January 20, 2015

The Klan leader ditching his wife was following in Jefferson Davis' footprints:

http://jeffdavisdresss.blogspot.com/

Mrs. Davis 'stood by her man' after giving him her dress to wear and flee capture, and even offered to take a bullet for him. He'd urged his followers to fight to the death. His words in response to the Emancipation Proclamation:

"...Now, therefore, as a compensatory measure, I do hereby issue the following Address to the People of the Non-Slaveholding States:

On and after February 22, 1863, all free negroes within the limits of the Southern Confederacy shall be placed on the slave status, and be deemed to be chattels, they and their issue forever.

All negroes who shall be taken in any of the States in which slavery does not now exist, in the progress of our arms, shall be adjudged, immediately after such capture, to occupy the slave status, and in all States which shall be vanquished by our arms, all free negroes shall, ipsofacto, be reduced to the condition of helotism, so that the respective normal conditions of the white and black races may be ultimately placed on a permanent basis, so as to prevent the public peace from being thereafter endangered..."

http://davisspeech.blogspot.com/

Now, we see just how 'classy' all of these 'gentlemen' have always been.

January 20, 2015

Just read the entire story at the link, never heard of this. It would've been so heartening to me.

Never in my life have I heard of anyone running off the KKK without a military presence or federal law enforcement officers. I am amazed.

In the post-WW2 era Americans officially hated Nazi philosophy and their brand of Racism. That was the norm for me, then as it said the reaction built. Enter the John Birch Society...

It's no surprise 'Superman,' a white comic icon, was against the KKK' as the piece said. And the reaction of the vets was just what needed to be on the news...

I believe if this story of resisting Racism had been widely covered, it would have changed history, in particular this photograph of the confrontation:



And the aftermath, of those WW2 vets with their trophy taken from the anti-American KKK:



Educating people on what the Civil War and WW2 was fought for, not allowing Racist 'whitewashing' to be resurrected by Rush, etc. would have prevented much idiocy.

Thanks for posting this!

January 19, 2015

Where were whites when Baldwin gave his warning here?

James Baldwin debates William F. Buckley Jr. at Cambridge University | The Resolution: “Is the American Dream at the expense of the American Negro?”

Baldwin goes on to eloquently state the affirmative in what has to be one of the most encompassing and moving soliloquies I have ever heard. Excerpts follow, but do not sell yourselves short, watch it in its entirety:

“The white South African or Mississippi sharecropper or Alabama sheriff has at bottom a system of reality which compels them really to believe when they face the Negro that this woman, this man, this child must be insane to attack the system to which he owes his entire identity.”

“In the case of the American Negro, from the moment you are born every stick and stone, every face, is white. Since you have not yet seen a mirror, you suppose you are, too. It comes as a great shock around the age of 5, 6, or 7 to discover that the flag to which you have pledged allegiance, along with everybody else, has not pledged allegiance to you. It comes as a great shock to see Gary Cooper killing off the Indians, and although you are rooting for Gary Cooper, that the Indians are you.”

“From a very literal point of view, the harbors and the ports and the railroads of the country—the economy, especially in the South—could not conceivably be what they are if it had not been (and this is still so) for cheap labor. I am speaking very seriously, and this is not an overstatement: I picked cotton, I carried it to the market, I built the railroads under someone else’s whip for nothing. For nothing.”

The Southern oligarchy which has still today so very much power in Washington, and therefore some power in the world, was created by my labor and my sweat and the violation of my women and the murder of my children. This in the land of the free, the home of the brave.”

“Sheriff Clark in Selma, Ala., cannot be dismissed as a total monster; I am sure he loves his wife and children and likes to get drunk. One has to assume that he is a man like me. But he does not know what drives him to use the club, to menace with the gun and to use the cattle prod. Something awful must have happened to a human being to be able to put a cattle prod against a woman’s breasts. What happens to the woman is ghastly. What happens to the man who does it is in some ways much, much worse. Their moral lives have been destroyed by the plague called color.”

“It is a terrible thing for an entire people to surrender to the notion that one-ninth of its population is beneath them. Until the moment comes when we, the Americans, are able to accept the fact that my ancestors are both black and white, that on that continent we are trying to forge a new identity, that we need each other, that I am not a ward of America, I am not an object of missionary charity, I am one of the people who built the country—until this moment comes there is scarcely any hope for the American dream. If the people are denied participation in it, by their very presence they will wreck it. And if that happens it is a very grave moment for the West.”



http://bacanisays.tumblr.com/

Unfortunately, many were just too busy enjoying the spoils to think about these higher ideas. Yes, I am white, and do not hate 'my race' either. I just wish they would live up to the Ideals MLK, Jr. mentioned and do the right thing.

I had gathered a lot of links of videos of MLK, Jr. to post today but decided against it because I am so sick of the white people hanging onto the coattails of and hiding behind black people to further their own agendas.

I don't feel I have the right to talk, it's time to hear what all POC have to say.

January 19, 2015

Agree with all of that. Here are the words of MLK, Jr. on what created the inequality:

And he doesn't even mention slavery. But does explain how whites used the terms of Equality for themselves. Without using the exact same words as we often use today, he doesn't give a pass to Racism in any form.

Video also has James Baldwin who says what needs to be heard. It's very important to realize, as he says, that this is not academic. Those who keep on talking about this without going into the real people being effected are wrong.

I miss this kind of plain speech that I grew up with.

January 19, 2015

The OC crowd believes the communist cows are already armed and ready for revolution:

And they intend to protect their rights by any means necessary!

The liberty to barbeque requires eternal vigilance!

Sorry to trot that old one out, but you can see why they feel they need their guns. Vegetables may also be considered a threat, but IDK which ones they call terrorists. Pretty sure they consider most potatoes to be safe. While they pick those out in the grocery, is when the ground beef sneaks up on 'em.

January 19, 2015

Top 3 reasons for the incessant media-driven 'Obama Legacy' meme:

#3: They insist on not talking about the present in order to strangle his agenda to change the status quo.

BTW, he has said 'his legacy' never enters into what he does. He says his focus and joy with being POTUS lies within the changes for the better. It's not about him. It's whether life for others get better that is his pleasure.

#2: They are insinuating that he is a phony and as shallow as they are. They are privileged, most of them in their places through nepotism (check the marriages, family lineage and their shared associations) and living in that position seldom leads to original thought. They live in the past.

#1: They've been dreaming about him being out of office before he was in office. They can't bear to think for one second of 'that man' in the White House.

The more ominous part comes from the fact that a person's legacy is not usually discussed until they are dead. Which really puts the icing on the cake of #1. It's a Death Wish.

JMNSHO.

January 19, 2015

Didn't watch, but knew they won when I heard the fireworks and whoops outside my window...

GO HAWKS!

January 18, 2015

SSI is for those who never paid in, not SSDI. SSDI is based on money paid in while working.

Those who have never worked get SSI which is controlled by states. It is not the federal programs, not SS or SSDI. There is a huge difference in how it is funded and how payments are determined.

The only way that a person who never worked or paid in gets federal benefits is as the child of a worker who paid in. A worker who PAID. Or a spouse who never paid in, but who was married to do someone who did pay in.

There is no 'free ride' on SS or SSDI as the GOP and their pundits say. This is used a RW smear on those who recieve SSDI. SSDI is called a pension annuity, that is it's an insurance policy. It is an integral part of SS.

What you are talking about is SSI, which is what is traditionally called welfare. SS and SSDI are not welfare. Rush has been calling SS welfare for over twenty years. He is a lying POS, but the meme has been repeated so many years people accept it as true.

All of this parsing by the GOP is set up to do is to set people against each other with disinformation. Fight it with the truth, because a quick google of the official government sites will reveal it.

There is a demographic angle to the SS and SSDI issue. We have a lot of people retiring, and the system was designed for each generation to pay for each other. What those who are drawing did for society should not be forgotten. The younger workers, some are doing well and have no problem paying in. Others have low wage jobs that don't generate revenue. That is another argument used.

It is also an error, but I don't have time for this right now.

January 18, 2015

I decided against posting the video made by the UK and USA armies on this.

Dwight Eisehnower wanted the facts revealed to the world. The film is graphic and has narration that is neither Hollywood style nor propagandist. It is simply what was found there.

Eisenhower, British and American military leaders survey the scene. The survivors tell their stories, too. There is a thread about this on DU somewhere, but I can't find it.

Guess the media is flailing about desperately to not have to talk about all of this...

January 18, 2015

Here's a couple:

Lt Gov Andre Bauer: Don't Feed the Poor They'll Breed

Uploaded on Oct 11, 2010

From a DU link, more:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022262578

Another in my post on that thread:

Missouri Republican responds to child hunger: "Hunger Can Be a Positive Motivator"

Sat Jun 20, 2009 at 03:21 PM PDT
by Dem Beans

The Party of No Ideas has finally come up with one: eradicate child hunger by sending your children to work at McDonalds, because they give a free meal to their workers.

This is the response of a Missouri State Representative to a summer lunch program to help Missourians who are struggling with the economic downturn.

State Rep. Cynthia Davis (R-O’Fallon) chimes in on how wasteful it is to feed hungry children during the summer, when they don't have a school lunch program to offer one good meal per day.

In her recent newsletter Cynthia Davis has the following words of wisdom to parents of hungry children:

Why have meals at home with your loved ones if you can go to the government soup kitchen and get one for free? This could have the effect of breaking apart more families.

Anyone under 18 can be eligible? Can’t they get a job during the summer by the time they are 16? Hunger can be a positive motivator. What is wrong with the idea of getting a job so you can get better meals?

Tip: If you work for McDonald’s, they will feed you for free during your break.

Families may economize by choosing to not waste hard earned dollars on potato chips, ice cream, or Twinkies. Perhaps some families will buy more beans and chicken and less sweets.

They are using a "crisis" to create an expansion of a government program. Parents naturally love their children and enjoy caring for their children just as much as ever during an economic downturn...

Laid off parents could adapt by preparing more home cooked meals rather than going out to eat.

If you can stomach reading her full newsletter, there's lots of gruesome, heartless dreck contained within.

St. Louis Today features a story about State Rep. Davis, as well as the following sad statistics about child hunger in Missouri:

Ms. Davis chairs the House Special Standing Committee on Children and Families. In that position, she might be expected to have insight into child hunger in our state.

She might know, for instance, that about one in five Missouri children lives with hunger. That ties us with Louisiana for the nation’s seventh-highest rate, according to a report released last month by the hunger-relief charity Feeding America.

Or that the recession has pushed the number of poor Missouri kids who qualify for free or reduced-price school lunches by 8.3 percent this year, well above the national average.

Apparently not.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/06/20/744986/-Missouri-Republican-responds-to-child-hunger-Hunger-Can-Be-a-Positive-Motivator

The Daily Kos allows sharing these in their entirety.

Don't worry, that's just the tip of the iceberg.