Northumberland County Democratic Committee

Almost immediately after Trump’s election was verified, ugliness started in the form of phone calls and text messages to Black individuals.

According to the experts, it appears that the phone calls or texts are individualized in that many of them use the recipient’s name.  This makes it appear as though the sender(s) are using Artificial Intelligence (AI)  to track the recipient on social media – Facebook, Twitter, and the like – and identifying you by using data from your own social media.

Here is an example of a text message:

If you receive any of these messages, there are some important things to do and not do.

DO NOT speak to the caller, DO NOT call them back, DO NOT respond to them on social media.  They want you to become excited and frightened.

DO NOT delete their number from you caller ID, DO NOT delete their text message from your phone, DO NOT delete the email from you email account.  The authorities will need access to your phone — both landline or cell — to start tracking down the source.

DO CALL: 

• your local police or sheriff immediately;
• the Virginia State Attorney General’s office;
• the FBI; and
• the US Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division.
• Get your local police/sheriff’s phone number and keep it where you can find it in a moment. Here are other numbers.
• Virginia Attorney General, Office of Civil Rights:  804-224-2292
• FBI, Richmond Office: 804-261-1044
• US Dept of Justice, Civil Rights Div.:  1-202-514-3847

Here are two articles describing these telephone calls and text messages:

https://abcnews.go.com/US/racist-text-messages-reported-multiple-states-after-election/story?id=115618605

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/09/us/racist-texts-black-people-investigation-what-we-know/index.html

Good morning:

PROJECT 2025:  What is it?  Here it is:

TRUMP ALLIES’ 920 PAGE PLAN TO GIVE TRUMP MORE POWER OVER YOUR DAILY LIFE, GUT DEMOCRATIC CHECKS AND BALANCES, AND CONSOLIDATE POWER IN THE OVAL OFFICE.

Project 2025 is the plan by Donald Trump’s MAGA Republican allies to give Trump more power over your daily life, gut democratic checks and balances, and consolidate power in the Oval Office if he wins. Trump’s campaign advisors and close allies wrote it – and are doing everything they can to elect him so he can execute their playbook immediately.

Here is a taste of Trump’s Project 2025:

• Takes Away Reproductive Freedom Nationwide
• Uses the Presidency for Revenge on Trump’s Political and Personal Enemies
• Terminates the Constitution
• Consolidates Power in the Oval Office
• Guts Democratic Checks and Balances on Presidential Power
• Gives Handouts to the Ultra Wealthy Paid for by Working Families
• And Much, Much, Much More

Where did Project 2025 come from? The highest levels of the MAGA Trump elite wrote Project 2025 as a blueprint for Trump to implement if he wins a second term. This same group of advisors and allies got Trump to adopt most of their agenda in 2017, but this time their Project 2025 agenda is even more extreme and dives into almost every aspect of Americans’ daily life. And they’ll be able to accomplish it by firing civil servants and installing loyalists into the federal government to do their bidding. Fortunately, we have access to it in time to warn America and stop their power grab.

Don’t believe us? Check out the 920-page Project 2025 report on their website and read it in their own words.

On Wednesday, June 19, 2024, we observed the Juneteenth Holiday.

Here is a link to the Wikipedia article about Juneteenth.  The short version is that, at the end of the Civil War, word of the end of the war and of emancipation of enslaved people spread slowly through the US.  The last area to learn of the war’s end and emancipation of enslaved people was Texas where, on June 19, 1865, Major General Gordon Granger ordered the final enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation at the end of the American Civil War.

Lift Every Voice and Sing

In 1902, American poet James Weldon Johnson was trying to compose an appropriate message to observe Abraham Lincoln’s birthday.  However, Johnson decided to write a poem which was themed around the struggles of African Americans following the Reconstruction era (including the passage of Jim Crow laws in the South). “Lift Every Voice and Sing” was first recited by a group of 500 students in 1900. His brother J. Rosamond Johnson would later set the poem to music.

Here is a link to the hymn being sung by the Spelman College Glee Club.  (There may be a 5-second ad at the link.)

Here is the James Weldon Johnson’s poem, which also is the lyrics to the song.

Lift every voice and sing

Till earth and heaven ring,

Ring with the harmonies of Liberty;

Let our rejoicing rise

High as the listening skies,

Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.

Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us,

Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us.

Facing the rising sun of our new day begun,

Let us march on till victory is won.

Stony the road we trod,

Bitter the chastening rod,

Felt in the days when hope unborn had died;

Yet with a steady beat,

Have not our weary feet

Come to the place for which our fathers sighed?

We have come over a way that with tears has been watered,

We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered,

Out from the gloomy past,

Till now we stand at last

Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.

God of our weary years,

God of our silent tears,

Thou who hast brought us thus far on the way;

Thou who hast by Thy might

Led us into the light,

Keep us forever in the path, we pray.

Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met Thee,

Lest, our hearts drunk with the wine of the world, we forget Thee;

Shadowed beneath Thy hand,

May we forever stand.

True to our God,

True to our native land.

 

When the hymn “Lift Every Voice and Sing” is performed, it is traditional to stand.  Please do stand in unity with all who stand for the right.