Wake Up America

The GOP is just digging themselves a deeper and deeper political hole.  These fools have forgotten that President Obama was re-elected with a large majority and we said NO to the GOP's policies. Because the GOP held the house in 2012 they feel it's ok that they are ignoring the will of the people. The President is starting to go on the road to remind the country what he stands for and what we voted for. As Eugene Robinson from the Washington Post said, the President is a lawyer and he is laying the foundation for his case. I agree with Eugene 100%.  The President is leading us toward the 2014 midterm elections as he should be. It is time for all of us who voted for the President in 2012 to vote for him once more in 2014.  Let's give him the House and the Senate he needs to "take back our county."  It's time to put Americans back to work by passing the American Jobs Bill, stop voting to repeal Obamacare and stop trying to pass more tax cuts for the rich. It...

Most if not all of us who are African Americans are exhausted with the conversation about race that just keeps recycling and going nowhere.  To hear the right wing fringe go after President Obama when he shared his own experiences about being racially profiled let me know that many white people just don't want to get it about how it feels to be black in America. I for one am no longer letting insensitive and stupid comments go unchallenged. It is heavy lifting but I believe it is the only way to make white Americas aware of their biases and to effect change. I feel that some but not all of this bad behavior will stop if white people are not allowed to feel comfortable in their bad behavior. I for one am going to take on the challenge.

George Zimmerman being acquitted of killing Trayvon Martin not only saddened me but it also enraged me. To hear a large portion of White America question whether or not Trayvon was suspicious just pushes me right over the edge. Also watching Anderson Cooper's interview with the Juror pushed my blood pressure through the roof. She so clearly identified with George Zimmerman. She even said she felt sorry for both Geoege and Trayvon. She is so delusional that she compares them in the same sentence like she forgot that Trayvon is DEAD! I'm so tired of trying to make White American feel comfortable with me because they see me as different. Well I'm done with that. As far as I'm concerned they need to make an effort to see others as equals. Whites will be in the minority within 20 yrs or less so they need to stop walking around acting like non whites need to make them feel comfortable with us.  It's time for us to take control in the voting booth and elect officials who w...

George Zimmerman was found not guilty for killing Trayvon Martin and the defense and the prosecutors both say it was not a race case. They must all be living in a Florida fantasy  land. Of course this case was about race.  George Zimmerman racially profiled Trayvon Martin and then disobeyed the police by following him. When Trayvon defended himself against a strange man, George shot and killed him. It breaks my heart to see that so many white Americans actually believe that George did nothing wrong even though he brought a gun to a fist fight. The verdict in this case makes me know that African Americans have to protect our own kids because there seems to be no one to do it but us.  We have to get out the vote in 2014 and change the composition of our state legislatures in order to change the laws that leave us vulnerable to thugs like George Zimmerman. Blacks and Latinos have the numbers, we have to get out and VOTE their asses out. Attorney West said that the fact that ...

Yesterday's passing of the Farm Bill without the provision for the Nutrition Program marks the most shameful and hypocritical day of the GOP. There you have congressional members receiving millions in farm subsidies while making a conscious decision to let millions of Americans go hungry.  I stand with the Democrats in the house, like Rep. Shiela Jackson Lee who spoke so passionately on the house floor. I, like her, ask what is wrong with these people. Are they so hateful and hard hearted that they are ok with letting people go hungry while they give us all the middle finger as they blantantly take their subsidies.   I ask all people not just liberals like me but poor and working class GOP voters in red states to stand up and say ENOUGH! Stop voting hatred for Obama and vote for your own self interests. Stop letting yourself be used by the Koch Bros., Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and others. Look around you and see what is happening to rank and file Americans. For anyone to say t...

Looking at what is going on in Texas, Ohio and North Carolina just as a first cut lets me know that the 2014 midterm elections are urgent to the country. Women and people of color in particular need to get out and vote.  Support of candidates who are challenging the GOP extremism is an absolute must. If progressives sit home and let old whites over take them at the polls we will pay for it for decades.  Women's healthcare rights are teetering and young women need to get engaged in the fight. The states are where we need to pay attention because local politics is where all of these oppressive war on women laws are coming from. Voting Rights are also under attack because as a higher percentage of Black and Brown people are voting, older whites males are feeling threatened and are passing laws at the state level to suppress that vote.  The time is NOW to start mobilizing in the gerrymandered red districts that came out of the 2010 midterms. We must get voters in those distri...

The GOP is the biggest fraud. In 2010 they said they were all about jobs, jobs, jobs. However, as soon as they swept into power at the state level, GOP governors and legislatures started their war on women.   We women have to stand together and vote our interests and stop listening to the GOP bullshit. Time to call foul and fraud on the GOP and vote their asses out in 2014.