WHITE FOLKS REVENGE FOR THE MARCH ON WASHINGTON

Leaving the "white" out, of course, that's how the bombing of a church in Birmingham was described in a Smithsonian Museum I visited a few years ago. White citizens, including the KKK, were upset by the Martin Luther King and the movement's audacity to demand equal rights. 

"At 10:22 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 15, 1963, time literally froze at a Birmingham, Ala., church. A stack of dynamite—planted under a stairway by members of the Ku Klux Klan—exploded, leveling one side of the church and killing four young girls.

At 10:22 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 15, 2013, siblings and other relatives of Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley were in the pews at the 16th Street Baptist Church, where Reverend Arthur Price delivered the same sermon the girls would have heard during their Sunday-school lesson: “A Love That Forgives.” Among them was Sarah Collins Rudolph, Addie Mae Collins’ sister, who spent three months in the hospital and lost her right eye as a result of the bombing.

“I just kept wondering, why did they kill Addie? Addie never did anything for someone to kill her,” Rudolph told CBS News. “When I would go to bed at night, I would just cry all night long—just why did they kill those girls?”

Lisa McNair and Kimberly McNair Brock weren’t born until after the death of their sister Denise, who was the youngest of the girls killed. They told CNN how they were kept from learning the details of what happened that morning for more than a dozen years, until the day their grandmother opened a box containing the items found with their sister the day she died—including a chunk of concrete that lodged in Denise McNair’s skull. “She felt we needed to know,” says Kimberly, “because it was a part of us, too.” "

~diversityinc.com

http://www.diversityinc.com/news/remembering-four-little-girls-killed-in-birmingham-church-bombing-50-years-ago/


For years I've read that the KKK blew up the church that killed four little girls. Today I read KKK associated folks blew up the church. I haven't been interested enough to really dig into it and find out because I can see what's happening today.l

In Charlottesville the Neo-Nazi's and the KKK got top billing as the ones responsible.  Yet Alt-Right leader Richard Spencer's name was at the top of flyer. And Alt-Right is known to trade in neo-Nazi symbols, the "blood and soil" chant, and the like. Neo-Nazi and KKK are subgroups of Alt-Right as is a certain percentage of "moderate republican"

A couple of white men arrested at Charlottesville were shocked to be identified as "neo-Nazi" And I agree with him. The white supremacy problem in this country is a lot bigger than neo-Nazi and KKK now just like it was back in 1963. 
White supremacy belief is the most attractive thing about Donald Trump. That's why nothing he does bothers his supporters. He hasn't deviated from his base's core beliefs.  

And this week Trump made sure he let his white people know he was still with them (again). He made sure to say he believed white supremacists and those who push back about white supremacists are equally troublesome.  And even that was a lie.He thinks white supremacists and their favorite images -- confederate statues-- are the people that have the most legitimate point.

Darth Cheeto's administration has even decided to NOT put Harriet Tubman on twenty dollar bill in favor of keeping that mass murdering bastard Andrew Jackson on the bill.

[H]aving his face on the money cements his place as one of “the greats” among most Americans because most Americans seem to know nothing about the man. There is not a single significant accomplishment of his administration that you can defend today as a positive thing. He was celebrated in the 1830s largely because of the ways in which America was horrible in the 1830s.

The deservedly single biggest issue that gets brought up regarding his term is the minor matter of masterminding a genocide. The Trail of Tears is one of the largest-scale acts of ethnic cleansing in history, with its explicit end the eventual annihilation of the Five Civilized Tribes as peoples in the name of “progress.” Jackson brazenly, callously spat on treaties that had been established with our erstwhile allies in the name of convenient access to cheap land.

Thousands died on the death marches. Thousands more died in the concentration camps that were their destination. Still more thousands were killed because they refused to leave. Soldiers were given direct orders to gun down children in cold blood. Natives who fled into the wilderness were hunted by civilians for sport."

~dailybeast.com 

http://www.thedailybeast.com/the-mass-murderer-on-your-dollar20

This is President Hellhound's hero?

Okay. 

This on top of everything else, and he can't figure out why ESPN's Jemele Hill called him a white supremacist this week?  
Okay.

Though ESPN denies trying to replace her... yeah, okay...the best news I've heard all week is that the two black folk they tried to pit against her said, "No."  

Though ESPN anchor Jemele Hill received a lot of shit for her correct diagnosis of Donald Trump, she appeared on Wednesday’s SportsCenter with Michael Smith as usual. Later in the night, she and the network issued statements to give the notion that they were on good terms. But a new report suggests there was a huge standoff to get to that point. 

According to two sources who spoke with Lindsay Gibbs of ThinkProgress, the network originally wanted to keep Hill off the show that evening, but her co-host Michael Smith refused to appear without her.

ESPN then tried finding two replacements, but that didn’t work either:

Both sources also said that producers reached out to two other black ESPN hosts, Michael Eaves and Elle Duncan, to ask them serve as fill-ins for the show — but Eaves and Duncan did not agree to take the place of Hill and Smith, either.

~deadspin.com

http://deadspin.com/report-espn-tried-to-sub-out-jemele-hill-for-last-nigh-1811489?

Solidarity Rocks.

And you know what? The best thing about Mean Tangerine's presidency is that White America is getting a chance to look at itself in the mirror again. But, same as always, the white press keeps helping them turn away. 

Laying off the violence of white supremacy (and male supremacy) on their white fringe groups is a way of minimizing the problem.

Again. 

And I suspect the same thing happened in 1963 when those four little girls were killed. White fringe attitudes didn't kill those girls. White majority attitudes killed those girls by fueling the hatred of the white men that couldn't prove their masculinity by having a lot of money, big houses, and nice cars. 

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White Supremacists successful at toxic masculinity wouldn't raise their hand to a black child because they have nothing to prove that hasn't already been proven - a weak, make-believe toxic masculinity. This is a person who can become president in the 21st century. 

Those who CANNOT prove that they are "real men" by being rich; or having sex with lots of different women; or having mastery of some sport are failing at toxic masculinity and therefore become the violent alt-Right (which encompasses KKK, neo-Nazis, those that want to be identified as "moderate republicans" but not "white racists")

This has not changed since four little girls were killing in a Birmingham Church on a Sunday in 1963. 

Until we understand that the worst of white men attacking us are trying to prove the toxic masculinity version of manhood we're not going to be fighting them, and the women that marry them, on all fronts.