post - Blogs - TheBlackList Pub2024-03-29T05:00:06Zhttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/feed/tag/postWhy Do Black Women Hate Black Men? (Videos)https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/why-do-black-women-hate-black-men-videos2018-05-14T18:00:00.000Z2018-05-14T18:00:00.000ZNana Baakan Agyiriwahhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/NanaBaakanAgyiriwah<div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align:left;"><img src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-B21TcgQX7Ao/Wvm_A-4S8tI/AAAAAAACw2w/e8GakkzmwQg_iW-ChOn0mMyXpxLjhSeTQCLcBGAs/s400/Why%2BDo%2BBlack%2BWomen%2BHate%2BBlack%2BMen.png?width=320" class="align-left" width="320" alt="Why%2BDo%2BBlack%2BWomen%2BHate%2BBlack%2BMen.png?width=320" /><h2 style="text-align:left;">Why Do Black Women Hate Black Women?</h2><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"><span style="font-size:14pt;">The title of this video is "Why Do Black Women Hate Black Men?"</span></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">This video is a bit of departure from my usual uploads.<span> </span> It's a bit raw and uncut.<span> </span> A few days, I awakened from sleep and this question was piercing my awareness. "You are not married, why is that? Do you hate Black men?<br /> <br /><div style="text-align:center;"></div><div style="text-align:center;"></div><div style="text-align:center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ErVGfxfiaYg?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" height="315" width="560"></iframe></div><div style="text-align:center;"></div></div><br /> <br /><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">I must say I was taken aback by this thought appearing in my awareness.<span> </span> In fact it troubled me that anyone would think such a thing.</div><br /> <br /><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Typically, I am very meticulous about how I create and present my videos on my YouTube channel, but in this case, I am giving it to you raw and uncut, primarily for effect and specifically to drive home a point.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">My voices is a bit gruff, the background street noise is apparent and even some other mistakes may be heard, but I felt this would be the best depiction of my sentiment on this issue.</div><br /> <br /><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">It's an issue that seems to prevail in today's society here in the US and throughout the Diaspora.<span> </span> Black women face these accusations over and over, but in this case, being asked this question truly disturbed me.<span> </span> So, I decided to share my thoughts on it as they flowed from me in the moment.<span> </span> I just grabbed my recorder and started talking.</div><br /> <br /><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Please feel free to leave your comments below.<span> </span> Your insights, questions and additional commentary would be much appreciated.</div><br /> <br /><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">To my new and current subscribers, be sure to hit the notification button so you can be alerted of any new uploads. Welcome to my channel all new subscribers and thanks for listening and watching.</div><br /> <br /><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">This video: <a href="https://youtu.be/ErVGfxfiaYg">https://youtu.be/ErVGfxfiaYg</a></div><br /> <br /><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Music Short: <span style="color:#000000;">"Black Women (feat. 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We are being hoodwinked again with this proposition that we need "Big Brother" to censor "Fake News"!</div><div style="text-align:left;">No, we don't need discernment.</div><div style="text-align:left;">We don't need our own ability to sort through and sift through the BS.</div><div style="text-align:left;">No we are not mature enough or able to critically think for ourselves.</div><div style="text-align:left;">We need to have it done for us.</div><div style="text-align:left;">So, under the guise of protecting Democracy, whose greatest tenet is freedom of speech, let's start sorting through the "Fake News", shut them down, censor them on social media and decide for the ignorant masses what they need to or don't need to know, read or discern. <strong><a href="http://nanas-rants.blogspot.com/2016/11/obamas-attack-on-fake-news-videos.html" target="_blank">SOURCE</a></strong></div><br /><b style="background:#ffffff;border:0px;color:#167ac6;margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration:none;"><br /></b> <b style="background:#ffffff;border:0px;color:#167ac6;margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration:none;"><br /></b> <br /><iframe width="560" height="315" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wMomFFqt4iY?wmode=opaque"></iframe> <br /><div style="font-family:cambria;font-size:14pt;"></div><div style="font-family:cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;text-align:left;"><b> </b></div><div style="font-family:cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;text-align:left;"></div><div style="font-family:cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;text-align:left;">Facebook, you fail at doing this for the masses.</div><div style="font-family:cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;text-align:left;">Twitter, you are so awful we need to tell you what to keep out of your feeds.</div><div style="font-family:cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;text-align:left;">Oh, we won't look at the color revolutions that took place because of social media. In fact, when they happened we were cheering and jumping up and down about how wonderful it was that we were able to use social media to get the word out in a moments notice. People on the streets in mass, like never before.</div><div style="font-family:cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;text-align:left;">And when we were able to get the word out on social media about the never ending threats posed by ISIS and their (fake) beheadings, we were very confident that the viewing public would be certain that what they were seeing was true. Without a doubt.</div><div style="font-family:cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;text-align:left;">Let's go all the way back to the Bin Laden videos while we are at it. Or how about 9/11 CGI. That news was so real we were able to go to war on it and kill millions of people.</div><div style="font-family:cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;text-align:left;">I am not talking about the "news" that accused Assad of gassing his own people and the picture of the dead bodies that turned out to be "fake" news. </div><div style="font-family:cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;text-align:left;"></div><div style="font-family:cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;text-align:left;">No, it doesn't apply when the government is behind the propaganda. It is just when the alt-right and alt-left do not parrot the party line, that's when we need to determine which one of those characters are faking it till they make it.</div><div style="font-family:cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;text-align:left;">Hillary started this ball rolling when she spoke out against Info-Wars and Brietbart.</div><div style="font-family:cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;text-align:left;">The major networks did their stories so well that when the Donald won, they were shocked!!! So who faked those polls? Certainly not alternative media. In fact it was there that folks could get the real news.</div><div style="font-family:cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;text-align:left;">These people are always coming up with some way to counter a movement when it is not in their favor, but will surely feel really happy about a movement that is in their favor.</div><div style="font-family:cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;text-align:left;">The majority of folks, especially here in America, barely read any other news except what comes from mainstream. They believe the lies the MSM tells them that is blasted at them thru their televisions. If you mention to them something that was not on Television, a counter perspective or simply a different one, they look at you like you have 2 heads, they dismiss you as a kook or a conspiracy theorist.</div><div style="font-family:cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;text-align:left;">So this is an attack on Democracy! This is censorship! This is a big fat lie, to say freedom of speech needs to be monitored and by whom may I ask. Will the government get a think tank together to determine who's fake and who's not? According to what criteria??</div><div style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;text-align:left;"></div><div style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;margin:0in;text-align:left;"><div style="font-family:cambria;font-size:14pt;">The more things change, the more they stay the same.</div><div style="font-family:cambria;font-size:14pt;"></div><div style="font-family:cambria;font-size:14pt;"></div></div><div style="font-family:cambria;font-size:14pt;"></div></div><div style="font-family:cambria;font-size:14pt;text-align:center;"><iframe width="560" height="315" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fXJJ0SpYNO0?wmode=opaque"></iframe></div><div style="font-family:cambria;font-size:14pt;"><b> </b></div></div><div style="margin:0in;"><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="margin:0in;"><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="font-family:cambria;"><b><i style="background-color:#f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color:#f3f3f3;">What’s going on? Both Internet companies claim they’re changing their advertising policy to counter misinformation, indicating they’ll monitor content to assure it. </span><span style="color:#333333;font-family:cambria;font-size:14pt;">Is censorship intended instead? Will reliable information sources challenging the official narrative be targeted? Will other similar online companies operate the same way? </span></i></b></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="color:#333333;font-family:cambria;margin:0in;"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><b><i style="background-color:#f3f3f3;">Is net neutrality threatened? Is online freedom and openness at risk - content available without restrictions, limitations, or discrimination, a level playing field for everyone, the essence of democratic free expression?</i></b></blockquote></blockquote><div style="font-family:cambria;margin:0in;"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><b><i style="background-color:#f3f3f3;"><span style="color:#333333;">A </span><a href="http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2016/09/google-for-hillary.html">pre-election article</a><span style="color:#333333;"> discussed covert Google support for Hillary - its searches rigged for her, a way to sway undecided voters to choose her over Trump, while suppressing negative search terms about her.</span></i></b></blockquote></div><div style="color:#333333;font-family:cambria;margin:0in;"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><b><i style="background-color:#f3f3f3;">Media scoundrels, Google, Facebook, and similar online operations and powerful tools for what power brokers want disseminated, restricting or blocking content they want suppressed.</i></b></blockquote></div><div style="color:#333333;margin:0in;"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><i style="background-color:#f3f3f3;"><b style="font-family:cambria;">Speech, press and academic freedoms are vital elements of free societies. Without them all other rights are endangered</b><span style="font-family:georgia, 'times new roman', serif;">.</span></i></blockquote></div></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="margin:0in;"><div style="color:#333333;margin:0in;"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><i style="background-color:#f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family:georgia, 'times new roman', serif;"> <a href="http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2016/11/google-and-facebook-targeting-growing.html" style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:8pt;">http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2016/11/google-and-facebook-targeting-growing.html</a></span></i></blockquote></div></blockquote><div style="font-family:cambria;font-size:14pt;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">We the poor sheeple, who read newspapers, watch television and get our news from social media, may be in peril when it comes to being able to determine what is really going on in our world. I guess they see how easily we can be lead astray, in fact, haven't they done it more times than we can count.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">The history of this country is over populated with propaganda to support an agenda. Let's just start with the profusion of false flags for starters. However, what they did not expect was that outlets like Facebook and Twitter, which they thought they could manage by infiltrating them with CIA agents, has gotten off the ground running faster than the speed of light, and too fast for them to keep up with, so now we need to crack down on them more and more, because Democracy is now in peril, as if this was ever a Democracy anyway.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">How many times have folks been censored or demonized because they offered an alternative perspective to what the MSM has given us? How often has policies, laws and codes been instituted based on what was given to us in the MSM? How many times did they "Wag the Dog" to make a point and affect public sentiment? Not the so called "fake news" outlets but the so called "Real News", the mainstream Media.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Now, social media, has become a runaway locomotive and it is not doing what they initially thought it would do. It is allowing folks to fact check, to research, to look deeper into the narrative that is being given by the MSM and now it's a threat.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Ironically, these outlets have been censoring content since before he felt threatened by it. They have also been moving content around so that it could be viewed under circumstances that would get the most traction. People have resorted to the Blogosphere in order to get the news out due to the already entrench censorship.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">So what are we looking at here?</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">YouTube, creating a rewards program to encourage folks to become "flaggers" of content.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Facebook dropping folks into the Facebook jail and giving police access to the ability to shut down your live stream.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">And Twitter, stopping content from being in their streams.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Is he just parroting what is already taking place. Or does his words sanction it?</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Forget the BS around Democracy or fake news threatening. Has fake news become the new ISIS?</div><div style="font-family:cambria;font-size:14pt;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">I really hadn't intended on ranting on this one, but hypocrisy really gets me hyped!!</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear:both;font-family:cambria;font-size:14pt;text-align:center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8wbZGjMckHw/U1DGC-hE4aI/AAAAAAACUUU/RpRcSk0uSxwL_rZfnZJLcSgO4EVriEYLACPcB/s1600/banner%2Bcopy.jpg" style="margin-left:1em;margin-right:1em;"><img border="0" height="38" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8wbZGjMckHw/U1DGC-hE4aI/AAAAAAACUUU/RpRcSk0uSxwL_rZfnZJLcSgO4EVriEYLACPcB/s320/banner%2Bcopy.jpg" width="320" alt="banner%2Bcopy.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div></div><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="border:0px;color:#2b2b2b;font-family:Lato, sans-serif;font-size:16px;margin-bottom:24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;"><b><i>“In an age where there’s so much active misinformation ― and it’s packaged very well, and it looks the same when you see it on a Facebook page or you turn on your television ― where some overzealousness on the part of, you know, a U.S. official is equated with constant and severe repression elsewhere, if everything seems to be the same, and no distinctions are made, then we won’t know what to protect,” Obama said.</i></b></blockquote><div style="border:0px;color:#2b2b2b;font-family:Lato, sans-serif;font-size:16px;margin-bottom:24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;">“We won’t know what to fight for, and we can lose so much of what we’ve gained in terms of the kind of democratic freedoms and market-based economies and prosperity that we’ve come to take for granted,” he added.<br /> <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear:both;text-align:center;"></div><div style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="560" height="315" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xcb8XcV9XIo?wmode=opaque"></iframe></div></div><div style="font-family:cambria;margin:0in;"><div style="text-align:center;"></div><br /><b><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/marina-fang">Marina Fang </a><span style="color:#999999;"> Associate Politics Editor, The Huffington Post</span></b></div><div style="font-family:cambria;margin:0in;"></div><div style="color:#666666;font-family:cambria;margin:0in;"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/barack-obama">President Barack Obama</a><span style="color:#222222;"> on Thursday pointed to the </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-election-outcome_us_5829eca4e4b060adb56f607c">profusion of fake news on social media</a><span style="color:#222222;"> as a sign that people should not take democracy for granted.</span></div><div style="color:#222222;font-family:cambria;margin:0in;">In a joint press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Obama warned that the ease with which people can promulgate fraudulent news stories threatens basic democratic principles.</div><div style="font-family:cambria;margin:0in;"></div><div style="color:#222222;font-family:cambria;margin:0in;">“In an age where there’s so much active misinformation ― and it’s packaged very well, and it looks the same when you see it on a Facebook page or you turn on your television ― where some overzealousness on the part of, you know, a U.S. official is equated with constant and severe repression elsewhere, if everything seems to be the same, and no distinctions are made, then we won’t know what to protect,” Obama said.</div><div style="color:#222222;font-family:cambria;margin:0in;">“We won’t know what to fight for, and we can lose so much of what we’ve gained in terms of the kind of democratic freedoms and market-based economies and prosperity that we’ve come to take for granted,” he added.</div><div style="font-family:cambria;margin:0in;"><span style="color:#222222;">Facebook in particular has come under fire for </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/google-facebook-fake-news-election-2016_us_582b7955e4b0aa8910bd60e3">not distinguishing between credible and false news sources</a><span style="color:#222222;">, helping to fuel misinformation on political issues and candidates. The site’s algorithm doesn’t filter out articles from websites presenting slanted or blatantly false coverage ― instead, when users post those links, they look as if they were from reliable news outlets. The company announced on Monday that </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/google-facebook-fake-news-election-2016_us_582b7955e4b0aa8910bd60e3">it would take steps to address the problem</a><span style="color:#222222;">.</span></div><div style="font-family:cambria;margin:0in;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">If we can’t discriminate between serious arguments and propaganda, then we have problems.</span>President Barack Obama</div><div style="font-family:cambria;margin:0in;"><span style="color:#222222;">In a veiled criticism of President-elect </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/donald-trump/">Donald Trump</a><span style="color:#222222;">, Obama spoke more broadly on the state of democracies around the world, cautioning both Americans and Europeans to “not take for granted our systems of government and our way of life,” advising that “democracy is hard work.” </span></div><div style="color:#222222;font-family:cambria;margin:0in;">He also urged a greater emphasis on facts and reason.</div><div style="color:#222222;font-family:cambria;margin:0in;">“If we are not serious about facts and what’s true and what’s not, and particularly in an age of social media, where so many people are getting their information in sound bites and snippets off their phones, if we can’t discriminate between serious arguments and propaganda, then we have problems,” Obama said.</div><div style="color:#222222;font-family:cambria;margin:0in;">“If people, whether they are conservative or liberal, left or right, are unwilling to compromise and engage in the democratic process and are taking absolutist views and demonizing opponents, then democracy will break down,” he added. “And so I think my most important advice is to understand, what are the foundations of a healthy democracy and how we have to engage in citizenship continuously, not just when something upsets us, not just when there’s an election or when an issue pops up for a few weeks. It’s hard work.”</div><div style="color:#222222;font-family:cambria;margin:0in;"></div><div style="color:#222222;font-family:cambria;margin:0in;"><br /><div style="text-align:center;"></div><div style="text-align:center;"></div><div style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="560" height="315" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ABFpXU2QnFk?wmode=opaque"></iframe></div><div style="text-align:center;"></div></div><div style="font-family:cambria;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:tahoma;margin:0in;"><div style="color:#666666;"><b><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/obama-facebook-fake-news_us_582deba6e4b099512f815e4a" target="_blank">SOURCE</a></b></div><br /><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;">Fake news threatens democracy, Obama says</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2016/11/17/fake-news-threatens-democracy-obama-says/94045428/"><span style="color:#000000;">http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2016/11/17/fake-news-threatens-democracy-obama-says/94045428/</span></a></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;">Obama, With Angela Merkel in Berlin, Assails Spread of Fake News</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/18/world/europe/obama-angela-merkel-donald-trump.html?_r=0"><span style="color:#000000;">http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/18/world/europe/obama-angela-merkel-donald-trump.html?_r=0</span></a></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><span style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.recode.net/2016/11/13/13612442/mark-zuckerberg-extremely-unlikely-hoaxes-changed-election-outcome"><span style="font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;">Mark Zuckerberg may not think fake news is a problem on Facebook</span></a><span style="font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;">.</span> President Barack Obama disagrees.</span></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><a href="http://www.recode.net/2016/11/17/13672446/facebook-fake-news-obama-zuckerberg"><span style="color:#000000;">http://www.recode.net/2016/11/17/13672446/facebook-fake-news-obama-zuckerberg</span></a></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;">Barack Obama on fake news: 'We have problems' if we can't tell the difference</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><span style="color:#000000;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/nov/17/barack-obama-fake-news-facebook-social-media">https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/nov/17/barack-obama-fake-news-facebook-social-media</a>></span></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;">Facebook staff mount secret push to tackle fake news, reports say</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/14/facebook-fake-news-us-election-news-feed-algorithm"><span style="color:#000000;">https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/14/facebook-fake-news-us-election-news-feed-algorithm</span></a></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;">Facebook’s failure: did fake news and polarized politics get Trump elected?</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/10/facebook-fake-news-election-conspiracy-theories"><span style="color:#000000;">https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/10/facebook-fake-news-election-conspiracy-theories</span></a></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;">Rather than connecting people – as Facebook’s euphoric mission statement claims – the bitter polarization of the social network over the last eighteen months suggests Facebook is actually doing more to divide the world.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/10/facebook-fake-news-election-conspiracy-theories"><span style="color:#000000;">https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/10/facebook-fake-news-election-conspiracy-theories</span></a></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;">In the memo, staffers weighed the pros and cons of accepting an invitation to the G20, if it were extended. On one hand, the meeting just 11 days after the election would “<span style="font-style:italic;">afford you an early and efficient opportunity to evaluate the positions of leaders from other economically important countries,</span>” they wrote.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><a href="http://yournewswire.com/wikileaks-reveals-first-batch-of-obama-emails/"><span style="color:#000000;">http://yournewswire.com/wikileaks-reveals-first-batch-of-obama-emails/</span></a></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;">The report is a work of fiction published by a fake-news website that calls itself Fox News the FB Page. In fact, the parody website has no connection to Fox News whatsoever. Nor is it a Facebook Page. Nothing published on the site should be taken seriously.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><a href="http://www.hoax-slayer.net/fake-news-obama-bans-christmas-cards-to-overseas-servicemen/"><span style="color:#000000;">http://www.hoax-slayer.net/fake-news-obama-bans-christmas-cards-to-overseas-servicemen/</span></a></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;">The result of the popular vote is, I'm sure you know, immaterial to the result of the Presidential election – but it carries a undeniable moral weight. Equally obviously, the claim is simply untrue. Clinton will ultimately win between one and two million more votes than Trump.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><span style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://publicaddress.net/hardnews/the-fake-news-problem/">http://publicaddress.net/hardnews/the-fake-news-problem/</a></span></div></div></div></div>Stacy Washington: Sorry, Washington Post: EVERYONE Should Reject Statements Demeaning to Womenhttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/stacy-washington-sorry-washington-post-everyone-should-reject-sta2016-10-15T00:30:00.000Z2016-10-15T00:30:00.000ZSendMeYourNewshttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/SendMeYourNews<div><div><strong><a href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/images/washingtons_sm.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.nationalcenter.org/images/washingtons_sm.jpg" class="align-left" alt="washingtons_sm.jpg" /></a>B</strong><strong>lack Conservative Leader Stacy Washington Was Called Out by Post Columnist for Saying Americans Should Be Outraged by Demeaning Statements Made By Musicians and Others, Not Just Politicians</strong><strong><a href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/images/washingtons_sm.jpg" target="_blank"><br /></a> <br />Washington Calls on All Americans to Push Society in "A Just and Honorable Direction"<br /></strong></div>
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<p><span><font color="#404040">The Washington Post goes to great lengths to discredit the idea that culture impacts the behavior of the people who partake in it. Individuals will always miss the mark, but what we widely accept as culturally appropriate will raise or lower that mark for everyone.<br /><br />I'm not arguing that rappers or music artists are running for president. I'm arguing that the acceptance of degrading music as "art" is hypocritical if you're going to judge the private conversations of others differently no matter who they are or what office they aspire to.<br /><br />Our current expressions of art run the gamut; with utter beauty and fascination at one end and utter debasement at the other. Much of rap music falls at the lower end. To deny that it's having an impact on our children and young adults is to ignore the statistics which show society's decline away from a morally just and honorable direction.<br /><br />The author says reasonable people will laugh at my assertion. I disagree. For decades now religious groups, parent groups, mothers, legislators and elected leaders have decried the violent, sexually-perverse direction America's music, movie, theater and art scenes have taken. Reasonable people aren't laughing; they're crying in shame.</font></span></p>
<p><span><font color="#404040">The Post's Janelle Ross, in <a href="http://trk.cp20.com/click/czdc1-4kggz3-sbsv982/" target="_blank" name="x_an" id="x_auto_assign_link_num_6">an October 12 article</a> now popping up in newspapers nationwide, attacked Washington's observation that hip-hop music affects culture, and that we in turn as Americans, in accepting music and other elements in the popular culture that demean women, influence our elected officials.<br /><br />"Ross's article appears to give musicians and artists a pass, even as she writes that it would be 'illogical' to claim various works of music, literature and art whose contents were criticized 'had no influence at all,'" said Amy Ridenour, chairman of the National Center for Public Policy Research. "Ross states merely that degrading or controversial art, music and literature did not lead to 'the ruination of mankind.' That's a rather low standard! But Ross is ludicrous as well in the way she picks and chooses. Beyonce is compared to Michelangelo. Michelangelo's works have stood the test of time. Beyonce is gifted, but will her art be celebrated in 500 years?"<br /><br />"Ross even makes the ludicrous claim that criticism of art forms demeaning to women, on occasions in which the artist is black, is the cousin of a 1989 incident in which a white man shot his pregnant wife and told the police an unknown black man had done it, causing the police to stop black men as part of their investigation," added Ridenour. "Ross is focusing on the wrong thing. Stacy Washington is standing up for the CONSISTENT promotion of decency across our entire culture. Washington urges EVERYONE to join in building a culture that goes, as she put it, in a 'just and honorable direction.' It's regrettable that Janell Ross and the Washington Post have chosen to stand for lower standards for some, which inevitably reduces standards for all."<br /></font></span></p>
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<p><span><font color="#404040">Project 21 is sponsored by the National Center for Public Policy Research. Project 21 members have been quoted, interviewed or published in the news media over 40,000 times since the program was created in 1992.</font></span></p>
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<p style="text-align:center;"></p></div>Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome Presentation, We are our children's future!https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/post-traumatic-slave-syndrome2011-01-21T21:39:21.000Z2011-01-21T21:39:21.000ZBaba Bob Shipmanhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/BabaBobShipman<div><p>This Black History Month Presentation</p><p>Dr. Joy DeGruy's PTSS Presentation and Book Signing is coming to Philadelphia on Sunday, February 20, 2011.<br /><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}3828522555,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-full" width="750" src="{{#staticFileLink}}3828522555,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="3828522555?profile=original" /></a><br />We will host her at the Walter D. Palmer Leadership Learning Partners Charter School, 910 North 6Th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19123.<br /><br />This Black History Month Presentation and Book Signing is sponsored by The Frator Heru Institute and The Philadelphia Chapter of N'COBRA (National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America).<br /><br />Please let your networks know. Tickets will be:<br />Adult - $10<br />Youth- $5 (under12 free)<br />Adult with 3 youth: $5ea.<br /><br />Dr. Raymond (Takari) Winbush will be doing the introduction for Dr. Joy DeGruy.<br /><br />This will be a treat indeed. It is our objective to have standing room only, with people waiting outside to get in. The event will have a family focus with outreach to high school and university youth. Please bring young people along to be engaged in this truly necessary dialogue.<br /><a href="http://www.thefratorheruinstitute.org/">http://www.thefratorheruinstitute.org/</a><br />Any Questions Contact The Frator Heru Institute:<br />215-235-1604<br />merretazon@verizon.net<br /><a href="http://www.facebook.com/TheFratorHeruInstitute">http://www.facebook.com/TheFratorHeruInstitute</a></p></div>