With no voter cover they never will.
With no voter cover they never will.
Why would this guy vote yes..?
Raised Catholic in Detroit, Ellison converted to Islam, dabbled in black nationalism, and marched with the Nation of Islam’s Louis Farrakhan—all before his first bid for Congress in 2006.
As a young activist in Minneapolis, Ellison learned to build coalitions outside the scope of party politics. He also learned the limits of what such activism could achieve without political power. For Ellison, it was a time of experimentation, education, and sometimes radical dalliances that ultimately imbued in his politics a hard-edged pragmatism. Many Democrats underestimated the extent to which Trump’s religious intolerance and ravings about “inner cities” would appeal to broad, largely white swaths of the electorate. They banked on the arc of progress to knock him back. Ellison, who built his career battling racist institutions, knew better than to make that mistake.
If his trajectory was ordained by his father, Ellison’s worldview bore the imprint of his mother, Clida, a devout Catholic from a Louisiana Creole family. The congressman’s maternal grandfather was a voting rights organizer in Natchitoches. Clida was sent to a boarding school for safety; the Ku Klux Klan once burned a cross outside their house. Clida’s family tree—with roots in the Balkans, France, Spain, and West Africa—was a prism for understanding the absurdity of the South’s racial caste system. Ellison’s younger brother, Anthony, now a lawyer in Boston, recalled Ellison struggling with their mother’s revelation that some of their Creole ancestors had owned slaves. During visits to a family cotton farm in Louisiana, Ellison brought notebooks and a tape recorder and spent hours interviewing relatives
Ellison’s political awakening, which he credits to reading The Autobiography of Malcolm X at age 13, came during a period of racial turmoil in Detroit. When riots started after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., Ellison, then five, hid under his bed as National Guard personnel carriers cruised past his block. Over a two-and-a-half-year period in the early 1970s, one Detroit police unit that formed after the riots was accused of killing 21 African Americans. Ellison feared crime and the people tasked with stopping it. After graduating from high school in 1981, he majored in economics at nearby Wayne State University, moving out of his leafy neighborhood and into a one-bedroom apartment in the city’s crack-ravaged Cass Corridor.
How do you defend against this?
How do you defend against this?
This has nothing to do with protecting cops and will only be used to trump up charges and force plea deals against citizens.
How many dems supported this bill?
Wow.
For 8 years I watched this board claim that President Obama was a powerless figurehead who had no real power to enact any change of significance. Just the power to inspire hope.
Wow! This is the first time I've heard someone on this board repeat what I've been saying for 20 years. If you're worried about how a president can affect your life directly you're not handling your business properly. The white house has minimal affect on people that are keeping up with the game. I came up under Bush, Obama and now Trump. These clowns in the oval office are just the rudder on a huge ship. If you're close enough to the center you won't even feel it when the boat turns. I still believe Bush was an idiot, Obama was a well meaning ideologue and Trump is an inept asshole. That being said I don't blink on election night. Black people need to start facing inward and realize how rigged this game is and figure out ways of out maneuvering it without the help of politicians because that day isn't coming.
If my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle. This is where we are right now, if the Dems can't be an opposition party what the fuck is the point of their existence? I can spend 30 mins and craft a response to this bill that would make sense to every progressive minded American. It sounds like you're excusing the inexcusable here.
If Dems are going to stake out positions like this then don't be surprised when the so called "Blue Wave" becomes a goddamn trickle. Fuck the congress people who voted 'Yea' on this.
My life has improved greatly under Trump. New house, kids have new cars, new job with health insurance(forced into that). I can't complain about my life currently.
Just not true.
I don't agree with it but I understand it.If my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle. This is where we are right now, if the Dems can't be an opposition party what the fuck is the point of their existence? I can spend 30 mins and craft a response to this bill that would make sense to every progressive minded American. It sounds like you're excusing the inexcusable here.
If Dems are going to stake out positions like this then don't be surprised when the so called "Blue Wave" becomes a goddamn trickle. Fuck the congress people who voted 'Yea' on this.
thats fair
I give him lots of credit for cleaning up the shit storm he inherited. I just didn't feel any of that effort personally. I'm too well insulated to be affected. The most I got out of it is the feel good moments when I read about his success in the news.
It's clear who the red headed step child is for the party. Its most loyal demographic. Bunch of cheerleaders who bitch and cry about republicans non-stop but don't check the fucking crooks they vote for. American politics is disgusting. I just can't directly follow this shit anymore.
What you mean so what? my purpose of posting this is ti show dems are rethugs are one in the same. I bet you some members of the black caucus voted also
They ain't got shit to worry about. Now let it have been a non-citizen(illegal) does anything to a cop and gets years, the earth would have stopped for the democratic party. All hell would have broke loose. But since it's like a response to BLM(blue lives matters bill), crickets.
Damn. I remember that shit. The 'he ain't king' and 'that's not how government works' people. Now you'd think it was the fucking end times.
I'd have missed this if it wasn't on BGOL. Basically stopped paying attention to this shit. Masses going to keep allowing these crooks to keep getting away with dumb shit.
If you watch them closely enough, you will see an amazing amount of fuckery is pulled by democrats and republicans coming together. Everything from the drug war to the Iraq/Afghan shit to the prison industrial complex to the so-called human trafficking shit to fill up jails to this blue lives matters shit. These bitches will unite like Voltron for some fuckery.
And they can do it because those who vote democrat let democrats get away with it.
