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Sharp n’ Blunt

Maxine Waters – The Most Uppity Black Woman in America

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Recall Maxine was all-over Obama, criticizing his compromising n’ accommodating moderate negro approach, and now today she’s all over The Don . . . pointing-out what we all know, he’s a hustler baby, a wangster/dankster/prankster . . . New York City Gangster who’s hustled his way to the top, but he’s got to be stopped or our children will grow up in an America which will be more akin to 1940 than the 21st century.

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The President is a liar, his actions are contemptible, & I’m going to fight everyday until he’s impeached. Nothing in the past two weeks has changed anything about what we’ve learned about Manafort, C. Page, & the rest of Trump’s #KremilnKlan . . . .

Turn on the water . . . Maxine Waters, “Auntie Maxine” . . . speaking the sharp, blunt truth to ruthless, cutthroat power. I love it . . . I love it, I love it! Go ‘head with ya’ bad self . . . straight-outta South-Central LA. I’m sorry but I’m not surprised the harshest Congressional voice is Congresswoman Waters. Maxine was there for the Rodney King riots, she’s carried the banner for decades now. We as a people, as Black folks, we owe her for confronting half-mad White men on the political battlefield.

Thank you Congresswoman Waters, thank you for having iron britches, for believing in your convictions, and courageously willing to be convicted for holding them, which in this day n’ age means they want to “lock you up.” I wonder if for a uppity Black woman like Maxine they may chant “string her up!” Don’t tell me that’s not possible, please!

“Trump Has No Business Being President And I’ll Fight Every Day Until He’s Impeached”

Overt, unconcealed oppression breeds shameless outspoken opposition which manifest itself in the form of a strong Black woman born in St Louis, raised Los Angeles she has a mind and she’s going to speak it.

“We have to stop his ass,”

Maxine Waters is Black Power, good ol’ 1968 Black Power.

Congresswoman Waters’ embodies, articulates and amplifies the gut feelings of Black America. From intellectuals to laborers, fromhouse negroes to niggers in da’ field, male, female. Baptist, Catholic and Muslims, North n’ South, inner-city to outer-’burbs . . . she’s saying what millions upon millions . . . upon millions of Black. Afro/Americans believe; Donald Trump is as crooked and corrupted as we all knew him to be before he became president.

She’s got the stones, the rocks the boulders inside her to, like Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm . . . to tell it like it really is. Go head with ya’ bad-ass self Soul Sister #1, walk it like ya’ talk it.

“Trump is no longer just a bully. He is now very dangerous and still has no business being President of the United States.”

Recall Maxine was all-over Obama, criticizing his compromising n’ accommodating moderate negro approach, and now today she’s all over The Don . . . pointing-out what we all know, he’s a hustler baby, a wangster/dankster/prankster . . . New York City Gangster who’s hustled his way to the top, but he’s got to be stopped or our children will grow up in an America which will be more akin to 1940 than the 21st century.

“Say it loud, I’m Black and I’m proud,” and very proud to have Maxine Waters articulate and defend my best interests.

Waters went after the Tea Party many moons ago telling a group of her constituents “I am not afraid of anybody. This is a tough game. You can’t be intimidated. You can’t be frightened. And as far as I’m concerned, the Tea Party can go straight to hell.”

Years ago when articulating the concerns of folks during the LA Riots “I have a right to my anger, and I don’t want anybody telling me I shouldn’t be, that it’s not nice to be, and that something’s wrong with me because I get angry.”

Back in 1993 interview with the Los Angeles Times: “Policy, for the most part, has been made by white people in America, not by people of color. And they have tended to take care of those things that they think are important. Whether it’s their agricultural subsidies, or other kinds of expenditures that are certainly not expenditures for poor people or for people of color. And so we have to band together and keep fighting back.”

Waters’ comments on President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney: “The President is a liar. Dick Cheney, the chief architect of the Big Lie, is not only a liar, he is a thief.”

Waters also went after the opposition in the debt-ceiling debate: “We were basically held up in raising the debt ceiling until they got all of those budget cuts they demanded. We didn’t raise any revenue, and they didn’t close any tax loopholes. I believe the Democratic Party and the President of the United States should not have backed down. We should have made them walk the plank.”

Maxine’s relentless, tireless, unafraid offensive assault is the White man’s worst nightmare. Here we are years later and Maxine can’t be put in her place.

“I don’t respect this president. I don’t trust this president. He’s not working in the best interests of the American people,”

Between Maxine Waters, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. . . we’ve got the “right stuff” to fight these confederated-minded neanderthals back into their conservative closets where they belong, outdated and so yesterday, so 1951.

“When we fight against this president, and we point out how dangerous he is for this society and for this country, we’re fighting for the democracy,” Waters said. “We’re fighting for America. We’re saying to those who say they’re patriotic but they’ve turned a blind eye to the destruction that he’s about to cause this country, ‘You’re not nearly as patriotic as we are.'”

I leave you with this drop of Water . . I’m a strong black woman, and I cannot be intimidated.”I am a strong black woman, and I cannot be intimidated. I cannot be undermined.” “I cannot be thought to be afraid of Bill O’Reilly or anybody,” she added. “And I’d like to say to women out there everywhere: Don’t allow these right-wing talking heads, these dishonorable people, to intimidate you or scare you. Be who you are. Do what you do. And let us get on with discussing the real issues of this country.

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