Tonight, as protesters attempted to stop @LMPD from towing a car, a woman threw water at one officer. The officer quickly grabbed her, pushed her to the ground and arrested her. People in the crowd say the officer says she threw a punch. Hereโs the video. pic.twitter.com/fMCjxM4qXY โ Bailey Loosemore (@bloosemore) July 8, 2020 Courier Journal reporter Bailey Loosemore was embedded with Louisville protesters as they swarmed LMPD officers. The police were having a car removed from a no parking zone near the protest site that has seen one murder and multiple battles with police over the past two months. The reporter's caption is more supportive of the protester claims. First, the type of liquid is unknown. In prior protests, police have had urine and
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Black voices on Black issues; my job is to listen without comment
You want truth?.. @DrRickyLJones @terrymeiners https://t.co/NkPXckFbXp โ Terry (@cardinalterry42) July 7, 2020 THREAD: On @CNNTonight, Terry Crews explained to host @donlemon why he was rightly critical of the Black Lives Matter organization. "It was almost a supremist move where they viewed that their black lives mattered a lot more than mine." But lemon got combative real quick pic.twitter.com/TkgfU5ZAxu โ Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) July 7, 2020 Abraham Lincoln once asked an audience how many legs a dog has if you count the tail as a leg. When they answered โfive,โ Lincoln told them that the answer was four. The fact that you called the tail a leg did not make it a leg. โ Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) July 7, 2020 Two men. One Black. One White. Both
Come Together ๐ Ricky Jones and Sean Lennon on life, color, and expression
๐ป @DrRickyLJones analyzes McGrath vs Booker, political courage, Black Power in 2020, equal decision making with White people, and why Sammy Sosa is dead to him. ๐ @840WHAS audio โถ๏ธ https://t.co/VG39nSjGdL #race #community #BlackLivesMatter ๐ธ @Utterback13 @courierjournal pic.twitter.com/kcYe4qd8Xz— Terry Meiners (@terrymeiners) June 24, 2020 Those who want to see everything through a lens of race and class, judging individuals based on immutable characteristics, pretend to be fighting the very thing they are enacting. And none of us wish to speak up because we have been bullied into silence. Anyway how was your day?— Sean Ono Lennon (@seanonolennon) June 24, 2020
Facing heat from #BlackLivesMatter, cops, citizens, and business owners, Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer joins me to talk about the city’s unprecedented upheaval
Today would have been Breonna Taylor's 27th birthday. She's dead. On March 13, LMPD officers shot her in her apartment after activating a no-knock warrant in search of someone who was not there. Breonna's boyfriend Kenneth Walker awoke from the police invasion and shot at what he thought were burglars. Police returned fire, wounding Walker and killing Taylor. Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets to honor Breonna in a movement launched following the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd. Four police officers have been arrested over Floyd's death but none of the Louisville officers have been charged in the killing of Breonna Taylor. Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer appeared on the radio with me tonight to answer questions about the protests, Breonna's
Kentucky governor and Louisville mayor twitter spar over protester suggesting someone stab Mitch McConnell to death
Louisville mayor references "peaceful assembly" where the protest organizer outside Mitch McConnell's house suggests that someone "stab the motherf***er in the heart. Sounds peaceful. #compassionatecity #NoHate full video: https://t.co/HYK1DUEiSn ๐ธ @nypost https://t.co/hHy3W26GTf pic.twitter.com/6lqUiD9qgM— Terry Meiners (@terrymeiners) August 6, 2019 Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin tweeted his dismay that Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer would allow protesters to hurl death threats outside the home of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. The protest was led by Black Lives Matter activist Chanelle Helms who screams the f-word throughout the two-hour late evening protest. Helms is known for her screed urging white people to give up their homes to black families as a form of reparation for slavery. Mayor Fischer responded to Governor Bevin the next morning
Vicious, vulgar values know no era. It’s time to end Fancy Farm’s annual hate parade.
.โฆ@senatemajldrโฉ fell & fractured his shoulder. Heโs been treated at hospital and released. pic.twitter.com/nrPIc1MMIL— John Bresnahan (@BresPolitico) August 4, 2019 Read the comment thread following this reporter's tweet announcing that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell fell and broke his shoulder. Here's a sample from over 600 comments. So sweet. Perhaps an angry Highlands progressive could pretend to be a home nurse and throw his food tray on the floor. That wouldn't be the first time. A group of protesters led by Black Lives Matter activist Chanelle Helm posted this Facebook live video outside Mitch McConnell's home that included invectives like "fuck you, fuck your wife, fuck everything you stand for." Helm gave McConnell's address and encouraged others to shout at
Henry Sadlo Sr. – one of few white men who showed kindness and respect to Muhammad Ali before he was famous
THE GREATEST OF ALLLLLLLLLLLL TIIIIIIMMMMMMMME! Muhammad Ali was one of the most beloved, most hated, most intriguing figures in American history. A new book by Jonathan Eig is perhaps the most thoroughly detailed, heavily researched looks at Ali's fascinating life. Growing up on Piper Court in Louisville's Glenafton subdivision, our next door neighbors were the Sadlos. Henry & Pat had six children (Henry Jr, Cathy, Frank, Susan, Linda, and Jim) and they treated the fourteen Meiners children as additional family members. Our homes were wide open for each other. We just walked in to find the Sadlo or Meiners we sought. That's how we rolled in the 60s and 70s. The above book passage gives great insight into
REAL RADIO – Louisville voices on statues, reparations, and LGBT rights
Yesterday's radio show delivered a triple punch of prominent Louisville activists amplifying their messages on 50,000 watt WHAS Radio. Dr. Ricky Jones always brings his A game. He dove headfirst into the issues of confederate statues, neo Nazis, and why Democrats are cowards. Plus, we sang a duet of Dixie. Chanelle Helm, one of Louisville's most noteworthy Black Lives Matter organizers, expounded upon her eye opening post "White People, Here are 10 Requests from Black Lives Matter" Director of the Fairness Campaign Chris Hartman followed up on his visit to the Kentucky Farm Bureau's state fair ham breakfast. For the sixth consecutive year, Hartman protested what he says are discriminatory policies toward LGBTQ citizens that are advanced by lobbyists for KFB. A sampling of
SURJ urges purges of Statues of No Liberty
Neo-Nazis touting white supremacy are battling with anti-racism activists in hotspots across America. The upheaval is one of the ugliest chasms in the country's 241 year history. SURJ spokesman Andrew Stone Porter, a Ph.D. candidate at Vanderbilt University, spoke on my radio show about the need for white allies to join people of color and religious minorities to strengthen their position against white nationalists. We also talked about the push to remove Confederacy statues and the notion that monuments to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and King Louis XVI should also be considered for removal.
Comedy in the culture of apology
Millennial: "I don't judge people." Me: "You lock your door, don't you?" Millennial: "Yes." Me: "Then you're judging people, dipstick." Of course locking your door doesn't make you judgmental. It's a joke about sound judgment related to known threats in society, the same judgment needed to select your kid's school and the neighborhood you call home. Is comedy dead in a perpetually aggrieved society? Nope. It's just limited to self-deprecation or vilification of oppressive white dudes. The very black Chris Rock isn't allowed to excoriate faulty African Americans any longer. This brilliant comedy piece is 20 years old. Another masterful bit from Rock is entitled How to Not Get Your Ass Kicked By The Police. Today's #BlackLivesMatter hypersensitivity keeps Rock from doing this type of