If their president can be a racist in the Whitehouse, why can’t they be racist in Pennsylvania? This particular racist was so angry that ‘Black Lives Matter’ protesters want to live freely in the land of the free and the home of the brave, that she just couldn’t suppress her racism.
New Jersey has finally released its long-awaited school reopening plan and the reaction has been…mixed at best.
The main takeaway is that all school buildings must be open for at least some in-person instruction, but since students will be required to be at least six feet apart in classrooms, the cafeteria and on buses, this new plan will require some serious reconfiguration of people and materials. The main question is whether opening buildings and requiring stringent rules will result in greater educational outcomes than the remote learning experiment most of the nation conducted in the spring.
Perhaps.
Releasing the new guidelines was necessary now because school districts and parents will need time to adjust their procedures in time for the late August/early September resumption of the education calendar. Schools will be required to buy barriers between desks and maybe cafeteria tables. They will need to buy sanitizer and dispensers and enact a plan to disinfect bathrooms, playgrounds, and classrooms after almost every use. Parents will need to plan their schedules around schools that will require students to be in school on some days/weeks and at home on others.
But all of this will be dependent on the least predictable variable of all: how the spread of Covid-19 will affect us. Right now, New Jersey is seeing a great, and welcome, reduction in cases, hospitalizations, and fatalities. As we reopen, will we see a spike in cases, as other states have seen? My guess is that we will. And we haven’t even opened indoor dining and businesses to the extent that we will in the coming weeks. I just hope that everyone wears a mask, but that’s unrealistic.
The most pressing problem, though, is the continued education of our students. The state budget is bound to be depleted by the economic downturn and, the expected loss of tax revenue, and the federal government doesn’t seem keen to offer help. How will districts pay for the virus mitigation protocols listed in the state guidance? And what will they have to give up in order to do so? How will they also pay for the computers and software we’ll need if (when) we experience a second wave of infections in October or November and we need to shut down again?
New schedules might allow for more social distancing, but it will still require students to alternate in-class instruction with remote learning. This will mean that teachers in middle and high schools will be teaching two audiences daily, which will require that students have computers and reliable Internet access. How are we supposed to schedule tests, writing, labs? Some of this can be done on the web, but students at home will have access to materials that might give them an advantage on an assignment. This we call cheating. What of the health issues for both students and staff? Teachers will be required to wear masks all day, while students will be “guided” to do so. There’s also a section in the guidance that says that teachers with health concerns will not be penalized if they can’t return to the buildings. If a teacher needs to teach remotely, will the district hire a substitute to sit with the in-school class? All of these will doubtless affect the quality of instruction.
So many concerns and questions. Districts will have until the beginning of August to work out the details, which will then change as conditions change. The result will be a school year unlike any other.
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I am absolutely sure that everyone knows where Trump stands on race relations in America. But just in case you were orbiting space over the last 40 years and hadn’t heard of Trump’s racist past, this latest display by the man some refer to as the president of the Unite States, should be an eye opener.
Donald Trump just retweeted a video from The Villages, where a man is heard glorifying “white power.“
The video, apparently taken at The Villages, a retirement community in Florida, people with Trump shirts and signs on their golf carts drive by protesters yelling insults at them and about the president.
One exchange — eight seconds into the 2-minute video — a white man holding a sign that says “Make America Sane Again,” a reference to Trump’s campaign slogan, yells: “Where’s your white hood?” In response, a white man driving a golf cart with signs reading “Trump 2020” and “America First” yells back “white power.”
Be be aware that the emotions in this video are raw, and so is the language.
Totally unnecessary. They had his ID. All they had to do was run his info and they would have seen that he wasn’t the man they were looking for. But instead, he was manhandled and slammed to the ground where he cried in excruciating pain, stating that his ribs were broken. One of the officers acknowledged, “he is broken.”
Carley Fiorina, a former 2016 Republican presidential candidate, said that Donald Trump will not get her vote in November. Fiorina is pledging her support to Democratic candidate, Joe Biden.
“I’ve been very clear that I can’t support Donald Trump. And, you know, elections are binary choices. I will say this: I think, I hope, that Biden understands that this moment in history calls for him to be a leader, not a politician,” Fiorina told The Atlantic’s podcast The Ticket in an interview released Thursday.
Pressed whether that meant she would vote for Biden in the general election, Fiorina replied, “Well, it’s not ’til November is it? I’m not voting for Trump … it’s a binary choice. So if faced with a binary choice on a ballot, yes.”
Trump’s advisor Kellyann Conway has proven time and again that she is willing to say and do whatever to keep her position in the Trump Whitehouse.
There are many examples of the lows Kellyanne has stooped to, but Wednesday when she defended Trump’s continuous use of the racist term, “Kung-flu”, to describe Coronavirus, well, that just shows her willingness to stay in the gutters.
It wasn’t that long ago when an Asian-American reporter pointed out that someone in the Whitehouse was using the racist term. Kellyanne agreed that it “highly offensive”, and demanded to know who in the administration the term was associated to.
“Of course it’s wrong,” Conway said at the time. “That’s highly offensive, so you should tell us all who it is.”
That was then. Now that it is clear Trump is the source of the “highly offensive” language in the Whitehouse, Kellyanne has changed. When asked to explain why Trump is still using the language, Kellyanne argued;
“Excuse me, how do you know the way people, how do you know that people aren’t anticipating that or not connecting that? You don’t know that. While the president is saying it, he’s also saying this virus came from China. China is responsible… He said it’s called many different things, it’s called the Wuhan virus, the Chinese virus, and then he used another term.”
She just secured her position in this Whitehouse ’till November.
D. L Hugley has Coronavirus. And the way he found out was in front of a live audience.
During his live performance at Zanies, the 57-year-old Hugley, sitting on a stool, began swaying back and forth and then fell into the hands of someone sitting close to the stage. Hugley was treated for exhaustion. He also confirmed the coronavirus diagnosis.
“I also tested positive for COVID-19, which blew me away,” he says in the video. “I was what they call asymptomatic. I didn’t have any symptoms, the classic symptoms.”
Hughley plans to quarantine in his Nashville hotel room for 14 days.
Who would have thought that wearing a Black Lives Matter t-shirt in New York is an invitation for racists to approach you to within inches to show their ugliness? But that is exactly what happened to a Yale Ph.D. student.
A black student filmed a middle-aged white woman who launched into a vile racist tirade on a Manhattan street — repeatedly using the N-word and calling her an “ape.”
Yale PhD student Kathryn Graves, 27, was walking in Midtown in her Black Lives Matter T-shirt when the woman began shouting at her, prompting her to turn down the music in her headphones.
“Obama’s f—ing d–k right next to his ape f—ing wife,” the unidentified woman rants at Graves, according to the footage posted to Instagram Sunday.
After making monkey-like noises at the Brown University grad, the woman — clutching a case of Natural Ice beer — appears to come just inches away from her as she repeatedly calls her a “n—er ape.”
“What’s the matter, you n—er ape, you got time to f—ing do your hair?” the woman continues to rant.
“What’s the matter, you got time to do your f—ing pink a– f—ing hair, you n—er Obama f—ing ape,” she says, before turning to finally cross Third Avenue.
Larry Kudlow is at it again. Who is Larry Kudlow? He was the one who said the Coronavirus was under control way back in February. Remember him?
“We have contained this. I won’t say [it’s] airtight, but it’s pretty close to airtight,” Kudlow said at the start of the pandemic.
Since then, 120,000 Americans have died of the virus… and counting, since the pandemic is definitely out of control in this country.
Now, Kudlow has another proclamation:
White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow told CNBC Monday that “there is no second wave coming” for the coronavirus pandemic, despite record daily case increases in multiple states around the country.
Why it matters: The U.S. reported more than 33,000 new coronavirus cases on Saturday — the highest total since May 1 — while the surge of infections in several states is outpacing growth in coronavirus testing.
What he’s saying: “The numbers quoted to me by the health people — I’m not the expert, they are — over the weekend, there are 37 states that have virtually no problems. There are 13 states that do have hotspots,” Kudlow, who does not have a scientific or medical background, said.
In a previous report from The Telegraph, Trump’s former National Security Advisor, John Bolton, said that he will not be voting for Donald Trump in November, instead, according to The Telegraph, Bolton said he would vote for Joe Biden.
However, in a more recent ABC News interview, Bolton has now withdrawn his support for the Democratic presidential nominee. Bolton told ABC that he will “figure out a conservative Republican” to vote for instead.
”I don’t think he’s a conservative Republican. I’m not going to vote for him in November — certainly not going to vote for Joe Biden either. I’m going to figure out a conservative Republican to vote in,” Bolton told ABC.
NOTE: The Telegraph earlier interviewed Bolton and reported he said he intended to vote for Biden over Trump. A Bolton spokesperson told Axios and Politico that the Telegraph report was incorrect.
There was a time when the President of the United States worked in favor of the American people. It was accepted that the general welfare of the American people would be a top priority for the occupant of the Oval Office and any deviation was absolutely inconceivable. It wasn’t too long ago when a president’s outfit caused an uproar because his suit was tan and that somehow was interpreted as being disrespectful to the office.
But today, a president just announced on Twitter that any protesters in Oklahoma for his Saturday rally, will not be tolerated. He stated that these Americans will be treated “much differently” than they were in “New York, Seattle, or Minneapolis.”
And if you think Republicans will be outraged by this threat like they were when Obama wore a tan suit, then you’d be dead wrong.
The President just took to twitter and announced;
Any protesters, anarchists, agitators, looters or lowlifes who are going to Oklahoma please understand, you will not be treated like you have been in New York, Seattle, or Minneapolis. It will be a much different scene!
Any protesters, anarchists, agitators, looters or lowlifes who are going to Oklahoma please understand, you will not be treated like you have been in New York, Seattle, or Minneapolis. It will be a much different scene!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 19, 2020
“This skin turns people off,” said Winfred Rembert, the celebrated African American artist based in New Haven.
“I don’t know why. Out of all the skins in the world when it comes to black skin, people are turned off, and they’ll do things to black skin that they wouldn’t do to any other skin.
“Why is that? Why is it so easy to pull the trigger on a black man? Why is it so easy to tase a black man when he hasn’t done a damn thing? Why is it so easy to do that? Why is it so easy to slap his face and knock him to the ground and mistreat him just because his skin is black? Not just in the streets. I mean in corporate America. It’s the same thing.”
