Plan B Forum

"Documonial" - a portmanteau of 'documentary' and 'testimonial'.  Best definition is a quasi-intellectual piece done in the style of what used to be known as 'journalism' containing just enough verifiable facts to avoid being labeled an outright falsification, but still filled with unsubstantiated claims and statements by a small number of individuals and outliers and intended to serve the agenda of its creator. Closest synonym to date: 'propaganda'.

yes, I know the proper word should be 'submission' ... but both 'submission' and 'submittal' have their roots in 'submit' — so there, too    
Not to mention that 'submittal' is just more fun to say, and it doesn't carry all that S&M baggage that accompanies the word 'submission'  .....  -"BB"-

wes, Obama was still president when this video was created. Now, over three years later

the ghost of john mc cain is all but forgotten

our children don t know who john paul jones was..., or Patrick henry, or Thomas paine, nor ben franklin, nor do they know ethan allen, nor do they know who Daniel Webster was.

wesw wrote:our children don t know who john paul jones was..., or Patrick henry, or Thomas paine, nor ben franklin, nor do they know ethan allen, nor do they know who Daniel Webster was.

I shudder to think.....

wesw wrote:our children don t know who john paul jones was..., or Patrick henry, or Thomas paine, nor ben franklin, nor do they know ethan allen, nor do they know who Daniel Webster was...

wesw wrote:
...when trump wins, because of the black vote, maybe you ll open your mind.

wes

Trump Drove Black Voters to the Polls – to Choose Democrats

He's no Barack Obama. But President Donald Trump is having his own motivating effect on African-American voters, who overwhelmingly cast votes for Democrats in this month's midterms – in large part because of the damage Trump has done to the GOP brand, according to pollsters who surveyed African-Americans immediately before the elections.

Nine out of 10 African-Americans surveyed on the eve of the election said they were voting or had already voted early for a Democrat in the congressional races, up from 77 percent who said so in July, according to the survey by the African American Research Collaborative. And while a number of GOP candidates distanced themselves from their party's controversial leader or just tried to ignore him, polling showed Trump might as well have been on the ballot himself, the survey indicated.

Nearly 8 in 10 African-Americans said Trump made them "angry," while 85 percent of black women and 81 percent of black men said Trump made them feel "disrespected," according to the study. Similar majorities of African-American voters – 89 percent of women and 83 percent of men – said Trump's statements and policies will cause "a major setback to racial progress."

That Trump effect filtered down to damage even candidates in the Northeast and California, where the GOP contenders did not necessarily align with the president, and may have affected other ballot choices as well, Henry Fernandez, a principal at the collaborative, told reporters in a conference call. "African-American voters and other voters of color are associating Trumpism with all Republican candidates," Watkins said. "Even with Trump not being in the ballot, Trumpism was effectively on the ballot. The entire party has now been branded," he said.

Black women – who were integral in the narrow upset victory by Democratic Sen. Doug Jones of Alabama last December – also played an outsized role in electing Democrats in the midterms, said Ray Block, a political science professor at the University of Kentucky, assessing the poll. African-American women were more likely than black men to vote for the Democrat, by a 94 percent to 84 percent difference, according to the poll. In the Nevada Senate race specifically, for example, 93 percent of African-Americans voted for Democratic Sen.-elect Jacky Rosen.

The same percentage voted for Democratic gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams in Georgia – not enough to make her the Peach State's first female African-American governor but enough to show the potential power of the black vote, Block told reporters.

"It's not simply women voting for women," he said. "Anger and disrespect, I believe, are motivators for black turnout."

wesw wrote:how many lower middle class blacks do you interact with on a daily basis?

wesw wrote:how many lower middle class blacks do you interact with on a daily basis?

funny thing.....

....many of my white blue collar friends used to give me hell about my trump shirt,,,,

....now they say, nice shirt.