I think one of the reasons that black people loved Bill Clinton, is he knew black people, had black friends. He and Hillary, didn’t seem out of place in a black church and didn’t need to bring a prop, when he spoke to people of color.
Unfortunately, the need of a prop is still a part of politics today. There are some politicians, who believe they are more effective if they have a prop when they address a crowd of people who do not resemble them ,to make those people comfortable.
Yesterday, North Carolina Congressman Mark Meadows brought a prop. In the form of Lynne Patton. President Trump former Attorney Michael Cohen testified before the House Oversight Committee. Said Trump is a racist who told him that African Americans were too stupid to vote for him. Lynne Patton sole purpose was to tell the world, that she is black and as a black woman she would never work for a racist.
I was troubled as this black women stood in a sea of white faces. I guess they didn’t have an extra chair.
No one in America, will ever question if our President is a racist.
” Ms Patton very presence offended nearly every woman of color”
Congresswomen Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts posed a question to Michael Cohen
“Would you agree that someone could deny rental units to African-Americans, lead the birther movement, refer to to the diaspora as ‘shithole countries,’ and refer to white supremacists as ‘fine people,’ have a black friend, and still be racist?” Yes he answered.
When it was Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib of Michigan turn to speak, she went further. “Just because someone has a person of color, a black person working for them does not mean they aren’t racist,” Tlaid said. “And it is insensitive, and some would even say that the fact that someone would actually use a prop, a black woman, in this chamber, in this committee”—here she took a heavy sigh—”is alone racist in itself.”
Congressman Meadows responded angrily, demanding Chairman Cummings strike the Congresswoman’s comment from the record.
Congressman Meadows double down by saying he wasn’t a racist, as his nieces and nephews are people of color. Clearly the Congressman isn’t close to his family as its very unlikely they would approve the use a person of color as a prop.
Congressmen Meadows lives in a world where people would never work or support anyone who is racist sexist, or homophobic with one exception, if he were President or Congressman from North Carolina. Some will remember back in 2012, he told his supporters that they were going to send President Obama home to Kenya or wherever it is?
Turns out, Michael Cohen was responsible for Trump hiring Mrs Patton. Cohen told the Congressman that there were no black executives in the Trump Organization.
Perhaps there would be less outrage if the story was told by Wolf Blitzer or Jake Tapper.
There are many white men who are OUTRAGED!!! Here you have a black man stirring the racist pot. IF a white man said something about a Black man, they’d lose their jobs. Megan Kelly lost her job over “Blackface’ so here we have a black man calling white men terrorist, he should lose his job is only fair!
There are white men in this rapidly changing world who believe that they are under attack. It had gone too far and it far more difficult to be a white man in America and this morning advertisers and CNN will demand that Don Lemon lose his job.
THE OUTRAGE
In the course of a week, 14 bombs were mailed to prominent Democrats. On Wednesday, a white man attempted to enter a black church in Jeffersontown, Kentucky. Fifteen minutes later, he drove to near by Kroger Supermarket and killed two black people. As the gunman passed a white shopper in the parking lot he said, I won’t shoot you. Whites don’t shoot whites.” Saturday, a white man entered a synagogue and killed 11 worshipers and wounded six others including four Police Officers.
Cnn’s Don Lemon said Trump would have people believe immigrants are to be feared, but statistics reveal the biggest threats are home-grown. He went on to say, we have to stop demonizing people and realize that the biggest terror threat in this country is white men, most of them radicalized to the right, and we have to start doing something about them. So ,have to start doing something about them. There is no travel ban on them. There is no ban — you know, they had the Muslim ban. There is no white-guy ban. So what do we do about that?”
“the biggest terror threat in this country is white men.”
This is what some people heard! Other’s heard he called for a “white guy ban” Fox news said Lemon was ranting! Others called him a racist!
You decide, Listen.
There are many in this country who supported the Presidents ban on Muslims and individuals from the middle east based on a unsupported belief that, Muslims hate Americans and want to destroy America. The facts are white men are the principle source of terrorism in the United States and no one is proposing a ban on “white men” this is what I believe Mr Lemon meant.
When its not Fake News
Since 9/11 attacks in 2001, far-right violent extremists have killed 106 people in 62 attacks in the United States, while radical Islamist violent extremists have killed 119 people in 23 attacks.
From 2008 to 2016, there were almost twice as many terrorist incidents carried out on U.S. soil by right-wing extremists — many of whom are white — than by Islamist extremists. It showed there were 115 incidents involving right-wing extremists and that those that ended in death were more deadly than incidents carried out by other groups.
An analysis of the Global Terrorism Database by researchers at the University of Maryland published in 2017 shows a “sharp increase”in the share of attacks by right-wing extremists, from 6% in the 2000s to 35% in the 2010s. The share of attacks by religious extremists also increased, from 9% to 53% between the two decades.
White supremacists in the United States killed more than twice as many people in 2017 as they did the year before, and were responsible for far more murders than domestic Islamic extremists, helping make 2017 the fifth deadliest year on record for extremist violence in America, a new report states.
For decades,some members of the GOP have demonized immigrants from Mexico. They were accused of straining our resources and crossing the border to have babies and to get on welfare.
Presidential Candidate Donald Trump took it further, he said the people coming from Mexico were bringing drugs, bringing crime and-they’re rapist. There isn’t any subjective data that supports any of these claims.
A point of reference for some against Mexican immigration is the murder of Arizona Rancher Rob Krentz in 2010. Krentz’s property is near the Mexican border. The Krentz family was accustomed to undocumented migrants crossing their 35,000 acres. Because of this, many assumed he was killed by one of those undocumented migrants. His widow was convinced his was killed by an illegal immigrant. After an extensive search, no one has been linked to his murder. Today, many are convinced he was killed by a Mexican national.
Less than a year after the Death of Mr Krentz. Arizona passed a law requiring anyone suspected of being in US illegally to produce papers to the police.
Race Baiting 2018 (Donald Trump’s Evil Caravan)
Before I talk about our president current attempt to inject white fear in the midterms, I want to look back a few years.
But first thing’s first! What is “Race Bating?: The unfair use of statements about race to try to influence the actions or attitudes of a particular group of people
A look Back to 1986
In 1986, a convicted felon named Willie Horton — who was serving a life sentence for murder — was released from a Massachusetts prison on a weekend furlough program, during which time he escaped and raped a woman. Then-governor Michael Dukakis had supported the prison furlough program, and when he ran for President in 1988, his opponent, George H. W. Bush, used that to his advantage. The “Revolving Door” ad never mentions Horton by name, but the connection was clear and the ad received considerable news coverage.
Bush Played on the fears of whites who were terrified of blacks.
2018, President Trump, has told his base a Caravan is coming, filled with thugs, bad people, including people from the middle east. He has a few days to convince his base these horrific people filled with diseases (so says Fox News) will be here at any moment. In a world where facts don’t matter. These terrible people are walking and they only have 800 miles to reach our borders. Tuesday, if you believe the president. Bringing lawless people who will kill the men and rape the women. (a small exaggeration)
The footage is several years old and his story about Democrats allowing illegals in is patently false. Donald Trump is doubling down on his attack on brown skinned people using fear to get them to the ballot box.
Luis Bracamontes was first deported to his native Mexico in 1997, during the Clinton administration, after he was busted selling drugs. But, according to U.S. Immigration officials, Bracamontes managed return to the United States by 2001, when he was deported a second time for being in the country illegally. That was during the first year of the Bush administration.
Bracamontes was back in America again by 2002. He married a U.S. citizen and remained in the country even as the Bush administration deported people at a record rate, topped only by the Obama administration.
When Bracamontes shot and killed the two Sacramento county deputies in 2014, he had been deported once under a Democratic administration and once under a Republican administration. He had been back in the United States for at least six years during the Bush administration and five years under the Obama administration. He is currently on death row in San Quentin.
It’s 2018
Perhaps, some white men would have been more comfortable with CNN’s Jake Tapper or Wolf Blitzer talking about this subject. One would think, in 2018 we are beyond this. Apparently not.
By the reaction,s only black people should talk about black on black crime in cities like Chicago or Detroit. Or Hispanics in El Paso or Albuquerque. Don Lemon ins’t racist, he didn’t attack white men, he talked about the news and the double standard.
I can’t remember a time when a white reporter was dismissed after reading statics about black people or any other persons of color. I can remember when a reporter or personality was dismissed after saying spic, called black women nappy headed hoes, fag and other disparaging words or terms on air. Blackface, hasn’t been acceptable since the 1930’s neither are insulting ethnic impersonations.
A white only clubhouse in racially diverse Sacramento?
Teshawn Solomon said, a manager repeatedly called him Nigger AND built a clubhouse out of cardboard boxes around his and other employees desks with the words “White Only” spray painted on the boxes.
In an article in the Sacramento Bee, Solomon said he reported the harassment to a regional manager, showing him photo of the clubhouse and no action was taken. He resigned after making the complaint because he felt there was nowhere he could turn for relief from the hostile workplace .
A second man, Jason Flick who is Caucasian, joined Teshawn Solomon lawsuit against. Flick, alleging racial harassment by workers and managers at Vivint Solar’s Sacramento. Vivint, is a publicly traded home automation and energy company based in Utah.
Flick said Solomon was “consistently singled out for racial discrimination and harassment by his predominantly Caucasian co-workers and supervisors.” He said Solomon was frequently called Nigger. He said he was told to scrutinize Solomon’s time cards extra carefully.
The Flick lawsuit also mentions the “White only” fort, which “disgusted and distressed” He took photos of the fort and shared them with Solomon. Flick resigned in March because he “could no longer tolerate the toxic, hostile, racist work environment. When he applied for unemployment benefits, Flick included the photos of the fort in his application, which he believes were shared with Vivint’s human resources office, the suit said.
Vivint CEO David Bywater in released a statement on Wednesday(before Flick’s was filed) saying his executive team first learned of the racial harassment allegations when Solomon filed suit earlier this week. Bywater said the company conducted an internal investigation that resulted in the termination of one employee and disciplinary action for several others.
“The disturbing experience described by our former employee does not reflect the values or culture of Vivint Solar and stands in direct contradiction to our core values as a company,” Bywater said. He believes the racial harassment allegations are an “isolated incident,” and disputed some of Solomon’s lawsuit.
White women like me, we need to have a talk. Enough is enough and we need to make ourselves part of the solution. You. Me. The woman next to you in the grocery store line, at the bus stop or on the soccer field. The writing is on the wall. We’ve got to stand up and speak out because right now, we’re part of the problem.
The temperature a sudden change in the air. Anger and hostility at some the hotels with guest attacking staff and guest fighting with other guests.
In some parts of the country, Latino’s notably Mexicans workers is the cornerstone of many hotels, running the front and back offices.
In the last few years,workers with an accent have been verbally and physically attacked simply because they have accent. At a southern California, a quest slapped a housekeeper for responding to another housekeeper in Spanish.
A guest refused to check into a hotel and demanded their reservation cancelled without penalty because the front desk agent was Muslim.
Some guest refuse to interact with employees who have accents, often demand that an “American’ complete their transaction.
Some guest have complained about two or more employees speaking to each other in another language. Demanding they only speak English.
There were racist guest before Donald Trump. Since his election many hotels have seen a major spike in racist behavior with guest verbally and physically attacking hotel staff, with most of the rage towards Latinos.
Breakfast
Cable News: one show is too right (Fox) the other one is too left (Msnbc) and one is kinda alright (CNN) In a perfect world the hotel would have three televisions. When there is one Television in the dining area, the safe choice is center.
A guest wrote a complaint letter to the hotel chains customer service department. In the letter he said, he couldn’t believe that hotel chain would have CNN on the television a network known for its fake news. He was so disturbed, he could barely eat his breakfast and will never stay at that hotel again!
In Sacramento, a guest demanded the channel to be changed to Fox News. He says he spends thousands with the hotel and he wants to watch Fox. and when the worker said she didn’t have the remote. He threw his plate into the television screen and stormed off screaming. He later, told the manager the worker’s attitude made him do it.!
An argument over one of Trumps polices, turned into a brawl including one 71 year old grandmother, police were called.
No one can recall the animosity exhibited today hotels/motels today. . Guest fighting ,arguing, during the breakfast hour has left some supervisors with no other option than to simply turn the television off.
Diversity in Hollywood often means A person of color, usually black. For years there there was only one box for a person of color and black person filled it. While there is still the one box,now Latins and gays compete with blacks for that single box. Asian females may find an occasional role but Asian males……. Actors of other hues can be in the background if its in a urban setting.
In 2016, TV is still in black and white.
In the early nineties. TV producers Mary Ellis Burim and Jonathan Murray pitched one of the earliest reality shows for M-TV. The ground breaking show featured a diverse cast. For the first time we saw different races, sexual orientations and individuals of different religious and political backgrounds all living under one roof.
The Real World Opened with:
This is the true story of seven strangers picked to live in a house (work together ) and have their lives taped. To find out what happens… when people stop being polite and start getting real…..
The Real World is still in production however, Burim and Murray are no longer associated with the show and the show has deteriorated into more of a Frat house , drunken fights and sexual escapades.
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In Bravoland
There are exclusive communities of white women in Orange County, Beverly Hills, London,Dallas and New York City. Exclusive communities of black women in Atlanta and the Potomac. White people trying not to be Tardy, out at sea, in a lodge, getting giggy at Pump, and a small group of thirty forty somethings Persians partying in LA.
Bravo’s “Shahs of Sunset” is the first show featuring Persian Americans. In between the boozy fights and arguments we learn why successful families left Iran. One of member of the cast is a married gay man. Viewers saw his struggles with his culture. In 2016 Iran, gays can be punished or put to death for being gay. While Shahs is often filled with reality style fights and conflicts, it also allows us to see their families, traditions and struggles rarely seen outside of a documentary . The show is very entertaining.
Diversity in Houston
On the surface one would think “Married to Medicine Houston”, is a spin off of Married to Medicine (now in it’s third season). Married to Medicine is based in Atlanta, where most of the women are married to doctors. M2M is reality Tv 101. Fights (some of them physical ) conflicts, jealousy. Atlanta seems to be the home of pretentiousness. On M2M two cast members are doctors and one is a dentist. The other cast members are married to doctors.
In Houston, nearly all of the women are professionals
Dr Erika Sato is a Plastic Surgeon, her father is Asian her mother is Italian. Her parents were professional wrestlers. and she is married to a younger Doctor who’s family is very conservative.
Dr Monica Patel is an Indian cardiologist. A quadruple board certified cardiologist. Monica doesn’t look like anyone on Grey’s Anatomy Monica is stacked and is in full makeup and heels. Monica is divorced and wanting to get married and start a family. She’s been dating a man “Imad” for a few years. He has a successful business three hours away in San Antonio. They see each other on weekends and they are of different faiths.
Elly Pourasef is an Persian Audiologist.
Dr. Ashandra Bastiste who is a Dental Surgeon her husband “Ricky’ is a medical equipment salesman. They share a son and a daughter from a previous marriage. Their relationship seems solid and the banter between the two is infectious. A fun happy family on a reality tv show?
Rachel Suliburk who is white of Spanish descent married to Dr James Suliburk, a trama surgeon. Rachel is currently a nursing student. Living in their home is her mother Maribel. Maribel is charming and out of control and Rachel is the den mother.
Yes there are cat fights (this is reality tv) there are some resentments in the group. If your looking for a fist fight, turn the channel, at least for this season. So far this season a lot of the drama comes from outside the group. Not sure if there is a mandatory Bravo hatecation planned.
These women are intelligent, driven and trying to balance career and home life. Some of the women relatively new to medicine are making contacts in the community. Unlike the housewives these ladies are relatable .
Like Shahs, we get a brief glimpse of some of the cultural traditions and values.
With all the talk of the lack of diversity of TV, one would think Bravo would promote Married to Medicine Houston and its cast. However, the show is on Friday evenings, the graveyard of time periods and Bravo is not promoting the show. Bravo IS promoting “Married to Medicine (Atlanta) M2M timeslot was behind Bravo’s most popular show ” Real Housewives of Atlanta” . M2M is now on Fridays before M2MH “
This show is in need of audience. Diversity is more than black and white.
A man uses the Tinder dating app, which is how an Australia man met a woman he is now accused of murdering after she fell from his balcony on a date gone terribly wrong.
BY: JONATHAN PEARLMAN, THE TELEGRAPH
SYDNEY, Australia — A young woman became so afraid of her Tinder date that she climbed from a 14th floor balcony to escape him, plunging to her death, an Australian court has heard.
Gable Tostee, who is accused of killing 26-year-old Warriena Wright during a date arranged via the popular app, was recorded threatening to “chuck her” from his balcony shortly before she fell to her death.
A court in Australia heard that Tostee, 30, threatened and strangled Wright, a New Zealand tourist, after they met for the first time and went back to his apartment. Ms Wright allegedly fled to the balcony in fear and was attempting to escape by climbing down when she fell.
In a disturbing recording of the encounter that was found on Tostee’s phone, he could be heard saying: “You’re lucky I haven’t chucked you off my balcony you God damn psycho bitch. You’re not going to collect any belongings, you’re just going to walk out.”
The pair made contact six days earlier on the dating app and arranged to meet at a surf shop in a nightclub district near Tostee’s apartment in Surfers Paradise, a beachside resort in Queensland. They met in the evening of February 7, 2014, and bought beer before returning to Tostee’s apartment, where they were recorded talking about God, ninjas and the movie Forrest Gump.
Glen Cash, the prosecutor, told the Supreme Court in Brisbane that the pair drank and were intimate before an altercation occurred early on the Friday morning.
During the audio recording played to the court,Wright could be heard asking to leave several times but the pair continued to drink and talk.
At one point, she told him: “Are you going to f–ing untie me because I will f–ing destroy your jaw.”
You’re not going to collect any belongings, you’re just going to walk out. If you try to pull anything I’ll knock you out, I’ll knock you the f– out. Do you understand?
He is heard to say: “I should have never given you so much to drink… You’re not going to collect any belongings, you’re just going to walk out. If you try to pull anything I’ll knock you out, I’ll knock you the f– out. Do you understand?”
Cash said the prosecution was not alleging Tostee had thrown or pushed Wright but that he threatened her and left her with no choice but to try to escape by climbing down from the locked balcony.
The case has attracted heavy media coverage in Australia and prompted police warnings to users of the dating app to be careful when arranging meetings with strangers.
Tostee has pleaded not guilty and denied strangling Wright, insisting that he restrained her in self-defence. His lawyer Saul Holt QC claimed that Wright, who was visiting Australia on a two week holiday, became violent and started throwing decorative rocks at him and hit him with a clamp from a telescope.
“What happened in this case is nothing like murder or manslaughter, it doesn’t fit,” Mr Holt said. “She is outside, he is inside and he has caused a locked door to be between the two of them.”
Gabriele Collyer-Wiedner, a retiree who lived in the apartment below Tostee’s, said she was woken by the sound of banging furniture at 2 a.m.
She said she looked out of her balcony to see a pair of feet as Ms Wright dangled from the balcony above.
“Legs came down and dangled in the air,” she told the court. “I froze there, then the body fell on my balcony railing. I screamed and somebody else screamed, I assumed it was her voice.”
After Wright’s fall to the driveway below, Tostee attempted to call his lawyer and then called his father.
“She kept beating me up and whatever,” he could be heard telling his father in the audio recording. “I forced her out onto the balcony and I think she might have jumped off.”
