Y’all’s tiny-handed orange in office is still out her focusing on the wrong things while the world quite literally goes up in flames around us. BUt rather than addressing the serious issues, he’s still got his XL boxers in a bunch over how NFL players choose to protest their own peope being gunned down by police. “You can not disrespect our country, our flag our anthem, you can not do that,” he says. Oh? We’ve never seen that law on the books. SMH. TMZ/Getty
Image via Michael B. Thomas/Getty Images FBI Labels “Black Identity Extremists” As Threat To Police This is how it starts. Everyone needs to pay attention because one day we might look back at this moment as a pivotal moment when the federal government reinvigorated a campaign against Black protesters and activists . According to ForeignPolicy , the FBI’s counterterrorism unit is warning that “black identity extremists” are a major threat to law enforcement officers. They even have a cute acronym for “these types” of people, BIE. Peep the langage used here: “The FBI assesses it is very likely Black Identity Extremist (BIE) perceptions of police brutality against African Americans spurred an increase in premeditated, retaliatory lethal violence against law enforcement and will very likely serve as justification for such violence,” “Perceptions”. PERCEPTIONS. “Perceptions of police brutality against African Americans”…ain’t no “perceptions”, b!tc#! We KNOW the police whoop our azzes just for living. Our collective response to the police shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson is the catalyst for the Black boogie men who are taking aim at cops if you let them tell it: “The FBI assesses it is very likely incidents of alleged police abuse against African Americans since then have continued to feed the resurgence in ideologically motivated, violent criminal activity within the BIE movement,” Again, “alleged”. Pay. Attention. The feds are labeling Black folks who are angry at systemic racism as domestic terrorists. Something that the President didn’t do when addressing the tiki-torchers in Charlottesville. You know what America does when they perceive a group of people to be terrorists…at least when they’re Black or brown. Guess they don’t see neo-Nazis and alt-right azzholes in that same light. Imagine that.
Image via Michael B. Thomas/Getty Images FBI Labels “Black Identity Extremists” As Threat To Police This is how it starts. Everyone needs to pay attention because one day we might look back at this moment as a pivotal moment when the federal government reinvigorated a campaign against Black protesters and activists . According to ForeignPolicy , the FBI’s counterterrorism unit is warning that “black identity extremists” are a major threat to law enforcement officers. They even have a cute acronym for “these types” of people, BIE. Peep the langage used here: “The FBI assesses it is very likely Black Identity Extremist (BIE) perceptions of police brutality against African Americans spurred an increase in premeditated, retaliatory lethal violence against law enforcement and will very likely serve as justification for such violence,” “Perceptions”. PERCEPTIONS. “Perceptions of police brutality against African Americans”…ain’t no “perceptions”, b!tc#! We KNOW the police whoop our azzes just for living. Our collective response to the police shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson is the catalyst for the Black boogie men who are taking aim at cops if you let them tell it: “The FBI assesses it is very likely incidents of alleged police abuse against African Americans since then have continued to feed the resurgence in ideologically motivated, violent criminal activity within the BIE movement,” Again, “alleged”. Pay. Attention. The feds are labeling Black folks who are angry at systemic racism as domestic terrorists. Something that the President didn’t do when addressing the tiki-torchers in Charlottesville. You know what America does when they perceive a group of people to be terrorists…at least when they’re Black or brown. Guess they don’t see neo-Nazis and alt-right azzholes in that same light. Imagine that.
Adriana M. Barraza/WENN.com Jesse Stay Woke Williams Calls Out The NFL For Making The National Anthem A Paid Promotion For Military Recruitment Donald Drumpf started a whole heap of mess this weekend after encouraging NFL owners to suspend or fire players who take the knee only to have players, activists, actors, artists and regular citizens respond strongly in opposition. Of course one of the most outspoken was Jesse Williams who appeared on MSNBC with Thomas Roberts to discuss the protests: ‘[Saying] we need to stand and pledge for the allegiance and this anthem thing is a scam,’ Williams told host Thomas Roberts. ‘This is not a part of football. ‘[The pregame national anthem] was invented in 2009 from the government [by] paying the NFL to market military recruitment – to get more people to fight wars to die. ‘This is not – nothing to do with the NFL or the American pastime or tradition. This is to get boys and girls to go fly overseas and go kill people… ‘They’re marketing and pumping millions of dollars into the NFL to get us to put on a pageant in front of the NFL football games to get you to go off and fight.’ The tactic Williams was referencing is known as “paid patriotism” — it specifically involved the National Guard and Defense Department spending taxpayer money on NFL promotions. Before 2009, NFL players normally remained in the locker room until after the anthem. In 2009, an NFL spokesman said of the new practice: ‘As you know, the NFL has a long tradition of patriotism. Players are encouraged but not required to stand for the anthem.’ Another point Williams made is that the NFL owners have played an important role in the whole Trump mess in the first place. ‘There’s an incredible level of cowardice and selfishness in the ownership class in this particular league on this particular topic,’ he said. ‘I think we have this perception that athletics is entirely a meritocracy. ‘The NFL proves, and the positions they consider more cerebral that it’s just simply not. ‘Seven or eight of these owners gave Donald Trump a million dollars each and are friends with a very horrible guy who thinks he’s a dictator and treats America like it’s a game show.’ Watch the clip below: Jesse stay woke don’t he?! We love it. Keep it coming brother.
( Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Anheuser-Busch) Beyonce Shares Photos From Bey Good Events At St. John As we previously reported, Beyoncé , Michelle Williams, Blue Ivy and Tina Lawson were on hand at Bey’s childhood church home St. John’s for a BeyGood event with Trae the Truth to help her hometown’s hurricane relief efforts. Bey’s shared a ton of photos from the day on her website as well as Instagram. Check out the pictures below:
Joel Head / EyeEm/ GettyImages Keisha Brockington Receives Racist Letter Another day, another racist letter. A union FDNY worker who was targeted is asking for an investigation into an anonymous letter she received. According to The New York Daily News, back in August a noose was discovered hanging in an ambulance at Keisha Brockington’s station. The person behind the noose was discovered to be EMT John Thornton who told upper management that it was just a practical joke for a coworker who’d just broken up with their girlfriend. The NYDN reports that Thornton then asked Brockington for advice and she told him to contact the EMS union’s vice president, but the plan backfired. Thornton was suspended and his probationary period as a new hire was extended for 6 months. Fast-forward to present day and Brockington’s telling the outlet that a racist letter popped up in her locker from an anonymous source. ““You stupid n—– better watch your back, talking all this crap,” reads the leter. “You better watch your back when you start your car up. Nothing better than a dead n—–. Trying to get innocent people fired for a funny prank,” according to the Daily News. She’s since filed a police report and alerted management. Gee, we wonder who could’ve possibly sent this woman a letter. Shouldn’t be hard for the police to piece this one together, right?
George Gojkovich/Getty Images Rush Limbaugh Rushes Out Of Florida For Hurricane “Conspiracy” Rush Limbaugh spent the first part of this week acting as if Hurricane Irma was all some conspiracy used to sell bottled water and batteries. Last year, his story was a little different but still just as idiotic, suspecting that the storms were somehow part of a liberal conspiracy to push a climate change agenda. While Hurricane Irma was being advertised as a category 5 natural disaster, Limbaugh said things like: “You can accomplish a lot just by creating fear and panic. You don’t need a hurricane to hit anywhere. All you need is to create the fear and panic accompanied by talk that climate change is causing hurricanes to become more frequent and bigger and more dangerous, and you create the panic, and it’s mission accomplished, agenda advanced.” How is it legal for Rush Limbaugh to undercut cat 5 hurricane warnings? If ppl don't evacuate & die because of him can't he be charged? — Adam McKay (@GhostPanther) September 6, 2017 “You don’t need a hurricane to hit anywhere”….BUT LIKE IT’S ABOUT TO, MY GUY. After dedicating his time to accusing the earth of pushing a liberal agenda, looks like Rush himself is evacuating Florida. He went on his broadcast on Thursday to announce that he could no longer record the next day’s program in the studio, but didn’t want “to get into details” and it’s “legally impossible for us to originate the program out of here.” Miraculously, science was right all along and hurricanes DO exist. Water actually does fall from the sky. And winds, they blow. Crazy how things work out.
Image via Eric-Paul-Pierre PASQUIER/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images Iowa High Schoolers In KKK Outfits Burn Crosses And Hold Gun For Pic These lil’ bastards are probably all virgins talkin’ bout who they hate and who has the “power”. Five members of the Creston Community High School football team have been kicked off after they set fire to a cross, donned KKK unis and held up guns in a photo that circulated around the social media feeds of their community. Folks in the town told the Omaha World-Herald that the students were also suspended for a measly nine days. This wasn’t just a scary picture, these kids had GUNS. They should be EXPELLED. Let a group of Black kids dressing in Panther outfits, holding guns, get online talking about what they wanna do to wypipo! Sheeeeeit. Kyle Smallwood is the star quarterback and also a star basketball player (he’s Black) said this to the Des Moines Register about the photo: “I would see that kind of stuff like Charlottesville and think that’s pretty messed up,” Smallwood told the Register. “I never thought that would happen to our small town.” “I thought these guys are my friends,” Smallwood told the Register. “I’ve been to some of their houses before. I’ve talked to them.” Sadly, these guys are not Kyle’s friends as he thought. Star football AND basketball player?? We bet all these kids’ mommas sit around and drink tea every time he set foot in that house…
Image via Eric-Paul-Pierre PASQUIER/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images Iowa High Schoolers In KKK Outfits Burn Crosses And Hold Gun For Pic These lil’ bastards are probably all virgins talkin’ bout who they hate and who has the “power”. Five members of the Creston Community High School football team have been kicked off after they set fire to a cross, donned KKK unis and held up guns in a photo that circulated around the social media feeds of their community. Folks in the town told the Omaha World-Herald that the students were also suspended for a measly nine days. This wasn’t just a scary picture, these kids had GUNS. They should be EXPELLED. Let a group of Black kids dressing in Panther outfits, holding guns, get online talking about what they wanna do to wypipo! Sheeeeeit. Kyle Smallwood is the star quarterback and also a star basketball player (he’s Black) said this to the Des Moines Register about the photo: “I would see that kind of stuff like Charlottesville and think that’s pretty messed up,” Smallwood told the Register. “I never thought that would happen to our small town.” “I thought these guys are my friends,” Smallwood told the Register. “I’ve been to some of their houses before. I’ve talked to them.” Sadly, these guys are not Kyle’s friends as he thought. Star football AND basketball player?? We bet all these kids’ mommas sit around and drink tea every time he set foot in that house…
