1. That’s too much info for a white to pay attention to!! Dumb it down for us next time. Maybe add some pictures, I prefer to read pictures than words. It makes my story better!

2. Why shouldn’t white people swim?

   Crackers get soggy when wet.

3. Why do Native Americans hate April?

   Because April showers bring May Flowers, and Mayflowers bring white people.

4. Why do the Native Americans hate when white people ask to use their WiFi?

   They’re taking all their LAN!

5. To anyone who says white people can’t jump…

   You obviously haven’t seen footage of 9/11.

6. Today, we should be talking about Biden’s “Safer America Plan,” which funds the police and enables and encourages state-sanctioned violence against our communities. We should be talking about the water crisis in Jackson, where white supremacist leaders have allowed the city’s water system to fail, which is endangering and killing our people. We should be talking about how Black people are still seeking liberation across the globe. We should be strengthening each other as Black movement practitioners as we work toward our shared goal of ending state-sanctioned violence. We should be taking steps to create a society free of prisons, police, and racial injustice. We should be focused on the work — the work of liberation and Black joy.

   Instead, we face, yet again, another round of struggle for “control” of one organization. This time, by people who say they love Black people and center abolitionist values but whose actions are furthest from movement principles of courageous conversations, reconciliation, and finding pathways for peace and understanding.

   “One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have got to do to find out who we are, where we have come from, and where we are going.” “Strong people don’t need strong leaders.” “Give light, and people will find the way.” — Ella Baker

   Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLMGNF) is here to give light and fight for Black liberation. Make no mistake, the allegations of Melina Abdullah and BLM Grassroots (BLMGR) are false. They are slanderous and devoid of reality.

   As the newly assembled Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLMGNF) Board of Directors, we were onboarded to bring the organization into compliance, and along the way we have done our due-diligence to honor the vision the founders left behind. We are disappointed and dismayed at the false narrative created by Melina Abdullah and Black Lives Matter Grassroots (“BLMGR”) during its press conference today. Nevertheless, BLMGNF will remain focused on our mission and continue evolving into a foundation that funds frontline liberation organizations and focuses not only on responding to Black death, but on centering Black life and the pursuit of Black joy. And we have always been clear, no one has ownership over the movement. As with all aspects of this movement, there’s no sole leadership nor should responsibility be placed on one person.

7. Black Lives Matter is an ideological and political intervention in a world where Black lives are systematically and intentionally targeted for demise. It is an affirmation of Black folks’ humanity, our contributions to this society, and our resilience in the face of deadly oppression.

   As organizers who work with everyday people, BLM members see and understand significant gaps in movement spaces and leadership. Black liberation movements in this country have created room, space, and leadership mostly for Black heterosexual, cisgender men — leaving women, queer and transgender people, and others either out of the movement or in the background to move the work forward with little or no recognition. As a network, we have always recognized the need to center the leadership of women and queer and trans people. To maximize our movement muscle, and to be intentional about not replicating harmful practices that excluded so many in past movements for liberation, we made a commitment to placing those at the margins closer to the center.

   As #BlackLivesMatter developed throughout 2013 and 2014, we utilized it as a platform and organizing tool. Other groups, organizations, and individuals used it to amplify anti-Black racism across the country, in all the ways it showed up. Tamir Rice, Tanisha Anderson, Mya Hall, Walter Scott, Sandra Bland — these names are inherently important. The space that #BlackLivesMatter held and continues to hold helped propel the conversation around the state-sanctioned violence they experienced. We particularly highlighted the egregious ways in which Black women, specifically Black trans women, are violated. #BlackLivesMatter was developed in support of all Black lives.

   In 2014, Mike Brown was murdered by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. It was a guttural response to be with our people, our family — in support of the brave and courageous community of Ferguson and St. Louis as they were being brutalized by law enforcement, criticized by media, tear gassed, and pepper sprayed night after night. Darnell Moore and Patrisse Cullors organized a national ride during Labor Day weekend that year. We called it the Black Life Matters Ride. In 15 days, we developed a plan of action to head to the occupied territory to support our brothers and sisters. Over 600 people gathered. We made two commitments: to support the team on the ground in St. Louis, and to go back home and do the work there. We understood Ferguson was not an aberration, but in fact, a clear point of reference for what was happening to Black communities everywhere.

   When it was time for us to leave, inspired by our friends in Ferguson, organizers from 18 different cities went back home and developed Black Lives Matter chapters in their communities and towns — broadening the political will and movement building reach catalyzed by the #BlackLivesMatter project and the work on the ground in Ferguson.

   It became clear that we needed to continue organizing and building Black power across the country. People were hungry to galvanize their communities to end state-sanctioned violence against Black people, the way Ferguson organizers and allies were doing. Soon we created the Black Lives Matter Global Network infrastructure. It is adaptive and decentralized, with a set of guiding principles. Our goal is to support the development of new Black leaders, as well as create a network where Black people feel empowered to determine our destinies in our communities.

   The Black Lives Matter Global Network would not be recognized worldwide if it weren’t for the folks in St. Louis and Ferguson who put their bodies on the line day in and day out, and who continue to show up for Black lives.

8. Born out of the collective cry for Trayvon Martin, it started as a hashtag that reignited a movement. 8 years later, we’ve grown into a global community working towards Black liberation and freedom — and still, our movement of promise is not done with the work yet. We’re not even close.

   As we commemorate our 8th year, we continue to honor our founding principles of grassroots organizing through BLM grassroots, which has chapters across the country and world. Our evolution of political courage became BLM PAC, a political power we now have in our toolbox to elect officials who create Black-affirming policies.

   We also evolved into the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation — our philanthropic arm which is investing in the long-term work where Black folks across the diaspora are truly thriving and healing.

   Through Black Lives Matter, we have this opportunity and blessing to do the work that leads to policy change and encourages us to reimagine and build towards a future that prioritizes the safety of Black people. We all have a role to play in creating an abolitionist world, and we look forward to building that future for years to come alongside you.

   In honor of our 8th anniversary, we want to know…how have you felt the impact of BLM over the last 8 years?:

   Leave us a message at: 779-BLM-LINE (779-256-5463)

   Using the hashting #BLMAnniversary, you can also share your memories on Twitter.

   Despite the oppressive systems we face and the repeated injustices we are dealt with through criminal legal systems, we still matter.

   The possibilities are endless when we put our people-power together — and we can’t wait to keep it going.

9. Gender Identity: One’s internal sense of being male, female, neither of these, both, or another gender(s). Everyone has a gender identity, including you. For transgender people, their sex assigned at birth and their own internal sense of gender identity are not the same. Female, woman, and girl and male, man, and boy are also not necessarily linked to each other but are just six common gender identities.

10. Gender Expression/Presentation: The physical manifestation of one’s gender identity through clothing, hairstyle, voice, body shape, etc. Many transgender people seek to make their gender expression (how they look) match their gender identity (who they are), rather than their sex assigned at birth.

11. Sex Assigned at Birth: The assignment and classification of people as male, female, intersex, or another sex based on a combination of anatomy, hormones, chromosomes. It is important we don’t simply use “sex” because of the vagueness of the definition of sex and its place in transphobia. Chromosomes are frequently used to determine sex from prenatal karyotyping (although not as often as genitalia). Chromosomes do not always determine genitalia, sex, or gender.

12. Physically Attracted To: Sexual orientation. It is important to note that sexual and romantic/emotional attraction can be from a variety of factors including but not limited to gender identity, gender expression/presentation, and sex assigned at birth.

13. Emotionally Attracted To: Romantic/emotional orientation. It is important to note that sexual and romantic/emotional attraction can be from a variety of factors including but not limited to gender identity, gender expression/presentation, and sex assigned at birth. There are other types of attraction related to gender such as aesthetical or platonic. These are simply two common forms of attraction.

14. CISGENDER/CIS
    Term for someone who exclusively identifies as their sex assigned at birth. The term cisgender is not indicative of gender expression, sexual orientation, hormonal makeup, physical anatomy, or how one is perceived in daily life.

15. TRANSGENDER/TRANS
    Encompassing term of many gender identities of those who do not identify or exclusively identify with their sex assigned at birth. The term transgender is not indicative of gender expression, sexual orientation, hormonal makeup, physical anatomy, or how one is perceived in daily life. Also see: The Gender Unicorn.

16. QUEER
    A term for people of marginalized gender identities and sexual orientations who are not cisgender and/or heterosexual. This term has a complicated history as a reclaimed slur.

    ******This is the one I identify with*******

17. AGENDER
    An umbrella term encompassing many different genders of people who commonly do not have a gender and/or have a gender that they describe as neutral. Many agender people are trans. As a new and quickly-evolving term, it is best you ask how someone defines agender for themselves.

18. “If it should happen that Democrats win the presidency in 2024, even though the Republican nominee has the most popular votes, it is somewhat likely that both major parties might support a constitutional amendment to alter the Electoral College.”

    No need for a constitutional amendment. Even if both parties wanted a constitutional amendment, it is doubtful that they could agree on something that would pass in 3/4 of the states

    I’ve mentioned before in these comments several reforms that don’t require an amendment. Probably the most useful one that would correct the issue you bring up is to pass the Wyoming Rule to expend the size of the House of Reps. That would make the electoral college more proportional to population, as well.

19. “These totals were as of November 27. At that time, California had 253,134 uncounted votes; no other state had that many.”

    Another reform that i have mentioned before that would minimize this issue would be to divide the four most populous states (CA, TX, FL, and NY) into smaller ones This would make fewer excuses in those new states for not counting absentee ballots, because the outcome would be more consequential.

20. “The vote for the office at the top of the ballot in 2022, in the nation as a whole, gives the Republicans more popular votes than the Democrats”

    When you look at the table that you presented, we see that the total votes for all third party and independent candidates exceeds the spread between the votes for Republicans and Democrats. Looks like a case for ranked choice voting – or at least runoffs.

21. @WZ,

    Adding representatives is unlikely to make the Electoral College more proportional.

22. @JR:

    Of course it will. Just look at the numbers. The more Reps there are, proportional to the number of Senators, means that the electoral college would be more proportional to population. It’s elementary school math – if they still teach proportions in elementary school these days.

23. Some commie idiot either shares my first name or decided to use it out of spite to post disgusting perversion and anti-White idiocy, and what this subhuman creature thinks of as humor. This must be because I posted views that this commie would be censor wants to shout down on other recent articles here. Having failed at pathetic attempts at intimidation and, at least thus far, at intimidation of forum management to censor my views and others that the commie entity dislikes, it is attempting now to dissuade me from commenting further through posting the opposite of what I believe under my name. That’s not going to work either. You’re going to have to work harder if you intend to silence me, commie scum.

24. Specifically, all the December 27 comments above were by the impersonator Max (or, to be very generous, maybe someone else who happens to be named Max but is a commie pervert pos). How can anyone and everyone easily tell the difference, other than that I am right wing and this other Max is left wing? Simply ask me or him to explain and defend our views and the reasons behind holding them. I can and will; I doubt the same can be said for her/him/it/them. Give it a try, if you wish.

25. @Walter Ziobro…. But the states award their electors statewide and thus all you would really do is increase the amount of electors each candidate gets but not their proportionality to one another. Thus effectively all you’ve done is diluted the numbers. You haven’t changed any part of the actual result.

    Example: if you close to double the size of the house, each state would receive roughly twice the electors it currently has now. You’ve doubled the electors but haven’t changed the proportions. Or in other words, what’s the difference between 1/2 and 2/4?

26. The best reform for the electoral college would be to go back to having state legislatures choose the electors, and to remove federal interference with state laws which used to limit the general electorate in useful ways. States should be free to set the voting age (or it should be uniformly raised to 30), to bar women and nonWhites from voting (or they should be uniformly barred), to enact property ownership requirements and poll taxes for voting, to require verified membership in a Christian church to be allowed to vote, to require literacy tests and grandfather clauses, etc. After the electorate is thus limited and the legislators pick the electoral college, the election of legislators, state and local executives etc should be switched to a town meeting/caucus style system.

27. I think I am maxed out.

28. Thanks so much for this information. In the 2024 PRESIDENTIAL PETITIONING table, a few states have “pay fee” instead of a signature number in the “REQUIREMENTS, CAND” column. Do any states have both a filing fee and a signature requirement?

29. I recently received information that the fake/left wing Max is actually the worst kind of pervert, a disgusting filthy child molester who did time in prison for multiple child rapes!!!

30. Impersonator/fake/left wing Max should be taken out behind a barn and euthanized with extreme prejudice!!! His sickening sex offender status, would explain the sick, perverted sex related comments he left on 27 December along with his anti-White vomit!!!

31. Aiden said:

    “if you close to double the size of the house, each state would receive roughly twice the electors it currently has now. You’ve doubled the electors but haven’t changed the proportions”

    Not so. You are not considering the effect of the Senatorial electors. If you increase the size of the House, the number of Rep electors increases relative to the Senate electors. The Wyoming Rule would add over 100 Reps, more than the current number of Senators. The electoral college would definitely become more proportional to population.

    And, for that matter you could ALSO increase the proportionality by adding states, IF those states are created by dividing the most populous states, as I have also suggested.

32. The current Constitution does not prohibit state legislators from choosing Presidential electors. But, none have done so since the Civil War.

    Which states want to try?

33. Here’s a thought:

    The problem with the recent Presidential elections has been in the swing states in which no candidate gets a majority of the popular vote. (A MAJORITY of the vote is 50%+1, NOT a mere plurality. I need to remind people of that because so many posters here are ignorant of simple math.) My solution has been to use either ranked choice voting, or a runoff.

    However, those conservatives who are so anxious to have state legislatures choose the electors might be satisfied, IF a state adopted a rule saying, that if no candidate for President gets a majority (That’s MAJORITY of 50%+1) of the popular vote in a state, then the choice of electors would fall to the state legislature.

    This could have the interesting benefit of having the state divide their electors proportionally, if their legislature is divided by party.

34. Another benefit of having the state legislature decide the awarding of Presidential electors, if no Presidential candidate got a majority of the popular vote in a state, is that the legislature would be more inclined to make it easier for third party and independent candidates for President to get on the ballot in their state, as it would increase their chances of being the decisive force in the Presidential election.

35. But, as i have said before, the REAL problem with the Presidential election is that the President has gotten too damn powerful, such that it has become intolerable for either major party not to hold the office.

    Thus, we ought to consider the Swiss model of a collegiate executive.

36. What do you think of the Caucus / town meeting method for conducting all general elections? How about my ideas for limiting the electorate? Too many aliens, welfare leeches, emotional females and effeminate males, mongrels, immature children in adult bodies, etc get to choose the people who make decisions over too much of our lives. I don’t the president or any part of our government would have nearly as much power over us if we limit the electorate in the ways I suggest and conduct open public Caucus / town meeting voting. Do you agree? Why or why not?

37. I would advise anyone changing the election laws to accept the current Constitutional requirements. It would be an exercise in futility to try to take the vote away from women and non-whites.

38. Whether that’s true or not it addresses only two of my many points. What do you think of the others?

39. I agree with Right Wing Max!

40. Me too! I agree!!

41. Happy New Year!! I also agree with the Right Wing Maximalizer!

42. He’s not wrong.

43. The Latin word for leftist is SINISTER. You can’t spell sinister without SIN. LEFTIST are SINISTER and therefore evil and satanic. The Bible says they will lose the final war between good and evil (READ BOOK OF REVELATION)! Therefore THEY ARE EVIL LOSERS!!

    The devil (SATAN) is a fallen angel who betrayed God, so they are also TRAITORS because they are on the sinister side of evil, the devil, demons, and sin!! IT IS STUPID to be on the side which is both evil and sure to lose.

    THE LEFT IS ON THE SIDE OF SATAN, EVIL AND DARKNESS. THE RIGHT IS ON THE SIDE OF GOD, PURITY, HOLINESS, WHITENESS, AND LIGHT.

44. Leftist = loser, liberal, commie, socialist, fascist, evil, traitor, stupid, unholy, satanic, sinister, treasonous, sinner, bad, darkness, blackness, black lives matter, globalist, mixed race, left wing, effeminate

    RIGHTIST = winner, conservative, right wing, White wing, nationalist, traditionalist, orthodox, righteous, Godly, holy, smart, good, White, pure, White Lives matter, dexterity, loyal, noble, racial purity, manly

    QED!!!

45. @Bob I am a right-winger and conservative, but you lost me when you suggested that mixed race was a leftist (and therefore bad) group. As a party, it is imperative that as the left continues to push further left, we stand strong in a Centre-Right position. We cannot become as extreme as them, because then we’d be almost as bad. We need to gain and maintain the respect of American Independents through a mostly moderate platform inspired by traditional Conservative ideas and beliefs.

46. Race mixing = White genocide

47. 14 words, exactly

48. As the left pushes further left, “centre right” stands strong in bold defense of…the gains the left made fairly recently, against the opposition of the right wingers and conservatives of the time. There is no question that race mixing was at one point only advocated or defended by the far left of that time. Why should we accept, take for granted and defend their past gains? That is not a formula for winning, it’s a formula for perhaps slower paced losing, a slight drag on what the left sees as the inevitable course of history. If we want to win, we need to move beyond accommodation and fight to take back the ground they already took in the past, putting them on defense for a change.

49. What are conservatives conserving?! Some take it to mean conserving the status quo. But that’s not good enough when the status quo is that of an already substantially debased race, state, nation, civilization, folk, blood, honor, and loyalty. It is conserving the European cultural and genetic heritage which built the greatest civilization in world history, and conserving human biodiversity, which more authentic conservatives seek to conserve. Otherwise, all you are conserving is a mudslide down a hill that gets steeper as you slide further down.

50. Moderation in the face of tyranny is not a virtue.

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