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AVA DuVERNAY interview for '13TH' documentary

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. · Sunday, October 16th 2016 at 3:29PM · 3926 views
AVA DuVERNAY interview for '13TH' documentary

(New York) - Blacktree TV sits down with Ava DuVernay, Writer & Director of the new documentary '13TH', which highlights the loophole in the 13 Amendment that allows "slavery" to still exist here in America in the 21st century.

'13TH' premieres globally October 7th on Netflix.
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Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Sunday, October 16th 2016 at 3:56PM

You got to see this documentary. https://www.netflix.com/watch/80091741


robert powell Sunday, October 16th 2016 at 7:07PM


The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution officially abolished slavery in America, and was ratified on December 6, 1865, after the conclusion of the American Civil War.

The amendment stated in 1865 and 1880 and 1920...1940....1960....1990 and OCTOBER 16, 2016

“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude,

except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted,

shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”

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Something we could have FILMED, and VIDEOED before another MLKing Movie..........

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Sunday, October 16th 2016 at 9:29PM

Something we could have FILMED, and VIDEOED before another MLKing Movie..........

I believe that this documentary educates all people, some of which are looking at this topic for the very first time and from here we, can right the wrongs of the war on drugs, war on the nations citizens both poor and middle classes since Nixon.

robert powell Monday, October 17th 2016 at 8:31PM


".... the war on drugs, war on the nations citizens both poor and middle classes since Nixon..... "

Sunday, October 16th 2016 at 9:29PM
Deacon Ron Gray

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every Drug..... from cigarettes to Liquor to pcp Incarcerated African Americans ..............

every Drug..... from cigarettes to Liquor to pcp destroyed Inner City Communities ...........

every Drug..... from cigarettes to Liquor to pcp destroyed Inner City Middle Class ...........

every Drug..... from cigarettes to Liquor to pcp MADE ChiRAQ a warZZZONE....................

The only 13 that African Americans need is the History, Scholarship and Science of the 1300s in Africa Asia

------- BEFORE euroRacist paganChristian Contact........

AND

this Ava DuVernay ..... WHO made ANOTHER mlKing movie in 2014

....needs to Film and Video......Strength not weakness


Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Monday, October 17th 2016 at 10:13PM

If you saw this film clip you would know the war on drugs was now about cigarettes to Liquor.

this Ava DuVernay ..... WHO made ANOTHER mlKing movie in 2014

How would you know, have you seen the whole document yet? I have, lets talk about what you saw Robert, can we do that?

Knowledge brings about Strength not weakness!!!

robert powell Tuesday, October 18th 2016 at 8:29AM



Knowledge brings about Strength not weakness!!!

TRUE

.....now learn English and stop writing and START READY something of African American Strength....

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Tuesday, October 18th 2016 at 3:55PM

.....now learn English and stop writing and START READY something of African American Strength....

WHAT!!! WHAT do you mean "START READY!" What are you trying to say? Robert please... here, get your act together in English and express yourself clearly instead of using that subhuman language "START READY!" WTF are you talking about Robert, do you know?

robert powell Tuesday, October 18th 2016 at 6:45PM


'.......WTF are you talking about Robert, do you know? ....."

Tuesday, October 18th 2016 at 3:55PM
Deacon Ron Gray

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Knowledge brings about Strength not weakness!!!

TRUE

.....now learn English and stop writing and START READY something of African American Strength....


Tuesday, October 18th 2016 at 8:29AM
robert powell | delete

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OK ..... I did not COMPLETE a READABLE English Phrase.....

BUT ...... again....CLEARER........

"......Knowledge brings about Strength not weakness!!!

TRUE

.....now learn English and stop writing and START to GET READY to START READING.........something of African American Strength....

but WHAT is "WTF"......?

....a negroid form of Expression or negroid NO UNDERSTANDING.....for the 13th TIME





Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Wednesday, October 19th 2016 at 2:58AM

People from all over are laughing at your BULL💩Knows exactly what WTF means. 👌🏾

robert powell Wednesday, October 19th 2016 at 8:19AM


People from all over are laughing at your BULL💩Knows exactly what WTF means. 👌🏾
Wednesday, October 19th 2016 at 2:58AM
Deacon Ron Gray

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what people?

you and your Vile, Filthy LYIN, CHIRAQ ghettoFolk....or your LYIN LBGTV Queer, crackCracker steveAdam.?

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Thursday, October 20th 2016 at 7:25AM

The people who is reading this blog, that is who boy.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Thursday, October 20th 2016 at 9:34PM

Ava DuVernay, director of 13th, a necessary and overwhelming documentary about the impact of the United States’ prison-industrial complex on American communities of color, wants her audience to know the racial issues her latest project addresses can’t be compartmentalized to her work as an artist; they exist in the real world, and DuVernay exposes them with a burning intensity.

“There’s no segmenting [race] out for me, because that’s my experience… that’s not what I was doing [with the film]” she said during a Friday morning press conference, held hours before 13th’s world premiere as the first documentary to open the New York Film Festival in its 54-year history. Instead, she said she made the film while immersing herself in the struggles of people of color who came before her; the resulting film is a byproduct of her own curiosity, sparked by a culture of racism stemming from the days of slavery, through the Civil Rights movement, to today, strung together by a clause in the 13th amendment to the U.S. constitution, which states involuntary servitude is permissable “as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.”

robert powell Friday, October 21st 2016 at 8:29AM


13th amendment to the U.S. constitution, which states involuntary servitude is permissable “as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.”
Thursday, October 20th 2016 at 9:34PM
Deacon Ron Gray

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again, this has been CONSTITUTIONAL Law since 1864-68

again, this has been Supreme Court Debate since 1864-------152 YEARS.......

---- negros that LOOK forward to Jail to 'be with their Family, their boys, their niiigggaas'

---- get NO reprieve from this CONSTITUTIONAL injustice from the gayOle gal that DID another stereotypical Misconception MLKING movie in 2014

Make a REAL movie with a Fresh Subject of

-----HOW do Supreme Court Justices in 2016 Interpret the Minds and Beliefs of slaverAmericana 1776-1864 Plantation slave rapists, torturers and murdering...etal oldeUSA Presidents......

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Saturday, October 22nd 2016 at 10:40PM

Robert, I know when the 13th amendment was signed into law but that is just a small part of what's going on. you act like you have not even seen the preview for the interviews because if you did you know for a fact that the 13th amendment is not apply equally and that's what this documentary is all about.

Robert watch the documentary and then come back and let's have intelligent conversation, OK!!!

Steve Williams Sunday, October 23rd 2016 at 4:56AM

In 1864 nobody could conceive that drug use would someday be considered a crime.

robert powell Sunday, October 23rd 2016 at 8:05AM


Robert watch the documentary and then come back and let's have intelligent conversation, OK!!!

Saturday, October 22nd 2016 at 10:40PM
Deacon Ron Gray

In 1864 nobody could conceive that drug use would someday be considered a crime.
Sunday, October 23rd 2016 at 4:56AM
Steve Williams

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Mr. Deacon Ron Gray..servant of the 'whiteBlack' RacistlyIgnorant Minds ... tell that to your Master steveAdam

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Sunday, October 23rd 2016 at 2:14PM

Robert, have you seen these videos?


Steve Williams Sunday, October 23rd 2016 at 5:54PM

The first anti-opium laws in the 1870s were directed at Chinese immigrants. The first anti-cocaine laws, in the South in the early 1900s, were directed at black men. The first anti-marijuana laws, in the Midwest and the Southwest in the 1910s and 20s, were directed at Mexican migrants and Mexican Americans. Today, Latino and especially black communities are still subject to wildly disproportionate drug enforcement and sentencing practices.

http://www.drugpolicy.org/facts/new-soluti...

Steve Williams Sunday, October 23rd 2016 at 6:02PM

Opium, Coca, and Marijuana should all be legal.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Wednesday, October 26th 2016 at 10:37AM

Opium, Coca, and Marijuana should be decimalized, one step at a time.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Wednesday, October 26th 2016 at 11:02AM

Thirtieth Amendment to the Constitution makes it unconstitutional fir someone to be held as a slave. In other words, it creates freedom to all Americans. There are exceptions including criminals, there is a clause, a loophole. If you have that embedded in the structure, in this constitutional Language then, it’s there to be used as a tool for whatever purposes one wants to use it.

That Tool, that loophole, privatizing jails, pot and crack are the key component used to keep the poor black youth from experiencing The American Dream and perpetuate a new form of SLAVERY.

Steve Williams Wednesday, October 26th 2016 at 12:55PM

Decriminalization won't solve the problem Ron. The only thing that will solve the destruction of lives is legalization.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Wednesday, October 26th 2016 at 3:16PM

Ok!!! Maybe for Marijuana but cocaine and heroin NO! One good way to solve the 13 Amendment that allows "slavery" to still exist here in America in the 21st century is to apply the law on the books equally between the races.

Many currently illegal drugs, such as marijuana, opium, coca, and psychedelics have been used for thousands of years for both medical and spiritual purposes. So why are some drugs legal and other drugs illegal today? It's not based on any scientific assessment of the relative risks of these drugs – but it has everything to do with who is associated with these drugs.

The first anti-opium laws in the 1870s were directed at Chinese immigrants. The first anti-cocaine laws, in the South in the early 1900s, were directed at black men. The first anti-marijuana laws, in the Midwest and the Southwest in the 1910s and 20s, were directed at Mexican migrants and Mexican Americans.

Now that both white men and women are using drugs like cocaine and heroin those same laws that would lock up a Black man for 10 years, would be lenient with the law with a lesser sentence or none at all. You know, about coming to the low end buying drugs.

Steve Williams Wednesday, October 26th 2016 at 3:23PM

Ron, you can apply the laws equally but communities will still be destroyed. Pimps will still be pimps, whores will still be whores, and people of all ages will still be murdered and maimed, all because cocaine and heroin are illegal.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Wednesday, October 26th 2016 at 4:21PM

Steven, this was a plan that targeted Black and Hippies during the NIXON Admin, This war has nothing to do with a pimp or a whore. THE GOP knows that young whites and blacks will vote for the democrat and not for the GOP. Here's more proof.

Journalist Dan Baum wrote in the April cover story for Harper’s that Ehrlichman told him in 1994 that the Nixon campaign and Nixon White House considered those two groups to be their enemies. “We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities,” Ehrlichman reportedly said.

The sinister part about all that was, they knew that they was lying. Nixon Invented War On Drugs To Attack Black People And Leftists https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coYUFJLSOm...

Nixon aide says "War on Drugs" targeted blacks- so now what? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Miah2ZrAsL...

Steven, you can take the Pimp and Whore BULL💩, some where else, because it is too much proof out here..




Steve Williams Wednesday, October 26th 2016 at 6:09PM

It started way before Nixon Ron. The fact is, because America is full of people like you who have no idea about pimps and whores, nobody will do the right thing, not Obama, not Hillary, not even Donald Trump.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Wednesday, October 26th 2016 at 7:32PM

So, if you think that the WAR ON DRUGS STARTED WITH SOME PIMPS AND WHORES then you really don't want to believe the unjust history of those presidents and there staff, that I just put before you. Which in conclusion, you are apart of the problem.



Steve Williams Wednesday, October 26th 2016 at 9:29PM

That is not what I said about pimps and whores. It's the fact that drugs are illegal that destroys people's lives by creating the conditions for pimps and whores, murder and mayhem.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Wednesday, October 26th 2016 at 11:38PM

I told you who set up the conditions and why Steven but you still want to run from that FACT about the Nixon's administration. The War in Drugs was set up for the black man and the white hippie types.


Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Thursday, October 27th 2016 at 7:50AM

The War on Drugs was based on LIES and the Nixon and Ehrlichman knew exactly what they were doing.

Steve Williams Thursday, October 27th 2016 at 7:58AM

You are the one talking about the War on Drugs Ron, not I. It was good Christian people like you that started the Temperance movement, and we saw how that turned out. It's good Christian people today that insist coca and opium, products of nature, need to be Federally legislated. And you see how that is turning out.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Thursday, October 27th 2016 at 3:16PM

Nixon was no good Christian people like myself and there is no comparison and for you to say: " It was good Christian people like you that started the Temperance movement, and we saw how that turned out. It's good Christian people today that insist coca and opium, products of nature, need to be Federally legislated. And you see how that is turning out," That is just plain lunacy on your part.

All of what Nixon did from Watergate to The War on Drugs was the promote his right wing agenda, to divide this country and to ensure Republican Party dominance as a power grab for the big corporations, ALT Right and the oligarch's in The United States of America.

So, you can take that, was good Christian people like you statement and put that aside because Nixon and Ehrlichman was no good Christians, they acted like monsters to deceive the people of this country and the public trust that the people gave unto them.

Here, to a look that the proof: The sinister part about all that was, they knew that they was lying. Nixon Invented War On Drugs To Attack Black People And Leftists https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coYUFJLSOm...

Nixon aide says "War on Drugs" targeted blacks- so now what? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Miah2ZrAsL...

Steve Williams Thursday, October 27th 2016 at 5:40PM

Papaver somniferum is an annual herb growing to about 100 cm. All parts of the plant are strongly glaucous, giving a greyish-green appearance, and the stem and leaves are sparsely covered with coarse hairs. The leaves are lobed and clasp the stem at the base. The flowers are up to 120mm diameter, normally with four white, mauve or red petals, sometimes with dark markings at the base. The fruit is a hairless, rounded capsule topped with 12–18 radiating stigmatic rays. All parts of the plant exude white latex when wounded. The annual habit in combination with stem-clasping, glaucous, glabrous (or almost so) leaves are diagnostic for the species.[3]:87[4]:32

Varieties and cultivars Edit
Papaver somniferum has many subspecies or varieties and cultivars. Colors of the flower vary widely, as do other physical characteristics, such as number and shape of petals, number of flowers and fruits, number of seeds, color of seeds, production of opium, etc.[citation needed]

Papaver somniferum Paeoniflorum Group (sometimes called Papaver paeoniflorum) is a subtype of opium poppy whose flowers are highly double, and are grown in many colors. P. somniferum Laciniatum Group (sometimes called Papaver laciniatum) is a subtype of opium poppy whose flowers are highly double and deeply lobed, to the point of looking like a ruffly pom-pom.

A few of the varieties and cultivars, notably the cultivars "Norman" and "Przemko",[5] have low morphine content (less than 1%), and much higher concentrations of other alkaloids. Most varieties, however, including those most popular for ornamental use or seed production, have a higher morphine content, with the average content being 10%.[6]

Steve Williams Thursday, October 27th 2016 at 6:28PM

In the United States cultivation of poppies for food is illegal. However, this is not typically enforced for poppies grown or sold for food or ornamental purposes.[14][unreliable source?] In addition, "Opium poppy and poppy straw" are also prohibited.[24] As the opium poppy is legal for culinary or esthetic reasons, poppies were once grown as a cash crop by farmers in California. The law of poppy cultivation in the United States is somewhat ambiguous.[25] The reason for the ambiguity is because the Opium Poppy Control Act of 1942 (now repealed)[26][27][28] stated that any opium poppy should be declared illegal, even if the farmers were issued a state permit.[29] § 3 of the Opium Poppy Control Act stated:
It shall be unlawful for any person who is not the holder of a license authorizing him to produce the opium poppy, duly issued to him by the Secretary of the Treasury in accordance with the provisions of this Act, to produce the opium poppy, or to permit the production of the opium poppy in or upon any place owned, occupied, used, or controlled by him.

This led to the Poppy Rebellion, and to the Narcotics Bureau arresting anyone planting opium poppies and forcing the destruction of poppy fields of anyone who defied the prohibition of poppy cultivation.[30][31] Though the press of those days favored the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, the state of California supported the farmers who grew opium poppies for their seeds for uses in foods such as poppyseed muffins. Today, this area of law has remained vague and remains somewhat controversial in the United States.[32] The Opium Poppy Control Act of 1942 was repealed on 27 October 1970.[33][34]

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Thursday, October 27th 2016 at 7:15PM

I see that you ran like hell from my reply to your comments of Nixon and Ehrlichman being christians and the War on Drugs, which you could not defend, to Papaver somniferum because you are looking for a place to run and hide.

Steven, did you review any of the information on both of those links that I provided you?


Steve Williams Thursday, October 27th 2016 at 7:21PM

I showed you a 1942 law Ron, that precedes Nixon by many years.

Steve Williams Thursday, October 27th 2016 at 7:23PM

But was repealed during the Nixon administration.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Thursday, October 27th 2016 at 7:53PM

I have never talked about any law in 1942 Steven, I focus this discussion on who coined the term WAR ON DRUGS.

I asked you a question Steven, "did you review any of the information on both of those links that I provided you?"



Steve Williams Thursday, October 27th 2016 at 10:35PM

Ron, I gave you a link about the history of drug legislation in America and I did not say a thing about Nixon.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Friday, October 28th 2016 at 4:30AM

Under the Nixon administration is when the on drugs turn out to be, a war on the Republican Party opponents, Black people and the hippies or I should said the liberal whites who generally vote Democratic.

I see why you don't want to answer this question: "did you review any of the information on both of those links that I provided you?" Because you are supporting a man (TRUMP), a party (GOP) that has a direct link back to the Nixon's War on Drugs, a War on the Black Americans that is smoking marijuana at about the same rate as White Americans but being arrested at a rate 4 times greater and that link is Roger Ailes.

robert powell Friday, October 28th 2016 at 8:16AM


AVA DuVERNAY interview for '13TH' documentary

SUBJECT

600Hits for you and yourMaster steveAdam......Pleeze ....... STOP it

------ that female is unqualified to make a statement of 13th admendment with another mlkING negroVideo

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The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution officially abolished slavery in America, and was ratified on December 6, 1865, after the conclusion of the American Civil War.

The amendment stated in 1865 and 1880 and 1920...1940....1960....1990 and OCTOBER 16, 2016

“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude,

except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted,

shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”

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then the slaveOF steveAdam racistlyIgnorant 'knowledge' writes......

".......but being arrested at a rate 4 times greater and that link is Roger Ailes......"

Friday, October 28th 2016 at 4:30AM
Deacon Ron Gray

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The SUBJECT here is IMPORTANT

.....we as Americans deal with NON FACTS, racistNONSENSE...RATHER than REAMENDMENT the 13th

13TH AMENDMENT is RACIST IGNORANT paganChristian ValueISM......THROUGH IT OUT In 2016.......

.
ps

...you and steveAdam View ANOTHER mlKING video together on AVA LBGTV network



Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Friday, October 28th 2016 at 8:59AM

Robert,

Have you seen these interviews of AVA Du VERNAY?

Do you know why Roger Ailes. is apart of Trump's top staff?

Do you know what Roger Ailes is doing for TRUMP?

If you don't know, educate yourself and stop being IGNORANT, AN IGNORAMUS, UNINFORMED, OBLIVIOUS TO CONSCIOUSNESS, UNCONSCIOUS TO THE FACTS RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU.


Steve Williams Friday, October 28th 2016 at 9:47AM

Ron, you say coca and opium should be illegal. You are the one siding with Nixon, not I.

Steve Williams Friday, October 28th 2016 at 9:54AM

You seem not to understand the difference between a Republican and a Libertarian.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Friday, October 28th 2016 at 10:28AM

I would like to see marijuana use and position, be decriminalize for amounts up to an ounce.

I would like to free space in the nations jails.

Cocaine and Heroin user that commit other crimes to get more DRUGS while under the influence should stay in jail STEVEN.

Nixon and Ehrlichman was NOT Libertarians.

Once again, I see why you don't want to answer this question: "did you review any of the information on both of those links that I provided you?"

Steve Williams Friday, October 28th 2016 at 10:42AM

I did not review those links Ron. Did you know that papaver somniferum could be cultivated here in America, and opium provided to all those who want it, cheaply, with no attendant crime?

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Friday, October 28th 2016 at 11:01AM

STOP RUNNING FROM THIS QUESTION STEVEN. Once again, I see why you don't want to answer this question: "did you review any of the information on both of those links that I provided you?"


Steve Williams Friday, October 28th 2016 at 12:16PM

I did not review ANY of the information on those links Ron. Those links have no interest to me, but the question of the legality of opium does.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Friday, October 28th 2016 at 1:37PM

If you want to continue on this topic, I suggest you review those two links because this information contained explains THE WAR ON DRUGS and the AVA DuVERNAY film 13 Amendment.

The question about legality of opium is a mute point.

If that is the subject you want to talk about, start your own separate blog on that subject, not here, do you understand ME!!!

Steve Williams Friday, October 28th 2016 at 4:03PM

The legality of opium is the salient point to the subject of your blog Ron. If you want to hide your head in the sand that is your prerogative. It doesn't change the fact that good Christian people like you are at the root of the "war on drugs" and the attendant mass incarceration.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Friday, October 28th 2016 at 7:57PM

Since you have knot seen the link or understood the direction of this blog, you can't tell me a thing about good Christian people like and you are avoiding the plot that was set up and coined "THE WAR DRUGS" by Nixon and Ehrlichman and history tells us, that they was no Christian people like myself.

The sad part about this you know for a FACT you can't defend the HISTORY of Nixon and Ehrlichman and now the connection between Nixon and Ehrlichman and Roger Ailes, who now, is a top communication aid in TRUMP's campaign, who played a very important roll as another former Nixon aid, Roger Ailes continues the demonization of black and young people “night after night” on his network Fox News.

Nixon administration pursued policies that encouraged intrusive searches, arrests and stigmatization of its political opponents, still stands. Nixon’s use of enemies lists, wiretaps and other “dirty tricks” is well established. Such tricks included COINTELPRO tactics, which involved federal agents infiltrating anti-war and black power groups, creating infighting and getting the leaders addicted to drugs. Against this backdrop it is hard to believe the War on Drugs was not racial or politically motivated.

The legality of opium is not the answer STEVEN, treatment is so, people can resist the temptation of HEROIN ADDICTION. THINGS WON'T GET BETTER WITH THE WAR ON DRUGS UNDER TRUMP. I CAN HEAR TO CALL NOW "LOCK THEM UP!!!"



STOP RUNNING AND FACT THE KNOWN FACTS OF THE HISTORY OF THE GOP AND THE WAR ON DRUGS.

Stop fishing STEVEN and take time to look at the information that I have provided you about the content of this blog.

Here, to a look that the proof: The sinister part about all that was, they knew that they was lying. Nixon Invented War On Drugs To Attack Black People And Leftists https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coYUFJLSOm...

Nixon aide says "War on Drugs" targeted blacks- so now what? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Miah2ZrAsL...



robert powell Friday, October 28th 2016 at 7:59PM



AVA DuVERNAY interview for '13TH' documentary

SUBJECT

700 Hits for you and yourMaster 'whiteMan' steveAdam

......to OFF SUBJECT AVA Lbgtv Queer Video producer for

"....legality of opium..."

Friday, October 28th 2016 at 4:03PM
Steve Williams

OR

Deacons.....OFF SUBJECT racistlyIgnorant....

"......Robert......

Do you know why Roger Ailes. is apart of Trump's top staff?

Do you know what Roger Ailes is doing for TRUMP?

If you don't know, educate yourself and stop being IGNORANT, AN IGNORAMUS, UNINFORMED, OBLIVIOUS TO CONSCIOUSNESS, UNCONSCIOUS TO THE FACTS RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU. ...."

Friday, October 28th 2016 at 8:59AM
Deacon Ron Gray

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Your "FACTS"....?

Roger Ailes is not Employed by Mr. Trump....he did LOSE $20 Million to some blond gal at FOX

--- No one but Mr. Roger Ailes and Mr. Trump knows what he advises Mr. Trump on......

--- If I were to "CONSCIOUSLY"...guess I would Say "how Septuagenarians HELP blondGALS.....

--- May I use yourPHRASES

"IGNORAMUS, UNINFORMED, OBLIVIOUS TO CONSCIOUSNESS, UNCONSCIOUS"?.... to better describe YOU..

Steve Williams Friday, October 28th 2016 at 8:48PM

Ron, all the denial in the world will not get you what you want, to reduce the incarceration rate. You act like this is some mock debate. The TRUTH is that good Christian people like yourself have too deep-seated a psychological need to save people from themselves, to ever solve the problem of mass incarceration.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Friday, October 28th 2016 at 9:24PM

Robert,

Unless Roger Ailes and Trump have fallen out with one another, reports have it that Roger Ailes Is Advising Donald Trump Ahead of Presidential Debates. Roger Ailes, the former Fox News chairman ousted a few months ago over charges of s*xual harassment, is advising Donald J. Trump in preparing for the all-important passed presidential debates.

I see that you like my description of you.

If you don't know, educate yourself and stop being IGNORANT, AN IGNORAMUS, UNINFORMED, OBLIVIOUS TO CONSCIOUSNESS, UNCONSCIOUS TO THE FACTS RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU.

Hey Steven, The most high gave us the gift of FREE WILL. You do right and get rewarded, you do wrong and you get what you may not want, the universe works just that way.

Have you reviewed the links that I have put before you yet STEVEN?



Steve Williams Friday, October 28th 2016 at 10:10PM

Which one is it Ron, incarceration is unjust, or "the universe works just that way"?

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Friday, October 28th 2016 at 10:56PM

Both Steven, the universe provides good and evil, negative and positive, right and wrong, left and right, and up and down, all of these decisions are yours to choose from.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Friday, October 28th 2016 at 11:06PM

Both Steven, the universe provides good and evil, negative and positive, right and wrong, left and right, and up and down, all of these decisions are yours to choose from.

You know, just like you refuse to review those two links that I have provided you so, that you may have greater insight to this topic. Have you noticed that I can answer your questions with confidence and clarity?

Steve Williams Friday, October 28th 2016 at 11:16PM

I'll have a look at your links Ron and see what bearing they have on the solution to the problem of mass incarceration in 2016.

Steve Williams Saturday, October 29th 2016 at 12:03AM

So the young turk says it's all propaganda, and offers no solution.

Steve Williams Saturday, October 29th 2016 at 1:30AM

The "solution" proposed in the second video seems to be more government initiatives to treat addiction. I STRONGLY DISAGREE.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Saturday, October 29th 2016 at 8:03AM

The is universe, The Most High, God is good. Now, on the first one, you have called the Young Turks 6 mins and 29 sec,.

Can you refute that NIXON was President and involved in Water Gate and with Ehrlichman was involved in The War on DRUGS, exactly we can call it a WAR ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE? Can you refute that STEVEN?



robert powell Saturday, October 29th 2016 at 8:05AM


AVA DuVERNAY interview for '13TH' documentary

SUBJECT

700 Hits for you and yourMaster 'whiteMan' steveAdam, queer crackheadCracker

......ON SUBJECT

FORGET about the DRUGS steveAdam wants to flood American Communities WITH....!

.....Is AVA DuVERNAY, LIKE steveAdam JUST another Queer Lbgtv Video producer ?


Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Saturday, October 29th 2016 at 8:32AM

The is universe, The Most High, God is good. Now, on too the first one, you have called the Young Turks 6 mins and 29 sec, all propaganda.

Can you refute that NIXON was President and involved in Water Gate, had a hit list and along with Ehrlichman was involved in The War on DRUGS, I would be more acute by saying a WAR ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE? Can you refute that STEVEN?

ALSO STEVEN, can you refute the FACT that THE WAR ON DRUGS was not created to help The Black People and the liberal Whites to get off DRUGS?

I am going to leave you with these two questions because I know how short your attention span is.

FOCUS ON THESE QUESTIONS, IF YOU WILL.

Steve Williams Saturday, October 29th 2016 at 8:32AM

Ron, a Young Turks video is not any kind of evidence at all, as we've seen with the Chinese Towers BS.

Steve Williams Saturday, October 29th 2016 at 8:35AM

And no Ron, I didn't call the video propaganda, I said that they said the "war on drugs" was all propaganda.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Saturday, October 29th 2016 at 8:44AM

So Steven, you agree with the YOUNG TURKS Video?

Steve Williams Saturday, October 29th 2016 at 8:58AM

I agree that what comes out of the mouths of 99.9% of our politicians, on the subject of drugs, is propaganda. That includes Pat Toomey and Pat Meehan, the two Republican congressional candidates on my ballot, who want to make sure I can't get pain-killers.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Saturday, October 29th 2016 at 10:06AM

Let us fine tune your reply Steven, my question to you was never about Pat Toomey or Pat Meehan. The question was: "So Steven, you agree with the YOUNG TURKS Video?"


Steve Williams Saturday, October 29th 2016 at 3:17PM

No Ron, I would NEVER agree with the Young Turks. They need to grow up.

Steve Williams Saturday, October 29th 2016 at 3:24PM

They have no solution, just whining and complaining.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Saturday, October 29th 2016 at 4:25PM

Just what is it that you disagree with?



Can you refute that NIXON was President and involved in Water Gate, had a hit list and along with Ehrlichman was involved in The War on DRUGS, I would be more acute by saying a WAR ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE? Can you refute that STEVEN?

ALSO STEVEN, can you refute the FACT that THE WAR ON DRUGS was not created to help The Black People and the liberal Whites to get off DRUGS?

I am going to leave you with these two questions because I know how short your attention span is.

FOCUS ON THESE QUESTIONS, IF YOU WILL.


Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Saturday, October 29th 2016 at 4:47PM

WOW...

Steve Williams Saturday, October 29th 2016 at 8:38PM

The young turks don't have the courage to name the real solution. They have nothing of substance, just Erlichman this and Nixon that, nothing but whining and complaining.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Sunday, October 30th 2016 at 3:33AM

I asked you a question Steven which you have not answered yet even after I have asked you twice. Now this reply of yours totally and strictly BULL💩 And did not answer any of my questions I asked you. That reply sounds like something you pulled right out of your backside, you know that place where you have your head. I just want to let you know, that will not fly hear.

Now try again.

Just what is it that you disagree with?



Can you refute that NIXON was President and involved in Water Gate, had a hit list and along with Ehrlichman was involved in The War on DRUGS, I would be more acute by saying a WAR ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE? Can you refute that STEVEN?

ALSO STEVEN, can you refute the FACT that THE WAR ON DRUGS was not created to help The Black People and the liberal Whites to get off DRUGS?

I am going to leave you with these two questions because I know how short your attention span is.

TRY HARD TO FOCUS ON THESE QUESTIONS, IF YOU WILL!!!



Steve Williams Sunday, October 30th 2016 at 7:45AM

Richard M. Nixon, the president who popularized the term “war on drugs,” first used the words in 1971. However, the policies that his administration implemented as part of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 dated to Woodrow Wilson’s presidency and the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act of 1914. This was followed by the creation of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics in 1930.

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Steve Williams Sunday, October 30th 2016 at 7:53AM

The Harrison Narcotics Tax Act (Ch. 1, 38 Stat. 785) was a United States federal law that regulated and taxed the production, importation, and distribution of opiates and coca products. The act was proposed by Representative Francis Burton Harrison of New York and was approved on December 17, 1914.[1][2]

"An Act To provide for the registration of, with collectors of internal revenue, and to impose a special tax on all persons who produce, import, manufacture, compound, deal in, dispense, sell, distribute, or give away opium or coca leaves, their salts, derivatives, or preparations, and for other purposes." The courts interpreted this to mean that physicians could prescribe narcotics to patients in the course of normal treatment, but not for the treatment of addiction.

The Harrison Anti-Narcotic legislation consisted of three U.S. House bills imposing restrictions on the availability and consumption of the psychoactive drug opium. U.S. House bills H.R. 1966 and H.R. 1967 passed conjointly with House bill H.R. 6282 or the Opium and Coca Leaves Trade Restrictions Act.[3][4]

Although technically illegal for purposes of distribution and use, the distribution, sale and use of cocaine was still legal for registered companies and individuals.

Steve Williams Sunday, October 30th 2016 at 8:03AM

Edit
Following the Spanish–American War the U.S. acquired the Philippines from Spain. At that time, opium addiction constituted a significant problem in the civilian population of the Philippines.[5]

Charles Henry Brent was an American Episcopal bishop who served as Missionary Bishop of the Philippines beginning in 1901. He convened a Commission of Inquiry, known as the Brent Commission, for the purpose of examining alternatives to a licensing system for opium addicts. The Commission recommended that narcotics should be subject to international control. The recommendations of the Brent Commission were endorsed by the United States Department of State and in 1906 President Theodore Roosevelt called for an international conference, the International Opium Commission, which was held in Shanghai in February 1909. A second conference was held at The Hague in May 1911, and out of it came the first international drug control treaty, the International Opium Convention of 1912.

Domestic Background Edit
In the 1800s opiates and cocaine were mostly unregulated drugs. In the 1890s the Sears & Roebuck catalogue, which was distributed to millions of Americans homes, offered a syringe and a small amount of cocaine for $1.50.[6] On the other hand, as early as 1880 some states and localities had already passed laws against smoking opium, at least in public.[7]

At the beginning of the 20th century, cocaine began to be linked to crime. In 1900, the Journal of the American Medical Association published an editorial stating, "Negroes in the South are reported as being addicted to a new form of vice – that of 'cocaine sniffing' or the 'coke habit.'" Some newspapers later claimed cocaine use caused blacks to rape white women and was improving their pistol marksmanship. Chinese immigrants were blamed for importing the opium-smoking habit to the U.S. The 1903 blue-ribbon citizens' panel, the Committee on the Acquirement of the Drug Habit, concluded, "If the Chinaman cannot get along without his dope we can get along without him."

Theodore Roosevelt appointed Dr. Hamilton Wright as the first Opium Commissioner of the United States in 1908. In 1909, Wright attended the International Opium Commission in Shanghai as the American delegates. He was accompanied by Charles Henry Brent, the Episcopal Bishop. On March 12, 1911, Dr. Wright was quoted in as follows in an article in the New York Times: "Of all the nations of the world, the United States consumes most habit-forming drugs per capita. Opium, the most pernicious drug known to humanity, is surrounded, in this country, with far fewer safeguards than any other nation in Europe fences it with."[8] Wright further claimed that "it has been authoritatively stated that cocaine is often the direct incentive to the crime of rape by the negroes of the South and other sections of the country," though he failed to mention specifically which authorities had stated that, and did not provide any evidence for his claim.[9] Wright also stated that "one of the most unfortunate phases of smoking opium in this country is the large number of women who have become involved and were living as common-law wives or cohabitating with Chinese in the Chinatowns of our various cities".[10][11]

Opium usage had begun to decline by 1914 after rising dramatically in the post Civil War Era, peaking at around one-half million pounds per year in 1896.[12] Demand gradually declined thereafter in response to mounting public concern, local and state regulations, and the Pure Food and Drugs Act of 1906, which required labeling of patent medicines that contained opiates, cocaine, alcohol, cannabis and other intoxicants.[13] As of 1911, an estimated one U.S. citizen in 400 (0.25%) was addicted to some form of opium.[8] The opium addicts were mostly women who were prescribed and dispensed legal opiates by physicians and pharmacist for “female problems” (probably pain at menstruation) or white men and Chinese at the Opium dens. Between two-thirds and three-quarters of these addicts were women.[14] By 1914, forty-six states had regulations on cocaine and twenty-nine states had laws against opium, morphine, and heroin.[6][11][15][16]

Several authors have argued that the debate was merely to regulate trade and collect a tax. However, the committee report[17] prior to the debate on the house floor and the debate itself, discussed the rise of opiate use in the United States. Harrison stated that "The purpose of this Bill can hardly be said to raise revenue, because it prohibits the importation of something upon which we have hitherto collected revenue." Later Harrison stated, "We are not attempting to collect revenue, but regulate commerce." House representative Thomas Sisson stated, "The purpose of this bill—and we are all in sympathy with it—is to prevent the use of opium in the United States, destructive as it is to human happiness and human life."[18]

The drafters played on fears of “drug-crazed, s*x-mad negroes” and made references to Negroes under the influence of drugs murdering whites, degenerate Mexicans smoking marijuana, and “Chinamen” seducing white women with drugs.[19][20] Dr. Hamilton Wright, testified at a hearing for the Harrison Act. Wright alleged that drugs made blacks uncontrollable, gave them superhuman powers and caused them to rebel against white authority. Dr. Christopher Koch of the State Pharmacy Board of Pennsylvania testified that "Most of the attacks upon the white women of the South are the direct result of a cocaine-crazed Negro brain".[6]

Before the Act was passed, on February 8, 1914, The New York Times published an article entitled "Negro Cocaine 'Fiends' Are New Southern Menace: Murder and Insanity Increasing Among Lower-Class Blacks" by Edward Huntington Williams, which reported that Southern sheriffs had increased the caliber of their weapons from .32 to .38 to bring down Negroes under the effect of cocaine.[6][11][15]

Despite the extreme racialization of the issue that took place in the buildup to the Act's passage, the contemporary research on the subject indicated that black Americans were in fact using cocaine and opium at much lower rates than white Americans.[21]

Steve Williams Sunday, October 30th 2016 at 8:33AM

The impact of diminished supply was obvious by mid-1915. A 1918 commission called for sterner law enforcement, while newspapers published sensational articles about addiction-related crime waves.[23] Congress responded by tightening up the Harrison Act—the importation of heroin for any purpose was banned in 1924.

Steve Williams Sunday, October 30th 2016 at 8:36AM

The act also marks the beginning of the creation of the modern, criminal drug addict and the American black market for drugs. Within five years the Rainey Committee, a Special Committee on Investigation appointed by Secretary of the Treasury William Gibbs McAdoo and led by Congressman T. Rainey, reported in June, 1919[24] that drugs were being smuggled into the country by sea, and across the Mexican and Canadian borders by nationally established organisations[25] and that the United States consumed 470,000 pounds of opium annually, compared to 17,000 pounds in both France and Germany.[24] The Monthly Summary of Foreign Commerce of the United States recorded that in the 7 months to January 1920, 528,635 pounds of opium was imported, compared to 74,650 pounds in the same period in 1919.[24]

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Sunday, October 30th 2016 at 12:48PM

I enjoyed the information that you shared in your first reply which confirmed the FACT that Richard M. Nixon, who was the first president who popularized the term “WAR OF DRUGS,” first used the words in 1971, which you cannot refute.

Thanks, Steven for the conformation of that FACT.

Also the information that you shared went places that my question for you did not address. I never asked you about the Justice Department and the Reagan administration’s on a thing, Did I?

With that said, you have not begun to address my first question to you of:
Can you refute that NIXON was President and involved in Water Gate, had a hit list and along with Ehrlichman was involved in The War on DRUGS, I would be more acute by saying a WAR ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE? Can you refute that STEVEN?

Now, what I find more interesting your second bit of information about The Harrison Narcotics Tax Act (Ch. 1, 38 Stat. 785) was a United States federal law approved on December 17, 1914.

This information was nice to know but I did not ask you that question neither STEVEN.
In your third post I had to pause for a moment, then I read on and I saw these LIES and the fears of the so-called law maker Dr. Hamilton Wright, testified at a hearing for the Harrison Act. in February 8, 1914:

The drafters played on fears of “drug-crazed, s*x-mad negroes” and made references to Negroes under the influence of drugs murdering whites, degenerate Mexicans smoking marijuana, and “Chinamen” seducing white women with drugs. Dr. Hamilton Wright, testified at a hearing for the Harrison Act. Wright alleged that drugs made blacks uncontrollable, gave them superhuman powers and caused them to rebel against white authority. Dr. Christopher Koch of the State Pharmacy Board of Pennsylvania testified that "Most of the attacks upon the white women of the South are the direct result of a cocaine-crazed Negro brain".

Now this Information sparked the First WAR ON BLACK PEOPLE under the guidance of THE WAR ON DRUGS, great information but still have not Answered my questions that I put before you Steven.

In your Fourth and Fifth posting missed the target of my questions to you altogether. Now don’t get me wrong STEVEN, the information that you have shared was great history leading up to what Nixon did but you have not refuted what I asked you yet! It is almost like if you was thinking, if you throw enough BULL💩 on the wall, maybe the FACT that he asked me a question about NIXON and Ehrlichman involvement in “THE ON DRUGS” will somehow, go away…

I have determined that you can’t refute anything that I have said to be anything but the true FACTS in this case and all you can do is run from my questions and post more unrelated BULL💩 and not put your attention on NIXON and Ehrlichman involvement in “THE ON DRUGS.”


You don't have to try again, if you can't pay attention to the questions of: Can you refute that NIXON was President and involved in Water Gate, had a hit list and along with Ehrlichman was involved in The War on DRUGS, I would be more acute by saying a WAR ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE? Can you refute that STEVEN?

ALSO STEVEN, can you refute the FACT that THE WAR ON DRUGS was not created to help The Black People and the liberal Whites to get off DRUGS?



robert powell Sunday, October 30th 2016 at 1:11PM


AVA DuVERNAY interview for '13TH' documentary

SUBJECT

800+ Hits for you and LBGTV Queer 'whiteMan' steveAdam,

......ON SUBJECT

FORGET about the DRUGS, Young Turks and Nixon...!

.....Is AVA DuVERNAY, LIKE steveAdam JUST another Queer Lbgtv Video producer ?

ps

....OFF SUBJECT with youALL Misconceivers of Intelligent thought.....

".....can you refute the FACT that THE WAR ON DRUGS was not created to help The Black People and the liberal Whites to get off DRUGS? ....."

Sunday, October 30th 2016 at 12:48PM
Deacon Ron Gray

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1. Yes, War on Drugs began because America was ENTERING 1980+ ... "The High Technology Era"

AND all Americans NEEDED to be sane and sober ... WITH minds ready to LEARN

.....African Americans LOST so many JOBS, Opportunities and Education due to Drugs....1970-2016

2. Young Turks ARE

.... a political reform movement, which favored replacement of the Ottoman Empire's absolute monarchy with a constitutional government EXACTLY like the 2016 GOVERNMENT of Turkish President Recep Tayyip and Prime Minister Binali Yýldýrým

Steve Williams Sunday, October 30th 2016 at 3:11PM

Ron, do we agree the thirteenth amendment slavery loophole was created in 1864?

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Sunday, October 30th 2016 at 4:36PM

We can also agree that you can't refute these question that NIXON was President and involved in Water Gate, had a hit list and along with Ehrlichman was involved in The War on DRUGS, I would be more acute by saying a WAR ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE? Can you refute that STEVEN?

ALSO STEVEN, can you refute the FACT that THE WAR ON DRUGS was not created to help The Black People and the liberal Whites to get off DRUGS?

We can also agree on that too, correct?



TRY HARD TO FOCUS ON THESE QUESTIONS, IF YOU WILL!!!

Steve Williams Sunday, October 30th 2016 at 5:03PM

Okay, so we agree that history from 1864-2016 is 102 years, and from 1971-2016 is 45 years. And that for 102 years there was a thirteenth amendment slavery loophole.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Sunday, October 30th 2016 at 5:31PM

Is that including Nixon and Ehrlichman involvement in 1971 "WAR ON DRUGS"?



Steve Williams Sunday, October 30th 2016 at 5:45PM

Yes Ron, it includes Ehrlichman and Nixon.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Sunday, October 30th 2016 at 11:43PM

Thanks for finally being a man about this Steve. When I get some time, I will explore another member of Richard Nixon's team that helped spread that LIE of THE WAR ON DRUGS into Millions of American homes across the country, Roger Ailes and FOX NEWS.

Steve Williams Monday, October 31st 2016 at 1:55AM

That's fine Ron, and you will continue to miss the root cause of legal slavery. Partisan politics will not solve the problem.

robert powell Monday, October 31st 2016 at 8:26AM


why does the slaveOf steveAdam in 2016 ONLY answer to hisMaster and not an African American Citizen?

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I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.

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"......That's fine Ron, and you will continue to miss the root cause of legal slavery...."

Monday, October 31st 2016 at 1:55AM
Steve Williams

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AVA DuVERNAY interview for '13TH' documentary

SUBJECT

900+ Hits for you and LBGTV Queer 'whiteMan' steveAdam,

Deacon of kingJames

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.....AND is the root cause of slaverAmericana 1492-1864(1964) ... euroRACIST paganChristianity?


Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Monday, October 31st 2016 at 8:58AM

It was nothing but Partisan politics in this case of "THE WAR ON DRUGS in The NIXON Administration the gang of THREE." Nixon, Ehrlichman and Ailes.

Steve Williams Monday, October 31st 2016 at 9:43AM

Francis Burton Harrison was a Democrat. Woodrow Wilson was a Democrat.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Monday, October 31st 2016 at 10:52AM

Come up man, let stay on topic.

Steve Williams Monday, October 31st 2016 at 11:31AM

The topic is thirteenth amendment slavery loophole. This loophole was first exploited by the Democrats during the Woodrow Wilson administration. Just because they didn't come up with the clever phrase "war on drugs" doesn't mean it wasn't, and just like Nixon they used it for nefarious purposes. THAT is on topic.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Monday, October 31st 2016 at 12:31PM

What is the matter Steven, don't let your heart be harden because you seen the connect between the NIXON Administration the gang of THREE." Nixon, Ehrlichman and Ailes, which is still on going to this day. This is a long ranged 45 plus year plan to paint the of image of BLACK GANG MEMBERS, INNTER CITY VIOLENCE, POLICE and DRUGS.

Now here comes Roger Ailes and The FOX NEWS, broadcasting FARE AND BALANCED NEWS of these images of young intercity black gang members being exposed smoking pop and crack cocaine being arrested at a rate, four times greater, then those of white people.

This situation will not be solved under a Trump administration but it may intensify, WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO LOSE!!!

MY FREEDOM AND MY FAMILIES FREEDOM!!!

STEVEN WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO LOSE?





Steve Williams Monday, October 31st 2016 at 1:14PM

Like I said Ron, make opium and coca legal and end legal slavery.

Steve Williams Monday, October 31st 2016 at 1:25PM

Wilson, the only Democrat besides Grover Cleveland to be elected president since 1856 and the first Southerner since 1848,[1] recognized his Party's need for high-level federal patronage.[123] Wilson worked closely with Southern Democrats. In Wilson's first month in office, Postmaster General Albert S. Burleson brought up the issue of segregating workplaces in a cabinet meeting[124] and urged the president to establish it across the government, in restrooms, cafeterias and work spaces. Treasury Secretary William G. McAdoo also permitted lower-level officials to racially segregate employees in the workplaces of those departments. By the end of 1913 many departments, including the Navy, had workspaces segregated by screens, and restrooms, cafeterias were segregated, although no executive order had been issued.[124] Segregation was urged by such conservative groups as the Fair Play Association.[124]

Wilson defended his administration's segregation policy in a July 1913 letter responding to Oswald Garrison Villard, publisher of the New York Evening Post and founding member of the NAACP; Wilson suggested the segregation removed "friction" between the races.[124] Ross Kennedy says that Wilson complied with predominant public opinion,[125] but his change in federal practices was protested in letters from both blacks and whites to the White House, mass meetings, newspaper campaigns and official statements by both black and white church groups.[124] The president's African-American supporters, who had crossed party lines to vote for him, were bitterly disappointed, and they and Northern leaders protested the changes.[124] Wilson continued to defend his policy, as in a letter to "prominent black minister Rev. H.A. Bridgman, editor of the Congregation and Christian World."[124] Heckscher argues that Wilson had promised African Americans to deal generously with racial injustices, but did not deliver on these assurances.[126] Segregation and government offices, and discriminatory hiring practices had been started by President Theodore Roosevelt and continued by President Taft; The Wilson administration continued and escalated the practice.[127]

Steve Williams Monday, October 31st 2016 at 1:44PM

The Birth of a Nation, along with the trial and lynching of Leo Frank for the 1913 murder of Mary Phagan in Atlanta, was used as a recruiting tool for the KKK.[10] Under President Woodrow Wilson it was the first American motion picture to be screened at the White House.[11]

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Monday, October 31st 2016 at 2:43PM

No Steven, make opium and coca legal will not end legal slavery, all that will is make more people addicted to heroin.

Steve Williams Monday, October 31st 2016 at 3:08PM

It will end all legal slavery related to opium and coca, and that's the bulk of it.

Steve Williams Monday, October 31st 2016 at 3:10PM

Have some courage Ron. People can take responsibility for their own lives.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Monday, October 31st 2016 at 3:45PM

You say that Legalizing heroin and cocaine will end slavery, what do you call addiction?

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Monday, October 31st 2016 at 3:52PM

As far as people having control over their lives. STEVEN I GOT COMMANDING CONTROL OVER MY BODY RIGHT NOW, DON'T YOU?

Steve Williams Monday, October 31st 2016 at 4:28PM

No Ron, I do not have control over my body. I need Vicodin for chronic pain, that put me on disability 8 years ago, that I haven't been able to get for 2 1/2 years, because of the War on Opioids.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Monday, October 31st 2016 at 8:42PM

Do you have health insurance Steve? If so, can you afford it?

Steve Williams Tuesday, November 1st 2016 at 4:27AM

I pay for my prescriptions out of pocket. Vicodin is about 50 cents a pill, not a financial burden.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Tuesday, November 1st 2016 at 7:03AM

You say that Legalizing heroin and cocaine will end slavery, then what do you call addiction, is that SLAVERY?

Steve Williams Tuesday, November 1st 2016 at 9:30AM

If you are put in prison you will not get out until your time is served. If you are an addict you still have your free will.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Tuesday, November 1st 2016 at 10:58AM

STEVEN, you are a SLAVE in prison and being under heroin addiction, you are are a slave to that DRUG until you get help or DIE.

Steve Williams Tuesday, November 1st 2016 at 11:31AM

Or you are a slave until a good Christian comes along and puts you in jail. Uh huh.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Tuesday, November 1st 2016 at 8:19PM

Steven, listen that you!!! You are sounding real foolish now. Is this what you really think? You are actually calling me a slave until a good Christian comes along and puts you in jail. Who will be that good Christian?

Let me tell you something right now and I what to make it real clear to you. I am no SLAVE to DRUGS, I am DRUG FREE unlike yourself. Look in the Mirror Steven and you real see that SLAVE looking back at YOU.

WOW!!!

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Tuesday, November 1st 2016 at 9:46PM

“Everybody knows the 13th Amendment of the Constitution says there shall be no slavery in the United States,” says DuVernay. “Most people don’t know that that is a lie. Right after it says there shall be no slavery, there’s a little clause, a little loophole, that says ‘except’ – the exception is, ‘except’ if we think you’re a criminal.”

Steve Williams Tuesday, November 1st 2016 at 10:05PM

I didn't call you a slave Ron. If ONE is a addict then THEY are a slave until a good Christian comes along and puts THEM in jail. Correct?

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Wednesday, November 2nd 2016 at 8:33AM

YOUR WORDS: Or you are a slave until a good Christian comes along and puts you in jail. Uh huh.
Tuesday, November 1st 2016 at 11:31AM

MY REPLY: I am no SLAVE to DRUGS, I am DRUG FREE unlike yourself. Look in the Mirror Steven and you real see that SLAVE looking back at YOU.

Now you say: I didn't call you a slave Ron. If ONE is a addict then THEY are a slave until a good Christian comes along and puts THEM in jail. Correct?

So, you agree with me that the person that is hooked on heroin and cocaine are the ones in slavery?

Then by your statement of legalization these drugs, then you are in favor of the institution of SLAVERY.


Steve Williams Wednesday, November 2nd 2016 at 9:04AM

I agree that people are free to be slaves of their passions. That is not an INSTITUTION of slavery.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Wednesday, November 2nd 2016 at 5:52PM

So you think that being a heroin addict is someone's passion? WOW!!! I have never heard a child tell their parents that they want to grow up to be a heroin junkie or a cocaine addict, have you?

Heroin and Cocaine addiction should be looked at and treated as a illness, instead of flooding the Black community with these illegal drugs to take advantage of that legal loophole in the 13th Amendment to create the modern day SLAVE under the banner of "THE WAR ON DRUGS."



Steve Williams Wednesday, November 2nd 2016 at 8:53PM

What a bunch of good Christian nonsense.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Thursday, November 3rd 2016 at 7:31PM

I see that you have just went under cover by changing your photo and you still can't refute or answer a thing that I have said or answer any of my questions, (LOL) WOW!!!

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Sunday, November 20th 2016 at 10:54PM

Take another look because the atmosphere of the country just Got worse.

Steve Williams Monday, November 21st 2016 at 1:22AM

Some persons' attitudes have gotten worse.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Monday, November 21st 2016 at 7:04AM

The atmosphere of the country just Got worse.

The young in our nations grammar and high schools have gotten worse.

Hate crimes is on the raise, that to have gotten worse.

Trump is putting known haters against The Civil Right Act, Equal Rights for Women and The Affordable Care on his White House Staff have gotten worse.

We have a spokes person on team Trump talking about internment camps for Muslim being some high moment in this countries past.

Steven, this has gotten far worse then just the attitudes of some people and this man have not gotten into office yet!




robert powell Thursday, February 9th 2017 at 8:07AM


AVA DuVERNAY interview for '13TH' documentary

SUBJECT

1300+ Hits for you and LBGTV Queer 'whiteMan' steveAdam,

......ON SUBJECT OF 13th, THIRTEEN importance at least or at all

FORGET about the 13th ... AMERICANS NEED to begin with IS 1st FIRST amendment UNDER retardation 2/2017

..Is the RACIST IGNORANCE of AVA DuVERNAY, DEACON, steveAdam and trump$ette JUST another Queer TV Lbgtv

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'......What a bunch of good Christian nonsense. I agree ....people are free to be slaves of their passions. That is not an INSTITUTION of slavery. ...."

Wednesday, November 2nd 2016 at 9:04AM
Steve Williams

".....The young in our nations grammar and high schools have gotten worse...Hate crimes is on the raise, that to have gotten worse........ haters against The Civil Right Act, Equal Rights for Women ........ have gotten worse.......Trump talking about internment camps for Muslim being some high moment in this countries past.

Steven, this has gotten far worse then just the attitudes of some people and this man have not gotten into office yet! ...I am no SLAVE to DRUGS, I am DRUG FREE unlike yourself. Look in the Mirror Steven and you real see that SLAVE looking back at YOU......."

Monday, November 21st 2016 at 7:04AM
Deacon Ron Gray

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STOP it you twins of Racist NONSENSE>.....especially in 'negroHistoryMonth'

Steve Williams Thursday, February 9th 2017 at 8:19AM

Does this mean you want to debate the question of illegal drugs, Robert?

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Thursday, February 9th 2017 at 8:41AM

WHAT!!!

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