Consultant, adjunct professor & Trustee. I love hanging out w/people foolish enough to think they can change the world. A few of them might.
@mooreparkforest
@eveewing
My personal favorite Black Chicago pic is self indulgent. Me and the ladies who shaped me;) In our backyard at 72nd & University in 1968, my aunt, both grandmothers, mom and me. Photo credit Dad;)
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT:
White folks on the left: Dems, progressives, liberals et al.
BLACK FOLKS, especially
#BlackTwitter
is going to be getting tons of jokes off at Tim Scott's expense. DO NOT JOIN IN! I REPEAT DO NOT JOIN! We can go places you can't, we'll handle it/him.
Unarmed Black man in Kenosha breaks up domestic disturbance gets shot 7 times in the back by police as they hold him by his shirt. Armed white guy shoots 3 folks protesting the shooting, kills 2 & walks past police officers without police even attempting to aprehend him.
Evidently, my mom was thought to have broken a barrier, HOWEVER, she informs me that she was actually the 2nd. There was a light skinned hire before her who was passing 💀💀💀💀
THANK YOU
@Dr_CMGreer
for pushing back on
@SRuhle
’s well meaning but naive AF “but what about Charlemagne or Killer Mike” question. Steph you are on of my favorites but you & the rest of MSNBC do not realize how much you insult Black folk when you amplify those two charlatans!
Laugh your ass off, DM your friends. But, we, Black folks, are going to be edgy when it comes to Tim. The risk of giving bad faith Republicans an opening to call you racist ain't worth. Now let Black folks give Tim this work.
The Kamala Harris fundraising numbers drive home just how impressive Pete Buttigieg’s fundraising numbers are. He is mayor of a city of 100,000 and had 159,000 donors. She is a U.S. senator with 40 million constituents and had 218,000 donors.
It has been the case since as far as I can remember in business and in media that family was off limits, unless of course the family is directly involved in the business.
The code of the road was that you can attack the protagonist as much as you want, but not his wife and not
Let me breakdown what’s happening in Atlanta right now:
A Black woman indicts a bunch of white folks & a couple of sell out Black folks.
Before she is allowed to prosecute the case she and one of her lead prosecutors are treated like defendants.
Welcome to America
This is Ajike “AJ” Owens — a mother of 4 fatally shot after she reportedly knocked on the door of a white woman’s residence to retrieve her child’s iPad. It’s believed that Owens’ children accidentally left the device behind in a field they were playing in, & the woman took it.
Watch what happens when the reading clerk tries to read the Rules Package. She gets cut off. They talk all that mess and then pull this crap. They cut her off IMMEDIATELY
This should be big news. One of our nation's oldest and most prestigious civil rights organizations is advising folks not to visit Florida. I think we should all stand with the NAACP and make Florida, as well as other states with similar policies, no go zones.
"Under the leadership of Governor Desantis, the state of Florida has become hostile to Black Americans and in direct conflict with the democratic ideals that our union was founded upon."
— NAACP President and CEO
@DerrickNAACP
Take a stand with us.
The fact that
@KamalaHarris
can hop off a plane in Chuck Taylors, jeans and a blazer then as a result get Chuck Taylors to trend means that she has the “it factor.” This is the reason the far left has pulled out all stops to derail Kamala.
Some of y'all with your anti-Biden social media rhetoric are going to fuck around & elect Trump to "punish Biden." Joe will be fine if he loses, but you are screwing over immigrants, those in need of reproductive health, the environment, civil rights, Black and brown folks
Notice all the talk about the expected protests in Chicago during the Democratic National Convention but very little, if any, talk about protests in Milwaukee during the Republican National Convention. Think about that, leftists are coming for the very people who are closer to
The beauty of this attack is that by naming names he is telling Bernie that you cannot put this off on some random Twitter comments. This people ARE ON YOUR PAYROLL!
Think about this. Clyburn is saying the rioters did not come to the office that is visible or can be easily found by the public, they came to his private office which is not listed. Dude. . .THIS DEMANDS FURTHER INVESTIGATION.
Somebody told these rioters where to go.
House Majority Whip Clyburn on
@SIRIUSXM
: “They went where you won't find my name, but they found where I was supposed to be. So something else was going on untoward here.”
I see they brought in a young Black women to attack CRT & criticize Judge Ketanji Browm Jackson. We see you Keisha Russell of the First Liberty Institute. You are being used to attack another Black woman.
Why is
@AriMelber
quoting a Jay Z song that Eric Holder never heard to Eric Holder? Ari’s desire to be connected to “the culture” comes off as patronizing to many Black folks. It’s tiring Ari, f’ing tiring.
If this was 1996 and you told me that Howard Stern would interview a sitting Democratic president running for re-election before the New York Times I would have questioned your intelligence.
However, in 2024 Howard Stern has more integrity than the New York Times.
It is popular & often fashionable to drag Democrats over messaging. But messaging for Dems is different than messaging for Republicans. You can serve Republicans shit & their base would be like "mmm mmm best shit I ever had." You could serve Dems the best filet mignon & half
And yet a majority of the American public either don’t know, don’t care, or don’t believe it. One of the biggest messaging failures - by (Dem) politicians and (liberal) media alike - in decades.
Update: The child died following her stay at an ICE Detention Center, as a result of possible negligent care and a respiratory illness she contracted from one of the other children.
The events took place in Dilley Family Detention Center in south Texas.
Eddie Glaude is getting emotional on MSNBC right now, preaching, the white people at the table are eating it up, Stephanie Rhule is tearing up and I'm like "that MFer should have never voted for Jill Stein."
The question to Nikki Haley was about her opposition to a Kamala Harris presidency.
Here first instinct is to talk about President Obama, blame him for division.
What does President Obama have to do with this?
Simple: President Obama is Black. Kamala Harris is Black.
.
@KatyTurNBC
wants to know why there has been no Biden outreach to Larry Hogan, the same Larry Hogan who is running for US Senate in an attempt to flip a much needed seat from Democratic to Republican.
In doing so Hogan is seeking to undermine Biden. Do better Katy.
Hey
@eclecticbrotha
we need a thread of Obama stadium/arena appearances to really drive Toupee Fiasco crazy. My favorite is this gem from the Toronto Raptors. Not only did the Canadian fans show him much love, they gave him a damned Music bed too
I need to remind those of you giddy over Katie Porters announcement one thing: IF DiFi LEAVES EARLY NEWSOM HAS PROMISED TO APPOINT A BLACK WOMAN TO HER VACANCY.
Whether its an appointment or open seat, California presents the best chance for Black woman in the Senate.
For those of y'all saying Jimmy Carter doe not look well, the man is 99 years old in hospice care, may you all be fortunate enough to not look well at 99 years old in hospice care out and about at the funeral for your wife of 77 years. Your fave could NEVER
#RIPRosalynnCarter
Big federal charges this morning. Ivan Hunter, a 26 yo member of the far-right Boogaloo Bois, is charged with shooting up Minneapolis' third precinct (which he helped set on fire) and screaming "Justice for Floyd!" during Mpls unrest. Full story tk
.
@AriMelber
is giving
@KillerMike
a platform to attack Jim Clyburn for his work in
#OH11
without any pushback.
Ari's desire to be "down" with the hip hop crowd undermines his credibility. This is inexcusable
@MSNBC
, seriously Ari's desire to for affirmation is disgusting.
Tomorrow morning:
Nancy Pelosi will be Speaker
Chuck Schumer will be Senate Majority Leader
Kamala Harris will be Vice President (and tie breaking vote)
Joe Bide will be President
Virginia didn't change that and we have a little over a year to correct whatever went wrong tonight
"Trump said he wanted termination of the Constitution, and NYT put it on page 13...the media has utterly underplayed the story of an attempt to kill democracy."
On the pod
@MarkJacob16
on how editorial choices sanitize the Trump/MAGA threat.
Listen 👇
What the
@GOP
is saying is: How dare a Black woman make a modest purchase. $375 is not a lot for an attorney, married to another attorney. This tweet is filled with so much racial resentment. They are vilifying a Black woman for having $$$.
Y'all we got to get to
@brotherjones_
we need to make sure Tamika Mallory & Linda Sarsour DO NOT HIJACK THIS MOMENT FOR HIM. They appear to be positioning themselves to do just that.
the base would be like "but we are vegan." The demands & expectations of our base are different. Often times on any issue we serve constituencies with competing interests/goals/beliefs/objectives. We have a broad, informed coalition, that scrutinizes everything.
Part of the problem with
@AOC
's criticism of the framework is that she is disrespecting her House Democratic colleagues who have worked for years to pass the pieces of gun legislation that will be in the package.She has no bona fides on gun violence, they do and they support it.
Here is the key, as long as Politico reduces her to "Kamala" it is easy to question why she got the pill.
When they ask as "Why did VICE PRESIDENT Harris take the Pfizer pill?" The answer is BECAUSE SHE IS 1ST IN THE MF'ING LINE OF SUCCESSION AND WE CAN'T TAKE NO F'ING CHANCES!!
Katie Britt caught in a big big lie.
That compelling rape story she told last night, did not happen in the US during the Biden administration, it happened in Mexico during the W. Bush administration.
No less tragic, but knowing the truth it does not hit like she intended it to.
He caught Sen. Britt in an out and out lie. amazing work. and just sitting there in plain site. really worth your taking a few minutes to watch this video
Sen. Britt, not only an emotionally disregulated freak, also a big fat liar.
Does this mean that whenever a white person kills a person of color the local organizations that appeal to primarily people of European heritage have to cancel all of their events. THIS IS BULLSHIT and quite frankly racist.
them on every issue & giving the people who stand against them on every issue a pass.
It’s about the chaos, the disruption not policy. They are simple opps.
Black voter depression in 2024 is going to be driven by podcast hosed by two former cable news personalities, and a former gubernatorial candidate, produced by an ignorant radio personality who is an alleged rapist. THE ARE HELPING TRUMP . . . PROUDLY!!!
So this is
@AbbyJohnson
. Abby adopted a bi-racial child. Abby is racist. Abby will be speaking to the GOP convention tonight. Here is racist Abby talking about how her bi-racial child is more likely to be a criminal. H/T
@VICENews
do that, we have to be more nuanced. Don't even get me started on the challenges that the current crisis on the Gaza Strip presents. It is easy to criticize Dem messaging but to do so you must acknowledge that our mission is different and more challenging.
Hey
@eclecticbrotha
we need a thread of Obama stadium/arena appearances to really drive Toupee Fiasco crazy. My favorite is this gem from the Toronto Raptors. Not only did the Canadian fans show him much love, they gave him a damned Music bed too
.
@CharlesMBlow
blow gives a Master Class on how to handle folks, like Alisyn Camerota, who get offended & lecture you whoever you point out that Trump voters endorse & support his racism. Watch & learn. Thank you Charles.