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[1CK1S]

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/836401197905035264

 

[5th Letter]

I hope y'all not falling for the HBCU con game that that white supremacist Trump is pushing?

If Feds giving additional funds, I'm for it, most of those schools don't have large endowments.

I can get down with this request

"HBCU leaders have asked the Trump administration to include an aspirational funding goal. They want HBCUs to be awarded 5 percent of total federal grant, internship and cooperative agreement funding and 10 percent of all federal contract funding to colleges and universities. They say that doing so would nearly double federal support to the HBCU sector."

We need something tangible. Politicians love placating black people with HBCU. Foh. Not denying that they don't need support. But for me to truly believe they are sincere they should start by doing stuff for black people that can actually help us. Not all black people attend school.

I agree with you. Politicians as a whole, past and present, have needed/need to do more to actually help us. Me arguing on the HBCU's behalf, though: Money or currency is tangible. If they're talking dollars, then these HBCU's need to listen. Giving money to HBCU's helps us, because a lot of these HBCU's give opportunities to blacks when other PWI's won't. While there's many of us who don't go to school, there's also a ton of us who do, and some type of aide to HBCU's helps those of us who go to school, and indirectly it can help those that don't as well, as it can put some of us in positions to hire those that did and didn't go to school. For example, I'm in a position now, where I'm looking for two co-ops to work under me, and if they do a good job, I will hire them full time. I'm going back to my HBCU to get them co-ops. There's also a few positions on the work floor that need filling, and these positions don't necessarily require you to go to school. I'm going to the community to help fill those positions.

I'm not against helping HBCU's. It looks disingenuous when they neglect black issues but are always quick to use HBCU's as a prop.

https://twitter.com/esglaude/status/836641850463223809

They're getting ready to target black people with Sessions so called vow to be tough on crime. So to placate black people, "let's do a photo op with some blacks so they can't say we don't try to do anything for blacks" niggas better not fall for that con.

Putting an EO in place to help HBCUs isn't a photo op though, that order was signed today. In all seriousness, why is it everytime something positive for us happens......media personalities immediately start throwing water on it? Doesn't happen with any other group. We can't meet, talk, or work with the WH without the "don't fall for it" meme.

As if any of the past WH admins gave a shit about us. MLK worked with Nixon, JK, and LBJ for a reason, to get shit done. This shit is professional, not personal. The president needs to broaden his base, ok...so lets see him come through for things. Far better than just sitting back, throwing our hands up which is what many seem to want. I want all these politicians pandering to us and trying to work for our support. We hold the keys to every damn election.

EDIT: Oh and SMH at "They're getting ready to target black people". Like that isn't already happening. Haven't we had the worst stretch with this shit the last 4 years or so, but NOW they'e gonna start targetting us? lol. Not really directed at you 5th, just ranting a bit.

Because we have bigger fish to fry in black society than HBCU funding. That's like replacing the car radio while driving on a donut. We can get to the HBCU once bigger issues are addressed. Not to mention while they're signing off on policy's to harm black people, they're doing this to distract us from that. No coincidence there.

No question about it black people been targets long before Trump, just saying though.

Of course we have bigger fish, but that doesn't mean we can't deal with the smaller things too. For the last 50 years, what has either party come through on....I'm drawing a blank. Again, make these politicians pander to us, we should be demanding just as much as every other group.

I can buy the HBCU thing if I actually saw real tangible things come from politicians about it. All I see is it being used as a prop to placate black people. The resources they're using to harm black people could be used to greatly help and improve our situation.

 

[fortyacres]

http://www.mediaite.com/online/curt-schilling-gets-smacked-down-on-twitter-after-questioning-veterans-military-service/

Curt Schilling Gets Smacked Down on Twitter After Questioning Veteran’s Military Service

Former Major League Baseball pitcher and Breitbart radio host Curt Schilling— who has never served in the military– attacked a veteran of the War in Afghanistan on Twitter and questioned how dangerous his service really was.

Former Democratic Senate candidate and liberal activist Jason Kander criticized a statement from President Donald Trump Monday that American soldiers don’t “fight to win.”

https://twitter.com/JasonKander/status/836257841870749699
https://twitter.com/gehrig38/status/836371614354788352
https://twitter.com/gehrig38/status/836446946227281920
https://twitter.com/JasonKander/status/836575761830195200
https://twitter.com/gehrig38/status/836576640306118656
https://twitter.com/JasonKander/status/836577860055871489

Jason Kander gonna be president someday, im sure of it.

 

[1CK1S]

Jeff Sessions: ‘We’re Seeing Real Violence’ Thanks to Marijuana Legalization

Of the Trump administration’s various moves so far, none have generated a more puzzled reaction than their hardline stance on marijuana. On Thursday, a new Quinnipiac University poll showed that it’s just not something that, at worst, the vast majority of Americans are concerned with anymore, and a crackdown on pot was not something that Trump campaigned on. In spite of that, Attorney General Jeff Sessions is doubled down on Monday, telling reporters that cannibis legalization has driven crime, even when statistics say otherwise.

“I don’t think America is going to be a better place when people of all ages, and particularly young people, are smoking pot,” Sessions said to gathered reporters at the Department of Justice . “I believe it’s an unhealthy practice, and current levels of THC in marijuana are very high compared to what they were a few years ago, and we’re seeing real violence around that.” The stats don’t necessarily bear that out: A 2014 study showed no increase in violent crime and “some evidence of decreasing rates of some types of violent crime, namely homicide and assault.”

Strangely, Sessions seemingly countered his own counterargument at one point. “You can’t sue somebody for drug debt,” he said. “The only way to get your money is through strong-arm tactics, and violence tends to follow that,” he added, but that’s an issue with illegal drugs, not tightly regulated and taxed legal ones.
http://www.mediaite.com/trump/jeff-...al-violence-thanks-to-marijuana-legalization/

 

[ThaNubianGod]

I hope y'all not falling for the HBCU con game that that white supremacist Trump is pushing?

If Feds giving additional funds, I'm for it, most of those schools don't have large endowments.

I can get down with this request

"HBCU leaders have asked the Trump administration to include an aspirational funding goal. They want HBCUs to be awarded 5 percent of total federal grant, internship and cooperative agreement funding and 10 percent of all federal contract funding to colleges and universities. They say that doing so would nearly double federal support to the HBCU sector."

We need something tangible. Politicians love placating black people with HBCU. Foh. Not denying that they don't need support. But for me to truly believe they are sincere they should start by doing stuff for black people that can actually help us. Not all black people attend school.

I agree with you. Politicians as a whole, past and present, have needed/need to do more to actually help us. Me arguing on the HBCU's behalf, though: Money or currency is tangible. If they're talking dollars, then these HBCU's need to listen. Giving money to HBCU's helps us, because a lot of these HBCU's give opportunities to blacks when other PWI's won't. While there's many of us who don't go to school, there's also a ton of us who do, and some type of aide to HBCU's helps those of us who go to school, and indirectly it can help those that don't as well, as it can put some of us in positions to hire those that did and didn't go to school. For example, I'm in a position now, where I'm looking for two co-ops to work under me, and if they do a good job, I will hire them full time. I'm going back to my HBCU to get them co-ops. There's also a few positions on the work floor that need filling, and these positions don't necessarily require you to go to school. I'm going to the community to help fill those positions.

I'm not against helping HBCU's. It looks disingenuous when they neglect black issues but are always quick to use HBCU's as a prop.

https://twitter.com/esglaude/status/836641850463223809

They're getting ready to target black people with Sessions so called vow to be tough on crime. So to placate black people, "let's do a photo op with some blacks so they can't say we don't try to do anything for blacks" niggas better not fall for that con.

Putting an EO in place to help HBCUs isn't a photo op though, that order was signed today. In all seriousness, why is it everytime something positive for us happens......media personalities immediately start throwing water on it? Doesn't happen with any other group. We can't meet, talk, or work with the WH without the "don't fall for it" meme.

As if any of the past WH admins gave a shit about us. MLK worked with Nixon, JK, and LBJ for a reason, to get shit done. This shit is professional, not personal. The president needs to broaden his base, ok...so lets see him come through for things. Far better than just sitting back, throwing our hands up which is what many seem to want. I want all these politicians pandering to us and trying to work for our support. We hold the keys to every damn election.

EDIT: Oh and SMH at "They're getting ready to target black people". Like that isn't already happening. Haven't we had the worst stretch with this shit the last 4 years or so, but NOW they'e gonna start targetting us? lol. Not really directed at you 5th, just ranting a bit.

Because we have bigger fish to fry in black society than HBCU funding. That's like replacing the car radio while driving on a donut. We can get to the HBCU once bigger issues are addressed. Not to mention while they're signing off on policy's to harm black people, they're doing this to distract us from that. No coincidence there.

No question about it black people been targets long before Trump, just saying though.

Of course we have bigger fish, but that doesn't mean we can't deal with the smaller things too. For the last 50 years, what has either party come through on....I'm drawing a blank. Again, make these politicians pander to us, we should be demanding just as much as every other group.

so nothing has happened in the last 50 years ??? really we gonna do this.

Go ahead. Tell me what good the Dems/GOP has done for us the last 50 years? I can certainly name bullshit they've put on us like the Drug War, and 1994 Crime bill though.....

 

[ThaNubianGod]

I hope y'all not falling for the HBCU con game that that white supremacist Trump is pushing?

If Feds giving additional funds, I'm for it, most of those schools don't have large endowments.

I can get down with this request

"HBCU leaders have asked the Trump administration to include an aspirational funding goal. They want HBCUs to be awarded 5 percent of total federal grant, internship and cooperative agreement funding and 10 percent of all federal contract funding to colleges and universities. They say that doing so would nearly double federal support to the HBCU sector."

We need something tangible. Politicians love placating black people with HBCU. Foh. Not denying that they don't need support. But for me to truly believe they are sincere they should start by doing stuff for black people that can actually help us. Not all black people attend school.

I agree with you. Politicians as a whole, past and present, have needed/need to do more to actually help us. Me arguing on the HBCU's behalf, though: Money or currency is tangible. If they're talking dollars, then these HBCU's need to listen. Giving money to HBCU's helps us, because a lot of these HBCU's give opportunities to blacks when other PWI's won't. While there's many of us who don't go to school, there's also a ton of us who do, and some type of aide to HBCU's helps those of us who go to school, and indirectly it can help those that don't as well, as it can put some of us in positions to hire those that did and didn't go to school. For example, I'm in a position now, where I'm looking for two co-ops to work under me, and if they do a good job, I will hire them full time. I'm going back to my HBCU to get them co-ops. There's also a few positions on the work floor that need filling, and these positions don't necessarily require you to go to school. I'm going to the community to help fill those positions.

I'm not against helping HBCU's. It looks disingenuous when they neglect black issues but are always quick to use HBCU's as a prop.

https://twitter.com/esglaude/status/836641850463223809

They're getting ready to target black people with Sessions so called vow to be tough on crime. So to placate black people, "let's do a photo op with some blacks so they can't say we don't try to do anything for blacks" niggas better not fall for that con.

Putting an EO in place to help HBCUs isn't a photo op though, that order was signed today. In all seriousness, why is it everytime something positive for us happens......media personalities immediately start throwing water on it? Doesn't happen with any other group. We can't meet, talk, or work with the WH without the "don't fall for it" meme.

As if any of the past WH admins gave a shit about us. MLK worked with Nixon, JK, and LBJ for a reason, to get shit done. This shit is professional, not personal. The president needs to broaden his base, ok...so lets see him come through for things. Far better than just sitting back, throwing our hands up which is what many seem to want. I want all these politicians pandering to us and trying to work for our support. We hold the keys to every damn election.

EDIT: Oh and SMH at "They're getting ready to target black people". Like that isn't already happening. Haven't we had the worst stretch with this shit the last 4 years or so, but NOW they'e gonna start targetting us? lol. Not really directed at you 5th, just ranting a bit.

Because we have bigger fish to fry in black society than HBCU funding. That's like replacing the car radio while driving on a donut. We can get to the HBCU once bigger issues are addressed. Not to mention while they're signing off on policy's to harm black people, they're doing this to distract us from that. No coincidence there.

No question about it black people been targets long before Trump, just saying though.

Of course we have bigger fish, but that doesn't mean we can't deal with the smaller things too. For the last 50 years, what has either party come through on....I'm drawing a blank. Again, make these politicians pander to us, we should be demanding just as much as every other group.

I can buy the HBCU thing if I actually saw real tangible things come from politicians about it. All I see is it being used as a prop to placate black people. The resources they're using to harm black people could be used to greatly help and improve our situation.

An executive order was signed to help HBCUs, that's a tangible thing. And again, the Dream Act would only effect a certain number of Latinos, but you wouldn't see them balking at it getting passed.

As for resources, that's mostly a local issue. There's only so much any president from Obama to Trump to Clinton, etc, can do. It's the mayors, sheriffs, governors, etc. who have the biggest impact. the problem for us is that one party has like 90% leadership positions in our comunites and we put zero pressure on them. Like Rahm in Chi, for example. Yet another why we should be Independent.

 

[5th Letter]

I hope y'all not falling for the HBCU con game that that white supremacist Trump is pushing?

If Feds giving additional funds, I'm for it, most of those schools don't have large endowments.

I can get down with this request

"HBCU leaders have asked the Trump administration to include an aspirational funding goal. They want HBCUs to be awarded 5 percent of total federal grant, internship and cooperative agreement funding and 10 percent of all federal contract funding to colleges and universities. They say that doing so would nearly double federal support to the HBCU sector."

We need something tangible. Politicians love placating black people with HBCU. Foh. Not denying that they don't need support. But for me to truly believe they are sincere they should start by doing stuff for black people that can actually help us. Not all black people attend school.

I agree with you. Politicians as a whole, past and present, have needed/need to do more to actually help us. Me arguing on the HBCU's behalf, though: Money or currency is tangible. If they're talking dollars, then these HBCU's need to listen. Giving money to HBCU's helps us, because a lot of these HBCU's give opportunities to blacks when other PWI's won't. While there's many of us who don't go to school, there's also a ton of us who do, and some type of aide to HBCU's helps those of us who go to school, and indirectly it can help those that don't as well, as it can put some of us in positions to hire those that did and didn't go to school. For example, I'm in a position now, where I'm looking for two co-ops to work under me, and if they do a good job, I will hire them full time. I'm going back to my HBCU to get them co-ops. There's also a few positions on the work floor that need filling, and these positions don't necessarily require you to go to school. I'm going to the community to help fill those positions.

I'm not against helping HBCU's. It looks disingenuous when they neglect black issues but are always quick to use HBCU's as a prop.

https://twitter.com/esglaude/status/836641850463223809

They're getting ready to target black people with Sessions so called vow to be tough on crime. So to placate black people, "let's do a photo op with some blacks so they can't say we don't try to do anything for blacks" niggas better not fall for that con.

Putting an EO in place to help HBCUs isn't a photo op though, that order was signed today. In all seriousness, why is it everytime something positive for us happens......media personalities immediately start throwing water on it? Doesn't happen with any other group. We can't meet, talk, or work with the WH without the "don't fall for it" meme.

As if any of the past WH admins gave a shit about us. MLK worked with Nixon, JK, and LBJ for a reason, to get shit done. This shit is professional, not personal. The president needs to broaden his base, ok...so lets see him come through for things. Far better than just sitting back, throwing our hands up which is what many seem to want. I want all these politicians pandering to us and trying to work for our support. We hold the keys to every damn election.

EDIT: Oh and SMH at "They're getting ready to target black people". Like that isn't already happening. Haven't we had the worst stretch with this shit the last 4 years or so, but NOW they'e gonna start targetting us? lol. Not really directed at you 5th, just ranting a bit.

Because we have bigger fish to fry in black society than HBCU funding. That's like replacing the car radio while driving on a donut. We can get to the HBCU once bigger issues are addressed. Not to mention while they're signing off on policy's to harm black people, they're doing this to distract us from that. No coincidence there.

No question about it black people been targets long before Trump, just saying though.

Of course we have bigger fish, but that doesn't mean we can't deal with the smaller things too. For the last 50 years, what has either party come through on....I'm drawing a blank. Again, make these politicians pander to us, we should be demanding just as much as every other group.

I can buy the HBCU thing if I actually saw real tangible things come from politicians about it. All I see is it being used as a prop to placate black people. The resources they're using to harm black people could be used to greatly help and improve our situation.

An executive order was signed to help HBCUs, that's a tangible thing. And again, the Dream Act would only effect a certain number of Latinos, but you wouldn't see them balking at it getting passed.

As for resources, that's mostly a local issue. There's only so much any president from Obama to Trump to Clinton, etc, can do. It's the mayors, sheriffs, governors, etc. who have the biggest impact. the problem for us is that one party has like 90% leadership positions in our comunites and we put zero pressure on them. Like Rahm in Chi, for example. Yet another why we should be Independent.

Tangible is the 1994 crime bill we see it's impact on black people. How are we seeing the impact when every time there is always a promise to help HBCU's yet we never see anything showing the impact of this "help" that these politicians claim they're providing. We do hear about HBCU's closing down though...

 

[7figz]

Of all the news worthy shit coming out of the Trump Adminstration... that gremlin she-devil sitting on a couch ain't one of them.

Jokes are fair game, but you got niggas trying to make this into an ACTUAL issue.

Nah - FOH with that.

I gotta disagree. It's not relatively important but the hypocrisy is worth noting. Shouldn't, and likely isn't, being prioritized into a forefront issue, but not some shit to be ignored.

And definitely not below something that should be allowed to be discussed on a message board, where "Who would eat.." threads get posted.

 

[VIBE]

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/836681637752627200

 

[Crude_]

Trump finding out quickly it's going to be much harder to enact all that nutty shit he was promising as he begins to get push back from his own party.

 

[Peace_79]

It's my understanding that the Executive Order made no mention of ACTUAL FUNDs to be disbursed ... just nice words...

We will see if anything actually gets done.



Real rap, tho ...

FUCK his motives... as long as the black community is not contractually bound to reciprocate in kind, we will GLADLY take more money for HBCUs.

Money = Facilities, technology, buildings, staff ...

^^^ His motives have NOTHING to do with that.

We can and will say FUCK him if and WHEN he doesn't come through on the plethora of other, much more important issues in our community.

But we'll take the money, too.

 

[5th Letter]

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/836681637752627200

They're not even trying to hide it god damn.

 

[Peace_79]

I hope y'all not falling for the HBCU con game that that white supremacist Trump is pushing?

If Feds giving additional funds, I'm for it, most of those schools don't have large endowments.

I can get down with this request

"HBCU leaders have asked the Trump administration to include an aspirational funding goal. They want HBCUs to be awarded 5 percent of total federal grant, internship and cooperative agreement funding and 10 percent of all federal contract funding to colleges and universities. They say that doing so would nearly double federal support to the HBCU sector."

We need something tangible. Politicians love placating black people with HBCU. Foh. Not denying that they don't need support. But for me to truly believe they are sincere they should start by doing stuff for black people that can actually help us. Not all black people attend school.

I agree with you. Politicians as a whole, past and present, have needed/need to do more to actually help us. Me arguing on the HBCU's behalf, though: Money or currency is tangible. If they're talking dollars, then these HBCU's need to listen. Giving money to HBCU's helps us, because a lot of these HBCU's give opportunities to blacks when other PWI's won't. While there's many of us who don't go to school, there's also a ton of us who do, and some type of aide to HBCU's helps those of us who go to school, and indirectly it can help those that don't as well, as it can put some of us in positions to hire those that did and didn't go to school. For example, I'm in a position now, where I'm looking for two co-ops to work under me, and if they do a good job, I will hire them full time. I'm going back to my HBCU to get them co-ops. There's also a few positions on the work floor that need filling, and these positions don't necessarily require you to go to school. I'm going to the community to help fill those positions.

I'm not against helping HBCU's. It looks disingenuous when they neglect black issues but are always quick to use HBCU's as a prop.

https://twitter.com/esglaude/status/836641850463223809

They're getting ready to target black people with Sessions so called vow to be tough on crime. So to placate black people, "let's do a photo op with some blacks so they can't say we don't try to do anything for blacks" niggas better not fall for that con.

Putting an EO in place to help HBCUs isn't a photo op though, that order was signed today. In all seriousness, why is it everytime something positive for us happens......media personalities immediately start throwing water on it? Doesn't happen with any other group. We can't meet, talk, or work with the WH without the "don't fall for it" meme.

As if any of the past WH admins gave a shit about us. MLK worked with Nixon, JK, and LBJ for a reason, to get shit done. This shit is professional, not personal. The president needs to broaden his base, ok...so lets see him come through for things. Far better than just sitting back, throwing our hands up which is what many seem to want. I want all these politicians pandering to us and trying to work for our support. We hold the keys to every damn election.

EDIT: Oh and SMH at "They're getting ready to target black people". Like that isn't already happening. Haven't we had the worst stretch with this shit the last 4 years or so, but NOW they'e gonna start targetting us? lol. Not really directed at you 5th, just ranting a bit.

Because we have bigger fish to fry in black society than HBCU funding. That's like replacing the car radio while driving on a donut. We can get to the HBCU once bigger issues are addressed. Not to mention while they're signing off on policy's to harm black people, they're doing this to distract us from that. No coincidence there.

No question about it black people been targets long before Trump, just saying though.

Of course we have bigger fish, but that doesn't mean we can't deal with the smaller things too. For the last 50 years, what has either party come through on....I'm drawing a blank. Again, make these politicians pander to us, we should be demanding just as much as every other group.

so nothing has happened in the last 50 years ??? really we gonna do this.

Nah ... Cmon. We been down this road, fam.

 

[Peace_79]

Of all the news worthy shit coming out of the Trump Adminstration... that gremlin she-devil sitting on a couch ain't one of them.

Jokes are fair game, but you got niggas trying to make this into an ACTUAL issue.

Nah - FOH with that.

I gotta disagree. It's not relatively important but the hypocrisy is worth noting. Shouldn't, and likely isn't, being prioritized into a forefront issue, but not some shit to be ignored.

And definitely not below something that should be allowed to be discussed on a message board, where "Who would eat.." threads get posted.

Not saying it's off limits for the IC.

I was speaking on some of the media coverage I've seen and the social media outrage.

I agree it's hypocrisy at its finest ...

But this entire Adminstration is a walking hypocrisy...

I'm more concerned about the criminal, amoral, disenfranchising Fuck shit that they are going to try and pull ... as opposed to seeing a member of Trump's staff behave unprofessionally.

Be honest - you would be more surprised if one of them actually behaved professionally.

Its a footnote in the coversation, not a main topic.

 

[Angeles1son85]

this shit expose trump and russia all the fbi gotta do is connect the dots smh
=PLDIVi-vBsOEyETRGoRP9y8zhyu6bHl6iK

 

[1CK1S]

I don't know what's worse than shit, but Cheeto is just that!!!
https://twitter.com/foxandfriends/status/836560979882225664
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_58b58852e4b0780bac2d58c6?

How are you gonna blame Ryan's death on the military???

 

[1CK1S]

http://twitter.com/TomNamako/status/836655131286462464

 

[1CK1S]

https://twitter.com/aravosis/status/836705769684893696

 

[5th Letter]

I love it.

 

[a.mann]

I hope y'all not falling for the HBCU con game that that white supremacist Trump is pushing?

Hoteps on Twitter are lol

After the last 8 years of relentlessly bashing Obama and than Hillary unexpectedly losing the election, those clowns really have no choice...but to soft shoe coon for Trump to save face