Posted on 02/21/2019 3:17:37 PM PST by ETL
The past three days have been deeply trying for Empire actor, Jussie Smollett, to say the least.
After being brutally attacked by racists early Tuesday (January 29, 2019) morning, an ongoing investigation has resulted in several discoveries, but still no suspects apprehended.
Now, Jussie’s five siblings and Moms have decided to address the violent attack, as well as what they plan on doing about it going forward.
FYI: Their Mom was an activist and a member of The Black Panther Party back in the day.
So neither she, nor her kids, will simply take this violent racist/homophobic attack against her baby lying down.
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From the New York Times...
"Jussie and Jurnee still count their mother, Janet Smollett, as their only acting coach. An African-American from New Orleans, Ms. Smollett met their father, Joel Smollett Sr., a Russian-Polish Jew, in the Bay Area, where they campaigned for civil rights.
“My mom was in the movement with Bobby Seale and Huey Newton, and one of her first mentors was Julian Bond,” Mr. Smollett said of the Black Panther founders and the civil rights leader.
“To this day, Angela Davis is one of her dearest friends. We’ve spent Mother’s Day with Angela.”..."
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“My mom was in the movement with Bobby Seale and Huey Newton, and one of her first mentors was Julian Bond,” Mr. Smollett said of the Black Panther founders and the civil rights leader.
“To this day, Angela Davis is one of her dearest friends.
We’ve spent Mother’s Day with Angela.”..."
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From David Horowitz's FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
PROFILE: ANGELA DAVIS
* Communist professor at the University of California’s Santa Cruz campus
* Recipient of the Lenin “Peace Prize” from the police state of East Germany in 1979
* Provided an arsenal of weapons to Black Panthers who used them to kill a Marin Country judge in a failed attempt to free Davis' imprisoned lover, Black Panther murderer George Jackson
* Icon of the campus Left and frequent guest speaker at anti-war rallies
* Leader of a movement to free all criminals who are minorities claiming that they are political prisoners of the racist United States
* “The only path of liberation for black people is that which leads toward complete and radical overthrow of the capitalist class.”
Angela Yvonne Davis is a tenured professor in the “History of Consciousness” program at the University of California - Santa Cruz.
A former member of the Black Panther Party, she is currently a “University Professor,” one of only seven in the entire California University system, which entitles her to a six-figure salary and a research assistant.
This income is supplemented by speaking fees ranging from $10,000 to $20,000 per appearance on college campuses, where she is an icon of radical faculty, administrators, and students.
Davis has also taught at UCLA and the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1303
This is all starting to make sense.
There may be much more to this "HOAX" than little punk sissy boy and his two lackeys.
Afterall ..... there were a lot more people behind Christine Blasey Ford's efforts than first appeared.
The Democrats are pure evil.
Apple...tree...
I saw this, today. With an old news article as him being a “radical prof”. Will try to find. You may find it before I. I’m battling as abcessed tooth right now.
Yes, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
Anyone here still think this was acted out for reasons having to do with his career? C’mon.
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TIME'S UP FOR KAMALA?
However, there is no slavery in America today, and no one alive today who had anything to do with owning slaves. Yes, there are racists in society, including white racists, black racists, asian racists, etc. Nonetheless, we have the most free and accepting society in the world, and all of us are lucky to live here. People like the Smollett family, and Maxine Waters, and Jessie Jackson, etc., who perpetuate the myth of an ongoing systemic/systematic anti-black society are destructive voices whose influence contributes to the regression of great progress in race relations. They need to be called out, and this uncovering of deceit by Jussie Smollett is the tip of the iceberg. All racists should be called out, whether they be white or another color.
It’s the late 1960’s all over again.
Whites are arming up, all over again. In 1969 I mounted an 18” police barrel on my Model 870. Still have it.
Something’s going to blow up soon. Except not only is the “victim” black, but the uncharged duo and a very angry police chief as well.
How this gets turned into racial war will require the military genius of a Don Lemon.
;^)
Empire star Jussie Smollett gets $100,000 bail as he’s supported by his family after police said he STAGED racist and homophobic attack because he was not happy with $100,000-an-episode salary
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Jussie Smollett leaves jail after posting $100k bail after prosecutor details video evidence against him and reveals he’d previously bought DRUGS from the brothers he paid to attack him after texting ‘might need your help on the low’
The actor’s siblings, Jazz, Jocqui, Jake, and Jojo were pictured arriving at the Cook County Criminal Court before his bond hearing on Thursday afternoon
A judge set Smollett’s bond at $100,000, which he will have to pay a portion of, and told him to give up his passport
Prosecutors shared an extremely detailed timeline of the night of the attack and the days beforehand
Smollett sent himself a threatening, racist and homophobic letter on January 22 to get more money from 20th Century Fox, police said Thursday
When that did not work, he hired brothers Abel and Ola Osundairo to attack him on January 25
On January 27, he took them to the exact location where he wanted it to happen and pointed out surveillance cameras nearby
Smollett was in contact with them an hour before the incident, an hour afterwards and when they were in Nigeria, laying low for two weeks
When they returned on February 13, they were picked up by police and later confessed ‘the entire plot’
Smollett paid $10,000, ten percent of his bond, and agreed to surrender his passport
The 36-year-old will return to court on March 14 to face a felony charge of filing a false police report
He wrote the Nigerian brothers a CHECK for $3.500! If Obama had a son...
I’ve not forgotten what happened to Reginald Denny...
Jussie was po’d that he made ONLY $65,000 per episode.
*Obviously*, he was being discriminated against because he was black.
Oh, wait a minute, the whole cast is black.
I lived in Marin County when Angela Davis and the Black Panthers terrorized the Court House. If Jussie’s mother s friends with Angela, we can just imagine what kind of racism these kids were drenched in growing up.
No wonder he thinks he can stage a hoax and walk away a hero.
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No...... I'm waiting to hear that he has someone like Malcolm X somewhere in his family tree.
Cuba
After her acquittal, Davis went on an international speaking tour in 1972 and included Cuba, where she had previously been received by Fidel Castro in 1969 as a member of a Communist Party delegation.[47]
Robert F. Williams, Huey Newton, Stokely Carmichael had also visited there, and Assata Shakur [Joanne Chesimard] lives there after escaping from U.S. prison.
Her reception by Afro-Cubans at a mass rally was so enthusiastic that she was reportedly barely able to speak.[48]
Davis perceived Cuba to be a racism-free country, which led her to believe that, “only under socialism could the fight against racism be successfully executed.”
When she returned to the United States, her socialist leanings increasingly influenced her understanding of race struggles.[49]
In 1974, she attended the Second Congress of the Federation of Cuban Women.[47]
Soviet Union
Davis and Valentina Tereshkova, 1972
In 1971 the CIA estimated that five percent of Soviet propaganda efforts were directed towards the Angela Davis campaign.
In August 1972, Davis visited the USSR at the invitation of the Central Committee, and received an honorary doctorate from Moscow State University.[50]
On May 1, 1979, she was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize from the Soviet Union.[51]
She visited Moscow later that month to accept the prize, where she praised “the glorious name” of Lenin and the “great October Revolution”.[52]
East Germany
Davis and Erich Honecker in GDR, 1972
The East German government organized an extensive campaign on behalf of Davis.[53]
In September 1972, Davis visited East Germany, where she met Erich Honecker, received an honorary degree from the University of Leipzig and the Star of People’s Friendship from Walter Ulbricht.
On September 11 in East Berlin she delivered a speech, “Not Only My Victory”, praising the GDR and USSR and denouncing American racism, and visited the Berlin Wall.[54][55][56]
In 1973 she returned to East Berlin leading the U.S. delegation to the 10th World Festival of Youth and Students.[57]
Jonestown and Peoples Temple
In the mid-1970s, Jim Jones, who developed the cult Peoples Temple, initiated friendships with progressive leaders in the San Francisco area including Dennis Banks of the American Indian Movement AIM and Davis.[58]
On September 10, 1977, 14 months before the Temple’s mass murder-suicide, Davis spoke via amateur radio telephone “patch” to members of his Peoples Temple living in Jonestown in Guyana.[59][60]
In her statement during the “Six Day Siege”, she expressed support for the People’s Temple anti-racism efforts and told members there was a conspiracy against them.
She said, “when you are attacked, it is because of your progressive stand, and we feel that it is directly an attack against us as well.”[61]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Davis#Other_activities_in_the_1970s
The Rolling Stones song “Sweet Black Angel,” recorded in 1970 and released on their album Exile on Main Street (1972), is dedicated to Davis. It is one of the band’s few overtly political releases.[42]
Bob Dylan’s song “George Jackson” (1971) is a tribute to George Jackson, one of the Soledad Brothers and the older brother of Jonathan Jackson, who was killed during an escape attempt from San Quentin.[43]
John Lennon and Yoko Ono recorded their song “Angela” on their album Some Time in New York City (1972) in support, and a small photo of her appears on the album’s cover at the bottom-left.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Davis#Representation_in_other_media
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