaty to end the war. Just a few years later, the United States broke its word, and came to take our sacred Black Hills for gold. As Chief Crazy Horse said,
We had buffalo for food, and their hides for clothing and for our teepees…. We preferred our own way of living. We were no expense to the government. All we wanted was peace and to be left alone. Soldiers were sent out in the winter, they destroyed our villages.
The United States’ taking of the Black Hills and our other lands left our people, who were happy and free, living in poverty. Today, as a result of the takings, we have 5 of the 10 poorest counties in the country on our Sioux reservations in South and North Dakota.
Leave them alone! You’ve caused enough suffering!
x1,000,000!
Hasn’t this been the case with Americans of all stripes & colors?
THIS: “We had buffalo for food, and their hides for clothing and for our teepees…. We preferred our own way of living. We were no expense to the government. All we wanted was peace and to be left alone. Soldiers were sent out in the winter, they destroyed our villages.”
And who are the BARBARIANS that come along and reek havoc, steal land, maim, burn, destroy, rape, and murder?
On September 4, 1886, the great Apache warrior Geronimo surrendered in Skeleton Canyon, Arizona, after fighting for his homeland for almost 30 years. He was the last American Indian warrior to formally surrender to the United States.
http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/09/04/native-history-geronimo-last-native-warrior-surrender-151136
This series on our Native American peeps has been though-provoking, and in many ways so heart-breaking. All these Americans wanted was to BE FREE.
America is not a great as folks have been lead to believe. Some days I just want to pack it up and move the fuck out.
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Good morning, everyone!
We wrap up our series on Native American Chiefs and I hope you’ve enjoyed it as much as I have.
Good Morning Everyone. This week’s series has been wonderful. Thank you so much
Good Morning, SG2!
Yes, I have enjoyed your wonderful series on Native American Chiefs this week! Thank you so much!
I have just finished reading and watching the excellent links and video that you provided with your article on Geronimo today.
I have also appreciated all of the photos that you found and posted this week.