TGIF
Alabama Lynching Memorial to confront U.S. history of slavery
TGIF
Alabama Lynching Memorial to confront U.S. history of slavery
Even though 3Chics Politico is written and curated by three women: Ametia, Rikyrah, and SouthernGirl2, I must nominate this as one of the most engaging blogs I've found. Devoted to politics and culture, these three shine a light on contemporary life with humor and spirit.
The Memorial to Peace and Justice has been designed by the MASS Design Group. They have an interesting website.
http://massdesigngroup.org/design
https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/769261313285615616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
So beautiful. What an amazing and caring child. So inspirational!
John Dingell @JohnDingell Aug 25
Donald Trump is a two-bit huckster, traveling the country with a fancy suitcase full of bad ideas and stupid hats.
Why Tika Sumpter Was So Nervous About Playing Future First Lady Michelle Obama
The actress and producer of the film Southside With You, about Michelle and Barack Obama’s first date, reveals how she got over her fear of playing the role and why she thinks the film is special.
BY: RONDA RACHA PENRICE
Posted: August 25, 2016
In coming months, we will be inundated with the endless highlights from our first black president’s historic two terms. One of the most delightful developments over the first family’s eight-year stay is the emergence of first lady Michelle Obama. Is there any doubt that she helped spark the #BlackGirlMagic that is our reality more and more every day?
Over 20 years ago, though, today’s first lady was simply Michelle Robinson, living in her native Chicago when she and Barack Obama had their “first date.” It’s that one day that the film Southside With You captures on the big screen.
This movie, from the Sundance Film Festival—starring Tika Sumpter of Tyler Perry’s The Haves and the Have Nots and Ride Along fame, and relative newcomer Parker Sawyers, an American actor based in London, as the first couple—will finally be available for all to see when it hits theaters Friday. Sumpter came on board two years ago, before there was even a script, and is a producer on the film. During promotional rounds for the film, the very pregnant Sumpter sat down for questions following an advanced screening of the film in Atlanta. Here are some of the insights she shared:
https://twitter.com/RottenTomatoes/status/769248776997384192
Southside With You Turns First Couple’s 1st Date Into a Sweet Romance
There’s a bit of politics and a lot of glimpses into what the Obamas would become.
BY: TRACY L. SCOTT
Posted: August 26, 2016
How do great romances start? In most cases, especially in the days before the internet, there’s a meeting, a mutual attraction or interest, followed up by a first date. And that’s where we find Barack (Parker Sawyers) and Michelle Obama (Tika Sumpter) in the new film Southside With You.
Writer-director Richard Tanne’s imagination fills in the blanks of the Obamas’ actual first date to offer a believable picture of what that initial outing might have been like for the professional colleagues who would, years later, become the first African-American president and first lady.
There is a visit to an art exhibit, a movie, ice cream and a bit of tension, and not just the kind caused by attraction. A young Barack tries to hide his smoking habit at first, and Michelle is adamant about maintaining the lines of professionalism. The conflict, a mandatory element of any rom-com worth the popcorn, only serves to make their final kiss goodnight that much sweeter.
Along the way, there are four notable elements that make Southside With You a film that sets itself apart from other romances:
Rikyrah,
This nature photo is for you:
https://twitter.com/EarthBeauties/status/766085442684891140
AWE
https://twitter.com/docrocktex26/status/769253371513495552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/HistoryHeroes/status/766464375766913024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
So precious and so cool!
https://twitter.com/dkbissinger/status/769338046948990977
FYI:
Update your iPhones and iPads Immediately
by Adam L Silvermanat7:27 pm on August 26, 2016.
An Israeli company, the NSO Group, that sells hacking solutions to governments to allow them to access people’s tech, has found a way to get around iOS security. So if you’ve got an iPhone or an iPad or anything else running iOS, go to settings and software update and download and install the patch that Apple pushed out yesterday!
https://twitter.com/EdTheJoker/status/769288800598196224
Well, yeah. As a former southerner, I can tell you the correct way to eat watermelon is to get your face all up in it, but this kid needs it sliced. Those of you who cut up your watermelon into little cubes are doing it wrong.
https://twitter.com/jeffpearlman/status/769292777041465344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
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Charles Blow is SO NOT PLAYING
https://twitter.com/keithboykin/status/769206381278859264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/uscismediamiami/status/769193645249396736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/EdTheJoker/status/769220428871106560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/chrisalexander_/status/769211008938307585?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/NASA/status/769168858401812480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
From POU:
Town dropped the truth:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BJDMXqDj3eN/
Great video. Ill make sure to share this with my friends and family. I hope the native americans in dakota win their fight against big oil.. did anyone hear about the black man shot for reporting a robbery? tragedy all around.
https://twitter.com/indianz/status/768911862641623040
https://twitter.com/indianz/status/769195217933234176
https://twitter.com/CBSEveningNews/status/769214326716698625
America Isn’t a Hellhole
Genocide of Native Americans
Trail of Tears
Slavery
Jim Crow
Bombing of Black Wall Street
Police brutality
Institutional racism
No, I don’t see it….
HERE’S HILLARY CLINTON & DONALD TRUMP CALLING EACH OTHER RACIST
LOL…Exactement..
Same difference…
The okey-doke, the non-stop spinning, the shameless spinners… the interference runners…they have all been a sight to behold though…
If we were not all witness to the past 8+ years, it just might have worked…
But to know what we know, and yet to watch the same racist folks who actively wielded, cultivated, utilized and exploited racism and the brazen racists and racist mindset these past 8 years, now clutching pearls and acting all suddenly ‘shocked’, ‘appalled’, ‘offended’, ‘outraged’ – and worse, all self-righteous and sanctimonious…
This is all just too much…so amusing if it weren’t all so sad, manipulative, exploitative and mercenary…
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America Isn’t a Hellhole if you don’t consider racism, enslavement, lynchings, torture, segregations, Jim Crow, Pig laws, Black codes, and mass incarceration of black people a bad thing?
Well it’s about time you picked up the story @msnbc. Do better!
https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/769202882784657408
the media is always a da late and a dollar short. Social-media is driving the narratives these days. They just jump on the wagon when it blows up.
https://twitter.com/Limerick1914/status/769177377788293120
President Barack Obama-True Colors
https://twitter.com/3ChicsPolitico/status/768976763686756352
Horrible and ugly.
UGLY…This is the evidence of SLAVERY & RACISM’S EVOLUTION
Prince fans will get a Graceland of their own
The Elvis Presley faithful turn to Graceland as their point of pilgrimage. Presley’s former estate in Memphis, Tenn., offers public tours and houses a museum dedicated to the King’s life and legacy.
Now, Prince fans will have a mecca of their own. Paisley Park, the massive complex in Chanhassen, Minn., where the iconic musician lived and worked, will be open to the public starting Oct. 6. Tickets go on sale at 3 p.m. Friday.
Prince hosted surprise events at Paisley Park, including one held days before his April death. But the iconic musician generally led a very private life, and few people have toured his estate.
“Opening Paisley Park is something that Prince always wanted to do and was actively working on,” Tyka Nelson, Prince’s sister, said in a statement. “Only a few hundred people have had the rare opportunity to tour the estate during his lifetime. Now, fans from around the world will be able to experience Prince’s world for the first time as we open the doors to this incredible place
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2016/08/25/prince-fans-will-get-a-graceland-of-their-own/
Good Morning, Everyone. Today, I’m traveling to the north shore for the weekend .
Make a great day!!!!
Safe travels.
Enjoy your trip!
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Be safe…and have fun…
https://twitter.com/ajplus/status/766538452116451332
Folks don’t like it when you hold the mirror up to them. Paul LePage, you are a bigoted racist! Don’t be racist and folks won’t call you one. See how that works?
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/769167034034839553
UGLY…This is the evidence of SLAVERY & RACISM’S EVOLUTION
Excerpt from PBS about the video below:
https://youtu.be/GUwmz2QOp9Q&rel=0
“EJI [Equal Justice Initiative] challenges poverty and racial injustice, advocates for equal treatment in the criminal justice system, and creates hope for marginalized communities.”
This video was posted by the Equal Justice initiative in 2015:
https://youtu.be/r4e_djVSag4&rel=0
“The myth of racial difference that was created to sustain American slavery persists today. Slavery did not end in 1865, it evolved.”
Bryan Stevenson is a national treasure.
Good Morning 😊, Everyone 😆
Good Morning Everyone :)
Thank you, Ametia, thank you for this most important post. I, and our country, need to confront deeply our history of slavery and lynchings. It is a history of violence and terrorism on a horrific level.
Bryan Stevenson asserts that when we confront our history of slavery and lynchings
Bryan Stevenson pointed out that
The Equal Justice Memorial:
https://youtu.be/vYM3HAVPPG8&rel=0
Thank you, Yahtzee!
SLAVERY & LYNCHINGS HAPPENED & HAS EVOLVED
The design for this memorial is absolutely ingenious.
The concept, in some ways, reminds me of the Vietnam memorial in Washington DC.
Thanks for all of these posts, Yahtzee.
Yvw, Liza.
What I think is brilliant is the idea of then having the same type of columns in the ground outside engraved with the names of the counties and those lynched and the museum having the program for counties to claim their column and remove it and plant it in their county. That’s the beginning of the acknowledgement that needs to take place in order to bring on the conversation and healing.