OSCARS RACE WAR v BLACK ACTORS (WILL & JADA)

OSCARS RACE WAR v BLACK ACTORS

WILL & JADA SMITH v TYLER PERRY

Sources:  Good Morning America, Variety, Youtube

Instead of Will & Jada Pinkett Smith starting a Political Race War online about the Oscars, why not use their money to help combat Racism as Tyler Perry did?

Tyler Perry opened his own Studio and hires many Black and Latino actors to star in his film projects.

Will and Jada could also use their wealth to fund Non-profit Acting and Playwright Summer camps for Low Income children.

Furthermore if Hollywood is so Racist then why haven't Will and Jada moved?

It's easy to complain and call for Boycotts but what about using their Celebrity profile to help uplift the Black community in a constructive, creative manner?

I'm just saying.

**** Will Smith Says He Won’t Attend Oscars

Will Smith has joined his wife, actress Jada Pinkett Smith, in vowing not to attend the Feb. 28 Academy Awards ceremony in protest over the lack of diversity among nominees in major categories this year. Smith’s decision comes as pressure mounts on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences to address what many are calling the org’s diversity crisis.

Smith told “Good Morning America” anchor Robin Roberts on Thursday that he is “uncomfortable” with the situation. For the second year in a row, the 20 acting nominees are all white. Smith generated Oscar buzz this awards season for his work in the football drama “Concussion.”

“My wife’s not going. It would be awkward to show up with Charlize (Theron),” he said. “We’ve discussed it. We’re part of this community. But at this current time, we’re uncomfortable to stand there and say, ‘This is OK.'”

Smith has previously been nommed twice for best actor, for 2001’s “Ali” and 2006’s “The Pursuit of Happyness.” He lost both times to other black actors: Denzel Washington for “Training Day” and Forest Whitaker for “The Last King of Scotland.”

“To me, that was huge,” Smith said. “So when I see this list and series of nominations that come out – and everybody is fantastic. That’s the complexity of this issue. … But it feels like it’s going in the wrong direction.”

Smith said he has a responsibility to speak out or risk contributing to the problem.

“There’s a position that we hold in this community and if we’re not a part of the solution, we’re part of the problem,” Smith told Roberts. “And it was her call to action for herself and for me and for our family to be a part of the solution.”

“[For] my part, I think I have to protect and fight for the ideals that make our country and our Hollywood community great,” he continued. “And so when I look at the series of nominations of the Academy, it’s not reflecting that beauty.”

Although his wife’s call for a boycott was partly motivated by him getting snubbed for his role in “Concussion,” Smith insists the root of the issue is much bigger than that.

“This is so deeply not about me,” he said. “This is about children that are going to sit down and watch this show and they’re not going to see themselves represented.

“There’s a regressive slide toward separatism, towards racial and religious disharmony,” he added. “And that’s not the Hollywood that I want to leave behind.”

The angry response to this year’s Oscar nominations has steamrolled in the past few days. Pinkett Smith expressed her outrage last week after the Jan. 14 nominations announcement. Director Spike Lee joined her in vowing to sit out the ceremony, although on Wednesday during a “GMA” appearance, Lee made a point of telling anchor George Stephanopoulos that he was not calling for others to boycott the ceremony.

Also on Wednesday, past AMPAS board member Quincy Jones said he would seek to address the current board next week on the issue. Jones is the first African-American to be appointed to the Academy’s board of governors and the first African-American to be awarded the Academy’s prestigious Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. He’s also a four-time Oscar nominee and he exec produced the Oscar telecast in 1996.

BALTIMORE vs "THE WIRE", AFTER RIOTS ENDED (FREDDY GRAY'S MURDER)

BALTIMORE vs "THE WIRE", AFTER RIOTS ENDED (FREDDY GRAY'S MURDER):

FORMER MD GOV MARTIN O'MALLEY HATED "THE WIRE".

IN 2016 WHICH POLITICAL PARTY WILL STEP UP TO HELP ELIMINATE BALTIMORE'S STEEP POVERTY?

It's been eight years since "THE WIRE", a hit television program about life in BALTIMORE'S Poorest, most Crime-ridden neighborhoods went off the air.

Former BALTIMORE Mayor and and current 2016 Presidential Candidate MARTIN O'MALLEY,
 hated "The Wire".

Perhaps O' Malley's disdain for "The Wire" television series was due to it exposing BALTIMORE'S horrific Crime rate during O'Malley's reign, which was fueled by decades of steep POVERTY.

It's almost one year after the Baltimore Riots events in which impoverished BLACK teens publicly released their Hurt and Anger on Police Officers who murdered FREDDY GRAY and consistently Brutalized their community for decades.

After FREDDY GRAY'S Murder his family received a wrongful death settlement of $6 Million from the city of BALTIMORE.

Paying Millions of dollars to families of BLACK Men who are Murdered by POLICE should not be a SOLUTION to uplift BLACK families out of POVERTY.

Which Political party will help rebuild West Baltimore by bringing JOBS, real SOLUTIONS, Business OPPORTUNITIES and Healing to that Historic region of our nation?

~ "The Wire" Cast Reunites To Give Voice To Stories Of Baltimore's Riots

Sixteen cast members of The Wire returned to Baltimore on Saturday to read stories of the city’s recent riots.

Fans saw Omar, Bunk, Kima and McNulty (Michael Kenneth Williams, Wendell Pierce, Sonja Sohn and Dominic West) reunited on stage to read monologues written by residents for Wired Up, a production at the city’s Artscape event.

One of the occasion’s main organizers, Sonja Sohn (who played Detective Kima Greggs in the show), told the Baltimore Sun she wanted to “give back” to the city where the HBO hit was set, and to give residents a microphone.

“We know how [storytelling] heals and radiates outward and what it inspires in other people,” Sohn said. “We’re going to give a platform to these folks who felt they were not being heard.”

Carver, Cutty, Marlo, Snoop and Bubbles (Seth Gilliam, Chad Coleman, Jamie Hector, Felicia Pearson and Andre Royo) were also in attendance.

In its five seasons, "The Wire" won acclaim in part for its fidelity to Baltimoreans.

Some cast members, including Pearson, Maria Broom (Marla Daniels) and Robert Chew (Prop Joe), were from the city. Others, including Gbenga Akinnagbe (Chris) and Anwan Glover (Slim Charles), grew up in nearby Washington DC. Chew died aged 52 in 2013.

“We lived here while we were shooting and became a part of these communities,” Sohn said. “There’s a real core group of us who feel parts of Baltimore are woven in to who we are as result of the time we spent here.”

In particular, the readings were meant to highlight the stories of Penn North, the neighborhood where Freddie Gray lived before he died while in police custody in April.

The neighborhood became a focal point of subsequent riots over police brutality, institutional racism and class and racial inequalities.

Sohn and others set up workshops for residents to write about their experiences before, during and after the riots, thus coming up with the raw material for the performance.

The show’s creator, David Simon, worked as a reporter in the city for several years. He was not involved in Saturday’s production but offered his own strong opinions on the state of Baltimore earlier this year.

Simon blamed abusive police tactics on the toxic relationship between residents and authorities, telling the Marshall Project the police had acted for years as “an army of occupation”.

Although The Wire won plaudits during its run and many enthusiastic fans after it ended, it has not always had a beloved place in Baltimore’s heart.

Former mayor Martin O’Malley – now a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination – denounced the series for what he felt was an unfair depiction of crime, corruption and policing.

According to Simon, O’Malley – who is believed to have been a partial inspiration for the mayor in the show, Tommy Carcetti – threatened to block filming.

Sources: The Guardian, Baltimore Sun, Youtube, HBO, Washington Post

DEMOCRATS LEAVE ME NO CHOICE IN 2016; VAN JONES ADMITS DEMS ARE IN TROUBLE

DEMOCRATS LEAVE ME NO CHOICE IN 2016:

VAN JONES ADMITS DEMOCRATS ARE IN TROUBLE.

BLACK VOTERS ARE TIRED OF UNEMPLOYMENT & POLITICAL RETALIATION.

Due to an extremely Liberal, Divisive agenda which offers very few SOLUTIONS and OPPORTUNITIES for BLACK voters to experience Success in America, DEMOCRATS are leaving BLACK voters no choice but to support GOP candidates come Nov 2016.

BLACK voters are also tired of being victims of Political RETALIATION from the DEMOCRAT party.

~ Democratic Strategist Van Jones Talks About the Black Vote in 2016…and It’s Not Good News for His Party (Article date Oct 2015)

CNN political contributor Van Jones didn’t mince words when giving his assessment of the Democratic party ahead of their first 2016 presidential debate Tuesday night:

“I think this whole party has a problem. 

This is the whitest field that we have seen since 1992. There’s no Sharpton. There’s no Carol Moseley Braun. There’s no non-white people there, and this is a party that has to get, not 60%, not 70%, not 90%, but 94% of the black vote to win. 

This is a big problem for the whole party.”

Some on Twitter agreed when they saw the candidates take the stage for the Democratic debate:

Jones, a former green energy advisor in the Obama administration, went on to suggest that there’s room for the Democratic party to improve its numbers with minority voters:

“The Clintons get the black vote by default, but nobody has made a case yet that they can do better. If Biden gets in he might be able to make that case. But Bernie Sanders has so much room to grow with the black vote he should take the opportunity tomorrow to make his case why a white guy from Vermont should get the support of a party with that much black participation.”

GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson has argued that the Republican party has a lot to offer black Americans.

Carson also said the GOP is more willing to get past racism:

“I find black Republicans are treated extremely well in the Republican Party. I hear a lot about what you believe and the kind of principles you’re espousing and I think that’s far more important. I think the Republicans have done a far better job than Democrats in getting over racism.”

Star Parker, founder of CURE (Center for Urban Renewal and Education), believes the GOP should court black voters by focusing on traditional values:

“An ongoing point of contention in the Republican Party has been the extent to which clear identification with traditional Judeo-Christian values is a good idea.

My sense is that, when we add to the equation the growing impact of non-white voters, standing strongly for these traditional values — which would put Republicans in stark contrast to Democrats — would be a win-win for Republicans.”

One thing is certain: with another close election likely, both parties should realize the impact minority voters will have on determining the winner.

Sources: Independent Journal, Mediatate, YouTube

HILLARY CLINTON BEGGING FOR THE BLACK VOTE TURNS ME OFF

#HillaryClinton

HILLARY CLINTON BEGGING FOR THE BLACK VOTE TURNS ME OFF:

HILLARY NEEDS TO MAINTAIN HER REPUTATION AS A STRONG LEADER.

2016 BLACK VOTERS NEED OPPORTUNITY & SOLUTIONS NOT FOOD STAMPS, PITY OR DANCING POLITICIANS.

Due to the OBAMA administration doing absolutely NOTHING to help Uplift the BLACK Community for seven years as he has helped to Uplift the GAY Community and WALL STREET, Democrats are now really in trouble with 2016 BLACK Voters.

Presumptive 2016 Democrat Party presidential nominee Hillary Clinton appears to be listening to Foolish Advisers.

Hillary's campaign Advisers are telling her to Dance for BLACK Voters and Beg for BLACK Voter support versus inviting BLACK Grassroots Activists (not AL SHARPTON) to personally meet with her to offer up SOLUTIONS and OPPORTUNITY to help Collectively Uplift the 21st century BLACK American community.


~ Hillary Clinton’s support among BLACKS plunges in a new poll.

Over the course of the still-awfully young Democratic primary season, one demographic split has been repeated over and over again: Non-whites have consistently been more supportive of Hillary Clinton than whites.
That's one reason that Bernie Sanders's strength in Iowa and New Hampshire isn't as worrisome as it might otherwise be for Clinton backers; in states with less-heavily white populations -- a.k.a. most of the rest of the country -- Clinton should conceivably do better.

A new poll from Suffolk University and USA Today, though, suggests a big shift among African Americans that could undermine that confidence. We have to note up front that this is one poll, with large margins of error on black responses. That said, the shift is surprising.

Since the last Suffolk poll in July, the overall race has tightened. Clinton still leads, but by less than she used to.

Part of the shift in support for Clinton might be due to the decline in her net favorability among blacks. Opinions of Clinton have dropped among all Democrats as we've seen before. Among blacks, the decline has been greater -- and the increase in favorable views of Sanders has been stark. Clinton is down 16 points in net favorability, and Sanders is up 31.

Clinton still leads, of course, and Joe Biden isn't in the race.

The vice president does better with blacks than Sanders, and past polls have shown that many Biden backers would go to Clinton if he were to decide not to run. A quarter of those who had a preferred candidate said Clinton would be their No. 2, and 31 percent said theirs would be Biden.

But 20 percent said they would go to Sanders before either Biden or Clinton.

It's also important to note that this new poll doesn't show much change in support for the top three Democrats over other recent polls. Clinton's been at or a bit above 40 percent for a while, while Sanders has been in the mid-20s.


Sources: Newsone, Washington Post, YouTube

New Hampshire 2011 GOP Debate: Slam Obama; NO Solutions! Fact Check! (Videos)

Tonight GOP Presidential Candidates Participating In The 2011 N.H. Debate Repeated The Same, Tired Anti-Obama Rhetoric As Usual.

They Slammed His Policies While Offering NO Solutions!

NO Logical Solutions That Is.

I Think Pres. Obama Should Begin Some Kind Of Damage Control Versus Choosing To Totally Ignore What's Being Said About His Policies & Record.

Don't Respond To Everything! Just The Most EXTREME Rhetoric.







Fact Checking the Republican Debate


As they debated the economic downturn and health care, the Republican candidates who faced off Monday night in New Hampshire sometimes let spin run ahead of the facts.

Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, said that while President Obama didn’t start the recession, “he made it worse, and longer.” Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House of Representatives, called the Obama administration “anti-jobs.”

While it is true that unemployment is far worse today than Mr. Obama’s advisers initially predicted, it would be even worse without the stimulus bill that many Republican candidates derided, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.

The president’s advisers said in 2009 that the stimulus bill would keep the unemployment rate below 8 percent. Last month it was at 9.1 percent — even worse than the president’s advisers had warned it would be if Congress had failed to pass the stimulus.

But things would have been worse without the stimulus, according to a report issued last month by the Congressional Budget Office. The stimulus increased the number of people working by between 1.2 million and 3.3 million during the first three months of the year, the report found. It added that the stimulus, which passed with almost no Republican support, lowered the unemployment rate by between 0.6 and 1.8 percentage points.

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Health care also drew misleading or incomplete answers, as the candidates sought to capitalize on the unpopularity of President Obama’s health care plan among Republicans.

Mr. Romney flatly declared that he would “repeal Obamacare,’’ although the president’s health care law has strong similarities to the law that Mr. Romney pushed through when he was governor. The Massachusetts law, like the federal law, has a mandate requiring most residents to purchase coverage or pay a tax penalty — the provision that has drawn the most anger from conservatives.

Asked about the similarities, Mr. Romney said at the debate that Massachusetts, unlike Washington, did not finance its plan with a tax increase. But since Mr. Romney left office in 2007, the state has had to raise taxes to keep the program afloat.

Tim Pawlenty, the former Minnesota governor, somewhat reluctantly, repeated his charge that the president’s program was in effect “Obamneycare,’’ since it was modeled on the Massachusetts law.

But in making the attack, Mr. Pawlenty obscured his own changing position on mandates. In a 2006 speech on health care, he called mandates “potentially helpful” and “a worthy goal,” though he stressed that by themselves they would not solve the problem of getting more people insured.

He is not the only candidate with an evolving position. As recently as last month Mr. Gingrich said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he had favored “a variation” on the mandate. The next day he issued a statement saying: “I oppose the Obamacare mandate. Period.”

At one point, Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, who announced her entry into the race at the debate, seemed to be debating herself when she was asked if she would seek to overturn the law in states that have legalized gay marriage.

“I don’t see that it’s the role of a president to go into states and interfere with their state laws,’’ said Ms. Bachmann, a favorite of Tea Party members who believe in states’ rights.

But then, after some other candidates said that they supported a constitutional amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman, she amended her answer.

“John, I do support a constitutional amendment on marriage between a man and a woman,’’ she told the moderator, John King of CNN, “but I would not be going into the states to overturn their state law.”


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GOP's Roadmap For 2010 Elections: Independents, Solutions & Tea Parties

The GOP's New Roadmap


The secret to Scott Brown’s success in Massachusetts was his strong appeal to independent voters—a template for the GOP in 2010, and a Democratic nightmare.

Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts Tuesday tells us a lot about the power of independents and what it takes to win their vote. Despite the media’s focus on the “fringe” elements on the far right and the far left of the ideological spectrum, the vast majority of Americans reside somewhere in the political center. Most people want the same things from Washington: a federal government that is efficient, competent, transparent, and frugal. Unfortunately for the party in power, our leaders in Washington have failed spectacularly on all these fronts.

“But Republicans started it,” liberals will squeal. Fair enough. But Democrats were handed decisive margins of victory in 2006 and 2008 to turn things around, and it appears that voters have run out of patience.

Independents are particularly disillusioned. They were quick to display anxiety about President Obama’s liberal agenda and appetite for spending. After passage of the White House stimulus plan, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) warned that a kind of “generational theft” was under way. That registered with independents. And their anxiety about the Democratic administration only snowballed from there.

Independents tend to have a lower tolerance than partisans for government shenanigans. They’ve watched the bribery and back-room dealing on health-care legislation in abject horror.

Obama’s inability to call “time out” on the Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill has taken a toll on the political health of the White House. He had a window several months ago to halt negotiations and demand that integrity and transparency be returned to the legislative process—a promise he campaigned on in his historic run for the White House. These missed opportunities have not gone unnoticed. In the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC poll, President Obama’s approval rating among independents is 41 percent, down from 52 percent on Election Day in 2008. And while independent voters are not the squeaky wheels in our political system, their mood swings have serious consequences.

In November, independents in New Jersey sided with Republican Chris Christie 58 percent to 31 percent, helping pave the way for his stunning upset in the governor’s race in this deep blue state. In Virginia, a state Obama turned blue in 2008, Republican Bob McDonnell carried independents by a margin of 65-34 percent en route to victory in that state’s governor’s race. And Tuesday night, independents in Massachusetts—who make up more than half of the electorate—decided that the most qualified candidate to succeed Ted Kennedy was Scott Brown, the “independent-minded Republican” in the race.

Scott Brown won for a variety of reasons. He is scrappy, accessible, humble and hard-working. The pickup truck helped. So did his young, energetic daughters. But the most interesting thing about Brown’s appeal among Massachusetts independents is that he didn’t back away from the issues that are of the greatest importance to Republicans. With confidence and without alienating the political center, Brown ran as the 41st vote against Obama’s agenda. He wasn’t intimidated or distracted by the white noise that emanates from Washington about how Republicans can’t simply run “against” something; they need to be “for” something. Scott Brown proved all the wise men (and women) wrong on that front by running as “41.” And he was for the important things: jobs, tax cuts, less government, and a strong military.

Brown also spoke in stark terms about terror. The wounds of 9/11 run deep in Massachusetts. Two of the planes took off from Logan International that day. Brown ran as an unapologetic supporter of waterboarding and an opponent of granting rights and privileges to enemies during wartime. Massachusetts’ voters went with him.

Brown did something else that’s important. He allowed voters to like Obama. For Republicans to win in November, they will have to acknowledge the personal appeal of both President and Mrs. Obama. Brown described his call from Obama in his victory speech Tuesday night and continued his courtship of the popular president in his news conference Wednesday with an in-depth read-out of the conversation the two men had.

Perhaps the secret of Brown’s appeal to the independent set is the simple fact that he knows who he is; he hasn’t been focus-grouped or scripted or insulated from the people he represents. He put it best when he ended his acceptance speech Tuesday night with this:

“[B]ecause of your independence and your trust, I will hold for a time the seat once filled by patriots from John Quincy Adams to John F. Kennedy and his brother Ted... I’m Scott Brown. I’m from Wrentham. I drive a truck. And I am nobody’s senator but yours.”


Sources: The Daily Beast