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Beyoncé
didn't win the Golden Globe she was nominated for tonight, but she
still managed to make her own silent statement during the broadcast.
When Joaquin Phoenix was announced the winner of Best Performance by an
Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama for his work as the Joker in Joker—a
divisive film because of its sympathetic, gritty portrayal of a killer
comic book villain—Bey remained seated. Viewers, including Twitter's Sam
Stryker, took notice.
(Reuters)Beyonce has incurred the wrath of Joker fans by not taking part in a standing ovation for Joaquin Phoenix as his Golden Globes win was announced.
Phoenix
picked up a gong in the prestigious category Best Performance by an
Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama for his starring role in Joker to rapturous applause from most of those around him. Read more: Ricky Gervais’ best and most shocking Golden Globes jokes
But
Beyonce was spotted staying firmly in her seat as the winner made his
triumphant walk up to the stage, with stars including Leonardo DiCaprio
and Reese Witherspoon all standing up in celebration of him.
Choices were made along strongly political lines: GettyNobody is as admired as much by Americans as Barack Obama, except that is Donald Trump. A poll
that suggested a starkly divided nation, found the current and former
presidents tying for the title of America’s most admired man.
Underscoring
the divide was the fact the split was almost entirely along party
lines, with 45 per cent of Republicans opting for Mr Trump and 41 of
Democrats selecting his predecessor at the White House.
Meanwhile,
former first lady Michelle Obama was the most admired woman among
Americans, securing 10 per cent of votes, with current first lady
Melania Trump being selected by 5 per of respondents and coming second.
“Each
year since 1948, Gallup has asked Americans to name, in an open-ended
fashion, which man and woman living anywhere in the world they admire
most. This year’s results are based on a December 2-15 poll,” said the
polling company.
It added: “Americans’ choice for most admired man this year is sharply divided along party lines.”
After
Mr Trump and Mr Obama, who was ranked in first place for the 12th
consecutive year, former president Jimmy Carter and Tesla CEO Elon Musk,
were tied for third place, followed by Microsoft founder Bill Gates.
Pope
Francis, senator Bernie Sanders, House Intelligence Committee chairman
Adam Schiff, the Dalai Lama and billionaire investor Warren Buffet were
also in the top ten.
Among women, teenage climate activist was
among the most top five most admired, along with former Democratic
presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and Oprah Winfrey.
“The
remainder of the top 10 for women includes Britain’s Queen Elizabeth,
House speaker Nancy Pelosi, Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg,
Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren, German chancellor Angela Merkel
and former US ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley,” said
Gallup.
It added: “Queen Elizabeth finished in the top 10 for the 51st time, more than any other woman.”
Donald Trump Ties Barack Obama as Most Admired Man of 2019 in New Gallup Poll
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For
the first time ever, President Donald Trump tied with his predecessor,
Barack Obama, as the most admired man in America this year, according to
the annual poll from Gallup. 2019 marks Obama’s 12th year at the top of the list, tying him with former president Dwight Eisenhower.
Trump
has never before topped the list, which is compiled by asking Americans
to name which living man and woman they admire most. The question is
open-ended.
Overall, both the 44th and 45th president were the
most admired man alive for 18% of American adults. The split along each
man’s 18% followed party lines: 41% of Democrats chose Obama and 45% of
Republicans chose Trump.
Others who were named this year include
Tesla founder Elon Musk, former president Jimmy Carter and Vermont
senator and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. No other man besides
Trump and Obama was mentioned by more than 2% of respondents.
According
to Gallup, the incumbent U.S. president is usually the choice for
America’s most admired living man. Out of 72 prior polls, the incumbent
president has earned the distinction 58 times.
“When the incumbent
president is not the choice, it is usually because he is unpopular
politically,” Gallup noted, “which was the case for Trump in 2017 (36%
approval rating) and 2018 (40%).”
Trump’s approval rating in 2019 is up to 45%.
Former
first lady Michelle Obama topped the survey of America’s most admired
woman with 10% of the vote, down from 15% in 2018. Melania Trump
finished second with 5%, followed by a three-way tie between Hillary
Clinton, Oprah Winfrey and teen climate-change activist Greta Thunberg,
each with 3%.
He has a point. You can celebrate black history month but you will never see a white history month because that would be racist.
I think EVERY single person should scream out loud how they love the color of their skin. We should all be proud of who we are. But we should be able to say it too.
Thursday, December 19, 2019
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Nearly 6 million people are off food stamps since Trump took office
More than 5.9 million individuals have dropped off foods stamps since 2017 according to the USDA.
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Trump's food stamp cuts begin soon – and black Americans to be hardest hit
Photograph: Alamy Stock PhotoAs
Kyle Waide visited the Atlanta community food bank recently, where he
is CEO, he ran into a woman who had recently lost her administrative job
at a university. She was looking for work, she told him, but it was
hard to find. She was struggling to get by. Related: Trump impeachment: Pelosi condemns McConnell as 'rogue leader in the Senate' – live
Though
she had food stamp benefits, she still needed to visit Waide’s food
bank until she landed a new job, she added, because she had a home and a
child to pay for. With her job gone, she said, she needed all the extra
help she could get to feed her family.
Thousands in Atlanta like her are already struggling to make ends meet, even before the Trump administration scales back benefits to low-income Americans
to the supplemental nutrition assistance program (Snap) as food stamps
are known. Approximately 700,000 Americans will soon lose their benefits
as the government tightens the regulations around stable work
requirements for recipients, stretching the already scarce resources of
the communities that Waide’s operation helps.
Those communities
are often African American, raising the prospect that Trump’s move will
put extra stress on minority families. Approximately one in three households
using Snap benefits are African American. In general, African American
households are more likely to experience food insecurity, according to
the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. In 2016, Snap helped more
than 13 million African American households put food on the table,
according to data from the US agriculture department’s fiscal year 2016
Snap Households Characteristic data.
Waide stresses the importance
of Snap even as his food bank provides more than 63m meals to more than
750,000 Georgians annually. Snap, he says, provides 12 times the amount
of assistance that food banks do nationwide.
“[Snap] is a very
important source of nutrition for families, kids and seniors in our
community,” he says. Annually, the food bank helps 10,000 residents of
the state enroll for or renew Snap benefits.
Alex Camardelle,
senior policy analyst at the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute, says
many of the 100,000 Georgians who are thought to be affected by the
coming change will be African American.
“We’re concerned that high
levels of unemployment in certain areas of the state, despite an
overall improvement in the unemployment numbers, is going to
disproportionately impact black Georgians,” he says.
Black
Georgians, he adds, have an unemployment rate in the state that could be
triple that of white residents, often because of additional barriers
they face, like where they live, access to transportation and the
difficulty of finding a job in a mandated period of time.
Waide
echoes the sentiment. “Poverty and hunger disproportionately affect
people of color. These are going to be low-income folks in rural
communities who are economically vulnerable by definition,” he said.
“When they can’t eat, they can’t get over other hurdles.”
Rural
households experience more struggle with food security, according to the
Food Research and Action Center, compared with households in metro
areas. Food insecurity is also twice as high among African American
households compared with white households, in rural communities or not.
The
average Georgian on Snap benefits remains approximately eight months
before cycling out of the program as they get back to some sort of
stability, Waide explains, just as the program intends. The myth of
anyone perpetually staying on government benefits just is not true, he
says.
When the change to the work requirement takes place in April
next year, Waide is confident the food bank will see a high demand to
try to make up for the shortfall.
Last year, he points out, his
food bank stepped in when a government shutdown left thousands of
federal workers in Atlanta without pay.
“We mobilized our network
and donors to distribute hundreds of thousands of meals. And we’ll do
the same here, this time,” he said.
