Moms shouldn't have to send texts like this to their sons

Whiteness is blindness. It is the wish not to see what it will not know.

The problem is you do not want to know anything different from what you think you know. Your knowledge of black life, of the hardships we face, yes, those we sometimes create, those we most often endure, don’t concern you much. You think we have been handed everything because we have fought your selfish insistence that the world, all of it — all its resources, all its riches, all its bounty, all its grace — should be yours first, and foremost, and if there’s anything left, why then we can have some, but only if we ask politely and behave gratefully.

So you demand the Supreme Court give you back what was taken from you: more space in college classrooms that you dominate; better access to jobs in fire departments and police forces that you control. All the while your resentment builds, and your slow hate gathers steam. Your whiteness has become a burden too heavy for you to carry, so you outsource it to a vile political figure who amplifies your most detestable private thoughts.

Whiteness is blindness. It is the wish not to see what it will not know.

If you do not know us, you also refuse to hear us because you do not believe what we say. You have decided that enough is enough. If the cops must kill us for no good reason, then so be it because most of us are guilty anyway. If the black person that they kill turns out to be innocent, it is an acceptable death, a sacrificial one.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/07/10/opinion/sunday/what-white-america-fails-to-see.html?smid=nytcore-ipad-share&smprod=nytcore-ipad&referer=http://m.dailykos.com/stories/1546424

We have crazy people grabbing guns and doing crazy things,

CNN commentator Van Jones scolded counterpart Buck Sexton on Friday when Sexton tried to link the Black Lives Matter movement to Thursday night’s mass shooting in Dallas, Media Matters reported.

“I think that what’s actually fueling this is not some placard or what somebody said at some rally that nobody even heard, except they got on social media. What’s fueling this is a sense that nobody cares and that the official pronouncements of our government show a level of indifference and a lack of concern,” Jones said. “And I think it’s very, very important that we affirm our right to petition our government for redress of our grievances, and for that to be the main thing that we say and that these minority voices be marginalized. But I am tired of the entire movement being smeared by the extreme words of a few. It’s not fair. It’s not fair at all.”

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"We have a problem with crazy people doing crazy things in this country because they can all get guns,” Jones said. “Dylann Roof went in there and shot up a whole church full of African-Americans, and he said he did it because of this racial propaganda that is growing by the so-called alt-right. But we don’t talk about that. Somebody went in and shot up a whole Planned Parenthood saying it’s because they’re a Christian. We have crazy people grabbing guns and doing crazy things, but we should not blame, we should not give them the pass of saying that you’re doing this because somebody held up a placard.”



http://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/van-jones-shuts-down-cnn-guest-trying-to-use-dallas-shootings-to-smear-blm/

I always wondered what this chilling quote from Bush adviser Karl Rove meant in practice-Now we know

'I have my right to say things’: Parade driver defends depiction of Obama as 'lying African'

Obama: "Sasha tweets" but that doesn’t make her qualified to be president.

President Obama on Tuesday pointed to his daughter’s social media use to mock Donald Trump.

During his first campaign appearance for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, Obama said Trump is just as qualified to serve as president as his 15-year-old daughter Sasha.

“Everybody can tweet, but nobody actually knows what it takes to do the job until you’ve sat behind the desk,” Obama told a crowd in Charlotte, N.C.

“I mean, Sasha tweets, but she doesn’t think that she’s thereby should be sitting behind the desk.”

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/286551-obama-sasha-tweets-but-that-doesnt-make-her-qualified-to#.V3w0RYqInN8.twitter

Donald Trump praises Saddam Hussein for killing 'terrorists,' again

LOL, Trump thinks the fix is THIS easy?

Advised that "we overshadowed some bad news for Hillary with that," he thinks the fix is this easy:
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https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu

I Wonder Why They Left Off The Sherif's Badge?

Glorious Leader Tweets Hillary Image with Dollars and Jew Star

Hero Trump has made history yet again by tweeting a meme of Hillary Clinton featuring her image with a Star of David over top hundred dollar bills. Inside the Jew star it reads “Most corrupt candidate ever!”

It is indeed true that she is the most corrupt candidate ever, and it is also indeed true that the overwhelming majority of her corruption money comes from Jew sources.

This is, yet again, dog-whistling by The Leader. It comes just after he made some offensive comments about Israel being our friend – he says this for the evangelicals, then he signals to us – his real supporters – that we need not worry, he is just shilling a bit to get into power at which point he will shut down the entire Jew agenda.

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But it doesn’t matter. Because the evangelicals will listen to his pro-Israel statements, while we will listen to his signals. Everybody wins. They can even report on me saying this is a dog-whistle – it doesn’t matter.

(only posting link for authenticity - no one should actually go here
http://www.dailystormer.com/glorious-leader-tweets-hillary-image-with-dollars-and-jew-star/

Let's Hope He Takes Bushco With Him (Blair faces calls for impeachment on release of Chilcot report)

Tony Blair faces calls for impeachment on release of Chilcot report
Labour and SNP figures consider legal action against former PM to ban him from office over role in Iraq war

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A number of MPs led by Alex Salmond are expected to use an ancient law to try to impeach the former prime minister when the Chilcot report comes out on Wednesday.

The law, last used in 1806 when the Tory minister Lord Melville was charged for misappropriating official funds, is seen in Westminster as an alternative form of punishment that could ensure Blair never holds office again.

Triggering the process simply requires an MP to propose a motion and provide supporting evidence as part of a document called the article of impeachment which has no time limit placed upon it. If the impeachment attempt is approved by MPs, the defendant is delivered to Black Rod before a trial.

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http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jul/03/tony-blair-may-face-impeachment-on-release-of-chilcot-report