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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTo M$Greedia - you might wish to tell us why Speaker Pelosi's address
to the Parliament of Ghana was not covered - The Year of Return is a major event given the 400 years of Virginia slavery. Thousands are in Ghana for this event from all over the diaspora.
Go ahead and cover one more fucking racist rally with the Con tonight...and fuck all of you.
H ere's Speaker Pelosi in Ghana
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,041 posts)And she doesn't give trillions to the .1%
News comes from journalists, and there appear to be very few left in tvland.
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watoos
(7,142 posts)CNN and msnbc are going full bore right wing.
rainy
(6,083 posts)ratings and we are being dumbed down and regressing not progressing as humans, Americans!
malaise
(267,824 posts)Thankfully this was covered in Africa and the English-speaking Caribbean.
Ohiogal
(31,669 posts)I never would have known this was happening without reading your post.
A pox on the idiots on the tee vee who don't think this is news. Suppose they'll show the racists in Cincy doing their chanting for the moron, though.
Despicable.
malaise
(267,824 posts)This is unforgivable
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)I don't own a telly, so most news comes to me via my computer. I would never have known about this if not for you posting about it.
The M$M rarely looks outside the American Bubble to bring international news to us.
It's pathetic.
I also think it's intentional: trumpie wants to keep Americans uninformed about events outside of his "orbit," it's part of his attempt to isolate and insulate us.
If WE don't show it to you, YOU don't need to know about it. I feel like a mushroom -- they keep us in the dark and feed us compost.
malaise
(267,824 posts)Being here has been a transformative experience for all of us, Pelosi said in her address which was broadcast on state television.
and yet not a word - not a clip on M$Greedia.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)and I was in high school (60s), there was something called the American Field Student Program. Students from all over the world went to other countries for a year, to educate themselves as well as educating their host country about their homeland.
One of the AFS students who came to our western (caucasian) Cleveland suburb high school was a young man from Ghana. We called him Robert and no one could pronounce his last name. When a "kt" follows an "n," American tongues don't know what to do with it. But I remember something like: Nkteia.
Robert was like no one any of us had ever met before. He was 19, old by our standards for a high school junior. He was very talented and perceptive of American culture. He was a whiz at math, physics and chemistry. Also played piano and spoke six languages, including the "King's" english. He had a wonderful sense of humor, and he made us all laugh. Robert was charismatic in the way that everyone wanted to be a part of his orbit, to listen to him, to learn from him. He prepared several "lectures" for us to tell us about Ghana, its culture, its history, its people, its food. He had a smile bigger and brighter than the sun.
It's been 50 years, but I will never forget him.
It was at the height of the civil rights marches (and violence). Robert was the darkest-skinned person any of us had ever seen. We constantly worried about him going into Cleveland proper. So, whenever he wanted to venture into the city, about a dozen students and some adults would accompany him. I guess you could call us all his "posse" because we were NOT about to allow anything to happen to our Robert. Despite his worldly intelligence, he was an innocent and somewhat naive about the tough streets of 60s Cleveland.
While he was with us, there was an outbreak of racial violence in the city - cops and civil rights marchers clashed. We struggled to explain this to Robert. Racial oppression was not something that made sense to a young man from Ghana.
The day before he left us, he addressed the entire school. He spoke of his time with us and what he had learned from us and about us. Addressing the violent night that had occurred, and racialism in general, he used the piano as a metaphor for people. You cannot make music on the piano without both the white keys and the black keys working in harmony. He spoke for over an hour. When he concluded, there was not a dry eye in the auditorium. At the end, instead of shaking his hand goodbye, we formed a line of 400 strong of teenagers (and teachers) who simply want to hug him.
We formed a committee of students who would write to him in Ghana to keep him informed and involved with us. (And yes, he wrote back, long letters of reflections on his time with us and his preparations for college.)
It was so hard to let him go. Over 100 students accompanied him to Cleveland-Hopkins airport the day of his departure. No dry eyes there either.
He had opened our eyes and touched our hearts, and we were so much better for it.
It was 50 years ago, and I still remember him and that smile.
malaise
(267,824 posts)Thank you for this lovely life experience
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,041 posts)Thanks malaise!
nocoincidences
(2,195 posts)has such terrible problems with the new congresswomen, that she travels to Ghana with one of them for this event.
This is absurd...
Rachel should be all over this...I hope.
malaise
(267,824 posts)<snip>
United States House Speaker Nancy Pelosi described as a transformative experience the time spent in Ghanas coastal city of Cape Coast as part of her official visit to the West African country.
Pelosi told lawmakers in an address on Wednesday that visiting the Cape Coast Castle located in the Central Region was revealing not only for her but for the Congressional team she led to the site.
The Cape Coast Castle we stood before the door of no return where countless millions caught their last glimpse of Africa before they were shipped to a life of enslavement.
Being here has been a transformative experience for all of us, Pelosi said in her address which was broadcast on state television.
Pelosi and a group of Congressmen and women arrived in Ghana on July 28 as part of efforts aimed at observing 400 years since the first enslaved Africans were shipped to America.
As part of her engagements, she met with President Akufo-Addo at the Flagstaff House seat of government, to reaffirm commitment of both nations to the ties that bind us.
The trip to Cape Coast was the second major leg of her visit before her address to the parliament of Ghana.
Today was deeply transformative. We saw the horrors of slavery & humbly walked through the Door of Return with a renewed sense of purpose to fight injustice & inequality everywhere, she posted on Twitter on July 30.
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See they already have their meme of Speaker Pelosi being at war with the Squad - this would shatter that into pieces
Tanuki
(14,893 posts)in the news here. How refreshing to know we are still being represented on the world stage by people of intelligence, honor, and integrity! Cheers to Pelosi and the CBC!
How refreshing to know we are still being represented on the world stage by people of intelligence, honor, and integrity! Cheers to Pelosi and the CBC!
FM123
(10,050 posts)They said send her back but Speaker
@SpeakerPelosi
didnt just make arrangements to send me back, she went back with me ✊🏽
So grateful for the honor to return to Mother Africa with the
@TheBlackCaucus
and commemorate The Year of Return!
Link to tweet
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gratuitous
(82,849 posts)No reason for any media outlet in the United States to cover this totally insignificant event. And before you get all huffy, "significant" means something that concerns the likes of Maureen Dowd, David Brooks or some equally august personage of the Fourth Estate.
malaise
(267,824 posts)shatters their meme about Dems in disarray.
Fuck the fuckers. I am pissed
flotsam
(3,268 posts)that prove we should be allowed to recommend more than once.
Karadeniz
(22,283 posts)Take part. If so, that's a major slap.
malaise
(267,824 posts)Many Heads of Government were there and so was our Minister of Culture.
Why would shithole countries want him there?
paleotn
(17,781 posts)littlemissmartypants
(22,418 posts)Lovely post. Thanks, malaise.
Stinky The Clown
(67,697 posts)fierywoman
(7,641 posts)Ponietz
(2,905 posts)malaise
(267,824 posts)Reps from the CBC and Speaker were among thousands who attended the events associated with the Year of the return