Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Dressing Up As Black History Heroes For Halloween

Three little girls dressed as the three women that won the space race for the United States in 1962

Katherine Jackson, Mary Johnson, and Dorothy Vaughn


Repost (incase you don't know who these women are)
The movie "Hidden Figures," will be based on a book of the same name that's due out next year. It is about three unsung heroes,  a group of Black American Female math wizards, sometimes referred to as "human computers," who helped NASA win the space race. 

The story follows Katherine Jackson, Mary Johnson, and Dorothy Vaughn, the three women who served as the brains behind NASA’s Friendship 7 mission, which saw astronaut John Glenn become the first American to orbit the Earth in February 1962.
Pop star Janelle Monae has landed the third lead alongside Taraji P. Henson and Octavia Spencer ... Ted Melfi is directing the movie and producing with Chernin Entertainment and Donna Gigliotti of Levantine Films...

http://blackchickrocked.blogspot.com/2016/09/movie-preview-of-hidden-figures-three.html

Monday, October 30, 2017

PUERTO RICO GOVERNOR SUCCESSFULLY STOPS WHITEFISH DEAL

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Apparently, Puerto Rico's Governor has successfully stopped a donor to Trump's campaign from getting richer off Puerto Rico's problems.  (Read the first story here:     )
Puerto Rico's state-run electric utility said Sunday that it has accepted the governor's request to immediately cancel a $300 million contract with a small Montana-based energy firm amid mounting controversy over the deal, according to media reports.
Ricardo Ramos, the island's energy authority executive director, announced the decision during a press conference, according to ABC News


Read More:  
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/357732-puerto-rican-electric-utility-cancels-deal-with-whitefish

Sunday, October 29, 2017

PUERTO RICO CALLS FOR TERMINATION OF TWO- MAN COMPANY WHITEFISH'S 300 MILLION DOLLAR CONTRACT





"Puerto Rico's governor is calling for a controversial contract with Whitefish Energy Holdings W to be terminated immediately. [Whitefish is/was to restore Puerto Rico's electricity, electrical infrastructure]
Gov. Ricardo Rossello on Sunday asked the Governing Board of the Electric Power Authority to cancel the contract...Rossello also asked for “a detailed and thorough investigation” into the recruitment process for emergency services, which led to the Whitefish contract, and for the installation of a trustee in the area of procurement and contracts..."
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/357702-puerto-rico-governor-wants-whitefish-contract-cancelled
  • Whitefish has two full time employees
  • Whitefish's has only been in business since 2015
  • Whitefish's largest contract prior to this 300 million dollar one was a 1 million dollar contract
"Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, who is from the same hometown as Whitefish Energy, said he had “absolutely nothing” to do with the company receiving the contract..."
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/357702-puerto-rico-governor-wants-whitefish-contract-cancelled

This is how rich white folks make other white folks richer. 

These rich whites are clowning smaller contractors (probably also white too). But that's just a small sample of the big picture. 

These white people that voted for Trump are never going to get it. But white supremacy is simply a method used by the white one-percenters to split the white middle class and poor from the rest of the middle class and poor. And the white one-percenters have been doing this since slavery.

Somewhere near 57% of white people are going starve to death thinking the black and brown people did them in  --- instead of the white supremacy being spoon fed to them for centuries now.

DID BLACK WOMEN TAKE OUT THE CAREER OF CHRISETTE MICHELE IN 9 MONTHS?


Chrisette Michele announced that she's been dropped by her record label after being kicked to the curb by black folks, mostly black women fans, because she decided to support Donald Trump by singing at his inauguration.

Do you remember how difficult it was for Trump's people to find somebody to perform at his inauguration?


For a while his organization was looking for somebody, anybody to sing at his inauguration. It got embarrassing because a lot of people said no. A couple of white groups that said "yes" initially changed their minds when fans went nuts. 
Eventually, DaChump's camp found a couple white performers who don't mind ethnoracism and misogyny that much. But then they still had to make the inauguration look less like a nationalistic white supremacist rally, so they started looking for black performers.
According to reports, Kanye was never even asked, despite his buddying-up to Trump. Apparently Kanye's very black style weren't seen as "traditionally" American enough. (Apparently rap scares nationalistic white supremacists. They think there's embedded code for storm the all massa-wanna-be-s' 
mansions and all the expensive econo-box-homes owned by white folk in the suburbs) 
Time passed and Trump's people wound up talking to Chrisette Michele's people. And Michele agreed to sing for him, though it wasn't at the inauguration at self.

  • Chrisette Michele decided to go sing for a president who tried to have 5 teenagers, black and latino kids, put to death for a rape they didn’t commit. This man still called for their deaths 20 years later after DNA evidence exonerated them and the real rapist confessed. 
  • Long before his reprehensible behavior with the Central Park 5, he was sued for trying to keep black people from renting his properties. 
  • About a decade ago, he started that birther crap with President Obama and continued saying President Obama wasn't really born here throughout his campaign. And his white supremacist followers are actually stupid enough to want to think it's possible someone who wasn't born here was allowed to become president. 
This is who Chrisette Michele supported by singing at his inauguration
  • Since that appointment, this president said some of those “blood and soil” chanting Alt-Right Neo Nazi’s in Charlottesville were “good people” And Trump still has at least one Alt-Right-er in the White House right now.
This only describes a fraction of how this man has proven himself an enemy of black people, brown people, and half-way conscious women.

Yet Chrisette Michele supported this person and has yet to apologize for performing for this lowlife, someone who would just as soon see black folks dead or destroyed. I'm surprised he doesn't have a Black Lives Don't Matter t-shirt to go with that red Make America White Again cap he loved so much during his campaign. This is who she supported.

And for what? Prestige? It had to have been greed for some kind of power or publicity because she didn’t get paid THAT much.

It was her decision to support Trump. We, as black women made the decision to stop buying her music almost instantly. Since I think we were main ones buying her music, I think we as black women can claim we are the ones that destroyed Michele’s career in about 9 months.

And I’m proud of that. PROUD. 

Black men, and the PICK-ME-s that follow them, oughta be ashamed of not having done the same to R. Kelly, Chris Brown, and frankly Kanye too.

I am truly sorry about her miscarriage. And I am glad she’s not suicidal anymore, if that actually happened and wasn't just a ploy for sympathy. But even if these two personal tragedies did occur it seems easy to see how manipulative she might be by sharing this deeply personal information at the same time as she informs the world that she's been dropped by her record label.


There's a lot of yuck factor here no matter what she went through.

Any way I slice it, the phrase “All my skinfolk ain’t my kinfolk” most definitely applies to this self-serving, know-nothing who hasn’t even come close to apologizing. 

I hope Lady Emptyhead McGreedy-Soul disappears into oblivion where she belongs and lives happily ever after doing real estate or something else out of the public eye. 

Bye Felicia.


RHIANNA'S MAKE-UP LINE MADE 72 MILLION DOLLARS IN ONE MONTH



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Rihanna told Refinery29.com. "That was really important for me. In every product I was like: 'There needs to be something for a dark-skinned girl; there needs to be something for a really pale girl; there needs to be something in-between.' There's red undertones, green undertones, blue undertones, pink undertones, yellow undertones — you never know, so you want people to appreciate the product and not feel like: 'Oh that's cute, but it only looks good on her.'" 
https://www.elitedaily.com/life/everything-need-know-40-rihannas-fenty-beauty-foundation-shades/2068061  
 

The reason why Fenty’s success is so crucial is that in its one month of existence, it has acted as an agent of beauty reformation encouraging inclusivity and has utilized all of its advantages including Rihanna’s 57.7M followers.
16 out 40 Fenty Foundation Shades

Fenty’s tutorials have been viewed 132 million times on Youtube and have taught its viewers to not to conform to specific shades of color; beauty comes in all shapes, colors and sizes.
Read More: 
 http://culture.affinitymagazine.us/fenty-beauty-made-72-million-in-just-one-month

Read More On "Earned Media Value"  Fenty only came in behind Anastasia 97 million and MAC at 77 million
http://people.com/style/rihanna-fenty-beauty-first-month-social-media-earned-media-revenue/
IN OTHER WORDS, 
A BLACK WOMAN SNATCHED 
BLACK AND BROWN DOLLARS 
LEFT ON THE TABLE FOR DECADES 
BY WHITE RUN COMPANIES 
GO RIRI GO!

updated 10 31 17

Saturday, October 28, 2017

Dear white people, you’re never racially discriminated against so shut up

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A recent poll published in the New York Times has found that over half of white people in America believe that they’re being discriminated against.  
Yes, you read that right. 55% of white folk in the States believe that they’re mistreated by society because of their skin colour. 

To recap, this is a country where: 
  • Slavery was around for 245 years,  
  • followed by over 100 years of official and unofficial segregation  
  • 34% of the prison population is black 45.8% of young black children live in poverty 
  • 1,064 racially motivated incidents were reported in the first months after Trump was elected 
  • 25% of those killed by the police are black – despite Afro Americans only making up 13% of the population  
(for things as small as being "sassy" 
when massa-police-officer says jump 
and you don't jump quick enough. 
A huge number of white folks (55% - 57%)
WHO DO NOT consider themselves
white supremacists 
tend to think a good crack in the head 
is exactly what n-word deserves for being "disrespectful" 
[All this is happening inside a] country which is presided over by someone who calls neo-Nazis ‘very fine people’, a country which is scarred from decades and centuries of racism.  
* * * *  

All of these non-alternative-facts, yet 55% of white people think they are the ones being discriminated against. 

Okay.

Is there any question in your mind that white supremacy was the bedrock of Trump's campaign strategy, that it was this that got 57% of white people to vote for him?
Read more: http://metro.co.uk/2017/10/25/dear-white-people-youre-never-discriminated-against-so-shut-up-7026332/?ito=cbshare

Friday, October 27, 2017

HAIR BY LaCHANDA 1




THE DRUG DEALER'S DAUGHTER by Siaara Freeman


10 things they never tell you about the drug dealer's daughter

1. She loves greek mythology
And by the time she learns
To love anything more than herself
It is long dead

2. She is nine when she realizes
She's got the blessing of being brought up by a contemporary concept
She's the first on her block
To get a stay at home dad
He plays Barbies
And dominoes
And he cooks y'all
We got enough baking soda in my basement
To open 10 bakeries
My daddy is a baker
The cakes they fell so fast you never see them
Just the customers
Looking some kind of hungry
Like they got a sweet tooth
Only my daddy can yank
And I swear yo
We gonna be rich

3. None of her friends believe her
Until they all turn training bra
And things start disappearing and reappearing
In her house
First Tanya's television set
Her older brother's attention
Then Danielle's four finger ring
And her father's retirement fund
Finally
Danielle's whole mother

4. A girl and her father and their family
Disappear into a new neighborhood
The drug dealer, the father
He never misses a play
A pageant
A slam
And they ain't rich
But they no projects no more either

5. By the time I realize what we are
It's already too late
We are an urban novel
You will skim over at Walmart
A four minute smart on FOX 8's face
We work hard
And Spike Lee
And Quentin Tarantino
Made a film under Eazy E's direction
The question black America asks itself every sunday
I am a bakery
With nothing sweet left in it

6. My father is cute
My father is shot
Point-blank range to the back of the left ear
One night
But you probably knew this was going to happen
Staying it out loud makes me feel better
Makes this more real
Less magic makes this poem more
10 things you didn't know about
Sierra Freeman
Less 10 things about a cliche
That you click your fucking teeth at

7. Some nights I put on my father's chalk outline
And I teach it how to walk
My face is a haunted house
My mother screams at
From habit not fear
Most days i am an ally
That no one will enter alone

8. He is found
With no jewelry
Just his pocket watch
My baby tooth is snuggled inside
After his autopsy it is returned to be checked

9. I disappear into my own neighborhood
The suburbs
I got an itch the suburbs just ain't got nails for
I find Danielle
She asked me if i inherited any of my daddy's magic
I shake my head
She abracadabra something in her arms
And says
You know the drug deal is supposed to die, right?

10. I know the stories
How magic can turn black men into myths
That the hood will turn a black man into a monster
And that zeus made an exit wound
Big enough for his daughter to walk out of
Fully armored
And athena
Like most goddesses
Never learned to love anything
More than herself 

Hilarious Response To Passive Aggressive White Neighbors

To: The Passive Aggressive Neighbor and His Wife / Apartment 5-J From: Richard / Apartment 6-J
Re: I’m Finna Tell You What You Not Gon’ Do October 6th 2016


This letter serves a formal response to a note left by you expressing, in no uncertain terms, your intent to notify building management and the authorities of what you perceived to be the inconsiderate volume of my speaking voice in the evening hours of October 5, 2016. 
First, let me be clear in addressing my lack of bother for your grievance and resolve to not be coerced to remedial action by your idle threats or seemingly pervasive white tears. I, the tenant in apartment 6-J, having secured this rental property through earnings / made and credit / earned, have no inherent or expressly stated obligation to accommodate your hyper-sensitivities, or those of your spouse when occupying my home. Though I empathized with the emotional distress brought on by sleep deprivation, citing my voice as the root-cause for your incapacity to attain restful slumber is both improbable and juvenile....
Second, your lack of both interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligence reflects poorly on you as a neighbor, and frankly an American... As a Black man, I take these overt actions as a direct threat to my physical and psychological well-being and as an act of violence upon me (See attached list of 821 men, women, and children killed by police or in police custody to date in 2016). This threat cannot be taken lightly. To that end, I am submitting my formal complaint to both the New York City Police Department, the American Civil Liberties Union and the District Community Board so that they are made aware of your callous and irrational threats upon my person....

Kind regards, Richard Scott Brookshire III, MPA
I have had to deal with this. I was really young too. Scared. That's why this tickled me to death. I promise you I'm keeping a copy. Hopefully, I'll never have to deal with such a thing again. But you never know.
Richard Scott Brookshire III, is my hero today.

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Thursday, October 26, 2017

THE 43rd PRESIDENT ISSUES PREEMPTIVE STRIKE APOLOGY AFTER TWO SEXUAL HARASSMENT ALLEGATIONS

GEORGE H. W. BUSH,  43rd PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATE

Sexual Blackmail: When a powerful man touches a woman in a sexual way and essentially dares to say it bothers her, knowing full well it'll be her that loses her credibility, her that loses her ability to advance in her job, or her that loses the job itself because she can't overlook "little things" like a man groping her behind


...from his wheelchair, with his wife standing right beside him

Two women accused Bush  of groping them. He apologized both times. Then there was a statement seemed to say he's "used to" sexually harassing women without using the words "sexual harassment."

So when they said Bush was "used to" giving women "friendly pats" on the buttocks were they saying he sexually blackmailed so many women there's no point in dozens and dozens more coming forward to say he did it?


On a scale of 1 to 10 maybe this is 2 or 3, with something close to fear of rape being a 10. (I'm making this scale up on the fly. Pardon me) But the thing men that have abused their power don't get is that women have to wonder how far up the scale she's going to have to go, what's she's going to have to put up with to keep on making her living. 

Men like Bush will never decide that they contributed to the environment that enabled Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby to exist.  I don't know if men are getting it yet, but damn near every woman has been touched and fondled sexually by some asshole who knew he could get away with it. 

The silent blackmail is always there with sexual harassment. Whether the harassment is mild or strong, the black mail is always there. 


Read More: 
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/26/560148936/george-h-w-bush-acknowledges-groping-multiple-women


Read this too, in case you don't know who Mrs Bush is.

CLAIM:   Former first lady Barbara Bush said that [mostly black] New Orleans refugees being housed in the Houston Astrodome [after Hurricane Katrina] were “underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.”     
STATUS:   TRUE.
Read More:  https://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/barbara2.asp
That's why it doesn't surprise me Barbara was standing there while her husband was groping another woman's buttocks, especially if Babs might have considered that woman to have a lower class or lower station in life.  She might have stood by for that more than once.  

Race isn't the only thing that people use to discount the humanity of others.

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NAACP TELLS BLACK AMERICANS TO PASS ON AMERICAN AIRLINES AND OTHER CORPORATIONS ARE NEXT

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The NAACP said Wednesday that it is embarking on a broad new strategy for the more racially charged President Trump era and would take a more muscular approach to calling out discrimination by corporate America.
The move follows Tuesday’s unusual warning to African Americans that they could face discrimination if they fly on American Airlines, and it comes only days after the civil rights organization named longtime Mississippi activist Derrick Johnson as its new president and chief executive.
“As we look at some of the shifts our country [read: white America] has made with the election of Donald Trump, we’re looking to improve our ability to be more effective given the realities of our country today,” said Hilary Shelton, director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s Washington bureau and senior vice president for advocacy and policy, in an interview Wednesday. “We have to adjust our approach accordingly.”
~WAPO 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/naacps-american-airlines-warning-is-a-wake-up-call-to-corporate-america/2017/10/25/68ecb558-b9b8-11e7-a908-a3470754bbb9_story.html?utm_term=.243d93dc3c54 

IT'S ABOUT TIME, NAACP. IT'S ABOUT TIME.

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ZERO SURPRISE FOR BLACKS WHO HEARD 55% OF WHITE PEOPLE BELIEVE THEY FACE DISCRIMINATION

It's no coincidence that 57% of white people voted for Trump.  in fact, if I had a time machine, I'd bet you a million dollars the entire 57% of whites would be willing to say White Americans face discrimination. 



Nothing to see here.

This is what happens when you have white privilege, see it as normal and something you're entitled to, and are willing to kill to keep it.





If I had the same time machine, I'd be willing to bet ya another million that 95% of whites would have said the same thing the day after the Civil War ended.

And I bet up to 70% would have the same thing at the end of The Civil Rights Movement too.  

And if you took the time machine back to the end of Ronald Reagan's reign of terror in the 1980s, you'd see that the number of whiny white folks crying about their inability quasi-enslave black folks and get them to bow and scrape back up to 85% again.
You know that's why Sandra Bland was arrested right? Failure to bow and scrape. 
You know that's why she's dead and a lot of white people think she deserves to be dead, right? 
You know that's why the man who arrested her, lied about his actions, created the circumstances of her death walked away. White folks understood that Sandra Bland should have been bowing and scraping. 
This is what it takes for white folks to NOT feel discriminated against. 
So the number of white people feeling discriminated against is all the way down to 55% Wow! I guess you could say white people, as a group, are making improvements on their white racism at a glacial speed.

The rest of us should see at least 10% improvement of white racism no later than January 1, 2957.

http://www.npr.org/2017/10/24/559604836/majority-of-white-americans-think-theyre-discriminated-against?

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Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Seven Things White People Don't Get About Themselves Or Frederica Wilson

1
The white people who disrespect black people 
because they are black 
are white supremacists.*

2
 White people have been behaving this way 
toward black people for decades 
and it happens daily in our workplaces, right now.

When a white person shows 
the obvious version of unprovoked disrespect 
toward a black person, we are going to tell on you.

We are going to tell on you 
because we're protecting one another 
with information. 

Frederica Wilson was protecting La David Johnson's widow 
and all the blacks wives of black soldiers 
that will become widows come after Johnson's widow
...by identifying a person who is possibly 
(or in this case "likely") 
exhibiting white supremacist behavior

6
Most black folks are not 
going to keep 
white supremacy secrets for you

7
Therefore, 
it's not "playing politics" 
when we tell on you. 

To be specific, it's not "politicizing an issue" when we tell on you after we watch you call one of us the n-word just like it's not "politicizing an issue" when we spread the word about somebody calling a Black American widow to say, 

"He knew what he was getting into"

You know what else? It's up to the widow who she wants to listen to a condolence call with. It's not up to the 30 star general who thinks his opinion is more important than the widow's



The white supremacist most of you elected to be in charge may be unable to say "I'm sorry. That didn't sound right" to anybody, no matter their skin color. But Sara Huckleberry-Hound Sanders, Big- Shot- Shall-Not-Be-Questioned Kelly, someBODY should have apologized on that ignoramus's behalf.

And if La David Johnson and his wife had been white, I'm thinking it is very likely somebody in the alt-Right White House would have. 

WE SEE YOU!
*= even when there's a question about the source of the unprovoked aggression or disregard, we still tell on you, report your behavior sans interpretation so that each person can make up their own mind about the suspected motive....because white supremacy is pretty damn consistent. 

**************

P.S. I never thought I'd be defending a red rhinestone cowboy black woman who is a congresswoman. Really didn't see this one coming. 

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REST IN PEACE ROBERT GUILLAUME

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"Robert Guillaume, who rose from squalid beginnings in St. Louis slums to become a star in stage musicals and win Emmy Awards for his portrayal of the sharp-tongued butler in the TV sitcoms "Soap" and "Benson," has died at age 89...

Guillaume died at home Tuesday in Los Angeles, according to his widow, Donna Brown Guillaume. He had been battling prostate cancer...

Among Guillaume's achievements was playing Nathan Detroit in the first all-black version of "Guys and Dolls," earning a Tony nomination in 1977. He became the first African-American to sing the title role of "Phantom of the Opera," appearing with an all-white cast in Los Angeles...
While playing in "Guys and Dolls, he was asked to test for the role of an acerbic butler of a governor's mansion in "Soap," a primetime TV sitcom that satirized soap operas...The character became so popular that ABC was persuaded to launch a spinoff, simply called "Benson," which lasted from 1979 to 1986. The series made Guillaume wealthy and famous, but he regretted that Benson's wit had to be toned down to make him more appealing as the lead star....
The career of Robert Guillaume almost ended in January 1999 at Walt Disney Studio. He was appearing in the TV series "Sports Night" as Isaac Jaffee, executive producer of a sports highlight show. [...He was] treated for a stroke— the result of a blood clot that blocked circulation of blood to the brain. They are fatal in 15 percent of the cases. Guillaume's stroke was minor, causing relatively slight damage and little effect on his speech. After six weeks in the hospital, he underwent a therapy of walks and sessions in the gym. He returned to the second season of "Sports Night".. 

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/tv/ct-robert-guillaume-dead-20171024-story.html
 (From Chicago Tribune, 10/24/17)



Guillaume on playing Benson

Tuesday, October 24, 2017

JIMMY CARTER DISAPPOINTS AND DEFENDS TRUMP IN INTERVIEW

I'm really disappointed him. I thought of him as an "actively, constantly recovering white supremacist" He pretty much identified himself as such, years ago.

And I know it's not likely he sees himself that way now because white people tend to think there's an end-date on such a recovery, to such self-examination. There isn't, not for white people in a country where power imbalance so largely tipped in their favor.

I really thought Jimmy Carter was better than this -- by a lot.
"And although the former president said Trump was exacerbating racial tensions, Carter also repeatedly defended the current president:

  • He said although Trump may be contributing to the souring of America's image in the world, the declining image of America "precedes Trump."
  • Carter was not as bothered by Trump's relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and disagreed with his wife about the impact of Russia's meddling in the 2016 election, saying "I don't think there's any evidence that what the Russians did changed enough votes, or any votes."
  • Carter claimed that the "media have been harder on Trump than any other president certainly that I've known about," saying that reporters felt "free to claim that Trump is mentally deranged and everything else without hesitation."
Some political pundits on the Sunday morning talk shows speculated whether Carter was positioning himself for a job in Trump's administration by complimenting the president in the press.
read more:  
http://www.businessinsider.com/jimmy-carter-defends-trump-new-york-times-interview-2017-10

His criticism of Obama's foreign policy may be legit. But his defense of TrumpleRacistSkin is not. his bringing up Obama's foreign policy while Trump is trying to start WWIII with his ignorant mouth is not legit either.
I'm really disappointed Carter. 
However, when I read he said he voted for Bernie? I understood exactly which section of white supremacy he was speaking from -- the liberal, excuse-making, white-supremacy-enabling section. 

He's a part of that group that still  chooses to believe white people voted for Trump because they were "white working class" (which studies have been been disproved again and again since the election)