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I watched these two movies on youtube this week. You can click on their titles after watching Part 1 of each in order to find the next parts.
*tears*
The KKK is damned and they don’t seem to care.
Where we are today, 50 years after Birmingham
Thank you for these videos
Good points made…especially about strong national organizations like SNCC and SCLC that existed during the civil rights era but not today. The youth need to continue to get on the move today and follow the example of the young activists in Moral Mondays and the Dream Keepers.
My inside has such a heavy, achey, worried feeling about the events of this year…..dear Trayvon…..Voting Act………”seemingly planned” school to prison pipeline…
One thing is for sure is that I refuse to let these feelings lead to weariness…..
nor give in to the type disillusion that takes away my power to create change for the better.
yet I do hear some of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxEDy1xtXAk
I say that I will stay energized and stand up against the negative forces of racism and hate.
I haven’t experienced or seen what you have, so why should I be talking about my avoiding feeling tired?
The Lasting Impact of the Birmingham Bombing
Thank you for posting these videos, SG2. I watched MHP, and was glad she covered these segments. Prior to that, she a=had on a panel practically blaming POTUS for the economic meltdown in 2008.
Angry House Republicans demand better communication from their leaders
By Molly K. Hooper – 09/15/13 12:00 PM ET
Republican lawmakers are growing increasingly frustrated with what they say is a lack of communication from their leaders.
Both centrist and conservative members in the House believe that Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and his lieutenants could have done more earlier this year to counter the Tea Party’s effort to defund ObamaCare. Some Republicans on Capitol Hill say such an effort is politically impossible with a Democratic-controlled Senate and a Democrat in the White House. Regardless, the rift on what to do on ObamaCare has opened up a civil war within the GOP.
That deep division is flaring at a time when fiscal showdowns are front and center following the August recess. A number of lawmakers, who spoke with The Hill on the condition of anonymity, say they are upset that their leaders don’t appear to have a strategy and didn’t communicate more with them during the summer break.
Shortly after Texas GOP Sen. Ted Cruz unveiled his intention in mid-July to turn up the heat on House Republicans on ObamaCare funding, a GOP lawmaker walked to Boehner’s office to warn the Speaker of the impending public relations battle, according to a lawmaker close to the situation.
The source said that Boehner was asked to “get in front of the issue or else the battle will be set for us.”
But the Speaker and Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) opted not to publicly shoot down Cruz’s ideas. Cruz has been subsequently joined by other senators, most notably Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.).
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/house/322305-angry-house-republicans-say-gop-leaders-need-to-communicate-better#ixzz2f0HhRwJu
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Remembering lives lost in Birmingham bombing
Anyone expecting a sweet remembrance of the life and times of Marianne Theresa Johnson-Reddick was in for a surprise if they opened the obituary pages this week in the local newspaper.
“On behalf of her children who she abrasively exposed to her evil and violent life, we celebrate her passing from this earth and hope she lives in the after-life reliving each gesture of violence, cruelty and shame that she delivered on her children,” the scathing obituary begins.
Now circling the globe on the Internet, the obit was written by Johnson-Reddick’s adult children, whose horror stories prompted Nevada to become one of the first states to allow children to sever parental ties back in the 1980s.
Johnson-Reddick died at a Reno nursing home Aug. 30 at the age of 79, according to her daughter, Katherine Reddick, 57, now a psychology consultant for a school district outside Austin, Texas.
Katherine Reddick said she decided to share the story of their painful physical and mental abuse after consulting with her brother, Patrick Reddick, 58, who lives in Minden south of Carson City. They said they grew up with four siblings in a Carson City orphanage after they were removed from their mother’s home and had been estranged from her for more than 30 years.
“Everyone she met, adult or child was tortured by her cruelty and exposure to violence, criminal activity, vulgarity, and hatred of the gentle or kind human spirit,” the obit said. “Our greatest wish now is to stimulate a national movement that mandates a purposeful and dedicated war against child abuse in the United States of America.”
Six of Johnson-Reddick’s eight children were admitted to the Nevada Children’s Home from 1963 to 1964 after they endured regular beatings, sometimes with a metal-tipped belt, and other abuse at the hands of their mother, Patrick Reddick said. He said he’s had phone calls from “all over the world” about the obituary.
“Everything in there was completely true,” he told The Associated Press on Thursday, describing her as a “wicked, wicked witch.”
He said they wanted to “shame her a little bit” but that the “main purpose for putting it in there was to bring awareness to child abuse … shame child abuse overall.”
“People doing that right now, they can read that obit and think,” said Patrick Reddick, who last saw his mother more than three decades ago.
“I’m a survivor,” he said. “I count my blessings every day. Especially for my wife.”
Reddick and his sister, now 57, testified before the 1987 Legislature on bills to make courts give equal consideration to the best interest of a child when terminating parental rights.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/13/marianne-theresa-johnson-reddick-obit_n_3921058.html?1379088680&icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl4%7Csec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D374881
GOP’s Worst Nightmare
Posted on September 15, 2013 at 4:43 pm by Mr. Brink
I want you to take a good look at that face, Republicans. This is the face that you have been harassing and obstructing for over five years. The face that has taken on terrorists and dictators and pirates– global crisis and domestic tragedies– with our dignity and integrity fully intact. Now, he’s looking at you!
Don’t let the smiles fool you. This guy means what he says. I’d look away, too. Be very afraid, Republicans. I know you’re having a difficult time trying to negotiate with yourselves, which would indicate that you must first figure out how to walk before you can soar with the eagles. And, being a party to domestic terrorism in trying to crash the global economy just to prevent poor people from getting healthcare and food has its perks, after all. But this time it’s different. Before you start pressing the little red buttons on your suicide vests, stop and think about this. I know you’ve tried everything you could to steal elections, criminalize abortion, and funnel rights and public property for pennies-on-the-dollar to the “job creators.” It’s just too bad for you and the rest of the country that you’ve had your priorities and principles in order to this point, but let me tell you, as recent events have demonstrated, I think this president is through negotiating with terrorists.
I know you’re going through a tough time in your political lives, GOP. It’s a fork in the road that you’re going to have to navigate on your own, but this is not the time to get cute. You’ve lost the fight to repeal The Affordable Care Act, at least 42 times, including a national election. You’ve already given up on the Immigration reform debate, which won’t help you win the “rebranding” campaign anytime soon. You’ve lost your ability to control your drunken kin who are still making obscene and threatening gestures to the rest of the country. What are you gonna do? Disown them? Unlikely. But, after the president stared down Vladimir Putin recently, a far more formidable foe than a hundred of you, and prevailed in a negotiation of war and peace without having to look too deeply into the man’s soul to find his weakness, it seems that Iran is coming around, now, too, and it’s beginning to look like all you have left is beating your wives and kicking your dogs out of frustration.
http://bobcesca.thedailybanter.com/blog-archives/2013/09/gops-worst-nightmare.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=gops-worst-nightmare
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Former US Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers withdraws his name for job of Federal Reserve chairman – @WSJ http://on.wsj.com/1eBWdma
3:26 PM – 15 Sep 2013
So, Mrs. Ezra Klein is at it again:
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Obama has played 145 rounds of golf as president. Just 3 known rounds included women. http://swampland.time.com/2013/09/15/obamas-18-favorite-golf-partners-youve-only-heard-of-one/ …
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Is Stony Island the right honor for Bishop Brazier?
Mayor Rahm Emanuel is undoubtedly trying to score points with black Chicagoans.
Hard to imagine that isn’t the case.
Is it still a good idea to honor Bishop Arthur Brazier, a civil rights and spiritual leader, community activist and overall force for good in a world that doesn’t have enough of them?
Yes.
Emanuel this week proposed renaming Stony Island, from 56th to 130th streets, after Bishop Brazier, who died in 2010 at age 89. Brazier certainly deserves an honor.
Over a long life, Brazier never stopped fighting the good fight — his work covered it all: economic development, housing, education and spiritual uplift. As his son, who took over the mega church his father built at 63rd and Dorchester, explained to the Sun-Times’ Fran Spielman, “He provided insight and development in housing, education, public safety, health and human services. His comprehensiveness is what the mayor and our community understood. He wasn’t just a person who ran a program, but understood the development and self-determination of a community.”
Brazier helped bring the Rev. Martin Luther King to Chicago in 1966, helped found the Woodlawn Organization in the ’60s to battle slumlords and beat back an encroaching University of Chicago, helped organize a boycott of the public schools over the concentration of black students in mobile classrooms, leading to the early resignation of school Supt. Ben Willis, and became a powerful, enduring voice that politicians all the way up to President Barack Obama relied on.
Over 48 years, he built a congregation at the Apostolic Church of God of more than 20,000 members and helped rebuild the section of Woodlawn near the church. He also developed affordable housing and consulted with community groups across the country on housing and commercial redevelopment and, in recent years, instrumental in starting the Woodlawn Children’s Promise Community.
http://voices.suntimes.com/early-and-often/backtalk/is-stony-island-the-right-honor-for-bishop-brazier/
Stony Island renaming plan looks like sad political ploy: Mitchell
By MARY MITCHELL September 13, 2013 6:00PM
Just about everyone on the South Side has a Stony Island story.
But if Mayor Rahm Emanuel gets his way, those stories will soon give way to ones about “Bishop Brazier Avenue.”
This week, the full City Council is expected to pass a measure that would change the iconic thoroughfare’s name to that of the late Bishop Arthur Brazier, the longtime pastor of the Apostolic Church of God.
Brazier left his footprints in the redevelopment of the Woodlawn community, and played key roles in the fight for equality in education.
Still, this is Stony Island we are talking about.
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No alderman would dare challenge Brazier’s worthiness, and I predict this proposal will sail through City Council as if it were a resolution for an honorary street sign.
Still, I remember that all hell broke loose in 2006 when then Ald. Madeline Haithcock (2nd) tried to get one city block named for Fred Hampton pursuant to his son’s request.
Hampton, the charismatic leader of the Chicago Black Panthers, was killed in an infamous police raid in 1969. To black people, Hampton was a martyr in the struggle for equality. Thousands lined up to view his body and to attend his funeral.
The Fraternal Order of Police protested the honorary street sign designation, and successfully lobbied white aldermen to vote against it.
I don’t expect Byron Brazier, who was on Emanuel’s transition team, will run into any City Council opposition in an attempt to get Stony Island renamed for his father.
Still, coming at a time when a lot of black people have soured on the mayor, what is supposed to be a tribute just looks like cheap political posturing.
Unfortunately, the renaming of Stony Island could end up as one of those stories we would be too ashamed to tell.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/mitchell/22546597-452/stony-island-renaming-plan-looks-like-sad-political-ploy-mitchell.html
Despite delays, Obamacare ‘navigators’ anxious to hit the streets
BY MONIFA THOMAS Staff Reporter September 13, 2013 11:06PM
Some of the organizations that received federal funding to recruit navigators or in-person counselors — those charged with helping others understand the Affordable Care Act — admit they’re still waiting to hire them.
Two weeks before a key launch date for the nation’s health care law, other agencies say they’re still waiting to get more information before they start sending their navigators out to the public.
Navigators and in-person counselors — who basically do the same thing — are important because they are the ones who will have direct contact with uninsured Illinois residents trying to make sense of the ACA as they choose a health plan.
The federal and state governments have insisted that many of the questions will get resolved in time for their Oct. 1 deadlines. That’s when Illinois and other states are supposed to start offering affordable plans on newly-created online marketplaces for people who lack health insurance, a key part of the Affordable Care Act — or, as it is informally known, Obamacare.
One of the unknowns is how much insurance plans on this new Illinois Health Insurance Marketplace will cost. In addition, neither the federal nor the state government has finished work on the complex websites most consumers are supposed to use to help them compare and buy health coverage.
The longer they wait, the less time that gives navigators to do their job, some experts have said.
http://www.suntimes.com/22482531-761/despite-delays-obamacare-navigators-anxious-to-hit-the-streets.html
MHP: Why Toni Morrison’s Bluest Eye should not be banned
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/mhp/53015844#53016362
Ametia, SG2, can we get these videos in postable form?
MHP: Remembering the 16th Street Baptist Bombing that killed the 4 little girls in Birmingham
Segment 1
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/mhp/53015844#53016065
Segment 2
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/mhp/53015844#53016162
Segment 3
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/mhp/53015844#53016203
Hey Rikyrah! I’m working on it.
MHP: Fair Housing Practices in Communities of Color
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/mhp/53015844#53015844
The coming Obamacare fight holds real peril for Republicans, too
By Greg Sargent, Published: September 13 at 2:12 pm
If you want to get a sense of the hardships the coming battle over Obamacare implementation could present for Republicans, check out this compelling local newscast out of Virginia that was flagged for me by a Democrat.
It reports that at least 200,000 Virginia residents could be in danger of falling into the “Medicaid gap,” i.e., they are too poor to qualify for the law’s subsidies, but also will not enjoy the benefits of the law because Virginia has opted out of the Medicaid expansion:
What you see here is another way in which we may be heading into new political territory in the battle over Obamacare, now that its benefits are set to kick in this fall. The media and political discussion is heavily focused on the problems implementation may bring. There’s no denying that there will likely be glitches. Those are likely to be hyped in the press — egged on by Obamacare foes — into proof that the law is a uniform disaster. But as more and more people have their own concrete experience of the law and its benefits, the Republican arguments about it could get harder to make.
In recent days some Republican governors have broken with the conservative demand that they must swear off the Medicaid expansion entirely. Governor Tom Corbett of Pennsylvania, who previously opted out of the expansion, is now set to roll out some sort of Medicaid expansion plan of his own that would expand coverage to poor Pennsylvanians. While it’s unclear what it will look like, it might require new recipients to purchase private insurance with the help of federal expansion money, which looks like an expansion of the safety net.
Meanwhile, Ohio governor John Kasich, who has announced the state will opt in to the expansion but is running into resistance, is now aggressively battling GOP lawmakers in his own state who oppose opting in, arguing that it’s folly for the state to reject federal money that can be used to treat their own constituents.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2013/09/13/the-coming-obamacare-fight-holds-real-peril-for-republicans-too/
Obama Turns The Tables and Tells Republicans Debt Ceiling Demands Are Unconstitutional
By: Jason Easley
Sep. 15th, 2013
President Obama took one of the Republican Party’s favorite lines of attack, and turned it around on them by telling the House GOP that their debt ceiling demands are unconstitutional.
http://www.politicususa.com/2013/09/15/obama-turns-tables-tells-republicans-debt-ceiling-demands-unconstitutional.html
Against A World Arrayed for War
by BooMan
Sat Sep 14th, 2013 at 11:04:12 PM EST
Back when all this began, when the Bush administration decided that the Shiite power they had unleashed by invading Iraq was a bigger threat to American interests in the Middle East than the Sunni-led insurgency they were facing in Mesopotamia, a cast of characters arose to question the administration. When Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware got word that we were sending commandos into Iran to pursue insurgents, he asked Condoleeza Rice for assurances.
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In 2011, after the WikiLeaks disclosures, the U.S. was forced to admit that it had been funding anti-Assad regime efforts, too, going back to 2006.
When Barack Obama became president, he inherited this neo-conservative policy which was based in very sectarian thinking: Sunnis good, Shiites bad. The people who had been speaking against and raising questions about the policy would become high-ranking members of his cabinet. But Obama proved repeatedly that he wasn’t going to accept the dissenters’ advice either. He doesn’t seem to have accepted any part of the paradigm.
Bradley Klapper may think that the administration’s Syria policy is in disarray, but his own timeline of events proves otherwise. While Obama did not pull up every anti-regime effort in the pipeline root and branch, he made clear upon taking office that he wanted to pursue improved relations with Syria and coax them out of their alliance with Iran and Hizbollah with a variety of diplomatic and economic incentives. He assigned an ambassador to Damascus for the first time in years. At this point, any ongoing mischief was either going on at the direction of Prince Bandar in Saudi Arabia or was intended to gently prod Assad toward the West.
The effort was not successful, and it was undercut by the Arab Spring. When Assad responded to protests with brutality, the administration tried to pursue sanctions at the United Nations but was rebuffed by the Chinese and the Russians. Eventually, Obama said that Assad needed to leave power, but his next step was to have Secretary of State Clinton work with the Russians on finding a way to end the civil war. The Russians wouldn’t agree that Assad had to go, but it was implied by the fact that the Assad regime was given a veto over any possible future government. In other words, they wouldn’t agree to go unless they felt that they and the Alawites would be protected. Obama went along with this, but it didn’t lead anywhere.
As the civil war grew worse, Obama refused to send weapons. But, in August 2012, he grew worried enough about the potential use of chemical weapons that he issued his now-famous “red line” warning against their use. By February 2013, we were sending medical kits and MRE’s, but still no weapons, and Obama refused to create a no-fly zone despite considerable pressure to do so.
Then, in June, our intelligence community concluded that the regime had probably used some chemical weapons in a few scattered attacks. Again, he was pressured to create a no-fly zone, but he settled on the lesser alternative of finally acceding to sending lethal aid to the rebels. But none of it was sent.
The lesson on the eve of the 8/21 attacks was clear. Despite inheriting a policy that saw the Middle East as a battle between Sunnis and Shiites, the president was using every stalling tactic he could think of to avoid joining the fight on the Sunni’s side. First, he tried diplomacy. Then he tried sanctions. Then he issued a warning. Then he allowed non-lethal aid. Then he offered lethal aid. At every point, he did less than what he was being asked to by the neo-cons, the Israelis, and the Sunni powers. In many cases, he was doing less than his own cabinet advised.
Then, when the 8/21 attacks occurred, he threatened to use a limited amount of force and sandbagged even that effort by giving up his right to act unilaterally and throwing the rotting mess to Congress. Finally, he struck an agreement with Russia that will take the pressure off to use military strikes so long as Syria is complying with the terms of disarmament.
His policy has been to reject the view that American interests are tied up in a regional sectarian war in which we want to see the Sunnis prevail. His policy has been to resist constant and powerful forces that keep insisting that we accept the paradigm the neo-cons set in motion back in 2006-7. His policy has been to keep us out of Syria, no matter the political cost to himself, his reelection efforts, or his posterity.
At the same time, his policy has been consistently that there is no military solution to Syria. The Sunnis cannot prevail there and we wouldn’t want them to anyway considering what they would do to the religious minorities. He tried to coax Syria out of the Shiite paradigm. Then he tried to get Russia to help him kill the sectarian paradigm. And now he has Russia on board to see this through to an end that isn’t settled by one sect prevailing against the other.
He has never seen Syria as a proxy war against Iran or Russia or as a war that we need settled in the Sunni’s favor.
His policy is not in disarray. It’s actually on its first solid footing since his presidency began.
http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2013/9/14/23412/9966
Obama Obliterates The Republican Myth That Putin Saved Him on Syria
By: Jason Easley
Sep. 15th, 2013
On ABC’s This Week, President Obama destroyed the Republican created myth that Putin saved him on Syria, and obliterated the GOP talking points on the issue.
Transcript via This Week:
http://www.politicususa.com/2013/09/15/obama-obliterates-republican-myth-putin-saved-syria.html
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POTUS on Armchair Quarterbacks: says D.C. likes to grade on style points even if the results are disastrous. Uses Iraq as a perfect example
Police officer who ‘shot dead unarmed man who was seeking help after car wreck’ is charged with manslaughter.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2420992/Jonathan-Ferrell-North-Carolina-cop-charged-manslaughter-death-unarmed-man.html
A North Carolina police officer who authorities say fatally shot an unarmed man as he sought assistance after he crashed his vehicle early Saturday morning has been charged with voluntary manslaughter in the man’s death.
Authorities in Charlotte say former Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University football player Jonathan Ferrell appears to have crashed his car down an embankment about 2:30 a.m. and then knocked on the door of a nearby residence shortly after looking for help.
The homeowner opened the door thinking it was her husband. When she realized it was 24-year-old Ferrell – a stranger – she closed the door and called 911.
When officers arrived, they found Ferrell a short distance from the home, and he matched a description given by the homeowner, police said.
The statement said officers approached Ferrell to investigate the original call. Ferrell ran toward the officers and was hit with a Taser. Ferrell continued to run toward police when Officer Randall Kerrick fired his weapon, hitting Ferrell several times. Ferrell was pronounced dead at the scene.
After discovering the wrecked vehicles, authorities determined that Ferrell was potentially seeking help from the homeowner when she called 911.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Rodney Monroe said the accident was serious and Ferrell would have been forced to climb out of the back window of the vehicle. He apparently walked to the nearest house and banged on the door.
Just horrendous! The guy survived a serious wreck and went to ask for help only to be gunned down by trigger happy cop. I hope the home owner NEVER need anyone’s help as long as she lives.
What Trader Joe’s teaches us about Obamacare
By Sarah Kliff, Published: September 13 at 4:09 pm
Trader Joe’s made a very big announcement this week, one that had nothing to do with Two-Buck Chuck.
The grocery chain, in a memo obtained by the Huffington Post, told part-time employees that it would end their health insurance benefits for employees who work less than 30 hours a week, sending them instead to the new public insurance marketplaces with an extra $500 to help purchase coverage.
“Depending on income earned outside of Trader Joe’s, we believe that with the $500 from Trader Joe’s and the tax credits available under the ACA, many crew members should be able to obtain health-care coverage at very little, if any, net cost,” the company said Thursday in a statement to Bloomberg.
Resad on
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/09/13/what-trader-joes-teaches-us-about-obamacare/?wpisrc=nl_headlines
LeBron James Marries Longtime Girlfriend Savannah Brinson in San Diego
September 14, 2013 AT 9:15PM
The newlyweds said “I do” at the Capella Chapel at the Grand Del Mar hotel in San Diego, Calif., and were feted by around 200 guests, including famous pals like fellow NBA star Dwyane Wade, his actress love Gabrielle Union, Jay Z and singer Neyo. The “Let Me Love You” later performed at the reception.
The new bride wore a stunning strapless white dress with a low-cut back for the big day. Her hair was pulled back in a bun. Following the ceremony, guests were escorted to a hotel ballroom for cocktails, and later to a massive tent for the party to begin.
Read more: http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/lebron-james-and-savannah-brinson-2013149#ixzz2eya543x0
Good Morning Everyone
Happy Sunday, everyone!
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I am curious to know if things are being put into place to ignite a massive migration of blacks to go back down south soooo my question and my observation will be, “will Oprah, magic, Tyler etc live also down south as well” and if not….is it their way of creating a sort of Schindler’s list. Think about it.
? Care to elaborate on “Schindler’s List?
There is but one thing to observe…October the 8th.
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