Racist Karen, AKA Kathy Jenkins, Tries To Take Us For A Spin

Earlier today I posted about a Missouri woman who went to a Black Lives Matter protest outside a Dixie Outfitters, whose owner is ALLEGEDLY affiliated with the KKK. While there, and cradling a Confederate flag she shouted to the BLM group:

“I will teach my grandkids to hate you all! I will teach them to hate all you people. KKK belief.”

Well, that woman is Karen Jenkins who became a viral sensation when a video of her hatred stormed the internet. And it took a nanosecond for someone to identify her and then perhaps another second for that storm to rain down on her.

Kathy says she’s been locked out of Facebook—shoot, how will she know when the next Klan Wives meeting is—and fired from her job—poor racist doesn’t work for a KKK company?—and says she’s been the target of a few threats and even her friends are being threatened. Now, that’s not cool; threats are not cool. But, as for the rest, I’m so sorry, but I’m not sorry. You got what you deserved Kathy.

Sadly, though, Kathy Jenkins is not finished, and is saying the whole thing was a mistake, and taken wrong and she didn’t mean what she said and … and … and … racist needs an excuse.

In that video, Kathy Jenkins is in the bed of a pickup truck holding, and dancing with, a Confederate flag, but Kathy says the video doesn’t show the whole thing. No sir, she says before someone started recording her, she was … wait for it … it’s rich … racist thinks we’re all stupid … she says she was “chanting Black Lives Matter.”

While waving a Confederate flag? Bitch, please.

Kathy Jenkins says she was only at the Dixie Outfitters to watch the BLM protest because she’d never been to one and just wanted to see it. But, then again, the Confederate flag, Kathy? Have you never seen one of those before, so you just wanted to hug it and dance with it?

It gets better; Kathy Jenkins says she was standing in the back of a truck that belonged to someone she did not know, and that someone she did not know handed her a Confederate flag, and that she doesn’t fully know what it represents but thought it was a symbol of … wait for it … it’s rich … racist thinks we’re all stupid … a symbol of unity.

Bitch. Please!

And she says she only spewed her Hate Speech when BLM people from the other side of the street approached her, and she lost her temper:

“I hadn’t said anything until they came into my face … it’s like I blacked out. I don’t even remember saying half the stuff that I said.”

Hate, Kathy, it was hate.

“I wasn’t saying I’m KKK or for the KKK. I was mocking them because I don’t like being called a racist.”

Now, why would anyone think a woman standing in the back of a truck in front of a business owned by a KKK supporter and holding the Confederate flag was racist?

But since that story didn’t go over to well, and she’s probably desperate to get back on Facebook, she’s apologizing and vowing to never hold another Confederate flag again, as God is her witness:

“As many of you know I am Kathy. I just wanted to start with saying that I am truly deeply sorry for what I said. This isn’t who I am as a person. I obviously cannot take back what I said. I can only learn from this. I want to make it clear. I am not teaching my children or grandchildren to hate anyone. No one. Ever. I’ve always taught them to respect and love anyone no matter the race. I’ve always taught them to treat people with the same respect as they would want to be treated. My words and actions have been a learning experience. Not only did I learn from this, but I hope this message helps others that they cannot take back what they have said. Again I am so so sorry because that is not who I am.  I would never ever want to see anyone hurt and I don’t care who they are.”

Sorry Kathy, I’m not buying it. You didn’t know what a BLM protest was about, but you stood with Klan members and Confederate flag waving haters?

You thought the Confederate flag was a symbol of unity, but unless you had you hood on backwards and couldn’t see, then you’re just another racist who got caught and is trying to lie your way out of it. But, please note, Kathy is also wearing a Make America Great Again cap; just sayin’.You know, cuz some of them are very nice people, as _____ says.

You say you spewed hate because you didn’t know what you were saying, but, Kathy, if you didn’t feel that hatred in your heart, you never would have let those words leave your mouth.

You’re a racist Kathy. Own it.

The Resistance Continues ...

Not quite three weeks into the _____ Regime and we have our first casualty with Michael Flynn resigning his post as National Security Advisor because he either lied to Vice president Mike Pence about things he may or may not have said to Russian diplomats and ambassadors, or he told the truth to Pence and then Pence lied to We The People.

Either way it’s just another liar in Hair Furors inner circle and the first to go.

But this isn’t about that, it’s about The Resistance and how it continues, and how it’s growing, and how it will work to change this mess we’ve gotten ourselves into by being complacent and thinking this could never happen.

Up in Raleigh, North Carolina, over 80,000 people marched against the _____ administration, and the policies he will try to enact with the GOP-led Congress on immigration, health care, gun control and civil rights.

The Reverend William Barber, president of the North Carolina NAACP branch, and leader of the “Moral Monday” movement:

“A racist and greedy extremism that came to power in North Carolina four years ago now controls the White House and the Congress in D.C. Millions are afraid.  A loud majority is outraged and the whole world is in turmoil asking what can we do. Well, we know we’ve got a hard fight ahead, but we know how to win.”

Resist. Stand up. March. Speak up. Vote.

Barber has called Hair Furor an “extremist, narcissistic con artist” who is “obviously unsuited for the job of president” and said he and others were marching “because it’s wrong to defend and excuse the lies and the fear and the hate of _____ism” that has brought “extreme federal appointees and white nationalists into the White House ...

“It’s wrong and it’s racist and it’s demonic to (instill) fear into our immigrant and our Muslim brothers and sisters. It’s wrong to build a wall to keep Mexicans out while you let the Russians in. Bowing down is not an option. Standing down is not an option. The guy in the White House is a mortal, not a god.”

And he’s got to go, and the more we march and speak out the more the movement grows; but it’s in the voting booth that the resistance turns real.

End the fear and hate that the GOP propagates as they try to serve only themselves and keep everyone else down.

Resist.

And then, up in St. Paul, Minnesota, about 500 people attended a protest against Planned Parenthood organized by the #ProtestPP Coalition to urge Congress to defund the organization.

Other marches were held around the country but it’s the one in ST. Paul that makes me the happiest because, while these 500 fools marched to defund Planned Parenthood, they were met by a group that was marching in support of the organization ... a group of over 5,000.

Five hundred against; five thousand in support. Strength in numbers y’all.

The Resistance, and the march, goes on ...

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Resist. Stand Up. Say Something. Do Something.

Iroquois Place, a peaceful little street in Ann Arbor, Michigan, is looking very festive this holiday season and it has nothing to do with Christmas lights or wreaths or Nativity scenes.

Out of the forty houses along the one-block street seventeen are flying the LGBTQ Rainbow Pride flag, while four others are flying Old Glory.

The neighborhood has come together since the presidential election and all because of an anonymous note left in the mailbox of Mark and Susan Pearlman.

The Pearlmans had put up a flag—a spin on the American flag with stars and rainbow-colored stripes—after the Pulse Nightclub mass shooting in June. They have a daughter who is gay, so that attack that killed 49 people and injured 53 others hit close to home.

"And then just the day after the election, there it was -- an anonymous letter in my mailbox, basically saying that they were uncomfortable with my flag. It was just a little disconcerting. There was something threatening about that. I found myself for two nights, I just kept looking out the window. Like, is someone watching me? There was no address."

The anonymous note read:

"I have great pride in being American. I love our country and am proud of our freedoms. I have great reverence for the men and women who have fought for those freedoms and for our flag itself and all it represents. I was troubled by the rainbow version of the American flag because it overlooks so many things the original American flag represents. The flag is missing the white stripes that represent purity and innocence. The missing red stripes overlook the valor and bravery of our soldiers and the American people.

Our flag is a sacred representation of our country's history that we are so blessed to be a part of. So, I ask you as your neighbor and fellow American to consider flying two flags, the American flag and the rainbow flag, side by side."

Susan Pearlman told her neighbors about the letter and their first response was, "Where do I get a flag?"

It spread as neighbors began telling other neighbors and now, well, it’s a very Rainbow Christmas on Iroquois Place because the Pearlmans spoke up and their neighbors stood up.

Up in North Carolina, the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan [KKK] had planned a victory parade this past weekend to celebrate Donald _____’s but, well, things happen.

The white supremacist Hate Group was forced to relocate their little parade from Pelham to Roxboro because of the hundreds of counter-protesters showed up to express their displeasure.

And it’s unclear is a “parade” happened at all because, in Roxboro, that afternoon, there were simply a bunch of morons and miscreants and _____lodytes driving around in pick-up trucks, waving Confederate flags, and shouting “WHITE POWER” at passersby.

But, in Charlotte, Salisbury, and Raleigh, North Carolina hundreds of marchers turned out for a “love march” to show the Klan that their brand of hate was not welcome.

A Love March bested a Hate Parade because people stood up.

Mike Pence is set to become the most antigay Vice President in modern history, and some folks in his new, temporary, DC neighborhood want him to know that they don’t like that.

Ilse Heintzen lives just down the block from where Pence is currently staying and she didn’t like the idea of a known homophobe on the street so she and her neighbors stepped up.

And, as in Ann Arbor, the Rainbow Flag began flying on the street where Mike Pence lives.

 “A respectful message showing, in my case, my disagreement with some of his thinking.”— Ilse Heintzen

Pence is known for passing a law in Indiana allowing businesses to legally discriminate against LGBTQ people on religious grounds, but even more disturbing is that Mike Pence supports gay conversion therapy and, of course, is virulently anti-marriage equality.

And now, and until late January, every time Mike Pence leaves his home, he’ll find more than a dozen Rainbow Flags waving at him because Ilse Heintzen and her neighbors resisted.

While some Muslims—and the mosques where they worship—have been subjected to racism, bigotry and hate, a Texas man ... yes, a Texas man ... is taking a stand.

Justin Normand has been standing outside the Islamic Center of Irving, near Dallas, holding this sign:

“You Belong. Stay Strong. Be Blessed. We Are One America.”

Normand says he never wanted to draw nationwide attention to himself, he simply wanted to express support for his Muslim neighbors.  But his message went viral over social media, reaching thousands of people who say it gave them hope.

“It is the message — not me — that is transcendent. I just spoke what is on a lot of people’s minds. We are out here to help one another, and your community needs help. “I’m an American and — regardless of who’s here, Americans or immigrants — we’ve got to be here for one another. I’m just here because somebody’s got to speak up and say, ‘You’re valued. You’re okay. You’re part of what’s going on here.’ ” —Justin Normand

Normand’s husband—yes, he’s a gay man—Gary Cathey, said that after the election the two had been praying for a way to make a positive impact:

“This came from what Justin felt like someone following the teachings of Jesus would do. This came from a very spiritual place. Justin made the sign and God has done the rest.”

Actually, this came about because Justin Normand stood up to Hate.

In a strange twist, California Democratic Representative Xavier Becerra—a member of the House Democratic leadership—is leaving his post to become the new Attorney General of California and here’s why:

“We have policies in place [in California] that probably won’t pass at the federal level for another five, 10, 15 years. If you want to take on a forward-leaning state that is prepared to defend its rights and interests, then come at us.”

Becerra's new post is part of a larger picture of Democratic resistance at both the state and federal levels:

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand demonstrated the hurdles to confirming former Marine General James Mattis as Secretary of Defense: Unlike other cabinet nominees, his appointment could be subject to a 60-vote threshold if Democrats filibuster the waiver he'll need as former military to fill a civilian post.

Arizona Congressman Ruben Gallego outlined his own call to arms last month:

"Anything that makes _____ more powerful, makes him more dangerous, we must not lift a finger to help him scam our country. We must instead put every effort into stopping him." 

Senator Elizabeth Warren also called for Democrats to defy ____  at every turn:

"Republicans do not have majority support in this country. The majority of voters supported Democratic Senate candidates over Republicans ones, and the majority supported a Democratic presidential candidate over a Republican one."

These politicians are taking a stand; they are going to resist and speak up and do something to make sure America stays America under _____’s one-term in office.

Rosey Crotch is standing up to her homophobic neighbor with the help of thousands of Christmas lights.

After Crotch, took to the “front page of the internet” to describe how she had recently left the Mormon Church, making her the hot topic of the neighborhood, she told of how Church members kept coming to her home to try and get her and her husband to re-join the church.

One woman wouldn’t leave Crotch and her family alone; Crotch says:

“She came bouncing over and when my husband told her we no longer attended [the Church], she didn’t get the message. [S]he went on to tell us how horrified she was when her son got turned down for prom because the girl was already planning on going with her girlfriend.”

The neighbor then rained down all of her anti-LGBT views about how she disagreed with the local school raising awareness about transgender issues.

“That, coupled with the school’s justification for letting lesbians attend the prom together and doing an assembly that taught kids the facts about being transgender were just too much for her. She said that she had to move away because she was so sick of the gays and transgenders and everyone making their ‘lifestyle’ okay.”

So, Rosey Crotch decided to answer her neighbor’s views with one of her own, albeit with a much more colorful tone; she bought nearly ten thousand colored lights and created a Rainbow Flag on the shrubbery outside her home.

It’s a stand against homophobia, both by the neighbor and by the church; it's resistance to hatred; it’s a voice, in living color that says intolerance will not last.

Since April of this year, Native Americans have been protesting the planned construction of the 1,172-mile, four-state Dakota Access Pipeline [DAPL]. The movement has grown larger and the resistance from state and federal agencies has also grown equally stubborn.

Activists have been assaulted with all forms of abusive measures—water guns, for example, the kind used against black Americans protesting in the 1960s—that are never used when say, for example, criminal and racist white gun owners are “protecting” federal land. 

But a few days ago it was announced that 2,000 military veterans were going to Standing Rock to form a human shield for the water protectors, and now the National Nurses United [NNU] have announced a meaningful donation and show of support for those veterans forming the human shield they will donate $50,000 to support the veterans who are assembling this weekend as peaceful, unarmed defenders for the water protectors at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota.

The veterans plan on protecting the protectors starting December 4, for three days at least. The weather conditions are freezing and these men and women will once again be putting their lives on the line to protect our country’s best and most inspiring values.

Standing up; speaking up; resisting; mobilizing.

That’s all it takes; maybe a few Rainbow flags, or some colored lights; maybe saying something; maybe offering a hand in a protest; perhaps starting a parade to counter hate; maybe telling people that no matter what those in power in Washington may say, they belong here.

Resist.

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Anti-Racists Drown Out Islamophobic Rally

We’ve all heard that mantra, in these times of terrorist threats, that if we “see something” we should “say something.”

I also think that applies to when you “hear something.” One way to stem this tide of Islamophobia in this country is to say something when someone plays the Islamic Terrorist card. I suggest something like, oh, I don’t know where I heard this , but maybe …

Muslims aren’t terrorists; terrorists are terrorists.

And that mantra was quite evident this past week when a group of anti-Muslims fanatics, in favor of that ban on Muslim immigration, gathered outside the White House to protest.

True, there were only about six of these asshat on the streets, but still, a group of anti-racist demonstrators overwhelmed them and began shouting them down.

If you hear something …

These protesters, who outnumbered the anti-Muslim gang by at least 3 to 1, chanted slogans against bigotry and waved placards expressing solidarity with Muslims. They even used a sheet to hide the anti-Muslim protesters from passersby.

Anti-Muslim protester Ed Speiger, right, who traveled from West Virginia to speak his hate, tried to shout out his anti-Muslim message with a megaphone but couldn’t be heard over the chants of the counter-protesters.

“Can we have a conversation instead of a bunch of chanting?” — Ed Speiger shouted … from his megaphone

He said he and his band of haters were protesting against “radical Islam” and the supposed failure of ordinary Muslims to adequately condemn terrorism committed in the name of Islam.

Perhaps Fox News and Brietbart haven’t reported anything about all the Muslims organizations and individuals who have called for a condemnation of these terrorist acts.

But, as haters are apt to be, Ed Speiger is completely misinformed, and, well, dumb; he said that while he agreed with [t]Rump on restricting Muslim entry into this country, he said the ban  should not apply to U.S. citizens, but “U.S. Muslims.”

Um, Ed? Dimwit? A U.S. Muslim is a U.S. citizen.

And as if spewing their hatred, and ignorance, vocally wasn’t enough, the group that organized the event via Facebook — in a post that has since been removed — had said they planned to burn Qurans, but then canceled the idea on the grounds that it was reportedly illegal to do so.

I wonder how they might feel if protesters burned Bibles on the street, but I guess they don’t think …

But the best part of this is that these Islamophobes were outnumbered, which might mean that this special brand of ignorance isn’t as widespread as we thought, though it is quite vocal. And, like I said, the way to stop it …

Say something.

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