Two Georgia Democrats are planning to skip President Trump’s State of the Union address next week.
The offices of Reps. John Lewis and Hank Johnson confirmed to The Hill Thursday that they would not be in attendance on Feb. 5.
“I have a problem with defiling the Speaker’s chair in the House of Representatives,” Johnson told AJC. “I don’t want to see it lowered, as is what happens when Donald Trump comes to our floor and starts talking about groups of people, particularly Latinos, and disparaging them as a people.”
“I’d rather be somewhere else,” he added.
Civil rights hero Lewis is continuing his standing boycott of Trump’s speeches.
Lewis was also one of the many Democrats to not attend the annual speech last year.
Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams is set to deliver her party’s response to Trump’s speech.
Abrams is seen as a rising star in the party after her contentious loss to Brian Kemp (R) in Georgia’s gubernatorial election last year.
Abrams is considered a potential candidate next year for the seat currently held by Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) following her unsuccessful run.
I am tired of folks glomming into the Blackface, and not talking about the totality:
It was Blackface AND the KLAN!😡😡😡
Muthaphucka had Blackface AND the KLAN on his yearbook page…WTF??😡😡😡
Cause you can’t purse your phucking lips to say that some one in KLAN ROBES was just a ” youthful indiscretion ” even though you were but a mere couple of tests away from PRACTICING MEDICINE😡😡
Thread
https://twitter.com/PalmerReport/status/1091537213819703296
Ok, Ladies and Gentlemen..
Let do a
WHAT IF…
What if…..
They had a party at the Black Student Union at Stanford…
It is Black History Month…
Stanford is not that far from Oakland, where the Black Panther Party began….
And, they have a ‘Be Huey’ night, where you can recreate that famous picture of him in that chair….
And, a young Cory Booker…trying to impress a cute, hot number with revolutionary tendencies, ..
Tries to impress said girl with his Huey impression…..and there was
a picture of it…….
Yeah…..Uh huh….
Uh huh😒😒😒
Stop with the ” youthfulindiscretion” bullshyt for a man in PHUCKING MEDICAL SCHOOL!!!
It wasn’t just Blackface…
It was Blackface AND the KLAN…😡
But…It was a “youthful indiscretion”😡😡
https://twitter.com/CharlesMBlow/status/1091473723994136576
https://twitter.com/DisavowTrump20/status/1091476671834845184
https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1091478750263427072
https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/1091474781088743424
We’ve always had more than our share of white supremacists in our ‘liberal, Dem, progressive’ fold.. And it’s not limited to southerners either.. they are very much present on our coasts and everywhere in between.. to this day..
Nary a push-back in defense or protection of her ..and nary a whimper of angry rebuke about any of it.. as I watched for years as the historic black First Lady was blatantly direspected, disregarded, mistreated, and dehumanized – even right inside, and by her own husband’s White House! Heck, but for her own resourcefulness and ingenuity, this historic first black First Lady was all but almost erased from her own husband’s 2-term, 8 year historic presidency – for which she now walks around with a permanent target on her back – by those who now actively profit from their access to the historic presidency that she and her kids paid the price for ..
I remember how the poobahs and Democratic Party hierarchy disrespected and disregarded her – until they realized she was one of the Dems most valuable assets and the ultimate and most compelling campaigner.. And even then, they only momentarily remembered to acknowledge her – only when election time rolled around and they tried to butter her up to exploit her and her considerable gifts and talents..
I remember well, black folk like Toure and their black-sourced hit-pieces on her …including those about how she – a double Ivy League educated black woman who built a successful life from scratch with her husband who’d now become President of the United States, didn’t ‘belong’ on Martha’s Vineyard because she was not of the ‘Jack and Jill’ crowd, but from the ‘ghettoes’ of Chicago – and from ‘the same neighborhood as Jennifer Hudson’.. I remember too the women who screamed ‘sisterhood forever’, but very consciously excluded her – even as they eagerly defended, talked-up, kissed up to and sniffed around her hubby.. Some of whom to this day, post gushing tributes on their social media pages, to her husband on his birthday – and on other days, for no reason at all, … even as they still pretend she does not exist …until of course they need her and then whip out and try to exploit some random photo with her …to pretend they’re somehow ‘pals’.. and only to advance some dubious, self-serving agenda of theirs .. or to gain access to her hubby.. since there are no longer dubious WH staff-generated invites to get around her, to his presence..
Heck, I remember how the self-proclaimed black ‘leaders’ and ‘elite’ tried to marginalize and diminish her – even as they kiss-up to her white peers … who can forget the opening of the Smithsonian’s NMAAHC where she – the sitting First Lady …historic first black First Lady and direct descendant of slaves, was not even acknowledged but was treated as some random lady who just happened to show up with the president to the event..
Easy to forget or pretend that it never was (even as there are now even black folks! and kids who believe her a man/‘tranny’ – thanks to the fact that nobody nipped it in the bud when the right-wing first pushed it as an intended racial insult.. And as some ‘progressive’ and even black folks jumped now on the it’s so offensive to call Ann Coulter a tranny, bandwagon..)
Easy to forget or pretend not to remember …and only because she survived – and all by herself! …and is thriving – thanks only to God, and her ability to turn the rotten lemons handed her into high-demand gourmet lemonade..
I know we’re supposed to be ‘shocked’ and ‘offended’ that Ralph Northam wore blackface and/or kkk hoods, but I just can’t get myself to care, frankly.. I wouldn’t flinch if Nancy or Chuck or AOC or Bernie or Ted Lieu or Biden or just about any Dem was found doing some racist stuff .. This is America after all, fam..
And especially knowing what I do about so many of the very same faux-outraged folks …’progressives’, ’liberals’, Dems of every stripe.. and even some of those faux-non-racist repugs… all acting ‘shocked’, shaking their heads in dismay and finger-wagging at the ‘travesty’ of it all.. 🙄🙄
Realizing what was and is, I long ago decided to start viewing and assessing just about everything from the prism of the treatment of America’s historic first black First Lady.. She remains for me, that unquestionably distinct metaphor for black womanhood on the world stage.. I judge everyone and everything by how they treat(ed) her …when she first showed up in America’s consciousness… during their 8 years in the White House.. and just about every time … And as infuriating as what I’ve often observed has been, it’s also been quite fascinating the double standards and dynamics of selective protection, outrage etc. etc. to say the very least..
OMFG!
https://twitter.com/MeetThePress/status/1091470216675188738
This thread here😅😅😂
I needed these laughs
https://twitter.com/kidnoble/status/1091373076221231104
https://twitter.com/katwardphoto/status/1090684892294172672?s=20
https://twitter.com/HeelSpurs0/status/1090681578261499904?s=20
https://twitter.com/GeeJustG/status/1090682472256352257?s=20
So…
The Governor of Virginia in Blackface?😒
There is nothing to explain.
I just had this conversation with Peanut. I had to explain to her about blackface. She is 10. Don’t tell me that a COLLEGE STUDENT didn’t know how offensive it is…😠😠
Still Resisting (@WilliamWebb73) Tweeted:
Listening to the @cnn panel discuss Brown’s potential pres candidacy and remembering how they discussed Harris’ pres candidacy.
There’s a clear media advantage to being a white male.
“he appeals to steel workers” is the new way to say “racist white guys might vote for him”.
https://twitter.com/WilliamWebb73/status/1091394523253493760?s=17
With a grifting, treasonous buffoon sitting tight in America’s White House, and being indulged too, even with his crimes starring everyone in the face ..everyone and their pug is running or contemplating a run, with the bar now so lowered it’s practically in the basement…
Sherrod Brown is ho-hum, ‘white-bread’ .. a mixed-bag of sorts who has no substantial national base to raucously hype him up or cheerlead him into any sort of prominence in this race.. And he isn’t out of ‘central casting’ or able to cook up some slick angle to make him stand out.. Probably angling for a veep spot too, if presidential run doesn’t pan out – as he’s often touted as somehow magical whisperer to that heavily sub-texted ‘working class’ demographic..
Media loves a horse race – and pitting Democrats against each other is a favorite pasttime – but ultimately, only to weaken Dems and push through whatever repug opponent shows up.. no matter how unimpressive.. no matter how buffoonish, no matter how treasonous..
Amene (@Ange_Amene) Tweeted:
I’m going to repeat this again in 2019
‘Working Class’ is an exclusionary term that negatively impacts marginlized groups because we are not depicted as such in the MSM.
Stop using “Working Class” as a synonym of “White Voters”.
https://twitter.com/Ange_Amene/status/1091399608117256193?s=17
Amene (@Ange_Amene) Tweeted:
Democrats have a choice.
People can advocate for a ricket where a white person needs to appeal to white voters while they echo racial sentiements while not trying to alienate white voters or you can walk away from that and advocate for a representative, diverse ticket.
https://twitter.com/Ange_Amene/status/1091411243338874880?s=17
Hmmmmm I didn’t know this.
https://twitter.com/jbillinson/status/1091369863615049729
Handsome guy.
https://twitter.com/fawfulfan/status/1091396187310174208
OMG…how awful!!
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1091063551744245761
https://twitter.com/KensingtonRoyal/status/1091377497575428096
Are we gonna discuss the elephant in the room with regards to Booker?
He’s not married.
That’s part of the problem with his inauthenticity.
Let’s keep it real – no way a Black guy, with his background, should be unmarried at this point.
And, sexual preference is not an excuse anymore.
Nope, and neither is Stacey Abrams.
The truth is the appeal for a married candidates resonates more for voters, but I don’t think it should be a deterrent.
I agree. If we want to get past the time when the only acceptable candidate was a male WASP, then we need to get past it for real. Lifestyle choices should not be an issue.
I should have said a once married male WASP.
Exactly, Liza. We have a myriad 21st century lifestyle choices now. time to start claiming them in our decision making.
Sorry fam, but he’s no more inauthentic than Harris.. They’re both as painfully contrived, exploitatively opportunistic and as unconvincing as they come..
Can’t possibly slate Booker while propping up Harris..
The rest of the Speaker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nobrv7gqOJE
Sojourner Truth
Take away the Google, and that would be a beautiful painting
Tee hee!!
https://twitter.com/CoryBooker/status/1091308916879884288
He reads Dolt45 so we don’t have to
https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1091319405311651840
https://twitter.com/KyraSheaMedleys/status/1090447582357114881
Beautiful! Thanks for the post, Liza.
Word of the Day : February 1, 2019
The field of 2020 Democratic Presidential candidates
LARGESSE: noun lahr-ZHESS
Definition
1 : liberal giving (as of money) to or as if to an inferior; also : something so given
2 : generosity
https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/largesse-2019-02-01?pronunciation&lang=en_us&dir=l&file=larges02&utm_campaign=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=wotd&utm_content=pron
I used to read a blog by a Black Conservative called Booker Rising (as in Booker T). The night of the Iowa Caucus 2008, the blog owner wrote something that I never forgot..it always seemed to always hit on the mark with Booker…
” Somewhere in a Newark housing project, Cory Booker is scribbling down notes furiously “
I routinely write that the curve for Unqualified White Men is REAL.
The opposite of that is…
There IS no curve for a Black candidate.
Just isn’t.
Barack Obama understood that.
Kamala Harris understands that.
I don’t believe that Booker does.
Booker will get his wake up call.
SOON
Ha, and she didn’t win. She is appointed not elected.
https://twitter.com/RepresentMeAZ/status/1091107821393866752
Another GRIFTING POS.
They certainly look happy…
https://twitter.com/mattklapper/status/1091316969331220480
Not so long ago…
https://twitter.com/BerniceKing/status/1091346425143877632
https://twitter.com/3ChicsPolitico/status/1091345965079019521
So so true!!
https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1091319405311651840
i love what brain cells I have left enough, NOT to read any gibberish from 45 or Maggie H.
JAIL @SecNielsen
https://twitter.com/michaelmhughes/status/1090705626391552001
In The Hague 😠
https://twitter.com/Deoliver47/status/1091311992793649152
This right HERE
https://twitter.com/thesavoyshow/status/1091314815530872834
😠😠😠😠
CRIMINAL! In other words, by not fighting (just getting on the ground on his on volition) is fighting the po po.
This made my blood boil!
https://twitter.com/AP/status/1091329801414238210
https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1091118893236736001
https://twitter.com/wsvn/status/1091328398725709824
People just don’t seem to realize that surveillance cameras are everywhere these days.
https://twitter.com/IsaacDovere/status/1091307014121238529
https://twitter.com/abjrphd/status/1091324115712163841
Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) Tweeted:
Next week, for the first time in eight years, there will be a congressional hearing on gun violence.
Eight years.
https://t.co/hxEVmCEeS9 https://twitter.com/MaddowBlog/status/1091161994181464064?s=17
https://twitter.com/LeahRigueur/status/1091144335658311681
https://twitter.com/LeahRigueur/status/1091145769967669253
😂😂🤣🤣
https://twitter.com/ChasingOzPhotog/status/1091317059965857792
Don’t you just love when natural laws prevail? Yes, size matters.
Teeeee Heeeee!!!!!
https://twitter.com/TheRickyDavila/status/1091155391482916865
https://twitter.com/ErnestLamonica/status/1091318912451530753
https://twitter.com/KensingtonRoyal/status/1091320434128273408
😂😂😂
https://twitter.com/Kennymack1971/status/1091019857452253194
LMBAO Yep, that’s exactly what Speaker Nancy said.
Not one word was said, when we went to the store. Our understanding was established ahead of the visit, and was unspoken once we got there.
I heard the same thing.
https://twitter.com/KorGhee/status/1091087425047351297
🤗🤗😂😅😏
https://twitter.com/TimInHonolulu/status/1091078420694392832
Uh huh
Uh huh 😒
https://twitter.com/ZoomsZoomz/status/1087850885202403328
🤗🤗🤗
https://twitter.com/MGSniper/status/1090566018064363520
😲😲😲
https://twitter.com/stonecold2050/status/1090797268737740801
OMG
Wow!!
https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1091035205203300353
https://twitter.com/ScottGreenfield/status/1091052321444896768
https://twitter.com/BradMossEsq/status/1091046513579569152
https://twitter.com/Zeddary/status/1091020313050124290
https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/1091017929808924672
https://twitter.com/Zeddary/status/1091019077294977025
Good Morning, Everyone 😄 😄😄
TGIF, Rikyrah & Everyone!
Thank you for the post today, SG2. I appreciate YOU.