Did I Miss Something?

I admit, I did not watch the Republican National Convention at all this week...I watched the Movie "Queen and Slim one night....another night I read a book and another night I argued with people on Facebook and Twitter about politics, something I've got to stop doing, I keep telling myself..

I did hear him say in his uber long speech last night that and this is a quote- "I've done more for African-Americans than any President since Lincoln?"

Come again?  Did I hear this right?  Oh this isn't the first time I've heard him say this...but come on, really now?

Did  I miss something?

If He's done so much for African Americans..How come none of us seem to know it?

Unless we all just missed it when he signed voting and civil rights legislation, desegregated the military and made Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday a national holiday, President Donald Trump might want to think about retracting the most laughable line in his Republican nomination acceptance speech.

Because by acting like he’s the savior of African Americans while demonstrators from coast to coast protest against racial injustice and police brutality, Trump risks losing the support of even the six or seven token Black people (ie: COONS) who have sold their souls to trumpet his dangerous lies at the Republican Party lovefest. You should have heard him he said-

“I say very modestly, I have done more for the African American community than any president since Abraham Lincoln, our first Republican president,” Trump told supporters Thursday night from the South Lawn of the political prop known as the White House.

 That of course would include Trump’s predecessor, Barack Obama,

whose mere election as the first Black president uplifted the African American community in ways that can never be measured.

 This  wasn’t the first time Trump has told this lie.. But this was his biggest stage by far for the lie, against a backdrop of a racial upheaval so pronounced that even pampered professional athletes are boycotting their games in protest.

Presidents  Lincoln, Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson must get a good laugh in their Oval Office afterlife every time Trump talks or tweets about what he has done to advance the Black agenda.

President  Lincoln freed the slaves. President Truman desegregated the military.

President  Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act, and boldly proclaimed, “We Shall Overcome,” which in 1965 was the like saying “Black Lives Matter.”

Even Ronald Reagan, never a  favorite of Black people, signed the bill that made Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday a national holiday after initially opposing the legislation.

 Still, Donald Trump wants to crow about the economy he inherited from President Obama and claim responsibility for the lowest African American unemployment rate in modern times. But that was before he dropped the ball on the pandemic response and contributed to a crisis that has disproportionately affected Black people on the medical and economic fronts.

 Throw in Donald Trump’s love of law and order over police brutality victims, his support of white supremacists and his disdain for immigrants from “shit hole countries,” and it’s easy to see why Trump is so misguided. President Trump went on to say he has “Done more in three years for the Black community than Joe Biden has done in 47 years. And when I am reelected, the best is yet to come.."

Oh Really?

I'll Say this about Joe Biden: Few white men would have signed on to play second fiddle to the nation’s first Black president.

Even fewer would have made history by picking a Black woman to help him run the country.

Donald Trump can take credit for helping to unite Black people to get him the hell out of office. For that, he can take a bow.

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What You're Voting For

Now that the Democratic President-Vice President ticket is set, and Vice President Biden with Senator Harris are going to be the Democratic ticket on the November ballot, I figured now is a good time to remind everyone that:

1. You're not just voting for President.

2. You're voting to prevent a 7-2 dangerous conservative majority on the Supreme Court. Note: 87 year old Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is single-handedly fighting off all 10 plagues so she can hang on until we have a new president. This alone should be enough for historic turnout! 

3. You're voting for the next Secretary of Education, Housing Secretary and Attorney General. 

4. You are voting for the "down" ballot, as well......to keep the House and to gain majority of the Senate in Congress. 

5. You're voting for federal judges.

 6. You're voting for the rule of law. 

7. You're voting for saving national parks. 

8. You're voting for letting kids out of cages. 

9. You're voting for clean air and clean water. 

10. You're voting for scientists to be allowed to speak and do something to protect us from climate change and pandemics. 

11. You're voting for greater transparency and confidence that the President isn't using your tax dollars as a slush fund for his family and friends. 

12. You're voting for housing rights. 

13. You're voting for former incarcerated persons to be treated with dignity and assisted to be proud and productive members of society when they return. 

14. You're voting for everyone to be able to adopt a child without a lot of red tape. 

15. You're voting for Dreamers. 

16. You're voting so that there will be Social Security and Medicare when you retire...and in your children's future. 

17. You're voting for veterans to get the care they deserve. 

18. You're voting for rural hospitals. 

19. You're voting so that everyone can have access to affordable health insurance. 

20. You're voting for teaching to be treated like the noble profession that it is and for teachers to be paid like the heroes they are. 

21. You're voting to have a President who doesn't embarrass this country every time he attends an international meeting. 

22. And you're voting against allowing the USA to become yet another authoritarian regime. 

23. You're voting for sensible gun laws. 

24. You're voting for children born to Military Troops overseas to still be counted as US citizens.

 25. You’re voting to curb homelessness and find solutions to affordable housing. 


26. You’re voting to take measures to end the racial asset and wealth disparities. 


27. You're voting to defend women's reproductive rights and a woman's right to make all health related decisions regarding her body. 

28. You're voting to acknowledge the humanity and protect the safety of our family and friends in the LGBTQ+ community. 


29. You're voting to stop the normalization of white supremacy and dangerous bigotry in the mainstream. 

30. You're voting to rebuild a functional CDC to help prevent or eradicate dangerous pandemics like the coronavirus.

 I know we can't all agree on everything. Now, this is a two candidate race Biden or Trump. Those are our only choices. One of them will be our President as a result of this election. The Biden-Harris ticket isn't perfect. No ticket ever was and no ticket ever will be. Perhaps, for whatever reason, Vice President Biden and/or Senator Harris aren’t progressive or conservative enough for you. Just know this, they will be much better than four more years of Donald Trump.

We must do all we can to ensure that the Biden-Harris ticket wins!!

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Breonna, Say Her Name

It's been 150 Days... 150 days...150 Days since Breonna Taylor was murdered in her sleep....

It’s been 150 days since Breonna Taylor was murdered in her sleep by Jonathan Mattingly, Brett Hankison, and Myles Cosgrove—and her killers have not been charged.

Too often Black women who die from police violence are forgotten. Let’s stay loud, keep demanding justice for Breonna and her family, and SAY HER NAME.

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The Origin Of Systemic Racism

n 1866, one year after the 13 Amendment was ratified (the amendment that ended slavery), Alabama, Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, Florida, Tennessee, and South Carolina began to lease out convicts for labor (peonage). This made the business of arresting Blacks very lucrative, which is why hundreds of White men were hired by these states as police officers.

Their primary responsibility was to search out and arrest Blacks who were in violation of Black Codes. Once arrested, these men, women and children would be leased to plantations where they would harvest cotton, tobacco, sugar cane. Or they would be leased to work at coal mines, or railroad companies. The owners of these businesses would pay the state for every prisoner who worked for them; prison labor. It is believed that after the passing of the 13th Amendment, more than 800,000 Blacks were part of the system of peonage, or re-enslavement through the prison system.

Peonage didn’t end until after World War II began, around 1940. This is how it happened. The 13th Amendment declared that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." (Ratified in 1865) 

 Did you catch that? It says, “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude could occur except as a punishment for a crime". Lawmakers used this phrase to make petty offenses crimes. When Blacks were found guilty of committing these crimes, they were imprisoned and then leased out to the same businesses that lost slaves after the passing of the 13th Amendment. This system of convict labor is called peonage.

 The majority of White Southern farmers and business owners hated the 13th Amendment because it took away slave labor. As a way to appease them, the federal government turned a blind eye when southern states used this clause in the 13th Amendment to establish laws called Black Codes.

Here are some examples of Black Codes: In Louisiana, it was illegal for a Black man to preach to Black congregations without special permission in writing from the president of the police. If caught, he could be arrested and fined. If he could not pay the fines, which were unbelievably high, he would be forced to work for an individual, or go to jail or prison where he would work until his debt was paid off.

 If a Black person did not have a job, he or she could be arrested and imprisoned on the charge of vagrancy or loitering. This next Black Code will make you cringe. In South Carolina, if the parent of a Black child was considered vagrant, the judicial system allowed the police and/or other government agencies to “apprentice” the child to an "employer".

 Males could be held until the age of 21, and females could be held until they were 18. Their owner had the legal right to inflict punishment on the child for disobedience, and to recapture them if they ran away. This (peonage) is an example of Systemic racism - Racism established and perpetuated by government systems.

Slavery was made legal by the U.S. Government. Segregation, Black Codes, Jim Crow and Peonage were all made legal by the government, and upheld by the judicial system. These acts of racism were built into the system, which is where the term “Systemic Racism” is derived. This is the part of Black History that most of us were never told about.” (Chuck Allen)

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