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Black Kos, Tuesday's Chile. Black folks are voting. Like we always do. [1]
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Date: 2022-11-08
Pundits need to STFU about “the Black Vote”
Commentary by Black Kos Editor Denise Oliver-Velez
No matter what happens over the next few days with the results of these fraught midterm elections, know this. Black folks are voting, and Black folks are voting for Democrats — like we always do. We are the most reliable voting demographic the Democratic Party has in this nation, and have been for many decades, even though we are only 13.4% of the population. The mainstream media narrative, and emphasis on BBQ dis-inviteds like Kanye or tap dancing “Black trojan horse” candidates like Herschel Walker is yet another way for pun-idjits to deflect from the real problem in this country — white racist MAGAT supporting voters. Periodt.
Threats of white terrorism won’t stop us. It didn’t in the past — and it won’t now.
x Fired up and ready to go! Today is ELECTION DAY and it's time to head to the polls! Already voted early? Join us in encouraging others to get out and vote! For any issues at the polls call Election Protection at 866-OUR-VOTE (866-687-8683)! #VOTE #ElectionDay pic.twitter.com/DTXPTDbsHT — Black Voters Matter Fund (@BlackVotersMtr) November 8, 2022
I don’t have a lot to say today, however the MSM who are pushing a blame Black voters narrative need to just stop.
x "Not Progressive Radio" strikes again with bullcrap reportage. Us 13.4% of U.S. pop. black folks are turning out like we always do. It's not our job to rescue America from white supremacy. Wypipo, male and female, have to defeat their own MAGA family members, friends & neighbors.
https://t.co/ali6ZNjQkv — Denise Oliver-Velez 💛 (@Deoliver47) November 8, 2022
x They're priming the "blame Black men" pump 🤦🏾♂️
https://t.co/KplP3LXaRt — Michael Hollingsworth (@mike4brooklyn) November 7, 2022
We are out here taking souls to the polls like we always do.
x Souls to the Polls in Toledo—the line is wrapped around the building. Lucas County is FIRED UP! pic.twitter.com/05dDwm494T — Tim Ryan (@TimRyan) November 6, 2022
x Great to have first-time voters and 99-year-old voters out for Souls to the Polls Sunday last week in Milwaukee! This is the power of our community.
https://t.co/FJhbdCTVO5 — Souls to the Polls WI (@polls_souls) November 5, 2022
x Happy Election Day Ohio!
Did you come out to our AMOS souls to the polls on Saturday in Columbus??! Our leaders came out and showed out for Ohio voters!
Make sure to check out
https://t.co/kCSD4lOpZ5 for who’s on your ballot & vote accordingly. #faithinaction #everyvotecounts pic.twitter.com/Oce6kFVwVw — AMOS Project (@AMOS_Project) November 8, 2022
No matter what happens when all the votes are counted — we will continue to do what we’ve done each decade since we got the right to vote. Fight for justice, and equality — and we will vote.
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News round up by dopper0189, Black Kos Managing Editor
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Why did MSNBC replace the host of one of its most successful shows? Here’s one not-so-great replacement theory. The Grio: Firing Tiffany Cross shows what MSNBC thinks about its Black viewers
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On Friday, just days before one of the most important elections in a generation, MSNBC fired Tiffany Cross, essentially telling its Black viewers: “No disrespect, but we don’t respect you.
“…Respectfully.”
Before we begin, this opinion column, let’s get a few facts out of the way:
I was a frequent guest on The Cross Connection: In case you think I might be biased, I should also note that I was a frequent guest on other MSNBC shows hosted by people who still work at the channel. Cross was not fired for her performance: In less than two years, The Cross Connection had MSNBC’s highest-rated weekend program and the best-performing show in the key 25-54 demographic, according to Mediaite. Cross was not fired for not doing what she promised: From the beginning, Cross promised an unapologetically outspoken program that reflected the sentiments of America’s multicultural democracy. Women and Black viewers loved Tiffany Cross: An internal MSNBC memo boasted that Cross’ audience was “55% female and 35% African American.” She was the second-most-watched weekend cable news show in America behind Al Sharpton’s “Politics Nation.” Conservative right-wingers hated Tiffany Cross: Tucker Carlson accused her of trying to start a white genocide. Megyn Kelly called her a “dumbass.” And upon hearing the news, the Wicked Witch of the Whites tweeted this:
These facts explain why Tiffany Cross used her platform to feature a diverse array of voices that are usually absent from cable news coverage, including trans women, native Americans and an African American elf who disparaged Caucasian Santa Claus (no disrespect to Megyn Kelly). When Tiffany Cross called out Clarence Thomas, she was echoing the sentiments of her audience. When she suggested that whites should “sit out” the debate over Will Smith slapping Chris Rock, she was just saying what many of her viewers thought (By the way, this is not my interpretation; I was actually part of that panel discussion). She was doing exactly what she told MSNBC she’d do when they hired her.
Tiffany Cross
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Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar and private litigator Morgan Ratner are the lone women of 27 lawyers to make arguments this week at the Supreme Court. The Grio: Supreme Court more diverse than lawyers who argue before it
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The Supreme Court looks more like America than it ever has. The lawyers who argue at the nation’s highest court? Not so much.
The current two-week session of arguments features 25 men and just two women, an imbalance so stark that the Biden administration’s top Supreme Court lawyer made a point of it in her defense of race-conscious college admissions Monday.
Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar argued to the court that extreme racial or gender disparities between certain groups “can cause people to wonder whether the path to leadership is open.”
Prelogar and Morgan Ratner, a lawyer in private practice, are the lone women who began arguments this week as attorneys customarily do, “Mr. Chief Justice, and may it please the court.”
No woman will argue a case in the second week of the court session.
The glaring lack of women was a “common sense example,” Prelogar said, that she hoped would resonate with the court, especially when women make up roughly half of law school graduates.
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Voices and Soul
“… She was thirteen
and, thereafter, she’d feel starlight descending,
the herald of a voice like a bell or a chime… “
- Amanda Gunn
“Mystic”
by Justice Putnam, Black Kos Poetry Editor
When Harriet Tubman was still a child, an overseer smacked her upside the head with a metal weight after she refused to restrain a field hand who had left the plantation without permission. She suffered severe headaches and debilitating seizures for the rest of her life, even after surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital in the late 1890’s.
After her injury, she began experiencing strange visions and vivid dreams, which she ascribed to premonitions from God, which combined with her Methodist upbringing, led her to become devoutly religious. In 1849,Tubman escaped the plantation, only to return to rescue her family. Then, over a period of time, she rescued other family members, eventually helping dozens of other slaves to freedom. Known as Moses, Harriet Tubman was said to have never lost a passenger on her “railroad.” And it was true.
The first woman to lead an armed battle in the civil war, Tubman guided the raid at Combahee Ferry, which liberated more than seven hundred slaves. Active in the women’s suffrage movement until illness finally overtook her, she was admitted to a home for elderly African Americans that she had helped establish years earlier. Harriet Tubman died in Auburn, New York on March 10, 1913 at the age of ninety to ninety-one.
A two-pound weight, hurled toward the sky, meant to break another, found Harriet Tubman, collided with her skull at the dry-goods store. Harriet: a hairsbreadth from no more—from the end of her. It splintered bone, that iron stone, barely bigger than an egg or baby foot. So put, it drove the fabric of her head-rag home, deep enough to touch her mind. A madness. Not a man to be kind, her enslaver would say: Not worth a sixpence. She was thirteen and, thereafter, she’d feel starlight descending, the herald of a voice like a bell or a chime. A sweep of slumber would take her then, even as she spoke, though she woke wounded and weary, breathing and seeing long into time. Crossing, often, a Manhattan street, without the protection of the throng, without so much as a turn of my head, fool girl I was, just wishing herself dead, erased by a taxi at 50 miles an hour. A dare without dread, though no small power, I’d dared myself since thirteen or so. To go and go now: a madness of my own. No cataclysmic crash on the side of my skull, just the want of a pill, just chemistry, and thoughts that moved through me in metaphor: a door to close or not as I chose. Harriet and her crew of renegades, they’d march close, in nothing but rags, a mockery of clothes. They stepped into the blessed black and wicked frost, the stars blue-flaming the waters they’d wade. Always a river to be followed or crossed, though there was no promise of blanket or barn or bed. Just God telling her go and go now from inside her head, among the night blooms and night birds. I had a madwoman to disarm, a dweller in my attic with a shotgun on her arm and a way with her words. Araminta—African lady, with eyes that pierce the mist— you yield to prayer and to a voice and to a godly pain. The price you paid for having no choice; the price of the railroad with a flesh-made train. Moses, they’d say, Moses got the charm. - Amanda Gunn ”Mystic”
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