NACCP Launches Out Of Bounds Initiative

I love this! The NACCP has launched new a campaign entitled "Out of Bounds") directing young black student athletes, their families, friends, alumni, and fans to withhold and withdraw financial support from eight southern states bent on redistricting congressional maps to weaken the power of black voters. The campaign keenly focuses on persuading black athletes to reject recruitment offers from those states. We already know Texas went into a redistricting mode at convicted felon Donald Trump's urging in August 2025 (see post here); but after the Supreme Court obliterated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act a few weeks ago, the other states rapidly galvanized their efforts to gerrymander districts for the upcoming midterms. The other seven states Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, South Carolina, Alabama, Florida, and Georgia.

The NACCP succinctly captures the philosophy, the mechanism of operation and the outcome in three bold lines on their website:

No Representation. 

No Recruitment.

No Revenue. 

Further down the page on their website it lists 6 goals: 

1: Adopt state Voting Rights Act.

2: Withdraw or repeal maps that dilute Black voting power.

3: Restore congressional and/or judicial districts that reflect the state's Black population and voting strength.

4: Commit to transparent, community-centered redistricting processes.

5: Protect districts where Black voters have the opportunity to elect candidates of choice.

6: Stop using state power to weaken Black representation while public institutions profit from Black talent."

Some people have been critical of the campaign, claiming involving black youth will deny them opportunity at colleges. Some people think it is unfair, the criticism pointed out by one news network podcaster who later eloquently stated "one of my problems with this "secure the bag" generation is that what do you stand for? If it is time to fight for something, what do you fight for?" I too feel the people who do not want athletes making a political statement are missing the big picture, because the big picture is our current white supremacist regime desires to deny blacks opportunity, economic stability, health, political power...in essence, to hurt blacks on every level of our lives. Will personal wealth erase discrimination? Some of these white nationalist have called for blacks not to be considered as citizens because we are descendants of slaves.  A black person with money is still not safe when driving while black, or jogging down a white neighborhood.

We, as a people, surely must recognize the erosion of the gains we have made from the Civil Rights Era of the 60's. We find ourselves back in time into the Reconstruction Era after the Civil War. Once again, we are fighting for our very existence, and we should considered this as a fight which demands personal sacrifice, as our ancestors did, as the demonstrators and boycotters did in the 1960's and even the civil rights activists of years before. Our fight is far from over, and we need everyone on board. We all must vote, and consider to demonstrate, to write congressional leaders, to boycott, and yes, even abstain from our on personal ambitions to pave a more certain and viable future. There are other states besides the eight mentioned where black youth can attend college and get recruited into their athletic programs. Young people have choices which can be made which benefit not only their future, but the future for blacks in America. 

In no way I am asserting the burden of overcoming a white supremacist government, and ideological white supremacy rests in the hands of select black athletes and the sports arena in these southern states. We need to view our resistance as a well oiled machine which involves all blacks and other people concerned about systemic racism. What the NACCP proposes is just one strategy which can contribute to the resistance machine, and it will take a variety of strategies and a variety of groups to restore the gains blacks have made, now taken away by the Trump regime and white supremacist Republicans. 

I applaud the NACCP for their efforts, and for this new initiative. People, we must look at the big picture. Talented youth can make better choices, and one should consider the states which are redistricting also offer more hostile, vicious racist climates. And this all leads to my point-- money and personal gain will not keep you from being victimized by racism. 

We should all have a greater cause then just ourselves on this earth.

Corporate CEOs Go With Trump To Talks In China

This past week Donald Trump, our convicted 34 count felon-in-chief met with China's president, Xi Jinping in Beijing. Besides questioning everything Trump puts forth about the progress of their talks, I found it most interesting when I discovered who went along the trip. Americans should never doubt this country is controlled by an oligarchy--by the most wealthiest people in our nation, and some are even the wealthiest in this world.  One would think Trump's admins and cabinet members would be accompanying him to China devoid of business executives. Instead we see the likes of Elon Musk, Tim Cook of Apple, Citi Bank chairman Jane Fraser. Never doubt the international affairs of the United States is being controlled by its wealthiest citizens and by corporate entities. 

Reportedly, in addition to discussing trade relations and attempting to forge new deals, the meeting held discussions on artificial intelligence (one of Elon Musk's big money makers), and the contentious subject of Taiwan. Trump in his usual klutzy phraseology declared the trip a "tremendous success". The  Associated Press reports the meeting started off with a quick warning "If Washington mishandles its relations with the self-governing island of Taiwan, the U.S. and China could end up clashing or even in open conflict." Trump and his minions did not challenge Xi's declaration. Sounds like Xi wanted to establish control at the get go. 

But back to the subject matter: the wealthiest people in this country control and orchestrate domestic and international policies of the United States.  A PBS article nicely outline a list of the big players who accompanied Trump to China. These people are as follows:

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, leader of DODGE

Tim Cook of Apple

Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia 

Robert "Kelly" Ortberg, CEO of Boeing

Blackrock Chairman and CEO Larry Fink

Blackstone Chairman, CEO and co-founder Stephen Schwarzman

Cargill Chairman and CEO Brian Sikes

Citi Chairman and CEO Jane Fraser

Coherent CEO Jim Anderson

GE Aerospace Chairman and CEO H. Lawrence Culp

Goldman Sachs Chairman and CEO David Solomon

Illumina CEO Jacob Thaysen

Mastercard CEO Michael Miebach

Meta President and Vice Chairman Dina Powell McCormick

Micron Chairman, President and CEO Sanjay Mehrotra

Qualcomm President and CEO Cristiano Amon

Visa CEO Ryan McInerney

I am surprised to not see a Google executive on the list, being its CEO is a major Trump ass kisser. I know for certain, Google has prevented this blog in its searches, particularly on computers, and on a limited basis on Android devises. I also have experienced great difficulty lately in putting up posts, as it at times will not allow pictures or editing. I just gotta say it.

Side note: PLEASE VOTE IN THE MIDTERMS!!!!!!!!! If you have not registered, review this post here which will direct to where you can register online according to the state you live in.

The Sterilization Of White Supremacy Must Stop

We need to start calling what is happening in this country by what has become a forbidden word in the media: "white supremacy". In 2015 and 2016, during the first Trump campaign, the major prime time television networks would vocalize the term "white supremacy" or "white supremacists" concerning MAGA ideology; and because Donald Trump was instigating divisiveness across the country along racial lines.  We cannot allow the existing establishment which has always had a foundation based on white supremacy to "normalize" blatantly racist behavior and erode the gains we made during the Civil Rights Era (which in many ways never ended). If other people in the United States will not call this white Christian nationalist movement by its true name, then those in opposition must call it out. The Trump administration and his MAGA followers have a white racist agenda, to make America "White Again". Why does the general media throw water on it, and expect "white supremacy" to get cleaner by calling it "white nationalism"? White nationalism is based out of white supremacy. After all, they are the ruling class and are not oppressed in America.

In Oklahoma, a white supremacist by the name of Charles McCall is running for governor. His television ads are blatantly racist, so much to the point one should questioned why any broadcast channel would run something with such vile content. Of course, this man who reports himself to also be a Christian, uses "God" for his political purposes, while hissing like a vile, contemptuous serpent. At some point in one of his television ads, McCall complains about Chinese nationals, and later states to the effect they need to "Shanghai" back to their country. As a major embracer of conspiracy theories, he slams Muslims complaining about Sharia Law, and radical Islam. And naturally, in true sycophant fashion, he points to his alignment with the Donald Trump in all his commercials. Look up some of his racist commercials on YouTube. 

Across the United States, whether its Georgia or Oklahoma, Louisiana or Tennessee, we the people need to start taking a stand. Start writing these television stations which air vile racist content from politicians, and call it out for its offensiveness. Across the nation tv stations are airing this crap without any consequences for their actions, and making money off it! We have to raise up against this regime in different ways, and not just rely on voting. And believe this, voting remains essential for stopping this madness!! Americans must engage in voter participation all levels of government; including municipal, state and national elections.  From the ground up we must root out racist politicians. 

People must pay attention to the proposed bills in their towns and cities, because the goal of these white supremacists is demote power and crush economic stability for certain specific groups of people. Furthermore, billionaires want to weaken the power of Americans regardless of race. We are dealing with an oligarchy composed of white supremacists. The United States has always been a racist nation, but in the 1960's, with the passage of Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Acts, great gains were made by minorities for more equal representation. This further allowed for greater economic gains and political representation by actual minorities in political positions. However, a few weeks ago, our corrupt Supreme Court change all of that by destroying Section 2 of the voting Rights Act, and people of color have just lost a good deal of ground we gained.  We now must think "numbers".

Because of this newly released green light to individual states to not control racist gerrymandering of districts--indeed-but instead engage in gerrymandering, it is imperative blacks and other minorities who recognize this oppressive ruling from the Supreme Court to counter it with the strategy of using large numbers. The more of us who vote, the better our chances to gain representation in gerrymandered districts. We cannot afford as a people to sit the mid-term elections out. NO! Every single vote counts on the upcoming midterm elections. We must develop a strategy to overcome this utilizing our numbers, and countering apathy. Apathy helped get us into this authoritarian mess in 2024.  I am sick of hearing people saying they are tired of fighting, when they have never fought before other than within their own personal domain. Damn, at least just vote. If you black, if you a person of color, you will always have racist stuff coming at you. We must unite, strategize, and organize to now regain what we have lost, and fight to stop this regime from hurting us even further.