I learn something new everyday.
I had never heard of this American Hero.

Georgia Gilmore adjusts her hat for photographers in 1956 during the bus boycott trial of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in
Montgomery, Ala. She testified: “When you pay your fare and they count the money, they don’t know the Negro money from white money.”
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Meet The Fearless Cook Who Secretly Fed — And Funded — The Civil Rights Movement
January 15, 20187:00 AM ET
In December 1955, after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Ala., bus to a white man, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and other black ministers and community leaders organized a citywide bus boycott in protest. That part is well known.
Less well-known is the story of Georgia Gilmore, the Montgomery cook, midwife and activist whose secret kitchen fed the civil rights movement.
When King and others held meetings of the Montgomery Improvement Association at the Holt Street Baptist Church, Gilmore was there, selling fried chicken sandwiches and other foods to the African-American men and women gathered there who’d pledged not to use the city’s buses until they were desegregated. Gilmore poured those profits back into the movement, as John T. Edge recounts in his book The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South.
“In the process, her home kitchen became a locus for change,” writes Edge, the director of the Southern Foodways Alliance, which is based out of the University of Mississippi and documents the intersection of food and culture in the South.
Gilmore organized black women to sell pound cakes and sweet potato pies, fried fish and stewed greens, pork chops and rice at beauty salons, cab stands and churches. “She offered these women, many of whose grandmothers were born into slavery, a way to contribute to the cause that would not raise suspicions of white employers who might fire them from their jobs, or white landowners who might evict them from the houses they rented,” Edge says.
The money they raised helped pay for the alternative transportation system that arose in Montgomery during the 381-day bus boycott: hundreds of cars, trucks and wagons that ferried black workers to and from their jobs across town each day. Gilmore’s cooking helped pay for the insurance, gas, wagons and vehicle repairs that kept that system going.
She called the group of women who worked with her in this project “The Club from Nowhere” because, as Betty Gilmore, Georgia’s sister, told Edge years later, “It was like, ‘Where did this money come from? It came from nowhere.”
Gilmore would attend MIA meetings at the church and announce how much she’d raised that week, eventually inspiring another group of women in town to start a similar endeavor, Edge says.
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The testimony made Gilmore a hero to local blacks, Edge says. But “in the white world she became a pariah.” Gilmore lost her job as a cook at the National Lunch Company – though Edge says it’s not clear whether she was fired or resigned “knowing her testimony would lead to her dismissal.”
King lived a few blocks from Gilmore and was a fan of her cooking and her activism. “Whenever VIPs would come to town, he would always have Miss Gilmore cook up a batch of chicken,” Nelson Malden, King’s one-time barber in Montgomery, recalled in a 2005 interview with NPR. “When she was fired from her restaurant [job], Rev. King said, ‘Well, why don’t you go into business for yourself?’ ”
So she did. With King’s support, Gilmore turned her house into an informal restaurant.
“[Robert F.] Kennedy came, [Lyndon] Johnson been here – Dr. King brought him,” Gilmore’s son, Mark Gilmore, who died in 2008, told NPR in 2005.
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Incredibly self-possessed, principled, disciplined, self-contained, self-sufficient, self-assured, insightful, brilliant, lovely, grounded, wise, unpretentious, fearless, with integrity in spades …comfortable in her own skin, knows exactly who she is and what she is worth. Doesn’t do fakery or affectation, doesn’t live for validation or approval..
Upstanding, unaffected, honorable, wise, clear-eyed, percipient, genuine, compelling, fearless, sincere, fun, serious, whip-smart..
Consistent. Unmanufactured. And without ever playing coy or trying to be ..powerfully magnetic, endlessly appealing, deeply enigmatic, and profoundly fascinating..
Powerfully, reliably, deeply, empathetically, movingly human in the very best, most relatable and most un-patronizing of ways..
Never cowers, never grovels, never beholden …Uncontrived, unaffected, unbowed, unbroken..
She knows who she is and what she’s worth:
Equal parts wonderful, marvelous, big brain, big heart, great depth, wit, wisdom, fun, tough, sweet, confident, humble, unassuming enigma… She’s effortless, unaffected greatness ordained; …unflinching grace under fire …incontrovertible integrity personified…
She is wife, mother, daughter, historic FLOTUS, woman, human, leader .. Inspiring role model, hauntingly prophetic and compelling moral compass and conscience, authentic and powerful leader, perspicuous voice of the voiceless.. un-aggrandizing, unselfish strength of the marginalized …The true greatness who sees, hears, reaches out, reaches down, reaches back, and elevates right along with her, those previously unseen and unheard..
Reliably, consistently fair …ultimate honest broker. The Real Deal..
Effortlessly compelling, infinitely trustworthy, undeniably impressive, completely formidable …open, natural, refreshingly honest and down to earth… imbued with a sincerity, authentic spirit and humanity that doesn’t seek to exploit or aggrandize ..She is that rare public figure who actually authentically embodies, fully lives and proudly walks her talk..
Underestimated, under-appreciated, under-acknowledged, insufficiently honored, she remains for me the very powerfully, irreversibly, best of the best of womanhood, human, role model, leader..
She is so much more than #BlackGirlMagic …She is #ExquisiteMagicalWomanHuman..
Spectacular in every way: her integrity, sincerity, brilliance, warmth, wit, humility, undeniable character, perspicacity, and that rare authenticity …shines through every day, in every way.. A genuine human being in the very best sense …hers has never been a put on act.. #RealDeal..
There was no mistake …she was the indisputably perfect, effortless and complete embodiment of everything the FIRST should be..
I remain in complete awe of, exhilaratingly grateful for, endlessly and fiercely protective of this incredibly spectacular, consciously and powerfully present, uncontrived greatness of a woman …and America’s first, one and only historic First Lady.. precious jewel of inestimable value..
May she live long and strong …continue to soar, prosper, succeed far beyond hers and our wildest dreams … and positively thrive, shine and conquer for many, many, many more years to come..
A very Happy Birthday to our magnificent #foreverFLOTUS …with all her sacrifice -tangible and intangible, and the endless attacks on and continued dehumanization of her …and now living with a permanent target on her back, she remains for me, the unsung heroine of the past 10+ years and 2-terms of a historic presidency our country and world witnessed, and many now appreciate. I greatly respect and adore her more than words could say …and desperately miss her every single day, in her formal role as the official face, presence and voice of our great nation, to the world…
May God continue to bless, guide, guard, instruct, direct, protect her, and her family…
p.s: NaturalBeauty and Brains! 54 never looked so fantastic… GORGEOUS …
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“Thomas Farr has been picked for a lifetime seat as a federal judge by President Trump. Farr has a history of opposing civil rights and early connections to one of the most influential racial hate groups in the country: the Pioneer Fund.”
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/12/04/eugenics-voter-id-laws-thomas-farrs-connections-pioneer-fund
“From eugenics to voter ID laws: Thomas Farr’s connections to the Pioneer Fund”
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/12/04/eugenics-voter-id-laws-thomas-farrs-connections-pioneer-fund
Excerpt:
There are great resources on this page:
“Speak Up: Responding to Everyday Bigotry”
https://www.splcenter.org/20150125/speak-responding-everyday-bigotry
https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedNews/status/953679530648133633
In the Race for Georgia Governor, Can Stacey Abrams Usher In a New Southern Strategy for the Democrats?
Terrell Jermaine Starr
Today 9:00am
What Flake got right — and wrong
By Jennifer Rubin January 17 at 2:11 PM
SNIP
Ignoring or denying the truth about hostile Russian intentions toward the United States leaves us vulnerable to further attacks. We are told by our intelligence agencies that those attacks are ongoing, yet it has recently been reported that there has not been a single cabinet-level meeting regarding Russian interference and how to defend America against these attacks. Not one. What might seem like a casual and routine untruth – so casual and routine that it has by now become the white noise of Washington – is in fact a serious lapse in the defense of our country.
But here, too, Republicans are part of the problem. Members of Congress continue to undermine the investigation. Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) spread the lie that President Barack Obama “wiretapped” Trump. And House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) leaves him in his job as Intelligence Committee chairman. Senate Republicans’ questioning of Fusion GPS founder Glenn R. Simpson wasn’t aimed at getting facts but at smearing the witness.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2018/01/17/what-flake-got-right-and-wrong/?utm_term=.d4c8a577d885
https://twitter.com/AlBoeNEWS/status/953726832154759168
And, if reading this, you find this ok, well, I have nothing to say to you.
I despise you and everything you stand for, because you don’t stand for anything good.
And, no, I’m not going to try and understand you.
ICE officials arrest Ohio business owner, plan to deport him
By Andy Long
Published: January 16, 2018, 9:06 pm
Anyone have an air fryer?
Do they really work?
Does the food taste good?
I got a very good deal on one at Amazon last night, and bought one.
I don’t but Ima have to take a look at them.
https://twitter.com/RawStory/status/953403153667510272
Now the @ white House presser, they have some jerk spewing the FAKE DATA about foreign terrorist. NOTHING ABOUT DOMETIC WHITE SUPREMACIST-TERRORISTS
Jeff Sessions bullshit.
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A pure thug!
https://twitter.com/RawStory/status/953637141447356416
https://youtu.be/580dYcYCneA&rel=0
https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedNews/status/953659691841802241
The Indypendent
@TheIndypendent
NYC Immigrant Rights Leader Jean Montrevil was deported to Haiti earlier today. He had lived in NYC for 31 years and has four U.S. born children
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Wendell Pierce@WendellPierce
The Authoritarian State Is Here. The American Democracy Is Ending. I lived in Brooklyn for decades and was aware of this Haitian immigrant advocate. His deportation was targeted. This is how the Chinese Cultural Revolution began. Purging the State. A Racial Purging of America
Look y’all! Awe 😍😍😍
https://twitter.com/invisibleman_17/status/953570881539801089
Um….Um……
Since their divorce, Murdoch has been telling anybody who would listen that Wendi is a Chinese spy–and had been throughout the marriage.
— Michael Wolff (@MichaelWolffNYC) January 16, 2018
Thank you, Rikyrah, for the informative post on Georgia Gilmore. She was a true American HERO.
THIS:
Montgomery, Ala. She testified: “When you pay your fare and they count the money, they don’t know the Negro money from white money.”
Happy Birthday Forever FLOTUS 😍😍👏🌹🍧🎂🍸🎆🎈🎉🎁
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, FIRST LADY MICHELLE OBAMA!!!!
Happy Birthday, Michelle Obama! You are the BEST-EVER First Lady our nation has ever had! Thank you for all that you have given us.
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Jeff Flake’s a big FLAKE. You wait to retire from senate to speak out on #45’s attacks on free press? PLEASE
Flake the Fake is preparing for his next gig, probably as a perpetual guest on FOX.
Cory Booker on Sec. Nielsen: “She was not telling the truth. She was an American citizen under oath before a Senate Committee and she pretended like she didn’t remember… It was so offensive to me that she lied under oath.” (via CBS) pic.twitter.com/reHUptZCDD
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 17, 2018
Sec Nielsen is a BIG FAT LIAR.
FULL STOP
Good morning 3Chics,
I think I’ll like Cory on Judiciary Committee. Someone needs to tell it like it is.
At MLK Breakfast I asked Sen. Amy Klobuchar how you’ll allow AG White Citizens Council to lie in your face and not say a word but if I do it I’m under the Federal Building? I got no reply just a shrug and a nod.
My God! He’s seriously disturbed.
https://twitter.com/funder/status/953650659345264641
How Michael Wolff Got Into the White House for His Tell-All Book
January 17, 2018 at 7:24 am EST
Author Michael Wolff’s pitch to the White House to win cooperation for his book included a working title that signaled a sympathetic view, a counter-narrative to a slew of negative news stories early in Donald Trump’s presidency. He called it The Great Transition: The First 100 Days of the Trump Administration. And in part due to that title, Wolff was able to exploit an inexperienced White House staff who mistakenly believed they could shape the book to the president’s liking.
Nearly everyone who spoke with Wolff thought someone else in the White House had approved their participation. And it appears that not a single person in a position of authority to halt cooperation with the book — including Trump himself — raised any red flags, despite Wolff’s well documented history.
AMATUER HOUR
Republicans get a ‘wake-up call’ in pro-Trump Wisconsin district
01/17/18 08:00 AM—UPDATED 01/17/18 08:41 AM
By Steve Benen
Democrats fared quite well in special elections in 2017, and as the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported overnight, the party appears to be starting 2018 on the right foot, too.
Democrats snagged a GOP-leaning state Senate seat in western Wisconsin on Tuesday, buoying progressive hopes that they could ride a wave of victory this fall.
Patty Schachtner, the chief medical examiner for St. Croix County, will take the seat that had been held for 17 years by former Sen. Sheila Harsdorf (R-River Falls). Harsdorf stepped down in November to take a job as GOP Gov. Scott Walker’s agriculture secretary.
As a legislative matter, the Democratic candidate’s surprise win has a limited impact: Republicans still control all of the levers of power in the Badger State, including an 18-14 advantage in the state Senate.
But that doesn’t make yesterday’s upset any less dramatic. This is a gerrymandered district, where voters backed Donald Trump by 17 points – Mitt Romney won here by six points – featuring a GOP candidate who received quite a bit of financial support from the right, including Americans for Prosperity Wisconsin.
In other words, this is a race Republicans should have won without breaking a sweat – and yet the Dem won easily. Gov. Scott Walker (R) called it a “wake-up call” for his party ahead of the 2018 elections, when he’ll be seeking a third term.
Thanks for all of the news you are providing us this morning, Rikyrah!
DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen makes an awkward first impression
01/17/18 08:40 AM—UPDATED 01/17/18 09:39 AM
By Steve Benen
It’s easy to forget just how massive the Department of Homeland Security is. The nation’s newest cabinet agency, created in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, has nearly a quarter of a million employees, tackling a wide variety of tasks: DHS includes everything from FEMA to Customs and Border Protection to the Secret Service.
It’s therefore important for Americans to have confidence, not only in the department, but in its leadership. With this in mind, yesterday was an important day for Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, who’s only been on the job for a month, and who was confirmed to the important post despite a controversial record stemming from her tenure in the Bush/Cheney administration.
When Nielsen testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, it was, for all intents and purposes, the public’s first real opportunity to meet the new head of this important cabinet agency.
I don’t think it went especially well. The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank highlighted one of the most memorable moments from the hearing:
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 1/16/18
Steve Bannon will ‘tell all’ to Robert Mueller: report
Betsy Woodruff, political reporter for The Daily Beast, talks with Rachel Maddow about breaking news that Steve Bannon will speak freely to special counsel Robert Mueller because the executive privilege that prevented him from speaking to House Intel does not apply to a Mueller grand jury.
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 1/16/18
Bannon declines to answer House Intel questions despite subpoena
Michael Schmidt, Washington correspondent for The New York Times, talks with Rachel Maddow about Robert Mueller’s subpoena of Steve Bannon and Bannon’s refusal to honor a second subpoena from the House Intelligence Committee.
https://twitter.com/TheRoot/status/953289437227749382
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 1/16/18
What does Mueller’s Bannon subpoena say about the investigation?
Chuck Rosenberg, former federal prosecutor, talks with Rachel Maddow about what it might mean that special counsel Robert Mueller served Steve Bannon with a subpoena instead of asking him for an informal interview like others in Donald Trump’s inner circle gave.
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 1/16/18
Robert Mueller, House Intel subpoena Steve Bannon on same day
Rachel Maddow reports on the subpoenas served to Steve Bannon by Robert Mueller as well as the House Intelligence Committee and the myriad questions raised about his testimony and what investigators hope to learn from him.
https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/953644469794025472
Aaron Booth @ActorAaronBooth
Here is a breakdown of Democrats’ over performance tonight in all 4 contested special elections:
SC #HD99: D+13.08%
WI #AD58: D+24.90%
WI #SD10: D+27.52%
IA #HD06: D+20.44%
That is an average Dem over performance tonight of D+21.49%
That’s… significant.
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Make no mistake about it, when a party holds the White House and majorities in both the House and Senate, they “own” any government shutdown. Things the President has said and done over the last week have only increased the price the GOP has to pay for that ownership.
— Charlie Cook (@CharlieCookDC) January 16, 2018
I’ll bet so….
https://twitter.com/RawStory/status/953640128894906368
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/953636796981760000
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMzd40i8TfA
Keep speaking that TRUTH, Senator Booker. If folks are angry & calling you scary & angry, this means they can’t handle the TRUTH.
https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger/status/953330474239315968
JR taking the switch to this witch.
Civics 101, Boys and Girls.
ONE party controls the House of Representatives.
SAME Party controls the Senate.
SAME Party controls the White House.
DEMOCRATS.HAVE.NOTHING.TO.DO.WITH.THE.LOOMING.GOVERNMENT.SHUTDOWN.
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Freedom Caucus Members Withholding Votes GOP Needs to Pass CR
“The votes are not currently there to pass it with just Republicans,” Meadows says
pdated 11:09 p.m. | While a majority of House Republicans appear ready to support a short-term continuing resolution to keep the government open through Feb. 16, enough Freedom Caucus members remain uncommitted to make passage questionable.
“The votes are not currently there to pass it with just Republicans,” Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows said before a crucial House GOP conference meeting on the topic Tuesday night.
After the meeting and a separate Freedom Caucus gathering, the North Carolina Republican said that view had not changed.
While the 36-member caucus lacked the quorum needed to take an official position on the CR — their rules require 80 percent support — there were enough “no” and “undecided” votes to prevent Republicans from passing it without Democratic support or additional changes, Meadows said. He added that he planned to discuss possible changes with leadership and then continue discussions with his caucus Wednesday.
The absurdity of it all.
GOP CONTROLS ALL 3 BRANCES OF THE GOVENMENT.
And cannot & will not govern or legislate.
#45 signs all kinds of excec orders, and he holds them up before the camera, smiling like a 4 year old who just colored inside the lines, as if to say, look mommy, isn’t this pretty?
Uh huh
Uh huh
U.S. consumer bureau to reconsider payday lending rule
Pete Schroeder
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said on Tuesday that it intends to reconsider a recent rule that would significantly curb payday lending.
The rule, finalized in October under a President Barack Obama appointee and set to begin taking effect this year, would require lenders to determine if borrowers can repay debts and cap the number of loans that lenders could make to a borrower.
The decision to revisit the rule, which applies to small-dollar advances typically repaid on the borrower’s next payday, could mark the beginning of the most significant policy shifts since the Trump administration took control of the agency at the end of November.
Mick Mulvaney, the agency’s acting director and President Donald Trump’s budget director, had previously said he supported efforts by the U.S. Congress to undo the rule and was exploring his options for revisiting the rule as it takes effect.
“The Bureau intends to engage in a rulemaking process so that the Bureau may reconsider the Payday Rule,” the CFPB said in a statement, noting that while the rule officially took effect Tuesday, lenders have until August 2019 to comply with most of its provisions.
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UH HUH UH HUH
https://twitter.com/ABC/status/953625181754417152
Thanks for keeping us up-to-date on all of the news this morning, SG2.
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Dolt45 did this
https://twitter.com/ABCPolitics/status/953629641620803592
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/953606679240822787
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/953623206073651200
https://twitter.com/JesseFFerguson/status/953468460092321794
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/953474487839809537
Good Morning Everyone 😄😄😄
Good Morning, Rikyrah. Thank you SO MUCH for sharing the story of Georgia Gilmore’s huge contribution to the civil rights movement in Montgomery, Alabama.
You inspired me to look for more biographical information on her, and I was able to find two videos of her being interviewed. The videos are at these two links:
http://repository.wustl.edu/concern/videos/8k71nj74p
http://repository.wustl.edu/concern/videos/8049g7144
Good morning. 18 degrees. I don’t like it.
You certainly have been having a lot of cold weather! Please bundle up and stay warm, SG2.
Try these on…maybe they will help:
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Um…I would welcome 18 degrees…LOL
On the serious tip..If it’s ice outside, please don’t go outside. You all don’t even have the equipment or materials to try and make the streets safe. Stay inside, Family SG2.
Good Morning Everyone. SG2, stay warm & safe.