5/30 Bernie Bro Killer Mike Makes Impassioned Speech to Protesters in Atlanta; Citizens March Against Police Brutality All Over the US; News Roundup & OT
LeBron James picks up on Killer Mike’s Speech Last Night:
MANDATORY LISTEN!!!! @KillerMike always on point! So passionate and smart(knowledgeable) as hell!! Man I love you G! Salute ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾 https://t.co/Mi8WQ74LWD
— LeBron James (@KingJames) May 30, 2020
Leave it to a Bernie Bro to speak “pragmatic” truths.
Updated active protests right now! More than 30+ cities 20 states. wow wow! pic.twitter.com/7zPcLiTOGP
— 𝟙𝟙 • 𝕃𝕆𝕍𝔼𝕃𝕐 (@Chaebomsus) May 30, 2020
Phil Collins sang about apartheid in South Africa. The song “Colors” could be applicable here. Today.
https://youtu.be/FKz5bK4wwn4
More news, tweets, videos in the comments section. Welcome to the weekend, with lots of civil and uncivil rest. Still 5 months to go until Election Day.
Tip jar for Bernie Bros and Sisters..
If there was a moment for “Not Me, Us”, this is it.
Thanks for the thread Benny!
Was fun to catch up on yesterday’s long thread and today’s thread.
I woke up to see Cornel West trending on twitter and I was like, “Yes!!”. It made me happy.
Did you all see Brother West on CNN last night?
I was in the kitchen and mr. mags was flipping news channels waiting for dinner to be ready (he’d already done his part, lol) and heard someone talking sense on tv and thought, “Is that…” and peeked around the corner to see Dr. West on CNN and Anderson was giving him tons of room to speak!
It was awesome. It made me happy and it got mr. mags all charged up-then he said THAT’S what needs to happen!! (what Cornel said)
Something’s gotta give, and Biden isn’t what’s needed right now, nor Klobuchar, nor Harris, and I don’t think Warren is either. Something’s gotta give. I feel that.
Hate to say this but its more than 4 years backwards😥😥 I really figured we as the human race would be more matured and grown up by 2020,, boy was I wrong.
Just for fun, looking at the Star Trek timeline WWIII starts in 2026 and the Vulcans detect the Cochrane warp drive in 2063. WWIII by then may happen by then but first contact by 2063?? nadda, not gonna happen,considering current affairs of humanity– MAGA’s would lock them up as illegal aliens
It’s 1968, again, in oh, so many ways.
Let’s just hope we don’t end up (re) electing Nixon.
The MSM has plenty of blame with regards to the situation we are in.
Look at the coverage of Hong Kong and here. In Hong Kong and elsewhere it is classified as protests while here it is considered riots. Go figure?
Meanwhile we are left with a choice of racist Trump or dementia Joe who remains hiding in his basement.
With its biased coverage or non coverage (ie. blackout)of the primary Bernie who was the only one with actual solutions was forced to withdraw.
It is a sad state of affairs.😥😕
Brute force is not what I would call a solution!
Should’ve had them out distributing food cleaning up hotel rooms for people that need them, stuff like that, along time ago.
Very passionate interesting speech by the mayor of Atlanta, She’s light years ahead of Trumpcorp in showing some leadership by an elected official
Maybe she should be put forward as the Dem nominee.
At this point since Bernie’s out i would settle for her over the two senile idiots the Neolibcons forced upon us. But not over Nina.
Not everyone is impressed by the Atlanta mayor.
Yah, I”m not feeling her response, nor the framing of the protesting as rioting. Especially with at least one outed provacateur, all the undercover police, and the outsiders coming in causing trouble.
Who is that Caleb Hull guy?
Not sure who he is, just listened to the speech and used the link provided. She did make some good points but not a fan of the CNN crap by any measure.
Thank you!
Well, you can see why Keisha is Mayor of Atlanta:
“Go home! You have defaced the CNN Building! Go home!”
Privately owned property has always been worth waaay more than human beings in this wonderful country of ours.
What America needs now is a black woman law-and-order politician, like Keisha. Maybe she can pre-empt the law-and-order Trump vote, ya think?
This Mayor has got no words, I mean no words, for how we end racism in this country. The BS about how deeply she empathizes with George Floyd is, coming from a political actor, wrong-headed and unintentionally superficial, and possibly sarcasm parading as sincerity.
Makes Kamala look like a serious thinker.
Sorry to be so strident in this remark, but I hate to see the system co-opting and winning again and again.
Wasn’t thrilled with that part of her speech at all but did have other points that made some sense.
I’ve heard a lot of talk about outside agitators, facilitating the violence and property destruction. Funny thing… the police are using this as an excuse to repress everyone, but none of the agitators is ever arrested. Almost as if this was the plan all along.
Our foreign policy is in shambles. And it not just Trump who is to blame.
That has been going down since Vietnam. Now, the stupidest of the stupid aka the fringe right is in charge. Big trouble is getting set to blow worldwide.
T and R, Ms. Benny!! 🙂 It doesn’t look good for the SpaceX launch today. 80-100% storms predicted. We shall see. Supposedly, the fat orange idiot and his dimwit VP are down here. tRump can always put Pence up at one of his properties and charge taxpayers for the cost. If the launch is scrubbed.
Any possibily of putting those two in the rocket and set course to deep space? 🙂
BTW Musk can afford to replace the rocket used for this. 🙂
Roped to the outside, even?
If their smart they’ll ask for an extended stay, as coming back to planet earth isn’t real attractive right now
Some might call this harsh but it is not far from being true.
i recall going to many a demonstration in the late 60’s early 70’s when the chant in opposition to police authority and sorry-assed politicians was, “oink, oink, …” The police were called pigs and the politicians were accused or “oinking in the face of the people.” Lolol… I thing the term was started by the Panthers.
Corporatists and oligarchs fit that term nicely, as well.
Lots of Narratives being pushed by the media, Mn gov says 80% of protestors from out of state, other MSM saying our groups comitting vandalism in the name of Floyd to push their underlying adjenda’s so the people protesting for justic for Floyd get the blame for the arson and vandalism and so it goes. Safe to say their will be a ton of articles to decide these narratives and for us here to offer opinions. The only thing I can say for sure that thanks to “live” media coverage the narrative of only POC cause vandalism and loot stores during a riot was shown to be false cant dispute the videos. Plenty of videos, from the guy banging on the glass with his skateboard at the CNN, to white women going thru the Target with shopping carts like a normal day of shopping taking what they wanted. The dumbest crook award has to go to the black car at the stop n go that were taking shelves right out of the store and dumping it into their trunk!!! Their license plate was in full view for the owner to get and press charges at least for one crook. The Yuge question is Will anything change??? Or will this be like the mass shootings? Thoughts and prayers offered by various politicians and watch as police union lawyers get delays in the trial to let time pass so that the media moves on to the next shiny story. Then you will get a half assed effort by the local prosecutor and the local jury that almost always side with the “Blue shield” rule of law. Meanwhile the family of the murdered victim gets little if any real justice… I’ll be very surprised if any politician at the local, state or national actually do anything. It seams that its OK for police to be judge, jury and executioner in the USA especially if its a POC.
it’s a hard thing. the arrests and the covid may cause lasting harm and death. and yet the statement—saying that enough really is enough—is vital and gives hope. if we could get millions to march all at once through every big city….
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/30/george-floyd-killing-us-politics-trump-biden#maincontent
I can’t praise Biden. Racist is racist, there is no matter of degree.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/05/trump-vicious-dogs-protests-george-floyd-spread-country.html
“. . .and his Greek chorus. . .” Such a fitting metaphor!
The Chorus was the people of the City.
Obama as the “hero” in the Greek tragedy–the beautiful princely destroyer of the City.
Yes to Briahna!
You have a chance to elect the one politician that truly would help with that problem and work for all of us but You and other POC backed Byedone instead….
You can’t blame the southern red states that made (not elected, since these primaries were such a farce) Biden the DNC candidate. It’s about the structure that was designed and placed to do that. Why on earth should a bunch of southern red states be choosing the Democratic candidate for president, anyway??? The process is inherently skewed to favor the most conservative of candidates.