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SMH… Hilary Clinton Apologizes For Trump Supporter Comments Remember when we told you that Hilary Clinton went IN on Trump supporters and said that half of them “belong in a basket of deplorables” ??? ‘To just be grossly generalistic, you can put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the ‘basket of deplorables,” Clinton said. ‘Unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up.’ Well the Presidential candidate is backing away from her comments. CNN reports: Hillary Clinton expressed “regret” Saturday for comments in which she said “half” of Donald Trump’s supporters are “deplorables,” meaning people who are racist, sexist, homophobic or xenophobic. “Last night I was ‘grossly generalistic,’ and that’s never a good idea. I regret saying ‘half’ — that was wrong,” Clinton said in a statement in which she also vowed to call out “bigotry” in Trump’s campaign. The Democratic presidential nominee sparked an uproar late Friday when she described Trump’s supporters at a fundraiser. “To just be grossly generalistic, you can put half of Trump supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables,” Clinton said. “Right? Racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic, you name it.” She added, “And unfortunately, there are people like that and he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people, now have 11 million. He tweets and retweets offensive, hateful, mean-spirited rhetoric.” Clinton then said some of these people were “irredeemable” and “not America.” She described the rest of his supporters as people who are looking for change in any form because of economic anxiety and urged her supporters to empathize with them. Say it with your chess, Hil! Her apology makes sense considering how sensitive folks are these days, but she definitely wasn’t wrong!
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Update: Hilary Clinton Regrets Saying That Trump Supporters Belong In A “Basket Of Deplorables”
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Daily News Columnist Shaun King Suspended From Facebook For Sharing Hate Mail Twitter Despite all types of requests for receipts and changes in the ways he profits from Black pain, Shaun King is still out here tryna prove he’s down for the people. Unfortunately, this latest attempt didn’t go as planned, according to CBS News . “Every day I get as many — 50 or more sometimes — overtly racist emails. I even get mail now at the New York Daily News office … ‘Silence of the Lambs’ weird stuff,” said King. “Sometimes I’ll take a screen shot of one of these ugly things and post it.” On Friday morning, King took a screen shot of an email he received that used both the f- and n-words, and posted it on Twitter and Facebook saying this is the type of ugliness he gets “every day all day.” A few hours later when he went to Facebook, King says he had been logged out. When he logged back in he got a message saying he had been suspended from posting for 24 hours. “I am constantly harassed on Facebook and Twitter. … I don’t know if these people have been blocked. The policy is not clear to me.” “I accept that Facebook and every other social media platform is trying hard how to monitor and censor the ugliness that goes on,” King said. “If the policy is we don’t allow hate speech and people to be harassed, I say great – delete it. But don’t ban people.” King noted that it was odd that his Facebook post was blocked because the offensive language was in a screen grab, rather than a typed message. Which means, if the censoring was automatic, there would have had to be some sort of visual recognition program to read the words off the image. Poor thang. But wait: Facebook is blocking people from words in pictures now? What part of the game is that?
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When Catfish Activism Goes Wrong: Facebook Shuts Shaun King Down Over Racist Isht He Didn’t Even Say
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Broncos Linebacker Brandon Marshall Loses Credit Union Endorsement Over Anthem Protest According to a report in SportsIllustrated , Brandon Marshall ‘s Kaepernick-esque protest of the National Anthem will cost him on of his endorsements… Broncos linebacker Brandon Marshall has lost his endorsement deal with Air Academy Federal Credit Union after kneeling during the national anthem on Thursday night before a win over the Panthers. The Colorado-based credit union serves active and retired members of the United States military. “Although we have enjoyed Brandon Marshall as our spokesperson over the past five months, Air Academy Federal Credit Union (AAFCU) has ended our partnership,” president and CEP Glenn Strebe said in a statement. “AAFCU is a membership-based organization who has proudly served the military community for over 60 years. While we respect Brandon’s right of expression, his actions are not a representation of our organization and membership. We wish Brandon well on his future endeavors.” After the game Marshall explained to the DenverPost exactly what his kneeling was meant to signify: “I’m not against the military. I’m not against the police or America. I’m just against social injustice,” Marshall said after the game. “I’m proud of it. I don’t regret it. I know this is right.” Marshall said he was moved by the wave of police brutality that occurred this summer, including two killings of black men by police officers and a third mass shooting of police officers within a three-day span across the country. He’s following the path of Kaepernick, 49ers safety Eric Reid and Seahawks cornerback Jeremy Lane who have all sat or knelt during the national anthem in the preseason seeking change in what he feels are some of the hidden struggles like racial oppression and police brutality. “I feel like this is the right platform. I feel like this is our only platform to be heard,” Marshall said. “A lot of time people want us to just shut up and entertain them. Shut up and play football. But we have voices as well. We’re actually educated individuals that went to college. When we have an opinion and speak it, a lot of people bash us.” Would you like more athletes to speak up even at the risk of sounding like Shaq and Ray Lewis ? Image via DenverPost Continue reading
Trump is either tanking this election on purpose or just-does-not-get-it!
It is interesting how Shannon Sharpe chose his words wisely and did speak about black on black crime, but in a different context than Charles Barkley . Notice how Shannon explained the often left out historic reasons for the violence in the ghettos and how to counter the problems with the abolishment of racist practices, though? Learn something Barkley… Continue reading
Stephen Curry applauded Colin Kaepernick saying he loves that he can “stand for what he believes in.” NBA’s Steph Curry speaks to CNBC’s Sara Eisen about the controversy surrounding NFL player Colin Kaepernick. Continue reading
Bill Cosby’s Legal Team Believes “Racial Bias” Is Against Him In Rape Trial Bill Cosby is about to have his day to face a jury of his peers and let his attorney’s tell it, race is going to play a significant role in whether or not the comedian spends his last days as a free man… Via NBCNews As embattled comedy legend Bill Cosby enters the legal fight of his life, his attorneys have begun to invoke the concept of “racial bias” playing a role in the case being made against him. The 79-year-old actor is scheduled to go on trial next summer for drugging and molesting Andrea Constand, then an employee of his alma mater Temple University, in his home in 2004. Cosby has denied any wrongdoing in the case — which he had previously settled in 2006 — and has maintained that their encounter was consensual. On Tuesday, following a hearing where prosecutors sought to make testimony of 13 other Cosby accusers admissible, his attorneys went on offense — calling out attorney Gloria Allred, who represents several of his alleged victims, for her role in the case. “The time has come to shine a spotlight on the trampling of Mr. Cosby’s civil rights,” Cosby’s lawyers wrote in a statement. “Her campaign against Mr. Cosby builds on racial bias and prejudice that can pollute the court of public opinion.” Allred retorts: “He complains about racial bias, but what about the African-American women whom I represent who accuse him of sexual assault or rape and who refuse to remain silent about what they say they have suffered?,” While Mr. Cosby and his legal team may smell the stench of bigotry surrounding the prosecutions narrative, it isn’t as if the former “favorite dad” of America doesn’t have black supporters. Eddie Griffin , Kanye West , Luenell and Keshia Knight-Pulliam several other celebs have spoken out publicly in support of the comedian. Then you have those like Monique Pressley , the former face of Cosby’s defense team, who recently quit her job working for Cosby for unspecified reasons. Former prosecutor and Cleveland-Marshell College of Law professor Lolita Buckner Inniss seems to think Pressley’s presence could have been extremely helpful to Cosby keeping some of that black support: “Her gender and her race matter, because Bill Cosby is being charged with sexual assault of several women. A large number of those women are white women. I think there’s a certain extent to which the idea of racial solidarity plays in here. The idea that if an intelligent, well-spoken black woman stands with Bill Cosby on this, then perhaps some of those people who accuse Bill Cosby are lying,” Lolita Buckner Inniss, a former prosecutor and professor at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law at Cleveland State University, told NPR earlier this year. Do you think the racial component of this case is a hinderance or help to Bill Cosby? Image via WENN Continue reading
This week, Kanye West’s Saint Pablo Tour descends on New York City for two nights at Madison Square Garden. He got a chance to hit the stage a day early, however, as Diddy brought out Kanye as special guest during the Bad Boy Family’s reunion show at the Garden on Sunday night. Continue reading
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