Maga's Last Stand

 

Co-incidence?

 

Diversity Looks Like This.

 

Strange Fruit 2025

 

The body of 21-year-old Delta State University student Demartravion “Trey” Reed was discovered hanging from a tree on campus early Monday morning, according to university officials. 

 Reed, a native of Grenada, Mississippi, was found around 7:05 a.m. near the school’s pickleball courts in Cleveland. Delta State University Police Chief Michael Peeler confirmed Reed’s death and said there is no evidence of foul play at this stage. 

Though rumors online linked the case to lynching, authorities emphasized that the cause of death has not yet been determined. Bolivar County Deputy Coroner Murray Roark also reported no signs of broken limbs, disputing social media claims. 

Campus operations were suspended on Monday, and several events planned for Delta State’s centennial celebration were canceled as the investigation continues.

Are we again Strange Fruit as Billie Holiday's song implied?

Juneteenth

 

The Cost Of No DEI Initiatives

When a major corporation ends all of its DEI initiatives and programs, this is what it means for Black people: 

• No more making an intentional effort to recruit qualified African Americans for junior and senior level positions. 

• No more spending ad dollars with Black newspapers, magazines, and radio stations. 

• No more donating corporate funds to scholarship programs like the United Negro College Fund and the Thurgood Marshall College Fund. 

• No more donating corporate dollars to support Black museums such as the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History in DC. 

• No more engaging with and supporting the HBCU community as well as sponsoring HBCU sporting events and business competitions. 

• No more running ad campaigns that acknowledge, celebrate, and promote Black History Month. 

• No more sponsoring and financially supporting Black events, expos, and conferences. 

• No more using corporate funds to give grants, venture capital, and other funding opportunities to Black-owned businesses. 

• No more helping Black entrepreneurs become franchise owners or hiring Black-owned firms to become suppliers.

An Anti Black agenda by a Fascist and Anti Black President and his administration!

Dear Amerika

 

Message to MAGA

 

Watch Night

 

The following information was actually written as an essay by Charyn D. Sutton, The Onyx Group, in December 2000 and revised in August 2004. The essay appears here in its entirety... 

 If you grew up in a black community in the United States, you have probably heard of "Watch Night" Services, the gathering of the faithful in church on New Year's Eve. 

The service usually begins anywhere from 7:00pm-10:00pm and ends at 12:00 midnight with the entrance of the New Year. Some folks come to church first, before going out to celebrate. For others, church is the only New Year's Eve destination. 

 Like many others, I always assumed that Watch Night was a fairly standard Christian religious service, made a bit more Afrocentric because that's what happens when elements of Christianity become linked with the black church. And yes, there is a history of Watch Night Services in the Methodist tradition. Still, it seemed that most white Christians did not include Watch Night Services on their calendars, but focused instead on Christmas Eve programs.

 In fact, there were instances where clergy in mainline denominations wondered aloud about the propriety of linking religious services with a secular holiday like New Year's Eve. However, in doing some research, I discovered there are two essential reasons for the importance of New Year's Eve services in African American congregations. 

Many of the Watch Night Services in black communities that we celebrate today can be traced back to gatherings held on December 31, 1862, also known as "Freedom's Eve." On that night, Americans of African descent came together in churches, gathering places, and private homes throughout the nation, anxiously awaiting news that the Emancipation Proclamation had become law. Then, at the stroke of midnight, it was January 1, 1863 and according to President Abraham Lincoln's promise, all slaves in the Confederate States were legally free. People remained in churches and other gathering places, eagerly awaiting word that Emancipation had been declared. When the actual news of freedom was received later that day, there were prayers, shouts of joy, and songs of praise as people fell to their knees and thanked God. 

 But even before 1862 and the possibility of a Presidential Emancipation, African people had gathered on New Year's Eve on plantations across the South. That is because many owners of enslaved Africans tallied up their business accounts on the first day of each new year. Human property was sold along with land, furnishings, and livestock to satisfy debts.

 Families and friends were separated. Often they never saw each other again in this earthly world. Thus, coming together on December 31 might be the last time for enslaved and free Africans to be together with loved ones.

 Black folks in North America have gathered annually on New Year's Eve since the earliest days, praising God for bringing us safely through another year and praying for the future. Certainly, those traditional gatherings were made even more poignant by the events of 1863 which brought freedom to the slaves and the Year of Jubilee. 

 Many generations have passed since that time and most of us were never taught the significance of gathering on New Year's Eve. Yet, our traditions and faith still bring us together at the end of every year to celebrate once again, "how we got over." Please pass this information on to your family and friends so that they will know the true history behind the tradition we call "Watch Night".

The 14th Amendment Threat

 

What You Really Love

 

Never Forget Them

 Remembering four little girls killed on this day. September 15, 1963 In A Church Bombing by Racists who terrorized the Black community of Birmingham,Alabama for regersting to vote.  

Denise McNair, Carol Robertson, Addie Mae Collins, and Cynthia Wesley.
#neverforget

Stop Making It About Race

 

Anniversary of The March On Washington-

 AUGUST 28th 1963

On this day, 61 years ago...People of all races and religions gathered in Washington D.C. to demand the right to vote, full and fair employment , civil rights and an assortment of other things... 

My only surviving Aunt on my mother's side was at that March...(Vivian Lanier, who turned 100 in April)

 I imagine most of the people at that march are now deceased.. but I can never forget what they were marching for... They were marching for me!

 I was 5 years old at the time of that March...I hadn't even started Kintergarden yet....I probably was not even aware of such a momentous occasion....but I am now....and every time I vote...Every time I exercise my right to vote...I'm doing it for them...All of those folk who sacrificed a day in their lives for me..

Never forget their sacrifice...Take Voting seriously....because they did!

(Oh and for the record, Trump didn't have a bigger crowd than this!)

IS DEI the new way to say Nigger?

 I'm just going to put it out there..All of these people, White Republicans who are calling Kamala a "DEI" candidate and "Dumb as a box of rocks" are using the term "DEI" just like they used the term "Woke"as a way to say "Nigger" without saying it... It's their socially acceptable way of saying "Nigger" which is what they really want to say.  I'll not sugar coat it.

In the first full day of her presidential campaign, Vice President Kamala Harris swiftly earned enough delegates to secure the Democratic nomination and raised a historic $81 million. And yet, less than 24 hours after Harris formally launched her bid for the White House, some Republicans zeroed in on a line of attack: her race.

In an interview with CNN’s Manu Raju Monday, Tennessee Republican Rep. Tim Burchett suggested President Joe Biden selected Harris as his running mate solely because she is Black: “One hundred percent she is a DEI hire,” he said, referring to diversity, equity and inclusion. “Her record is abysmal at best.” 

 It’s a familiar strategy to political analysts who say Burchett’s comments echo tactics Republicans used during the 2008 election to drive the conspiracy around Barack Obama’s birthplace, and caution that it could be a sign of what’s to come along the already turbulent road to Election Day. “There’s been this constant debate about mediocrity versus meritocracy. The truth is for most of American history, White men were the only people who were ever considered, it didn’t matter if they were mediocre,” said Democratic strategist Keith Boykin, who likened this moment to the Republican “Southern Strategy” of the 1960s, where politicians relied on racial grievance to drive White voters to the polls.

“(Meritocracy) became a part of the conversation when Black people, and women, and people of color and queer people started to enter into the workforce and society in public ways. And suddenly there became this assumption that anybody who wasn’t a straight White man didn’t deserve to be there.” Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson later addressed Burchett’s remarks during a news conference Tuesday, calling for the election to be about “policies, not personalities.” “This is not personal, with regard to Kamala Harris, and her ethnicity or her gender had nothing to do with this whatsoever. This is about who can deliver for the American people and get us out of the mess that we’re in.”

The backlash to Burchett’s remarks was swift, with many noting that the suggestion Harris could somehow be unqualified or mediocre because of her race traded on familiar racist tropes about women of color – especially Black women – in the workplace.

Before becoming the vice president, Harris had a decades-long career as a prosecutor and was elected to be San Francisco’s district attorney and later California’s attorney general. She then won California’s 2016 US Senate race, becoming the state’s first Black and South Asian senator before being elected vice president in 2020. But Harris’ experience doesn’t appear to matter to those who would rather rely on identity politics to sway voters, said Boykin, co-founder of the National Black Justice Coalition and author of the book “Why Does Everything Have to Be About Race?”

 “(Obama) was a United States senator, a former state senator and a constitutional scholar and a best-selling author and they claimed he wasn’t qualified. But then they picked Donald Trump, who had no experience in government, and they don’t even say anything about his qualifications,” Boykin said.

 “Kamala Harris, who was a former district attorney, former attorney general, former United States senator and current vice president is a ‘DEI hire’ in their minds, just because she’s a Black woman,” he said. “I mean, you couldn’t get more transparent than that.” Burchett’s comments “have turned the value of diversity into a slur,” Bakari Sellers, a former South Carolina Democratic state representative and a CNN political commentator, told CNN’s Jim Acosta. “I’m not sure people are really prepared to see what this campaign is going to be and the depths of hell that many Republicans are going to go to, to sully the spirit and soul of Kamala Harris, not knowing that she’s the fighter that she is.”

Continued attacks on Harris’ race or gender could ultimately backfire against Republicans, according to Glynda Carr, president of Higher Heights for America, a political organization dedicated to engaging Black women in politics. 

 In the 72 hours since Biden endorsed Kamala Harris to replace him on the top of the Democratic ticket, Black women and men across the country have rallied around her candidacy. Tens of thousands of Black Americans joined Zoom calls Sunday and Monday to unite around the campaign to #winwithBlackwomen and #winwithBlackmen. 

Collectively, the calls raised more than $2.8 million dollars for Harris, according to organizers. Burchett’s remarks are “energizing the very voters that Vice President Kamala Harris needs to win,” Carr said. “She is a woman who has run and won and governed on every level of government and is credentialed from her academic background to her lived experiences. So, continue to push that rhetoric and see how women, women of color, and Black women react … and how we will organize against that very destructive and false narrative.”

 Ultimately, Boykin said, Harris’ record speaks for itself and any suggestion that she’s a “DEI hire” is a distraction. “It’s easy to point the finger at immigrants, at Black people, at women … or anybody who is different instead of dealing with the issues that they’re elected to solve,” Boykin said. “How does attacking Kamala Harris as a ‘DEI hire’ help to create a single job? How does it tackle inflation? … It’s this divide and conquer mentality that they are going to use to prevent us from coming together.” Harris appeared undeterred by the remarks during her first presidential campaign rally Tuesday afternoon in Milwaukee. Instead, as she reintroduced herself to the nation for the first time as the Democratic Party’s presumptive 2024 presidential nominee, the vice president touted her experience as both a prosecutor and a politician. 

 “In those roles I took on perpetrators of all kinds, predators who abused women, fraudsters who ripped off consumers, cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain. So, hear me when I say, I know Donald Trump’s type,” Harris said to a swell of cheers. “And in this campaign, I promise you I will proudly put my record against his any day of the week.”

Good for her!   And let's see, who is the REAL DEI candidate...The Rich Boy born with a gold spoon in his mouth with no experience.

Sonya Massey-Say Her name.

1988- 2024
 

Juneteenth!

 

Remember the Emanuel 9

 Remember the Emanuel 9 on this the anniversary of their slaying by Dylan Roof in that church in South Carolina.

Support Stronger Common sense Gun laws..

BLACK LIVES STILL MATTER!

Equality, Equity, Reality, Liberation

 I think this picture explains it all.

What They Want You to forget!