THE RACIST-IN-CHIEF 2 DAYS RUNNING: NATIVE AMERICANS AND MUSLIMS

Let me say it again

I lived in the same state with this man

 for the first 2 decades of my life

Source Trump Quote:  

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/09/20/trump_is_racist_here_s_a_reminder.html

This is an entitled, deranged white supremacist 

He's a racist to his bone marrow

Racism comes out of him like a sneeze 

But I'm pretty damn sure that he and his Nationalistic alt-Right white supremacist minions demonstrated their contempt for Native Americans on purpose this week.

The is a still photo from a video where Trump felt it necessary to mock a white congressman. Elizabeth Warren, by calling her Pocahontas during an award ceremony for Native Americans. 

Yeah, he's an racist idiot. There was likely no brain engagement at all. He saw Native Americans, he thought about Elizabeth Warren and mocking a non-white icon was automatic. 

This is not new from him. 

However, the painting behind the Orange Orangutan Racist and was placed there as part of the background scenery for presenting an honor to Native Americans. 

That painting is of Andrew Jackson, one of the worst President this country has ever seen. A hero of white folks,  the Cherokees actually called Andrew Jackson "Indian Killer" in the early 19th century because while he was responsible for the deaths of thousands of Native Americans is also responsible for the Indian Removal Act commonly called "The Trail of Tears"*

Think about it. Trump didn't hang that painting himself. And there's no way there's somebody else as stupid as he is on his staff. I think somebody deliberately put that painting there behind those Native Americans as a kind of winking gesture to white supremacist base.  

THE VERY NEXT DAY 

 Trump used his twitter account to bash Muslims

President Trump has repeatedly made a show of flouting convention on his Twitter feed, spouting off falsehoods and occasionally pandering to or amplifying once-fringe voices. In that light, a string of retweets he made Wednesday morning could be considered par for the course. They shouldn’t be.

In between tweets bashing media organizations that report stories he doesn’t like, Trump retweeted three videos from the Twitter account of Jayda Fransen, the deputy leader of Britain First, an obscure far-right outfit widely considered to be a hate group. Fransen herself faces charges of “religiously aggravated harassment” after she shouted slurs at a hijab-wearing woman walking with her children last year. 

The three tweets in question presented videos of murky origin  [one has been proven a lie already] with flat, crude captions: “Muslim migrant beats up Dutch boy on crutches!,” “Muslim destroys a statue of Virgin Mary!” and “Islamist mob pushes teenage boy off roof and beats him to death!”

The white mainstream press is finally saying -- approximately two years too late-- Trump's sources of information are racists. They are saying his own words are racist. But they have not crossed the line into complete truth telling. 

"He is a racist."

"Racist" is not an epithet. This word has meaning. And Trump is one. Most, if not all, of his ideas about non-white people are born of racism which means,

"He is a racist" is simply the truth

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DON'T TELL ME YOUR CHILDREN ARE TOO YOUNG FOR THE RACE TALK WHEN MINE IS TARGETED

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Your kids are internalizing the racism that is inherent in our culture.  

They see that most of the kids at their school are white. They see that almost all of their teachers are white. They see that most of the people walking down the street in the US are white.  

They see that the people who get on the elevators with them to go home are white while the men in the blue uniforms who vacuum the carpets and take out the trash are black or brown.  

They see that all the nannies and grounds keepers and restaurant workers, cashiers, delivery people, bus drivers are brown or black. They see that the people who service their moms and dads are black or brown. They see that the dry cleaners are all East Asians.  

They are learning about the racial order of the world.

They are learning about racial hierarchy.  

They are learning the offensive gestures and words that express those racist ideas. 

They probably don’t understand what they see and certainly it will be years before they understand the full significance of the ideas they are gulping down daily from the cultural river we all drink from. 

These racist ideas are in plain view for them to take in, and they are gulping it down because our culture pours it out for everyone. 

They are subconsciously constructing the world view provided by white supremacy.  

You think your kids are sponges? They are sucking up this poison every day. That’s what their little brains do. And it’s incumbent upon you to administer the antidote every chance you get."

~Hairee Lee 

@ SAVEURDAYS.WORDPRESS 

Racism is taught passively (for the most part)

Anti-racism is taught actively and consciously

Read More:https://saveurdays.wordpress.com/2017/11/28/dont-tell-me-your-kids-are-too-young-for-the-racism-talk-when-mine-is-getting-racially-targeted/

WE NEED MORE BLACK FEMALE POLITICIANS

This also leads to the children of politicians and the rich (who need to bend politicians to their will to get richer) being the vast majority of the people who start thinking of politics as a career while in high school and college.

We need a black and brown led political party. And we don't have enough choices. 

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IS MEGHAN MARKLE ANYTHING TO WRITE BLACK HOME ABOUT?

Meghan Markle, an actress on the television show SUITS, got engaged to Prince Harry of England this week. There's been a lot of discussion of whether or not Black Americans have anything to celebrate. 

The black discussions being had about Markle seem remarkably like the discussions had about Tiger Woods at the beginning of his career. 

It went like this:

• He's a golf success story
• Blacks don't have a superstar golfer
• We want him
• Therefore, he's black

Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way. 

Tiger Woods was crystal clear when he spoke to Oprah on national television and said it makes him uncomfortable when people call him "African American" 

And he did not mean he preferred "Black American," "Black" or...or...or... He was saying he prefers -- in so many words-- to be identified with the group called "mixed race" or "bi-racial."    

And it was not surprising when he found ways to say he is racially "colorblind" which made him a hero to white folks everywhere...who were still on the "I don't see race" crap as a way of declaring racism would just go away if you just stop talking about it.  

Yet, it was downright predictable that he'd marry a blond white woman (despite his being able to see skin color) 

I would have laughed my butt clean off when Tiger was caught cheating on his white wife with nearly two dozen cheesy-looking white women -- while being unable to see color-- but I was pretty sure every-white-body who loved him said to themselves, "Damn, I guess he's black after all."

 Woods' calling himself cablinasian was a joke. But the message connected to the joke was: I am mixed race.

And I was fine with that --eventually. (I'd already been cheering for him as  black golfer when I found out he wasn't black) 

So here we are again. 

• Markle is a successful actress 
• She's marrying a prince
• We want her
• Therefore she's black

Markle has very clearly identified herself as "mixed race" and her mother as different/"black" when giving interviews. 

Furthermore those who are confused because they either believe in the one-drop rule or think it's possible to NOT respect somebody else's choices in the name of defending their blackness should read what Barack Obama and Halle Berry have said about being black and their decision to "identify" as "black" because this ain't that.

My teacher told me to check the box for Caucasian. 'Because that's how you look, Meghan,' she said. I put down my pen. Not as an act of defiance, but rather a symptom of my confusion. I couldn't bring myself to do that, to picture the pit-in-her-belly sadness my mother would feel if she were to find out. So, I didn't tick a box. I left my identity blank – a question mark, an absolute incomplete – much like how I felt.

When I went home that night, I told my dad what had happened. He said the words that have always stayed with me: 'If that happens again, you draw your own box.' 

This ain't that.

LET US REVIEW

• President Obama is black because he said he is 
• Halle is black because she said she is.
• Meghan Markle and Tiger Woods are not black because they said they aren't OR they said they are all things mixed together -- as in "I am mixed-race"
• I got 20 mulattos in my family tree and I AM BLACK

Markle is a mixed raced or bi-racial woman. That's fine. 

She's not black. That's fine.  

Race is a social construct and Markle knows how she has been socially constructed. And she has not been socially constructed as "black" but "mixed race." That's fine.  

I don't question any of her choices.

And after reading the article below, I once again feel truly sorry for light-skinned little girls who have had to try so hard to figure out where they fit in.

But making an end around to deny her light privilege is NOT fine.

"This is precisely why Suits stole my heart. It's the Goldilocks of my acting career – where finally I was just right. The series was initially conceived as a dramedy about a NY law firm flanked by two partners, one of whom navigates this glitzy world with his fraudulent degree.  

Enter Rachel Zane, one of the female leads and the dream girl – beautiful and confident with an encyclopedic knowledge of the law. 'Dream girl' in Hollywood terms had always been that quintessential blonde-haired, blue-eyed beauty – that was the face that launched a thousand ships, not the mixed one. But the show's producers weren't looking for someone mixed, nor someone white or black for that matter. They were simply looking for Rachel. In making a choice like that, the Suits producers helped shift the way pop culture defines beauty.

http://www.elleuk.com/life-and-culture/news/a26855/more-than-an-other/ 

The shift she's talking about did not take place when she was hired on SUITS or a few years before SUITS. The shift she's talking about where Hollywood hires almost-white looking actresses instead of the usual blond, blue-eyed white girl took place decades ago. 

She's pretending her getting that role was more than just her personal gain, that her getting that role on SUITS broke a glass ceiling for women of color when...

Halle Berry, 
Vanessa Williams 
Rosario Dawson 
Thandie Newton
Gina Torres 
Zoe Saldana 
Gugu Mbatha Raw
Paula Patton 

....and dozens of other light-skinned actress have ALL already been there and done that. 
Literally dozens of light-skinned and/or mixed race actresses --some of whom DO identify as "black" -- have gotten roles that didn't necessarily specifically call for woman of color.

Her ignoring of all the light skinned women that came before her winds up being a  method of firmly denying her light privilege.

This pretense that other light-skinned, mixed race actresses weren't cast in exactly the same way she was cast in SUITS allows her to deny that she is number 30 or 40, at the end of a list of light-skinned, mixed-looking female actress that got roles because they were pale.

That is, she may have had a hard time getting roles compared to Becky, exactly as she's stated. But her paleness made her 1000 times more likely to get the role of RACHAL ZANE in SUITS over darker-skinned women. 

I'm not going to celebrate anyone who refuses to discuss -- at length-- their light privilege.

And when I say "at length" I mean there needs to be the same number of paragraphs per article to discuss her privilege as there were to discuss the pain of not fitting in.

Furthermore, there needs to be follow up that discusses how a light-skinned person is going to use her light privilege to benefit those who are darker, those who's social construct is "Black" or "Black American" or darker mixed-race people.

But I don't see that happening. I've read one statement attributed to her that seems to be a Tiger-Woodsy "I'm colorblind" statement, which most sociologists have identified as a form of [white] racism.

Besides, the pain of not fitting in should NOT be on the forefront of a grown ass woman's mind, not even as a mixed-race, half-black woman in a white supremacy rife world. 

I hope I'm wrong about what I see so far. But I don't think I am. 

Public persons who identify as black or mixed race who want to make sure other people of color feel represented have a way of communicating that. President Obama has done it. Halle Berry has done it. A number of mixed race actresses have done it.  Not only has Markle failed to communicate anything of the sort, she is marrying somebody who had to be told his wearing a Hitler costume for Halloween is an ethnoracist maneuver. 

I'd like to hope anybody could learn and become better over 12 years (when that Nazi costume incident took place) But his ability to do this at all after the age of 5 speaks to how he was or wasn't raised. I see this Nazi costume as socially constructed white supremacy at it's whitest. 

...which can't be a surprise to anyone. Britain has made a career of trampling anybody not-white for centuries.

Apology or no apology for the Nazi costume, no matter how long ago this happened, this makes him a frightening prospect as a husband for a "woke" woman of color, which she probably isn't.

In fact, I'm just hoping she's not a white supremacy enabler at this point.

I hope the both of them turn out to be more racially conscious than they appear so far because the content of the tweet actually worries me.

I actually worry about light privileged joining the white privileged to become a new oppressor group. The level of denial is the same. And white racists are going to give  up trying to go it alone eventually as they become outnumbered.

Large numbers of light-privilege deny-ers will be seen as natural allies to white supremacists...eventually. (It's already begun).  

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THE HOUSE OF MOUSE HAS TOO MUCH POWER

This doesn't have anything to do with racism or sexism, but classism 

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Four eminent film critics’ groups have announced that films from the Walt Disney Company will not be eligible for their respective annual awards until the company lifts a media blackout against the Los Angeles Times.

• The Boston Society of Film Critics, the New York Film Critics Circle, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and the National Society of Film Critics released a joint statement Tuesday that read in part, “On Nov. 3, The Times published a statement that its writers and editors had been blocked from attending advance screenings of Disney films, in response to The Times’ news coverage of Disney’s business arrangements with the City of Anaheim. Disney’s actions, which include an indefinite ban on any interaction with The Times, are antithetical to the principles of a free press and set a dangerous precedent in a time of already heightened hostility toward journalists.”

I'm glad there was severe push back. But Disney has too much power as do Rupurt Murdock, ATT, and Time Warner. These huge conglomerates are merging and diverging and trading news outlets betwixt each other like crazy. It seems like less than a dozen individuals in the one-percenter class already have control over every bit of news and entertainment we mentally consume. And they're trying to reduce that number to 5 or 6 with upcoming mergers.

You see how Disney is acting already, right? 

This is not good.  People like Cornell West have been saying America is about to be one giant corporation instead of a republic for a while now. I think we are well on our way. 

ON BREXIT AND ITS ETHNORACIST MOTIVATIONS

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Whether Brexit happens, whether it's smooth or rough, Soft Brexit or Hard Brexit, there will be a sour taste in our mouths long after it is wrapped up. Something has changed in this country, attitudes shifting, divisions cracking open. Or is it that nothing has really changed at all and actually Brexit has just cast light over the darkness, lifted the rock to show us what was hiding there that we tried denying for so long?

A recent Channel 4 clip showed people in Barnsley who had voted Leave expressing their frustration with the slowness of the process, the fact that the immigrants were still here. They ranged from mildly typical British politeness in wishing these immigrants a dignified exit from the country they had made their homes for years, and others just wanting them all to go.

Has this always been Britain? Fearful of immigrants, ferociously sceptical of the benefits produced by immigration? We can say this has been a recent phenomenon, a post-financial crash economic anxiety paralysing the entire country, stirred relentlessly by endless newspaper scaremongering about the illegal immigration invasion that was never coming. The irony in this being when the migrants go, everything could go with them.

headline 

Brexit Has Lifted The Rock On Racism In Britain

Read More: 

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/rabbil-sikdar/brexit-has-lifted-the-rock_b_18351476.html

A TALE OF TWO NEW YORK TIMES PROFILES IN BLACK AND WHITE

The New York Times on Saturday ran a profile of Tony and Maria Hovater, just your average 20–something, white, neo–Nazi couple from Ohio. Only one problem: People aren’t too thrilled about what they consider to be the newspaper’s normalization of modern–day Nazis.

Go figure.

The story, titled, “In America’s Heartland, a Voice of Hate Among ‘Normies,’” takes readers to New Carlisle, OH, a town of fewer than 6,000 people about an hour northeast of Cincinnati. It describes the Hovaters as, you know, “polite” and “low–key”—just your typical Midwestern couple. Except, of course, they are Nazis.

~Splinter News

Read More:

https://splinternews.com/nyt-feature-on-ohio-neo-nazis-not-going-over-so-well-1820739656

COMPARE 

The NY Times story of the white Hovaters is on the left while the story of black Mike Brown is on the right. See the empathy oozing out of the words on the left and complete lack thereof on the right. 

Mainstream white run news organizations still haven't figured out how they normalized and are still normalizing the nationalistic white supremacist enough for him to be president.

I'd bet a significant amount of money, if I had it, that the aim of this story is to tell both sides of the white racism equally. Only the white folks in charge of our news don't know they're trying to make white racism normal,  trying to make it something can be seen as good from a certain perspective 

...because they leave the word "white" or the word "racist" out of every article about white racism even when they are talking about neo-Nazis, Alt-Right, and KKK. 

Even websites run by entities like the Southern Poverty Law Center, who track hate crimes and hate groups, has a way for you to rearrange their hate group data every-which-a-way. Yet the SPLC Law center does not have a way for you to get the most obviously relevant data, which would be the total number on the white racism groups on their hate group chart.

The number of white hate groups on their charts almost have to represent 85 to 90% of all the hate groups in the U.S. But the words "white racist" are too hard for the average white person...even white anti-racism "allies" to endure.

And this is precisely how the New York Times, who is ripping at Donald Trump daily, winds up trying to cover for the white racists that voted for a leader that's tearing this country apart.






  

WIFE RELAXES HAIR AND HUSBAND CRIES

Well...He didn't cry. 

But he wanted to. 

LOL

More importantly, Shay and Travis are way-cute together. 

He disagreed, strongly with her relaxing her hair. But he was respectful. And I was even more amazed toward the end of the video when he said he grew his hair out in support of her going natural when she was having her last problem with relaxer.

Travis gets the feminist husband of the year award. I wonder if he even knows what the word "feminist" means as opposed to the stereotype?

PATTI LaBELLE'S SWEET POTATO PIE RECIPE

This Recipe has gone viral according to main stream news papers

8-10 servings; makes one 9-inch pie

INGREDIENTS

• FOR THE CRUST
• 1 1/2 cups flour, plus more for the work surface
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup butter-flavored vegetable shortening, chilled and cut into 1/2-inch pieces
• 1/3 cup ice water
• 1 tablespoon melted unsalted butter
• 1/4 cup packed light brown sugar

• FOR THE FILLING
• Salt
• 3 large orange-fleshed sweet potatoes, scrubbed
• 7 tablespoons (most of 1 stick) unsalted butter, melted
• 1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 2 large eggs, beaten
• 1/4 cup half-and-half
• 3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg

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DIRECTIONS

For the crust: Sift the flour and salt into a mixing bowl. Add the shortening. Use a fork or a pastry blender to cut the shortening into the flour until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs with a few pea-size bits.

Stirring with the fork, gradually add enough of the water until the mixture clumps together (you might need more or less water). Gather up the dough and press it into a thick disk. If desired, wrap the dough in wax paper or plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 1 hour, and as long as 3 days.

Lightly flour a work surface. Place the chilled dough on it; roll out to a round that's 13 inches across. Fold the dough in half.

Transfer to the pie plate; gently unfold the dough to fit into it. Trim the dough as needed to leave a 1-inch overhang. (Bake or reserve the scraps for another use.)

Fold the dough under itself so the edge of the fold is flush with the edge of the pan. Flute the dough around the edge of the pan. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate while you start the filling (and up to 1 hour).

For the filling: Bring a large pot of water to a boil over high heat. Add a generous pinch of salt, then the sweet potatoes. Reduce the heat to medium; cook until the sweet potatoes are tender when pierced with a knife, about 30 to 45 minutes.

Drain the sweet potatoes, letting them fall into a colander. Run under cold water until cool enough to handle. Discard the skins; transfer the cooked sweet potatoes to a mixing bowl. Use a hand-held electric mixer to blend until creamy and smooth. You'll need 3 cups for the filling; scoop out the remainder and reserve for another use.

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.

Uncover the pie shell; brush the interior with the 1 tablespoon of melted butter. Sprinkle the 1/4 cup of brown sugar over the bottom of the pie shell. Par-bake until the crust is set and just beginning to brown, about 15 minutes. (If the pie shell puffs, do not prick it.) Let it cool.

Meanwhile, add the 7 tablespoons of melted butter, brown sugar, the granulated sugar, eggs, half-and-half, cinnamon and nutmeg to the pureed sweet potatoes. Beat on medium speed until well incorporated.

Pour into the par-baked pie shell, smoothing the surface. Reduce the oven temperature to 350 degrees. Bake (middle rack) until a knife inserted in the center of the filling comes out clean yet the filling still jiggles a bit, 1 to 1 1/2 hours.

Transfer to a wire rack to cool completely, then cover loosely with plastic wrap and refrigerate until ready to serve.

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AND UMMM....You can buy these pies too. Here's a video review
 (Warning: Colorful language....and funny)

SWEET POTATO PIE NOT PUMPKIN FOR BLACK AMERICANS ON THANKSGIVING

Bernard Jones said

“For millions of African Americans like me, Thanksgiving Day means sweet potatoes, not pumpkins, and we love sweet potatoes so much that we won’t settle for having a sole side dish of candied sweet potatoes (we call them “yams,” but that’s another story) or sweet potato casserole. No, we have to double down on this tasty tuber and serve up sweet potato pie for dessert, too.

Sure, we eat this soul food classic year-round, but this is the week that the sweet potato pie really shines.

It doesn’t have to be the only dessert option on the holiday table, but it has to at least be part of the lineup.

As much as sweet potato pie is beloved within the black community and in the South, it doesn’t seem to get much love elsewhere. Our national pie divide is deepest when people choose between pumpkin pie and sweet potato pie on Thanksgiving Day. And that got me wondering: How did sweet potato pie become a soul-food favorite over its chief Thanksgiving rival? It started happening centuries ago, and it didn’t follow the path that you might expect...”

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FROM WAPO

When tracing the history of African American cuisine, it’s best to take stock of what was inherited from West Africa, our ancestral homeland. I’d thought and hoped that sweet potato pie had West African roots, but the trail begins in Peru, where sweet potatoes originated. 

As early as the 16th century, Spanish traders shipped sweet potatoes from the Americas across the Atlantic Ocean on two different routes, one headed to West Africa and the other to Western Europe.

West African cooks [in the Americas] first experimented with sweet potatoes as a possible substitute for the other root crops (cassava, plantain and yams) that they used to make a typical meal of some sort of starch served with a savory sauce, soup or stew typically made with fish and vegetables. One particular specialty was fufu, in which a root is boiled, mashed or pounded and shaped into balls. For those who have made sweet potato pie, it doesn’t seem to be much of a leap to add eggs, milk, sugar and spices to make a dessert out of a savory mash.

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