MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Well, Ruth - better to be down on your knee than on your belly or back - at least if you're black. I appreciate your talking down Trump, but a few other issues to get out of the way.
But he got your attention, so Colin's tack is working - hope it gets resolved in public before it ends up in the Supreme Court docket. #BlackTrialsMatter
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Ginsburg walks back her comments, says she was uninformed about Kaepernick's mission.
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 10/15/2016 - 12:39pm
The important thing that Ginsburg said initially was that she would not have used her position on the court to stop Kaepernick.
by rmrd0000 on Sat, 10/15/2016 - 1:35pm
Colin Kaepernick thinks Hillary should be in prison. He would seem to be a bit naive on this country's politics, and his sitting is unlikely to move the nation in the direction he seems to feel it should go.
As a woman well experienced with the politics and muddled direction of the nation, Ginsburg was too quick to criticize his attention getting 'protest' as what it apparently is, a divisive ultimately useless demonstration by a naive young man that leads nowhere and changes nothing and no one.
I would observe that LeBron James and his youth programs in Akron are what this country needs more of. He also made a strong statement in support of Hillary, which the press said was unusual for an athlete with 9 figure endorsements, but I doubt any company would dare abandon him and his stature only grows.
by NCD on Sat, 10/15/2016 - 6:04pm
I think we need both Kaepernick & LeBron James. I think Kaepernick's comments about Hillary are dumb, but the idea of using black players for highly paid entertainment on the field, and then outside the stadium they're treated as bad Trump refers to Mexicans - all rapists, murderers, drug dealers with no rights.... Police shoot someone and then parade around the dead or dying body for an hour without doing anything to help - it's disgusting. We can get beyond a silly game of football and start talking some serious stuff for once.
Maybe we'll extend it to gun shootings and access to weapons as well - it works in tandem - police need to know how not to overreact, to be the professional in the situation rather than another hothead but legally allowed to shoot to kill or tase for whatever reason - but they still have an important job to do, and there needs to be more cooperation in improving the situation in these neighborhoods both crime-wise and opportunities - not just a "law and order" Giuliani approach. And yeah, kill the pot laws.
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 10/15/2016 - 7:07pm
I agree both sides help the cause. The issue of police abuse will require legislatures and judges to act. Kaepernick taps into the anger of black youth. Le Ron taps into middle class blacks and Progressive whites. Kaepernick is not going to make change directly, but he initiates discussion. Critics will always find a reason to divert the Di away from police and judicial abuse. Black Lives Matter's public protest is too radical. Merely taking a knee is too disrespectful. Legal challenges of police practice are met with charges of the plaintiffs not believing in law and order. No matter what form of protest is used, there will be criticism. The powers that be don't want to discuss the issue at hand, police abuse.
by rmrd0000 on Sat, 10/15/2016 - 7:47pm
Some of this is too bizarre for words.
I never ever thought of the national anthem at a ball game having anything to do with "the troops", yet a simple protest at the anthem (not even *of* the anthem - he's using the occasion) is somehow demeaning the troops and any soldier watching.
(somehow peaceful protest is enshrined as a right, but the most peaceable of protests is an affront... he doesn't even interrupt the anthem, just quietly & motionlessly shows his non-participation. Guess he didn't say "Mother May I". Wonder what values the troops think they're fighting for - the right to call a special prosecutor on your political opponent?)
A few cops kill yet another black person - sometimes criminal, sometimes obviously innocent bystander - on the street or in a cop car in a callous, indifferent and often coverd-up manner - and the first thing the protesters are supposed to think about are the feelings of cops.
Yet I don't recall the white right ever thinking about anyone else's feelings as they paraded into coffee shops carrying automatic weapons, stormed a state office counting ballots, took over a national park over their grazing grudge, screamed in outrage over possibly denying Wall Street bonuses in the middle of a huge meltdown that they more than others helped cause, questioning the first black president's heritage for years or simply insulting blacks & Hispanics en masse not just by their usually insulting comments but even by their proposed or enacted legislation as part of the loony platform.
Disrupting a football game anthem is disrespectful, but shutting down government during a war (their decade+ military adventure in Mideast nation building and picking winners & losers) isn't.
This is exactly the daft punk that got them nominating & supporting Trump - the logical or illogical
endmilestone of madness.by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 10/16/2016 - 2:09am
There is an armed wingnut standing outside one of Clinton's Virginia headquarters. He is very clear that he wants to inspire other wingnuts to intimidate volunteers at other headquarter sites. This is the modern Republican Party. It is also why we don't have the luxury of throwing away a vote on a third party. There has to be a clear rejection of Trump and the GOP.
Trump supporters will say the election was rigged not matter what evidence to the contrary shows. GOP members of Congress will still obstruct anything a Democratic President tries to do. We have to chip away at the wingnuts election by election.
The outrage at Kaepernick's protest and attempts to categorize him as unpatriotic is part of the wingnut modus operandi. In truth the wingnuts are unpatriotic and want a dictator as President. Evangelical wingnuts are not believers in the Bible, but seekers of power.
Both Kaepernick and James are willing to face financial backlash for making political statements.
Forgot to add the link regarding the Virginia wingnut
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/armed-donald-trump-supporters_us_580...
by rmrd0000 on Sun, 10/16/2016 - 10:31am
The problem with CK is his attention getting action just draws attention, discussion, support or criticism to him.
It won't put Hillary in jail where he believes she belongs, or end racism. make better cops.
In that respect he becomes another in the endless pantheon of often uninformed American entertainment or business celebrities whose opinions we frankly should not give a crap about, yet we all talk about and like or don't like, endlessly on and on...
Carlos and Smith in Mexico City in 1968 were protesting South African apartheid and membership in the Olympic Organization, along with other points on poverty and racism.
In 1970 South Africa was expelled from the Olympics organization because of apartheid.
Racism didn't end. But the organization whose patches they wore also said there should be more black coaches. That soon also became a reality.
LeBron works to raise education, sports and personal ambition in Ohio communities. That work is not about him,it creates no controversy, it doesn't get him on the news, and it is not easy work. It takes commitment. It is positively affecting the lives of children and families.
by NCD on Sun, 10/16/2016 - 10:39am
Well, the Ferguson and similar protests elsewhere didn't seem to get the point across, so maybe messing with white people's Sunday sports will keep it front and center. Anyone remember when cutting over to Heidi during overtime pissed off a nation of NFL playoff fans?
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 10/16/2016 - 11:00am
With Colin it is apparently about everything. What can America do to make Colin stand? Maybe you know? Should anyone care? Is he doing anything concrete to make America better? If he is great, I haven't heard of it.
BLM has been very specific in their message.
by NCD on Sun, 10/16/2016 - 11:43am
I think it's "quit fucking maiming and shooting black people dead" - is the message so tough to understand?
Hillary seems to get it, even if football fans and families of "our troops" don't seem to:
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 10/16/2016 - 2:39pm
You seem to have missed he also said Hillary should be in prison, linked above. Sitting or standing for the anthem only goes so far, it takes a Party to accomplish progress. I believe Obama supports all these objectives, and he has endorsed Hillary.
by NCD on Sun, 10/16/2016 - 3:43pm
Whether he thinks Hillary should be in the clink or not, it's pretty unrelated to his kneeling protest re: abuse of blacks. Yeah, he can be an idiot and still his protest is probably a good idea and somewhat effective. (Frankly it seems clearer than much of the Black Lives Matter actions - ignoring the Hillary piece).
Whether Obama "supports all these objectives", he hasn't seemed to work very hard for them, so we get an outrageous event every month without much obvious reform of police departments. Whether that can be done from the federal level down, at least there can be much more guidance and pressure (we have no problem giving police forces excess military gear, but don't seem very good at influencing what they do with it once they have it).
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 10/16/2016 - 7:56pm
All true. He is a rebel. Admired by young would be rebels. Most who likely don't vote.
His 'corrupt duopoly' rant would not encourage anyone to vote. If people don't vote nothing changes.
Is there anyone running for political office who proudly touts Kaepernick as a backer?
His anti-anthem stunts (at this point I call it a stunt 'something done to attract attention') would seem to be political kryptonite.
It is divisive, easily portrayed as hating America, and engenders anger in many voters, something most politicians outside of Trump try to avoid.
BLM supporters met with many politicos -Hillary, Bernie and Democrats. And tried with Republicans. They were at and spoke at the DNC, yes?
BLM are working to get people out to vote.
To create change in their communities, improve the communities financing, housing and conditions, legally change police policy, and hold politicians and police accountable for their actions or inaction. That is a course that is rational and just, and one that if sustained will get results. It is not, however, going to happen in one football season or one election.
by NCD on Sun, 10/16/2016 - 10:36pm
He's not part of the campaign - he's part of the public response to abuse of blacks - the killing in Ferguson, the continued hidden abuse in Chicago, Freddie Gray in Baltimore, the riots in Charlotte, so many others...
I think it's helpful to have that problem sitting in peoples' heads as separate from the election. There's nothing GOP vs. Dem about police shooting someone and then calmly meandering around the body for 30-60 minutes without offering first aid or showing any kind of urgency. There's nothing GOP vs. Dem about a cop showing up late on the scene and quickly shooting the black guy without any controlled escalation of force and other means. There's nothing GOP vs. Dem about a cop questioning a black guy who's calmly sitting on his mom's porch locked out but clearly explaining that they've been there forever and the neighbor just over there can vouch for him but instead the policeman keeps questioning and disbelieving him until it ends in the inevitable black guy on his belly smacked in the eye and facing trumped up charges of "resisting arrest".
This will be a problem long after Nov 8, and it involves people pressuring their police at the local level to be much more controlled, intelligent, caring, professional than they're doing now with what's a carte blanche to treat people like shit.
Anything Kaepernick says detracts from the simplicity of his action - kneeling says "I'm not part of this, it needs to change". I don't need to "admire" him, but I appreciate his actions, and I don't think they just speak to "young would-be rebels" - they speak to anyone who's appalled by the repetitive unnecessary abuse and violence, much like the folks who are appalled by the steady stream of mass shootings every couple of months or yet another story about how a 2-year-old or 7-year-old got hold of a gun and killed someone because we're too retarded to limit access to deadly weapons across the board, thinking they somehow ensure "freedom" and "law and order" in a Rambo/Charles Bronson kind of way.
ETA - and yet another one.
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 10/17/2016 - 6:46am
Kaepernick's charity raise $900K for a children's camp
http://www.49ers.com/news/article-2/Colin-Kaepernick-Continues-Charitabl...
Kaepernick donated the first $1 million of his salary to charity.
http://www.vibe.com/2016/09/colin-kaepernick-to-donate-one-million-dolla...
Kaepernick is donating 100% of his jersey profits to charity.
http://www.tmz.com/2016/09/07/colin-kaepernick-nfl-49ers-jersey-sales-do...
Kaepernick is making a difference, just like ale Ron James.
The powers that be will ignore both their calls for addressing police abuse.
by rmrd0000 on Sun, 10/16/2016 - 1:25pm