Every Californians Ever (Part 1 of 2)

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Watch the drama and driving directions unfold in every Californians ever aired on Saturday Night Live. The story continues in Every Californians Ever (Part 2/2). Watch now: https://youtu.be/xzZkaqBmH-s

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Miguel – Girl With Tattoo w/lyrics

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Miguel Jontel
Lyrics:
Those innocent eyes
(eyes)
That smile on your face
makes it easy to trust you
If they only knew,
the girl with the tattoo,
like I do….
Doin’ what you doin’
just to get you where you goin’,
yeah I see, baby
Just don’t lose yourself along the way, no
Cus your doin’ what you doin’
just to get you where your goin’
and I see it baby
And too many others gon’ ask to say “I do”
But I knew… the girl with the tattoo, yeah
Oh yeah I knew, the girl with the tattoo
I use to know…

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Where Are You REALLY From? Black Migrations and Immigration, Explained

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Human migration is a tale as old as time, but how has that impacted Black culture here in the U.S.? Hallease and Evelyn explore how the movement of Black folks has created icons from James Baldwin to Nipsey Hussle. #SayItLoudPBS #BlackMigrations #BlackImmigrants

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Reconstruction Era Struggles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTPElA5heA8
We didn’t attend an HBCU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B0YEYWKPIM
SOUL FOOD! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3sht6L10S4

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Alabama Democrats’ Deep Divide on Affirmative Action

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After a 4-hour meeting on 10/12/19, the Alabama Democratic Party’s SDEC has voted to replace the bylaws approved by 78 members last Saturday with an amended version of the old one which the DNC has not approved, also defied the DNC by holding elections for new SDEC members, and finally “cancelled” the ADP meeting called by members for Nov. 2 in favor of Nov. 16.

Takeaways:

  • This was a shitshow.
  • The votes on the bylaws were close: out of 167 members attending, the split was usually 80-73. It was said to be on largely-racial lines, even though the House Minority Leader Anthony Daniels and his fellow legislators Chris England and Vivian Figures supported the Oct. 5 meeting and agitatedly strongly against the Worley-Reed faction throughout this meeting.
  • This is a big middle finger to the DNC and Doug Jones. Say bye-bye to Milwaukee, to DNC party-building money ($10k a month withheld since September 2018) and perhaps to Doug Jones’ re-election bid.
  • Lawyer Barry Ragsdale has threatened a lawsuit against the ADP after the Monday holiday.
  • Dissenting members have stated they will attend the Nov. 2 meeting and hold leadership elections for a new executive board. Could be the start of a new (DNC-affiliated?) party for Alabama.
  • Worley regularly overrode points of order, parliamentary inquiries, suggested amendments and points of personal privilege from the opposition. She repeatedly refused to recognize minutes, procedures and bylaws from last Saturday’s meeting, but somehow managed to recognize the called meeting for Nov 2 and vote to kill the call.
  • DNC lawyer Harold Ickes noted to reporters in the back that Worley was violating the OLD BYLAWS, let alone the new ones. More fodder for the lawsuit.
  • Meeting ended in massive screaming.
  • This feels less like a racial split and more of a power play between the Alabama Democratic Conference and the Alabama Democratic Reform Caucus ADRC/ Alabama New South Coalition over how much/far affirmative action should be considered in SDEC representation.

Another thing I noticed is how so much of the drama which unfolded at the ADP’s SDEC meeting today is not as reflected in social media. Not much social media engagement from the Worley-Reed faction beyond a few individuals and the Alabama Democratic Conference.

You would expect something this consequential to have a social media campaign being waged on behalf of the status quo. But the tweets are barely there. The Facebook posts are overwhelmingly pro-reform.

Instead, the status quo pushback has largely happened through quotes to journalists from al.com (namely Kyle Whitmire) and Montgomery Advertiser (namely Brian Lyman).

This says a few things about media and statewide party politics in the South:

  • Most of the Worley-Reed faction don’t use social media, or at least don’t use it to amplify their opinions. I’m currently assuming that their age group is above 50 on average.
  • Local journalists and columnists have been as essential to coverage of in-party politics as much as members of the SDEC and Democratic activists.
  • As the majority of those who voted against the DNC’s recommendations are Black, I see a startling lack of coverage of why they voted for the status quo, which is not a good look for a state with such a large Black Democratic presence. At most, the three biggest reasons offered by the few posting made online by anti-reform members are the following:
    • Doug Jones voting more for Trump appointees than other Senate Democrats;
    • The DNC’s perceived lack of diversity;
    • The perceived watering-down of African-American voting strength in the SDEC in the new bylaws compared to the African-American voting strength within the Alabama Democratic base in general elections.

Only one anti-reform voice has actually defended Nancy Worley’s leadership. But there is a distrust for the pro-reform side’s motives, deep-seated anger against Worley and Reed’s defenders for dragging the party into such a weakened state, and perhaps a lack of information to/from/about the anti-reform side’s proponents.

A list of Black Southern Mayors since 1869

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Here is a list of first Black Southern mayors:

  • Pierre Caliste Landry (1869, Donaldsonville, LA)
  • Stephen Atkins Swails (1869 Kingstree SC)
  • Robert H. Wood (1870 Natchez MS)
  • Howard Nathaniel Lee (1968 Chapel Hill NC)
  • Charles Evers (1969 Fayette MS)
  • James R. Ford (1972 Tallahassee FL)
  • Clarence Lightner (1973 Raleigh NC)
  • Richmond Hill (1973 Greenville GA)
  • Maynard Jackson (1973, Atlanta GA)
  • Lelia Foley (1973 Taft OK)
  • Oscar Du Conge (1974 Waco TX)
  • Henry L. Marsh (1977 Richmond VA)
  • Ernest “Dutch” Morial (1978 New Orleans LA)
  • Richard Arrington Jr (1979 Birmingham AL)
  • Charles Bussey (1981 Little Rock AR)
  • Ed McIntyre (1981 Augusta GA)
  • J.O. Patterson (1982 Memphis TN)
  • Harvey Gantt (1983 Charlotte NC)
  • James W. Holley (1984 Portsmouth VA)
  • Jessie M. Rattley (1986 Newport News VA)
  • Robert T. Tobin (1989 Minden LA)
  • Lee Morgan (1990 New Bern NC)
  • MW Thornhill Jr (1990 Lynchburg VA)
  • Ron Kirk (1995 Dallas TX)
  • Floyd Adams Jr (1995 Savannah GA)
  • Abe Pierce III 1996 Monroe LA)
  • Harvey Johnson Jr (1997 Jackson MS)
  • Lee P. Brown (1997 Houston TX)
  • R. C. Horn (1998 Jasper TX)
  • Curtis West Harris (1998 Hopewell, VA)
  • Clarence R. Fields (1999 Pineville LA)
  • C. Jack Ellis (1999 Macon GA)
  • James Perkins, Jr. (2000 Selma AL)
  • Johnny DuPree (2001 Hattieburg MS)
  • Marshall Pitts Jr. (2001 Fayetteville NC)
  • Yvonne Brown (2001 Thcula MS)
  • Kip Holden (2004 Baton Rouge LA)
  • Carl A. Redus Jr. (2004 Pine Bluff AR)
  • Sam Jones (2005 Mobile AL)
  • Terry Bellamy (2005 Asheville NC)
  • Sheriel F. Perkins (2005 Greenwood MS)
  • Cedric Glover (2006 Shereveport LA)
  • Terence Roberts (2006 Anderson SC)
  • Timothy Hancock (2006 Killeen TX)
  • Yvonne Johnson (2007 Greensboro NC)
  • Marcus Knight (2008 Lancaster TX)
  • James Young (2009 Philadelphia MS)
  • Stephen K. Benjamin (2010 Columbia SC)
  • Alvin Brown (2011 Jacksonville FL)
  • Daniel Brown (2011 Knoxville TN)
  • Louvenia Diane Lumpkin (2011 Orrville AL)
  • Eddie Lowe (2012 Phenix City AL)
  • Harry LaRosilliere (2013 Plano TX)
  • Percy Bland (2013 Meridian MS)
  • Cornell Harvey 2014 Brunswick GA)
  • Ivy Taylor (2014 San Antonio TX)
  • Mary Moore (2015 Pearsall TX)
  • Barbara Blain-Bellamy (Conway SC)
  • Rufus L Davis II (Camilla GA)
  • Jo Ann Bennett Grimsley (2016 Midland City AL)
  • Kenneth Alexander (2016 Norfolk VA)
  • Brenda Davis (2017 Stamps AR)
  • James Nowlin (2018 Brookneal VA)
  • Steven Reed (2019 Montgomery AL)
  • Timothy Ragland (2019 Talladega AL)

Notable Southern cities which have not had a Black mayor:

  • Nashville TN
  • Huntsville AL
  • Dothan AL
  • Valdosta GA (interim mayor Sonny Vickers served for three months in 2011)
  • Charleston SC
  • Athens GA
  • Columbus GA (interim mayor AJ McClung served for a short time)
  • Austin TX
  • Chattanooga TN
  • Greenville SC
  • Wilmington NC
  • Winston-Salem NC
  • Biloxi MS
  • Corpus Christi TX

Zedd & Kehlani – Good Thing (Official Music Video)

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‘Good Thing’ with Kehlani out now: https://ift.tt/2mmEvi6

Director: Warren Fu @warrenjfu
DP: Rob Witt @robwittdidit
Producer: Whitney Jackson @whitjack
Executive Producer: Sara Nix @saranix
1st AD: Kenny Taylor @kennetharnoldtaylor
Choreographer: Sean Bankhead @itsbankhead
Production Designer: John Richoux @johnrichouxdesign & Theo Zaleksi @theo.zaleski
Stylist: Michelle Laine @michelle__laine
Editor: Zaldy Lopez @ Exile
Colorist: Kaitlyn Battistelli @kaitlynbattistelli w/ @ethos_studio
Sound Designer: Brandon Kim @brandnkim w/ @therapy_studios
VFX Company: Max Colt @ maxcoltt w/ @the_frender

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Lyrics:

I book myself tables at all the best restaurants then eat alone
I buy myself fast cars just so I can drive them real fucking slow
I like my own company, company I don’t need it
I’m not always cold I’m just good on my own
So good on my own

I’ve always been told
One day I’ll find
Somebody who
Changes my mind
If they come along
I won’t think twice…

‘Cause I already got a good thing with me
Yeah I already got everything I need
The best things in life are already mine
Don’t tell me that you got a good thing for me

‘Cause I already got a good thing with me
Yeah I already done everything I dreamed
I’m good by myself
Don’t need no one else
Don’t tell me that you got a good thing for me
‘Cause I already got a good thing

I make myself up just to dance in the mirror when I’m at home
I pose and take pictures then send them to people that I don’t know
I like getting compliments , it complements how I’m feeling
I’m not always selfish just bad at romance it’s not in my bones

I’ve always been told
One day I’ll find
Somebody who
Changes my mind
If they come along
I won’t think twice…

‘Cause I already got a good thing with me
Yeah I already got everything I need
The best things in life are already mine
Don’t tell me that you got a good thing for me

‘Cause I already got a good thing with me
Yeah I already done everything I dreamed
I’m good by myself
Don’t need no one else
Don’t tell me that you got a good thing for me
‘Cause I already got a good thing

I’ve always been told
One day I’ll find
Somebody who
Changes my mind
If they come along
I won’t think twice…

‘Cause I already got a good thing with me
Yeah I already got everything I need
The best things in life are already mine
Don’t tell me that you got a good thing for me

‘Cause I already got a good thing with me
Yeah I already done everything I dreamed
I’m good by myself
Don’t need no one else
Don’t tell me that you got a good thing for me
‘Cause I already got a good thing

#ZEDD #Kehlani #GoodThing

Music video by Zedd, Kehlani performing Good Thing. © 2019 Interscope Records

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The Case for Dedicating the Queensboro Bridge’s South Outer Roadway To Pedestrians: Now!

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On Friday, many groups and elected officials held a press conference to hopefully push Mayor de Blaiso and his NYC DOT staff to finally dedicate another lane (out of 10) on the Queensboro Bridge to bikes and pedestrians.

In the 1990s, cyclists fought hard to finally gain access to the Queensboro Bridge when the city dedicated one of its 10 lanes to shared bike & pedestrian use.

That was acceptable back when few commuters used those modes on the bridge. Now?

More than 5,400 cyclists crossed the Queensboro Bridge daily in 2017, a 35% jump from five years earlier. And easily another thousand or so run or walk.

Advocates want the NYC DOT to convert another lane from car use and make separate biking and walking paths on both sides of the bridge. The DOT is said to be open to the idea, however it would take up to two years to implement. That is too long to wait.

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