The Isolated Political Blurt Thread

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Will there be any victors from the Tea Party ?
 
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When your mom reminds the congregation you're single. :D
 
US weighs options as Islamic State presence soars in Libya

So after taking down Qaddafi, Americans are expected to "Do Something" about the clusterfuck that resulted from helping "Our Gallant Allies" secure their oil? Isn't it about time that France and Italy show the world that they can lead the Mediterranean region?

Perhaps Hillary, who pushed Obama into starting this mess, should be appointed "Special Administrator for Libyan Liberation," and lead a European force to spread Democracy and Liberty there? I mean she "Gets Results" right?
 
US weighs options as Islamic State presence soars in Libya

So after taking down Qaddafi, Americans are expected to "Do Something" about the clusterfuck that resulted from helping "Our Gallant Allies" secure their oil? Isn't it about time that France and Italy show the world that they can lead the Mediterranean region?

Perhaps Hillary, who pushed Obama into starting this mess, should be appointed "Special Administrator for Libyan Liberation," and lead a European force to spread Democracy and Liberty there? I mean she "Gets Results" right?

Bingo!!
 
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Virginia High School Parents Not Happy After Kids Shown White Privilege Cartoon

By Zak Cheney-Rice February 10, 2016

Oh America, land of controversies. This special comes courtesy of Glen Allen High School in Glen Allen, Virginia, where some parents are unhappy their kids are learning about racism.

According to WWBT, an animated film titled "The Unequal Opportunity Race" was screened as part of a schoolwide Black History Month program. The four-minute video — which was originally commissioned by the African American Policy Forum in 2010 — uses a foot race as a metaphor for racial inequality in the United States.

The minor backlash the film received from some parents, guardians and observers has since been picked up by the area NBC and ABC affiliates, as well as conservative outlets like Fox News and the Blaze, which have derided it as a "white guilt" video.

At the beginning of the film, two white runners and two black runners set up at the starting line of a race track. When the gun pops, the white runners take off, but the black runners are forced to sit there as their counterparts lap them repeatedly, passing dollar-sign-labeled batons that grow bigger by the second — a clear stand-in for intergenerational wealth.

As this is happening, a timer is running in the background, meant to connote all the years since 1492, when Christopher Columbus first landed in the Americas. The black runners take off once the clock hits 1964, the year the Civil Right Act was passed, but still meet various obstacles along the way.

It's incredibly heavy-handed, and very clearly dated, but none of it is unfair, which makes some of the responses all the more puzzling. Most people seem to have taken things in stride, saying the video could lead to productive discussion.

Others? Not so much.

"They are sitting there, watching a video that is dividing them up from a racial standpoint. It's a white guilt kind of video," said Don Blake, whose granddaughter attends Glen Allen, told WWBT. "I think somebody should be held accountable for this."

"[Martin Luther] King gave his life so that America would be a place where we are judged by the content of our character, not the color of our skin," added radio personality Craig Johnson. "Now we have poverty pimps being led by our current president, Barack Obama, who, all they talk about is the color of skin."

ABC affiliate WRIC reported that one "outraged" mom called the video "divisive and racist."

"A lot of people thought it was offensive to white people, and made them feel bad about being privileged," Glen Allen High student Kenny Manning told WRIC. "Others thought that it was good to get the information out there. There is oppression going on in the world, and that needs to be looked at with a magnifying glass, I guess."

Indeed, Kenny.

Officials from Glen Allen High School declined to comment to Mic.


http://mic.com/articles/134894/virginia-high-school-parents-not-happy-after-kids-shown-white-privilege-cartoon?utm_source=policymicTBLR&utm_medium=main&utm_campaign=social#.q343sSJLY
 
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Jessica Williams Slams Beyoncé's Critics in the Best Way Possible

By Julie Zeilinger February 09, 2016

When Beyoncé released her latest single, "Formation," ahead of her Super Bowl performance this weekend, her fans overwhelmingly rejoiced, praising the song as "unapologetically black" and an activist triumph. But, perhaps predictably, the artist soon faced backlash for those very reasons. Many have come to the superstar's defense, but few have been as on point as The Daily Show's Jessica Williams in her takedown on Monday night.

Not only did Beyoncé look like "a beautiful black Dumbledore, but wearing a really nice weave and $3,000 worth of Gucci" in the "Formation" video, Williams noted, but she also addressed police brutality — and fearlessly carried this message to her Super Bowl performance. The star paid homage to the Black Panthers, danced in a "Malcolm X formation," and her dancers even later honored a victim of police brutality.

Her performance, however, received plenty of backlash, including Rudy Giuliani's comment that her decision to "attack police officers" was "really outrageous" and inappropriate for "middle America," and another British pundit's query of why race needed to be brought into the performance at all.

Williams then went to work deconstructing these ignorant statements.

"Race was brought in because Beyoncé was brought in and — brace yourself, you might want to sit down for this — Beyoncé is black," Williams facetiously said. "As a black person, you walk around every single day, constantly reminded that you are black."

What's more, as activist Ronnisha Johnson told Mic's Jamilah King on Monday, race was not just injected into the event by Beyoncé's performance, but an issue already present at the event itself. Although many fans "came to San Francisco to celebrate the Super Bowl without knowing about the plight that black and brown folks are facing," Johnson pointed out, the city still profited from the event "at the expense of the poor black communities that reside here."

And race was certainly already an issue in the lives of Super Bowl viewers — even the middle Americans for which Giuliani expressed concern. In fact, middle Americans may be the very people who need to hear this message most, Williams implied, noting that "Ferguson, Missouri" — a historic site of police brutality — is one "middle American" locale.

The statement that Beyoncé uniquely, unnecessarily politicized her performance also indicates a double standard, Williams said.


Read: http://mic.com/articles/134734/jessica-williams-slams-beyonc-s-critics-in-the-best-way-possible?utm_source=policymicTBLR&utm_medium=main&utm_campaign=social#.XfUdOXMog
 
A couple of days late for in this day.

http://www.blackpast.org/aah/orangeburg-massacre-1968

The students gathered on the South Carolina State University campus instead of at the bowling alley this time. They built a bonfire which a law enforcement officer attempted to put out. In the process he was injured by a piece of a banister thrown from the crowd. A highway patrolman then fired his gun into the air in an attempt to calm the crowd. Upon hearing the shot, other officers, thinking they were being fired upon, opened fire into the crowd of students.

Hammond and Smith who were South Carolina State University students and Middleton, a 17-year-old high school student, were killed and 27 other students were wounded. The high death and injury totals came in part because officers used shotguns with buckshot when they fired into the crowd. Many of the victims were shot in their backs or through the soles of their feet as they ran. None of the students were armed.

Nine officers were held responsible for the shootings and were brought to trial on charges of excessive force at a campus protest. All nine were acquitted of all charges. The only person who was charged and sent to prison as a result of this incident was Cleveland Sellers, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) representative who was convicted of inciting the riot that had led to the shootings. Sellers was later pardoned for his role in the incident.

The day after the shootings Governor Robert E. McNair spoke of this as “one of the saddest days in the history of South Carolina”.

- See more at: http://www.blackpast.org/aah/orangeburg-massacre-1968#sthash.KGJNP6f2.dpuf
 
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Jessica Williams Slams Beyoncé's Critics in the Best Way Possible

By Julie Zeilinger February 09, 2016

When Beyoncé released her latest single, "Formation," ahead of her Super Bowl performance this weekend, her fans overwhelmingly rejoiced, praising the song as "unapologetically black" and an activist triumph. But, perhaps predictably, the artist soon faced backlash for those very reasons. Many have come to the superstar's defense, but few have been as on point as The Daily Show's Jessica Williams in her takedown on Monday night.

Not only did Beyoncé look like "a beautiful black Dumbledore, but wearing a really nice weave and $3,000 worth of Gucci" in the "Formation" video, Williams noted, but she also addressed police brutality — and fearlessly carried this message to her Super Bowl performance. The star paid homage to the Black Panthers, danced in a "Malcolm X formation," and her dancers even later honored a victim of police brutality.

Her performance, however, received plenty of backlash, including Rudy Giuliani's comment that her decision to "attack police officers" was "really outrageous" and inappropriate for "middle America," and another British pundit's query of why race needed to be brought into the performance at all.

Williams then went to work deconstructing these ignorant statements.

"Race was brought in because Beyoncé was brought in and — brace yourself, you might want to sit down for this — Beyoncé is black," Williams facetiously said. "As a black person, you walk around every single day, constantly reminded that you are black."

What's more, as activist Ronnisha Johnson told Mic's Jamilah King on Monday, race was not just injected into the event by Beyoncé's performance, but an issue already present at the event itself. Although many fans "came to San Francisco to celebrate the Super Bowl without knowing about the plight that black and brown folks are facing," Johnson pointed out, the city still profited from the event "at the expense of the poor black communities that reside here."

And race was certainly already an issue in the lives of Super Bowl viewers — even the middle Americans for which Giuliani expressed concern. In fact, middle Americans may be the very people who need to hear this message most, Williams implied, noting that "Ferguson, Missouri" — a historic site of police brutality — is one "middle American" locale.

The statement that Beyoncé uniquely, unnecessarily politicized her performance also indicates a double standard, Williams said.


Read: http://mic.com/articles/134734/jessica-williams-slams-beyonc-s-critics-in-the-best-way-possible?utm_source=policymicTBLR&utm_medium=main&utm_campaign=social#.XfUdOXMog

Zumi you and your ilk will never quite get it.
 
Jay Z's girl knows how to butter her bread and feed the narrative. Oppression sells, especially around election time. Those mansions don't pay themselves right Beyonce.
 
Marcy projects drug dealer now living in a mansion selling liberal narratives. Ain't life grand Zumi. Have any more posts from Shaun "Dolezal" King for us?
 
Yes
I do have feelings for the Battlestar Galactica series, and all of the spinoffs.

What would a new movie based on the series say, that has not been said ?

*curious*

Toasters!
 
Zumi you and your ilk will never quite get it.

Jay Z's girl knows how to butter her bread and feed the narrative. Oppression sells, especially around election time. Those mansions don't pay themselves right Beyonce.

Marcy projects drug dealer now living in a mansion selling liberal narratives. Ain't life grand Zumi. Have any more posts from Shaun "Dolezal" King for us?

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Looks like RU's "ilk" gets it, though!

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Zumi go hang with Kim "Columbia" Crenshaw. "Hi I'm Kim and I am a beneficiary of affirmative action," she says like she's at an AA meeting. Sure is hard to give up sucking on that government tit huh Kim. Now she makes videos for high schoolers to make sure they know oppression is still there. Liberal fantasyland.
 

Is this really a surprise given the.politics surrounding this shooting? Back to the potted plant days. If you see something do nothing, and pick up the bodies. That's what the left wants and that's what they'll get. Just pick up the bodies like Barack's Chicago.
 
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