Mr. Scorpio
Mr. Scorpio's JournalI don't expect that you can get it your way there...
That's because they're fascists...
Clinton and Trump Get Most of Their Campaign Funds from These 250 Neighborhoods
AUTHOR: JOANNA PEARLSTEIN
DURING MONDAY NIGHTS presidential candidate debate, Republican nominee Donald Trump lamented his opponents advertising spending. I also noticed the very nasty commercials that you do on me in so many different ways, he said to Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, which I dont do on you. Maybe Im trying to save the money. Maybe so. Clinton is, in fact, outspending Trump on advertising. Partially thats because she has raised a lot more money.
At the end of August, according to the Federal Election Commission, the Trump campaign had raised $75 million, while Clintons had taken in $289.3 million.
Where does the Clinton campaigns money come from? Silicon Valley, for sure. But put Clintons donors on a map and you see a broader picture.
The FEC, which compels political candidates to file regular reports on their fundraising and expenditures, provides data on funding by zip code in addition to tracking donations by employer and state. For the month of August, the 10 zip codes sending the most funding to Clinton are all on the east coast: eight in New York City, one in Washington DC, and one in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Last month we reported that Clinton took in lots of cash from the west side of Manhattan, and this month the trend continues: Clinton drew $364,000 from four West Side neighborhoods in August. Republican nominee Donald Trump, by contrast, raised that amount from his top 32 zip codes.
https://www.wired.com/2016/09/clinton-trump-get-campaign-funds-250-neighborhoods/?mbid=social_twitter
Clinton donations come from Metropolitan areas, which are more socially and racially diverse and with more educated individuals and Trump's donations are spread all over the mostly white boonies...
I'm not surprised at all.
And some people wonder why black people are wary of the police...
He's the victim of a crime and the police immediate treated him like a criminal... AS IF we're ALL criminals in their eyes. That's how they see us.
Why white people can’t see there is ‘White Reality’ and ‘Everyone Else’s Reality’
By Jamie Varon
When I turned 16 and started driving, I was afraid of speeding tickets. I hated the police in an abstract way because I hated having to follow the law of the road. I wanted my rebellion and my 80 mph on the freeway.
Since getting my license, Ive been let go with a warning more times than Ive been issued a ticket. For someone who spent her twenties consistently speeding, driving recklessly, and generally not caring much about whether I was breaking the law or not, Ive been pulled over a negligible number of times. And on the off-chance I saw police car lights flashing in my rearview mirror, I never feared for my life. Not once. I was never scared of the policeI was just concerned about the repercussions of a traffic ticket.
So, when I started to see video proof of police brutality towards people of colorparticularly black peopleI was horrified at first, but then I was skeptical. What had they done to incite this behavior? What was missing from this video? How could officers actually treat people like this?
To me, it felt like there were two kinds of police: the ones I saw on video and the ones I met in my life. I realized, then, that part of my white privilege was being able to trust police to have my best interests in mind; to trust that they assumed my innocence; to trust theyd be rational when dealing with me. Once I recognized that my experience with the police wasnt universal, I started to listen, to recognize my privilege, and to believe people of color. I wish Id realized this earlier, but thats the insidiousness of privilege: Its so entrenched that you dont even realize its an advantage.
Systemic racism, police brutality, the very real disadvantages that people of color faceall of this can be hard to make sense of, especially if your experience with authorities has been vastly different. As someone whos been championing social justice causes for more than a decade, I thought to myself: If I was this ignorant, this blinded by my own experiences, other white people must be, tooprobably even more so.
http://fusion.net/story/352140/white-people-reality-people-of-color-reality/
Why is this even controversial?
I should point out that this happened at a university in America in 2016....
BLACK LIVES MATTER
UPDATE: Student in gorilla mask with bananas, nooses charged after Black Lives Matter face-off at ETSU
TONY CASEY UPDATED YESTERDAY AT 5:03 PM
tcasey@johnsoncitypress.com
A barefoot man wearing overalls and a gorilla mask, trying to hand out noose-wrapped bananas to Black Lives Matter demonstrators, was taken away by East Tennessee State University public safety officers Wednesday afternoon.
According to a news release from the public safety office, freshman Tristan Rettke was charged with civil rights intimidation. Saying Rettke's actions "go against the values of our university where people come first and all are treated with dignity and respect," the university said the student has been placed on interim suspension. Criminal charges were pending before the local district attorney, and an internal student-conduct investigation was underway.
ETSU President Brian Noland held a press conference in the afternoon to speak out against what he saw Wednesday. And Noland did watch, almost in real time as it happened, via a video on a student's Facebook page.
"I was offended, but I was also saddened," Noland said about his personal response to Rettke's behavior. "The nation is not only raw, but it's healing."
Noland praised the Black Lives Matter demonstrators for their peaceful rally and handling of the disruption. He'd been in contact with many of those students through their academic careers at ETSU and was proud they reacted as such.
http://www.johnsoncitypress.com/Education/2016/09/28/Gorilla-mask-and-bananas-Racially-charged-Black-Lives-Matter-faceoff-at-ETSU
This shouldn't even BE a gawd damned question...
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