We have discussed past protests where organizers have engaged in open racial discrimination in the name of fight discrimination. We have another such example out of the Black DNC Resistance March in Philadelphia with a twist: the racial segregation of reporters. The question is whether reporters should be disciplined for agreeing to such racial discrimination either as beneficiaries or victims of such discrimination.
One of the leaders declares “I need all white people to move to the back – make space because this is a Black Resistance March . . . I need all white people to move to the back and make room for the black and brown brothers and sisters.”
That was not well received by the crowd which was reportedly half white and one person asks “What if white people were in Ferguson.”
It did not matter. Whites were told to go to the back of the protest: “You will appropriately take your place in the back of this march because it will be truly led by the black and brown community and that’s it.”
Then she added that the rule extended to media: “Make room for black media. White media get to the back. Black media come to the front.” It is not clear if any in the media complied but I would have serious reservations about a reporter who benefitted from racial discrimination over his or her colleagues. Indeed, all of the reporters should have refused such a discriminatory rule.
What do you think?
One of my fav commenters at The Guardian sums up Mark Cuban’s endorsement quite well IMO:
“Well, Mark Cuban got his wish: a VP who won’t even think to burden Clinton’s conscience with concerns about anything other than getting elected or anyone, once elected, other than those who own the economy and political system.
Make no mistake: Wall Street’s Warmongering Madame is the perfect foil for Donald Trump’s huckster-populism: a pseudo-progressive stooge whose contempt for the average person and their intelligence is palpable.
She’s an arch-environmentalist who has worked tirelessly to spread fracking globally.
She supports fortifying Social Security but won’t commit to raising the cap on taxes to do so.
She’s a humanitarian who has supported every imperial slaughter the US has waged in the past 25 years.
She cares deeply about the plight of the Palestinians but supported the starvation blockade and blitzkrieg of Gaza and couldn’t bother to mention them but in passing in a recent speech before AIPAC.
She’s a stalwart civil libertarian, but voted for Patriot Acts 1 and 2 and believes Edward Snowden should be sent to federal prison for decades.
She stands with the working class but has supported virtually every international pact granting increased mobility and power to the corporate sector at its expense in the past 25 years.
She cares with all her heart about African-Americans but supports the objectively-racist death penalty and the private prison industry.
She will go to bat for the poor but supported gutting welfare in the ’90s, making them easier prey to exploiters, many of whom supported her husband and her financially.
She worries about the conditions of the poor globally, but while Sec. of State actively campaigned against raising the minimum wage in Haiti to 60 cents an hour, thinking 31 cents an hour sounded better for the investor class whose interests are paramount to her.
She’s not a bought-and-paid-for hack, oh no, no, no, but she won’t ever release the Wall Street speeches for which she was paid so handsomely.”
#neverhillary
Jill Stein 2016
@SWM
Mark Cuban – a man of principles fought against Elizabeth Warren who WAS a Progressive before the Clinton machine brought her to heel. Typical – Clinton support is all about what’s best for the 1% – 0 integrity
http://www.inquisitr.com/3197543/vp-elizabeth-warren-will-make-me-vote-trump-mark-cuban-reveals/
Autumn, I think Cuban is going to be an effective spokesperson for Clinton. Young people like him. Not sure your analysis is all that on target. I think that you said the democratic party had “imploded” Looks like we are coming back with Bernie’s help.
Many are saying that Trumps has hit his lowest point with his tweets about the Khan family. His family needs to lock him in a closet if he is to have any chance at winning.
@SWM
Re: “Cuban worked hard and made his own money. He pays a good wage.”
hmm, the same description can be applied to Sheldon Adelson.
@squeek
I prefer the Bernie song as it was a sweet lament =)
Cuban worked hard and made his own money. He pays a good wage. He doesn’t even think Trump is a real billionaire just a plain old con man that declares bankruptcy often and throws his workers to the street.
@SWM
A liberal friend of was going on and on about how wonderful Bloomberg’s speech at the DNC so I made myself watch it. The comments to his speech can be equally applied to Cuban. We are sick of millionaires and billionaires. Main Street not Wall Street. Bernie, Jill and the Donald are the only candidates speaking to us whether on the Left or Right….
“Of course he wants Clinton to win. She’s a puppet of wall street. He stands to lose a lot of $$$ if the middle class wins this election.”
“oh look another billionaire tax evader that doesn’t want trump in office……. funny how the people making billions off of $1 hour workers in Indonesia all want Clinton in the white house”
“Yet another corporate establishment troll siding with Hillary. Basically the jist of his speech was “vote for the lesser of two evils” with the usual fear mongering undertones.”
Like the poll of black people in Ohio that shows Clinton at 88 percent and Trump at0 percent. There is no poll that shows Trump having a diverse base. of support, Autumn. Clearly you are joking. That is his problem and why he probably can’t win. Just not enough white male voters these days and especially so since the educated ones are jumping to Hillary or Johnson.
@Mike
or perhaps, since you identify as being an elitest, you might prefer this debate between formidable public intellectuals, Robert Reich and Chris Hedges:
@Mike
Did you see TYT Cenk Uyger’s interview with Diamond and Silk at the RNC convention? These ladies indicate that Trump has a diverse support base. People are done with the status quo and feel the Demoncrats have sold them out.
“It’s fair to ask what all this voting for corporate liberals has gotten us over the past 25 years. Here’s a list of signature policies supported and/or enacted by the last two Democratic Party presidents, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama:
–Deregulation of investment banks and telecommunications
–The Omnibus Crime Bill (mass incarceration)
–The destruction of welfare (which caused extreme poverty to double in the 15 years after its passage)
–The sanctions regime against Iraq (which killed 500,000 Iraqi children)
–NAFTA
–CAFTA
–TPP
–Fracking
–The objectively-racist death penalty
–The Defense of Marriage Act
–Historic levels of repression against whistle-blowers
–Preservation of Bush-era tax cuts on the rich
–Patriots Acts 1 and 2
–Massive expansion of NSA spying
–Years of foot-dragging on climate change
–Support for Israeli atrocities
–Support for the right-wing coup in Honduras
–Support for fraudulent election in Haiti
–Support for the Saudi dictatorship
–Support for a 31 cents/hour minimum wage in Haiti and against attempts to raise it
–Oil drilling on the Atlantic seaboard, Gulf of Mexico, and the Arctic
–A $1 trillion 20-year “modernization” of the US’s nuclear weapons arsenal
–Historically high numbers of deportations
–Drone missile strikes that have killed large numbers of civilians and inflamed anti-US hatred
–Health care reform that has fortified the power of the insurance cartel not weakened or obliterated it
–Industry-approved bankruptcy “reform”
–The bail-out of Wall Street”
@Mike
As Jill Stein and so many others have noted, Trump has said some bad things, but HRC has DONE some bad things. To vote for a corrupt person because she uses more expansive vocabulary is pretzel logic IMO.
Trump is very clever – he purposely used simplistic phrases to appeal to the white working class voter who is suspicious of intellectuals. These folks listen to talk radio – not NPR. Now that he has secured their support his rhetoric is becoming increasingly more “refined” – presidential if you will. Further, there are many intelligent people who will vote for him.
#JillnotHill
http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-36935175 “Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump has attracted outrage by mocking a dead US Muslim soldier’s mother.
Ghazala Khan stood silently next to her husband as he attacked Mr Trump in an emotional speech to the Democratic National Convention on Thursday.
Mr Trump suggested she may not have been allowed to speak.
Republicans and Democrats said the Republican candidate’s comments were no way to talk of a hero’s mother. Mrs Khan said she was upset by his remarks.” Trump is drawing criticism worldwide for his despicable treatment of this grieving family.
http://crooksandliars.com/2016/07/trump-already-trying-find-excuse-skip “He sees the writing on the wall, as shown by his epic twitter meltdowns over the course of the DNC. He was tweeting twice as much with more spelling and grammar errors than ever before. His tweets also seemed to take on an almost manic tone to them, disjointed, angry, petulant. If he chooses to act like this on stage, all Hillary has to do is let him spiral, smile, stay calm and say to the audience “does this look Presidential to you?” and he will be done. Six simple words.
Trump tweeted this tweet last night, leading many to believe he is setting the stage for a quick exit from at least 2 of the 3 debates.
I hear Hillary is going to try and avoid the debates if she has a lead.
http://www.politicususa.com/2016/07/30/trump-reeling-clinton-10-point-democratic-convention-bounce-15-point-lead.html
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-07-31/mark-cuban-calls-trump-jagoff-as-he-makes-debut-for-clinton “Billionaire investor Mark Cuban made his debut Saturday as a Hillary Clinton surrogate, calling Republican Donald Trump a “jagoff” and greeting him sarcastically in Russian before declaring, “I’m here to endorse Hillary Clinton!” ” Hillary picks up a new campaign surrogate, Mark Cuban. The self made libertarian actual billionaire is hitting the campaign trail with HER. Cuban who has had actual dealings with Trump has seriously got his number. Dallas resident and highly respected Cuban should be fun to watch.
@Mike Appleton
Thank you for telling me how smart you are! I would not have known, otherwise. BTW, have you learned sign language yet? Because it could help you in communicating with other elite Hillary supporters!
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Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
For me the political party I find most agreeable is Fine Gael:
http://www.finegael.ie/
Political parties are not however a panacea for all that ails the United States and those who parrot sound bites for their party lose respect in my view. Having a nation of free thinkers upholds democracy far greater than party unity.