Where Are The Wonderful Women Of The World…
Posted by Michelle Moquin on August 23rd, 2014
…standing up for a Wonderful Woman of The World?
Good morning!
These men are truly disgusting the way they talk about our FLOTUS. None of the white First Ladies had to experience this kind of disrespect from the media. But put a black woman in the white house and this is what she has to put up with from the men. No surprise really…coming from the men.
However, let me point out that it is bad enough that we get this horrific treatment from men, but it is especially sad that once again, women aren’t standing up for her, supporting her. Check out the cohosts – Many of them go right along with the men as they dis our First Lady, Michelle Obama. Can you believe it. We women know what it is like to be judged by the way we look – we all have our insecurities about our bodies, and yet here are these women going right along lockstep with the men, instead of sticking up for the First Lady, and putting the men in their place for their disgusting behavior.
Here’s the write from the Huff Po:
The Disgusting Way Conservative Talk Show Hosts Talk About Michelle Obama’s Body
Being a woman in this society pretty much means being constantly subjected to judgments about your body, but those judgments take on an entirely new pall when they are levied against the first lady.
Michelle Obama has championed campaigns for healthy eating and exercise, which of course means she should be criticized about what she eats and how she looks. Or at least that’s what some talk show hosts seem to think.
The supercut above was compiled after a doctor on Fox News suggested that Obama should “drop a few pounds,” a comment that was met with widespread criticism.
Newsflash, commentators: being thin doesn’t mean you’re healthy, being fat doesn’t mean you couldn’t run circles around someone smaller, and if the body is not yours, you probably shouldn’t comment on it.
And women — even first ladies — are allowed to eat cheeseburgers.
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Ladies: We are the “women” of the planet. When we stop seeing color and start seeing sisterhood, and come together in support of our sisters and tell these men to “Shut the fuck up,” it will continue like this. I can’t say it any better. The results speak for themselves. If we want things to change we have to change the way we act toward our sisters and demand our equality. And most importantly, be consistent about it or no one will take us seriously.
When I think of Ferguson and how the people have come together fighting for justice, as much as I abhor the racism in this country, it is alive and well…and it takes people to do what they are doing in Ferguson to make changes happen. I applaud the people in the streets – it needs to happen. They need to show that they are not going to put up with all of their black boys getting murdered anymore.
But then, days later I read how another black boy, Kajiema Powell, gets killed by two thugs with guns, a few miles away from Ferguson, in St Louis. The thugs outright lie about what happened, yet the truth is all caught on video, (an even more horrific murder if you can say that) and there is hardly any media coverage and not one person is protesting in the streets about this blatant murder.
Wha’at?? Why not?! This is just as bad if not worse, and the people are not rioting and putting up a big stink like they did in Ferguson. What does that say? This may not be true but their actions say that the people aren’t really serious about putting an end to their boys getting murdered. The thugs tested their power again, and guess what? They can get away with murder again. They now know how far the public will go and sadly, it is short lived.
The thugs are relentless and ruthless. Change is not going to happen unless the people are relentless and ruthless too with their fight for justice.
It is the same for us women. We can’t dip our toes in to test the waters every now and then, we have to dive fully in and swim with the sharks consistently and ruthlessly or we too will get the same results. And from what I can see, we are getting the same results. Time for change ladies. Support your sisters.
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August 23rd, 2014 at 8:16 pm
It’s a shame women don’t rally around this fine First Lady.
August 23rd, 2014 at 8:26 pm
what’s disgusting is how she forces her way into our lives without being an elected official. if she wants to tell all of our kids how to eat at school, then her qualifications should be examined, including whether she is overweight or not.
August 23rd, 2014 at 8:43 pm
Just so you know that Darren Wilson has a history of being part of a racist police department.
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FERGUSON, Mo. — The small city of Jennings, Mo., had a police department so troubled, and with so much tension between white officers and black residents, that the city council finally decided to disband it. Everyone in the Jennings police department was fired. New officers were brought in to create a credible department from scratch.
That was three years ago. One of the officers who worked in that department, and lost his job along with everyone else, was a young man named Darren Wilson.
Some of the Jennings officers reapplied for their jobs, but Wilson got a job in the police department in the nearby city of Ferguson.
After going through the police academy, Wilson landed a job in 2009 as a rookie officer in Jennings, a small, struggling city of 14,000 where 89 percent of the residents were African American and poverty rates were high. At the time, the 45-employee police unit had one or two black members on the force, said Allan Stichnote, a white Jennings City Council member.
Racial tension was endemic in Jennings, said Rodney Epps, an African American city council member.
“You’re dealing with white cops, and they don’t know how to address black people,” Epps said. “The straw that broke the camel’s back, an officer shot at a female. She was stopped for a traffic violation. She had a child in the back [of the] car and was probably worried about getting locked up. And this officer chased her down Highway 70, past city limits, and took a shot at her. Just ridiculous.”
Police faced a series of lawsuits for using unnecessary force, Stichnote said. One black resident, Cassandra Fuller, sued the department claiming a white Jennings police officer beat her in June 2009 on her own porch after she made a joke. A car had smashed into her van, which was parked in front of her home, and she called police.
The responding officer asked her to move the van. “It don’t run. You can take it home with you if you want,” she answered. She said the officer became enraged, threw her off the porch, knocked her to the ground and kicked her in the stomach.
The department paid Fuller a confidential sum to settle the case, she said.
“It’s like a horror story in my mind. I never thought a police officer would pull me off my porch and beat me to the ground, for just laughing,” Fuller said in an interview.
The Jennings department also had a corruption problem. A joint federal and local investigation discovered that a lieutenant had been accepting federal funds for drunken-driving checks that never happened.
All the problems became too much for the city council to bear, and in March 2011 the council voted 6-to-1 to shut down the department and hire St. Louis County to run its police services, putting Lt. Jeff Fuesting in charge as commander.
Fuesting, who overlapped for about four months with Wilson during a transitional period, described him as “an average officer.”
“My impression is he didn’t go above and beyond, and he didn’t get in any trouble,” Fuesting said.
He said of the department during its difficult period: “There was a disconnect between the community and the police department. There were just too many instances of police tactics which put the credibility of the police department in jeopardy. Complaints against officers. There was a communication breakdown between the police and the community. There were allegations involving use of force that raised questions.”
Robert Orr, the former Jennings police chief who retired in 2010, said of Wilson: “He was a good officer with us. There was no disciplinary action.”
Tense policing
The structure of policing in these small St. Louis communities, as in many places in the United States, is innately combustible.
Officers rarely stay in the same police force for a long time, much less for an entire career. This means police and residents are typically strangers to one another — and not simply from different social, ethnic or racial backgrounds.
Ferguson is an example of a police department staffed predominantly with white officers, many of whom live far away from, and often fail to establish trust with, the predominantly black communities they serve. Policing can become a tense, racially charged, fearful and potentially violent series of interactions. Distrust becomes institutionalized, as much a part of the local infrastructure as the sewers and power lines.
A newly released report by a nonprofit group of lawyers identifies Ferguson as a city that gets much of its revenue from fines generated by police in mundane citations against residents — what the group calls a poor-
people’s tax.
The civil unrest that followed the shooting of Michael Brown suggests a deeper problem with the city’s police department, said Geoffrey Alpert, a University of South Carolina professor of criminology who has studied police shootings for decades.
“In order for a police department to weather a storm like that, it has to have social capital. And this police department didn’t have social capital in that community,” he said.
The Ferguson shooting became a national story in part because of what happened in the days afterward, when the country witnessed street protesters chanting “hands up, don’t shoot” as they faced heavily militarized police units in armored personnel carriers. The images shocked Americans across the ideological spectrum and prompted President Obama to order a review of federal programs that supply military weaponry to police departments.
The protests have grown smaller, and the looting and street violence that flared late at night have subsided, and so the community is renewing its focus on the original Aug. 9 incident and to the question of how the criminal justice system will handle Wilson’s use of deadly force — six bullets fired in a matter of seconds — against 18-year-old Michael Brown.
Grand jury reviews evidence
Behind closed doors, meeting once a week, a grand jury has been hearing evidence about the shooting from St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCulloch. He has said he does not expect the grand jury to finish its deliberations until October.
Meanwhile, the FBI is interviewing witnesses as part of a Justice Department investigation that could potentially lead separately to federal civil rights charges.
There are two competing narratives about what happened Aug. 9.
Dorian Johnson, 22, was walking with Brown when, he said, Wilson instigated a confrontation by pulling up to the pair in his police cruiser and telling them to get out of the middle of the street. Johnson said Wilson pulled up so close to Brown that when he opened his car door, it bumped into the teenager.
According to Johnson, Wilson reached out, grabbed Brown by the throat and then grabbed his shirt as Brown tried to move away. At that point, Johnson said, he saw Wilson pull out a gun and shoot Brown in the chest or arm. Johnson said the officer hit Brown with another round as he was running away and fatally gunned him down after he stopped and raised his hands in surrender.
The police have given few details of what happened, but Thomas Jackson, the Ferguson police chief, said in a news briefing that the side of Wilson’s face was swollen and he was treated at a hospital.
The Ferguson Police Department quickly ceded the investigation to the St. Louis County police. St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar said Brown “allegedly pushed” Wilson back into the car and physically assaulted Wilson. There was a struggle over Wilson’s gun, which was fired once inside the car, Belmar said. The only person to fire the gun was Wilson, he said.
Autopsies showed Brown was shot six times.
The Ferguson police report about the incident says it began at 12:02 p.m. and that Wilson called it in at 12:43 p.m. The body remained in the street for four hours.
Experts on police shootings say the investigation, including the grand jury deliberations, will focus on whether Wilson had a reasonable perception of being threatened with bodily harm. The experts say it does not matter how many bullets Wilson fired. Police are trained to shoot at the center of mass and stop the threat.
“If it’s an imminent threat of serious bodily harm, yeah, you become the judge, jury and executioner,” said Alpert, the University of South Carolina criminologist.
Richard Rosenfeld, a University of Missouri at St. Louis professor of criminology, adds, “It’s not simply that the officer perceives that he or she is under threat. It must be that the perception is reasonable. That term ‘reasonable’ is so legally freighted.”
Many African Americans here have little trust that the system is capable of reaching a fair decision. McCulloch, the prosecutor, is particularly controversial. His father was a police officer killed by a black man in 1964. He has resisted calls to recuse himself from the case.
“Why is it always in the African American community that it must be the victim’s fault if he got killed?” said Charlie A. Dooley, the county executive of St. Louis County and someone who has called for McCulloch to give way in favor of a special prosecutor. “That is just not right, and it’s not equal justice. African Americans are saying, ‘How dare you? We’re fed up with that. We fought for this country, too.’ ”
Dooley continued: “This is bigger than Mike Brown. What happened in those few seconds on Canfield is illustrative of how little value black men’s lives are worth. The message is clear: Police can kill a young black man and get away with it.”
‘We are Darren Wilson’
On Saturday, Wilson supporters staged a “Support Darren Wilson” rally at Barney’s Sports Pub, which is frequented by current and former officers.
“The people here don’t know him, but law enforcement is family,” said Rhea Rodebaugh, the bar’s owner and a former sheriff. “The poor guy is in hiding. He was doing his job.”
About 100 people, most of them white, showed up. A table held stacks of navy blue T-shirts for sale, each with a police badge on the front and the words “Officer Darren Wilson We Stand By You 8-9-14.”
Several in the crowd had connections to law enforcement, including one who said he knew Wilson from working in private security — and got a call from him on the night of Aug. 9. He said Wilson called to say he couldn’t make it to work because of the shooting.
“Really surprised me that he would think to notify somebody to cover a position that he was responsible for after being involved in what he was involved in,” the officer said.
The officers voiced their unhappiness with Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon, who called for a “speedy prosecution” in the case, a comment that his office later attempted to retract, saying he meant a “speedy investigation.” The cops said they aren’t buying it since it was from a prepared statement, and they worry about the effect it may have on the community if Wilson is not prosecuted.
“That just sets us up for riots,” said one of the officers, who spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear for his safety.
As the day wore on, a counterprotest evolved across the street, growing from two young women to a group of 20 by 6 p.m. — seven hours after the pro-Wilson rally started.
Motorists began driving by and honking in support of people on both sides of the road, largely dividing along racial lines.
“You are disgusting!” screamed one protester at the Wilson supporters.
The person who started the counterprotest, NaKarla Rimson, said they began with two people, and that as motorists drove by, they parked their cars and joined them. It was hard to keep things peaceful, but she said she tried to tell people to “allow everyone to have their opinion.”
Tempers flared on the other side of the street, too, with some people screaming and making rude gestures of their own. By 8 p.m., the pro-Wilson organizers had moved their tables and chairs inside.
“We are trying to get everyone inside to calm things down,” said one of the organizers, who declined to give her name.
Achenbach reported from Washington. Chico Harlan, DeNeen Brown, Sarah Larimer and Krissah Thompson in Ferguson and Alice Crites and Julie Tate in Washington contributed to this report.
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This guy like many of those other racists making up the Jennings police department are a murder away from a riot. They will continue to murder blacks until the city riots over it.
Kalijaime Powell was murdered in St. Louis, MO but since there was not riot the media just looked the other way.
August 23rd, 2014 at 8:45 pm
Gwen#2, sick racists like you are why white men think they can continue their racists ways. You are supporting men insulting a woman because she is black.
August 23rd, 2014 at 8:49 pm
They should, everything she has is stolen from me. She does not deserve to be in the White House. at all. I believe with all my heart that she is a tranny. They deserve to talk about her all up under her clothes any way they want , I own her. They have my permission to call her everything but the child of God.
They talk all up under my clothing and they have never met me. me. They just play me and the con-artist game is over..Impeachment events from 1-17-15 to 4-21-15. My reproduction, you must pay, and saying you have my money is a lie nobody believes. Nobody is falling for that dope-fiend move again. 1-800-Mayflower, bitche. The more you disrespect this Democrat Doormat, the better. Thanks.
August 23rd, 2014 at 8:57 pm
What can you expect from racists. If she and her husband were white there would be an uproar about it. I remember when a journalist was fired for the idea that she may have upset Barbara Bush.
August 23rd, 2014 at 8:57 pm
Sometimes I`m ashamed of being white. Michelle Obama is one of the most beautiful first ladies we have ever had.
August 23rd, 2014 at 8:59 pm
The right wing revels in their
misogyny & 1800′s mindset.
That is who they are.
August 23rd, 2014 at 9:00 pm
Barbara Bush was downright fat, but it was never mentioned. Hillary Clinton was criticized for having thick ankles and heavy thighs. Laura Bush had all the fitness of a marshmallow, but her appearance was never critiqued. Michelle Obama is criticized for her hair, her shoulders, her butt, her legs–yet all those who criticize her could never match her in pusu-ups or jumping jacks or even her dance moves.
Hillary and Michelle both are strong willed women and not just their husbands’ doormat. They have succeeded in their own right, raided families and have withstoond a barrage of criticism. Perhaps that is what scares these pasty, fat guys to death–after all, it would be the most humiliating thing to be second to a woman.
August 23rd, 2014 at 9:02 pm
There are more important things going on in the United States than the eating habits of our first lady. For example the future of our education system for our kids, poverty, the shooting of unarmed teenagers, our troops who are still not home, etc. Get your lives together.
August 23rd, 2014 at 9:03 pm
WHY do you folks give Limbaugh and the others like him the time of day ? I am a conservative and don’t waste my time paying attention to his rants . I Think the Obamas are good people . I didn’t vote for him , but I have nothing against him or Michelle . When you make comments about limbaugh that’s what he wants , to stay in the spot light . So please don’t think that all republicans are like these radio talk hosts , because we’re not . We just want a strong , healthy country like you .
August 23rd, 2014 at 9:04 pm
This is disgusting. How dare they talk about ANY woman like that. She’s a wonderful person who is proud to be who she is, has worked hard to get to where she wants to be and she is beautiful. I can’t believe people talk about her that way, its disgusting. They should have been fired or at least suspended.
August 24th, 2014 at 3:46 am
that quake woke me up for sure. hope everybody local is safe.
/SB