"This fist-shaking of everyone's racial agenda distracts America from the larger issue that the targets of police overreaction are based less on skin color and more on an even worse Ebola-level affliction: being poor. Of course, to many in America, being a person of color is synonymous with being poor, and being poor is synonymous with being a criminal. Ironically, this misperception is true even among the poor.
And that's how the status quo wants it.
The U.S. Census Report finds that 50 million Americans are poor. Fifty million voters is a powerful block if they ever organized in an effort to pursue their common economic goals. So, it's crucial that those in the wealthiest One Percent keep the poor fractured by distracting them with emotional issues like immigration, abortion and gun control so they never stop to wonder how they got so screwed over for so long.
One way to keep these 50 million fractured is through disinformation. PunditFact's recent scorecard on network news concluded that at Fox and Fox News Channel, 60 percent of claims are false. At NBC and MSNBC, 46 percent of claims were deemed false. That's the "news," folks! During the Ferguson riots, Fox News ran a black and white photo of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., with the bold caption: "Forgetting MLK's Message/Protestors in Missouri Turn to Violence." Did they run such a caption when either Presidents Bush invaded Iraq: "Forgetting Jesus Christ's Message/U.S. Forgets to Turn Cheek and Kills Thousands"?
How can viewers make reasonable choices in a democracy if their sources of information are corrupted? They can't, which is exactly how the One Percent controls the fate of the Ninety-Nine Percent."
Kareem Abdul Jabbar
http://time.com/3132635/ferguson-coming-race-war-class-warfare/
On Monday, September 1, 2014 12:40:39 PM UTC-5, Ragnar wrote:
Why would I bother to address your constant straw dollies? Of course ACORN helped get those in poorer neighborhoods to have higher turnout....we know the pathological lying by the right to end that organization."The rightwing echo chamber got exactly what it wanted--an end to a community-based organization that registered millions of voters, was instrumental in rebuilding homes for lower-income families post-Hurricane Katrina, worked on wage and hour enforcement, and helped hundreds of thousands of people facing foreclosure, among other issues.
As Bill Moyers said, "More than any group I've covered over my long career in journalism, ACORN was devoted to helping poor people become their own best champions."
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------------------------------ ------ "The evidence illustrates that things are not always as partisan zealots portray them through highly selective editing of reality," said Brown. "Sometimes a fuller truth is found on the cutting room floor."
Brown joins the Congressional Research Service, former Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger, Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes in finding no criminal wrongdoing. (CRS also found no instances in which ACORN violated the terms of its federal funding in the last five years.) In all, ACORN has been subjected to at least 46 federal, state, and local investigations, according to CRS.
Maybe it's Sean Hannity who should be fired for demonizing so many workers who were, in fact, innocent of the charges against them.
Senator Bernie Sanders is one of the handful of legislators who didn't get caught up in the FOX-fueled hysteria; he voted against defunding ACORN.
"ACORN has had its share of problems, as have dozens of other organizations funded by the federal government, including some of the largest defense contractors and drug companies in the world," he told me. "What is distressing is that the Senate was steamrolled into voting to strip ACORN of its funding based on an apparently distorted video played over and over again on Fox."
Sanders noted that the ACORN fiasco "followed the same forces drumming Van Jones out of the White House."
"The rightwing echo chamber is two for two," he said. "And no one should have any illusions that it won't be back again."
http://www.thenation.com/blog/
right-wing-smear-machine- theyll-be-back
On Monday, September 1, 2014 12:20:36 PM UTC-5, jgg1000a wrote:owI see you refuse to address the question of the lack of responsibility for not voting...
On Monday, September 1, 2014 12:29:39 PM UTC-4, Ragnar wrote:"Hey back in the date "...I assume you mean "back in the day"....so? That is not what is going on today. rwingers encourage lower turnout in a variety of ways, including making politics so odious to millions of Americans that they don't bother to participate.
On Monday, September 1, 2014 3:21:08 AM UTC-5, jgg1000a wrote:What happen is the AA population did not come out and vote in the municipal elections... That is not voter suppression.... Hey back in the date voting took place in bars to make voting easy... Also made the buying of votes as easy as a round or two of beer...
On Monday, September 1, 2014 2:06:44 AM UTC-4, Ragnar wrote:I still have my doubts jiggie that you have any fucking clue that voter suppression only purpose is suppress likely dem voters, and by its very false essence is undemocratic and fascist.
On Sunday, August 31, 2014 9:14:42 PM UTC-5, jgg1000a wrote:good... May question is why did this not happen before.... With all the headlines the Democrats shout about how important voter registration drives are, how in 2014 did Ferguson have a 8% to 12% voter turnout... A shameful institutional failure on the left... If in Ferguson, where else???
And of course, the NYT uses as a backdrop Republican policies as the cause... Instead they should point the finger to where it belongs, the failure by Ferguson voters to vote... The failure of the Democrats to get their vote out and registered... This is what grassroots should be about... Instead Democrats focus on OWS rather than what grassroots should be about...
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/31/us/getting-ferguson- majority-to-show-its-clout-at- polls.html?_r=0
>>>N.A.A.C.P. leaders are creating a door-to-door voter registration effort with a jarring reminder as its theme: "Mike Brown Can't Vote, but I Can." Senator Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat, is working with others to hold a "candidate school" for people, including young black residents who say they want to serve on a city council or school board but need guidance on what a political campaign requires.
The attempt to galvanize voting comes against a backdrop of intense political struggles over the ballot in the state. In 2000, polls were kept open late in St. Louis because of long lines, and Republicans complained about possible voter fraud — one chapter in what would be a long battle over elections and voting.
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