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Protester calls for Rahm Emanuel's resignation at mayors conference

A Black Lives Matter protester interrupted a United States Conference of Mayors event in Washington Wednesday calling on Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to resign.

April Goggans, an organizer with Black Lives Matter in Washington, blocked the podium during the opening press conference for the group’s Winter Meeting. Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake was discussing the need for 2016 presidential candidates to address issues impacting cities at the time.

Goggans stood silently holding a sign that said “16 shots and a cover up #LaquanMcDonald #ResignRahm.” Others in the room chanted “Black Lives Matter.”

McDonald was a black teenager who was shot to death 16 times by a Chicago police officer. Emanuel has been fighting for his political life amid high-profile police shootings of young black men in Chicago, and the subsequent response from city officials. Accusations that the mayor and Chicago police were involved in an effort to cover up the video contributed to Garry McCarthy losing his job as Chicago’s police superintendent.

Wow! That’s what is called the freedom of speech! I admire April Goggans’ deed and I hope that it will help more people to realize that what is happening now in America is not the right thing.

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The Daily Show, January 14, 2016

Trevor Noah and Roy Wood Jr. discuss #OscarsSoWhite

They have too simply foolish to think we will continue to let this faloney slide by….

Basically fuck the oscars

its funny how we bring up quality when we talk about black movies as if most of the white ones aren’t medicore

right? white people will have years long arguments about mediocre white movies winning the oscars but somehow every single black movie is too mediocre to be even nominated. 

on another note i am very curious as to why straight outta compton was written by white people in the first place. what kind of bs was happening there?

exactly! didn’t they hate nwa and gangster rap in the first place? and how many times did they say the n word in that movie.

Lets talk about how Black films are doing well and making their budgets and more

And all the flopped films of the year starred white people :)

And not just any white people, but the same damn white actors who stay getting role after role and oscars and awards of all kind be in flop after flop and still get hired

Johnny depp’s ass been in how many consecutive flops yet they aint tryna slow him down. They keep throwing him head first into movie after movie

How about how when “Do the Right thing” got nominated for one award and it was for the racist white store owner

lowkey