Racism is alive and well, Thanks Trump and his supporters!

[MintJulie]

Some people are defending 250-pound White man who knocked out 11-year-old Black girl


In this corner, weighing in at 250 pounds, 53 year old David Bell.
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In this corner, an eleven year old girl, weighing 90 pounds soaking wet.

Video of the fight at the bottom of the page in the link provided.

[joan1984]

https://www.facebook.com/699942941/posts/10158314912517942/

Full video, including the assault, and 'gun' gesture toward the adult, by the girl who misjudged, when she threatened the adult, if not his family members prior.

Clearly self defense, IMHO, and expect charges will be dropped, perhaps other juvenile charges filed before the dust settles fully in this case.

[Katiebee]

https://www.facebook.com/699942941/posts/10158314912517942/

Full video, including the assault, and 'gun' gesture toward the adult, by the girl who misjudged, when she threatened the adult, if not his family members prior.

Clearly self defense, IMHO, and expect charges will be dropped, perhaps other juvenile charges filed before the dust settles fully in this case.

Your idea of self defense seems to include reacting to a non-violent display by a child.

There was NO self-defense on Bell’s part. It was an un-warranted physical assault on the girl. Pretty much like me taking a baseball bat to you if you yell at me.

[joan1984]

Will be interesting to follow the court case then, and see the result.

Age of a person perpetuating an assault, on his family, then on him, is no matter when acting in self defense. A person being attacked may defend.

https://www.facebook.com/699942941/posts/10158314912517942/

Full video, including the assault, and 'gun' gesture toward the adult, by the girl who misjudged, when she threatened the adult, if not his family members prior.

Clearly self defense, IMHO, and expect charges will be dropped, perhaps other juvenile charges filed before the dust settles fully in this case.

Your idea of self defense seems to include reacting to a non-violent display by a child.

There was NO self-defense on Bell’s part. It was an un-warranted physical assault on the girl. Pretty much like me taking a baseball bat to you if you yell at me.

[Katiebee]

Self-defense is regulated by proportionate response. There was NO proportionate response to any provocation.

He is going down.

[_priapism]

If the little girl had blonde hair and blue eyes, the White Nationalists would be calling for the death penalty.  Racists gonna race.

[psiberzerker]

Age of a person perpetuating an assault, on his family, then on him, is no matter when acting in self defense. A person being attacked may defend.

What assault?  Self defense against what?  Being black?  It's about damned time that being black was not seen as an assault on White Nationalists.  

He pushed her, he is the aggressor.  She pointed at him.  Pointing at someone, sorry the "Gun gesture" is not an assault.  Pushing a child around?  That's assault on a minor.

[Athos_131]

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[Athos_131]

After butting heads with Trump administration, top HUD official departs agency

Last fall, Patenaude expressed concern over the Trump administration’s intervention in disaster-recovery money that Congress had appropriated for Puerto Rico and states hit by hurricanes.

President Trump in late September grew incensed after hearing, erroneously, that Puerto Rico was using the emergency money to pay off its debt, according to two people with direct knowledge of Trump’s thinking.

Trump told then-White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly and then-Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney that he did not want a single dollar going to Puerto Rico, because he thought the island was misusing the money and taking advantage of the government, according to a person with direct knowledge of the discussions who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe sensitive internal deliberations. Instead, he wanted more of the money to go to Texas and Florida, the person said.

“POTUS was not consolable about this,” the person said.

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[Athos_131]

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ICE almost deported a U.S.-born Marine veteran, says ACLU

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[Athos_131]

High School Students Bring Trump 2020 Flag To Basketball Game Against Predominantly Black School

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[joan1984]

A Hillary banner, a Obama banner, and they are not flags, but banners, what is the difference? Seems folks are looking for animus in everyday social interaction and finding issues where there are none.

High School Students Bring Trump 2020 Flag To Basketball Game Against Predominantly Black School

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[Athos_131]

Wisconsin says sorry for its response to idiots dressed as Trump lynching Clinton and Obama

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[Athos_131]

GOP Rep. Jason Smith apologizes for telling Democrats to 'go back to Puerto Rico'

Cárdenas, a California Democrat of Mexican heritage, said in a statement Thursday night that he was "shocked" to hear Smith's words as he waited to speak on the floor and "often heard those kinds of comments" when he was a kid growing up outside Los Angeles.

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[Athos_131]

‘It was getting ugly’: Native American drummer speaks on the MAGA-hat-wearing teens who surrounded him

The images in videos that went viral on social media Saturday showed a tense scene near the Lincoln Memorial.

In them, a Native American man steadily beats his drum at the tail end of Friday’s Indigenous Peoples March while singing a song of unity urging them to “be strong” in the face of the ravages of colonialism that now include police brutality, poor access to health care and the ill effects of climate change on reservations.

Surrounding him are a throng of young, mostly white teenage boys, several wearing “Make America Great Again” caps, with one standing about a foot from the drummer’s face also wearing a relentless smirk.

Nathan Phillips, a veteran in the indigenous rights movement, was that man in the middle.

In an interview Saturday, Phillips, 64, said he felt threatened by the teens and that they suddenly swarmed around him as he and other activists were wrapping up the march and preparing to leave.

Phillips, who was singing the American Indian Movement song that serves as a ceremony to send the spirits home, said he noticed tensions beginning to escalate when the teens and other apparent participants from the nearby March for Life rally began taunting the dispersing indigenous crowd.

A few people in the March for Life crowd began to chant “Build that wall, build that wall,” he said.

“It was getting ugly, and I was thinking: ‘I’ve got to find myself an exit out of this situation and finish my song at the Lincoln Memorial,’ ” Phillips recalled. “I started going that way, and that guy in the hat stood in my way and we were at an impasse. He just blocked my way and wouldn’t allow me to retreat.”

So, he kept drumming and singing, thinking about his wife, Shoshana, who died of bone marrow cancer nearly four years ago, and the various threats that face indigenous communities around the world, he said.

“I felt like the spirit was talking through me,” Phillips said.

The encounter generated a wave of outrage on social media less than a week after President Trump made light of the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre of several hundred Lakota Indians by the U.S. Cavalry in a tweet that was meant to mock Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who Trump derisively calls “Pocahontas.”

In a statement, the Indigenous Peoples Movement, which organized Friday’s march, called the incident “emblematic of our discourse in Trump’s America.”

“It clearly demonstrates the validity of our concerns about the marginalization and disrespect of Indigenous peoples, and it shows that traditional knowledge is being ignored by those who should listen most closely,” Darren Thompson, an organizer for the group, said in the statement.

Rep. Deb Haaland (D-N.M.), who with Rep. Sharice Davids (D-Kan.) became the first Native American women elected to Congress last fall, said the video was difficult to watch.

“To see a group of students from a Catholic school who are practicing such intolerance is a sad sight for me,” said Haaland, who is Catholic.

Some of the teens in the video wore sweatshirts from Covington Catholic High School in Park Hills, Ky., which sent students to Washington to participate in Friday’s antiabortion March for Life event, according to an archived page of the school’s website that was taken down Saturday.

[A march takes on new meaning in the age of Trump]

School officials and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Covington released a joint statement Saturday.

“We condemn the actions of the Covington Catholic High School students towards Nathan Phillips specifically, and Native Americans in general,” the statement said.

“The matter is being investigated and we will take appropriate action, up to and including expulsion.”

Chase Iron Eyes, an attorney with the Lakota People Law Project, said the incident lasted about 10 minutes and ended when Phillips and other activists walked away.

“It was an aggressive display of physicality. They were rambunctious and trying to instigate a conflict,” he said. “We were wondering where their chaperones were. [Phillips] was really trying to defuse the situation.”

Phillips, an Omaha tribe elder who fought in the Vietnam War and now lives in Michigan, has long been active in the indigenous rights movement.

A co-founder of the Native Youth Alliance cultural and education group, he shows up to Arlington National Cemetery every Veterans Day with a peace pipe to pay tribute to Native Americans who served in the U.S. military.

“My job has always been taking care of the fire, to keep the prayers going,” Phillips said.

In that role, he has encountered anti-Native American sentiment before: In 2015, Phillips was verbally attacked by a group of Eastern Michigan University students who were dressed as Native Americans during a theme party near the town of Ypsilanti, according to news reports.

Phillips had approached the group, informing them that their celebration was racially offensive, a local Fox News station reported. One of the students threw a beer can at him, Phillips told the news outlet.

But the Friday incident, combined with the ensuing attention from media outlets scrambling to get his story, left him shaken.

“I’m still trying to process what happened,” Phillips said. “I’m feeling a little bit overwhelmed.”

Still, he said, he hopes the teens will find a lesson in all of the negative attention generated by the videos.

“That energy could be turned into feeding the people, cleaning up our communities and figuring out what else we can do,” Phillips said. “We need the young people to be doing that instead of saying: ‘These guys are our enemies.’ ”

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[Athos_131]

Old video surfaces of Covington Catholic students in black paint

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[Athos_131]

Don't Doubt What You Saw With Your Own Eyes

Right-wing trolls not only immediately proposed that the visibly aggressive teens, who were draped in the symbols of white nationalism and misogyny, were in fact the aggressed upon, but began a campaign of brutal online harassment against anyone—especially journalists and especially female journalists—who accurately described what they had seen, or reacted to it on the terms it deserved. In all it was an enactment of the culture-war tactics pioneered by Gamergate and used by Donald Trump to ascend to the pinnacle of global power: While random MAGA chuds and Pepes doxxed and threatened people online in an attempt to silence them and intimidate others, respectable types urged caution, proposing that if you were thoughtful enough you would perhaps realize that you hadn’t in fact seen what you had just seen, or that if you had, maybe it wasn’t that bad at all.

Hmm...

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[Athos_131]

Colorado lawmaker Lori Saine claims blacks, whites were lynched in “nearly equal numbers” for being Republican following Reconstruction

“I don’t know where she got her misleading and not factual information,” Herrod said.

According to the NAACP’s history of lynchings, nearly 73 percent of the 4,800 people lynched from 1882 until 1968 were black. It’s possible that some were also Republicans, but they were lynched because of the color of their skin and not their political party, Herod said.

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