THINKING OF A VACATION IN BREXIT BROKEN BRITAIN

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Theresa May’s government has been criticised for being ill-prepared, divided and unrealistic in its approach to Brexit. And rightly so. However... it accepted explicitly, for the first time, that a temporary transition, or interim period, will be necessary...

[This][ will put off the problem of how to keep the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic as frictionless as possible. But once Britain leaves the customs union, border controls in some form will surely be necessary. This will damage the island’s economy and destabilise its politics...

One part of this [new reality] must be to concede that Britain is bound to face a substantial exit bill, for without this the EU will not be prepared even to talk about trade. And when it comes to these talks, Mrs May must be more open about the compromises they involve. Put crudely, the more control Britain takes back from Brussels, the bigger will be the hit to its trade and thus to Britons’ living standards.

~Economist.com 

Read More: https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21726695-weeks-papers-customs-arrangements-and-ireland-theresa-mays-government-begins?

Hmph! Oh well. That's how that's how the xenophobic cookie crumbles. 

But they speak in Britain last I checked. This means I don't have to learn a foreign language in order to have as good a time as I usually like to. 

So, I wonder if I can hit that sweet spot and take an affordable vacation there... 

AFTER the cost of everything goes down because they broke their own economy based on fear of people they invaded coming to live with them after telling them Britain was so great for centuries... 

BUT BEFORE the violence and breadline thing starts happening.

Somebody keep me posted?

INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH WHITE ENTITLEMENT IN "BLUE RACISM"

AND IT COULD ONLY HAPPEN IN THE ERA OF CHAD CROW

A video released by a New York Police Department union claims cops are the victims of a special type of prejudice: “blue racism.”

Released Sunday night, the nearly four-minute video from the Sergeants Benevolent Association, says officers face worse treatment than those judged by their race. 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/nypd-blue-racism_us_599b037ee4b0e8cc855f162a 

When I first read about this I kept reading, waiting to find a punchline. But there wasn't one. I was thinking this is THE ONION. It's satire. But it wasn't. 

Police are CHOOSING a profession 
and putting on a uniform, 
which they can remove at anytime. 
And somehow the white officers 
that made this video thought to themselves 
"it is like racism" ...
when the public criticizes police 
for almost always circling the wagons 
around that small yet deadly 
number  of police officers 
that are murdering and planting 
evidence on citizens 
--especially if those citizens are not white.  

And the police, police unions, and prosecutors that don't prosecute have been somewhere upwards of 90% successful at protecting police officers who murder and essentially claim cowardice as their defense for shooting an unarmed person.

This video shows that black and brown lives that police officers have taken mean less than nothing to the white officer behind this video. (We knew that already, right?)

But now they've announced it and they didn't hear themselves say it.  

And they didn't hear themselves say "We are white supremacists" because they do not understand the definition of white supremacist(s) is a lot simpler than many white people can conceive of.

AGAIN, 

WHITE SUPREMACY IS 

THE BELIEF THAT WHITE PEOPLE 

ARE BETTER AND MORE VALUABLE 

THAN PEOPLE THAT ARE NOT WHITE

Sometimes white supremacy involves the feeling of hate. Sometimes it doesn't

Sometimes white supremacy involves the n-word. Sometimes it doesn't.

Sometimes (or all the time) white supremacy involves the satisfying flush of feeling that comes when on feels powerful based on feeling superior to someone else.

Sometimes numbers tell the story of white supremacy. And it's like these white officers don't know perfectly damn well they shot 258 black people in 2016 and were only 11% short of half of them being unarmed. 

CHAD, BUCKY, AND BIFF

And they think we're too stupid to know that when Chad uses his badge to shoot somebody who is not white because he or she is not white, Bucky (Becky's husband) often follows up by claiming he didn't see anything. Then Biff the prosecutor comes along and winds up being a better defense attorney than the guy the police union hired for the cop murderer

I've been calling the police the leading edge of white supremacy for a while now. But this shocked me.

Verbal violence does not surprise me from white supremacists Physical violence would not surprise me from white supremacists. And, frankly, I and most black folks have been expecting Charlottesville and something far uglier from white supremacists for a long time. In fact, I was sure the second term of President Obama would set a group just like alt-Right all the way off.

But they needed Trump to pour gas on them and tell them it was okay to come out with their white supremacy.

White supremacists who would ordinarily shun Kluxers and Nazis needed somebody to tell them the they don't have to be "politically correct" anymore. They needed somebody to tell them they can say it out loud,

"White people are the real victims here." 

And I'm using "cop" and "white people" interchangeably because I'm thinking the black cop union and the latino cop union are going to part ways with the white cop union again, same as they did when the  (predominantly) white cop union endorsed Trump....if this story gets any traction at all.

This is industrial strength white entitlement. Let there be no doubt. 

Not only did cops get caught planting evidence on people in Baltimore recently, they act like they don't know police are the ones shooting people down for reaching for their driver's licenses then clapping when their "brother" gets off in court.  


August 21 headline

Baltimore State's Attorney announces third body camera video of 'questionable' police conduct

http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/21/us/third-baltimore-body-cam/index.html

And they really can't figure out why we don't trust any of them anymore?  Really?  

"Blue Racism" might be dumber, whiter, and more racist than something Trump could have come up with on his own.

You know what? I've been afraid of cops my entire life. I've always known that if something really bad was happening in my house and I had to call them, I'd be praying just as hard for the cops to not abuse me as any robber, rapist, or murderer. Our lives mean nothing to police. And this video proves it.

This isn't just about not knowing what the word "racism" means. 
This is a civilized quiet way of saying the same thing alt-Right was saying during Charlottesville. This video is way of denying that racism exists in police departments or anywhere else.

They are actually demanding that people be more grateful, when they've done damn near nothing to weed out the murderers from their ranks. 

Very few cops are even vocal when one of their cop brothers are caught on video murdering someone. It's so rare that when a cop does stand against the murderer in their department that person is held up as a hero....because its so damn rare.

For people of color, cops are just another gang. 



I get that white officers are going to segregated neighborhoods and ignoring how extreme poverty, and being denied access, and being overcrowded affects people --especially when cities make sure cops are low education on purpose. But, this is total disrespect for people of color when you make a video like this knowing your own group is killing people...and walking away, most of them not even going to court. 

I don't care if there 1,000,000 interactions per minute with cops that are good. When they murder they black people were over-represented by 200% in 2016 and 11% short of half of those black people unarmed.

Black Twitter's response to "Blue Racism" ought to be something that means F U and the horse you rode in on with this self-serving, self-centered, ignorant, empathy-less, evil bullsh**  

LOSING WHITE POWER MAKES CONFEDERATE STATUES GROW

When the white south lost Civil War,  they put up a bunch of statues and monuments to honor their slave protecting heros. When the entire white country lost the battle against battle against official Jim Crow in the South and unofficial Jim Crow in the North, the east coast felt it most and confederate statue building engine revved up again

Who-da thunk it!!!

And Robert E Lee --the man who's visage is on the statue in question in Charlottesville-- was against statue and monument building because it would keep wounds open. 

Ain't that something! (Whatever. He fought for slavery)
When white supremacy took specific hits in court, confederate statue/monument building surged each time.

Not shocking at all. But read the quickie details here:
 http://theweek.com/speedreads/718507/striking-graphic-reveals-construction-confederate-monuments-peaked-during-jim-crow-civil-rights-eras

WILL THE WALKING TOXIC MASCULINITY / WHITE SUPREMACIST COCKTAIL SET IT OFF IN PERSON THIS TIME?

Yes, I'm talking about TrumpleRacistSkin

This is the usual order of events

1) Trump feels bad about himself

2) Trump sets up a rally so white people will cheer for him

3) Trump feels better about himself
But will it work this time?

Arizona has a reputation for being super white though it may be that Phoenix is not. 

And the whites are powerful and ugly there. This is the home of Joe Arpaio, racial profiler of "illegal immigrants" no matter what the court says -- which is why he's due to go to jail...unless Trump pardons him.

Arizona is the home of Jan Brewster, shake her m**** f**** finger in then President Obama's face.

Arizona is the home of remove the books by Latino "radicals" because from schools because they are getting the brown folk too riled up.

Dems in Arizona are scared of what will happen, post-Charlottesville, of what will happen if Trump follows through on pardoning that freaking ethnoracist Arpaio 

....because I'm sure Chucklehead McTwitterwit was on track to do just that, pardon Arpaio....until Charlottesville.

Question is will Chucklehead still do it?

I'm thinking he will. I'm thinking his penis feels small right now. I have been able to expound on my thoughts but I think white supremacy is usually white male driven version of toxic masculinity and alt-Right is the latest manifestation of that.

Trump oozes toxic masculinity all the time, nearly every time he speaks. That master of the universe white supremacy speech is always undergirded by "I AM THE BIG DOG IN HERE."

Alt-Right leader Richard Spencer sounds the same way too, every single time I've heard him talk. 

Neither one of them can probably satisfy a woman for very long.

Most of the white cop on black men interactions --the male end of Black Lives Matter issues-- are about proving who is the bigger man too. And the leading edge of white supremacy, cops, are winning that fight hands down because they have the weight of the law behind them.

So I think Trump will step out in front of everyone and pardon Joe Arpaio to prove his manhood hasn't shrunk by an inch after the ass whuppin he's taken over his response to Charlottesville.

I think he will

I'm thinking he's been advised against this.

But I know in my bones he wants to

Will he do it? That's the question.

And if he does what will be he outcome in the very white controlled Arizona, the most western state of the confederacy

I'm never sure with Mexican populations how safe their population feels as opposed to how numerous they are. I can never figure out who is telling the truth about what percentage of them are undocumented and what percentage of the documented have undocumented family members to worry about.

We may see Charlottesville 2.0. We may see nothing at all even if he pardon's Arpaio. But I think the toxic masculinity / white supremacy cocktail inside him is going to come together and cause him to spew barely hidden, racist venom just like he did last week.

General Thinks He's In Charge Of Communications can talk to DJ The Chump until he's blue in the face. But I think this genius will pour gasoline on whatever he decides to do or not do reference Arpaio.

JASMINE JACOBS FOUGHT THE MILITARY BAN THAT TOOK AIM AT NATURAL AFRO HAIR -- AND WON

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That makes Jasmine Jacobs more than one kind of hero. She serves in the military. And now she has served the black community too.


FROM NOW THIS





INTERVIEW FROM NAPTURAL85

What steps did you take to get the establishment to pay attention to this issue?  

The first thing I did was start the petition on whitehouse.gov. I then reached out to every person with natural hair I could think of on social media, asking them to share the petition or make a statement. From there I sent out press releases to media outlets about the issue. 

The first outlet to pick up my story was Roland Martin. From that interview, it just took on a life of its own from NBC, to John Stewart and the New York Times. I think what helped get the story shared was that it was truly absurd. 

Natural hair was nothing new, so to take a step back during what should’ve been a progressive time really blew people’s minds. The language used in the regulations was incendiary as well, using trigger words like ‘unkempt, matted…’ it was a slap in the face. Once members of Congress got word, things really started happening on a legal level as well....

What was your greatest triumph? Any events in particular that stood out? 

The women of the Congressional Black Caucus wrote a letter to the former Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel, calling the regulations offensive and biased, and calling for their overturn. It brought me to tears that these strong, powerful, amazing women of color, took time out of their day to get behind my cause. That was “the moment” for me.

Of course, the best part was when the regulations were, in fact, overturned haha… but having all that black girl magic on my side literally made me sob.

Oh, and being on The Daily Show is right up there too; Jessica Williams is the best.

If you had to do it again, what would you have done differently, if anything? 

I think I would’ve been a little bolder...I wanted change, but I didn’t want to offend anyone too much in the process. I remember how I would purposely veer away from words such as ‘prejudiced’ and ‘ignorant’ because I didn’t want to detract from the mission by giving ammo for an “angry black woman” rhetoric. 

If I did it again though, I probably would’ve just tossed the boat from the beginning and said, “Hey, this is racially biased. It isn’t right, and we need to fix it.”

BLACK FEMINISTS ROCK THIS WORLD WITH BLACK GIRL MAGIC

READ MORE:

http://naptural85.com/2016/09/09/1198.html

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WHITE PRIVILEGE IS...

...not walking by statues, school names, and monuments 
built to honor those who wanted your ancestors enslaved, tortured into submission, or dead 
on a daily basis 
pretending not to notice 
until you don't notice.

...is not having to train your face 
to not to respond even if something makes you re-notice 
a statue meant to honor someone that would revel at the very thought of the thought of your soul's destruction

....is telling a black or brown friend that you think confederate statues are no big deal and "just a piece of history" and feeling victorious when they silently nod or even agree with you because they're too deep in their denial to be honest.

...is not even hearing the bricks you're stacking, forming a wall between yourself and the rest of the non-white world because "I have a black friend."

History, good and bad, goes in books and museum. And when the evil are mentioned in books and museums their deeds are spelled out so that nobody mistakes them for a hero. 

As Takiyah Thompson said, we need to smash the symbols that give white supremacists power.

Those confederate statues need to be destroyed as do the confederate names on schools --where white supremacy is often taught in the classroom whether or not that school has a confederate zero's name on it.

That HBO series that wants the same white writers who have already made shabby use o brown people in GAME OF THRONES needs to be scrapped because they've already provided enough ambient white supremacy for Alt-Right Nazi's to thrive.

I wouldn't be surprised if GAME OF THRONES has just enough imagery presented in just the right way that it can be twisted into a white supremacists wet dream. 

#NoConfederate

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HOW CHRIS LONG BECAME THE ONLY WHITE NFL PLAYER TO JOIN NATIONAL ANTHEM PROTEST

FROM THINK PROGRESS

"Long’s gesture came a day after Seattle Seahawks defensive end Michael Bennett urged white athletes to get involved.

Bennett, who has been sitting during anthems, said on SportsCenter that that “it would take a white player to really get things changed.”

“It would change the whole conversation,” he added. “Because when you bring somebody who doesn’t have to be a part of [the] conversation making himself vulnerable in front of it, I think when that happens, things will really take a jump.”

After Thursday’s game, Long — a native of Charlottesville, Virginia....

“I’ve said before that I’ll never kneel for an anthem because the flag means something different for everybody in this country, but I support my peers,” Long added. “If you don’t see why you need allies for people that are fighting for equality right now, I don’t think you’ll ever see it… Malcolm is a leader and I’m here to show support as a white athlete.” " 

Read More: 

https://thinkprogress.org/chris-long-becomes-first-white-nfl-player-to-participate-in-national-anthem-protest-36d8fa2803b1/

If Long has children right now, they may see him as mildly brave or very brave right now. Who knows? But it will likely be his grandchildren that will find his history heroic because I'm guesstimating that it generally takes 30 to 40 years for white people, as a group, to look back at obvious white supremacy and call the problem "white supremacy"

And that's if they don't erase the white supremacy of the past with "that's just the way it was back then."

Yet, 30 to 40 years from now when he's seen as hero for standing up and away from 98% of his own tribe, that tribal white majority who failed abysmally by not seeing why people of color "are fighting for equality right now" will not be seen as zeros.

And that irks me.

It makes me itch that the old white people running around here right now who failed to be on the right side of the Civil Rights Movement were never identified as "zeros" like they should be. 

And the zeros I'm talking about are not just the Kluxers  and Aryan Nation and such. I'm talking about the zeroes at home who angrily wondered why the black and brown folks were leaving law and order behind and causing a ruckus by participating in a sit-in.

These white zeros represent a significant slice of those who voted for Trump and have been the majority of those who voted for Trump if most them weren't (likely) dead already of old age.

I'm not a sports watching person. I don't know Long at all. And I was reluctant to even imply that Long is a "hero" for basic decency. And that's all I think he's done here -- execute basic decency. But it takes some real courage to pull away from your own demographic, your own tribe, and maybe even portions of your own family.

Pulling away from the normalcy of everyday white supremacy that most white people don't even see due to a fairly deliberate and comfortable apathy is not nothing. That takes courage. That takes a lot of heart. 

And heart is what's missing in 95% of the white folk people in this country.

So I'll call Long "a hero" for now.

And I'll call Michael Bennett "a hero" for now too.

Bennett pulled away from the vast majority of black people --even black women-- by asking for help outside our race. Black folks have been burned so many times by "good" deliberately apathetic white people that we are afraid to trust anyone with our vulnerability. And I do mean "afraid." 

We are afraid of even considering --even CONSIDERING-- for even a moment that we might have a few true allies outside our race.  

A bell tolled announcing a New Civil Rights Movement on the day of THE TRAYVON MARTIN VERDICT when three black feminists named Alicia Garza, Opal Tometi, and Patrisse Cullors created BLACK LIVES MATTER. May there be more white heroes than zeros this time around.

IN THE MEME TIME 082017

DICK GREGORY DIES AT 84

HE WAS AN AFRICAN AMERICAN ICON. 

Though I hope he missed Charlottesville altogether. If he did see Charlottesville I hope he watched a lot more white folks show up for the fight. More importantly,  I hope he watched Trump set his own butt on fire this week. I've been laughing at Trump for days.

I hope Mr. Gregory got a chance to do that too if he had to know about Charlottesville at all.

My grandmothers died a couple of years ago. I was glad they got to see Barack Obama become president. But I'm so fearful the old folks in my family will die with Orange Twitterb*tch in office. I don't want them to die thinking we're going to lose ground all the way back to the 1950s.

I know they won't hang onto it when they pass. But I don't want them to be troubled by the news or the troubles of younger relatives who are worried now.

Mostly, I hope Dick Gregory's last days were peaceful and he didn't see Charlottesville at all. I hope he went peacefully. It seems like he deserved that. He lived a brave life.

From MSN

Mr. Gregory was a breakthrough performer in his appeal to whites — a crossover star, in contrast to veteran black comedians like Redd Foxx, Moms Mabley and Slappy White, whose earthy, pungent humor was mainly confined to black clubs on the so-called chitlin circuit.

Though he clearly seethed over the repression of blacks, he resorted to neither scoldings nor lectures when playing big-time rooms like the Hungry I in San Francisco or the Village Gate in New York. Rather, he won audiences over with wry observations about the country’s racial chasm.

He would plant himself on a stool, the picture of insouciance in a three-button suit and dark tie, dragging slowly on a cigarette, which he used as a punctuation mark. From that perch he would bid America to look in the mirror, and to laugh at itself.

“Segregation is not all bad,” he would say. “Have you ever heard of a collision where the people in the back of the bus got hurt?” Or: “You know the definition of a Southern moderate? That’s a cat that’ll lynch you from a low tree.” Or: “I heard we’ve got lots of black astronauts. Saving them for the first spaceflight to the sun.”

Read More: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/dick-gregory-84-dies-found-humor-in-the-civil-rights-struggle/ar-AAqnhgc?li=BBnbcA1 

As he got older, he spoke, did interviews. He was an awesome speaker

DIGNITY RISING

"Designed by Dale Lamphere and erected in September 2016, the 50-foot stainless steel Dignity statue depicts a Native American woman in Plains-style clothing holding a star quilt behind along her back. The statue looks over the Missouri River in Chamberlain, South Dakota, and represents the courage and wisdom of the Lakota and Dakota people who hail from the area."

https://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/blogs/dignity-statue-honors-culture-lakota-and-dakota-people

MAY OTHER STARS FOLLOW SOLANGE'S LEAD UNTIL TWITTER BLOCKS TRUMP

...BECAUSE HATE SPEECH AND FREE SPEECH ARE NOT THE SAME THING

Read More:http://www.curlynikki.com/2017/08/solange-deletes-twitter-account-after.html




Heard an internet rumor (unreliable at times) that Solange is the one who paid Takiyah Thompson's bail. 

If you haven't heard Takiyah speak and her approach to pulling that statue down in North Carolina, you should. 

I'll be surprised if  we don't hear from Thompson again. She's a leader. To me she sounds like an ultra-strong, fast-thinking, decisive, soft-spoken, and soft moving leader. 

To me she sounds dangerous to white supremacy.

I guess I'm saying she's a new hero of mine too.

THE GIFT OF FEAR AFTER CHARLOTTESVILLE

That fake history tweet Trump issued after Barcelona (about bullets and pig blood) is hardly the only bizarro crap the TrumpleThinSkin has been up to this week.

Trump appears to have had his personal lawyer take a pot shot at Black Lives Matter when the backlash started getting heavy after his third set of white racism born Charlottesville comments.  And, I was actually worried about BLM when I heard this. But then I read the story below: 

Trump's personal lawyer forwarded an e-mail to several news outlets on Tuesday, August 15th 2017 stating Black Lives Matter has been infiltrated by terrorists. 

"...The email’s author, Jerome Almon, runs several websites alleging government conspiracies and arguing that the F.B.I. has been infiltrated by Islamic terrorists. He once unsuccessfully sued the State Department for $900 million over claims of discrimination.

Mr. Almon’s email said that Black Lives Matter, a group that formed to protest the use of force by police against African-Americans, is being directed by terrorists. Mr. Almon blamed the group for deadly violence against police last year in Texas and Louisiana.

The email’s comparison of secessionists to the nation’s Founding Fathers echoes an early Confederate rallying cry, said Judith Giesberg, a Villanova University historian and editor of The Journal of the Civil War Era. Washington’s face appeared on Confederate money, she said, and secessionists were eager to place their rebellion in the context of the American Revolution.

“The first states to secede drew a straight line back to the Revolution,” she said in a telephone interview. “They said they were the inheritors of this revolutionary tradition that traces back to Washington.”

~NY TIMES

Read More: 
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/16/us/politics/trump-lawyer-email-race-charlottesville.html


A friend of a friend on social media said in response to the headline (and maybe not the story), 

"We'll be in gas chambers inside 4 years." 

Remember this story originally came out on August 15th, before anybody knew there would be any white backlash at all to his last set of Charlottesville comments, much less the collapse of at least four White House Master-Of-The-Universe Councils of Rich Folk Trump set up to run the country like a business.



I was already afraid prior to reading the body of article, prior to realizing his Black Lives Matter infiltration-lie was 10x more half-baked than most of his other fibs.

But my first thought about "we'll all be in gas chambers inside 4 years," despite already being afraid and not knowing the content of the article was, 

"That's ridiculous!" 

But I immediately recoiled from my own internal response. I was talking to myself.

"Wait. Not so fast."

I grew up on the east coast for the most part. The grammar school I went to was between 50% and predominantly Jewish. 

The pale kids were all white to me, very tribal, and sometimes very accurate in their reenactments of their parents racism. I was little though. Memories are faded. But I overheard "Jewish neighborhood" about my school's location so I'm pretty sure the schools I went to were predominantly Jewish.  

I tell you all this in order to explain that a lot of Jewish history has been washed over me during my formative years. And I've been wondering the same thing about the Jews in Hitler's Germany since I was 9 or 10 years old.

Why Didn't They Run?

I was told the answer several times without believing it. The Jewish people in Germany just didn't believe enough in mans inhumanity to man until it was too late.  

I thought I had learned to believe this answer by the time I hit my late teens. But maybe not. I don't think I really believe this answer until this week. 

We aren't even thinking about running. 

Are we?

There are so many black and brown people on social media that seem to think its okay to ignore what's going on in Washington D.C. So many seem to think that white supremacy becoming more overt has nothing to do with the political climate and THAT as nothing to do with Charlottesville, which some are saying is the largest white supremacy rally in decades. 

Some black and brown folks, especially the young, do not seem to understand that things truly could have -- still can-- if the OVERT white nationalists are not run out of the White House

Emboldened white supremacists can and will organize to kill us more often. The police have been doing it a little at a time already,  jumped up to do it even more often after 2008 in their anger at having a black president (my opinion. I don't think it's an accident white hate groups jumped when he became president).

And Trump has poured gas on that white resentment --with his own birther bullcrap and Alt-Right's help. And now he's in the White Nationalist White Supremacy House. 

This is not a "I don't really follow politics" moment in black history. Our lives literally depend on what's happening now and what can be constructed by these white nationalists/ white supremacists next. 

Some of us who are older might be having a bit of a PTSD reaction. And, I'm not saying I literally believe the gas chambers comment. Furthermore, I don't think the black woman that wrote this comment was doing more than expressing her fear as sarcasm. But I am trying to investigate my own thinking.

I've found that I am afraid. 

I admitted that to myself the other night. I'm not just angry. Sad. I cried. I didn't want to go to work and be anywhere my Breitbart reading supervisor. So I took a mental health day, called in sick.

What I'm doing for myself, other than avoiding her more than usual, is trying to be honest with myself. And part of that is trying to not intellectualize my feelings and my instincts away.  

I am trying very hard to not reject the gift of fear.

And I don't think anybody else should either. 

The Jews were not afraid enough, in the 1930s, until it was too late. That's what I'm reading between the lines.

However, beyond that broad generalization, I can't really figure out what they did "wrong" or if I would have done anything differently than they did.

Everything I've ever read about Hitler confuses me because the man was obviously an imbecile. White people have told me over the decades that the man was an evil genius. I don't see any logic in anything he said (probably because I've never existed as part of a dominant culture or dominant group.) 

And, I'm not using the words like "stupid" to describe Hitler as a put down or as a mild epithet. I'm saying that what I've read about that man suggests that he was an articulate but an obviously stupid person.

Obviously stupid.

Trump is an inarticulate, obviously stupid person who has hired The OG white supremacists that have renamed themselves "alt-Right" so white people who hate can join a white supremacy movement while still feeling too good for the neo-Nazis or the KKK.

"Alt-Right" is nothing more than re-branding. And that re-branding has been successful. I'm not going to help them hide by refusing to acknowledge their new name and by refusing it to put in my list with

KKK
neo-Nazi
Skinheads

Alt-Right

And I'm adding Traditionalist Worker Party to the deadly, overt, white supremacist list too. Like alt-Right (and under the umbrella of alt-Right) this group also gets the white supremacy minded to join them when they feel too good to be the KKK and nem.

Kuhn came when Alt-Right called, not neo-Nazis

Alt-Right got themselves into the White House and took over the country. The Supreme Court is likely skewed toward white supremacy for decades to come. Even if Trump should get tired and resign, the alt-Righters have Pence waiting in the wings, a man who is likely a mentally stable, more articulate version of Trump.

Now I'm asking myself if the right question is,

Why don't we run? 

A picture of Tina Turner popped up in my feed like it was magic as I was writing this, got me thinking she might be smarter than the rest of us put together --except that she got out early by going to Switzerland, where I'm pretty sure black folks aren't safe without tons and tons of money. But I DO know why we don't run, anyhow. 

We don't run because this sh*t is ours.

I know that because our blood soaked into the land and holds the ground together to this day. The capital in capitalism that is the foundation of this country came from our free labor. And we've paid in more than free labor and abuse too. Most black and brown folk have dozens if not hundreds of cousins we've never met, that were never born, because so very many of our ancestors were killed by the white supremacists that stole this nation from Native Americans via genocide.  

We ain't running. This is our country, too. Hell, it's our country more.

But Yvette Felarca is quite right. Alt-right is organizing to kill us. As soon as Alt-Right demonstrators found DeAndre Harris relatively alone during their "Unite The Right" rally in Charlottesville, they tried to kill him. And Harris' beating took on video, right next door to a police station.

Right next door. 

Kinda puts the country's biggest police union endorsing Trump in the same ole white supremacist light. Don't it?

I am afraid.

And when I don't feel afraid, don't "feel" my fear, I remind myself  of it. I bring it back to myself that I am afraid by repeating the words "I am afraid" in my head a few times. I accept the gift of fear.  I will work to be brave (which is to move forward despite fear). I will try to write something that might inspire others to act and support one another. 

But I am afraid. 

And you should be afraid too.

...like the black woman who told a group of us that she had racial epithets shouted at her while walking her dog near her home a few days ago. 

I'm trying to keep in prayer another black woman who had racial epithets shouted at her on the subway too because she is afraid.  And, I am also being honest enough to thank God that the white supremacy I endure in a controlled environment since I really don't use public transportation anymore.

I am afraid

I accept the gift of fear.

I accept the gift of agency too

In social science, agency is the capacity of individuals to act independently and to make their own free choices. By contrast, structure is those factors of influence (such as social class, religion, gender, ethnicity, ability, customs, etc.) that determine or limit an agent and his or her decisions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agency_(sociology) 

People of color have to unite and vote these people out of power. We only need about 1/3 of whites to follow and help form a people of color led political party to crush the white supremacists.

We can do this. We can crush the Cheeto Satan and his Satanettes at the local, state, and federal level. We've already seen black voting groups do it a couple of times when prosecutors didn't prosecute cops that murder.

We can do this

We can accept the gift of fear and ultimately win.  


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EXHIBIT B: THIS IS THE REASON TO ALWAYS CHARLOTTESVILLE TERRORISTS "ALT-RIGHT" INSTEAD OF "NEO-NAZI"

Read about his white tears about having to move after being outted if you're interested

https://www.yahoo.com/news/apos-life-over-apos-man-141741074.html

The overt white supremacists who are deadly to us are inside Alt-Right, and they do not all identify as neo-Nazis. When you say "neo-Nazi" you're leaving a bunch of deadly white supremacists out of the equation.

Furthermore, the fact that "alt-Right" sounds close to "the right" when you say it out loud is appropriate. 

Republican dog whistle racism is a lot of what creates enough ambient white racism for alt-Right to put its new umbrella term in place. 

Again, alt-Right is a way to belong to a white supremacist group without other people recoiling from you because people don't identify "alt-Right" as the same as "KKK" or "neo-Nazi"

...but they should

Now, after Charlottesville, everybody should understand that we need to make a correction to our responses based on the following list. 

 THE OVERTLY RACIST, PHYSICALLY VIOLENT 
WHITE SUPREMACIST LIST

• alt-Right*
• KKK
• neo-Nazi
• Skinhead

Read EXHIBIT A here because Alt Right is still in the White House, post-Bannon

http://blackchickrocked.blogspot.com/2017/08/he-is-one-with-them.html

* * * * *

NORTH CAROLINA LAW TO PROTECT DRIVERS WHO HIT PROTESTERS STALLS

A bill that had passed North Carolina's State House of Representatives but hadn't made it the State Senate froze  after Heather Heyer, who is white, died in Charlottesville

 Drivers would be protected if they exercise “due care” in navigating the street – but still hit protestors.

Hmmm....I will not bother to find it writing that this bill was aimed at absolving white people who hit Black Lives Matter Protesters "by accident"

Nope.

Won't bother.

I don't have to google-sleuth this out. I already know. The white folks out here in good ole California were talking about doing the same thing.

Sooo....

I also won't ask anybody to wonder 
if ye olde whitened folk of North Carolina 
would have stopped pushing 
that law onto the books 
had white, inbred looking, James Fields 
plowed his car into a huge group 
of mostly dark-skinned 
Black Lives Matter protesters 
instead of a mostly white protest group
which wound up killing a white woman

Nope. 

Won't ask.

I SAY BANNON YOU SAY GONE

I say Bannon.
You say Gone.

Bannon
Gone
Bannon
Gone

I say BANNON
You say GONE

BANNON
GONE

BANNON
GONE

BANNON BANNON
GONE GONE


BANNON BANNON
GONE GONE

BANNON BANNON BANNON BANNON
GONE GONE GONE GONE

Again!
Take it from the top!!!