HALLOWEEN 2018

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The Best Part of Halloween? Stealing Candy From Your Kids and Using It to Extort Them

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Anyway, in a few hours, my 2-year-old daughter will circle the blocks around our neighborhood in search of candy and other assorted goodies. She will be dressed as a pumpkin. (She has also been instructed by me to spit at any adult who offers her candy corn.) Joining her will be my 12-year-old niece, (maybe) my wife, my cousin Huny, her kids, and perhaps some other straggler kid(s). I will be at home, distributing candy—Snickers, Reese’s cups and Skittles—and scaring white people with my “bearded Pittsburgh nigga on a stoop” costume. 

When my daughter gets back home, my wife and I will take her bags of candy—the bags she shuffled and sprinted and slaved up and down the block for—and. well, that will be that. She will, perhaps, get a piece or two today and tomorrow, but her candy consumption will be limited. I’d say maybe five percent of the candy she gets will actually go into her mouth. The rest will be ours. 

Maybe we’ll eat some of it. Maybe we’ll put some of it in tiny bowls when we host Thanksgiving next month or a game night in December. Maybe we’ll just use it as cruel parental totems for the next few months; extorting a week of good behavior in exchange for a miniature Twix bar. Either way, Halloween is nothing but a secret candy comeup for NWKs...

~VERY SMART BROTHAS / THE ROOT

https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/the-best-part-of-halloween-stealing-candy-from-your-ki-1830132878?

About That Time NBC Thought They'd Turn Unconstructed White Racist Megyn Kelly Into White Oprah (Last Week)

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"Good Morning Everyone. And welcome to the show. I'm Megyn Kelly 

And I want to begin with two words: I'm sorry 

You may  have heard that, yesterday, we had a discussion here about political correctness and Halloween costumes. And that conversation turned to whether it is ever okay for a person of one race to dress up as another, a black person making their face lighter or... "

The above quote represent the first unbelievable 20 seconds of her apology for defending black face as part of a Halloween costume. 

Link to the original offending video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY1Hf2taOPY

Sista Girl = Ain't Having It

Megyn Kelly's NBC show has been a ratings nightmare, and was at risk even before she defended blackface

In its first year, Kelly's show averaged 2.4 million viewers a day, a drop of 400,000 viewers from that hour's average before she began hosting, according to Nielsen (via The New York Times).

 (A lot of black folks didn't watch after 

NBC pushed Tamron Hall out for this offensive wench)

https://www.businessinsider.com/megyn-kellys-nbc-show-had-low-ratings-before-blackface-comments-2018-10

Now NBC is trying to come out smelling like a rose because they made it look like they fired her for racism instead of for losing them money -- when NBC hired her in spite of knowing she was one of white racists' favorite anchors when she was on Fox News.

Even though most of us black folk knew she couldn't possibly last, most of the ones I know were surprised she was fired so fast after the black face comment and non-apology. Unaware of just how bad her ratings were, that black face comment was probably the mildest racist crap that's plopped out of Kelly's mouth.

Besides ordinary white folks, far and wide, defend the black face crap every single Halloween.

For Harriet Video: Racists favorite tool = false equivalence

Kelly is such an unreconstructed racist that she famously flipped out in 2013, in reaction to a piece by Slate writer Aisha Harris about black Santa iconography, and insisted that not only was Santa white, but so was Jesus, and that in both cases this was "a verifiable fact." 

This claim was unbelievably dumb on multiple levels. 

Leaving aside the fraught question of whether there is a Santa Claus, his legend is apparently based is based on a man born in Turkey. Jesus, if he existed, was a Middle Eastern man who lived long before the concept of "whiteness" was invented. More importantly, both figures can safely be understood more as mythical than historical, and subsequently can be interpreted to look however people like.

It was just a matter of time before Kelly said something obnoxiously racist on the "Today" show, even if her ostensible role there was to be a chipper morning-show lark rather than the inflammatory demagogue that she was on Fox News. Yet somehow the executives at NBC  [such as Andrew Lack] were dumb enough not to see the inevitability of what happened.

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Kelly benefited from the pernicious myth that racism is an ideology of the trailer park and the rural diner and that college-educated elite white people, especially those that live in coastal cities, are somehow immune. According to this theory, elite-group racism is a pandering act staged to bamboozle Cletus, and someone like Kelly, whose educational background and current lifestyle mirrors the cosmopolitan liberal whites she made a living bashing on Fox News, can't really be that hysterical and ignorant....

Sociologist Eduardo Bonilla-Silva has dubbed this the "racism without racists" phenomenon, in which squeamishness about diagnosing what's in the heart of a white person — at least an elite, educated white person — leads people to fear applying the R-word even to people like Kelly, who constantly say and do overtly racist things....

Read More: https://www.salon.com/2018/10/26/so-long-megyn-kelly-now-we-know-your-racism-was-always-perfectly-sincere/ 

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Brazil Top Court Spared Jair Bolsonaro A Racism Trial And Now This Trump Of Brazil Is President

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On 9/11/2018, a court panel voted 3-2 on Tuesday to drop a racism accusation against Jair Bolsonaro, who leads polls ahead of October’s elections and was stabbed and injured last week during a campaign event.

Justice Alexandre de Moraes ruled the candidate had the right to voice rude and disrespectful opinions toward blacks in a 2017 speech. 

Bolsonaro said at the time that members of rural settlements founded by the descendants of slaves, called “quilombolas,” are “not good even to procreate.” He also talked about the weight of those slave descendants using a measure that Brazilian farmers apply to animals.

https://www.newscenter1.tv/i/brazil-top-court-spares-leading-candidate-from-racism-trial-2/

Bolsonaro’s triumph will leave many millions of progressive Brazilians profoundly disturbed and fearful of the intolerant, right-wing tack their country is now likely to take.

Over nearly three decades in politics, he has become notorious for his hostility to black, gay and indigenous Brazilians and to women as well as for his admiration of dictatorial regimes, including the one that ruled Brazil from 1964 until 1985.

“The extreme right has conquered Brazil,” Celso Rocha de Barros, a Brazilian political columnist, told the election night webcast of Piauí magazine. “Brazil now has a more extremist president than any democratic country in the world ... we don’t know what is going to happen.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2018/oct/28/brazil-election-2018-second-round-of-voting-closes-as-bolsonaro-eyes-the-presidency-live?

With the largest population of African descendants outside Africa itself, Brazil was the very last country to abolish slavery in "the new world" And Brazil has the reputation of having one of the most murderous police forces on the planet which appears to be in competition for highest kill rate with the organized crime there. And that was before Bolsonaro was elected president. 

This isn't going to start well, be well, or end well. 

Read more about how extreme poverty and rampant corruption has led way too many black and brown people ratcheting up their toxic masculinity angst by voting for Bolsonaro anyway.  https://theintercept.com/2018/10/18/jair-bolsonaro-elections-brazil-police-brutality/

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A-A-A-AND THE BLACKEST DEBATER AWARD GOES TO... ANDREW GILLIUM

ANDREW GILLIUM'S LIKELY NOTE TO SELF

DO NOT MINCE WORDS

TAKE NO PRISONERS

SHOOT WORDS LIKE BULLETS & DOUBLE TAP EVERY TIME YOU SPEAK, MAKE SURE THAT JOKER'S DEADER THAN ROAD KILL
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Ron DeSantis fires back: Andrew Gillum 'called me a dog' at debate
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/politics/political-pulse/os-ne-ron-desantis-andrew-gillum-dog-20181027-story.html

OMG What a nitwit. He has no idea what's going on. 


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REST IN POWER NTOZAKE SHANGE

I saw the choreopoem FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENOUGH on a stage in San Francisco at a time when I thought I just didn't have it in me to understand a poem.

When I saw this feminist piece acted out on a bare stage but for the black women in different colored dresses, I didn't understand how wrong I was about my heart-mind connection.  

This poem broke through and got to me.

I don't think I'd have been moved to tears by Warsan Shire,  Nayyirah Waheed,  or Claudia Rankine 

if not for Ntozake Shange's words helping me get over that first hurdle.

The words "Rest In Power" have never applied better.

In addition to her Obie Award-winning choreopoem, Shange wrote novels including 'Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo' and poetry collections like 'Nappy Edges.'

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ntozake-shange-dead-colored-girls-playwright-was-70-1155732

Read a lovely slice of this work in the next post

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ENUF by Ntozake Shange

at 4:30 AM

she rose

movin the arms & legs that trapped her

she sighed affirmin the sculptured man

& made herself a bath

of dark musk oil egyptian crystals

& florida water to remove his smell

to wash away the glitter

to watch the butterflies melt into

suds & the rhinestones fall beneath

her buttocks like smooth pebbles

in a missouri creek

layin in water

she became herself

ordinary

brown braided woman

with big legs & full hips

reglar

seriously intendin to finish her

night's work

she quickly walked to her guest

straddled on her pillows & began

'you'll have to go now /

i've

a lot of work to do / & i

cant

with a man around / here

are yr pants /

there's coffee on the

stove / it's been

very nice / but i cant see

you again /

you got what you came

for / didnt you'

& she smiled

he wd either mumble curses bout crazy b*tch*s

or sit dumbfounded

while she repeated

i cdnt possibly wake up / with

a strange man in my bed / why

don't you go home'

she cda been slapped upside the head

or verbally challenged

but she never waz

& the ones who fell prey to the

dazzle of hips painted with

orange blossoms & magnolia scented wrists

had wanted no more

than to lay between her sparklin thighs

& had planned on leaving before dawn

& she had been so divine

devastatingly bizarre the way

her mouth fit round

& now she stood a

reglar colored girl

fulla the same malice

livid indifference as a sistah

worn from supportin a wd be hornplayer

or waiting by the window

& they knew

& left in a hurry

she wd gather her tinsel

& jewels from the tub

& laugh gayly or vengeful

she stored her silk roses by her bed

& when she finished writin

the account of her exploit in a diary

embroidered with lilies & moonstones

she placed the rose behind her ear

& cried herself to sleep. 

Enuf 

by 

Ntozake Shange

From 

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide

When The Rainbow Was Enuf

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

2018 is this poem's 44th anniversary

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DID A KENTUCKY WHITE MAN KILL 2 BLACK PEOPLE TRYING TO BECOME THE NEXT DYLANN ROOF?

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Sounds like it to me.

A 51-year-old [white] man named [Gregory Bush ] who killed two [black] people at a Kentucky grocery and was subdued by a civilian who told him that “whites don’t shoot whites” had earlier tried to enter a church with a predominantly black congregation, police confirmed late Thursday.

Though chief of police Sam Rogers refused to “speculate on motive at this time” during an afternoon news conference in Jeffersontown, Kentucky, the killer’s failed attempt to enter the town’s First Baptist church was caught on video. Though the church welcomes all comers, it “is headed by a black pastor and has a large African-American membership” according to the Associated Press.

~THINKPROGRESS.ORG 

Read More: https://thinkprogress.org/racist-shooter-black-church-kentucky-44d1cb593a75/ 

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Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting: At Least 11 Dead and Gunman Identified As Robert D Bowers

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PITTSBURGH — Shouting anti-Semitic slurs, a man opened fire in a Pittsburgh synagogue Saturday morning, killing at least 11 people and wounding several others, city officials said. President Trump described the shooting as a “wicked act of mass murder” that was “pure evil.” 

The suspect, identified by law enforcement officials as Robert D. Bowers, 46 [ a republican so radical and racist, Orange Chump isn't good enough for him] surrendered to the police after barricading himself inside a third-floor office of the synagogue, the Tree of Life Congregation in eastern Pittsburgh. Four police officers were among the wounded, the authorities said...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/27/us/active-shooter-pittsburgh-synagogue-shooting.htm

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WOMEN NEED TO GET AS GOOD AS MEN AT BRAGGING ABOUT THEMSELVES SO AS TO INSPIRE OTHERS

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"I am the highest-paid showrunner in television," she said. Rhimes' declaration comes after her well-documented move from ABC to Netflix after 15 years with the network. 

“The other day I came to this conclusion that men brag and women hide," she said about why she hasn't spoken publicly about her huge Netflix deal, even after news reports of her deal being $100 million were "wrong."

"Even when they don’t deserve to brag, men brag — Trump, Kavanaugh — and when men do deserve to brag, they are good at it." 

She contrasted that with the blowback Ellen Pompeo, the star of Grey's Anatomy, received when she bragged about being the highest paid actor on TV. 

“When I made a deal with Netflix, I let them interview my salary wrong in the press, and then I did as few interviews as possible, and I put my head down and worked. In other words, I hid. I’m getting this award for inspiring other women; how can I inspire anyone if I’m hiding?” 

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Read More: 

https://shadowandact.com/shonda-rhimes-declares-herself-as-the-highest-paid-showrunner-in-television-with-netflix-deal 

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MIGRANT CARAVANS: POVERTY, MURDER, & BEATINGS IN THE REAR VIEW AS THEY JUMP THE COYOTE

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A caravan of an estimated 7,000 migrants, including many families and women with children, originated in Central America and is making its way through Mexico towards the United States. Today, President Donald Trump announced via Twitter that he will start cutting, or substantially reducing, aid to Central America. According to research and advocacy group the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), this would be acounterproductive reaction that would undermine efforts to address the root causes of migration, namely, violence, corruption, poverty, and lack of economic opportunity.  

1. Why are people leaving? And why are they leaving now?

Severe insecurity: Honduras and El Salvador are among the deadliest places in the world that aren’t war zones—Small Arms Survey ranked the two countries in the top 5 most violent in the world, alongside Venezuela, Syria, and Afghanistan. Guatemala was 17th, ahead of Colombia and Mexico. Repressive policing and in some cases outright abuse by government security forces has done little to turn the tide. 

Droughts, floods, and other [climate change] phenomena

Lack of economic opportunity [for men leads to...] 

Intolerable situations of domestic violence [for women]

2. Can Trump cut aid to Central America?

    
     Deb Lynn Translation 

- Not without congress 

-And only if he wants to drive even more people out of Honduras and El Salvador, who will trek to the United States in even larger numbers.

 3. Why are people traveling as a caravan?

    Deb Lynn Translation 

Coyotes are expensive criminals and travel with them leads to as many beatings, murders, and rapes as the criminals back home they're running from. The Caravan provides safety in numbers. 

 4. What happened to the migrant caravan that attracted so much vitriol from President Trump earlier this year?

Hundreds were allowed to petition for asylum. 

What happened to those that weren't is unknown. 

What we probably do know is that all the publicity caused by Pontificating Pumpkinhead Pretend Prez probably led to this new one being so large.  I have to wonder how many smaller caravans came to U.S. --without any publicity at all-- over years and decades before Trump's big mouth made knowledge of their existence widely known. 

 And now he wants to cut aid to countries, making them even less attractive to stay in.  

What a dumb ass.

We absolutely cannot have open borders. We absolutely cannot have somebody this dumb in charge while we're figuring out what to do. But here we are anyway.

For answers to more questions and temporary solutions to what we have before us right now, read more at Washington Office on Latin America, WOLA.ORG 

https://www.wola.org/analysis/9-questions-answers-central-american-migrant-caravan/

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Southern California white nationalist leaders arrested; private messages reveal effort to 'reimagine' movement

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 [Robert Rundo and three others of The Rise Above Movement were all] charged with traveling to incite or participate in riots, according to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles... 

Federal authorities said the group was founded in late 2016 or early 2017 by Rundo and Daley, originally branded as “DIY DIVISION.” 

The group grew in numbers through use of social media, on which they coordinated combat training before political events and bragged about the violence to recruit members. 

Posts include video clips of members assaulting people at political events, their faces covered by distinctive skeleton or U.S. flag masks. In one February post, the group posted a photo of members covering their faces with books, along with the text: “When the squads not out smashing commies . . . #nationalist #lifestyle...”

By the way, the Orange Menace of White House fame described himself as a nationalist this week too, while in Texas...where that sort of thing goes over very well.  

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-nationalist-texas-rally-1182223

Earlier this year, I complained that the white dominated mainstream news media leaves the "white" out when commenting on white supremacists call themselves "white nationalists," opting to shorten the description to "nationalist."

I hereby withdraw my complaint.


If the "white" is understood without it being stated by somebody as lame-brained as Trump then everybody understands that "nationalist" is short for "white nationalist" no matter what lie Agent Orange Menace comes up with in order to cover up his true white supremacist leanings.

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DOMESTIC TERRORISTS SEND BOMBS TO PROMINENT DEMOCRATS

....presumably, right leaning domestic terrorists
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The series of explosive devices were sent to former presidents Clinton and Obama, a number of prominent Democrats and the building that houses CNN, sparking condemnation from law enforcement officials and elected officials who called it an "attempted attack."

The incidents come on the heels of a pipe bomb found Monday in the mailbox at billionaire George Soros' home in Westchester County, New York.

All of the packages were intercepted before they reached the officials they were addressed to...

https://abcnews.go.com/US/suspicious-package-found-clintons-home-north-york-city/story?id=58713254 

Let's really piss em off. VOTE!!!!

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WHITE LIBERAL HYPOCRISY IN 2018

She didn't say "white liberal." I did, as you can see. But that's probably who she meant. Even if it isn't, that's who is wishing blacks would bring back the days where we black folks sat at Woolworth counters and let the more virulent version of white racist pour milkshakes on our heads and spit on us without reacting.

Those days are done. 

 In the 1950s and 1960s black people were pretending to believe that white adults were animalistic children that didn't know any better. Now we can't pretend anymore.  We literally cannot. Television and the internet have been out and available in most American homes for decades. All the information one might need to know that other races are just as human as white folks is out there for the reading. 

Therefore, a black teenager or young adult will turn around and tell a white person about himself in no uncertain terms if a he, as a white person, gets too uppity. And if a white person lays hands on a black person, she is going to catch hands --probably in the facial region.

Life is not fair. I don't expect it to be. But this time out all the peacefulness is going to be on the white side of this racial equation.
 

LEE DANIELS IS ACTUALLY PLANNING A #MeToo COMEDY

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“That’s exactly why it’s important to get in the writers’ rooms now and to connect with Hollywood now,” she explained to the New York Times. “Before it gets to be such a catchall phrase that they dilute its meaning, that we help people understand the gravity behind the words and that it’s not just used as, ‘Oh, look who got Me Too’d, ha-ha,’ like a punch line.”

“I just read something the other day that said Lee Daniels is making a Me Too comedy. The hair stood up on my arm. To put Me Too and comedy in the same sentence is so deeply offensive and not because I’m uptight and I don’t see comedy in things. We’re not ready for a comedy and it’s just so offensive that you think in this moment when we’re still unpacking the issue that you can write a comedy about it. And that’s the type of thing I’m talking about. We have to get out in front of that,” said Burke.

~THE GRIO 

https://thegrio.com/2018/10/17/tarana-burke-deeply-offended-by-lee-daniels-plans-metoo-comedy/

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ON TO LIBERTY

ON TO LIBERTY-1867, Theodor Kaufmann - 

Before coming to the United States in 1850, the German-born Kaufmann studied painting in Düsseldorf and Munich and fought in the 1848 popular uprisings in favor of national unity for Germany. 

As a Union soldier in the American Civil War, he may have seen retreating Confederate troops take their adult male slaves with them, leaving behind the women and children. 

Here, his portrayal of a group of fleeing figures suggests the lack of a clear route to liberty. They emerge from darkness into light but must traverse a rock-strewn path before arriving on the smooth road leading to the Stars and Stripes, which, however, remains frighteningly close to the ongoing battle.

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