Posted on 01/15/2018 8:01:12 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
In November of 2008, I was invited to Chicago to watch the election returns at Grant Park and be there with Barack Obama as he became the first African American ever elected U.S. president. I respectfully declined. Instead I spent election night in Atlanta, leading National Action Network’s (NAN) watch night service, similar to the New Year’s Eve service and countdown that we do every year.
A half-century ago King led a movement — a movement that was predicated upon securing voting rights, job opportunities, fair housing, educational opportunities, an end to racial discrimination and ending income inequality. Today, in 2018, we find ourselves at a crossroads: Everything King fought so tirelessly for is under attack once again.
One of the biggest criticisms we hear about Trump is that he has spent his first year in office attempting to reverse President Barack Obama’s policy achievements. While there is a lot of truth to that statement, it represents only half the story. In fact, Trump and his administration are undoing the progress that was achieved, not just by Obama, but by the civil rights movement.
The White House has so far gone after health care, criminal justice reform measures, and environmental regulations while endorsing voter suppression tactics, flirting with nuclear disaster, and passing tax cuts that benefit corporations and the wealthy while indicating that they plan to target the social safety net next. Almost all of these maneuvers will directly impact communities of color; often, these types of measures impact communities of color the most.
A situation this dire requires an equally impressive response. We must resist not only Trump, but also all those who would turn King’s dream into a nightmare.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
Looks like Sharpton is scared he'll have to get one too.
Another charlatan claiming he cares about anything other than himself. By the way has Rev. Al paid his back taxes yet, last I heard $4 Million and counting.
One of my life-long heros, Dan Gurney, died yesterday. Just wished it had been this POS. Life just isn’t fair when this Black Human Pez Dispenser is still above room temperature and Dan is gone!
No...in the liberal worldview that's bad.
And to think Al all that money given to you and Jesse from DJT for Harlem and your other special projects.
Bite the hand that feeds you much?
5.56mm
Because of all the black people being fired from their jobs, banned from lunch counters, and carted off to prison camps since Trump’s election. /s
Seriously?
What is this?
Troll Friday??
Sharpton has a dream.
A full buffet.
LOL the old race baiter himself.
About as far from MLK as you can get.
Closer to those Booker T. Washington warned us about...
“There is (a) class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public.
Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs
— partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays.
Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. ... “
“There is a certain class of race problem-solvers who don’t want the patient to get well,
because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living,
but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.”
Booker T Washington
GAK!!
First thing I saw this morning on CBS...
An authentic african primitive dance, in one of the U.S. Sh*****e cities!
What's up with that?
I assume MLK deserves better than that.
... getting jobs is a bad thing — it’s mean to make people work.
... food stamps use down — that’s mean taking away free stuff.
// sigma sarc.
I can call myself a “reverend” too. Give me some money.
The black civil rights icons like John Lewis and Jesse Jackson Sr support planned parenthood targeting of blacks over the last 100 years
Below is the reason this lying bastard is upset about Trump. Trump is becoming popular with blacks who are working and want to work.
Donald Trump’s Support Among Blacks Has Doubled Since 2016, Amid Racism Claims!
Breitbart ^ | 14 Jan 2018 | NEIL MUNRO
Posted on 1/15/2018, 8:36:45 AM by Mr. Mojo
Two new polls show President Donald Trump’s rising support among black voters, highlighting his political gains from pushing employers to hire Americans instead of lower-wage migrants.
The growing support from blacks — despite furious Democratic claims of racism — could become a shocking political validation in November when Trump will face millions of upper-income Democratic voters who are angry at his “Buy American, Hire American” policies.
Among black men, Trump’s “2017 average approval rating significantly exceeds his 2016 vote share,” admitted a January 11 article in the Atlantic by author Ronald Brownstein. “23 percent of black men approved of Trump’s performance versus 11 percent of black women,” said the article.
That score averages out to 17 percent, or twice the 8 percent score he was given in the 2016 exit polls.
In November 2016, Trump got 13 percent support among black men and 4 percent support among black women, according to the exit polls. That very low support was critical to his victory in the Democrats’ now-demolished “Blue Wall” states.
The poll was “a cumulative analysis of 605,172 interviews SurveyMonkey conducted with Americans in 2017,” according to the Atlantic.
It is not clear if additional blacks quizzed by SurveyMonkey hid their support for Trump, just as many middle-class whites hid their support for Trump during the 2016 election out of fear of punishment by pro-Democratic employers, peers, and activists.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3622629/posts
Below is the reason this lying bastard is upset about Trump. Trump is becoming popular with blacks who are working and want to work.
Donald Trump’s Support Among Blacks Has Doubled Since 2016, Amid Racism Claims!
Breitbart ^ | 14 Jan 2018 | NEIL MUNRO
Posted on 1/15/2018, 8:36:45 AM by Mr. Mojo
Two new polls show President Donald Trump’s rising support among black voters, highlighting his political gains from pushing employers to hire Americans instead of lower-wage migrants.
The growing support from blacks — despite furious Democratic claims of racism — could become a shocking political validation in November when Trump will face millions of upper-income Democratic voters who are angry at his “Buy American, Hire American” policies.
Among black men, Trump’s “2017 average approval rating significantly exceeds his 2016 vote share,” admitted a January 11 article in the Atlantic by author Ronald Brownstein. “23 percent of black men approved of Trump’s performance versus 11 percent of black women,” said the article.
That score averages out to 17 percent, or twice the 8 percent score he was given in the 2016 exit polls.
In November 2016, Trump got 13 percent support among black men and 4 percent support among black women, according to the exit polls. That very low support was critical to his victory in the Democrats’ now-demolished “Blue Wall” states.
The poll was “a cumulative analysis of 605,172 interviews SurveyMonkey conducted with Americans in 2017,” according to the Atlantic.
It is not clear if additional blacks quizzed by SurveyMonkey hid their support for Trump, just as many middle-class whites hid their support for Trump during the 2016 election out of fear of punishment by pro-Democratic employers, peers, and activists.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3622629/posts
Jesse Jackson Praising DJT for improving the lives of Black Americans..
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J5lcART6TTE
How long will people believe the - - - -hole comment? No proof it was ever said.
Even if said, it was in a private conversation making a point - no intent to be a a public statement. No context. And no racism was involved - Africa’s issues are political and religious (Islamic).
Sharpton, where all racism can be forgiven by giving him money.
Can’t say that we’re weren’t warned...’
There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
Booker T. Washington
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