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Black bodies, white agendas

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Commodity. Chattel. Contraband. Capital. What is a Black body in the South? What is a Black southern man, carted out to work a white-owned field?

It’s impossible today to talk about Black men and white agendas without talking about Herschel Walker, the Republican candidate for Senate in the runoff election in Georgia…

Every time I watch one of these smug, jowly, dangerous Republicans sitting next to Herschel Walker, wheeling him out for their own designs, I see that dinner-table conversation in the background of my mind. Walker is a big, ball-carrying Black man, and these Republicans do not have an ounce of care for him. They are using him to advance their own Constitution-compromising agenda, the way conservative white people in this country have always used Black bodies when given half a chance…

Walker’s candidacy is a fundamental assault by the Republican Party on the dignity of Black Americans. How dare they so cynically use this buffoon as a shield for their obvious failings to meet the needs and expectations of Black voters? They hold him up and say, “See, our voters don’t mind his race. We’re not a racist party. We have Black people on our side too.” Parading Walker at rallies like some kind of blue-ribbon livestock does not mean you have Black people on your side. What it means is that you are promoting a charlatan—a man morally and intellectually bereft enough, blithely egomaniacal enough, to sing and dance on the world stage against his own best interest.

Same as it ever was…same as it ever was…same as it ever was!

FBI decided Trump had to be investigated as a possible Russian agent

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❝ In the days after President Trump fired James B. Comey as F.B.I. director, law enforcement officials became so concerned by the president’s behavior that they began investigating whether he had been working on behalf of Russia against American interests, according to former law enforcement officials and others familiar with the investigation.

The inquiry carried explosive implications. Counterintelligence investigators had to consider whether the president’s own actions constituted a possible threat to national security. Agents also sought to determine whether Mr. Trump was knowingly working for Russia or had unwittingly fallen under Moscow’s influence.

❝ The investigation the F.B.I. opened into Mr. Trump also had a criminal aspect, which has long been publicly known: whether his firing of Mr. Comey constituted obstruction of justice.

Our fake president’s behavior would be insufficient for such an unprecedented investigation to be decided. The usual standards calling the counter-intelligence division of the FBI into play require additional substantive information. This would be coming not only from covert American sources like the NSA; but, might originate with the security forces of any of our longtime allies.

None of this is considered, of course, either by White House flunkies rolled out of weekend cold storage or predictable Fox News-level apologists. Word games and psycho-babble sufficient to impress today’s Republican base don’t require facts or sound reason.

Regardless, as the investigation progressed, the Mueller Investigation of Trump started. Initially into obstruction of justice. The FBI dossier was passed along to the Special Counsel and wherever that leads will determine whether or not the Fake President will become the first president indicted as a foreign agent.

Kudos to the New York Times reporters and staff who gathered this news and broke the story, this evening.

Puppet cleavage offends Colorado Christians

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Puppet cleavage has been ruled out for advertising posters in Colorado Springs bus shelters.

Lamar Advertising rejected posters for a touring production of the Broadway show “Avenue Q” because they show the cleavage of a fuzzy pink puppet.

The city is known for its political conservatism and is home to the headquarters of some conservative Christian groups.

The poster has been replaced by one showing the face of another puppet.

“Avenue Q” is a Tony-winning musical about twentysomething New Yorkers, both human and puppets, searching for life and love.

Certainly you wouldn’t expect to find either in a proper Christian city.