The Evening Blues - 9-15-17
Submitted by joe shikspack on Fri, 09/15/2017 - 4:23pm

Twenty-six year-old Derricka Banner became the 20th transgender person murdered this year when she was shot to death in her car early Tuesday morning in Charlotte, NC, as rain and wind from Irma were lashing the city. Montavious Sanchez Berry, 18, was arrested later on Tuesday and charged with the murder.
Banner was originally from New York, but has recently been a resident on Lenoir, NC. Sanchez is a Charlotte resident.
I was watching this Chris Hedges interview from 2013, when it occurred to me that he was describing Donald Trump.
Is Trump mentally ill? Probably, but that isn't the important point.
I am on Sharon Tennison's (of the Center for Citizen Initiatives) mailing list. I learned of this group from someone here at c99. Their efforts for global peace and understanding are among the best I have seen. I am posting her last letter here in it's entirety.
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CCI Friends,

Trump is despicable, especially on immigration.
And yet the reality of the situation is almost 180 degrees opposite of how it's being portrayed in the media.
For example, Human Rights Watch released the report titled Trump’s Cruel Deportations.
Ninotska Love is an entering freshman at Wellesley. The 28-year-old native of Ecuador is a transgender woman who would not have been allowed to attend that school last year. Love fled to the U.S. in 2009 after being kidnapped and threatened because of her gender identity.
Here we go again. Bourgeoisie Black Guy telling white people they are the problem:
Condemn white supremacy? Great! But no special credit, white people
Nope. No Gold Stars, No Attaboys. Because:
When I say "criminal behavior" I don't mean "war crimes", although there are plenty of those that need to be addressed.
Instead, I'm talking about "behaving like a criminal" in a law enforcement sort of way.
This morning I took a quick run through my inbox to trash everything I could be sure I would not read or act upon. There I found an e-mail from this sender
service@paypal.com sayin, among other things:
You sent an automatic payment to Caucus99percent.com Administrator.

