Tracy L. Bell, Author/Host
He didn’t even bother to vote!!!!
He’s a school teacher and an educator, yet he was too lazy to get out and vote fam.
Our ancestors took beatings and abuse for the right to vote, some of them even died; yet we take these things for granted by being lazy and slothful.
I’m asking that your share with Malcolm the importance of exercising his right to vote.
With election day less than a week away, Nicole Paultre Bell campaigned on the steps of City Hall yesterday with other politicians who are backing her bid for the Queen’s City Council.
Sharpton announced that, Paultre Bell used her tragedy “pain into power for people.” She’s one of seven candidates vying for the open Jamaica seat.
Are there any Queens residents here on the CEO Blog who will be voting for Nicole Paultre Bell? I’d like to know!
Republican Party leaders in central Illinois are calling on their own candidate for state senate to step down following racist remarks he made at a candidate’s forum last week.
Al Reynolds, who is considered the Tea Party’s candidate in Illinois’ 52nd District, has been out of the spotlight since saying that African-American men preferred dealing drugs than going to college, because it is “easier.”
“I’ve been in the city and the dichotomy of the women and the men in the minorities, there is a difference in the fact that most minority women, either the single parent or coming from a poor neighborhood, are motivated more so than the minority men,” Reynolds said.
“And it’s a pretty good reason. Most of the women who are single parents have to find work to support their family. The minority men find it more lucrative to be able to sell drugs or other avenues rather than do education. It’s easier.”
“We need to provide ways that are more incentive, other than just sports avenues, for the men, for the minorities to want to go to college and get an education and better themselves before the women have to support them all.”
The crazy part about his statement is, Reynolds was speaking at an event sponsored by the NAACP.
His dumb wife Virginia might of opened up an old can of worms this week, when she phoned Anita Hill demanding an apology, but that’s nothing in comparison to the stories a former colleague of Clarence want to share an a tell all memoir.
Lillian McEwen, a former assistant U.S. attorney and one-time girlfriend of Thomas’ told the Washington Post that the Supreme Court justice was “obsessed with porn” as well as the bodies of his female coworkers.“He was always actively watching the women he worked with to see if they could be potential partners,” “It was a hobby of his.”
At one time, Lillian McEwen was on good terms with Thomas. The former assistant U.S. attorney and Senate Judiciary Committee counsel had dated him for years, even attending a March 1985 White House state dinner as his guest. She had worked on the Hill and was wary of entering the political cauldron of the hearings. She was never asked to testify, as then-Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.), who headed the committee, limited witnesses to women who had a “professional relationship” with Thomas.
McEwen who maintained her silence for 20 years has now decided to speak out since Virginia Thomas has opened up a 20-year-old wound and is shopping for a publisher to publish her memoir. Maybe this is what Virginia Thomas was looking for, her husband’s hidden mistress. Oh well Virginia, here she is.
McEwen said, she and Justice Thomas remained in a relationship for many years even after he became a Supreme Court Justice.
And the lyrics in Tony Braxton’s song ring true:
who do you think I am don’t you know that he was my man but I chose to let him go so why do you act like I still care about him,
looking at me like I’m hurt when I’m the one who said I didn’t want it to work don’t you forget I had him first…
stop blaming me he wasn’t man enough for me, if you don’t know now here’s your chance,
I’ve already had your man, do you wonder just where he’s been yeah and I’d be worried about him
now it’s time you know the truth I think he’s just the man for you.
The video is a bonus people and so befitting… 🙂
An argument which took place at a council meeting in Warner Robins, Georgia has caught the attention of the NAACP, after a white councilman told his black counterpart that he should be working in a cotton field.
Larry Holmes, president of the NAACP in Houston County said, “They need to learn to respect each other, and they need to stop all the name calling,” “Ever since this new council was elected, there has been different problems. For one thing, they just can’t seem to function there in a more pleasant and peaceful manner.”
The heated argument captured on tape was between council members John Williams, who is white, and Daron Lee, who is black.
During the exchange, Lee said he was tired of being interrupted and was upset about how he was treated at an earlier meeting.
“I was disrespected last Monday. I’m getting about tired of you all, talking to me any kind of way. I’m not working in a cotton field,” Lee said.
Williams paused for a second and then replied, “You should be.”
The racial talk continued during the public comment period of the meeting. One resident suggested that the City Council should get diversity training. I think that’s a good suggested idea, especially since so many people seem to be heated because there is a black man sitting in the White house.
President of the Houston County NAACP said, “if they can’t work together then maybe somebody needs to resign.”
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