Comments by "freein2339" (@freein2339) on "'Take It To The President:' Roland Martin Explains Why The CBC Must Meet With Trump" video.
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“Through an objective assessment, we have seen no evidence that your
Administration acted on our calls for action, and we have in fact
witnessed steps that will affirmatively hurt Black communities,” Rep.
Richmond wrote. While we agreed to explore possible future discussions
when we first met, it has become abundantly clear that a conversation
with the entire CBC would not be entirely productive, given the actions
taken by your Administration since our first meeting.”
The caucus is also refusing to meet with Trump because of the “lack
of response” to at least eight letters of concern written to Attorney
General Jeff Sessions, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, and other
officials.
“Based on the actions taken by you and your
Administration since that meeting, it appears that our concerns, and
your stated receptiveness to them, fell on deaf ears,” the letter said.
fuck adolf trump
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Republicans punk ass reprisal...Ok you "step-n-fetch-it" useless asshole...Here's some facts about voter suppression...
Wayne
Bertsch, a veteran GOP consultant told the Tampa Bay Times that
targeting Democrats was always the goal in curbing early voting. "In the
races I was involved in in 2008, when we started seeing the increase of
turnout and the turnout operations that the Democrats were doing in
early voting, it certainly sent a chill down our spines."
Another
tactic, favored in Texas and Florida, is to target nonprofit groups
that conduct voter-registration drives (the League of Women Voters, the
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People). This is
achieved by imposing onerous new training, registration and/or liability
burdens on the groups' volunteers. The proportion of African-American
and Latino voters who register through third-party drives is about twice
what it is for whites.
Republican campaign consultant Scott Tranter
"A lot of us are campaign officials -- or campaign professionals -- and
we want to do everything we can to help our side. Sometimes we think
that's voter ID, sometimes we think that's longer lines -- whatever it
may be," Tranter said with a laugh.
Franklin
County (Columbus) GOP Chair Doug Preisse.. "I guess I really actually
feel we shouldn't contort the voting process to accommodate the
urban—read African-American—voter-turnout machine." Preisse is not some
rogue operative but the chairman of the Republican Party in Ohio's
second-largest county and a close adviser to Ohio Governor John Kasich.
Pa House majority leader Mike Turzai, said his state's voter ID law "is
gonna allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania,"
U.S. District Judge Stephen J. Murphy ordered Michigan election
officials to immediately halt and attempt to rectify one of the two
practices -- canceling voter registrations for those whose voter
identification card is returned as undeliverable. Murphy ordered the
state to remove the "rejected" marking in the qualified voter file for
all persons whose original voter ID cards have been returned to the
state as undeliverable since Jan. 1, 2006. About 1,500 people have been
removed from the voter list in that manner this year, according to
evidence presented in the case.
Voter hours were extended in white distrcits of Ohio while voting hours were cut in the Black districts....
In
September 2014 , Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp expressed concern that
too many minority voters were registering to vote for the November
midterms and so he found it necessary to subpoena the records of at
least one group working to register more Black and Latino voters.
Now he has gone and "lost" 40,000 voter registration forms handed in by one group.
it’s a sentiment that the staffers at Third
Sector Development are expressing. The nonprofit organization was on a
mission to register as many black and Hispanic people in the state of
Georgia as possible so that voter turnout for the upcoming midterm
elections in November would be high. And they were successful at it,
until they received word that about half of the applications they
submitted for processing have gone missing in action.
“Over
the last few months, the group submitted some 80,000 voter-registration
forms to the Georgia secretary of state’s office—but as of last week,
about half those new registrants, more than 40,000 Georgians, were still
not listed on preliminary voter rolls. And there is no public record of
those 40,000-plus applications, according to state Rep. Stacey Adams, a
Democrat,” Al-Jazeera explained.
But Secretary Kemp says, hey, we're not doing anything differently. Sure they're not.
Georgia
Secretary of State Brain Kemp explained that his office is not doing
anything differently from how it usually processes applications. But
some people aren’t buying his story, seeing as how he’s a Republican,
and black and Hispanic people tend to vote for Democrats.
Georgia
Republicans have been raising eyebrows for some time now with regard to
early voting and voter-ID issues. One state Republican didn’t like how
black and Hispanic voters had easy access to early-voting opportunities.
They
cut early voting, they've got horrible Voter ID laws, and now the
Secretary of State has 40,000 less voter registration forms than were
submitted. Jim Crow is alive and well in Georgia and surrounds, isn't
it?
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republicans "uncle tom who better get back on time for plantation roll call"
The environment inside the Republican Party today is a treacherous moral
swamp for African-Americans. No black conservative figure has yet
managed to remain in a position of influence inside the GOP while
speaking honestly about racial questions.When an NAACP chairman derided
Republican South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott recently as a "ventriloquist's
dummy" he touched a deep nerve. Going all the way back to
Reconstruction, black conservatives have fought to justify their emphasis
on economic progress against those who sought more direct resistance to
injustice.That is a fine line to walk and it has never been easy. When
black leaders allow themselves be used as tokens, they will deserve the
suspicion they retain in the black community no matter what other
sincere goals or opinions they may hold. This is an unfair dilemma that
white political figures seldom face, but history has made it
unavoidable.Black leaders cannot expect to be taken seriously so long as
they quietly acquiesce to rhetoric and policies openly hostile to
minority communities. For black conservatives, the price of credibility
is courage.Standing in front of a white audience and validating their
racist assumptions is a fast track to popularity and political
opportunity. Few things thrill a white nationalist more than a black man
who agrees with him. Every racist has ‘lots of black friends’ and
being one of those black friends offers benefits.With the GP in thrall
to an ugly Neo-Confederate resurgence the 2012 Republican Convention
featured its lowest percentage of black delegates in modern history.
Interestingly, while there were only 46 black delegates, the convention
featured eight minority speakers on the main stage alone. Being a black
Republican willing to toe the line without question is an outstanding
way to gain access to a platform.It is entirely reasonable to expect
that Sen. Scott’s position as a Senator was paid for by his willingness
to be used. He has done nothing yet in his career that would be
inconsistent with that characterization. Recite the party’s talking
points and he gets to be a Senator. Acknowledge the existence of racism
in any credible matter and he will be escorted to the exit, where he
will be greeted by Colin Powell and Michael Steele.One of the GOP’s
other black friends, former Rep. Allen West, learned that lesson the
hard way when he accidentally said something positive about Trayvon
Martin case. He quickly backed down, explained that Martin had it coming
because he wasn’t a “respectful young man.” West recognized the value
of being a “respectful young man” in the GOP and now he has a nice gig
with Fox News.This dilemma complicates the appeal of black
conservatives, making it extremely difficult to communicate a credible,
persuasive message without losing access to the political process. To
speak honestly about race means being ostracized from the Republican
Party. To speak honestly about the role of values and culture in the
plight of the black community means being ostracized from the Democratic
Party. Black conservatives can accept a humiliatingly subservient role
in a Republican Party that wants them to perform like circus animals or
sit outside the process, alienated and disempowered.Not everyone in the
black community sees this dilemma. In particular, many black religious
fundamentalists do not perceive this problem at all. It is from their
ranks that figures like Tim Scott and former Rep. Allen West have
emerged. If you believe in a 6000-year-old universe it isn’t so hard to
believe that Obama is a Socialist Anti-Christ or that he cheered the
attack on the American Consulate in Benghazi.Black religious
fundamentalists feel comfortable walking shoulder to shoulder with Tea
Party activists bent on destroying minority voting rights and ending
“income redistribution” to black urban moochers in hoodies. They are
marching with the far-right far-white in pursuit of higher, apocalyptic
goals. If gay marriage is the single greatest threat to civilization
then perhaps an alignment with the GOP’s farthest ideological fringe
makes sense.For non-white conservatives with their feet planted firmly
in the reality-based community the rhetoric being spewed by Republicans
in recent years is more than a little frightening. Some hard-right black
evangelicals may have made peace with the Tea Party, but their numbers
are very small. That’s why most if not all of the African-Americans at
your local Tea Party rally will be speaking onstage.Whether he likes it
or not, Sen. Scott is becoming a national mascot for the efforts of Tea
Party Republicans to whitewash the movement’s glaring racism. The
dilemma he faces may be unique to black political figures, but as the
Republican Party becomes more and more an enigma for white
nationalism that burden spreads more broadly to all conservatives,
regardless of race.The same credibility problem faced by black
conservatives is becoming a dangerous threat to conservatism at large.
If Sen. Scott is a token set up to distract us all from the GOP’s
racism, then what is Karl Rove? At what point should all conservatives
face the same duty to speak about racism that we justly place on Sen.
Scott’s shoulders?If conservatism is going to survive, conservatives
should all take a close look at the dilemma faced by Sen. Scott. The
movement badly needs an update to avoid atrophying into a tool of racial
and political anachronisms. Conservatism will not survive if it fails
to represent something more compelling than the stubborn preservation of
white cultural supremacy. A handful of well-placed black friends may
obscure the party’s problems, but they are not going to save
conservatism from itself........
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