Into when the deck is stacked against you.
Miriam
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Miriam, intelligence is a contributing factor along with many other factors.
Richard
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On Jul 20, 2019, at 2:13 PM, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
intelligent people become rich and poor people are poor because they're
And that worker made another unfounded assumption which is that
past experiences. It might have been something completely different. I am
Miriam
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White Father
It might not have been that your uncle Clarence was unable to build on
He told me that with my IQ I should be rich by now. It just did not seemto occur to him that I had never tried to get rich and that I was not
atrocities. ???
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Voltaire
??? Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit
??? Voltaire,deplore?
On 7/20/2019 11:32 AM, Carl Jarvis wrote:
My uncle Clarence was tested with an IQ score of 160. Considered to
be in the Genius range. Yet, despite his great mental talents and
his photographic memory, my uncles. personal life was a shambles.
For some reason he could never handle his financial obligations. It
was as if each situation was new and unique. He was unable to build
on past experiences. As a result he and his family lived close to
the poverty level.
This "flaw" stood out because everyone held such high expectations
for a man with such a high IQ. But it strikes me that we all share a
bit of this mental flaw. Today, we Americans are looking more and
more like the Axis of the 30's and 40's, that we swore we'd never
allow to happen again. We seemingly cannot learn from our past. We
change names and tweak some of the details, and we have before us a
brand new situation.
But underlying it all is the unchanging issue. In this case it is
Racism and Religion. Mark my words, when we get done with the
Latinos and the Muslims, we'll go back to trashing the Jews, Blacks
and Indians. With our attention distracted we'll never get down to
solving the real issues.
Carl Jarvis
On 7/20/19, Frank Ventura <frank.ventura@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Miriam, I wonder how many American Jews realize that they are
supporting the same rise of fascism now with Trump that they supposedly
of Trump's mouth.
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Sent: Friday, July 19, 2019 9:22 AM
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Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: The White House, home of the Great
White Father
I'm reading a novel called, The German Girl, which Is about a Jewish
family who leaves Germany during the Nazi era. There's a snippet of
a Hitler speech quoted in that novel, which could have come straight out
total catastrophe ???Only substitute Mexicans or immigrants for the word, Jews, and it's
Trump talking.
Miriam
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Subject: [blind-democracy] The White House, home of the Great White
Father
By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan
President Donald Trump has given new meaning to the ???White House.???
From his perch at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, he hurls racist epithets
via tweet while commanding armed agents to terrorize immigrants at
the border and in communities from coast to coast.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi summed it up well, commenting last week
about Trump???s attempts to insert a citizenship question into the U.S.
Census even after
he was rebuffed by the Supreme Court. She accused Trump of trying to
???Make America White Again.???
It is well known that Trump is a voracious consumer of Fox News. On
Sunday morning, just 20 minutes after ???Fox & Friends??? ran a
piece attacking Congressmembers Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan
Omar, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib, Trump tweeted:
???So interesting to see ???Progressive??? Democrat Congresswomen,
who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and
Slovenia.loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States ??? how
our government is to be run. Why don???t they go back and help fix
the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.???
Go back to where you came from? Three of the women he attacked were
born in the United States: Ocasio-Cortez, born in the Bronx, is the
youngest woman ever to serve in Congress; Pressley, born in
Cincinnati, is the first African-American congresswoman to represent
Massachusetts. Tlaib, born in Detroit, is Palestinian-American. She
and Ilhan Omar are the first Muslim women ever elected to Congress.
Omar is also the first congresswoman to wear a hijab. Born in
Somalia, she came to the U.S. as a political refugee when she was a
child. As one viral video pointed out, Omar has been a U.S. citizen
longer than Trump???s third wife, first lady Melania Trump, a native of
over 100 years, a more serious motion to censure Trump was blocked by
Trump???s racist tweets united a fractured Democratic Party, quickly
mobilizing support for the four freshmen congresswomen, now referred
to collectively as ???The Squad.???
By Tuesday, a resolution, House Res. 489, ???Condemning President
Trump???s racist comments directed at Members of Congress,??? was
being debated on the House floor. Republicans temporarily derailed
the debate by invoking an obscure line contained in the
congressional rules that states, ???References to racial or other
discrimination on the part of the President are not in order.??? The
original rule book banning use of the word ???racist??? was written
by Thomas Jefferson, himself a slave owner, but any irony in that
was apparently lost on the Republicans. The resolution ultimately
passed, with four Republicans voting with the Democratic majority.
While it was the first formal House rebuke of a sitting president in
Send her back!???
Trump doubled down on his verbal assaults on the four congresswomen,
accusing them of being socialists or communists. Trump???s use of
McCarthy-era attacks should surprise no one, as his early mentor was
Roy Cohn, who served as Sen. Joseph McCarthy???s lead attorney when
destroying thousands of lives through red-baiting during the 1950s.
Trump went to North Carolina on Wednesday to hold a campaign rally.
Once again, he went after his favorite targets: women and people of
color, telegraphing what will likely be a strategy of using racist
rhetoric to inflame his white base. In the midst of his long tirade
directed against Ilhan Omar, the crowd began chanting, ???Send her back!
ignored, left out and left behind.
In his book ???The Black History of the White House,??? American
University professor Clarence Lusane chronicles the history of the
presidential mansion, from the slaves forced to build it to the
first African American presidential family, the Obamas.
Lusane writes: ???For many African Americans, the ???white??? of the
White House has meant more than just the building???s color; it has
symbolized the hue and source of dehumanizing cruelty, domination
and exclusion that has defined the long narrative of whites???
relations to people of color in the United States.???
On Monday, the four congresswomen who so clearly threaten Trump held
a news conference, denouncing his racism toward them and people of
color overall, pointing to his policies on migrant detention, family
separation and the threatened ICE raids. Refusing to mention Trump
by name, Ayanna Pressley made clear whose country this is:
???Despite the occupant of the White House???s attempts to
marginalize us and to silence us, know that we are more than four
people. We ran on a mandate to advocate for and to represent those
to get back to.Our squad is big. Our squad includes any person committed to
building a more equitable and just world. That is the work that we want
License.Given the size of this squad and this great nation, we cannot, we
will not, be silenced.???
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