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White Female: Rodney, I don't think it is fair to broad brush all White females as voting for donald trump. A lot of us did not vote for donald trump. I did not vote for donald trump.
Me: Stop being defensive. A lot of you did vote for donald trump. When I post about Racist Whites supporting donald trump as his base...and when I post about White females supporting and voting for donald trump, which also make them Racist, it is borne out by statistical facts--54% in 2016 and 54% in 2020--and not my statistical facts. If you do not fit either category, I am not talking about you. If you do, then I AM talking about you.
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THESE ARE PAINTINGS (both are 2 feet by 3 feet on canvas) by my youngest granddaughter, Jasmine, the dancer in New York. How she paints in between dance auditions and working in New York etc etc etc is beyond me, but she does. BEING A PROUD GRANDFATHER ain't even close. Oh, And BTW, these paintings are MINE! More are on the way, and they will be for sale, UNLESS I buy them first.     When Republicant candidates say in their political ads, "I share your values,"
what do they mean? FROM THE NEWS SERVICES...
"Today, I graciously accepted a call from Rep. Lauren Boebert in the hope of receiving a direct apology for falsely claiming she met me in an elevator, suggesting I was a terrorist, and for a history of anti-Muslim hate. Instead of apologizing for her Islamophobic comments and fabricated lies, Rep. Boebert refused to publicly acknowledge her hurtful and dangerous comments. She instead doubled down on her rhetoric. I decided to end the unproductive call. I believe in engaging with those we disagree with respectfully, but not when that disagreement is rooted in outright bigotry and hate."--Congresswoman Ilhan Omar To date, the Republican Party leadership has done nothing to condemn and hold their own members accountable for repeated instances of anti-Muslim hate and harassment and racism. This is not about one hateful statement or one politician; it is about a party that has mainstreamed bigotry and hatred and racism. Muslim and Jewish advocacy groups have filed a formal complaint against GOP Representative Lauren Boebert in the wake of her offensive remarks about Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar. Muslim Advocates and Bend the Arc: Jewish Action wrote to the House Ethics Committee on Tuesday calling for an investigation against the Colorado Republican, according to the complaint first reported by Politico. "Rep. Boebert's hateful, anti-Muslim statements pose real-life dangers," the two groups wrote. "When elected officials attack religious minorities, they can lay the groundwork for real violence against those communities." Boebert has been under fire since making anti-Muslim comments about Omar to an audience over the Thanksgiving holiday. The Republican congresswoman referred to Omar, a practicing Muslim, as a member of the "Jihad Squad." Rep. Omar has been consistent. She would like a public apology and for Minority Leader McCarthy to do discipline the racists and bigots in his caucus. RACISTS DO NOT CHANGE AND ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY ARE ELECTED TO CONGRESS.     I am Thankful on this Thanksgiving Day ...and even though White American History books and White historians LIE about THE FIRST Thanksgiving et al, I am still Thankful.
I am Thankful for Family and Friends and Relationships and Experiences and Life. I am Thankful for THE Great Legacy of those who looked like me and who came before me "Blazing" the paths to let me know Who I Am. I am not Thankful for the Insidious Racism that permeates this country based on the color of one’s skin. I am not Thankful that as a Black person I must fight Racism from sun-up to sundown every day I live and breathe. I am not Thankful for Whites in this country who disingenuously deny Racism exists when this country was founded on Racism. I am not Thankful for those who lost their lives because they were Breathing While Black. I am not Thankful for the Core Racist Attitudes of Racist White Americans who elected a White Racist president and who are determined to elect another White Racist president. I am not Thankful for those in White America who expect me to hold the United States Constitution Sacred, when they do not hold the United States Constitution Sacred themselves. I am not Thankful for the daily Disrespect shown by White America to me and those who look like me because the hue of our skin is Black. I am not Thankful that America is determined to Make America Great Again by Making America White Again. I am Thankful for those of us who Fight America's Insidious Racism which permeates this country, based on the color of My Black skin. I am Thankful that contrary to popular belief, White America did not give Black America anything... that we earned our citizenship, developing goods and services...inventing material "things" that benefited this country...and working for...fighting for...and dying for this country...in World Wars abroad...and the Racist Wars at home. I am Thankful that even with the Hypocrisy of Racist White America, they cannot, and they will not Break the Spirit of those Blacks who are determined that America “make good” on the “IOU” promised Black America since Slavery. I am Thankful some of us...not all of us...but some of us still have the Strength and the Will to Fight the Pathology of White American Racism. The Struggle Continues!      EVERY CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN THIS COUNTRY WAS STARTED BY YOUNG PEOPLE. THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES!!! STUDENTS AT THE EXCLUSIVE MIDDLESEX PRIVATE SCHOOL WALK OUT OF CLASSES IN PROTEST OVER THE CANCELLATION OF NIKOLE HANNAH JONES TALK. Middlesex Private School's decision to disinvite New York Times journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones culminated Friday with hundreds of students walking out of classes in protest. The students left their classrooms shortly after 1 p.m. and gathered at Eliot Hall on the Concord campus, where printouts of tweets criticizing school leaders for disinviting Hannah-Jones were displayed on the doors. The demonstration was designed to show the students’ “disappointment in our leadership,” an organizer said. “This decision was made by the leader and not by our school, and our school represents something totally different than the decisions of our leader,” said AliJah Clark, a 17-year-old junior. The school has been in the spotlight since Monday when Hannah-Jones, a Pulitzer Prize winner and the creator of The 1619 Project, revealed on Twitter that the school had cancelled plans for her to speak on campus next February for Black History Month. The 1619 Project re-examined US history through the lens of slavery’s legacy, and immediately became a target of the political right which sought to discredit the publication and Hannah-Jones. Speaking to the Globe on Tuesday, she said schools face “intense pressure not to invite speakers that are considered to be focusing too much on race and racism and the Black experience in American history.” David Beare, Middlesex’s head of school, hinted at that pressure on Tuesday in a statement about the rescinded invitation. “While we are confident that her insights would have been valued by our students, we were concerned that individuals from outside our community might inadvertently distract from the insights and perspective that she intended to share,” he said. Since then, officials at the private school have called the decision to disinvite Hannah-Jones “profoundly wrong,” and Beare has met with students twice, including an emotional session on Thursday, students said. After Thursday’s meeting, students said they met privately with faculty members to discuss plans to seek “accountability, apologies, and transparency,” and stage demonstrations until their goals are achieved. Nearly 100 faculty and staff members also wrote an open letter to the school’s trustees, saying they opposed the rescinded invitation. They called on trustees to have Beare “formally apologize to Ms. Hannah-Jones, as well as to the school, which he deprived of an exceptional moment of learning.” “We also ask the Board to take action, in partnership with the faculty and staff, to rebuild our trust and to regain the community’s confidence in Middlesex’s commitment to the anti-racism work that is so vital to the growth and future of our school,” they wrote. On Friday, Onyeraluobu Chibuogwu, a senior, said students have been striving to implement anti-racist initiatives at the school and believed school leaders’ encouragement had been “performative” in light of the Hannah-Jones decision. Picture-AliJah Clark, left, and Onyeraluobu Chibuogwu, students at Middlesex School, protested the school's decision to disinvite Nikole Hannah-Jones from speaking at the school on Friday.)      ONE YEAR AGO TODAY...
Art Republic "officially" unveiled the "Lift Every Voice" murals on the Forsyth Street side of the Jessie Ball duPont Fund Center (formerly the Haydon Burns library). It is an honor to have my image on one of the murals, and it was an honor to speak that night last year. Although I am appreciative and humble that my image is there, my image is symbolic and representative of those young Black people in Jacksonville who disregarded physical peril by participating in the 1960 lunch counter sit-ins demonstrations to fight Racism, and to "sit down" fighting against Jacksonville's Racism, for their Black Human Dignity and Respect. We Believed in "we and us," and not "I and me." And though WE, the members of the Jacksonville Youth Council NAACP circa 1960 protesting Racism peacefully through sit-in demonstrations were attacked, and other Blacks not associated with the sit-ins were also attacked downtown on that August 27 Saturday in 1960 by 200 White Racist thugs with ax handles and baseball bats, to a person, WE would do it All again. It is a priceless personal honor to share a public mural with Mr. Rutledge Henry Pearson-my Junior High school (Isaiah Blocker Junior High) American History teacher, my Junior High school Civics teacher...the adviser to the1959-1961 Jacksonville Youth Council NAACP (when I was President of the Jacksonville Youth Council NAACP, and led the 1960 lunch counter sit-ins with Alton Yates, and Marjorie Meeks Brown) ...and my Mentor. There are 3 murals-one mural features the Revered Zora Neale Hurston and the Very Talented Ebony Payne-English...one mural features Jacksonville "Angel" Eartha M. M. White and the Majestic (and my friend) Dr. Johnnetta Betsch Cole...and the third mural between these esteemed ladies, is Mr. Pearson and me. It was also priceless for my son, Rodney Hurst II, to introduce me as one of the speakers for the unveiling. I, in turn, officially introduced my great-granddaughter, Miss Everly Ann Dorrell, to Jacksonville last year. It was her public debut. All in all, it was a Grand evening. Thank you Jessica Santiago and Art Republic...thank you Mari Kuraishi and the Jessie Ball duPont Fund...thank you Muralist Par Excellente' Celso Quinones Gonzalez ...thank you Photographer Artist, Videographer, and Video Director Christopher Parsons...thank you to all of the artists, involved with this awesome project...and thank you again, to my family and friends, who were there last year to share with me. And though Ann was not "physically" there, her "Spirit" was there, and her "Love" was there, as she looked down smiling. (The original photos for the mural of Ebony Payne-English, and of my mural by the gifted photographer, Ingrid Damiani.) THE RACIST ANIMALS WHO HUNTED AND MURDERED AHMAUD ARBERY DON’T WANT HIM TO BE REFERRED TO AS A VICTIM IN COURT…AND THEY DO NOT WANT “THEIR" RACIST VANITY PLATES SHOWN. The vanity plate includes a Confederate flag on the front of the pick up truck that was used to chase Arbery on Feb. 23, 2020 in a Brunswick neighborhood before he was shot to death. Father and son Gregory McMichael and Travis McMichael said the license plate on Travis' truck "is not relevant and would be prejudicial," according to a motion filed on Sept. 30 asking the judge to ban it from trial. The McMichaels’ lawyers have also filed a motion asking that prosecutors be barred from referring to Arbery as a “victim." IF AHMAUD ARBERY IS NOT A VICTIM, WHAT THE HELL IS HE? The motion also alleges that prosecutors hope to use the Confederate emblem on the truck to do the following: "1. To draw the conclusion that Mr. Arbery saw the vanity plate, that he interpreted its meaning, and that he feared the occupants in the truck because of this vanity plate, which is why he ran away from the truck and ... "2. To create the inference that Travis McMichael placed the vanity plate on his truck in order to telegraph some reprehensible motive, bias, or prejudice, which is not true." "... The fact that defendant Travis McMichael knowingly, intentionally and purposefully attached vanity plate to the front of his truck for all the world to see, has nothing to do with the State's strategic decision regarding third party communications that show racial animus," prosecutors stated in their response to the motion to ban images of plate. "Defendant Travis Michael's choice, and the fact that this vanity plate was on the front of his pick-up truck on Feb. 23, 2020, are intrinsic evidence in this case and can be fully be used by the State to illustrate the intent and motive of Travis McMichael." WHITE PRIVILEGE AND WHITE RACISM.  I POSTED, "YOU CANNOT USE JACKSONVILLE AND PROGRESSIVE IN THE SAME SENTENCE", earlier on Facebook. Nothing is truer, for me. And as expected, I received “pro and con” comments from my "Facebook Friends." BTW-I purge regularly.
From “I know many Progressives in Jacksonville” to “Jacksonville is not as bad as some other places I know” to “I could not disagree with you more.” So, Lets unpack: 1) I did not post MY comments asking for your support or your blessings or your agreement. I could give let’s than a Tinker’s Damn if you agree with me that Jacksonville is NOT Progressive. 2) I do not work for the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce, so it is not my responsibility to be a Jacksonville Cheerleader. 3) Jacksonville is still very much Racist and even with a Pro Football team. I see very few changes in that. 4) Jacksonville’s religious community both Black and White are as passive and non-threatening as other White folks and Black folks in the Jacksonville community, and they act as if they just found out Jesus Christ was crucified. I don’t know if some of them who believe in the Bible, internalized that Jesus also arose from the dead. But that is how "un-engaged" they are with what is happening in Jacksonville. Speaking out against Racism and For Civil Rights and Against Police Brutality and For Equality...Not From My Pulpit! But let someone give out "pennies" as offerings to FIGHT CRIME and they are the first ones in line with their hands out, as if they are law enforcement officers. 5) Many Blacks in Jacksonville who should know better, have taken a Go-Along-to-Get-Along posture as if speaking out against Injustice and Police Brutality and Racism will sour their “good” relationships with their White Friends. Not only is being quiet a sign of complicity, but saying nothing will not make Racism disappear. 6) Jacksonville still refuses to have real conversations about Racism because those conversations make Whites in Jacksonville and Blacks in Jacksonville, Uncomfortable. Whites in Jacksonville ALWAYS want to tell me what THEY think is best for me. I call it “The White Expert on Black Folks Syndrome.” And they get their feelings hurt when I tell them "Who in the H-E-double sticks do you think you are to tell me what I want and need and how I feel?" Then Black folks go along with the “White Experts” as if that is a way to make peace. White Experts, like White Privilege and White Racism is a White Arrogant Lifestyle which has permeated Jacksonville since time Immemorial. Fairness...Equality...and Civil Rights...are not even footnotes in Jacksonville’s history and its conversations...and you have Blacks in Jacksonville who would dare say, “I know a lot of White Progressives in Jacksonville." Well Whoop-De-Doo. You must keep them hidden. WE can join hands and sing... have prayer vigils... rally around art... go to luncheons and dinners ... have your study circles about Racism...and visit each other's churches all you want...but if you think that is ALL that is necessary to call yourself a Progressive, you are only fooling Yourselves and Blacks who do not know any better. Jacksonville is still Jacksonville...with its feet in 2019...and its head in the 1950’s and the 1960’s ... and IS STILL not Progressive. Jacksonville does not like to talk about Racism and especially ITS Racism. When have you heard of dealing with Racism, by NOT talking about it? How do you Fight Racism by not acknowledging IT is the Enemy? Of course, YOU DO NOT...YOU CANNOT. Jacksonville is the home of my birth and my late wife’s birth and my children's birth and my grandchildren's birth and my great grandchild's birth and many of my friends' place of birth. I went to school in Jacksonville...I attend church in Jacksonville and I fight Racism (and fought Racism) in Jacksonville. I reserve the right to Criticize Jacksonville Whenever I want and Wherever I want, until Jacksonville does better...and that is With or Without your help. AND I CERTAINLY DO NOT NEED YOUR APPROVAL OR YOUR BLESSINGS. The Struggle Continues. |
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