Friday, July 6, 2018

STOP whining...... you sound like a widdle baby



Why are grown ass people whining about EVERYTHING?

I mean whining to the point of almost crying?

The world is filled with cry babies. How the hell can they raise children to be adults? Nope, they won't be able to. Their children will have to live with them forever so MOMMY or DADDY can do EVERYTHING FOR THEM. LOL  Good luck with that LOL.

Thursday, July 5, 2018

I will LABEL you if you offend me or if you are RUDE. I DO NOT see my friends in colors, they are my FRIENDS.



For people acting like fools.......My labels are NOT colors ( white black purple green).

They are....
jerk
as s
thug
creep
wanna-be
Less of a man
little boy
Thug lady
trash
poor excuse for a mom ( or dad )

 etc
etc
etc

Ready for kindergarten? Florida's new test found many youngsters were not




(Parents don't have time to raise their own kids, they are having "mommy" or relative or friend watch the kid while they are out Clubing or hooking up. Lets be REAL about the reason)




Ready for kindergarten? Florida's new test found many youngsters were not



The percentage of Florida youngsters deemed ready for kindergarten plummeted last year, thanks to a new test that tripped up many 5-year-olds.

About 54 percent of the students who started kindergarten in public schools in August 2017 were ready for school, according to the test results recently released by the Florida Department of Education.

Four years earlier, 72 percent of new kindergartners were ready, based on another test used to determine literacy skills.

The low passing rate on the new test upset early-childhood educators across Central Florida and the state. They doubt its accuracy. They fear students struggled in part because it was an online test and they were unfamiliar with working on a computer with a mouse. And they are angry because their state-funded pre-kindergarten programs are judged on how former students did on the new kindergarten-readiness test.


“I was shocked. I was beyond shocked,” said Cindy Seda, who owns A Tot’s World III in Winter Springs.


“We have always been very, very proud of our quality,” said Seda, whose Seminole County center has had the same pre-K teacher for 21 years. “I was never concerned the children leaving our center were ready for kindergarten.”

But the percentage of her former students who passed the kindergarten test was 60 percent this past year — down from nearly 90 percent in prior years
Seda’s center just met Florida’s new pre-K requirements, which were adopted this spring and require a 60 percent “readiness rate.”

Across Florida, however, 43 percent of the more than 6,000 schools and daycare centers that offer Florida Voluntary Pre-Kindergarten Program, or VPK,, failed to meet the new standard. This year, the state imposed no consequences on pre-k providers whose students fell short on the new test, but in coming years they could face probation and then removal from the state program.

Florida’s pre-K program is publicly funded but mostly contracted out to private preschools and childcare centers, though some public schools take part, too. The program is free to all 4-year-olds, with more than 163,000 students enrolled this past year.

Florida had not given a literacy test to new kindergarten students since 2013 because of problems with its previous exam, which was also given on computer. The state also didn’t rate its pre-K providers during those four years.

It gave its new kindergarten test — Star Early Literacy — for the first time in August. In late May, it published the rates on a website parents can use to search for pre-K programs.

“The public will judge you on that, whether it is fair or not,” Seda said.

The state’s Office of Early Learning, which oversees the pre-K program, called the new test a “starting point from which we can set higher expectations” and said lower scores with a new test are not surprising. It noted that youngsters who took part in the state pre-K program had a 64 percent passing rate — about 10 percentage points better than that of all new kindergartners.

The state’s education department also defended the 27-question test, saying it is meant for young children and does not require them to have prior computer skills, assessing their ability to navigate through the questions before allowing them to begin.

But many remain skeptical, questioning why the results this year would be so much worse than from several years ago.

“I keep asking the question, What does it mean to be ready for school?” said Karen Willis, chief executive officer of the Early Learning Coalition of Orange County, one of the local groups that helps oversee state-funded pre-K programs. “That shouldn’t waver from test to test.”

An online petition started by a preschool principal in Broward County asks Gov. Rick Scott to remove the new results from the state website. “Our programs and schools do prepare children for kindergarten and the world JUST not your assessment,” reads the petition on change.org that has 427 signatures.

“The readiness rate was really not done fairly this year,” agreed Carol Foo, executive director of Conway Learning Center in Orange County.

Her school had an 87 percent readiness rate four years ago. It fell to 63 percent this year.

Like many preschools, the Conway center does not have children spend time working at a computer and manipulating a mouse. Young students who do use technology, she and others said, are more familiar with tablets and smartphones, which they can touch and swipe.

The Orange County school district, which offers the state’s pre-K program at about 80 elementary schools, was upset by the low scores this year, too, said Meg Bowen, director of elementary curriculum and instruction.

State law requires the readiness test to be given within the first 30 days of school, and many kindergarten teachers administer it almost as soon as classes start. In the coming year, Bowen said, they’ll first spend time making sure their new students are comfortable working with a computer and a mouse. That will help administrators see if the problem was the technology — or the test itself.

Since its inception in 2005, educators have questioned the Florida law that required pre-K providers to be judged on how their graduates do on a kindergarten readiness test.

They argue such a system doesn’t take into account what skills children had when they started pre-K, making it hard to gauge whether preschools helped their students. They don’t like that it is given at the start kindergarten, months after pre-K programs end, so some student skills are lost over the summer. Finally, they note that Florida’s academic standards for pre-K describe play-based learning, where students gain early reading and math skills but also grow socially, express their creativity and explore.

The readiness test, however, focuses solely on literacy skills.

“What we taught them is not being captured,” said Lesha Buchbinder, executive director of the Early Learning Coalition of Lake County.







Free speech? Whataburger teen attacked for wearing Make America Great Again hat. (Read the whole thing... video below shows assult of 16 yr old, shown in photo is the THUG)




Free speech?What the hell is free speech?NOT EVERYONE IS ENTITLED TO IT.

I'm not saying that you have to agree, it is a right and we should ALL respect other opinions. Doesn't make it right or wrong..... ONLY RESPECT.






Free speech? Whataburger teen attacked for wearing Make America Great Again hat



Kino Jimenez
 
Pictured, San Antonio, Texas, man, Kino Jimenez who assaulted Whataburger teen, Hunter Richard on account of him wearing a Make America Great Again (MAGA) hat. Image via social media.

Kino Jimenez a San Antonio man is fired from his bartending job after video shows him assaulting a teen wearing a Make America Great Again hat at a local Whataburger joint.

Going viral is video of an incident which took place at San Antonio, Texas fast food outlet, Whataburger– which saw a teen being verbally attacked and assaulted on account of him wearing the infamous President Trump campaign hat, Make America Great Again (MAGA).
In the video (see below), a man is seen throwing a drink at a 16 year old teen wearing the red MAGA cap’s face, after having verbally accosted him. From there the individual, since identified as 30 year old man, Kino Ahuitzotl Jimenez by social media users, grabs the MAGA wearing boy’s hair before walking out of the fast food outlet with the hat, mouthing off, ‘this is gonna go great in my fucking fireplace, bixch’. 
Told the violated teen, Hunter Richard via news4santonio, I support my President and if you don’t let’s have a conversation about it instead of ripping my hat off. I just think a conversation about politics is more productive for the entire whole rather than taking my hat and yelling subjective words to me’.
Which is a backhand way of saying, if society wants to propagate the notion that it lives in a civil democratic society (if only…) then it ought to also be prepared to accept views, sensibilities and actions that it might also disagree with, even be offended by.
According to the victim, the incident happened while the 16 year old teen was with friends at the fast food outlet off Nacogdoches and Thousand Oaks, Tuesday night when he was suddenly approached by Kino Jimenez. Howard insisted the attack was unprovoked.
‘I didn’t think it was going to generate the amount like what people are doing, I was looking at the comments by some people and “ they are like this is uncalled for” and other people are like mixed opinions but I didn’t think it would blow up to what it is now,’ the roughed up boy said. 
But it gets better.


Kino Jimenez
Pictured, Kino Jimenez
No love lost for Kino Jimenez….

Kino Jimenez employer responds to viral video:

Following the cellphone video going viral, and the assaulter being identified as Kino Jimenez, a local San Antonio bartender, the man’s employer, Rumble San Antonio, last night posted a Facebook post telling of the man being fired.
Wrote Rumble: ‘It came to our attention earlier this evening that a part-time employee was captured on cell phone video assaulting another person at a local eatery. The assault took place, presumably, because this employee did not agree with the other individuals political stance.’
‘We have since terminated this employee, as his actions go against everything that this establishment stands for.’
‘Rumble has, and always will be, a bar that is as inclusive as any establishment could possibly be. THIS BAR IS A SAFE SPACE FOR EVERYONE! No matter your race, creed, ethnicity, sexual identity, and political stance, you are welcomed here!’
‘We do not condone the actions or behavior that were displayed in the cell phone video, and we never will.’
‘If you have any questions or concerns please message us privately. We support and appreciate your business.’
But it may not just end there, with news of a police report having been filed….
Courtesy of all the riled up social media users, it has since been revealed (brace yourselves….) Kino Jimenez is member of the Green Party of Texas according to their website. The group’s ‘key values’ include; nonviolencerespect for diversity, and social justice. Or maybe not….?
Hate crime? Black man wearing Make America Great Again hat pushes Hispanic man onto NYC subway tracks
Gavin Cortina suspended for wearing ‘Make America Great Again’ baseball cap
Spiritual tribute? Maga hat wearing man tossed out of NYC bar was not discriminated says judge.

Wednesday, July 4, 2018

Principal refuses to allow first black valedictorian to give speech, so Rochester mayor intervenes






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Principal refuses to allow first black valedictorian to give speech, so Rochester mayor intervenes

  
 
Jaissaan Lovett says he was denied a chance to give his speech as his high school's first black valedictorian, so his city's mayor invited him to give it at City Hall.
Youtube/City of Rochester, N.Y. Mayor's Office

When Jaissaan Lovett graduated last month as his high school's first black valedictorian, he prepared a speech — but he says his principal wouldn't let him give it. So someone else stepped in who wanted to hear what he had to say: the mayor of Rochester, New York, Lovely Warren. Not only that, she gave him a much wider audience for his message.

Lovett, a new graduate of Rochester's University Preparatory Charter School for Young Men, was planning on encouraging his classmates and thanking his parents, siblings and teachers, according to the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle newspaper. He also acknowledged some past run-ins with the principal over student protests.

Lovett said he was never asked to give a graduation speech, though past valedictorians had gotten to, according to the newspaper. When he asked to speak anyway, he said the principal, Joseph Munno, said no.

"He didn't want to see the speech or what it said, nothing," Lovett told the Democrat and Chronicle. "He just said no." The paper said Munno declined to comment.

Mayor Warren invited Lovett, who works in her office as an intern, to deliver the speech at City Hall. She then posted it on her YouTube channel and Facebook page.

Jaisaan Lovett's Valedictorian Speech by City of Rochester, NY .Mayor's Office on YouTube
"Unfortunately, Jaisaan's school did not allow him to give his valedictorian speech," Warren said in the video. "For some reason, his school – in a country where freedom of speech is a constitution right, and the city of Frederick Douglass – turned his moment of triumph into a time of sorrow and pain.

"Jaisaan will never graduate from high school again. He will never get that moment back. This is not the time to punish a child because you may not like what he has to say."

Lovett had his own message for his principal, too.

"I'm here as the UPrep 2018 valedictorian to tell you that you couldn't break me. I'm still here, and I'm still here strong," Lovett said in the video. "And after all these years, all this anger I've had toward you and UPrep as a whole, I realized I had to let that go in order to better myself."

The school's board of trustees responded to the controversy in a Facebook post, saying they're "aware of the concern" and will be "reviewing the circumstances regarding what happened." They wished Lovett "much success as he continues his education at Clark Atlanta University, which he will attend on full scholarship, according to the Democrat and Chronicle.
From the UPrep Board of Trustees: We are aware of the concern with the Valedictorian not speaking at graduation. The...
Posted by University Preparatory Charter School for Young Men on Wednesday, July 4, 2018
UPrep, an all-male school serving grades 7-12, is one of Rochester's best regarded charter schools, according to the Democrat and Chronicle, with annual graduation rates well above 90 percent.








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Comedian Michelle Wolf Compares Ivanka Trump to 'Herpes': 'Very Unpleasant, Totally Incurable'






Comedian Michelle Wolf Compares Ivanka Trump to 'Herpes': 'Very Unpleasant, Totally Incurable'

 Tierney McAfee,People EN ESPAÑOL Tue, Jul 3 12:22 PM CDT

Was James Baldwin right when he called white Americans moral monsters?




Was James Baldwin right when he called white Americans moral monsters?


Professor Ricky Jones talks Tucker Carlson and race relations in the U.S. Louisville Courier Journal
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In 1979, the legendary writer James Baldwin began work on a manuscript examining his relationships with Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. He never finished it. In 2017, filmmaker Raoul Peck used Baldwin’s words as the foundation for his riveting masterpiece “I Am Not Your Negro.” 

Peck’s entire film is captivating, but one segment in particular ceaselessly haunts me. The meditative voice of narrator Samuel L. Jackson deliberately carries us through one of Baldwin’s most damning reflections on a good percentage of white Americans, “I’m terrified at the moral apathy – the death of the heart which is happening in my country. These people have deluded themselves for so long that they really don’t think I’m human. I base this on their conduct, not on what they say. And this means that they have become, in themselves, moral monsters.” 



As he did throughout his life, Baldwin raises difficult but necessary questions with which we must wrestle. Why are so many white Americans so brutally mean and inhumane? Why do so many others feel comfortable justifying or excusing it? Why do others still, who claim “not to think that way,” find it acceptable to say little and do even less? Make no mistake, there are certainly whites who stand in the tradition of William Lloyd Garrison, John Brown and others. However, reasonable people must admit they are the exceptions, not the rules.  

To be sure, no matter how sensibly and dispassionately one approaches the subject, many whites immediately paint them as angry black people, [reverse] racists, or maniacs. Despite that, while far too many cower and equivocate, other brave Americans continue to raise the issue in the public sphere. A small sample of important work over the last few years includes Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “The First White President” in the Atlantic, Charles Blow’s “The Lowest White Man” in the New York Times, Rose Marie Berger’s rumination “Why are white people so mean?” and Michael Harriot’s recent sledgehammer piece, “White people are cowards” in The Root. 


All of these writers along with stalwart academics like Duke University’s William “Sandy” Darrity, Emory University’s Carol Anderson and others contextualize the subject and push back against the emerging narrative that white American mean-spiritedness appeared and apexed with the ascension of Donald Trump. That is a lie. The truth is none of this is new. Its genesis is actually rooted in times long before America’s current anti-black and brown immigrant president’s family immigrated to the country.

Voter fraud is a canard. Voter suppression, however, is real and is not new. It has been around since the limiting of the franchise to property-holding white men at the beginning of the country’s political story. Forcing the extension of it to others has always been a struggle. 

Traumatizing families and children of color is not new. White Americans enslaved blacks, raped black women, demonized black men, ripped black children from their parents, sold them all when profitable, visited any number of other inexcusable atrocities upon them ... and justified it all. Those who resisted were threatened, punished or killed. Once slavery ended, whites continued to glorify slavery and the Confederacy with flags, statues, monuments and political candidates who reaffirmed all the nastiness and death. They still do.


The Supreme Court’s support of such indecency is not new. Remember Dred Scott and many other legal blows to decency and democracy.

That only scratches the surface. Native American genocide, black codes, grandfather clauses, poll taxes, intimidation, disproportionate incarceration, convict leasing, Jim Crow, Japanese American internment, police murder of black men, women and children often without consequence. None of it is new. It is the continuation of a long-standing pattern and, as Congresswoman Maxine Waters advised, resistance needs to be fomented. 

Medgar Evers was slain in 1963, Malcolm X in 1965, and Martin Luther King in 1968. James Baldwin passed in 1987. None of them ever experienced Donald Trump, but all witnessed omnipresent American white supremacy and meanness. Maybe Baldwin was right when he said we are dealing with “moral monsters.” It is hard to say at this point. If that is the case, we need to be clear about it. Such an acknowledgment would lower the expectation that many of our white brothers and sisters will be inclined to make decisions based on human decency rather than economic and political calculations or privilege maintenance. At least that honesty would eradicate the lies and pretense.  



If America continues on this path (and there is no historical or contemporary evidence that it will not), maybe Emma Lazarus’ words famously associated with the Statue of Liberty, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free” should be replaced with a paraphrasing of Dante, “Abandon hope, all ye who enter here ... unless ye be white.”