Politics
Respect Due: When John McCain Ran Against Barack Obama (Video)
February 20, 2018
Here’s the thing: We CAN agree without being disagreeable. We can ALL be of one nation and be completely opposite in our views, even values. BUT we should value AND respect each other. And we should expect the candidates – yes ALL candidates – to AT LEAST hold to that level of decorum.
We have seen when they have not. Watch here though, when the guy I did NOT vote for showed RESPECT for his opponent. John McCain, stood tall here. Gave respect to his opponent, who would become President.
Remember, folks. The person running against your person is not ‘bad’ for that reason. Give credit when earned and respect when it is due. Respect Senator McCain. Respect.
– @ojones1
Posted in History, Politics, Videos | 
Tags: Barack Obama, Campaign 2008, John McCain, Presidential Campaign | 
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How To Get Gun Control Legislation Passed NOW (Video)
February 19, 2018
Okay, so you see Trevor Noah with Neal Brennan at The Daily Show desk on COMEDY Central. So, it is okay – even expected – for you to laugh. But dude’s idea is brilliant, and it actually worked… back in the ’60s. Score one for #BlackPanther for real #AmericanSymbolsMatter
The ‘solution’ to which Neal referred above is presented in the clip embedded after the jump. Scenes from that earlier ‘Panther’ movie. All Power To The People #Forever
Posted in Activism, Comedy, History, Politics, Series, Television, Videos | Tags: Gun Control, Neal Brennan, The Daily Show, The Daily Show With Trevor Noah, Trevor Noah | No Comments »
David Cay Johnston And Greg Palast Speak On The State Of The Union – The Speech, The Situation, And The Donald (Video)
February 3, 2018
These guys are high-up in the media food chain, and yet, many would likely still not know of them for real. But watch their discussion, and you will feel… something… for real! Johnston, best-selling author; and Palast, investigative reporter and filmmaker. Watch them talk about Trump like he was a… Well, just watch!
Former President Vicente Fox Speaks On Donald Trump And What It Means To Truly Lead A Nation (Video)
January 30, 2018
Hola! Enter the dude who will tell President Trump, and anyone who wants to make a deal of it, that Mexico is NOT. GOING. TO. PAY. FOR. THAT. FU. CK. ING. WALL!
But former Mexican President Vicente Fox has way more to say than that, and The Breakfast Club had him on to speak on it all.
– @ojones1
Posted in Activism, Advice, Celebrity, Hip-Hop, Interview, Politics, Radio, Series, Videos | Tags: Angela yee, Breakfast Club, Charlemagne Tha God, DJ Envy, Vicente Fox | No Comments »
Real Talk… Jay-Z Explains That That ‘Sh!thole’ Comment Is Just Trump’s “Real Talk” (Video)
January 29, 2018
"Everyone feels anger, but after the anger it's really hurtful. … he's looking down on a whole population of people, and he's so misinformed," JAY-Z slams Trump's "shithole" comment.
Van Jones kicks off his new show at 7pm ET with the hip hop star. https://t.co/ri68FSfaup pic.twitter.com/icLx1ZYvch
— CNN (@CNN) January 27, 2018
When you right, we right there with ya as long as you there on point. To that point, Jigga hit this on the nail here. Something must have happened in Donald Trump’s life for him to be this way. Been this way before he got in.
#GoThere #FactsFirst
"Everyone feels anger, but after the anger it's really hurtful. … he's looking down on a whole population of people, and he's so misinformed," JAY-Z slams Trump's "shithole" comment.
Van Jones kicks off his new show at 7pm ET with the hip hop star. https://t.co/ri68FSfaup pic.twitter.com/icLx1ZYvch
— CNN (@CNN) January 27, 2018
Posted in Celebrity, Hip-Hop, Interview, News, Politics, Television, Trailer, Videos | Tags: CNN, Donald Trump, Facts First, FactsFirst, Go There, GoThere, Jay-Z, President Trump, Shithole, Van Jones | No Comments »
Killer Mike On Why People, White And Black, Are Mad (Video)
January 23, 2018
Damn. Michael Render with the real talk. Gotta use Killer Mike’s government name because it’s so real! Ever wonder why poor and working class White people vote against their interests… aligning with Republicans who want to defund programs that benefit them and give tax cuts for citizens who make way more than they do? Because the flag-waving and make-American-great-again chanting has them thinking the ‘trickle down’ from those ‘job creators’ will become a wave of prosperity they can ride to the top [and someday join the 1%]?
Nah… Mike says it’s because they’re mad, son!
I think poor White people are mad because the system that promises you something based on that isn’t ever going to give you that … Poor white people during the civil rights movement in Mississippi they were treated as badly as any Black worker. But because there was an imaginary line of race got put there and they can still say they are superior to this person, they never joined with the Black worker to fight better conditions for them all.
– Killer Mike
But hold up, Black people. Mike has some biting words for his people, too.
A must watch!
(Yeah. We ALL have a right to be angry. But what are we gonna do about it?)
Posted in Hip-Hop, Interview, Panel, Politics, Series, Television, Videos | Tags: Killer Mike, Michael Render, The Real, Why People Are Mad | No Comments »
Why Have We Not Gone Back To The Moon? Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson Answers (Video)
January 18, 2018
Still won’t put down conspiracy theorists, but Neil deGrasse Tyson offers a really reasonable response to rumors of lunar landing fakery, to beliefs of America’s leadership in the field of space exploration, to general inquiry about the motivations for going into space in the first place (the moon, Mars and beyond).
– @ojones1
Posted in Celebrity, History, Interview, Podcast, Politics, Science, Series, Videos | Tags: going to Mars, going to the moon, Joe Rogan, lunar exploration, Mars exploration, Neil deGrasse Tyson, space exploration | No Comments »
MSNBC’s Ari Melber Reviews SNL’s Deliberate Choice Of Dave Chappelle As Guest Host (Video)
January 9, 2018
Ohhhh, so Lorne Michaels (SNL Exec Producer) tapped Dave Chappelle to host that show because he KNEW Donald Trump would win the U.S. Presidency. Wooowwww!
– @ojones1
Posted in Celebrity, Comedy, News, Politics, Television, Videos | Tags: Ari Melber, Dave Chappelle, How Comedians Led Trump Resistance, MSNBC, The Beat, The Beat With Ari Melber | No Comments »
Angela Rye Keeping Us Woke With Updates On The Trump Administration’s Moves And How They Affect Our Lives (Video)
November 30, 2017
A voice for positivity who is positively beautiful! The very crushworthy Angela Rye is back in her seat for another Breakfast Club appearance to break down how current political happenings affect day-to-day living. Always good talk. Always needed.
Maybe if she shows up enough, and talks to us enough, more of us will VOTE…
Dammit!
(Whew! You see how fine she is though?)
– @ojones1
Posted in Activism, Celebrity, Interview, Politics, Radio, Series, Videos | Tags: Angela Rye, Angela yee, Breakfast Club, Charlemagne Tha God, DJ Envy, Gathering For Justice, More, President Donald Trump, President Trump, Stay Woke, Trump | No Comments »
Comedy: Keegan-Michael Key Says Trump’s “Mind Is Free” (Video)
November 29, 2017
Hmm… that’s one way to look at it.
Key breaks down the reasons why Trump is a skilled improviser, and theorizes that the candidate is often sitting on the toilet when calling in to news programs.
– The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
This is before Trump was elected President. Wow, situation still looking crazy as it did back then.
– @ojones1
Posted in Celebrity, Comedy, Interview, Politics, Series, Television, Videos | Tags: Donald Trump, Keegan-Michael Key, President Trump, Stephen Colbert, The Late Show, The Late Show With Stephen Colbert | No Comments »
Mysonne Speaks On It: Meek Mill’s Going Back To Jail Is ‘Bigger Than Meek’ (Video)
November 14, 2017
Okay, everybody believes in justice. But, when it comes to fitting the punishment to the crime, how far is too far? Interesting and compelling discussion here. Mysonne & Carmen Perez speak on the pending Meek Mill jail bid as an example and jumpoff point for extended discussion on a trend of unusual punishment, the scales of justice being unfairly tipped and more.
– @ojones1
Posted in Activism, Celebrity, Hip-Hop, Interview, Politics, Videos | Tags: Carmen Perez, Ebro, Ebro in the Morning, Hot 97, Mysonne, PETER ROSENBERG | No Comments »
Activism/History: Theresa Burroughs Would Not Be Denied The Right To Vote (Video)
November 10, 2017
Being from Alabama, growing up in Tuskegee (and in the shadow of Montgomery and Selma), with Civil Rights figures (Dr. Bernard LaFayette, Attorney Fred Gray, Rosa Parks, Dr. Charles Gomillion) as neighbors, this story hits home… hard! Not even going to hit y’all with a ‘VOTE DAMMIT’ rant today. Just watch, and maybe stop taking our ‘privileges’ for granted. Folks had to FIGHT for our rights; and even then, others tried to keep us from exercising them.
When Theresa Burroughs came of voting age in Alabama during the Jim Crow era, she was determined to cast her ballot — but she had a long fight ahead of her.
– StoryCorps
(And I can recite the Preamble To The U.S. Constitution, too. Salute, Ms. Burroughs. Respect!)
– @ojones1
Posted in Activism, Animation, History, Politics, Videos | Tags: American Folklife Center, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, CPB, Library of Congress, National Public Radio, NPR, POV, Rauch Brothers, Rauch Brothers Animation, StoryCorps, Theresa Burroughs, W. K. Kellogg Foundation | No Comments »
Pablo Escobar’s Son Recounts His Time Growing Up In The Family Of A Drug Kingpin (Documentary)
November 10, 2017
Sweet Christmas… God’s Favorite is one thing, but daaaaamn. Escobar’s son said his dad was seeing over $400 million a week??? Daaaamn again!!!
Pablo Escobar’s Son Sebastian Marroquin Reveals What His Childhood Was Like And How He Feels About His Infamous kingpin Father.
– Bird Plan
Of course, this story is about more than drugs, money, and drug money. Watch.
(And this ‘Popeye’ cat… wowww!)
Posted in Cover Story, History, Investigation, News, Politics, Relationships, Television, Travel, Videos | Tags: 60 Minutes, 60 Minutes exclusive, Bird Plan, Cocaine, Colombia, Juan Pablo, La Catedral, making $420 million a week, MedellÃn Cartel, Pablo Escobar, Pablo Escobar's Son, Sebastian Marroquin, selling coke | No Comments »
Meryl Streep & Tom Hanks Expose Government Corruption In “The Post” (Trailer)
November 10, 2017
In our society, the press is supposed to function as a ‘watchdog on government’… to ‘comfort the afflicted and afflict to comfortable’… a very necessary role. But we have seen, time and again, how that can be a very DANGEROUS role for those in the press; who have dealt with threats on their lives and livelihoods to keep us all up in OUR government’s business (because it is OUR business).
Watergate. Iran Contra. The baseless war in Iraq (to take out weapons of mass destruction that were NOT there)… scandals uncovered by the press. When they do what they are meant to do, reporters serve a critical role in our democracy; holding those in power accountable.
This is an homage to those in the press who did their duty, at great risk, back in the day. “The Post” is looking like another incredible movie that tells a compelling real-life story about what some key figures in the press went through to keep America (and the world) informed about what the government tried to keep covered up.
Steven Spielberg directs Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks in “The Post,” a thrilling drama about the unlikely partnership between The Washington Post’s Katharine Graham (Streep), the first female publisher of a major American newspaper, and editor Ben Bradlee (Hanks), as they race to catch up with The New York Times to expose a massive cover-up of government secrets that spanned three decades and four U.S. Presidents. The two must overcome their differences as they risk their careers – and their very freedom – to help bring long-buried truths to light.
– 20th Century FOX
– @ojones1
Posted in Film, History, Politics, Thriller, Trailer, Videos | Tags: Alison Brie, Ben Bradlee, Bob Odenkirk, Bradley Whitford, Bruce Greenwood, Carrie Coon, David Cross, Jesse Plemons, Katharine Graham, Matthew Rhys, Meryl Streep, Michael Stuhlbarg, Sarah Paulson, Steven Spielberg, The Post, Tom Hanks, Tracy Letts, Zach Woods | No Comments »
Politics: Did Hillary Clinton Secretly Take Over The Democratic Party For Campaign 2016? (Video)
November 6, 2017
Hollllly sheeeeit! #FeelTheBern for real. Looks like there is solid testimony (in former Democratic National Chair Donna Brazile’s upcoming book) that the Democrats that backed Bernie, that threw in with Hillary to oppose the Trump campaign, have been had, got took, been bamboozled and BURNED… damn!
And the cajones of anyone who would seek to suppress the truth… chastising Donna Brazile and others who would call out the Clinton’s co-opting of the DNC as “legal but amoral” for tearing down the party… come on! Slavery was legal at one time, too. People can forgive almost anything, once we know the full truth, like former Senator Nina Turner says above.
Watch the clip.
Posted in Cover Story, Interview, News, Politics, Television, Videos | Tags: Democratic National Committee, Democratic Party, DNC, DNC Chair, Donna Brazile, Former DNC Chair, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton Secretly Took Over The Party, Nina Turner, Roland Martin, Roland S. Martin, TV ONE, TVOne | No Comments »
VICE on HBO: Heroin Crisis & The New Age of Nukes (Video)
October 26, 2017
Two topics that are about ‘blowing up’ in their own ways. Truthfully always thought that the drug game was going the way of pills more so than that ‘ron… And “modernizing” our nukes, never really thought of that. But VICE did. Glad they are on the job.
America is facing the worst drug epidemic this country has ever seen: more people are dying from overdoses than from car accidents-and at the center of it is an explosion in the use of heroin. Thomas Morton traces the causes and impacts of the crisis, from the poppy farms of Mexico to the hills of West Virginia, and investigates how users, first responders, and government officials are responding to the new reality of American drug use.
Twenty-five years after the end of the Cold War, America’s vast nuclear arsenal is beginning to show its age, and the government has embarked on the largest nuclear modernization effort in our history, costing American taxpayers as much as $1 trillion. Kaj Larsen goes aboard a ballistic missile submarine and visits the facilities on the front line of our nuclear weapons program to see why the military wants to upgrade the nukes we have-and why that might be a dangerous idea.
– VICE
Posted in Film, Investigation, Politics, Series, Television, Videos | Tags: Episode 14, Heroin Crisis, Kaj Larsen, Season 4, The New Age of Nukes, Thomas Morton, VICE, VICE on HBO | No Comments »
Yasiin Bey On Politics And Rap, And Weighs In On The Possibility Of Another Mayweather/McGregor Event, “No. HELL NO!” (Video)
October 18, 2017
Interesting point Yasiin made, speaking on Mayweather vs. McGregor… Conor just took a page out of Floyd’s book. We saw it. Barking it up, making it an event (rather than a fight, we saw it was NOT a fight).
Yasiin Bey Talks opens up on the Mayweather/McGregor fight, South Africa Travel Issues, his thoughts on Colin Kaepernick’s stance, tearing down of the US monuments, the current state of rap and more!
– HOT 97
Of course, esp. now that we are far removed from the ‘event,’ we can see what Yasiin sees: That Floyd–Conor do not keep doing business (e.g. that was a one-time thing).
– @ojones1
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Civil Rights Activist James Baldwin At Cambridge University Union In 1965… Speaking Like He Is With Us Today (Video)
October 17, 2017
Is 400 years of slavery building this country (and oppression thereafter) plus many wars of service not enough to justify our right to have some say in its running… without having to hear, “You can leave it if you don’t love it”… Well, isn’t it? Answer: YES! Moreover, we are not going to be ousted by anyone. We helped BUILD this place ‘they’ say we can ‘leave’ (like it isn’t OURS, too)! Sure, this declaration has an angry tone. So I will let activist/scholar James Baldwin say it. Words from so long ago. Could he have known they’d still be so applicable today?
Prior to the UK release of the Oscar-nominated documentary, I Am Not Your Negro, we take a look at a seminal speech by the film’s subject – writer, essayist, poet and civil rights activist James Baldwin. At Cambridge University Union in 1965, Baldwin debates whether the ‘American dream’ has been achieved at the expense of African-Americans.
– The Guardian
Yeah. And Baldwin even has something to say about the flag in this. So on point.
– @ojones1
Posted in Activism, Education, Film, History, Politics, Speech, Travel, Videos | Tags: activist, American Dream, Cambridge University, Cambridge University Union, Civil Rights, civil rights activist, essayist, I Am Not Your Negro, James Baldwin, poet, Respect for the flag, take a knee, TakeAKnee, The Guardian, UK, United Kingdom, writer | No Comments »
Olbermann Declares VP Pence’s Staged Walkout A Show Of Disrespect To The Flag And To America (Video)
October 13, 2017
He doesn’t rhyme like Em, but MC Keith has been spit plenty of venom at Pres. Trump and them. Today, he dumps the whole vial of vitriol on part of “them”… VP Mike Pence… for his and his boss’ disrespect of the flag! Watch and see how.
Mike Pence and Donald Trump are disrespecting the flag and the anthem.
– GQ
– @ojones1
Posted in Activism, Call To Action, Opinion, Politics, Progressive, Series, Videos | Tags: Donald Trump, GQ, Keith Olbermann, Mike Pence, President Donald Trump, The Resistance, The Resistance with Keith Olbermann, The Truth About Pence’s Despicable NFL Stunt, Vice President Mike Pence | No Comments »
Eddie Griffin Calling On Psych-Medical Professionals To Declare Trump A ‘Lunatic’ (Video)
October 10, 2017
Well, damn, Eddie. How do you really feel? Pretty much like a lot of folks… but LOUDER, ROWDIER, and REALER.
Comedian Eddie Griffin is no stranger to voicing his opinion, in part 1 of “The Truth” the funnyman goes on a harangue about Donald Trump’s presidency and how him being an “adolescent adult” will likely lead to another World War. “A childish motherf**ker — I don’t know what happened, but something traumatic happened in Trump’s life around 14 or 15 years old because he’s stuck at that age,” expells Griffin. He then goes on to explain how Kim Jong-Un also had a traumatic adolescence that has led to the two of them going back and forth.
He also says “This a coup pulled off by the Russians, Trump’s motherf**kin’ treasonist ass, the alt-right, KKK, neo-nazis all conspired pulled off a coup of the United States presidency.” Watch the clip to hear him tell it like it is about what’s going on in America and why no one is speaking up.
– Vlad TV
Wow. And Eddie called every Republican, except Sen. John McCain, treasonous! Shots fired, bombs dropped!
Posted in Celebrity, Comedy, Opinion, Politics, Series, Videos | Tags: DJ Vlad, djvlad, Donald Trump, Eddie Griffin, President Trump, That's Why He's Stuck at That Age, The Truth, Trump Experienced Trauma at 15, Vlad TV, VladTV | No Comments »
