payne1000

Why should anyone believe any of those on this forum who hide behind cowardly anonymity?

Progressive One

not getting baited into your tit for tat....if you need to see me as a liar ti feel better about your situation....feel free. You have my blessings........not doing the conflict thing........

Loki Loc: Georgia

I am quite comfortable with my "situation," as you describe it. You, or your opinions, or your mendacity or veracity have absolutely nothing to do with it. You are nothing more than a game to play on occasion, when ennui overtakes me.

Progressive One

run with it Loki...I'm not engaging your shit....

eagleye13 Loc: Fl

To see the hypocrisy of "Progressives".
"You can tell that this is the wakeup call to action many needed.....you can see the new level of mobilization, awareness and consciousness. the freeways have been blocked with thousands out here in LA.....Trump has his work cut out for him and his racist supporters in the sticks got him there.....will not be of any help to him…" - "Progressive?" One

So rioting, looting, and burning down buildings is the way to address "civil rights issues".

"as long as it is anti-conservative....it is good enough for me...regardless..,.i don't like how the right addresses civil rights issues..." -Progressive One

From Progressive One’s finger tips;
"i've been working with the City of LA in an advisory capacity since 91..." - Progressive One
There you have it boys and girls; PO is on the government dole. He has been sucking on the government teat since at least 1991.

Our taxes paid for that?


Black Bird Fly
https://youtu.be/qokMu7BMv_8

Progressive One

In Defense of George Soros
http://www.accredited-times.com/2016/07/22/in-defense-of-george-soros/

Raylan Wolfe Loc: earth

And this from the simpleton who voted for the most prolific liar of all times!


76% of everything Trump says has proven to be a lie!

https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015-12-21/fact-checking-website-donald-trump-lies-76-percent-of-the-time

eagleye13 Loc: Fl

To defend their positions, it would be good to explain why they align with the likes of Bilderberger, billionaire, George Soros. Or if they don't.
10 Things You Didn't Know About George Soros
https://youtu.be/tfBHYxEojZk
George Soros: Evil Zionist Puppet Master Exposed
https://youtu.be/1eRFTHD2CTg
The Devil On Earth (George Soros)
https://youtu.be/_dLWv6ONtd8

PS; beware of all those that defend Soros, the raider of currencies..
This is what PO came up with:
In Defense of George Soros
http://www.accredited-times.com/2016/07/22/in-defense-of-george-soros/

Loki Loc: Georgia

Politifact. Right.

Progressive One

Well....you know they use lies to dismiss the fact that a lie is actually a lie....haha!!

Progressive One

POLITICS WATCH
Still no Espanol on WhiteHouse.gov
Bill seeks to require Spanish versions of all federal websites.
REP. LOU Correa’s goal is to make “government more transparent.” (Glenn Koenig Los Angeles Times)
SARAH D. WIRE AND NOAH BIERMAN
WASHINGTON — The day Donald Trump became president, the Spanish-language translation of the White House’s website went down. An aide quickly said that the Spanish version would return once the site was fully updated.
Nearly two months later, there is still no Spanish version of WhiteHouse.gov, and Rep. Lou Correa (D-Santa Ana) is turning to his colleagues in Congress for a fix.
Correa has filed legislation to require the White House and all federal agencies to provide a Spanish-language version of their sites.
“It’s really just a matter of making government more transparent, more accountable, more effective for more people,” Correa told The Times. “At the end of the day it doesn’t matter what language you speak, you’re ultimately still a taxpayer.”
Correa represents California’s 46th Congressional District, where more than half of residents speak Spanish at home, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2015 American Community Survey.
He said the bill could be expanded to include other languages.
Correa began asking the White House to restore the Spanish version of the site shortly after it went down and has received no response, he said.
“I look at it as a public policy decision that the White House has made,” he said. “You don’t need to take the darn thing down, you just leave it up. It was a public policy decision to take it down. Based on why, I’m not going to speculate.”
Helen Aguirre Ferre, the White House director of media affairs, said the day after the page came down in January that it would be rebuilt and that removing the Spanish translation was not deliberate.
On Friday she said the English-language version of the site is still being rebuilt and a Spanish-language version will also be built. She said there was no promise to restore it quickly.
In the meantime, she directed people to a Twitter account, @LaCasaBlanca, which publishes tweets in Spanish and English.
Spanish-language versions of department and agency websites popped up after President Clinton signed an executive order in 2000 that required federal agencies to provide them for people with limited English proficiency.
A Department of Justice guideline issued with the order states that federally funded agencies have to make information available either in text or audio to people who don’t speak or read English well.
The order led to the creation of GobiernoUSA.gov, the Spanish-language portal to government websites.
The websites for Housing and Urban Development and the Justice, Transportation and Labor departments all have links prominently displayed on their home pages directing people to Spanish translations.
sarah.wire @latimes.com
noah.bierman @latimes.com

Progressive One

Trump club offers $10,000 reward
AN ANONYMOUS group carved a message into the green at the Trump National Golf Club, which put up a reward it hopes will lead to the vandals’ conviction. ( )
By Veronica Rocha
The Trump National Golf Club has offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction of people who carved a message into the green of the Rancho Palos Verdes course, authorities said.
The group, which calls itself an “anonymous environmental activist collective,” has claimed responsibility for the act , which occurred between 5 p.m. March 11 and 5:30 a.m. March 12 at 1 Trump National Drive.
A video obtained by the Washington Post showed at least four individuals armed with gardening tools hopping over a fence surrounding the golf club. After traversing a hillside and pushing through plants, the individuals in dark clothing walked onto the green. They dug letters to read: “NO MORE TIGERS, NO MORE WOODS.”
The group told the Washington Post that the act was in response to President Trump’s decision “to gut our existing protection policies” and his “blatant disregard” for the environment. The newspaper said the carved letters were 6 feet tall.
The vandalism resulted in $20,000 in damage, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
Anyone with details about the case may call Det. Marcello Curko at (310) 891-3244 or Sgt. Ricky Osburn at (310) 891-3205. To remain anonymous, call the Los Angeles Regional Crime Stoppers at (800) 222-8477.
veronica.rocha@latimes.com

Progressive One

On a personal mission to explore real tensions
Creators want a ‘human face’ on deadly tensions
MACK WILDS portrays a small-town deputy who fatally shoots a white teenager in “Shots Fired.” (Fred Norris Fox)
By Greg Braxton
In a small North Carolina town, a white mother grieves. Her teenage son, a college student, has been shot and killed in a confrontation with a black sheriff’s deputy. Her tears fall on the suit she is ironing for him to wear in his coffin.
Across town, an African American mother grieves. She has buried her son who was killed during an incident that her friends have told her may have involved deputies in the predominantly white sheriff’s department. But the circumstances of the case remain murky, and she has been quietly warned by officials not to speak out.
Both youths were unarmed when they were killed. But only one of the deaths — that of the white teen — has attracted the attention of the state government and the Department of Justice, which has dispatched an out-of-town prosecutor to the mostly black town to investigate before already simmering racial tensions explode.
The two fictional incidents are the focus of “Shots Fired,” Fox’s limited series premiering Wednesday that is dramatizing one of the nation’s most volatile issues: the rash of shootings of unarmed black men by white law enforcement officers.
“We just really wanted to put a human face on this,” said writer-director Reggie Rock Bythewood, who created the series with his wife, writer-director Gina Prince-Bythewood. “We wanted to bring a level of humanity that we haven’t seen in stories because this is so politicized. Everybody goes to their corners and come out swinging.”
The 10-episode series stars Sanaa Lathan (“The Best Man”) as investigator Ashe Akino, who teams up with Special Prosecutor Preston Terry (Stephan James) for the inquiry. Both are African American, which doesn’t sit well with department honchos, including Lt. Calvert Breeland (Stephen Moyer from “True Blood”). Mack Wilds (“The Wire”) plays the deputy, Joshua Beck, who shot the white teen.
The cast also includes two Oscar winners — Helen Hunt as Gov. Patricia Eamons, who is in a tough reelection battle, and Richard Dreyfuss as real estate mogul Arlen Cox, who owns a privatized prison.
The project has been a personal mission of the Bythewoods, who separately and together have developed several successful films and TV series. Gina directed 2008’s critically acclaimed drama “The Secret Life of Bees” and also wrote and directed the seminal sports film “Love & Basketball,” which starred Lathan. Reggie’s credits include co-writing the 2009 Notorious B.I.G. biopic “Notorious” and producing the mid-1990s Fox police drama “New York Undercover.”
“Gina and I had been talking for some time about doing something in this space about the lack of trust between the community and law enforcement,” said Reggie. “We had been looking at doing a film about it.”
While the couple were doing their research, Gina was approached by both Imagine Entertainment and Fox Television Group Chairman and CEO Dana Walden, who was absorbed by the furor around the 2014 shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., by police officer Darren Wilson.
“Dana saw the explosion that happened and wanted to do something in that arena,” Gina said. “She asked if we would be interested, and we realized that this would be an opportunity to do the show we want, tell the story we want, while also having the platform and the reach of television. We couldn’t pass it up.”
One of their key moves was to feature a plot line in which a black officer shoots an unarmed white youth.
“I think it would have been very easy for people to become desensitized if we had made it a black kid being shot by a white cop,” said Reggie.
Even though the topic of the tensions between law enforcement and minority communities is the main backdrop of “Shots Fired,” one of the main inspira- tions for the show was not directly related to police shootings.
Reggie recalled the moment in 2013 when he and his son, Cassius, who was 12 at the time, were watching live coverage of the verdict for George Zimmerman, the man charged with second-degree murder in the controversial shooting death of 17-year-old high school student Trayvon Martin.
“When the ‘not guilty’ verdict came in, we were both taken aback,” he said. “My son got very emotional, I told him to dry his eyes, then showed him a documentary about Emmett Till.” (Till was the 14-year-old black boy brutally slain in Mississippi in 1955 after being falsely accused of flirting with a white woman. His killers were acquitted).
He added, “I told him how the justice system works. It was the first time I talked to my 12-year-old as a man.”
Having the luxury of exploring the issue in a limited series rather than a two-hour film also afforded the Bythewoods the opportunity to look at the provocative issue from several perspectives — one of the storytelling factors that impressed Lathan.
“The audience is going to get the chance to sit at so many seats at the table,” said the actress. “They will get to experience the feelings of the cop behind the shooting, his family life and what he’s going through. They’ll be able to see the feelings of the mothers, the prosecutor from the justice department. It gives a 360-degree view.”
The Bythewoods hope that “Shots Fired” offers much-needed insight for viewers.
“It feels good because we’re not sitting on the sidelines; we feel a true responsibility,” said Reggie. “It’s like doing an autopsy.”
greg.braxton@latimes.com
Twitter: @GeBraxton

Progressive One

Unemployment Rate for Blacks Increases During Trump Presidency

The latest jobs report is touted as successful although the number of jobs held by Black people has gone down.


Unemployment Rate for Blacks Increases During Trump Presidency
By Sheryl Estrada / March 21, 2017

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ latest jobs report, in February, President Donald Trump’s first full month in office, the overall unemployment rate decreased slightly to 4.7 percent, compared to 4.8 percent in January, and 235,000 jobs were added to the economy. The gains in employment have occurred in construction, private educational services, manufacturing, health care and mining.

However, when taking a closer look in regard to race, the number of jobs held by Black people has gone down. The percentage of Blacks who are unemployed increased to 8.1 percent, up from 7.7 percent in January. The rate for Latinos, 5.6 percent, slightly decreased, and the unemployment rates for whites and Asians are decreasing.

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Also, the employment-population ratio, the share of the population that has jobs, is only declining for Black workers.

When looking at the statistics in regard to race and gender, the unemployment rate for Black males age 20 and older was greater than other adult groups in the job market in February. (Employment data for the U.S. Asian population in regard to gender is not included in the report.)

When the jobs report was released on March 10, White House press secretary Sean Spicer spoke with reporters regarding the president previously questioning the report’s validity.

“I talked to the president prior to this and he said, to quote him very clearly, ‘They may have been phony in the past, but it’s very real now,’” Spicer said.

Trump retweeted a tweet by Drudge Report on March 10 with a link to a news story on the jobs numbers: “GREAT AGAIN: +235,000.”

Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) said in a statement that the February jobs numbers “make clear what we have known for some time: President Trump did not inherit a mess, in fact he inherited one of the longest expansions in American history.”

The labor force participation rate, which is the share of the population that is employed or looking for work, decreased slightly overall from 62.4 percent to 62.3 percent in February.

But that may not be the case for African Americans. Valerie Wilson, an economist with the Economic Policy Institute, said part of the reason the unemployment rate for Blacks may have gone up is because more were looking for work.

“We still maintain that roughly 2-to-1 ratio between Black and white unemployment,” Wilson told NPR in January.

“That disparity is very persistent and it’s present whether we’re in a recession or in a recovery. It’s present at all levels of education.”

In February 2016, the unemployment rate for Blacks was at 8.8 percent and continually decreased to 7.7 percent in January. The unemployment rate for Black men was on the decline as well reaching 7.3 percent.

According to an Associated Press article published in January, “The jobless rate for Black Americans fell to 7.8 percent [in December] from 8 percent in November. That is the lowest level since 2007.

“For the 2016 calendar year, Black Americans made solid progress. Their unemployment rate fell sharply. And their labor force participation — the proportion who were either working or looking for work — rose. Despite the improvement, an employment gap by race remains stubbornly wide.”

On the campaign trail, then Republican presidential candidate Trump asked the Black community at-large during a rally in Michigan, “What the hell do you have to lose?” in voting for him.

He earned only 8 percent of Black vote, which was roughly the same as the Black vote Mitt Romney garnered in the 2012 presidential election. Trump won the Electoral College vote by 77,000 votes scattered across three states (less than 1 percent in each state) and lost the national vote by close to 3 million.

Progressive One

L.A. WITHOUT THE NEA
More risk for at-risk youths
Arts program that pairs urban kids with mentors would be brought to its knees.
“THESE KIDS WOULD NEVER, ever have this opportunity otherwise,” said Theatre of Hearts executive director Sheila Scott-Wilkinson of the arts opportunities her organization provides for at-risk students. (Brian van der Brug Los Angeles Times)
By Jessica Gelt
L.A. without the NEA. What does that look like? If the National Endowment for the Arts were to lose its funding, as has been proposed by President Trump, would many people notice?
Would you?
The Times is setting out to answer that question by looking at the NEA through the lens of one city and its environs, where the proposed cuts have the potential to affect gargantuan arts institutions and grass-roots programs alike. In the 2016 fiscal year alone, the NEA awarded 353 grants totaling $9.7 million to recipients in California, the agency said. That’s an average of less than $28,000 per grant, many going to relatively small organizations working on a local level.
Every day The Times will look at a different community group, how its NEA funds were spent, what artistic or public good did or didn’t result, and what the cultural landscape would look like if that program were to disappear.
When Trump’s budget proposal landed last week, one of our first calls went to Theatre of Hearts, which has received seed money from the NEA on and off since 2004.
This year it was awarded $15,000 to support its Liter-acy Alive Mural Program, which will bring professional artists to the Central Juvenile Hall School near downtown L.A. to mentor students in creative writing and visual arts. One goal of the workshops is to create large-scale murals.
“These kids would never, ever have this opportunity otherwise,” said Theatre of Hearts executive director Sheila Scott-Wilkinson, adding that she feels the program benefits not only the youths but also the future neighborhoods that they will call home. “These youngsters are not throwaways. They’re going to return to their communities. They are not a lost cause.”
In addition to the $15,000 from the NEA, Theatre of Hearts received $15,000 in matching funds to raise the juvenile hall school project budget to $30,000. More than $18,000 of that total will go to artists working on the project; $4,780 will be used as partial payment of program staff salaries; $3,610 is the cost of art supplies; and $3,000 will help to cover the $5 million insurance policy the organization needs in order to work inside youth correctional facilities.
Scott-Wilkinson founded Theatre of Hearts in 1987 to serve at-risk and high- risk youth in underserved neighborhoods throughout Los Angeles County. The idea is to divert kids’ attention away from the crime and violence around them and toward something positive.
The loss of NEA funding wouldn’t crush Theatre of Hearts, but it would affect operations substantially, Scott-Wilkinson said.
“We’re more likely to get funding from other entities if we get an NEA grant,” she said. “It carries a high profile, and it leverages our funds, so this is devastating.”
The largest NEA grant Theatre of Hearts has received came in 2004, when it was awarded $38,000 for its artist-in-residence program. That placed master artists in alternative schools to stage artistic “interventions” for youths with learning challenges.
“We thought this was coming down, and now it has in the worst sense,” Scott-Wilkinson said. “We’re going to bring all our forces to bear to make clear that we do not want to let this happen.”
She added that the organization was looking at the ways it could advocate for change, including calling state, federal and local representatives and using social media. Said a recent Theatre of Hearts tweet: “To eliminate the @NEAarts would be to eliminate a part of the fabric of our community and humanity. #YouthFirst #SaveTheNEA #Arts Advocacy.”
jessica.gelt@latimes.com
Twitter: @jessicagelt