Sunday, October 7, 2012
Let Me Tell You...: Mister Rogers to Romney: Oh No, You Don't
Let Me Tell You...: Mister Rogers to Romney: Oh No, You Don't: What's Mitt Romney smoking? Nothing? Then why the low five to Big Bird? His comment about Big Bird and PBS is not only cavalier, it's as t...
Seriously, Research, Read History
Our main priority is to make sure President Obama does not get a second term. -- Mitch M
My dad used to say, "There'll only be two class- rich and poor." (He should know since his Southern town never had factories and unemployment for black men was unimaginable. He never had a full-time job after relocating to the south from Newark, N.J.)
He died poor and left children most of whom never left poverty. Pockets of poverty in urban areas across this country didn't have jobs before the economic crisis. Romney can blame it on Obama, but he needs a history lesson. Milwaukee's factories have been closing
African-American men are unemployed and long before this political staging of blaming President Obama for unemployment in his four-year tenure. Long before Obama was born these men struggled without jobs to care for their children.
Mister Rogers to Romney: Oh No, You Don't
What's Mitt Romney smoking? Nothing? Then why the low five to Big Bird?
His comment about Big Bird and PBS is not only cavalier, it's as thoughtless as that unbelievable middle class flip flop. He put them in the 47% now he's apologized and started courting them for votes. During the debates, he pitched a proud doom day for PBS:
"I'm sorry Jim. I'm going to stop the subsidy to PBS. I'm going to stop other things. I like PBS. I love Big Bird. ...I'm not going to keep on spending money on things to borrow money from China to pay for it."
What's he going to do -- outsource Big Bird to China or the highest bidding country, or to businesses creating12 million jobs he promised? He just doesn't get it.
(Instead of targeting PBS and Big Bird, here are more expensive chopping block subsidies -- corporate welfare, Big Oil, tax cuts for the rich, and.. . Oh, I forgot, it's okay because entitlements are for the wealthy. I must add that some wealthy citizens want their beloved country to survive)
Big Bird isn't just a subsidized PBS phenomenon; he's an educational staple for children and adults without Internet, cable, or other paid networks providing political and special programs.
He owns Sesame Street, but he isn't eating up all those government cookies without carrying his weight. Children need Big Bird to bring them along with their peers in kindergarten and first grade. Fortunate children have day care linked to early childhood education, which single mothers and jobless parents cannot afford.
I'm a Big Bird learner's mother, and I thank him for all that reading, writing, and math in North Carolina though she attended four-year-old kingergarten.
Mr. Rogers is livid. Twitter fans and the Big Bird family from years ago are twisting with anger. So Romney wants to drown PBS that provides programming for that 47% he said, "I don't have to worry about them."
He doesn't have to worry about freedom, convenience, and anything else he needs or desires. ...maybe a trip to heaven with a U-haul hitched to his bank.
Consider this: You apologized for the 47% but where I grew up and live now, your comments are unforgettable and unforgiveable. For those who believe your apology, hear this:
I have some white, sandy beachfront property "smack dab" in Florida's Port Everglades, and I'll sell it for whatever a buyer is willing to pay.
His comment about Big Bird and PBS is not only cavalier, it's as thoughtless as that unbelievable middle class flip flop. He put them in the 47% now he's apologized and started courting them for votes. During the debates, he pitched a proud doom day for PBS:
"I'm sorry Jim. I'm going to stop the subsidy to PBS. I'm going to stop other things. I like PBS. I love Big Bird. ...I'm not going to keep on spending money on things to borrow money from China to pay for it."
What's he going to do -- outsource Big Bird to China or the highest bidding country, or to businesses creating12 million jobs he promised? He just doesn't get it.
(Instead of targeting PBS and Big Bird, here are more expensive chopping block subsidies -- corporate welfare, Big Oil, tax cuts for the rich, and.. . Oh, I forgot, it's okay because entitlements are for the wealthy. I must add that some wealthy citizens want their beloved country to survive)
Big Bird isn't just a subsidized PBS phenomenon; he's an educational staple for children and adults without Internet, cable, or other paid networks providing political and special programs.
He owns Sesame Street, but he isn't eating up all those government cookies without carrying his weight. Children need Big Bird to bring them along with their peers in kindergarten and first grade. Fortunate children have day care linked to early childhood education, which single mothers and jobless parents cannot afford.
I'm a Big Bird learner's mother, and I thank him for all that reading, writing, and math in North Carolina though she attended four-year-old kingergarten.
Mr. Rogers is livid. Twitter fans and the Big Bird family from years ago are twisting with anger. So Romney wants to drown PBS that provides programming for that 47% he said, "I don't have to worry about them."
He doesn't have to worry about freedom, convenience, and anything else he needs or desires. ...maybe a trip to heaven with a U-haul hitched to his bank.
Consider this: You apologized for the 47% but where I grew up and live now, your comments are unforgettable and unforgiveable. For those who believe your apology, hear this:
I have some white, sandy beachfront property "smack dab" in Florida's Port Everglades, and I'll sell it for whatever a buyer is willing to pay.
Monday, October 1, 2012
Moving Forward Festival
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Saturday, September 22, 2012
Danger, Danger, Danger
Whether you think it's OK to suppress 1.7 million voters in this election, consider this: It's not just about this election or the candidates though we want our own choice.
Have you read this? The New York Times reported this on Thursday that GOP supporters are working to suppress votes of seniors and African-Americans in swing states where President Obama won the last election.
Suppose in the next election Democrats decided to launch a similar campaign to nail down shoes of mostly white Republican voters. Suppose you're denied the right to vote because you're unable to cite the U.S. Constitution or the Gettysburg Address.
If GOP supporters succeed in suppressing votes in 16 states, we've already breached the laws of Voting Rights -- a civil rights fight in which U.S. Rep. John Lewis nearly lost his life. Too many foot soldiers fought and died.
If successful this scathing political scalpel would return 50 years of dirty-shameful history, tantamount to political Olympics awarding gold medals to banned players. Romney and the GOP believe they're "entitled" to trample on rights of people who've won rights through emotional and physical trauma, blood, & ugliness.
I hope our goodness, as God ordained, revives our consciousness, to take a step back and recognize the danger in taking away rights of anyone, for any rationale.
These are dangerous possibilities where supporters dupe intelligent, possibly snoozing judges to see it GOP's way, but it's up to voters to register properly and choose not to fall back. Or it'll be "Romney Care" creating his brand of victimization -- squashing self-esteem, livelihood, culture, total humanity.
Have you read this? The New York Times reported this on Thursday that GOP supporters are working to suppress votes of seniors and African-Americans in swing states where President Obama won the last election.
Suppose in the next election Democrats decided to launch a similar campaign to nail down shoes of mostly white Republican voters. Suppose you're denied the right to vote because you're unable to cite the U.S. Constitution or the Gettysburg Address.
If GOP supporters succeed in suppressing votes in 16 states, we've already breached the laws of Voting Rights -- a civil rights fight in which U.S. Rep. John Lewis nearly lost his life. Too many foot soldiers fought and died.
If successful this scathing political scalpel would return 50 years of dirty-shameful history, tantamount to political Olympics awarding gold medals to banned players. Romney and the GOP believe they're "entitled" to trample on rights of people who've won rights through emotional and physical trauma, blood, & ugliness.
I hope our goodness, as God ordained, revives our consciousness, to take a step back and recognize the danger in taking away rights of anyone, for any rationale.
These are dangerous possibilities where supporters dupe intelligent, possibly snoozing judges to see it GOP's way, but it's up to voters to register properly and choose not to fall back. Or it'll be "Romney Care" creating his brand of victimization -- squashing self-esteem, livelihood, culture, total humanity.
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Back to the Future
The fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin struck fear and pain across the country. Aside for the tremendous for their parents, community, friends, and relatives, the crime conjures an eerie feeling associated with the deep, dark past of a time we never wanted to witness again.
Plain and simple: When a crime is committed, the police investigates. Period. In murder cases where there is a known assailant, somebody gets arrested. Locking in "Stand Your Ground" law doesn't -- or shouldn't -- preclude that police dismisses the shooter whose killed the teenager lying dead and now in a cold, dark grave. If this law is that much mistrued that police don't investigates, then it's a bad law. George Zimmerman's hiding out, the crime scene never got marked off, the spot of crime investigation has grown cold, and people across the country have loudly, clearly, and stubbornly painted racism on the face of the wrong-doing.
He's not a racist, says his friends. First of all, nobody is stupid enough to let a friend know he's a racist. In this day that's the last attribute you'd boldly bolster. When listening to the 911 recording, I who've had experienced racism and not just suspecting when its ugly head sneaks from underground, know how it smells, tastes, how its rough tactile, how it sounds, and its auditory function.
In this persumed "post racial era", the reality forces everyone to look at the change we all hoped had occurred.
Plain and simple: When a crime is committed, the police investigates. Period. In murder cases where there is a known assailant, somebody gets arrested. Locking in "Stand Your Ground" law doesn't -- or shouldn't -- preclude that police dismisses the shooter whose killed the teenager lying dead and now in a cold, dark grave. If this law is that much mistrued that police don't investigates, then it's a bad law. George Zimmerman's hiding out, the crime scene never got marked off, the spot of crime investigation has grown cold, and people across the country have loudly, clearly, and stubbornly painted racism on the face of the wrong-doing.
He's not a racist, says his friends. First of all, nobody is stupid enough to let a friend know he's a racist. In this day that's the last attribute you'd boldly bolster. When listening to the 911 recording, I who've had experienced racism and not just suspecting when its ugly head sneaks from underground, know how it smells, tastes, how its rough tactile, how it sounds, and its auditory function.
In this persumed "post racial era", the reality forces everyone to look at the change we all hoped had occurred.
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Oh, No, Not Again
We have enough codes dangling in dungeons or microscopic specks of injustice for those who aren't in denial about them to speak out. We talk about it among ourselves, but there's no Martin Luther King Jr. to uncover wrongs and lead the fight against injustice.People are dying out there while our jails are over-populated with a rising rate of recidivism promoted by unfair barometers, but these laws remain. (No space to spell out the problem except to say prison's in dire need of reform since they're filled with people who had minor drug infractions, and taxpayers are paying more to lock 'em up than it costs to educate one prisoner)
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