July 2024 | 228 comments (228 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Trump's 'Black jobs' rhetoric trades on racial stereotypes and fear of immigrants, 2 June

It's clearer now than ever before. Former President Donald Trump is a malignant narcissist, a racist and a liar, but more than anything he is a tyrant.
bls.gov | Employment Situation Summary - May, 7 June
Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rates for adult men (3.8 percent), adult women (3.4 percent), teenagers (12.3 percent), Whites (3.5 percent), Blacks (6.1 percent), Asians (3.1 percent), and Hispanics (5.0 percent) showed little or no change in May. (See tables A-1, A-2, and A-3.)
On Thursday, during his debate with President Joe Biden, Trump made this outlandish statement about Black Americans, migrants and jobs: "They're taking Black jobs now, and it could be 18, it could be 19 and even 20 million people. They're taking Black jobs, and they're taking Hispanic jobs, and you haven't seen it yet, but you're gonna see something that's going to be the worst in our history."

Table A-2. Employment status of the civilian population by race, sex, and age.

Table A-3. Employment status of the Hispanic or Latino population by sex and age

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For the record, there's no such thing as a Black job. There is no racial qualification for any job, and to say that there are Black jobs is ignorant at best. We need to ensure equality of opportunity for all citizens and for those seeking to become citizens. Only then can we move toward a more just and equitable future for everyone.

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by Cat on Tue Jul 2nd, 2024 at 06:35:52 PM EST
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Re: magical margin folklore (none / 0)

Press Briefing by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, July 2, 2024
black jobs

President Biden appointed Justice Ketanja [Ketanji] Brown Jackson, the first Black woman to be on the Supreme Court, and has appointed more Black women to the federal appellate court than every other president in history combined.

black, not Historically People-of-Color Colleges (HPOCCU) and Universities, schools

He's also creating opportunities for every American to thrive, investing historic amounts into HBCUs, and changing our country's failed approach to marijuana, which disproportionately impacts communities of color.

by Cat on Wed Jul 3rd, 2024 at 11:54:34 PM EST
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Clyburn expects 'mini primary' for Democrats if Biden withdraws, 3 July

noting the virtual roll call that needs to take place by Aug. 7 for the candidate to appear on the Ohio ballot. The Democratic National Convention is set to take place Aug. 19 in Chicago.
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He argued Wednesday that "Harris would acquit herself very well" in a mini primary, but the process would be "fair to everybody," including "all of the other governors who may be interested." If the nomination is handed to Harris, she would need a strong running mate, he added.

archive gratuitous procedural drama, 'if Biden ain't there'

by Cat on Thu Jul 4th, 2024 at 11:47:01 AM EST
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Re: magical margin "cheap fake" (none / 0)

I couldn't fully believe the text of this tweet when I read it, so I listened to the audio. Can't make this stuff up. https://t.co/Fw1zZ86u0y
— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) July 4, 2024

by Cat on Fri Jul 5th, 2024 at 02:19:31 PM EST
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Staring St. Peter in the Face to be Admitted (none / 1)

The bull$hitter believes he can lie his way into heaven.

Old age ... poor memory ... PTSS for era of segregation ... reverses perpetrator with victim ... mumbles as the lies need to be covered by an air of legitimacy.

Decryption ...

served as VP under a black president
picked a black woman as his VP
succeeded to appoint the first black woman to the Supreme Court

First Negro federal judge Irvin C. Mollison, of Chicago, Ill., first Negro appointed to a federal judgeship within the continental U.S., was sworn into office this morning Nov. 3, 1945 at the 3rd Court of Customs building. His appointment by President Truman was confirmed by the Senate without a dissenting vote.

Certainly some truth ...

Most of Biden's appointed judges to date are women, racial or ethnic minorities - a first for any president

Not a selling point in today's divided America to win the next election.

'Sapere aude'

by Oui (Oui) on Fri Jul 5th, 2024 at 07:54:54 PM EST
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"Certainly some truth ..." (none / 1)

For a century US politicians have attempted to integrate descendants of US slaves into the halls of power connecting the several branches of the federal government. But for febrile partisan competition since War of Northern Aggression for their ballots, "essential work" in times of peace, and expeditious conscription in times of military conflict abroad, "black faces in high places" would not exist at all.

Broad strokes of truth reveal Strom Biden's struggle to parlay his Dixiecrat inheritance into colorblind "equity", epitomized by POTUS Mitch Obama (2008-2016).

[violent collapse of "Radical Republican" Reconstruction of the US, 1877-1954]
Wilson: federal policy and "Negro Economics"
[segregated WWI, WW II, race riots, and industrial action]
Truman: EO 3835 (1947) and EO 9981 Desegregation of the Armed Forces (1948)
Eisenhower: EO 10730 Desegregation of Central High School (1957)
Kennedy: EO 10925: Affirmative action in federal government (1960)
[88th, 89th US Congress: Civil Right Act (1964), Voting Rights Act (1965)]
Johnson and Nixon: EO 11246, Requiring affirmative action in federal contracting, "Philadephia Plan" (1967), confirmation of Thurgood Marshall (1967)
[integrated USAF defeat in Korea and Viet Nam, slew of race riots, collapse of US organized labor, and a Reagan Log Cabin "Great Awakening"]
Clinton: confirmations of R. Brown, J. Brown, L. Brown, F. Raines, T. West, R. Slater
GW Bush: confirmations of C. Thomas, C. Powell, R. Paige, C. Rice, A. Jackson

reference
eeoc, Black or African American participation in the Federal Sector a/o FY 2020, a/o 2023

pew, Black women account for a small fraction of the federal judges who have served to date (02.02.22)

crs, "The Appointment of Black U.S. Circuit and District Court Judges: Historical Overview and Analysis" (21.02.23)

by Cat on Sun Jul 14th, 2024 at 03:15:20 AM EST
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The relic named Joe the oldest president ...

Remembering the Black Woman Biden Blocked from the Supreme Court | AEI - 1 Feb 2022 |
The following month, when Justice Sandra Day O'Connor announced her retirement, Janice Rogers Brown was on Bush's shortlist to replace her. She would have been the first Black woman ever nominated to serve as an associate justice of the Supreme Court. But Biden appeared on CBS's "Face the Nation" to warn that if Bush nominated Brown, she would face a filibuster. "I can assure you that would be a very, very, very difficult fight and she probably would be filibustered," Biden said. Asked by moderator John Roberts "Wasn't she just confirmed?," Biden replied that the Supreme Court is a "totally different ballgame" because "a circuit court judge is bound by stare decisis. They don't get to make new law."

'Sapere aude'

by Oui (Oui) on Fri Jul 5th, 2024 at 07:56:30 PM EST
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"They don't get to make new law." (none / 0)

< wipes tears >

Neither does SCOTUS.

Most ignorant litigious nation on planet REPORTS: state and federal legislators "make new law".

by Cat on Sun Jul 14th, 2024 at 01:18:56 AM EST
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Joe Biden didn't just compromise with segregationists. He fought for their cause in schools, experts say. | NBC News - 25 June 2019 |
Joe Biden helped give America the language that is still used to oppose school integration today, legislative and education history experts say.

In a 1975 Senate hearing, the legendary civil rights lawyer Jack Greenberg had something to say to freshman Sen. Joe Biden.
Greenberg, longtime director of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, took Biden to task for sponsoring a bill that would limit the power of courts to order school desegregation with busing. It was a move that followed the wishes of many of Biden's white constituents in Delaware.
The bill "heaves a brick through the window of school integration," said Greenberg, one of the lawyers who had won the Brown v. Board of Education case that ended legal school segregation 21 years earlier. And according to Greenberg, Biden was the man with his hand on the brick.

'Sapere aude'

by Oui (Oui) on Fri Jul 5th, 2024 at 08:00:02 PM EST
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How a Young Joe Biden Turned Liberals Against Integration | Politico - 2015 |
Forty years ago, the Senate supported school busing--until a 32-year-old changed his mind.
... as a court-ordered integration plan loomed over Wilmington, Delaware, in 1974, Biden's constituents transformed their resistance to busing into an organized--and angry--opposition. So Biden transformed, too. That year, Joe Biden morphed into a leading anti-busing crusader--all the while continuing to insist that he supported the goal of school desegregation, he only opposed busing as the means to achieve that end.
This stance, which many of Biden's liberal and moderate colleagues also held, was clever but disingenuous. It enabled Biden to choose votes over principles, while acting as if he was not doing so.

My maternal grandmother lived in The Hague (Fr. La Haye), was devout Catholic in a dominating, discriminating Calvinist society, took teacher nuns to task for showing preference for children of well to do parents in contrast to those considered poor and lower class. Around the year 1910. A strong character ... she would have taken a Joe Biden to task for lacking backbone ... fifty years to preserve his seat in Congress and longer.

'Sapere aude'

by Oui (Oui) on Fri Jul 5th, 2024 at 08:09:35 PM EST
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Re: magical margin folklore SMOKE (none / 0)

What is
Black radio
Black jobs

BlackPAC...
Black Voters Matter...
Black expectation...

without a Black census tract?

Though only 4 percent of Black voters said Biden did "very well" at the debate, 73 percent (110 respondents) said they would vote for him if the election were held today, according to the [June-July?] New York Times/Siena poll.

May 2024 Times/Siena Poll of the Presidential Battlegrounds

View toplines for the full set of polls and cross-tabs for: all registered voters | likely electorate | Arizona | Georgia | Michigan | Nevada | Pennsylvania | Wisconsin

n = 4,097 registered voters (April 28-May 9, 2024), of which 391 Black* for 5 states

July 2024 Times/Siena Poll of Registered Voters Nationwide

Toplines | Registered Voter Cross-Tabs | Likely Electorate Cross-Tabs

n = 1,532 registered voters (June 28 to July 2, 2024) of which 151 Black* for 50 states

* The 5 race/ethnicity IDs ≠ total respondents in either poll, but party IDs (D, R, Other) do. Gallup ratio.

by Cat on Sat Jul 6th, 2024 at 11:20:19 PM EST
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Greatest Threat to African Americans (none / 0)

We asked Black voters what's the greatest threat to our communities. They overwhelmingly said the re-election of Donald Trump.

That's why we launched our first ad of the year. We can't sit idly by as Black communities are inundated with false narratives about Trump. pic.twitter.com/bWk5pGNEmH
— BlackPAC (@voteblackpac) May 30, 2024